Saturday, January 31, 2004

Del Scorcho Coincidence

Go visit this to see the 'coincidence'. It will blow your mind.

Current Music: 2 Live Crew - Big Booty Hoes

Friday, January 30, 2004

Specialized Banners For Your Individual Needs

I've noticed that the banner at the top of my blog changes as my posts are entered. For example, when I talked about ICP a long time ago, it said "icp lyrics" and "bozo the clown" at the top. We all know that's not the type of banner that attracts you readers out there. That's why I'm inclined to type a whole bunch of words that will make the banner at the top be suitable for you: anal sex vibrators ass boobs tits leather s&m dildos lubricants oral cunt cock snatch sex sex sex shit shit shit penis vagina masturbation porno edible tassles thongs strap-ons. That should do it.

Current Music: Dystopia - Weed Of Wisdom
My Rating: 1

Pop-Tarts: A True Story


I started the shower running and the water was getting warm. I quickly ran into the kitchen to drink some cold water, for my mouth was dry. Sitting in the toaster was a pop-tart I had half-hazardously warmed up, but forgot about. The pop-tart seemed to glare at me. It was almost as if it was challenging me. I am not one to deny anybody a challenge, whether it be a man of flesh, blood or pastry. I accepted the challenge... that's right, I brought the pop-tart into the shower with me. I know it may sound like a crazy idea, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done with my life. In fact, I doubt I'll ever take a shower again without a pop-tart, or at least some sort of food.

Current Music: Plan A Project - Revolution
My Rating: 4

Lord Of The Flies

Luis said he needed to write a paper on the book "Lord of the Flies", instead I made up a song completely from scratch about the book. It goes like this "it's the lord of the flies, yeah the lord of the flies/with vincent price/yeah the lord of the flies/helen delambre/helen delambre/francois/francois/return of the fly...". It's such a great song, I hope nobody trys to steal my work. Some people ask me "how do you constantly pump out such classic hits?" and I have to tell you, I just don't know. Great ideas just hit you out of nowhere.

Current Music: Misfits - Return Of The Fly

Thursday, January 29, 2004

Musical Blog Info

I'm trying to get the hang of this new blogging program. One thing that's cool about it is that my music shows up by just pressing a button. What's more is that NOW my music will show what rating I've given the song between 1-5 (5 being the best). If there is no rating, it means I havn't had time to rate it yet. I havn't rated most of my songs, seeing as I have about 8 thousand mp3s on my computer. Let's try it out, shall we?

Current Music: Rudimentary Peni - Cosmetic Plague
My Rating: 5

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Why Won't It Work?

For some reason I can't figure out how to get the headings of my posts to display with my new program. Well at least I can press a button and it will figure out which song my mp3 player is playing. Watch.

Down On The Street from the album Renegades by Rage Against The Machine

[1/30/04-Note from the future: It's fixed now]

War On Iraq

The war on Iraq has been absolutely terrible for the Iraqi people. To prove my point, here is a picture the government does NOT want you to see. And thats just ONE of MANY examples. Sometimes this country sickens me.

PS: Check out this halarious comic. Ha, that catholic fellow! what a character!

Current Music: Screeching Weasel - Joanie Loves Johnny

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

I'm Tired

i'm tired. is this guy for real?? (for lack of my posting anything, you get a stupid link tired)

