Yay! It's finally that time of year. The leaves are falling, it's getting a little cooler, and the pharmacy's are full of Halloween decorations and mini, bite-sized candies. This is and has always been my favorite time of year. I'm hoping to dress up again this year for Halloween, but I'm not sure as what yet.
I know it's been a little while since my last post, sorry for the long delay, it's just that I've been working so much overtime lately that I have such little free time. When I do have some time, I'm glued to the web-site (ESPN not Blogger) or the TV trying to get a leg up on fantasy football.
In other news, Rita the latest hurrican has swept through the gulf coast, this time hitting mostly Texas, and only slightly flooding New Orleans. What have we learned these past few weeks from these hurricanes?
1. Mother Nature is berserk, it is very rare for 2 category 4 storms or higher to hit the mainland in the same year.
2. The Mayor and Governor of Louisiana are complete idiots. One is a perp and the other plain incompetent in all matters concerning governing except one - how to point the finger.
3. The low income class of New Orleans is probably thinking they've just hit the lotto. A big chunk of them are on government assistance anyway, so it's not like they worked long and hard to save up for anything they might have lost, now with the hurricane, they've got a fresh start. Free money, no record (no id, no record) and tons of support around the world for these leeches on society.
4. Bush has no balls. I can't beleive he came out and took the blame for that. He fired Brown, who fucking cares about Brown? Make Nagin and whatever her name is (governor) get fully embarrassed and own up to their negligence!
Ok, enough about Louisiana and Texas, to the people that are hard-working and deserving of our aid, our thoughts are with you. To the crooks that suck the blood and soul out of our society, may you drown in feces filled sewage.
Gadget news. NYC Police Department now has a PODCAST!Click on NYPD Website Ok, I can understand ESPN, 1010wins and such having a podcast, but the Police Department? That's very interesting, now you can hear about street closings on your own personal MP3 player - Yippee! Get the fuck out of here. Spend that money, time and research getting standardized, working radios, or maybe even RIM pagers (warrant checks, important info, etc) now that would be something!
TREO Joins M$FT. The Treo smartphone (same one I have) have stiffed their old operating system, the Palm OS and have switched over to the Windows platform. What does this means? Well right now, very little as the new phone won't be out until sometime next year. Windows has always been more multimedia friendly, a little prettier and sometimes more impressive. It works with Word, Excel and the majority of the office suite right out of the box, and now has integreted "push" email, like the Blackberry's have. You can watch movies and videos using Windows Media Player (WMP) and need not download 3rd party software. That sounds nice, but you are giving up the ease and simplicity of the Palm. Yes it usually has less memory and a slower processer, but that's because the software that runs on Palm needs less to make it work well, it is more efficient. It's easier to use and has a much quicker learning curve. More programs are written for it and above all, it works with Macs as well as Windows machines. The new phone running Windows sure does look pretty, but I think I'll wait until the new Palm version comes out. Which hopefully they make one. You should hope so too, cause remember that even if you don't like Palm, without competition, we all lose. The more companies try to make a similar product the more choice we have, the lower the price and the faster the turnaround for next generation models. Now all I need is to win the lotto to pay for all these new gadgets....
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005
Gas prices!!!
It may be hard to see, but this is what it costs me to fill up my tank these days. Over fifty fucking dollars, someone should be impeached or fired for this horseshit. It's getting out of hand, I'm ready to start riding my vacuum cleaner to work if it'll save me money.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Mamaroneck Playhouse 4
I made a stop by my old neighborhood over the weekend. One of my stops during that time was to the old Mamaroneck Playhouse 4, over on Mamaroneck ave. This place has a lot of memories as it was the place of my first job, that was not family owned. I remember I was only 16 at the time, and I wasn't sure if they'd hire me being so young. I worked there until I graduated highschool and went off to college.
The place has a lot of history of it's own, even before I made it there. Before it was a movie theater, it was a literal playhouse, with stages and dressing rooms and no big silver screen. Once it was converted the rooms in the back went mostly unused and my friends and I used to wander around there, scaring the crap out of each other. It would be a great place for a scray movie. Now the managers at the time were pretty fucked up individuals themselves, but we sure had a lot of fun.
On hot summer days, we'd get a keg and go hang out in the back rooms getting drunk and throwing on boxing gloves then beating the shit out each other. One night a whole bunch of us got drunk and threw on boxing gloves, then a big fat mexican guy and me beat the crap out of each other. At the tender age of 16 I learned 2 things.
1.Mexicans love the sport of boxing only second to their love of soccer.
2.I fight much better when I'm not drunk.
These are 2 lessons that have served me well throughout the rest of my life.
Now that was litereally half a lifetime ago, and what brought me back to the theater was it's bargain prices. A regular movie at night is $7 a ticket! That's like 1990 prices! So 2 tickets here is only a little more expensive then 1 in Manhattan. A matinee, which they define as a showing before 6pm (no one does that anymore, at best, it's the first showing of the day) costs a rock-bottom price of $4.50.
