Note to self 96: 06/27/2K
  GunDAMMIT! It seems that my friend is really living it up in Hawaii something fierce.... the bastard. Ah well, at least somebody I know is having fun :). Anyway, for something completely different, it turns out that The League of Gentlemen IS the show I saw last year in Great Britain. I'm jazzed about finally seeing it again!

  Other than that I caught Me, Myself and Irene and Shaft this weekend. Both were good in their own ways. M,M&I was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long-ass time! The sickness of it all was just beyond words (and the little touches like the watermelon with a hole cut in it in Charlie's hotel room when Irene first comes looking for him and the "looking for the thumb" scene after the credits just really add to it as cinematic art)! I loved it. Shaft was pretty good, and Sam Jackson is da man to the tenth degree! It was basically 90 minutes of him busting ass. Definitely worth the price of admission. Other than that I've been working hard at my job and I've been getting ready for my trip to Europe in a few weeks. That should be entertaining and drunk. Oh yeah, I took down a few Top Ten Babes Runners Up and added two new ones to the list. They should have been added a looooong time ago.

Note to self 95: 06/19/2K
  Work is kickin' it into overdrive. I have another magazine to put together (and after completing a major website like Yamacsico it's hard to get back into the mindset of printed media). This should be fun ;). Speaking of Yamacsico, you can catch all the excitement here. Wow....

Anyway, I saw Titan AE this weekend.... Don't. It wasn't all that great (though it had great potential [hell, it had Tone Loc in it!]). Too many things made no sense and were not explained (nor did I care about half the things that were). Not that this was a complicated story, but for instance: Why did the Dredge want humans eliminated? Cause we built the Titan which could make a new Earth? Which wouldn't even be necessary until the Dredge want humanity dead?.... Curiouser and curiouser. Just stay away.
After watching two Iron Chefs this weekend I was in the mood for some good food and luckily the fam had a big Father's Day celebration at my brother's new pool on Sunday. It's a nice pool :). We had fun and ate some good bar-b-que. Then I came to work today and got busy. That's life.

Also, when I was in Scotland last December, there was a TV show on the tele that had me rolling on the floor defecating in my pants with laughter. It had to do with a really screwed up small English town, a bunch of ugly ladies, twin little (evil) girls, a scarecrow and frogs melting on a fire. Granted I hadn't slept for 2 days before and was drunk when I saw it but I still think it'd be just as funny sober and well rested. Why am I telling you this, you may ask? Well, because I believe that the Comedy Central premiere tonight of the League of Gentlemen is that show that I saw. I can't be sure until I see it myself, but I highly recommend it if it is :)! GunDAMN that was funny as *%&#!!!
Oh yeah, I also heard that Card Captor Sakura was f***ed up big time for American TV.... but honestly I don't give a crap. I hate Clamp stuff anyway. Eh, you have to choose your battles.

Note to self 94: 06/12/2K
  Busy busy busy!! Been workin' my tookis off all week on my Yamacsico Page (which should be up by the end of the week) and I finally got to re-watch all of Master of Mosquiton (the OAV) from an online source all last week. That was a fun trip down memory lane :). Now if only ADV would get off its ass and release it on DVD (unaltered [it's really sad how one has to specify that now]).

  I also got to see Gone in 60 Seconds on Friday night with the MegaPlayboy and a mild case of something bad from Taco Hell.... -_-. I never learn and I always get the friggin' "meat" tacos. My own damn fault. As for the movie itself, well, it was just as it advertised itself to be: Loud and fast. I liked it, but if you're expecting more than car chases and car talk (like characters, plot, and plot), don't go here. Also last week, I read the X-Men Movie novelization. I was pretty impressed. I had read an online scriptment (well, pieced together by fans) a few months ago and it was pretty close to the final deal. They did a good job of introducing all the heavy hitters in the X-Men world, and the mutant hysteria was tackled very well. Magneto's character was dead on. I'm possitive that Sir Ian will pull off perfectly. The only problem that I had with it at all was how they treated my main honey, Rogue. They took away how strong and pushy she is and turned her into an early-years Kitty Pryde. That is not Rogue (nor has it ever been) ^_^. Rogue, even when she first joined the X-Men and they all hated her, was always a lot more sure of herself. She was never sure of her power, but she was always confident in herself.
  Now all I want to hear is the musical score to the whole thing, and I just want to see Wolverine pop his claws into Sabretooth in live action and I'll be satisfied.

