Monday, February 27, 2012
Was a couch potato all weekend
I stayed in all weekend. I had planned to go out Saturday night. When Saturday came I procrastinated the whole day about it. I was trying to convince myself it may be a good night. There was nothing going on with anyone. Most weekends when stuff is going down I can't be there. I get text or facebook posts about it. From 6pm to 10 pm I was putting off getting a shower. By 11pm it was too late. I would normally be out by 7pm. I ended up not feeling like it. Lately with hitting the bar I feel like I'm in the movie Ground Hog Day. I've been there and done that. The atmosphere is not all that appealing unless the people I usually hang with isn't there. What was on TV was more interesting to me. There was a lot of good movies on. The Fugitive, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Bourne movies. I redboxed a few.
I had a bad week. Well not as bad as this person. I witnessed a truck swerve off the road. It hit the guard rail. Then a cement wall and fell into a creek on it's side. I don't know what happened to the guy but he looked dead to me. Blood everywhere. It was a mess. Then I found out I may lose my job. Another company under bid mine by a quarter of a million. Collecting unemployment for 26 weeks sounds good except you can only collect %60 of your income. I would love to live like some other Americans by staying home waiting on a check while I complain about my government temporarily. I lost my second job back in October when they surprisingly shut down. I went into to work to see they were closing. There were rumors at the time. Nothing official. I've been looking for a new second one ever since. The job market stinks.
I needed some alcohol consumption. I was going to attempt to get really drunk. Not something I try to do. I am a social drinker. If it happens it happens. It's been a hard thing for me to do for a long time. I don't get drunk as easy I used to. It's more like slightly buzzed. Or I get bored after the fifth beer. I milk it all night if I don't leave early. For me to get drunk I need to do shots. I don't want to drive after that but I have to get home eventually. If not that there is this drink I used to drink back in the day called Mad dog 20/20. That for some reason makes me lethargic. I get really sleepy. With beer I can sober up pretty good once I slow down. I needed to blow off my steam. I'm glad I didn't go out. I saved money and my time. From what I heard it was a boring weekend. It would have ended early.
I had a bad week. Well not as bad as this person. I witnessed a truck swerve off the road. It hit the guard rail. Then a cement wall and fell into a creek on it's side. I don't know what happened to the guy but he looked dead to me. Blood everywhere. It was a mess. Then I found out I may lose my job. Another company under bid mine by a quarter of a million. Collecting unemployment for 26 weeks sounds good except you can only collect %60 of your income. I would love to live like some other Americans by staying home waiting on a check while I complain about my government temporarily. I lost my second job back in October when they surprisingly shut down. I went into to work to see they were closing. There were rumors at the time. Nothing official. I've been looking for a new second one ever since. The job market stinks.
I needed some alcohol consumption. I was going to attempt to get really drunk. Not something I try to do. I am a social drinker. If it happens it happens. It's been a hard thing for me to do for a long time. I don't get drunk as easy I used to. It's more like slightly buzzed. Or I get bored after the fifth beer. I milk it all night if I don't leave early. For me to get drunk I need to do shots. I don't want to drive after that but I have to get home eventually. If not that there is this drink I used to drink back in the day called Mad dog 20/20. That for some reason makes me lethargic. I get really sleepy. With beer I can sober up pretty good once I slow down. I needed to blow off my steam. I'm glad I didn't go out. I saved money and my time. From what I heard it was a boring weekend. It would have ended early.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Oscar the Grouch
It's Oscar night and I have a terrible rash on my balls. Both are equally as annoying and irrelevant.Weather cast reports huge smug cloud passing over the Oscars. Meanwhile in Syria. There is more plastic wrap at the Oscars then there is in my kitchen. I would rather jam pins in my eye balls than watch the Oscars.
I love movies. I prefer the ones minus the CGI. I want real acting. I want emotion. I want it to be believable. I sway towards old school. Like Jimmy Stewart, James Cagney, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed and Bette Davis. Modern actors I like Johnny Depp, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Rachel Weisz and Kate Winslett. There is not many after that. I sway towards directors after that. Their work regardless of the actors seems to be much better. You can't have Steven Spielberg on that list. I love just about every Tim Burton movie. You can't go wrong with Martin Scorsese, John Hughes, James Cameron and Robert Zemeckis. Then we have Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Peter Jackson and Quentin Tarantino.
