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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
The post with an exclaimation
This weekend's horror movie marathon will fucking be off the hook--that is all
The post with me dsicussin some summer reading (featuring some reader interaction)
I decided the other week I wanted to start reading again to try and save my mind from the bog it is drifting into. So while trying to decide what to get into to I settled onto a book that I discovered through the tv show Lost. See Sawyer on the show keeps all his books close by and one of those books is entitled Watership Down, the story of a band of rabbits that leave there home because the young rabbit Fiver has a premonition that something bad is going to happen. It is a story of struggle, survival, and courage. I was doing some research on the book before I bought it and saw that it is a very beloved book so I figured I had to read it and let me say...this is one of the best books I've ever read in my life. It is a allegory on Marxism, Facism, and Humans destorying nature and believe me half the time I forgot I was reading a book about rabbits. It is engrossing, and gripping and Richard Adams does a great job of giving factual tidbits about rabbits while weaving a whole culture and lineage to this particular band of rabbits. Just absolutely fascinating reading and I highly recommend it if you're like me and have never read this book.
So with that out of the way I need a new book to move onto. I've narrowed it down to two choices which are wildly different and I'm going to let you the readers make the decision as to what I read first--although I'm fairly certain what will win.
Book No. 1--
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk is famous for writing the books Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby (which is a great and extremely creepy book.
Haunted, charts the trials of a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer's retreat in an abandoned theater. The novel intersperses the writers' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending." They lock themselves in the theater, reasoning that once they're found, they'll all become rich and famous.
Book No. 2--
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
Klosterman follows up his 2003 book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs with this memoir of sorts based off an article he wrote for Spin magazine.
Killing Yourself to Live follows Klosterman driving cross-country to visit several of America's most famous rock and roll death sites, from the Rhode Island club where more than 90 Great White fans died in a fire, to the Iowa field where Buddy Holly's plane crashed. Along the way, Klosterman opines on rock music, never afraid to offend.
To be honest both books sound really interesting to me and I can't wait til you guys tell me which one to start out on....So vote away...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
The Post with me Buying some stuff from ROH
Ok so I'm abig wrestling fan and my favortie promotion out there is Ring of Honor. Look at it this way...WWE is your multi-million dollar summer blockbuster..ROH is your critically hailed independent movie. It is wrestling that is based on in-ring work and the fans are crazy to the point of annoying for their product. So I was looking to buy some stuff off their site again and had an idea what I wanted but then I saw they were having a $10 DVD sale, so now I have no idea what to get..Maybe I should buy some Total Nonstop Action DVD's.
Worst of all ROH hasn't been in Philly since March and the weekedn they finally return--I will be out in Millersville on Saturday night after our horror movie marathon and then visiting with some friends. So I will miss out on the weekend action even though my favortie wrestler A.J. Styles returns to ROH along with the Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels....unless I can convince one of my friends to go with me down to Philly despite the long drive and their not liking wrestling like I do.....hmmmmmmmm
Just kidding guys I wouldn't do that to you....
I'm out
The Post with me discussin Hal Ketchum
Lately I've been looking up country songs from the early 90's I loved growing up that I've been downloading for a new CD I'm putting together....It has led to me getting reaquainted with my love of Hal Ketchum. A very underrated singer/songwriter that was unfairly forgotten once country started moving towards the realm of pop music. He wrote some great songs like Hang in there Superman, Stay Forever, and my personal favorite Small Town Saturday Night...
peep this lyric:
"Bobby told Lucy, "The world ain't round...
Drops off sharp at the edge of town
Lucy, you know the world must be flat
'Cause when people leave town, they never come back"
doesn't seem like much to you maybe--but I love it...go download that song and some other stuff by him--you're 90% guaranteed to like it
Monday, July 11, 2005
The Post with my quarter-life crisis
Things lately have been going goofy for me. I am still trying to find a job after graduating college a year and a half ago--I currently work in a refrigeration warehouse to pay my bills but it is completely mind-numbing and populated by morons and miscreants.
So at the end of last week, I got turned down for this job I really wanted. I was applying for a TV Production Manager position at a local school district. I would've been in charge of all the schools tv studios and helping kids work and create original programming for the channel. I really wanted the job and it was in what I studied but alas I got the rejection letter after 2 weeks of waiting on a reply. The letter read, "Your achievments are impressive and you should be proud of them." Well no shit-I am but no one else seems to be.
