Running Diary - 20091221

20091221

08:47 – I think I broke my insides this past weekend.

 

11:10 – My hangover/organ failure is making me feel like shit and awesome at the same time.  I wonder how that works exactly?

 

12:32 – I'm not big on religion.  You won't hear me talk about God or Jesus or Mary or Allah or Yaweh or whatever.  But I do believe in giving thanks.  I personally believe in God, Jesus and the Virgin Mary.  I do not lack in faith, I lack in faith in the Catholic Church.  But this is not about that, this is about giving thanks for a good year.  I have a job that I love.  And even though I don't make much money I make enough to be happy.  I'm happy.  When was the last time any of us stopped to consider that?  It took me less than 5 minutes and for that I'm thankful.

 

14:45 – So, about a month ago I was really bored and asked my friends for top 5's.  In this case they were music.  I'm bored now, so here's the one I sent them.

English:

Pearl Jam

1. Nothing As It Seems
2. Better Man
3. Evenflow
4. Do the Evolution
5. Jeremy

The Clash

1. I Fought the Law
2. Rudie Can't Fail
3. Lost in the Supermarket
4. Train in Vain
5. Should I Stay or Should I Go

Weezer

1. Beverly Hills
2. Buddy Holly
3. Undone (The Sweater Song)
4. Island in the Sun
5. Simple Pages

Oasis

1. Don't Go Away
2. Cigarettes & Alcohol
3. Songbird
4. Fuckin' in the Bushes
5. She's Electric

Green Day

1. She
2. Basket Case
3. Whatsername
4. 21 Guns
5. Wake Me Up When September Ends

 

Spanish:

Caifanes/Jaguares

1. La Célula Que Explota
2. Miercoles de Ceniza
3. Antes de Que Nos Olviden
4. Ayer Me Dijo un Ave
5. No Dejes Que…

Soda Stereo

1. Persiana Americana
2. De Musica Ligera
3. Nada Personal
4. En La Ciudad de la Furia
5. Primavera 0

Héroes del Silencio

1. Agosto
2. Avalancha
3. La Chispa Adecuada
4. Entre Dos Tierras
5. Flor de Loto

Café Tacvba

1. Las Flores
2. La Ingrata
3. Eres
4. María
5. Cero y Uno

Molotov

1. Puto
2. Rastaman-dita
3. Here We Kum
4. Here Comes the Mayo
5. Quitate Que Ma'sturbas

 

And the bonus round was for

Hip-Hop/Rap

Tupac Shakur

1. How Do U Want It?
2. California Love
3. Changes
4. Picture Me Rollin'
5. Dear Mama

Common

1. Go!
2. I Want You
3. Testify

A Tribe Called Quest

1. Can I Kick It?
2. Bonita Applebottom
3. Scenario
4. Find a Way

The Roots

1. The Seed 2.0
2. In the Music
3. Break You Off

 

16:18 – The boredom continues.  Alas, not much that can be done about that.  It's the time of the year.  And in my dept. we're pretty much done with the years' labors.

Based on that, I'm listening to "So Far" by Buckcherry.

 

16:34 – OK, so I'm not a James Cameron fan.  It's not that I don't like his movies, I do.  Who the shit can argue with The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2 and The Abyss?  Exactly.  But the awesome power that you get when you combine all those movies doesn't even come close to the gigantic cluster-fuck that was Titanic.  I get it, Leonardo DiCaprio is dreamy in it, Kate Winslet is heavenly, and who doesn't want to be a four billion year-old, decrepit, old bag on a ship having hot-flashes and rubbing herself while telling her one-true-love story to the crew of the ship you are on while they look on with a combination of horror and amazed-horror?  And in Bill Paxton's case horniness; did you see that guy's face while she was telling the story?  It was like he was about to shove his pecker down her denture-less mouth.

But I digress.  It took one movie about a boat that sank and that I already knew was going to sink before the movie came out to kill my fandom in James Cameron.

Avatar came out this past weekend.  I DID NOT GO to the mid-night premier.  Sacrilegious in movie-geekdom, but can you really blame me?  He hasn't directed a fiction movie since that piece of shit, how can I tell he's redeemed himself with this one?  Sure, I've heard rave reviews and people say that the special effects are out of this world (sorry, I couldn't help it), but I also heard that about Titanic and that made me want to die.  To die a horrible, horrible death.  Horrible.  Death.  And to avoid shitting just on Cameron I'll include Spiderman 3 in here, too, though it wasn't so atrocious that it killed my completely platonic and very hetero love for Sam Raimi.

