High on Life

Man, what is this shit? Taste's like shit. I'm not feeling anything. Better do another, I think. No, still nothing. This was awfully expensive I'm not getting anything off it. Fuck. Life is the worst drug ever.

Random Thought #2

Life is a never ending series of defining moments that are oddly difficult to define.

I don't believe in the singularity of fate but I've always thought that life was pretty linear. You follow a path and come to a crossroads. You choose another path and follow it to another crossroads, ad infinitum. It's a bit of a cliche but it's pretty well known way of visualizing life. But what it life isn't a series of choices made? What if it is not the divergence of the path into more than one way but rather a convergence when two paths come together? The intricate web of all the decisions and events of one's life come together at a single point to propel us on to the next destination.

Two roads converged in the woods, and I-
I took the one I came by,
And that has made no difference.

Life Lesson #3

Life would be so much easier if women could learn to (not) think like men.

Just in Time For Christmas

I remember when I was a kid and the war between VHS and Beta had just ended with VHS the inferior victor. Back then a movie would come out in theatres, have a good run of three to five months depending on its popularity, be available for purchase on cassette about a year after that and then on TV a year after that. There was an uproar back then about piracy back then, too.

This was back in the mid to late 80's, you understand. Now it's the mid to late 00's. Replace VHS with DVD or Blu-Ray and digital copy and movies are available for free online before you can go see them for an arm and a leg and a left testicle at the theatre. If you can afford the fare, you'd best act fast because a blockbuster flick will be showing for the next twelve minutes. I exaggerate, of course. But a good run seems to last for a maximum of six weeks these days. I swear I have seen movies available on DVD a mere three months after its big screen debut. On occasion I have even seen movies on the rot box in only six months.

I'd be curious to know what this fasttrack to obscurity says about a) our consumerist culture b)piracy c) the thing that I forgot because it's four in the morning. Are film companies just producing more and more tripe that we gobble up like dogs? Is the demand for entertainment so great that we want immediate gratification and are no longer willing to pay for it? In essence, has the availability of movies on the net depleted the box office receipts so much that it is no longer profitable to run a film for longer than the reel it's developed on? I'd be curious if I wasn't so lazy. I'd probably be less lazy if film companies weren't producing such dribble.

Ritzy

Tabi bought some President's Choice Rich & Flaky crackers. Apparently they're made with 100% pure Paris Hilton.

Justification

I always forget to justify these things. Not as in state my defence, justify as in alignment. 

Ape-shit

How was your day?

Ape-shit.

Ape-shit?

You know how I always say it's like working with fuckin' monkeys? Except that you can train monkeys? Well today they called me on it and replaced the employees with monkeys. There was crying and sweaty monkey love and something hit the fan.

...Ape-shit.

Ape-shit.