I regret to report that the Durham Apple store doesn't have any of the cool new Mac shit yet. Not that I really expected them too... Overheard someone on the phone there saying that iPod Shuffle might be in next week. I don't really need any kind of iPod. (but I still want one) So it's perhaps a good thing that there are none in stock. I could buy online. But I have an Apple Store gift card which I plan to use for whatever I end up getting. And there is, as far as I can tell, no way to apply my gift card to purchases from Apple online. Stoopid Apple. I'm in the cult. But they do make it difficult sometimes...
Had more success with movie tix. Bought ours for House of Flying Daggers on Friday night. I'm sure it won't be sold out but I like being able to walk right up and go in without having to mess around at the box office.
Watched the remake of Willard tonight. Not much of a movie but worth it for another brilliantly eccentric turn by Crispin Glover. And major rat fu (of course). Lots of nice little bits of business around the edges too. The opening credits sequence was nicely ripped off from the Brothers Quay. At one point, Glover's in the store contemplating rat traps and poisons and one of the brands he's looking at is called "Tora Bora Rat Controlla." Later you see him feeding the rats from a can of "Numm Nuts."
Of course you need an iPod. Some of us have more than one, and don't necessarily want to stop there. But then, for some of us, this is truer than we like to admit: http://tinyurl.com/3mrnu