Jules is on vacation...sort of

I'm sure this news will fall with much chagrin upon the hearts of my faithful readers, but I am out of town until this Friday the 1st, and I will be taking a blog vacay until I return. Most likely. Unless I just can't stay away, which is possible! Well, I might post some adventures if they are to be had. None the less, I am sure to have many exciting things to share with you upon my return to San Luis Obispo and my blogging career.
I'm currently peacing out at my Chico casa because the driveway gate is locked (grumble grumble..) leaving my key-less self and my car prisoner until my homie Breanna can pick me up. Then the fun can begin. The agenda today consists of a little shopping downtown, dinner with my memaw and step-pepaw, then dollar night(!) at Rileys with Bre and Tony and possibly some others. I also hope to meander over to the Banshee pub again to scope on the hot bartender, Vlad. Im sure thats not his name, but last night he was in this sexy plaid shirt, and I was too shy to ask his name, so..plaid, Vlad, get it?

CD review: Eric Hutchinson's 'Sounds Like This'

I was at Best Buy a few days ago buying a cover for my ipod, and while I was waiting to check out the Eric Hutchinson CD caught my eye. I am an embarrassingly faithful reader of PerezHilton.com, and he turned me on to Eric about a year ago. I downloaded a few songs and made a mental note that he was working on a full length album, (which I promptly forgot). Well, at Best Buy Eric was on sale for $6.99, so I added his CD to my shopping cart full of unnecessary gadgets.
As I pulled out of the parking lot I popped his CD in. I liked what I heard. That is, until I got to the new album versions of the songs I'd downloaded a year ago. In the place of a charming, acoustic guitar playing singer-songwriter in the vein of a good Jason Mraz, I found over produced, over synthesized versions of the songs that had nestled a place in my top music rotation not too long ago. It was like he'd hired Miley Cyrus' producer. Really. Now, the songs weren't bad, they were actually kind of catchy. Its that they weren't sincere love songs anymore. But I still kind of loved it.
This will def be blasting from by beach boombox this summer! I'm loving track 9, 'Back to Where I Was', and the acoustic pre-album recording of 'All Over Now' is not to be missed.

To facebook, or not to facebook?

Something disturbing happened to me the other day, but to explain it you need the back story. So, my friend Brent decided to make me this facebook page because I refuse to join the f.b. revolution. Now, he seemed to put some effort into the page, (lots of pictures, etc) and the page was actually funny, but a little mean and patronizing. So I left it up, as, in my opinion, a fan page of me that I had nothing to do with :P because I was at the same time offended by and entertained by it. So, the disturbing thing happened a few days later. I have Blockbuster Online as all you faithful readers may know, and I decided to add the new BBC version of 'Persuasion' to my queue. When I clicked 'add', this little window popped up saying, "Your Facebook diary has been updated to show you added this movie to your queue!". Um, what? Why, why why is this being noted so the internet population at large can see my video rental habits? I felt so freaked out that this website could invade insignificant little details of my life like that and post them as a news flash. I'm sure I reacted a little too much, but I felt like my privacy was a little violated. Now this leads me to another question. What is the appeal of these social networking sites. Is it healthy to want all your friends/acquaintances/mailpersons/etc to know everything about you, like a page like that promotes? I'm still not sure.

Moonstruck

I watch a lot of movies. Sometimes I don't want to, but lately I've had so much free time that I'm going through my Blockbuster Online movie queue like a mad woman. So today Moonstruck arrived in the mail, and I immediately popped it in the dvd. It was a great romance, but without all the romantic comedy stuff that usually makes me gag. It probably didn't hurt that it had an oh so hottt young Nicholas Cage, whom I've loved ever since 'Peggy Sue Got Married'.

I feel like something special in 80's movies, especially romantic comedies, is so missing in movies today. They seem more real, more relatable. A movie like Moonstruck, or Ordinary People(not a rom-com), or whatever, isn't afraid to have more dead, slow screen time, which makes the characters more relatable. Their on screen awkwardness has the effect of making them seem more human, and not a character. I guess they seem to live life more at the pace of you or I.

In this film Cher's character's parents are both involved in infidelity in a saddeningly unresolved way, and its juxtaposition with the burning central romance creates melancholy questions about the longevity of romantic love. All in a film that gives you such excitement about the passion of its central characters, too!

Next on the movie queue is the HBO series Six Feet Under (so I get to see a gay Dexter! Yess!) and American Gangster (which I've been putting off. It's been on my coffee table for a month.)

First Post!

Welcome to my blog! I've wanted to do this for such a long time, as kind of a more interesting alternative to facebook or something so I have more freedom to post what I want. I hope to make this a blog about what I find exciting, new, moving, funny, ect in my daily life. Enjoy!