Oct. 10 Fun: After work ended at 3pm, I went and did a little shopping like HMV and Coles Bookstore. I read in some psychology magazine that when you go to the doctor for a checkup, they will ask you how many friends and family you have. How often you spend time with them.
If you spend a lot of time with them, you will be happier and healthier, and live longer. I heard of that before. Then I went to Sorrentino's to hang out with Justin. I tried out the Bacino that they advertised. It's a coffee with whip cream and chocolate fudge on it. I was there for about an hour and a half.
I asked Justin about the Stats Canada job and when I applied there either this year or last year, they said some shifts end at 11pm.
J: Well more like 10pm the last time I was there. It was very demoralizing.
Me: How so?
J: I call people up and some refuse right at the beginning. If they say yes, then the survey is half an hour long. Then I have to call some houses and some are a family of twelve so I have to talk to all of them.
J says he likes music like house and trance (Tiesto) and rap, hip hop, r&b. He told me he bought a car a few weeks ago because he couldn't take the bus anymore after 5 years. A few months ago there was this guy talking and being rude on the bus. J then goes to the busdriver, told him about it, then tells the guy off and telling him that he's racist. Then the ETS police were going to come.
J then gets off because he doesn't want to deal with it. Walks a couple of stops over, and the same bus comes.
Me: Does the audience cheer?
J: Well some of the passengers thanked me.
Me: So in a way they cheered.
lol.
Oct. 11 Actor: I was watching a little of Bring it On: All or Nothing during the commercial breaks of Desperate Housewives. I see Adrian from the crappy TV show Secret Life of the American Teenager.
Sonia: I called up my friends yesterday, and one called back. My friend Sonia whom I met back in 2004 when I was working at the $1 Store. I even remember the last time I saw her. It was back in fall 2008 when she bought chicken noodle soup from my job. Anyway, she's working at a nursing home and gets paid $30/hr.
She's actually using her nursing degree she got from MacEwan.Four years of hard work does pay off. Though she mentions that she has a cousin who's a nurse and gets paid $35/hr. Anyway, she talked about how it was a stressful job because the people's lives are in her hands. Well that's what you get when you major in medicine.
Rant: Here's a mild rant. Sonia says she doesn't check her email that often. Like once a week. She's not really on Facebook either so she doesn't really know all the stuff that's going on with me. Well we do have our lives to live.
As usual, my life revolves around TV. On the TV show The Hills, it's like they're always spending so much time with their friends and going out. It's the editing. Who wants to watch people work? In my life, I don't usually get to see my friends or talk to them. I get my weekly emails out to keep in touch with them. I check Facebook here and there. It's very little phone time and face time.
USB key: It was pretty funny the other day. I was watching Conan O'Brien and they aired this Intel commercial about the guy who co- invented the USB key. It's an East Indian guy named Ajay Bhiout (I'm not quite sure about the name.) In the commercial the Intel people are cheering for him like he's a rockstar.
My brother Patrick and I were watching it because we were interested in it. We're not interested in computers, but it is quite impressive to co- create a USB key. If it wasn't for that, we would still be using 3.5 floppy disks that only hold 1.44MB per disk. It sells like $10 for a box of 10. A USB key that holds 128 MB, is for $30 so that's a great deal.
Conan did a little parody of the commercial, but with the real inventor wearing a T- shirt that says: "I invented the USB key" and he goes up to girls and says that.
Joke: I was watching The Cleveland Show and Cleveland and his son Cleveland Jr. were driving. C then stops the car suddenly. C Jr. hits his head.
C Jr.: Dad!
Me: Wear a seat belt!
C: Wear a damn seat belt!
We both said it unison. Well I did notice that C was wearing one, and C Jr. wasn't. lol.
Oct. 12 Friends: I was talking to my friend Angela on the phone for an hour last night. She said that I sounded upset in my email. I told her, Sonia, Jennifer, and Sherry about it, so I might as well tell you guys. I lent my ex- boyfriend money to pay his rent way back at the beginning of the year. I talked to him on an IM chat, and realized he will probably never pay me back.
Angela says what I was thinking: "It's a lesson learned. When you lend someone money, know the chance that you may not get it back." I know that, but I'm still mad. Well right now, I'm at a simmer. I remember way back in 2002, I was listening to this SNL sketch with Toby MacGuire, and they did a whole joke using the phrase "Simmer down now." It was a popular phrase back in 2000.
A also says: "It's not just about getting over it, but moving on." I know. The only way I can do that is to be more of a cheapskate than I already am. Also avoid things that get me angry. Charities who keep calling me for donations. I turn them down. I kept track of my donations and donated hundreds of dollars in a few years. A says she donates $30/ month to Red Cross.
Writing: I'm kind of hitting writer's block. I got the characters and what they want, but now I have to write the illegal job. It's about breaking and entering. I'm thinking of the old TV show Dark Angel. In the first season Max does a lot of that. Well there is lots of suspense and drama if she will get caught. If she does get caught, there is most likely a fight or chase scene which is action.
Also why does she break in? I remember one ep, she drives by the Sector Police and they stop her. They then break her back light of her motorcycle, and confiscate it. She tries to get it back legally, but then she ends up stealing it back. In the pilot, she goes from one building to another. It's in the opening credits where she's wearing a wire, and flies from one building to the next. Then she breaks into the penthouse to steal something, but gets caught by the character Logan. That's how they meet up.
In the mini- series Guns, at the end of the first part, a group of 4 guys rob an old couple to get guns. The old man gets shot. There is drama, tension, and action. I also thought an illegal job as a hacker. I read a bit in this issue's Reader's Digest about a guy who crashed websites like Yahoo. Then I thought about the movie Ocean's Eleven about a group of people with their talents, team up to do a heist.
It also reminded me of the short- lived TV show Heist back in 2006. I went on imdb.com and it only had 7 eps. It got good ratings on the site. I remembered thinking that the font with diamonds, and gold around it was the same font on the reality TV show Growing up Gotti. It was about big mob boss John Gotti's daughter Victoria Gotti raising her 3 teenage sons.
Reading: Well I spent a good hour and a half reading the newspapers I have. I look at fliers and pictures, looking for inspiration.
Good: Today Giles Panton emailed me back. He's the guy, I'm trying to get into my movie. He said he has to pass this onto his agent first, and needs to think about it for a couple more weeks. That's okay. What was also really good, was that last week I pitched my script to this company- again. I did 6 months ago, he read it, he rejected it.
I told him about how I took his advice, and other professionals' advice on it. He emailed me back saying that he would give me a chance.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
funny/ news/ coincidences
Oct. 6 Funny: I was watching this reality TV show Disaster Date, and it was funny. It also inspired me to write. Well the show is about how someone sets up their friend on a really bad blind date. For every minute they last on it, they get $1 per min. It's up to $60 for an hour.
Patrick and I were watching it.
Me: I would never set up my friend to go on a bad blind date, but I would do it to my sister.
P kind of cracked a smile at it, but he won't admit it was funny. lol.
The friend knows what her friend who's getting the trick played on hates, and the date does all the bad things. Everybody at the place is an actor. This guy Jeff is out on a date, and he annoys this girl by saying that "she shops on a budget." The girl says: "This stuff is super- expensive." Oh yeah, I should get a guy to say that to S. lol.
Or say something like how she doesn't seem very smart. That would annoy the hell out of S, like ask: "So what school did you go to? NAIT?" I am inspired to write about how a girl goes on bad blind date, and the guy totally misreads her. I know if you look at S, she is very professional and well- dressed. How could anyone get misconceptions about her?
I do have to say I like Jeff. He's handsome in a preppy, clean cut, kind of a geek way. He seems bookish even without glasses. He was a waiter in another date and he wore glasses. He kind of looks like Aaron from Gossip Girl. However, I never found A really attractive at all. They both have the same shape of face, but different hair.
Jokes: Basically if I am to annoy S, I would have to find a male version of me who says stupid- but funny things. Tell jokes that S does find funny, but wouldn't admit to it like: "So the other day I bought a box of condoms... because my last one was expired."
Or the other time my family and I were having dinner.
S (to P): If it wasn't for me, you would still be wearing sweatpants.
Me: I used to wear sweatpants up until I was in gr.9. I also wore suspenders too, so people won't pull them down.
S uses her bowl and chopsticks to cover her mouth to hide her laughter.
S: Where's that from?
Me: Street Cents. The host Andrew Bush was ranting about these Levi Jeans saying: "These jeans have yellow lines in the back pockets that don't do anything. Cargo pants have these huge pockets so you can put a bunch of stuff in them. I used to wear sweatpants up until I was in gr.9. I also wore suspenders too, so people wont' pull them down."
Oct. 7 News: I read in 24 today that: "Youth unemployment rose from 10.7% in Jan. 2008- 16.3% this summer." That reminded me of summer 2007 where I went job hopping.
There's a huge earthquake in Indonesia and thousands are dead. There doesn't seem to be a lot of coverage about that.
Remember Mark Twitchell? That amateur filmmaker who acted out his script by pretending to be a woman and luring a guy to his garage. The he kills him. Well he showed up in court yesterday.
I read in the Metro yesterday: Did you hear about the Artificial Virginity Hymen kit from China, costs $30? In the Middle East it's sold to fool husbands into thinking their wives are virgins. They believe that a woman is not a virgin unless they bleed the first time. "The product bleeds a blood- like substance when inserted and broken." The Conservative Egyptian lawmakers are banning these kits.
There are also a medical procedure to reattach your broken hymen, but that's illegal too.
Stupid criminals: I read this in 24 about how 3 guys beat up a taxi cab driver and got him to drop them at an apartment building, where one of the guys lived in. That is so stupid, so they got caught.
I might as well throw this one in. There are 2 intruders who broke into the Calgary Zoo and they were attacked by a tiger. The lesson is, do not break into zoos because animals can attack you.
Weird: I read in 24 that Amy Jo Johnson from Flashpoint is 39 years old. She looks like she's in her 20s. Maybe early 30s. Or maybe it's because I've seen her as the Pink Power Ranger, and that's all I see her as someone who's young.
There is a study in the journal Motivation and Emotion said that little irritants like talking with your mouthful can be a romance enhancer. Participants asked about their 2nd biggest pet peeve about their partner showed an increase in liking them. Their partner's largest flaw experienced a decrease.
