...To Qualify Her Luck.

Something Corporate's I Woke Up In a Car just came on the Muzak station... and I can't claim to have avoided it invoking the word enjoyment. I don't care if it's simple and a watered-down, pop-punk Ben Folds-homage--the band just writes some damn catchy songs.

Look at this thing:

and

...that's a goddamn bird in the background of those pictures, which I snapped as inconspicuously as I could. This customer just brought her bird into our store. Don't get me wrong--awesome. But still. A bird? And that's not all. Just when I thought it couldn't get any stranger, Phantom Planet's California came on the overhead and Bird Lady was obviously a bit of an OC fan. She clicked her fingers and tapped on the desk a couple of times and the Bird started pecking the desk in fucking unison to the song. I shit you not. I just watched a bird sit on my desk and tap along to the OC theme. Jesus this is a strange day. And by stange I mean mind-blowingly awesome now.

We saw X-Men 3 yesterday. It was enjoyable to watch. That's about as far as it goes. I suppose they had to find a way to stop making more movies... if they had followed the Bryan Singer way consistently they would need like 20 films to tell the X-Men saga accurately. As such they took the Phoenix saga storyline they were working on and merged it with (from what I can tell) the House of M/New World storylines going on right now and gave it the cinematic spin. IE: Crushed everything into a small period of time, refrained from character development and took out any dialogue that couldn't be branded on a T-Shirt. With the complaints out of the way it was fun to watch Fraiser beat the shit out of some people. This is not in the vein of the first two or the two Spiderman movies, but it wasn't quite Jurassic Park 3 bad. We hit up the Ultrascreen showing last night and Aaron, SS, myself, Mike and Maya all brought our Nintendo DS's and while we waited the 45 minutes before the previews began we played the shit out of some Tetris. I expect everyone was jealous. When's the last time you played Tetris in a movie theater instead of just listening to Babyface and reading trivia on how much Mel Gibson liked the eyebrows on the animatronic Jesus in The Passion?

Lastly: A cry out to anyone who has read They Shall Know Our Velocity! My copy has a section of about 35-40 pages that breaks from the storyline to present a POV set after the events in the book from the other main character, discounting several mainstays of the piece and correcting conversations and sequences of events. It completely changes the reverberance and context of the book, and it's also something I have never seen in a copy besides mine. I picked the book up for my dad for Christmas and I've leafed through several copies at various bookstores, some with different covers and/or publishers and some identical to mine: I have never found this segue outside of the lone copy I grabbed over a year ago. It's a little offsetting. Any takers on this?