I think I am the only person who actually reads books anymore.

From:
Canopenners.boss@canopennerscompany.com
01/30/2007 10:52 PM
To:
Canopenner@Canopennerscompany.com
Subject:
Film Advice from 'The Source'


The Good: (Dont miss it)
Kingdom of Heaven - wow
The Guardian - didnt expect it, but great flic
The Departed - Even Leo was impressive
Lucky # SLevin - great story
A Scanner Darkly - Robert Downey Jr is brilliant. same writer as Minority
Report, Total Recall, Blade Runner


The Bad: (entertaining but not great)
Devil Wears Prada - Gisel is in it
Idiocracy - not bad, dax shepard saves this movie
Invincible - whalberg is a dud, but everyone else is good
Employee of the month - dax shepard saves this movie
Talladega Nights: not bad, but may grow after multiple screenings

The Ugly: (Dont Bother)
Black Dahlia - WTF
The Wickerman - no acting
Superman Returns - making superman into a whining, adulterer, peeping tom
Miami Vice - WTF. Gay. Collin Farrell solidifies himself as a retard, and
Jaime Foxx sold his soul for one movie to make 100 horrible pieces of shit


Can't Hardly Wait (To See):
300
Pan's Labyrinth
Zodiac


Actually Phillip K Dick didnt write total recall, it was adapted from a short story called "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale" But there was a team of writers that worked on it. Also Blade Runner was adapted from a novelette by Dick called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", in which the main character actually finds out that he himself may be an android without his knowledge. Ive read the original and trust me it only loosely resembles Blade Runner.

A Scanner Darkly is a direct translation of the book and other than some omissions is identical to the book minus a few chapters.

I only bring this up because Im the biggest PK Dick fan in MN.

-R

Well, I have decided that life is like so much water that Im trying to hold in my hands and that no matter what I will ever do its just going to keep slipping through my fingers.

My wife was laughing at me last night because we were having a discussion on some of my deeper thoughts.

Such as:

Where do I stop and the world begins? Seems to me that if I didnt observe the world then as far as Im concerned it wouldnt exist. (The world will be there anyway, is what she said back. But Im not convinced, as far as I am concerned the world wouldnt exist anymore.)

Or she thought it was really funny when I said I tried to see how "deep" my self went and appearently it takes a long time to get messages back from that place. I dont see why this is so funny? She laughed her head off for like 5 minutes over that statement.

I also told her that there was no viable way for me to conclusively prove the existance of anything, my job, the world or even herself. That it could be a dream or an illusion or some fantasy created to placate my mind.

She thought that was pretty funny too.

Then Bill Cosby was done on the tonight show and I said we could move on because Bill Cosby actually brought all this on. She then asked "Is it cause Bill Cosby is so old that he reminded of you of these unanswerable questions?"

I said, "No, its because I feel that I have some intrinsic connection to Bill Cosby."

Then we both laughed.

She was laughing because she thought it was a joke. I was laughing because I think its true.

Yeah, Im insane I guess.

Well, Im back. Id like to think I had alot of things happen over the past week for me to talk about.

I played alot of video games. (As you may have suspected).

The 18 year old thought he would go into HR block and file his taxes for last year. He called us afterward. To wich I said, "I can prove you were my dependant last year, so if you want to f' with the IRS and perform tax evasion than you go right ahead."

My wife was slightly more upset, she spent an hour on the fone yelling at HR block.

So that all boils down to her taking him in and filing an exemption for him today at HR block...And also I guess they are doing our taxes for free, to fix this mess they created. Any idiot could have told that the kid should not be filing his own taxes anyway his birthday was 12/31.

And the kid definately knew what he was doing too. Which is why my wife was so mad. So all those people who said I was the jerk here, think again. I am not one to claim what is not mine. I am interested in doing the right thing. Too bad the 18 year old doesnt seem so interested in it.

Also in other news Melissa had her little friend kathryn spend the night and that all went well, the girls went to sleep at 9:08 that night, they musta been very tired from driving me crazy with their extra loud playing and laughing.

And lastly, I had 2 bowls of chile for dinner last night :^) YUMMY! However, avoid my cube today fi you know whats good for you.

The day is finally here.

Goodbye for 9 days my friends.

Stay out of trouble. Do good works and make me proud.

See you all on the 29th.

Only 1 day after today remains before my 9 day vacation. And let me tell you, it couldnt come soon enough.

This place is a pressure cooker.

In other news I am going to Melissa's school program tonight to see her perform as "weatherman #2" in the musical "Snow Business".

I cant wait...(Can you hear the sarcasm when you read this).

SHe has her one line memorized. Im sure she will do great.

Oh and did I mention only 1 more day until my vacation?

So, Im, lying there in bed, when all of a sudden...

WOOOMP! CRASH!

"WAAA WAAA WAAA"

Melissa(10) had fallen out of the top bunk of her bed. She has a bottom bunk to but she USED to prefer to sleep on the top. I guess thats gonna change now.