Rant: Another thing is about two polygamist leaders from Bountiful cult being arrested. It is a "fundamentalist Mormon community." Harold Blackmore quit the cult, and said: "The more wives (the men) have, the more children and the more welfare." What's weird is there is a correlation between this and Maury.
I mean that teenage girl on Maury who wants to get pregnant and say: "I'm going to have a baby and all of you guys are going to pay for it." The cult gets me angrier because there are dozens of kids of there, and all my tax money is going to it. At least with one teen girl, it's usually only one baby. Unless Maury intervenes and prevents it from happening.
Coincidence: A coincidence is that earlier this week I was watching Lie to Me, and the subplot is Jillian and Loker go to a polygamist place to find out if they're taking advantage of the govt. money. They have 30 houses there, and they are listed as churches so that they could get money from the govt.
There was a happy ending. J calls this place and gets the mom, and her four kids out of the compound. The leader was mad and says to J: You made a big mistake."
Me: What are you going to do? Kick my ass?
Oct. 8 Feelings: I am still kind of angry. I have this residual effect on me. Right now I could go and get angry again, but I'm going to avoid it. Why? Because I'm going to watch good TV shows that bring me up to a good mood. The shows are The Vampire Diaries, Flash Forward, and The Mentalist.
Let's focus on the positive. My mom and grandma has been nice to me in washing the dinner dishes for me. I usually do them most nights, but I don't have to because of my hands. I have this xzema (I don't know about the spelling) on my hands.
Southland: In other news Southland got canceled. It had a good first season because it debuted mid- season. However, it has been decreasing in ratings. Then today I read that they produced 6 episodes for the 2nd season, and they got canceled because it was too "gritty and dark." That's what I would say.
There are TV shows I watch like Criminal Minds and Law and Order: SVU, but it is not filmed like Southland is. This show seems more real and not scripted.
Writing: In between my break from the TV shows tonight, I put in a good hour and typed up what I had written on my old MacEwan agenda. I then piled the Rain script together and got 21 pages for now. It's a coincidence, I was going through my notes yesterday and I read Conni's questions about why these 2 people are together. Why are they a couple? What attracts them together? What makes you root for them?
Those questions were for my Garret script. I then applied those questions on my Rain script. The coincidence is that Conni emailed me today and commented about my outline. She liked the idea, and she pointed out there was no ending. I haven't figured it out yet.
Oct. 9: Those are really good questions. I actually have Rain fall in love with the bad guy. The bad guy could redeem himself in the story. Or maybe she should go with the funny sidekick.
Song: You know how earlier this week I thought about that song called "All I Have" by Jennifer Lopez and LL Cool J? What a weird coincidence is that I was listening to the radio and someone requested that song. It's weird because that song is from 2002, and I thought of it.
Saying: Psychic Miki says: "There is no perfect timing for anything unless you create it."
Patrick and I were watching it.
Me: I would never set up my friend to go on a bad blind date, but I would do it to my sister.
P kind of cracked a smile at it, but he won't admit it was funny. lol.
The friend knows what her friend who's getting the trick played on hates, and the date does all the bad things. Everybody at the place is an actor. This guy Jeff is out on a date, and he annoys this girl by saying that "she shops on a budget." The girl says: "This stuff is super- expensive." Oh yeah, I should get a guy to say that to S. lol.
Or say something like how she doesn't seem very smart. That would annoy the hell out of S, like ask: "So what school did you go to? NAIT?" I am inspired to write about how a girl goes on bad blind date, and the guy totally misreads her. I know if you look at S, she is very professional and well- dressed. How could anyone get misconceptions about her?
I do have to say I like Jeff. He's handsome in a preppy, clean cut, kind of a geek way. He seems bookish even without glasses. He was a waiter in another date and he wore glasses. He kind of looks like Aaron from Gossip Girl. However, I never found A really attractive at all. They both have the same shape of face, but different hair.
Jokes: Basically if I am to annoy S, I would have to find a male version of me who says stupid- but funny things. Tell jokes that S does find funny, but wouldn't admit to it like: "So the other day I bought a box of condoms... because my last one was expired."
Or the other time my family and I were having dinner.
S (to P): If it wasn't for me, you would still be wearing sweatpants.
Me: I used to wear sweatpants up until I was in gr.9. I also wore suspenders too, so people won't pull them down.
S uses her bowl and chopsticks to cover her mouth to hide her laughter.
S: Where's that from?
Me: Street Cents. The host Andrew Bush was ranting about these Levi Jeans saying: "These jeans have yellow lines in the back pockets that don't do anything. Cargo pants have these huge pockets so you can put a bunch of stuff in them. I used to wear sweatpants up until I was in gr.9. I also wore suspenders too, so people wont' pull them down."
Oct. 7 News: I read in 24 today that: "Youth unemployment rose from 10.7% in Jan. 2008- 16.3% this summer." That reminded me of summer 2007 where I went job hopping.
There's a huge earthquake in Indonesia and thousands are dead. There doesn't seem to be a lot of coverage about that.
Remember Mark Twitchell? That amateur filmmaker who acted out his script by pretending to be a woman and luring a guy to his garage. The he kills him. Well he showed up in court yesterday.
I read in the Metro yesterday: Did you hear about the Artificial Virginity Hymen kit from China, costs $30? In the Middle East it's sold to fool husbands into thinking their wives are virgins. They believe that a woman is not a virgin unless they bleed the first time. "The product bleeds a blood- like substance when inserted and broken." The Conservative Egyptian lawmakers are banning these kits.
There are also a medical procedure to reattach your broken hymen, but that's illegal too.
Stupid criminals: I read this in 24 about how 3 guys beat up a taxi cab driver and got him to drop them at an apartment building, where one of the guys lived in. That is so stupid, so they got caught.
I might as well throw this one in. There are 2 intruders who broke into the Calgary Zoo and they were attacked by a tiger. The lesson is, do not break into zoos because animals can attack you.
Weird: I read in 24 that Amy Jo Johnson from Flashpoint is 39 years old. She looks like she's in her 20s. Maybe early 30s. Or maybe it's because I've seen her as the Pink Power Ranger, and that's all I see her as someone who's young.
There is a study in the journal Motivation and Emotion said that little irritants like talking with your mouthful can be a romance enhancer. Participants asked about their 2nd biggest pet peeve about their partner showed an increase in liking them. Their partner's largest flaw experienced a decrease.
Rant: Another thing is about two polygamist leaders from Bountiful cult being arrested. It is a "fundamentalist Mormon community." Harold Blackmore quit the cult, and said: "The more wives (the men) have, the more children and the more welfare." What's weird is there is a correlation between this and Maury.
I mean that teenage girl on Maury who wants to get pregnant and say: "I'm going to have a baby and all of you guys are going to pay for it." The cult gets me angrier because there are dozens of kids of there, and all my tax money is going to it. At least with one teen girl, it's usually only one baby. Unless Maury intervenes and prevents it from happening.
Coincidence: A coincidence is that earlier this week I was watching Lie to Me, and the subplot is Jillian and Loker go to a polygamist place to find out if they're taking advantage of the govt. money. They have 30 houses there, and they are listed as churches so that they could get money from the govt.
There was a happy ending. J calls this place and gets the mom, and her four kids out of the compound. The leader was mad and says to J: You made a big mistake."
Me: What are you going to do? Kick my ass?
Oct. 8 Feelings: I am still kind of angry. I have this residual effect on me. Right now I could go and get angry again, but I'm going to avoid it. Why? Because I'm going to watch good TV shows that bring me up to a good mood. The shows are The Vampire Diaries, Flash Forward, and The Mentalist.
Let's focus on the positive. My mom and grandma has been nice to me in washing the dinner dishes for me. I usually do them most nights, but I don't have to because of my hands. I have this xzema (I don't know about the spelling) on my hands.
Southland: In other news Southland got canceled. It had a good first season because it debuted mid- season. However, it has been decreasing in ratings. Then today I read that they produced 6 episodes for the 2nd season, and they got canceled because it was too "gritty and dark." That's what I would say.
There are TV shows I watch like Criminal Minds and Law and Order: SVU, but it is not filmed like Southland is. This show seems more real and not scripted.
Writing: In between my break from the TV shows tonight, I put in a good hour and typed up what I had written on my old MacEwan agenda. I then piled the Rain script together and got 21 pages for now. It's a coincidence, I was going through my notes yesterday and I read Conni's questions about why these 2 people are together. Why are they a couple? What attracts them together? What makes you root for them?
Those questions were for my Garret script. I then applied those questions on my Rain script. The coincidence is that Conni emailed me today and commented about my outline. She liked the idea, and she pointed out there was no ending. I haven't figured it out yet.
Oct. 9: Those are really good questions. I actually have Rain fall in love with the bad guy. The bad guy could redeem himself in the story. Or maybe she should go with the funny sidekick.
Song: You know how earlier this week I thought about that song called "All I Have" by Jennifer Lopez and LL Cool J? What a weird coincidence is that I was listening to the radio and someone requested that song. It's weird because that song is from 2002, and I thought of it.
Saying: Psychic Miki says: "There is no perfect timing for anything unless you create it."
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
rant/ charity/ Eric Callero
Oct. 4 Rant: Let's just say today I opened a can of worms that I shouldn't have. However, I've been thinking about it for a week and I needed to get it out there. Now that I did, I got closure and can move on.
I'm really angry right now, but I must think of positive things to get over it. Here's a mild rant. I found an iTunes $15 gift card on the library's ground. I took it, and tried to redeem it, but it was already redeemed. Damn, I'm not that lucky.
Health: For the past couple of days I had a cold, but then my manager Stella gave me some pills from Hong Kong. I took them, got some sleep and I feel fine. The wart on my finger is also healing up. Every time I think of pills, I think of Heath Ledger and must be careful not to accidentally overdose. Then I was annoyed that the only health benefits I get from work are the band aids, Polysporin, and medicine from them. At least I get free food. I must be positive because this is my 16th month working there.
Charity: The other day, I woke up and then this charity for the Canadian Blind Association called for money. They buy computers for blind children. The guy did the whole song and dance as usual. Ask for $300 and then $150. Then said I donated $20 in 2007, and ask for that bare minimum. If any of you are interested in donating money to charity, donate there.
