Thank You Hollywood!

I really don't care about the Academy Awards. I don't need someone to tell what is a good movie and what isn't a good movie. Just like I don't need the Grammys, well actually I might as well use the Grammys as a way to know what to avoid. God knows how bad the Grammys are at picking decent music. I digress. The Oscars were a total farce for one reason to me this year. Best Original Score went to Babel??? I hope someone that reads this blog has seen Babel, and will agree with me that it was a terrible film. Ok, maybe not as bad as The Fountain, but still pretty awful. The Fountain might be the worst movie I've actually paid to see, but it had the greatest Original Score I've ever heard. I'm sure there are other scores that are equally compelling, such as Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle, or Hlemmur, but I've yet to hear the first of those two.

Back to Babel. The part of the movie in So Cal and Mexico was good, but probably only because my favorite Mexican actor was featured, Gael Garcia Bernal. The rest of the movie was almost as pretentious as The Fountain. It was as if Brad Pitt wanted nothing more than to make the worst movie of his career. I know he's a great actor, but he should stick to what he does best...Kicking Ass. Come ON. How about another Fight Club, or another Guy Ritchie film, even a sequel to Mr. & Mrs. Smith would've been better than Babel.

The score to The Fountain, wasn't even nominated. Clint Mansel did an amazing job composing the score, and Mogwai with The Kronos Quartet did an even amazinger job of performing the score. I was really tempted to put the score on "My 10 Favorite Albums of 2006" list, but it missed the cut by one spot. However, if I were to make the list today I think it would make the top ten.

Arcade Fire Tonight on SNL.

Hey, I know SNL has been a bit week this season but don't miss tonight. Rainn Wilson from The Office will be on, as well as Arcade Fire. Hopefully Arcade Fire will only play 1 new song, and 1 old. I'd rather not hear too much of the new album before it comes out.

The Ruraw Juraw

30 Rock references aside, I had Jury Duty this morning. I've been dreading this for weeks, just the thought of not only being awake at 8am, but having to be dressed and in a court by that time made me sick. I went though, it is my civic duty to convict or not convict people. I even got all dressed up for the occasion. My father's a lawyer, and whenever he goes to court he wears a suit, when he doesn't go to court he looks like the poorest lawyer in CT. This was reason enough for me to get dressed up, if it's important enough Padre Fleece to wear a suit, I should at least wear a tie. Which I did, in conjuncting with a pair of shoes my friend called "Homo Black Man Shoes," and he's gay so he must know what he's talking about. Anyway the shoes are killing my feet.

So I drove down to the great city of New Haven, home of both the hamburger and George W. Bush, and went about my business. I didn't read any of the information they sent, so I brought along a book, my iPod and something to drink. As it turns out I was not allowed to bring in my iPod or my drink, yet I could buy a drink at the "snack bar" only 8 feet from the metal detector. Apparently their beverage policy is based upon that of a music venue's. So, I went through security, took the elevator upstaits, checked in, told them I was a student, and left. Apparently telling them you are a student is a get out of Jury Duty free pass. All in all I spent more time in the shower this morning than I did at Jury Duty. I was even able to make to my 9:35 class on 20th Century African Politics with time to spare.

I do have to go though. I'm scheduled to serve again towards the end of July. However, if things go as planned I won't be around starting in mid-August, which means they'll have to postpone me again.

You know what they say about jurors; Do you really want to be tried by people that were too stupid to get out of jury duty?

Updates

If you haven't noticed, or are new here, I've changed the layout of the blog. Unfortunately in doing so I lost nearly all my information. I'm hoping to take some time to put everything back together this week, and then I'd like to start up dating my blog more frequently. What I'll be discussing could see a dramatic change as well. No promises here, but I should be kicking things up a notch pretty soon.

If You Don't Know Me By Now!

With the recent conclusion of season two of Extras I thought I'd treat you with some David Brent music video action.

Dekotora

If this doesn't make you want to move to Japan and drive trucks, nothing will.

Fools. All of them foolish fools.

Apparently Boston authorities are pissed off about looking like total retards (I apologize to any actual retards for being lumped in with these shit-for-brains city officials). If you haven't seen it on the news yet, let me fill you in. The Adult Swim tv show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, was engaged in some guerrilla (don't worry it's nothing sinister) advertising campaign across the county. Part of this campaign was the installation of Lite-Brites (I love me some Lite-Brite action), in the shape of one of the show's recurring characters, around 10 different US cities.

Example:

As it seems that little Lite Brite, looks like a bomb to many people in Boston. In fact, one Boston official called the Lite Brite "sinister" looking. It's not often that governments wasting money on foolish mistakes offends, or angers me like this. BUT, the fact that they want to be reimbursed for their mistake, AND file criminal charges against the people that did this is just over the top. At this point they are just looking for a way to look less retarded (once again, sorry). They just need to let it go and admit they over reacted. In fact if anyone should be paying for this is, its the people who thought it was a bomb. I'm sure old people will disagree with me, but then again you probably belong in a nursing home.

Edit: I almost forgot to mention one of the best parts of the entire story. The two guys that were arrested, when asked about what had happened, would only answer question about haircuts in the '70s. I've got to get a transcript.