I just applied for an overnight stocking position at Kmart.  Because I worked there in 00 during my sabbatical from JMU.  It's come to that.  I have an interview (for a STOCKING JOB...JESUS.  18k a year for a degree WELL spent, Jimbo.) on the 23rd.

I feel like I've sold my soul to the devil.

I think the best sentence I've heard spoken on-screen in a long time is:

"Mr. Stark, I'm here to discuss the Avengers Initiative."

I'm so psyched.  If you haven't seen Iron Man, go see it.  But wait until the credits are over.  My favorite scene was when Jim Rhodes looks at the unpainted armor and hesitates for a second, thinking of putting it on and ( Read more... )

Satori.

 I wish there were more humans left in the fleet so the Sci Fi channel would make a courtroom procedural centered around Romo Lampkin ( Read more... )

Now...I know I have to rip up my "man card" for this, and I never, ever "squee", but...

SQUEE!!!

 Is it even possible to hate and love a film at the same time?

If it is possible, that is how I feel about Into the Wild.  As you may recall, I read the book in January and loved it.

The problem with the film is that Sean Penn imposes a lot of his own theories of why Christopher McCandless did what he did and he adds scenes just so he can make ( Read more... )

2005 is when it really started to happen.  Like 1939-1944, 1956-1962 and 1969-1976, the state of cinema is on an upswing.  Thank Allah the dismal 19 years between '76 and '05 are over.  Certainly there were some fine films in between then and '05 (notably in 1980, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1996), but there were many more years where nothing was really ( Read more... )

Before I drop a longish post about who will/should win oscars, I thought I'd drop some random thoughts that have been runnind around in my head.

- Alicia Guastaferro : do I hate everything about her or am I just jealous?  People like that make me wonder.  Not that I wish I was a not-so-pretty beauty pageant queen.  And what's the deal with that?  I ( Read more... )

I decided that I would keep track of the movies I watched and the books I read about 2 years ago.  Listing the movies on here would be impossible, as I've seen almost 1200 movies since I started keeping track, but I've only read 70+ books since I started keeping track.  77 doesn't seem like a lot, does it?  I'm not doing it to as a competition ( Read more... )

 This is the conversation I had with my mother last night.

Backstory: I have been sleeping at odd hours.  Not in the depression sense or in the way that would indicate I'm sick.  I just stay up late when I shouldn't and have to compensate somehow.  This works out well now since i have very little responsibility...but when I get that job it will be a ( Read more... )