I finally got around to watching Clerks II today, the sequel to comedic genius Kevin Smith’s first film Clerks (obviously). Its not a bad movie when seen on its own merits, and has some genuinely funny and touching moments, as all of Smith’s movies do, but ultimately it leaves me unfulfilled. Kind of like bad sex.

Despite the fact that its not a bad movie, it reminded me of the genius behind Smith’s other films, and that caused my obsession for the day - Kevin Smith useless information. He’s finished making a new flick called “Zack And Miri Make A Porno”. Just the title alone has got me champing at the bit to see it. I spent a few hours surfing the interweb following random links to more Kevin Smith articles. Its a good enough way to waste an afternoon.

I’m smoking again. I hadn’t actually told anyone of my plans to quit smoking as of yesterday, but it didn’t matter, because I failed. I have just finished reading this book that has supposedly worked miracles for countless others called “Allen Carrs EASYWAY To Quit Smoking”. My sister lent it to me. I probably should have deduced from the fact that she still smokes that it probably wouldn’t work, but I refuse to rule anything out in my quest to be smoke free. I was feeling pumped about my decision, and walked outside in the morning to do my morning routine (check my emails, read a few blogs, and check some forums), and I didn’t even feel like having a cigarette. Then my mother pushed the cigarettes sitting on the table my way, and I automatically pulled one out, lit it and from there I was on autopilot. DAMMIT! Oh well, I might give the book another read tonight or tomorrow, and I might just actually let my family know my plans so that shit like that won’t happen again.

Spent the rest of my day listening to some music - The Ghost Inside, Have Heart and Raised Fist (who I am still listening to) - and worked on a design for a new website I am working on - a kind of lifestream/portfolio type site on a throwaway free domain I got, and probably won’t re-register. It’s starting to take shape, but I have decided that I need to work with other content management systems, so I’m currently checking out Textpattern. Its pretty cool, but its another system where all the templates are held within the database itself (like EE), and it has a non-PHP coding structure of its own devising which is taking some getting used to. I might explore some other avenues before I decide to go live with Textpattern. I wonder if there are any dedicated lifestream CMS out there that can pull shit from places like Last.fm, Twitter, and Del.ico.us?

I may have just decided that I am going to put something at the bottom of each post - the track that I am listening to as I write it. We’ll see how long this lasts. Anyways, thats about it for today. I still don’t have a new project, so if someone has a cool idea let me know.

[EDIT]
ExpressionEngine is really starting to annoy the hell out of me. Any time I spend more than three minutes writing, when I try to post, it logs me out, and I gotta start again. Searching for a better CMS.

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