GMW #3: Brick

"I've got five senses and I slept last night, which puts me six up on the lot of you."

Now that Christmas is over, let's get down to business and watch some bad-ass movies once again. Last night Trent was showing me and Rachel 500 Days Summer, which was completely awesome, by the way. But it got me thinking about the little known national treasure we have that is called Joseph Gordon Levitt. He may be perfectly adorable in 500 Days, sure. But you can't know him like I do until you have seen him get punched in the face a few dozen times.

Brick is a hard-boiled detective story like the kind they used to make in the fifties, except that it takes place in a high school. And that's a high-school unlike any I have ever known, even in West Valley. Everyone is filthy to the core, and the man won't stop until he has dragged his face thoroughly through that dirt. It's a soulless and beautiful thing.

GMW #2: A Christmas Movie

I think I'll just keep this geek movie thing going when I have nothing interesting to post. And in light of the yuletide season, I figure I should post a geeky christmas movie. I have been thinking all week trying to pick one. "A Christmas Story" maybe? No. Too geeky. Or perhaps "It's a Wonderful Life"? Not geeky enough. "Nightmare Before Christmas" is too creepy. I thought about "Die Hard" even. But no. "Die Hard" is way too awesome. But then I was talking to Twilight Rob at UPS and he was citing his old favorite line, and it hit me. He was yelling down to the supervisor, and he said, "Keep the change ya filthy animal!" I knew what is hands down the geekiest christmas movie ever made.

"Home Alone". The bittersweet tale of a boy who is left behind by his mother on Christmas, only to enjoy the sort of Christmas that we all secretly wish we had at least once in our life. And besides, it has Joe Pesci in it. So this holiday season, if you need to escape from reality for a while, I highly recommend it.

The scene I wanted to post will not allow embedding. So if you need a good, and proper laugh, please do follow this link to Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGTBwyVtdk

The Corbomite Maneuver

So there I was, at UPS. I spend all my time there during this festive season, shipping all of your packages around so that Santa Claus can sit on his fat butt and take the year off. Again. He has gotten pretty lazy. I say, make him fire up that old sleigh and deliver this crap himself. But never mind. I was at UPS and a supervisor whom we call 2Thug was explaining to me that I can not work on night shift next week because the double shifting is being cut off. And this after all the times I saved their lives?

Unacceptable.

Then He asked me if I was working for them on the optional Sunday sort. In fact he was begging me since the other pick-offs aren't going to be there, and he will be sorely hurting without all of us. I felt like I was being screwed. I was going to have to work Sunday and get what overtime I can since I'll be dropped like a sack of potatoes on Monday. But then I remembered that there is no such thing as a no win situation. I asked myself, "What would Shatner do?"

So I pulled the Corbomite Maneuver. I told 2Thug that I would only work for him on Sunday if he would get ST. Anger to let me work night shift next Monday-Wednesday. I was bluffing, of course. 2Thug didn't like it very much. He looked like he might cry, and he said somthing like, "You can't do this to me. You can't bribe me like that." I knew then that I had him. He didn't understand the situation at all.

"Yes I can." I said. "And I just did it."

"But it's not even up to me."

"Well then you better talk to St. Anger."

"It's not even up to him."

"Well just tell him that's what I said, and we'll see what he does."

About 2 minutes and 18 seconds later 2Thug came and told me that I could double shift for him next week. I win. Sort of. But now I have to work Sunday. Damn!

FML

Geek Movie of the Week #1

I don't really love Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It's not really about anything as far as I can tell. But sometimes you just need to let that geekiness wash over your soul and make you feel like a kid again






And, on another small note because I'm feeling a little bitter. Why do we allow James Cameron to call himself the King of the World. It has taken him 10 years and something like $750,000,000 dollars to make two movies, one about a sinking ship, and one about people who look like rejects from a pixar movie. Meanwhile, during the same time frame, Clint Eastwood has directed 10 movies for a fraction of the cost of one of King Cameron's movies. And Six of Clint's movies in those years have been nominated and/or won several academy awards.

I think it's time to dethrone someone from their high horse. I'm just saying'.

A Small Photo Success

It would appear that of the 31 photos I submitted to that Capture My Utah photo book, 7 were published. One of those is very, very tiny, but nonetheless it is there. This leads me to believe that regular people can actually like my photos. Now I just need to figure out how to get them to open up their wallets and pay me for it. I do have a general idea of how I need to start, but I have no money to get it done. So until someone pays me, I can't do more to convince people to pay me, and thus the vicious cycle of attempting to sell yourself out during a recession. But never mind. I just had to let that out for a moment.

Anyways. Thanks to all you who voted for me. You know who you are. Also congrats to Walt on also being a published photographer. This is the first time that I can say that I am published in a book that you can actually buy within the United States of America. I am featured in a book that exists in Taiwan, but that's another story.