The Summer movie that is highest on my list
Current mood: ecstatic
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
There are a lot of movies coming out this summer, I am looking forward to most of them, The one I am looking forwad to the most has got to be HANCOCK!
it has everything I look for in a summer movie. 1. A FLYING MAN! 2. High action and adventure 3. a flying man that punches things 4. An African American Superhero 5. Will Smith
So I have been crazy busy, doing school stuff and trying to keep my life straight on the business side of things. Some moves have been made and pieces are falling in place. It seems I will eventually have a lot of my goals in place but they will take a lot of work, and that, it seems, might try to kill me.
Still I have been in good spirits and jumping the hurdles as they come. Thank god for my wonderful family and my excellent friends, and my lovely and capable wife. I realized that this would not be possible without all of you. A few weeks ago I had to wrestle a Friday down and make it my mistress. I was helped exceedingly by those that love and care for me. Kudos to my moms, who even though she was out of town had the right hookups to keep me cozy, my friend Paul who lent me a truck, and my man in Amsterdam Lou who came out at 1 in the a.m. to help me move tables. when I do get that Phd. I will owe a lot of people a lot of gratitude, and I would not be able to do what I do without the support of a legion of people who give me support in immeasurable ways.
Thanks to you all, near and far, just for being you.
So, Cincinnati has Earthquakes it seems? My wife felt it and woke me up. I only heard the wine glasses in the dining room twinkling for 15 minutes after the tremor. She insisted that the apartment shook. I believed her, but it helped to see it in the newspaper
Here, enjoy some Gnarles Barkley on SNL
What I'm doing right this moment: Watching: Dr. Who "Planet of The Ood" (I am so a Dr. Who fan all of the sudden)
So yesturday IGN ran a rather intricate April’s Fools joke where they teased a Legend of Zelda movie.
I knew it was a prank 5 seconds in, but it still was awesome, and made me wish I lived in the alternate Quantum reality where this movie is being made for real with a large budget and full studio cooperation.
Just watch the trailer and see what has captured my imagination,
Lets follow that with some political chicanery
Category: Blogging
I’ve made no bones about my support of Mr. Obama for President, but I have been a little reluctant to voice my displeasure for the Hillary campaign and its rather efficient but ruthless tactics.
I’ll let mr. Keith Oberman do it for me.
and no, they probably won’t redo Florida and Michigan because they couldn’t olay nice the first time, and I am pretty certain Florida should be very weary of being disenfranchised, and I am really surprised that this nation is too apathetic to riot about things like that.
and really, Gas prices can inflate 300% in 8 years? man, I used to think being president was largely cerimonial, till I saw what one screw up could do to a country....
"You should a let me give him the years Bunk, He would have been better off."
Current mood: restless
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Beware,
I spoil a little from The Wire Season 5 Episode 8.
Okay so I just caught up on the wire, and why oh why do they keep killing the people I love?
Blind Butchie
Prop Joe,
Then Omar,
Although I knew Omar had to go sometime, and although the viewer in me wanted to see the horrific gun battle versus Marlo, the writer in me knew they would go another way and he'd get dropped for no reason.It was the limp that did him in.He was roaming the streets on reputation when a young generation of corner kids with no respect for history come up every day wanting to live hard and leave a beautiful corpse.There was no room for a crippled Marlo in their game, and as Marlo got his start as a plucky young upstart, so does Kinard, now living with the death of a man on his rep.not just any man, THE MAN in the streets.
And how great was it to see Poot?While I am a little weary of the narrative attention paid to "Mnulty's Fake Serial Killer Plotline" I love the way they continue to deftly interweave all these familiar faces.Nicole keeps asking me if Barksdale is coming back, I told her no, we saw where he is, like we got a glimpse of Cutty, and of Randy.The last one hurt me a lot to see the kid just another face in the system.In many ways that is the true gem of this show, the way they show you the lives of all these different people in these heart wrenching stories.The fact that to everyone else in the story they are just another person who does not seem to matter.We see Randy and we see a kid whose story we know.Someone tuning in to season 5 wouldn't know the struggled that Nicki Sabatka had to go through for the Docks, or that Cutty only has his gym because of a last minute charitable donation from Barksdale before his fall.