Current Musifidcaojsf....sleeeptimee

Monday, January 26, 2004

Vegetarians Are Stupid



When I used to be with my ex-girlfriend, Iris, she said it was terrible that I had a leather jacket because of the 'poor animal that had to die because of it'. I got that jacket used, meaning that this poor animal's sacrifice helped not only one person, but two. If nobody ended up buying the used jacket, it would be thrown away. But no, I came along and enabled the animal to continue helping society long after it's demise. Not only that, but let's just say for a second that the jacket WAS NEW, and I contributed to the consumer want for leather jacket production. The main thing cattle are used for is meat, leather is just a bonus. The animal is going to die no matter what so I might as well get a jacket out of the deal! People don't think these things through. Also, being a vegetarian to save animals is probably the most retarded thing I've ever heard of. Iris was big on this too. 'My girlfriend's a vegetarian, which pretty much makes me a vegetarian', accurately stated by 'Jules' in Pulp Fiction. When we had pizza, I asked for the most tortured animal topping they had. Iris got mad of course and we had to get some weird vegetable pizza. Even vegetarian pizza has cheese on it and cheese comes from... you guessed it, CATTLE! What I mean to say is that if you are going to become a vegetarian to save animals, you have to become a vegan as well for it to make any sense. It's a package deal. Being only vegetarian is like saying that you will only except the mistreatment of animals in CERTAIN forms. "Raising them in inhumane living conditions to constantly milk them against their will is fine, but no putting them unconcious and using them for meat!". To me, all animals in captivity are going to die and arn't going to live a free life. Who cares if old cattle that used to be used for milk are slaughtered for meat? Say that vegetarianism conquered America (ha!) and there was no reason to kill the milking cows when they get old and they would were let free: the best results you would get would be that instead of being knocked unconcious and quickly sliced by knives and machines, the cattle now get to be tracked down and slowly ripped apart by wolves or any of the other dozens of predators of cattle. All animals are killed during a process called 'nature'. The only thing could be viewed as a terrible crime against animals would be the TREATMENT of the animals that are ALIVE, which would include milking cows. That's why it's ridiculous to be vegetarian and not be vegan... Not to say that being vegan isn't stupid in itself. To not give into the laws of the food chain is just plain dumb. Species will kill other species over and over again all over the world and there is nothing anybody can do to stop that. Even if you somehow COULD stop all species from eating eachother, half of those species would probably die right away from starvation. But the reality is that it IS impossible to stop the food chain cycle. It would be very, very hard to stop even yourself (being the most hardcore vegan in the world) from causing the indirect harm any animal. "Hey I'm a vegetarian, I'll go to McDonalds with you, but I'm only having fries." OOPS! Fries are are dipped into hot oil that contains beef broth... "Hey I'm a vegan, I'll have some grape gummi bears, maybe some Ocean Spray fruit juice to wash them down" OOPS! Many dyes and flavors come from animals (in the KILLED form), such as the red dye (carmine) that comes from the female Dactlyopius insect of the Canary Islands (which takes 70,000 insects to make one pound of carmine dye). Purple dye can be extracted from certain types of snails. My message: Give the fuck up and eat an animal. You arn't doing anybody (including the animals) any good parading around with your vegetarian holliness. If cows were smarter they'd shake their heads at you. I bet if cows were smarter they'd realize that they taste really good and should sacrifice themselves for the good of the world. Afterall, meat is martyr.

"why? don't vegans have cows for pets?/why? don't they keep them in their apartments?/rights take a chimp to vote in '96/my god cows are smart as a stick
if you really want to make a difference/buy a herd and then go set them free/instead you just eat carrots and do absolutely nothing"

Current Music (in my head): Guttermouth-Mark's Arc

Sunday, January 25, 2004

Final MST3K Episode!!!

It's true. One of the greatest television shows of all time is leaving the air, perhaps forever, after it's final showing on Saturday. The final episode is my favorite episode, the Screaming Skull #912. I would be more sad, but the shock hasn't completely sank in yet. Although the Sci-Fi channel seemed to only play re-runs of seasons 8-10, it is still a great dissappointment to us all.


MST3K RIP 1988-2004

Current Music: None (out of respect for the dead)

Last Parody

I really wanted to find the cover of a movie parody called "Dick, Tracy?", but I never found it. The final parody is:

