Plans for the weekend:
Wash Truck.
uhh.... what else..
Oh!
Oil Change.
..
drawing a blank here..
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Maybe Volleyball on Saturday morning? If I wake up on time.
OHHHHHHH! Wait. I want to see Inception. Heck yes.
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So I saw District 9 a couple nights ago. I enjoy movies for a couple reasons. The story, execution or the story and most importantly.. the Special effects. I'm a guy.. deal with it. Anyways, I loved it. Story was solid, they executed it well by splicing the Documentary/real footage format, shows that everyone has the capacity for good and bad and that what it comes down to is choosing if you want to hate someone/something different or accept it for what it is and embrace it. I have heard/read a lot of feedback on how people hated the ending but you were given every indication that it was going to end that way from about the 1 hour mark of the movie. Hollywood dictates that he be saved in the end via something miraculous and everyone is made happy but had that occurred in this movie, i would have been indifferent. The reason I'm not indifferent is because it ended in the way that it should have. I wont give it away for those of you who haven't seen it but I assure you, the ending is one that reflects that of real life... Had aliens come here and we oppress them and so on and so forth.
I also Have to say that going into this movie, I expected for a somewhat believable ending given the premise of the movie. That sounds crazy I know but hear me out. Its presented as a documentary in the beginning so that tells me its going to be a plot that is believable even though it involves aliens and stuff. The way the aliens in the beginning were here, but not doing anything, and we went up to their ship and broke in essentially to find them all dying and helped them told me that we would assume superiority to them. Which naturally leads to us oppressing them because they are not like us. I'm getting off track here, my point is that the ending is what you should have expected. Not what you hoped it would be. Regardless, I loved it and they start shooting the sequel in October.
I cant wait
7.22.2010
6.06.2010
So I put my hands up...
I'm bored so I'm going to write a bit. I hope you all are doing well. I have been doing pretty good, I started going to the gym again and playing a lot of Sand volleyball too. I have reconnected with a lot of my old v-ball friends which is is awesome. I forgot how much I missed a lot of these guys when I moved to Chandler. I started a new job on May 3rd and I am starting to learn a lot about myself with this new job.
I am finally learning that I need to find a creative outlet and make money with it. I hate.. HATE being on a phone for work. Everyone said that they were proud of me for finding a good job and I was really relieved to find a place that is going to pay me well and give me benefits and all that. Don't get me wrong, I like all of that stuff, but I have had this desire for about 3-4 months to start writing comedy and trying to do stand up. I have a running list of things that I think are funny and am going to try and start writing a bit and working out how I want it to sound. I find myself thinking about it everyday and wanting it more and more. Some people want a family and kids and that "American Dream" life. Some people want to smoke crack and be junkies. I want to be a comic. I want to be myself for a change. I hate feeling like I cant say what I want to say because I'm afraid of hurting peoples feelings. I feel like this is an outlet where I can be 100% me. Sure people will criticize you or not like you or whatever but that is life, you cant be liked by everyone and I think trying to become a comic is not only my dream but a lesson for me to come out of my shell and just be myself. I was never allowed to be myself as a teen and I think I have finally found my voice.
However, in the never ending quest to destroy my own happiness, i come up with reasons why I can't do what it is that I want to do. So I tell myself "I need to pay off all this debt before I can do anything". "I cant go back to school because I cant afford more debt right now". I don't know if those things I say to myself are wisdom, or carefully disguised self miss-guiding statements. Sometimes I wonder If I should just go for it and throw caution to the wind or be cautious and plan out the order of events and how I want them to happen. I feel really venerable right now in terms of my financial state so taking a risk is just not something I want to do right now. Not that I would quit my job or anything but I think we all know that being a comedian/show business is anything but stable. I suppose that is something that just comes with the territory and getting used to that will be another place for growth for me.
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I would like to change topics for a moment and reflect on some more personal things that have been on my mind lately. Mostly bad things have been occurring lately and I'm not sure if this is some test to see how I handle these things or if its just a bad run. My band just found out that our Ex-Drummer (who controlled the iTunes account) was pocketing all the money from our online music sales. Initially this made me very angry due to the fact that the band has no money to begin with. He was making $100 to $200 withdrawls on a semi regular basis. This is the same drummer who sold his Drum kit without telling us. The same kit that the band paid $800 out of $2000 for it. As you can tell, this is a frustrating situation. Right now I'm over being mad at him and floating somewhere between forgiveness and holding a grudge. I'm troubled because I want to forgive him but I find myself still not wanting to return his text messages and wanting to just not be around him in general. I'm trying to not hold a grudge and I cant tell if this current set of behavior from me is because I'm still mad at him or because I'm holding it against him. I fell like I should mention that I went to church with this guy for like 5 years and he claims to love Jesus, therefor I hold him to a higher standard as I do myself. I think that's why this has cut me so deep. In the end he was/is a liar and a thief. I don't know, I just want to forgive him but I also never want to see his face again. This all happened about 4 days ago so maybe its still a little too fresh in my mind.
