152 insights into my soul

TV commentary:

Family Guy: I'm kinda amused they outright say in the opening scroll that they ran out of ideas when they made the last one, particularly since there's definitely an overly long "filler type" scene that seemed to serve no purpose other than to add a couple of minutes to the run time. Still, I enjoyed it well enough. But of course, I'm easily amused.

Anyways, back in the ATL. Just glad the ice and snow started to melt. Here's some pics of the snow that I just noticed I had left over on my phone and hadn't uploaded to FB:

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Since I was snowed in, just spent the week in NYC being all lazy and watching the telly. (Okay, that's a lie, I woulda been doing that even if it hadn't snowed so much). Movies I got to see that I hadn't seen yet: Black Dynamite, Bangkok Dangerous, Twilight. Black Dynamite was amusing enough but not great, and Bangkok Dangerous was kinda boring. Twilight is as expected.

Actually, you know what bugs me in some of these vampire stories? Where some chick falls for some brooding vamp guy, and she wants to be turned, and he's all, "Oh, the life of a vampire is so horrible!" Oh yeah, being eternally young with super powers, that's awful. And they're all, you'll be a monster! But they seem to be getting along fine. And often times have several friends and family members who seems to be handling things just fine also! So basically the guy is saying he is so great because he's feels only he is strong enough to suffer through this "curse", but the person wanting to be turned is too weak to handle it like they can? Talk about a cocky cock! Also, why the hell would you want your lover to grow all old while you stay young and beautiful? That just seems cruel and stupid.

Heh, New Year's, isabel79 did some Keane songs (as well as a Gwen Stefani song written by one of those dudes) on sparkyboy's copy of Singstar, and they sounded pretty cool. But she didn't actually have them on her! And me brudder's computer is fried currently, so I couldn't get them off his hard drive either. So, I had to get them today myself. And to answer isabel79, I was indeed keen on them, ha!

Flying back down to Atlanta today, on the line to drop off my bag (speaking of which, who doesn't check in online nowadays, particularly since you can just walk straight to the counter and drop off your bags after checking in online now?) saw this girl a few people ahead of me that was possibly "Sara" (the "Sara" in this story, whose name isn't actually Sara, but you know how I use made up names for people when I talk about them on here). She actually ended up a few seats ahead of me in the flight to Atlanta, and I resolved to ask her if she was her. I didn't want to do that in the middle of the full flight, so I figured I'd try at baggage claim. But alas, she wasn't there. Guess I'll never know if it was really her.

Of course, if it actually was her, not sure what there would be to say other than, "Oh hey, we went to HS together!" followed by the usual shoot the bull questions, assuming she actually remembered who the hell I was. And then there'd be the temptation to be all, "You not hanging out anymore at school after I went to Engineering camp. What's up with that?!" So its just as well, seeing how those convos with Michelle and Becca went after I finally got a chance to talk with them after all these years.

Had dinner at Uncle Vito's with the usual suspects. Has a slice of pepperoni and sausage, but also tried something new by having a slice with meatball and garlic. I mean, garlic powder on your pizza tastes good, but actual minced garlic tastes even better.

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Heh, browsing youtube, I guess you really can find any cool action sequence on there. I think I've said before that "The Hunted" is an underrated movie. And I thought it was neat before I learned Tommy Lee Jones' character was based off of Tom Brown, whose book we had to read for "Body, Mind, and Spirit" class in high school. While not technically an action sequence, I always thought the Training Flashback was really cool. I guess when you need to put a guy down, you need to put him down good, but still, it seems like overkill! Heart, carotid artery, disembowelment, heart again+spine, groin, then brain? Or weapon arm, heart, both femoral arteries, then lung? I guess its unpossible to survive all of those together, so its the best way to be sure they're dunzo. Apparently the style used in the movie was Filipino Kali, but I don't think it was straight Kali, it seemed like there was a little brazilian ju-jutsu thrown in there as well. But Flips know knife fighting. After all, the etymology of the Marine nickname "Leathernecks" was because the Marines started having to wear straps of leather around their neck to avoid the Filipinos' adept throat cutting (I wonder if that's why "throat cutting" is my go-to threat?) techniques when the US and the Philippines had that little tiff in 1898.

But while I'm on knife fight sequences, two of my other favorite action sequences involving knives from video games or movies is 1) Danny Trejo as the knife wielding assassin in Desperado and 2) The Krauser-Leon knife duel from Resident Evil 4. The latter looks cool, and is one of the awesomer sequences to play through in any video game, ever.

