While checking out the box office for this weekend, I stumbled upon a website listing the movies to be releases in the near future. At first I went a few months, then the end of the year and then on to next year...Do you know how many damn sequels are coming out!?!?!? And I don't mean expected ones like Spider Man or Pirates of the Carribean, I mean LOADS!
*"HOSTEL 2" - Coming out almost a year after the first one. I guess Horror movie sequels are like cake, you want so many till they clog your artieries and then you become a diebetic. Didn't even see part one, yet so I can't really say much about this one.
*"YOUNG HANNIBAL:Behind the Mask" - In the wake of the new STAR WARS Trilogy and MGM's attempt to milk the Hannibal Lecter franchise for more money, we're taken back to his teenager days where his parents were killed just after World War II. The cast is very european, I don't recognize any of the stars except Gong Li (Miami Vice). Something tells me this movie's gonna feel like "The Talented Mr. Ripley" all over again. This is due early next year which makes sense because "Hannibal" cleaned house in Feburary 2001.
*"THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2" - Like HOSTEL, didn't see it...It's due in March.
*"SHREK THE THIRD" - My god, it just won't die, will it? Ah, if it keeps making money...This one will give Spidey some tough competition when it comes out the middle of May
*"28 WEEKS LATER..." - No, Sandra Bullock doesn't go back to rehab, this is a Zombie Sequel of that movie 28 DAYS Later, see that? They went from Days to Weeks, what's next, "28 MONTHS LATER"?, maybe...This is scheduled for MAY, but my money says it'll get pushed.
*"FANTASTIC FOUR AND THE SILVER SURFER" - When I read that title, my jaw dropped. I knew they'd make another Fantastic 4, but to throw in the Chrome Dome with the Surf Board...Friggin' SWEET!...I hope they don't mess up Galactus. This promises to be a summer movie with a June release, but they should really push it.
*"HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX" - Whatever happened to POTTER releases in November? Well part 3 did come out in June 2004, maybe they're doing the odd ones in the summer and the even ones in the winter...Look for this one in July!
*"ALIENS VS PREDATOR 2" - Like Ali vs. Fraizer...once wasn't enough, they need a cameo from Arnold or Danny Glover this time around...Coming out around the same time part 1 did, August 2007.
*"RUSH HOUR 3" - I never thought I'd see it, but it's comming, After Tucker belly-ached for more money and such, he's teaming up with Jackie again, this time they're making trouble for themselves in...PARIS?!?!?, ummmmmmmm, okay! It's due in August or September 2007.
Also before THIS years over, expect SAW 3, THE GRUDGE 2, and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE:The Beginning.
What happened to originality? Between remakes, and Franchise-Do Over's, when is something going to come out that wasn't a video game, comic book, Theme Park Attraction or TV Show?
Well, believe it or not, there still some out there that try. The question is are we willing to pay 10.75 a pop to see something new and original when the sequel is 7/10 the safe bet? When someone has that answer, maybe hollywood will change.
"SEQUEL MANIA, man..."
"You can't stay on top forever, Matey...Arrrgh!"
Crockett and Tubbs strike again at the box office! Damn I wish I went to the movies this weekend.
25 Million is not really a strong Summer weekend number, but I guess things are slowing down now. I have a bad feeling that Will Ferrell NASCAR movie is gonna make STUPID amounts of money next weekend, Middle-America loves that crazy ass "sport".
"Flashback!:The Answers"
Okay, I think It's been long enough since that post and everyone has guessed what they can guess...
1) There have been may versions and hosts of the classic children's TV show. ROMPER ROOM (Even a canadian version I just learned about!), but I grew up on the 1970's version with MISS LOUIS every day (When I wasn't in school) on WOR-9 (Pre-UPN) at 11am. She never called my name :(
2) The next few were all from a little known children's show on a cable network known as Nickeloden! (Which pratically RAISED me before I turned 10). Yeah, there was Electric Company, and Sesame Street, and Mister Rogers, but around that time there was something called PINWHEEL!!! Ya'll remember Pinwheel, now? You remember the DOODLEBUGS (Herbert and Lulu)?, and the two brothers PLUS and MINUS playing GOTCHA LAST! and evil mister Ebeneezer T. Squint (an Oscar the Grouch clone I'm sure), is it comming all back now? Do you remember the Theme Song?
Pinwheel,pinwheel,
spinning around.
Look at my pinwheel and see what I found.
Pinwheel,pinwheel,
where have you been?
Hello,how are you, and may I come in?
Doo Doo DOOO Doo Doo, DOO DOO DOO DOO
Doo Doo DOOO Doo Doo, DOO DOO DOO DOO
(bring it home, now!)
Pinwheel,pinwheel,
spinning around.
Look at my pinwheel and see what I found.
Pinwheel,pinwheel,
breezy and bright.
Spin me good morning,spin me good night.
Pinwheel.
I heard Nickeloden was actually CALLED the Pinwheel Channel before they changed the name, how cool is that!
3) The science guy that probably inspired Cosmo Kramer's hairdo had two sidekicks, including one who wore a giant rat suit...that's right BEEKMAN of Beekman's World, on CBS every saturday around noon!
4) The dude in the red jacket...TURBO TEEN, he turned into a CAR whenever he got hot, and back to a kid when he got cold! (They should do a Live Action movie about him...)
5) Now, like I said, Nickeloden raised me, I mean, sure I had saturday morning cartoons, but NICK showed cartoons during the day when there was nothing on but soap operas and Donohue. Most of their cartoons came from france so there was an certain animation style you would recognize on every show. There was THE LITTLE PRINCE, a boy who lived on an asteroid and would hitch a ride on shooting stars to earth (I always wondered how he got back home). Then there was the Boy SEBASTIAN and his big white dog, BELLE in what else? "BELLE AND SEBASTIAN" remember them? or how about ESTEBAN, ZIA and TAO in "THE MYSTERIOUS CITIES OF GOLD" their theme song was so cool.
6) Pinwheel wasn't the only Children's show with puppets, there was also a cool show that took place in a Department Store, with a mannequin that would come to life when the store closed at night...it was called "TODAY'S SPECIAL".
Coming up on the halfway point, I moved on to Saturday Mornings and After school shows as a teenager...
7) I cannot believe no one couldn't remember the "SHIRT TALES"! Come on! They lived in the tree, and they were like super agents, they communicated through words on their shirts...The Tiger was so fast he could outrun his own stripes, the mole was so shy and timid. They were the coolest, and their names were: RICK, TYG, DIGGER, PAM, KIP, and BOGEY.
8) We've seen a lot of cowboys (Animated and otherwise), but none of them had the STRENGH of THE BEAR (echo), or SPEED of THE PUMA (echo), EYES of THE HAWK (echo), and EARS of THE WOLF (echo). That's what made Marshal BRAVESTARR and his partner 30/30 the coolest duo in New Texas (in the future).
9) Speaking of cowboys in the future, who could forget BHODI LI and the "Laser Tag" copy cat PHOTON! I remeber I couldn't AFFORD LASER TAG so I brought PHOTON instead, I was the only kid on my block that had it, too, man...that sucked, but I remember the TV show...it was much better than that Laser Tag cartoon they had...
10) Now when it came to dogs, everyone remembers the big 3, SCOOBY, HONG-KONG PHOOEY, and maybe DYNOMUTT or UNDERDOG, can't remember, but there was one dog that had a little more SOUL than PHOOEY, that was FOOFUR. He was cool cause he inherited his owner's mansion and shared it with his friends from the pound...he always knew to do the right thing, that big BLUE hound dog.
The last three were from "Final" childhood years (although some like to keep on living in their childhood as an adult...)
11) Going to school, my best subjects was Reading, English and Social Studies, but if there was one thing I hated, it was MATH. I still hate it today! Algerbra, Calculus and Geometry those big three I hate with a passion (Geomerty is sorta cool, thou). SO there was a show my MOM FORCED me to watch after school..."SQUARE ONE". the show had some cool moments with sapy sing-alongs and skits to make math seem FUN, but I zoned it out whenever I could. The few things that stayed with me was their take on PAC-MAN, lamely coined "MATH-MAN"...remember him? He always had to eat certain numbers of equations, he'd go all around the board saying "MathMan, MathMan, MathMan..." and if he ate the wrong thing, the evil MISTER GLICH would eat him.