Hope everyone is well. As Always, trying to be more disciplined with my schedule of posting updates, but who am I kidding.
<3
I am finally learning that I need to find a creative outlet and make money with it. I hate.. HATE being on a phone for work. Everyone said that they were proud of me for finding a good job and I was really relieved to find a place that is going to pay me well and give me benefits and all that. Don't get me wrong, I like all of that stuff, but I have had this desire for about 3-4 months to start writing comedy and trying to do stand up. I have a running list of things that I think are funny and am going to try and start writing a bit and working out how I want it to sound. I find myself thinking about it everyday and wanting it more and more. Some people want a family and kids and that "American Dream" life. Some people want to smoke crack and be junkies. I want to be a comic. I want to be myself for a change. I hate feeling like I cant say what I want to say because I'm afraid of hurting peoples feelings. I feel like this is an outlet where I can be 100% me. Sure people will criticize you or not like you or whatever but that is life, you cant be liked by everyone and I think trying to become a comic is not only my dream but a lesson for me to come out of my shell and just be myself. I was never allowed to be myself as a teen and I think I have finally found my voice.
However, in the never ending quest to destroy my own happiness, i come up with reasons why I can't do what it is that I want to do. So I tell myself "I need to pay off all this debt before I can do anything". "I cant go back to school because I cant afford more debt right now". I don't know if those things I say to myself are wisdom, or carefully disguised self miss-guiding statements. Sometimes I wonder If I should just go for it and throw caution to the wind or be cautious and plan out the order of events and how I want them to happen. I feel really venerable right now in terms of my financial state so taking a risk is just not something I want to do right now. Not that I would quit my job or anything but I think we all know that being a comedian/show business is anything but stable. I suppose that is something that just comes with the territory and getting used to that will be another place for growth for me.
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I would like to change topics for a moment and reflect on some more personal things that have been on my mind lately. Mostly bad things have been occurring lately and I'm not sure if this is some test to see how I handle these things or if its just a bad run. My band just found out that our Ex-Drummer (who controlled the iTunes account) was pocketing all the money from our online music sales. Initially this made me very angry due to the fact that the band has no money to begin with. He was making $100 to $200 withdrawls on a semi regular basis. This is the same drummer who sold his Drum kit without telling us. The same kit that the band paid $800 out of $2000 for it. As you can tell, this is a frustrating situation. Right now I'm over being mad at him and floating somewhere between forgiveness and holding a grudge. I'm troubled because I want to forgive him but I find myself still not wanting to return his text messages and wanting to just not be around him in general. I'm trying to not hold a grudge and I cant tell if this current set of behavior from me is because I'm still mad at him or because I'm holding it against him. I fell like I should mention that I went to church with this guy for like 5 years and he claims to love Jesus, therefor I hold him to a higher standard as I do myself. I think that's why this has cut me so deep. In the end he was/is a liar and a thief. I don't know, I just want to forgive him but I also never want to see his face again. This all happened about 4 days ago so maybe its still a little too fresh in my mind.
Hope everyone is well. As Always, trying to be more disciplined with my schedule of posting updates, but who am I kidding.
<3
5.20.2010
Lunch Time
I'm about to go to lunch and I felt like saying something. Go Lakers. Actually, funny thing happened to me last week that I wanted to share. First, some back story.
