The Prodigal Daughter

My sister has said something to me that has made me feel rather guilty. I hate being so personal, but I am at my wits end. I love her, and it feels like she thinks I am abadoning her.
Maybe that’s how I am most like Jim. I like interacting with people and getting to know them but I don’t ever really make any serious attempts to be particularly close. Those who interact with me do so. They often open up to me and tell me things that I now have the burden of keeping a secret. I think I often realize that because of this I often expect people to come to me and I should try and make an effort to reach out to them. I am not sure if I can accomplish this feat. It certainly is a paradox. The social introvert.

Most people know that I enjoy bad horror and action movies. They are entertaining and don’t take up too much time in my brain. I like films that make me think too, but I have been way more into being entertained lately than thinking. This brings me to Slither. A friend of mine had advanced tickets to go see it and I was totally down. I knew that it was going to at least be fun and probably pretty gross, but nothing could have prepared me for the humor in the film.
What I enjoyed was that right off the bat it knew what it was all about. It knew that it wasn’t going to take itself seriously and never made any attempts to do so. It’s nice to see something that is a total departure from how serious I feel hollywood has become. It’s pretty much a horror comedy, which is one of my favorite sub genres. James Gunn, the writer/director for the film is a Troma alumni so I wouldn’t expect anything different from him. It’s much much better than any Troma film that I have ever seen though.
Slither is incredibly well written, and some of the lines are absolutely to die for. Such as “You’re like chocolate for the eyes” and “It’s like finding a needle in a fuckstack” or “His arm was all bendy”. Another nice thing was the nod to Tremors. The Highschool’s name was pretty much the same as Fred Ward’s character. So the movie was made by a horror fan for the horror fan.
Nathan Fillion (SERENITY, FIREFLY) was pretty excellent as the small town sherriff. Kind of goofy, but at the right moments very brave. Fillion has fun in front of a camera and reminds me of Kurt Russel in that respect; just a guy who doesn’t take himself too seriously and as a result is a pretty fine actor. Gregg Henry (If you watch television you have probably seen him somewhere) was also priceless as the angry drunken Mayor. He is such an asshole the whole time, “Martians is a general term for Outerspace Fuckers” (or something along those lines).
On the gross out scale it’s pretty high. Tentacles are always gross, especially when one of them cuts a guy in half. I never get over the novelty of someone falling apart when they are cut down the middle. The slugs are really gross too and take over people through oral penetration (yes I just wrote that). The zombies that the slugs make people turn into are also pretty gross and there are some good and bloody feasting scenes. Some of the stuff is a little over board, yet totally forgivable.
I would probably buy this movie and put it in the “cheer me up when i am sad” collection, right along with Big Trouble in Little China. Which is saying a lot. Do yourself a favor and see it with a friend. It will be hard to stop laughing, if you’re with the right friend that is.
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This is more of a personal post. But I am starting one (a schedule that is):
Get up in the Morning
Eat some breakfast
Do some pilates/meditation/walking
Do research
Free Write
Blog
Book
E-mail
Read
*Try to get up earlier
*Try to eat more
Prayer
No more drugs/booze for a while

“The sun is reflected on a flower as the moon partially blocks it, forming a crescent, during a partial eclipse seen from the Jordanian capital Amman March 29, 2006.”– REUTERS/Ali Jarekj

Gross! This is supposed to be a statue of Britney Spears giving birth to her baby Sean Preston. Appparently his head is peeking out the other end. I don’t know if I’ve ever even thought of a woman giving birth on a bear skin rug, and this statue looks a whole hell of a lot better then real preggers Britney. I’m not sure what the prolife movement has heavily attached itself to this sculpture. It looks like pornography. I mean, jesus, it’s a bear-fucking-skin rug! It’s bad cheesy art. I’d much rather look at Duchamp’s urinal than this.
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Is updated, just clothes as always.

When I eat my fast food I don’t really think about where it comes from, or what part of the animal it is that I am actually eating. I do not care if my fast food chicken nuggets are made out of all white meat. I’d actaully prefer it if they weren’t. Everyone knows dark meat are the juciest bits anyway. I am not sure when they changed this. Maybe I am crazy and they never really did. All I know is that I think liked them a whole hell of a lot better before.

Something that has always helped hold America in my high esteem is the religious freedoms that people have in this country. It is often something taken for granted and over looked. We can let Tom Cruise be a Scientologist, the Mormons believe in what Joseph Smith had to tell them (where are those lost tablets?), the Christians love Jesus, and the Jews love Moses. Humor is also a big part of understanding and accepting different beliefs that people carry. If you can find humor in yourself even when faith is involved then I believe that you are fairly enlightened.
What disturbs me is when I see a news article about a man in Afghanistan that was prosecuted for converting to Christianity. This is not because I favor Christianity over Islam. I do not know enough about Islam to tell you whether or not I agree with their belief system. From what I understand they are they same God, their prophets are different. That’s fine. The same kind of feel with a different teacher? You tell me. What bothers me is that this man (who is also supposedly crazy, but then again so is Tom Cruise) was prosecuted for something he believes in simply because his country thinks it is wrong. He was not killing people in the name of Jesus, he was

“…converting to Christianity 16 years ago while working as a medical aid worker for an international Christian group helping Afghan refugees in Pakistan. He was arrested last month after police discovered him with a Bible.” –DANIEL COONEY, Associated Press

So basically he was trying to help people. I have a hard time thinking about such a rigid country that doesn’t allow anyone in it to pursue different beliefs. Is it so threatening to their way of life? To love and respect people. To want to help people. I can’t understand. This is not an attack on anyone’s beliefs. It is more of a criticism on a country that I don’t understand culturally. Even the the Islamic Research Center in Egypt somewhat agrees with me in that:

“although apostasy may be a crime, the time period for redemption is limitless — in other words, it is up to the individual, not the state, to adhere to divine will.” –J ALEXANDER THIER, nyt

I believe that redemption is up to the individual as well. They can ask for forgiveness and if it’s all the same God in the end you should come out with pretty clean shoulders. Whether or not you want to ask forgiveness for changing religions is up to you. At least the man has some conviction.
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Not quite. I have been looking at trailers though and airstream sill makes the classic looking ones in silver. I want one. BADLY! I am going to work my ass off to get one. I don’t care what it takes. Payment plan, sign me up. Even a used one would do. The interiors on the new ones are amazing though.

So my ultimate 3 year goal is to live in the desert in one of these. I want to shoot bottles off of a home made fence and chill out with my dog. *sigh*

don’t know what to say other then the french part it quite amusing.