25 Things

Via Facebook…

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

Please note: if I didn’t tag you, it doesn’t mean that I don’t love you.  And by reading this, I’m tagging you now anyway!  So go to it yourself! 

So, let’s get it started with the obvious random factoid…

01.  Without Facebook and the iPhone, I don’t think I could ever feel really, really alive.

02.  I have a not-so-secret goal of having the worst acting résumé on IMDb ever.

03.  I haven’t painted in over seven years because I have an intense fear that I’m no good anymore.

04.  I can only cry at movies–most especially cheesy romantic comedies–when I’m all alone.  And when I cry: I ball.  Like buckets full.

05.  Travel and filmmaking have brought more joy into my life than I could have ever imagined.

06.  I love, love, love karaoke.

07.  I pretended to brood a lot in high school; but in reality, I was really quite happy.

08.  I once dated a Playboy model.  And had the nerve to cheat on her.

09.  For me, meditation occurs on fresh-powdered slopes, atop my snowboard.

10.  Some people believe in a glass of red wine a day…  I prefer a bottle!

11.  I’ve read a great many books.  But not lately.

12.  Trekking the Yucatan Peninsula for a month in 2007 was probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

13.  I love the ocean…  But I’m constantly afraid of what lies beneath its surface.  Especially sharks.

14.  In 2007, at a Dallas Producer’s Association meeting, the valet rammed a Corvette into the back of my Dodge Ram.  Amongst all the confusion, Bill Paxton came out and eased the situation.  The coolest part is that I met with him again later on that year and he remembered the whole thing.  And me.  And that meant a lot.

15.  I used to think I knew everything.  Now I know.  J slash K!!!!

16.  I don’t know if I’ll ever stop worrying and start living.

17.  I am a perpetual wanderer.  I don’t know if settling down is in the cards for me.

18.  Sometimes I drink too much.  And I make an ass of myself.  But my intentions are good.

19.  I have not had an experience of direct divinity; therefore, I am agnostic.

20.  I really can’t stand customer service representatives who are here to serve you twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week; that is, if they’re not currently updating their system.

21.  Pythagoras classified human beings into three distinct groups: 1., those that love pleasure; 2., those that love activity; and 3., those that love wisdom (philos sophia).  I aim for the third category; but sometimes I get off track.

22.  I most identify with Spider-Man, but I strive to be Bat-Man.

23.  I can’t tell you the meaning of life, necessarily; but I can tell you it’s certainly worth living.

24.  According to the late, great Douglas Adams, the meaning of life is forty-two.  I once read the entire Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in a Yahoo! Chat Room.  It took me three hours and thirty-nine minutes.

25.  Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”  I agree with the first part.

Filed under: Pop Culture, 25 Things

Can You Find Drunken Wadlo?

Speaking of bathrooms… Here’s an awesome t-shirt from 1995 I found in a box somewhere. Unfortunately, I have to throw it away because I carelessly cut off the sleeves in my youth.

Filed under: Pop Culture

Foosball Near Keystone, CO

A Google search for “Foosball Near Keystone, CO” brought my MySpace in at number twelve. Quite an odd coincidence indeed.

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In other gaming news, a friend of mine, Barak Epstein, recently “rolled” a Galaga arcade game at Lee Harvey’s in Dallas. Not only did he reach a million points, but he continued on until reaching another 722,380 points and a whopping 154 levels. Here’s the final shot:

Filed under: Pop Culture

Beefamato / Theater Fire House Party

It’s beefy! It’s tomatoey! It’s BEEF-A-MATO!
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The Theater Fire Live at a Swiss Ave House Party!

After hanging out and playing a bit of Guitar Hero at Bill Sebastian’s birthday party, I hurried over to some house party on Swiss Ave to check out the last half of The Theater Fire. I like The Theater Fire.

