Door knocking sucks. I’ve called in two days in a row, and if I do go back, I have 3 days to raise my average or they fire me anyways. Might as well go in for the next three and do piss poor so I can at least get a 3 day paycheck before bouncing.
T&M have finally touched back down in the Bay from an extended stay out in Las Vegas. Super stressed on they part due to… well, they whole situation. Not gonna speak too much on it, but for damn sure it makes me want to be a little more thankful of my own situation and work a little bit harder.
Got some new job opportunities I need to jump on since the Art Director Position at the ‘Stiff is taking forever and a day to hear back from. Speaking of the ‘Stiff…
Go to this show. I wrote one of the plays in it called, “Choices”. Playwright debut without Rufio.
8/8/08 and 8/9/09 man, two days of holy-moley matrimony hommie. Colin/Em y Ahrjay/Kristine are doing the damn thizzle cause they love each izzle.
On top of that babies on top of babies on top of babies just being born/conceived left and right everywhere I look in my different social circles. A preemptive “happy mothers/fathers day!” to all the new parents. May you all find yourselves saying/doing what your parents said/did to you and come to the painful realization that you are exactly like your mom/dad! Congrats Alexis, Ivan, Matt, Paz, and Aivy (ooo, and Ahrjay/Kristine and Sheryl P. That’s right. Ya’ll on blast). Horny bastards.
All this talk of weddings and kids makes me want to forget to pay my bills or something to prove my irresponsibility in the hopes that both those things are still a few years off. This the type of shit to make you feel older and whatever.
Speaking of which… found my first gray hair.
Stress? Just getting old?
Soon I’ll be telling the young whippersnappers to turn their dangflabbing music down and going to bed at 7pm. Thirty makes the new twenty it does not. =P
Cause I saw “The Dark Knight” once again. I really only went for the first 20 minutes again, but of course enjoyed the hospital scene, car chase, interrogation scene, hell pretty much all the scenes with Mr. Ledger.
Saw some different previews this time around too. Some new Disney movie with a dog (forget the name right now…) and a teaser for Terminator 4.
I still want to see “Wall-E” though. JJV said it was super awesome and with a recommendation like that, how can I not?
So this summer to make some ends(money) and contribute something towards manifesting a victory for the first (progressive) person of color American President, I am working (for chump change) for the Democratic National Committee. I report to work at the butt-crack of 2pm in the afternoon in Berkeley and after training, find myself somewhere in bay (although some of my co-workers have gone as far as Danville/Davis/Sacramento), knocking on people’s doors asking for money so across the country we can continue to knock on doors and ask for money, and do other stuff apparently (which I haven’t done yet. If I were to describe this the way I just did at the door and someone found out, I’d probably be fired, but it’s late, and I have to do the shtick again for another 4 days in a row. I’m conserving my energy.
Door canvassing, talking ’bout politics with strangers, you meet some interesting ass people. People who say some off the wall shit. Some of what they say is funny and educated. Some of it funny and disturbingly ignorant. Most of the time, I hear something that falls into the category of the latter.
The shit that scares me the most is the Jesus freaks or Jehova’s witnesses. They will tell you shit like, “We don’t participate in politics. Do you think the people on the Titanic when it hit that iceberg, went back to their rooms and started straightening up and making their beds?” That is their analogy for doing political work in this country I guess. For people of religious “faith”, these folks sure are morbid about the future.
I wanted to say something back to the effect of, “Nah, bitch. They probably wanted to get in one of the fucking life-boats that were in short ass supply.” My inner monologue was kinda pissy because they give us a weekly quota of money we need to raise, and conversations like this plus large amounts of apathetic folks, Republicans, and people going through fucking economic hardship take its toll on one’s mental homeostasis. All the White kids do way better than the folks of color btw, as far as raising money goes. Another “Pisses me off” factor.
I don’t have it as bad. The younger black males at my work definitely have it rougher. People at the door are less trusting of them. To make matters worse, most of us don’t have DNC shirts or identification.