Buffy The Vampire Layer


Current Music: Bob Marley - Stir It Up

Thursday, January 22, 2004

Chinese New Year


In celebration of today's holiday, the Chinese Newyear, I will tell the ancient Chinese ledgend of how it all came about... You see, some 2300 years ago the anchient Chinese had just perfected the over-sized bannana tree that produced bannanas up to three feet long. As soon as the first bannanas were ripe on this tree, the citizens of China all gathered round to see the first picking of the new bannanas. Suddenly, two monkeys sprung out of the woods. Smiling and laughing mechanicly, they seized the bannanas and climbed high into the bannana tree. The crowd was horrified and angry, for these were the only two over-sized bannanas in existence and they were needed if the Chinese wanted to plant more over-sized bannana trees. The two monkeys realized this and in return for taking the fruit, the monkeys raised their bannanas towards eachother to form a circle. This sparked the Chinese advent of the wheel; which was much more essential than over-sized bannanas anyways. The crowd then thanked the two monkeys as they ran off with the bannanas. The Chinese had always been behind in getting things done and they still hadn't made a day that would start the new year. Realizing that this day was so amazing that there could never be a better way of starting a year, they declared that day to be the start of the new year. Today, 2300 years later, the holiday is still celebrated by the Chinese as the first day of the year. Even Google reconizes the amazing day.

Don't Answer Your Doors

Today I opened the front door without looking who it was first. Big mistake. The worst thing ever happened. It was these two random girls and they said they were selling "matter babies". This is where the trouble started. I made the mistake of saying "what's a 'matter baby'?" and she said "nothin honey, what's a matter with you?". I felt used and ashamed. Nothing can make up for my loss today.

To get away from the horrible situation, I slammed the door and tried to hold back the tears. I then began to continue watching Camp Kill Yourself, which is a very quality movie... although, not a very quality band.

Who Reamed Rosie Rabbit?


Current Music: Los Straitjackets - Brains & Eggs

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

I'm thinking of updating the layout of the site a little bit. Not anything major, just a tiny bit different to spice things up... when I'm not feeling apathetic.
I'm tired and I have homework.. it sucks. Whats funny is that I was just talking about a second ago how I will die from starvation from not wanting to work, and the song I've been subconciously been singing in my head was 'misery and famine'. I wanna sleep... but can't...

Current Music (in my head): Bad Religion - Misery And Famine

I Wanna Do Nothing


I don't like doing anything, I wish I could do nothing all the time... like in office space. Man, school sucks and I have homework today. The slightest bit of homework is so fucking annoying. Do you ever think to yourself about how one day you will be grown up and will have to get a job, or else you won't have food and will starve to death in the cold? I'll probably starve to death in the cold, cos I don't want to work. I may have a liver attack from not eating, and cold hands... but at least I'll have a warm heart... just like the aliens.

Ghostlusters


Current Music: Bad Religion - No Control

Tuesday, January 20, 2004

I'm Tired

I've been too tired lately to post everyday. It will still be 7 days of parodies, but just randomly spaced out and non-consecutively. Also, I've found out that most people don't realize that if they click the 'Panda-Wear' logo I posted a few days ago, it will take you to the official Panda-Wear advertisement.

Face Jam


Current Music: My Computer - The Hum Of My Computer

Saturday, January 17, 2004

Nightmare Before Christmas

Some 7 or so years after the movie comes out, the Nightmare Before Christmas clothing fad explodes randomly (AFTER christmas, too) into our teenage not-so-counter-culture. Of course, Hot Topic has always supplied the world with fashionable Nightmare Before Christmas garb and accesories, but not like this, brothers. Practicly a 3rd of our school's population is hip with the trend. I went into the Hot Topic a few weeks ago and they were inundated with the merchendise! But more recently, they've moved on apparently. I went in there the other day and the pounds of NBC merchendise was no longer in the front, nor by the pound. It must be going out of style already, but I still see kids sporting it everyday. I guess it's easy to understand why Hot Topic stocked up for this fad. The two major areas of sales of the Hot Topic chain are dark gothic clothing and popular kid's show clothing. Wow, now theres a popular kids show AND dark gothic clothing rolled into one! Which is kind of contradicting, seeing as the kids who wear them usually look like they want to be 'dark and evil' and you just want to say "hey, you're wearing a Disney film shirt about two national American holidays. that's pretty fucking scary". Now don't get me wrong, I like the movie as much as the next guy, I think it's a classic. But when clothes get more popular than the actual movie, THAT is fucking retarded.
To get into the Time Burton theme, today's parody is:
Edward Penishands

