Who will love my ironies?

I'm still alive!! Honest!! Largely MIA and unavailable because it turns out completely upending your schedule and life overnight takes some getting used to, but I'm doing okay! I think! I hope???

The new job is interesting! I'm not good enough at it yet to really be comfortable and have time to fuck around online that much (a little more every day, though!), but I think eventually I'll be able to settle into a nice routine once I get the hang of things. I'm technically a service advisor now?? I just only deal with used vehicles coming into inventory, so I'm more of the middleperson between the techs and the salespeople (and also the body shop and sometimes parts depending on what's going on). It's kind of a lot! But it's not bad, and I think I can be good at it if I keep working at it. We'll see how things go, I guess????

I still don't know how I feel about the schedule. Having my number of days off nearly halved is tough, and while the extra time to get stuff done in the evenings is probably ultimately better for actually getting stuff done, I don't like how it feels like my entire life revolves around going to work now. Two days off is not enough! I miss that nice, sharp divide!

( Album #489/1001: Dagmar Krause - Tank Battles )

Okay, I've got a bunch of work orders to open now, byyyyyye~~

Settling into the 'brain-death' portion of the work week. Need to snap myself out of it. Not sure if I will. Not sure if I'll be going to the movies tomorrow, either, since I'll want to see Materialists, my mom will want to see How to Train Your Dragon But It's Brown Now, and neither of us want to see the other's choice even remotely. Hopefully I can convince her to meet me in the middle and just go see the OG HTTYD, which is also playing, and in an improbably late enough slot for me to go after work. We'll see! It's Friday the 13th, why are there no horror movies out this weekend???

( Album #488/1001: The Young Rascals - Groovin' )

And just like that, we're back to work. I actually had a very busy week off, but naturally, I have forgotten all of it. Probably because of the lack of sleep! I napped real hard yesterday so wasn't able to even settle down to pretend to sleep until about two in the morning, but I was able to drag myself out of bed a couple of hours later regardless, and that's what really matters, right?

I managed to carve out about half an hour of deck lounger time in between the alternating rain and smoke, which is... something, I guess. Truly hurts me to feel like I'm wasting the longest days of the year, but I cannot yet control nature.

Went to the movies THREE times last week, which was wonderful for my spirit. After the Monday Mystery Movie, there was a Wednesday showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey as part of this 60th anniversary thing Landmark is doing for the rest of the year and it was amazing to see on the big screen. And then Ballerina was a lot of fun in our usual Saturday slot! A worthy addition to the 'bisexual lighting action movie' genre, a long-overdue payoff to the promise No Time to Die showed re: Ana de Armas, and I hope they make three more of them; the John Wick universe (jaywoo) and its assassin-based economy is too weird and wonderful not to keep going (I never watched The Continental because of the Mel Gibson of it all, was it any good?).

And then I found motherfucking carpet beetle worms. Four in my bathroom, one under where I keep spare blankets, a bunch under my laundry hamper in the closet. I think it's a mark of maturity that I'm not completely freaking out and burning everything when I really, really want to because oh my god I can't do this again. For now, I've just cleaned the bathroom extensively because that's the easiest room to secure and now I'll just... see if they recur and keep eliminating potential sources if so. There was a dead one in a bathroom drawer, so maybe they came from there originally (the vents, maybe??) and just spread via floordrobe (which I will obviously be cracking down on) and this will take care of the problem? Please, please, please, god.

Grabbed a couple of records in a sale and they sent me the wrong one, which is very annoying now, while I'm still waiting for the replacement of the one I most wanted (Beat the Champ, an album I loved long before I randomly became able to appreciate it on Much Deeper Levels), but will be very neat once it comes in and I will have basically gotten a free album out of the mixup. Things to look forward to! I switched this paragraph with the last one to end on a more positive note.

( Album #483/1001: Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below )

June Movie Count: 6 (Ballerina, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Will-o'-the-Wisp, The Life of Chuck, Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

I mostly just watched wrestling and Enterprise this week for some reason? Which was not as fulfilling as a variety of movies likely would have been, but Fyter Fest was great, and the episode where Trip gets Never Let Me Go'd did make me cry a tiny bit, which is very embarrassing. One week to freedom!

RIP Brian Wilson!

The cold is continuing, and morale is not improving! I guess that beats being on fire like the rest of the world MUST be to keep blowing all of this smoke on us, but nevertheless, I bleh. Hopefully bailing on work early to go to the movies tonight will help. Save me, mystery movie! And buy my bullshit, coworkers!

( Album #484/1001: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country )

June Movie Count: 1 (Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

The week off is half over, and I'm feeling like a person again! There's lots to do and lots I've already done. Mostly recently, ducked over to the movies to see the Mission: Impossible franchise off into the sunset (WHIGHAM HIVE RISE UP), and while that live action Lilo & Stitch looks like the typical Disney infinite-money glitch dreck they will keep pumping out until standards improve, gosh it's nice to see a packed cinema again. We're so back!!!

