Been Chillin'

And whooooooooeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

So I been kinda chillin' over that last week or so, what with no work or nothing. Watched the Kevin Smith back catalogue of films from the local Video Ezy. One thing that pisses me off is the shitty quality of the DVDs I've been hiring. Not the content, althought Black Knight is pure garbage, but the actual condition of the DVDs. I've had to take 3 back because my DVD player wouldn't read them or would stutter and shut itself down when it encountered bad encoding errors.

I'm used to seeing DIVX clips mosaic over like an epileptic vision switcher's paintbox control, but on these DVDs!!!

Also saw A Clockwork Orange all the way through, instead of in bits and pieces, as well as The Excorcist. It was interesting, watching a pretty hokey film rendition of demons incarnate in a pre-pubescent girl, followed by the exorcism itself.

This coupled with the treatment of Christian dogmatic theology in Dogma was quite thought provoking. In The Excorcist the two priests go through all this ritual crap to cast out a demon, when in reality the simple commandment to leave, spoken by any Christian (and I mean it in the "one who aspires to be Christ-like", not in the "Believes-in-God-At-Christmas") in the name of Jesus should have been successful.

I don't know, maybe I'm desensitized to violence and horror or maybe because I know the outcome of the game before it's even been played, but films like The Excorcist, Stigmata, End of Days, etc aren't that spooky or anything to me.

In other news, KLOK has another gig at SU Leaders weekend. When I pay off my credit card I'll finally get the website launched under it's own domain name, but for the meantime I am tweaking design.

I must go now and have lunch. At 8.45pm.

Boy do I feel rock and roll!!!

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Raining Stuff

Argggh!!! So it was t3h rainy last night. And will be tonight.

Additionally, I watched DVDs last night. And ate food.

In other news, I feel better than the last time I posted. I spent so much time taking unwarranted, unhelpful criticism in high school (enough to drive me to clinical depression and the joys of medication contained therein) that I find brutal honesty quite hard to take. I did take it, in the form of this e-mail, but I wasn't happy about it.

I'm not going to post the rest of the e-mail because it discusses some other people who should not be named here, but as this blog is a record of my stuff I feel that the entry below, along with the introduction is an accurate representation of the crapness I felt at the time.

Gee. Don't I Feel Good.

Received today from "friend". Reprinted are selections for you viewing pleasure. Make up your own mind whether it's accurate, because it seems like I am incapable of gauging my own accurate assessment of other people, let alone myself.

You dominate every social interaction you participate. You trample other people's conversations Activities. or anything else they might be doing. You seem to turn every conversation back to you somehow.

The fact is, that if girls are fobbing you off, it's probably for the same reason that anybody else would. Because you're so draining to be around. You suck the energy right out of people, cause you demand so much attention from them. On a different note. Surely you must have a need for acceptance that is pretty deep. Or you wouldn't go to such lengths. But it's just not normal.

To analyze it simply, you�ve got bad manners.� To look at it more closely, you've got a problem Bill.

I'm not trying to kick you when you're down, I'm trying to ram it into you so you can't avoid it.� You need to do something about this.�Your intentions are reasonably good, but you seem to be totally oblivious to your actions or other people's feelings.

My Boring-arse Day

Okay, I phoned work today spoke to me manager about work, and because it's thenew year slow period I am getting the next week or two off. Which is good, kind of.

So today I watched more West Wing DVDs and read a ridiculously large number of Harry Potter fanfics. The downside to not having work is the large MasterCard bill I have and the lack of monies that will be forthcoming from this lack of work. In other news I am a champion genius machine of photography after getting my photos back from camp. There are a few really nice ones in there, which I am reluctant to let go. Mind you, it would be kind of creepy to be hanging onto them, 'specially since they are of campers, but apart from that I am very happy with them. It's disturbing the number of people who have said "Oh, e-mail it to me," and have been rather surprised when I say, "Uh, actually I took them with a film camera, so you'll have to wait till I get them scanned."

Funny.