Current Music: F-Minus - Never Live To See

Thursday, January 15, 2004

UHF


I just watched UHF with Weird Al. It was an OK movie, but the problem was that Weird Al kept hogging the popcorn... oh, wait, no. I didn't watch it WITH Weird Al, he was STARING in the movie. That's right. It wasn't that great, but it had it's moments. Like "Conan The Librarian" (not Barbarian, mind you). Who would split people in half with his sword if they had late fees and stuff. This was one of the movies that I saw using Tivo. I just look into the future and press record on stuff I want to watch in the future. Other movies I have recording on Tivo, but I havn't had time to see yet are: Next Friday, Airplane!, Tapeheads, Very Bad Things, a handful of MST3K and probably some others I can't think of at the moment.

Today's Parody: Women In Black

Current Music: NOFX - Radio [Song History - Originally by Rancid, but I've heard it was more specificly by the early early bassist of Rancid, Billy Joe Armstrong (no relation to Tim) of Green Day... who was never with the band long enough to be in the recordings]

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

7 Days Of Parodies

Inspired by Luis and his porn parody viewings, I am going to post a picture of an x-rated parody everyday for a week. Today's is yet another that Luis has seen: San Fernando Jones and the Temple of Poon

Current Music: Bethoven's 9th

Losing A Bet

Damn, I lost 3 dollars to Luis. I bet him that he hadn't seen the movie I was about to tell him that I recently found out existed. He was SURE he had seen it, whatever it was. It was 'A Clockwork Orgy' and when he found out that's the movie we were betting on, he said 'I've seen that movie!', like it's a normal thing or something! Well, there you have it. He's seen 'A Clockwork Orgy', but never heard of 'Short Circuit'.

Current Music - Dead Kennedys - MTV Get Off The Air (Live)

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Authentic Facts

why it was just the other day i was reading about authentic facts and i thought to myself "damn, these authentic facts would be a good basis for a movie"

Current Music: Beastie Boys - 3 Minute Rule

Panda-Wear!

Recently, I came up with the idea of "Panda-Wear", just because it
sounds so good. I was telling Monet that they could be the new fad of pajamas for children. The kicker is that when a child puts them on, they look like a
panda! You know those would sell like hotcakes!



Current Music: TSOL - Property Is Theft

Monday, January 12, 2004

Comment Problems

If you have trouble commenting, it is because the comment website is down temporarly. This should be fixed soon, so don't hesitate to comment!

A Clockwork Orgy

While smoting through kazaa lite's files, I viddied upon this zammechat lomtick of sinny. My new goal in jeezny is to viddy this sinny. I must, O brothers, alas I am reading the book (ah, indeed, the book may contain a SLIGHTLY different raskazz) and I should be open to ALL interperitations of it. It's probably just like the original, except for the nagoy nadsat gruppa pol of devotchkas and the bolshy groodies and sharp sharries. (?)

Current Music: Screeching Weasel - Veronica Hates Me (Live)

Sunday, January 11, 2004

Not Another!

Yet ANOTHER reason why my movie place wouldn't work.

Current Music: Minor Threat - Seeing Red

Saturday, January 10, 2004

Sid and One Movies

I just watched 'Sid and Nancy', which wasn't all the great aside from the fact that all the little kids are way cooler in it than in real life. Also, the scene where Sid runs into a door and it completely shatters and expodes for some reason and, when he falls drunkenly down the stairs and hits his head on the wall and it makes a ridiculous tomato-squashing sound. For both those scenes I had to rewind and watch a few times. The movie was in both the action section and the drama section for some reason! Once again, I say there should be a video rental store called "one movies", where there wouldn't be random sections to seperate everything to where you can never know where your movie is. Well, actually I recently figured out why a movie place like that wouldn't work.

