There are four thousand things on my mind right now and they're squishing the hell out of it.

[apocalypsos]

I am watching the Olympics snowboarding while I wait for American Idol to come on. I'm rooting for Shaun White, of course, but the thing that amuses me most is how the snowboarders all get to show up for the freakin' Olympics looking like they just rolled out of bed. Well, that, and the fact that they interviewed Shaun White on the lift up the mountain and you could see just how little snow there must have been before they trucked it all in there. Three feet of hard pack here, bare grass with a hint of green two feet away. Heh.

I'm also enjoying my weekly cheat while watching. Mmm, small cup of Cheetos and wee tiny can of Pepsi. It's Ash Wednesday, for fucking out loud. One of the most fun parts of being formerly Catholic and currently atheist is starting each Lent with a celebratory feast of booze, candy, junk food, soda, meat, watching porn, and then cursing a lot. Because I can. \o/

But, yes. I'm watching American Idol this season for reasons I still can't comprehend, because I still get uncomfortable watching people sing so I spend most of the time when they're not doing the obligatory "Here is this person's tragic life story that they're trying to overcome by trying out for this game show" cringing at the tryouts. That said:

-- I was SO glad Mary was in the room that got cut. She seemed possibly cool at first but after last week? Oh, HALE, no. Can we trade her for her kid, though? Her kid was awesome.

-- Big Mike and Didi were two of the ones I most definitely wanted to advance, so I was thrilled for them.

-- Not going to lie, but after seeing Casey perform that bluesy song in his "how they got here" clip, I was terrified he was secretly Jonny Lang in disguise after a fall from grace or something. That said, I don't find him nearly as cute as I do Kara crushing on him. Heh.

-- Aaron looks like he's twelve, and I hope when they make him over for TV they disallow his spiked hair.

-- The other two I'm hoping advance are Crystal Bowersox and Andrew Garcia. And possibly Maddie Curtis. She's the girl with all of the different plastic-framed glasses, right? I just like the glasses, really.

Also, does anybody have the Half-Blood Prince audiobook? I keep trying to torrent a copy, but one of the two versions I've been able to get won't play at all on my MP3 player and the other one restarts the damn thing no matter what I do. I spend so much time doing data entry at work I've been switching it up and listening to audio books while I type. It's a nice change, really, because with a two-gig MP3 player I'm pretty much listening to the same songs over and over and OVER again. (I got my grubby little paws on the audio book of The Stand. It's mine, it's mine! :D I'm also debating whether or not to get The Circus Fire on audio book. The audiobook is super-cheap if I want to get a used copy on cassette, but on Audible or on CD it's around seventeen bucks. But I really like that book ... it's one of my favorite disaster books.)

Speaking of books, I picked up a cheap paperback when I was at Wal-Mart the other day -- sort of a "Yay, my car's back!" present -- and I have no idea why I keep reading, because I loathe the main character. Not to get too far into detail, but it's a female lead in first-person written by a guy, which made me leery before I even bought it, but the set-up seemed intriguing. And it is, and there's parts where he really writes her well, and she's allowed to be the bad creature she is which is cool, but then there are the moments where she calls everyone "bitches" and calls other women the c-word (which I mostly refuse to type because I hate the sound of the word, and just typing it makes it ring in my head; I dislike this and "turd" for much the same reasons and EW, now that's stuck in my head) and calls herself a "retard" and comments on a Latino man being "spicy." There's flaws and then there's ... uh, that. Oh, and also ... *singsongs* ... soooooomebody loooooves cooooooommas. Seriously, they don't need to be between every word. That's what those little spaces are for.

EDIT: Why wasn't I informed that Jay McCarroll is on this season of Celebrity Fit Club?! And he's a team captain! I ... I don't even know what to do with that.

Comments

Half Blood Prince

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

Got you covered - I'll rip it to mp3 version this week and send it on.

Re: Half Blood Prince

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

YAY! Danke. :D

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

theaudiolibrary is not an LJ community devoted to sharing audio books. It doesn't have a wide selection of stuff. If it existed, I might have discovered a lot of new authors and gone on to spend far too much on books. However, it doesn't exist.

And this comment may soon cease to exist.

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

Gotta love the snowboarders. One of the snowboard crossers got ripped by the other competitors because his pants weren't baggy enough, so he went back and changed before his event.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

What is this cheap paperback?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Um, I think the title is "Happy Hour Of The Damned." (It's in my work purse right now and I'm too lazy to go get it.) I mean, the set-up's interesting -- the lead's a zombie -- but there's just SO much about her as a character I don't like. There's a vast difference between being a fun sort of evil and just being mean and selfish, you know what I mean?