And the Worldwide Champion of Brownie Baking is...

Today was a pretty great day all around, I'd say. I went to go see Where The Wild Things Are. I had Mexican for dinner. I had Dippin' Dots for dessert. The Canucks won. Yes, I do believe those are the makings of a pretty great day. It was just full of those simple pleasures in life. And just so you all can go out and see it, Where The Wild Things Are was a fantastic movie. I didn't have much doubt, because my favorite author, Dave Eggers, was working on the screenplay with Spike Jonze. But what I wasn't expecting was for the movie to be so sad, throughout. They balanced it pretty well with some great humor, but damn! So sad! I also really loved the way that the dialogue between Max and the monsters really captured how a child thinks. But I'm going to stop the ol' reviewing right there, because I don't want to give anything away. But go see it! Especially with a significant other, or crush. Because when they start up the waterworks, you can be there to comfort them, and then you can take all sorts of advantage of that situation, and get your bone on. I went with my family, though. No boning going on there. But this is an open invitation to any girl who wants me to hit on you a lot. Come see Where The Wild Things Are with me.

After the movies, the family and I headed down to Panchos and Gringos (Bethel, not Brookfield) for dinner. You know I was psyched. They had all of these Halloween decorations up. Excuse me, Dia de los Muertos. But some of the decorations they had up were pretty morbid for a restaurant. I didn't mind, but I can see some people objecting to eating their chimichangas while staring at bloody handprints all over the wall. Or maybe I'm just being a party pooper. But the food there ended up being great. They sure know how to make some quality tamales. And Greg, my mother did confirm that they do in fact have some premium margaritas. I'm happy to see you did your homework. But next time, try to do your homework on things I'm interested in consuming. Thanks! Butwe finished up there, left, turned the corner and walked up the stairs to Dippin' Dots. Man, do I ever love Dippin' Dots. I got my usual Banana Split Dippin' Dots. They were as good as ever. Then we all went home, and I did my best to follow the Canucks game. The downside of liking a sports team on the other side of the continent is that you don't get to see their games on television. I used to make do with online radio, but now even that was taken from me. So now I just look at the NHL.com site until the game is over. It's pretty inconvenient, but my Canucks did win tonight, so you won't see me complaining.

Now there's this band I've never really liked. They're called Against Me! I tried for awhile to like them. I'd listen through their catalog and hoped that something would stick, but it never did. Plus, at the time of me trying to get into them, they were really popular with the group of people that I'm only friends with at shows. They were also very popular with most of the punk scene. This was all soon before they put out Searching for a Former Clarity. So they hadn't "sold out" or whatever yet. And these fans would jock them so hard that it ended up really turning me off to their music. They were all I heard about. So on top of not really liking the music, anyway. Now I was just bothered whenever I heard about them. So they were pretty much a lost cause as a band I'd ever like. But since then, all the hype has died away, they sold out to the man, and Tom Gabel put out a shitty solo album. But today, I was in the mood to be open-minded. So I played all of those albums of theirs that I had written off long ago. And I bet you're expecting for this to be where I have some sort of revelation, and suddenly love Against Me! Well that's just not the case. I listened through their stuff, and I still don't like it. BUT! But I do like some of it a lot more. I deduced that I enjoy most of their acoustic work, but still can't really get into most of their electric catalog. So that was a big step for me. Plus, I've always really liked the song Cavalier Eternal, but I never really listened to it much, because who wants to only like one song by a band? That would suck. But I came out of tonight enjoying Against Me! more than I used to. Good for them. Next time I'm in an open-minded mood I'll see what I can do about liking Jawbreaker. They are another band that I just cannot get into at all.

Well that was the story of my day. It doesn't nearly compare to hair pie super soakers, but it was a good enough day for me. That's just too bad if it makes for a lackluster blog entry. It's not like you won't come back tomorrow and read what I have to say then, just because I had an average day today. I've got all of you under my thumb. Well I'm going to sit around waiting for the Lawrence Arms EP to leak. It should never take this long for an album to leak? How can I be cool if I don't have the album before street date? Or if you don't leak the album, at least put up the preorder on the Fat site! Fuck! Give me some sort of break here! Oh well. I'll be on the internet waiting if you need me. See you tomorrow, champs!