Work was busy, didn't even have time to drink my old morning cup o coffee. THough with my stomach and its jacked up state I didn't want to risk any more possiblity of ED, or Explosive Diarea to the lay person. Tonight is the old Apprentice and you bet we'll be watching. Kind fo wanted to Roe-it tonight but my weak stomach can't take Josiah... just kidding, actually we have some packing and after a stressful week and stressful weekend on deck we figured we'll just relax.
Well Yesterday I had the Double Whammy. Excuse my crassness, but basically I was a human projectile machine. I had massive amounts of number 2 with the consistency of a glass of pulpy Orange Juice. Tuesday night we got some of Little Ceasers and we chomped that down and it was sitting well... or so i thought. Then a few hours later, up came the not so Little Ceasers. I think I pretty much barfed everything I ate, and then continued to dry heave for a good while. It was pretty painful, and the smallness of our apartment did not allow for my wife not to hear the wonderful noise of BLALAAHAAHGHGH!!! So that night of barfing was followed by a night of runny poo all night into the early morning wednesday. I didn't go to work as I had not slept or felt up to conquering the corporate world. I stayed home but much to my dismay i wasn't even well enough to enjoy the little things in life... like my super nintendo that i pulled out.
I played the Secret of Evermore, a game I stole from Josiah back in our St. Elmo years. Its pretty cool but i stink at it and it was giving me a headache, well I already had one but it added to it.
I watched the usual gammit of daily talk shows, the View is the most evil show in my mind. It was a pretty crappy day to be honest. I was too affraid to eat anything so i was starving afraid anything going down may come back upwith a vengence. I ate finally at dinner time some chicken noodle soup that cured my hunger head ache but the other head aches still remained.
We then had our final walk through, though the people selling hte house had only done half the stuff we asked them to so it was kind of a waste of time. We hope they get their crap out in time.
I'm at work today but its sort of surreal. I'm just sort of sitting in my cube doing some work, but not up for much as i'm still sort of out of it. Well thats an update, back to work.
My bloggin has been hard to get to as I still don't have access at home and I've been busy doing the wife's taxes. I did mine a few weeks ago but the inlaws were supposed to do hers but didn't finish all of it, at least the GA part.
Things are good, we move in this week to our new pad. Should be a lot of fun and a lot lot lot lot of work. We're really looking forward to it.
Easter was good, we went to Maconia and basically got our stuff out of the inlaws place so they can bring it up this weekend and they can be rid of our prescence in their house.
THis week is super busy what with taxes, house, and packing. Plus i need a hair cut. More to come possibly later or not... I"m still alive though thats what counts.
Oh and i hooked up my old Super Nintendo... played some NBA Jam last night, great stuff. Gonna try to get into some old RPG's for the system this week in my free time if any shows up.
The lack of recent comments on the old blogosphere makes me think I may have alienated my core audience. Either that or I've lost my edge, oh wait I never had an edge.
I read an article on Yahoo today about some schools gettin in trouble with various April Fools issues going overboard. One school in particular Nebraska's Gateway changed its name for the April 1 issue to Ghettoway and had some more urban humor and has been lambasted by the NAACP. The NAACP apparently find "the Ghettoway" name offensive... funny if the NAACP knew its history it would know that the Ghettos were originally in reference to the area's Jews were forced to live in during WW2. It just reminds me of the NAACP's complete lack of any sort of grasp on history. Example: Their desire that the word slave be dropped from computer lingo. This completely is ignorant of the fact that there were slaves prior to the enslavement of African Americans in early colonial American History. We don't see the Jews from Egypt raising any problems and they were enslaved for a long time and forced to build pyramids, thats hard work, i mean they're made of stone, and stone is heavy.
Well if I offended anyone let me know with this post or prior. I have a way of doing that without knowing it.
Speaking of that, Back in the day when mr. Root got fired from Covenant i wrote a piece about my false desire to burn down covenant. Apparently that worried people up there that I might actually have a desire to burn down my alma mater. I found this out from some second hands but found it funny that people would actually take me seriously, thats one thing I learned not to do long ago... take myself seriously.
what is love? What is love? baby, don't hurt me. These words changed a
generation and truly my afternoon at work. Thanks impart to a relaxing of
the cage my company keeps me in as far as internet access i was able to
reach out to the Yahoo radio today to jam to the likes of Len, Nirvana,
Bush, and Various Artists. I like how the radio station didn't have the
information on who sings "What is Love" and various other songs by "various
other artists." Instead of working all afternoon i just kept bobbing my head
and asking myself, "What is love, yeah yeah. Wooaa woaa woaa... uh huh." and
my companies stock went down a half a point, a direct correlation? Perhaps.
Well Right Said fred is calling, oh yes!
I wrote this long piece at work about a recent revelation made to me.
