I nominate
2012
Star Trek
Terminator 2
Mad Max
District 9
Fight Club
Never Ending Story
Transformers 2
The Matrix
Chicago
Uncle Buck
Driven
Lensman
Tron 2
Cloverfield
Cliff Hanger
Dragonheart
Lord of the Rings (2 towers)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Peter Jackson's King Kong
Hero
2001
Reign of Fire
The Last Action Hero
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Paprika
Akira
Shes Having a Baby
Dances With Wolves
2046
Casshern
Natural City
Gundam: Char's Counter Attack
Enter the Dragon
Man on Fire
Superman Returns
The Dark Knight
Lady Hawke
Time Bandits
Willow
The Godfather I
Kung Fu Hustle
Casino
300
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
I Heart Huckabees
Sexy Beast
Unbreakable
Die Hard 4
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
alton brown
has taught me how to make ribs and for that i thank food network from the bottom of my heart. because i live in an apartment without a yard or two george foreman grills to lay side by side and place a rack of baby back ribs on. thank you food network. t.v. isnt all bad.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
tina fey is not attractive
based on my criteria of hotness... tina fey is not hot. for the following reasons: chin. butt chin. kinda gross. jawline... wwwwwwwwaaaaaaayy too strong. cheek bones. holy fuck if you ate as many donuts as liz lemon they would be much more acceptable and much less "icky." by icky i mean crypt keeper. by crypt keeper i mean prison diet. by prison diet i mean just got back from vacationing over seas where i unfortunately contracted a stomach parasite that eats all of the food that would otherwise go toward nourishing my facial structure. eyes. alright. hair. not long or short enough to be acceptable with the current facial format. i understand she looks different in real life, but not that much different. i dont know... she just annoys me... and not in the nice way my girlfriend does. or family guy. which about covers the spectrum of things that can be happily bothersome.
ah! thats it! she looks like an updated brunette helen hunt. which unfortunately wont cover the decades of spyware and viruses downloaded in the meantime.
ah! thats it! she looks like an updated brunette helen hunt. which unfortunately wont cover the decades of spyware and viruses downloaded in the meantime.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Fuck Frank Miller
Wired's Very Short Stories:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
Here's Frank Millers:
"With bloody hands, I say good-bye."
I think this very concisely sums up everything Frank Miller is about. Actually I can do it in four words: INSERT VIOLENT MELODRAMA HERE.
Diversify your shit, you punk bitch.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
Here's Frank Millers:
"With bloody hands, I say good-bye."
I think this very concisely sums up everything Frank Miller is about. Actually I can do it in four words: INSERT VIOLENT MELODRAMA HERE.
Diversify your shit, you punk bitch.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
in a round-about kinda way
so i was thinking (like ya do) why do grades in college mean so much? why would they have grades at all? it should either be "hey, you made it through the obstacle course" or "sorry dude, try again next year." but that was before i thought about it.
the case against grades of any kind: college encompasses a voluntary test of your ability to succeed under duress during THE most vulnerable and turbulent time of your life. for some its the first taste of independence, the first taste of actual love, of being loved, the first taste of real failure, the first taste of power and success, of being wanted, or all of those things. for others its being truly alone, or sad without consolation. having to take care of yourself and stay focused and organized and clean without anyone forcing you. for others its having to make your own decisions and suffer or revel in the consequences on your own. its picking your friends and picking wisely. picking your crimes. setting your budget. paying your bills.
its the most difficult time of every 15 16 17 18 years old life. the hardest 4 5 6 and 7 years of their life. why heap grades on top of that? grades divert from the real learning. grades shift learning how to live on your own and make it to having your parents handle the important things while you pound out As and Bs and memorize things you dont need to know or care about just so you can land a job you dont really want doing things you dont care about but are good at cuz your grades were nice. so hey, why learn about yourself when you can pack yourself full of pages and pages and pages...
and hey, who cares if youre still mentally 15 16 17 or 18 when you graduate. who cares if you cant handle yourself when you leave with your diploma. who cares if you melt down in graduate school. who cares if your parents still have to take you by the hand every week cuz you still cant quite stand up on your own. the world doesnt care when your world eventually falls apart for one underdeveloped reason or another. but good grades! i dont understand how he fucked up his life so bad, he was such a good student in college.