Current Music: Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter
A blast from the past! This segment of Get Your War On totally rules. What also rules are people who vote at the Short Circut Poll that doesn't end till the end of the month. Oh, and while we are on the subject, this porcelain statue of crow rules as well. Too bad it's way fucking expensive. Right now the time for the bidding ends in 4days 20hrs, which reminds me of how me and Monet heard the worst thing said that you could possibly hear.
We were sitting on this football field at our school when we heard some girl talking to her friends and she said "yeah, I asked the doctor when it was due and he said 'probably on 4/20 or 4/2' and I said 'par-tay! yeah' ". You could tell from her fetus inflamed stomach that she was indeed very pregnant. Don't you feel lucky not to be that child?

Current Music: Alice Donut - She Loves You She Wants You It's Amazing How Much Head Wounds Bleed

CD Collection Updated

I have once again updated my cd collection listing. It now actually serves a purpose to you! I have given my personal rating to many of the albums through a system of 1-5 stars:
* - total shit (if anyone asks, I don't own this)
** - pretty bad (not the good 'bad', but the bad 'bad')
*** - alright (comme ce comme ca)
**** - good album (nice)
***** - hell yeah baby (buy this)
*****+ - somehow even better than 5 stars! (one of the greatest of all time. buy this, then buy a back-up copy)

Current Music: Flogging Molly - Worst Day Since Yesterday

Friday, January 09, 2004

Luis showed me the Get Your War On book one day, and recently I stumbled upon the website, which posts a new comic pretty often. This one is pretty relevent to today. GYWO is also great cos you can relate so easily to it. Just like that one time that Voltron came into MY office and just stood there for awhile, then he started exulting pious exclamations that made no sense. Damn, that was a great day. This is off subject, but I also can relate to keeping ambulance drivers busy. Oh, and I once read this awhile ago and remember having... a laugh. Although, I couldn't find the original website today. For some reason people have been copying it and posting it on their websites, so my link might not have as much stuff as the real one did.

Current Music: Bad Religion - Suffer
Oprah is 50! Yep, count em, 50 whole years of nobody questioning what the hell kind of name "oprah" is. She looks exactly the same as she did when she first got popular too. The same with Dick Clark, as Monet pointed out to me! That guy has GOT to be at least, like, 100 by now. But, alas, he looks exactly the fucking same too! I thought to myself, how can this be? It must be that the corporations have some type of youth machine to keep their beloved celebrities attractable to the public! So, I did a little research today and found out exactly how they look so young still. It turns out that there actually IS a machine that makes them younger! I was so lucky to find one of the rare photos of the machine, which I will post HERE. It's amazing what science can do nowa days!

Current Music: Adverts - One Chord Wonders

Thursday, January 08, 2004

Let's all thank google for not putting an advertisement at the top of my blog... wait...

[12/08/04::note from the future:: this joke no longer makes sense, but at the time I wrote it there was a huge blank banner at the top of the screen that said something like "this blank space brought to you by Google" and it was trying to show how Google is cool because they don't advertise and instead they just purchased the space so we don't have to look at an ad. But because they SAY that they purchased the blank space and because the blank space is still random and isn't part of my site, it becomes an ad in itself. See, the joke was pretty funny. I bet you would have liked it]
Facts:
1. Ninjas are mammals
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.

For more info, visit the Official Ninja Webpage. I especially like the stories to get you 'pumped'.

Current Music: B52s - Rock Lobster
It's that time again! Yes, time for another heart racing, mysteriously bamboozling coincidence!... Well, as I said yesterday, I was JUST talking about "extreme" products with Monet a day before I found that "article" (if you could call it that). I then proceded to give my two cents about how companies call everything 'extreme' for no reason. The coincidence doesn't end here my brothers, not even close. During this same span of the last couple of days, I have been trying to remember the address for a site I had once signed up for that kept track of how many people visited my blog (among other things). I was wanting to visit this site again to see, well, how many people have visited my blog (among other things)! I knew the address was 'something' tracking.com, but I couldn't remember what it was. I eventually went to the Salam Pax blog because I remembered it had a link to the tracking website. Just as I thought, it had the link and the site name was none other than EXTREMEtracking.com! Sweet chocolate covered jesus! My coincidences are getting pretty EXTREME.