Then today I bumped into Christine who used to work at the Soup place. She was part of the Walk for Breast Cancer today. She managed to raise $35. There was a team that managed to raise $20, 000.
In the Metro, this 8 year old boy managed to raise $27, 000 "to build a ground well and a $20, 000- litre rain water collection system in southwest Ugunda."
Funny and weird: I saw Stephen Harper sing and play piano of a Beatles song on Yahoo. That was weird because it was so out of character. Not bad.
Clean: I feel so angry, I used my energy for something constructive like cleaning my room a bit, and redecorating it. I also danced to get my adrenaline and endorphins going.
I was thinking about that Jennifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J song "All I have." I find her songs often have oversimplified lyrics. LL Cool J raps: "Don't make decisions when you're mad." That's true. I threw out some papers and deleted some pictures that I don't care for anymore. I have no regrets.
News: I read in the Edmonton Journal about Nazi concentration camps actually having brothels. Jews can't use it, but the German and Austrian prisoners could. However, there wasn't much sex, they were mainly talking. The women who were forced to work there, there was some good points like they could work indoors away from the cold. I didn't learn this in school or even when Oprah talked to the guy who was a Holocaust survivor. Well there's a book out now.
In another article there is actually a sport where you're boxing somebody, and then you have to go and play chess for 4 minutes. It's really a use of the body and mind at the same time.
Writing: I'm also dealing with my anger by writing my script. Let's just say, I'm deleting a character that I based on somebody, and storyline that I have gone through.
Oct. 5 Actors: Today I was watching Gossip Girl, and Tyra Banks shows her acting chops as an actress. Of course she's on this show, because her talk show is in NY instead of LA. She's fine. Hilary Duff is also on this show for some eps, and she plays an actress. The last time I saw her was on Law and Order: SVU also shot in NY.
Weird: Today I was still in a foul mood. My horoscope told me talk it out. Well I was going to anyway and I told it to my co- worker Jennifer. It's weird because the last time I remember being angry was in fall 2006. I got a bad mark on my Eng. 101 quiz and then I started thinking about things I hate like Maury and Dr Phil. At that time I had quit watching it for about 6 months.
Now that I'm mad, I'm thinking about seeing a psychic. I always read the Ask Miki, the advice column from the psychic Miki. Even prior to the psychic Nadia I saw, I always read Miki. I like to read advice columns because whenever I get in a situation or a problem, I know what to do. Or at least help my friends and family if they have a similar problem that I read about.
I like to know someone is being helped. I guess that's why I had liked Dr Phil. And then I eventually started hating the show because they weren't really helping people. I was reading this letter to Miki today, and it's from a guy. He sounds like me.
Saying: I read this in Miki's Daily Affirmation "We cannot bring the past back to life in the future."
Oct. 6 Good: Things are looking up. Yesterday I emailed a producer who had read my script and rejected it 6 months ago. This time I told him about my updates on it. He emailed me back and asked if I had revised it. I did. I then emailed him and told him about it, trying to convince him to read it.
Job: Today this regular customer John came, and asked me about how the script is going. I told him I will have to wait until mid- Oct. before this other producer gets back to me after reading it.
This new girl Zoe was hired and she told me she has family who are producers. I asked for their names so I can look them up. One of her uncles had worked for the scary movie Ginger Snaps.
Joke: I was watching SNL and the joke was: "Winnie the Pooh got a new character which is an otter. That's because Eore finally did it.
Cut to a pic of Eore's body hanging, and a chair toppled over. That's pretty dark.
Banks: I read in the Metro that this year, 98 banks in the US has closed down.
Eric Callero: You know those vamp jokes on Conan O' Brien? The hot guy who plays the vampire Cody Devereax is Eric Callero. I went on the internet last night looking for him because he was in the 3rd sketch. It's so weird. On the show he is really pale, with eye liner. Then you go to his website and he looks very normal.
Me: Is that really him?
Check out his pics: http://www.ericcallero.com/Gallery.html
I like him better as a Goth. lol.
The joke was this:
Conan: Zombieland was the best selling movie this weekend so I hired a zombie.
Cody is standing there, and Zombie comes along.
Conan: Did you get my sandwich?
Z: Yes.
Z holds up a sub, and rips it apart.
Conan: What's wrong Cody?
Cody: If I can't get you the sandwich, what would I do?
Cody runs outside and burst into flames in the sunlight.
I then went on the internet and found him on Facebook. I sent him a friend request. Then I sent him a message with subject title: "Hey, I like you on Conan O' Brien."
Hi Eric
I really like you on Conan O' Brien. You're really funny. When I looked you up on the internet and saw you without Goth makeup on, I had a double take. I actually kind of like how you look better as a Goth.
I saw your black and white photos on your website. You kind of look like James Dean. Is that what you're going for?
Well keep up the good work.
Bye.
Tracy
Funny: Conan does this other joke.
C: It's been all over the news about a late night talk show host and his scandal. That's me and my fued with the Newark, NJ mayor.
The audience laughs. They totally mislead you to think it's David Letterman having sex with his female employees, but it's really C.
Thank a Soldier: Here's one more thing. Go to this website. It talks about a school won't let kids write to soldiers and thank them, because they would be supporting a war. They say it's really "a peacekeeping mission with conflict."
They should still be allowed to thank soldiers. Check it out:
http://thankasoldier.wordpress.com/schoolsaysno/
I'm really angry right now, but I must think of positive things to get over it. Here's a mild rant. I found an iTunes $15 gift card on the library's ground. I took it, and tried to redeem it, but it was already redeemed. Damn, I'm not that lucky.
Health: For the past couple of days I had a cold, but then my manager Stella gave me some pills from Hong Kong. I took them, got some sleep and I feel fine. The wart on my finger is also healing up. Every time I think of pills, I think of Heath Ledger and must be careful not to accidentally overdose. Then I was annoyed that the only health benefits I get from work are the band aids, Polysporin, and medicine from them. At least I get free food. I must be positive because this is my 16th month working there.
Charity: The other day, I woke up and then this charity for the Canadian Blind Association called for money. They buy computers for blind children. The guy did the whole song and dance as usual. Ask for $300 and then $150. Then said I donated $20 in 2007, and ask for that bare minimum. If any of you are interested in donating money to charity, donate there.
Then today I bumped into Christine who used to work at the Soup place. She was part of the Walk for Breast Cancer today. She managed to raise $35. There was a team that managed to raise $20, 000.
In the Metro, this 8 year old boy managed to raise $27, 000 "to build a ground well and a $20, 000- litre rain water collection system in southwest Ugunda."
Funny and weird: I saw Stephen Harper sing and play piano of a Beatles song on Yahoo. That was weird because it was so out of character. Not bad.
Clean: I feel so angry, I used my energy for something constructive like cleaning my room a bit, and redecorating it. I also danced to get my adrenaline and endorphins going.
I was thinking about that Jennifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J song "All I have." I find her songs often have oversimplified lyrics. LL Cool J raps: "Don't make decisions when you're mad." That's true. I threw out some papers and deleted some pictures that I don't care for anymore. I have no regrets.
News: I read in the Edmonton Journal about Nazi concentration camps actually having brothels. Jews can't use it, but the German and Austrian prisoners could. However, there wasn't much sex, they were mainly talking. The women who were forced to work there, there was some good points like they could work indoors away from the cold. I didn't learn this in school or even when Oprah talked to the guy who was a Holocaust survivor. Well there's a book out now.
In another article there is actually a sport where you're boxing somebody, and then you have to go and play chess for 4 minutes. It's really a use of the body and mind at the same time.
Writing: I'm also dealing with my anger by writing my script. Let's just say, I'm deleting a character that I based on somebody, and storyline that I have gone through.
Oct. 5 Actors: Today I was watching Gossip Girl, and Tyra Banks shows her acting chops as an actress. Of course she's on this show, because her talk show is in NY instead of LA. She's fine. Hilary Duff is also on this show for some eps, and she plays an actress. The last time I saw her was on Law and Order: SVU also shot in NY.
Weird: Today I was still in a foul mood. My horoscope told me talk it out. Well I was going to anyway and I told it to my co- worker Jennifer. It's weird because the last time I remember being angry was in fall 2006. I got a bad mark on my Eng. 101 quiz and then I started thinking about things I hate like Maury and Dr Phil. At that time I had quit watching it for about 6 months.
Now that I'm mad, I'm thinking about seeing a psychic. I always read the Ask Miki, the advice column from the psychic Miki. Even prior to the psychic Nadia I saw, I always read Miki. I like to read advice columns because whenever I get in a situation or a problem, I know what to do. Or at least help my friends and family if they have a similar problem that I read about.
I like to know someone is being helped. I guess that's why I had liked Dr Phil. And then I eventually started hating the show because they weren't really helping people. I was reading this letter to Miki today, and it's from a guy. He sounds like me.
Saying: I read this in Miki's Daily Affirmation "We cannot bring the past back to life in the future."
Oct. 6 Good: Things are looking up. Yesterday I emailed a producer who had read my script and rejected it 6 months ago. This time I told him about my updates on it. He emailed me back and asked if I had revised it. I did. I then emailed him and told him about it, trying to convince him to read it.
Job: Today this regular customer John came, and asked me about how the script is going. I told him I will have to wait until mid- Oct. before this other producer gets back to me after reading it.
This new girl Zoe was hired and she told me she has family who are producers. I asked for their names so I can look them up. One of her uncles had worked for the scary movie Ginger Snaps.
Joke: I was watching SNL and the joke was: "Winnie the Pooh got a new character which is an otter. That's because Eore finally did it.
Cut to a pic of Eore's body hanging, and a chair toppled over. That's pretty dark.
Banks: I read in the Metro that this year, 98 banks in the US has closed down.
Eric Callero: You know those vamp jokes on Conan O' Brien? The hot guy who plays the vampire Cody Devereax is Eric Callero. I went on the internet last night looking for him because he was in the 3rd sketch. It's so weird. On the show he is really pale, with eye liner. Then you go to his website and he looks very normal.
Me: Is that really him?
Check out his pics: http://www.ericcallero.com/Gallery.html
I like him better as a Goth. lol.
The joke was this:
Conan: Zombieland was the best selling movie this weekend so I hired a zombie.
