If I am not writing up something on Facebook or Twitter, does that mean it should be long-winded?  Should I be coming up with a grand idea/plan for a blog post?  If you look at my blog, it is obviously quality over quantity.  But is that because I have nothing to share, or is it because I spend so much of my time writing that when I get a moment to myself I would rather relax than put my thoughts down on a computer?  And then when someone writes an in-depth post about themselves, does that then feel like something that would be better suited for a xanga or a livejournal?  I was not a 13-year-old girl in 1997, so I really have no idea about that.  And if I were to just post a photo with a tiny blurb, that just feels like something out of Facebook or tumblr, and how lazy is that?  “Oh hey, check out this totally amazing artistic photo I found of a hot chick holding an umbrella, follow my tumblr, yo.”  Lame.  But I don’t want to be oversharing like some folks may tend to enjoy doing on Facebook.  You ran a couple miles after work instead of sitting around and drinking a beer?  Congratulations?  I too enjoy hitting up the gym, but I don’t have to let the world know how much I can bench, (350 lbs, give or take).  And then at what point will a blog post just seem like a really long ramble which is obviously too long for a Facebook, Twitter or tumblr post?  Oh wait, I think I just hit it.

I noticed two very similar movie posters and I could not help but do a little Photoshopping.  Awesome.

Miracle Drug    A.C. Newman

Headache Frank Black

Smiley faces Gnarls Barkley

There’s No Other Way Blur

Eat My Beat AIR

Pizza Adiam Dymott

Jealousy Spoon

Send A Message To Her   Beck

Such a Pretty Lie The Wrens

Crying Lightning Arctic Monkeys

Young Love Delivers Oxford Collapse

Don’t Take Me To Space (Man) Brakes

On Your Own                          Blur

Alcoholics Unanimous Art Brut

We Have a Technical Blur

Walkie Talkie DJ Shadow

Cracked Actor David Bowie

Burn Baby Burn Ash

Fire & Fast Bullets Blitzen Trapper

Grace Supergrass

Kim’s Watermelon Gun   The Flaming Lips

The Real Me                        The Who

Debaser Pixies

addicted to drugs Kaiser chiefs

Twin Cinema                      The New Pornographers

I Can See For Miles         The Who

Sleepyheads (Drums and Wires out take)     XTC

Bigtime The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again) Wilco

Hammer I Miss You                      Jay Reatard

The End Has No End                      The Strokes

New Years Eve The Walkmen

Lovers Who Uncover                 The Little Ones

You Gotta Feel It Spoon

Just Radiohead

Ulysses Franz Ferdinand

Alec Eiffel Pixies

10 A.M. Automatic The Black Keys

Dream Police Cheap Trick

Direct Hit Art Brut

Bunny Ain’t No Kind Of Rider Of Montreal

Go With The Flow                         Queens Of The Stone Age

Electric Feel Mgmt

We’re Not Gonna Take It The Who

No Epiphany Fucked Up

Tropicana Ratatat

Fashion Is Danger Flight Of The Conchords

Making Plans for Nigel XTC

Cowbell Tapes ‘n Tapes

Going Mobile The Who

I’m Always In Love Wilco

Don’t You Evah Spoon

Officer Blue XTC

“I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to Be Nicer” The Cardigans

Nag Nag Nag Nag Art Brut

Worked Up So Sexual                     The Faint

This Boy Franz Ferdinand

5/4                                                    Gorillaz

Party Hard                                    Andrew W.K.

Timebomb Beck

I used to dance with my daddy Datarock

I’m Slowly Turning Into You The White Stripes

There’s No MIMS In Threesome ABX

Too Many Dicks (On The Dance Floor) Flight Of The Conchords

Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go) Noisettes

Be A Bee AIR

It Won’t Be Long The Hives

What You Waiting For Gwen Stefani

Alright Supergrass

BAD CARTRIDGE (E-Pro) [Remix]           Beck

True Stories Datarock

Get Up And Party Like A Rock Star ABX

Auld Lang Syne The Black On White Affair

Fancy Footwork Chromeo

She Is Beautiful Andrew W.K.