12) Then there was 10 minute drama at the end of each show, with police detectives using MATH to solve crimes, Detective KATE MONDAY and GEORGE FRANKLEY of...MATHNET, Dunnnnn, Dun Dun DUN, Dunnnnn Dun Dun Dun DUNNNNNN!
and Last but not least, this little dot-thingy feels like it was just around yesterday! Surely you haven't forgotten about the the cyber-mystery solving entity know as GHOSTWRITER!!!! It's all coming back now, right?
There ya go! I wanted to do more from Nickeloden, like Bannaman, Count Duckula, and PICTURE PAGES, I wanted to do that one so bad, I couldn't find a good picture with Bill Cosby, I also wanted to do Centurions, C.O.P.S., and MASK(Mobile Armored Strike Kommand), and the GO-BOTS, Captain N, Super Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda (Ex-CUUUUUUSE ME, Princess!), Heathcliff, Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego both the Cartoon and the So-Called Game show, Pound Puppies, The Get Along Gang, you know the ones that NO one remembers go back, man...remember how cool it was when The Jetsons met the Flintstones, or when they did that cartoon with ALL the cartoon characters to help kids say NO to drugs...that was cool. The theme songs were the best...one of my favorites was "ALF" the cartoon, It had those 3 cats singing...damn I wish I could find those lyrics.
There's this killer website that lets you know about stuff from back in the day, they even have the into saved in a wma file you can see on the site, check it out...
http://www.retrojunk.com/
Not just TV cartoons either, sitcoms and even commercials!
1) There have been may versions and hosts of the classic children's TV show. ROMPER ROOM (Even a canadian version I just learned about!), but I grew up on the 1970's version with MISS LOUIS every day (When I wasn't in school) on WOR-9 (Pre-UPN) at 11am. She never called my name :(
2) The next few were all from a little known children's show on a cable network known as Nickeloden! (Which pratically RAISED me before I turned 10). Yeah, there was Electric Company, and Sesame Street, and Mister Rogers, but around that time there was something called PINWHEEL!!! Ya'll remember Pinwheel, now? You remember the DOODLEBUGS (Herbert and Lulu)?, and the two brothers PLUS and MINUS playing GOTCHA LAST! and evil mister Ebeneezer T. Squint (an Oscar the Grouch clone I'm sure), is it comming all back now? Do you remember the Theme Song?
Pinwheel,pinwheel,
spinning around.
Look at my pinwheel and see what I found.
Pinwheel,pinwheel,
where have you been?
Hello,how are you, and may I come in?
Doo Doo DOOO Doo Doo, DOO DOO DOO DOO
Doo Doo DOOO Doo Doo, DOO DOO DOO DOO
(bring it home, now!)
Pinwheel,pinwheel,
spinning around.
Look at my pinwheel and see what I found.
Pinwheel,pinwheel,
breezy and bright.
Spin me good morning,spin me good night.
Pinwheel.
I heard Nickeloden was actually CALLED the Pinwheel Channel before they changed the name, how cool is that!
3) The science guy that probably inspired Cosmo Kramer's hairdo had two sidekicks, including one who wore a giant rat suit...that's right BEEKMAN of Beekman's World, on CBS every saturday around noon!
4) The dude in the red jacket...TURBO TEEN, he turned into a CAR whenever he got hot, and back to a kid when he got cold! (They should do a Live Action movie about him...)
5) Now, like I said, Nickeloden raised me, I mean, sure I had saturday morning cartoons, but NICK showed cartoons during the day when there was nothing on but soap operas and Donohue. Most of their cartoons came from france so there was an certain animation style you would recognize on every show. There was THE LITTLE PRINCE, a boy who lived on an asteroid and would hitch a ride on shooting stars to earth (I always wondered how he got back home). Then there was the Boy SEBASTIAN and his big white dog, BELLE in what else? "BELLE AND SEBASTIAN" remember them? or how about ESTEBAN, ZIA and TAO in "THE MYSTERIOUS CITIES OF GOLD" their theme song was so cool.
6) Pinwheel wasn't the only Children's show with puppets, there was also a cool show that took place in a Department Store, with a mannequin that would come to life when the store closed at night...it was called "TODAY'S SPECIAL".
Coming up on the halfway point, I moved on to Saturday Mornings and After school shows as a teenager...
7) I cannot believe no one couldn't remember the "SHIRT TALES"! Come on! They lived in the tree, and they were like super agents, they communicated through words on their shirts...The Tiger was so fast he could outrun his own stripes, the mole was so shy and timid. They were the coolest, and their names were: RICK, TYG, DIGGER, PAM, KIP, and BOGEY.
8) We've seen a lot of cowboys (Animated and otherwise), but none of them had the STRENGH of THE BEAR (echo), or SPEED of THE PUMA (echo), EYES of THE HAWK (echo), and EARS of THE WOLF (echo). That's what made Marshal BRAVESTARR and his partner 30/30 the coolest duo in New Texas (in the future).
9) Speaking of cowboys in the future, who could forget BHODI LI and the "Laser Tag" copy cat PHOTON! I remeber I couldn't AFFORD LASER TAG so I brought PHOTON instead, I was the only kid on my block that had it, too, man...that sucked, but I remember the TV show...it was much better than that Laser Tag cartoon they had...
10) Now when it came to dogs, everyone remembers the big 3, SCOOBY, HONG-KONG PHOOEY, and maybe DYNOMUTT or UNDERDOG, can't remember, but there was one dog that had a little more SOUL than PHOOEY, that was FOOFUR. He was cool cause he inherited his owner's mansion and shared it with his friends from the pound...he always knew to do the right thing, that big BLUE hound dog.
The last three were from "Final" childhood years (although some like to keep on living in their childhood as an adult...)
11) Going to school, my best subjects was Reading, English and Social Studies, but if there was one thing I hated, it was MATH. I still hate it today! Algerbra, Calculus and Geometry those big three I hate with a passion (Geomerty is sorta cool, thou). SO there was a show my MOM FORCED me to watch after school..."SQUARE ONE". the show had some cool moments with sapy sing-alongs and skits to make math seem FUN, but I zoned it out whenever I could. The few things that stayed with me was their take on PAC-MAN, lamely coined "MATH-MAN"...remember him? He always had to eat certain numbers of equations, he'd go all around the board saying "MathMan, MathMan, MathMan..." and if he ate the wrong thing, the evil MISTER GLICH would eat him.
12) Then there was 10 minute drama at the end of each show, with police detectives using MATH to solve crimes, Detective KATE MONDAY and GEORGE FRANKLEY of...MATHNET, Dunnnnn, Dun Dun DUN, Dunnnnn Dun Dun Dun DUNNNNNN!
and Last but not least, this little dot-thingy feels like it was just around yesterday! Surely you haven't forgotten about the the cyber-mystery solving entity know as GHOSTWRITER!!!! It's all coming back now, right?
There ya go! I wanted to do more from Nickeloden, like Bannaman, Count Duckula, and PICTURE PAGES, I wanted to do that one so bad, I couldn't find a good picture with Bill Cosby, I also wanted to do Centurions, C.O.P.S., and MASK(Mobile Armored Strike Kommand), and the GO-BOTS, Captain N, Super Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda (Ex-CUUUUUUSE ME, Princess!), Heathcliff, Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego both the Cartoon and the So-Called Game show, Pound Puppies, The Get Along Gang, you know the ones that NO one remembers go back, man...remember how cool it was when The Jetsons met the Flintstones, or when they did that cartoon with ALL the cartoon characters to help kids say NO to drugs...that was cool. The theme songs were the best...one of my favorites was "ALF" the cartoon, It had those 3 cats singing...damn I wish I could find those lyrics.
There's this killer website that lets you know about stuff from back in the day, they even have the into saved in a wma file you can see on the site, check it out...
http://www.retrojunk.com/
Not just TV cartoons either, sitcoms and even commercials!
"To BLOG or not to BLOG!"
Got this little quiz from KIMMYK...
When did you first start blogging and why?
Feburary, 2005. Right before the Eagles lost the Super Bowl. It was a very critical point in my life, my days of living alone were dwindling down, I knew I was at a turning point and I just felt the need chronicle my fall from grace. I was inspired by the BLOG "Fruit Loops and Porn" (Which may or may not be at it's original link on the side there anymore).
What don't you talk about?
The reasons why I can't sleep at night, my past attrocities, the car accident and why no one in the direct family knows about it.
Are you and your blogging persona the same person?
No actually we're not. While everything I write in here is true, it paints a false picture that I live a routinely exciting life, which I don't.
How do you use blogging to build friendships?