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Tired, Sore & Happy

I have returned from SMADD. Over for another year. Went well. Had a good study group. My core group, Media, produced some nice cinema ads and the camp Zine. I had the opportunity to talk seriously with a bunch of other people about other stuff, which was cool. I kind feel a lot better about some of the stuff in my life after taking a week out to do God stuff and work through some stuff with the other leaders.

Bizzarely, last night I had a camper ask me for dating advice, and as I was talking to him something kind went *brinnnnnnnnnnng*. See, I was saying how dating someone requires an outlay of energy and emotions, so why would you invest those things into a relationship that you knew was going to go nowhere. And I realised that that's a major reason I haven't really "gone out" with anybody. I've been out with 3 or 4 different girls once or twice, but I haven't really found anyone that has made me go "Woah!!" and there's not really anybody I seriously can or have seen myself with for an extended period of time.

So that was an interesting thought.

Anyway, pancake brunch tomorrow and BAS, followed by Watoto Children's choir on tour at my church.

Quickie In A Broom Closet

Alright. I'm currently on Summer SMADD, my annual pain-rite involving a week's worth of no sleep and working with teenagers. Well, it's not that bad, but I'm having an interesting time this year. See, it's hot, humid and the dorms at this campsite are kind of like the ones in high school. They have the same kind of carpets and the smell of a room of teenage boys in summer hasn't changed much.

It's been quote bizzare and I can tell you that I have, on more than one occasion in the last 72 hours, been transported back to the lower level of Palmer House, sometime in January, almost three quarters of a decade ago.

The difference this time being that I'm not inclined to sleep with a metal bar beside my bed to defend my physical wellbeing after lights out.

BTW, the title of this post refers to my current connection mode. I'm inside a storage cupboard filled with chairs and have a 2 meter butchered phone cable patched into the main PABX service line patch. ph34r my l33t t3lc0 h4x0r sk177z.

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Weird Dreams

So I totally had a weird dream last night. Which I then woke up from and then had weird dream two.

Now for whatever reason this was, and I don't know why, I was on irc and these guys in Michigan, USA invited me over for dinner. I said, "Sure," and grabbed my passport and headed to the airport. I bought a plane ticket and flew to Michigan then hired a car. It's winter in America of course, so I am driving on the wrong side of the road (for us, the correct one for them) and have just pulled out of the parking lot and have realised that I didn't even bring a bottle of wine or something.

So I turned around, flew home, grabbed a nice bottle of wine from my wine rack and then flew back to the US and hired another car and drove through a snowstorm to these peoples house, and I remember feeling incredibly embarassed because I was wearing a tie and they weren't.

The dinner went until the early hours, so I stayed overnight and the next morning we went to Denny's for breakfast, followed by a trip to some white, research looking building filled with people in white uniforms and stuff. I don't remember the specifics, but all of a sudden I was being chased by a guy in a black suit (very nicely tailored for his long torso) and I ran through the facility and out another door and it was late afternoon and I guess the season was spring or early summer, because everything was really green and I ran past a river.

I got a cab to the airport and then I woke up.

I remember thinking in that weird hazy dreamy kind of way that I'd have to go back to their house to get the hire car, or I'd have to pay a $100 collection fee to the car rental agency.

Then I went back to sleep and had the recurring dream about the girl.

See, there's this girl in my dreams, and she's always the same one, and I can see her and remember what she looks like, and I could even describe her now, but I won't because people will draw conclusions. But anyway, I talk to her and she talks back and it's like we're totally clicking and stuff, but everytime I wake up I always realise that I forgot to ask her her name.

I don't know her name, and that's kind of good in a way, but not good. I think I need to have a serious talk about this one, because it's spooky. Starting to freak me out.

Happy New Year

Right, so I went to a new year party with BAS people. We drank, swam, talked.

Dante got drunk again and decided to take on random people in his usual subtle way of deciding to die. They took him away in an ambulance. Because he had a broken nose. Because he is an idiot.

In other news, I saw Peter Pan the other day. It was cool. Really cool. Jason Isaacs is the biznatch with the shiznatch. I was impressed.