I have the type of headache that surrounds your forehead and tightens up your neck to where it hurts to face any direction but straight ahead – and even that still hurts pretty bad.

I’m pretty disenchanted with the results obviously. Even nearly all of the local state candidates and amendments ended up to be the opposite of the way I voted. But there’s nothing anyone can do now. I hope the nation made the right choice. It could very well be our death knell.

They’re already raising the debt ceiling.

I think it might be interesting if Hillary runs in 2008. Would she get a lot of female votes just because she is a woman? Or would it have the opposite effect? Would the self-described non-sexist males of America stray and vote against a female president? Would be an event like none other.

In other news, Abagnale rehearsals are going well. Lots of writing. Shows coming soon. I’m looking forward to playing a show again. It’s been a while.

Also will be getting together with “The Scientists”, Josh and Omar’s new group, to do some percussion styling. I’m trying to keep myself busy.

Kill Bill. I watched the first movie on DVD borrowed from Josh yesterday morning, and then went after the show with Josh and Jerry and Amber to see part 2. I am pretty impressed with the two films put together. On their own, the first film is better, but as a whole of both parts it works well. Unfortunately for Tarantino, I think the film would have been a more cohesive film if it was edited as one rather than split. There are scenes in the 2nd film especially that could be omitted with no detraction from the story (*cough* strip club scene *cough*) and there are long sequences from both films that could have been trimmed enough to make the movie a lean 3 hr. 10 min. film. If Titanic can do it and make mad cash, then Tarantino should have been offered the same discretion.

The best scenes from both films are:
The House of The Blue leaves fight sequences between The Bride and the Crazy 88.

The fight with Go-Go. Hottie!

The fight with O-Ren Ishii

The training of The Bride by Pai-Mei

and the fight with Elle Driver

There were also some other great moments, the buried alive sequence, the superman talk, and the entire anime sequence from part 1 describing O-Ren’s parents massacre.

I think if I could take both parts and edit them together as one it would be a much leaner film. But I’ll have to wait until Kill Bill Vol.2 comes out on DVD to do that.