After the set, when all the kegs were spent, I went over to the freezer to grab a beer for me and Nick (of TTF) and was promptly shot down. With a stern shake of the head, a confident college student bluntly stated, “I don’t think so.” For some reason I immediately started chuckling and retorted: “But it’s for the band. The Theater Fire.” And with the same stern look came the coup de grâce: “They’ve already been paid.”

I’m glad I’m not twenty-one any more; otherwise, my feelings might have been hurt.

Filed under: Music, Pop Culture, The Theater Fire

Irony.

cowards_use_ignore: ‘I feel sorry for reptylinin2 …it is clear to me that their parents & system of education has not provided the adequate teachings to further you. Go read a book & learn something…Meet my IGGY BUTTON’

Filed under: Pop Culture, Yahoo!

Value.

Okay, so I just got back from a Walgreens, where I bought some toothpaste and various other in sundries. I go up to the check out counter and am told that the Colgate Total Whitening Paste is $4.99. I dispute this, informing the clerk that this was a “Value 2 Pack” and should therefore be priced the same as if it were one tube. “What’s the point of a ‘value pack,’ then?” I ask. To which she responds with a price check. A manager comes back and says that the toothpaste must have been placed in the wrong spot (along with the single tubes for $2.79). I simply stated there were three others like it in the same place and that I couldn’t be bothered trying to figure out Walgreen’s deceptive pricing method. And further, that I wasn’t going to pay for two tubes of paste when all I needed was one. Moreover, I hadn’t the time to walk back to the aisle and pick up another tube that would probably be mispriced as well. The other people in line snickered as the clerk rung me up for $2.79.

Filed under: Pop Culture, Walgreens

Wishlist.

I’ll be twenty-five on November ninth. Other than renting a car, and possibly a break on my insurance, I’m not exactly sure if I really give a damn. I’ll be a quarter of a century old. A quarter of a century!!! That’s a freakish feeling for some reason. So now that I’m having my mid-mid-life crisis, here’s my list.

1. The 2006 Mercedes SL500 Roadster (a girl I went out with here in Chicago drove one of these and I instantly fell in love).
2. The Apple 60 GB iPod with Video (I can’t deny my desire anymore).
3. The Sony Cybershot DSCN1 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (brand new from Sony, available November 16th).
4. A new pair of glasses.
5. A blow-up doll, or a real girl!

Okay, back to the real world.

Filed under: Pop Culture

We Blow Our Clients…away

“We Blow Our Clients…away.” I took this picture in Deep Ellum (downtown Dallas) with my buddy David.

Filed under: Pop Culture, Dallas, Deep Ellum

Sony VAIO S460/B Notebook

Update: Here’s an actual picture of the notebook. I also wanted to briefly note my experience with Best Buy. After I purchased the notebook, the following Sunday Best Buy offered a mail-in rebate for it! I called and explained the situation to which they politely informed me that I could simply take the notebook back and exchange it for the same one. When I got to the store I was greeted with a smile and the exchange took roughly thirty seconds. I’m quite satisfied with my experience and am happy to be one of the few people on the Internet who will send much deserved kudos to Best Buy.

I bought a new Sony VAIO S460/B Notebook. Chock full of goodies, this notebook boasts a Pentium M 740 Processor with 1.73GHz and 2MB L2 cache, 512MB RAM (I may upgrade this, depending on product performance), 80GB hard drive, 13.3″ WXGA display with XBRITE, an iNVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 128MB graphics card, CD/DVD burner, WiFi, and best of all, it’s only 4.3Lbs.

Filed under: Pop Culture, Sony VAIO

An Experiment in Narcissism

Google Search: “adam donaghey”

Yeah, so like I’m 1-10, 12-18, 20-31, of 31 results from Google search as of this day. I’m like, moving on up and stuff. Oddly enough, my Blogger profile is number one, and the main www.akook.com isn’t even on the list. A full search actually yields 626 results… The first few pages are all me, but after awhile, even I can’t stand clicking the damn “next” button any longer to find out about the rest.

Filed under: Pop Culture, Google