netflixed heartworn highways finally. amazing doc with no narrator or path really. magical. random thoughts/learnings while watching:

- townes van zandt is still my hero. great with a gag (hole/burrow deal), holds a bb gun like a shotgun, can view the entire situation he’s in like reading a book in 3rd person, makes me want to drink cough syrup

- steve earle is even cooler than i thought. young earle at the table playing his songs to his mentors makes me happy.

- david allan coe isnt as lame as i thought. drove his own damn bus. could possibly be a satirist.

- why dont bands play prisons anymore?

- charlie daniels had 2 drummers

downloaded from the japanese psn store last night. it rocks. hopefully the u.s. update today has the totally english version.

so the microsoft ie8 beta hit last night. i havent pulled it down but i have found a decent article on it amongst the plethora of “ie8 sucks, it breaks,” “firefox ftw,” “bill gates is dumb and can’t make browsers” articles/comments. i’m not much of an ie “sympathist” but i would like to write a short letter…

dear dumbass, its a fucking beta.

a lot of my friends who have figured out how to remain close with each other seem to have blogs. i’m not sure if its a pattern but i’m gonna find out. maybe my uncle jim will one day read this. maybe it will be nice to look back on in much the same way some folks keep journals.

today sarah woke me up at 4am thinking there was someone in the basement. it was just one of our cats (the little one named jewels but we just call her tiny) couldnt get back to sleep even after a cup of microwaved skim milk. it was a good 4 hours of record listening to time while waiting for work. work was crazy as it has been lately. the ford.ca project is getting down to crunch time and we’ve got a lot to do. mike and tom and eric are awesome. after work went grocery and toy shopping. got groceries and a 4gb memory stick (on crazy sale for presidents day at circuit city) as well as the ps3 game resistance since it was also on sale. pixel junk monsters still takes up most of my video game time though…

got this from my friend seth’s blog (www.sethgunderson.com). its the newest david gordan green movie and i think it was written and/or produced by judd apatow. its got seth rogan from knocked up as well as the dude who played the rabbit in donnie darko. they’re potheads so there’s a built in audience but looking at green’s (wow, irony) other movie’s more than a weed flick should be in store. about crapped my pants when i saw a scene in the trailer w/ the funny guy from all the real girls having a neck brace and cocking a shotgun as its gotta be some sort of homage to shotgun stories. which is amazing by the way. opens in march in NY and LA and hopefully way more after that. it was written and directed by jeff nichols who’s the younger brother of a dude named ben nichols who’s a craftsman in his own right. can’t wait to see what happens with shotgun stories and also with pineapple express. also wanna see snow angels somehow, its gotta be hitting limited release or dvd/blu ray (R.I.P. hddvd, you were lame) sometime soon…

(slightly nsfw due to weed smoke blowing and i think some cursing, maybe).

watch the “red band” pineapple express trailer.