Feb. 5th, 2004

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I have to get to some place by the airport on Friday for an administrative assistant job. $15/hour so I probably won't get it but it's nice to dream. Three months too so I won't have too much problems with bills. So Ed is ending on Friday? In the middle of the season? That's weird. Never watched the show.

Watching The Butterfly Effect I realized that Ashton Kutchner has the best agent of the bunch because I actually believed that guy was more than Kelso this time. The poor star of That 70s Show gets stuck in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton - another movie where Hollywood tells all us poor schmucks that life is so much better where we are at - struggling to make a living, living in the middle of nowhere, not being able to fuck Winona Ryder. Yeah sure. I also liked The Butterfly Effect even though the ways the future change are pretty obvious once he does something. Still it did take a lot of my headache from watching Quantum Leap away. I mean I would watch that show and go "Great! Scott Bakula saved that guy, but doesn't that mean that all those other futures are going to happen differently and maybe worse?"

And who saw that Jack Kerouac episode. That's the one I remember. He gets Jack Kerouac to tell the wayward girl that she can move and groove while sticking around in the diner? THat's the only one I remember.

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Feb. 5th, 2004 10:01 am
marlowe1: (high school)
I know for a fact that I could sit in front of my computer reading livejournals and other websites indefinitely. I could just sit here thinking of what I need to do today which includes:

1. finishing off this story
2. exercising
3. getting the hell out of my house and getting to the plasma selling place at a decent hour

The last I need to do because I need to get directions to that place I'm going to interview at. I also need to buy groceries (and they pay $33 the second time - it's usually $30 but I got a tetanus shot) because there's almost nothing in the fridge.

SOmehow I suspect that I will be on this computer until at least noon.
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Since I'm going to have to sell at least half my books for the trip to New York, I decided not to waste my time with the boring books that I'm reading. I was reading 29 Herriot Street which was ok for the first 40 pages. It was about an old murder and a writer trying to dig up clues about it by interviewing the sister and brother-in-law of the victim. After the first flashback where the brother-in-law is jealous of the sister's suitor it's painfully obvious that he did it. So I just read the last two chapters and that's it. The other book that I'm reading Whit is a little more interesting but I'm still not sure I'm going to finish it. It's about a religious community like the Amish where the main character is sent to find one of the apostates in London. It seems ok but I don't know. It's written by Iain Banks and I think I bought it more for the cover than anything else.

J.G.Ballard got me to read him because he had good cover artists. I ended up reading an ugly book by him but it contained Crash which I saw as a movie. Hated the book. All the characters acted like they were doped up.

Still reading Freud and there's another book that I started reading which is one of those pre-20th century classics of American letters - oh yeah The Rise of Silas Something - Mariner? That can't be it. Just started it.
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James Lileks said:
"I’m waiting for an ad that simply puts the matter plainly: who do you think Al Qaeda wants to win the election? Who do you think will make Syria relax? Who do you think Hezbollah worries about more? Who would Iran want to deal with when it comes to its nuclear program – Cowboy Bush or “Send in the bribed French inspectors” Kerry? Which candidate would our enemies prefer?

O the shrieking that would result should such an ad run. You can’t even ask those questions, even though they’re the most relevant questions of the election...."
He then goes on to criticize Kerry (upon whom they've placed the Liberal label) for saying that the war on terror would be a police enforcement issue. I responded --

Do you really think Bush who ignored almost every warning sign up until 9-11 is really the man to handle this. He was so gung ho to attack Iraq that he didn't secure the peace in Afghanistan and there are plenty of problems happening there. Furthermore Clinton not only took a very strong "hunt Bin Laden" stance but he also tried to negotiate peace between Fatah and Israel - something which ultimately fell flat but it wasn't his fault. Bush doesn't even stick by our allies in Taiwan.

The police enforcement metaphor seems apt. Instead of rushing into a country that MIGHT have WMDs based on very shaky evidence, Kerry seems like the kind of president that would increase the spending for intelligence in order to catch the terrorist cells which are growing due to the distraction of America in Iraq.

Furthermore - under Clinton the rest of the world loved us. Now even our allies are uncertain about our motivations. Who do you think the terrorists like better? The President that actively went after Al Qaeda BEFORE 9/11 and increased America's prestige inside and outside our borders or the cowboy that was too busy planning an attack on Iraq and trying to push some anti-gay agenda and Reaganomics Redux to worry about the problems in intelligence that let 9/11 happen and has pissed off the world creating a large population of very pissed off potential recruits.

Remember the fanatics only sound reasonable when you have reason to hate what they hate. Bush has been giving the world plenty of reasons.
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Maggie just puked but she's sitting on a kitchen chair. So far she's been puking it to the floor below so I get to see the falling puke. Oops. Some just got on the chair. Socrates is looking at it. WHy doesn't he eat the puke. That's the purpose of having muliple cats. They eat each other's puke. I'm going to wait.

This Slumberland commercial with the disappearing and reapearing bed has a very cute model (ok I dig that whole glasses look) but she's the worst actress I've seen in a commercial in a long time. She has absolutely no inflection whatsoever. She doesn't care if there's a single or a double bed in her styling loft. She is just reading from a teleprompter. But she's cute and I don't want to hate her. Still it'd be easier to accept porn acting if it was actual porn.

Speaking of which - there's a model on the Great Clips commercials whose either Asian or Hispanic - probably filipino (and I'm not just saying that because it's a good compromise) and she reminds me of a porn actress - probably on one of those Dirty Debutantes videos (I don't watch - well I try not to watch porn these days - at very least I don't rent it out - and not just because the closest video store is a Hollywood) but I remember that one because she was cute but once she took off her clothes she looked like a mess. That's the whole illusion of porn - just folks taking off their clothes and fucking in front of a camera. And the internet provides more opportunities for those like that. The Barbie dolls of Los Angeles video porn are too artificial. But when you try the real porn - well sometimes it's realistically maintaining the fiction that these are just people that want to fuck in front of a camera and oh look there's money involved - how nice - what a thoughtful gift. But sometimes it's obvious that the actress is on the way down and falling fast.

And even if it is all cool with everyone there's still that element of One Night Stand. Fun while it lasts but kind of depressing (worst thing to hear after sex - "I'm sorry." Second worst thing - "So tell me about yourself" third worst thing - "Are you in a good mood? Good. I'm pregnant." this could go on...) and watching other strangers fuck - well...I'm not sure if that's better or worst. On the plus side you don't have to kick anyone out of your bed or think of an excuse to get the hell out of there - and no one gets mad at you for falling asleep in the middle. On the minus side - still depressing.

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