Monday, May 12, 2008

I slept well today, and I feel really good. I'm not sure what I'm doing tonight. I might go to Necto.

I haven't read much more of my book, but what I have read has been really good; I know I have other stuff to read, but I'm taking this one slowly...I'm savoring it. The third part of the Terok Nor trilogy should be here a few days; I'm excited to see the list of characters appearing in this volume. I'll most likely read those books next, then come back to the New Frontier books.

I also ordered some used biographies that I'm interested in reading. One is about Joey Stephano (a porn star), and the other is about an actor that was in the movie "Score"; both are dead now. I kind of got them at random, but looking forward to reading them.

So, I've been chatting with this guy about Godzilla movies. I used to be obsessed with them, and I owned all the titles I could get my hands on, which wasn't easy as that was the 80's, and the crappy VHS copies weren't exactly popular or easy to find. I did have about half of the movies that exist today. Anyways, now that I've been talking about them, I've had the urge to revisit them. I know they're mostly really crappy, but they're a part of my youth, and I found I actually own 3 of the newer ones that I've never seen. I bought them a few years ago on the cheap, expecting to watch them someday...but never did. Then tonight I went to the video store and rented the earliest 6 titles I could find:

1933: KING KONG

1933: SON OF KONG

1954: GODZILLA (GOJIRA)

1955: GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN

1956: GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS!

1956: RODAN

1964: GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA (THE THING) / Mothra vs. Godzilla

The 3 titles that I already own are:

2001: GODZILLA, MOTHRA & KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ATTACK

2002: GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA

&

2003: GODZILLA: TOKYO S.0.S.

So...yeah. I'm thinking I'll revisit the titles I grew up with, and maybe fill in some of the gaps that I missed then. For example, I've never seen the original Godzilla movie. Ever. Or Rodan (though I've seen several movies that Rodan did show up in). It's free, and fun, and silly. Sue me.

I'd like to get some pictures taken this week. I've been slacking on that for months. I'd also like to see Michael this week. It's possible I'll hang out with Bobby this week. We'll see. There's also some work related bar hopping going on tomorrow night that I was just invited too, though I'm not sure I'm interested, accept that I'd get to hang out with some of my cool coworkers, which is always fun. I'm not really a planner, so I'll just have to see how it all pans out.

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