me me me blah blah blah...Hey look! A kitty!

more animals

I want one.

Temper

I would venture to say that for the most part I am an even tempered sort of person.

But there are a few subjects that when broached just about always send me perilously close to a violent rage no matter how much I try to suppress it.

Usually it has to do with taunting me on a subject that I hold close to my heart. Probably because I am defensive by nature, though I wish I weren't, when someone refuses to hear my side of the argument and then taunts me I just about lose it.

I've gotten better over the years. And anymore my rage subsides quickly and the subject is approachable and I usually want to make amends.

It's one of the reasons I cannot and do not watch sports. I get too riled up about it. Most of the time I really try not to care, it just hurts too much to care about a team that is going to disappoint you. And they ALWAYS do. At least if you're from KC.

Playing sports I have no problem with this.

Which is backwards.

Anyway. Enough rambling.

I'll still never live in Kansas. NEVER. Not even if you gave me a free house.

Loathing

I think I hate Kansas more than I hate just about anything else in the world. Ever.


Sorry Amy.

Internet Hate Machine

The internet generates more blind hatred that just about anything else.

Conversations aren't held on the internet, it's either all praise for something that may or may not be that great. Or people spewing hatred either at each other or at something that really doesn't affect (?) them in the least.

It happens with elections, books, carpet, anything.

I know that I'm just as guilty as the rest but I still get pissed off when I read shit like this. Which happens to be about Twilight.

Mostly guys.

Duh.

And I'm not saying that all women HAVE to like Twilight, but it is so specifically tuned to every middle of the road woman's fantasy that, if they're the least bit susceptible, they're going to not be able to put the series away and more than likely fall in love with Edward Cullen.

So it gets popular.

So what?

The DaVinci Code got popular and it was about as well written as dog shit. And I've railed against that too, but I understand why it kinda worked.

Now the Twilight movie.

It sucked?

Did it?

No. It isn't any Crystal Skull or DaVinci Code.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought they did a very good job capturing the feel of the story for me. It was relatively low budget, and I thought that the way they did things, although to a lower bar than most "fantasy" movies, really worked. They could have improved the special effects. And once in a while I was somewhat distracted by the less than uber polished way that the vampires moved at high speeds. With that sort of budget you can't expect Matrix level work.

As for the acting. Not superb, but good. The awkwardness was perfect. I only cringed a couple of times.

What I think it comes down to is how far you have your head up your ass going into the movie. If you're thinking its going to be some sort of girly stupid vampire mushy romance and you think that's stupid. Well, No of course you aren't going to like the movie or the books. But if you like that sort of thing it really does well. Much better than I ever expected from either the posters or the trailers.

I liked it.

If you didn't I don't give a fuck.

And of course they're going to make the sequels. Hollywood only cares about the money, and this series is going to make a mint. No Harry Potter, but its better than Ice Age or Land Before Time MMXI.

And any girl who thinks they're above Twilight...hahahahahahahhahahaha! I'm so sorry for your cold existance. I'd much rather fall into that starry-eyed I-wish-my-Edward-would-come state than not feel at all. I'd rather have my heart hurt once in a while than forget that it's there, at least I still know that I'm alive. And I'm about as independent/self sufficient (as long as we're not talking about money) as they come.

comedy

I've been watching some comedians lately, both on Comedy Central and the web.

Seriously? That's supposed to be funny? Seriously?

I can do that. And guess what. It might actually be funny.

I do love Mitch Hedberg though. He's right up my alley.

I want to fly one

A hairless rabbit panther!

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Twilight was...o.O

what?! sorry got distracted by....o.O

hmmm...

:)

Is it even possible for guys to understand why Twilight is soo... o.O?

Bad Idea

Going to go see Twilight.

I actually had a fucking dream about it last night. I don't know why, I haven't been planning on seeing it or thinking about the movie at all!

I'm going to be wrecked for the rest of the day...

damn you Edward!

Free Pepper!!!

Get sum!!!

Now this is my kind of free give away!

