Insert funny title here....
OK recap: Monkey Boy will be moving up here in the next week or so (today is his last day at Crapicus), Big'J's wife hasn't been feeling well and we've been worried about her, BJD is a database backing up master chief, I've been a movie watching fool, and there's a spider in my office that is smarter (and faster) than I am.
First the spider...(and if you hear me screaming in the middle of this post, blame the spider)....I noticed the little savage this morning. He jumped off the ceiling onto my desk as soon as I walked in. He (or she, but I'll stick to "he" for the sake of simplicity) is about the size of a quarter and all black/dark brown. At first I was jumpy because he came out of nowhere, but now he's all hiding in the cracks and crevices of the "Americana Office Furniture" (i.e. standard modular craptastic cube furniture). He's pretty stinkin fast, like the Lieberman/Clinton bashing on the next Grand Theft Auto game (official title "GTA 4: In Space with my Bitches"....ok not really). Of course for the last hour he's been hiding (like a Scientologists common sense....morons) and so I'm more paranoid than anything else.....what's that sound?????......Oh God, something is hunting me.........
Big'J's wife has been having some upper abdominal pain on her right side. Her description reminds me a lot of the suffering I endured when I discovered an alien growing in my gallbladder. The pain started on Tuesday, she went in to the hospital and they couldn't tell her anything conclusive. She's back at the hospital this morning for an ultra-sound appointment. As such, I'm hoping they'll definitively tell us if she has a gall stone.
Haven't heard from Monkey Boy to much. He's still wrestling with where to live around here. He and his fiancee (Cheese Girl) came up last weekend on a suicide drive (left work at 5pm and drove 10 hours up, arriving at 3am) to check out a few areas to live. Cheese Girl just about went into shock as she realized they were moving to "the country" (i.e. the region between B'ham and Cullman). Somewhere near Cullman she asked a local "Where's the mall?" to which the response was, "Ain't no mall here. We goes to Birminham or Huntsvul for dat kinds of stuff." Poor girl! Saturday night we met up at Chili's (eat your heart out Espen!!!!) for a few beers. After sitting with them for awhile and catching up I have to say that I haven't been fair in my opinion of Cheese Girl. My first impression of her wasn't very positive, but now that we're both a little more comfortable with the situation and each other, I've discovered that I was way to harsh in my original assessment.
This week has been a heavy movie week for me. I've watched Ultraviolet, Munich, 16 Blocks, Underworld Evolution, Firewall, and V for Vendetta. Ultraviolet gets categorized with the movie Elektra (i.e. the shit-pile), the effects were horrendous, story was ripped off, dialogue was almost a lesson in blithering, and the cinematography was done by a two year old. The only positive thing I can say is that I saw a lot of Milla's belly button.
16 Blocks (Bruce Willis and Mos Def) and Firewall (Harrison Ford and Paul Bettany) I would classify as good quality movies. I didn't find either one over the top or genre defining. They were both just solid movies that were enjoyable. I'll watch them again when they hit HBO.
I understand why Munich (Eric Bana) was considered for so many awards. I won't classify it as a fantastic movie, but I was enthralled (i.e. engrossed, couldn't look away) with the movie as soon as it started. It was definitely up to Speildburg's standards.
V for Vendetta (Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman) was good as well, though not as revolutionary as the original Matrix. Lots of good dialogue, up to par visual effects, Ms. Portman did a great job (she proved that she is a great actress after the Star Wars crap). I wasn't grabbed by the political statement of the movie that other people exclaim about. It hit me as more of a "man becomes monster and gets revenge" story.
Underworld Evolution was ok. The visual effects, story locations, and continuity with the first movie were very good. But I think this one suffered even more from the problems of the first movie: bad acting by key players, even worse casting, and crap writing. The fictional world they have to play in could be SOO much better, it just feels uninspired to me. My biggest beef is still with the actor (Scott Speedman) that plays Michael (the hybrid from the first movie). I'm not sure if this guy would know a personality if it bombed him Hiroshima-style. He (the character) just seems like some dumb jerk who is still too high to make sentences. Kate, however, is still looking scrumptious in the tight leather and when she takes it off for the "love scene" ...... well .... you don't see much of anything (except in profile), but she is definitely a fine specimen of the female gender.
