A Weekend of Movies

This weekend was lazy...with the exception of two things. I went to Best Buy to pickup the new(ish) Kid Rock CD titled "Rock N Roll Jesus." It has his new song "All Summer Long" which seems to be insanely popular. However because Kid Rock is being a punk, he won't allow the album to be sold on iTunes. This is the first physical CD I have purchased in forever!

Anyway, while I was there I also picked up this nifty little device that would allow me to use my iPod and iPhone through my car stereo, hardwired. No more of that piece of shit FM Transmitter. I installed it, and it works fine. There are many adapters like this out there, but none of them would allow me to continue to use the built-in XM radio, this one does. It also has a nifty "aux" input. After trying to figure out how to control the iPod through the stereo head unit, I've decided that it's a pain in the ass and I'm going to go through the headphone jack and the aux input now available. Screw the steering wheel controls I say!

On Saturday I went out to my garage to head to the store, but my car wouldn't start. The lights and everything would come on, but there wasn't enough juice to turn the engine over. @#$%^&* Carrie came to the rescue. She took me to AutoZone to buy a new battery (current one was 3 years old, it was time). However, that was probably the most fun I have EVER had in AutoZone...not that I have ever spent much time there to begin with. The employees working were a real hoot.

After figuring out how to remove the old battery, then installing the new one without getting soaked several times by the headlight washer-sprayer-thinggymagigs, everything seems to be working just fine!

Carrie and I then proceded to watch movies and have glorious Hodak's fried chicken. We watched A Few Good Men had dinner, then watched Saving Private Ryan, and finished up with The Count of Monte Cristo. Then yesterday evening we watched Live Free or Die Hard (aka. Die Hard 4). Movies movies movies!

Favorite Quotes:

"I'm gonna rip the eyeballs out of your head and piss in your dead skull! You fucked with the wrong Marine!" -- Col. Jessep, A Few Good Men

"I have here a very old letter, written to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. 'Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, Abraham Lincoln.'" -- Gen. George C. Marshall, Saving Private Ryan

"And if you're thinking just now 'Why me, oh God?' the answer is: God has nothing to do with it. In fact, God is never in France this time of year." -- Dorleac, The Count of Monte Cristo

"You have got to be running out of bad guys by now. Is there a line or something you call? 1-800-HENCHMEN? Oh, I bet you're still on the line with "Can I get another dead Asian hooker bitch over here right away." - John McClane, Life Free or Die Hard