never knows best...

dry as toast

Comments on Jay Chou's newest CD:

- I still don't really know what the title of the CD is, something-something Chopin???
- Downloading it was a pain because all the torrents tried to create files with Chinese filenames and BitTornado was crapping out. I ended up using the Python client.
- Finding the torrent was even harder (let's just say my Chinese typing skills are dwarfed by my Chinese writing skills, which in turn are dwarfed by all other skills I have). Google's Blog search came through.
- There aren't as many weird songs on this CD as the others I've heard before (those being CDs 1, 4, and 5 whose titles I don't know either). Track 11 (Initial D one) is probably the oddest sounding to me.
- First listen through I think I like track 9 the best.

Notes from Locus Arts' Bittersweet that I went to yesterday: Food at gotten at Cha-ya was good as usual, it was strangely not that packed for a Friday night (I was pretty surprised because even when we left at around 7:30 there wasn't anybody waiting for a table, maybe the sprinkling weather hurts their business?); for the actual event it was pretty good, the music wasn't anything I was all that interested in, but it was all put together pretty decently; Julia Lau was decent; Kevin So puts on a good show; other 2 didn't leave any real impression. Notable crowd pleasing song was Kevin So's "New sensation" (or something along the lines) about how the Asian man is the new sensation with all the ladies, so I'd better get ready??

Still the Futurama quote I like the best:

Aha! Once again the conservative sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!

Just in time for lunch.

Since I apparently can't keep track of my lip balm, last night at the new Longs in Berkeley (just opened earlier at 3 in the afternoon according a clerk), I picked up Canus Goat's Milk organic lip balm to replace the Chapstick that I lost. I think I like it a fair bit so far, but then again just about anything is good enough for me as long as it keeps my lips from getting chapped.

The Spinto Band's Oh Mandy in a Sears commercial. I like identifying songs in commercials. And in general, I like the current trend of background music in TV commercials, except for those Cadillac commercials. That music makes me not want to buy their cars.

So I'm using part of my day off to catch up on watching cartoons and TV in general. Since the WB is the only network channel showing cartoons (outside of PBS' educational ones), I'm stuck watching that. No Pokemon, instead mostly random stuff like Xiaolin Showdown (wrong on a lot of levels, but strangely more watchable than Jackie Chan Adventures), The Batman (Batman Beyond was far better than this), and a Transformers cartoon (just weird).

Then I see an ad for Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, which looks like a blatant rip off on Spongebob Squarepants to me. And me being the Spongebob fan (well Patrick/Squidward fan), I'm slightly offended... Anyways it looks like a dumbed down version of Spongebob, if that's possible.

edit: It's cool how this discussion quickly gets taken over by a Battlestar Galactica debate. How quickly the original topic is abandoned totally fits with my stereotypes about online forums.