Last night I had a dream that I was given more time on the apartment, went to my job interview later on this week coming, and was accepted to start with a salary of 40k. I paid my back rent and signed a two year lease. No one was the wiser on how close I came to losing everything. Not my mom, not JOE, no one. I woke up at 11am and sighed because it was just a dream.
I really didn't do much today. Yesterday I spent some time with the fam. My mom was in a chartiable mood, she paid for my Tax Return which I picked up and will mail monday. Considering she FORCED me to go to her wacky CPA, it was the least she could do. My sister brought my niece over and we all ate out at a nice spanish steak house restaturant. Mom and Sis noticed a change in my demeanor, I seemed too cheerful for some reason. I was dying to tell them it was because I has sex the night before with a call girl, but I didn't have the heart to blurt it out. After my sister ditched my niece with us, Me and mom when shopping in the neighborhood. I needed some nice dress shoes for my interview. We ended the evening by renting "Mr. 3000", I rented the latest Margaret Cho special to watch at home and when I did I IM'd JOE and dished out all the details about friday night. He couldn't believe it. He was a little pissed that he had nothing to do with it. That I had the courage to go out on my own. So, that's my new nickname now, "Courage", but I told him it reminded me of that damn cartoon dog with the hole in his tooth.
So, back to today, I really didn't do anything after I woke up. Saw a few episodes of "Medium" and "Lost" that I downloaded, searched craigslist for more moving boxes (and that was all I searched for this time!). Tried to work on my TV Show's latest script, but I wasn't in the mood to write. At 7 I checked what the networks were showing to compete with the oscars tonight. I was so pissed that FOX showed ID4, I love that movie! Why couldn't show something else that I wasn't going switch back to like Phantom Menace, or Jurassic Park, or dare I say it, Titanic? (Or does NBC still have the rights to that one?). And on watching the Oscars this year, Chris Rock did a cool job of hosting, but he's no Billy Crystal. Billy still gets top honors in my book, with Steve Martin coming in a close second. And the winners were cool this year for once. I'm glad Morgan Freeman won (Remember when he was on "Electric Company"?), and props go to Jamie Foxx with the most emotional speech of the night. (I can't believe he brought his daughter as a date, thou.). I was rooting for the Aviator to win Best Picture ONLY becuase Michael Mann would have gotten the oscar for producing it, but I knew Million Dollar Baby would win it (It's the "Gladiator, Braveheart, Unforgiven, and Titanic Syndrome...Three guesses what all these movies have in common...). As for Clint, he was robbed last year with Mystic River so things were set right this year, sorry Marty, Stop doing period pieces and maybe you'll win something!
The writer bug bit me later on that night so I worked on a few scenes on my script. Before going to sleep I set up an apointment to pickup some boxes tomorrow afternoon (Oy, but another snow storm is coming!) but other than that, monday I'm just going to sit on the tracks and wait for the train to come...
"Didn't I promise you Fireworks?"
"Yeah!" (Will Smith in "Independance Day")
"A Dream...A simple fantasy."
Boxes, lead to Sex!?
I went to my court appointments Tuesday and Wednesday and my situation looks bleek. The lawyer explained to me that I was in over my head and with no job prospects in sight, I really wouldn't qualify for any arrears grants (Why would they give money to someone to save him from eviction if he doesn't have a stable job and will just fall behind on the rent again?). The few options I had were to...
A) Find a steady job and fast! I had to prove to the landlord and others that I could pay some or all of the money in question if I had help.
or
B) Make a deal, cut my losses and move out within a certiain time so the Landlord can find someone else to take the place.
My next court date was the 1st (of March) so the pressure was on to do something.
It was looking more and more that I was going to end up moving back in with mom by the end or the middle of March and I didn't know how to react to that fact. I planned to make an life altering decision over the weekend if things didn't change.
It snowed again Wednesday night so the city was beginning to look like Philly. Yesterday I had an appointment with a temp agency that JOE referred me to. I went through the whole ordeal of skills testing that drained me. It was nice to know that I could still type at a decient speed. I was told that my resume would be sent to all their clients and if they wanted to call me up, I would be contacted. I also got my final set of Bionic Six VCD's (So that website wasn't so crooked after all. I also brought my HEAT Special Edition DVD and looked at some of the featurettes at mom's house.
So, today looks like it'll be just another day and turns out to be mindblowing!!!
Where to begin...
Well at 11am, I got a call from a healthcare company I sent my resume to monday and set up an appointment for Thursday March 3rd (due to the fact that I had other appointments on the 1st and 2nd!). I didn't realize though that my 1st Quickbooks class is also on Thursday, but it's in the evening so hopefully the interview won't interfere. As much as I hated to admit it, I missed working in healthcare enrollment, so much so that I called my old company and said hi to those who remembered me. I guess having that IM Monday had me thinking about that line of work again.
So, it's after 2pm now and thinking about my housing situation I get it my head that I should prepare for the worst, so I go on craigslist and start looking for moving boxes. People give them out the minute they move so I figued I could go to a few places and pick up some. I reply to a few messages and my eye goes wandering again...
Once again I find myself staring at the face of an angel, my brazillian temptress has posted yet another ad offering her "services". My mind just clicked then, it was the 3rd time and this time I had the money and with everything that was going on, logic just flew out of the window. THIS WAS IT! I had to meet her.
I was torn at first. I mean, I've NEVER, EVER, would have dreamed I'd be doing this. My sexual expirences have been once every new president! (George Bush back in '93 and Clinton '99) I was determined, though. At first I tried to talk myself out of it and see a movie instead, but by 3pm there was no good showtime in any of my theaters to make me go. By 6, I was really losing it, really on some Tyler Durden "Fight Club" type shit! I decided to make the final decision the only way I knew how...Chance! The law of averages, after all they didn't call me "Two-Face" for nothin' (The Batman Villian, not the backstabbing kind of two face.).
So I grabbed a quarter (An old one, not one of those state ones.) and called it..."HEADS" I'd do it..."TAILS" I'd wouldn't....I fliped the coin....
It came up "TAILS"...
Well that was it, game over, on with life, yadda, yadda, yadda
Or so I thought....
It was 6:45pm now, I checked back on craigslist. The orginal 4pm Ad disappeared, so I thought it was fate, she probably booked the whole evening, it just wasn't meant to be.
Ten minutes later...she reposted.
My God, I was flipping now. I needed a second opinion. So I let the TV make the choice for me (Crazy ain't I?!?!?!). The first of two Simpsons episodes was almost over so I called it to the TV...If the next episode was from a Season with an EVEN number (Second, Fourth, etc, etc...) I'd DO IT...and ODD season I'd wouldn't (Somebody get me a straitjacket!!!). So, 7pm comes around and it turns out to be a "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween special...#7! I thought that was it, I'd wouldn't do it, but I checked the episode guide and it turns out the "Treehouse" episodes didn't start till the SECOND season, so #7 was in the EIGHTH season! It's FATE!!!!
It's 7:45pm now, and I'm REALLY going nuts! If there were a song playing in the background it would be the song that goes "Should I stay or should I Go?!" I was split on two games of chance, One for YES, one for NO...I needed the tiebreaker, the ULTIMATE decision maker. Thinking of my fave. X-Men (Gambit), I fished out a deck of cards and shuffled them...(yeah, I'm crazy folks, I get it...). So, at 7:47pm I hold the deck in front of me. I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote..."ODD - YES, EVEN - NO...RED - YES, BLACK - NO". This was it, the ultimate choice...can you feel the tension!
I took a breath and picked the top card....
"King of Diamonds"
I used solitare rules (Jack-11, Queen-12, King-13) and that did it for me, ODD and RED the double affrimative.
It took ten minutes before I picked up the phone, I was so FREAKING scared! I called the number and played it mad cool, doing my best Robert DeNiro imitation. I said the time, they told me the area she would be in, I was told to confirm when I got nearby. I left the house a little after 9pm, it was 28 degrees outside and my brow was actually sweating! I psyching myself the whole trip downtown, but I was scared as hell. What if this was police sting, what if it's bait and switch robbery hustle, what if, what if?!?!
I made it to the area and confirmed my "appointment", I arrived at the place in question and had no problem getting to the right room. The door was cracked open to welcome me in. I walked in and she was there, exactly like her pictures in the ad. I half expected a different hairstyle (A wig, etc) or something, but there she was...perfection in the flesh. We greeted each other and tried to relax. She was just as nervious as I was for the same reasons. I could have been a cop busting her, and my size was enough to spook her for a second. She made a light joke that I was priest because I was dressed in black with a banded collar shirt. I told her I wasn't, and we talked a little bit, hammered out the details. (How long for how much, etc, etc...). Her room was nice, a flatscreen TV, dim lights, a regular Holidaye Inn (Where chingy and snoop?).
I'm not going to get into specifics on this blog so to quote Mr. Cheeks in "Renee"...
"She started feeling on my chest
I started feeling on her breasts
And there's no need for me to stress the rest"
I just wanna say, when one has sex as rare as someone like me...you take note of everything that was going on at the time. What song was on the radio, what was on the TV, who died that day, or whatever. And while me and her were at it, "John Q" was on TNT so now that movie is always going to be associated with sex and I was wondering if that's going to be a problem for me. I also like to say, for a third time (They say you always remember your first and maybe your second, I honestly prefer not to considering how each relationship ended) it was GREAT! It was scary and enjoyable at the same time, that thrill of doing something so...I guess you'd had to be there. I mean, the last time I did it it was scary and spontaneous due to the fact that I was living with my mom at the time and it was the day I introduced my Ex to the family. We went in my room and turned the music up real loud (I was supposely making her a DJ Tape), and even though the door was locked, the whole family was in the house (Mom, Sis, the baby, and even the Baby's father!). As loud as the music was, we did it like church mice, too scared to make a sound. How does one have sex like that?!?!? I guess it's true with what they say, Sex gets better with every expirence. We took seprate showers afterwards, and if anyone out there reads this, Yes we did use condoms, I'm not about to become a statistic!
I had brought my digital camera along and offered her 60 dollars to pose for some pictures, but she wasn't hearing it. She hated taking pictures despite the ones she did for her ad. I respected her wishes and then I asked her if she operates in the same area (In her past ads, she's had at least 2 different contact numbers.) she said yeah and I took the card of the place so I could remember it (I'm into taking business cards.) and was on my way. We parted on nice terms.
On the walk home, I had an euphoric moment. All the past moments and situations seemed to just disappear. The eagles losing the super bowl, my job situation, the apartment thing, possibility of moving back with my mom, everything. All my worries just went on break for awhile. I kept looking at the sky at all the stars as I walked. I was on a high! I wanted to smoke a cigarette and just sit on a park bench for a couple of hours. I wandered around till I passed Madison Square Garden then walked up 32nd Street to 6th Avenue and walked near the Mahattan Mall. I stopped at a cookie store (Mrs. Fields?) that was nearby. It triggered a memory of me always meeting my ex here for all our dates, damn that chick did me wrong. I wasn't thinking about it though, I hopped on the train and floated to my home.
I couldn't believe what I did tonight, I felt so...alive! Like I just won Fear Factor or something. Now, I know whoever reads this may judge me as doing something wrong but figure this...
Men would not have to pay women for sex if they just treated them nice instead to trying to get them to pay their bills and accuse them of cheating on you with one of her girlfriends when women just say that to break up the relationship. You see the HBO specials, Cathouse, and all that. It's legal in amsterdam and in vegas becuase they are the few places on this earth where society can accept it.
So, if I had to do over would I do it again?, Yes. WILL I do it again?, I don't know. But all I know now is that this city, is not such a bad place to live in tonight, and if I don't have sex for another 6 years, I can deal with that.
