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downtime?
Er, yeah. Yesterday I went to the Mariners-Indians game, sat 9 rows behind the field, got to see a whole bunch of guys get hit by baseballs and clear both benches out into a crowd of confusion (not to be confused with like, a brawl). Kevin Millwood got the win; I would feel guilty for rooting against the Mariners if not for the fact that a) Millwood still holds the "Phillies don't PITCH no-hitters" soft spot in my heart and b) Grady Sizemore is a really cute kid, and he almost hit for the cycle, and I really thought it'd be cool to see.
I went swimming this afternoon at the gym. I decided to actually get a real membership as opposed to the summer membership, but they had no membership reps there today. Oops. If it turns out I can't actually get the "by July 30" special discount, I might not join after all. We shall see.
In the evening I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with the gang. I thought it was a pretty good movie, though it was *very* Tim Burton. I dunno, I liked the newer script better than the old script, but I love the musical aspect of the old one -- like, I thought it was cool that the Oompa-Loompa songs actually had the book's lyrics in this version, but on the other hand, because this wasn't a musical, the random songs seemed sort of... intrusive and random. I dunno. I did like that they had the squirrels and Veruca; it had always bugged me how they changed some of the things from the book in the original, like the geese, and having Charlie drink the fizzy lifting drinks, and whatnot. Though... adding in the "Wonka as a kid" sideplot seemed very very strange, and the redone ending... bah, I dunno.
Whatever, it was fun, that's all there is to it. Whee.
Afterwards I went to Tower Records because they're having a sale on broadway soundtracks, so I got Hairspray, Chicago, and Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit. Oh man, I'm not wishing I saw FB when I was off in New York, but the songs on this are really good. I love this stuff, you know. I wish I could like, work with these guys.
Oh, and uh, the Mariners traded Randy Winn to the Giants for Yorvit Torrealba and Jesse Foppert, and traded Miguel Olivo to the Padres for Miguel Ojeda and Natanael Mateo. And Eric Byrnes is now on the Orioles. The trade deadline is weird.
I went swimming this afternoon at the gym. I decided to actually get a real membership as opposed to the summer membership, but they had no membership reps there today. Oops. If it turns out I can't actually get the "by July 30" special discount, I might not join after all. We shall see.
In the evening I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with the gang. I thought it was a pretty good movie, though it was *very* Tim Burton. I dunno, I liked the newer script better than the old script, but I love the musical aspect of the old one -- like, I thought it was cool that the Oompa-Loompa songs actually had the book's lyrics in this version, but on the other hand, because this wasn't a musical, the random songs seemed sort of... intrusive and random. I dunno. I did like that they had the squirrels and Veruca; it had always bugged me how they changed some of the things from the book in the original, like the geese, and having Charlie drink the fizzy lifting drinks, and whatnot. Though... adding in the "Wonka as a kid" sideplot seemed very very strange, and the redone ending... bah, I dunno.
Whatever, it was fun, that's all there is to it. Whee.
Afterwards I went to Tower Records because they're having a sale on broadway soundtracks, so I got Hairspray, Chicago, and Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit. Oh man, I'm not wishing I saw FB when I was off in New York, but the songs on this are really good. I love this stuff, you know. I wish I could like, work with these guys.
Oh, and uh, the Mariners traded Randy Winn to the Giants for Yorvit Torrealba and Jesse Foppert, and traded Miguel Olivo to the Padres for Miguel Ojeda and Natanael Mateo. And Eric Byrnes is now on the Orioles. The trade deadline is weird.
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