First off, the little old lady living below me has crossed the line! She has complained to the apartment manager before about late-night noise coming from my apartment. Once she specified a date and as it turns out, I wasn't even in town! Even the apartment manager indicated that she thought the lady was exaggerating! Well, Wednesday of last week, she called the police! I had been scanning in pictures since around 9:30 and Debbie called around 10:00. The police showed up at 11:45 and said that they had received a call about the noise, but he had not heard anything and not to worry about it. Of course he didn't hear anything! Debbie didn't hear anything either and we had been yakking for almost 2 hours! I called the apartment manager and told her what happened. The manager mentioned that I have the right to take out a Harassment Warrant, if she continues. Her telling me this surprised me and I think it's a little extreme, but on the other hand, what other options do I have? I've always been cordial when I see her in the hallway, so what's her problem? The manager said that she told her the last time, to call when it was happening and she would come up to hear it herself, so granny called the cops instead. Of course she did, cause she dreamed it up! Her little wrinkled brain is all screwed up cause her medication was changed or something and now she's hearing voices and hearing things go bump in the night and I'm getting the blame! First time she called about the noise, Pat was here when the police showed up. Yeah, we were playing guitar, the officer knocked on my door around 7:00 p.m. 7 in the afternoon! Give me a break! It's so tempting to plug up the electric around 10:45. The city ordinance states that quiet time is after 11. I could jam hard for 15 minutes and quit. But I'm trying to be civil about the whole situation. For now. Next time is full-blown war.
Welcome back Vanessa! I'm glad to hear things went well in Las Vegas and you got a nice little job out of the whole deal! Rollin' in the big bucks now! Congratulations! Did you see any Elvis empersonators? The way Vegas is portrayed in the movies and on TV, you get the feeling that they are all over the place! 2,000 prostitutes and 3,500 Elvis wanna-be's. I wonder if there are any real statistics on this? Elvis impersonators per-capita for all the major cities?
Things at work are getting a little weird. We got a new president of Electrolux as well as chief operating officer and the start-up of an employee stock option program which will fund the start-up of our own finance company. Who knows what's around the corner? I'm worried but hopeful.
I went to visit Shawna in Salem Saturday and we watched this killer show about animals attacking people. It was called "When Animals Fight Back" and it rocked! The commentator made some really cruel comments involving the incidents and I almost laughed myself unconscious! The 'trained' bear attacking the television producer was particularly vicious. It batted her around like she had stomped a cub!
Random Rambling Reader Replies:
All replies this week involved the top 5 movie choices. Here
is what I have so far.
Pat Corcoran:
1. The Quiet Man
2. Grapes of Wrath
3. Citizen Kane
4. Cry Baby HAAAA
5. Pick any one with Shannon Tweed!
The list goes downhill quickly from here.....
Kevin Slaughter:
1. True Romance (I bet this was a big surprise)
2. The Getaway (Steve McQueen not Alex Baldwin)
3. Apocalypse Now
4. The Grifters
5. Wild at Heart
Debbie Whited:
1. Annie Hall
2. Reality Bites
3. Better Off Dead
4. Say Anything
5. When Harry Met Sally
I'm still working on my top 5. It's harder
than I thought to narrow it down.
There have been no changes in the movie role choices, so now we need a plot worthy of such a all star cast! A full life story would be too long for theatrical release, so I'll save that for the DVD release. That extra-footage stuff seems pretty popular. I've decided to get Kevin Smith and View Askew to direct and produce the movie. They are the geniuses responsible for Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma(I'll not get into the whole Mallrats failure thing). If you have not seen these, get 'em! Funny stuff! There has gotta be a way to work Silent Bob and Jay in.
It's late and I'm tire, so that's it for this edition! I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you all have a wonderful week!
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It's Random Rambling 8 and I've got that whole 4 & 8 favorite numbers thing happening again! What an exciting week I've had! Between Pat and the police visiting my apartment, it has become a cultural hub for Bristol! No surprise there.
Well, we are now in the holiday season! Can't you just smell the heat coming off all the cash registers? I hope you all celebrated November 19th properly. It was "Have a Bad Day" day, and I'm not making this up! The 30th is "Computer Security Day", as well as "Stay Home Because You're Well Day". I wonder if I could get a national "Rambling Day" passed! Seems like we got a day for everything else.