"You okay, Jim?...How do you Feel?"
"Young...(sighs), I Feel..Young." (Kirk in "Star Trek II:Wraith of Khan")
A) Find a steady job and fast! I had to prove to the landlord and others that I could pay some or all of the money in question if I had help.
or
B) Make a deal, cut my losses and move out within a certiain time so the Landlord can find someone else to take the place.
My next court date was the 1st (of March) so the pressure was on to do something.
It was looking more and more that I was going to end up moving back in with mom by the end or the middle of March and I didn't know how to react to that fact. I planned to make an life altering decision over the weekend if things didn't change.
It snowed again Wednesday night so the city was beginning to look like Philly. Yesterday I had an appointment with a temp agency that JOE referred me to. I went through the whole ordeal of skills testing that drained me. It was nice to know that I could still type at a decient speed. I was told that my resume would be sent to all their clients and if they wanted to call me up, I would be contacted. I also got my final set of Bionic Six VCD's (So that website wasn't so crooked after all. I also brought my HEAT Special Edition DVD and looked at some of the featurettes at mom's house.
So, today looks like it'll be just another day and turns out to be mindblowing!!!
Where to begin...
Well at 11am, I got a call from a healthcare company I sent my resume to monday and set up an appointment for Thursday March 3rd (due to the fact that I had other appointments on the 1st and 2nd!). I didn't realize though that my 1st Quickbooks class is also on Thursday, but it's in the evening so hopefully the interview won't interfere. As much as I hated to admit it, I missed working in healthcare enrollment, so much so that I called my old company and said hi to those who remembered me. I guess having that IM Monday had me thinking about that line of work again.
So, it's after 2pm now and thinking about my housing situation I get it my head that I should prepare for the worst, so I go on craigslist and start looking for moving boxes. People give them out the minute they move so I figued I could go to a few places and pick up some. I reply to a few messages and my eye goes wandering again...
Once again I find myself staring at the face of an angel, my brazillian temptress has posted yet another ad offering her "services". My mind just clicked then, it was the 3rd time and this time I had the money and with everything that was going on, logic just flew out of the window. THIS WAS IT! I had to meet her.
I was torn at first. I mean, I've NEVER, EVER, would have dreamed I'd be doing this. My sexual expirences have been once every new president! (George Bush back in '93 and Clinton '99) I was determined, though. At first I tried to talk myself out of it and see a movie instead, but by 3pm there was no good showtime in any of my theaters to make me go. By 6, I was really losing it, really on some Tyler Durden "Fight Club" type shit! I decided to make the final decision the only way I knew how...Chance! The law of averages, after all they didn't call me "Two-Face" for nothin' (The Batman Villian, not the backstabbing kind of two face.).
So I grabbed a quarter (An old one, not one of those state ones.) and called it..."HEADS" I'd do it..."TAILS" I'd wouldn't....I fliped the coin....
It came up "TAILS"...
Well that was it, game over, on with life, yadda, yadda, yadda
Or so I thought....
It was 6:45pm now, I checked back on craigslist. The orginal 4pm Ad disappeared, so I thought it was fate, she probably booked the whole evening, it just wasn't meant to be.
Ten minutes later...she reposted.
My God, I was flipping now. I needed a second opinion. So I let the TV make the choice for me (Crazy ain't I?!?!?!). The first of two Simpsons episodes was almost over so I called it to the TV...If the next episode was from a Season with an EVEN number (Second, Fourth, etc, etc...) I'd DO IT...and ODD season I'd wouldn't (Somebody get me a straitjacket!!!). So, 7pm comes around and it turns out to be a "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween special...#7! I thought that was it, I'd wouldn't do it, but I checked the episode guide and it turns out the "Treehouse" episodes didn't start till the SECOND season, so #7 was in the EIGHTH season! It's FATE!!!!
It's 7:45pm now, and I'm REALLY going nuts! If there were a song playing in the background it would be the song that goes "Should I stay or should I Go?!" I was split on two games of chance, One for YES, one for NO...I needed the tiebreaker, the ULTIMATE decision maker. Thinking of my fave. X-Men (Gambit), I fished out a deck of cards and shuffled them...(yeah, I'm crazy folks, I get it...). So, at 7:47pm I hold the deck in front of me. I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote..."ODD - YES, EVEN - NO...RED - YES, BLACK - NO". This was it, the ultimate choice...can you feel the tension!
I took a breath and picked the top card....
"King of Diamonds"
I used solitare rules (Jack-11, Queen-12, King-13) and that did it for me, ODD and RED the double affrimative.
It took ten minutes before I picked up the phone, I was so FREAKING scared! I called the number and played it mad cool, doing my best Robert DeNiro imitation. I said the time, they told me the area she would be in, I was told to confirm when I got nearby. I left the house a little after 9pm, it was 28 degrees outside and my brow was actually sweating! I psyching myself the whole trip downtown, but I was scared as hell. What if this was police sting, what if it's bait and switch robbery hustle, what if, what if?!?!
I made it to the area and confirmed my "appointment", I arrived at the place in question and had no problem getting to the right room. The door was cracked open to welcome me in. I walked in and she was there, exactly like her pictures in the ad. I half expected a different hairstyle (A wig, etc) or something, but there she was...perfection in the flesh. We greeted each other and tried to relax. She was just as nervious as I was for the same reasons. I could have been a cop busting her, and my size was enough to spook her for a second. She made a light joke that I was priest because I was dressed in black with a banded collar shirt. I told her I wasn't, and we talked a little bit, hammered out the details. (How long for how much, etc, etc...). Her room was nice, a flatscreen TV, dim lights, a regular Holidaye Inn (Where chingy and snoop?).
I'm not going to get into specifics on this blog so to quote Mr. Cheeks in "Renee"...
"She started feeling on my chest
I started feeling on her breasts
And there's no need for me to stress the rest"
I just wanna say, when one has sex as rare as someone like me...you take note of everything that was going on at the time. What song was on the radio, what was on the TV, who died that day, or whatever. And while me and her were at it, "John Q" was on TNT so now that movie is always going to be associated with sex and I was wondering if that's going to be a problem for me. I also like to say, for a third time (They say you always remember your first and maybe your second, I honestly prefer not to considering how each relationship ended) it was GREAT! It was scary and enjoyable at the same time, that thrill of doing something so...I guess you'd had to be there. I mean, the last time I did it it was scary and spontaneous due to the fact that I was living with my mom at the time and it was the day I introduced my Ex to the family. We went in my room and turned the music up real loud (I was supposely making her a DJ Tape), and even though the door was locked, the whole family was in the house (Mom, Sis, the baby, and even the Baby's father!). As loud as the music was, we did it like church mice, too scared to make a sound. How does one have sex like that?!?!? I guess it's true with what they say, Sex gets better with every expirence. We took seprate showers afterwards, and if anyone out there reads this, Yes we did use condoms, I'm not about to become a statistic!
I had brought my digital camera along and offered her 60 dollars to pose for some pictures, but she wasn't hearing it. She hated taking pictures despite the ones she did for her ad. I respected her wishes and then I asked her if she operates in the same area (In her past ads, she's had at least 2 different contact numbers.) she said yeah and I took the card of the place so I could remember it (I'm into taking business cards.) and was on my way. We parted on nice terms.
On the walk home, I had an euphoric moment. All the past moments and situations seemed to just disappear. The eagles losing the super bowl, my job situation, the apartment thing, possibility of moving back with my mom, everything. All my worries just went on break for awhile. I kept looking at the sky at all the stars as I walked. I was on a high! I wanted to smoke a cigarette and just sit on a park bench for a couple of hours. I wandered around till I passed Madison Square Garden then walked up 32nd Street to 6th Avenue and walked near the Mahattan Mall. I stopped at a cookie store (Mrs. Fields?) that was nearby. It triggered a memory of me always meeting my ex here for all our dates, damn that chick did me wrong. I wasn't thinking about it though, I hopped on the train and floated to my home.
I couldn't believe what I did tonight, I felt so...alive! Like I just won Fear Factor or something. Now, I know whoever reads this may judge me as doing something wrong but figure this...
Men would not have to pay women for sex if they just treated them nice instead to trying to get them to pay their bills and accuse them of cheating on you with one of her girlfriends when women just say that to break up the relationship. You see the HBO specials, Cathouse, and all that. It's legal in amsterdam and in vegas becuase they are the few places on this earth where society can accept it.
So, if I had to do over would I do it again?, Yes. WILL I do it again?, I don't know. But all I know now is that this city, is not such a bad place to live in tonight, and if I don't have sex for another 6 years, I can deal with that.
"You okay, Jim?...How do you Feel?"
"Young...(sighs), I Feel..Young." (Kirk in "Star Trek II:Wraith of Khan")
"Second Sighting"
Sunday night we got hit with some snow, about 5 inches. It was enough to keep me in the house and do what I haven't done in a bit...WRITE! worked on two scenes in EPISODE 4 and then JOE IM'd me. I'm slowly showing him ways of mIRC Chat so he can download stuff that I usually find for him. He's getting it, but every 10 minutes he's asking me other questions. I did a little surfing while online with JOE, and while checking craigslist again...I found my brazillian temptress! After weeks of laying low she's back again working the oldest profession. An extra pic on her ad, she still has the face of an angel...God I can stare at the screen for months and not care about food, water or oxygen. I hate to say it (Especially with my situation) but i HAVE to put some money aside to meet this girl. Shameless?, yes, but damnit I'm turning 30 soon, it's only a matter of time before I'm paying for sex whenever I can!
I was brought back to reality by another IM, only it wasn't JOE, it was from an old friend I used to work with back in the day. It occured to me that next month, it will be a year since I broke my chains free from that horrible job I had up in westchester. As horrible as the job was, I do miss some of the staff. I asked my friend was the whinny, stupid, bimbo of a bitch that made me leave the company still there, he said "yes" and that no one else likes her either. (There's one in every company). We caught up on everybody else and I promised I'd take him to a Yankee game when my Oakland A's come back to town and he went offline. I did some more writing and research online, read a few blogs, checked out amazon, etc, etc. I checked the box office, "Constantine" wasn't #1, but it was close with an impressive 30.5 Million. It loss to the movie everyone's going ga-ga for...Big Willie Style's "Hitch". I'm not hating on Will, I'm hating on the whole romance thing, I figued people would sober off that buzz after Valentine's Day. "Hitch" may kick butt all the way till march, but when "Ring 2" and "Be Cool" come out, everything'll be all good again. The next movie me and JOE will probably see is "Sin City" in April, another cult comic book turned movie that promises to be true to the comic (even filmed in Black and White). On the DVD front, my favorite movie in the WORLD is getting a facelift and being re-released. The classic crime drama that pits Al Pacino against Robert DeNiro in the ultimate game of "Cat & Mouse"...the 1995 masterpiece "HEAT". Two Disc Special Edition, Finally a commentary by director Michael "the man" Mann, deleted scenes, behind the scenes featurettes...BOO-YA! I'm so getting that tomorrow.
