So, I’ve been living in Fredericton for a week now. Pros and cons to that situation-

Pro-

There’s a Pita Pit here.
There’s a nice comic book shop here.
I live pretty much on the same street where my job is.
My apartment is pretty sweet, probably the nicest place where I’ve lived on my own.
My job promises to be stimulating and, hopefully, somewhat rewarding.

Con-

The roads in this town seem to have been designed by the same insane hillbillies who laid out the road system for Kentville, Nova Scotia. This is a dangerous city to be unfamiliar in.
I know no one.
My friends are, for the most part, too lazy or unmotivated to come visit me.

I hope things get more interesting, or at least that I meet a few people soon. Somehow, with internet access, more than 100 channels on TV, all of my video games, all of my records, all of my cds, and one of my guitars here, I’ve been very restless. Bored even. It’s very easy to just get home after work and do nothing but watch TV. I hope that once I’m more comfortable here, I’ll be able to focus more seriously on my music and my writing.

It was a quiet night. We watched Memento earlier, at least the sixth time I’ve seen it, but it’s one of those movies that you can watch again and again without getting tired of it. Interestingly enough, I really wasn’t in the mood to watch it when we started, but just watching that scene of the gun flying back into Guy Pearce’s hand and the bullet casing popping back into the gun I was totally absorbed back into it. Wally Pfeister, Christopher Nolan’s cinematographer deserves a ton of credit.

Saturday Night Live is on right now. For the most part, it’s pretty disappointing. You can count on at least three high points to each episode these days.
1) Andy Samberg’s Digital Short will remind us all of how good the show has been, and could be.
2) There will be at least one, and at most four, good jokes in the Weekend Update (tonight, it’s “In a recent interview, Madonna criticized New York, saying the city had lost the luster it had in the 80’s. Said New York, “Right back at ya.”")
3) Kristen Wiig will continue to cement her reputation as the new Will Ferrel of the show, by delivering very memorable performances in every sketch she’s in. Unfortunately, they write her into virtually the same sketch every week, so it gets old pretty quick.

The saddest thing about it? Not even Christopher Walken could get me interested in the show tonight. And I’m a huge Walken fan. Reminds me, quick joke that was a lot funnier a few years back. What’s the opposite of Christopher Reeve? Christopher Walken! (If you don’t get it, say it out loud to yourself)

Random thought: Christmas does have something to do with Christianity. It’s a commonly heard complaint from both bitter hardline Christians and jaded slackers that the way Christmas is celebrated (and the character of Santa Claus himself) has absolutely nothing to do with the birth of Jesus or anything else which the holiday is supposedly predicated on. But how about this? Once they hear that they’re going to get their toys, kids are only too happy to put their faith into good ol jolly, red, morbidly obese St. Nick. Sure, they never see him actually deliver any presents with their own eyes, and seeing a clearly different guy playing Santa at the mall vs. the parade float throws the whole thing into question, but for presents they’re willing to believe.

So now they’re conditioned to believe in one totally intangible omnipresent force. Why not another? I submit that belief in Santa Claus (and to a lesser extent the Easter Bunny as well), though it has nothing to do with anything religious, trains kids to be more accepting of the idea of god. Now, that’s not to say that this is any sort of conspiracy, maaaaaaan. Rather, I think it just explains why the church never complains too loudly that the popular celebration of Christmas is a bastardization of both terms Christ and mass.

Dark Knight viral marketing has picked up again. Perhaps I’ll give a more thorough synopsis soon, but I’ll let you know that both The Gotham Times and the graffittied Hahaha Times have both been updated, and several new sites have been launched. I also received a phone call from Commissioner Gordon, which was pretty sweet. Jimmy says that because I logged into what I thought was a Joker-viral site, that he’s got me on counts of conspiracy and that I’ll rot in jail for the rest of my life if I don’t help him in a sting against the Joker.

Well, I need sleep. See you in the morning.