Just got back from another visit to Austin, TX. Should be living there by this time next year, though at first I will probably be sleeping on my sister's couch and looking for any kind of job unless I can get my comic strip syndicated between now and then. Hope it works out though, because I really do love it there. Well, not saying it is for sure where I want to settle down permanently, but I AM in love with the Alamo Drafthouse theater (went there again, but not the downtown one this time) and there are so many GORGEOUS girls there. Surely I could land ONE. Ha, well, I wouldn't want to put money on it, but the odds have got to be better. Not so long ago, I remember hearing it was one of the top cities for being single. Only sucky thing is that I'll be 35 by the time I'm living there... As someone who will be kind of new to dating (not totally experience free, but practically; very few local girls are my type and hardly any are single), thirty-something is NOT the dating pool age-range I want to be diving into, so I hope at least some of the girls up there are not so particular on that subject.

Anyway, yeah, I went up there with my parents to visit my younger sister (I have an older sister in Oklahoma) and have a little belated birthday party for her (it was actually the previous Saturday). We drove up there Friday after I got home from work (it's a 5 hour drive), and we took presents of course. I got her a couple of boxes full of classic DVDs. Mostly Judy Garland films, which she loves. On Saturday we got her a cookie cake (she and I love those for our birthdays) and went to the Alamo Drafthouse Theater to see "Inglorious Basterds". GOD, that movie was soooo good! My only nit pick was about the Basterds going on a suicide mission. Why not devise a plan in which you get out alive? To me, that aspect didn't make sense except to make everything more "extreme". Still, GREAT movie in every other way. I got the pizza at the Drafthouse. Also super good. If you've never been there, the Alamo Drafthouse theater combines movie theater with restaurant. If you're a movie fanatic, it is just awesome, especially because they do all these special events there. On the way out of Basterds, they handed us the schedule book for October, and it just looks incredible! I'm so sad I won't be able to go to any of that stuff! It looks like Halloween and Christmas (from the inside back cover preview) are awesome at the Drafthouse. This place is definitely going to be my home away from home when I live in Austin. I'm definitely going to try and frequent Terror Tuesdays.

What else... went to the mall, found some sweet Neca Pirates of the Caribbean action figures on clearance at Spencers (I collect that line), but still no Davy Jones. Ugh. I am going to have to Ebay him and Tia Dalma, and also the second Cursed Pirate that I still need, and the other members of Jones's crew that they made. The three I picked up were Bootstrap Bill Turner, Palifico, and Sao Feng. I already have a Jack, a Will (in his fancy clothes), an Elizabeth (from the first film), a Barbosa with Jack the monkey, Pintel and Ragetti, Captain Teague, and the original cursed pirate figure. Oh, waiting to pay, I was in line behind this gorgeous girl. Of course, a boyfriend showed up. I swear, I have never in my life seen a gorgeous girl that was single.... The mall was crawling with beauties around the movie theater area though, which was right across from Spencers. Movie theaters and restaurants in Austin, along with public events and really almost anywhere, are always crawling with beautiful girls. We ate at Chili's today before the drive home, and they had quite a gorgeous waitress in there too, though I only saw her for a second. Man, I love their chicken nachos. That's usually all I order there.

What else. I guess that "Jennifer's Body" movie finally came out? A friend of mine where I work is obsessed with Megan Fox, so I've been hearing about that one too much. I like scary movies, but if I go see that, it'll be for Amanda Seyfried's body, ha. I still don't get the appeal of Megan Fox, especially over someone like Amanda Seyfried, but that's just the way my tastes run I guess, resulting in my disagreeing with most guys when we talk about girls. Of course, while I would stick to my guns and show very little interest in Megan Fox if I ever met her (and there are folks who can vouch for me on that; I am true to my tastes), they would all jump on Amanda Seyfried without a second thought. Fact is, they'd jump on anyone... But I digress... I also just found out that Harry Connick, Jr. has a new CD coming out this week. Don't know if I will rush to buy it. I am a big fan, but money is tight (especially since I just won that old, official release, out of print Sailor Moon season 1 boxed set off Ebay; can't wait to get it! Still need Season 2 though, and most of the dubbed version), and frankly, I'm not sure I like the song selection of this new release of his. He's singing songs made so famous by others that, if you like them at all (and some I could take or leave), you'd rather hear the original singer perform them, like "Your Song" from Elton John. Harry is my favorite singer, but if I'm going to listen to You're Song, I want to hear the Elton version, and if I'm going to listen to Just the Way You Are, I want to hear Billy Joel. Still, there are a couple on this CD that make me think I might get it on Tuesday anyway, like Harry's renditions of "Besame Mucho" and "The Way You Look Tonight". "Smile" and "Mona Lisa" also fit well with his sound, so they should be great too... If you're not familiar with Harry though, what you really want to give a try are his Christmas albums. God, I LOVE those, especially his first, "When My Heart Finds Christmas".

Oh, did anyone else see that Scooby Doo prequel on Cartoon Network last week? I nearly forgot that. I gotta say, I liked it reasonably well, though I didn't care for Fred not being blonde (played the part well though), and I didn't think Daphne was pretty enough to be Daphne (nor dressed cutely enough; Velma often dressed cuter with the skirts and all). They still don't seem to get that to be super true to Scooby Doo, the ghosts should be fake (true to the original show anyway), but it was still closer in terms of story to what a Scooby movie should be than the bigscreen movies. Though, I still liked the bigscreen movies and they were mostly well cast too(not really Fred, but whatever...). Frankly, I do intend to get this one on blu-ray sometime soon. Like I said, overall, I thought it was surprisingly good, especially for a TV movie.

Oh, and yeah, I started doing all those Disney Babies drawings, frankly, because they are fun, fast, and easy, and they turned out to be really popular. I suppose I could keep making those forever since there are so many Disney characters, but I'm taking a break on them for now. Maybe not for too long though, we'll see. Wish my comic strip got that much attention, ha.

Well, I feel certain I'm forgetting something, but I better wrap this up. I have to be at work in the morning. Incidentally, I know I'm behind on some comments and e-mails and stuff, I'll try to catch up as soon as I can. Man, I can't believe it's nearly Halloween! And it's going to be on a Saturday, yet I don't know if I'm going to have the time or money to do anything this year except the usual passing out candy and watching Halloween specials on DVD and tape and youtube, ha. Ya never know though.