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| ...until I slept in it. From the top of the mattress, I have less than
20 inches to the ceiling. This, I previously thought, would give it a
cosy, top-of-the-room feel. Unfortunately, all it has been giving me is
an awkward sleeping arrangement. I have hit my head a couple time every
night on the ceiling - when I climb up my ladder (yes, there's a
ladder), when I change positions, when I get down from bed in the
mornings... the madness never stops! To add insult to injury, the
ceiling is made of that crunchy, stucco white stuff that sheds
everywhere. So now whenever I hit the ceiling, I am molested by a
blizzard of ceiling pieces - My sheets are slowly becoming a winter
wonderland (I'll have to start shoveling in a couple days).
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| I am officially moved into my apartment! After about 7 hours of assembling beds, desks and chairs, I am a permanent resident of Baylor Plaza 2… I’m a little ahead of myself – this week has been crazy exciting. Here’s a recap of what has happened:
The Kelly Clarkson Concert @ Smirnoff in Dallas (Last Thursday) - - - No words can properly express the complete and total amazingness of this show. Not only was the set amazing (over 100 intelligent lights – Shelly would have died orgasming), but Kelly never sounded better. She walked through the crowd at one point and walked past the end of my row – I thought I was going to pass out. It’s refreshing that Kelly doesn’t have to rely on wearing a crown of thorns, singing on a descending cross to get publicity and No. 1 hits… all Ms. Clarkson has to do is sing. What a concept!
Into the Woods @ WaterTower in Plano (Last Friday) - - - I had never actually seen this done live (other than the recorded Bernadette Peters’ DVD). I have to say it was truly an impressive production. “Agony” was friggin amazing and the cast was SO talented. I got in free because I volunteered to usher for the night. I was the only guy among 5 other 80-year-old ladies. It was amazing.
Brooklyn @ Fair Park in Dallas (Last Sunday) - - - I had downloaded some of the Broadway songs before going and thought to myself, “These are OK, but I’m not really getting it.” But 2 Tony-Award winners and Diana DeGarmo (of American Idol fame) were starring in the production, so I forced my parents to buy really close orchestra seats. After sitting through the 95-minute, no-intermission performance, I better understood why it never made it a full year on the Great White Way – This show is complete SUCKAGE! No sane person would willingly pay money to see it. They tell the public nothing about the show to con poor, innocent people into coughing up the dough. IT WAS TERRIBLE!
The Ant Bully and Monster House @ my local movie theater (This week) - - - both these movies were really super-great! It’s sad when the best summer movies are aimed at pre-pubescent kiddies. But I would much rather see these movies again than snore through Pirates 2, Superman Returns or Lady in the Water (Patrick, please don’t start this again).
Moving into my first apartment @ Baylor Plaza 2 in Waco (Today) - - - Writing the check for the first month’s rent was such an exhilarating experience! I feel so old! The actual move-in was a little less thrilling – I bought all my furniture (bed, desk) from IKEA. It was three boxes of 2x4’s with a couple metal pins and screws. Literal blood, sweat and tears (and about 7 hours) went into the assembly. My bed is lofted with my desk underneath – it looks like a massive fort! It’s so cool!
Who will win silver for crossing the Waco finish line (or city limit)? Whoever it is needs to call me! | | |
| I've never been a huge fan of M. Night Shamalama - the only movie I liked from him was the Sixth Sense. So naturally, I had no desire to see his latest children's-bedtime-story-yet-really-scary-mermaid movie Lady in the Water. However, I was dragged by some friends (who, looking back, I probably should never talk to again).
This movie ended up being one of the worst I have seen in years. Problems abound:
1) I have a big issue with directors casting themselves as the main characters in their own crappy movies. Except for Million Dollar Baby (which is just phenomenal), this is not a strategy condusive to good films (note to M. Night - you're not winning Best Actor ANY time soon). In the movie, M. Night plays a man whose work will change history (Ego much?)
2) The plot was retarded. You will not make up a whole new "Blue World" of Little Mermaid-like things and try to explain the whole Genesis of these creatures at the beginning of the movie with cave drawings. Also, the Ariel-being, Story, has the only remotely normal name (scrunts, narfs, tartuics)
3) To add insult to injury, anytime a character learns any part of the convaluted story, they instantly believe it and want to help...
"We have to save the narf who's living in my pool from the scrunts and get her safely to the Eagle God so she can go back to the Blue World!"
"OK! How can I help?!?"
You come up to me and tell me that, evil things will happen.
4) Who is supposed to enjoy this movie? It was marketed as a childish, adultish-horror, creepy bedtime-story movie. Yet this movie was not scary, smart, or bedtime-ish. You know it's bad when Disney, the production company who has made ALL your movies, doesn't want to risk your newest venture.
Stick with Hayley Joel Osmont seeing dead people... it worked much better. | | |
| So I watched the whole first season of Lost in approximately 3 days (a TV marathon, if you will) – it was nothing short of amazing… Although it made for a dramatic TV experience, I have a few qualms about the overall idea of the show:
First of all, if Oceanic Flight 815 is supposed to be a representative cross-section of the general population’s masses, I am saddened by the writers’ view of society. Most everyone on the flight (and subsequently, the island) is either running from the police, snorting drugs, murdering people, robbing banks, or cursed by secret codes – not the kind of flight I want to be on or the kind of world I want to live in. I hope it is explained later why the plane was booked like this.
Secondly, it seems that the writers sorta’ forgot about one of the characters about half way through… the black lady whose husband went to the bathroom right before the crash was nowhere to be seen in the last half of the first season. She was one of my favorite characters – the nerve of the writers to think that the viewing public would be stupid enough to “forget” about her… AAHH! Bring her back!
On a totally different subject, here’s another pet peeve of mine - think about the word ‘subpar’ for a minute… it’s a pretty derogatory word, meaning below average. But if you think about the word ‘par’ (as in a golf context), it means the average expert strokage of a course. If someone is hitting below (sub-) this number, he would be thought a super expert. Why, then, is the word subpar used in a negative sense! The world will never know! | | |
| I went with Shelly after work on Thursday to see the 12:01 showing of Pirates of the Caribbean. We almost got molested by drunken pirates (literally) and got “Arr”ed to death in the theatre before the movie started. Overall, the movie SUCKED! It was neither funny nor entertaining. After the movie, I thought I was alone in my opinion, as the people in the audience (most in pirate garb) were going on and on about it. However, I was justified in my opinion as, when I opened my Entertainment Weekly this morning, I noticed it received a “D” with the subhead “Oh-Ho-No!” on the review page. This made my life.
In other news… I was hit on by a college-aged Half-Price Books employee today. He came up to me as I was perusing the paperbacks. Here is the transcript:
Creepy Gay Employee Man: “Can I ask you something?”
Unassuming Me: “Yeah, sure.”
C.G.E.M.: “I don’t mean to be rude or offensive or anything, but… I was wondering…are you gay? And if you are... I thought maybe we could...”
U.M.: (utterly speechless… blubbering a little bit) “Umm… I… No... No.”
C.G.E.M.: (excruciating pause... looking me up and down) “Damn! You were really cute.” (walks off)
U.M.: (standing mortified... dropping books immediately… running out of store)
So many things are going on in my mind right now.
I wish my life were a movie. | | |
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