I like to collect pity, and remind people that no matter how bad they think they got it, they're ALWAYS someone that has it worst. It actually makes me happy when people feel better off because of MY misery. I value my friendships very well.
How would you describe your writing style?
Raw, edgy, a few typos here and there, a tormented soul trying to be heard.
When did you first start blogging and why?
Feburary, 2005. Right before the Eagles lost the Super Bowl. It was a very critical point in my life, my days of living alone were dwindling down, I knew I was at a turning point and I just felt the need chronicle my fall from grace. I was inspired by the BLOG "Fruit Loops and Porn" (Which may or may not be at it's original link on the side there anymore).
What don't you talk about?
The reasons why I can't sleep at night, my past attrocities, the car accident and why no one in the direct family knows about it.
Are you and your blogging persona the same person?
No actually we're not. While everything I write in here is true, it paints a false picture that I live a routinely exciting life, which I don't.
How do you use blogging to build friendships?
I like to collect pity, and remind people that no matter how bad they think they got it, they're ALWAYS someone that has it worst. It actually makes me happy when people feel better off because of MY misery. I value my friendships very well.
How would you describe your writing style?
Raw, edgy, a few typos here and there, a tormented soul trying to be heard.
"This one's 4 the Fam"
Got a call this week from my Cousin. No, not the one in Virginia likes MOBY as much as I do, her sister, my other cousin, who still lives in the city but has been a bit of a recluse. She visits like once every 3 or 4 years around christmas or thanksgiving.
She has an old PC that's busted and wonders if I can fix it. I get this all the time, normally the darn thing is fried and needs to be restored from scratch, but apparently theres some old data on the hard drive she's trying to save. She came over today to drop off the tower, keyboard and the mouse, along with any manuals and CD's she had related to system restoration. The old bucket of bolts still has Windows 98 as an operating system, hopefully I can fix it with some of the stuff I got lying around.
We caught up on things and MOM walked her back to the car.
I wish I had JOE around to back me on this...If I can't it software-wise, JOE's the only one I'd trust to open 'er up and tinker inside.
Nothing much happening but that, this weekend I have the place to myself while mom goes to Neighborhood Block Reunion-thing up in Spring Valley...I wanna see "Miami Vice" but I'm starting to feel it in the expenses department after paying some bills.
I'll probably just stay home, listen and download music while buring new TV shows on DVD's...this is the life.
She has an old PC that's busted and wonders if I can fix it. I get this all the time, normally the darn thing is fried and needs to be restored from scratch, but apparently theres some old data on the hard drive she's trying to save. She came over today to drop off the tower, keyboard and the mouse, along with any manuals and CD's she had related to system restoration. The old bucket of bolts still has Windows 98 as an operating system, hopefully I can fix it with some of the stuff I got lying around.
We caught up on things and MOM walked her back to the car.
I wish I had JOE around to back me on this...If I can't it software-wise, JOE's the only one I'd trust to open 'er up and tinker inside.
Nothing much happening but that, this weekend I have the place to myself while mom goes to Neighborhood Block Reunion-thing up in Spring Valley...I wanna see "Miami Vice" but I'm starting to feel it in the expenses department after paying some bills.
I'll probably just stay home, listen and download music while buring new TV shows on DVD's...this is the life.
"Somebody owes me MONEY!"
Hah! I remember when they both came out, everyone thought one of the Backstreet Boys was "fruity"...BUT I always KNEW one of those dudes in N'SNYC was instead and NO one believed me!
Now, Lance Bass comes out of the closet and once again, I'm right.
Boo-Yah!
I don't have an opinion or anything about the lifestyle, I just wish these people come clean...we cool with it now.
20 years from now, Oprah and Alicia Keys will come out, too...I'll be right, then as well.
Now, Lance Bass comes out of the closet and once again, I'm right.
Boo-Yah!
I don't have an opinion or anything about the lifestyle, I just wish these people come clean...we cool with it now.
20 years from now, Oprah and Alicia Keys will come out, too...I'll be right, then as well.
"50 FILMS TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE"
This is such bullshit...I think I've seen only 4 on this list, someone please tell me if any of these others are actually worth seeing!
1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey
7 North by Northwest
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan
*11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation
*13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
*15 Pulp Fiction
*16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
*19 Boyz n the Hood
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich
25 Trainspotting
*26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
*31 Scarface
*32 Terminator 2
33 Three Colours: Blue
*34 The Royal Tenen-baums
35 The Ladykillers
*36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
*41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands.
Okay, I've seen 11(*), but still this is some bull, some on the list I've only seen pieces of or just heard of them by reputation, but seriously, this list does not represent the paramount of modern day cinema, is Robert DeNiro in any of these pictures?, Al Pacino is represented in Scarface, but that's it!, and what about the african-americans? Boyz n the hood?, that above all movies is the film picked to repesent us and our struggles?...I wasn't raised in LA! I never had to worry about police helicopters flying low over my damn head! And what the hell is Erin Brockovich doing in this list?!?!?...Friggin Travolta in "A civil action" was better than that piece of crap. There're a couple of foreign films in there I have no clue about that I might investigate one day, but this list is a crock. No Star Wars?, no Lord of the Rings? Plus, they have the wrong Michael Mann movie up there, "Manhunter" was great, but "HEAT" will always have Mann imortalized for eternity. Sometimes I can't believe the crap that gets printed.
P.S. I just learned that they are making a "HEAT" video game...yes, those are tears in my eye...(*snif*)
1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey
7 North by Northwest
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan
*11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation
*13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
*15 Pulp Fiction
*16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
*19 Boyz n the Hood
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich
25 Trainspotting
*26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
*31 Scarface
*32 Terminator 2
33 Three Colours: Blue
*34 The Royal Tenen-baums
35 The Ladykillers
*36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
*41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands.
Okay, I've seen 11(*), but still this is some bull, some on the list I've only seen pieces of or just heard of them by reputation, but seriously, this list does not represent the paramount of modern day cinema, is Robert DeNiro in any of these pictures?, Al Pacino is represented in Scarface, but that's it!, and what about the african-americans? Boyz n the hood?, that above all movies is the film picked to repesent us and our struggles?...I wasn't raised in LA! I never had to worry about police helicopters flying low over my damn head! And what the hell is Erin Brockovich doing in this list?!?!?...Friggin Travolta in "A civil action" was better than that piece of crap. There're a couple of foreign films in there I have no clue about that I might investigate one day, but this list is a crock. No Star Wars?, no Lord of the Rings? Plus, they have the wrong Michael Mann movie up there, "Manhunter" was great, but "HEAT" will always have Mann imortalized for eternity. Sometimes I can't believe the crap that gets printed.
P.S. I just learned that they are making a "HEAT" video game...yes, those are tears in my eye...(*snif*)
"...So just clean out your ears and just check the word"
Still aching from the pain of realizing I won't be at that TRIBE concert, I found my self seaching for new music to pump...
#1 Pharell's new album is wack as hell. I'm sorry, with beats like his I was expecting EPIC shit, he need to get back with that asian dude and bring back N.E.R.D.
2! I don't know if I said this before but P!nk's new album is the shit! I'm really bonding with my inner angry-independant-lesbian-woman listening to her stuff!
Nelly Furtado's album was like a game of BATTLESHIP (Hit & Miss), she's got 2 strong singles under the belt. MANEATER may be 2006's "Hollaback Girl", I just hope I don't see Nelly in a cheerleader outfit for the video.
Speaking of Mrs. Furtado, Fergie called she wants her style back cuz SHE's working on a solo album of her own! My god has it been that long? Who's next the pale chick from Evenesence?, nah just kiddlin Fergster, do you...I've been with da 'peas since you were in that OTHER band so if you outgrow them and move on, I'll still follow 'em.
I swear, this year, I've actually brought only 2 CD's so far (Ghostface's "Fishscale" & the latest from The 5 Browns) and I haven't even opened them yet! (They're still in a bag I've yet to unpack from miami...).
Around the corner is my crew, THE ROOTS with Game Theory, on a sneak listen it sounds pretty good, I'll worship it like scripture but it won't get any airplay on radio or MTV and VH1...then there's Jurassic 5 with FEEDBACK, there was a time when albums from these 2 (ROOTS AND J5) were 6 months apart so they could both prosper, what is up with them both coming out at the same time?