Note to self 93: 06/05/2K
  On Friday a bunch of UGA computer geeks and I wished our shut-in friend Angus a fond "piss off!". He's going to Hawaii to live with a cute chick. Oh yeah, and work for a lot of money. After we all drank and ate a lot we made the bastard pay.

  Saturday I worked a bit on my pages, then I took off back to Atlanta to see my family. We went out to dinner that night, but then not much else. I got to sleep fairly early cause I had promised my friend Chi-Chi that I'd help him move to his new apartment complex that day. He has lots and lots of heavy s**t. I got a free lunch out of that though, and then he took me out to a bar for some more free drinks (3 pitchers of Killians ^_^) and nachos and stuff... Mostly stuff. It was good, but after that I had to wait until 11:30 before I could drive back to Athens. I didn't get much sleep last night. But that was the only bad part of the whole weekend. Oh yeah, I also saw some American chef beat Iron Chef France on Saturday night! That was AWESOME! U-S-A!! U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!!!

Note to self 92: 05/30/2K
  Ahhhhhhhh, now that was a weekend! Too too much to eat and good peeps to hang with :)! I just had to add two new notches to my belt and I was fine. My family had a bar-b-que feast on Memorial Day and I ate half a watermelon myself (not really, but that would be cool, neh?). We also saw Mission: Impossible 2 this past weekend. It did not come close to measuring up to the first one (which was a true big screen adaption of the Peter Graves classic tele show). John Woo (who normally rocks) had a lot of his signature slllllllooooooooowwwwww motion going on (it's pretty funny when you know to look for it:), but no plot. No background for any of the new people or any reasons why anybody did what they did. Coulda been a whole lot better. I want to see Shanghai Noon next. I had heard that it was pretty funny and better than Rush Hour (in which I laughed like 2 times).

  Okay, now for the end of an era. I finally finished reading Maison Ikkoku :). Viz has been dragging their feet on Takahashi's works since they started them in the early nineties and they just recently completed MI! Now, while they may have slaughtered major parts of the first few volumes (from not translating how characters refer to eachother [i.e. the very necessary "Ronin", "Kanrinrin-san", "Godai (by his surname)", etc. etc.] to simply leaving out entire storylines like Godai flunking his entrance exams and having to study a year to get in again), Viz got back on their feet and did a pretty good job on the last few collections.
  Now, while I already knew how everything was going to end, it was Takahashi's glorious storytelling abilities that made this such a powerful conclusion. The emotions were set just right and the scene with Yuusaku's long belated proposal and Kyoko's answer was brilliant! The misunderstandings (a staple to the world of MI) were pretty light in this final volume, but I personslly just wanted to see people being happy. We've already had years and years of these guys missing important opportunities and moments! I simply wanted to see everybody get what they deserve (wellll, Mitaka kinda got the shaft a bit, but he eventually seemed happy.... and one of my faves, Yagami lost out big time). And other than those two, just about everybody did (and in a cast as large as this that's saying something!). My only regret is never finding out what Yotsuya-san did for a living or who he actually was. I didn't want to see what Kyoko's first husband looked like (I could imagine that easily enough), so that was no biggie. The last scene and frame was the perfect ending to a great story. I'm so glad that this was finished! Now if only Viz'd go back to Urusei Yatsura or at least get Inu Yasha and Ranma out a bit faster! It'll be another 8 years or more for Ranma to come to its end if they keep up their snail pace dammit!! Arrrrggh!!!!