I was brought back to reality by another IM, only it wasn't JOE, it was from an old friend I used to work with back in the day. It occured to me that next month, it will be a year since I broke my chains free from that horrible job I had up in westchester. As horrible as the job was, I do miss some of the staff. I asked my friend was the whinny, stupid, bimbo of a bitch that made me leave the company still there, he said "yes" and that no one else likes her either. (There's one in every company). We caught up on everybody else and I promised I'd take him to a Yankee game when my Oakland A's come back to town and he went offline. I did some more writing and research online, read a few blogs, checked out amazon, etc, etc. I checked the box office, "Constantine" wasn't #1, but it was close with an impressive 30.5 Million. It loss to the movie everyone's going ga-ga for...Big Willie Style's "Hitch". I'm not hating on Will, I'm hating on the whole romance thing, I figued people would sober off that buzz after Valentine's Day. "Hitch" may kick butt all the way till march, but when "Ring 2" and "Be Cool" come out, everything'll be all good again. The next movie me and JOE will probably see is "Sin City" in April, another cult comic book turned movie that promises to be true to the comic (even filmed in Black and White). On the DVD front, my favorite movie in the WORLD is getting a facelift and being re-released. The classic crime drama that pits Al Pacino against Robert DeNiro in the ultimate game of "Cat & Mouse"...the 1995 masterpiece "HEAT". Two Disc Special Edition, Finally a commentary by director Michael "the man" Mann, deleted scenes, behind the scenes featurettes...BOO-YA! I'm so getting that tomorrow.
"Meetup at MoMA"
Woke up nice and early for a saturday morning. After weeks and weeks of planning and chatting, I was going to my first meetup today. I'm in 12 and I always chicken out of going. Sometimes I'd go all the way down to where it would be held and just stalk out the entrance and go home. Well I wasn't going to do that this time! We were suppose to meet at 10:30am, I got there around 10, did a lot of walking around the entrance, left to right, right to left. It was a pretty cold morning, but it didn't bother me, it DID make me think that no one else was going to show. Thankfully, I was proven wrong, the meetup orginaizer made it, a cute young lady named Lynn. I introduced myself with my nickname and she didn't ask for my real name (Which was cool) and we talked for a bit while waiting for more members. Only one other came, a guy from white plains (I forgot his name). We entered the museam and got immersed with the exhibits and the crowd of tourist shuffling along and getting in our way. The place is like grand central on a weekday morning. We were able to enjoy seeing some neat things like Swords, guns, armor, sculptures, and a few HUGE paintings (I mean BIG! You would need a ladder or something to paint 'em!) but the people there really killed the mood. The three of us reminded of me of "Ferris Bueler's Day Off" when they went to the museam. We talked about our lives and what to do for the next meetup and yadda, yadda, yadda. At 12 noon, the guy left and it was me and lynn till for another hour and a half. It took us forever to find the exit out of the place. We ended up in the parking garage in the basement at first before finding the correct way out. Lynn had another meetup at 2pm so I told her where she could catch the train downtown while I took the uptown bus for the scenic way home.
I did some food shopping before coming in and then called mom to say hello. I mentioned going out to Long Island and seeing JOE sunday and she warned me that it was gonna snow sunday night around the time I'd be coming back to the city so I changed their mind (I gotta start looking at the news). I did some surfing and discovered that MOBY's latest album was already out in the underground mp3 market. I had no idea the MOBster was working on a follow up to his last two classics, PLAY and 18. I LOVE moby, the guy is a genius. I went to Amazon.com to confirm the offical release date (March 22nd) and downloaded the entire album with baited breath! I plan to buy the album offically anyway, but I coudln't resist a sneek peek. I also saw Jennifer Lopez's album, I wasn't really impressed by her latest single, but I was desparate for music and downloaded anyway. I spent the rest of the evening listening to the future...the album is great! I hope he goes on tour around the city again!
I did some food shopping before coming in and then called mom to say hello. I mentioned going out to Long Island and seeing JOE sunday and she warned me that it was gonna snow sunday night around the time I'd be coming back to the city so I changed their mind (I gotta start looking at the news). I did some surfing and discovered that MOBY's latest album was already out in the underground mp3 market. I had no idea the MOBster was working on a follow up to his last two classics, PLAY and 18. I LOVE moby, the guy is a genius. I went to Amazon.com to confirm the offical release date (March 22nd) and downloaded the entire album with baited breath! I plan to buy the album offically anyway, but I coudln't resist a sneek peek. I also saw Jennifer Lopez's album, I wasn't really impressed by her latest single, but I was desparate for music and downloaded anyway. I spent the rest of the evening listening to the future...the album is great! I hope he goes on tour around the city again!
"This is Jet Black speaking..."
It's friday, and I'm going to the Movies! For the first time in awhile, me and JOE are going to see CONSTANTINE. We were sent for the 7:35pm show at the UA Regal Theater near the West Side Highway. I think the last movie we saw together was Resident Evil 2 back in september. I then saw The Grudge by myself in November, then Blade Trinity in december. I've been meaning to see SOMETHING in january, but there were too many bombs that somehow made money weekend after weekend. I knew me and JOE were gonna see Constantine, that movie looked like it was gonna be da shiznit! I had some other things on my mind...like calling back this woman from jersey who left a message yesterday about a job. I woke up at 12:30 and made two calls, the woman wasn't there....SHIT!... I hate playing phone tag!...I couldn't stay some too long, I was determined to get this Quickbooks Class at City College. Their registar's office closes at 4pm today, so I left the house at 2:30 (I waited as long as I could to call me back.). I forgot what a journey it was to get to CCNY. The steets are hilly like San Francisco around there. The cold wind wasn't helping me too much either, but I enjoyed the much needed exercise. I got the campus at 3, the security guard gave me bad directions, but I found the office to sign up. I had 3 crispy hundred dollar bills that I have been saving over the course of 5 weeks. They told me I needed a money order...I couldn't believe it. I went back out and looked for a bank, but since it was 3pm, they were all closed. I had less than an hour to get back, after running around the neighborhood like a chicken with it's head chopped off, I found a check cashing place that did money orders for a dollar. The cost of the class was 295 so, there was no problem geting extra cash. I made it back in time and was registered to start March 3rd. for the first time in 10 years, I was going back to college (Dramatic Music Here).
Next on the agenda, I needed a very overdue haircut. With my Eagles defeated, it made no sense to let my hair grow for luck anymore. And I had to look sharp for the next couple days due to other events coming up. I walk up to 145th street (Becuase if you know city, you'll know that there is a place to do your hair and nails on every block! From Broadway till 3rd Avenue!). After I got my cut, I walked down to riverside park for a bit. I know it was cold and everything, but I just like to wander sometimes. I have never been to this park, it was nice. Very clean, peacefull and great view of the hudson. Told myself, I'd come back in the summer when some of the outdoor events happen and headed downtown. I brought the tickets and then confirmed with JOE and then killed some time at Borders. I brought the latest Garfield book (#41 - Garfield "Older and Wider" I got them all!) and then treated myself to some pizza hut around 7pm. JOE barely came in time for the movie (Around 7:20, I think), he does that all the time and wonders why we get bad seats for a 1st day screening! We saw some cool trailers, Colin Farell is discovering the New World and taking on injuns, Jamie Foxx is a fighter pilot along with Jessica Biel (She was so hot in Blade) and some other guy going against a automatic computerized plane gone berzerk (can you say Firefox?), Christian Bale takes on the Cape and Cowl in a re-invention of a tired franchise, Paris Hilton is moving on to cheesy horror films, and Keanu's next film looks like a long version of A-Ha's "Take on Me" video...what is up with that?
The movie itself kicked ass, there is life after the matrix, Keanu flexes his acting muscles some more (Best since "Devil's Advocate") with a gritty, anti-hero, badass betrayal that I was able to relate to somehow. I loved the use of mystical arts sorcery rather than special effect driven powers. The story messed with me a bit though with it's unique take on the Archangel Gabriel. Other than that, the story was cool, it stayed in the confines of catholic pratices (Which I am aware of despite being a christian that has lost his way.) and it's insight has open my eyes a bit, just like Dogma did. After the movie, the tempature really dipped low so me and JOE hot footed it to the subway. He mentioned dropping by his house in long island this weekend, I told him I'd think about it considering my other plans. He got off at Grand Central and I took the train home. There was no message on my machine when I came in which means that the people who called me may have given up on me. I didn't sweat it too much, the job was way out in jersey anyway. I went to bed early due to my meetup tomorrow morning. I never been to the Museam of Modern Art before.
Next on the agenda, I needed a very overdue haircut. With my Eagles defeated, it made no sense to let my hair grow for luck anymore. And I had to look sharp for the next couple days due to other events coming up. I walk up to 145th street (Becuase if you know city, you'll know that there is a place to do your hair and nails on every block! From Broadway till 3rd Avenue!). After I got my cut, I walked down to riverside park for a bit. I know it was cold and everything, but I just like to wander sometimes. I have never been to this park, it was nice. Very clean, peacefull and great view of the hudson. Told myself, I'd come back in the summer when some of the outdoor events happen and headed downtown. I brought the tickets and then confirmed with JOE and then killed some time at Borders. I brought the latest Garfield book (#41 - Garfield "Older and Wider" I got them all!) and then treated myself to some pizza hut around 7pm. JOE barely came in time for the movie (Around 7:20, I think), he does that all the time and wonders why we get bad seats for a 1st day screening! We saw some cool trailers, Colin Farell is discovering the New World and taking on injuns, Jamie Foxx is a fighter pilot along with Jessica Biel (She was so hot in Blade) and some other guy going against a automatic computerized plane gone berzerk (can you say Firefox?), Christian Bale takes on the Cape and Cowl in a re-invention of a tired franchise, Paris Hilton is moving on to cheesy horror films, and Keanu's next film looks like a long version of A-Ha's "Take on Me" video...what is up with that?
The movie itself kicked ass, there is life after the matrix, Keanu flexes his acting muscles some more (Best since "Devil's Advocate") with a gritty, anti-hero, badass betrayal that I was able to relate to somehow. I loved the use of mystical arts sorcery rather than special effect driven powers. The story messed with me a bit though with it's unique take on the Archangel Gabriel. Other than that, the story was cool, it stayed in the confines of catholic pratices (Which I am aware of despite being a christian that has lost his way.) and it's insight has open my eyes a bit, just like Dogma did. After the movie, the tempature really dipped low so me and JOE hot footed it to the subway. He mentioned dropping by his house in long island this weekend, I told him I'd think about it considering my other plans. He got off at Grand Central and I took the train home. There was no message on my machine when I came in which means that the people who called me may have given up on me. I didn't sweat it too much, the job was way out in jersey anyway. I went to bed early due to my meetup tomorrow morning. I never been to the Museam of Modern Art before.
"Missed Opportunities"
For the last two days, I have been staring at my phone. I've applied for so many jobs in the last month alone I feel like a college student looking for schollarships. Why won't it RING?!?!? With all that's going on, I've been afraid to leave the house, thinking the minute I leave, the next golden opportunity is going to pass me by. Today, I had no choice. I had an appointment with Legal Services:New York (Bronx division). It seem that (by chance) my zip code in under the jurisdiction of a city agency assigined to help "Hard-Luck" cases such as myself. When I answered my petition tuesday, I was sent to a different office within the courthouse where I was given my court date and instructed to contact their Legal Assistant and schedule a meeting with a Legal Services Cousul. I've played the housing legal game once before, this was new and I was very greatfull for the help. I also had to do my taxes, so the tax refund can come in just in the nick of time to help me break even on the rent. There was also the Quickbooks class comming up at City College I was trying to apply to, they start March 3rd and I'm sure there's a deadline so I had to hustle.
So, that's the plan. I left the house at 1:30, and arrived at 2pm for appointment with Legal Services. THEY however, took forever to arrive to meet me! (Lawyers!) I was briefed and interviewed, they made copies of all my documents and told me to come back next wednesday. BUT, I told them my court date was tuesday and I was instructed to tell my landlord's lawyer and the judge that I have enlisted help of Legal Services and request an "Adjournment" (the word sounds familar from all those Law & Order episodes, but I don't know exactly what it means...). Don't sign no deals, don't do anything but mention that word. The judge should reschedule and we'll see what happens after that. After leaving the courthouse, I headed over to manhattan to meet with my mom's CPA. Normally, I wouldn't take my taxes to these wackos, but they helped my mom out in a bind last year and she promised to give them more business.
