How much are you worth?

I finally watched Hostel last night. Can I just say… “Dude, that just isn’t fucking right! That is some seriously fuck up shit!” And as I am watching it I’m thinking to myself...

[“The possibilities of something like this actually happening? Scarily, yes…”]

[Shudders just thinking about it]

The premise is plausible. Two buddies decide to backpack across Europe. They meet up with another fellow traveler while in France, continuing to travel across Europe together. While in Amsterdam they meet a guy who tells them about a hostel in Slovakia that is just crawling with hot gorgeous babes just looking to fuck tourists. Of course being the typical single minded, penis head ruling horny young men that ALL men are, they all head off in the direction of this hostel. When they get there, everything is too good to be true. The trio finds that the hostel was everything and more of what they expected.

Then one by one they are never seen again, except for one. He later comes to find that the hostel is just a front for Elite Hunting. A provider of services catering to people who pay to live out their sick, twisted, demented fantasies of torturing and killing people.

$5,000 - Local
$10,000 - European
$25,000 – American

Now how’s that for a back packing vacation across Europe that you’ll never forget! Well, that is...if you live to tell about it.

Do you have your doubts? It’s only a movie right? Yes, I am fully aware that this is just a movie, however it is a movie based on actual similar happenings. Life imitates art as art imitates life, my friend, and this is a sick and twisted world we live in. Just think, I only thought about how possible this is but there are actually people out there that not only think about it, but act on it, and participate in it…

After all, we live in world that spawned Hitler, Hannibal Lecter, Jeffrey Dahlmer, etc…you get my drift. They just got caught…

How much are you worth?
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Empire Records

“Empire Records, open 'til midnight, this is Mark.
[pause] Midnight.”

I can't explain why I like this movie so much. This is one of those movies that I can let play over and over and over all day; which I have and am in the process of doing again. The soundtrack alone allows me to tolerate this repetitiveness and the fact that… Com’mon, you all know…

It’s Rex Manning day!

"Oh, Rexy, you're so sexy!"



The greatest scene:
Joe: [after Lucas enters] Lucas!
Lucas: Joe!
Joe: Where's the money?
Lucas: Joe, the money is gone.
Joe: Yeah, I know it's gone... but where's it gone to?
Lucas: Atlantic City.
Joe: Atlantic City?... Is it coming back from Atlantic City?
Lucas: [nervous laugh] Oh, I don't think so, Joe.
Joe: What's it doing in Atlantic City, Lucas?
Lucas: ...Recirculating.
Joe: Recirculating?
Lucas: Yeah.
[Joe knocks the donation cup that Lucas was carrying out of his hands and grabs his arm]
Joe: Lucas, listen to me. I told Mitchell Beck that you forgot to deposit the money. I told Mitchell that the money was still here.
Lucas: Joe, that's not true. It's in Atlantic City... I swear.
Joe: Shut up, sit down, and don't you move.
Lucas: [sitting down] It could be in other cities by now...
Joe: Oh, shut up! Under no circumstances do I want you to leave that couch... unless it's to get me $9000, and then you bring it here to me, okay?
Lucas: Okay. You know, I think things are gonna be all right now, Joe.
Joe: Oh? And what makes you think that.
Lucas: Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.
[nodding]
Lucas: Mmhmm!
Joe: ...What a moron.

Music:
The Dirt Clods – “Can’t Stop Losing Myself” & “Hey Joe”
The Cruel Sea – “The Honeymoon Is Over”
Noah Stone – “Dark and Brooding”
Quicksand – “Torn In My Side”
Sacrilicious – “I Don’t Know Why”
Real – “Real”
Ac/DC – “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)
Throwing Muses – “Snakeface”
Fill Tilt Gonzo – “Candy”
The Cranberries – “Liar” & “Now”
Peg Boy – “Hardlight”
Daniel Johnston – “Rock n Roll/EGA”
Fig Dish – “Chew Toy”
Fitz of Depression – “Power Shack”
Loose Diamonds – “Backdown Blues”
Mouth Music – “Tomorrow” & “Infinity”
Billy White Trio – “Surround You”
The Adolescents – “L.A. Girl”
Dead Hot Workshop – “Vinyl Advice”
Queen Sarah Saturday – “Seems”
Suicidal Tendencies – “I Shot The Devil”
Poster Children – “She Walks”
Sybil Vane – “Sorry”
Please – “Here It Comes Again”
Evan Dando – “The Ballad of El Goodo
Cyote Shivers – “Sugarhigh”
The Buggles – “Video Killed The Radio Star”
Ass Pony – “Little Bastard”
Dishwalla – “Counting Blue Cars”
Dire Straits – “Romeo and Juliet”
Gwar – “Saddam-a-go-go”
Sponge – “Plowed”
The The – “This Is The Day”
Drill – “What You Are”
Cracker – “Whole Lotta Trouble”
Gin Blossoms – “Till I Hear From You”
The Meices – “Ready Steady Go”
Lustre – “Nice Overalls”
Ape Hangers – “I Don’t Want To Live Today”
Edwyn Collins – “A Girl Like You”
The Martinis – “Free”
Toad The Wet Sprocket – “Crazy Life”
The Innocence Mission – “Bright As Yellow”
Better Than Ezra – “Circle Of Friends”
Flying Lizards – “Money (That’s What I Want)”