Everyday I’m Ghosthustlin’ ABX

Goldmine                               Caviar

human after all Daft Punk

Computer camp love Datarock

The Girl And The Robot Royksopp

Weird (Dekoder remix) Menomena

Working for the Weekend (Remastered 2006) Loverboy

It Don’t Move Me Peter Bjorn and John

Leave Them All Behind      Whitey

1901 Phoenix

Happy Up Here Royksopp

Fa-fa-fa                            Datarock

Animals Talking Heads

Cherry Cola Eagles Of Death Metal

10 Feet of Snow The Prairie Cartel

head in the corner Whitey

Intimate Secretary        The Raconteurs

Gunman Them Crooked Vultures

Great DJ The Ting Tings

Young Thongs                 The Prairie Cartel

Princess Datarock

Sex me up Datarock

My Moon My Shawty DJ STV SLV

Secret Plans Eagles Of Death Metal

Paranoid                            Kanye West

Disco Infiltrator             LCD Soundsystem

Toxic Local H

I Told Her On Alderaan Neon Neon

Lay it Down Peter Bjorn and John

Lisztomania                              Phoenix

Cracktown (Hey Champ Remix) The Prairie Cartel

The Pretender                          Datarock

Five on the Five The Raconteurs

Eple Royksopp

L.E.S Artistes Santogold

Got Nuffin Spoon

Cold War Trans Am

Amsterdam Peter Bjorn And John

Ready For Love/After Lights Mott The Hoople

The Final Countdown Europe

I received a fairly badass DSLR for Christmas - Canon PowerShot SX20 IS to be exact.  My last camera probably had the same mega pixels as my current phone, so I look forward to actually shooting some worthwhile stuff.  Check out my flickr account here.  I’ve included a few of the better shots from New Year’s Eve and a couple random shots I took in the burbs.  I plan on being pretty damn productive in 2010, so keep your eyes peeled to both my flickr and this blog.

In other news, I did finally receive a new copy of GTA IV about a 1.5 months ago.  All I did was complain a couple times to Rockstar’s twitter account and someone finally noticed and contacted me.  So, to those of you who find twitter worthless, I have a new copy of GTA IV that says otherwise.

So I am at my wit’s end.  I figured if I wrote a blog post, it could possibly draw attention to someone who could actually help me out.  Oh yes, using the internet for my benefit.  What’s it to ya?

Back around early ‘09, (February to be exact), I lent my buddy my copy of GTA IV for XBox 360.  No harm, no foul, until his 360 scratched my GTA IV disc, rendering the game unplayable.  Fantastic, thanks bud.  And of course he wasn’t going to shell out $60 to purchase me a new copy.  But, why should anyone have to buy a whole new copy?  There must be a way to replace a scratched disc.  That’s because there is!

I emailed Rockstar Games, the publisher of GTA IV and explained my situation.  They quickly responded and told me to mail the disc and a check for $8 (in order to ship the game back) to a disc replacement facility of sorts in Ohio.  Piece of cake, or so it seemed.

Time went by and I became engrossed in Fallout 3, no need to rush the replacement GTA IV.  I’d check online every so often to see if my check had been cashed yet.  Then, sometime around late March, I notice that my check had finally been cashed.  Looked at the image of the check to see a big ol’ Take-Two Interactive ,(the distributor of GTA IV), stamp on the back of the check.  Fantastic, that new copy of GTA IV should be mine any day now!  Boy was I wrong.

I gave it a few weeks, simple crap like magazine subscriptions take 4-6 weeks, no need to get over-anxious.  Besides, Fallout 3 was still keeping me occupied.  I wait and I wait, nothing.  Come June, I finally get off my ass and give Rockstar Games a call.  The nice British dude tells me that they had switched over to a new customer service system since my original email.  Because of that, my reference number was no longer in the system, they knew nothing of my claim.

(Boy this is interesting stuff.)

So, I am told to forward the original email that Rockstar had sent me about the replacement process.  I do, and hear nothing back.  I call back a week or so later and speak to someone.  They see that I had emailed the information, but for whatever reason, it was not followed up.  They will pass this on to a manager or God knows who.