I wasn't suprised by the wait at the CPA's office, the people are so laid back, you'd think they were mexican (But they're actually dominican). I waited so long, my mom swung by when she got off work (her manicurist is next door.) so when my return was done I went over and waited while she got her nails done. I walked mom home at 6:30pm and she treated me to dinner while we looked at past episodes of "Medium" that I taped for her. There was a moment in time when I wanted to tell her what I'm going through, but I didn't wanna ruin the moment we were having while we were eating dinner together. I can tell she misses having company for dinner AND she also proud that I'm living on my own, I just can't bring myself to tell her how my life is crashing to the ground yet. I have some time, and I'm getting help, it'll only be a manner of weeks before I get another job (I hope.).
When I got home, I finally had a message on my machine. It was in reference to a job I applied for online! They left a number, but it was all the way out in the middle of Jersey. I guess I was a little desperate the other day. It didn't matter, people were calling...I just had to stay home and answer the phone! Too bad that wasn't happening no time soon!
So, that's the plan. I left the house at 1:30, and arrived at 2pm for appointment with Legal Services. THEY however, took forever to arrive to meet me! (Lawyers!) I was briefed and interviewed, they made copies of all my documents and told me to come back next wednesday. BUT, I told them my court date was tuesday and I was instructed to tell my landlord's lawyer and the judge that I have enlisted help of Legal Services and request an "Adjournment" (the word sounds familar from all those Law & Order episodes, but I don't know exactly what it means...). Don't sign no deals, don't do anything but mention that word. The judge should reschedule and we'll see what happens after that. After leaving the courthouse, I headed over to manhattan to meet with my mom's CPA. Normally, I wouldn't take my taxes to these wackos, but they helped my mom out in a bind last year and she promised to give them more business.
I wasn't suprised by the wait at the CPA's office, the people are so laid back, you'd think they were mexican (But they're actually dominican). I waited so long, my mom swung by when she got off work (her manicurist is next door.) so when my return was done I went over and waited while she got her nails done. I walked mom home at 6:30pm and she treated me to dinner while we looked at past episodes of "Medium" that I taped for her. There was a moment in time when I wanted to tell her what I'm going through, but I didn't wanna ruin the moment we were having while we were eating dinner together. I can tell she misses having company for dinner AND she also proud that I'm living on my own, I just can't bring myself to tell her how my life is crashing to the ground yet. I have some time, and I'm getting help, it'll only be a manner of weeks before I get another job (I hope.).
When I got home, I finally had a message on my machine. It was in reference to a job I applied for online! They left a number, but it was all the way out in the middle of Jersey. I guess I was a little desperate the other day. It didn't matter, people were calling...I just had to stay home and answer the phone! Too bad that wasn't happening no time soon!
"Anti-Valentine's Day to Ya!"
Ah, I'm so happy it rained this evening. Now all those disgusting couples in love have nothing romantic to do but stay in, have a sappy romantic dinner, watch a boring romantic movie and fuck each other's brains out till the morning....and expect a wonderful suprise come November, HA!
Just thinking about today had me proofread my TV Show's Third Episode (Which takes place around Valentine's Day) and enjoy the genius that is my writing.
I'm not going to bore anyone with the details of what I did today in this entry (I'll make up for it tommorrow's or whenever's), for now I'm just going to list the songs on my special "Anti-Valentine's Day LOVE SUCKS! CD"...
1) "Ain't no Sunshine when she's Gone" (If anyone saw "Crooklyn", you'd know what I'm talking about, iroically, the guy who sings this song actually beat his wife!)
2) "Tenderness" ("Weird Science", man!)
3) "I wanna know what Love Is" (And you thought black people didn't listen to Foreigner!)
4) "Anyone" by Roxxette
5) "Your Women" by White Town (Is it me or do those clarinet chords sound like the Darth Vader theme from "Empire stikes Back?")
6) "Nothing compares to You" by Sinead O' Connor (So she ripped up the pope's picture...Ya'll seem to have forgiven Ashlee Simpson!)
7) "Smile" by Tamia (This is not really a heartache song, more like a "My life as the Sad Clown" song, faking cheerfulness around everybody but secretly going home alone and crying myself to sleep type of life.
8) "Love has left your Eye" by Titiyo (This is a good song, by that duo(?) that's best know for their song "Come Along", I'd recommend anyone to get their "Best of" CD that just came out.
9) "5 Years" by Bjork (If you knew me, you'd know I have a bjork song for every occasion possible!)
10) "You've lost that Lovin' Feeling" By Hall & Oats
11) "Where have all the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole (Deep down, guys dig this song...they feel bad for the woman in the song or they flip it into a Guy version about an unappricattive ex-girlfriend)
12) "How Come, How Long" by Babyface & Stevie Wonder (This is really anti-domestic violence song, but it's still deep)
13)"I'll be Around" ("Dead Presidents" soundtrack, classic motown...)
14)"Walk on By" by Issac Hayes
15) "It's not over till It's Over" by Lenny Kravitz
16) "If I ever fall in Love" by Shai (You know I had to go there...)
17) "When it hurts so Bad" by Lauryn Hill ("What you want may make you cry, What you need may pass you by"...Truer words have never been spoken!)
18 "Why does my heart feel so Bad" (See #9 and replace Bjork with Moby)
Listen to this CD repeately while watching at least 2 of the following movies...
5) Cruel Intentions
4) Wild Things (Not really an Anti-Valentine movie, but what the hell)
3) Valentine (Perfect horror flick for the holiday!)
2) Fight Club (This movie make you feel like a MAN again!)
and the number 1 movie for an Anti-Valentine's Day evening...
1) The Rules of Attraction (This movie really sticks it to cupid and breaks it off! Think a Love Triangle sucks try a Love Pentagon! (5 Sides)
Top it off with a Medium Deep Dish pizza and a two liter bottle of Orange Slice and your evening is set.
Enjoy!
"The greatest PAIN that will even BURN is to love, and not be loved in return..."
Just thinking about today had me proofread my TV Show's Third Episode (Which takes place around Valentine's Day) and enjoy the genius that is my writing.
I'm not going to bore anyone with the details of what I did today in this entry (I'll make up for it tommorrow's or whenever's), for now I'm just going to list the songs on my special "Anti-Valentine's Day LOVE SUCKS! CD"...
1) "Ain't no Sunshine when she's Gone" (If anyone saw "Crooklyn", you'd know what I'm talking about, iroically, the guy who sings this song actually beat his wife!)
2) "Tenderness" ("Weird Science", man!)
3) "I wanna know what Love Is" (And you thought black people didn't listen to Foreigner!)
4) "Anyone" by Roxxette
5) "Your Women" by White Town (Is it me or do those clarinet chords sound like the Darth Vader theme from "Empire stikes Back?")
6) "Nothing compares to You" by Sinead O' Connor (So she ripped up the pope's picture...Ya'll seem to have forgiven Ashlee Simpson!)
7) "Smile" by Tamia (This is not really a heartache song, more like a "My life as the Sad Clown" song, faking cheerfulness around everybody but secretly going home alone and crying myself to sleep type of life.
8) "Love has left your Eye" by Titiyo (This is a good song, by that duo(?) that's best know for their song "Come Along", I'd recommend anyone to get their "Best of" CD that just came out.
9) "5 Years" by Bjork (If you knew me, you'd know I have a bjork song for every occasion possible!)
10) "You've lost that Lovin' Feeling" By Hall & Oats
11) "Where have all the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole (Deep down, guys dig this song...they feel bad for the woman in the song or they flip it into a Guy version about an unappricattive ex-girlfriend)
12) "How Come, How Long" by Babyface & Stevie Wonder (This is really anti-domestic violence song, but it's still deep)
13)"I'll be Around" ("Dead Presidents" soundtrack, classic motown...)
14)"Walk on By" by Issac Hayes
15) "It's not over till It's Over" by Lenny Kravitz
16) "If I ever fall in Love" by Shai (You know I had to go there...)
17) "When it hurts so Bad" by Lauryn Hill ("What you want may make you cry, What you need may pass you by"...Truer words have never been spoken!)
18 "Why does my heart feel so Bad" (See #9 and replace Bjork with Moby)
Listen to this CD repeately while watching at least 2 of the following movies...
5) Cruel Intentions
4) Wild Things (Not really an Anti-Valentine movie, but what the hell)
3) Valentine (Perfect horror flick for the holiday!)
2) Fight Club (This movie make you feel like a MAN again!)
and the number 1 movie for an Anti-Valentine's Day evening...
1) The Rules of Attraction (This movie really sticks it to cupid and breaks it off! Think a Love Triangle sucks try a Love Pentagon! (5 Sides)
Top it off with a Medium Deep Dish pizza and a two liter bottle of Orange Slice and your evening is set.
Enjoy!
"The greatest PAIN that will even BURN is to love, and not be loved in return..."
"Crisis Adverted"
(Editor's note: Saturday, 2:30pm...
A strange thing happened...
I was updating my entries for the Blog (A few entries to cover the last couple of days...) when I got an email. It reflected a comment I recieved on one of the entires...
Someone out this is actually reading this...(onimous music chord placed here!)
I read the comment and tracked it back to another fellow blogger, after reading a few entries, I went on with my business. It just flipped my wig for a moment, that someone is out there, and may continue to read...the soap opera that is my life....Wow.)
Anyway, on with today's entry:
Saturday morning, my phone service was back to normal. I recieved my W2 in the mail, enclosed in a new envelope. The reason why it was sent back was because it was in a window envelope and the window was so thin it cut off the first letter and number of the address! All someone had to do was slap it on the left side and the address would have been in full view. I blame the post offices in New Jersey for such a stupid mistake.
This afternoon (sunday), I met mom halfway into the bronx so we could investigate the aprtment complex she was considering about moving into. Our original plan was to meet at a famous avenue that would be near the area in question. I'd be coming from my place, and she would be coming from my sister's place after dropping off my niece (Mom's is a pushover for babysitting on saturdays.). Ironically, her trip overshoots the neighborhood we were going, but she planned to stay on the bus to meet me and then we'd go back there together. Well, with that crazy plan, I wasn't suprised when I met mom and she decided not to double back. She told me the trip from my sister's house to the place in question was so long, she couldn't see doing her daily commute to New Jersey for work. She'd have to take 2 City Buses and another bus across the GWB, and considering her old location, she just wasn't ready to do that, not even to save money on the rent.
When she met with me and changed her mind, we went to McDonald's to warm up a bit. She admitted she got too excited about the idea of joining me and my sister (As well as many other of her friends) in living in the bronx, but her job has her tethered to upper manhattan. A part of me wanted to admit the problems I'm facing at the moment, but as usual with mom, I won't have the courage to admit failure till the bitter end. I'm trying drop hints that I'm thinking of moving back with her when my lease is up in may, however, with the way my current situation's going, it's going to spring up on mom so suddenly if/when I get evicted.
With my W2 in hand, I plan to do my taxes first thing monday (after going to housing court, of course.). Now that mom is staying put, I feel SOME of my problems and worries are evaoprating. But lets list the few that are still stinging the heartstrings...
A) I'm Behind on the rent.
B) Although I'm reciving unemployment and loose cash here and there, I have no stable job to rely on.
C) The Eagles still lost the Super Bowl (Who cares who won the Pro Bowl?)