Oh, and if you have your enemy in your crosshairs, its shoot, then quip, not quip then shoot. If you waste your time babbling, his ally will sneak up behind you and take you out before you take him out!

Getting back to Body, Mind, and Spirit class in high school, one of my high school nemeses, Trish was in that class. ( Its a story! )

So you're chatting up a couple of cuties at the bar, and it becomes increasingly clear you're gonna get the three. But the roomie's in, so you text him ahead of time to say you were heading back home for the three with a couple of hotties. Unfortunately, he can't get away in time and has to hide. Of the places to hide, why would he hide in your room? That's the last place one should hide, as the action is most likely heading in that direction and that would totally ruin the situation! It does not make sense!

Also non-sensical: you're part of a food court, and they collectively start serving lunch at 11. Why wouldn't you be like the other places and start getting things ready like half an hour beforehand instead of being all, "Sorry, we're not ready yet!" Everyone else around you is ready, do you not know how to do business?! Frickin' amateurs!

A-hole moment of the day: as I was walking back from getting my food, I see this guy like sitting down and smirking at me. I was thinking, "What the hell is this guy's frakkin' problem?" Then I realized he was in a wheelchair and was some sort of handicapped person. Oops, I'm a jack-ass!

Boy, was that a boring story. What I should've said was I had a meet cute at the food court with this hot little snowflake with her brown hair done in a cute bob cut and a nice rack under her baby-T. We had both reached for the same package of spicy tuna rolls and had a laugh as we both offered it to the other then both simultaneously went for it again. Being the gentleman that I am, I finally let her have it, and after picking up my own package of sushi, I went to stand in the Mexican line for some nachos. She was all, "sushi and nachos?!" expecting me to say I was buying it for someone else, but I went into my diatribe on how they're two tastes that go together.

She was skeptical at first, but I had a few minutes so I sat down with her to convince her that it works. I offered her some of my nachos and she ate a roll then had a cheese covered nacho chip and was all, "Okay, mebbe it works." So we're hitting it off, when I see this guy over on the next table like giving me the stink eye and smirking at me. And it seemed like he would just not let up with the creepy staring, so I'm all, "What's your frickin' problem, man?"

To me embarassment, I realized he was in a wheelchair and he was some sort of handicapped person. I tried to cover, but it was too late, the damage had been done and the cute brunette had noticeably cooled towards me. And it wasn't just her, a couple of other people around looked at me disapprovingly for screaming at a poor cripple person. Owel, what can you do?

So my sources tell me (Okay, actually it was clevemire, but you know how much I like saying "my sources tell me" or "the word on the street". Damn you, Police Academy 6!) VM is cancelled. bbv('This is total BS!') And so is Jericho!? What the frak?! And FNL was renewed, but put on Friday nights? Well, that's appropo, but isn't that timeslot the kiss of death?!

Remember this story? You know how I said I was too drunk too remember what exactly happened that night with me and Julie, and how we ended up in bed together? That's not entirely true. It was a story about Sara, and I didn't want to complicate it further by bringing up the Julie situation.

( The Julie situation )

Heh, I'll be a monkey's uncle (and what does that even mean anyways, what's the big deal about being uncle to a monkey? Its not physically possible, so it can only mean figuratively, and how is it any different to acting like a parent to a favored pet like a cat or dog. And what's wrong with that, other than it being kinda corny? But I digress!) if anyone manages to read that entire drabble. But hey, it got stuck in my head and it wouldn't leave until the keys flowed.

And hey, its practice. Yeah, its really lame, but it occurs to me I won't get any better at writing unless I just keep doing it.

Just another night at work. Finally saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was interesting. I think the original was better. Its definitely a different take on things. Though Veruca and Augustus got off easy, being only covered in garbage and chocolate, respectively. At least that'll wash off! Violent's permanently blue! (I also didn't know it was being played by the Winn Dixie girl!) Sure she's all cool about being flexible, but she's blue! And how the hell did squeezing all the juice out of her to make her normal again translate to being extremely flexible? And Mike Teevee is like really tall and thin! He got turned in a freak! And they're all rich! (Well, this version of Mike Teevee doesn't actually seem rich, he's just a video game geek) Isn't Willy Wonka afraid they'll use their resources to get some high priced lawyer to sue him for all that happened? (Or was there some fine print on the ticket saying he's not responsible for anything bad that happens to them during the factory tour?)