Lots of people mad over Hilary not getting the nomination and stated they won’t vote for Barack. WTF. That boggles the mind. The latest Jesus freak today swore up and down Obama was the anti-Christ. Swear to god. She thought that him getting the Presidency was the sign of the end of times. “He’s a terrorist. I don’t trust him because of his preacher. I think he’s a Muslim.”
To point out the stupidity in this person’s statement would be like shooting fish in a barrel. No. It’s like looking at fish in a barrel. No. That’s still not easy enough. It’s like being somewhere in the vicinity of a barrel (I wish I came up with that joke, but I didn’t. Not trying to be Carlos Mencia).
And of course, I’m on the clock, so I can’t say what I want to say at the time I want to say it. But you know what I’m thinking, right?
On another note, I get seriously pissed that being Muslim equates being a terrorist to a lot of people I’m talking to. Holy fucking shit people can be fucking stupid.
And dirty. Now, before I go off on this next section, please understand that I think every race has the capacity to be some filthy ass people. By filthy, I mean like straight nasty smelling-embodiment of pestilence-one of the four horsemen of Apocalypse-rots fresh fruit when they touch it at Whole Foods types. In all honesty, some of these cats are my co-workers. How can you share a room with someone who leaves used condoms on top of empty beer cans right next to your bed? Nice guys by all account. But thats just filthy.
I haven’t posted because I’ve been trying to figure out how to navigate this damn place (livejournal is way easier). But anyways…
Like most of you all, I went and saw “The Dark Knight” this weekend and helped it become the top grossing movie weekend ever at $155.3 MILLION dollars, beating out last year’s piece of donkey crap, “Spider-man 3″.
Stunning visuals of course. All the bat-toys. Nice character interaction. And they played to Batman’s strength: His villains.
“Batman Begins” was awesome not just because it rebooted what had become a dead franchise after Joel Shmuck-mucker did to it, but that it kept the story grounded in realism as much as possible. The result was a great origin presented on the big screen which paved the way for the next installment. But truth to tell, Batman as a character is kind of boring after awhile.
Enter Joker and Two-Face.
If you were like me and paid to see, “I Am Legend” at IMAX on opening week, then you also probably didn’t pay to see “I Am Legend”, but the 7 minute clown gang bank robbery scene they previewed, and how the world was going to be re-introduced to The Joker. How can you top an intro like that? I’ll say this, just pass if Heath Ledger’s Joker ever wants to show you a magic trick. After watching Heath’s performance, I walked out the theater both inspired and morose. It is such a damn shame. You will definitely want to see it again, because he is that damn good, and really embodies the scariest aspects of who the Joker is.
My friend/fellow comedian/actor/comic geek, (I’ll call him “assclown” so as not to reveal his identity), said some shit in poor taste that made my dead baby jokes seem like… not… dead baby jokes..
“I’m just anxious to see where Heath Ledger goes from here.” – “Assclown
Alright, it was kinda funny. Kinda. But not really. (I’m going to hell…)
I think the person with the biggest challenge was Aaron Eckhart, in the sense that even before Heath Ledger’s passing, he was competing with the Joker for on screen attention. But the writers/directors I think made a good choice in having this movie be his origin story, whereas the Joker just… was. Then again, the movie was also two and a half hours long, so the characters all got their due. Nobody’s talents went unused, thats for sure.
A few things bothered me of course. Christian Bale’s “bat-growl” for instance. Hated it in the first movie, hated it again the second time around. It’s hard to take the dramatic scenes seriously when he’s talking like that.
It reminded me of the Katt Williams joke about DMX really talking like he raps in public.
Anyways, about to watch it again on Tuesday (K)night.
If you were thinking of renting/buying “Batman: Gotham Knight”, I’d say just watch it on youtube or something because although it looks nice, the stories are real, “meh.” I Think that “The Animatrix” did a way better job of having the short stories tying back into the larger narrative.
I still haven’t seen “The Incredible Hulk” yet, but I’m still excited that they are having the franchises tie together for an Avengers movie.
Btw. Have you seen this yet?
And the original G.I. Joe comic writer, Larry Hama is script supervising on the “G.I. Joe” live-action movie due out soon. Our boy Colin is playing Cobra Commander (inside joke). Hopefully it will not suck ass. Marlon Wayans as Ripcord though?