D) I've fallen in love with a brazillian craigslist whore who if it wasn't for "A", I'd be having sweet, juicy, jungle, animal sex with...for a charitable donation.
E) I've been spending WAY too much time on the internet reading Blogs & Journals, downloading TV shows, and having Chats & IM's rather than work on my TV Show's latest script.
F) I haven't been marketing my TV show's concept since I loss those first two screenwriting contests.
G) I have to fork over 290 dollars soon to take a course on Quickbooks or I'm going to miss the deadline.
Yeah, that pretty much covers it...
I spent the rest of the evening looking up Arreas Grants, and Eviction Prevention tatics on the internet. I dozed off, missing most of the Grammy's...woke up just in time to see J.Lo and Marc Anthony sing a song I couldn't understand, but was moved by anyway. None of the other performances seemed deep, but seing Kanye West perform "Jesus Walks" I felt he went a little over the top in the imagery category. Thou I didn't think he deserved it, it was nice to see him beat the likes of LL Cool J, Jay-Z and the Beastie Boys for best Rap Album...I just wish Eminem was in the category so Kanye would have beaten him too!
"Jesus Walks...but The Devil runs, that's why he wins the race!"
A strange thing happened...
I was updating my entries for the Blog (A few entries to cover the last couple of days...) when I got an email. It reflected a comment I recieved on one of the entires...
Someone out this is actually reading this...(onimous music chord placed here!)
I read the comment and tracked it back to another fellow blogger, after reading a few entries, I went on with my business. It just flipped my wig for a moment, that someone is out there, and may continue to read...the soap opera that is my life....Wow.)
Anyway, on with today's entry:
Saturday morning, my phone service was back to normal. I recieved my W2 in the mail, enclosed in a new envelope. The reason why it was sent back was because it was in a window envelope and the window was so thin it cut off the first letter and number of the address! All someone had to do was slap it on the left side and the address would have been in full view. I blame the post offices in New Jersey for such a stupid mistake.
This afternoon (sunday), I met mom halfway into the bronx so we could investigate the aprtment complex she was considering about moving into. Our original plan was to meet at a famous avenue that would be near the area in question. I'd be coming from my place, and she would be coming from my sister's place after dropping off my niece (Mom's is a pushover for babysitting on saturdays.). Ironically, her trip overshoots the neighborhood we were going, but she planned to stay on the bus to meet me and then we'd go back there together. Well, with that crazy plan, I wasn't suprised when I met mom and she decided not to double back. She told me the trip from my sister's house to the place in question was so long, she couldn't see doing her daily commute to New Jersey for work. She'd have to take 2 City Buses and another bus across the GWB, and considering her old location, she just wasn't ready to do that, not even to save money on the rent.
When she met with me and changed her mind, we went to McDonald's to warm up a bit. She admitted she got too excited about the idea of joining me and my sister (As well as many other of her friends) in living in the bronx, but her job has her tethered to upper manhattan. A part of me wanted to admit the problems I'm facing at the moment, but as usual with mom, I won't have the courage to admit failure till the bitter end. I'm trying drop hints that I'm thinking of moving back with her when my lease is up in may, however, with the way my current situation's going, it's going to spring up on mom so suddenly if/when I get evicted.
With my W2 in hand, I plan to do my taxes first thing monday (after going to housing court, of course.). Now that mom is staying put, I feel SOME of my problems and worries are evaoprating. But lets list the few that are still stinging the heartstrings...
A) I'm Behind on the rent.
B) Although I'm reciving unemployment and loose cash here and there, I have no stable job to rely on.
C) The Eagles still lost the Super Bowl (Who cares who won the Pro Bowl?)
D) I've fallen in love with a brazillian craigslist whore who if it wasn't for "A", I'd be having sweet, juicy, jungle, animal sex with...for a charitable donation.
E) I've been spending WAY too much time on the internet reading Blogs & Journals, downloading TV shows, and having Chats & IM's rather than work on my TV Show's latest script.
F) I haven't been marketing my TV show's concept since I loss those first two screenwriting contests.
G) I have to fork over 290 dollars soon to take a course on Quickbooks or I'm going to miss the deadline.
Yeah, that pretty much covers it...
I spent the rest of the evening looking up Arreas Grants, and Eviction Prevention tatics on the internet. I dozed off, missing most of the Grammy's...woke up just in time to see J.Lo and Marc Anthony sing a song I couldn't understand, but was moved by anyway. None of the other performances seemed deep, but seing Kanye West perform "Jesus Walks" I felt he went a little over the top in the imagery category. Thou I didn't think he deserved it, it was nice to see him beat the likes of LL Cool J, Jay-Z and the Beastie Boys for best Rap Album...I just wish Eminem was in the category so Kanye would have beaten him too!
"Jesus Walks...but The Devil runs, that's why he wins the race!"
"This is your life...and it's ending one Minute at a Time"
So, friday now, and life still sucks. I woke later than I was supposed to due to setting the alarm on the wrong time. (And I thought that "AM/PM" crap on happens to white people like on "Seinfeld"!) I jumped outta bed, threw some clothes on and rushed outta the house. I had to go to the housing courthouse today. You have at least 5 business days to answer, when given a letter from the landlord. It was windy as hell this morning, so walking fast really does a number to your face (Thank god I had a hat on!). After rushing and panting, I arrive to find out that damn courts were closed today (Lincon's Birthday, I guess), I was stunned beyond belief and walked back home. I knew to go the first thing monday, but wondered if they'd be opened then, too! So, coming back home, I hit the internet again. A part of me wanted to look for that beautiful thing I discovered on craigslist tuesday. The ad had already expired, but I memorized her name and the phone number, just in case. I looked at the news at noon and heard about some new form of the AIDS virus that has been discovered in New York City. An advanced type the disease so strong, current medicine has no affect on it. Hearing that was like a sexual buzz-kill so I sobered up and hit the job search.
I applied for 5 jobs online and then headed out at around 3pm. My mother had an address she wanted me to check out. She's been so excited about this rent-controlled apartment offered to her, but she's not so sure about the neighborhood. (Who can blame her?) So, with all the time of the world on my hands, I decided to check up on the address she was given. I'm not gonna reveal the details on here, but I think she got the address mixed up. I knew the Avenue in question real well, it was near my High School, so as I'm going up and down, I can't find the house number in question. I know the bronx like the back of my hand, and unless she got the house number cofused with the cross street number (Which was possible becuase I did see some newly added building in a spot along the way.) that address given to her doesn't exist.
I'm back home by 6pm and I realized, my phone hasn't rang all day (Even JOE calls from work, just to say wassup.). I didn't let it bother me, but then I get a 3 way call from my mother through my sister's phone line. Mom tells me she's been trying to call me since 4pm from her office (in Jersey) and home (In manhattan)! She's been getting an automated message saying "All circuts are busy". She think's my sister got through because we both live in the bronx (Even though we have different carriers). This freaked me out, because I could have job offers coming in and thay are not getting through. I ended the three-way call and then dialed mom at her house. My call went through, but I asked her to call me back, she couldn't. I freaked out and called Cablevison (those money grubbing bastards) and was told that there had been a blackout in my area and techs are working on it. I will also have a deduction on my bill for the lack of service at the time. Tried to keep cool, but really couldn't contain how pissed off I was!
A typical end to one of the worst weeks of my life, Happy Valentine's Day Les, you're such a sweetheart.
I applied for 5 jobs online and then headed out at around 3pm. My mother had an address she wanted me to check out. She's been so excited about this rent-controlled apartment offered to her, but she's not so sure about the neighborhood. (Who can blame her?) So, with all the time of the world on my hands, I decided to check up on the address she was given. I'm not gonna reveal the details on here, but I think she got the address mixed up. I knew the Avenue in question real well, it was near my High School, so as I'm going up and down, I can't find the house number in question. I know the bronx like the back of my hand, and unless she got the house number cofused with the cross street number (Which was possible becuase I did see some newly added building in a spot along the way.) that address given to her doesn't exist.
I'm back home by 6pm and I realized, my phone hasn't rang all day (Even JOE calls from work, just to say wassup.). I didn't let it bother me, but then I get a 3 way call from my mother through my sister's phone line. Mom tells me she's been trying to call me since 4pm from her office (in Jersey) and home (In manhattan)! She's been getting an automated message saying "All circuts are busy". She think's my sister got through because we both live in the bronx (Even though we have different carriers). This freaked me out, because I could have job offers coming in and thay are not getting through. I ended the three-way call and then dialed mom at her house. My call went through, but I asked her to call me back, she couldn't. I freaked out and called Cablevison (those money grubbing bastards) and was told that there had been a blackout in my area and techs are working on it. I will also have a deduction on my bill for the lack of service at the time. Tried to keep cool, but really couldn't contain how pissed off I was!
A typical end to one of the worst weeks of my life, Happy Valentine's Day Les, you're such a sweetheart.
"And the hits just keep on comming!"
When it rains, it pours. Wednesday morning before going to my Job Workshop thing, I got a nice early Valentine from my Landlord taped on my door...True, I've been fallen behind on the rent, but I've been giving as much as I can, but obviously it's not enough. Now, I thought I could catch up a bit on the rent with my Tax Refund, but it's the middle of feburary and I haven't recived my w2, yet! Knowing the Housing Court procedure, I decided to wait a few days before making my offical response at the courthouse. I had to get my W2 and file my taxes, stat!
My last job was a temp assignment, and the agency is all the way in Scarsdale, despite the job being in the city. So I give the agency a call and they said the W2 came back "Return to Sender". That made no sense, They managed to mail my last few paystubs after my assignment was completed, how could they get my address wrong? I pleaded with some stuck up asian woman in payroll who insisted that I pick it up in person. I told her where I lived and asked her nicely to resend it again, The address was correct, the aprtment number was on there, it must of been a mistake. The bitch gave me so many excuses, but agreed relunctantly. I don't know what's wrong with people...A document as important as a w2 and she wasn't willing to help me out.
So, I'm going to this Job thing to keep the unemployment checks comming, having problems with my taxes WHILE in the process of getting evicted, what can be worst?...
Answer!...My mother gets a call saying she's been accepted for a Rent-Controlled apartment that she applied for back in 2003. Since me and my sister left, Mom's barely been able to pay the skyrocketing rent of the 2 bedroom place the entire family's been living in within the past 30 years. She has tried to even things out by taking in a roommate, but after 2 lousy deadbeats, she's given up. She believes that one of us (Me or My sister and her daughter) will fail in our attempts of living on our own and move back in. At this point things are looking that dark for me. So, while thinking of the possibility of moving back in mom comes up, this New Apartment thing pops up to make things worst.
So, how do I handle all these fucked up events in my life at the start of the new year?...One day at a time...at this moment in time I'm praying for a quick and painless death to occur at any moment. Like maybe a car will hit me as I'm saving some kid's life on the street corner.
So, I do the whole Job Workshop thing, get some new insights, but learn nothing new. I'm told now I gotta list the job positions I've applied for and go back in 3 weeks. I don't how my sister's been getting away with all this and has yet to get a stable job (But continues to get help from the city) in the last 3 years (I guess her being a single mother has something to do with it.).
Tonight, JOE calls me and says he finally got the program working, but his first attempt to copy a DVD (Aliens vs. Predator...Ohhh, GOOOD CHOICE, not!) failed. He explained to me that the program was discontinued in 2003, and there haven't been any other DVD burning programs released since then. (The price of DVD burners going down and all...) So, in order for him to crack the progam, he had to set his system clock back and do a whole bunch of other tricks to fool the software copyright. With that said, I gave him a theory that since the software was discontinued in 2003, there's a good chance it will only COPY DVD's from that year and back! And any DVD from 2004 would have other safeguards that old programs couldn't get by to duplicate. It was a sound theory (I'm such a genius!) so JOE has decided to give up quest for the moment which will give me some free time to myself wallow in my misery.
