No job. No car. No money.

^^Lily Allen wrote that song about her younger brother thinking he would be flattered.  He was not.  After he heard the song he took her laptop and threw it out the window.  Official video is worth watching if you have time.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRX57zprNdw

Lots of money issues in past weeks.  Mom took $3,360 out of my bank account (I wrote her a check; she didn't steal it).  Bought some clothes from Triumvir.  Flannel and jacket.  I didn't get charged for the flannel even though it was checked out and part of my basket.  Hopefully I get that for free!  It gets shipped on Friday.  Last week I went to a store called Next at SFSC.  When it first opened a few years ago, I bought two pairs of jeans at retail totaling more than $500.  I felt guilty and returned one pair the next day.  But the store policy states returns are only acceptable within 7 days (which it was of course) for store credit only.  That was fine.  But the store had no gift cards.  My credit was written on a receipt.  After years of neglecting my credit I decided to see if I could transfer it to a gift card to make it more official.  The manager there got confused and we talked for about half an hour trying to come up with a solution.  She said she'd ask around to see what she could do and asked me to come in sometime this week.  I went this afternoon and she told me there was nothing she could do so I'm out $182.  She did however offer me discounts on any future purchase.  I just have to look for her.  I'm assuming it's her employee discount which I also assume is at least 40% since most of these high end stores offer fat discounts to employees so they can flaunt their clothing.  On a lighter note, when I went into the store a very cute looking black girl complimented me on my jeans.  She thought there were Levi's and we chatted it up for a bit until the manager was available.  It's nice to get compliments from strangers.

Yesterday, I had an epiphany.  I need to start wearing jeans that fit, or I need to lose weight.  When I got home yesterday and took off my jeans, I realized my jeans were so tight at the hips that I actually got a bruise.  It's kind of embarrassing.  But, I can't help it if tight jeans look so good.  I guess that pair is no good anymore...  Damn you calories!!!  Exercise, I will see you soon.  Chadwick let me know when you're ready to play some basketball.

Taylor Swift is coming to San Jose!  Mark your calendars for April 11, 2009.  I hope she gives me a birthday shout out.

Sharks vs. Tampa Bay Lightning tomorrow.  I predict a 3-2 or 3-1 victory.

-Alex Thunderlips

Musical disorder.

Can't get enough castle.

Also if you haven't seen this although you probably did:



And now, this remake



-Alex Thunderlips

Xxzxcuzx Me

^^The first verse is one of the sickest verses ever written in the history of rap.  Slide show is stupid but there's no music video for it.  Crystal castles is the shit.  Demonoid is still down so most of the music I'll be posting is old stuff since I have nothing new to share. 

Big day tomorrow.  Lunch with My and Ya and Sai Jai Thai.  I know it has a funny name but it... is... delicious.  Hands down, best fried rice I've ever eaten in my entire life.  Haven't been there for 2 or 3 years but I remember it being super delicious.  Then dinner with V at a restaurant of my choice.  Where to go?  Golden arch?  Nah...too classy for her.  Probably slum it up at BK.

For the past week or so, every time Halloween is mentioned I have to remind myself that it's still 12 days away.  I think because we all dressed up for Chad's birthday it feels like Halloween has already passed. 

Sharks beat the Rangers and end their 7 game win streak.  Sharks scored most goals in a game of the season ending it at 7-3 after trailing 0-2.  Eight days left until NBA season begins.  I need an HD TV in my room.  Been looking for one at least 46".  That should be big enough.

-Alex Thunderlips

Dream a little dream.

Last night I had one of the most random dreams I can remember.  It began with me and my mom shopping at Safeway and for some reason there was a Chinese barbecue area.  My mom lined up to buy a roast duck and I looked behind the counter and saw a guy passed out with a zip loc bag of mushrooms in front of him.  When I turned to look at the food, my mom had already started walking away.  I followed her and within a few feet of walking she started to spasm uncontrollably and started flailing her limbs in every direction.  When I asked her what the hell was wrong with her she said she stole the guy's mushrooms and ate it.  She was having a majorly bad trip.  Then Gary came out of no where and I forgot why but we started arguing.  It escalated and we started swinging.  I remember getting a few good licks in but I was completely overwhelmed and dominated by his strength (which is how I'd imagine a real fight with Gary would be).  Then, as the fight ended, I started to walk away but Gary came up behind me and hugged me from behind and said "Gary Wu laab you..."  It was weird.  Next thing I know I'm trying to stop an altercation between two of my friends, both named Frances.  Some other weird stuff happened and I went to meet up Andy.  We walked around the streets and he asked if I wanted to go watch him in an eating competition.   It was a competition at Subway where the eaters must eat a one foot open face sandwich (I have no idea why) as fast as possible.  I told him I couldn't go since I had to prepare for the GRE exam (which is really true).  Then I woke up.

Sharks win.  Boring game.  Clowe fought some jackass near the end of third which was pretty good.  Vesce had his first NHL goal.  Overall sloppy play though.  Congratulations San Jose but your next matchup will probably be your most difficult of the season thus far. 

-Alex Thunderlips

Beep beep ribby ribby.

^^Looks so much like an Asian Tara Reid.  Absolutely love her style.

Today was...interesting... Spent the first hour at work doing nothing.  Just sat in my area and spaced out.  Then there was a meeting where the team counted bags of cash.  In the lab we keep 9 bags of cash for testing, each containing $1,064 of assorted notes.  We made some stupid jokes and suggestions and I said someone should bring out a deck of cards and we should spend the day playing poker.  There were some other shenanigans but I'll continue.  We had a team lunch at Sultan Indian Buffet.  I respectfully declined since I had already scheduled a lunch with My.  But, that lunch was rescheduled so I spent much of the morning dodging questions about why I wasn't going to the lunch.  Lies on top of lies on top of lies.  It gets hard to keep track of lies sometimes.

After the lunch I met up with the team to go to the Academy of Sciences.  Boy was that a disapointment.  If you haven't gone, the only thing worth seeing is the planetarium.  The people working there are rude too.  During the planetarium show, one of the employees leads off the show with some banter.  During that time, a little girl behind me started crying.  Probably was no more than 1 year old.  Another employee walked all the way up the stairs to confront the crying baby's parents and word for word said the following: "How old is your child?  Didn't I tell you outside you couldn't watch the show with your child?  You can't have kids crying in here.  Didn't I tell you that outside?  Why did you come in?"  What made me feel worse was when I realized the family behind me barely understood a word of English.  They were forced to leave.  When we first got in we were told that if we wanted to leave early we could sit in the top two rows and leave so we don't disturb the others watching the show.  My group only wanted to leave early to catch the last bug show.  When we got up during the show to leave we were told to sit back down.  We were berated with questions why we wanted to leave and told, not asked, to sit back down.  Ridiculous.  The museum was small.  Definitely would not pay to get back in there.  Not much to see.  Not much to do.

Been watching some hilarious stand up lately.  Don't remember this guy's name but he was a Mexican comedian and his bit was mostly about how he was Mexican but could not speak Spanish.  He was saying that in high school he was embarrassed to be cheating off the Asian kid in Spanish class.  Then he told a joke about how he's constantly asked to translate stuff to English.  He said one time he was in a club and a girl asked him what the song was about.  He answered "That guy is complaining about the price of gasolina."  Hilarious.  Stand up is my renewed drug.

Sharks tomorrow!  Put the biscuit in the basket!

-Alex Thunderlips