As you may know the Phoenix Suns exercised demons in the Semi-final found of the playoffs this year by sweeping the San Antonio Spurs. The media in phoenix was foaming at the mouth during this series for a couple reasons. 1) the spurs are hated rivals. 2) They are notoriously dirty players (Nash broken nose, Horry hockey-style checking of Nash into the scorers table and Bowen stepping on people's feet as they go for jump shots, etc). 3) the spurs looked highly beatable and old with guys like Duncan, Parker and Gionobli. So the sweep occurred, there was redemption in the city of phoenix and all this while there is an immigration act that was being (and still is) hotly discussed. I'm not going to talk about the bill in this blog so no head shaking or anything like that, OK? good. So at this point, if you are a Suns fan, you are worked into a frenzy because sports immortality only occurs so often in phoenix and your Phoenix suns are in the Western Conference Finals. So who better to go through than the defending world champion Los Angeles Lakers. The Cross hair has been set, the enemy is now Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
Ok back to me. So there I was, 7:04am going South bound on the I-17. Nearest car in front of me was about 200 yards away and about the same distance was the nearest car behind me. Perhaps I suffer from early morning partial blindness or maybe I am just completely unaware of whats going on around me but a car came out of nowhere and cut me off while getting into the fast lane, which is where I was driving. So right then I was thinking a couple things. "wtf?, there is NO ONE around me. How can you cut someone off so bad when there is tons of room". So as any young man in his mid-twenties would do, I honk at him. Not a "you-cut-me-off-you-Ahole" honk, but a "hey-Im-here-just-letting-you-know-that-we-dont-do-that-to-people-when- you-have-400-yards-to-change-lanes" honk (pretty standard, really).
Part 1.a of the story is that the evening before I had put a good sized Lakers sticker on the back window of my truck the night before. It wasn't as big or as obnoxious as some of the suns stickers I have seen out here but it wasn't small by any means. Like 8 inches long and 2 inches tall. My thought process is that If people can roll around here supporting their favorite teams, no reason I shouldn't be able too. Not to mention I lived in Sacramento for a year as a laker fan and survived so this would be a piece of cake.
So, after honking at the man who cut me off he decided to change lanes into the carpool lane (that's to the left of the fast lane) and started slowing down and after a couple seconds he was even with me on the freeway. I'm going to Pause the story here because there are a couple things that could happen..
Situation 1) He flips me off, I laugh and he drives off.
As you may know the Phoenix Suns exercised demons in the Semi-final found of the playoffs this year by sweeping the San Antonio Spurs. The media in phoenix was foaming at the mouth during this series for a couple reasons. 1) the spurs are hated rivals. 2) They are notoriously dirty players (Nash broken nose, Horry hockey-style checking of Nash into the scorers table and Bowen stepping on people's feet as they go for jump shots, etc). 3) the spurs looked highly beatable and old with guys like Duncan, Parker and Gionobli. So the sweep occurred, there was redemption in the city of phoenix and all this while there is an immigration act that was being (and still is) hotly discussed. I'm not going to talk about the bill in this blog so no head shaking or anything like that, OK? good. So at this point, if you are a Suns fan, you are worked into a frenzy because sports immortality only occurs so often in phoenix and your Phoenix suns are in the Western Conference Finals. So who better to go through than the defending world champion Los Angeles Lakers. The Cross hair has been set, the enemy is now Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
Ok back to me. So there I was, 7:04am going South bound on the I-17. Nearest car in front of me was about 200 yards away and about the same distance was the nearest car behind me. Perhaps I suffer from early morning partial blindness or maybe I am just completely unaware of whats going on around me but a car came out of nowhere and cut me off while getting into the fast lane, which is where I was driving. So right then I was thinking a couple things. "wtf?, there is NO ONE around me. How can you cut someone off so bad when there is tons of room". So as any young man in his mid-twenties would do, I honk at him. Not a "you-cut-me-off-you-Ahole" honk, but a "hey-Im-here-just-letting-you-know-that-we-dont-do-that-to-people-when- you-have-400-yards-to-change-lanes" honk (pretty standard, really).
Part 1.a of the story is that the evening before I had put a good sized Lakers sticker on the back window of my truck the night before. It wasn't as big or as obnoxious as some of the suns stickers I have seen out here but it wasn't small by any means. Like 8 inches long and 2 inches tall. My thought process is that If people can roll around here supporting their favorite teams, no reason I shouldn't be able too. Not to mention I lived in Sacramento for a year as a laker fan and survived so this would be a piece of cake.
So, after honking at the man who cut me off he decided to change lanes into the carpool lane (that's to the left of the fast lane) and started slowing down and after a couple seconds he was even with me on the freeway. I'm going to Pause the story here because there are a couple things that could happen..
Situation 1) He flips me off, I laugh and he drives off.
Situation 2) I give him the "wtf" look, he yells something That I obviously cant hear, menacing glances are exchanged then one of us speeds up or slows down just to get away from the other.
Situation 3) He pulls a gun out, shoots out my tires and I Mission Impossible style leap from my slowing, crippled car on top of his and we have a fight to control his vehicle careening down the interstate (I wont lie, was kind of hoping this one happened)
I went for the option 2, I gave him the "wtf" face. I would have never guessed in a million years what he said next. I watched and read his lips has he mouthed...
"Eff you Laker fan."
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