The Final Borders Haul

So as you probably know by now, Borders has finally closed, or at least is almost closed, by now.  My local store's last day was last Thursday and I decided to pop my head in one last time on Wednesday.  Pretty much everything else was wiped out but a few hundred books, and quite a few mangas surprisingly enough.  DVDs, Blu-Rays, CDs and graphic novels were completely gone.  I was quite shocked how quickly everything was gone because I had gone a week or so before and they still had quite a few Blu-Rays.  Then when I went back for my second-to-last trip, they were down to about 15, 20 tops.  By then, the only movie I was interested in getting was Die Hard.  There were still a few DVDs here and there at that time, and I just about snagged the recent 10th Anniversary Edition of Audition for pretty cheap but held off, since I already own the previous release and if I were to upgrade it would be to Blu-Ray.  But for the last visit, nothing of importance was left.  Though, by that point they were getting rid of books by making them a $1 each so I managed to snag a few things of slight interest and one thing I was super-psyched at finding...though now I'm getting ahead of myself.  I know I already posted a list last time but it kinda got buried under all that stuff so here's the final list:

Podcast. Also, why no podcasts?

So, yeah, I realized I haven't updated this in about a month...because I'm lazy.  Well, really I'm not, I just don't have much to show for it.  For one, I've been focusing more on my comedy, but still just doing Open Mics (for now, more on that later).  Also, I've kinda dropped the ball on my writing for the Freakin' Awesome Network.  Though I have started a monthly feature called This Month In Metal, I've dropped the ball lately on my normal weekly feature Wrestling With Extra Sleaze.  Even though I've only done it for about a month or two, I feel like I'm already burnt out on the subject matter, kinda like my friend who decided to write her college thesis on Nazi propaganda films and didn't quite realize "Hey, I'm going to be doing nothing but research on the worst people that ever lived for the next few years."  Only with me, it was like "Hey, I'm going to be nothing but watching the worst wrestling that's ever wrestled...even though I've been doing that already, but now I have to write about it!"  Obviously, I haven't been able to update this here blog and therefore I decided to shut down (or at least un-publish) the Facebook page for it so, if you haven't already, "Like" my Writing/Comedy page if you want to continue getting updates.  Also, my chances to go to GenCon this year and become an extra for The Avengers movie fell through, so there's that.

Random Stuff and Shameless Plugs

It may seem like I haven't been doing a whole hell of a lot, judging by the recent inactivity of this blog...and you'd be totally right!  I have an article in the works, I swear, but for some reason getting the stuff out of my head and down onto the page is kinda hard, even though I have most of it in my head.  I guess right now, I don't really want to sit down and write.  But I am doing a lot of sitting down and doing other things.

The Return of Random Movie Roundup and More!

I realize that I haven't really written much lately, having not put anything up in a few weeks and probably nothing resembling a full-blown review or article in a month or longer.  I'm sorry, my motivation for writing (or doing much of anything, really) has hit a new low so that's why I've been away.  But at least some people are still reading this (hopefully) because somehow I've just now reached over 1,000 hits total.  Thanks guys!  As a present, here's a new Random Movie Roundup with a new batch of movies!  Yeah, I know it's a shitty present, so just pretend I'm your grandma and shut up and pretend you like it, OK?

A Bunch of Random Crap and YOU Choose My Next Article!

So I don't really know what I'm going to write about here right now, probably just catch you guys up on what I've been doing lately.  Honestly, my motivation to do anything but surf the net for random crap, lurk on Facebook and maybe watch a movie in the background has dropped down to nothing.  I've hardly even logged on to Twitter to post random crap, though that makes sense as hardly anyone follows me on Twitter anyway.  So forgive me if this entry is a bit scatterbrained.

Reading Is FUNdamental, NXT Week 2 and Other Random Crap.

With my last entry running on a bit too long, I forgot to mention what I'm doing with myself now that I've gone through all my recent movie purchase and don't plan on making (m)any more right now.  I thought I was going back to my video games considering I still have Yakuza 2 on the PS2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, MadWorld and House of the Dead Overkill on the Wii to play through.  And that's not even including the other cheap games I've gotten to pad out my collection only to play them once or twice.  I thought about trading them in and getting something else but I have reservations with the whole process.  Oddly enough, I traded in a crapton of CDs and movies to get a new copy of Guitar Hero 5 (and a used copy of Rock Band 2) only to havejust traded it in over the weekend via Goozex.com.  I didn't want to go to Gamestop because I knew I'd get like $10 tops, despite it being in very good condition, and the other games I have I bought for about $10 so I'd probably get a Chuck E. Cheese token for those trade-ins.

But anyway, I won't be going back to my games...at least not right away.  I'm going back to something I haven't done in a lonnnnnnnnggggggg time: reading.  As in actual books, to boot!