It's been a while since I posted here, but I am in fact alive. Graduated but unemployed. This is both fun and the suck.
PROS:
Have the free time to do whatever I want
Sit around and read about science all day
Have time to up date livejournal

CONS:
Broke
Have enough free time to update livejournal

I just watched live streaming video of the first black man to be sworn in as president on my lap top.

Now before you kids get TOO audaciously hopeful

My new roommate is teaching me poi. For those not familiar with the term please refer to the image below.

Weed. Oh wait....

YES! I know I am a nerd of truly epic proportions, but well, this make's me a bit wet.



I'm trying to remain cautiously excited despite the fact that Abrams is directing not producing. Hopefully this doesn't pan out as unfortunately as 'Cloverfield'. I mean the trailer looks tight, but the head writers have
credits to their name's such as Xena Warrior Princess.

An anarchists tail.

Some thoughts from the path to tonight

( My time at the DNC )

Four years ago, at approximately this time, I sat in a Nashville hotel room smoking weed, yelling at my TV and copy/pasting "FUCK!" several hundred times on to this very blog.

Obama didn't only beat the 2 percent spread that I gave him, CNN called it before midnight.

Angie beat me out by 3 movies. But you know what I never have and never will see Titanic. I consider that a victory.


[ ] 13 Going on 30
[ ] 21 Grams
[x] 28 days later
[x] 28 weeks later
[ ] 50 First Dates
[] A Beautiful Mind
[ ] A Bronx Tale
[x] A Cinderella Story
[ ] A Walk to Remember
[x] Airplane

Total so far: 4

[x] Along Came Polly
[x] American Beauty
[x] American History X
[x] American Pie
[x] American Pie 2
[x] American Wedding
[ ] American Pie Band Camp
[x] AnchorMan
[x] Anger Management
[x] Animatrix

Total so far: 9

[x] Army of Darkness
[ ] Bad Boys
[ ] Bad Boys 2
[ ] BASEketball
[x] Bedazzled
[ ] Best Bet
[ ] Big Trouble in Little China
[x] Blazing Saddles
[ ] Blood Diamond
[x] Boogeyman

Total so far: 4

[x] Boondock Saints
[x] Bourne Identity
[ ] Bourne Supremacy
[ ] Bourne Ultimatum
[ ] Bride of Chucky
[ ] Brokeback Mountain
[x] Butterfly Effect
[ ] Calendar Girls
[ ] Catch Me If You Can
[x] Chicago

Total so far: 4

[ ] Children of the Corn
[x] Child's Play
[ ] Christine
[x] Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
[ ] The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
[x] Club Dread
[ ] Coach Carter
[ ] Crash
[x] Cruel Intentions
[ ] Cruel Intentions 2

Total so far: 4

[ ] Cujo
[ ] Curious George
[ ] Darkness Falls
[x] Dawn Of the Dead
[x] Deep Impact
[ ] Devils Rejects
[ ] Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
[x] Dumb & Dumber
[ ] Dumber & Dumberer
[ ] Eight Crazy Nights

Total so far: 3

[x] Elf
[x] ET
[x] Event Horizon
[x] Ever After
[x] Evil Dead
[x] Evil Dead 2
[x] Fight Club
[x] Final Destination
[x] Final Destination 2
[x] Final Destination 3

Total so far: 10

[x] Finding Nemo
[ ] Finding Neverland
[x] Flubber
[x] Forrest Gump
[x] Freaky Friday
[x] Ghost Ship
[x] Gladiator
[x] Gothika
[x] Grease
[ ] Grease 2

Total so far: 8

[x Hannibal
[x] Harry Potter 1
[x] Harry Potter 2
[x] Harry Potter 3
[x] Harry Potter 4
[x] Hellboy
[ ] High Tension
[x] Highlander
[x] Highlander II
[x] Highlander III

Total so far: 9

[x] Hook
[ ] Hostel
[ ] House of 1000 Corpses
[ ] How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
[x] Hulk
[ ] I Am Sam
[ ] I Spit on Your Grave aka The Day of the Woman
[ ] I, Robot
[x] Ice Age
[ ] Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

Total so far: 3

[ ] Ice Castles
[x] Independence Day
[x] Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
[x] Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
[x] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
[x] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
[ ] Indochine
[x] Jeepers Creepers
[x] Jeepers Creepers 2
[ ] Joe Dirt

Total so far: 7

[ ] Joy Ride
[ ] Just Married
[x] Kill Bill vol 1
[x] Kill Bill vol 2
[x] King Kong - The original
[ ] Kingdom of Heaven
[ ] KingPin
[ ] K-PAX
[ ] Krippendorf's Tribe
[x] Kung Fu Hustle