Alright, I've been at work for several hours and haven't done a single productive thing. Back to the grind...
First the spider...(and if you hear me screaming in the middle of this post, blame the spider)....I noticed the little savage this morning. He jumped off the ceiling onto my desk as soon as I walked in. He (or she, but I'll stick to "he" for the sake of simplicity) is about the size of a quarter and all black/dark brown. At first I was jumpy because he came out of nowhere, but now he's all hiding in the cracks and crevices of the "Americana Office Furniture" (i.e. standard modular craptastic cube furniture). He's pretty stinkin fast, like the Lieberman/Clinton bashing on the next Grand Theft Auto game (official title "GTA 4: In Space with my Bitches"....ok not really). Of course for the last hour he's been hiding (like a Scientologists common sense....morons) and so I'm more paranoid than anything else.....what's that sound?????......Oh God, something is hunting me.........
Big'J's wife has been having some upper abdominal pain on her right side. Her description reminds me a lot of the suffering I endured when I discovered an alien growing in my gallbladder. The pain started on Tuesday, she went in to the hospital and they couldn't tell her anything conclusive. She's back at the hospital this morning for an ultra-sound appointment. As such, I'm hoping they'll definitively tell us if she has a gall stone.
Haven't heard from Monkey Boy to much. He's still wrestling with where to live around here. He and his fiancee (Cheese Girl) came up last weekend on a suicide drive (left work at 5pm and drove 10 hours up, arriving at 3am) to check out a few areas to live. Cheese Girl just about went into shock as she realized they were moving to "the country" (i.e. the region between B'ham and Cullman). Somewhere near Cullman she asked a local "Where's the mall?" to which the response was, "Ain't no mall here. We goes to Birminham or Huntsvul for dat kinds of stuff." Poor girl! Saturday night we met up at Chili's (eat your heart out Espen!!!!) for a few beers. After sitting with them for awhile and catching up I have to say that I haven't been fair in my opinion of Cheese Girl. My first impression of her wasn't very positive, but now that we're both a little more comfortable with the situation and each other, I've discovered that I was way to harsh in my original assessment.
This week has been a heavy movie week for me. I've watched Ultraviolet, Munich, 16 Blocks, Underworld Evolution, Firewall, and V for Vendetta. Ultraviolet gets categorized with the movie Elektra (i.e. the shit-pile), the effects were horrendous, story was ripped off, dialogue was almost a lesson in blithering, and the cinematography was done by a two year old. The only positive thing I can say is that I saw a lot of Milla's belly button.
16 Blocks (Bruce Willis and Mos Def) and Firewall (Harrison Ford and Paul Bettany) I would classify as good quality movies. I didn't find either one over the top or genre defining. They were both just solid movies that were enjoyable. I'll watch them again when they hit HBO.
I understand why Munich (Eric Bana) was considered for so many awards. I won't classify it as a fantastic movie, but I was enthralled (i.e. engrossed, couldn't look away) with the movie as soon as it started. It was definitely up to Speildburg's standards.
V for Vendetta (Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman) was good as well, though not as revolutionary as the original Matrix. Lots of good dialogue, up to par visual effects, Ms. Portman did a great job (she proved that she is a great actress after the Star Wars crap). I wasn't grabbed by the political statement of the movie that other people exclaim about. It hit me as more of a "man becomes monster and gets revenge" story.
Underworld Evolution was ok. The visual effects, story locations, and continuity with the first movie were very good. But I think this one suffered even more from the problems of the first movie: bad acting by key players, even worse casting, and crap writing. The fictional world they have to play in could be SOO much better, it just feels uninspired to me. My biggest beef is still with the actor (Scott Speedman) that plays Michael (the hybrid from the first movie). I'm not sure if this guy would know a personality if it bombed him Hiroshima-style. He (the character) just seems like some dumb jerk who is still too high to make sentences. Kate, however, is still looking scrumptious in the tight leather and when she takes it off for the "love scene" ...... well .... you don't see much of anything (except in profile), but she is definitely a fine specimen of the female gender.
Alright, I've been at work for several hours and haven't done a single productive thing. Back to the grind...
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