He touched my breast!

bethje and I watched The Wizard, the infamous film-length Nintendo commercial, On Demand last night. She'd seen it before, but I hadn't, maybe partially because I didn't actually get a Nintendo until a few years after it came out. Several IMDB threads point out the film's similiarity to Rain Man, in that it has a guy exploiting his mentally challenged brother in order to get some cash. The movie co-stars a young Jenny Lewis, who was probably right to give up acting for music. I'm sure everybody knows about how a bunch of kids who have never even seen Super Mario Bros. 3 know that it has magic warp whistles, and have a general idea as to where one of them is; and then Jimmy (whose full character name is apparently James Woods, although no one ever overtly mentions this fact) actually FINDS one of them on his first time through. At least it wasn't the one in World 1-3 where you have to duck down on the white block for five timer-seconds, because I don't know that ANYBODY, wizard or not, could have figured THAT out on their own. Oh, and the announcer kept referring to World 1-3 as "World 2." Sheesh, you'd think that with all the free advertising Nintendo was getting, the least they could have done was to hire a fact-checker!

The movie apparently inspired a dream of mine, where I was shopping at some video game store and trying to decide which issue of Nintendo Power to purchase. I also had a noteworthy dream the night before (albeit not one related to Nintendo), in which I was in a room with my brother, Eric Shanower, and David Maxine; and we were watching someone on TV that Eric and David hated. For some reason, the soundtrack for whatever was on was "I Wanna Be Sedated," by the Ramones.

Within the past few days, Beth gave me copies of Even Worse and Alapalooza, which means that I've been able to transfer all of Weird Al's albums to my MP3 player. I listened to them on random while on my way to my mom's house today. It had been a long time since I'd heard some of those songs. I remember when there was a commercial for syndicated episodes of Night Court and Cheers that played "You Make Me." Does anyone else remember this, or was it just a local thing?

Anyway, the reason I went to my mom's house was so I could give my siblings their Christmas presents, and receive the ones that my mom's side of the family had given me. Things I got included:
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I also got an Amazon gift card from Dorothea, so I should probably look into using both that and the one that I got from my sister for my birthday.

I was listening to the oldies station this morning, and it mentioned the following musicians' birthdays:

• Bo Diddley, namesake for the SMB3 enemy Boo Diddley
  
• Jeff Lynne, a member of the Travelling Wilburys, whose song "Handle With Care" was recently covered by Jenny Lewis.
  
• Mike Nesmith and Davy Jones, who were both in the Monkees, a band that Weird Al toured with back in the mid-eighties.
  

See how I linked all those people to things I mentioned earlier in this post? Aren't I clever? :P