Sunday, October 30, 2005

'tis the season... for EVIL!

There were three events on Friday that put me in a giddy state of Halloween readiness. First: the weather. It was rainy and gloomy. I guess that's not much of an event, but with me, the small things matter. If it was sunny on Friday like it has been for the last few weeks, I'd be very disappointed.

The second thing that happened requires a little background. I work at a radio station in Provo, and every Friday morning this woman named Donna Maxx comes in on-air and reads a gospel doctrine lesson she's prepared for the benefit of those who wouldn't make it to church the following Sunday. Donna's pretty interesting. She's sort of like that house cleaner in the movie Poltergeist, but without the annoying voice. Anyway, she's reading this lesson and she breaks off into this huge aside about the importance of doing genealogy. The following is the story she told to emphasize her point:

...I awoke in the middle of the night to the voice of my dead fiance, saying, "Donna do my work for me." I knew he was requesting I do his temple work, and half asleep I replied, "But I lost it, I don't know where it is." The voice replied saying that "it was in my old purse, underneath some boxes in the back of my hall closet." I immediately was wide awake, got out of bed, turned on the lights, and pulled everything out of my closet and there under the boxes was my old purse, and inside was the information.

How perfect is that? A ghost story for church over Halloween weekend? Awesome. To listen to more of Donna, tune into 1400 am Monday at 9am and Friday at 9am (and be in Utah County as well).

I heard "Nemesis" by Shriekback on the radio. Todd's Ipod. How often do you hear that song? Have you ever heard that song? Would you like to? It just so happens that that song is one of many songs I included in my own Halloween 1995-2005 Anthology mix cd. You can download it in two short (zipped) files right here and here. Hey hey hey! You can also download this year's Halloween cd right here... and the rest of it right here. Remember you could have always downloaded my remixed version of "Only" by Nine Inch Nails right here.

I gave in and bought that Ratchet and Clank game. Right now it's pretty fun. I was hoping it would be instantly more addicting. The most frustrating thing is the online play. Everyone I deal with online is an obnoxious punk.

Yesterday I finally donned this year's costume: The glorious Ace Frehley. My crew and I hit four separate parties and then wound up at Freaky Dee's at about two in the morning. While there we encountered a bum in bumless pants who was apprehended by the cop-for-hire there. I'm not sure if there's always a cop there or if it's just a Halloween thing. The place was wicked crowded and EVERYBODY was wearing a costume. Many skanks arrived wearing things very similar to the bum with the moon-unit pants, but they were still allowed on the furniture. Thank all that is unholy it's the end of daylight savings and I got an extra hour of sleep last night.

Friday, October 28, 2005

not enough free time for free time.

The new "Ratchet and Clank" video game came out on Tuesday. This is very very weird because I look forward to the new one coming out every year and I haven't gotten the chance to go buy it and play it. It's weird because I work for like four hours a day and I don't have a girlfriend and I love my solitude, but I just haven't done it yet. In the same vein, I love making my Halloween cd every year, but Halloween is almost here and I haven't even burned it yet. I tivo'd Hellraiser just now because I'm all about the scary movies in this season, but I can't picture myself watching it. It's almost as if I have so much goofing off to do, that all of it is getting in the way and nothing is happening. I so apologize to all you working stiffs who are all busy. I should be messing around in your behalf. Don't worry about it. I'll extend October into November. All my leisure will be accomplished.

In the meantime, anticipate me uploading all sorts of Halloween chaos up in here. We gots this year's stuff coming, plus a greatest hits harmony from the past ten years. Good stuff, and it'll extend into November to counteract all this freakish goodwill that seems to poke around in November every year.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Hey hey hey! The blog is finally up! So anyway, if you're reading this imbedded inside of rexbasior.com, you may have to scroll down a little bit, then find the scroll bar at the bottom of this frame to look at my picture and links over there to the right. Sorry, there's a sort of space problem here. So anyway, for now, I'll be updating my blog more frequently than the rest of my site, cuz you know, it's easier. Also, if you don't like looking at the blog in this tiny window, you could open in a new window http://www.rexbasior.com/jonblog/blogger.htm to see my blog in full screen mode.

So anyway... yeah... I'm speechless. Five days to Halloween! Yeah... uh... we'lltalklaterbye!

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