So i knew it wouldn't last. While in Madison Bridgett managed to get me hooked on Sex and the City. There goes my masculinity down the drain. What can I say though, it was just really good. I was wired off my ass on allergy medicine and cherry pepsi so I stayed up til 5:30am watching the Season 6 box set. Well part of it Anyways.

The Madison trip was lots of fun, driving up there and back was even really fun. We saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. While some haven't liked it as much as the original I did. I found the new Ompaa Loompas funny and enjoyed their updated songs. My favorite part was the squirrel sorting room. I mean what isn't funny about squirrels swarming a naughty little girl and beating her up?

Lets see on Thursday the lovely Bridgett and I attended The Dollhouse at the Goodman Theater. It was my special suprise for her. I think I did a valient job of keeping the secret, I was proud of myself. I'm really horrible with keeping suprises so it was tough. She was guessing and almost guessed it right but not quite. That was a fun time.

Today I'm just getting ready to head up to Glencoe and from there head over to Madison with Bridgett to see her best friend Kristen for her birthday. I'm not sure what we are doing yet, there was some talk about seeing * :( * collective soul. I think we may not go to that though, so i'm crossing my fingers. On they way home we might stop in Sussex, Wi to look at a Porsche i saw for sale on Ebay so that may be intresting. Also we are making a stop in Waukegan to meet Bridgett's mother and sister for Dinner. So that sounds like a busy weekend to me. Then Back to Carsons on monday Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

So I just got back from Oswego with Josh Stein. He wen't to get a harness bar for some 5 or 6pt. harnesses for some Drivers Education action for his Porsche. So we get there and there is a 911 parked in the driveway and another up on a jack stand in the garage. Next to that was an engine on a stand with this guy Souk working on it. Kevin was there too also helping out. Behind him was a transmission sitting on the ground. This wasn't stock porsche crap either, this was some nicely modded stuff. It was for a Porsche (big sigh of dissapointment) drag racer, for a mafia kid none the less lol.

So why do I feel so manly? I was in a garage, with cars being worked on, beer being drank and I GOT GREASE ON MY HANDS! Ok ok it was just from picking up a clutch assembly to hand to Josh who was helping test fit it but it was grease still damnit! What a fun time for doing very little...

Yes I did see Land of the Dead (twice I might add) and yes I actually did enjoy it quite a bit. I have to say though if you haven't seen the movie yet and you plan on it you may want to stop reading this post because i'm going to give some spoilers if I feel like it...










Ok still reading? Good good. First of all I liked that that zombies learned and were able to "think" to a limited extent. I think that is a good extension of the Day of the Dead. From what I gathered the movie is about 3 years after the outbreak began, so I figure at a minimum its 2 years past Day of the Dead. That gives the zombies about 2 years to learn to use tool and gather together. Day of the Dead showed that they could be trained, that all it took was someone to teach them. It was "Dr. Frankenstein" in Day of the Dead and in Land of the Dead we get Big Daddy. He is a king among Zombies. I like his character, he is an amazing zombie. Romero did a good job of making Big Daddy into the David like character against the Goliath humans. I think the audience deep down always was pulling for Big Daddy and his band of zombies.

I am glad that the movie only had a budget of around $15million. This made sure that the movie wouldn't look overproduced or over done. There was very little if any CGI which for a zombie movie is a good thing if you ask me. As a result some of the scenes looked a little cheesy due to cut aways but I think that adds to a zombie movie. Zombie movies are meant to be cheesy and campy. They are not meant to be big budget hollywood summer popcorn movies. That would take away the "soul" of the zombie movie.

Land of the Dead is a very good zombie movie and it gives me hope that maybe we will get another movie from Romero after this one. This movie made $10million its first weekend. That means its first weekend recouped 2/3 of the cost of filming. This means the movie will be profitable in the theaters, then comes the DVD which usually makes just as much if not more money. So now maybe Romero will be able to secure more funding for more wonderful zombie movies. Sure this movie had its weak points, but if you take it for what it is I think you will enjoy it.

OK fine so I guess I don't post enough. So what is a boy to do about it? Well I guess I have to post some more. I didn't say it was going to be a good post but I'm going to post none the less damnit!

First off is the section that 90% of you won't give a shit about. My thoughts on a new Porsche. What I really want is whats called a long hood 911. Meaning one produced between 1964-1973. Its the cool vintage style. After 1973 they are called short hoods because the hood gets shorter, and there is big fat ugly bumpers on it. The problem with just buying a long hood is they are very expensive for one. When I was originally looking for a Porsche they were quite reasonable but have exploded in price recently. Another option for me would be to buy one of the later short hoods and do whats called a back date. That involves removing the bumpers and fenders and replacing them with older sheetmetal or aftermarket fiberglass. This will cost about $1000 for the parts then who knows for instalation and paint lol. But it saves alot of weight, which is always good right Josh? So who knows maybe i'll buy a newer 911 now.

Yesterday I went to a wedding for a realative. It was kinda lame. They had the cerimony on the south side at some historical cultural center right on lake Michigan. I thought the place looked kinda tacky, the restoration was pretty lame I thought. Then the reception was on the Odessy II cruise boat on Lake Michigan. The food seemed like something straight out of American Psycho. It was no Dorcia though that is for sure. I had some Lobster Ravioli with a lobster and brandy reduction, The Dragondog Blog called it and uninspiring dish which left alot to be desired. The reception was nice but not my bag. Oh and the band sucked!