As I walk in, I see the theater has barely changed, other then the staff and some new posters, it's nearly the same as it was 15 years ago. My buddy, who's known me since elementary school chuckles, then reminds me of the time I had to dress up like a cowboy during the "Back to the Future III" promotion. Somehow, my subconcious has blocked that painfull memory from me. I do however remember sneaking in friends to see Batman, Home Alone, Total Recall, among other movies back then.
The movie that we decided to see? "The Transporter 2". What a piece of crap you say? Ok, well, lets call a spade a spade. This movie isn't going to win any Oscars anytime soon, but you know what, if you go into thinking you are ready for some mindless, hookey, really ridiculous action, then you're going to love it. Now let me warn you, there is some pretty fucking really retarded stuff in this movie and a real lack of T&A, unless you count that skanky ematiated stripper/assassin. It seems as if Jakie Chans choreagrapher has lent his expertise here, but one main differance is that Chan and even Jet Li really go out of there way to show you their moves, so you can pratically feel it. In Jason Strathams fight scenes, it's so fast and so chopped up, you really don't see anything. It's reminiscient of Matt Damon's fight scenes in his "Jason Bourne" movies, but not as good. One other complaint, they go through great lengths to display the fighting prowess of the badguy. I mean he has the classic rich guy beats up on the gang of hired henchman who wait patiently in a circle while he preforms martial arts moves on one after the other (also used by bad guys in "The Karate Kid", "Rapid Fire", "The Octagon", "Enter the Dragon" among others). After showing what a badass he is, you can't wait until the final show down, which in this movie was a bit of a disappointment... Anyway, good car scenes (great car), decent fighting and a really lame-o story line. It's still a good time, just keep saying to yourself "it's only a movie, it's only a movie!"
The place has a lot of history of it's own, even before I made it there. Before it was a movie theater, it was a literal playhouse, with stages and dressing rooms and no big silver screen. Once it was converted the rooms in the back went mostly unused and my friends and I used to wander around there, scaring the crap out of each other. It would be a great place for a scray movie. Now the managers at the time were pretty fucked up individuals themselves, but we sure had a lot of fun.
On hot summer days, we'd get a keg and go hang out in the back rooms getting drunk and throwing on boxing gloves then beating the shit out each other. One night a whole bunch of us got drunk and threw on boxing gloves, then a big fat mexican guy and me beat the crap out of each other. At the tender age of 16 I learned 2 things.
1.Mexicans love the sport of boxing only second to their love of soccer.
2.I fight much better when I'm not drunk.
These are 2 lessons that have served me well throughout the rest of my life.
Now that was litereally half a lifetime ago, and what brought me back to the theater was it's bargain prices. A regular movie at night is $7 a ticket! That's like 1990 prices! So 2 tickets here is only a little more expensive then 1 in Manhattan. A matinee, which they define as a showing before 6pm (no one does that anymore, at best, it's the first showing of the day) costs a rock-bottom price of $4.50.
As I walk in, I see the theater has barely changed, other then the staff and some new posters, it's nearly the same as it was 15 years ago. My buddy, who's known me since elementary school chuckles, then reminds me of the time I had to dress up like a cowboy during the "Back to the Future III" promotion. Somehow, my subconcious has blocked that painfull memory from me. I do however remember sneaking in friends to see Batman, Home Alone, Total Recall, among other movies back then.
The movie that we decided to see? "The Transporter 2". What a piece of crap you say? Ok, well, lets call a spade a spade. This movie isn't going to win any Oscars anytime soon, but you know what, if you go into thinking you are ready for some mindless, hookey, really ridiculous action, then you're going to love it. Now let me warn you, there is some pretty fucking really retarded stuff in this movie and a real lack of T&A, unless you count that skanky ematiated stripper/assassin. It seems as if Jakie Chans choreagrapher has lent his expertise here, but one main differance is that Chan and even Jet Li really go out of there way to show you their moves, so you can pratically feel it. In Jason Strathams fight scenes, it's so fast and so chopped up, you really don't see anything. It's reminiscient of Matt Damon's fight scenes in his "Jason Bourne" movies, but not as good. One other complaint, they go through great lengths to display the fighting prowess of the badguy. I mean he has the classic rich guy beats up on the gang of hired henchman who wait patiently in a circle while he preforms martial arts moves on one after the other (also used by bad guys in "The Karate Kid", "Rapid Fire", "The Octagon", "Enter the Dragon" among others). After showing what a badass he is, you can't wait until the final show down, which in this movie was a bit of a disappointment... Anyway, good car scenes (great car), decent fighting and a really lame-o story line. It's still a good time, just keep saying to yourself "it's only a movie, it's only a movie!"
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