Well, in a little over three hours the "big decision" day will be all up on me like some kind of angry spider-monkey. I should have been asleep hours and hours ago, but just like always, here I am. To those of you that wrote me with concern towards what was going on with this "crossroads" I spoke of thanks for caring, though I'm sure it's really nothing to spend to much time worrying about. I know that's bad grammar, but there's not much I can do about it.

On a lighter note, here's what working at Software Etc. was like.

I assume most of you remember the alternate Super Mario names thing I (or maybe I should say we) had going here a while ago. Well, to continue in that proud tradition, I present to you our new fun with names game...
Steven Segal Super Happy Three Word Title Movie Name Mania Fun Game!
Steven Segal: Hurts to Pee (Contributed by Edward)
Steven Segal: Won't Work Out
Steven Segal: Lookin' for Subway
Steven Segal: Out for Ham

Listening to @ this second: "I Love It Loud" by KISS

Do you ever get the feeling that you are at a crossroads in your life? Or that you are coming to a very clearly designated fork in the road, and whichever path you take, your life will probably never be the same. I think I may be at one of those points right now. It's like I may or may not have two options of what I'm going to do on a particular night, and I feel like whichever one I choose to do, I'll never be able to go back to that other possibility and see how it might work out. Does that make sense at all to anyone? It kinda scares me because I don't know which way to go, and I feel like whichever one I pick is really going to say a lot about me, and the path I'm deciding to take with my all of my life... or maybe I'm over-thinking things..

"So take.. me in your arms again, Meet.. me in my dreams again, So.. what is it worth?, I'll sell my soul.. what is it worth? Only you know.." - Ash "A Life Less Ordinary"

"...anything with Affleck, I'm a big fan...you want to remake Jaws cast him as the shark. I'll go see it." - Kevin Smith on movies he's looking forward to seeing
Speaking of Kevin Smith, check out the next Kevin Smith DVD release.

It's finally official, there will be a Teen Titans series. For those of you that don't know, supposedly this series has been rumored to be in development for many years now.. but all of that was rumors until just now I guess. And get a load of this, a Duck Dogers show? I know most of you don't care, but for the one or two that might I hope you enjoy.

I've spent some time thinking about it and I've come up with...
My Top 5 Favorite Ash Songs
1. A Life Less Ordinary
2. Girl From Mars/Warmer Than Fire (tie)
3. Burn Baby Burn
4. Kung Fu
5. Wild Surf
This list could be different tomorrow, but for now that's the list.

I'm enjoying working at Best Buy more and more the more time I spend there. Or at least that's how it seems after today... but that may just be because of two things that happened. Feel free to ask me about them. My discount kicks in on Tuesday, so I'm pretty psyched about that as well.

Since I'm fairly certain none of you are idiots, I'm sure you're looking forward to the new Lord of the Rings film that will be hitting a theater near you on December 18th (Danny's birthday). If you'd like to have a look at the new trailer for The Two Towers, I'd suggest you go here.

Listening to @ this second: "It Must Be Summer" by Fountains of Wayne
"It must be summer, cause the days are long, and I dialed your number, but you're gone gone gone..."

Check out the NEW pictures in the gallery: Florida Part 2! (Coming Soon: Part 3!)

If you live in or near Toronto, you can check out the only Japanese flick I want to own as badly as Battle Royale, VERSUS!

If you missed the making of Andrew WK's latest video on MTV, you can catch it at these times on these days: 9/27 -1:00 AM, 9/30 - Midnight, 10/2 - 12:30 AM, 10/3 - 2:30 AM, 10/4 - 4:00 AM, 10/5 - 1:00AM
I assume all of these times are Eastern, so adjust accordingly.

Though I have no idea if this game will ever hit American shores, Japanese Xbox owners will be getting a game called N.U.D.E.. You heard me right, N.U.D.E.! I'll let you check the site out and see if you can decipher what it is exactly that this game is about.