We tucked her back in if she died from a head injury over night I woulda blamed my wife. But she got up and went to school with just a slight limp. Im sure she will be fine.

Oh and also 2 DAYS REAMINING UNTIL MY 9 DAYS OFF!


hee hee

3 more days (after today) heh...I can hardly wait.

The kids made the nastiest cookies last night while I left them unsupervised in the kitchen. Rasberry Mint. Gross. Gross. Gross! I told them so too. Along with "Why mix RASBERRY AND MINT?!!!!"

-Shudder-

Also I saw a scanner darkly recently. It was good. They cut out ALOT from the book. Like for instance, Freck going to new path, completely dropped(along with most of the aphid stuff). Arctor persuing leads to catch dopers at new path, also cut. Donna Hawthorne shooting up coca cola trucks and stealing stamp machines, taken out. Arctors time in new path after he turned his brain into a $1.99 borrito, also cut. I am suprised they left the part in where donna meats with the guy who arctor (bruce) made friends with when he first got to new path. Considering you dont even know who that character is, they still have him sit down for burgers and explain whats happening with arctor in new path to donna.

But other than them cut cut cutting it up it was pretty good. Id go as far as to recommend it. Especially if you never read the book, you wont miss anything.

Have a good day!

Well, Im in a bit of a rush since I didnt blog last night like I meant to.

But if I can make through this week Ill have 9 days in a row off.

WOOT!

Cant wait.

Time to go back to hacking away at the undergrowth that is the rest of my week.

Bye now.

Well, I talked to the 18 year old tonight. He called. Theres some debate as to why.

One school of thought is that his grandmother dropped off a note for him at work today. I dont know what it said, but he answered the fone when my wife called him(finally 1.5 weeks later). And said he would be calling home tonight (she was at work) to talk to me and the children.

The fone call went well. Im not really that incredibly mad anymore. I decided Id talk to him last but I answered the fone and I made sure when I heard how small he sounded on the other end of the fone when I said hello that I told him I love him and I would talk to him in a minute.

Then I put him on the fone with his sister.

I didnt eavesdrop on the conversations he had with the kids.

My conversation with him went well for the most part. He said he is doing well and was getting his homework done. (However I have been watching online and he has missed a few assignments.) I told him I would love him no matter what but that I had wished he had gone about things alittle differently. And that I was extremely angry when this news first broke but that I was pretty much over it since oh I dunno, yesterday.

He talked about the cat that lived over there and asked how the video games were going. He said the school would let him apply for free lunch. Which I am pretty suprised about...I would think they would want to look at our past year income. He said he was going to call back at 10:30 to talk to his mom, I told him he needed to handle the situation with her gently because this is being very hard on her, he agreed and we said goodbye.

Well, here is where we start talking about the second school of thought as to why he called.

Appearently he needs his mother to sign over his bank account because he cant get money out without her signature for some strange reason. This would also make it seem to me that he has blown through his checking account and may not be being a wise steward of his assets. Additionally he has no running vehicle and no drivers liscense.

:^(

Everything was going so well. Why did he have to produce the alternate reason for calling? It casts doubt on the entire situation.

I dont think thats my imagination.

I know I have gotten some pretty nasty comments from readers saying how I have a an anger problem and I need counseling and yadda yadda no wonder blah blah.

I have perfectly legitamate reasons to be upset here. And thats that.

I dont want to play cloak and dagger with my kid and constantly feel like hes going to knife me in the back or trip and fall on a knife and thusly knife me in the back.

WOE AND AGONY SHALL BE ON ME FOR HIS STUPID MISTAKES.

I guess I just dont trust him to make the right choices anymore.:^(

And that makes me angry. :^P

Wasnt this post so much more exciting when I was angrier?

ok just to put spin on this story and really beg the question as to how upset I can legitamately be, listen to this-

Appearently he mentioned to my wife how his uncle was pointing out that perhaps he could get an ebt card...Yeah, ok, 18 year old well bodied man, on welfare. How can I not be upset about that? Furthermore how can that possibly be the best thing for him?! So why should I not be upset? (OK DOWNRIGHT ANGRY!?!), that he is considering that as an option?(Is that an option?!) I never considered that as an option at that age, and I would be downright ashamed if I had.

I guess if he wants to jump through the hoops laid down by the state then so be it. Perhaps they can teach him something that I somehow missed.

Oh and someone please tell me again how I am a morbid control freak.

OK...I am adjusting blogging schedule to nazi-ish new corporate big brother internet eyeball on me.

:^P

I heard these 2 jokes from the kids tonight at the dinner table:

Melissa:

What did the lawyer name his daughter?

Sue

John:

So a teacher, a lawyer and a petty theif goto heaven. And st. peter is there, and st. peter says to them, "Its gettin kinda crowded in there guys, soooo nowadays you have to answer a question to get in."