I'm REAL close to buying Busta's BIG BANG CD, only to hear the new songs he added to spite the early bootleg copies that floated out there. Something tells me he's gonna suffer from the "MOBB DEEP Syndrome" when the bootleg out shines the original.
Then there's DARK MAN X (DMX). Anyone wanna tell me why BET is taking the time to show what goes on in the head of THIS manic?, jus kiddin' "Year of the dog...Again" (Nice title, by the way) promises to be "Classic X" if you into that, me? I could live with or without it.
SO, in new discovered artist and music, this year I've gotten into Richard Ashcroft and J*Davey...now I present to you a new artist I have come to discover...with a SOUND of their own!
It's just something about the name of a group that draws your attention. And taking the title from "The Black Eyed Peas" for weirdest (or stupidest by some people's standards, not mine, thou) name are...the "Gym Class Heroes".
These 4 dudes are from New York (Not the city, somewhere in the outskirts of the city limits) and their sound fuses Pop, Lite Rock, R&B and dare I say a little bit of RAP! Guitar riffs, rocking drum beats and dash of electronica synths these guys make you scratch your head as you bob it back and forth...
Road Runner(My Cable Broadband ISP) put me on their second and latest album that just came out, "As cruel as School Children" which had a "Leaders of a New School" feel (Song tracks are called "periods", just like high school!). After hearing samples I went back and downloaded their first album, "The Papercut Chronicles" which was an impressive debut. Now, maybe it's becuase i'm into out-there-shit as it is, but I was refreshed by this new sound and the trip away from the ordinary. I recommend it it anyone else out there reading this.
Peace, ya'll!
#1 Pharell's new album is wack as hell. I'm sorry, with beats like his I was expecting EPIC shit, he need to get back with that asian dude and bring back N.E.R.D.
2! I don't know if I said this before but P!nk's new album is the shit! I'm really bonding with my inner angry-independant-lesbian-woman listening to her stuff!
Nelly Furtado's album was like a game of BATTLESHIP (Hit & Miss), she's got 2 strong singles under the belt. MANEATER may be 2006's "Hollaback Girl", I just hope I don't see Nelly in a cheerleader outfit for the video.
Speaking of Mrs. Furtado, Fergie called she wants her style back cuz SHE's working on a solo album of her own! My god has it been that long? Who's next the pale chick from Evenesence?, nah just kiddlin Fergster, do you...I've been with da 'peas since you were in that OTHER band so if you outgrow them and move on, I'll still follow 'em.
I swear, this year, I've actually brought only 2 CD's so far (Ghostface's "Fishscale" & the latest from The 5 Browns) and I haven't even opened them yet! (They're still in a bag I've yet to unpack from miami...).
Around the corner is my crew, THE ROOTS with Game Theory, on a sneak listen it sounds pretty good, I'll worship it like scripture but it won't get any airplay on radio or MTV and VH1...then there's Jurassic 5 with FEEDBACK, there was a time when albums from these 2 (ROOTS AND J5) were 6 months apart so they could both prosper, what is up with them both coming out at the same time?
I'm REAL close to buying Busta's BIG BANG CD, only to hear the new songs he added to spite the early bootleg copies that floated out there. Something tells me he's gonna suffer from the "MOBB DEEP Syndrome" when the bootleg out shines the original.
Then there's DARK MAN X (DMX). Anyone wanna tell me why BET is taking the time to show what goes on in the head of THIS manic?, jus kiddin' "Year of the dog...Again" (Nice title, by the way) promises to be "Classic X" if you into that, me? I could live with or without it.
SO, in new discovered artist and music, this year I've gotten into Richard Ashcroft and J*Davey...now I present to you a new artist I have come to discover...with a SOUND of their own!
It's just something about the name of a group that draws your attention. And taking the title from "The Black Eyed Peas" for weirdest (or stupidest by some people's standards, not mine, thou) name are...the "Gym Class Heroes".
These 4 dudes are from New York (Not the city, somewhere in the outskirts of the city limits) and their sound fuses Pop, Lite Rock, R&B and dare I say a little bit of RAP! Guitar riffs, rocking drum beats and dash of electronica synths these guys make you scratch your head as you bob it back and forth...
Road Runner(My Cable Broadband ISP) put me on their second and latest album that just came out, "As cruel as School Children" which had a "Leaders of a New School" feel (Song tracks are called "periods", just like high school!). After hearing samples I went back and downloaded their first album, "The Papercut Chronicles" which was an impressive debut. Now, maybe it's becuase i'm into out-there-shit as it is, but I was refreshed by this new sound and the trip away from the ordinary. I recommend it it anyone else out there reading this.
Peace, ya'll!
"Howl at the Moon"
I've seen MOBY, I've seen BJORK, I've seen DAVE BRUBECK, THE ROOTS, THE BLACK EYED PEAS, and even GWEN STEFANI...I'm about to see perhaps the best PM DAWN concert next week...
But nothing...
NOTHING!!!!
would prepare me for...
this.
......
...
..
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST reunion tour...coming by Sunday, Oct, 1st 2006 and the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey...
So close, and yet so far...(snif)
It would be the ultimate Birthday Gift.
And I know I can't go...
Excuse me, I'm going to howl at the moon now as my heart breaks in a million pieces.
But nothing...
NOTHING!!!!
would prepare me for...
this.
......
...
..
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST reunion tour...coming by Sunday, Oct, 1st 2006 and the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey...
So close, and yet so far...(snif)
It would be the ultimate Birthday Gift.
And I know I can't go...
Excuse me, I'm going to howl at the moon now as my heart breaks in a million pieces.
"...Know when to walk away, Know when to Run..."
Yeah, so I've come to a decision about IKON...
Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm not working no sweatshop conditions for a measly 9.00 per hour!, "F**k that, son!" (In Dave Chappelle tone).
Dear ol' IPS will call me back for something...or I can find something else, BETTER!
So we put that ugliness behind us and move on...
MOM pestered me into going over to Psycho Sis's house today to help her fix her TV hookup.
Apparently she did something 3 weeks ago and her cable's been out ever since (Lord knows in Heaven if said event was anything LEGAL).
You'd think she'd be enjoying these past weeks with my niece down south by staying at home and keeping quiet, but knowing her she's having parties every other night while still doing that Parks job whenever she can...
At 5:00pm MOM packed up a heafty "CARE" package of Paper Towels and toilet paper, as well as a whole BUNCH of other stuff to carry along to lil' miss thang's place.
Psycho Sis's ghetto fabulous lifestyle must be spreading to MOM as she decided to take a cab over and deal with the bus coming back.
When we finally got there (after hiking up 4 flights of steps) we helped ourselves to the one thing my sister's got going for her...Air Conditioning! It's been so damn hot and humid with these storms the last few days!
I get to work on the TV, which is barely being supported by a "Built it yourself" Entertainment Centter, surrounding her "Ever-so-important" stereo system.
"I can only hear the TV, there's no picture!" she told MOM 3 weeks ago, she though about calling the cable people but they told her a visit would cost her over $100, so that's when they called me in.
I figured she had the audio hooked up to her stereo speakers (Ghetto-Surround Sound) and one of the wires connecting directly to the TV itself probably came out. So tilting the TV to side in the center "cubbyhole" of the fragile "Home Depot Reject" of a shelf...I work my way through the maze of wires.
MOM's busy playing cutesy face with Psycho's Sis's latest kitten of the house (I say latest cuz she's had three cats who have been mistreated and ran off by my niece in the past 5 years.). The charcoal lil scamp made MOM's SUMO cat, PEANUT look like a, a...what's bigger than a SUMO?, well you get the drift.
The MISTRESS of the Manor was still not home, not due from work till 7:30pm. The back of the TV was something out of a jungle, wires everywhere, it was a wonder anything worked before this happened! My knees were working me, so I had to take a break. MOM took this time to order Dominoes for a grand feast in honor of the lil princess...
I gave it another go, I started pulling wires out everywhere so I can trace when they belong too, the TV holder started to shift a bit like the tower of pisa. The only thing holding that monstrosity up is all the crap it's filled with. Bootleg DVD's, VHS tapes, and CD Cases, at the very top was two shrines dedicated to our cousin who met an umtimely death at the hands of an abusive boyfriend, AND psycho's sis's "Future" husband, Jay-Z...
"If that damn thing collapes..." MOM whispered. "Don't worry...I know what I'm Doin'" I replied.