grades are not a function of success.
but now the case for grades: college is the most turbulent and vulnerable time of a person's life. how they handle that pressure is a testament to how they will handle later pressures in life and the only way to see to what degree they might handle that pressure is to give degrees to how they perform, hence grades.
grades are not a function of success, but they are a metric of dilligence. and that counts for something.
grades are a terrible idea, but still necessary. too much happens aside from grades for the majority of people in college. but for those who handle the difficulty ON THEIR OWN and still get good grades... they dont deserve to have that taken away from them, ever. for those who handle the difficulty ON THEIR OWN and dont get grades... they dont deserve to have that held against them as they take on future challenges. for those that are spoon fed, whose only challenge is getting good grades... pass or fail them, but dont hold them up for doing what others have done with a lot less help.
the case against grades of any kind: college encompasses a voluntary test of your ability to succeed under duress during THE most vulnerable and turbulent time of your life. for some its the first taste of independence, the first taste of actual love, of being loved, the first taste of real failure, the first taste of power and success, of being wanted, or all of those things. for others its being truly alone, or sad without consolation. having to take care of yourself and stay focused and organized and clean without anyone forcing you. for others its having to make your own decisions and suffer or revel in the consequences on your own. its picking your friends and picking wisely. picking your crimes. setting your budget. paying your bills.
its the most difficult time of every 15 16 17 18 years old life. the hardest 4 5 6 and 7 years of their life. why heap grades on top of that? grades divert from the real learning. grades shift learning how to live on your own and make it to having your parents handle the important things while you pound out As and Bs and memorize things you dont need to know or care about just so you can land a job you dont really want doing things you dont care about but are good at cuz your grades were nice. so hey, why learn about yourself when you can pack yourself full of pages and pages and pages...
and hey, who cares if youre still mentally 15 16 17 or 18 when you graduate. who cares if you cant handle yourself when you leave with your diploma. who cares if you melt down in graduate school. who cares if your parents still have to take you by the hand every week cuz you still cant quite stand up on your own. the world doesnt care when your world eventually falls apart for one underdeveloped reason or another. but good grades! i dont understand how he fucked up his life so bad, he was such a good student in college.
grades are not a function of success.
but now the case for grades: college is the most turbulent and vulnerable time of a person's life. how they handle that pressure is a testament to how they will handle later pressures in life and the only way to see to what degree they might handle that pressure is to give degrees to how they perform, hence grades.
grades are not a function of success, but they are a metric of dilligence. and that counts for something.
grades are a terrible idea, but still necessary. too much happens aside from grades for the majority of people in college. but for those who handle the difficulty ON THEIR OWN and still get good grades... they dont deserve to have that taken away from them, ever. for those who handle the difficulty ON THEIR OWN and dont get grades... they dont deserve to have that held against them as they take on future challenges. for those that are spoon fed, whose only challenge is getting good grades... pass or fail them, but dont hold them up for doing what others have done with a lot less help.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
raging in the city, saturday night
take your chances, do or die. Cuz tomorrow comes and nothing feels the same.
so im here on the cusp of finishing a 6.5 year saga at the big house. back in familiar territory. when i got back to pittsburgh to do the last 6 weeks of my degree i felt indomitable. i knew that this was my last chance and that i couldnt let anyone or anything stand in my way of finally securing that b.a., albeit 2 and a half years behind schedule. the odd thing was that as soon as i got off the bus from the PIA all of that ambition, all of that focus and drive, began to evaporate. to completely atomize and vanish into the air in front of my face. the old ghosts were back, they are still here. im still here.
the place is like a temporal bubble. everything outside of it moves, changes, becomes, but nothing inside does. you are who you were when you left. the odd thing is that im not though. i grew up so much in my time away. i was stronger, harder, less comprising. i thought i was. no one here remembers me. the professors, the admins, the officers, they dont care. why am i still mad at them. they dont even know me anymore.
