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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Wednesday Random

Well, here I am again. The lone blogger. That's my new nickname. Not accurate really, Vasu is over there pumping out the shower thoughts. I don't know a thing about Dr. Jarvis other than that lame ass cheese ball commercial, but he is clearly an asshole.
 Not too much to share here, except: 
 1. My new favorite thing, in the world = the cherry dream smoothie. Frozen organic cherries (kind of a lot of them), some rice milk or milk of your choice for smoothie consistency, 1-2 tbsp. of tahini pref. arrowhead mills brand although any will do, blend away in the blender, throw in some protein powder if so inclined and DAMN that's good.
 You may have to experiment with the tahini amounts but when you get it right - heaven. I made on yesterday with blueberries as well as cherries. mmmmmmmm.
  random quote of the day from yesterday, an acquaintance on the patio of local coffee shop - 
   "... man, I've been sitting in there WAY too long, writing all kinds of.....shit  There's nothing  like getting all fucked up on yerba mate and writing crazy emails...." 
I think you may have to see this guy to appreciate the hilarity, whatever. 
 Pilates is my new found motivation in life. If only I could get my ass there twice a week instead of once, going to aim to begin that next week... 
 Enjoying biking around in the mean time, and feeling slightly more fit as a result but not really. not yet. I did buy a helmet a couple weeks ago, good thing to do especially around here. 
  New Greys anatomy coming up, on practically the same day as a new portishead and a new roots album - amazing. very excited for the week of April 21st. 
 Peace out bloggers, enjoy the mid week. I'm off to the co-op to bitch about it is no longer the little hippie store it was since this asinine expansion, and drink lots of cherry dream smoothies.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Its not wicker, its wood!

Ok, the above has no relevance to blog-a-licious, but I offended someone yesterday by calling his chairs wicker when apparently they are made of wood. It was an innocent comment, I really did think they were wicker!

Anyway, kudos to Silk for the blog upgrade! This has invigorated me. And I thought of a little contest, the kind for which we are famous for. Will all our loyal readers please unite, and lets brainstorm some "creative marketing" for Silk's massage business--and with this crowd I feel compelled to add "Let's keep it clean folks--lets keep it clean."

Let the ideas roll!

{p.s.--for inspiration, don't we all know the advertisement that is always in the free times for "Ethical Massage"? What the hell is ethical massage? But it gets you thinking!}

Friday, April 11, 2008

Things are slooooow

 Massage business is not exactly booming for yours truly, LMT. Working at the co-op ceased to be fulfilling quite some time ago, I'd really rather be doing massage full time. Thus, I think I may actually look into working at a chain franchise located in a strip mall with target. I'm scared.  What to do? I'm at least going to find out what they pay, and if it's "enough", I have many bills so why not just do it for the summer. It just seems like a really unappealing environment, and it's a chain and it's called Massage Envy - worse name possible? I think not. 
 I paid $100 for a little ad in the weekly for 3 weeks, this is week 2 and I have 1 guy today who called on the ad. that's it. I need to get a resume together to drop at the upscale spas here. I just need to do it, if someone could motivate me along those lines that would be much appreciated. 
 blaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh. 
 i didn't know you could spell check these posts. nice. 

