resolutions and what not
In keeping with tradition with everyone else, be it myspace bulletin, livejournal post or in my case, an update on blogger, I'm going to go along with everyone else and post a year in review/resolutions update.
All said, 2006 was pretty good for me. My hard work this year came on a positive note as the democrats finally took back office. Hopefully they'll not fuck it up in 2008. I am actually enjoying what I do for the most part, but wish I was making more money. Who doesn't feel that way though?
Things with Jill and progressed nicely as well. In September we took a 4 day trip to Copper Harbor and in December she moved in with myself and my 2 roommates. Things had been bumpy at first but it's all smoothing out. We'll be looking for our own place by June if everything goes according to plan. (ie: we dont break up.)
As for myself, I found out this summer that I have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes just as my mother has. It's been a struggle really coming to terms with it but I'm going to use the new year as motivation to stay on top of my health by testing my blood everyday and getting on a healthier diet.
Thats 2006 in a nutshell. I feel like I've just written one of those tacky christmas update letters that no one cares about.
Here are a few of my resolutions for 2007
1.)
Get a loan and register for spring semester2.) Test my blood sugar at least 3 days a week.
3.) Starting a low carb, low calorie diet and hopefully lose 20lbs
4.) Use my car less, my bike and feet more
5.) Spend more time with Jill
6.) Make an effort to keep contact with old friends.
thats all of them for now, let me know if I slip up on any of these from time to time.
Happy New Year!
even the house is emo!
This is a picture of a house at the end of my block that I took last night. I dont quite understand the symbolism of the broken heart in lights, can someone explain that to me?
post holiday fallout
Heres my christmas loot:
1. Ipod shuffle 2nd generation (which I can't get to work with my computer yet, fucking apple!)
2. Detroit Tigers hooded sweatshirt
3. Clothes (pants, sweaters, shirts and boxers)
4.) Home Movies volume 1 DVD
thats pretty much yet, not too bad I think.
I had spent the 23rd and 24th with Jill's family and wasn't ready at all for the large group of people and dogs I was to be around for the 2 days. It was funny though watching them freak out about the most trivial things imaginable, like the aunt who decided to bring store bought pies to the family gathering instead of letting grandma make them herself. Things went fine overall but I was more than ready to come back to being around my parents and sister and not having the stress of being around that many people.
I'm currently on day 13 of my 17 day vacation and Im already itching to go back to work. My schedule has been completely screwed up with all this time off, I go to bed at 3am and I've felt very forgetful about everything like taking my medication, eating, showering...etc. I need to get back into a routine again before I completely lose my mind. Plus I'm already kinda bored. Theres only so much television to watch and videogames to play.
Speaking of which, Im going to play Twilight Princess now, later kids.
well that was just creepy.
Over the weekend I decided to rearrange my bedroom and clean it after we've already gotten Jill's room set up and tore apart my own in the process. So as Im moving the bed away from the wall, Jill notices something hanging on the side of my bed. Thinking it was maybe a large leaf I turn it over and see a face! It was a dead dried out bat that had somehow gotten itself wedged between my bed and the wall and died there. After the initial shock, my roommate took it outside to bury it in the yard.
I hope Jill or I don't have rabies now but somehow I really doubt it.
If I for some reason drop over dead in the next couple of weeks I guess we'll know for sure.
from the WTF department.
Greetings!
I know its been awhile since I've updated my blog and Im sure the 4 people who were reading it before have probably stopped so this update is really not going to make a whole lot of difference until I actually TELL someone I updated my blog and that my friends is just incredibly lame. (But I'll do it nonetheless, I dont want to think my effort is going towards nothing)
A few days ago a package arrived to our house addressed to someone who used to live there over a year ago but has since neglected to sent in a change of address form or update any records online to indicate he's moved (by the way, his mail from court concerning a parking violation that is over a year old STILL keeps coming to the house). We (my roommates and myself) took it upon ourselves to open the package since this guy obviously isn't coming by to pick up his mail anytime soon. Inside we found a video, but not just any video, this one was special.
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma is best described as one of the most disturbing movies ever released to mainstream cinema. I'll let this description explain it for you.
Salò (as the film is commonly abbreviated) is set in the Republic of Salò, the Fascist rump state which was set up in the German-occupied portion of Italy in 1944. The film is divided into four segments that loosely parallel Dante's Inferno: Anteinferno, Circle of Manias, Circle of Shit and Circle of Blood.
Four men of power, referred to as the Duke (Duc de Blangis), the Bishop, the Magistrate (Curval), and the President agree to marry each other's daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. With the aid of several young male collaborators, they kidnap eighteen young men and women (nine male, nine female), and take them to a palace near Marzabotto. With them are four middle-aged prostitutes, also collaborators, whose function will be to recount various arousing stories for the men of power, and who will in turn exploit their victims sexually and sadistically.
The film depicts the three days spent at the palace, during which time the four men of power devise increasingly abhorrent tortures and humiliations for their own pleasure. In one of the film's most infamous scenes, a young woman is forced to eat the feces of the Duke; later, the other victims are presented with a giant meal of human feces (the "feces" were created with chocolate sauce and orange marmalade). At the end of the three days, the victims who chose not to collaborate with their tormentors are murdered in various gruesome ways: scalping, branding, and having tongues and eyes cut out.Doesn't that sound like a the feel good movie of the season? of course we watched it and honestly it was pretty terrible but not from a disturbing standpoint, more that the movie dragged on and wasn't that interesting. Plus the picture and sound quality were fair at best. I am not only left wondering about how disturbed the person who bought this really is as I haven't met him.
For anyone interested, dont bother trying to look for it in a video store or netflix.
The Criterion Collection release of the film in 1998 on DVD has created a great deal of interest because of its rarity. It is so rare that it has been labelled by some to being possibly the rarest DVD in the world. Shortly after the Criterion edition was released, the rights for the DVD were not renewed by its distributor and Criterion were forced to discontinue the title, as they have done in the past with some of the films in their catalogue. Whilst many of Criterion's discontinued titles have became much sought after, Salò has generally seen prices for an original copy range from as little as US $250 to US $1000. Due to the rarity of the title many bootleg copies are routinely passed off as originals.Sadly our copy was a bootleg otherwise we would've sold it to help with the upcoming heating costs.
Thats it for now. Regular updates will be coming once again!
