Everybody lies

Even though I am not feeling all that much like blogging right now, I thought it was time for another post. But since I really can’t think of anything mind-blowing to write about, I will just go on about random things that pop into my head.

I’m still planning to do a couple of “Best of 2007″ posts soon. They just take ages to write up for some reason (I’m easily distracted these days). At the moment I am reading Jose Saramago’s “Blindness”, about which I will have to say a few things as well as soon as I manage to finish it. Not an easy read.

I just spent 3 hours randomly clicking through websites, starting with my Google Reader backlog of about 350 posts or so. But of course one thing leads to another and soon you got 2 dozen websites open at once and just wander around aimlessly. Well, at least that’s how it works for me usually. I really have to change that habit, because it’s a time thief like no other in my life. (Well, that and watching “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” episodes over and over again. But since there can never be too much Vincent D’Onofrio in my life, I’d rather curb my web surfing habit.)

One thing I found was a blog that was completely new to me: The FAIL Blog. How could I miss out on that one until now? It’s hilarious. Looks like I Can Has Cheezburger has got competition now in my RSS reader.

Then I noticed that I almost missed out on Grace’s Bloggy Giveaway over at Sandier Pastures. Since she is giving away an Amazon gift certificate this would be tragic. Those gift certificates being one thing you can never have enough of. For me, at least. And apparently for quite a few other people as well, judging by the 500+ entries in the contest.

I spent another 15 minutes scanning through all those comments to see if anybody mentioned an interesting book worth checking out and adding to my wishlist. I did find a few, but one thing that jumped out at me was how incredibly many people wrote that The Bible was their favorite book. That scares me. I never want to believe that there are so many of them out there…

Last weekend I spontaneously grabbed a pair of scissors and cut off my hair at just above shoulder length. No particular reason for that, I just felt like it. Didn’t even get it quite right, so one side is a tad longer than the other one. On Monday one of my colleagues told me how good it looked and asked what hair salon I went to. I had to bite my lips to stop from laughing in her face. Poor girl probably just wanted to be nice. *sigh* I just don’t have any patience with the people in this course anymore.

Last night I finally got around to watching one of Vincent D’Onofrio’s old movies I had not seen yet: The Whole Wide World. He plays Bob Howard, the pulp fiction writer who invented the Conan character (not my usual reading material, I have to admit). Apparently the guy suffered from depression and killed himself at 30. As usual, Vincent was brilliant (ok, I might be a tad biased, but who cares?). Only bad point was the fact that Renee Zellweger had the other main part. Not only do I hate her eternally pinched face and her little, squinty pig eyes, she also can’t act to save her life. To put her opposite Vincent is just a complete waste of his talent. But nevertheless the movie was beautiful. I even cried at the end (ok, I do that with a lot of movies).

And since I am on a mission to get to see every movie Vincent made at least once, I have ordered “Guy” - which isn’t available from Amazon or any other source I know of, including the usenet - from a danish DVD store. Needless to say I don’t speak danish, so I didn’t even understand the confirmation email. I can just hope they will send me the right DVD.

Speaking of things that aren’t available: Ever since I watched the movie “Love the hard way” (excellent film, by the way) I have been looking for a couple of songs from its soundtrack. The artist is called “Me and the other guy”, but I can’t for the life of me find any website that sells his music. All I found was this one song as the background music to some YouTube video. It drives me nuts that I can’t find a CD of this guy anywhere.