Square: The Other Rectangle

Yay I got my car back! So last night, my dad comes home from work to tell me that when they took apart my car to fix the strut they found that both sides were fucked up. Then he says they looked all day for the parts and couldn't find them and there was one last place they'd have to look today. Well, today he found the parts. Then tonight he stops back home during a break from work and says "your car's back. The springs were the wrong size, but they were still able to fix your car. We'll discuss what you owe me later" and went back to work. So hurrah, the Awesomemobile is back in action (I need a better name for my car, that one's too corny). It's around $500 which isn't a huge kick in the ass but it'll still leave my wallet hurtin' especially next to student loan payments, cell phone, car insurance and credit card bills. But now it runs a lot smoother and no whup-whup-whup noise or excessive bounciness when I hit a bump or pothole.


The next order of business however is my side mirror. For some strange reason, it costs more than 3 times the amount of the mirror itself to repaint it because of a treatment they have to do to the plastic the mirror is made out of. My right side mirror cost $40 but to paint it was $150. Back when it was just my right side mirror missing, it was important to have it match the rest of the car. Now to replace my left side mirror, my dad asked if I'd rather pay $40 and have an odd black mirror or pay $190 to have it match, and if he'd known he wouldn't've paid to paint the other one cuz two black mirrors wouldn't be too awkward. At this rate I don't care, I mean it's just a mirror. It's not like I'm replacing a door or the hood and that'd be black and the rest of the car is "bronze mist." At least nothing is primer color on my car. At least the paint's not fading or peeling like on my old Grand Prix and apparently any other GM car from the mid-90s. Well, my dad being the perfectionist that he is, he'll either try to find a cheaper deal on the paint job or just go for the $150 paint job (I mean why does he care, I'm paying him back regardless) so the whole car matches.





But today I spent the whole morning cleaning: cleaned the birdcage, cleaned the upstairs bathroom, vacuum and dusted my room, laundry. Then I tried to get a hold of Flav but she's temporarily disappeared off the face of the planet. But Wiggy was home so we went to Wendy's and came back to my house to watch some movies. Then we were going upstairs to have some loving and that's when my dad came home with my car and exactly a minute after that my sister came home. I mean, that didn't stop us, cuz she's off doing her own shit on the computer or downstairs, but we put the TV on for background noise just in case we were...loud. I lit all my candles for a little mood lighting cuz I hadn't done that in a long time and it's nice. Y'know, we should do that when we're in Wig's room too, especially since he keeps blowing fuses. That's how damn good he is. No, I'm kidding, it's because his room and his mom's room are on the same fuse and for some reason plugging in a space heater in his room is the straw that broke the camel's back to the fuse.
Stand-up comedian Eugene Mirman looks like a cross between Jon Lovitz and that kid Josh from Drake and Josh on Nickelodeon. This is the best picture I can find of him but I see it more in his Comedy Central Presents special. Well, I think so. Regardless of what he looks like, he's pretty funny. I loves me my stand-up. Wig was saying how all he needed to do was land a Comedy Central Presents episode and within a year he'd have a 1-hour stand-up special and be a famous comedian (which you'll realize is true if you watch enough Comedy Central), so I says "Oh, now you're going to be a professional guitarist, a voice-over artist AND a stand-up comedian?" But no, he wasn't serious about being a comedian. He is serious about the voice-over thing though. While taking calls at work, a woman over the phone was like "Wow! You got a great voice! You should consider acting or voice-overs!" and stuff like that, and I told him that it's actually a great idea. So he's going to seriously pursue it. He's got a kinda deep voice (although for some reason people on the phone keep thinking he's a woman...) and he can do different voices (I'm a little concerned at how well he can pull off a gay lisp) and he can enunciate and speak clearly and all that important public speaking/elocution type crap. He can also sound genuinely enthusiastic and natural when he's saying something just to say it (putting on a fake friendliness during his years at GameStop) or while reading off a script or cue card. The only think he'd have to work on is covering up his Boston accent, which he should be able to do just fine, but maybe some vocal coaching would be a sound investment anyway. Maybe he can be like his heroes Billy West and Tom Kenny someday. Or at least do commercials and announcements. Plus it's the first thing besides the band and teaching private guitar lessons that I've seen him be interested in pursuing.

But back on the subject of stand-up, I can't wait for Demetri Martin's new comedy special in February. He's hysterical. But unfortunately, for now, I have to hit the hay because I gotta be at work at 9 tomorrow morning. Goodnight.