Total so far: 2

[x] Layer Cake
[x] Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
[ ] Lilo & Stitch
[ ] Little Black Book
[ ] Lone Star
[x] Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
[x] Lord of the Rings: Return Of the King
[x] Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
[ ] Lucky Number Slevin
[x] Magnolia

Total so far: 6

[x] Maid in Manhattan
[x] Mars Attacks
[x] Meet The Parents
[x] Meet the Fockers
[ ] Million Dollar Hotel
[x] Miracle on 34th street - The original
[ ] Monsters Inc.
[x] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[x] Mortal Kombat
[x] Mothman Prophecies

Total so far: 8

[ ] My Bosses Daughter
[ ] Mystic River
[x] Napoleon Dynamite
[ ] Never Been Kissed
[ ] Neverending Story
[ ] Night Watch
[x] Nightmare on Elm Street
[x] Ocean's Eleven
[ ] Ocean's Twelve
[ ] Ocean's Thirteen

Total so far: 3

[x] Old School
[ ] Orgazmo
[ ] Passport to Paris
[x] Pay it forward
[ ] Phantasm
[x] Pirates of the Caribbean
[x] Pirates of the Caribbean 2
[x] Pirates of the Caribbean 3
[ ] Practical Magic

Total so far: 4

[ ] Predator I
[ ] Predator II
[ ] Re-Animator
[x] Red Dragon
[ ] Reign of Fire
[ ] Remember the Titans
[x] Resident Evil 1
[x] Resident Evil 2
[ ] Robots
[x] Rocky Horror Picture Show

Total so far: 4

[x] Rush Hour
[ ] Rush Hour 2
[x] Saw
[x] Saw II
[ ] Saw III
[ ] Saw IV
[x] Scary Movie
[ ] Scary Movie 2
[ ] Scary Movie 3
[ ] Scary Movie 4

Total so far: 4

[x] Scream
[x] Scream 2
[x] Scream 3
[x] Secret Window
[ ] Seed of Chucky
[x] Shaolin Soccer
[x] Shaun Of the Dead
[ ] She's All That
[x] Shrek
[x] Shrek 2
[x] Shrek 3

Total so far: 9

[x] Sideways
[x] Signs
[x] Silence of the Lambs
[x] Sixteen Candles
[x] Sky High
[x] Spider-Man
[x] Spider-Man 2
[x] Spider-Man 3

Total so far: 8

[x] Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
[x] Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
[x] Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
[x] Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
[x] Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
[x] Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
[x] Starsky and Hutch
[ ] Surviving X-MAS
[ ] Swimfan
[ ] Taxi Driver

Total so far: 7

[x] Team America: World Police
[ ] The 40-year-old Virgin
[x] The Cider House Rules
[x] The Day After Tomorrow
[ ] The Deer Hunter
[x] The Departed
[ ] The Fog
[x] The Godfather
[x] The Godfather II
[x] The Godfather III

Total so far: 7

[ ] The Grinch
[x] The Grudge
[ ] The Grudge 2
[x] The Hills Have Eyes
[x] The Hot Chick
[x] The Insider
[ ] The Jacket
[ ] The Last House on the Left
[ ] The Last King of Scotland
[ ] The Life of David Gale

Total so far: 4

[ ] The Lizzie McGuire Movie
[x] The Mask
[ ] Son Of The Mask - 2 1/2 hours of my life I can't get back
[x] The Matrix
[x] The Matrix Reloaded
[x] The Matrix Revolutions
[ ] The Notebook
[x] The Passion of the Christ
[ ] The Piano
[x] The Princess Bride

Total so far: 6

[ ] The Princess Diaries
[ ] The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
[x] The Ring
[x] The Ring 2
[ ] The Shawshank Redemption
[ ] The Skulls
[x] The Terminal
[x] The Terminator
[x] Terminator 2
[x] Terminator 3

Total so far: 6

[x] The Usual Suspects
[x] The Village
[x] The Wedding Singer
[ ] The Whole Nine Yards
[ ] The Whole Ten Yards
[ ] There Will Be Blood
[ ] Titanic
[x] Top Gun
[ ] Universal Soldier
[ ] Waiting for Guffman

Total so far: 4

[ ] Walk The Line
[x] War of the Worlds
[x] Waterworld
[ ] White Chicks
[x] White Noise
[ ] White Oleander
[ ] Willard
[x] Wizard of Oz
[ ] Wolf Creek
[x] X-Men
[x] X-Men 2
[x] X-Men 3

total so far: 7

Total: 154

I didn't write this but I had to re-post it.

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Dear Red States:

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care provided you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines, 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We getHollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace out,

Blue States

I didn't have time to put together a proper Halloween costume, so on the fly, I drew a goatee on my self in the lavatory this morning. I explained that I was the evil version of my self from an evil mirror dimension. A couple of closet trekie's have come up to me and said "You know you might be too young but there was this episode of Star Trek with Spock and...."

