I got an autograph from Doobie Chae, one of my 546 Sound students. At least, I think it’s his signature. He told me it is, but it could be a swear word for all I know.

Americans have spoken.

And besides the fact that Bush is tanking the economy, besides the fact that a Supreme Court Chief Justice may need to be replaced soon and basic women’s rights are at stake, besides the fact that untold thousands of people have been killed, besides the fact that education is slipping away, the American people, still paralyzed with fear and insecurity from the attack, voted for their security blanket, George W. Bush. He’s not the smartest blanket; heck, he says things like “subliminible,” and when he’s not reading off a script he sounds like just some Texan bully who stumbles and stutters when he speaks. He’s not the most honest blanket, claiming whatever reason he thinks we’ll buy in order to START a war in a region that already hates us. He’s the worse of two evils and I truly wish that Kerry hadn’t conceded to him, but if that’s Kerry’s character, then maybe I’m glad Bush won. If we’re forced to choose between a spineless intellectual or a resolute moron, which is better? Some choice. I contend it’s no choice at all. I just hope I don’t get drafted and have to find out. ☹️

Jimmy Two-Shoes Durante was brought in for questioning yesterday for allegedly beating a cow to death with a small ceramic statue. This may be the first case in mafia history involving a knick knack patty whack.

A young driver gets pulled over for speeding. The cop steps up to the car and the driver rolls down his window. The cop says, “I’ve been waiting for you all day,” to which the driver replies, “Sorry officer, I got here as fast as I could.”

A blonde goes to the laundromat to wash her favorite sweatshirt. She throws it in the washer but stops and stares at all the buttons. She asks the man standing next to her, “which setting do I use?” The man asks, “what does it say on the shirt?” The blonde replies, “University of Tennessee.”

M. Night’s most consistent film yet, it adriotly plays with our expectations and preconceptions. And if the technical aspect of the theatergoing experience is up to snuff you might actually get to fully enjoy the movie. (…If the projector’s bulb evenly lights the screen, and remains consistently bright, and the film doesn’t pulsate in & out of focus in the third reel, and the right and right surround speakers are turned up, and the speakers are of decent quality, and the noise of the projector is sufficiently muffled.)

Consider it your duty to see this movie if you haven’t already. No really, I insist.

“As a student just starting out in this field I feel it is my duty to become fluent in both ‘halves’ of the motion picture business, picture and sound, in order to keep my options open; for as I grow older and more experienced and gain a place of stature in the industry I don’t know which my aging body will make me first: blind or deaf.”

Well I’m back in Denver for the summer. Have been for a while now, just too lazy (honestly) to write anything in this blog…. which I doubt people actually read anyway.

I’m looking for production work and so far it’s a no-go. There appear to be few opportunities for production students like myself in the Denver area. But I have decided that while I may not be working I can still be working on other things. For example, writing, researching, getting into shape (heh, yeah, right), and visiting family are all viable alternatives. I have been performing maintenance on my car lately. Ya-hoo.

Doesn’t it seem convenient that this Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal has prompted violent retribution from the radical militant Islamic groups? Now this soldier found in the conveniently extremely well documented prisoner abuse photographs says she was ordered to pose that way? I think she and others like her are going to take the fall as patsies. The US will take the blame but before any more major reforms can be made there will be more retribution from terrorist cells and/or the US will counter-retalliate and we’ll see a major clampdown and possibly an excuse to postpone the June 30 handover. Or at least another major offensive in the Middle East focused towards yet another scapegoat. And while we’re on the subject of beheadings, why are we allies with Saudi Arabia? Does the Bush administration really believe that we’re stupid enough to believe that we’re fighting a war for “freedom” while at the same time they say things like “We have to worry about the menace, not the morals.” Give me a break! You know what, forget about it, just go fill up your car and buy some stuff.