Random Thoughts

This week I spent a good amount of time and energy creating a page for the cast of characters in this blog. You can see this new creation on the right side over there>>> Feel free to click on it, find your name and know that anytime I add people I'll try to put them onto that page. I found I kept changing peoples names or forgetting what I called them, so this should help. The groupings are designed on how I can best look people up, though I still have a large catch all at the end. I may tweak it into more groups but this will serve for now. Enjoy!

I don't really have a specific plan for what to talk about today. I was driving home thinking about it and here are some thoughts I had:

It was really nice to spend this weekend with my family. Saturday some friends of the family who I basically consider cousins came to visit and we caught up and had a Just Dance competition. It was great. I've noticed more and more when we have family events sometimes I spend a lot of time just talking to my immediate family, in order to catch up. So I had great chats with my parents and brother too. Sunday was Cheeky Monkey's birthday celebration and we had wonderful ribs for dinner. It's the little things about family gatherings that are the best: my sister and I poking each other while trying to eat, causing us to jerk suddenly and drop our food, random wrestling matches with my siblings even though we are all "adults", my mom being worried that they are going to help my sister pay for an apartment because she's afraid we'll think they only spoil her (they do but I don't mind and I know that my parents will help us out if we ever need anything and I take so much comfort in that), Tia Favorita still being the coolest and most down to earth person ever, my grandma asking me how my potato salad went and being so proud that I used her recipe, my grandma scratching my back like she did when we were kids, my grandpa and I holding a conversation him talking in Spanish and me in English, and a hundred other little moments that I cherish. I'm going to miss that, even though my family are the people that will be least affected by my leaving. I see them mostly at holidays anyway and while I won't have these random weekends, I'm still not going to see them too too much less than I did before.

Speaking of Ohio, I'm starting to get excited/nervous/stressed. I leave in less than 3 weeks! I have started taking stuff home. I'm going to miss all my books that now live at my folks house. It's intimidating to pack up your life and decide what is worth paying to bring thousands of miles away. I sold my desk to Naysayer P Squirrel. I'm trying to sell my car. I probably need to sell some stuff to Clark and Brock too since they are trying to stay in our apartment. It's wild. Today I'm feeling stressed. I want to see everyone as many times as I can but I don't have time to pack and go out every night and I have to save money to actually move. Oy vey...

I went out to see Captain American on Friday with Dungeon Daddy and Clark. We all like it. I put it on level with Thor as a pretty solid movie and among the better superhero movies. My favorite Marvel one is probably Iron Man and I like several of the Batman movies too. In fact, we watched the original Tim Burton Batman after Captain American cuz Dungeon Daddy hadnt seen it. The first thing he said was Dark Knight was better but I think he actually liked it. Dark Knight is a really great movie but Batman is from a different time and does different things, and it does those things well. I think the mood Tim Burton creates the dark, kinda quirky but eerie Gotham City and a Batman who appears like a shadow out of nowhere is just really really cool. There is a good comparison video that I think is worth watching. In general, the Nostalgia Critic is. Enjoy http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/7184-batmanvsdk

In staying with the pop culture theme, music is a reoccurring topic in this blog. This weekend, one of my favorite radio stations was playing live versions of Classic Rock songs all weekend. In our music convos, Pokeboss and I have agreed we generally prefer the recorded version to the live recording of a song. However, this weekend really challenged that thought in a positive way. I spent a lot of time driving between home and my apartment, and the music really carried me through the 7 freeways, traffic, and several hours of travel. Hearing Stairway to Heaven live puts a different feel to it and I could just imagine these guys really rocking out. 30 minutes of a Peter Frampton concert (who is generally considered way better live than recorded) had me feeling like I was actually there in London, hearing Eric Clapton just slow-hand his way across solos and refrains alike was pure bliss. I love classic rock and I think with live songs, if you get into it from the beginning, you get swept away in the music. This station has really helped me appreciate the music so much more, and deepened my love for classic rock. Ahh what a great weekend.

Finally, some observations. Take 4 gay men including our visiting friend Gaga Hair(only cuz the fifth isn't into this sort of thing). Send them out to the gay district on a Tuesday night. Give them two free drinks. Play bad music so they go bar hopping to escape. Add a 5th gay man who says his boyfriend just died two days ago and he needed to get out of his house. Add more drinks. Throw in the 4 gay men leaving and seeing the fifth widower wandering down the street without his pants. Sprinkle in some drunken compassion. See 5 gay men in a car trying to take a super drunker widower home. Liquid courage changes near-unconsciousness into oral between a widower and one of the 4 gay men, in the car! Do you watch or look away? If you are in this car, you have one who stares out the window as hard as he can, pretending this isn't happening next to him in the back seat, another who focuses solely on driving the car, and a third who can't help but watch because A)one of the two getting it on is telling him to and B) its like a train wreck.. you can't look away. Mix that all together and you get another great story from people in my life. I think Ohio is going to be boring ;)

Brock quote about his bachellor/ette party for Jordan and Penny: Sometimes, you want to know what flavor your cock is!

Gnight!

-JTY

Listening to: Breakdown, Jack Johnson. JJ helps me destress.

Reading: Clash of Kings, book 2 in the Game of Thrones series. Its really really good.

Playing: L4D2- we gunna have a gaming party soon and Spam Boa and I were practicing. We got cut short when I got a surprise visit from El Bandito on his way back from his jog. He's marathon training. Sorry Spam! Maybe again Tuesday?