This page was last updated on Wednesday, 13 October, 2004
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First the boring stuff. I got a job. Notice that I didn't put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence. I would be happier if I were getting money without actually working, but looks like I'll actually be slaving away alongside all you stupid saps. Oh, the company is Aflac -- that place that sells ducks or something. They gave me a couple of weeks to study up on some sort of license or something. I started studying yesterday and got about a page into things before i picked up a magazine. I'm still planning on starting an errand service in which everyone I know pays me 20 bucks a month for me to do legitimate favors for them. suck! My vacuum broke when, strangely, my friend Rhett threw it off our balcony. Probably even strangelyer, I videotaped the whole thing. Watch the best parts of the whole event right here (or click on the picture).
hicky! Looks like I didn't win that moustache growing contest. I finally shaved. The picture below of me looking sad is the last (and greatest) picture you'll see of me with the most glorious moustache ever (at least until you scroll down and see more pictures of me).
spooky! J.R. and I finally finished the Halloween 2004 cd. Here's what the beautiful front cover looks like. Coincidentally, I think, we've put giant eyes on the front cover two years in a row. Maybe next year we can use the footage from my lasik surgery.
1. The
Day the Earth Stood Still (instrumental) Click here to view the lyrics. Right click here to download a word file that you can print off (double sided), cut out and insert into whatever jewel case you house your burned copy of Halloween 2004. In order for it to work you may need to download several different word fonts and put the files in the fonts folder of your computer's windows folder. Right click on the links that follow to download them. The fonts are are digifit, creepygirl, cracked johnny, candles, chiller, keypunch, countdown, bnmachine, asimov, alien encounters, gothic love letters, diamond gothic, killigraphy, bitch slap, gothic ultra trendy, naked monk and balloon. If one of these fonts is already installed on your computer, you don't need to download it to download the word file. If anyone wants to go to a haunted house, let me know. close encounters of the nerd kind! Not much to say here. I think the pictures speak for themselves. My friend Erin and I (not the Erin on the sponsors page, but the Salt Lake version of Erin) went to the big release party of the Star Wars dvds.
I won the following award
for answering the following questions (notice that they gave me the Jedi Master certificate even though I only answered the Jedi Paduwan questions):
I probably would have bothered to put on my stormtrooper outfit if George Lucas bothered to clean up his original works of art (sans Ewoks) instead of his computer-generated crapfests. He says this is the way the movies are meant to be displayed. I disagree. Can I disagree with the actual creator of the films themselves? Yep. I've done it before. Let's get a few things straight. Computer animated animals in the background distract from the story rather than enhance it. When characters originally interact with a human character, the adding in of a digital character is a step down in believability. Most important of all -- HAN SOLO SHOT GREEDO FIRST! Okay, sorry for totally nerding out. It happens every once in a while. saturday morning lights! Last Saturday the boys and I played a little full-contact football. Only one of us sustained a major injury. It was better than we hoped for. Anybody see Friday Night Lights? The camera work was childishly shaky, but Tim McGraw did a FANTASTIC job. I was amazed. mankind is an oxymoron! Ridiculous rant follows: A few weeks ago I went to the same Chinese restaurant two days in a row. Miraculously I got the same fortune both times.
Most people I know who I've referred the incident to have told me that the fortune must be true in order for such a serendipitous event to happen. I stick by my guns and say that the opposite is true. I'll tell you the reason: reality TV. Reality TV is the new definition of what mankind has become and it has very little goodness about it, at least not enough goodness for me to believe in anyway. There is a media question that we used to discuss in school: "Does television defiine society or does television reflect it?" Conservative religious types say that TV has a lot to do with defining society which is why 12-year-olds skank themselves up and little boys are going on shooting sprees. Less conservative types say that society is already in decay and we must show the decay to acknowledge it and do something about it. There is truth to both thoughts. What initially goes on TV is a reflection of a small part of society. When the larger part of society watches the behavior of the smaller part, the viewing becomes a part of their society. After that has happened what was initially a reflection of the smaller part becomes a reflection of a larger part because the larger part adjusts to it. I don't hate reality TV because it's boring (it is anyway). I don't hate reality TV because it's just a cheap, lazy way for networks to make money (although it totally is). I don't hate reality TV because of the dolts who participate in it who think they're actual celebrities (although I guess that's part of it). I hate reality tv because it morally offends me. I hate it because it teaches people to have animosity instead of charity. It didn't have to be the way it turned out, but it turned out to promote the worst aspects of Machiavellian greed. I wouldn't mind reality TV if it consisted of just real people followed around by cameras. I actually didn't mind MTV's the Real World. The problem is, they make most of today's reality shows into game shows with an actual point or goal involved. As a result of that, they cast type-A red personalities to accomplish the goals. The contestants (not participants) then do whatever it takes to accomplish the goal. Unlike normal game shows however, there are no rules. The result is that the most selfish and the most willing to inflict harm on others to achieve their goals are often the ones who are rewarded. I'm not denying that there are plenty of conniving selfish people in the world today. There are. Definately. My problem is that when we reward the Machiavelli-worshipping tantrum-makers, the impressionable youth of the world associate that behavior as "correct." I am so sick of meeting people who go on and on about how "up front" they are or how offensive they are as if they were actually proud of it. Listen, maybe it's not something to be proud of. Maybe you're just an asshole and you deserve to be hated. I don't want you thinking you should be earning respect when you should be hated. Some people in this world need to be hard-headed red personality jerks. But not everybody. I'm way too sick of employers thinking that if an employee isn't red, he or she isn't worth working. Obviously I'm nothing at all like anybody on any reality show today. I'm laid-back, easy-going, a good quiet type. Often that means I'm a doormat. If I were a bit more like the people I see on TV, I have no doubt that I'd be much much more socially an financially successful today. Honestly, I'd rather be a doormat than be a selfish jerk. Obviously, I can be a jerk when it really counts, but it's not something I value. I'll change the world my own way. (13oct04) |
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