The point is, I'm going to go see it today and I'm hoping not to be totally disappointed.  So here's to hoping James Cameron's penis has regenerated itself after it fell off due to mummification caused by fucking the old lady from Titanic.

 

20091222

08:23 – And so it is, the faith is beginning to be restored.  I saw Avatar last night.

 

08:39 – It's a great movie.  It has the potential of becoming Star Warsian.  It has the perfect combination of appeal for kids and adults, fantasy and science fiction.  As far as the special effects are concerned, they are amazing, I don't deny that, but they're not as natural looking as everyone said they were.  The world did seem as natural as anything, but the Na'vi could still be seen as CG.  I was amazed at the evolution of the expressions on the face.  Especially when I think back to the last time I watched Final Fantasy: Advent Children.  I loved the effects in that movie, Advent Children, but admittedly the facial expressions in it are completely lacking.

10:16 – The point is that the movie was good.  And it's a good way to start me on my road to forgiving James Cameron for Titanic.

 

10:17 – Oh, AND MARTIN BRODEUR IS THE ALL TIME SHUTOUTS LEADER IN THE NHL!!!

WHAT!

 

10:42 – So here's the story on Yahoo! Sports.  With his numbers.

 

12:38 – I was listening to The BS Report this morning and they were talking about who should be allowed into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  Obviously as a reaction to the fact that the new class of inductees has been announced.

In their discussion, Simmons was talking about how there are way too many genres of music.  I completely fucking agree.  I have my iTunes organized under "Alternative", "Rock", "Hip-Hop/Rap", "Electronica/Dance", "Folk", "Funk", "Metal", "Industrial Metal", "Progressive Rock", "Alternative & Punk" (which for organizational purposes is the equivalent to "Indie"), "Punk", "Pop-Punk", "Rock/Pop", "Rock en Español", "Pop en Español", "Hip-Hop/Rap en Español", "Ska", "Ska en Español", "Jazz", "Acid Jazz", "Latin Jazz", "Trip-Hop", "Drum 'n' Bass/Jungle", "Classical", "Movie Score", and a few more that I can't think of right now.  The point is that that list is conservative.  You include all the new genres that have popped up in the last 20 years and you're left with what really is rock n' roll?

 

15:48 – ♪ Dashing through the coals

In a hell-hound open grave.

Through the rings he goes,

Cackling all the way

Mwa-ha-ha

 

Killing spirits bright,

And his horns are out of sight.

Oh how fun it is to plunder

And suck souls all this night! ♫

 

20091223

08:48 – So I have nothing to write about yet, but at least I wanted to get the day started.

 

10:44 – So I'm going to Europe in 2010.  My ticket purchase confirmation was sent today.  It is now a fact of life.  :D

 

15:31 – After checking what "pigeon toed" meant I realized I had that shit as a kid.

 

20091224

10:10 – I've always wondered.  And it comes up every time I watch a science fiction movie.  When and if we ever colonize another planet or other planets, how are humans going to evolve differently?

Let's assume for a moment that all these planets have either been terra-formed or are very earth-like.  Just because this is the way they are or have been made doesn't mean that they rotate at the same speed as Earth currently does, does it?  Or that it spins on it's axis on a 24 hour cycle the way it does here.  How long would the new years run for?  Would we have longer days or shorter days?  How would our brains adapt to these changes?

We assume that just because in sci-fi they're all human that their days and years and all that stuff is the same as those on Earth.  But even if we tried to do that, how could we avoid basic evolutionary changes in humans based on the new conditions?  Would we evolve into a completely new species divided by out planets?

Now consider that, too.  Many people claim sightings of extra terrestrials.  What if these aliens are the product of the same evolutionary process but with a different environment?  What if the same seed of life was planted on many different planets and each single celled seed evolved differently and their planet's conditions allowed them to hyper-evolve their brains to allow inter-galactic travel?  What if they see their evolution as natural and normal and we are the slow ones?

These are all the things I think of every time I pop in a sci-fi movie.  Amen.

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