:)

!!!!!

Got it

Some people just seem to have this thing that makes people like them.

Charisma. Some people just have it.

But you can get it if you want it.

I've been wondering about how to develop that spark, and here's proof that I'm not alone in thinking that you don't have to be born with charisma to get it.

Gmail

Gmail just revamped. It's awesome! I feel like I'm using a screen from Star Trek to check my e-mail.

Happiest Place on Earth

I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it!

I had so much fun yesterday it should have been illegal.
I want to go again, and again, and again. Forever.

I can't believe that I think I had more fun yesterday at Disney as an adult than I think I ever did when I was a kid.

And may I say that the Winnie the Pooh ride is the most hilarious, trippiest, and awesome ride ever???

WOW.

I'm still smiling.

My cutsie pie

:)

Oooh

Its Hypnotoad!

Hear those drums

This has been around for a long time but I still LUV it!

Just can't find the words?

Try this.

It should come in handy.

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Animals Getting Drunk

Bothered

It really annoys me that every time the trailer for Australia comes on all I can think of is Pirates of the Caribbean.

Really Hans Zimmer, can't you at least add a flute or something. Some Kettle Drums would be nice.

Oh, wait. How about not using the exact same melody and instrumentation for every score?

That would be great, 'cuz it's starting to interfere with my ability to pay attention to the movie, because all I can think about is the fact that I can't decide whether this sound's more like Pirates or Gladiator. (Pirates)

Its rather like John Williams and Harry Potter. Does it sound more like Home Alone or ET? (Well at least it sounds like Home Alone.)


*edit* I guess Hans Zimmer didn't do the soundtrack for Australia? Then why the hell does it sound like it on the trailer?

fairly productive day

Its been a pretty productive day for me if you're talking about actually doing things. But not writing.

First I finished my Pell for practicing my sword technique.

Then I went down to Paramount to see if I could get my hands on a copy of Kung Fu Panda, and of course they were out. So I bought Ferris Bueller's Day Off, No Direction Home, a t-shirt, and an Indiana Jones hat. I actually ran into Steve Glickman, the comedian who played the music producer on the pilot I worked on, which reminds me I need to find an open mic night.

On my way home Vincent (my car) started making an awful sound and then the air conditioning stopped working, so I took him to the Honda dealer and I'll drop him off in the morning. Which is too bad because I wanted to run down to San Diego for an SCA event.

Next I opened a new checking account.

And then I cut and shaped a piece of rattan to be made into a sword, but I needed some more duct tape and a hose clamp to attach the basket hilt. After I got that I came home and covered my piece of rattan in tape.

I got the kit to make my SCA helmet in the mail today, and I am both very excited and basically intimidated at the prospect of putting it together.

I was going to make the pattern for my coat of plated tonight, but I think I'll go to bed instead.

Actually, I did get a little writing done. I wrote most of an e-mail to Tom Jacobson the producer of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission to Mars, Big Trouble, The Ladykillers, who apparently is the son of a friend of my dad's bridge partner. And his brother I guess is the agent who represents Kevin Costner and Bette Midler. Needless to say, I want to get it right. Which is why I'm going to call my dad in the morning and make him listen to my e-mail before I send it.

Now tomorrow, since my car is going to be in the shop, I'd better get some freaking writing done.

Post

Hey look! I posted.

wow.

stop the presses.

Lovely

Sing sweet nightingale sing sweet.

The Universe

Occam's Razor muthafucka.

Because, "it may never be possible to observe other universes directly, but he argues that scientists may still be able to make a convincing case for their existence."

Sounds a whole lot like believing in God. And quite frankly? I'd rather believe in God, because at least He cares.

I'll keep this in mind

I'll have to make sure and avoid these.

Oh, wait I get it. That's funny.

totally

Dear God it's the end of the WORLD!!!

If this comes to be...I quit.

I'm done.

My spirit is broken.

Fuck you Hollywood.

...

I love John Williams?