I had another long chat session with my meetup group members. I've been feeling some regret about not speaking with my friend upstate, I still read her online journal from time to time, I'm sure she's forgotten about me by now, I'm such a heel...life sucks.
My last job was a temp assignment, and the agency is all the way in Scarsdale, despite the job being in the city. So I give the agency a call and they said the W2 came back "Return to Sender". That made no sense, They managed to mail my last few paystubs after my assignment was completed, how could they get my address wrong? I pleaded with some stuck up asian woman in payroll who insisted that I pick it up in person. I told her where I lived and asked her nicely to resend it again, The address was correct, the aprtment number was on there, it must of been a mistake. The bitch gave me so many excuses, but agreed relunctantly. I don't know what's wrong with people...A document as important as a w2 and she wasn't willing to help me out.
So, I'm going to this Job thing to keep the unemployment checks comming, having problems with my taxes WHILE in the process of getting evicted, what can be worst?...
Answer!...My mother gets a call saying she's been accepted for a Rent-Controlled apartment that she applied for back in 2003. Since me and my sister left, Mom's barely been able to pay the skyrocketing rent of the 2 bedroom place the entire family's been living in within the past 30 years. She has tried to even things out by taking in a roommate, but after 2 lousy deadbeats, she's given up. She believes that one of us (Me or My sister and her daughter) will fail in our attempts of living on our own and move back in. At this point things are looking that dark for me. So, while thinking of the possibility of moving back in mom comes up, this New Apartment thing pops up to make things worst.
So, how do I handle all these fucked up events in my life at the start of the new year?...One day at a time...at this moment in time I'm praying for a quick and painless death to occur at any moment. Like maybe a car will hit me as I'm saving some kid's life on the street corner.
So, I do the whole Job Workshop thing, get some new insights, but learn nothing new. I'm told now I gotta list the job positions I've applied for and go back in 3 weeks. I don't how my sister's been getting away with all this and has yet to get a stable job (But continues to get help from the city) in the last 3 years (I guess her being a single mother has something to do with it.).
Tonight, JOE calls me and says he finally got the program working, but his first attempt to copy a DVD (Aliens vs. Predator...Ohhh, GOOOD CHOICE, not!) failed. He explained to me that the program was discontinued in 2003, and there haven't been any other DVD burning programs released since then. (The price of DVD burners going down and all...) So, in order for him to crack the progam, he had to set his system clock back and do a whole bunch of other tricks to fool the software copyright. With that said, I gave him a theory that since the software was discontinued in 2003, there's a good chance it will only COPY DVD's from that year and back! And any DVD from 2004 would have other safeguards that old programs couldn't get by to duplicate. It was a sound theory (I'm such a genius!) so JOE has decided to give up quest for the moment which will give me some free time to myself wallow in my misery.
I had another long chat session with my meetup group members. I've been feeling some regret about not speaking with my friend upstate, I still read her online journal from time to time, I'm sure she's forgotten about me by now, I'm such a heel...life sucks.
"Picking up the Pieces"
The last 48 hours have been tough, but I'm still hanging in there. When I cashed my check monday, I wanted to just blow it all on craigslist somehow. Buy a computer, raid a garage sale, go to a expensive party, and yes I'll say it...pay someone for sex. Fuck my bills, fuck the class at City College next month, fuck the rent, just go out and pay some money for some sort of release. Browsed the website...nothing.
JOE called me for the DVD program that we've been trying to convey to each other over the weekend through various online methods. I decided to personaly take it down to wall street just to get out of the house. He offered his condolences and told me to cheer up. He reminded me that he's still a die hard Buffalo Bills fan and losing one super bowl is nothing compared to losing 4 in a row. We walked around a few minutes for a late lunch then he went back to his office. I told him I was going to Borders to buy the movie "Collateral" on DVD, he told me to wait saying it'll be the first DVD he'll burn if the program works. So, with nothing else to do, I took my time going back uptown. I walked from ground zero up past union square and worked my way to MSG. The Pennsavania Hotel was nearby, I thought to myself how cool would it be to meet someone there. Strolling in, registering with a fake name..."Sincere Smith" (Just like my pen name!). I'd slowly walk to the elevator, get off at the 13th floor (Which is numbered the 14th..) and walk down the hallway. With my arms folded behind my back (Like Morpheous in The Matrix), I appoach the room. I look left, then right and I knock softly three times...THAT would be so fucking COOL!
Up the street from the hotel, near that big McDonald's...I couldn't help but notice a subtle yet noticable Adult Movie store. I instantly starting hearing the Masterbation Fairy barking my ear. It's like the famous anime movie "Vampire Hunter D", D hears a voice of a parasitic being living in the palm of his hand, when his hand is open, a face can be seen...
M.F.: "You know you want to...go on in and take a peek! See how the other people live!"
LES: "That is not the way to deal with it."
M.F.: "Who are you kiddin'?...Everybody does it, Who are you to be so different?...Go on...."
LES: "no."
M.F.: "Go Onnnn!"
LES: "NO!"
It'd be my luck someone actually see me! What if they knew my mother?!?...I'd never look her in the face again, she'd do a "Estelle Constanza" and throw her back out in the middle of fainting!
I did the right thing and walked by all the way to Columbus Circle. After all that walking and took the train the rest of the way home. I spent some money on some groceries and put a 100 in the bank for the cable bill automatic payment coming up and then went home, porn free and still missing my "Collateral" DVD.
I woke up today with nothing to do, so I hit the internet to check up my meetup groups and find something despressing to do for the upcoming valentine's day weekend. Browsing around craigslist again, the weirdest thing on earth happened...I fell in love! Checking out the escorts again with pictures I came across this ad and I just lost all the air out of lungs! Like I once read in a comic book..."The sight of her hits me like a slug between the eyes!". The first thing you see is a small close up picture of her face, she has eyes that just hypnotize the hell outta ya. Nice brown complextion...and then there are 3 other pictures of her body that just put anyone else I've been thinking of to shame. I couldn't believe it, I'd finally found someone that would make me pay for sex and she was 24 hours shy of getting it!!! I was so pissed off, I'm screaming to the screen "Where the hell were you YESTERDAY!!" Yesterday, I would of paid a month's rent to be with her, ALL NIGHT!!!, but now, I'm only thinking about it. I read the ad for details, details that I'm not repeating in this blog (Who the hell's gonna read this anyway?) and I just stared at it for an hour...thought about it, again, and again, and again.
I pulled myself away from the monitor when my answering machine clicked on with my greeting...I was zoning out on the ad, I didn't even hear the phone ring! JOE call from his office, the damn DVD program didn't work. Well, it works it just needs an activation keycode and I was certain, I had found a copy of the program that was cracked. I told him to find a key generator program himself and hung up the phone on him.
I had to get that ad outta my head so turned off the computer and looked at some DVD's and Monday night's episode of "Medium". I have some Job Workshop thing to go to tomorrow to keep the city from helping me out. Thank god it's in the afternoon and it's only 90 minutes. I'm printing a few copies of the 'ol resume and plan to get a hair cut tomorrow morning before I go. The whole evening, I couldn't get that ad out of my head, I wasn't really thinking of "Making an apoointment", but I planned to do some research, check fellow craiglisters for some "reviews".
JOE called me for the DVD program that we've been trying to convey to each other over the weekend through various online methods. I decided to personaly take it down to wall street just to get out of the house. He offered his condolences and told me to cheer up. He reminded me that he's still a die hard Buffalo Bills fan and losing one super bowl is nothing compared to losing 4 in a row. We walked around a few minutes for a late lunch then he went back to his office. I told him I was going to Borders to buy the movie "Collateral" on DVD, he told me to wait saying it'll be the first DVD he'll burn if the program works. So, with nothing else to do, I took my time going back uptown. I walked from ground zero up past union square and worked my way to MSG. The Pennsavania Hotel was nearby, I thought to myself how cool would it be to meet someone there. Strolling in, registering with a fake name..."Sincere Smith" (Just like my pen name!). I'd slowly walk to the elevator, get off at the 13th floor (Which is numbered the 14th..) and walk down the hallway. With my arms folded behind my back (Like Morpheous in The Matrix), I appoach the room. I look left, then right and I knock softly three times...THAT would be so fucking COOL!
Up the street from the hotel, near that big McDonald's...I couldn't help but notice a subtle yet noticable Adult Movie store. I instantly starting hearing the Masterbation Fairy barking my ear. It's like the famous anime movie "Vampire Hunter D", D hears a voice of a parasitic being living in the palm of his hand, when his hand is open, a face can be seen...
M.F.: "You know you want to...go on in and take a peek! See how the other people live!"
LES: "That is not the way to deal with it."
M.F.: "Who are you kiddin'?...Everybody does it, Who are you to be so different?...Go on...."
LES: "no."
M.F.: "Go Onnnn!"
LES: "NO!"
It'd be my luck someone actually see me! What if they knew my mother?!?...I'd never look her in the face again, she'd do a "Estelle Constanza" and throw her back out in the middle of fainting!
I did the right thing and walked by all the way to Columbus Circle. After all that walking and took the train the rest of the way home. I spent some money on some groceries and put a 100 in the bank for the cable bill automatic payment coming up and then went home, porn free and still missing my "Collateral" DVD.
I woke up today with nothing to do, so I hit the internet to check up my meetup groups and find something despressing to do for the upcoming valentine's day weekend. Browsing around craigslist again, the weirdest thing on earth happened...I fell in love! Checking out the escorts again with pictures I came across this ad and I just lost all the air out of lungs! Like I once read in a comic book..."The sight of her hits me like a slug between the eyes!". The first thing you see is a small close up picture of her face, she has eyes that just hypnotize the hell outta ya. Nice brown complextion...and then there are 3 other pictures of her body that just put anyone else I've been thinking of to shame. I couldn't believe it, I'd finally found someone that would make me pay for sex and she was 24 hours shy of getting it!!! I was so pissed off, I'm screaming to the screen "Where the hell were you YESTERDAY!!" Yesterday, I would of paid a month's rent to be with her, ALL NIGHT!!!, but now, I'm only thinking about it. I read the ad for details, details that I'm not repeating in this blog (Who the hell's gonna read this anyway?) and I just stared at it for an hour...thought about it, again, and again, and again.
I pulled myself away from the monitor when my answering machine clicked on with my greeting...I was zoning out on the ad, I didn't even hear the phone ring! JOE call from his office, the damn DVD program didn't work. Well, it works it just needs an activation keycode and I was certain, I had found a copy of the program that was cracked. I told him to find a key generator program himself and hung up the phone on him.
I had to get that ad outta my head so turned off the computer and looked at some DVD's and Monday night's episode of "Medium". I have some Job Workshop thing to go to tomorrow to keep the city from helping me out. Thank god it's in the afternoon and it's only 90 minutes. I'm printing a few copies of the 'ol resume and plan to get a hair cut tomorrow morning before I go. The whole evening, I couldn't get that ad out of my head, I wasn't really thinking of "Making an apoointment", but I planned to do some research, check fellow craiglisters for some "reviews".
