Monday, October 10, 2005

Well .... I missed the Trial reunion last night. What bum out. This whole move situation has forced me to pinch quite a few pennies and one more randm cross-country trip was definitely not in the cards. Oh well I guess. What are you gonna do? No use crying over it, though it certainly sucks.

I'm leaving NY on Saturday. I'll be in LA Saturday night, then I'm flying to San Francisco on Sunday ... well, actually Sunnyvale, which is more like San Jose I guess ... I'm staying overnight there, going to new employee orientation, then flying back to LA. My first day in Santa Monica is next Tuesday.

This is weird.

I saw that movie The Squid and the Whale yesterday. It was creepy. Not creepy like The Ring was creepy, but creepy like "Yeah, this is real life and it's gross and uncomfortable" creepy.

I basicalyl went into it knowing nothing about it. I just saw the trailer and was like, "That movie looks interesting." Turns out it's an autobiography about a bunch of real people ... a bunch of real people who just so happened to have lived in the very same neighborhood I live in right now. Which just basically led me to keep thinking over and over during the movie, "WHY THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT TO GET YOUR ON STREET PARKING SPOT BACK YOU DUMB TWIT!!!!!"

Seriously. The second you pull a car OUT of a parking spot on the street in Brooklyn it is IMMEDIATELY taken by someone else. I swear that the only point of having a car here is to feel like you're winning some kind of concession from the city by occupying a piece of real estate for free that would probably be worth at least 60 thousand dollars if someone was allowed to build on it. On street parking has given rise to the phrase, "Walking the car." That's when all you do is move your car from one side of the street to the other to avoid tickets from blocking the street cleaner once a week.

That kind of makes you wonder how filthy the streets would be if they DIDN'T clean them. I mean, they're already filthy anyway, right?

Anyway. That movie was weird and disturbing and creepy. It was good and all, but be warned; the little brother masturbates in his school library and wipes his glop all over the books. HELLO!!! CREEPY!!!

And why the hell did the older brother think he would get away with passing off a Pink Floyd song as his own? Wouldn't that be kind of like me trying to pass off a Radiohead song as my own? What kind of idiot does that? A dumb idiot, that's who.

Here's the trailer

William Baldwin is in it. He says "Brother" a lot.

I've been watching a lot of UFC lately. Mixed martial arts is amazing. Those dudes get their asses kicked. It's amazing how boring the amateur fights are though. You can tell how afraid the guys are of getting hit, which just makes them way less likely to land anything big. Whatever though, the mechanics of that (almost) anything-goes kind of fighting is crazy to watch. Really makes you realize how important it'll be to know hand to hand combat once the inevitable zombie apocalypse happens.