More time goes by, I call again, explaining my situation once more.  They have my reference number, why must I keep doing this?  Anyways, a manager will take care of it, but he won’t be in til after the weekend.  Fine.

Call back the next week and they say they just need my address to send me a new copy!  Huzzah!  Thanks manager!

Weeks go by.  Nothing.  Where the hell is my game?

Once again, I call back and speak to another fancy lad who tells me that the information was relayed over to the returns location in Ohio.  The same location in Ohio that cashed my check and never sent me my game!  Great, yeah, they’re really efficient over there.  And the kicker was that they had yet to receive a response from Ohio.  Those British dudes have a tough time saying Ohio, by the way.  But no worries as they will contact them personally for me!  Easy peasy!

I call back the very next day, (which happens to be today), and find out that no one ever contacted Ohio.  Great!  Excellent!  Cowabunga!  Now I have been very patient on the phone.  I’ve worked customer service before, it can suck, so I resisted the urge of losing my cool with these Brits.  This time the rep told me he would forward this on to his manager and have him contact Ohio.  And here’s the kicker:  He told me to call back in a week.  So far I’ve waited 8 months, what’s another week, right?

But I don’t get it.  Why must they contact the Ohio location?  Why can’t they just send me a new game?  What must I do?  I don’t get it.  So, I am pleading with Rockstar Game and Take-Two Interactive:  You cashed my check, send me a game.  Is that so hard?  Please?  I am asking nicely.  Screw Ohio.  This has gone on for far too long.  Got it?  Thanks.

HERE

Seeing as how sentence long posts are pointless, I created a twitter.  Lucky you!

For those who are looking for employment (cough), let me help you decode what the job posting titles on craigslist actually mean.

Entry Level Sales & Marketing Ninjas- Sense of Humor Req’d

You will need to be able to laugh at how pathetic your life is, because this job is a piece of shit.

Interview Today, Train Next Week, 20K Next Month!!

This job is foolproof!  See?  We used two exclamation marks!!

Seeking Mascot Performer

Pedophiles only!

*** EASY MONEY *** FOR THE RIGHT PERSON ***

***It’s so easy that only complete morons can do it***

Make money talking on the phone!

Being a telemarketer!

Are you a “PEOPLE PERSON”??

Can you also be a “DICKHEAD”??

HEY … CHECK THIS OUT !!!

HEY … THIS IS CLEARLY A WASTE OF TIME!!!

Ghost Writer Needed ASAP

I am having difficulty writing my first person vampire novel.

WE CUT THE BACON AND YOU EAT IT! - SHEEP’S FEET

Uhhh

iPhone=fail

How did we go from:

To this:

And now this:

Dogs that can play basketball, football, soccer, baseball and beach volleyball, now that I can believe.  But dogs who go to space?  Ya lost me.

By the way, the “Air Buddies” poster reminds me of this:

First there was Date My Mom, now Ryan Seacrest is bringing the world Momma’s Boys.  Enough I say.  Enough!  I am done with seeing mothers in dating shows.  I want to know when television executives are going to grow a pair and incorporate a show with fathers.  Think about.  That’s why I am pitching Date My Dad.  I even made a logo.

Think about it!  This time around the young, slutty girls have to take the father out for a date!  On Date My Mom, people laughed when the moms played grab-ass with the potential suitors for their daughters.  This time, it’s funny a whole new level!  And who could forget the times that mothers would describe their daughters to the guys.  Itt went something along the lines of this:

“She has a great body.  Tight ass and big boobs!  All of which she got from me!”

Now, what if the father said it, I’m sure it would go something like this:

“He’s strong with big muscles, but so are mine.  In fact, I beat him in an arm wrestling contest…you’re pretty.”
“If he’s like his father, he’s well endowed…give papa a kiss.”
“Yeah, he looks like a guy.  Now I’m just going to touch your boobs if you don’t mind.”

Now that’s television!  And before everyone comes on the show, we’ll have them sign forms they cannot sue the show/network/production company should they get violated in any such way.  My email is on my site.  We’ll be in touch.