Indy, culture has always puzzled me, and after a long talk with Roe last
night, it seems I'm more frusterated with it than ever. I think I have a
grasp (perhaps not the best) on indie culture's view of music and movies.
It seems the next outworkings of the counter cultural movement that has
been embedded in American culture and exploded in the 60s. I often think
indy's want me to be "into" the alternative culture and shake off my pop
culture atire. And I've always felt I did a addequate job at attempting to
do that. Mainly cause I've never considered myself a person wrapped up in
pop culture. In high school what was popular was DMX, Chili Peppers, Pearl
Jam, the big head liners. I liked two out of three of those ok but stuck
to the 80s mostly as I do to this day. Why? Mostly because I consider
myself kind of a geek and feel that the 80s was when the geeks were the
coolest as far as music is concerned and for that matter movies too. I
mean how cool was Revenge of the Nerds one and two? Answer: Very. I always
related with Booger. So i've never felt a product of pop culture, because
I've mostly just felt like a product of past culture, which really appeals
to my desire to stay behind the times.
But as I met new people in college I was challenged to seek the
world of indy, to explore movies that aren't made by the big names and
have more thought and less money in them. And I've found a lot of movies I
really liked that otherwise I might not have seen. Wes Anderson flicks,
About Shmidt, and Punch Drunk Love are some examples of movies that I
really liked but were not as in the spot light as other films.
So I discussed with Roe my views of Lost in Translation and he
expressed the frusteration some of the indy folk we know have with me. I
became very defensive because frankly I do my best to be open to other
forms of culture than the mainstream. But part of me sees indies'
critiques of my movie opinions as very close minded. For instance I really
do think Lost in Translation was a boring story. Josiah rebutted with,
"its real." True, but so is my life and frankly I think my life is just as
real, if not more so since I'm not acting. But you don't see a movie being
made of me sitting in my cubical coming to various conclusions on how life
at times is lonely, seemingly meaningless, and inconsistent. Why is this
movie not being made?? Answer: it would be boring, interesting perhaps,
but very boring. Thats how I felt Lost in Translation brought across these
very interesting themes and ideas, in a very real, but very boring way.
Thus I think the movie is not as great as everyone is saying it is.
The movie has great aspects. Like I said, themes, acting,
cinematography---all good to great. But due to the movie's "boring and
slow nature" this kept the movie from being truly great in my opinion. I
also feel that a good majority of the people that have ate this movie up
like it was a bowl of French Onion soup have done so mainly because
they're being told its great, thus my sarcastic review in my earlier blog.
"Man you just don't get it man, they're like lost in the translation and
they're lost and you're so lost that you can't get the translation." This
as Josiah last night pointed out is not the movie's fault but merely some
indie wannabe or hipster dufuss trying to sound smarter than their store
bought degrees can really allow. I can appreciate others' love of the
movie but I cannot agree with the movie's overall greatness or have the
same love for such a movie that almost put me to sleep.
Now this is where I get annoyed with some Indie's because I feel
like they thus dismiss my opinion because I'm not, truly "into" indie
culture and don't carry the same clout that say someone who goes to every
indie movie the Bijou shows and listens to the Vines, Roots, and Trees (I
made that last one up) and see them as the best bands in history because
they so capture whatever they capture. I see this as the critical flaw of
many in indie circles. Failure to appreciate non-indie folk's opinion. I
feel at times they are guilty of the same sin (not really a sin just using
for affect) that they accuse the zombies of pop culture of. Indie folk i
feel criticize the mainstream for failing to get out of the mainstream and
enjoy the fringes of culture. However, the indie folk seem to dismiss the
pop culture folk or shmoes like me, folk who try to dabble in all culture
has to offer. That being said, i will admit I'm not as well rounded as I'd
even like to be but indie hipsters need to realize that being into fringes
of culture requires things like money and time both of which i have very
little. I'd love to go drop 8 bucks on a movie (16 if my wife goes) but
frankly I can't rationalize that in my head. Why can't I? Because I have a
thing called a mortgage payement and if I don't spend my money wisely the
bank will come take my house away from me. People have different
priorities in life and staying up on whats hip is far down the list on my
opinion.
I babble, but I babble out of frusteration. We all have critics,
people who dislike our quirks, our interests, and don't really understand
why we do what we do. But one thing I've always done is love the people,
and try to love and take interest in others hobbies. But I guess Roe sort
of just pointed out people's disgust of my interests and it offended me.
Most often than not we don't know other's attitudes towards our views and
hobbies thus that irritation that I experienced is rarely felt. I guess
Indies want me to be into their culture, but I'm just not. I'm open to it,
sometimes interested in it, but not necessarily "into" it.
Its the same battle I've been fighting with people who think video
games are stupid wastes of time. Yes they are but in the grand scheme of
things most hobbies---movies, sports (watching them), model building,
baseball cards (though that can be an investment at times). My hobby for
most of my life has been video games, i find them fun, interesting, and a
good discourse with other geeks.