Because the internets (a series of tubes) aren’t filled up enough with bickering and rants I thought I trow a couple more out there. This is more of an observation than a rant really but whatever it’s something I think needs to be addressed. And, although they might be a small issues I believe they are stepping stone issues that would help us all get along much better… I’ll get to the politics another time.
1. Shopping Cart Etiquette - There is a nasty group out there that will fight blood, sweat and tears for that one spot in line at the check out aisles that puts them one spot ahead of you. Really people it’s like you are back in elementary school fighting for cuts in line… GROW UP! This lady the other day literally raced to 10 Items or Less line when she saw me walking to the same line and why I ask since I was ony carrying a bottle of bleach and the cash in hand!! Once there she in her glorious spot ahead of me she then proceeds to unload her cart and lo and behold she is way over the 10 item limit… figures. But wait dear readers there is more oh yes there is more. This line is also a cash only line and she somehow convinces the clerk to let her use her Amex card which doesn’t work on repeat swipes. Evil shopping cart lady wherever you are I hope the rest of your day was filled with cars and people cutting you off and those 3 minutes you saved by racing to get in front of me was eaten up by miserable LA traffic. Love, Scott.
2. Parking Lot Drivers - You may not know this but bad drivers are at the top of my list of worst kind of people and there are plenty of avenues of could go down in ranting about them but this time it’s the ones in the parking lots. While pulling into one of the many fast food chains near my house one of these wonder-kinds was attempting something that was just ludicrous. The entrance to this establishment is a one way, very narrow driveway with the restaurant one one side and very tiny slanted parking stalls on the other. In other words you need a small vehicle to maneuver in this area. So as I was pulling into the driveway this person was trying to pull off a 3-point turn about (much like Austin powers did with the little electric cart in first Austin Powers movie) and drive the wrong way out where I currently was waiting. He finally pulls of the turn and then stares at me like I’m supposed to move for him. It was a wonderful fulfilling moment where I felt like Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Ennio Morricone’s theme whistling in my ear while we stared each other down. He finally retreated and turned his vehicle around and headed out the proper direction. I beg and plead with all pilots of these new fangled horseless carriage… learn the ways of the road or figure it out or something but please stop being stupid your just hurting America.
If you stuck around through the end of this post, thank you for reading. A regular post will follow soon.
This weekend for Mother’s Day, the Evanskey crew packed its bags and boards and headed up to Mammoth Mountain for a two day getaway. We also we’re heading up for little J to partake in his first snowboarding lesson. The lessons went great and plenty of digital film was used up in capturing all the glorious triumphs and even a few of the tumbles and spills. Here are a couple of shots from Saturday’s events and you can link over to the Flickr set by clicking on any one of the pics. I’ll try to incorporate the new video features of Flickr for some cool videos we took while we were up there.
Whew… I almost forgot my April update on the Watchmen movie but realized the error of my way just in the nick of time.
Okay, so it’s a quick one this time but here are a few more characters from the movie.
The first one is in my opinion one of the greatest characters and antiheroes ever put to paper… Rorschach. The guy after him plays a pretty important role only second to Rorschach in the unraveling of the mystery of the story and his name is Nite Owl II.
So tomorrow is a big day for my programming class. I am presenting with my teammates our first person shooter game that we just finished up this week. This is a huge step from the last 2D game I did and you might see that by the screen shots I have uploaded down below. This game ROCKS… just like my photo here (and yes that’s my original 1990 Motley Crue “Home Sweet Home” shirt from when they played the Long Beach Arena, ROCK N’ ROLL, BABY!!)
Anyway, throw your eyes over these screen grabs and hopefully more games will be coming soon. I’ll try to have a demo up here for people to download. Until then… it’s hammer time.
So, Mr. J is definitely utilizing his time as a kinder to get the most done in life besides playing outside, watching TV, and video games. He is now booked on Tuesdays with soccer, Wednesdays with Kidnastics, and then takes an extra class after school on Fridays in Español. He’s starting to make my schedule look easy! Although today I did finish my calc. test and final and we’ll see how that turns out on Wednesday. J’s bike riding is going good but we difinitely need to be out doing more as the days get warmer and longer. The Mrs. is doing great with no more knee or lip problems and is back to work on a full schedule. My Devry semester is winding down this week so new classes to talk about after next week and Long Beach City is moving along. A new offer came back from a local big game company and after a nice phone conversation with the hiring manager she asked me to come in after my semester and new schedule starts up. More on that if and when it develops. Maybe my game will finally get the start it needs.
