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| Sunday, July 12th, 2009 | | 12:25 pm |
2 quick stories before i have to go pick up vince.... 1) how i found out about coby being laid off... -I went to World International Coffee where Lexie works to visit. When I got there Veronica, a girl who was in my theatre history class, told me that Lexie just left. She went on to say that Lexie got off early so she could take her roommate, who was just laid off, on a 10 hour drive to Philly! WHA! - say I. So I called Coby immediately. And he confirmed every word. 2) Taking Shauna to the airport. yesterday I was contracted by Shauna to drive her to the airport. I left early to get to her apartment. BUT uh oh. I WAS OUT OF GAS! My car was able to putter itself down the hill of my apartment and on to Broadway street. Til I couldn't get it to turn on anymore. As I was stuck in the middle of the street, I was just about to call Shauna and tell her the bad news. When magically a man showed up with a gas can! He say "son you look like you could use some gas" Perfect timing. My luck is sometimes just right on. But, I did leave early! If I would have waited, Shauna would have been pissed. And I would have been a shitty friend. So while my luck is at play. It was my intentions to leave early just in case something like that happened. Oh, gotta go. Current Music: metallica - the god that failed | | 11:55 am |
Wes Came into Townwednesday, wes visited! we cooked out at Coby, Lexie, and Rob's! the next morning we walked downtown in the rain. workThanks to Harry Potter, I'm getting a few more hours at the movie theatre. I closed last night. BrunoLarry Charles has made a name for himself. He has inovated a new kind of shock in-your-face comedy. He has worked with Larry David, Bob Dylan, Bill Maher, and Sasha Baron Cohen. All four of these men have worked with pushing the edge of where their material can go. In Bruno, Cohen does go there. Cohen seems like the kind of comedian who would do anything for a laugh. Including animating his own penis. While a lot of the movie does seem staged, it's effectively editted to make it seem real and natural. Mostly it's about celebrity culture and how it doesn't take much to become a celebrity. All you need is money and a look. There are several times throughout the movie where you truly do believe that Bruno will be killed. Dana Stevens brought up an interesting point, if Sasha Baron Cohen was killed in production for this movie would he stay in character as he died? goal: lose 7 lbsBy the end of the summer I want to lose 7 pounds. It's amazing to me how just a few lbs makes a difference. On a body and frame like mine, seven pounds is a pretty big deal. If I gained 7 pounds, I'd probably feel uncomfortable. But if I lost seven, I'd look 'in shape'. I've been walking about 3 to 4 miles a day. Plus I've started doing push ups and sit ups again. "end of summer" - when school starts. Aug 17th! calling SNAPThe Food Stamp program aka SNAP. I am eligible. And I believe that I should take advantage of the system! I mean why not? I'm the kind of person who should be using SNAP. I won't be on it forever. And I'm a college student who will one day be part of society. Coby got laid off!Holy crap. He got laid off Thursday. So that means he'll probably be moving from Asheville by the end of the month. Damn dude. :/ Future Plans-Going to see Brothers Bloom with Vince -Shakespeare in the park by the Monford Park Players - They are performing Cymbeline. A little known tragedy!. I'm excited. I might go with Lori. -Monday: Going to see Moon with Rob -House show at Sijal's. -perhaps a party at my coworker Tim's house? I dunno..... Current Music: Metallica - Don't Tread on Me | | Friday, July 10th, 2009 | | 2:43 pm |
| | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 3:27 pm |
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| | Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | | 5:02 pm |
fourth of july weekend!
