i can't hide from my mind

this is going to be an erratic, verbose post, as it has been under construction since mid-january.

i started getting a tiny bit more into flixster today, added a new flashy thing under my last.fm tool. i wish they had a directors widget the way they have an actors one. i also wish it covered television, too. if anyone knows of a similar tool for keeping track of television and/or games, let me know. i'd love to keep track of that stuff more efficiently. i also added my release schedules calendar to the sidebar so you know what stupid stuff i'm wasting my time and money on.

i've really been digging led zeppelin lately. they are awesome. i've been into them so deeply that the man who pulls me out will be made the king of england. speaking of zeppelin, Amazon hosed my preorder and i sent them an angry message:

I preordered this blu-ray disc 09/27/07 and I now know it has shipped because reviews started showing up on the web. So I search Amazon only to discover why my disk hasn't shipped: the ASIN I ordered, B000UR9TPK is obsolete and has been replaced with the new ASIN B0012YYZYK -- WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?! This is not the first time I have preordered a game or film in advance and been totally screwed by Amazon changing the ASIN without updating me, thus leaving me in preorder limbo. VERY FRUSTRATING!!! I am a loyal customer and buy *everything* (except fresh food and import multimedia) from Amazon (via Prime). It hurts to be treated this way; I realize that I am in the minority and do not fit your target market, but having better tools to track preorders for games, music, and movies would vastly improve my Amazon experience. As it stands, I need to maintain a Google calendar with dates copied from press releases and manually synch that up to my wishlists because amazon doesn't place bogus ASINs until (what I presume is) your orders are secured with the manufacturers. At this point I've taken to waiting until shortly before release to preorder so situations this one stop happening, but then I'm not taking advantage of the preorder pricing guarantee and I lose my place in the queue for popular items (e.g. Patapon for PSP...I might as well run down to a brick'n'mortar if it doesn't ship by yesterday). I realize that whoever reads this has no control over any of Amazon's policies, but I would appreciate it if you could pass along my complaints and suggestions to whoever it is that will ignore them.

also in line with music news, i've been digging bobby conn. instead of leaving secret clues of his satanic origins like the john-mccrea-is-satan theory postulates, he blatantly advertises his evil intentions...his band has a cake-esque sound, but with more of a psychedelic, hard edge. very ironic and self-critical.

i've also finally committed to being awesome and experience the fantastic revelation of what life is like when you swap the control and caps lock keys, the way they were meant to be. pic related. using a sun keyboard all day at work ensures both physical security-through-obscurity as well as no broken pinky after lots of emacs. rms approves.

equivalently disturbing/internet-y is news like this. yes, there is a mass murderer named general butt naked. hilarious because it can't be true right? then you realize its not so funny when you read about him in the wikipedia.

additional evidence that america is both completely insane and completely freedom-hating. make security theater look rational.

finally, a weird story from a while back that made me think about the idea of a stand alone complex IRL. at the time i first watched GIST:SAC, i thought that while the premise was fascinating it was too obtuse to actually happen, but now i need to reconsider. coincidently i could get a chance to do so in high definition (at an insanely expensive price), as the brd box set is coming soon.