2002-07-01   3:05 a.m.

after we (my family) got home from pizza hut, i watched kate&leopold, which we rented last night with the majestic -- but i got a call from Brytne before we started k&l so i chose to skip it

since i didn't finish the movie til about 1:45, i figured my dad would be asleep, but he had been working on his computer(s) and getting the better one fixed. he totally got it up and running on the network.. good times

so now i finally have internet access in my room again, and under normal circumstances that would mean a terrific deluge of quality entries

but -- and you knew there would be a "but" -- in a tad under 24 hours i will be departing for Brytne's house the holiday! yay! :)

so that'll be fun.

in other news, i'm thinking of really getting into paintball, swimming, and running -- or at least one of them -- by this time next year.. Brytne has urged me against the last, which is odd considering that she went through a running phase just a few short (and one very long) months ago, but whatever. dale seems to enjoy it, and so does danny, and since they both like d&d, their opinions matter too.

i just watched the dashboard confessionals mtv unplugged for the first time and was impressed - my winamp sleep playlist for the night is now the album "the places you have come to fear the most" by the same. so, the now year-new album from chris carrabba and company has graduated to the hall of dedicated-m3u fame, as i suspect "the swiss army romance" would also deserve if i could get my cheap, grubby paws on it.

before that i watched, as i mentioned, kate&leopold, an out-of-character romantic comedy for its stars, x-men's in-your-face rugged wolverine, hugh jackman, and you've got mail's pretty blonde lacking character, meg ryan... okay, fine, so it's only out-of-character for one of them. Before my private (read: lonely) screening of the feel-good flick (which surprisingly lacked tom hanks and julia roberts), Brytne made sure to inform me that according to a certain someone, who, though possessing some writing flair (as discovered by "thumbing" through her diary, which only really lacks specificity and maintenance) and terrific knack for doing genetics problem sets (as discovered through means which will remain unknown), is wrong on this particular matter, the movie is unwatchable.

now i dair you to try again to figure out that sentence -- wow, it's terrible. anyway, my point is that i thought the movie was clever and cute, though its plot has the same obvious paradoxes that no 4th-dimension work has dodged thus far (save the brilliant simpson's episode "time and punishment", a segment of the simpsons' fifth halloween special) -- and i am an obvious expert on the matter, having watched all movies and tv shows ever made, and having studied the 4th dimension at length. there were plenty of laughs at the absurdity of leopold's situation, as there should be, and the extent to which some honest characters were not believed was pounded a bit far -- but isn't that what we really want from a movie like this?

anyway, nobody should ever look to me as a movie critic, because i specialize in tolerating the "worst" -- apparently, if a movie entertains anyone else on this planet for any reason, it'll probably end up entertaining me.

maybe that makes me an optimist, or something.

meh

- jon kyle (yup, that's my name now, to all of you that didn't go to high school with me)

no, the guy in the background

is not my dad

he doesn't look like me, does he?

well, he doesn't look like my dad either.

he's just some guy that got in the picture

he's here to make us laugh

like the hag of eric wilson fame

so laugh, but please don't im me asking

"is that your dad?"