Johnny Rockstar

Though I'm not sure it lives up to great, Poolhall Junkies is now on my list of most have movies. It's full of great one liners, and awesome hustles. So go watch it already! Also I just started the Twin Peaks series and I must admit, so far, its looking pretty good. Though its no Seven Samurai.

In other news I pulled both of my achillies tendons yesterday doing the Dog Asana in Yoga yesterday. It hurts to move my ankles let alone walk to school on them.

Don't forget to watch the big debate tonight.

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While researching the specifics of rolling cigarettes for a short story I'm writing, I came across this awesome website. It'll teach you everything from how to convert to Buddhism to cook a romantic dinner. How to use Feng Shui to how to buy a suit. My favorite so far is how to join the circus. I apologize if it shoots up a bunch of pop-ups or something. I noticed my pop-up blocker was busy but I didn't bother checking to see what all it stopped.

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I haven't been around much lately so here are a few things about me that you might be interested in hearing. I think the hair on my knuckles is growing longer. A 13 year-old-ish girl by the elevator called me cute when she thought I couldn't hear her. Even though I lost my thumb-ring months ago, I still absentmindedly try and fiddle with it during class. I recently got stuck in a Tai Chi position and gave myself one helluva shin splint. I hope to go to California over Christmas break. In order of greatness, this weekend I watched The Magnificent Seven, Samurai Fiction, The Seven Samurai and Blue Velvet. I BBQ'd 10 pounds of pork butt Saturday afternoon and I've been loving it ever since. I cleaned Baby's cage yesterday and it made my room smell a lot better.

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I still don't listen to the radio, except for NPR and occasionally WIDR. I've been sitting in the cafeteria working on some movie briefs and doing the email thing listening to music on my computer when I realized, again, that I love my taste in music. Here are a few of the songs I've listened to this morning:

Sirtaki (Zorba’s Dance) – Andre Rieu
Texas Fiddle Song - Merle Haggard
Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
Sunrise Sunset - Fiddler On The Roof Soundtrack
Marriage of Figaro - Mozart
The Demise of Barbara and the Return of Joe - Ennio Morricone
Enormous Penis - Davinci's Notebook

What have you been listening to?

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Here's a couple quotes I've heard from friends and family lately that I thought were worth sharing;

"I don't think people that ungly can hear."

"As with any good product, there’s always some side effect like nausea, dizziness or bleeding."

"I have a couple phone cards, theoretically, with which I was going to call you last night, but apparently I have them no more. Kinda like my bike, only not really, because the phone cards weren't locked to a post on the porch that got kicked off."

"I'm here... and by here I of course mean, 'Here I am Rock you like a hurricane'."

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I just got a voicemail from my friend Chuck. He says that his boss read my review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and it influenced her and her husband to go and see it. That's three confirmed cases of my writing influencing people's decisions to go see a movie. I rock.

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As I was on the couch with a headache all evening, tell me about the party I missed Saturday night. Oh yeah, and forgive me for missing the party Saturday night.

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Every morning I leave the house around 8:30ish. Mondays I get home around 10:00 p.m., Tuesdays I get home around 7:00, Wednesdays 6:00, Thursdays 8:00 and Fridays about 4:30. Those are some long-ass days. For the most part I'm busy the whole day too. It's going to be a long semester.

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Greek pledging officially begins in a few days and right now there are fraternity and sorority signs all around campus. Somebody thought up the slogan; Be You, Be Greek, and wrote it everywhere. Let me break this down for a second. The phrase; Be You, is short for be yourself or be an individual. The phrase; Be Greek, means join our frat. It means become one of us, dress like us, talk like us, do what we do and walk how we walk. In my humble opinion Be Greek is the antithesis of Be You. Now I don't hate all frats but the sorry fact is that I can count the number of people who have been or are in frats/sororities that I can tolerate being around on one hand. I recently spent the evening at a bar with three sorority girls and let me say that they all fit the bill for your average sorority dumb blond. It’s like my writing teacher used to say, “Stereotypes are bad and should never be used, but let’s face it, often times, they are true.”

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Have you ever found yourself wondering how to install Linux in a dead badger? Me either, but I still thought this was worth sharing.

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Tai Chi is kicking my ass. After class yesterday I was so tired that I went home and spent all evening laying on the couch, eating bagel bites and watching tv. On the bright side I am getting in shape and I now know four major stances; Ready stance, Tai Chi stance, Cat stance and Crane stance. That's right, Crane stance. But my Tai Chi Crane stance is way cooler looking than the one Ralph Macchio used in The Karate Kid. We’re on move 10 of a 132 movement form. I can’t wait for move 20; Strike to the groin.

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I learned an interesting fact yesterday, though the man who told me wasn't 100% sure it was true, he said that the movie Road to Perdition is actually loosely based on the Lone Wolf and Cub series otherwise known as Shogun Assassin. I'm on book three of something like thirty in the series. It's good stuff and interesting to think about a Tom Hanks movie being loosely based on it.

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After being short staffed for three weeks, we finally got a new guy today. And the best part is, he's American. I'm not in any way racist and I'm not ignorant enough to think that to live in America you have to speak perfect English, but there are some jobs where you must be fluent in English. The last non-American we had in here was horrible. I could hardly understand him and he couldn't understand the people he was supposed to be helping. It's going to be nice to have a lab full of people capable of communicating with each other and the clients.

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When studying other languages I enjoy the freedom of structure allowed when a language is not as syntax based as our own. I'm getting that freedom in my latin class. For instance the sentence, "John is a man" could also be written, "John man is a" or even "is a John man" unless you're Roman, then apparently the direct object is always first. Either way, a lot of people I meet in foreign language classes don't like this concept but I think it actually makes things easier. Not having to put words in a specific order is just one less thing to worry about on a test.

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