The 29th I saw Corpse Bride tonight with Nathan and Laine, and we were the only people in the whole theatre. It was really weird to have an entire theatre to ourselves. The movie was amazing and so well done, as is to be expected with a Tim Burton animation. The composition of the shots, the intricacy of the camera work, the character design—so good. I have no idea how they're able to animate that stuff by hand. It had the right mix of weirdness, grimness and comedy. Makes me want to go back and watch The Nightmare Before Christmas again. I've been to see a lot of movies in the last month or so. If I have to sit through the damn hip hop milk commercial again I'm going to fucking scream. It's so stupid! And long! Way too long. They aren't going to get kids to drink milk because of some rapping farmers. Milk is NOT hip. Blending hip hop culture with the milk industry is about as effective as mixing emo punk and accounting. If the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants made a commercial trying to get high school kids to go to accounting school by showing a bunch of whining rockers with tattoos and piercings complaing about missing receipts and incomplete T4s it would be about as effective as the hip hop milk ad. Milk is healthy and the only thing that commercial is going to do is generate word of mouth about how stupid it is. The 26th Yesterday a bunch of musicians crashed here before they played in Charlottetown tonight. Dale, Kate, Nathan, Ryan, and Ruth stayed here and slept wherever they could find room. They're going across Canada doing a group gigging thing to promote their solo albums and the set we heard at Baba's tonight was great. It's really too bad that more people didn't show up. Me, Nathan and Laine piled into the van with them and then ate at Cedar's. They make one helluva burger. Baba's was pretty dead but they still put on a great show. Kira came by to see the show too and Kyle popped in to say hi. Other than our table there might have been 10 other people there at one time. I hope the crowd in Quebec City is a whole lot better than this one was. The 22nd I've had a craving for strawberry Pop-Tarts so I got a box the other night for the first time in a while. At one time I stopped eating them because I hated the crusts and found them too dry but now I don't mind them at all. Maybe they changed the recipe or something. When I was younger though I would be hanging out with my friend Andy and he would toast up some Pop-Tarts and then so generously give me his crusts. I don't think he ever actually offered me a whole Pop-Tart. The 21st The season premiere of Lost tonight was amazing! Now I have to wait a whole, long, drawn out week until I can watch again. And, man, was it ever weird. I just can't figure where the hell they'll go with the story from here. I'll have to wait until next week I guess. Damn them for hooking me into another show. The 18th Ah yes, a weekend spent on my ass. Thanks to Luke buying season 1 of Lost on DVD, we've been watching as many episodes as we can before the 2nd season starts on Wednesday. The refresher is good and I'm glad I finally have other people watching the show so I can actually talk to someone about it. Sharon, Ryan, Laine, Luke and Kyle were over for hours and hours yesterday. Laine, Kyle, and Nathan watched more today and it's really a pretty good way to spend a shitty, rainy weekend. Hopefully we'll be able to see the rest but going back to waiting a week between shows and sitting through commercials is really going to suck. The 15th A bunch of us went to see The Skeleton Key tonight, as it was the last chance to go before they got rid of it. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be but it had its moments and a pretty interesting story too. You can't go wrong with having Kate Hudson as the lead either. The house was extra creepy, but what house wouldn't be creepy in the middle of the bayou with a history of hoodoo magic? After the movie I had to bring back some movies to Jumbo and ahead in the parking lot was a fox running away from the car. When we parked though he stopped about 6 feet away and kind of lingered there for a minute. I got a really good look at him and it was pretty cool to see it that close. They're really pretty animals and at one point he gave me this weird look as if he thought I was going to shoot him or something. Then he just jogged off. The 12th The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a damn good and scary movie. I saw it tonight with Nathan and Sharon, and was completely satisfied with everything about the film. The acting is great through-and-through and the story is so well told, from both sides. They do a really interesting take examining the exorcism through the courts. When they show the flashbacks of what happened to Emily, well, I think I almost had a heart attack in one scene because it was so intense. They did a really good job of keeping things heavy, disturbing and tense and bringing you out of it by going back to the court case. They just keep telling the story from a bunch of different perspectives and blend in a bunch of creepy, demonic stuff. I have to see it again and need to find some info on the real story because there was some pretty messed up stuff going on. The 7th I'm drooling over this new gem from Apple. The iPod nano blows all of the iPods out of the water in terms of design and integration of features. Tiny, tiny, tiny and with a colour screen and click wheel. Makes my 2nd generation iPod look like an obese child. Next time I'm in Charlottetown I'm going to the Little Mac Shoppe just so I can hold it, feel it, wish it were my own, drool over its smooth features and colour screen…ok, that's enough of that. They've got iTunes integration with a cell phone now too. Boy, I should run right out and get one of those so people can call me anywhere, anytime. The 3rd I spent the afternoon on a sailboat in the harbour with Shawn, Adam, Nathan and Mary Kate. Vick was at the helm and took us out for a few hours on a perfect day for sailing. It's pretty weird seeing Summerside from that angle. Going out on the water was one of the best things I got to do this summer. A bunch of us went to Mark's for a BBQ after that and I, of course, ate way too much. It was the last BBQ Bash Blowout of the summer though so that's ok. The plan for the evening was to go to The Deckhouse after that but it turns out that it was closed and so was The Heritage. I should have just gone home after finding out about this because the only remaining alternative was Summer Street…I went anyway. They do have air hockey after all. That place sucks so much. It's too loud, too hot, full of skanks and idiots I don't want to see. But! I did find some entertainment in watching a couple of girls get in each others' face before one of them gave the other a solid shove to the chest and sent her flying off a platform backwards onto the dance floor. She disappeared into the crowd at that point so I couldn't see what happened other than the other girl tossing a drink down on top of her. That was pretty fun to see.