tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75365045531919511892024-03-13T21:20:17.961-06:00the daily ouroboros1 year, 318 lists about random stuff (because you know i'm going to forget to post one a lot of the time)Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012876825190602722noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536504553191951189.post-13208088953228065902011-07-10T22:27:00.002-06:002011-07-10T22:38:06.790-06:00Movin' on upI'm moving this to Tumblr, since I'm on it every day and I just really like it better (sorry, Blogspot).<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://thedailyouroboros.tumblr.com">Here</a></div>Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012876825190602722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536504553191951189.post-15301837287969296392011-05-03T15:05:00.004-06:002011-05-03T16:53:06.763-06:00"Stop eating people's old French fries, pigeon! Have some self respect! Don't you know you can fly?"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">This is the fifth post.</span></span><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">LIST FOR MAY 3, 2011:</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><br /></div><div style="line-height: 20px; "><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">Five Stupid Things People Have Said Recently</i></div><div><ol><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">"WHO IS OSAMA BIN LADEN? i don't remember."</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">"I just don't think you can be born gay."</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">"We believe the high quality of this H-E-B product makes it an outstanding value."</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">"I love this school!"</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">"<i>Glee </i>is the best show ever."</li></ol><div>Today's quote: Tracy Jordan, <i>30 Rock</i> ("Somebody to Love")</div></div></span>Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012876825190602722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536504553191951189.post-39277611292035097882011-05-02T18:06:00.002-06:002011-05-02T18:26:28.168-06:00"I've seen myself in a thousand faces strung out on life's path / I would add up what you mean to me but I cannot do the math ..."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">This is the fourth post.</span></span><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">LIST FOR MAY 2, 2011:</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><br /></div><div style="line-height: 20px; "><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">Five Things I'm Excited About</i></div><div><ol><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><b>This week's NBC comedy block.</b> Full disclosure, I'm always excited whenever there are a crop of new NBC comedies, but this week especially so because <i>Community</i> (favorite. show. ever) is having Part 1 of their epic two-part season finale, which is going to have <i>paintball again</i> and I hope it's not all shark-jumpy or just like last year's paintball episode (1x23, "Modern Warfare," best episode of anything <i>ever</i>, <i>ever ever ever including </i>Arrested Development <i>ever ever ever</i>). <i>The Office </i>. . . well, it'll be interesting, I guess, to see what post-Michael Dunder Mifflin is like, in the way that it'll probably be interesting to see <i>NewsRadio</i>'s fifth season (won't say any more, though IT'S BEEN OVER TEN YEARS. <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05/">Statute of limitations much?</a>). The uber-essential <i>Parks and Recreation</i> will be having an episode called "Eagleton," which if you've seen the show YOU KNOW WILL BE AWESOME, and <i>30 Rock</i>'s season finale ("Respawn") is also on, so yeay. There's also an <i>Office</i> rerun at 7.30c, which I'm neutral towards, and a new <i>Outsourced,</i> about which I have to say . . . please let this be the season finale. #kthxbai</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><b>Vanessa Carlton's new album, </b><i><b>Rabbits on the Run</b> </i>(Razor and Tie). Vanessa Carlton is amazing. I shan't hear any disparaging remarks because of her hit single "A Thousand Miles," which is catchy and peppy and somewhat well-written but not really essential; however, it's the only song by her most people know, which is just . . . no. Anyways, the album drops June 21 and the first single from the album, "Carousel," IS BEING RELEASED DIGITALLY TOMORROW. #fuckyeah So I'm definitely waiting super-excitedly for that. Yeah, a live version is already on YouTube, but for me it's studio or nothing, bitches.</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><b><i>The Last Little Blue Envelope </i>by Maureen Johnson.</b> Yes, I know this book (HarperTeen, $16.99, April 26) is already out, but I don't have it yet and OH MY GOD I WANT IT. Maureen Johnson is made of win and so was <i>13 Little Blue Envelopes</i> and this book is supposedly really damn good. So as soon as I get money . . . yeah. </li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><b>FIELD TRIP </b>Lest you think I'm a total studio/publisher/network plant or someone that gets off on one-sided cross-promotion or something, I'll include this only-affects-my-life one, because I really am excited about it. MAY 17 MAY 17 MAY 17.</span></span></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><b>The end of the school year. </b>God, I hate my school. So can't wait to get out. One more month one more month one more month . . .</span></li></ol><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><i><br /></i></div></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><i>~</i></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">Today's quote: "Come Undone" by Vanessa Carlton (from <i>Heroes and Thieves</i>, 2007, The Inc.)