"Fuck"
What can I say?, Just wasn't meant to be. Why else should I be suprised? You hope, you cheer and you fall flat on your face. Disapointment is something I've grown used to in the 29 years of my life, why think things would get better starting now? Words can't explain how I feel now. I just wanna walk outside and go somewhere. I wanna go to a bar and order a large draft, I wanna go to the Blue Note and request a song by Billie Holiday, I wanna go to a hotel and have sex with a woman whose name I don't know, I wanna step on a train and ride it aimlessly around the city for 3 hours. I probably won't do all this but it's on my mind.
Well, "we'll get 'em next year", and all that...
Tomorrow's another day.
I'll get a well deserved haircut, buy the "Collateral" DVD...Wednesday I got a Job Workshop thing, and um, that's it.
I wish I was a woman so I could cry now...
I really hate my life.
I need to have sex within the next 48 hours, and I refuse to take matters in my own hands.
"Eagles 21, Patriots 24...So close, and yet so far"
Well, "we'll get 'em next year", and all that...
Tomorrow's another day.
I'll get a well deserved haircut, buy the "Collateral" DVD...Wednesday I got a Job Workshop thing, and um, that's it.
I wish I was a woman so I could cry now...
I really hate my life.
I need to have sex within the next 48 hours, and I refuse to take matters in my own hands.
"Eagles 21, Patriots 24...So close, and yet so far"
"It's OUR time now"
Okay, as I step up to the podium to say my rant, I want you (Whoever the hell is actually reading this...) to imagine the P. Diddy "Victory" Song playing in the background, because I'm about to get deep....
People have been saying two things since the beginning of this year's NFL season. That the Eagles were going to the Super Bowl and that T.O. was going to take them there. Now that that's actually happened, all I'm hearing is one thing, that they're going to lose. Did I miss something? Since when was the future so damn certain? 2004 has been the year of upsets. From the pistons beating the lakers, to the red sox finally winning and even that fact that finally the world has found out what a fucked up sport hockey is. So, with all that in the past, you don't think history will be made here?
I've been an Eagles fan since the 80's becuase they reminded me of the Oakland A's of the early 70's. They've had all the famous players before or after their time. "The Fridge" was an Eagle before he went to the Chicago Bears, got famous and fought in "Wrestlemania 2". Alvin Harper was catching passes for philly before going to the Cowboys and becoming a superstar with Michael Irving. Ricky Waters, Rodney Peete, Irving Fryar, phily has seen them come and go and has come off as the team that "breaks you into football" and the team you play for when "you break out of football, forever". And back then, despite the players, the team ALWAYS made the playoffs. Either first round, or wildcard, the first step was past them. And after dealing with the drama of "Buddyball", "Ray Rhodes - the ONLY black coach of a NFL team at this moment in time", and "TAKE RICKEY, Hell with McNabb" the team has grown to make it to the top of the mountain.
Now, I COULD play the race card and explain how unique the Eagles are. Relying on a black quarterback for almost the last two decades. I mean, before Vick and McNabb, there were another pair of brothers that threw the ball, Warren Moon, and RANDALL CUNNINGHAM! Now, we've just seen Dan Marino get into the Hall of Fame despite NEVER winning the big one, do you think they'll send RANDALL?, NO! It'll never happen, and why? Two guesses people! People don't wanna admit the truth, the NFL is still color blind. The black man should be catching the ball, running with the ball, and blocking the players, never throwing the ball.
But after it's said and done, it's not really Black vs. White (We done passsed that, man!). it's not about the City of Philadelphia vs. the City of New England, it's not Pennslyvania vs. Boston, it's not Ben Franklin vs. Paul Revere, it's not even Chunky Soup vs. Visa, what it's coming down to in the next 24 hours is "WHO WANTS IT MORE?".
My Prediction: "Eagles 28, Patriots 26 (Game winning Field Goal by Aikers with time running out)
"it's OUR time, now"
"NEO, I Believe" - kid
People have been saying two things since the beginning of this year's NFL season. That the Eagles were going to the Super Bowl and that T.O. was going to take them there. Now that that's actually happened, all I'm hearing is one thing, that they're going to lose. Did I miss something? Since when was the future so damn certain? 2004 has been the year of upsets. From the pistons beating the lakers, to the red sox finally winning and even that fact that finally the world has found out what a fucked up sport hockey is. So, with all that in the past, you don't think history will be made here?
I've been an Eagles fan since the 80's becuase they reminded me of the Oakland A's of the early 70's. They've had all the famous players before or after their time. "The Fridge" was an Eagle before he went to the Chicago Bears, got famous and fought in "Wrestlemania 2". Alvin Harper was catching passes for philly before going to the Cowboys and becoming a superstar with Michael Irving. Ricky Waters, Rodney Peete, Irving Fryar, phily has seen them come and go and has come off as the team that "breaks you into football" and the team you play for when "you break out of football, forever". And back then, despite the players, the team ALWAYS made the playoffs. Either first round, or wildcard, the first step was past them. And after dealing with the drama of "Buddyball", "Ray Rhodes - the ONLY black coach of a NFL team at this moment in time", and "TAKE RICKEY, Hell with McNabb" the team has grown to make it to the top of the mountain.
Now, I COULD play the race card and explain how unique the Eagles are. Relying on a black quarterback for almost the last two decades. I mean, before Vick and McNabb, there were another pair of brothers that threw the ball, Warren Moon, and RANDALL CUNNINGHAM! Now, we've just seen Dan Marino get into the Hall of Fame despite NEVER winning the big one, do you think they'll send RANDALL?, NO! It'll never happen, and why? Two guesses people! People don't wanna admit the truth, the NFL is still color blind. The black man should be catching the ball, running with the ball, and blocking the players, never throwing the ball.
But after it's said and done, it's not really Black vs. White (We done passsed that, man!). it's not about the City of Philadelphia vs. the City of New England, it's not Pennslyvania vs. Boston, it's not Ben Franklin vs. Paul Revere, it's not even Chunky Soup vs. Visa, what it's coming down to in the next 24 hours is "WHO WANTS IT MORE?".
My Prediction: "Eagles 28, Patriots 26 (Game winning Field Goal by Aikers with time running out)
"it's OUR time, now"
"NEO, I Believe" - kid
"Just one of those Lazy, Crazy, Fridays!"
"Yawn!"...You ever have one of those days where you just slept all damn day? Today was a blur so I'm not going to talk much about it. Yesterway was kinda cool, I've been checking the net to find a cool place to checkout the super bowl and there's a place down on 23rd street I may go to. The place is known to have a lot of Eagles fans, and their french fries are to die for (My kinda place!). While surfing, I swung by craigslist and checked the usual "Rants and Raves", I then checked the personals and couldn't find anything remotely intresting. Then I checked out the "erotic services"...JOE got me hooked on this section, he swears that "for 150 dollars I could get a hour in heaven". As old as I am, I DO NOT think I'm ready to pay for sex (not yet.), but like a traffic accident on a highway, I was compelled to take a peek.
Contrary to belief, I am street wise to all the lingo out there...I know what a 420 is, as well as a GFE, NSA, incall, outcall, yadda, yadda, yadda. There are a lot of married people out there cheating on their spouses, it makes you wonder why get married in the 1st place. So there I am browsing, checking these ads, some of them even have pictures, and even though some of these ladies looks nice, none of them seem worth it. I told myself, if the Eagles lose, maybe I'll look up one these for some pity sex (Although it would be better if I just order playboy for one night or something else...)
JOE called me and told me he was buying a DVD burner and wanted me to find him a DVD Decrypter prorgam called DVD X Copy Platinum. I found it on winMX but I told him I wasn't going down to wall street just to give him some program, he said he'd get it another time.
Spent the rest of day chatting...One of my meetup groups had a chat through MSN and it took an eternity to activate my old .NET passport so I could participate. I then IM'd with my friend upstate who I've known for two weeks now. We've been getting know each other a little bit but last nights chat took a bit of a turn. She has a self esteem thing...She mentioned that she didn't believe she was beautiful. Now, I know are UGLY women in the world (My sister being one of them), and like beauty, UGLY is skin deep, and I felt if I was friendly enough to chat with someone it was becuase I saw something in them from the moment I got their pic. Now, any other time, I would do the Good Guy thing here and try to raise her self esteem, but I realize that she's upstate and there's no real way I could go up there for a nice weekend getaway, I'm not that type of person. SO, I figure a few nights of laying low (Or blocking her on IM) she'll forget about me, find some stupid jerk that'll treat her nice at first, but then treat her like crap, she'll get scorned then turn out to be one of the typical women that are out there now, trying take men for their money and have a screwed up life. She'll then think back to that one guy that told her she looked beautiful and remember him as the one that got away.
Just another story of two ships passing each other by...(Insert Corny Violin Music Here)
On the TV Show front, I started work on EPISODE 4 today, wrote the first scene, fixed up the storyboard a bit. I had a dream two nights ago, that Kevin Smith heard about my show and we started production...How cool would that be? I also reminded myself to do some exterior photography work of the branch I plan to base my show on and while I'm in midtown, go to that Rochester Big and Tall store I found near the Hilton hotel on Ave of Americans.
Meanwhile, an update on the Bionic Six situation...
It looks like conscience got the best of said/unsaid bubble gum website. I got a follow up email from customer service stating that the 1st 6 VCD's were used to test the post ofice, and the following CD's will be sent in time...Well pah-rump-ah-rump-bump-BUMP, I guess it pays to speak up instead to take it on the chin, let that be a lesson to you kids...
The place is still a mess, Indiana's still waiting for me to setup his scratching post, gotta decide if I'm gonna swing by mom's place saturday, and what to do about THE BIGGEST NIGHT of my young freaking life!
Found another cool Quiz Insert to add below, I hope I don't get hooked on these...
Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com
"If this is the life, why does it feel so good to die, Today?"
- Metric
"Grow Up and Blow Away" (Cool Song)
Contrary to belief, I am street wise to all the lingo out there...I know what a 420 is, as well as a GFE, NSA, incall, outcall, yadda, yadda, yadda. There are a lot of married people out there cheating on their spouses, it makes you wonder why get married in the 1st place. So there I am browsing, checking these ads, some of them even have pictures, and even though some of these ladies looks nice, none of them seem worth it. I told myself, if the Eagles lose, maybe I'll look up one these for some pity sex (Although it would be better if I just order playboy for one night or something else...)
JOE called me and told me he was buying a DVD burner and wanted me to find him a DVD Decrypter prorgam called DVD X Copy Platinum. I found it on winMX but I told him I wasn't going down to wall street just to give him some program, he said he'd get it another time.
Spent the rest of day chatting...One of my meetup groups had a chat through MSN and it took an eternity to activate my old .NET passport so I could participate. I then IM'd with my friend upstate who I've known for two weeks now. We've been getting know each other a little bit but last nights chat took a bit of a turn. She has a self esteem thing...She mentioned that she didn't believe she was beautiful. Now, I know are UGLY women in the world (My sister being one of them), and like beauty, UGLY is skin deep, and I felt if I was friendly enough to chat with someone it was becuase I saw something in them from the moment I got their pic. Now, any other time, I would do the Good Guy thing here and try to raise her self esteem, but I realize that she's upstate and there's no real way I could go up there for a nice weekend getaway, I'm not that type of person. SO, I figure a few nights of laying low (Or blocking her on IM) she'll forget about me, find some stupid jerk that'll treat her nice at first, but then treat her like crap, she'll get scorned then turn out to be one of the typical women that are out there now, trying take men for their money and have a screwed up life. She'll then think back to that one guy that told her she looked beautiful and remember him as the one that got away.
Just another story of two ships passing each other by...(Insert Corny Violin Music Here)
On the TV Show front, I started work on EPISODE 4 today, wrote the first scene, fixed up the storyboard a bit. I had a dream two nights ago, that Kevin Smith heard about my show and we started production...How cool would that be? I also reminded myself to do some exterior photography work of the branch I plan to base my show on and while I'm in midtown, go to that Rochester Big and Tall store I found near the Hilton hotel on Ave of Americans.
