long time, no post

Well, almost four months in 2010 and not a single post from me. Sorry about that. it's been quite busy and insane around my house and my workplace.

I am currently in a hotel room in Mobile, Alabama. My wife is hard at work teaching semi-literates how to use their telephones and I just came along for the ride (and a day or two with no worries). I've been wondering recently what exactly I am going to do with my life. I would love to be a cartographer, if I could ever get a straight answer on how or where to get that degree. I had a great idea for something that would be a boon to the tourist industry all over the world, just not sure how to market it or develop it. But it would certainly be easier if I had more knowledge of cartography. anyway, I'm rambling now. So onto music:

Music: new albums: Peter Gabriel finally put out a new album and guess what...NO NEW MATERIAL. It's an album of covers, and while I love what Peter Gabriel can do to a song, I would really have preferred his own creations. His interpretation of Heroes is pretty amazing but severely depressing as well. The whole album is like a soundtrack to a suicide. It is a must have for Gabriel fans, but I would rather listen to Us or Up.

Movies: "The Hangover" was not nearly as funny as everyone who raved about it led me to believe. It had moments of sheer comic genius, but mostly it felt like "Dude where's my car?" meets "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." And while there are a few laugh out loud moments in the movie, there were also some truly disturbing moments that I wish I could scrub from my brain.

"From within" was an interesting little horror movie. It's the first of the 2007 batch of "8 films to die for" that was actually pretty decent. Definitely more interesting than "The Hangover."

Books: Just finished two pretty cool little books: Johannes Cabal - Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard and Mall of Cthulhu by Seamus something. Both books are interesting little supernatural tragicomedies. hmmm ... Something just occurred to me. These two books have complimentary anachronisms. Mall of Cthulhu takes place in modern times, but they are battling creatures mostly associated with 1920s Lovecraftian lore. Johannes Cabal - Necromancer takes place in an era much like the 1920s/30s (carnivals traveling by train) and while the villain is timeless (Satan) a lot of their dialogue is anachronistic in that it seems modern and times even a little pop culture savvy. Well, I just read back over that and it's just me being weird and geeky, so disregard this paragraph.

All right, time to go get lunch.
Thanks for reading. And don't let the bastages get ya down.