Friday: saw Ice Age 3. i was bored. Scrat, as usual, is the only thing worth seeing. this short still remains the best thing the Ice Age series has given us When I got home, Lori was walking right by my apartment. She invited me over to her place to have some tea. We talked for a few hours. Then we decided to go downtown. After that I went over to Derek's. He played Moody Blues album Days of Future Passed. He explained the conceptual meaning behind it all. The most popular song on the album is: Saturday: I worked 11-5. Ronald showed up about 6. We ate at ED Boudreaux’s Bayou Bar-B-Que. I had a pulled pork plate with green beans and cheese fries. Healthy meal, I know. Then we saw Taking of Pelham 123. Which in the standards of modern action films comes across as "old school". It is a remake of a 70's movie. But what I mean by "old school" is that it doesn't have the world to contend with. There isn't a global threat. No gigantic robots, no huge explosions, no crumbling buildings, no earth quakes, no superheroes, no supernatural elements. there are car chases, blood, and guns. AND it's an R rated movie. not PG13. which is kind of refreshing in my mind. Then we walked downtown from my apartment to catch fireworks. we only saw the very end of the show. we caught up with Vince and played some pool. Dan Shearin had a party at his place. We went there. And it was sort of a highschool reunion. The Uncle Mountain guys, myself, Ronald, and Clay Roberson! Got home about 4am. Sun:woke up around 11:30. Tried to go to Sunny Point. there was an hour wait, so we went to Burgermeister. Then I showed Ronald UNC-A's campus and we walked around the Botanical Gardens. After Ronald left, me and Lori went to see the Proposal. I couldn't help but think that Sandra Bullock got plastic surgery. I thought she looked a little bit like MJ!!!! Or perhaps she just had too much makeup on the entire time. Anyways I didn't really buy her as the "against type" bitchy boss. Overall, I thought Betty White's new age grandmother was the best thing about the movie. she says something like whatever you do is the way it should be...or something like that...i like that kinda b.s. we walked around the mall for about an hour. I went to sleep around 10. Monday: Saw Whatever Works with Ryan F. Woody Allen's dialogue and Larry David's delivery as Boris is really funny. and Boris makes some good points. for example what he says about having automatic flushing on toilets. it's true, people can't be trusted to flush their own shits! it further shows Woody's own philosophy on luck. JRM said it best at the end of Match Point "i don't care if my child is good, i just want him to be lucky". what seperates this film from a "great" woody allen film? i think it's this: a more natural free flowing story progression. chracters and incidents don't just happen to prove a point. I played the new Wilco album for Ryan. I think it works as a sampler for Wilco's body of work. a lot of the songs sound like B-sides to songs on older albums. After I left Ryan's, I found out that John Kirtly was in town. He is leaving for Portland thursday. So I walked over to Adam's, who was hosting a party for John. Then we went to Usual Suspects. Went to bed about 1:30. Today: Woke up about 10:30. Walked downtown. Visited Shauna at the Bier Garden Ate a free lunch on campus. Tonight: Going to see Observe and Report at the Brew&View with Vince. Gonna work a little bit on my papers. (although my classes ended Friday, I have til this friday to finish my finals....as a procrastinator, naturally i'm waiting til the last minute) Current Music: The Byrds – Mind Gardens | | 2:55 pm |
| | Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | | 3:02 pm |
| | Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | | 1:30 pm |
| | 12:38 pm |
i resigned my lease at the grove. facts: -they lowered the rent by 40 dollars. in the long run it saves me 480 bucks -it is a twenty minute walk from campus -it is a twenty five minute walk from downtown -it is on the busline. my apartment is 2 seconds away from where you can be picked up. -i already live here. i have a certain sense of comfortability. i know where everything is. if i did move somewhere else, that was in my price range, i would have to room share with someone i met off of craigslist. i'd have to deal with new roommates. I'd have to deal with roommates, period. right now i never see my roommates as it is. -i have my own bathroom. -tv has cable. i don't watch much tv. i like to occationally turn on TCM or HBO. -everything is included with my rent. -easy place to meet "friends". -i have friends moving into the grove Aug 15th. could be interesting. I signed a year lease. Aug 09 - July 10. I graduate in Dec. Right now my main source of income is finacial aid. While I have started my research into grad schools, I won't be going anywhere til the Fall. So this means I have