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The Good, The Better And The Meh

It's been awhile since I did a full CD review on here so let me tell you about Kelly Clarkson's new All I Ever Wanted. It's more and more awesome with every listen. It's not as good as her previous two albums. She has less writing credits with this album so it's less personal or "personally personal" as it contains genuine emotion but in the more generic sense. The sensible side of me wants to say the songs she actually did write are the best but I really can't say that. My favorite tracks are "All I Ever Wanted", "My Life Would Suck Without You" (Which she didn't write) and "Already Gone" (Which she co-wrote with one other). I know this can't be the first example of an album that combines phat (which is in Firefox's vocab apparently) beats touching lyrics throughout the entire album but it's the first I've thoroughly enjoyed.

Yesterday, our final movie was The Spirit. It was very good but the cheese factor was worse in places than Black Scorpion. I learned several things. Scarlett Johansson could wear the dorkiest shit and be hot as hell. Her upcoming turn as Black Widow will be awesome even if she flubs every line! Conversely, Eva Mendez is not fugly by any means but she needs wardrobe assistance I think...Finally, Samuel L. Jackson somehow puts out the same damn performance with every movie and it's hit or miss. Here, it works well...Honestly, I preferred Sarah Paulson in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip then here but overall, again, I enjoyed this...

An update into the more personal. The university is interviewing their candidates and hope to make a decision by the end of the month. I'm hoping it takes longer as I wasn't contacted but that's just me...

The second agency I tried, or the first non-sketchy one if you prefer, turned down my query as wasn't what they were looking for right now. I had high hopes for this as the others on my list are more well-known and probably would be even less interested. I don't know what I'll do...

Also, my parents and I planned to go to Canada at the end of the month but then we realized that new law took effect and I now can't go because I don't have a passport! I had hoped to start the process and went down to my local PO but only the main branch does this. I found a website for an expedited one but unless I pay a lot of money even that wouldn't be ready... Argh!
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