I reconnect some wires like a 1940's Ma-Belle phone operator working a switchboard, and a breakthrough happens...The cable box menu comes into focus and reprograms itself to get the stations up. After 10 minutes of waiting, the attempt failed, so I switched two other wires and tried again, 5 minutes later, we were looking at BET once again...job well done.
I help myself to some pizza and then channel surf her VAST list of stations (We still haven't swtiched to digital so i'm not used to over 75 channels. let alone 625!). I catch the tail end of "Episode III" on HBO as Sister Cementhead finally comes home. Seeing her in that uniform still freaks me out because I'm still not 100% sure WHAT the hell she supposely does for a living. She's like a Park Cop, she can ticket people that act up in the parks around the city, "Enviromental Conservation Enforcement Agent"? what the hell is that?
This my first time seeing since I've been back from Miami so I give her the ashtray I brought her and one of the shirts I brought. We look at Star Wars while she tells MOM about work and other crap driving her crazy, then she looks at my handy work on the entertainment center...
"You better put some of those wires back behind where I can't see them, I don't my TV looking all tacky with them sticking out like that..."
"You're lucky you got a picture, you ungreatful lil gnat!" I yelled.
"Look at my thing, it's crooked!"
"Ah, fix it when we leave, just don't touch the wires, I'm not comming back if it goes out again..."
"C'mon, I try to keep this area nice!"
"Fine!, I'll make it nice with NO picture again and you pay somebody 200 dollars to mess it up!"
It went back and forth like that for awhile...
We can't stay at peace for no longer than 20 minutes in each other's presence...
Then she tried playing a DVD and nothing happened, must of forgotten to keep that in "The Loop" (Between Cable Anntenna, the box and TV) SO I did some other rewiring. I was able to get the cable working without the DVD or the DVD without the cable...10 more minutes of figuring out and had managed to fix everything (don't ask me how, I jus did!).
At 9:15, we left for our bus ride home and got there by 10, I worked on some of my TV Show DVD's and then went to bed.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm not working no sweatshop conditions for a measly 9.00 per hour!, "F**k that, son!" (In Dave Chappelle tone).
Dear ol' IPS will call me back for something...or I can find something else, BETTER!
So we put that ugliness behind us and move on...
MOM pestered me into going over to Psycho Sis's house today to help her fix her TV hookup.
Apparently she did something 3 weeks ago and her cable's been out ever since (Lord knows in Heaven if said event was anything LEGAL).
You'd think she'd be enjoying these past weeks with my niece down south by staying at home and keeping quiet, but knowing her she's having parties every other night while still doing that Parks job whenever she can...
At 5:00pm MOM packed up a heafty "CARE" package of Paper Towels and toilet paper, as well as a whole BUNCH of other stuff to carry along to lil' miss thang's place.
Psycho Sis's ghetto fabulous lifestyle must be spreading to MOM as she decided to take a cab over and deal with the bus coming back.
When we finally got there (after hiking up 4 flights of steps) we helped ourselves to the one thing my sister's got going for her...Air Conditioning! It's been so damn hot and humid with these storms the last few days!
I get to work on the TV, which is barely being supported by a "Built it yourself" Entertainment Centter, surrounding her "Ever-so-important" stereo system.
"I can only hear the TV, there's no picture!" she told MOM 3 weeks ago, she though about calling the cable people but they told her a visit would cost her over $100, so that's when they called me in.
I figured she had the audio hooked up to her stereo speakers (Ghetto-Surround Sound) and one of the wires connecting directly to the TV itself probably came out. So tilting the TV to side in the center "cubbyhole" of the fragile "Home Depot Reject" of a shelf...I work my way through the maze of wires.
MOM's busy playing cutesy face with Psycho's Sis's latest kitten of the house (I say latest cuz she's had three cats who have been mistreated and ran off by my niece in the past 5 years.). The charcoal lil scamp made MOM's SUMO cat, PEANUT look like a, a...what's bigger than a SUMO?, well you get the drift.
The MISTRESS of the Manor was still not home, not due from work till 7:30pm. The back of the TV was something out of a jungle, wires everywhere, it was a wonder anything worked before this happened! My knees were working me, so I had to take a break. MOM took this time to order Dominoes for a grand feast in honor of the lil princess...
I gave it another go, I started pulling wires out everywhere so I can trace when they belong too, the TV holder started to shift a bit like the tower of pisa. The only thing holding that monstrosity up is all the crap it's filled with. Bootleg DVD's, VHS tapes, and CD Cases, at the very top was two shrines dedicated to our cousin who met an umtimely death at the hands of an abusive boyfriend, AND psycho's sis's "Future" husband, Jay-Z...
"If that damn thing collapes..." MOM whispered. "Don't worry...I know what I'm Doin'" I replied.
I reconnect some wires like a 1940's Ma-Belle phone operator working a switchboard, and a breakthrough happens...The cable box menu comes into focus and reprograms itself to get the stations up. After 10 minutes of waiting, the attempt failed, so I switched two other wires and tried again, 5 minutes later, we were looking at BET once again...job well done.
I help myself to some pizza and then channel surf her VAST list of stations (We still haven't swtiched to digital so i'm not used to over 75 channels. let alone 625!). I catch the tail end of "Episode III" on HBO as Sister Cementhead finally comes home. Seeing her in that uniform still freaks me out because I'm still not 100% sure WHAT the hell she supposely does for a living. She's like a Park Cop, she can ticket people that act up in the parks around the city, "Enviromental Conservation Enforcement Agent"? what the hell is that?
This my first time seeing since I've been back from Miami so I give her the ashtray I brought her and one of the shirts I brought. We look at Star Wars while she tells MOM about work and other crap driving her crazy, then she looks at my handy work on the entertainment center...
"You better put some of those wires back behind where I can't see them, I don't my TV looking all tacky with them sticking out like that..."
"You're lucky you got a picture, you ungreatful lil gnat!" I yelled.
"Look at my thing, it's crooked!"
"Ah, fix it when we leave, just don't touch the wires, I'm not comming back if it goes out again..."
"C'mon, I try to keep this area nice!"
"Fine!, I'll make it nice with NO picture again and you pay somebody 200 dollars to mess it up!"
It went back and forth like that for awhile...
We can't stay at peace for no longer than 20 minutes in each other's presence...
Then she tried playing a DVD and nothing happened, must of forgotten to keep that in "The Loop" (Between Cable Anntenna, the box and TV) SO I did some other rewiring. I was able to get the cable working without the DVD or the DVD without the cable...10 more minutes of figuring out and had managed to fix everything (don't ask me how, I jus did!).
At 9:15, we left for our bus ride home and got there by 10, I worked on some of my TV Show DVD's and then went to bed.
"18,720.00"
Recieved a UPS from IKON today. Standard paperwork bullshit. The formal Offer Letter detailing the position, salary and start date...IF i choose to accept it.
I just kept staring at the line...
"Your initial compensatition will be at a rate of 9.00 per hour bi-weekly (26 pay periods per year annualized to 18,720.00."
I know I'm better than this, so why do I feel so desperate enough that I should take it and be thankfull?
18,720 a year, BI-weekly comes to 720.00 every check. Minus taxes and shit, my net will probably be around 660.00...EVERY two weeks.
How do they expect anyone to LIVE making that kind of money?
I'm pay mom 400-500 for rent while mom puts in the rest, we live in a two bedroom apartment that would normally go for 1400-1600 for any new tenant but we're barelt making the 1089.00 rent between the two of us...then 103.00 for cable and broadband that I'm paying, plus 2 credit cards that HAD zero balances but are now lurking around to be a factor for a few months.
and what about food?, laundry, and carfare...can I really do this, OR should I pass and find something else.
IKON is a big company, and it stable work...IPS may not call for awhile and when they do, mom doesn't want me leaving Indy to go to OHIO for at least 5 months...
I can SO hear Laurence Fishburn's voice echoing in my head...
"You're better than this...DON'T think you are, KNOW you are..."
This decision is going to effect things in my life the next couple of years...take the job, apply for afforable house (I'd damn sure qualify!) and move out just when mom's ready to go to her senior citizen place she's been fantazining about...
If I work hard enough and prove myself, maybe I'll get a raise in time, but if I go in there and the others say they've been there for years without a raise?
Well, there are overtime opportunites, so maybe It won't be as bad. I'm expected to report to them next wednesday, July 26th...so a four day/three day schedule would have me working WED, THUR, FRI, SAT...while having off SUN, MON, and TUES. Unless they change it up, who knows...
MOM said sleep on and do whatever you wanna do starting tomorrow, glad to know there's no pressure.