I'm just like "Oh....I know."

Since I started working as a tutor, I've been hanging out in the basement of the library a lot. The archives are down here and there's a big sign that says "Malcolm Stilson Special Collection". It kind of reminds me of the first three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now I need is a snippy British librarian and a gang of quarky magical peers.

Oh Marky Mark. I had forgiven you.

For years, after movies like the Italian Job, I said I hadn't forgotten. You were still Marky Mark. Sibling of whats his face in New Kid on the Block. You couldn't just become a legitimate actor like that. I had not forgotten the Funky Bunch.



But then I saw I <3 Huckabees and The Departed. I though "let it go". You were absolved and became Mark Walberg to me.

Then I sat through Max Payne. A whole lot of bullet time that didn't pack more action in, but it did give you plenty of time to ruminate on the emotional complexities of the scene. And you were good in the only minute of action in the movie.

The end was a little frustrating. Not to give away anything but if I wanted to watch someone get dosed and flip out, doing it at home is actually less expensive than buying a ticket to watch it happen in a movie.

There's my case. I don't want to be fickle and rescind my forgiveness like that but Mr. Walberg, your on thin ice.

Things have been going really good on the left coast. Research in the lab is going well. While I entered with some trepidation, I'm really liking (and fucking the sister of) calculus and physics. I just got a job as an o-chem tutor that pays 10 bucks an hour.

Crew's still fun.

My new house rocks socks. We got a new little cat named Alexander.

I was looking at the mad old pictures on Creel's new facebook and for some reason I have the overwhelming desire to listen to Smashing Pumpkins.

Now I've heard the excuse before "But I live on the other side of the country, I can't come..."

Bullshit. Be there or be square mothafuckers.

It should also be noted that "and more" includes the elusive DJ Kid Amiga. Though I've never me the individual I hear he spins "the fat beats". Although he did request that we have a 10lb cut of beeffalo meat, a tub of ice and 100 rainbow bendy straws prepared for him when he fly's into town from Venezuela.

I've decided to post some of the pictures I have from the RNC. Tons of other stuff has happened and these are by no mean the goriest pictures on the web. All of the violent details are locked in my brain though, and so much has happened in the past few days that my brain needs a chance to process all of the flim flam and bull shit.

( If you looking for something 'cool' watch Democracy Now! )

Yesterday Black blocks swarmed the city. Their weapon of choice, dumpsters and pretty much anything else that wasn't nailed. Cop cars were smashed up, delegate buses blockaded and tear gas hit the ground.

Today the police used concussion grenades AKA flash bangs.

On the up swing I got to see John Oliver from the Daily Show. I begged him for tickets, but maybe my 3 thousand screaming friends were a turn off.

It's late. I'm tired. A pictures worth a thousand words so go look on youtube.

The RNC doesn't even start until tomorrow but 6 houses have been raided and countless people have been detained.

Bush and Cheney aren't even coming in to town. The whole Con may be cut down to one day, under the pretense of Gustave's imminent ass kicking it will unleash on New Orleans.

They have to meet for at least one day and make quorum to vote Mcain in.

I'm stuck at this fruit cakes house for the night. Next time he wigs out about some one "not respecting the house" I'm having a vision of cold cocking Captain Kirk style.

The Iraq Veterans Against the War just put some one at the table with Obama's people. As the crowd moves away from the main gates to paths form, arrestable and non-arrestable.

On the other side of Speers st people converge on a field. Three detachments of fully locked and loaded riot storm troopers form the beginning of a perimeter. Some sort of armored urban assault vechical rolls up carrying 15 or 20 more riot cops.

The street medics congregate on the curb. The other side of the street is filled with curios on lookers, volenteers and t-shirt vendors. We're sitting on the front porch of the democratic nation convention and people want to know whats up.

After a few tense minutes non-protester type people wonder in to the field, having not been present for the stand-here-if-you-want-to-be-arrested-speech given by organizers earlier. A family of three pastel polo shirts walk neck deep into the crush.

“I'm gonna go warn those people,” I say and jog over. I make eye contact with the father.

“Hey guys, just so you know, this is kind of considered and 'arrestable' area, so be kind of wary as you walk around” and smile my least panic inducing grin.

The fathers mouth drops open and a grunt/sigh comes out. He rolls his eyes and leads his family in another direction, deeper into the swell. His face had a look of disgust on it as though I should be held in contempt for not knowing that Ralph Lauren had built in magical armer against chemical weapons.

I wanted to grab him by the collar and shake him screaming, “I washed pepper spray out of the eyes of a reporter yesterday who thought his goddamn press credential had the same pseudo magical aura! Get the fuck out of here! When you stand by us, the police DON'T CARE about protecting you!”

But instead all I said was, “Don't say I didn't warn you.”