Note to self 91: 05/15/2K
  What a week!! Once again this Rossman headed out West to the grandoise of Los Angeles and the glory of E3! Lots of great stuff and a loooong story ahead.

  It all started when I boarded the plane for LA and got to sit in 1st class (thanks in no small part to my frequent flyer miles;). What a difference!! I just had them keep the Killian's Red coming! Free beer!! Free beer!!! @_@. I sat next to this chick who was the love child of Joey and Phoebe on Friends (i.e. bubbly, bouncy, actress a few fries short of a Happy Meal). She was nice to talk to as she wanted to know what it would take to start her own adult web site dedicated to her (*0_o*).... I was happy to help her ;).
  After I had my 4th big-ass sundae, I stopped the flow of Killian's, but the stuff that was already in me kept flowing for a while afterwards! Then we landed (much too soon for 1st class T_T) and I took my Supah Shutteluh to the Universal Sheraton and got settled in... for about 3 minutes before I ran down to the closest Carl's Jr.!!! Same one as last year, but the hotel was 180% better! After the heartburn started to fade, I marched up Da Hill to the Universal Studios City Walk (which was a pretty cool outside mall with tons of specialty shops and some very nice restaurants). I walked around for about an hour (wishing I could buy the $200 Giant Robo vinyl figure I saw) before I found myself in front of the Universal Amphitheater Ticket Counter. I made a note of all the great bands coming for the summer (Poison, Megadeth, Motley Crue, Don Henley, Blink 182, Roger Waters, Bad Religion, Smashing Pumpkins, etc. etc.). Soon I was feeling bummed that I was going to miss some great shows when that night's schedule popped up: Survivor, REO Speedwagon and Styx!!!! I was so there *_*!!!

  I bought myself a cheap ticket (made even cheaper when the dude thought I was an employee there.... I didn't do anything to make him think otherwise though) and then went back to my hotel room to relax for a bit (I was still on Eastern time). At 7:50 I went over and caught the very beginning of Survivor (who started early) up in my balcony seat. After they were done (they were awesome! And they had such a good time too:), I met the three girls who sat right in front of me.... The three desperate girls (I mean, they were flirting with ME!). Yikes! We talked in between every set. They were cool, but I forgot their names. Oops.
  After Survivor, REO Speedwagon took the stage! They are 30! Thirty!! Holy crap! And they still rock! Whew!!!! REO was the best of the night. They talked to us in between songs, explained where titles and lyrics came from, and they had a blast performing. I hope I can be that cool when I get to be that old;). Then, after they left the spotlight, Styx came out. Now, I like Styx, but I don't think that they should have been the headliners that night ^_~ (that may just be the REO-fan in me talking though). They did another full show and a great encore.... Renegade! That made it all worth while (all 4+ hours, baby!)! After alllll that, I was plum tuckered out (having been up for almost a full 24 hours). I went to sleep immediately after I fell on the bed.

  The next day was a super fun one! I had to wake up early, but them's the breaks sometimes. I took a cab out and over to Six Flags over Magic Mountain and spent the day riding coaster after coaster in the warm Californian sun. It was incredible!! There were no lines longer than 6 minutes for any ride (and 90% of the rides had no line at all) and I was just running from one roller coaster to the next! I even met Ron Perlman there :). I rode every cool ride there at least 10 times each. I just totally wasted myself @_@. But then my cabbie Bruce came and took me back to my hotel with three other really cute passengers (three non-English speaking Japanese girls.... I was in heaven!). After I got back to Universal City that night I decided that I was in the mood for some Italian food that night. So I went back up to the City Walk and found the place that caught my attention the night before, BUCA di BEPPO! This place rocked! It was rugged to the extreme! Great atmosphere, great staff and incredible food!! :^)
  I spent the time before my meal arrived drinking some Perroni and writing some of these notes down, but my attention was soon drawn away by three things: My cute waitress (if you ever go there ask for Lorraine;), the partying pack of Exile Filmers (www.exile-films.com) who sat next to me and litterally tucked me into a corner ^_^, and finally my salad, veal and tira misu..... FAMILY SIZED!!! Yowzah!! I was not expecting that! I just thought that the prices were a bit high (it was Los Angeles after all). The salad was about 5 pounds of lettuce, the veal was a whole calf, and the tira misu was in a bowl the size of my head. Very large portions, but each part of the meal was incredible. The chefs there are to be commended.
  Now, I was having a good time talking to the Exilers and Lorraine (trying my unsuavest to to flirt with her) and just relaxing in the whole environment. I was getting pretty full of myself though, and thought that I should ask Lorraine out (seeing as she had to work that night instead of catching REO, Styx and Survivor on their last concert at the Amphitheater I took it upon myself to be her savior) when I noticed something..... I had eaten more than half of my entire meal (which normally could've filled my whole family (wellll, not including my Dad).... :p I had to have looked like a total pig and that revelation broke my bubble -_-. It was probably for the best, as I was only there for a few days anyway...... (Geez I'm an idiot!)

