May 31st, 2005

Stuff that has been on my mind:

So I have been getting my grades back from the past semester and they are quite good. This does not bode well for me as my grades have been so good, that I am technically supposed to know things like Calculus and Chemistry and I am not sure that I do. The plus side to all of this is that I worked my butt off and am now reaping the benefits, of course I have also set quite a standard for myself. Things can only get worse from here. HA!

Tom Cruise's "people" would rather portray him as a pedophile (a slight exaggeration) than admit he is gay. There is just something not quite right about this. Is there something in scientology about this?

I still can't beleive that Ice Cube did a "family film". Read that again. This is the same guy who was in NWA. The times they are a changin'.

Why the heck did I start this blog you ask? So my kids will have no doubt that I am a huge dork.

Going to see James Earl Jones tonight in "On Golden Pond". I am a little worried about the fact that I will be thinking about Darth Vader and Verizon Business Online DSL the whole time.

Today is "Day 62" of me holding out against getting a dog....I can feel my spirit slowly giving way.

I start summer school tomorrow sans science courses. I will be learning spanish for a second time. Hopefully this time I will manage to remember it.

That's all I got for ya today folks....see you in a day or so.

Cheers.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

Not actually the quote of today but rather a quote made sometime around 2:00pm or so on Saturday....

I was having trouble putting on one of my rollerblades and I slipped and fell. I also happened to be wearing my Red Sox cap. A man in passing said and I quote:

"You wouldn't be having so much trouble if you had a Yankees hat on"

At this point I would like to point out the the Yankees got their butts whooped 17-1 that very day and lost again on Sunday 7-2...to whom you might ask....hmmmm.

Of course as I write this I just discovered that the sox got their butts whooped by the Orioles.....so I guess I can't gloat too much...

Why are theatre people so self-invloved...I could tell ya'll stories about some of these people....but not tonight.

Good Night all.

Sunday, May 29th, 2005

So I know that it has been awhile since I have written anything. The reason being that I had a week full of finals at school. It was not fun and the finals were very hard and I do not know how I will end up doing this semester. Hopefully I will not be too disappointed.

So my wife and I went to see the Star Wars movie with some friends who had not seen the film yet. My wife and I had already seen it, although not together. I went to the 3am showing the first evening it was open. At that particular screening I didn't mind the movie so much, in fact I thought it was kinda good. I now believe that my liking of this movie had a great deal to do with a couple of things.

1. It was 3am in the morning and I was too tired to realize that this film was absolute crap.

2. I drank two red bulls right before we got to our seats and was so hyped up on caffeine that I was too jumpy to realize that this film was absolute crap.

3. The crowd was so excited that their the screaming and the yelling as soon as "Lucasfilm" came on the screen distracted me so much that I was blinded into the belief that this was a good film when in fact it was absolute crap.

I am glad that I saw the film again only so that I can say with certainty that this film is indeed absolute crap. Poorly written, poorly directed, poor acting. (I will point out that Mr. Mcgregor was the one saving grace of the film). I am shocked and appalled that this film has been receiving rather good reviews. It is...well.....appalling. I don't know what else to say.
Across the board just terrible. My wife and I were so bored that we could not sit still. A.O. Scott, in his review has said that Mr. Lucas supposedly received some writting help from Tom Stoppard.....who is a respectable writer....who also happened to write the fantastic play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and "The Invention of Love" which was spectacular......I hope and pray that Mr. Stoppard had nothing to do with this.
To be fair the special effects were pretty good and there were a couple of decent scenes, one of the better ones involved no dialogue at all, but still had a slight odor very reminiscent of urine that has been tainted by asparagus. I digress...anyway I know you all will still go see this movie, just because it is Star Wars and that means a lot to a lot people our there and we cannot always explain this to people.

I have worked in the theatre business for awhile now and I have seen some things and there are few things that shock me. That was until this morning when my wife and I were reading the NYTs this morning. Didn't realize that George C. Wolfe was such a pompous ass. To compare his job to the presidency of the country is an outrage. I am no Bush fan, but to say that your job is harder (running an non-for-profit theatre company) than running the country. You are a frickin idiot. I'm so genuinely offended by this that I am glad to be getting out of the threatre business. More on this tomorrow.....

Good Night all. Sleep well world...

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Anything that you wish to achieve is within your reach....remember that Eminem is an Academy Award."
-Annonymous

This should read that Eminem has an Academy Award....of course I have ruined everything in an attempt to be "witty' but have failed....much like the chemistry final that I took earlier this evening and more often than not my spellling. Ok I am rambling.... No, I know I didn't fail....but I sure don't feel good about it....maybe I did fail...and you know it is ok if I did. I think I suffer from performance anxiety or something. One weird question just completely throws me off and I don't quite know what to do with myself....Alas...it is what it is....and regardless I learned a hell of a lot. Maybe someday I will learn to spell....

Rambling rambling rambling random rambling down the westward ho down towards the break of day we wandered around the cold dark house waitng to hear what had happened there. We both decided that it would not be a good idea to go exploring on our own and held with a loose grip each others hand. The minute you separate you die right? That is what always happens in those horror films and such. We were not going to get fooled into that one. Anyone that ever says "I'm just gonna go check out that weird sound that I am strangely attracted to for no other reason than to propogate a plot line" is an idiot and a goner. That would not happen to us. If we were going to go down we were going to go down together kicking and screaming bloody murder. No Pun intended.

yep that is all I have in me for today....gotta study for a bio exam...

night all....