Current Music: Lard - Jesus Was A Terrorist

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

What is the deal with "EXTREME!" products? They are everywhere! Nobody can settle for anything in normal form anymore it seems, they always need "EXTREME!". I know you've seen em'. My school sells microwaved burritos at lunch and they are packaged as "el extremo", seriously. Also, my last deodorant (stick) had a stripe in the middle and was labeled 'power stripe! extra power!'. My current deodorant (gel) has 'extra power capsules!', but I'm pretty sure that they are secretly just green cookie sprinkles mixed into the gel. Me and Monet were just talking about the wave of 'extreme!' products we've been having, and coincidently I just stumbled upon this article about it and I couldn't agree with it more.
Also, the Short Circut Poll was updated last night. It is no longer at that forum place that makes you sign up, and now it takes you straight to the question when you click my link to it. Be apart of the poll! Oh, and hearing about the movie from ME does NOT count as 'heard of it', as I had to explain to Luis (who apparently poisened the poll with his misconceptious vote).

Current Music: Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley

What's your new year's resolution? It should be to become an ambiguously grumpy black man and then magicly turn into a YOUNG, HAPPY black boy. Well, at least I think that's what this banner I saw was trying to say. I wanted to spread the word, as it was no use for ME to see that banner. That was gonna be my resolution anyways.

Current Music: Aquabats - Hey Luno

Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Up until the other day I had always thought that EVERYBODY had seen the "Short Circut" movies, or at least HEARD of them. It turns out, almost NOBODY has! My world was turned upside-down. Now I've taken the liberty to ask people online. Please be apart of the (improved) poll!
Click Here To Be Apart Of The Short Circut Poll!


Current Music: Damned - Feel The Pain
Have you ever read something on my blog and said to yourself, "damn, if I could only comment... then I would comment"? Well now you can! I just installed that ability to my blog. Oh, and also, I've decided to start adding what song I am listening to at the time at the end of my posts. Jeez, other people have done that so long, I can't beleive I havn't yet!

Current Music: Minor Threat - Screaming At A Wall

Monday, January 05, 2004

today I went to the mall to return some overpriced skate videos in exchange for shoes. so i had to go to that store called "industrial". it's a CHAIN skate shop in the mall, which is sad, because one of the only types of shops that weren't commercialized seemed to be skateshops, but what can you do? I guess not shop there, but I had store credit, so might as well use it. Anyways, the main thing that sucked there was that they had a bunch of t-shirt racks for big brands like 'vulcom' and such, but among them was a huge rack of nothing but 'OBEY' brand t-shirts! That would really suck if it turned into some brand-fad thing, which is the reason the idea was made to go against. I admit, I had bought an obey shirt awhile, but it was directly from obey, to support (what i thought was) a small on the side franchise to support the art. Well, all I can say is fuck buying obey merchandise from the mall! I felt like burning that whole rack. I'm sure sheppard fairy didn't want his work in the MALL of all places (unless it was stuck to the escalator, wink wink luis), which is why this confuses me... well someday, I shall get to the bottom of it!
how strange, I just got this program where I can post on my weblog without using a browser yesterday... and today it says 'new version!' when it comes on, and sure enough, the date says 10/4/03. A new version must have came out within a few hours after I downloaded it.

Sunday, January 04, 2004

I'm testing out a desktop app that will let me post on my blog without having to go to blogger.com, if you can read this, it's working

Saturday, January 03, 2004

Don't you hate it when you think of a great idea, but then you find out it's already taken? Jeez, I was just about to make a song called "Multi-Variational Stimuli Of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques For Cognitive Analysis Of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage" but it turns out another band already has used it!