Somewhat Interesting Nugget of the Day: “Busy Bee” is actually a pretty good song by the early nineties band Ugly Kid Joe which can be found on their first full-length album titled America’s Least Wanted.
This weekend was a nice calm before the storm… that’s still coming this whole week. My mom flew into town and man were her arms tired… ba dum bump. Anywho, since she was going to be watching little J-man, the misses and I decided to catch one of those moving picture shows that the kids are calling “movies” nowadays and saw “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” by the always wonderful and talented Apatow gang. Was this one worse or better? Well I have to say I nearly died crying with tears of laughter. This movie continues their wonderful streak of hits (even if you count Walk Hard) with a beautiful mash-up of Superbad meets Knocked Up! I have to say that all the parts were cast to perfection and even seeing Billy Baldwin in his pseudo CSI role was straight up genius casting. Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) and Kristen Bell (Heroes, Veronica Mars) are wonderful and a delightfully genuine in their parts and Russell Brand as Aldous Snow the European Pop Star is so obnoxiously hysterical and definitely has one of the best lines in the movie. I highly recomend this movie to fans or anyone unfamiliar with the whole Judd Apatow crew because when funny is this good it’s hard not to tell people.
So Saturday was pretty much studying for finals and getting things done around the house day. But once that was finished Karen and I got all spiffied up and headed out to Melrose to the Hollywood Improve where we saw Joel McHale the host of the E network’s “The Soup” do his stuff on stage and what a night it turned out to be.
The first two guys up decided to go right for the Billy Idol look-a-like (me) and cracked a few good ones at my expense (something to do with heroin, cocaine, and eating… I won’t go any further for under 18 readers). Anyway, after the first three guys on stage Joel took the spotlight and hammered it home. Just like his show except on speed this guy tore into all the usual suspects and a favorite of many of my tirades… Reality Shows! It was just awesome!! Everything from American Idol to any one of the million and one soul sucking so called reality shows out there he found a way to make it even more ridiculous than they already are and tell some wonderful insider stories related to his own network’s sister shows like the Kardashians. They actually met for the first time last week for a promo E photo shoot and the mother, Kim and the sisters all came up to him and said how much they enjoyed his show! Joel’s response… REALLY? Even though I tell my audience every week that you are all dead behind the eyes? Well then it’s very nice to meet ya. and when mother Kardashian said “listen you can talk about Kim’s big ass but could you please not talk about “the” sex tape.” Joel whispered into her ear “But that’s what she’s famous for and correct me if I am wrong but didn’t YOU sell the rights to the tape and continue to profit from it without a dime going to Kim who made the tape?” Needless to say he will be continuing with her two famous titles on the Soup. AWESOME! I’m happy to see someone like Joel wonderfully stepping up on a weekly basis and ritualistically verbally slaying these sad soulless wonders and continuing his weekly bashing of Ryan Seacrest. And Joel I will feel your pain the day I see you on the E red carpet asking any of these “reality stars” who you are wearing? Keep the faith funny monkey boy. Afterward Karen and I met Joel outside the club in a dark alley…
So what do Haley “I see dead people” Joel Osment, Zoe the first frozen embryo child, James I, King of Scotland (how appropriate), Steven Seagal, Omar Sharif, Max Von Sydow, Warren DeMartini (guitarist for Dokken/Ratt), Joseph Pulitzer, and the world’s skinniest man, Claude Ambroise Seurat have in common? We all party like it’s 1999 on this day! Well the ones that are still alive anyway. So happy birthday to all my fellow freaks and geeks and me! Keep on truckin’!
Somebody Pimp My Ride! I need some spinners, pronto!
Z-Boys ain’t got a thing on me!
Future “Empire” Leader
The Dodgers still own me because of a bad contract with Lasorda back in ‘79.