I separate my admiration for movie making from being one of those screaming people. I used to watch these award shows with the red carpet arrivals. I try to understand that level of fandom. I really can't. To stand there screaming at people sounding like an insane person is not on my to do list. There was only one time I ever asked for an autograph. I was eleven. It was a professional baseball player. I never did get them to sign my glove since he was mobbed by other kids. I tried. I don't remember being necessary distraught over it. Asking for autographs to me is a form of lowering yourself. That person is human just like you. I don't have this strong urge to meet anyone like that.
I do know what having one of those crushes is like. If you're a sensible person it usually passes after a while. It's a combination of someone being attractive to you both in mind and spirit during a time of your life when no one else seems real. But it's not real. This only has happened once in my life. It's embarrassing to even admit it. You don't know this person. You never met them. You've never been in their presence. They do not know you exist. You have a crush on them anyway. That kind of thing is just crazy. I've been in that mindset. When it's over you end up feeling like a loser. You'll never be there again though. I'm not the only one that this has happened to. I at least have some solace in knowing I'm not the only dork out there.
These award shows are boring. As I've grown older I began to realize there are far more important things we should be watching on TV. I either watch an hour of it if there isn't a good movie on or if there is nothing interesting on the educational channels I watch. There are a lot of atrocities going on all around the world. Spiritually I feel we should get those things in order prior to playing. The world has been playing for a long time while bad things have happened. If we can give children time outs for bad behavior why not adults? We've been bad. You could say things like this takes our minds off those things. That it's some good thing. The opposite is true. It's making us forget we have real issues that we are not fixing. An award for a actor or director doesn't solve this.
There are twenty-four hour entertainment channels. There are twenty-four hour news channels. There are twenty-four hour music channels. There are twenty-four hour educational channels. There should be twenty-four hour humanitarian channels. Heck put these actors on there to talk about the world's problems and maybe those screaming people will gain some perspective.
I love movies. I prefer the ones minus the CGI. I want real acting. I want emotion. I want it to be believable. I sway towards old school. Like Jimmy Stewart, James Cagney, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed and Bette Davis. Modern actors I like Johnny Depp, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Rachel Weisz and Kate Winslett. There is not many after that. I sway towards directors after that. Their work regardless of the actors seems to be much better. You can't have Steven Spielberg on that list. I love just about every Tim Burton movie. You can't go wrong with Martin Scorsese, John Hughes, James Cameron and Robert Zemeckis. Then we have Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Peter Jackson and Quentin Tarantino.
I separate my admiration for movie making from being one of those screaming people. I used to watch these award shows with the red carpet arrivals. I try to understand that level of fandom. I really can't. To stand there screaming at people sounding like an insane person is not on my to do list. There was only one time I ever asked for an autograph. I was eleven. It was a professional baseball player. I never did get them to sign my glove since he was mobbed by other kids. I tried. I don't remember being necessary distraught over it. Asking for autographs to me is a form of lowering yourself. That person is human just like you. I don't have this strong urge to meet anyone like that.
I do know what having one of those crushes is like. If you're a sensible person it usually passes after a while. It's a combination of someone being attractive to you both in mind and spirit during a time of your life when no one else seems real. But it's not real. This only has happened once in my life. It's embarrassing to even admit it. You don't know this person. You never met them. You've never been in their presence. They do not know you exist. You have a crush on them anyway. That kind of thing is just crazy. I've been in that mindset. When it's over you end up feeling like a loser. You'll never be there again though. I'm not the only one that this has happened to. I at least have some solace in knowing I'm not the only dork out there.
These award shows are boring. As I've grown older I began to realize there are far more important things we should be watching on TV. I either watch an hour of it if there isn't a good movie on or if there is nothing interesting on the educational channels I watch. There are a lot of atrocities going on all around the world. Spiritually I feel we should get those things in order prior to playing. The world has been playing for a long time while bad things have happened. If we can give children time outs for bad behavior why not adults? We've been bad. You could say things like this takes our minds off those things. That it's some good thing. The opposite is true. It's making us forget we have real issues that we are not fixing. An award for a actor or director doesn't solve this.
There are twenty-four hour entertainment channels. There are twenty-four hour news channels. There are twenty-four hour music channels. There are twenty-four hour educational channels. There should be twenty-four hour humanitarian channels. Heck put these actors on there to talk about the world's problems and maybe those screaming people will gain some perspective.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
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