Speaking of Japan, I finally got to watch my Shaolin Soccer DVD!! For those of you that haven't heard me go on about this flick yet, I ordered it from Hong Kong and it got here wrapped in paper the likes of which they don't make where I'm from, so fragile, so refined. So yeah, I got to watch it finally tonight and it was everything I'd hoped it would be, plus there were some nice behind the scenes dealies and special features. To be honest there were even more special things than I was able to watch because the DVD is from Japan... and it's all in Japanese with a few random English labels that let me get around adequately enough. Not to fear though, the good Japanese people were nice enough to include English subtitles for the flick itself. Though I have to admit there were several scenes where something must be lost in the translation.

Listening to @ this second: "Neon Tom" by Gwen Mars

My, but birthday cake rules. And what's even better, I got two awesome birthday cakes this year. I felt very loved for the most party on my 22nd birthday. So thanks once again, to all of you who contributed to that "making Chris Haley feel loved on his birthday" phenomenon. Did I spell that right? I scarcely remember feeling so unexpectedly loved, since senior year in high school when my French 2 class threw a going away to college party for me one day instead of having class. I was the only senior who took French 2, and the 5 or 6 other people in the class were juniors, so they all got together and had a party for me. I really had no idea and I was so shocked I didn't even know how to respond. Life can be nice like that when you least expect it sometimes.

Wow, that's the first extended bit of me just talking to you guys I've written in quite a while. What do you think, should I do more of it, or stick to the quotes and short little bits of news? Or possibly some kind of combination of the two? I don't know why I even bothered writing that, because I know that though a pretty good number of people will read this, I know getting people to e-mail me about anything on this website is next to impossible.

All you need to know about what's been going on with the new SUPERMAN flick over the last few days.

What I'm listening to right this second: "End of Everything" by Stereomud

Anyway, COMING SOON: New pictures from Florida, my birthday, the party, and more!!

I think this sums it up nicely...

If you'd like to check out some really well done, online versions of the original Transformers comics from the 1980s you should go here.

"Mistakes don't mean a thing, if we don't regret them" - Silverchair, "The Greatest View"

:: how jedi are you? ::

Someone asked Andrew WK if the pic of him with a super bloody nose had anything to do with him doing cocaine, and if he did drugs.
This was his response: "The bloody nose was the result of a self-smashed slam into the face. It is not the result of cocaine. I do drugs when I want to, but I've never been a huge drug user, it usually gets in the way of me trying to jump high or dance fast, but that's just me. Sometimes drugs can help you jump higher than ever, but then without it maybe you couldn't jump as high... I don't know. Drugs haven't been a big thing but I like drugs and believe in them and respect them. I just think people should do what they want to do, because they want to do it. And they shouldn't feel bad about not doing drugs, just like they shouldn't feel bad about doing them. Do stuff because you really want to. You know what I mean? If you're friend asks you to take out the garbage you might think, "I really don't want to...", but then you think about how happy it would make your friend if you helped them out, so you think "I really do want to make my friend happy, so I guess I really do want to do it, to make them happy." You know? But with drugs and stuff, you have to think a little harder - it might make you're friend happy if you take drugs, but is it going to make you happy? Taking out the garbage is different than taking drugs. Protect yourself and be smart. Do tons of drugs if that seems like the right thing to do. Don't do them at all if you don't want to. Either way you're being true to yourself and that's what matters. Here, you can party any way you want, as long as it's hard and with all you're heart. Your friend, Andrew W.K."

"How stupid is it, I can't talk about it, I gotta sing about it, and make a record of my heart" - Weezer "El Scorcho"

You are ... Radioactive Man

Take the Simpsons Quiz @ Space Monkey Mafia dot com

"Once I mastered negotiating with a naked woman asking me for money, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake." - Rivers Cuomo

It was a pretty great birthday, and I'd like to thank each and every one of you kids that contributed something to it being as nice as it was. There'll be pictures and more on the matter in the days to come. Hope to see you then.

