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So I’m watching the Julia Louise-Drefus(sp) show, it’s the first time I’ve seen it… The adventures of ??? Anyway, the premise of the episode is how she is more interested in voting for the American Idol then an actual election, so much so that she gets to the polling place too late to vote. So then she is upset that she isn’t more involved in the process like she was when she was younger and goes out and joins an activist group that is anti-oil drilling. So in the end, which what I gather was to be the funny, the group she has joined is actually the opposite of what she thought, she hadn’t even read their brochure to find out what they were about.

At the Winter Park Art Festival this weekend, we were approached by a women with some petition for a wetlands initiative of some kind, I saw several people signing it. When I asked what exactly it was for, we were given a very brief explaination, less then a sentence worth. She expected us to sign right there with what I would call no actual information. I asked where I could read more about the petition and the woman seemed to get angry. I told her I don’t sign anything without reading about it. I would have thought that she would hand me a brochure or even a leaflet that explained more than what she had told me. She just seemed to get more aggrivated by my questioning, so I asked if they had a website that I could look it up on, that seemed to be the last straw and she turned away and stalked off yelling out a website as she left. I guess she didn’t really care about the petition, just getting us to sign. If I felt commited to a cause, I would gladly explain what it was and how the petition would help. It’s not that I wouldn’t sign the petition, it may really be something that I believe in, it’s just that I want to know exactly what the hell it does. Sadly, just telling people that it is good for the environment seemed to get a lot of people to sign something even though they don’t even know what it does.
It’s kind of like when on Penn & Teller Bullshit, they had people signing a petition to repeal women’s suffrage, I think only one person realized what that actually meant.

I can’t think of anything to blog about, that seems to be my biggest problem nowadays.

We went to the Winter Park Art Festival this morning. It was a lot of fun, I think that we have gone every year but one. This year we didn’t buy anything as we have in other years, I just didn’t think there was anything that I had to have, at least not that I could afford. Afterwards we had lunch at Wazzabi, mmm, I love sushi. We have had sushi takeout from there before but I had never eaten there before. It was great.

The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival starts today, check it out if you can.

I love movies, so since I never do these meme thing I’ll do this one.

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.

Wow, tough one…
Brazil, Star Wars (ep 4-6), Amadeus, Beverly Hills Cop, Blade Runner, Pink Floyd the Wall, Jaws, Close Encounters and too many others to remember

2. Name a movie you’ve seen multiple times in the theater.

I’ll leave out Amadeus and BHC because I worked at the theatre they were playing in..
Brazil, Star Wars (ep 4-6), Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, American Pie, Pink Floyd The Wall, Rocky Horror, Lost Highway, Dune, Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me, Aliens, Die Hard, Jaws and too many more to mention

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie.

De Niro, Pacino, Edward Norton…

4. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie.

Jennifer Lopez

5. Name a movie that you can and do quote from.

Hmm, well how about just a few, Holy Grail, Aliens, Anchorman, Rocky Horror, Die Hard, Christmas Vacation and most of the films we own on DVD. Plus I used to be able to recite BHC and Amadeus beginning to end and could probrable still recite large portions of it.

6. Name a movie musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs.

Little Shop of Horrors, Pink Floyd the Wall

7. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with.

Little Shop of Horrors, Pink Floyd the Wall

8. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see.

I guess it depends on the person, here are a few must see
Children of Men, Brazil, Touch of Evil, Fight Club, Pink Floyd the Wall, Fahrenhype 9/11, Celsius 41.11, Blade Runner, The Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Cane, The Caine Mutiny…

9. Name a movie that you own.

Most of the movies listed, I own 300+

10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops.

Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp

11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what?

Sadly, no

12. Ever made out in a movie?

Mystery Men comes to mind

13. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t yet gotten around to it.

Eraserhead, I saw this before when I was younger but need to see it again. I’m sure there are others.

14. Ever walked out of a movie?

Left during Eight Legged Freaks, but not because I wanted to. That’s the only one I can think of.

15. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater.

None

16. Popcorn?

mmm, Popcorn

17. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)?

I used to go to 1 or more a week, but since buying a house we don’t get out as much. Maybe about once a month

18. What’s the last movie you saw in the theater?

I saw a movie who’s name escapes me with my Daughter, and Casino Royale

19. What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie?

Strange

20. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?

Bambi

21. What movie do you wish you had never seen?

Eye of the beholder, Star Wars 1-3

22. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?

I watch lots of weird movies, one of my favorite all time movies is Brazil, but almost any David Lynch Movie is also a good answer

23. What is the scariest movie you’ve seen?

…Movies don’t really frighten me, Aliens had some great jump in your seat moments, Rachel found the Grudge to be scary

24. What is the funniest movie you’ve seen?

Most of today’s comedies are just a bunch of fart jokes that are lame, funny movies: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (original), BHC (back when Eddie was funny), Blazing Saddles, Holy Grail, Brain Candy, Christmas Vacation…

You can drop kick a standard housecat a good 30 yards…

IT’S A FACT!

Looks like Modonna is going to be on Nip/Tuck. What I found interesting was this quote:

‘Madonna has the body of a woman half her age…’

The body of a woman half her age? Is that legal? Is it just the torso or does it have arms and legs? feet and hands? Is the head still attached? Where does she keep it? I thought Michael Jackson was strange for having the skeleton of the elephant man.

You’ve just planned a terrorist attack on the ‘infidels’ what are you going to do now?

H/T: Michelle Malkin

Looks like I missed another day of blogging, in my defense, I was really sick yesterday and didn’t feel up to blogging.

Since yesterday I set up the birthday blog to post today, I don’t have to think up something to blog about today. I can take the day off from blogging and won’t have to worry about trying to come up with something to blog about. So there will be no new posts today… Wait… ahh Crap!

Happy Birthday to my big brother Tony, hoping you are well and have a great birthday.

And to my lovely and wonderful wife Rachel, who I love dearly!

So Nikon announced a new camera today… well kinda. They announced the D40x which is just a small upgrade from the D40 which was released just a few weeks ago. I didn’t really want the D40, it seems to little, but with the D40x, the upgrades seem to make it better for the photos I take, unfortunately the price has also increased and I’m not sure that if I spend that much it might just be better to spend the extra money and get the D80. Of course I really want the D200!

Well Rachel brought down the server with an Instalanche this afternoon. I had to restart MySQL to get it back up. I’m looking into being able to connect to the server remotely to be able to restart it without having to be home.

I cleaned up the computer room yesterday and today, I setup a new desk and the room looks much bigger then it used to. I still have to look thought several boxes and throw out some stuff but that can wait a little while.

Well We’re back. our phone and internet was down and they finally got it working again. Hey it’s not my fault if I can’t blog due to technical issues!

After reading all my usual blogs, I still found nothing that I wanted to blog about, I should just do a blog for a week instead of a month. Hopefully I get motivated by something.