  Anywho, the E3 floorshow began the next day, so I got some needed (mucho needed) sleep that night. On Thursday I was bussed down to the LA Convention Center and got all the conferences and workshops out of the way before hitting the fun half of the show! All I can say is Play Staion 2!!!!! Screw the DreamCast! I don't even want to hear about the Dolphin or X-Box (nice name btw, Microsoft -_-)!! Just give me my PS2 and I'll be happy forever! I can't wait for Madden 2001! This system was made for this game. Not the other way around. I caught the Square booth again (man, their movie was just ultra pinto this year -_-. That whole FF XI silly demo was embarrassing to watch [especially that lame Brit dude]). Working Design's set-up was great (as usual)! I played a good 45 minutes on Lunar 2: Eternal Blue before I had to concede and let some whiny lamer try it (he reset it!! And I had gotten so far!). I got a bunch more photos of me with some booth babes (haven't developed that film role yet) and got some nice "blue-screen" shots with me and some game characters.... but I didn't look half as goofy as I was trying to look -_-. Instead I looked almost freakish. Man, I just can't win!

Here's me punching that Ready 2 Rumble afro guy.... The reason I blurred my face is to keep you from seeing the really really dumb look I have on. It was supposed to be GOOFY!

Okay, here is a nice one with me and four VERY nice cheerleeding-type peoples. See that one on the far left? Can you find her left hand? Seems she tried for an "extra point" right before the picture ^o^.

Aaaaand we'er back with more "disturbing" facial expressions that just tried too too hard to be kooky or goofy. *Sigh* The Rock was cool though. He let me smell what he was cooking.

  After being in crowded meeting rooms and convention halls all day I decided to call it quits. So I retired back to my hotel and ate some more of my veal and tira misu.... It would be a while before that was all gone 0_o. Then the next day I went back for more E3! I did the workshop and conference thang all morning and then I went back to the fun stuff later. I went to the ADVision booth that day and talked to some dude with dreadlocks about the EVA DVDs (and I actually started to feel a bit bad for the company [NOTE, This was before I found out that those azzweepays altered the actual animation and screwed up the video quality] and started to see their side to a few things..... Then I came back home a few days later and witnessed the reality of it all. >:( I then saw how little ADV thinks of its consumers.... but I digress ^_^). But needless to say, this feeling didn't last too long and I soon started my campaign to get them to right their wrongs.
  After the con on Friday I had some more Carl's Jr and then I caught Screwed with Norm MacDonald at the Universal Theater. Then I just sat in a chair on the upper deck of the City Walk and watched people for a good hour while sipping a JUMBO root beer. Saturday I came back to Atlanta in 1st class again and saw Snow Falling on Cedars for the first time (great flick, though it was a downer/happy-sorta ending). As soon as I landed I caught the shuttle back to my parents' house where I met my whole family (and some out of town family) for my sister's graduation dinner at Altobelli's Italian (*_*.... I had had enough Italian food to last a week, but I went along with it). And then it was back to work (and expense reports) on Monday. Gawd I love LA!