I dunno...
I WOULD like a few extra opinions on this...what should I do, ya'll?
If you think LES should take the job, turn to page 16
If you think LES should pass and look for something else, turn to page 5
I just kept staring at the line...
"Your initial compensatition will be at a rate of 9.00 per hour bi-weekly (26 pay periods per year annualized to 18,720.00."
I know I'm better than this, so why do I feel so desperate enough that I should take it and be thankfull?
18,720 a year, BI-weekly comes to 720.00 every check. Minus taxes and shit, my net will probably be around 660.00...EVERY two weeks.
How do they expect anyone to LIVE making that kind of money?
I'm pay mom 400-500 for rent while mom puts in the rest, we live in a two bedroom apartment that would normally go for 1400-1600 for any new tenant but we're barelt making the 1089.00 rent between the two of us...then 103.00 for cable and broadband that I'm paying, plus 2 credit cards that HAD zero balances but are now lurking around to be a factor for a few months.
and what about food?, laundry, and carfare...can I really do this, OR should I pass and find something else.
IKON is a big company, and it stable work...IPS may not call for awhile and when they do, mom doesn't want me leaving Indy to go to OHIO for at least 5 months...
I can SO hear Laurence Fishburn's voice echoing in my head...
"You're better than this...DON'T think you are, KNOW you are..."
This decision is going to effect things in my life the next couple of years...take the job, apply for afforable house (I'd damn sure qualify!) and move out just when mom's ready to go to her senior citizen place she's been fantazining about...
If I work hard enough and prove myself, maybe I'll get a raise in time, but if I go in there and the others say they've been there for years without a raise?
Well, there are overtime opportunites, so maybe It won't be as bad. I'm expected to report to them next wednesday, July 26th...so a four day/three day schedule would have me working WED, THUR, FRI, SAT...while having off SUN, MON, and TUES. Unless they change it up, who knows...
MOM said sleep on and do whatever you wanna do starting tomorrow, glad to know there's no pressure.
I dunno...
I WOULD like a few extra opinions on this...what should I do, ya'll?
If you think LES should take the job, turn to page 16
If you think LES should pass and look for something else, turn to page 5
"The new adventure..."
It looks like I got the job. They're gonna do a background check and then schedule a drug test for me and that's it...
So it begins, a new adventure in life.
New strangers to introduce myself to, a new regiment to adjust to.
Going to bed by 10pm, no more CSI Miami, Boston Legal, or any new shows. Getting up at 4:30-5am. that'll be fun during the winter when it's nice and dark!
Working on sundays will be painfull during Football seaaon with my Eagles, but I'll get over it.
Standing up all the time will be a bitch at first, hopefully I won't doze off standing up, hopefully the work will be stimulating.
It's natural the fear the unknown, the question is can you be brave enough to step in refreshed, anew, with a sense of bright eyed optimism.
So, with that, I have something to write about again...
"Lets see where the Rabbit Hole goes..."
Here's a real FLASHBACK!
Not to get competitive with my brotha up north and his Bush Bashing, Condi Lashing ways, But I decided to look back on what I remember growing up...and I'm sure the majority will agree with me...
Who is this lil fella?
Before Bill Nye, there was this Science Guy! Who Is he?
Who's this? What weird power did he have?
Who are these three and what were they looking for?
Can you name them all?
Who remembers this space cowboy?
And last but not least...
Who remembers what this symbol used to represent?
Who is this lil fella?
Before Bill Nye, there was this Science Guy! Who Is he?
Who's this? What weird power did he have?
Who are these three and what were they looking for?
Can you name them all?
Who remembers this space cowboy?
And last but not least...
Who remembers what this symbol used to represent?
"Look...*BANG!!!*...An undead Monkey....Top That!
It was so damn hot yesterday. I'm talking "Martin Lawrence Fainting" hot. I picked the worst day for a job interview. And of course with me, it's "everything that could go wrong did"...The Dry Cleaners did my shirt at the last minute despite me leaving it with them friday, I couldn't find anything to hold my resume in (I'm going to staples first thing to get a leather covered ledger-type folder!) I couldn't remember the addresses of my references, the building itself was a mystery to find due to some construction work!
HOWEVER...
They did seem impressed with me and were pretty much ready to give me the position...
the question was do it want it!?!?!?
There are a few factors in play, which they broke it down for me...
1) I would be standing, ALL the time! No chairs, stools or anything! Working on the scanner or computer on my feet for nearly 10 hours a day! *WHEW* Talk about "Prison Rules!"...well, I had to stand when I was a clerk for the library, checking out books, but that was for up to 2 hours at a time...
2) The hours are from 7am to 6pm for four days a week, then the next 3 days you're off, this INCLUDES weekends!...can you say "Kathy Lee Sweatshop" anyone? It may take a lil getting used to, and they mentioned 10 minute breaks every 2 hours...and to work 4 times and have the next 3 to yourself may come in handy...
here's the clincher...
3) Starting salary... 9.00 an hour *SCREEEEECH*...okay stop the bus!
but lemme think...it's perm, right?...always there no matter what, so I start at the bottom of the barrel again, I can work my way up, right? Big A-List actors take the pay cut to do an independent film once in a while...still...$9 is like peanuts compared to what IPS is paying me, even if it's off & on...
MOM wanted to smack me on the head for being so "Snobby", she said she's had to swallow her pride a couple of times...
there are some other issues like overtime, the workflow and the fact that for some bizarre reason I'll be only the 2nd guy in a work force of 7. Six women, huh?...meh, no problem, just hope no diva shit happens and I go through some more "Work Politcs" animosity that has followed me around wherever I've worked at...People have always been intimitated and threated by my work ethic and end up consipring against me for no apparent reason.
So, that was the interview, I mentioned that with my expirence, I'm worth at least 10.00 per hour, the supervisor said "He'll see what he can do" (Which usually means NO) and they'll mail me a formal Job Offer and if I accept I'll have to go through a drug screening (again...) and then I'm in...just like that! We'll see...
Imma still keep on looking, in the meantime, I'd thought I would elaborate on some of the main things mentioned the "Fastball Special" post...
The whole JOE's Sister-thing has got me vexed (Yes, I said vexed, what?)
Seeing her at the hospital lobby with JOE, her eyes just lit up when she recognized me. I couldn't help to notice, she was checking me out! Sorta like in "Lethal Weapon", Danny Glover's oldest daughter developing a crush on Mel Gibson...what the hell do you do in that situation? She used to be this skinny, little runt of a tomboy, always tagging along with JOE and the rest of the gang, trying to get into what we were doing, Video Games, Riding Dirt Bikes and crap. She's gone through an Anna-Nicole type stage growing up, she got a bit chubby while being depressed at one point, but then she slimmed down again and has a nice shape on her.
When JOE went up to see his father, his mother went back with him, so the sister (Damn, lemme think of a name here, don't wanna use the real name...) stayed with me in the lobby. To try and keep a nice conversatition going (and kill time, I guess...) (Sandy?...no, Cindy, yeah, cindy like in the Brady Bunch!) CINDY kept asking questions about me (Could she be any more obvious?!?!?). She asked if I was still into video games, If I was seeing someone, what kind of girl am I looking for, all while making these "Google Eyes" at me...
Again, I can even imagine being with CINDY, she's my best friend's little sister...you just don't do that! I just hope she don't try and stalk me now...
HOWEVER...
They did seem impressed with me and were pretty much ready to give me the position...
the question was do it want it!?!?!?
There are a few factors in play, which they broke it down for me...
1) I would be standing, ALL the time! No chairs, stools or anything! Working on the scanner or computer on my feet for nearly 10 hours a day! *WHEW* Talk about "Prison Rules!"...well, I had to stand when I was a clerk for the library, checking out books, but that was for up to 2 hours at a time...
2) The hours are from 7am to 6pm for four days a week, then the next 3 days you're off, this INCLUDES weekends!...can you say "Kathy Lee Sweatshop" anyone? It may take a lil getting used to, and they mentioned 10 minute breaks every 2 hours...and to work 4 times and have the next 3 to yourself may come in handy...
here's the clincher...
3) Starting salary... 9.00 an hour *SCREEEEECH*...okay stop the bus!
but lemme think...it's perm, right?...always there no matter what, so I start at the bottom of the barrel again, I can work my way up, right? Big A-List actors take the pay cut to do an independent film once in a while...still...$9 is like peanuts compared to what IPS is paying me, even if it's off & on...