</div><div style="line-height: 20px; "><br /></div></span>Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012876825190602722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536504553191951189.post-77371531439482095502011-04-26T20:25:00.004-06:002011-04-26T20:39:13.261-06:00"I'll just set my bourbon and advocaat down right there."<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">This is the third post.</span></span><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">LIST FOR APRIL 26, 2011:</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><br /></div><div><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">Five Movies In Production I Hope Never Get Made (And Yes, I Just Looked Up 'movies in production' and Picked a Few Random Crappy-Looking Movies Off the List. What Can I Say, I Have No Work Ethic.)</i></div><div><i></i><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><i>World War Z </i>(Come on. <i>World War Z.</i> Do you really need a reason?)</span></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><i>Abraham Lincoln Biopic </i>(Because something tells me that this working title is going to be better than the title they actually come up with. Which is to say that it's going to suck.)</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">The Alchemist</i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> (How long has it been since an actual good book-to-movie transition has occurred? Probably not too long, but there are a lot more that are terrible. Something tells me this one's going to suck.)</span></span></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><i>Another Bullshit Night in Suck City</i> (All we need to know is the title. Faux-edgy ^ 10000.)</span></span></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><i>Atlas Shrugged, Parts 2 & 3 </i>(<i>Atlas Shrugged</i> by Ayn Rand is one of the most mercurial books ever written. Rand's talent is oftentimes stifled by her horribly one-dimensional characters and obvious political 'agenda;' this and the fact that it's over 1000 pages makes it probably one of the most challenging books to make into a film. Yet they're going to try. Have already tried, as a matter of fact--after 50 or so years in pre-production, <i>Atlas Shrugged, Part 1</i> was released this month to middling-to-negative reviews. Yet Rand acolytes loved it, in much the same way that fans of, say, <i>Twilight</i> may think <i>Breaking Dawn</i> will be good. Something tells me no, though. See <i>Alchemist, </i>above.) </span></span></li></ol><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><i><br /></i></div></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><i>~</i></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">Today's quote:<i> </i>Jack Torrance, <i>The Shining</i> (1980)</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><br /></div>Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012876825190602722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536504553191951189.post-43045164999499189702011-04-25T20:04:00.003-06:002011-04-25T20:12:13.608-06:00"My mind is like the streets of Hong Kong."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9020093374013717566" style="width: 498px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 15px; position: relative; ">This is the second post.<div><br /></div><div>LIST FOR APRIL 25, 2011:</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Common Popsicle Flavors: Ranked and Rated</i></div><div><ol><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><i>Cherry</i></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><i>Orange</i></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><i>Blue</i></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><i>Lime</i></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><i>Grape</i></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><i>Banana</i></li></ol><div><i><br /></i></div></div><div><i>~</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Today's quote:<i> </i>Emily Thompson, <i>The Year of Secret Assignments</i> by Jaclyn Moriarty</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div style="clear: both; "></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="line-height: 1.6; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "></div></span>Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012876825190602722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536504553191951189.post-90200933740137175662011-04-24T20:13:00.003-06:002011-04-25T20:04:36.655-06:00"The coroner? I'm so sick of that guy."This is the first post.<div><br /></div><div>LIST FOR APRIL 24, 2011:</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ten Lists I Intend to Make</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><ul><li><i>Ten Things I Like With Shitty Names</i></li><li><i>Nine Episodes of "Recess" That Could Be Taught in College Classes on Contemporary Sociopolitical Dynamics</i></li><li><i>Eight Books I Should Get Around to Reading</i></li><li><i>Seven Things I Hate That You Would Think I Was Crazy If I Told You I Hated Them (Which I Am)</i></li><li><i>Six </i>Twilight <i>Quotes That Make Me Anxious for Society</i></li><li><i>Five Movies I Will, At Some Point in the Next Year, Pretend I've Seen</i></li><li><i>Four Reasons Why I Don't Want to Watch </i>The Wire, <i>Despite the Fact That Everyone Says it Kicks Ass</i></li><li><i>Three TV Shows That Are Better Than Sex (Oral, Anyway)</i></li><li><i>Two Songs That Would be Better If They Were in a Different Language (and Sung by Text-to-Speech Generators)</i></li><li><i>A '30 Rock' Quote. Do You Really Need a Reason?</i></li></ul><div><i><br /></i></div></div><div><i>~</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Today's quote:<i> </i>Dr. Nick Riviera, <i>The Simpsons</i></div>Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012876825190602722noreply@blogger.com0