And I want to marry whoever the hell this guy is.

wow cool

This totally blew my mind.

Rights

So apparently the Mormon Church donated $25 million to get Prop 8 passed.

This has royally pissed off every liberal in history and they want to get the Mormon Church classified as a cult to revoke its tax exempt status.

This really makes me sad. Sure there should be a separation of church and state. It's one of the foundations that our country was built on, and it's a good thing not to have a State Religion, because freedom of religion is a precious thing. But this really has nothing to do with establishing a state religion. And they're not trying to PUSH their religion, they're trying to preserve it. Even though, as I've stated earlier, I believe that homosexuals should be able to live their lives as they please, so do the Mormons. Should the rights of one group, a minority, be more important than the rights of the majority? No. And neither should the minority feel threatened by the majority. You can try and liken this to the fight for equal rights for minority races and for women, but it just isn't the same. It is similar in some regards, yes, but it is not equivalent. The right to marry is on no level the same as the right to life, or the right to vote, or the right to schooling, or the right to live without fear of death. It is a ridiculous fight that before 15 years ago would have been as impossible to imagine. Which brings up another thought. Why are we always so quick to throw away the practices and standards that have been held for the 40,000 years or so of human history.

The tragic thing is that they are practicing the same animosity, hate, bigotry, and small mindedness against the Mormons (and most of Christianity or any conservative minded group) that was practiced against them for countless years. Which is why they have lost my respect. They are just as small as their enemies, and how can I support their cause when they haven't shown that they can make the world any better for anyone else except for the 3% of the population that is effected by this?

And why are we wasting our time, effort, worry, and money on something so petty when the Nation cries for much more serious matters?

Weight

Obama cannot possibly live up to the expectations that have been put upon his shoulders.

No one is strong enough to bear the burden of the hope of this country. If he isn't destroyed, he will be a shadow of the man who took the office in 2012.

I hope I'm wrong. It makes me sick to my stomach to think how hard this is going to be.

Links

This one makes me want to dance.

This is modern living.

A new way to tie my shoes.


All the pretty drawings.

More eye candy.

How about a Game?

And last, an old favorite that I've posted before.

So I wanna Work in the Movies

I just stumbled across this article that encapsulates what I've seen so far.

My new world in a nutshell.

Trials

Prop 8 passed. I'm registered to vote in Missouri, and I will always be. But I cannot say which way I would have voted should I have had to confront that issue. As a Christian I cannot condone the Church blessing the sexual union of two of the same sex. As a Constitutional American I believe that those people have the right to pursue happiness and if they wish to be recognized as a couple by the state.

At the moment I have to listen to the liberal bullshit. Their attitude is so condescending it's really pissing me off. Do I make a counter argument? Do I lay out the foundations of why I cannot accept an "openly gay" priest/pastor/bishop? If I do that then I must digress that if I were to do this, then I must also condemn divorce, which is socially acceptable. Thus we get to the crux of the argument.

Socially acceptable.

What society deems acceptable I must approach with trepidation. It used to be that as a society we based our behavior on a code of conduct outlined by the Bible. True, this led to some atrocities, but those did not arise from the morals laid down by the Bible they came from fallen man's perversion of the Bible and our need for power and superiority.

What bothers me is the blatant superior arrogance of those who have made up their minds on everything under the sun and have closed their hearts and minds to seeking what is true. It pisses me off, and the sad thing is that you can't fight a stone heart. It only leaves you broken and bloody.

Another sad day

Michael Crichton is gone.

In the car

As usual, I was singing in my car on the way home.

Groovin' to the sweet tunes of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (Who was the GENIUS that came up with that name. Were they high?)

And I look over to see two people laughing their asses off. At me. Their sideways glances betrayed them.

And I felt like a dork...

Then I remembered that they "SUCK."

aaannnd

I RULE!!!

plus if you want to be a comic, you should like people laughing at you.

Little Girl Blue

My all time favorite Janis song.

Yar!!!!

I am a Pirate!!

Vote

Election Day. Hooray.