They all agree that they really have no choice and ask st. peter to continue.

st. peter turns to the teacher and says, "what was the name of the boat that was supposedly unsinkable but actuallyhit an iceburg and sunk in 1912?"

the teacher says, "easy, thats the titanic"

st peter opens the gates and lets her in, then he turns to the petty thief, "How many people died in that wreck?"

the petty theif says, "well thats a toughy, but I saw the movie so I know the answer, heh heh, 1523."

st peter once again opens the gates to heaven and the petty theif smiles, waves to the lawyer and walks through.

st peter then turns to the lawyer, "ok, your turn, name those people."

Well, Instead of getting the 18 year old off our lunch account, my wife left him a note saying basically "2.35 lunch only!".

So I got mad about that. Because thats not what we agreed to do.

But moving on.

He didnt listen anyway, So my wife cried for about 8 hours yesterday because she stuck he neck out for him and he crapped on her anyway.

I think she is having a really big problem with cutting the apron strings. I tried to tell her that its not up to us. But she just cries and cries about it anyway.

Sigh.

Its going to get really cold here this week, like -20. And that is really really too cold for me.

Lets see, lets see, its not easy to come up with stuff to blog about every weekday.

Oh! Oh! I know:

No actually I dont.

But it looks like the company is not monitoring internet usage YET, but they still plan to.

Also, today is the day we are having the 18 year old removed from our public schools lunch account. Yeah. Id been pushin for this since he moved out but my wife didnt want to argue about it. So I was almost, kinda, sorta, leaving it alone. Until yesterday when he bought his girlfriend or someone else lunch on our dime. Yeah, my wife kinda hit the roof about that. I had to laugh. And Ill laugh a more secret laugh about it all day long.

She has also been trying to call him for 4 days about getting his cell fone transfered into his name. Well he hasnt been taking our calls or calling us back....Soooooooo, today we are having that shut off.

My wife says, "oh but then he cant call us and we cant call him!"

And I say, "Wake up and smell the coffee, we cant call him now and he isnt calling us either."

And she says, "Well I just dont want to be so blunt that we cause more damage to our relationship"

And I say, "Whats so blunt about not paying another ADULTS bills? I dont really see any bluntness there. This is the way things are, people pay for the crap they want, they dont have their parents pay. Besides its DUSTIN that is causing damage to our relationship right now by not calling us back when we have called him 50 times to get this taken care of in a week. Im sorry but I am just plugging holes and I feel that we are vulnerable to Dustin, and Im also sorry to say that he is NOT trustworthy. Look at his recent actions. How could they not prove that? Whats our relationship going to be like when we are libel for his 1000 dollar cell charges?"

Then my wife cries.

Ugh.

At least Im not ragingly pissed off about it anymore. :^) Thats good.

I hate when my wife cries tho. :^(

My flippin back is killin me!

Ugh! Oh! Ack!

Cant move.

In other news they have supposedly started monitoring internet activity at my corporation. So Ill try and keep my usage on the down low.

Have a happy Monday!

My wife does this dance...Whenever she doesnt have to goto work the next day. It goes like this.

Effectively shake your hips like your doing the twist
Throw your hands in the air like you just dont care
Then you limp to the side like your leg was broken

While doing this say "I dont have to work to-morrow, I dont have to work to-morrow"

Then when your done, point at someone who does have to work tomorrow and laugh. You could say "in your face -insert persons name here-!!! hahahaha", but usually that statement is just implied.

There is a counter-dance that involves something like the mash potato and singing about the dishes needing done.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Well, ok, Im pretty much over being mad. I mean Im still mad. But Im not ragingly mad anymore.

Im in the whatever zone.

So whatever.

Lets see, in other news its tacos for dinner and moodkiller is being a big crabby crab ass this morning. But I still love him. XOXOXOXO Moodkiller.

I went back and was reading my posts from last January. They are pretty funny. Its fun to go back in time with blogs and know what you were thinking years ago.

I bet everyone thinks so.

Ok...Well, found the kid. He is at his uncles appearently. Remind me to blacklist that asshole too.

Also my wife cried pretty much all day yesterday and the other kids didnt take it so well either. Much crying and gnashing of teeth.

I am still just ragingly pissed about how selfish, underhanded and dirty that little punk is so I am disavowing him.

I hope he starves in the street. Appearently hes had this planned for awhile and has been lying to me for months, meanwhile, I was taxi-ing him to dances and spending thousands of dollars on him.

I hope he dies. Motherfucker.

And later when his dumb punk teenage ass is in trouble he better NOT come to me to bail him out because all I will do is kick his fucking teeth in.

DIE. Inconsiderate, childish, weasely welp. DIE.

Well, I had a great weekend. However me waking this morning to my 18 year old kid having cleaned out his stuff and snuck out at 2 AM has me pretty angry.

I think I will punch his fully legal ass out when I see him.

End of post.