to find a generic job to maintain myself starting in January after my graduation. And when I say generic job, I mean some boring straight laced job that will supply me with something to do for 6 or 7 months. I'm gonna keep the job at the movie theatre. While they aren't giving me that many hours there, I see about 2 - 3 free movies a week! :) Can't turn that down. Today was the last day of summer school. The month of July will be spent outdoors, at the movie theatre, saving money, and reading. Ronald is coming to visit t'row. for the fourth. Wes may be coming Wed. as for the rest of the day..... I'm gonna see Ice Age 3, perhaps go to the Lobster Trap. I just found out they have a brewery there! www.oysterhousebeers.comI've made it my mission to try all of the local beers in and around the Asheville area. Asheville is considered beercityoftheeast,Usa. it's exciting times to be here. I'm still self adjusting to this town. And I've been doing some serious self analysis. Oh yea, I just remembered! I told Lexie I was gonna find out what time the campus clinic closes while I'm here! I should do that!.... Future LJ entries: -I'm gonna post another episode of Red Dwarf. (eventually I'd like to post the entire show) -my thoughts on the recent Michael Mann movie -March pics: part 11! Yes, I've uploaded. Now I must post! :P -trailer for Zemeckis A Christmas Carol. I haven't found it on youtube yet. but i saw it in front of Public Enemies. i am excited. although i acknowledge this story has been done to death. It's ZEMECKIS! Current Music: Hüsker Dü – Amusement | | 11:09 am |
| | 10:28 am |
away we go
Away we go, the new movie directed by sam mendes, made me think about how difficult it must be to a parent. Dave Eggers and his wife wrote this screenplay following a pregnant couple through a nightmarish fantasy of exaggerated stereotypes of worst case scenarios. parents in this movie are represented as: -neglectful -alcoholic -dead -missing -depressed -too nurturing/loving -thinking "society is fucked so my kid doesn't have chance in the first place" -divorced -bitter and angry in my hum414 class, we talked about how a good person starts at home. it is up to the mom and dad to implement ideas of a moral code within a child. education is key to change in society. the old cliche "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" this applies in regards to once a child reaches a certain age it will be considered an "old dog". i would say the first 3 or 4 years of a youngins life is the most important, that's when you implement that foundation. genetics do serve a certain ammount of blame too. the makeup of what determines what you look like is already in the cards. you can't decide if you are gonna be fat, short, tall, skinny, redheaded, blackhaired, blue eyed, strong, wimpy, ugly...etc.. and societal standards of attractiveness will always change. if someone is good looking they are good looking and they will be treated differently. and so they'll have opportunites that other will not changing the personality of the child. and perhaps genetics have something to do with personality too. some people have happy, sad, or angry faces. but ultimately it comes down to the parenting. And who has the right answers? who is worth listening to? That's what Away We Go is about....the lack of a good answer to what makes a good parent. you have to be able to trust the partner you have. and even then, nothing is definate. the couple presented in this movie is unrealistic because they have such a love you never see. a love that i'll never have. and therefore is the best case. however, nothing is set in stone. And these two are not perfect. they don't have everything figured out. And who does? you must respect yourself before you can be truly respected by others. HOWEVER your child is born to respect you. Recently I've been thinking about writing a one act play about a father talking to his recently born daughter. The father is still trying to figure out where he wants to go in life. The little girl, who knows nothing, looks up to the father as a parent. Trusting. And with respect. But the father is in no position to garner that respect from anyone else. He is just out of school, has little money, and is looking to the future. He has accomplished nothing but create a child. This is a facinating concept to me. The child doesn't even know why it loves the father nor does it know why it depends on him. The father does know! yet he still has much self discovery. it's not til the child is older it loses respect because it has become aware of who his parent are. so that is why it is the development years that are the most important. and like the last exchange of dialogue in the movie "this place is perfect for us to raise a family--isn't it?" "i hope so, i fucking hope so" we can only hope that we'll make good parents to our children. and we can only hope that the difficult decisions we make in regards to when/why/how/what/where we raise our children is correct... btw, the movie is comedy. it also annoyingly serves as a commercial for alexi murdoch music. | | Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | | 1:24 pm |
