(Do you like that title?  "What's spinning?"  I thought that sounded at least somewhat original--I mean, GH has the "What are you listening to?" thread, and there's a "What's in your CD player?" thread at R-------m, and I think there might have even been one here before, too.  But what the hell.)

Now playing:  Aimee Mann, "Calling It Quits", from Bachelor No. 2.  Good stuff.

Any recent purchases worth noting?  Anything good coming up?

Are you like me?  Do you like the rock n' roll?  Yuh. . .  yuh got any gum?

Oh, and I forgot to mention:

I wondered how long it would take before some lame-o posted yet another pic of Shania.  

Not that she's not attractive, but aren't there like, a ton of other hot girls to post pictures of?

Hate to do it to you, Scott, but you're getting Carnor-ized:

 

Did you guys see Liz Phair re-enacting the fake orgasm scene from When Harry met Sally on VH1's I Love the 80s Strikes Back?  Good stuff.

Oh hell yeah.  I've had a crush on her for almost ten years, and I stopped, mid-step, as I was walking past the TV during that scene.

"Funny" story regarding me and Liz Phair:

An old roommate of mine is a roadie for the Flaming Lips, and they were on tour earlier this summer with Liz as the opener.  They came to Oklahoma City on one night, and went to Dallas the next (and I went to both).  Well, my roommate remembered me playing Liz's albums while we lived together, so he was going to do what he could to arrange us to "meet" at the show.  

So, while they're setting up for her set, he brings her out to one of the wings of the stage, and me and Liz wave at each other--like we've been friends for years or something.  A little later, during her set, I was taken backstage to get suited up as a furry animal for the Lips show (which is where my avatar comes from), and as I'm getting the suit on, here comes Liz backstage.  We made eye contact and everything.

But--hey--who's too much of a ***** to say anything?  That's right, me.

We kind of brushed shoulders a couple more times that night, and I was just so trying not to be "that guy", that I never even had the balls to say as much as hello to her.  The buddy I went with had a camera with him, and we all took pictures with Wayne from the Lips, and even Steve Burns from Blue's Clues, but never even a pic with Liz.

I regretted that as soon as we were driving back home that night, and still do today.

Nice going, Virex.  

Finally got around to watching A Mighty Wind and I couldn't agree more on that selection

You know, I liked her in that, but I thought she was cuter as the white-trash Dairy Queen employee Libby Mae Brown in Waiting for Guffman.

"Who's on top, and who's on bottom now?!?!"  Heh.

Old-school hottie:


Raquel Welch

As promised. . .


Liz Phair


Sarah McLachlan (whose first album in six years, Afterglow, is releasing next Tuesday)

My computer sucks.  More later. . .

Here are a couple of threads, from the Home Theatre Forum and DVD Talk, regarding the new DVDs:

Guns N' Roses DVDs Avaliable October 28th (HTF)

Guns n' roses dvd's coming Oct 28th!!! (DVD Talk)

(Watch that HTF thread, though--it was derailed halfway through by some ****** from Oklahoma who couldn't shut up about the concert he went to back in the day. . .)

And this is supposedly the track-listing for the Greatest Hits CD:

01. Welcome To The Jungle
02. Sweet Child O' Mine
03. Patience
04. Paradise City
05. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
06. Civil War
07. You Could Be Mine
08. Don't Cry
09. November Rain
10. Live And Let Die
11. Yesterdays
12. Ain't It Fun
13. Since I Don't Have You
14. Sympathy For The Devil

What a piece of crap.  No "Estranged", but yet we have the horrid cover of "Sympathy".  And no rare or live tracks--the Live at the Ritz version of "Knockin'" from 1988 would have been cool--that was all over the radio in late '88 and '89.  

('Course, if they added a rare or live track that I didn't already have, I'd be pissed, too--having to buy it just for that one track, but I digress. . .)  

Oh well.  Doesn't look like it's coming out, anyway.

Well  I am going to be the first person in line for the film!  That's right dogs.  I am headed out to the theatre with my laptop so I can keep posting back to you folks.  I don't care if I get hungry and cold with the impending Illinois weather coming up.  I will be there in line from now until opening day!  All the media will be covering me and you all will be sooooo jealous!  

Hey, uh, maybe you didn't catch the news, but the super-secret exclusive engagement is only going to be at the Cinemark 24 in Twin Hills Mall in Walla Walla, Washington, for next week only.  Just be sure to ask for "Big Momma's House 3".  The theatre attendents have been trained and ordered to feign any knowledge of the Episode III release.

You don't ask fo' Big Momma, you don't get in.

It, is a lie he was just being sarcastic to me, it is false.

Dude, seriously, I was at Ain't It Cool News and that was what a guy named DarthObi-1SkywalkerStarWarsRoolzLeiaLuvr195485 reported.

And that guy's always been on the level.

So, you guys, you non-believers of me and DarthObi-1SkywalkerStarWarsRoolzLeiaLuvr195485--just sit back and continue to do whatever it is that you do, while I pack my bags, gas up my Volkswagen van, and prepare for the trip (and movie) of a lifetime.

So long, suckers. . .