Ok, there is a new contest on the discovery channel where you write down and send in what you would take with you, if you were going into space. I've decided to take the elderly lady living below me, but only if I can leave her there. Maybe that will be quiet enough for her! This time, the police show up at 4:45, Saturday afternoon. Yeah, Pat and I were playing guitar, but please! It's 4:45 in the afternoon! I've tried to be civil, but as I stated in the last Ramblings, I'm now forced to escalate this to war. And I'm prepared. I purchased a CD of whale calls tonight. I cracked up while listening to it in the car. I figure a short blast of a beluga whale in heat, during the wee hours of the morning, could be just what the doctor ordered. I would pay money to hear how she describes that noise to the police. Some of the sounds coming off that CD are pretty eerie!
More congratulations to Vanessa! I don't know if I'm supposed to say anything or not, but I will say that it involves a white dress and something about a ring. Any assumptions you make from there are not my responsibility.
On a less permanent note, I received a letter from my place of employment the other day, noting my upcoming 10 year anniversary with them. Wow, it doesn't seem like that long! Each day seems like forever, but overall I can't complain a whole lot. Well this newsletter is evidence to the contrary, but I'm just gonna let it go, cause it's boring stuff.
Ever have a major epiphany and then forget it? I just wanted to say epiphany.
I've also thought of a new blockbuster movie theme, which will finance the story of my life movie! A 90 minute movie of movie trailers and trailer spoofs! Navy Seals and Navy Squeals! I'm also working on a book called "The Hillbilly Guide to Romance". It'll pull double duty as a self-help book at the local convenience stores and as a comedy publication in book stores. I figured this way I'll have greatly increased my target market and thus my profits.
Here is my top 5 movie list:
1. Tombstone - Sam Elliot and Billy Bob Thorton, combined with Val
Kilmer's awesome performance as Doc Holiday, created the perfect movie.
2. As Good As It Gets - Jack Nickolson and Helen Hunt. "You make
me want to be a better man". Every female in the theatre sighed when
Jack said that line!
3. Regarding Henry - Made me realize that it shouldn't take a bullet
in the head for someone to examine his or her life.
4. Pump Up The Volume - Talk Hard. Looking back, the high school
setting makes it seem a little juvenile now, but the 'be yourself' lesson
has remained with me.
5. Good Will Hunting - A coincidence that Kevin Smith of Clerks was
an executive co-producer?
Random Rambling Reader Replies:
More replies this week involving the top 5 movie choices and some of
you ranting about my 'Kevin Smith/Mallrats' comment.
Leeann Kirby:
I may have not compiled my list of favorite movies just yet but Mallrats will be included in it!! All of Kevin Smith movies are pure brilliance! Don't knock on the movie that not only introduced us to Jay and Silent Bob but what about that sarcastic ass Jason Lee. He is so ....something! I love his temperament in every movie I have seen him in (yes I like scrawny smartasses!)- I believe that might even be his real personality or he is an incredible actor!! Now take back what you said about Mallrats or deal with me!!!!!
kef: Jay and Silent Bob appeared in Clerks first. Clerks was Kevin Smith's first movie, which set the stage for the follow-up movies, which are collectively know as the "New Jersey Chronicles". Dogma was to be the second movie, but was put off until the proper special effects could be afforded as well as to avoid the predictable fallout, which would undoubtedly, result from a movie with such dramatic and controversial views of religion. A major studio picked up Mallrats and Kevin Smith was intimidated by the whole corporate experience. As a result, he allowed the corporate representatives make unchallenged changes to the movie, which gave us a watered down version of his original vision. I was highly disappointed in Mallrats. The drastic departure of the function of Silent Bob and Jay from Clerks to Mallrats, was a shock and disappointment. Their brief but effective roles in Chasing Amy helped to reroute them back to their roots as found in Dogma. I'm not saying Mallrats was a bad movie, just not as good as what it could have been. By the way, the final installment is coming out next year!!
Brandy Hicks:
I'm astonished that you insulted Mall Rats. It was an excellent film. I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. It was my first introduction to Silent Bob and Jay. It will always have a special place in my heart...Ok, coming up with my top 5 movies of all time is nearly impossible. I have given examples of favorites from several different categories instead.
1.Tommy Boy (pretty much anything with Chris Farley is good for me)
2.The Matrix
3.Stealing Home
4.The Spit Fire Grill
5.Monty Python and the search for the holly grail (classic!)
That was painful! I have so many more that should be on a list. It seems so unfair. You must pay penance to the cinema gods for asking me to make such sacrifices.
kef: Concerning Mallrats, Yeah, yeah, yeah... See above. The movie gods got their penance earlier this year, when I paid good money to see that movie Simply Irresistible! I still think the cinema gods and I are not even on that!