Meanwhile, an update on the Bionic Six situation...
It looks like conscience got the best of said/unsaid bubble gum website. I got a follow up email from customer service stating that the 1st 6 VCD's were used to test the post ofice, and the following CD's will be sent in time...Well pah-rump-ah-rump-bump-BUMP, I guess it pays to speak up instead to take it on the chin, let that be a lesson to you kids...
The place is still a mess, Indiana's still waiting for me to setup his scratching post, gotta decide if I'm gonna swing by mom's place saturday, and what to do about THE BIGGEST NIGHT of my young freaking life!
Found another cool Quiz Insert to add below, I hope I don't get hooked on these...
| J | Juicy |
| E | Exciting |
| T | Tender |
| B | Bubbly |
| L | Lovable |
| A | Arty |
| C | Controversial |
| K | Kind |
Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com
"If this is the life, why does it feel so good to die, Today?"
- Metric
"Grow Up and Blow Away" (Cool Song)
"Bionics On!"
Boy, I don't know if it was the Cheerios at 3am, or the Doritos after midnite, but my stomach was killing me when I woke up this morning. I was zoning in and out all morning till 2pm, I went out to pay some bills. The weather was actually nice today so I walked around for a bit. When I got home there was a long awaited treat waiting for me in my mailbox. My bootleg VCDs of episodes of the classic cartoon, "Bionic Six" finally arrived. (I'm such a geek).
But seriously, who doesn't remember coming home from school waiting till 3:30 (Right after "BraveStarr"!) to spend time with Jack, Helen, Eric, Meg, Bunji, and J.D.? The Bennet family were the best TV Family since The Bradys, and without the sugar coating. I don't know why the series hasn't come out on offical DVD yet, but I couldn't wait till then, I needed my "Bionic Fix" satisfied now, damnit!
This bubble-gum operation of a website (Which will remain nameless in order to prevent others to be victimized) promised me 22 VCD's for the entire 65 episode run. I ordered it back on MLK weekend and after 2 weeks, I sent a email to customer service. In time they replied that they sent the package and submitted an inquiry to the Post Office that didn't turn up any results so they sent me another set. I finally get the set today only to find 6 CD's inside. After checking that they work on my PC (4 episodes each! for a total 24 freakin' episodes!) I sent a follow-up email acknoledging reciving the second package, but didn't make a stink of the missing 16 CDs. I just cut my losses and was thankfull I'd gotten something to relive my childhood.
Mom called at around 6pm to ask if Indiana was happy with scratching post we brought sunday, and I had to tell her that I haven't opened it yet (Lazy Les, Lazy Les...). I really have clean up the place. I'm thinking of redoing the kitchen floor next week. Anyways, mom call and tells me my crazy sister is bothering her again with her own problems. Apparently, my sister tried to do her taxes and found out someone has claimed her daughter already. This happens every year and we don't know who's doing it. My sister is the only one who has my niece's social secrity card and birth certificate. We suspect it's someone from the baby's father family down in North Carolina, but at the rate things are going we'll never figure it out.
I went online trying to find a cool wave of the croaking sound the long haired ghost from "The Grudge". Couldn't find it anywhere! Had IM chats with JOE and my new friend upstate for a bit. JOE clued me in on a site where they had pics of Hip Hop Video Vixen Vida Guerra, but I had seen them already (I fell in love with her BEAUTIFUL, glorious buttocks last year with various issues of KING and FHM). JOE is always a bit behind on the times, he didn't even know that Vida was dating Giants football player Jeremy Shockey. Seeing those pics though was giving me all those tingly feelings and having the M.F. (Mastberbation Fairy) barking in my ear...
After catching up with my other IM friend (Our chat was a bit short tonight, and she didn't give me any indication that I was missed, guess I'm gonna have to take a couple of days off the IM scene and see what happens.) I did some more journal and blog surfing then went to bed.
I saw this on someone else's journal and thought i'd be keen...
What is your Icecream Flavour?
Find out at Go Quiz
We are a family!
I fight for them,
And they fight for me.
As close as we can be
High in the mountains,
Or deep in the sea...
Bionic, Bionic Six!
We are together!
We fight for right!
Bionic, Bionic Six!
We are so proud to be
A super-future family...
A family!
Brought together by fate
And given super-powers
through the miracle of modern science!
Bionic, Bionic Six!
We are together
We fight for right
Super-future family
And we're so very proud to be
Bionic Six!
But seriously, who doesn't remember coming home from school waiting till 3:30 (Right after "BraveStarr"!) to spend time with Jack, Helen, Eric, Meg, Bunji, and J.D.? The Bennet family were the best TV Family since The Bradys, and without the sugar coating. I don't know why the series hasn't come out on offical DVD yet, but I couldn't wait till then, I needed my "Bionic Fix" satisfied now, damnit!
This bubble-gum operation of a website (Which will remain nameless in order to prevent others to be victimized) promised me 22 VCD's for the entire 65 episode run. I ordered it back on MLK weekend and after 2 weeks, I sent a email to customer service. In time they replied that they sent the package and submitted an inquiry to the Post Office that didn't turn up any results so they sent me another set. I finally get the set today only to find 6 CD's inside. After checking that they work on my PC (4 episodes each! for a total 24 freakin' episodes!) I sent a follow-up email acknoledging reciving the second package, but didn't make a stink of the missing 16 CDs. I just cut my losses and was thankfull I'd gotten something to relive my childhood.
Mom called at around 6pm to ask if Indiana was happy with scratching post we brought sunday, and I had to tell her that I haven't opened it yet (Lazy Les, Lazy Les...). I really have clean up the place. I'm thinking of redoing the kitchen floor next week. Anyways, mom call and tells me my crazy sister is bothering her again with her own problems. Apparently, my sister tried to do her taxes and found out someone has claimed her daughter already. This happens every year and we don't know who's doing it. My sister is the only one who has my niece's social secrity card and birth certificate. We suspect it's someone from the baby's father family down in North Carolina, but at the rate things are going we'll never figure it out.
I went online trying to find a cool wave of the croaking sound the long haired ghost from "The Grudge". Couldn't find it anywhere! Had IM chats with JOE and my new friend upstate for a bit. JOE clued me in on a site where they had pics of Hip Hop Video Vixen Vida Guerra, but I had seen them already (I fell in love with her BEAUTIFUL, glorious buttocks last year with various issues of KING and FHM). JOE is always a bit behind on the times, he didn't even know that Vida was dating Giants football player Jeremy Shockey. Seeing those pics though was giving me all those tingly feelings and having the M.F. (Mastberbation Fairy) barking in my ear...
After catching up with my other IM friend (Our chat was a bit short tonight, and she didn't give me any indication that I was missed, guess I'm gonna have to take a couple of days off the IM scene and see what happens.) I did some more journal and blog surfing then went to bed.
I saw this on someone else's journal and thought i'd be keen...
| Your Icecream Flavour is...Chocolate! |
 You are the all time favorite, chocolate! Turning white kids black since the 1800s. Staining carpets, car seats, and bed sheets for centuries. One thing is for sure, you will never go out of style. You can't go wrong with chocolate! |
Find out at Go Quiz
We are a family!
I fight for them,
And they fight for me.
As close as we can be
High in the mountains,
Or deep in the sea...
Bionic, Bionic Six!
We are together!
We fight for right!
Bionic, Bionic Six!
We are so proud to be
A super-future family...
A family!
Brought together by fate
And given super-powers
through the miracle of modern science!
Bionic, Bionic Six!
We are together
We fight for right
Super-future family
And we're so very proud to be
Bionic Six!
"3, 2, 1, Let's Jam!" - First Entry
For the umpeeth time I'm doing a journal, what the hell is wrong with me? I start these things, then get caught up and forget about them. No one ever reads them, I'm just starving for attention.
I orginally planned to start this IF and WHEN the Eagles win the Super Bowl, but What the hell...
Speaking of The Boids, went to Greyhound.com to see how long and how much to philly for the parade. I can be there in two hours for around 30 bucks, how freaking kewl is that?!
Also did some background checking on Syracuse....In light of my frequent IMs with my new friend that I am getting cozy with. We chatted till 4am last night in which I've divulged numerous secrets about myself that I swore never to reveal to anyone online again (Bad Les, Bad LES!) I got some info on her that I dedicating gray brain matter to but to be honest she won the game of "Personal Information Wishbone" between the two of us.
In any case, I can be in Syracuse in five hours for 60 bucks if I beckoned the call...
Saw "lord of the flies" the movie for the first time ever tonight, Never read the book but pretty sure I was assigned to read it once in High School...I couldn't help and notice how it resembles "LOST" in every way, shape and form...It kills me how unoriginal TV Show ideas are these days...J.J. Abrams should be shot out of a cannon into the flaming sun. (I intend to keep watching the show, thou!)
Did a lot of websurfing today, tried to get my pics on a decient hosting site, and failed to find one accomodating...either they were too slow, or required extra software (If someone knows how the hell to use "gallery" Please email me!!!)
JOE called me at 8pm on his way home from work...Talked some junk about cars that I zoned out, invited me to a trip down to Florida that probably won't come to past, and explained that his computer is working better since I helped him reformat his hard drive and reinstall Windows XP. The punk still hasn't asked to check out any movies, so once again I'm degrading myself to see one HAN SOLO...I think I might check out "Elektra" before it arrives on DVD in april or may (Hell, maybe even late march...Booooooooooomb!)
That's about it for tonight...purposely stayed off IM to see if I was missed by a special someone (The mind games we play for Online Seduction!). Started the blog and went to bed...I give it 3 months
"See you space cowboy"
I orginally planned to start this IF and WHEN the Eagles win the Super Bowl, but What the hell...
Speaking of The Boids, went to Greyhound.com to see how long and how much to philly for the parade. I can be there in two hours for around 30 bucks, how freaking kewl is that?!
Also did some background checking on Syracuse....In light of my frequent IMs with my new friend that I am getting cozy with. We chatted till 4am last night in which I've divulged numerous secrets about myself that I swore never to reveal to anyone online again (Bad Les, Bad LES!) I got some info on her that I dedicating gray brain matter to but to be honest she won the game of "Personal Information Wishbone" between the two of us.
In any case, I can be in Syracuse in five hours for 60 bucks if I beckoned the call...
Saw "lord of the flies" the movie for the first time ever tonight, Never read the book but pretty sure I was assigned to read it once in High School...I couldn't help and notice how it resembles "LOST" in every way, shape and form...It kills me how unoriginal TV Show ideas are these days...J.J. Abrams should be shot out of a cannon into the flaming sun. (I intend to keep watching the show, thou!)
Did a lot of websurfing today, tried to get my pics on a decient hosting site, and failed to find one accomodating...either they were too slow, or required extra software (If someone knows how the hell to use "gallery" Please email me!!!)
JOE called me at 8pm on his way home from work...Talked some junk about cars that I zoned out, invited me to a trip down to Florida that probably won't come to past, and explained that his computer is working better since I helped him reformat his hard drive and reinstall Windows XP. The punk still hasn't asked to check out any movies, so once again I'm degrading myself to see one HAN SOLO...I think I might check out "Elektra" before it arrives on DVD in april or may (Hell, maybe even late march...Booooooooooomb!)
That's about it for tonight...purposely stayed off IM to see if I was missed by a special someone (The mind games we play for Online Seduction!). Started the blog and went to bed...I give it 3 months
"See you space cowboy"
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