Friday, May 20th

And so here we are. I am working on oh lest say about 6 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours and I am feeling the effects. Can't wait to try this when I am a resident (here's to hoping). Went to see a 3am screening of the new star wars pic and was pleasantly suprised to find that it was not too bad. My friend AB and I got in line for the thign around 1:00am and talked frankly about the oversaturation of marketing by the 20th Century Fox group. Never in a million years would I have imagined Yoda hawking diet pepsi in a freakin commerical. Alas, this is the world we live. So what else do you talk about with a good friend for two hours while you are waiting to see a movie. Television naturally. If I had answered "the weather" I would be very worried about the friendship. Highlight of the evening was basically acting out a skit we had made up, while in line, about the making of toy figures that were "inspired by" the movie, with names that were based on license plate numbers and made from pieces of trash. (A small metal rod wrapped in a cellophane "dress" with the name IGXC48D that sells for $12.99 was my personal favorite). Amazing what a couple cans of Red Bull will do to your mind. And so we, along with many other fans, filed into the theatre and watched the film. Thankfully, most of the people who had brought light sabers had put them away once the film began. I do have to say, that nothing makes my hair stand on end like the sight of "A long time ago in a Galaxy far far away....pause...pause...pause...wait for it....wait for it....Da...dada dadadadadadadada..dadadadada...da....da..dadadadada...." and then a thousand people in a theatre screaming bloody murder....and that grin comes onto your face and you can't get it off. Just awesome. Thanks Mr. Lucas for helping define a part of my generation. I said goodbye to the last bit of my childhood that night. I also couldn't get the damn song from Clerks out of my head...you know...the one about Chewbacca. Anyway...I digress.

Time to go study for finals. Have a good night all.

Thursday, May 12

ARRRRGHHHHHHH!!!!!

Friday, May 6th, 2005

and so begins another day. I really am out of it. Maybe it is all the coffee that I have been drinking. Maybe it is the fact that I feel like I don't have time to breathe let alone eat, sleep, spend time with my wife etc. I am on a journey to a better more productive life and it is going to be a long hard road. I am trying my hardest to become a doctor and I have many years ahead of me. I never finished my bachelor's degree and after a nine year "break" (read: working in the real world) I made the decision to finish and go on to do the only thing that I have wanted to do with my life. For the most part people have been very supportive of my decision and I myself feel that at the very least I need to finish my first degree reagrdless of what happens in the future. Some people have said that I am crazy and look at me with a confused look on their face wondering why at the age of 30 would I make a decision like this. To those people I say that everyone, everywhere should follow their dreams regardless of their age. The way I figure it, yes I will be in school for another ten years, but if I accomplish what I have set out to do I truly believe that I will be much happier. Even if I don't get to where I want to be I will still be able to live with the fact that I gave it my all and should still be happy because I tried. I am currently in the process of finishing my first year back at college. I did well my first semester and feel that I will finish this second semester in the same manner as the first if not better. I am proud of myself for these things that I am doing and nobody will be able to take that away from me. Next year is going to be rough. The year of dreaded organic chemistry and I can honestly say that I am terrified. What I need to keep in mind at this point is that this is a path that many people have taken before. Many have tried and failed and many have passed. I hope to be one of the ones that passes. The bottom line is that it is my desire to help sick people get better. If it all works out in the end I will be a doctor. I don't want people to feel sorry for my journey, I think I just needed to get this out. I am tired, but I am on the right path. My journey is clear.

On to the thoughts for the day:

1. The Yankees. I would love to take a moment to gloat here, but I won't only because it is still early in the season and that Yankee magic that has been around for the last ten years (minus the biggest choke in baseball history from last seasons playoffs- yeah I went there) has a funny way of showing up when they need it most. Rivalries aside I love this game.

2. North Korea might be doing some nuclear testing soon. Read that again. Why is it that America hasn't invaded this country yet? oh right....no oil. Did Iraq have nuclear capabilities...uh...it doesn't appear so and yet here is North Korea, telling the world..."Hey, you...America...we have the bomb!!!!" What me worried? HELL YEAH I'M WORRIED. It would be unfair of me not to mention that we invaded Iraq to free it's people not because Saddam had biological weapons...and all of that oil that is sitting there is for the Iraqi people. Just want to make that crystal clear. Oh and just for the hell of it...a lot of people probably don't remember this but I recall several news reports in the year leading up to our invasion about a downed American Pilot from the first "conflict" that "may be alive somewhere in Iraq" and then the story disappeared. It appeared to me as though the new Bush administration was testing the waters for an invasion. It was shortly after this report (a few months later) that "news" of Saddam's purported weapons of mass destruction started reaching headlines. But again...that's not why we invaded. Just to be clear.

3. I am having a titanium screw drilled into my jaw tomorrow morning. My dentist said it will be just like getting a tooth filled. Read that again.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"You can take this stormy weekend and shove it up your ass!"
-my lovely wife hoping for at least one nice weekend this spring and once again being disappointed-

All work, school and no fun makes milhouse a dull boy

Nothing new to report today, except that I haven't had a whole lot of free time. I did however enjoy a fine brunch on Sunday with some friends at the ever popular Cowgirl Hall of Fame (NYC). If you are ever in need of some good ole fashioned grease I highly recommend it.

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

1. Kuwait doesn't like women? Time for America to liberate? Oh....right....they're our "friends". (for now)

2. Hope the sox can manage better this month.

3. Carrots are a neat food.

and since I don't know what else to write about today...on with the quote of the day.

"Oh look..do they have a baby...no wait...that's a coffee table"
-proof that my lovely wife probably needs better glasses