"It's easy but it seems so hard, you're near but you seem so far.." - Ben Kweller "Wasted and Ready"

News on the new SUPERMAN flick continues to come faster than a speeding bullet.

Check out the commercials for the game that is soon to be demanding every free second I have, Animal Crossing!



"Some people learn things by making mistakes, I learn things by asking Edward what he thinks." - Chris Haley

"Hey Mama, I'm something, check it out, see what it's all about, 'cause this is Soap Disco, so charming, see the floor from a cleaner point of view" - Kara's Flowers "Soap Disco"

By the time you read this, there will have been another update to the Friends of Hip Today, and once again I wanted to let you all know that you're all more than welcome to e-mail me with any pictures or comments or whatever about me and/or Hip Today that you'd like to see added to the F.O.H.T. section.

In other news, it's Friday the 13th, but it's still a beautiful day outside, so try to get out and enjoy it at some point. Well, I mean it's a beautiful day where I am, so that means it's a beautiful day everywhere.. right?

For those of you still in school or college, this website could come in handy.

Andrew W.K. will have a song on the Jackass The Movie Soundtrack, but what's even better news, is that the song will be what some might consider the ultimate Andrew W.K. song, We Want Fun! If you haven't heard this song, you should definitely endeavor to do so, and look forward to hearing Andrew perform the song on an episode of NFL Under the Helmet. In case you don't know the show airs on Saturday mornings on FOX.



Which Harvest Moon SNES character are you?

Apparently, Chris Cornell and the members of Rage Against the Machine have patched up their differences and have decided to try another go at being a band. They are currently in a studio in L.A. working on new material and have adopted the name Audioslave (as opposed to the name they were originally going to go with, Civilian). No word on when to expect an album though.

This is the world we live in now... you can actually buy this. If you had told me such a thing was going to be possible when I was 10 I would never have believed you.


Take the Rurouni Kenshin Quiz by xceres.

Be sure to check out some of the posts from the last few days below to make sure you haven't missed something great. Come on, you don't know, I could have said something great down there!

For those of you that like the Pictures section of Hip Today I've added the first set of pictures from my trip to Florida. I think they're pretty cool, and maybe you guys will too. Just click here.

Matt's airtight alibi for if he had gotten pulled over on the way back to Knoxville and questioned about the 300 bottles of water in his trunk: "I was thirsty."
That Matt is a funny, funny guy.

"A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." - Mitch Hedberg

And now a random quote from me that no one but me will understand because they didn't just get the news I just got: "Well, I guess there's no point in worrying about that anymore..."

I wish I had some new news to tell you kids, but nothing is really leaping to mind. Hmmm, let me think.... oh wait I've got a question. Who came up with the Super Mario band name on the Poll comments? I wish that comment thing asked you to leave your name. Speaking of the poll...
I was asked tonight when Round 2 would be up, and I said soon. So get those votes in while you can!

Let's see... what else.. oh yeah, the Friends of Hip Today section is growing rather quickly here lately and there's even more new additions to come, so go check it out. If you've got something you'd like to say about me or the site or a pic of you or anything that you'd like to see in the F.O.H.T. section e-mail me and let me know.

Speaking of friends, several of mine have mentioned my birthday being pretty soon here in the last few days, so if there's any of you out there who were considering getting me something, and God bless you if you are, here's a link to my Amazon Wishlist which I was told was quite helpful in finding somethingI'd be interested in being given as a birthday present.

Hopefully you kids gave that AM Radio song I told you about the other day a listen, and in an effort to keep pushing these guys on you here's another one of their great songs called Hush.

Anybody remember those Mr. Men and Little Miss books? I do, and it turns out they've got a pretty cool website.

"A mini-bar is a machine that makes everything expensive. And when I take something out of the mini-bar I always fathom that I'm going to replace it before they can check me off and charge me.. but they make that s*** impossible to replace. I go to the store and say, 'Do you have Coke.. in a glass harmonica?'" - Mitch Hedberg