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

and so it ends

we actually viewed the final episode of the wire last week, but i now finally have a moment to reflect.  Did McNulty redeem himself? no, not in my opinion. The writers gave it a good effort and all, but there were lots of other things needing their efforts and attentions, so in the end he's a douche but a well loved douche as evidenced by his grand fianle send off.  The flash forward montage of the final show was well done , I thought. Showed us where everyone ends up, some with more specifics than others, but everyone's collective results proving the point that it's ALL in the game, which does not really change, and it's mandatory to both sell someone out and fuck someone over to come out on top. I've never been directly involved in the game of politics, seeing what goes on behind campaigns, terms, etc. I do get the feeling that the portrayal of Carcetti and his experience in city- state politics is probably pretty near to being exactly what happens to any individual who wants to get in there and "make change" - it's impossible. Things are far too royally, incestuously fucked up and anyone, even some sort of saint with the best of intentions is consumed and changed by it. Carcetti  was a self absorbed prick anyway, so he wasn't too capable of putting up a fight or sacrificing his image in anyway, but he wasn't as corrupt as a majority of politicians going in, which made his hands all the more tied.  That's just my opinion. 
 I also think the turn with Greggs was bullshit. Either BS that McNulty would share that in the first place or BS that she reacted as she did. No fucking way. I suppose that could certainly happen, but it didn't sit well with me. She and McNuts go way back, and he helped her assemble baby furniture. come on.  Not much else to say other than i freaking love Lester Freamon ad Gus from the paper, Scott from the paper should have gotten shot, multiple times, and Perren and  I find each other remarking "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit" a couple of times a day in conversation  or commentary. 
 In other news, today is my day off #2, and it would be nice if there were something going on in the blogging community with which I could entertain myself. 
hint to the hint. 
picture game?
 Perren returns this evening from a few days down in Truth or Consequences, NM where he has been working as an extra on a Jack Black/ Michael Cera/ David Cross comedy that takes place in biblical times, hence Perren is a hebrew "servant looking for work". Sounds like it's been very cool for him to take in the large scale happenings of a big budget hollywood picture, and he is also rather overwhelmed by the lack of acting talent needed for such a film, which I think is clear in nearly all a Hollywood comedy for the masses. We saw Be Kind, Rewind a couple of weeks ago. It was Ok but I expected to be laughing my ass off which I did not at any point. A nice story though, just not the humor I was hoping for, funniest thing was when I saw Gummo go by on their list of "sweded" films. 
  That's all. Perhaps I'll post again later today as I've got little else to do, and it's overcast :( 
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

My Growing sadness...p

*** I did my best to avoid spoilers of the wire 5, which is challenging, and I'm kind of resentful anyway since i was accidentally told what happens to Omar and accidentally read what happens to Chris***
... continues to grow as I progress past the midpoint of the wire season 5 and final. Yes, in large part because I know this is the end, but that's not it completely. I can watch it all over again , and have no doubts about this being the exact sort of  show/film where one can potentially be missing all kinds of shit in many an episode, so watch overs are a definite.  Another large part of my deep sadness results from what is happening on the show. Season 4 = heartbreaker. sooooo fucking sad. I think seas
on 5 may kill me. OK, not really, but my broken heart is being stepped upon, for sure, mostly by Marlo who I hope more than anything gets his head blown off, sometime soon. It's different, as season 4 was all about the shorties, as meatwad would say. Nothing too horrendous has befallen the young folks yet, it's all of the old heads who are finding themselves in all sorts of undesirable scenarios , and it's the younger generation, namely Marlo, who is simply a monster, responsible. It's really freaking sad too me. I really like these old guys. Even if they are all wrapped up in the game and perpetuating all that goes with it, they had a much more respectable way of handling things and to see them go down is well, such a downer. I tried to avoid any spoilers in describing my emotional plummet that is the wire, and believe i basically succeeded. 
 Here's the other element. this bitch right here: 
 
I once loved me some McNulty. The boyish good looks, "poofy hair", and disregard for asshole authority figures and all other authority in general. Season 5 reveals McNulty to be less of the man I expected him to be, which was really not that much of an expectation as I've seen his Irish drunken whore-ness. It's not really the big moral shortcomings that have turned me anyway, it was a little something. His handling of the mentally ill homeless gentleman in I believe episode 5. Again I won't go into any spoilers on the plot, I will just say this. Any decent human being would have helped "Donald" eat his bread. 
No one person can solve the problem of homelessness or cure the mentally ill with their good will but for fuck's sake, McNulty pick up the fucking bread and help the man who you're using to majorly help you, you dick.
 I'm going to take a wild guess here that no one else, in the wire watching world, was as bothered by this scene as I. I am a weirdo, although most viewers probably found the whole scene/ plot of that part to be damn depressing. I don't know what it is, perhaps a culmination of McNulty's prickness from the rest of the season(s) thus far. But I wished I could reach into the screen slap him for his lack of decent human being- ness.