So like... as if showing an American Fucking Idol rerun last night wasn't enough to fuck up my weekly mojo, Fox decided that they needed to show Legally Blonde tonight, instead of House. Fucking. Bastards. Now I'm all sorts of bummed the hell out. Good gawd damned thing IHop Tuesday wasn't cancelled or I'd probably have had a nervous break down. Jeezes.
Anyway
Watched movies at work. Reservoir Dogs... because I find it highly amusing. (Not sure if that was the intent or not, but... I think the movie is funny as hell.) Steve Buscemi. Need I say more??? Then I started on Black Hawk Down. Interestingly... I never realized how many non Americans (playing Americans) were in this film. I guess I just wasn't paying attention. Jason Isaacs and Ewan McGregor, I knew... had forgotten about Orlando Bloom being in the movie (just a wee spot, so not hard to forget) and Eric Bana... wasn't very familiar with Eric Bana (name was familiar, that's about it) and didn't know he was an Aussie until I watched the bonus material and he opened his mouth.
Everyone does a nice job on their American accents... mostly. Not real sure about Jason Isaacs' version of a southern accent... it just comes off sounding... weird. But then... I've never heard Isaacs speak with anything but his native accent before... so maybe that's why he sounded weird to me? I dunno.
Oh yes. Ewan Bremner is a Scot, Hugh Dancy's a Brit, Ioan Gruffudd's Welsh... I assume if I went through the entire cast, I'd find many, many more.
Wonder why so many non Americans playing American soldiers??? Not that it matters. I just find it curious.
Didn't have time to get through the entire movie. I watched Letterman & Ferguson last night before starting Reservoir Dogs... so by the time I got through that and it's bonus material... I just didn't have time for all of Black Hawk Down. I'll get through it tonight, though... then move on to Training Day.
After work...
Well... it was IHop Tuesday, of course. Had some of the breakfast... hung out with my friend for a while at her house... not long, though... maybe 20 minutes after breakfast, if that. Then off to home.
Water heater still leaking. Call the place on the label on the damned leaky and set up an appointment for someone to come out and look at it. My mom came home from work early to be here for that, so once I got all that set up, I was able to go to bed... which was good, cuz I was really tired.
Of course... that sleeping... or at least sleeping well... thing went out the window as soon as the water heater fixer upper guy came... had to have a new heater put in, which I had already suspected. That interupted my sleep for over two hours, off and on.
Because the water heater is, literally, about 2 ft outside my north bedroom door. So, this guy removing the old one and putting in the new one? Well... let's just say it's not the most quiet of processes. Though I do have to say, it wasn't annoying loud, either. I did manage to sleep, off and on, through the mess. But, I'm very tired now. Tonight at work is going to suck balls because of that. Hopefully, I'll be able to sleep undisturbed tomorrow, though... if not, I might die before the weekend gets here...
And then...
Thought we lost our free cable there for a while. I guess the cable guy came out and was messing around with our line... and then the cable went bye-bye... but now it's back. Go figure.
Now... understand, I didn't run a line up their pole and snatch their cable... I didn't do that. Wouldn't do that. The cable company was told, by the previous owner's of the house, to shut the cable off when they moved. But... they never did. Three years and change later? I still have cable.
This is a good thing. While I'm not fundamentally opposed to paying for cable... I'm kinda opposed to paying for the craptastic ghetto cable we have here. It is seriously bad... fuzzy upper channels (we're just talking basic cable here), channels that fade in out... channels that morph into each other. All kinda of crazy shit. (and yes, it's that bad even if you're paying for it...)
If they figure me out and cut me off, I'll pay of course. I won't be happy about it... and neither will they. See... I don't pay, so I don't have any right to complain about the craptastic ghetto cable service they provide. But if I pay??? Oh yeah. I gots me some rights and believe me, complain I will... cuz their cable sucks. (And they are the only game in town, so it's them or nothing...)
So. Now I'm just waiting to see if my cable magically goes away. I'm thinking... if they were on to the fact that it's not being paid for that they'd just shut it off and leave it off... but today they shut it off and then turned it back on. What the hell? Maybe they have craptastic ghetto cable because retards run the place??? I dunno.
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Have nothing on my agenda for the rest of the week. My mojo has been tossed outta kilter by Fox, the fuckers. No House, at all, this week. The upside, I suppose, is that... I just have to get through tonight and two more and then I have a three day weekend.
I'm ready for that. First, it's my favorite holiday. Second, I need the three day weekend. I'm so fucking tired. Not that I'll sleep much, but... I won't be at work and that's restful all by itself. And that's likely to be my last three day weekend until September. Which sucks balls...
Today's Video
This song is being played on some TV ad (Pontiac? I think it's a car ad, but not 100% certain.) and it's such a catchy little tune, you hear it and it's stuck in your head. Been a long while since I'd heard it too, until that commerical...
Now I'm all sorts of bummed the hell out. Good gawd damned thing IHop Tuesday wasn't cancelled or I'd probably have had a nervous break down. 
Jeezes. 
Then I started on Black Hawk Down. Interestingly... I never realized how many non Americans (playing Americans) were in this film. I guess I just wasn't paying attention. Jason Isaacs and Ewan McGregor, I knew... had forgotten about Orlando Bloom being in the movie (just a wee spot, so not hard to forget) and Eric Bana... wasn't very familiar with Eric Bana (name was familiar, that's about it) and didn't know he was an Aussie until I watched the bonus material and he opened his mouth. 
*giggles*