Tomorrow will be for visiting my grandmother and then getting drunk enough that I won't be able to go out and commit arson if Hangman doesn't win the Double or Nothing main event. You know, typical weekend stuff!

( Album #481/1001: Tim Buckley - Happy Sad )

May Movie Count: 28 (Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, The Insider, River of Grass, Strip Nude for Your Killer, Kaili Blues, The Last of the Mohicans, Death Walks at Midnight, Deep Red, Bring Her Back, Final Destination Bloodlines, The Image You Missed, Don't Torture a Duckling, The Assassin, Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

I would simply like to not be constantly freezing in the middle of May, that's all! I wish that wasn't such a big ask of both man and nature, but here we are!

Work is just annoying in general today, honestly, but the hours are ticking steadily by and we are, in fact, closed for Victoria Day, so I have that to look forward to. Nothing will impede my seeing the Monday Mystery Movie this week!

Torn between rewatching all the final destinations and all of the impossible missions ahead of their respective next installments, I will probably do neither. Is it too early to start thinking about tonight's supper? OH WELL.

( Album #479/1001: Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking )

May Movie Count: 15 (Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

And just like that, it's Tuesday again. Back to work in the morning. I don't want to do that, but it was a fine week off, good and restful, so I should be able to tackle it head-on.

The weather is nice and the days are getting loooooong. Just a couple more weeks before I bust the deck lounger out and declare basking season OPEN.

For some reason I cannot determine, I have started playing Merge Mansion in 2025. Weird! Will I finally find out what that granny is up to???

Even considering the full-body douche-chills that the phrase 'American Pope' still gives, I do think I'm probably going to like this one.

Takeshita calling El Phantasmo by his shoot name again after Resurgence is honestly so, so important to me. But not as important as Drilla's face. And body. And voice. Ugh!!!!

I'm thinking a bath and a stir fry tonight to end the week right. We'll see what the evening brings!

( Album #477/1001: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway )

May Movie Count: 12 (Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

Made it to the weekend! AND I slept so good last night?? I didn't crash, but was actually super duper tired by the time bedtime rolled around for a change and managed to get nearly six whole hours in! Which is fortunate, since it'll be an Until Dawn/Thunderbolts* double feature tonight, and popcorn can only do so much to keep me sharp. Like how a plant needs both water and sunlight.

It's so hard avoiding Bluesky in case of Marvel spoilers in the middle of a WWE release bloodbath; I've just been periodically peeking at the Fightful feed and that's IT. Sorry Eddy Thorpe, but I am very much looking forward to seeing Karl Fredericks again!

Have finally put my winter jacket away because in spite of the snow on Wednesday, it was 26 degrees on my way home last night, and I'm going full cozy to make up for it with a big soft knit cardigan over a pink wrestling t-shirt covered in flowers. It's called FASHION.

I have somehow been here for an hour already? Maybe this day won't be so bad.

( Album #475/1001: The Libertines - The Libertines )

May Movie Count: 2 (What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

It's snowing, happy May. I'm tired and cold and hungry and it's only day two of the work week, but I've got Thunderbolts* to look forward to this weekend, and I may even leave work half an hour early to catch Until Dawn beforehand, just really load up on the filmic junk food with my long, beautiful weekend of original cinema behind me. I've just gotta tough it out until then! And watch more good movies at home in the meantime, I've mostly just been mainlining RiffTrax shorts of late.

AEW has really been firing on all cylinders lately, just putting absolutely insane matches on television twice a week like it's NOTHING, and the switch to small packed venues instead of half-empty arenas continues to make sure the vibes are always immaculate. Now if they'd just come back to Canada!!

Thinking about Ted and his Caving Page today. Not sure why.

( Album #473/1001: Morrissey - Your Arsenal )

Over an hour into the day and I've yet to see a customer. Let's keep that energy going, yesterday was nuts.

No time to chat, I have to pack for the weekend because I'm getting on a bus in the morning to stay at a Holiday Inn 400km away just to watch 10 movies that aren't playing here and then come back home again! THIS IS A FINE AND NORMAL THING FOR A PERSON TO DO AND I STAND BY IT. This is the kind of stupid bullshit that a seven on/seven off work schedule is made for, honestly.

Friday night: The Shrouds
Saturday: Sinners in IMAX (I gotta see that scene on the big screen), Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr.
Sunday: Dune (1984), Pink Floyd: Live in Pompeii, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead
Monday afternoon: The Legend of Ochi

I'm so excited, y'all. Nothing but Diet Coke will be flowing through my veins come Tuesday. See y'all on the other side.

( Album #471/1001: Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body )