Then I visited my cousin who I grew up with like brothers. He is about to turn 21 and has this great girlfriend who he is engaged to, they are expecting a child in a couple months, and he lives on this beautiful horse farm in this off the map road. It's, in our eyes, the perfect life since it's something we talked about for years.
Then my best friend for half my life tells me he proposed to his girlfriend of 2 years.
My other best friend recently got himself a new job working for a water authority and bought himself a new car (although he wasn't really planning on it).
So with all these good things happening to people around me I'm close to and the most recent job rejection I lost it. Tuesday at work was so horrible I felt a breakdown coming. This week has not started any better.
I think a lot of what gets me is that I'm about to turn 24 and I thought I'd be further in life than I am now. It just seems like everything is spirling and moving around me and here I sit spinning my wheels in the mud. I mean nothing seems to have changed much for me since I graduted high school--I work at a job where I don't make much more than I did while in high school at my part time job, and I still am single despite trying (and mostly not succeeding) at that aspect. I just think if one or the other would turn around for me it wouldn't be so bad.
All I can say is Keep it Together
Friday, July 08, 2005
The Post with The Samckdown Controversy
There has been a big fuss over an angle that aired on this past week's WWE Smackdown Thursday night. Being a lifelong wrestling fan I feel I should weigh in. Here's some backstory.
The WWE at the beginning of the year introduced two new characters Muhammed Hasssan and his manager Khrosow Daivari--two Arab Americans complaining becasue they are being persecuted against for being Arab. Nothing wrong with that. Last week Hassan started a feud with the legendary character The Undertaker. He ran away during a match scared of the Undertaker. This week he gets put in a match at the Great American Bash PPV against the Undertaker but then the general manager of Smackdown puts his manager Daivari in a match against the Undertaker on Smackdown....Here's the recap of what was said after this anouncement from Wade Keller of the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter:
Hassan told Daivari backstage that he needs to understand his role. He told him to sacrifice himself for the greater good. He assured him his sacrifice would not go without a great reward. Hassan whispered something to Daivari.
Then the actual match took place with the angle afterwards that has caused problems--again back to Wade:
5 -- DAIVARI (w/Muhammad Hassan) vs. UNDERTAKER
Cole and Tazz talked about Daivari being a sacrifice. Tazz said Daivari is terrified and should be. The number of times they talked about "sacrifice being rewarded" makes this even more a no-brainer in terms of being edited off of the show entirely. Daivari tried to talk Hassan into letting him out of the match. Hassan kept assuring him he was doing the right thing. Daivari jumped out of the ring five seconds into the match. Hassan tossed him back into the ring. Tazz said Hassan told Daivari, "It's part of the plan." Taker gave Daivari a chokeslam to open the match. He finished him off quickly with a Tombstone piledriver.
WINNER: Undertaker at 1:34.
-After the match, six men in combat pants and black shirts and hoods attacked Taker and then wrapped a cable around Taker's neck and choked him out. Hassan then put him in the Camel Clutch.
Six men dressed to conceal their identies were summoned by Hassan to attack. Then they carried Daivari out raised above their heads.
i still have no problem with the angle--but the concern is that the angle aired on a day when London was attacked by terrorists and even though UPN and the WWE had some time to edit out the content (the show is taped Tuesday nights and then aired on thursdays) they chose to leave it in and ran a pre-show scroller that asked for parental discretion when viewing tonight's show.
To keep this short as I'm sure it will cause a brouhaha--The angle I have no problem with, they didn't plan for a terrorist attack when they filmed the angle Tuesday night. The question is class and they should've done something to tone the angle down a little, so it left less to the imagination. In all seriousness, the angle should not be taken too seriously it's wrestling which is a form of entertainment and people will have stuff that entertains them while it doesn't entertain or outright offends another. I'm pretty open so it doesn't affect me but I can see how it would some people.
This has raised all kinds of talk about boycotting WWE sponsors--which is stupid IMO, and has raised the discussion of ad dollars spent on WWE and its public perception--which is insane IMO
So what do you all think? Or do you need some more info and insight, i'll be glad to answer any questions
