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Last night Tim and I watched a 4 hour Ken Burns documentary on Jack Johnson (the first black heavyweight champion, NOT the awful hippie), and I must say that Jack Johnson is one the great American stories and one of the great American personalities. If you haven't read about him do so or watch this film. I of course had to see it because I'm a Miles Davis nerd.
I'm moving back to Norcross at the end of this semester due to school screwyness with Gainesville, but at least I'm already on the Dean's List at Perimeter. Starting there AGAIN in January.
I'm happy to be moving back in many ways, all selfish reasons for creative alone time and nerd time, but I'm not looking forward to living under the same roof as my mother again. And it goes on and on and you get the picture.
More importantly I'm going to miss living with Tim. Tim is one of my best friends and even though we're very different in a lot of ways I have had more fun smoking pot and getting really excited over day to day nothings with that man than one could imagine. The way I can best describe why I love Tim so much is that he's in some ways the social butterfly version of Grant and I. Like us he has no control over his facial expressions at even the slightest mental input he gets as loud and excited as Grant and I do about nothing. The night I moved in with him and Grant here in Athens we got mildly drunk and stoned to watch Stella; and the main event of the night, Tim beating the Zelda 2 for the NES. Now Tim had beat this game a few days before and had been telling me on the phone every time I was on with Grant how imperitive it was that I saw the ending to Zelda 2. I hadn't seen the ending in years obviously, and when we saw it we all screamed bloody murder, shrieking with laughter. This went on for at least a few minutes with the three of us screaming in awe at what we had just seen, eyes wide and jaws GAPING.
Grant finally helped me set up our wireless router here and I've been playing a lot of people from Japan and Europe in Mario Kart DS. I love knowing that halfway across the world someone on their lunch break is shooting a red shell at me while I lay in bed at 4 am (and a banana upindeyface). The future is now.
Anyone who reads this must see Mon Oncle and the other Monsieur Hulot films of Tati's. We're talking slapstick/satire as art. Beautiful and hilarious.
Jimmy Stewart phase continues strong, Charles Laughton phase commencing. Stephen Colbert lovage continues unflinched.
Someone hurry up and make a good damn comedy of manners film again!
On a final note now that Bush's poll numbers are plummeting Fox News has gone temporarily from dangerous to hilarious again! This year's "big" story is about the "War On Christmas/War On Christianity". They started this in early November with the release of John Gibson's book (coincidentally titled The War On Christmas) and O'Reilly has turned it into the channel's big focus for the time being seeing as their boy Junior isn't fairing too well at all, even among some of their viewers. O'Reilly and Hannity in particular are saying (which in fox news terms means aggresively insinuating) that there should be a national Christian boycott of any retail store that does not have "Merry Christmas" posted within it, especially against those stores which have the ever so "pc" Happy Holidays displayed for all to see. I couldn't make this up people. This stuff is hilarious nonsense and is essentially the lowest and most obvious stunt that Fox News has ever pulled, and they've pulled many. If you've got the stomach and the sense of humor, it is recommended viewing. I saw Neil Cavuto interviewing 5 Victoria's Secret models about the "War On Christmas" inexplicably the other day. I kid you not.
Love to all and HAPPY HOLIDAYS. BLAMMMMMMM
I'm moving back to Norcross at the end of this semester due to school screwyness with Gainesville, but at least I'm already on the Dean's List at Perimeter. Starting there AGAIN in January.
I'm happy to be moving back in many ways, all selfish reasons for creative alone time and nerd time, but I'm not looking forward to living under the same roof as my mother again. And it goes on and on and you get the picture.
More importantly I'm going to miss living with Tim. Tim is one of my best friends and even though we're very different in a lot of ways I have had more fun smoking pot and getting really excited over day to day nothings with that man than one could imagine. The way I can best describe why I love Tim so much is that he's in some ways the social butterfly version of Grant and I. Like us he has no control over his facial expressions at even the slightest mental input he gets as loud and excited as Grant and I do about nothing. The night I moved in with him and Grant here in Athens we got mildly drunk and stoned to watch Stella; and the main event of the night, Tim beating the Zelda 2 for the NES. Now Tim had beat this game a few days before and had been telling me on the phone every time I was on with Grant how imperitive it was that I saw the ending to Zelda 2. I hadn't seen the ending in years obviously, and when we saw it we all screamed bloody murder, shrieking with laughter. This went on for at least a few minutes with the three of us screaming in awe at what we had just seen, eyes wide and jaws GAPING.
Grant finally helped me set up our wireless router here and I've been playing a lot of people from Japan and Europe in Mario Kart DS. I love knowing that halfway across the world someone on their lunch break is shooting a red shell at me while I lay in bed at 4 am (and a banana upindeyface). The future is now.
Anyone who reads this must see Mon Oncle and the other Monsieur Hulot films of Tati's. We're talking slapstick/satire as art. Beautiful and hilarious.
Jimmy Stewart phase continues strong, Charles Laughton phase commencing. Stephen Colbert lovage continues unflinched.
Someone hurry up and make a good damn comedy of manners film again!
On a final note now that Bush's poll numbers are plummeting Fox News has gone temporarily from dangerous to hilarious again! This year's "big" story is about the "War On Christmas/War On Christianity". They started this in early November with the release of John Gibson's book (coincidentally titled The War On Christmas) and O'Reilly has turned it into the channel's big focus for the time being seeing as their boy Junior isn't fairing too well at all, even among some of their viewers. O'Reilly and Hannity in particular are saying (which in fox news terms means aggresively insinuating) that there should be a national Christian boycott of any retail store that does not have "Merry Christmas" posted within it, especially against those stores which have the ever so "pc" Happy Holidays displayed for all to see. I couldn't make this up people. This stuff is hilarious nonsense and is essentially the lowest and most obvious stunt that Fox News has ever pulled, and they've pulled many. If you've got the stomach and the sense of humor, it is recommended viewing. I saw Neil Cavuto interviewing 5 Victoria's Secret models about the "War On Christmas" inexplicably the other day. I kid you not.
Love to all and HAPPY HOLIDAYS. BLAMMMMMMM