First things first, a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our very own Edward Stanley!

Math is fun!

So as I'm leaving class this morning, I hear three kids talking about what prescription type drugs they're about to be doing that afternoon. How familiar they were with pharmeceutical names I normally only hear on commercials or in the doctor's office really creeped me out. The world kinda scares me sometimes these days.

The language is a little rough, but the Ozma love is very apparent.

A great review of The Transporter can be found here. I hope all of you will be seeing it tonight as I hope to be doing.

I'm still waiting for someone to drop me a line about the Halloween ideas.

"I would, however, like to communicate something very important to those readers who do creative work of any kind, and I use creative in a sense so broad that it includes the production of a sandwich. You do need a lawyer, and you don't know sh*t about contracts. I know you might think you do, because you're so f*cking smart and everything. People who write contracts are operating on a level that you can't even imagine, and just because you know all the words they're using doesn't mean you understand their ramifications when they're all put a certain way. These people make traps out of words, not just metaphorical traps but real-ass, Goddamned traps that can cinch around you and steal your work and make you never want to write another word so long as you draw breath." - Tycho @ Penny Arcade

Sometimes it seems like this rain is never going to stop... but then again, sometimes rain can be nice. Especially at night when it's quiet. But not so much when you're having to walk in it to get to class.

A great review of the upcoming Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones DVD.

Listening to @ this second: "Die, Die My Darling" by Metallica (I can't stop listening to it for some reason.)

Listening to @ this second: "Between You and Me" by The Ataris
"I'm happy for you, I'm sure that he really loves you, But it breaks my heart to know I can't hold you.. It's just sad to think I'll never get the chance to say you're mine.. But everytime you hear this song you'll know you made a mark on my heart, and my mind.."

"And if I tell you all the truth, would you promise not to cry? I prefer it back inside, It's nothing that you did or said, I'm just kinda scared I just heard life is a fatal disease" - Nuno, "Swollen Princess"

You kids may have noticed the new front page picture. You may have also noticed that it's the greatest thing ever! In case you don't know what's going on, it shows me and Matt Pott (Hip Today's first Australian fan) hijacking Yoshi from the Mario Bros. Matt's also responsible for the art in said picture. It's pretty awesome.

If anyone wants to get me this so I can have yet another coat to help me look like Brodie, please feel free.

Speaking of looking like people, has anyone got any costume ideas for Halloween yet? Drop me a line and let me know if you know what you're going as or if you've got any ideas for what I should go as.

I think this comic (by James Kochalka) is how a lot of conversations with me generally seem to other people...

James Kochalka's genius is infuriating...
You should go to his website.

Listening to @ this second: "Love of My Life" a Queen song being covered by Extreme

Check out the NEW pictures in the gallery: Florida Part 3!
(I'll warn you though, there's no commentary on any of the pictures this time. I just didn't feel like any of them really needed it, as they are all pretty self-explanatory. More pictures coming soon!)

It's funny how you can wake up thinking things in your life are going along a certain path only to have things happen by the end of the day that show you that you're not on that path at all. Or if you are on that path, it hasn't taken you to where you thought it would. But what do I know, I'm too dense to tell when a girl who's standing right next to me is trying to pick me up when it's obvious to everyone else in the immediate vacinity. Even her sister that's had one.. or seven too many. Does this mean I should start drinking too?

ROUND 2 of the "Name Our Band" poll is up and running again, so please go vote and be a part of rock history by helping name what will surely become one of the biggest bands ever. And if you leave a comment, please leave your name along with it.

Not only is this crazy, but it further fuels my fear and hatred of birds.

Just a heads up for you kids, Edward's birthday is Friday.

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"