I kept telling Nicole that the one guy who would get out the game safe would be a guy like Poot, who was not too important to kill, but not unimportant enough to completely ignore.So a guy that stood in the room with Stringer Bell and worked the Towers now hocks sneakers in a ref shirt.Man, Poot doing good honest work. All his boys dead and Marlo eliminating his corner, where else could a man like that go.
And think, who would Poot matter to but me?But those of us who have watched his life for 5 years?
Think of it.The city is full of these stories.The guy next to you at the diner, behind you in the bank, at the counter of Starbucks.They all have stories.They are people with lives and narratives, and if you knew it, they would matter to you too. So "The Wire" also tells the story of Baltimore and these people, but how marginalized they are in the world.
Omar's death didn't even make the paper.
And it's all over in two episodes.
Priceless moment: the fear in Snoop and Chris's eyes when Michael tells them about Omar's latest move on their corner.
Priceless moment 2: Mcnulty as the Forensic guy read him the profile that screamed "Mcnulty"
My man Tyler said he wants to start a support group for those saddened by the loss of Omar Little.I plan on bringing the coffee.
I was sitting in my office with no clients and nothing on the agenda.I knew that just a few blocks away Mr. Barack Obama would be giving his Cincinnati Rally.I decided to skip out of work for a few hours and check out what the man had to say.
I have to say, it was AWESOME.The man is amazing to see in person. He has this charisma, this way about him that makes him irresistible.It is hard to not love the guy.It was a journey to get to him, having to weave my way to the back of an incredibly long line of perspective supporters, only to rush to the front where my sister had met with a friend near the doors.I was able to get in at least an hour than I would have had I been waiting in my original spot.I gave a running commentary of the events as they transpired.If you were in my cell phone and in my confidence you probably got a series of text messages from me about my trepidations and my excitement.I forgot my camera, which burned me to no end.I had to rely on my sister who brought hers.
They blared music, from John Legend to straight up hand clapping soul Gospel music.Part of me wanted the man to come out to a Little John Instrumental.Sure it would cost him a good fraction of his demographic base but think of how that would endear him to me.
My sis and I got in and got great seats 10 rows from the floor and waited about an hour and a half for the man to come out.We got in around one and he didn't actually come up until 2:30 or so. We waited through the warm ups and the local gov. agents.The Ohio Treasurer spoke about his support, followed by Janine Rucker, and lastly Mayor Mark Mallory, who finally revealed his endorsement as a Super Delegate was going to the good Senator from Illinois.
Obama talked for about an hour about the Health Care system, and the War, and his plans for hope and change.He was very engrossing, up there, this thin man with a loud voice and a bit of youthful mischief in his smile.I was totally in love with this man, who stood there and enraptured the crowd.It was easy to understand the way people speak of him and think of him.
I was impressed by the big show.It was my first rally, and I really brought the whole Democracy in action bit hook line and sinker.It made me really believe in the whole thing, that people do this all the time, and believe in it.It was uplifting, man I tell you, if there was Kool-aid, I'd be worried, they really draw you in with the crowds and the chants.
Blogging from the top of 2008
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Life
Blogging from the top of 2008
Man, so I have been at this blogging thing for quite a while, and lately I have been slowing down a bit because my online time is spent working on the production of content for my company Hallboy Comics, and its parent company Hall Productions.We have a lot on the works, which means many more hats for me to wear.
I have a web lit venture coming down the pike this spring and some interesting product ventures coming for the summer convention season.I realize there are things going on that I've forgotten to share.I am involved in some professional organizations, and although I thought it would mean a shift in my personal schemas it fits rather nicely into the person I have made myself at thirty.
