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This last Wednesday to…today I guess, I’ve been sick.  The cold, it is not fun.  Basically, yesterday and today, I feel alright until about 10pm at night but I have no voice.  I can whisper, I can crack like a 12 year old or I can talk in the Speecy Spicy Sausage voice.  Fun stuff.  So for serious I talk in whisper, for normal I talk in 12 year old and for comedic value I talk in the sultry tones of Heath Ledger.

Speaking of which, I watched Brokeback Mountain last week.  I have a fairly good response to it I think. Basically - the things that are important to me about movies, the criteria for good cinema, are all completely satisfied with the exception of one - Honesty.  I didn’t feel that the film was honest.  The directing, cinematography, writing, plot and acting were phenomenal.  But it didn’t feel to me as if they were in love.  So here I’m going to completely skirt the ‘can gay romance be love’ debate and just stick to my point.  It never seemed to me that their feelings for eachother were love because they were never exclusive, forsaking all others, faithful through and through - in love.  I mean…completely take out the gay issue.  Make it a white male and black female during 1830’s society.  Forbidden to start a life together, the couple sneak off to Brokeback Plantation or something and get it on.  But when they’re not together, their back in their lives, with their families, sleeping around with other people.  The point in the film that really drove that home for me was when Jack and Ennis are are on the mountain for the last time and they get in the argument about Jack going to Mexico.  And Jack’s outburst in response to Ennis’s criticism shows that he was more concerned with getting his desires satisfied than with any kind of relationship with him.  So back to our comparison from 1830 - the black woman has been sneaking off to the north to get some white lovin and get’s called on it and she replies with ‘I just needed the white lovin, but I still love you.’
It just doesn’t jibe with me.

Anyways.  That was my feelings about the film.  If someone asks me whether or not I liked the film, I tell them I thought it was excellent.  If they ask what I thought about the ‘issue’ of the film, I tell them to watch the movie.

In other news, the last bastion has fallen.  My friend Marky has succombed to the call of the WoW.  He went and got it over the weekend and we spent the evening and yesterday getting him to level 12, logged out in Westfall and ready to get moving on the new quests the next time we play.  We all started lowbie alts to play with thim, but that’s 7 different people, 2 more than are allowed in a group, so I guess 2 will be left behind and I’m fine with that being me.   I can’t have an alt for every one of my friends who plays so…guess I just hold out for the day when we’re all 60 and that will be fun.

I was going to write a nice long entry on my experience in traffic school, but I think a word montage might be sufficient.

Close your eyes and imagine -

7:30 am
1000 people
100 people
dregs of society
humorous instructor
waste of a day

That was pretty much it.  Easter was a good time, got to see some extended family and hang out with Sarah’s family too, which I always like doing. 

There’s a LAN in the works for next Friday, which should be a good time.  People should go…even though it’s in RSM.  I like going out there actually, even though it’s a drive and costs me 3 bucks.  The ride is nice at night.

There was something else too…but I can’t recall. meh.

I really did see the most comedic instance of irony ever.

I was driving down the street and up ahead I saw emergency lights.  So I was thinking, you know, ‘what’s going on? is there an accident?’  But I noticed that the lights were yellow, not the normal police blue.

As I pulled up I saw that it was a flatbed tow-truck.  And on the back of it…

Was an ambulance.

Freaking hilarious.

Oh my freakin sweetness!

This new monitor is absolutely gorgeous! It’s way, way bigger than I thought it was going to be, seriously I was getting a bit nausiated playing WoW.  That’s how big…

Everything…gorgeous, vibrant wonderful, amazing…

*swoon*

I’m just going to throw in my two cents here.  Since it’s my blog, I’m entitled.  Anyone who reads this knows I’m a conservative, not like that determines where you stand on this particular issue but it’s relevant because I do fall into the majority of the party line on this.

Where to start…

First of all, I understand the plight of the average Mexican.  I know why you want to move to the U.S., to seek opportunities that don’t exist in Mexico.  It’s the same reason Sven Glier came over here with his family from Sweden over a hundred years ago.  So, keep that in mind as you read my analysis/rant.

I read a quote yesterday by the mayor of a town on the outskirts of LA that welcomes … migrant workers (that’s the name of the week, right) …what the hell, I’ll call them what they are - illegal aliens.  The quote said, “We don’t think that people are breaking the law if they simply don’t have documents” -Felipe Aguirre, Deputy Mayor of Maywood

First of all, the inherent stupidity of such statements.

The law requires you to have documents to be in this country and work for a given period of time.  Not having those documents means you are breaking the law.
Obviously the Mayor never took a basic logic course.

Secondly, I first thought that this little town of illegals would be an interesting socio-economic study in about 5 years, but I then remembered I could save myself the time of examining it and drive a couple hours down the 5 and check out TJ.
One of Bush’s favorite lines, is “jobs that American’s don’t want”.
This is retarded, they don’t want them because they don’t pay enough.  They don’t pay enough because big business won’t pay enough until they have too, it’s a viscious circle.  And this cycle is perpetuating low wages and standard of living for workers in the U.S. which, in-turn, effects the health of the American economy and the social well-being of our communities.  Blah.

The next is this whole assumption that you can’t have an ‘anti-illegal immigration’ standpoint without being racist.
Bugger off.  Racism comes from fear or from negative experiences that you allow to wrongly shape your perceptions.  I live in Southern California, I’m not afraid of Mexicans, I’m around them all the time. As for negative experiences, I’ve had them.  But, as I said, I don’t allow them to wrongly shape my perceptions.
Neither of these apply to me, I’m not racist, I simply want immigrants coming the U.S. to go about the route that my ancestors did - legally. 

Some might say, ‘Can’t illegal aliens positively contribute to American society’.  My answer is, of course they can.  But I feel there to be a fundamental flaw in this way of thinking. 
Positively contributing involves obeying the law.   If your first act inside this country is to break the law by coming in…that’s kind of starting off on the wrong foot, wouldn’t you say?
I really like a quote I heard the other day,

“Personally, I favor a very high fence, with a very big gate.”

In conclusion. Move here. Work here.

BUT

-Come legally.
-Obey the law.
-Contribute to society.
-Don’t lose your heritage, but integrate.

There’s been a TON of religion objections to this piece of fiction, which I think for the most part are valid, but no one is going to listen unless they already don’t buy the whole ‘cup of Christ’ thingy.  This was a refreshing alternative criticism to what is sure to be this years biggest movie.

  9 Art Bloopers in the Da’Vinci Code

Side note - they cast Audrie Tauteau in the role of Sophie Neveu in the film, but I always pictured the actress who played Claire in the first Mission Impossible.

My sense of masculinity took a serious dive on Monday.  While I was cooking dinner, I cut myself…with a zester.
Some of you may not know what a zester is, it’s an ultra-fine grater, but that’s not the point.

Anyone who hurts themselves with something as effeminate as a zester, really just has to kill themselves. 

zomg.

“At the box office this weekend, Ice Age 2 clobbered Basic Instinct 2 hauling in $70 million dollars, compared with less than $3 million for the Sharon Stone movie. One film is about a prehistoric creature’s struggle to survive and find love, the other is the animated sequel to the movie Ice Age.”

I just did a very wonderful/silly thing.