Thank God this will all be over by tomorrow. I can't imagine that this race will be close enough to warrant protestation of the results.

I've gotten a lot of flack at work for my insistence that I'm voting for Ron Paul. They're telling me that I'm throwing my vote away, which is an argument that I used way back in 2000 for those who voted for Nader.

Am I a hypocrite? Of course. And I've developed my worldview more through 7 years of college. I've always voted in nearly every election held since I've been old enough to vote. Except this one.

I could say that I'm ashamed. But I've abandoned my service to my country before, no matter how much I love her. I don't feel ashamed for not voting, I feel ashamed for lying that I did to my workmates. I didn't want to deal with that particular scorn. It's bad enough that they think that I'm throwing my vote away.

And this is the crux of my sorrow in this election. People are afraid that their vote won't count so instead of truly voting for a candidate that they believe in whose policies they agree with they sell out and pick the "lesser of two evils" instead.

Cowardice.

It is for this reason real change in the USA is stagnant and nearly unobtainable. In the primaries people wouldn't side with Ron Paul because his vision is too big.

"Get rid of the IRS? Pull out of foreign lands? Return to the gold standard? MADNESS!! We can't do that!"

What we can't do, it seems, is sacrifice our comfort for a few years to ensure the survival of our nation and the well-being of our children.

My country, my love, my homeland is dying. And we have the cure for the disease, but we're too afraid to take it.

Cowardice.

Since when are WE cowards? We're pioneers. We boldly go where none have before. We are the children of children who left their parents, their homes, their loves to pursue a free new world and a better life for their children.

And WE can't live without the newest iPhone?

I cry for what my love has become, and I sing because of what she still is.

I chose not to vote. It was my choice and it was a conscious one. And if I had voted I would have cast my ballot for a losing cause, standing against the tide of cowards who are afraid not to count for something.

Someday, I pray that God might use me in some capacity in the coming Reloveution. I see a day when our eyes are opened and we who have had to live with the mess that our parents have made of our nation decide to take a different path.

We can dream, can't we?

Oh Wheaton How I Miss You

Even more than two years after graduating I still miss my Alma Mater more than words can express. What's sad is that so many of the students there won't fully realize the wonder of Wheaton until after it's too late to fully appreciate it while they can. And those who have never gone there can't understand why we adore her so.

Long

This has the potential to be a VERY long and boring week.

Shooting for the Pilot I'm a PA for ends today. Yay! It was supposed to be my last day too, but it looks like I'll be here for a couple more day. I'm really hoping that it won't be for the entire week, but hey, moolah is moolah. And it should be fairly smooth sailing from here on out. Not too many more things to copy. No more sides, call sheets, or scripts left to copy. Basically we'll be packing up stuff and returning equipment. I'm guessing that a lot of the equipment will be returned by the transpo guys (whoever the hell they are) and we won't be needed more than a couple of days. There won't be any more new people to fill out paperwork and file, not really any more time cards after today and there won't be new clothes to schlup around. Basically, I'm not sure what they'd need more than one of us (Ryan) for after Wednesday at the latest.

The only thing I'm sad about is that there is a 99% probability that I won't make it to fighter practice tonight. :( I probably won't even make it to Coral's afterward.

In other news, I'm looking for open mic nights at comedy clubs. Why? Because I've decided that I want to give stand-up a try. Why? 'cuz I've always thought I was funny.

But mainly its a way to gain some exposure, try every path, and just cover my bases. Who knows? Maybe I'll be really good at it. Maybe not. Maybe it will open that door a little wider and take the pressure off of my foot. Maybe not. My advantage would be that I haven't spent my life wanting to be comedian when I grow up. I adore Gilda Radner, Jane Curtain, and Madeline Kahn, but I never gave a thought to actually trying comedy. But I'm here. I'll be out of a job by the end of the week, and I like to make people laugh.

I'm nothing if not random in a very predictable way.

Proof

I know we don't need proof, but sometimes it's good for the soul.