Scattered Thoughts

Scattered Thoughts:

Saw Slumdog Millionaire finally. I think the movie would have been better if he had been cheating. ***SPOILER ALERT*** Oh, a string of coincidences on his exciting life story leading to him having all the right answers and then he guesses the right answer on the one he doesn't know and gets the girl. Now I know why girls love this movie. The same reason they love Titanic and the Twilight movies. That said, it was still a decent flic.

The best Christmas album is the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack. I have been listening to it a lot lately and just dig how fresh it sounds years after the fact, and it isn't annoying as hell like 90% of holiday music. You all know I hate the Paul McCartney Wonderful Christmas Time song, but another awful one I heard the other day was Jack Johnson singing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Do we really need a surfer singing a chillax song about a radioactive deer in a snowstorm? No. And it sounds like all his other stuff, which is essentially a variation of the same thing. One song that really should bother me but doesn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA8UHeoYHQM I really don't have a good explanation for why I like it either.

I'm watching the Dexter season 4 finale tonight. I won't ruin anything for those that haven't seen it yet, but John Lithgow is fantastic this season as a monster serial killer. I feel like before this season I forgot he could really act. It seems like most of my exposure to Lithgow prior to this has been 3rd Rock and Cliffhanger. I thought he just overacted all the time. I was wrong.

Also extremely excited for the last season of Lost.

Not excited about the next season of 24. The gimmick is beyond its prime.

Not shocked at all by the Tiger Woods affair storylines. Nor is he shocked by Nordic wife's response. My family heritage is Nordic, and a lot of people in Minnesota are. Those women can be downright crazy when they need to be. And have freakishly strong golf swings.

Every year my dad gives me a joke gift for Christmas: a new Christmas tie with a sound device that plays a random holiday song. I finally found a use for it last weekend when my friends and I went to the bars wearing them along with our ugly X-Mas sweaters. The cabbie was thoroughly irritated with those ties by then end of the cab ride.

Thank you Amazon.com. I have not had to step foot in one department store for holiday gift shopping and have to deal with hundreds of other people shopping and a long line to check out. And free super saver shipping!

I had Taco Bell before 11 am today. Is this the equivalent of an alcoholic drinking before noon?