Friday, January 02, 2004

On new year's eve I saw two movies: Boondock Saints, and Donnie Darko. Boondock Saints wasn't as good as everybody seems to make it out to be... I guess it has something to do with that weird irish fad or something. Anyways, it was alright, but not amazing. I broke it down into a formula actually: Boondock Saints = Dogma + Lock, Stock + Ambiguiously Gay Duo. The idea for the movie is the exact same as dogma... you know, two saints (or angels) go out in a vigilantee killing spree to stop evil.
*Don't read this unless you've seen Donnie Darko before, unless you don't care if I ruin the plot for you* The other movie I saw was better, although, really confusing. I watched it 3 times, once including the director's commentary, to try to understand it. I liked it a lot better before I saw the commentary, because it didn't seem like the director/writer even knew why he had anything in the movie. There are lots of things that you think have to do with the plot, but it turns out that it just 'foreshadows' what will happen... meaning, don't pay attention to it, cos it doesn't really fit in and will just confuse you. For example, when Donnie stabs the mirror and hits Frank in the eye. Also, there are two pretty big events that happen in the movie where the director takes a quote from a famous person and intricates it into the plot when he doesnt seem to even know what it really is that he's putting into the plot. One would be the 'celler door' thing which is from J.R. Tolken (Kevin looked it up). The director said he's 'not sure who said that, maybe Edgar Allen Poe'. The other would be 'dues ex machina' which Donnie says when he has a knife to his throat after the celler scene. The quote is explaned in a deleted scene where the teacher (Barrymore) has them read a different book (I can't remember the name, I'll replace this with the real name when I hear it again) from which the 'dues ex machina' quote came. Kevin explained to me what he thinks it means and it means 'from machine'. According to Kevin, in the old days when they had plays that needed the plot finished, they would have a third party come in and finish it. In the commentary, the director didn't seem to understand it any better than I did, maybe worse. The story in general didn't seem to completely add up for me. The director said that Donnie built a time machine and went back in time to change things to where he was the one who got hit... which makes sense, but when and how did he make this machine? and why didn't you show us him making it mr. director man??! He didn't really know why or how donnie did anything, he said that he was a super hero with super human strength when he would sleep walk. The director didn't know why he was a super hero though, he said 'they chose him to save the universe' and then he even said something close to 'I don't really know who THEY are exactly, maybe aliens or something'. Apparently Frank was randomly chosen to lead Donnie in the same way, but it's never explained why 'They' want to frank to tell him to do those things anyways, I mean, it doesn't get anything done! And why would the same people ('they') make Donnie a super hero to save the universe, while at the same time having him instructed to make decisions that end the universe? Maybe in some super crazy way it DOES make sense, but it seems to me that the director didn't really understand it either. On another note, I thought I had known where some of the music was from, but when I watched the credits I was wrong for the most part. One of the songs sounds A LOT like the type of music that Clint Mansel and the Kronos Quartet would make, such as in 'Requiem for a Dream'. Turns out it wasn't. Kevin asked me if I knew who the song (Mad World) at the end was by and I guessed 'REM', but I was wrong. I don't listen to them, but it reminded me of that 'everybody hurts' song. My last guess was the only one I got right: The movie starts with 'killing moon' by 'Echo and the BUNNYMEN' of all bands! I guess that's kinda funny. Anyways, the movie is worth watching, although I am ambivalent towards it after seeing the commentary. Well here is a list of subtle things that you might not notice the first time seeing it:

1. Frank is the boyfriend of Donnie's sister.
2. Donnie gets down on his knees so that he can look inside of his girlfriend's bubble thing (her future) at the halloween party. That is why he is suddenly aprehensive.
3. Donnie takes placebos.
4. Donnie and his sister are brother and sister in real life. (Not that you could NOTICE that, but it's true)
5. Grandma Death senses the future (with the whole run-over and shooting scene at the end). That's why she is always walking back and forth checking her mail. And in that scene, she finally did get Donnie's letter, which is shown in her hand.
6. If Grandma Death wasn't in the way in the road, Gretchen would have survived.
7. The universe would be destroyed if Donnie didn't go back in time because the two dimensions would collide.
8. Donnie is laughing when he wakes up because he thought the whole alternitive reality he just went through was a dream.

A lot is still left unresolved, in my opinion. But, who knows.