The big J-man is motorin’ now! This weekend Jaden learned how to ride his bike without training wheels. In fact, he didn’t really like riding the thing with them at all and opted to ride his Razor rather than the bike with the t-wheels. So this weekend his friend Ray came over with his bike and who can ride pretty good without training wheels so naturally Jaden needed to be up to par with his buddy. After a few tries he took off like a bat out of hell and man can that kid cruise! Here are a few shots of him enjoying himself riding the bike.
Since spring break is nearly over and unfortunately my DeVry classes continued through the break, I finished up my Friday class and bolted home as fast as I could. Once there I grabbed Jaden threw him the truck and headed over to the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana to check out the big bubble extravaganza and even got to check out some other new exhibits as well. Anyway, the bubble show is AMAZING! This guy Fan Yang is completely insane! It’s playing as a full fledged show in Las Vegas and New York and you can check him our at www.bubbleheart.com and I suggest if you are in one of those cities that you get your booty movin’ to see some crazy soap and water routines! Here’s a bubble picture for you guys! Seriously, that’s a real bubble and DEVO shirt!
This seems to be a great year for movie snobs like me. Although 2008 has started off a little on the slow side, it’s really gearing up for the possibility of movie greatness and fun.
For the Geek: Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Files 2, Choke, Pineapple Express, Death Race, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
For the Geek with Kids: Speed Racer, Wall-E, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
For the Intellectual Geek: Where In the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, Smart People, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
For the Romantic Geek: Sex and the City, Zach and Miri Make a Porno
And, just because I’m such a hardcore X-Files fan, here’s the teaser poster for the upcoming movie, which sent shivers down my spine when I saw it:
Well Jaden has been doing pretty darn good at school and while he was visiting with grandma over the spring break Karen and I decided to do the big rewards thing for him. Today after I picked him up and we got home we presented him with his very own snowboard and equipment. We were planning on going tomorrow up to Big Bear but due to my back being instantly and completely destroyed we are postponing the trip to a few weeks from now. Instead of Big Bear we are planning to make the trip up to Mammoth and Jaden is pretty excited to go. Here’s a quick pic of the boy wonder and his new board!
Well the week before spring break certainly has been a tough one and it isn’t even over yet. This week our water heater went out on Sunday and we didn’t get the repairman and the replacement part out until Wednesday! Apparently, the company that makes our water heater is in a class action lawsuit because of a malfunctioning part which is the one we happen to need. Then on Thursday I had a 3 to 5 page paper due on one of my stories that I read in English class and I chose to do it on character (dynamicn flat, well rounded, etc.) from the short story A Scandal In Bohemia. Also on Thursday I had my mid term exam in English and man I felt like I wrote 15 pages worth of essays! In reality it was more like five. So after that I was off to DeVry for some mad phat 3DS Max skillz. From 1:30 to 5:00 I spent my time creating some pretty wicked looking objects in 3DS Max which I’m throwing up here for your viewing pleasure. All the images are part of a project for my visual and audio programming class in where I create three dimensional landscape and the last picture is three dimensional model of our dining room table along with a comparison photo of the real thing.
Well St’ Patty’s Day came and went and being that I am part Irish (25 percent or at leasts that’s what the German want me to believe), I completely forgot to post about it yesterday or dye my hair or do something completely stupid while intoxicated all in the name of green clovers! On the good side I posted a bunch of cool pics up on Flickr and althought they have nothing remotely Irish about them, they are pretty cool to look at… I swear!
Whew… I almost forgot my April update on the Watchmen movie but realized the error of my way just in the nick of time.
and when mother Kardashian said “listen you can talk about Kim’s big ass but could you please not talk about “the” sex tape.” Joel whispered into her ear “But that’s what she’s famous for and correct me if I am wrong but didn’t YOU sell the rights to the tape and continue to profit from it without a dime going to Kim who made the tape?” Needless to say he will be continuing with her two famous titles on the Soup. AWESOME! I’m happy to see someone like Joel wonderfully stepping up on a weekly basis and ritualistically verbally slaying these sad soulless wonders and continuing his weekly bashing of Ryan Seacrest. And Joel I will feel your pain the day I see you on the E red carpet asking any of these “reality stars” who you are wearing? Keep the faith funny monkey boy. Afterward Karen and I met Joel outside the club in a dark alley…
