More good photos of 2006

-- photo courtesy of S. Cramer

Good photos of 2006

-- photo courtesy of Megan O.

There will be more to come

quirky titles

I pieced all the titles on this page. They were, well ... funny. It is amazing what you sometimes find looking for jobs. I like the picture titles of "man on computer" and "woman_pointing".

Quickly, before shelving my rough draft

I can always look at this later ...
I started a new blog htat isn't a mad cap list of rantings. It's different, not better than this. If you don't like it, don't read it.

bits and pieces

Keep your family and friends close
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don't make or keep enemies
Be on guard

Make every shot count

Don't get mad, don't get mean

Hide when you need to hide

Put your best foot forward and give shakes and high fives

bits and pieces for scrapbook and rough draft (1 of many)

That's what I saw -- that doesn't look like a job. It looks like an ad.

Sounds and smells of normalcy

Where I grew was near a school. I heard, being part of it, children screaming and playing. I heard birds, geese and ducks. I heard the railroad, heard planes, and a raceway on the weekends very near the airport. On some shifting wind and high-humidity days I could smell the airport, smell the wire magnet companies and International Harvester (a few miles away). This city was, at one point, the magnet wire capital -- as though that were a noble title.

I have decided not to delete this blog. It was my plan, considering everything. I will, maybe, attend to this rough draft, but right now, I'm moving on.

Burning bridges before I cross them

Somehow, in my efforts to find a job, I am not getting return calls. I am purging opportunities before I reach them and I don't know how. I've tried silence and tried verbosity, but usually stick to the hard course of middle ground. I "ain't found" + squat as it were. I referred to poison earlier, so I applied that to myself and I'll be buggered if I can shake it or lose it. I get the image in my mind, "Oh, we've heard of you!"++

+ racially rude scene in Spaceballs combing the desert.

++ [a little long-winded story as to why this phrase is funny] Friends and I used to work at a video store and watched hundreds of videos. Not a one of us was Randall (from Clerks). TJ ("You call him Doctor Jones") was in the store when a preview tape was playing (as if a trailer was going to make anyone suddenly charge after the movie being advertised). Hellraiser was on with the quote, "Your pain will be legendary, even in Hell". TJ quipped that upon arrival in hell, the other damned would remark, "Oh. We've heard of you!"

As far as the drones being controlled by a force, I guess some people did star up at the screens and pursue the movie advertised. If you ever have a retail job for any length of time, you might get a different feel for the general public. In Dante's perspective, consumers are the lustful, which are unsettled and on winds of desire, just beyond the demon secretary of hell, who places you. I don't mean all cosumers, but some are as controllable as water from a spigot.

Since I mentioned Rupert ...

Emma Watson, I would suggest stay a bit longer in the UK+, as she might be as tantilizing as the Olsen twins to pedophiles and barely legal pursuers. Undoubtedly, she, like other young girl actors, would be given millions of offers to star in "smaller script" roles, when the beauty is in her nakedness or other. Many girls have fallen to this road. If you take note of those who take it, few are as "pretty" since they are soiled and dirty from their choice.

Daniel Radcliffe, possibly in defiance of his agent, took his path on stage. I see that he is casted in the Harry Potter role, but like Voldemort, it is a shadow that will follow him. Think of Heath Ledger. He might not be gay, but to play one in the movies, well ... "Hollywood Poison" as they say.

+ in this, I mean that she could do more acting and be her own actor, therefore not needing to take the cruddy roles, just to make ends meet.

Monster House

The rating was right on this one. This isn't a very fluid young kid's movie. That being remarked, I think a few other elements should have been reconsidered before its release:

[WARNING, includes MOVIE parts. DO NOT READ if you want to see the movie for the first time]

criminal conversion (shoplifting) of a boy from his father's pharmacy,
minor in consuption (late teen drinking beer),
child-care provider abandoning charge ,
Ron Jeremy-esque character nearly petting babysitter on car near end of movie,
to-be built house in the middle of nowhere (literally in scrub land) with children hiding behind bushes tossing eggs.

Some of the elements are good, creative, disturbing. With the direction, left of child-oriented, they ought to have added more adult language, themes, or other elements.

Highlights: character reactions, Jumaji fright and repeated elements. Sam Lerner is a good voice match for Rupert Grint. I'm hoping to see some US acting ops for Rupert. Most of the characters have weakened values on their body parts. While I understand that it is animated, it looked a bit flat when you saw the hair that looked, well ... plastic. If they went to the time to put together so many other things, why did they skip out on the hair?

I thought the movie was okay, weaknesses stated and that it looked like "buy this movie now as the video game" feel to it.