Charlie Dolinger:
Here are five of my favorite movies - it would be an impossible task to narrow it down to my 5 favorites, but here goes. In no particular order:
1) Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb)
2) The Searchers
3) Some Like It Hot
4) North By Northwest
5) It's A Gift
Beth Dolinger:
1) Raising Arizona
2) The Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
3) Rebecca
4) The Out-Of-Towners (not the re-make, but the Jack Lemmon original)
5) The Odd Couple
I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you all have
a wonderful week!
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It's Random Rambling 9! I guess we are safely out of the whole favorite number thing for a while. 44, 48, 84, 88, 444, etc... are quite a ways off.
I can't believe I forgot it, but I sure did! Anthony reminded me of a particular peculiarity encountered on the drive back from Nashville. One of the funnier moments of the whole trip and I forgot it! We were well underway back to Virginia when we see this car full of ladies. Now the fact that it was full of ladies isn't exactly what caught our attention. No, really! What did capture our eyes were the "REVIVAL" flyers posted on all windows of the vehicle and there in the midst of them all was the infamous sticker of Calvin, from the Calvin and Hobbs cartoon strip, flying the bird. We had miles and miles of fun with that one! Kinda made me want to go to that revival! My mind is all aswirl with the possibilities.
Well, this whole Christmas shopping thing is almost over for me! I spent the last couple days taking care of my list and I figure I'm pretty much done. I figure I got 3 or 4 more gifts to buy, but there usually ends up being 90 or 100 people I forgot. Oh, and after having made my first Pokemon purchase, I hate those little freaking things even more. Those little packets of cards cost about the same as a Star Wars action figure! Just who do these Pokepeople think they are? It's tempting to open a packet, just to see what the big deal is all about, but I'm afraid of what I'll find within.
The newest movie idea is entitled "The last Yugo". I don't have a plot yet, but I'm thinking maybe a musical. Isn't Donnie Osmond doing musicals now? Speaking of movies, I rented Mallrats again and I'm sticking to my original conclusion. It may be a good movie, but it doesn't stand up to the other Kevin Smith films. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
I've revised my top 10 list and here it is:
Tombstone
As Good As It Gets
Regarding Henry
A Time To Kill
Good Will Hunting
Random Rambling Reader Replies:
More replies this week involving the top 5 movie choices.
Vanessa Perrson:
This was hard. My vivid imagination kept mixing my favorite books and movies
together-but here goes it!
1. The Color Purple
2. Enemy Mine
3. Never Ending Story
4. Rocky Horror Picture Show
5. The Lost Boys
Okay-I think that is it. Not in any particular order I may add!!!!!
kef: The Lost Boys! Wow, that brings back memories! I'll not comment on your vivid imagination!!!!
Chris Slaughter:
(top 5 movies)
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Deadman
3. The Apostle
4. The Innocents
5. The Exorcist
(runners up)
True Romance, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Bladerunner, Planet of the Apes, 2001: A Space Odyssey,
High Plains Drifter, The Three Musketeers, The Mission, Blue Velvet, At Close Range
kef: I've been meaning to catch The Apostle! I've heard it was a very good movie.
Anthony Reece:
Top 5 movies (in no particular order)
1. One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest
2. A Christmas Story
3. The Princess Bride
4. The Last of the Mohicans (Not quite sure about the spelling)
5. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Movie idea. How about the Northern Lights trip?
White dress, ring... Is she making an appearance on WWF? I don't know what she looks like but it sounds very intriguing. What's the deal with Mall Rats? I haven't seen it but I guess I'd better make a point of it. My list changed several times. It is too broad. I hope every one is going to give you a hard time since it was your heinous idea to have a list of 5. I have had an epiphany and immediately lost it. It is fun to say epiphany.
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Ok that was ridiculous. Sorry
kef: You got it! Vanessa is going to appear on WWF as "The Bon-Bon Bomb". She gives her opponents the nuclear foot in the butt. I don't want it to sound like I disliked Mallrats! It definitely has its finer points. Joey Lauren Adams being a very fine point! Keep in mind that my statements are in context with the other Kevin Smith movies. Other fun words to say are coitus, fungal and dik-dik. Elvis had a dik-dik, but I forget what kind. I'm sure that Kevin will be able to remind me. Appendectomy is another fun word to say, but I wouldn't want to experience one!
Well, The Man Show is on, so I'm cutting this
short! I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you all have a wonderful
week!
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