Cody is standing there, and Zombie comes along.
Conan: Did you get my sandwich?
Z: Yes.
Z holds up a sub, and rips it apart.
Conan: What's wrong Cody?
Cody: If I can't get you the sandwich, what would I do?
Cody runs outside and burst into flames in the sunlight.
I then went on the internet and found him on Facebook. I sent him a friend request. Then I sent him a message with subject title: "Hey, I like you on Conan O' Brien."
Hi Eric
I really like you on Conan O' Brien. You're really funny. When I looked you up on the internet and saw you without Goth makeup on, I had a double take. I actually kind of like how you look better as a Goth.
I saw your black and white photos on your website. You kind of look like James Dean. Is that what you're going for?
Well keep up the good work.
Bye.
Tracy
Funny: Conan does this other joke.
C: It's been all over the news about a late night talk show host and his scandal. That's me and my fued with the Newark, NJ mayor.
The audience laughs. They totally mislead you to think it's David Letterman having sex with his female employees, but it's really C.
Thank a Soldier: Here's one more thing. Go to this website. It talks about a school won't let kids write to soldiers and thank them, because they would be supporting a war. They say it's really "a peacekeeping mission with conflict."
They should still be allowed to thank soldiers. Check it out:
http://thankasoldier.wordpress.com/schoolsaysno/
Sunday, October 4, 2009
writing/ progress/ names
Sept. 30 Writing: I get a Screenwriting Goldmine newsletter in my email. It says: "What do you think? Simply put, are you a writer because you get heard more when you write than when you speak?
[Another theory is that we write to make sense of the world. All that restructuring of raw experience into a shape that adds up to a concrete message helps us get through what can sometimes seem like a pretty chaotic and even painful world. Writing as therapy? Well,not quite, but writing as a means of ordering the world into the way you'd like it to be - maybe. Does that ring true for anyone? - Phil]"
I agree that writing is therapeutic. I've always known that to organize my thoughts. I do like sharing it with you. I guess I never thought of it this way, that writing the world into the way I would like it. I do write stories that I would like to see.
Bionic Woman: While I was writing my script, I got this flashback of the 2007 show called Bionic Woman. I looked it up, and it turns out there were only 8 eps, and then it got cancelled. I only saw one ep and I liked it. I was busy with all my other TV shows so I guess I never really noticed it when it never came back.
I remember this because I was thinking about siblings on TV. On the script I'm selling, the lead character lives with his big brother. Then I wrote about a guy living with his little sister. And now I'm writing about a girl living her little brother. In BW, the bionic woman Jamie lived with her little sister who's a teenager because their parents died.
BW was a good show. It had promise with the action and sci-fi. A likeable heroine who got into a car accident. She was then recruited into a secret government agency and they put bionic metal parts in her body so she could survive. She also ended up working for them, and of course leading a double life, hiding her abilities from her sister.
Oct. 1 Actors: I was watcing another ep of Flash Forward, and I saw the name Stephanie Weir. It sounds familiar, and then when I saw her, I knew her. She's from MADtv and she plays a quirky and funny character who owns a bakery. It was good to see her.
Michael Trevino is on this show playing bad boy/ bully Tyler. He's type cast as a bad boy since he was on 90210. Then I saw him guest star on The Mentalist and it's the same character.
I was watching The Mentalist and this bad guy looks familiar. Within 5 min. I was able to place him. He was on the other CBS show Criminal Minds where he plays JJ's boyfriend/ cop. It's good with his range. What's interesting is that he has the same look and same soft southern accent he does on both shows.
Vampire Diaries: While I'm at it, I saw Marguerite McIntyre was playing the sheriff/ Caroline's mom on this show. She was the mom on Kyle XY. No surprise, because the producer Julie Plec works on both these shows.
This show keeps getting better. At the end, it turns out there are other people in Mystic Falls knows that vampires do exist. I kind of didn't like how Elena's friend Caroline knows that Damon is a vampire, and still the lead character Elena doesn't know about vamps. Stefan was creative and poisoned Caroline, so that when Damon bites into her, he gets poisoned.
However, it looks like Damon has been captured and thrown into a cell in his own mansion. His brother Stefan and their nephew put him there. Though next week, Damon may end up escaping after all. We'll see.
Progress: The other day I finally finished emailing all the production companies listed on Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association (AMPIA.) There are definetly over a 100. Well I didn't pitch to all of them because I know for sure Dynacor Media only makes training videos. I did pitch to all the Saskatechewan Motion Picture Industries Association. Not that many there.
I then emailed the British Columbia equivalent today. I also pitched to a BC company.
Psychic: It's been 4 months since I last saw psychic Nadia and I still think about it. She didn't tell me really good things or things I wanted to hear. She says I'm going to keep working at a restaurant for a couple more years. That's good in the job stability, but what about the TV writing? She says that's going to be a few years before that happens.
I wanted to hear, your script will be produced this year or the next. Patience is a virtue. When I was a teenager, I really did want overnight success. To be so young, and so successful. I've been writing for the past 10 years. I've been pitching since last year. It's like I'm always biding my time.
I pitch my script. I wait for a response. Then when someone asks to read it, I send my script out. Then I wait until they're finished reading it. The whole time I'm working at my job, watching TV, reading, and writing.
Oct. 2 Crazy day: Today was supposed to be my day off, but instead I got a phone call from work calling me to come. It's a good thing I did. At least I got to sleep in an hour later. I went and worked from 11am-6pm. One person didn't show up in the morning. Then the other person didn't show up in the afternoon. Then another person didn't show up for the night shift.
They put a "Help Wanted" sign back up. If anyone's interested, please apply.
Names: I'm writing and for awhile I had the name Jessica as my lead character. I find that name too common. I changed it to Rain which is a name I had since 2005. I have never met a Rain before. I know there's the actor Rainn Wilson from The Office. I remember telling my old Treats manager Aziz and he said: "Like from the sky?" He thought it was a weird name. Well lots of names are words like Violet, Amber, Faith, Grace, Summer, Autumn.
The bad guy's name is Zaid. I think I got that name from the late 90s. Maybe reading from Twist magazine. I then looked it up on the internet, and the name is Arabic. The character is white so it's kind of weird. Even prior to knowing the origin, I felt it was too weird of a name like my sister's name. lol.
Well my name can be used for boys and girls, and a first and last name. There are a few like Parker and Taylor.
Oct. 3: Today I worked from open to close. At least on my break, I got to talk to Justin as he was out on his cigarette break. It turns out he and I both have a little brother named Patrick. I had guessed that his brother's name would be Jason.
Me: So when did you start smoking?
J: 2nd year of university?
Me: Why?
J: Because of the stress of midterms, exams, friends, the bars.
How did I manage stress? Well my breaks were usually dancing, and working around my TV schedule. lol.
J tells me he sees his family 2 or 3 months.
Me: So how do you get to Calgary? Driving there, plane?
J: I take the Red Arrow bus. It's better than the Greyhound.
Me: Yeah, since that decapitation.
J: What?
Me: The decapitation. You know that guy Vincent Li decapitated a guy on the bus.
J: Oh yeah, and now he's in a mental hospital.
Evolution: I've been thinking about my script. The Fighter is what I've been pitching. Then I wrote Garret which is like the first one, but with different names. Yeah, I had writer's block. Then I wrote Daniel, which is based on the comedian Daniel Tosh, my old Treats manager Aziz, and I working at a restaurant together.Now I have moved onto Rain. The characters from the last 2 scripts are there with different names, but it's a different story.
Oct. 4 James Franco: Did you know that James Franco is going to be on the soap opera General Hospital for November sweeps? I can't believe a big movie star is doing soap operas. I mean, I see them on TV, but they're doing dramas.
You know like Sean Patrick Thomas and Mekhi Pheifer are on the TV show Lie to Me. I remember seeing Ethan Hawke doing one ep of Alias.
[Another theory is that we write to make sense of the world. All that restructuring of raw experience into a shape that adds up to a concrete message helps us get through what can sometimes seem like a pretty chaotic and even painful world. Writing as therapy? Well,not quite, but writing as a means of ordering the world into the way you'd like it to be - maybe. Does that ring true for anyone? - Phil]"
I agree that writing is therapeutic. I've always known that to organize my thoughts. I do like sharing it with you. I guess I never thought of it this way, that writing the world into the way I would like it. I do write stories that I would like to see.
Bionic Woman: While I was writing my script, I got this flashback of the 2007 show called Bionic Woman. I looked it up, and it turns out there were only 8 eps, and then it got cancelled. I only saw one ep and I liked it. I was busy with all my other TV shows so I guess I never really noticed it when it never came back.
I remember this because I was thinking about siblings on TV. On the script I'm selling, the lead character lives with his big brother. Then I wrote about a guy living with his little sister. And now I'm writing about a girl living her little brother. In BW, the bionic woman Jamie lived with her little sister who's a teenager because their parents died.
BW was a good show. It had promise with the action and sci-fi. A likeable heroine who got into a car accident. She was then recruited into a secret government agency and they put bionic metal parts in her body so she could survive. She also ended up working for them, and of course leading a double life, hiding her abilities from her sister.
Oct. 1 Actors: I was watcing another ep of Flash Forward, and I saw the name Stephanie Weir. It sounds familiar, and then when I saw her, I knew her. She's from MADtv and she plays a quirky and funny character who owns a bakery. It was good to see her.
Michael Trevino is on this show playing bad boy/ bully Tyler. He's type cast as a bad boy since he was on 90210. Then I saw him guest star on The Mentalist and it's the same character.
I was watching The Mentalist and this bad guy looks familiar. Within 5 min. I was able to place him. He was on the other CBS show Criminal Minds where he plays JJ's boyfriend/ cop. It's good with his range. What's interesting is that he has the same look and same soft southern accent he does on both shows.
Vampire Diaries: While I'm at it, I saw Marguerite McIntyre was playing the sheriff/ Caroline's mom on this show. She was the mom on Kyle XY. No surprise, because the producer Julie Plec works on both these shows.
This show keeps getting better. At the end, it turns out there are other people in Mystic Falls knows that vampires do exist. I kind of didn't like how Elena's friend Caroline knows that Damon is a vampire, and still the lead character Elena doesn't know about vamps. Stefan was creative and poisoned Caroline, so that when Damon bites into her, he gets poisoned.