MOM wanted to smack me on the head for being so "Snobby", she said she's had to swallow her pride a couple of times...
there are some other issues like overtime, the workflow and the fact that for some bizarre reason I'll be only the 2nd guy in a work force of 7. Six women, huh?...meh, no problem, just hope no diva shit happens and I go through some more "Work Politcs" animosity that has followed me around wherever I've worked at...People have always been intimitated and threated by my work ethic and end up consipring against me for no apparent reason.
So, that was the interview, I mentioned that with my expirence, I'm worth at least 10.00 per hour, the supervisor said "He'll see what he can do" (Which usually means NO) and they'll mail me a formal Job Offer and if I accept I'll have to go through a drug screening (again...) and then I'm in...just like that! We'll see...
Imma still keep on looking, in the meantime, I'd thought I would elaborate on some of the main things mentioned the "Fastball Special" post...
The whole JOE's Sister-thing has got me vexed (Yes, I said vexed, what?)
Seeing her at the hospital lobby with JOE, her eyes just lit up when she recognized me. I couldn't help to notice, she was checking me out! Sorta like in "Lethal Weapon", Danny Glover's oldest daughter developing a crush on Mel Gibson...what the hell do you do in that situation? She used to be this skinny, little runt of a tomboy, always tagging along with JOE and the rest of the gang, trying to get into what we were doing, Video Games, Riding Dirt Bikes and crap. She's gone through an Anna-Nicole type stage growing up, she got a bit chubby while being depressed at one point, but then she slimmed down again and has a nice shape on her.
When JOE went up to see his father, his mother went back with him, so the sister (Damn, lemme think of a name here, don't wanna use the real name...) stayed with me in the lobby. To try and keep a nice conversatition going (and kill time, I guess...) (Sandy?...no, Cindy, yeah, cindy like in the Brady Bunch!) CINDY kept asking questions about me (Could she be any more obvious?!?!?). She asked if I was still into video games, If I was seeing someone, what kind of girl am I looking for, all while making these "Google Eyes" at me...
Again, I can even imagine being with CINDY, she's my best friend's little sister...you just don't do that! I just hope she don't try and stalk me now...
"Fastball Special...Groin High!"
Okay, I've held my breath longer than David Blaine now with my hiatus, but I'm NOT ready to come back just yet! I might me, if everything goes my way next week (Keep me in your prayers, ya'll...) but to keep my fellow readers in the loop on how INSANE I've become, Imma throw everything I've done and observations at ya at a speed of 120 miles per hour...
Ready?...GO!
Brought 2 tickets to Hip Hop Karaoke Cruise on July 20th, Brought a Ticket to big PM Dawn concert in Hoboken on August 2nd; Went to Westchester and visited former co-workers, only to find my ex-supervisor (and LAST Job Reference!) left two weeks before I visited, gave one of the Hip Hop Cruise tickets to Co-Worker/Yankee-fan-who-invites-me-to-Home-Games-When-Oakland A's-come-to-town guy, considering him for new best friend despite the fact he lives outside the city; Rented "UNDERWORLD EVEOLUTION" and "BLOODRAYNE" at the same time, UNDERWORLD 2 put me to sleep, while BLOODRAYNE kicked ass and kept me "Hard as a Rock", true both had sex scenes, but BLOODRAYNE's was more hardcore, UNDERWORLD 2's reminded me of the sex scene in the Matrix 2, thrown in, but unnecissary; browsed the web WAY too much while home, did a lot of stupid, crazy things, joined more BBW websites, Brought a SECOND PSP for 140.00 (It has 2.61 Firmware and a few dead pixels, but now I can play current games with one and download ISO's and stay in 1.50 with the other, I know you don't understand what that means, like I said, stupid things, I also applied for jobs whenever I could, A couple of law firms, IKON, Yeshiva University (What, they need a library assistant, I learn to speak hebrew...); got called BACK to work for one last day thursday; JOE CAME BACK! if only for a short time due to a medical emergency with his father, went to chill with him at Harlem Hospital where his father is slowly recovering from a stroke, got re-aquainted with JOE's scary mom and his baby (not-so-baby!) sister that might have some crazy ass "Mike & Sydney/Bad Boys 2...Chandler & Monica/Friends" crush on me; and finally on a movies tip, Seen "Pirates of the Caribean:Dead Man's Chest" THREE times, but I still think X-Men:The Last Stand is the best summer movie so far, finally saw Mission Impossible 3, fell asleep in certain parts, J.J. Abrhams needs to stop plugging TV stars from his previous shows in Box Office movies! (Still was digging the "Self Exploding, Disposible Camera briefing...much better than the exploding sunglasses!); Rocky 6 comes out Christmas (Proof that Chirst has been resurrected for the second comming), Spider Man 3 and Transformers will duke it out for BEST FREAKIN movie of 2007, let the trash talking begin, and people need to give Ghost Rider a break, damn!, and ONE last thing...I think Lady in the Water will suck, Miami Vice will de-throne "Pirates", and why the hell does "Pulse" keep getting pushed back! Why don't they just release it on Halloween against "The Grudge 2", damnit!, and who made the deal with devil to release a movie about Snakes on a Plane?!?!....OH and last but not least....IKON (Document Specialist) called me for an interview monday! LORD WHAT AM I GONNA DO!?!?!?
well, that about wraps it up...if it weren't for all that above, I was gonna end put this blog in the ground with a post a'la "Ferris Bueler's Day Off" with the epilogue after the credits...
"You're still here?, It's over, the movie's Over. Go. Go Home..."
P.S. I SO need to get on VH1's "World Series of POP Culture!!!!...I need two people that can handle music and soap opera trivia!!!...I already have the team name...."FLIPMODE SQUAD!!!" and is it me or SPIKE TV's "Blade" series really freaking cool, who would have though STICKY FINGAS from onxy could pull off Wesley Snipes?
that's it, I'm really done, now...pray for me monday...the blog depends on it!
Ready?...GO!
Brought 2 tickets to Hip Hop Karaoke Cruise on July 20th, Brought a Ticket to big PM Dawn concert in Hoboken on August 2nd; Went to Westchester and visited former co-workers, only to find my ex-supervisor (and LAST Job Reference!) left two weeks before I visited, gave one of the Hip Hop Cruise tickets to Co-Worker/Yankee-fan-who-invites-me-to-Home-Games-When-Oakland A's-come-to-town guy, considering him for new best friend despite the fact he lives outside the city; Rented "UNDERWORLD EVEOLUTION" and "BLOODRAYNE" at the same time, UNDERWORLD 2 put me to sleep, while BLOODRAYNE kicked ass and kept me "Hard as a Rock", true both had sex scenes, but BLOODRAYNE's was more hardcore, UNDERWORLD 2's reminded me of the sex scene in the Matrix 2, thrown in, but unnecissary; browsed the web WAY too much while home, did a lot of stupid, crazy things, joined more BBW websites, Brought a SECOND PSP for 140.00 (It has 2.61 Firmware and a few dead pixels, but now I can play current games with one and download ISO's and stay in 1.50 with the other, I know you don't understand what that means, like I said, stupid things, I also applied for jobs whenever I could, A couple of law firms, IKON, Yeshiva University (What, they need a library assistant, I learn to speak hebrew...); got called BACK to work for one last day thursday; JOE CAME BACK! if only for a short time due to a medical emergency with his father, went to chill with him at Harlem Hospital where his father is slowly recovering from a stroke, got re-aquainted with JOE's scary mom and his baby (not-so-baby!) sister that might have some crazy ass "Mike & Sydney/Bad Boys 2...Chandler & Monica/Friends" crush on me; and finally on a movies tip, Seen "Pirates of the Caribean:Dead Man's Chest" THREE times, but I still think X-Men:The Last Stand is the best summer movie so far, finally saw Mission Impossible 3, fell asleep in certain parts, J.J. Abrhams needs to stop plugging TV stars from his previous shows in Box Office movies! (Still was digging the "Self Exploding, Disposible Camera briefing...much better than the exploding sunglasses!); Rocky 6 comes out Christmas (Proof that Chirst has been resurrected for the second comming), Spider Man 3 and Transformers will duke it out for BEST FREAKIN movie of 2007, let the trash talking begin, and people need to give Ghost Rider a break, damn!, and ONE last thing...I think Lady in the Water will suck, Miami Vice will de-throne "Pirates", and why the hell does "Pulse" keep getting pushed back! Why don't they just release it on Halloween against "The Grudge 2", damnit!, and who made the deal with devil to release a movie about Snakes on a Plane?!?!....OH and last but not least....IKON (Document Specialist) called me for an interview monday! LORD WHAT AM I GONNA DO!?!?!?
well, that about wraps it up...if it weren't for all that above, I was gonna end put this blog in the ground with a post a'la "Ferris Bueler's Day Off" with the epilogue after the credits...
