Diary of Inanity

Damn that Old Navy! Last night they told me to come in at five today and we closed at eight. Again. I only got like three and a half hours in. Man, I hope next week's schedule provides some serious hours. I need money, people!

Okay, I have had plenty of time to spend at home and have been watching some random movies. They're really random.

The one I watched parts of the past couple of nights was called "Young Adam" with Ewan McGregor and some very pasty people. They looked like the people in Poland. It was horrifying. What made it even more horrifying is that every other scene was Ewan jumping into bed with this pasty middle-aged woman. Horrible! And at one point the woman just sticks her tongue in Ewan's ear! I convulsed. The rest of it is just the pasty people on this damn barge on the river. Grr! Anyway, don't go watch "Young Adam" it's just extremely white people having gross sex.

The one I'm watching now is called "The Human Stain" with Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. Uh, let's create some spoiler space:
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I hope that was some good netiquette. All right, basically the movie is Anthony Hopkins is a college professor who loses everything because he's accused of racism when he uses the word "spook" which I didn't know hadn't a racial connotation. It all adds up to: Anthony Hopkins is in fact black and a jerk and Nicole Kidman plays this white trash woman with a crazy ex-husband.
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Okay, so, yeah, it's one of those damn movies that you can absolutely tell came from a book because it has all that heady novel crap. Yeah, I know, what you English majors would call literary merit. My point is that movies need to be more like movies and less like novels. Stop the over-intellectualizing. There is no philosophizing in a screenplay. There should be explosions and death and crying, but don't over-intellectualize it. I hate it when movies try to be preachy, like The Day After Tomorrow where they're like "Take care of the environment and don't look down at the third world because it's going to be the only place left to live." Does anybody fall for this crap? Then there's the whole Rorschach effect where people give things their own meaning, for example, Episode III and that whole part where they think Palpatine is like Dubya. Ummm... Ever heard of Hitler? Or like anybody besides Bush? I seriously get the impression that the most shrill critics like have no knowledge of anything besides the exact specific thing they're bitching about. (Also, do we all think that George Lucas is a gifted enough screenwriter to have inserted a political subtext into Episode III? I remind you ladies of the jury that this was the man who also wrote the words, "Anakin, you're breaking my heart." Case closed.) Like, there was some guy on TV in the Senate talking about conditions at Guantanamo where prisoners were told that they were gay and that their mothers and sisters were whores. Like, doesn't that just sound like high school to anyone?

Now, I'm watching Dallas. I'm frustrated because the words don't match up with the mouths. Also, Pam is being duped by her sister who really wants to sleep with Bobby. All the sisters-in-law want to sleep with Bobby and when they can't they sleep with J.R. Also, Pam is dating this guy Mark Graison and he's just ugly and has a moustache and will disappear when he has a fatal disease, now Bobby's in an argument with the guy. If this were J.R. this guy would be dead. Or broke, which on Dallas is just as bad if not worse. Or they sleep with J.R. to get to Bobby. And Lucy is telling her whole Special Victims Unit story to the guy she's about to sleep with. Also, J.R. just lost a whole damn tanker of oil because Bobby and Ray stopped him from selling it to Cuba when they took away their bribe money from his bag man! Damn it! And he won't hit or kill any of them! I actually just screamed the words "Kill him (Ray)! He's just a half brother!" Besides that, hasn't J.R. ever heard of a Swiss Bank account! You wire the money to a Swiss bank account, it's wired to the guy you're bribing in Puerto Rico, the Cubans wire the money they're paying you for oil to a Swiss bank (or the Grand Caymans, whatever one works) and that money comes out in Dallas! How hard was that to think of, J.R.?! Why are you working in actual cash? Do you know how stupid it is to send a man with $100,000 on a plane?! Especially Walt Driscoll, who is in fact a moron! This was funny how J.R. got this guy, the guy's wife was a bad driver so J.R. staged a whole hit and run with the help of his connection at the Dallas police department and they told them that the pedestrian the wife hit died! It was one of his most clever schemes yet. I'm not sure I could have thought of that. Well, maybe he could. Also, they haven't fixed that problem with the where the window is in Bobby's office.

Also, the picture. I don't know what to do for an icon so I just put something up.

End of the episode just now:

Some Chick: I'll make you pay dearly for this!
J.R.: You're just going to have to wait in line.

Damn. That almost made it worthwhile.