My last camera (Canon SD900) was victim to many accidents, including paintball, soccer, multiple drops, and finally, ocean water. That last one was sort of purposeful, because I knew it was on it's last leg. It was a fine camera, but it was time to move on.

The camera I had prior to that was fantastic. It was a Canon S70, which featured a wide angle lens and more features than I knew what to do with. I overpaid for that great camera, just to use it in auto-mode 90% of the time. I took great care of that camera, but it met it's demise when it fell out of my pocket, bounced off the ground, and right into a cup of beer on the ground.

This time I went with a new Canon model, the SD4000IS. It does the wide angle shots like the S70 did, but it's a little cheaper and less complicated.

As you can see, it's red. Hopefully that keeps it easy to see and it doesn't get misplaced or stolen. So far, the pictures have been great, and whatever pictures you see in the future will most likely be from this camera. The video from the My Morning Jacket show was from this camera, and it does 720p HD recording. The wide angle shots have pleased me, and I'm really enjoying the tilt shift setting, which focuses the middle of a shot and blurs the perimeter. It makes for an intense look.

I went to the My Morning Jacket show at the Greek two Friday's ago. They are fantastic and I stand by what I declared last time I saw them. They are the best American rock band. The crowd loved their set, and lead Jimmy James brought his A-game.

I filmed some of it with my new Camera.

The show started off a little quiet before breaking out into some grand rock sounds. They setlist had a lot of range and some cool new songs were played too. Of course they finished with One Big Holiday which is always special.

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2. I've been addicted to this game, Polgonal Fury. It's self explanatory.

There's a group in Los Angeles that has been doing a great service for the city over the last 10 years by screening movies at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary. Cinespia picks classic movies, and invites people to picnic outdoors, surrounded by tombstones and mausaleums. They really do celebrate the movie and make the whole event fun. For the screening of my favorite movie ever, Airplane!, they brought out a cockpit and some of the original props from the movie.

The whole event is pretty social and fun. I enjoyed seeing the movie for the first time with a huge crowd who laughed at all the right moments and simply enjoyed the movie. Kait and I made a pitstop at Whole Foods before getting there and had a great picnic. She did most of the slicing and dicing while I watched the movie. It probably should have gone the other way around since I've seen it dozens of times and she never had. That said, we were situated way towards the back and didn't have the clearest view of the screen. But we could hear and mostly see everything going on.

For anyone thinking about embarking on a screening, you seriously need to show up 3 to 4 hours before the movie starts. The line was literally wrapping around the block of Sunset and Gower. We got there at 7:00, a mere two hours before the movie started and we almost didn't get in. About 5000 people were ahead of us, two hours before the movie. Airplane! is a fairly popular and beloved movie, so I don't expect the crowds to always be so massive. If you go, have someone wait in line at 6:00 while you go and get food and drink. I definitely recommend it though. The line isn't so bad because you're surrounded by sociable like minded people.

From a Korean gameshow...

These variety show stars have to run around the city hunting each other. There's a lot of show to watch, (14 parts, 10 minutes each) so you might want to just watch a piece at a time.

I'm watching Braveheart on the satellite right now, and it's a fantastic movie. Despite the rediculousness of Mel Gibson, it's probably top 3 of my inspirational movie list. I still get goosebumps when William Wallace yells "freedom" as he's getting disemboweled. Anyways, the first time I saw this movie was on VHS in 1996, and it was a 2-tape set. That seems completely crazy now. In the middle of the movie, I had to get up from the couch, eject tape 1, and put in tape 2. Now it seems silly to have any physical media to deal with when watching a movie. that is all.

It's been a week since the World Cup ended. The post partem depression pretty much set in right away.

Here are the moments I'll remember most.

Landon Donovan's late winner vs. Algeria to send us into round 2. The national response was amazing and completely unforeseen.

The USA's comeback against Slovenia including Michael Bradley's face as he got mobbed by teammates on the touchline.

The first goal of the competition from Shabalala was a beauty and great moment for the host, South Africa.

Getting up at 4:30 everyday for the first 2 weeks was brutal, but I miss it. It's nice to get a World cup match in before work.  Even games like New Zealand vs. Slovakia were worth waking up for.

ESPN had real around the clock coverage. The primetime show had extended highlights and analysis never before seen in the USA.

Maradona on the touchline was great to watch. In one of Argentina's matches, a wayward ball flew his way, and he casually heel-flicked it out of the air right to one of his players coming for a throw-in. He was clearly the most passionate particpant of the World Cup. It's shame Argentina didn't advance farther.

Diego Forlan deservedly won the golden ball as he put in a few inspirational performances. I'd say the next best players were Bastian Schweinsteiger (GER) and Arjen Robben (NED). Messi (ARG) was great too, despite not scoring.

The tournament was very defensive. It wasn't ugly defensive. Spain, who deservedly won the cup, had to put up with every opponent parking 10 defenders behind the ball. They handled it.

I forgot how awesome this song was. Although it's a little cheesey at the end, and the video is a little silly, this song rocks. It makes me feel good about the 90's.