Let Me Fix You Some Samiches...I Made You a Wooden Pickle.
I was hoping to have some creative and witty entry for the first one of 2006, but this just isn't going to be it. I was holding off waiting for that monumental thing to happen, but shit, it may take until June until that happens. Who knows. I guess that's the wonder of life. To steal a quote from a movie, loosely, you could wake up a dirt farmer in Bangladesh. Not really relevant other than it represents anything and everything can change in the blink of an eye. Damn...Getting deep already. I usually save that for the end. Rather than try to come up with the great inspirational first entry, I figure we'll do a sum up of 2006 so far. Here goes nothing.
Every once and a while some movie slips past me that I should have watched when it came out. One of the ones that is very memorable to me was Contact. I actually consider it one of my favorites now, but this isn't about any great serious movie. There was a flick that came out in 2003 that I vaguely remember being released that I continually missed. I had the opportunity to catch about half of it on New Year's Day, and I can't believe I missed this one. I have since "acquired" this film and watched it a few times. I rarely get into comedies, and they usually have to be obscure or very dark for me to enjoy them...The movie I'm talking about is Bad Santa. I have a hard time recollecting any other film with such vulgarity in the language and characters. Admittedly, I can see people hating this film for that very reason, but I thought it was brilliant. I love seeing directors (and it's no surprise the Coen brothers are involved) push the envelope, and this movie does that. I've always been accused of having the mouth of a sailor, but I can't hold a candle to this. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. It wasn't until watching it the second time that I had the apoplectic, side hurting, laughter reaction.
Other interesting things about 2006. I have officially got the first food poisoning of the year. I didn't have lunch anywhere disgusting, as a matter of fact, the restaurant in question was one of the staple lunch places near work. It took about 45 minutes or so for it to truly kick in...but came in like a bitch. The whole stomach pain, shaky legs, headache, the whole shebang. I'm still not feeling anywhere near 100% yet. Food and I have taken a short sabbatical, at least until tomorrow morning. Here's to hoping I'm back up to snuff tomorrow.
I finally put some new rubber on my car. I know, I know, I was talking about that a month or so ago, but a little bit of procrastination never hurt no one. At least no one I know. I kind of had to. I'm driving down to the airport tomorrow morning to pick up a friend from her trip to Mexico. I'm not jealous, I'm not jealous. If I keep saying it I'll believe it eventually. I figure with snow coming in, it wouldn't be cool to kill CG when she gets back from her vacation. Go out by yourself and you're a hero, take someone with you and you're an asshole.
And that's about the end of that. The food poisoning must still be in me. I never have a hard time coming up with some bizarre absurdism to end the entry with, but it's just not coming tonight. So in conclusion, still no Xbox360, but here's to hoping. Maybe that will be the first monumental entry, if I can pull myself away from it when/if I get one. Glad I saved some sick days from last year.
I was hoping to have some creative and witty entry for the first one of 2006, but this just isn't going to be it. I was holding off waiting for that monumental thing to happen, but shit, it may take until June until that happens. Who knows. I guess that's the wonder of life. To steal a quote from a movie, loosely, you could wake up a dirt farmer in Bangladesh. Not really relevant other than it represents anything and everything can change in the blink of an eye. Damn...Getting deep already. I usually save that for the end. Rather than try to come up with the great inspirational first entry, I figure we'll do a sum up of 2006 so far. Here goes nothing.
Every once and a while some movie slips past me that I should have watched when it came out. One of the ones that is very memorable to me was Contact. I actually consider it one of my favorites now, but this isn't about any great serious movie. There was a flick that came out in 2003 that I vaguely remember being released that I continually missed. I had the opportunity to catch about half of it on New Year's Day, and I can't believe I missed this one. I have since "acquired" this film and watched it a few times. I rarely get into comedies, and they usually have to be obscure or very dark for me to enjoy them...The movie I'm talking about is Bad Santa. I have a hard time recollecting any other film with such vulgarity in the language and characters. Admittedly, I can see people hating this film for that very reason, but I thought it was brilliant. I love seeing directors (and it's no surprise the Coen brothers are involved) push the envelope, and this movie does that. I've always been accused of having the mouth of a sailor, but I can't hold a candle to this. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. It wasn't until watching it the second time that I had the apoplectic, side hurting, laughter reaction.
Other interesting things about 2006. I have officially got the first food poisoning of the year. I didn't have lunch anywhere disgusting, as a matter of fact, the restaurant in question was one of the staple lunch places near work. It took about 45 minutes or so for it to truly kick in...but came in like a bitch. The whole stomach pain, shaky legs, headache, the whole shebang. I'm still not feeling anywhere near 100% yet. Food and I have taken a short sabbatical, at least until tomorrow morning. Here's to hoping I'm back up to snuff tomorrow.
I finally put some new rubber on my car. I know, I know, I was talking about that a month or so ago, but a little bit of procrastination never hurt no one. At least no one I know. I kind of had to. I'm driving down to the airport tomorrow morning to pick up a friend from her trip to Mexico. I'm not jealous, I'm not jealous. If I keep saying it I'll believe it eventually. I figure with snow coming in, it wouldn't be cool to kill CG when she gets back from her vacation. Go out by yourself and you're a hero, take someone with you and you're an asshole.
And that's about the end of that. The food poisoning must still be in me. I never have a hard time coming up with some bizarre absurdism to end the entry with, but it's just not coming tonight. So in conclusion, still no Xbox360, but here's to hoping. Maybe that will be the first monumental entry, if I can pull myself away from it when/if I get one. Glad I saved some sick days from last year.
posted by Reverend Moloquin at 11:14 PM
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