However, it looks like Damon has been captured and thrown into a cell in his own mansion. His brother Stefan and their nephew put him there. Though next week, Damon may end up escaping after all. We'll see.
Progress: The other day I finally finished emailing all the production companies listed on Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association (AMPIA.) There are definetly over a 100. Well I didn't pitch to all of them because I know for sure Dynacor Media only makes training videos. I did pitch to all the Saskatechewan Motion Picture Industries Association. Not that many there.
I then emailed the British Columbia equivalent today. I also pitched to a BC company.
Psychic: It's been 4 months since I last saw psychic Nadia and I still think about it. She didn't tell me really good things or things I wanted to hear. She says I'm going to keep working at a restaurant for a couple more years. That's good in the job stability, but what about the TV writing? She says that's going to be a few years before that happens.
I wanted to hear, your script will be produced this year or the next. Patience is a virtue. When I was a teenager, I really did want overnight success. To be so young, and so successful. I've been writing for the past 10 years. I've been pitching since last year. It's like I'm always biding my time.
I pitch my script. I wait for a response. Then when someone asks to read it, I send my script out. Then I wait until they're finished reading it. The whole time I'm working at my job, watching TV, reading, and writing.
Oct. 2 Crazy day: Today was supposed to be my day off, but instead I got a phone call from work calling me to come. It's a good thing I did. At least I got to sleep in an hour later. I went and worked from 11am-6pm. One person didn't show up in the morning. Then the other person didn't show up in the afternoon. Then another person didn't show up for the night shift.
They put a "Help Wanted" sign back up. If anyone's interested, please apply.
Names: I'm writing and for awhile I had the name Jessica as my lead character. I find that name too common. I changed it to Rain which is a name I had since 2005. I have never met a Rain before. I know there's the actor Rainn Wilson from The Office. I remember telling my old Treats manager Aziz and he said: "Like from the sky?" He thought it was a weird name. Well lots of names are words like Violet, Amber, Faith, Grace, Summer, Autumn.
The bad guy's name is Zaid. I think I got that name from the late 90s. Maybe reading from Twist magazine. I then looked it up on the internet, and the name is Arabic. The character is white so it's kind of weird. Even prior to knowing the origin, I felt it was too weird of a name like my sister's name. lol.
Well my name can be used for boys and girls, and a first and last name. There are a few like Parker and Taylor.
Oct. 3: Today I worked from open to close. At least on my break, I got to talk to Justin as he was out on his cigarette break. It turns out he and I both have a little brother named Patrick. I had guessed that his brother's name would be Jason.
Me: So when did you start smoking?
J: 2nd year of university?
Me: Why?
J: Because of the stress of midterms, exams, friends, the bars.
How did I manage stress? Well my breaks were usually dancing, and working around my TV schedule. lol.
J tells me he sees his family 2 or 3 months.
Me: So how do you get to Calgary? Driving there, plane?
J: I take the Red Arrow bus. It's better than the Greyhound.
Me: Yeah, since that decapitation.
J: What?
Me: The decapitation. You know that guy Vincent Li decapitated a guy on the bus.
J: Oh yeah, and now he's in a mental hospital.
Evolution: I've been thinking about my script. The Fighter is what I've been pitching. Then I wrote Garret which is like the first one, but with different names. Yeah, I had writer's block. Then I wrote Daniel, which is based on the comedian Daniel Tosh, my old Treats manager Aziz, and I working at a restaurant together.Now I have moved onto Rain. The characters from the last 2 scripts are there with different names, but it's a different story.
Oct. 4 James Franco: Did you know that James Franco is going to be on the soap opera General Hospital for November sweeps? I can't believe a big movie star is doing soap operas. I mean, I see them on TV, but they're doing dramas.
You know like Sean Patrick Thomas and Mekhi Pheifer are on the TV show Lie to Me. I remember seeing Ethan Hawke doing one ep of Alias.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
TV movie/ vamp joke/ Forestle.org
Sept. 28 TV movie: I saw a mediocore TV movie called A Woman Hunted. It came out in 2003, but it looks late 90s. This woman Lainie (Alexandra Paul) is in rehab because she got addicted to pain killers. She was working at a hospital and everytime someone died, she became really depressed and that lead her to the pills.
She got clean, and her kids are in foster care until she has everything together. She gets a job by her friend at this TV show that interviews sport stars. Then she gets stuck on a road, and her cell phone doesn't work. The baseball star they interviewed earlier drives by and takes her to his house.
He then attempts to rape her, and she fights back. The phone rings, and she answers it, but the person hangs up. However, he does rape her and threatens to kill her. Then they are fighting, and then she goes and hits him, and he falls into the well. She freaks out, and then she goes back to her car. She is still a sympathetic character even though she kills a guy.
Then she goes and debates in her mind to go to the police or not. The rapist tells her that no one would believe her, and she did tell her guy friend about that happening to a friend of hers. Then, the social worker did tell her that she has to be totally clean or she won't see her kids again. Later she realizes she forgot her cell phone at his house.
She goes back there. She then finds her phone, and cleans up the house to get rid of all the evidence. Like she throws out her clothes that she wore there, by throwing it in a dumpster in the city. That's smart. People start looking for the sports guy Brewer. Then the police are on the case and find Lainie's earring.
The police ask L's 2 daughters if it belongs to their mom. The little one says yes, but the older kid was smart and said it isn't because it's too small. Then eventually L tells her guy friend about what she did. She goes and find's Brewer's ex- wife because B said he abused her. If she could get L on her side, people will believe she was raped and he was a bad guy.
She finds the woman after a lot of searching, and the ex- wife says she doesn't want to. Then the police find her, and they think she's reaching for her gun, but it's really a cell phone. The rifle is shot in the air, and then L is so scared, she gets out of the car. She tells the cop about what happened.
They pull out a body, and it's a woman! Not Brewer. Then they pull out 2 more bodies, and it's another woman and B. L gets off free because it was in self- defense and B murdered the other women. L then gets custody of her kids.
Actors: I was watching Heroes and I saw this actress Deanne Bray. It said so in the info when I pressed guide on my TV. Then I realized she is Sue Thomas from Sue Thomas: FB Eye. It's about a deaf woman who works for the FBI. It's good to see her. The other day, I was watching Dollhouse and I saw Alexis Denisof in it. He played Wesley on Buffy and Angel. It was funny to see him play a senator without a British accent.
Sept. 29 Annoyed: Yesterday Patrick told me that Malatest called. I decided to call them the next day because I wanted to watch Lie to Me and Heroes new episodes. Besides that, I was sending out my synopsis to a production company. I called Malatest today and they said that they were calling me all weekend and that I was to train today at 10am.
I told them I couldn't because I had to work. It's a good thing I did show up for work because two people weren't there anyway. I did reschedule training for another time. I then told my managers that I did get hired at Malatest.
The question is: "Are you putting obstacles in front of yourself?" Well this is another example of how my life revolves around TV that I would put off returning phone calls. Well I thought I could put it off, but from now on I will return calls promptly. I feel wary of Malatest because the last time they hired me and gave me one day of training, they went and hired someone else.
I guess I kind of expect that to happen. Maybe in a weird way, I inadvertently made myself lose the job. They may have gone and hired someone else right now. I have this loyalty to my job at the Soup place. I've been there for 15 months and I know about team work. In fact, Malatest asked me a question about team work.
Funny: I found this on Youtube. It's about this comedy show called The Smart Woman's Survival Guide. It discusses how to pronounce the character Lana's name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euxzyth85CI
Here's something unintentionally funny. I read the Metro and it said the new TV show The Beautiful Life has been cancelled after 2 eps. I laughed out loud at it. I thought: "Ha, ha! Take that Ashton Kutcher who produced it." I don't even hate AK, but I found it funny that the show ended so soon.
Forestle.org: I found this on Metro. Using this search engine saves the rainforest. It says:
With each search at Forestle you save 0.1 m² of rainforest for free.So far already 1,724,853.0 m² have been protected!
Sept. 30 Vamp joke: I was watching Conan O' Brien last night, and they did that joke again where Conan hires a vampire Cody to be his assistant.
Conan: So did you pick up my suit from the dry cleaners?
Cody: Yes, it's in your dressing room Mr. O' Brien.
Con: You seem sad. What's wrong?
Cod: Where's Bethany?
Con: She was our summer intern, so she went back to school.
Cod: I love Bethany. I can't live without her.
Cody runs out of there into the sunlight, and he burst into flames.
It says: "Cody Devearux 1569- Today."
Celeb news: I read that the 60's musician John Phillips has a daughter named Mackenzie Phillips. MP alleges that she had a sexual relationship with him when she was 18 on. She said it on Oprah. That reminds me that MP used to be on the old TV show called So Weird. It was on Family Channel about a girl named Fiona. F travels with her mom MP on the road, and they discover supernatural occurances.
Supernatural: I read in 24 yesterday about the Howard Johnson Hotel on 15540 Stony Plain road being haunted. There are rooms that go cold while everywhere else is warm. A woman Lorraine Wray was strangled there.
Horoscope: In Metro it said: "You will get the chance to move up in the world socially and professionally over the next few days. It may be a big way or it may be a small way."
Today I did call Malatest and they said they will get a few more people so I can do the training session with them.
SNL: I was watching Meghan Fox on Saturday Night Live. There was a sketch where she's talking to a mom.
Mom: You should do a movie where a guy and girl get together. Than he does something bad, but not so bad that he can't redeem himself. Then he and the girl will get back together.
MF: Yes, a romantic comedy.
She got clean, and her kids are in foster care until she has everything together. She gets a job by her friend at this TV show that interviews sport stars. Then she gets stuck on a road, and her cell phone doesn't work. The baseball star they interviewed earlier drives by and takes her to his house.
He then attempts to rape her, and she fights back. The phone rings, and she answers it, but the person hangs up. However, he does rape her and threatens to kill her. Then they are fighting, and then she goes and hits him, and he falls into the well. She freaks out, and then she goes back to her car. She is still a sympathetic character even though she kills a guy.
Then she goes and debates in her mind to go to the police or not. The rapist tells her that no one would believe her, and she did tell her guy friend about that happening to a friend of hers. Then, the social worker did tell her that she has to be totally clean or she won't see her kids again. Later she realizes she forgot her cell phone at his house.
