Wow, what a stressful week. Well, 95% of the stress came from yesterday thanks to some mild food poisoning (thanks Texas Burger), a 24 hour headache, and an unusually stressful and draining day at work. About the only good part about yesterday was finally getting a response from Chi-Wei in Japan after about a year (thanks to Cassie's blog), going bowling with Tim and Kenneth, and watching Shaolin Soccer. With that said, are you ready for some more pointless movie reviews? Good!
House of 1000 Corpses - Well, I ended up watching the movie even though it looked really dumb. It was so weird and messed up I couldn't stop watching. If you're ever in the mood for a totally screwed up movie, see this one. Rob Zombie directed it, so you know it's gotta be jacked up. I heard it had to be heavily edited before it could be shown, so I'm rather curious as to what the director's cut would be like.
Bruce Almighty - It came on again on HBO and I had nothing better to do so I ended up watching most of it. It wasn't as bad as I at first thought it would be. It had it's funny moments. It was pretty good overall, but not a dvd I'd buy.
Shaolin Soccer - I've been wanting to see this for a long long time. Luckily Aaron at work has the chinese dvd, so I borrowed it from him and made a copy. I have to say it is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It's so incredibly funny, you have to see it. I can hook you up. ;)
And that concludes another round of movie reviews. Expect more in the coming entries, as I still have a stack of movies Minh let me borrow that I need to watch so I can return them to him. I kinda want to watch them all this weekend, but I have an AbPsych midterm Monday I need to study for.
Now prepare for a mini-rant. Normally I don't like to rant because I try to keep things positive, but this has been annoying me with increasing frequency so here goes:
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Is it just me or are there a lot more homeless people nowdays? It seems like every time I come to a stoplight there is some gimp with a sign. Not only that, but it seems like there are an increasing amount of dragrats around campus too. I've always felt bad for homeless people so I often help out by giving them any spare change I have or whatever but here lately I've been hit up so many times I'm getting a little tired of it. Normally I disagree with the whole Social Darwinism frame of thinking, but the more I think about it, the more I agree. The way I see it now, they really need to get a damn job. Granted I imagine it is pretty difficult for a person off the street to get a job. Also, from my studies of Sociology and Psychology I know many of the homeless suffer from some kind of disorder and/or disease, but the way I see it, panhandling isn't going to get you out of your present situation. So as mean and incredibly insensitive as it sounds, I'm done helping out hobos. From now on they're only getting handouts from me if they get more creative signs, like Will code PHP for food or start doing cool tricks on the street corner, like a backflip or magic trick or something.
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I don't like ending on such a sour note, but I have nothing more to say. bai bai.
There is a movie called Azumi (directed by Ryuhei Kitamura) thats supposedly good. Do you know anything about it?
As far as the hobos are concerned, the way I see it is, they aren't making use of the salvation army, as well as that elaborately designed homeless shelter in downtown.
hmm, never heard of that movie but I'll check it out if I see it anywhere.
oh, and congrats on posting the 100th comment on my blog! msg me if you want a prize. ;)
Shaolin Soccer is the greatest movie ever made. Period. "."
The trick to hobos is to ask THEM for money. One time I went to a Denny's in college, and this old bag lady came up to me asking for change. I told her I barely had enough to pay for my dinner, and she said "Oh you poor boy, do YOU need extra change?" I told her I'd be ok, but wished her the best of luck. So if someone says to you, "Hey Ant, can I borrow your artistic talent to make a cd cover for me?" Just say, "Actually, I have barely enough talent to get me through dinner."
There is this girl that is always at the corner of Congress and Ben White, looking so sad and obviously has good "acting" skills. Fools dish cash out to no end, and I just sit there flabberfuckingasted with my mouth open. For a while her ploy was that her dog was picked up by the pound, and she needed money to get him out. Her latest ploy is that she holds a sign up that she is trying to save up money to travel north a see her daughter. Prior to that she had a sign that said "Stranded - need money for a ride."
I always drive by, driven by pure fascination and wonder at what her next con will be.
I seriously get the urge to yell at her "GET A JOB LADY" but I'm not that cruel. How hard is it to give plasma?
Bottom line - bums stink, dirty up the town, are mostly drunk, shellshocked vets with gimp-limps, that should all be whacked. Who would miss them? They obviously don't have families that care enough for them to help. KILL KILL KILL
haha. It's late.
rofl