Woo hoo, a Friday Five finallyon time. 1. What was the last TV show you watched? Well it definitely wasn’tDawson’s Creek. The last full show I saw was a while ago … probably the SimpsonsI think. Tonight I actually opted to watch a movie which is rare cause I don’t reallylike movies all that much. I rented Best in Show (a mockumentary by the same guyswho made The Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman) since I was out nearBlockbuster. That movie is so funny. (WHERE IS BUSY BEE? YOU GO GET BUSY BEE!) I can’twait to go see A Mighty Wind with the Captain. What’s better than a mockumentaryabout folk music? The irony is that she has EFO,and I have a movie about her :) 2. What was the last thing you complained aboutand what was the problem? I was complaining how in .NET if an integer value isset to zero (”Dim i as Integer = 0″), the condition of “If i = Nothing Then … “evaluates to “True.” This really is a misnomer (and pretty stupid) because if I explicitlyset the value to zero, it has in fact been initialized and in no way should be evaluatedas Nothing. For example, imagine a public property that acts as a counter. What ifthe count should be zero? Programmatically I have no way of knowing if the propertyvalue is zero, or if the counter just hasn’t been initialized. Better yet, set a datevariable equal to Nothing, and the .ToString method spits out “01/01/0001 12:00:00AM” Wonderful. Don’t even get me started on Boolean values … 3. Who was the lastperson you complimented and what did you say? Hmm, I can’t remember. Does thatmake me a bad person? Gasp, am I that selfish? I think this morning I told the Captain… (who by the way called at 8:30 AM, who does that? Only a really good, thoughtful,caring, concerned friend I guess) … I told the Captain that she cared too much aboutpeople. That’s a compliment right? In effect I was telling her that she was “verycaring.” Right? 4. What was the last thing you threw away? Busch Light beercan. These questions are stupid. 5. What was the last website (besides this one)that you visited? ExplodingDog

I’m getting better. This FridayFive is only four days late. 1. Who is your favorite celebrity? Definitely KatieHolmes. She appears to be one the few celebrities that’s maintained any shredof her innocence. very sexy. 2. Who is your least favorite? GaryBusey’s teeth. Also ChristopherWalken freaks me out. How did he get famous? 3. Have you ever met or seen anycelebrities in real life? I met the Philly Phanatic once when I was a kid. Atthe time I was pretty excited about meeting a celebrity. Since then my second closeencounter was when Lesley and I saw Ben Affleck, Jen Lopez, George Carlin, and KevinSmith during one of the best and worst experiences of my life - being a movie extra.It’s surreal how something can be really fun and hellish all at the same time. Thesong the cast sung (over and over again) in the 105 degree auditorium still hauntsme to this day. Oh yeah, and dawn and I saw ER’s Dr. Kovac on a tour of the WB studiosonce. I guess that’s as good as it gets :/ 4. Would you want to be famous? Whyor why not? I think I’d rather be one of the most respected men in the countryas opposed to one of the most famous. I’m sure being famous would be fun, but it’sprobably also overwhelming. I’d just settle for being the token “famous guy” thatevery town has. I’d still want the fame to be via respect though. I’m not sure actorsdo anything all that amazing to garner the attention they do. 5. If you had totrade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why? well, ChrisKlein is dating Katie Holmes, so I’d choose him. I think I could deal with lookingthat goofy as long as I got to wake up next to Katie. mmm :)

Yetanother FridayFive a week late. 1. What was the first band you saw in concert? Hmm …Dave Matthews I think. That was before he sold out. Right now I have a Dave MatthewsBand concert veto in effect. (this ban does not include solo performances; ironicallyfor that I’d pay upwards of $200 for tickets) 2. Who is your favorite artist/bandnow? While Dave Matthews will always be my favorite, I also listen to DashboardConfessional, Guster, and Norah Jones since I got the concert coming up this summer.3. What’s your favorite song? Oh there are so many to choose from. (of courseall of them are dave matthews songs)

• #40 - “a friend is always good to have, but a lover’s kiss is better than angels raining down at me” … “the road to you is long and I’ve been on it for a while” … “a lover’s good to have, but a friend that’s so true to me lasts for always”
• After Her - “with biggest steps I’m running, after her I will run” … “sun will shine no matter what I do, sun shines bright now with you”
• Grace is Gone - “neon shines through smokey eyes tonight, it’s two a.m. i’m drunk again it’s heavy on my mind” … “one drink to remember, another to forget”
• #41 - “I will go in this way and find my own way out” … “I will, bring water”
• Crash - the outtro that goes “I will be your dixie chicken if you’ll be my tenesse lamb. we will walk together down in dixieland”
• Granny - “cause I blindly throw my faith to the face of the next pretty girl to come my way”
• Hold me down/up - “hold me down, if I’ve got the fear. Hold me up, if running’s what’s got into me, cause, cry as I may, these tears won’t wash you away”
• Lover Lay Down
• One Sweet World
• Say Goodbye - The whole song is amazing … This actually was the first dave matthews song I ever heard. I remember it like it was yesterday. A friend had given me a taped copy of a concert and fast forwarded it to this song for me. At the time I was having a “say goodbye” moment in my life and she thought it would be apropos. :)
• Two Step - “you came to me like wine comes to this mouth grown tired of water all the time. You quench my heart and you quench my mind.”
• And my all time favorite forever and ever, I’ll back you up

4. If you could play any instrument, what would it be? Well I’d like to beable to play my guitar better and remember how to play the piano. The piano thingis probably pretty easy, but I’m afraid that I’ve become too dependent on my classicalguitar. Since the stings are far apart and made of nylon it makes it real easy topick and play for long periods of time. The downside is that the frets are too farapart making advanced chords a real stretch. So, if anyone would like to donatea real guitar that’d be great. 5. If you could meet any musical icon (past or present),who would it be and why? Guitar lessons from Dave Matthews of course.

And now, for consistency’s sake, it’s the FridayFive. 1. Do you like talking on the phone? Why or why not? Sometimes Ido. It depends greatly on who I’m talking to. 2. Who is the last person you talkedto on the phone? My mom. The call was made to dish out some friendly revenge. 3.About how many telephones do you have at home? I’d venture to say that our modemsoutnumber our phones. We have one real phone and two cells. The only reason I gota real phone line is cause my TiVo needsone to update. 4. Have you encountered anyone who has really bad phone manners?What happened? I think that person is usually me. When I’m at work I have verylittle tolerance for phone conversation. Most of the time I’ll answer the phone with”yo quiero taco bell” or just not say anything at all. Oh, and it still makes me chucklewhen I ask someone a question and then hang up. ha ha. Since we have caller-id I’veonly been burned once by someone important calling from a non-important’s phone. 5.Would you rather pick up the phone and call someone or write them an e-mail or a letter?Why or why not? Depends on what kind of correspondence it is. I tend to be morepowerful via the written word. Plus, a letter can serve as a nice memento. These questionswere stupid. If I were to do it all again, I’d play the role of a 15 year old girland gush about how I couldn’t live without my celly and my peeps.