"You're still here?, It's over, the movie's Over. Go. Go Home..."
P.S. I SO need to get on VH1's "World Series of POP Culture!!!!...I need two people that can handle music and soap opera trivia!!!...I already have the team name...."FLIPMODE SQUAD!!!" and is it me or SPIKE TV's "Blade" series really freaking cool, who would have though STICKY FINGAS from onxy could pull off Wesley Snipes?
that's it, I'm really done, now...pray for me monday...the blog depends on it!
"SMILE for me, when I'm Gone..."
My life
Is in the arms of the man upstairs
Through trials and tribulations
He'll always be there
You see I know he loves me
And I know he cares
And he'll bever put more on me
Than I can bear
Been listening to a lot of music to calm my mind and soul...
I see myself staring down the barrel of an immaginary Desert Eagle pointed at my temple and I feel calm, no fear, no pain, no, nothing.
Don't get scared ya'll cuz I'm not talking suicide here, just TIME...catching up to me...and I have to find that answer to Life's big question...
"What the fuck are you going to do with your life now?"
I've recieved suggestions and ideas from everyone...
Mom wants me to go to college again, but how will I make money to pay my half of the rent? In the search of more friends (And possibily a new BEST friend), I've been told to look into mentoring or volunteering with kids, teenagers, or even young-adults. Sounds good, but I don't really socialize that well, I'm not too fond of children, I have low-tolerence for people that understand me, as well as I'm hard to convey things to in the first place. I tried getting my mom to look at my flickr site for my pics from Miami and you would have thought I was speaking japanese to her. I'm just not that "Hellen Keller/Miracle Worker" type, man...I don't have the patence to work with the Dumb, Deaf and Blind!
So what else is there?...find something stable.
Book Store?, Library again, gotta keep the dream alive, right.
Seeing what IRENE is going through with her thing makes me think about keeping-on, keeping on with my life.
I just need a sense of direction.
Today was the last day of the Deutsche Bank Assignment, at least for now.
I was offered a position back in Seacacus till the next assignment, but the thought of a two-fare coummute to the middle of nowhere just didn't appeal to me.
I still got my Unemployment (Which now I can claim, guilt free now), but now my credit cards are a bit maxed again. And here I am saying I wouldn't charge a thing till Playstation 3...
Plus, I got other shit catching up to me I haven't mentioned in this blog...
Something's going to happen soon, something big...
SO, this is why I should pull the plug...
...But I can't.
I can't let this blog die, not just yet.
I want to move on past my personal shit and just fill this damn thing up with so much of the maddness inside my head...
it scares whoever reads it.
Litterature, theories, opinions, sexual exploits, fantasies, I wanna write a blog entry, so deep, so provocatitve and then say it was all a lie in the next post! I wanna do some crazy, Mind-of-Mencina, Dave Chappelle, Howard Stern, 1st Ammendment-stretching Bullshit that'll really blow people's minds.
So for the moment...it's not over...just on hiatus...again.
I really hate good-byes, I just don't know how to go through with them...
I don't know when I'll be back...
In the words of Captain Sisko,
"Maybe in a year, or maybe...yesterday, But I WILL be back."
Rumor has it if a blog has not been updated in 90 days it'll be deleted, if that becomes the case, I want ya'll to just think of me once in awhile and just smile...
I been weak and I been strong
I been through the fire, I been through the storm
Try to do right and I know I do wrong
Just be happy for me when my life is gone
Cause no more hurt and no more tears
There'll be no more pain and no more fears
No more people in my face that's not sincere
So smile 4 me when I'm no longer here
Is in the arms of the man upstairs
Through trials and tribulations
He'll always be there
You see I know he loves me
And I know he cares
And he'll bever put more on me
Than I can bear
Been listening to a lot of music to calm my mind and soul...
I see myself staring down the barrel of an immaginary Desert Eagle pointed at my temple and I feel calm, no fear, no pain, no, nothing.
Don't get scared ya'll cuz I'm not talking suicide here, just TIME...catching up to me...and I have to find that answer to Life's big question...
"What the fuck are you going to do with your life now?"
I've recieved suggestions and ideas from everyone...
Mom wants me to go to college again, but how will I make money to pay my half of the rent? In the search of more friends (And possibily a new BEST friend), I've been told to look into mentoring or volunteering with kids, teenagers, or even young-adults. Sounds good, but I don't really socialize that well, I'm not too fond of children, I have low-tolerence for people that understand me, as well as I'm hard to convey things to in the first place. I tried getting my mom to look at my flickr site for my pics from Miami and you would have thought I was speaking japanese to her. I'm just not that "Hellen Keller/Miracle Worker" type, man...I don't have the patence to work with the Dumb, Deaf and Blind!
So what else is there?...find something stable.
Book Store?, Library again, gotta keep the dream alive, right.
Seeing what IRENE is going through with her thing makes me think about keeping-on, keeping on with my life.
I just need a sense of direction.
Today was the last day of the Deutsche Bank Assignment, at least for now.
I was offered a position back in Seacacus till the next assignment, but the thought of a two-fare coummute to the middle of nowhere just didn't appeal to me.
I still got my Unemployment (Which now I can claim, guilt free now), but now my credit cards are a bit maxed again. And here I am saying I wouldn't charge a thing till Playstation 3...
Plus, I got other shit catching up to me I haven't mentioned in this blog...
Something's going to happen soon, something big...
SO, this is why I should pull the plug...
...But I can't.
I can't let this blog die, not just yet.
I want to move on past my personal shit and just fill this damn thing up with so much of the maddness inside my head...
it scares whoever reads it.
Litterature, theories, opinions, sexual exploits, fantasies, I wanna write a blog entry, so deep, so provocatitve and then say it was all a lie in the next post! I wanna do some crazy, Mind-of-Mencina, Dave Chappelle, Howard Stern, 1st Ammendment-stretching Bullshit that'll really blow people's minds.
So for the moment...it's not over...just on hiatus...again.
I really hate good-byes, I just don't know how to go through with them...
I don't know when I'll be back...
In the words of Captain Sisko,
"Maybe in a year, or maybe...yesterday, But I WILL be back."
Rumor has it if a blog has not been updated in 90 days it'll be deleted, if that becomes the case, I want ya'll to just think of me once in awhile and just smile...
I been weak and I been strong
I been through the fire, I been through the storm
Try to do right and I know I do wrong
Just be happy for me when my life is gone
Cause no more hurt and no more tears
There'll be no more pain and no more fears
No more people in my face that's not sincere
So smile 4 me when I'm no longer here
"You know I've had it with chasing my dreams, I'm just gonna find out where they're goin and meet with them later!"
This post has two titles that I wanted to use, the other being a quote from Austin Powers:Goldmember...
"What are you going to do, Austin?"
The haunting voice of michael caine echoing in my head...
What indeed?
Went back to work thursday, and now things are to be done by next friday, the 7th. So much for "Work to keep us busy for a few weeks"...*sigh*, one day it something...next day it's another.
Seeing IRENE try again to get her dream job has me thinking...
"What about the TV Show?", "When am I going to get something stable?"
I can't do this forever.
Everything's just falling out of place, and with JOE gone, I have no one to turn to...
and can't do this anymore....
Which brings me to the simple conclusion...
It's time to walk away...
The end is near, folks, ya'll knew the show would have to end sometime...
Next Episode:Series Finale - "The real folk Blues" Pt. 1
"What are you going to do, Austin?"
The haunting voice of michael caine echoing in my head...
What indeed?
Went back to work thursday, and now things are to be done by next friday, the 7th. So much for "Work to keep us busy for a few weeks"...*sigh*, one day it something...next day it's another.
Seeing IRENE try again to get her dream job has me thinking...
"What about the TV Show?", "When am I going to get something stable?"
I can't do this forever.
Everything's just falling out of place, and with JOE gone, I have no one to turn to...
and can't do this anymore....
Which brings me to the simple conclusion...
It's time to walk away...
The end is near, folks, ya'll knew the show would have to end sometime...
Next Episode:Series Finale - "The real folk Blues" Pt. 1
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