She goes back there. She then finds her phone, and cleans up the house to get rid of all the evidence. Like she throws out her clothes that she wore there, by throwing it in a dumpster in the city. That's smart. People start looking for the sports guy Brewer. Then the police are on the case and find Lainie's earring.
The police ask L's 2 daughters if it belongs to their mom. The little one says yes, but the older kid was smart and said it isn't because it's too small. Then eventually L tells her guy friend about what she did. She goes and find's Brewer's ex- wife because B said he abused her. If she could get L on her side, people will believe she was raped and he was a bad guy.
She finds the woman after a lot of searching, and the ex- wife says she doesn't want to. Then the police find her, and they think she's reaching for her gun, but it's really a cell phone. The rifle is shot in the air, and then L is so scared, she gets out of the car. She tells the cop about what happened.
They pull out a body, and it's a woman! Not Brewer. Then they pull out 2 more bodies, and it's another woman and B. L gets off free because it was in self- defense and B murdered the other women. L then gets custody of her kids.
Actors: I was watching Heroes and I saw this actress Deanne Bray. It said so in the info when I pressed guide on my TV. Then I realized she is Sue Thomas from Sue Thomas: FB Eye. It's about a deaf woman who works for the FBI. It's good to see her. The other day, I was watching Dollhouse and I saw Alexis Denisof in it. He played Wesley on Buffy and Angel. It was funny to see him play a senator without a British accent.
Sept. 29 Annoyed: Yesterday Patrick told me that Malatest called. I decided to call them the next day because I wanted to watch Lie to Me and Heroes new episodes. Besides that, I was sending out my synopsis to a production company. I called Malatest today and they said that they were calling me all weekend and that I was to train today at 10am.
I told them I couldn't because I had to work. It's a good thing I did show up for work because two people weren't there anyway. I did reschedule training for another time. I then told my managers that I did get hired at Malatest.
The question is: "Are you putting obstacles in front of yourself?" Well this is another example of how my life revolves around TV that I would put off returning phone calls. Well I thought I could put it off, but from now on I will return calls promptly. I feel wary of Malatest because the last time they hired me and gave me one day of training, they went and hired someone else.
I guess I kind of expect that to happen. Maybe in a weird way, I inadvertently made myself lose the job. They may have gone and hired someone else right now. I have this loyalty to my job at the Soup place. I've been there for 15 months and I know about team work. In fact, Malatest asked me a question about team work.
Funny: I found this on Youtube. It's about this comedy show called The Smart Woman's Survival Guide. It discusses how to pronounce the character Lana's name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euxzyth85CI
Here's something unintentionally funny. I read the Metro and it said the new TV show The Beautiful Life has been cancelled after 2 eps. I laughed out loud at it. I thought: "Ha, ha! Take that Ashton Kutcher who produced it." I don't even hate AK, but I found it funny that the show ended so soon.
Forestle.org: I found this on Metro. Using this search engine saves the rainforest. It says:
With each search at Forestle you save 0.1 m² of rainforest for free.So far already 1,724,853.0 m² have been protected!
Sept. 30 Vamp joke: I was watching Conan O' Brien last night, and they did that joke again where Conan hires a vampire Cody to be his assistant.
Conan: So did you pick up my suit from the dry cleaners?
Cody: Yes, it's in your dressing room Mr. O' Brien.
Con: You seem sad. What's wrong?
Cod: Where's Bethany?
Con: She was our summer intern, so she went back to school.
Cod: I love Bethany. I can't live without her.
Cody runs out of there into the sunlight, and he burst into flames.
It says: "Cody Devearux 1569- Today."
Celeb news: I read that the 60's musician John Phillips has a daughter named Mackenzie Phillips. MP alleges that she had a sexual relationship with him when she was 18 on. She said it on Oprah. That reminds me that MP used to be on the old TV show called So Weird. It was on Family Channel about a girl named Fiona. F travels with her mom MP on the road, and they discover supernatural occurances.
Supernatural: I read in 24 yesterday about the Howard Johnson Hotel on 15540 Stony Plain road being haunted. There are rooms that go cold while everywhere else is warm. A woman Lorraine Wray was strangled there.
Horoscope: In Metro it said: "You will get the chance to move up in the world socially and professionally over the next few days. It may be a big way or it may be a small way."
Today I did call Malatest and they said they will get a few more people so I can do the training session with them.
SNL: I was watching Meghan Fox on Saturday Night Live. There was a sketch where she's talking to a mom.
Mom: You should do a movie where a guy and girl get together. Than he does something bad, but not so bad that he can't redeem himself. Then he and the girl will get back together.
MF: Yes, a romantic comedy.
Monday, September 28, 2009
fun/ writing/ Beau Mirchoff
Sept. 26 Fun: I took a big step today. After work, I went to Sorrentino's and talked with Justin for an hour. I bought Gelato there and tried it for the first time. It's ice cream so it's not too different. It's worth $2.31 there. It was funny.
As usual, there's soccer on the flat screen TV.
Me: Did you know that there is such thing as the Lingerie Soccer League?
J: No.
Me: I heard it on the radio, and the DJ says: "This is exactly as it sounds. Is there a perv row where you can throw loonies at them?"
J: It's in the US right?
Me: Yeah, one of teams is called the Dallas Desires. Are you going to show the Olympics here?
J: I don't know.
Me: So how old are you? 25?
J: No, I actually turned 24 last week.
Me: I'm 24 too. So you work at another job during the week right? Where? At a bank?
J: Yes.
Me: TD?
J: No, Scotiabank.
Me: I used to work at bank, for about a month. I wasn't good at it. Have you ever heard of the joke: "Do you work at a bank? Because you sure raised my interest!"
J (laughs): No, I have not heard of that one.
I learned a lot about him. He's from Calgary, and he has a little brother which makes him the oldest in his family. He went to the University of Alberta to take business.
Me: Why didn't you go to U of C (Calgary)?
J: Because U of A is better.
Me: Oh c'mon, all my cousins in Calgary went to the university there and took business. Except one who took science, but still went to university. My big sister and my little brother took business at the U of A.
J: And you took writing so that makes you like the black sheep in the family?
Me: Yes, I guess. I'm not an overachiever.
I even pitched my script that I'm selling, to Justin. We talked about movies like how he likes Edward Norton, and Johnny Depp.
Me: I saw Watchmen.
J: I saw it, and liked it.
Me: It was too 18+ for me, like Sin City.
J: It was good.
Me: Have you seen The Spirit?
J: It was average. I liked the part where Samuel L. Jackson was punching this guy multiple times and you know it was a dummy.
J laughs.
He's pretty smart.
Me: Do you know where Bogata is?
J: The capital of Columbia?
Me: Yes. How did you know that?
J: My parents bought me a computer game that I played and it taught us the capitals. Oh yeah, "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?"
I laughed.
He even knew who Louis Riel was. I can't quite remember his answer, but it was correct.
J: Didn't he die or something?
Me: Yeah, he was hanged. I remember in college, the teacher asked us that and all 20 of us didn't know the answer. Then the teacher Scott said: "Yeah, well I'm sure all of you learned about him in Social Studies." I'm like: "Yeah, well it was a long time ago." The whole class laughs at me, I guess they thought I was joking around. Scott saw me and he knew that I wasn't joking around and he looked like he was trying to not laugh at me.
Sept. 27 Dance: I read that the America's Best Dance Crew 4 season winner is We Are Heroes. It's the first time an all- girl dance crew won. There are 5 girls so they can split that $100, 000 prize evenly.
Sept. 18 Writing: Today I woke up this morning and thought I should go and send out my script to the guy who asked for it a couple of weeks ago. I went home and printed out the submission form, and the 97 page script. I also printed out the email to refresh their memory. Then I read the email again, and it said they wanted the synopsis, and not the whole script.
I was like: "Damn it! I printed out 97 pages for nothing!" Well it could be my back up unless my 3.5 floppy disk craps out which has the latest draft of it. Anyway, I sent the submission form, synopsis, and email to them through snail mail. They need to see that I signed the submission form.
Why did I wait 2 weeks before I sent it out? Well I was waiting because there is this woman Diane who was reading it, and I thought I should hear her feedback before I go and send it to someone else. I remember way back in March, I sent the script out to two companies. If I only waited until one of them got back to me, and read the feedback, I would then have edited it and improved it. Then I could have sent the improved script to the 2nd company and they wouldn't have rejected me.
Well you never know. Anyway, I would have to wait until Diane to get back to me in mid October. I might as well go and send out my synopsis to someone who asked for it anyway.
Flashback: I got this flashback of the talent show when I was in gr.9. The drama/ LA/ Social studies teacher Mr. Mack was performing the Green Day song "Time of your Life" on his acoustic guitar. Then I remembered when I was in gr.11 there was the teacher Mr. Pryzwitt and he was playing his acoustic guitar and singing the same song in class. This time though a couple of smokers held up their lighters during the performance. lol.
Music: I borrowed the Black Eyed Peas cd "The END." I love their dance songs like "Rock that Body", "Imma Be", "Alive", "Ring a Ling." You should check it out. I'm not really a fan of them. In fact I was bored of their songs "Boom Boom Pow." The cd is good.
Vampires: I was watching Conan O' Brien.
C: You know vampires?
The audience cheers.
C: With all the popularity of Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries, I got myself a vampire to be my assistant.
Cut to the vampire who is this hot guy and he's pale, with dark hair. He was wearing a vest without a shirt underneath. He's brooding.
C: Can you get me a coffee?
Vamp: Sure.
He stands there.
C: Well aren't you going to go get it? What's wrong?
Vamp: You wouldn't undersand. No one would.
Vamp runs out of the studio into the sunlight, and he bursts into flames.
The subtitle says: "1569- Today."
C: Well it looks like I'm not going to get my coffee.
lol.
Beau Mirchoff: I was watching Desperate Housewives last night, and then I saw this cute guy there. He's the new boy next door. I then looked him up and see that his name is Beau Mirchoff. I saw his picture of him on the TV show Heartland. I then totally remembered him. He was in the first season. It's been a couple of years since I seen him.