when this, the last two weeks of the journey, is over thats it. there is no more. the bubble pops and everything that happend here is gone with it save for the memories of a handful of people who shared the experience with me. everyone will move on to whatever's next... and ive realized that to continue to rage over things that happend years ago is simply unreasonable. tomorrow is coming and for the first time in 6 and a half years nothing will be the same.
so im here on the cusp of finishing a 6.5 year saga at the big house. back in familiar territory. when i got back to pittsburgh to do the last 6 weeks of my degree i felt indomitable. i knew that this was my last chance and that i couldnt let anyone or anything stand in my way of finally securing that b.a., albeit 2 and a half years behind schedule. the odd thing was that as soon as i got off the bus from the PIA all of that ambition, all of that focus and drive, began to evaporate. to completely atomize and vanish into the air in front of my face. the old ghosts were back, they are still here. im still here.
the place is like a temporal bubble. everything outside of it moves, changes, becomes, but nothing inside does. you are who you were when you left. the odd thing is that im not though. i grew up so much in my time away. i was stronger, harder, less comprising. i thought i was. no one here remembers me. the professors, the admins, the officers, they dont care. why am i still mad at them. they dont even know me anymore.
when this, the last two weeks of the journey, is over thats it. there is no more. the bubble pops and everything that happend here is gone with it save for the memories of a handful of people who shared the experience with me. everyone will move on to whatever's next... and ive realized that to continue to rage over things that happend years ago is simply unreasonable. tomorrow is coming and for the first time in 6 and a half years nothing will be the same.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
gen x, gen y, and bush
gomillkhan (9:50:55 PM) : 1999 = ten years ago
gomillkhan (9:51:06 PM) : big pimpin by jay-z came out TEN YEARS AGO
gomillkhan (9:50:02 PM) : i think we're solidly y
gomillkhan (9:50:16 PM) : but close enough to the border to have some gen x sensibilities
gomillkhan (9:43:12 PM) : yeah all the new obama sites are actually pretty spiffy
gomillkhan (9:43:23 PM) : like professional looking for the first time in gvt history
junkieaccel (9:43:28 PM) : HAHAHAHA
junkieaccel (9:43:30 PM) : yeah
junkieaccel (9:43:48 PM) : i wonder if bush has ever been on the internet
junkieaccel (9:44:10 PM) : i wouldnt be surprised if the answer was no. but i feel like i would also sort of respect taht if he read newspapers
gomillkhan (9:44:46 PM) : yeah... true
gomillkhan (9:44:49 PM) : i dunno
gomillkhan (9:44:56 PM) : bush seems like he could be an okay guy
junkieaccel (9:45:03 PM) : yeah
gomillkhan (9:45:06 PM) : well i mean to hang out with... obviously not be president
junkieaccel (9:46:09 PM) : yeah totally like the kind of guy who can appreciate simpler things. like i would want to go hunting with him. or play some pickup football... or even like talk politics cuz ifeel like he has that odd
junkieaccel (9:46:55 PM) : that odd but honestly ignorant frame of the rest of the world. whereas i might find myself talking about something i have no idea what the fuck is about
junkieaccel (9:47:02 PM) : he would never be in a situation like that
junkieaccel (9:47:10 PM) : except if he were president
junkieaccel (9:47:13 PM) : lol
junkieaccel (9:47:42 PM) : which is to say i would also not make a good president
junkieaccel (9:47:44 PM) : lol
gomillkhan (9:48:05 PM) : HAHAHAH clearly... davis 2020
junkieaccel (9:48:11 PM) : LOL
junkieaccel (9:48:13 PM) : HAHAHA
junkieaccel (9:48:15 PM) : yeah
gomillkhan (9:48:28 PM) : i will be your running mate
gomillkhan (9:48:30 PM) : our chant
gomillkhan (9:48:41 PM) : "yes we can... but we're not going to"
junkieaccel (9:48:45 PM) : HAHAHAHAHAHA
junkieaccel (9:48:58 PM) : yes!
gomillkhan (9:49:14 PM) : a new generation!
gomillkhan (9:49:38 PM) : but seriously... isn't like generation x middle aged now?
gomillkhan (9:49:54 PM) : 40 year olds who grew up rocking out to kurt cobain
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