30 Days of Me: Non-Fiction Book

With under two hours to spare...

So today's post was a non-fiction book. Basically to me, that says autobiography. And since I already chose "Scar Tissue" as my favorite book, I have to go with a wrestler autobiography.

(this is kind of why I didn't worry about posting today. However, I dare you to not close this window).

The book I'm talking about is called Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story. I've read a lot of wrestler autobiographies, from Stone Cold Steve Austin to Ric Flair, but this one was by far the best.

I think it translates so well because it is truly a book anyone can read. It is mostly about his life and when he talks about wrestling he does so in a way that anyone can understand it.

It's a great look at the life of a person who grew up in a wrestling family, struggled to get started in Mexico, battled personal demons for most of his career, but finally made it to the top.

Sadly, it's also a story of a life that was lost in November of 2005 in what is probably the saddest day in wrestling history. In a time when professional wrestlers are dying at a rate that is actually scary, Eddie's death was the most sad when he died of a heart attack.

If you have made it this far, I would actually say take a chance. Pick it up. You might enjoy it.

30 Days of Me: Fictional Book

So it looks like we have some book posts coming up, which may be a challenge for me. But if I had to pick a fictional book, I would go with The Husband by Dean Koontz.

My uncle actually slid this book to me after he always asks me when I visit LA if I "have read anything lately." He told me I would like this one and I started reading it when my plane left the Burbank airport on my way back to Alabama and by the time I landed I was halfway finished.

It was great. I know I'm going to sound like a book-reading rookie, but it read like a movie. I could see everything that was going so vividly and it kept me interested the entire time.

I can't really tell you what it's about because except a man's wife gets kidnapped. Anything else would be spoiling, but it actually inspired my roommate to pick up a lot more books by the same author.

Girls are Complicated

So the saga continue on two fronts:

1) "this girl" was sick, so I decided to try and pull the sweet card and bring her soup and crackers along with some gummy worms because of a status she had put up. She wasn't there so I left it. When she called me HOURS later I went over there and watched the duel. While watching she does the cute legs on me thing. I would be into this whole scenario, but the fact that she has a boyfriend is making it weird. It's like I feel I am getting the signals, and I want to act, but the boyfriend thing is throwing me off. I'm not the kind of the guy that messes around like that. Sigh.

2) my ex-girlfriend and I talked today. For the first time in months. And on the phone. And it was a long conversation. It was a good one though. No yelling or guilt trips. She is doing a lot better in life and from talking to her I realize I am doing a lot better also. I'm still not ready to be friends though. I wanna be able to communicate if needed, but friends is out for right now. She just mentioned her boyfriend's name and I clammed up. But i do feel a friendship coming for us soon. She is coming back up here to go to school. Can you saw awkward? Sigh.

In other news:

*I'm catching up on the duel, but apparently i'm pretty behind. Just saw Easy get eliminated. Pretty sad about that.

*Started my "assistant music director" job at WEGL today. Basically, I listen to music and say whether it is good or not. Pretty sweet. And we signed up for our shows this summer. Wednesdays it is going to go like this: 5-6 is Frisco, 6-8 is Me and 8-9:30 is Matt Walker. Should be some good Wednesdays.

*Bought some records today: Band of Horses, Kings of Leon and Minus the Bear. This vinyl business is not good for my wallet.

*Also bought some books today. Got one I have been wanting for a long time, "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Keidis. Hopefully I can get into it.

Random lyric of the day:

Do you never wonder?
No, no no no

You girls never know
Oh no, you girls'll never know
No you girls never know
How you make a boy feel