It still trips me out to say that.I am a thirty year old man.I have been since November.I forgot to get my tags renewed and so I walked into the place last Tuesday and the young girl there practically laughed in my face when I said "I forgot."She pulled her friend from the back and told her how inept I was, which I found a little embarrassing, and would have had a fit about in my early twenties.Now I am a little older and less embarrassed by what people think of me.I have a lot of plates in the air, so when one drops I don't feel too bad.There are a few of them I really have to keep an eye on, others can fall as they may.
In spending so much time with professionals, doctors and the like, I have noticed that this is how they balance professional notoriety.My mentors name is in books as a preeminent source on substance abusing children and African American identity issues, and she is a lady who got momentarily trapped in a hallway because she forgot her keys.
I do not mention this to insult her in any way.I love the woman like a surrogate mother who, instead of being given charge of my emotional and physical development is instead given the responsibility of forming my rough shoddy edges of my ambitions into a bankable career path.That is no small feat and I always joke about how insane I would be to have a fraction of her schedule on my plate.Not surprisingly I do have a fraction of her schedule, and I find myself in a similar boat of "absent minded professorship"which isn't too far from where I started out, as my parents have been calling me the "absent minded professor" since my early teens.
In many ways I see my mentor's frailties in the same way I see my mother's, as this individual who was in charge of lives, who lived her life in a rush of selfless motivations and considerations that helped to forge my identify who is still human, and makes very simple human mistakes.With age these mistakes become more apparent as the curtain is pulled back and I move into similar arenas.Things I was judgmental of in my teens now becomes simply the result of human interaction as I find myself in a similar place in my own life.
Take for instance my parent's marriage, which I won't go into too much detail about, but was always, like most marriages I suspect, a series of conflicts and magical family moments that fills me with this hope that two people can be in love despite the murk of life.Now that I am thirty, and married myself I find myself facing similar challenges that come with meeting and then cohabitating with another individual, and all that this teaches you about that person, and yourself in the process.Marriage is not easy, but it is a dance of human interaction in which the self and the other must merge, and that will breed conflict.And yet I am in, and committed to the future of this thing I entered into, this contract with god and family to be with this woman through her flaws, and my own.Now, in this perspective, my parent's flaws seem understandable in the context, if not completely forgivable.Hey they had a lot on their plates and they were way younger than I am now.I could not have imagined hitching myself to Nicole 10 years ago when we first met, like my parents did.Although I sought to avoid their mistakes as much as possible, it seems that I in fact committed more than a few, I just didn't have the banner of a marriage to do it under.
Similarly my professional career has been of late me endearing myself to some prominent African American professionals in the area, as well as placing myself in officer positions in a few groups and gaining opportunity to use both my psychology, and my Hall Productions hats.It has been an interesting marriage of my two halves, which has been part of my nefarious plot all along.And so as dreams become fulfilled I have put the resources at my disposal into the pot and stirred up more work for myself, and soon the world will see what I have been capable of all along.Cue the villainous laughter…
This ended up being way more revealing and vulnerable than I intended, like a therapy session that starts in one place and ends up in another. Much like in that show "In Treatment" on HBO, which is a phenomenal show on the human experience, even if the therapist "Paul" is not a particularly spectacular therapist much of the time.
The bottom line: I am getting older, and a little wiser incrementally, and I am making some very interesting mistakes that I consider part of the process of filling your head with all of that experiential wisdom.And in this growth spurt of mine I am curious to what comes next, and plunging into new opportunities that place me in more than a few people's scopes.
So that is me, at the tip of 2008.I am in the thick of it all, and my thesis is chugging along, and my family is doing great, and I think this whole thing actually seems to sufficiently answer that "how's marriage treating you" question, along with the "How is the school thing going," question.
adventurous
ecstatic
blessed
impressed
restless
accomplished