| | Monday, June 29th, 2009 | | 6:21 pm |
recent deaths
( one. Farrah Fawcett )( two. ed mcmahon )( three. MJ )four. uncle poseymy uncle posey died the same day as MJ and Farrah.. His wife, my aunt sudie, just died a month ago. And they were a wonderful couple. They were married 70 years. That never happens anymore. The weekend that Sudie died was the same weekend that Up opened. people could watch Up and think "oh a love like that only happens in the movies". Well Sudie and Posey were a prime example of real life in which an entire life can be spent with one person. I often think I missed out on my opportunity to have that kind of love. And that perhaps I'm too old to really fall "in love" now. There were people I had crushes on when I was younger. and there were people who probably had crushes on me too. they both were happening at the same time but nothing ever came about from those feelings. I missed that boat. That's not to say that I'll be lonely and that I'll never have someone to love or someone to love me. I know I will. But I've missed out on spending a life with someone. At this point I'm 24. I'll probably live til my 80s. How can i say the within the next 60 years the people i know i'll always know....there is nothing that is holding me to them....not to say i don't have friends i care about right now.....but i'm losing contact with people all the time....for example the people I knew when I was in elementry/middle/highschool/college I don't know anymore. Or hear from. I'm still friends with a lot them on facebook, but I'm about to delete that. I'm not trying to force myself into solitude or anything. it's just i'm too much of a present thinker. i'm learning and growing. and i am moving foward. everyday i revisit my past somehow too. it just doesn't involve too many people i've always known. can you really count your parents? i'm talking about a life long friend that has lasted time. there are people from ECU i call, but honestly, it's difficult to do it. I have not had the opportunity to rave about UP yet. These were my thoughts I had the weekend it opened. With Sudie dying. And this movie involving a life long love. But the real message of the movie is that life doesn't end. it keeps going. here i am, full of life. The dreams you once had. The way you saw your life going, it didn't go. But here you are. In the now. Life isn't over. And it's not too late to build new dreams out of the ashes of your broken ones. With Uncle Posey death, it's brings their beautiful life love to a close. And I can only look at their marriage with all the respect in the world. I admire and appreciate because I know I'll never have what they had. five. a few brain cellstransition from best film of the year to the worst. I saw Transformers 2...... thanks mike bay. i didn't like the first movie because i thought it was too long, loud, and dumb. WELL the sequel is LONGER, LOUDER, AND DUMBER. Why does there have to be a backstory to the Transformer toys? I had them when I was a kid. I never knew that they were aliens. I didn't know the difference between Autobots or Decepticons. They were all the same to me and my brother. We played the hell out of them. Making up our own stories and having a good time. Why can't a cigar just be a cigar? And why can't a car just transform into a robot without a reason except to be cool. A better movie would have been a documentary on kids coming up with their own stories for the Transformers. It still would have been a commercial for the product. And it would have costed much much less to make! I know kids with great imaginations. And their stories actually make sense. Well most of them. Seriously though, i just spent 20 minutes trying to write the summary to this movie. Couldn't do it. The worst sin of Transformers is that it's boring. Deathly boring. My favorite pull quote is: "It's like watching paint dry and getting hit over the head with a frying pan" ---sums it up perfectly. six. Billy MaysI always thought you were Al Borlin from Home Improvements.. my bathroom needs to be cleaned. perhaps i will buy some OxiClean in your honor! Current Music: wilco - kamera | | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 12:07 pm |
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 Current Music: Beck - Lonesome Tears | | Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | | 12:45 am |
Year One