The fact that I even took the time to write all this just shows you how bored I am. Not to mention that it’s too damn hot outside (as high as 92° today!) to do anything. I seriously need to get a life!

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Jane Says

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love
could ever induce me into matrimony.
~ Pride and Prejudice

I finally received Pride and Prejudice and watched it Friday night. You know the one, the most recent adaptation with Keira Knightly. Having already seen the best adaptation ever, in my opinion, of A&E’s 1995 mini series, this new version doesn’t even compare. There was just too much left out of the movie, and I really didn’t find many of the characters believable in their roles. With exception to Dame Judi Dench (she nailed Lady Catherine de Bourg) and Brenda Blethyn. Yet, I was still drawn in by the story; I could not help but be. I love these hopelessly romantic stories. The little girl in me still believes in the fairytale of true love, ever after and all that crap. That is not to say that the woman in me doesn’t, even through all the jadedness, she’s just a little more rational and realistic.

After watching Pride and Prejudice I ended up having a Jane Austen movie marathon this weekend. Seeing as I own Sense and Sensibility and Emma (I’ve got Mansfield Park too, but excluded it), I figured why not. I’d just overdose on hopeless romantic nostalgic notions of maybe one day; I too, will finally be united with my true love. It’s enough really to make one want to puke, myself included!

However, how can ones self deny the indulgence a little girl of her dreams…


Great Literature

I do have to say, that as many books as I have read, Jane Austen has not been one of them. While I was in school I refused to take any of the English literature classes that probably would have introduced me to all the great literature. Instead I took the literature class that focused on mythology. I was very much into mythology my sophomore year, I just wish that the teacher was a good one. She made this subject extremely uninteresting for me, I even went so far as to not complete a single assignment nor take any of the tests. All my papers consisted of my Name, class, period, and date. I kid you not. Needless to say I got an F in that class.

It was right as the second semester of that year ended that I got expelled from high school. I was in violation of my contract that I had signed, at our previous school mind you (San Leandro used to have a few high schools. There was San Leandro High, Pacific High, and Marina High. Marina was the first to close, and then a year or two after Pacific was closed. Depending on where we lived within the limits of San Leandro we were all dispersed to either San Leandro High or Arroyo in San Lorenzo. I was of the Pacific High Vikings.), and therefore was expelled from SLH and sent to Lincoln. Or as we all called it, Lincoln Tech. Lincoln is a continuation school where all the misfits are transferred to, or where transfers from other states or countries had to go to catch up with their class if they showed to be behind.

I eventually dropped out of high school altogether that same year. Lincoln was not challenging enough for me; I was bored and didn’t have the patience to sit it out until the next year when I could have been transferred back to SLH. The only reason why I got kick out of SLH in the first place was because I stubbornly refused to do any of the work in all of my classes, except for my art class and math for some reason. It mainly had to do with having to be at SLH and having most of the SLH teachers; Viking pride. I know it sounds silly, but my mom and both my uncle’s are Valhalla alumni, and the whole high school rivalry between the Vikings and the Pirates (SLH). As much as I defied high school I had Viking pride.

So lacking the formal high school education which most likely would have included me reading much of the works from some of the best writers in literature history, I now find myself seeking these books out when I go to used book stores or the retail chains. Next on my list of must read I will have to include the complete works of Jane Austen.