Anyhoo, since when was the Taco Bell on Howell Mill torn down? I was going to grab dinner there on my way to work, only to find out it no longer exists! Owel, the arby's next door was opened. Did the 4 for $5 thing, of course getting 4 arby's melts and tons of horsey sauce. Seems like a clever thing though- arby's combos have always been overpriced, so its good way to get some variety while still being reasonably priced.

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Also saw World Trade Center on GTCN tonight as well. I think the only thing left showing on GTCN this month that I haven't seen is the Lake House. Forming a romance with a person living 2 years in the past/future. How is that even possible!?

I was watching that Kids in the Hall sketch with Neve Campbell (hey, I think she's cute). You know, the one where Kevin Mcdonald and Mark Mckinney play these pervy pizza place guys with all the hottie catholic school girl customers and the cops come in at the end and they're worried their gonna get arrested because of all the jail-bait around, but they're there to arrest Neve Campbell, who killed her Engrish teacher because he's a prevert? It reminds me of those real pizza parlors like that. You know, the catholic school kids hang out there after school to get a pizza or whateva? And the guys behind the counter are always these 20-something eye-talian guys with their gold chains and slicked back hair trying to show their muscles because they think they're so damn great? And there always flirting with the school girls. She's in high school, you dirty bastards! Of course, sometimes they flirt with your mom, which is an altogether different kind of ick, but at least you get free garlic knots out of it.

If I sound bitter, its because these guys are responsible for breaking up one of my closest friendships. Anyways, there was this girl, Lisa Castelli, she was one of the transfers from the local public schools that came in during 6th grade. Despite my shy shelf, we became friends and she was one of the handful of peeps who went to the same high school as me instead of St. Johns. There was this pizza place near the train station that we would hang out at sometimes after school. One of the guys who worked there was this Frankie guy who thought he was so damn cool and was always flirting with Lisa. October of sophmore year, I was trying out some clubs at school because the parentals are all, you need to join a club because it looks good on your college app. I think I was trying out the martial arts club, because the clubs I eventually joined weren't created yet. So I was staying after school late. After a few weeks, I decided I didn't like the club, so I quit. I hadn't seen Lisa in a while, because we didn't have any classes together that year.

I managed to be in the same bus with her one day and asked her if she wanted to grab some pizza. She was evasive and didn't feel like it and I begged because I was starved and she made up some half-hearted excuse that she had to do something for her mom. So after we get off the N she zooms past the pizza place, but ah'm "'ungry!" so I start to head in. I'm all "seeya later!" and start thinking she's pissed off at me or something, because she just ran off. The next day, at lunch, I see my friend Steve and ask him if she's pissed at me. He said he heard from his gf that Lisa was seeing Frankie from the pizza place. But then something happenned and she's been upset and doesn't go there anymore.

Later that day, my last period class is cancelled. I go home early and see her sitting by the lamppost at the 7-11. While we're waiting for the bus, I ask her what's wrong. After a bit of my annoying poking and prodding, she tells me how Frankie was acting all interested in her during that month I was staying after school. She says they slept together and after that he started acting different. Lisa was at the pizza place one day, and he was flirting with some other girls. She confronted him later about it and he said something about he thought they were just having fun or some such shit. She was upset because she really liked him. I was really mad. I don't know if it was because he hurt her or I was jealous because I was starting to like like her or what. I don't know what came over me, but I decided to confront this guy. I go up to the counter and started telling him things that I thought sounded clever in my mind but came out sounding stupid so I won't repeat them. He's like whatever and I walk out, a little embarrassed, because I didn't know what I thought would happen, I think I just ended up sounding foolish.

The Friday after, I have another off-period and see her at her locker. I try talking to her but she's mad at me. She's pissed that I opened my big mouth, because not only did I reveal something she didn't want known, her parents found out and now they were transferring her to some boarding school up in Vermont. I tried apologizing but to no avail. I tried calling her a few days later, but her mom said she didn't want to talk to me. She got transferred and I never heard from her again after that.

I know what you're thinking. Where's the "Okay, not really"? This sounds like something out of one of those stupid WB or TNBC shows you watch! Alas, this tale is true. I sometimes wish I would bump into her and we could somehow rekindle our friendship. And no, I'm not saying that because she was a piece of ass and I want to get into her pants. Okay, I wouldn't be averse to it, but she was a cool friend. I don't see anyone I knew from hs/elementary anymore, and she was one of the few peeps that I hung out with from those days that I can say I actually stand. If there was anything good that came out of this tale, I think that Frankie guy was fired. I never saw him at the pizza place again after my embarassing little outburst. So at least I could still have my pizza.