Harold Ramis' hit or miss comedy starring Jack Black and Micheal Cera slaps Western religion in the face with their hairy wang. They fart upon texts many hold up to be holy. I think people should be reminded of how fucked up and violent these stories are. Cain and Able, Abe and Issac, and Sodom and Gomorrah. Millions upon millions of people believe in these stories. They believe in these assholes. While most of the jokes don't really work, I did laugh. the first half is funnier than the second half. I enjoyed the supporting work by Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt. The people behind this movie are smart. Judd Apatow, Ramis, and screenwriters Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (they write for the Office). I agree with Dana Steven in her review for the Slate, "[Black and Cera] innocently puncture one taboo after another (the eating of the forbidden fruit, the violation of the holy temple), and time after time, nothing happens." if anything it's about sticking it to the man. this isn't high art. far from. and yes it's a stupid movie. fortunately i don't think the filmmakers intentions were entirely brain dead. Current Music: Talk Talk - I Don't Believe in You | | Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | | 2:32 am |
"I just have a realistic attitude, and the hard facts are so brutal and terrifying that each person has his own way of rationalizing that it’s not so bad. But it is so bad. And the trick is to acknowledge that, and still get through.” | | 1:12 am |
today was the first day of summer. i have seriously considered deleting my facebook. i have 600 "friends". most are people i knew in highschool or in college. most who i never think about. ever. and the people i want to stay in contact with....well i don't wanna read updates that tell me every detail. it ruins the mystery. it ruins actually seeing the person randomly and catching up with them. i am not opposed to keeping a blog. i am not opposed to writing in detail my thoughts. because in real life in conversation it's not a good idea to blab every single thing that happens. you'll bore the friend/coworker/family member/random person on the street. the one who can say the most in the least amount of words succeeds in life. for example roger ebert: "Did you like the movie roger?" THUMBS DOWN! but go onto his website, he'll tell you why It's a thumbs down! there is a well written essay on his exact thoughts. but can you imagine if you asked roger ebert what his thoughts on a movie was and he gave you a 5 minute speech on why he disliked a movie! People would be snoozin. Back to Facebook, you see what people are doing all the time! through pictures and status updates. "Omg Amanda Schiller had 2 kids!?!" "WHA whatsherface and whatshisface got married, WOAH, who would thought that woulda lasted." And then you scroll down and you continue looking and you see old friend partying, barfing, watching tv, eating sandwiches, getting haircuts, etc.... i like running into friends around and noticing that they got a haircut. or seeing that they have mustard on their face from eating a hoagie. or hearing a brief story about how crazy this party they were at. We've all became our great aunts. You know the great aunt who shows us slide shows of their vacations. Boring pictures of trees and insignificant things around. We've become that aunt who has made a photo book and is now showing off how cute their boyfriend or little niece is. "look at this apple pie i cooked". "look at me at the yellowstone national park". "look i went to new york, check out this statue" The people i'm interested in, i wanna actually sit in their living room. and them bring down a scrap book of photos and random nerdy things they collected on their trip. and i want them to tell me stories behind the picture. i don't wanna see a picture and then see a little caption. most people on my friend list are not people i'm interested in. and the people i am interested in. i wanna have it physically there. in my hands. and i want to be with them. sure, i take pictures too. i've posted my fair share of pics on LJ. but i post my pics on here as a way to keep track of my life. i have a bad memory. and if i post pictures under the heading march 2009, that's what happened in march 2009 and when i look at these pictures 2 years from now, it'll remind me. on facebook, it doesn't keep track of things like that. a new person writes on your wall and those moments that you posted and want to keep track of are now so far behind that you don't want to go back and look at them. but lj chronicles your life. this is what i thought on Jan. 5th 2004. This is what i wanted to do. This link, this video, this movie did this to me. On FB, the video, the link, your thoughts, the pictures, They are still there, but they are not as well organized. The point of FB is to keep immediate track of people in your life. I don't want that immediate access anymore. Delay my gratification. Why do i need to know now? Current Music: wire - men 2nd | | Sunday, June 21st, 2009 | | 11:57 pm |
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