He was there for 6 eps. I noticed that he was cute, but he was competing with Ty (Graham Wardle) who is a series regular and is in every episode. He's from Seattle, but he then moved to Vancouver so that explains why he was on a Alberta TV show. All I can really remember was that he hooked up with the girl Ashley on the show.
Desperate Housewives: It looks pretty good in this new ep. There is a good line with Carl saying to Bree: "You would rather be good than happy." It looks like BM's character may have attacked Julie.
They showed next ep's promos with BM.
Mom: How does a fish get caught?
BM: By opening it's mouth.
That's some good dialogue.
Inspired: I read the headline of an article about The Cleveland Show. It's a spinoff from Family Guy. The headline says it's one of the few shows out there that have a minority character that anchors the show. The script I'm selling has a white guy as the lead, and an Asian girl as the sidekick. This time, I'm going with the Asian woman as the lead.
There are two shows I can think of that Asian woman as the lead. All- American Girl, a sitcom starring comedianne Margaret Cho. The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo starring Irene Ng. I never saw the first, but I did see the latter.
Back to Cleveland. I saw the pilot, and it was average. Kind of like American Dad and Family Guy since they're all from the same creator Seth MacFarlane. Cleveland is a likeable lead.
As usual, there's soccer on the flat screen TV.
Me: Did you know that there is such thing as the Lingerie Soccer League?
J: No.
Me: I heard it on the radio, and the DJ says: "This is exactly as it sounds. Is there a perv row where you can throw loonies at them?"
J: It's in the US right?
Me: Yeah, one of teams is called the Dallas Desires. Are you going to show the Olympics here?
J: I don't know.
Me: So how old are you? 25?
J: No, I actually turned 24 last week.
Me: I'm 24 too. So you work at another job during the week right? Where? At a bank?
J: Yes.
Me: TD?
J: No, Scotiabank.
Me: I used to work at bank, for about a month. I wasn't good at it. Have you ever heard of the joke: "Do you work at a bank? Because you sure raised my interest!"
J (laughs): No, I have not heard of that one.
I learned a lot about him. He's from Calgary, and he has a little brother which makes him the oldest in his family. He went to the University of Alberta to take business.
Me: Why didn't you go to U of C (Calgary)?
J: Because U of A is better.
Me: Oh c'mon, all my cousins in Calgary went to the university there and took business. Except one who took science, but still went to university. My big sister and my little brother took business at the U of A.
J: And you took writing so that makes you like the black sheep in the family?
Me: Yes, I guess. I'm not an overachiever.
I even pitched my script that I'm selling, to Justin. We talked about movies like how he likes Edward Norton, and Johnny Depp.
Me: I saw Watchmen.
J: I saw it, and liked it.
Me: It was too 18+ for me, like Sin City.
J: It was good.
Me: Have you seen The Spirit?
J: It was average. I liked the part where Samuel L. Jackson was punching this guy multiple times and you know it was a dummy.
J laughs.
He's pretty smart.
Me: Do you know where Bogata is?
J: The capital of Columbia?
Me: Yes. How did you know that?
J: My parents bought me a computer game that I played and it taught us the capitals. Oh yeah, "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?"
I laughed.
He even knew who Louis Riel was. I can't quite remember his answer, but it was correct.
J: Didn't he die or something?
Me: Yeah, he was hanged. I remember in college, the teacher asked us that and all 20 of us didn't know the answer. Then the teacher Scott said: "Yeah, well I'm sure all of you learned about him in Social Studies." I'm like: "Yeah, well it was a long time ago." The whole class laughs at me, I guess they thought I was joking around. Scott saw me and he knew that I wasn't joking around and he looked like he was trying to not laugh at me.
Sept. 27 Dance: I read that the America's Best Dance Crew 4 season winner is We Are Heroes. It's the first time an all- girl dance crew won. There are 5 girls so they can split that $100, 000 prize evenly.
Sept. 18 Writing: Today I woke up this morning and thought I should go and send out my script to the guy who asked for it a couple of weeks ago. I went home and printed out the submission form, and the 97 page script. I also printed out the email to refresh their memory. Then I read the email again, and it said they wanted the synopsis, and not the whole script.
I was like: "Damn it! I printed out 97 pages for nothing!" Well it could be my back up unless my 3.5 floppy disk craps out which has the latest draft of it. Anyway, I sent the submission form, synopsis, and email to them through snail mail. They need to see that I signed the submission form.
Why did I wait 2 weeks before I sent it out? Well I was waiting because there is this woman Diane who was reading it, and I thought I should hear her feedback before I go and send it to someone else. I remember way back in March, I sent the script out to two companies. If I only waited until one of them got back to me, and read the feedback, I would then have edited it and improved it. Then I could have sent the improved script to the 2nd company and they wouldn't have rejected me.
Well you never know. Anyway, I would have to wait until Diane to get back to me in mid October. I might as well go and send out my synopsis to someone who asked for it anyway.
Flashback: I got this flashback of the talent show when I was in gr.9. The drama/ LA/ Social studies teacher Mr. Mack was performing the Green Day song "Time of your Life" on his acoustic guitar. Then I remembered when I was in gr.11 there was the teacher Mr. Pryzwitt and he was playing his acoustic guitar and singing the same song in class. This time though a couple of smokers held up their lighters during the performance. lol.
Music: I borrowed the Black Eyed Peas cd "The END." I love their dance songs like "Rock that Body", "Imma Be", "Alive", "Ring a Ling." You should check it out. I'm not really a fan of them. In fact I was bored of their songs "Boom Boom Pow." The cd is good.
Vampires: I was watching Conan O' Brien.
C: You know vampires?
The audience cheers.
C: With all the popularity of Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries, I got myself a vampire to be my assistant.
Cut to the vampire who is this hot guy and he's pale, with dark hair. He was wearing a vest without a shirt underneath. He's brooding.
C: Can you get me a coffee?
Vamp: Sure.
He stands there.
C: Well aren't you going to go get it? What's wrong?
Vamp: You wouldn't undersand. No one would.
Vamp runs out of the studio into the sunlight, and he bursts into flames.
The subtitle says: "1569- Today."
C: Well it looks like I'm not going to get my coffee.
lol.
Beau Mirchoff: I was watching Desperate Housewives last night, and then I saw this cute guy there. He's the new boy next door. I then looked him up and see that his name is Beau Mirchoff. I saw his picture of him on the TV show Heartland. I then totally remembered him. He was in the first season. It's been a couple of years since I seen him.
He was there for 6 eps. I noticed that he was cute, but he was competing with Ty (Graham Wardle) who is a series regular and is in every episode. He's from Seattle, but he then moved to Vancouver so that explains why he was on a Alberta TV show. All I can really remember was that he hooked up with the girl Ashley on the show.
Desperate Housewives: It looks pretty good in this new ep. There is a good line with Carl saying to Bree: "You would rather be good than happy." It looks like BM's character may have attacked Julie.
They showed next ep's promos with BM.
Mom: How does a fish get caught?
BM: By opening it's mouth.
That's some good dialogue.
Inspired: I read the headline of an article about The Cleveland Show. It's a spinoff from Family Guy. The headline says it's one of the few shows out there that have a minority character that anchors the show. The script I'm selling has a white guy as the lead, and an Asian girl as the sidekick. This time, I'm going with the Asian woman as the lead.
There are two shows I can think of that Asian woman as the lead. All- American Girl, a sitcom starring comedianne Margaret Cho. The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo starring Irene Ng. I never saw the first, but I did see the latter.
Back to Cleveland. I saw the pilot, and it was average. Kind of like American Dad and Family Guy since they're all from the same creator Seth MacFarlane. Cleveland is a likeable lead.
Friday, September 25, 2009
crazy news/ Flash Forward/ Down with Webster
Sept. 23 Crazy news: I was watching this on Yahoo. There are these parents walking out of a store, and there 6 yr old daughter is walking behind them by a few steps. Then a car backs out and goes over the girl. You would think she got hit, and hurt.
There was not a scratch on here because there was a pole that put the car up, so it won't fall on her. When I saw it, I was like: "Whoa!" It was kind of funny because no one got hurt. Anyway, the woman was driving had a suspended license for reckless driving.
News: They're closing York Hotel in Edmonton on Oct. 6. It's inner- city and the police are called over there 2-3 times more often than any other businesses around there. It's a good thing to shut this place down altogether.
King Kong: I saw the first hour of this movie like a year ago. Then I turned it off because Patrick needed to focus on studying. Then it was on Sunday, so I watched the remaining 3 hours of the movie. It was good with the action, cinematography, acting, and story. It had big names like Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, and Jack Black.
My nitpick was that it was too long. Also lack of dialogue, but you can't really talk to a gorilla, and a gorilla can't really talk.
Job: Today 2 people didn't show up for work, so I ended up doing the brunt of the work. Or one person is here, and then they have to leave early so I have to remain there to do the closing.
Bank: I picked up the catering trays from TD Bank. I used to work there, and then they moved to City Centre. If I was good at my job, I would have stayed there. I was finally able to check out the office. It looks good. I am reminded of the song "Come around again" by the indie band Sunrise Sundown.
It had the same lead singer from Nickel. Nickel was on the Buffy episode called "School Hard" way back in season 2. The lyric was: "I like to be reminded of things I can't have." Don't be sad. One bank job didn't work out. Maybe another one will come along.
Rant: I was reading 24, and I see that Christian Slater is on a new TV show called The Forgotten. His character name is Alex Donovan. I was like: "That's the same first and last name of one of my characters in the script that I'm selling!" Well I can always change the last name. It's a mild rant.
Here's another: My rant is that TV is too predictable. I remember a long time ago I was writing on twop.com about Secret Life of the American Teenager: "Of course Amy is going to keep the baby and raise it as her own. How else do you expect the show to keep going on for 12 years?"
Someone comes and says: "They could keep having secret weddings and making fake IDs of course." He was making fun of the most recent ep. I told this to my friend Angela when she dropped by my work and she said: "Yeah, like The Gilmore Girls and that show has been on for quite awhile."
I'll throw in the new sitcom Accidentally on Purpose. I was reading newspaper reviews and it's about a 40 yr old woman who gets pregnant by a one- night stand who is in his 20s. The reviewer said: "Of course she keeps the kid because it's network TV." Also how is abortion supposed to be funny? I'll throw in reading another review that said that in real life, women use birth control or abortion. So this show is unrealistic.
Sept. 24 Giles Panton: It's been neary 2 months, but Giles Panton finally emailed me back on Facebook. I pitched for him to be in my movie, and he said: "i'm still interested....have been very busy. think that it could be workshoped a bit more, but i like the idea. keep it up. :)."
Flash Forward: I was watching this new show about this global event. At 11am, everybody all over the world passed out for 2 min, 17 seconds. They all saw a glimpse of the future 6 months from now. What's cool is that John Cho, Harold from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is in it as a FBI agent. I missed the first 12 min, but I stayed and watched the rest.
JC plays Demitri Noh and when he blacked out, he didn't see anything. By all means he could be dead. I see promos that he is dating a African- American woman. Good for interracial dating. Also I remember way back in 2003 I was reading on Fametracker Forums about Asians in films. The Asian men are all celebite on film, but not in this promo. So that's good too.
It's really good. I saw the promos for the next eps. It looks like the lead character Mark (Joseph Fiennes) is working on a case. His daughter may end up missing, and his wife will cheat on him with another guy. It seems kind of like Lost with a lot of characters all there with this epic journey.
What was unintentionally funny was that the Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane appeared as a FBI agent. I also saw Lee Thompson Young. He was on the old kids show called The Famous Jett Jackson. I thought the show was eh. Anyway, I was reminded he was on the short- lived show South Beach way back in 2006. It was produced by Jennifer Lopez. It only had 8 eps.
Quit: Look, I'm cutting down on TV. I haven't really been watching The Jay Leno show because it's prime time. I have to watch all the other shows like Criminal Minds and The Mentalist during that time slot.
The Vampire Diaries: I find that this show really inspires me. I don't necessarily want to write about vampires. I do really like the character Damon, the bad boy vampire played by Ian Somerhalder. He has some pretty good snarky lines. I should write a strong antagonist like that.
It's good to see Paul Wesley as the good vampire. I first saw him on the other short- lived supernatural show called Wolf Lake. He played a bad boy, and was a werewolf. Then he played Lex Luther's little brother on Smallville. Then I saw him on one ep of CSI: NY.
Down with Webster: I heard this band's song "Rich Girl" on the radio. I was kind of eh with it. Then during the commercial breaks of my show, I saw this video of the band Down with Webster and I thought the name was kind of interesting. Then I went on Youtube to look for the song called "Time to Win." It's a hard rock song with rap. Kind of reminded me of the band Limp Bizkit though I was never really a fan of them. I like the song title. It's a good song to dance to. It revs me up. I also thought the guy who sang the chorus was kind of cute. His name is Pat Gillet and he also plays guitar.
I found this video where they covered "Are you that Somebody?" by Aaliyah. I love that song. The original is a R&B track. DWW made it into more of a rock song. It's great. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wva9kcq-lJk&feature=related
Funny news: I found this on Yahoo. This 34- yr- old guy is drunk and he's on the football goal post and he is hanging on the pole. The police and security catch him when he slowly drops off. The audience cheers afterwards.
The police are on top of him and arrest him. lol.
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Video-Man-climbs-to-the-top-of-goalpost-during-?urn=nfl,191555
Sept. 25 Crazy day: I went to the doctor for a second opinion about this wart on my finger. He told me that I needed to freeze it once a week until it's gone. I have been freezing it, and then 3 weeks later I go back to get it done again. I need to do it more often to get rid of it.
I went to the T&T at Northgate with my grandma and bought groceries and ate lunch there. Then we went home and I had to do Maintenance Wizard on the computer, wash my apron, and get money for my buspass. I called the other dr. to set another appointment. Then I read in 24 and my horoscope was true: "Just a spoonful of action helps the medical issues feel less demanding."
I went to Chinatown and paid $6 to get a new battery for my watch. It's worked for the past 2 years since the last time I was there. It's a kid's watch I got from Sears in 1997. I only had to change the battery 3 times in a period of 12 years.
There was not a scratch on here because there was a pole that put the car up, so it won't fall on her. When I saw it, I was like: "Whoa!" It was kind of funny because no one got hurt. Anyway, the woman was driving had a suspended license for reckless driving.
News: They're closing York Hotel in Edmonton on Oct. 6. It's inner- city and the police are called over there 2-3 times more often than any other businesses around there. It's a good thing to shut this place down altogether.
King Kong: I saw the first hour of this movie like a year ago. Then I turned it off because Patrick needed to focus on studying. Then it was on Sunday, so I watched the remaining 3 hours of the movie. It was good with the action, cinematography, acting, and story. It had big names like Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, and Jack Black.
My nitpick was that it was too long. Also lack of dialogue, but you can't really talk to a gorilla, and a gorilla can't really talk.
Job: Today 2 people didn't show up for work, so I ended up doing the brunt of the work. Or one person is here, and then they have to leave early so I have to remain there to do the closing.
Bank: I picked up the catering trays from TD Bank. I used to work there, and then they moved to City Centre. If I was good at my job, I would have stayed there. I was finally able to check out the office. It looks good. I am reminded of the song "Come around again" by the indie band Sunrise Sundown.
It had the same lead singer from Nickel. Nickel was on the Buffy episode called "School Hard" way back in season 2. The lyric was: "I like to be reminded of things I can't have." Don't be sad. One bank job didn't work out. Maybe another one will come along.
Rant: I was reading 24, and I see that Christian Slater is on a new TV show called The Forgotten. His character name is Alex Donovan. I was like: "That's the same first and last name of one of my characters in the script that I'm selling!" Well I can always change the last name. It's a mild rant.
Here's another: My rant is that TV is too predictable. I remember a long time ago I was writing on twop.com about Secret Life of the American Teenager: "Of course Amy is going to keep the baby and raise it as her own. How else do you expect the show to keep going on for 12 years?"
Someone comes and says: "They could keep having secret weddings and making fake IDs of course." He was making fun of the most recent ep. I told this to my friend Angela when she dropped by my work and she said: "Yeah, like The Gilmore Girls and that show has been on for quite awhile."
I'll throw in the new sitcom Accidentally on Purpose. I was reading newspaper reviews and it's about a 40 yr old woman who gets pregnant by a one- night stand who is in his 20s. The reviewer said: "Of course she keeps the kid because it's network TV." Also how is abortion supposed to be funny? I'll throw in reading another review that said that in real life, women use birth control or abortion. So this show is unrealistic.
Sept. 24 Giles Panton: It's been neary 2 months, but Giles Panton finally emailed me back on Facebook. I pitched for him to be in my movie, and he said: "i'm still interested....have been very busy. think that it could be workshoped a bit more, but i like the idea. keep it up. :)."
Flash Forward: I was watching this new show about this global event. At 11am, everybody all over the world passed out for 2 min, 17 seconds. They all saw a glimpse of the future 6 months from now. What's cool is that John Cho, Harold from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is in it as a FBI agent. I missed the first 12 min, but I stayed and watched the rest.
JC plays Demitri Noh and when he blacked out, he didn't see anything. By all means he could be dead. I see promos that he is dating a African- American woman. Good for interracial dating. Also I remember way back in 2003 I was reading on Fametracker Forums about Asians in films. The Asian men are all celebite on film, but not in this promo. So that's good too.
It's really good. I saw the promos for the next eps. It looks like the lead character Mark (Joseph Fiennes) is working on a case. His daughter may end up missing, and his wife will cheat on him with another guy. It seems kind of like Lost with a lot of characters all there with this epic journey.
What was unintentionally funny was that the Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane appeared as a FBI agent. I also saw Lee Thompson Young. He was on the old kids show called The Famous Jett Jackson. I thought the show was eh. Anyway, I was reminded he was on the short- lived show South Beach way back in 2006. It was produced by Jennifer Lopez. It only had 8 eps.
Quit: Look, I'm cutting down on TV. I haven't really been watching The Jay Leno show because it's prime time. I have to watch all the other shows like Criminal Minds and The Mentalist during that time slot.
The Vampire Diaries: I find that this show really inspires me. I don't necessarily want to write about vampires. I do really like the character Damon, the bad boy vampire played by Ian Somerhalder. He has some pretty good snarky lines. I should write a strong antagonist like that.
It's good to see Paul Wesley as the good vampire. I first saw him on the other short- lived supernatural show called Wolf Lake. He played a bad boy, and was a werewolf. Then he played Lex Luther's little brother on Smallville. Then I saw him on one ep of CSI: NY.
Down with Webster: I heard this band's song "Rich Girl" on the radio. I was kind of eh with it. Then during the commercial breaks of my show, I saw this video of the band Down with Webster and I thought the name was kind of interesting. Then I went on Youtube to look for the song called "Time to Win." It's a hard rock song with rap. Kind of reminded me of the band Limp Bizkit though I was never really a fan of them. I like the song title. It's a good song to dance to. It revs me up. I also thought the guy who sang the chorus was kind of cute. His name is Pat Gillet and he also plays guitar.
I found this video where they covered "Are you that Somebody?" by Aaliyah. I love that song. The original is a R&B track. DWW made it into more of a rock song. It's great. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wva9kcq-lJk&feature=related
Funny news: I found this on Yahoo. This 34- yr- old guy is drunk and he's on the football goal post and he is hanging on the pole. The police and security catch him when he slowly drops off. The audience cheers afterwards.
The police are on top of him and arrest him. lol.
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Video-Man-climbs-to-the-top-of-goalpost-during-?urn=nfl,191555
Sept. 25 Crazy day: I went to the doctor for a second opinion about this wart on my finger. He told me that I needed to freeze it once a week until it's gone. I have been freezing it, and then 3 weeks later I go back to get it done again. I need to do it more often to get rid of it.
I went to the T&T at Northgate with my grandma and bought groceries and ate lunch there. Then we went home and I had to do Maintenance Wizard on the computer, wash my apron, and get money for my buspass. I called the other dr. to set another appointment. Then I read in 24 and my horoscope was true: "Just a spoonful of action helps the medical issues feel less demanding."
I went to Chinatown and paid $6 to get a new battery for my watch. It's worked for the past 2 years since the last time I was there. It's a kid's watch I got from Sears in 1997. I only had to change the battery 3 times in a period of 12 years.
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