What started out as a 20 minute delay has now turned into a 3-hour delay. I have only been delayed a handful of times, but I am starting to see a pattern.
#1 – I tell someone that traveling isn’t too bad – “I haven’t had any major problems/delays” #2 – I drive to the airport myself rather than taking a taxi.
Oh well. Listening to the Riverdance soundtrack, trying to imagine Michael Flatley, Jean Butler and the other people dancing about the stage, and staring out at the fog surrounding the airport isn’t too horrible of a way to spend the morning.
The only movie I had ever seen Sigourney Weaver in (that I remember) is the fan-favorite, Dave. Today, I had the “pleasurable” experience of seeing her in 2 more movies.
Jack Black and Mos Def star in Be Kind Rewind, a unique comedy from Academy Award-winning writer/director Michel Gondry (Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Black stars as a loveable loser stuck in a life that’s too small for his big dreams. But when he unintentionally erases all the tapes in a video store where his best friend (Mos Def) works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store’s few loyal customers by re-creating and re-filming every movie they decide to rent. Be Kind Rewind features a cast that also includes Danny Glover, Melonie Diaz and Mia Farrow. It is scheduled for a February 22, 2008 release.
Overall, good movie. I enjoyed the remakes of such films as Ghostbusters, The Lion King, and Men In Black. The best, however, was Rush Hour 2.
Sigourney Weaver played some lawyer person who destroys all the “Sweded” videos that Jack and Mos created. Performance = 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox), are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) an American tourist video-taping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home. Also, there is Rex (Sigourney) an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference. It’s only as we follow each person’s perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to and immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed.
Overall, decent movie. Good action, OK acting, alright twist ending. However, any movie where Dennis Quaid is the action star can never be that great.
Sigourney Weaver played the above mentioned news producer. Performance = 1 out of 5 stars.
What’s ironic about this whole situation is that I was thinking of her performance in the movie Dave, and then I’d pretty much say that Vantage Point could be a modern re-make of the movie (with much more action involved).
Call up the woman you like and ask her on a date. Did she say yes? Great, she probably likes you. What if she makes up an excuse for why she can’t go out? This is the time to employ the Brad Pitt Rule.
Imagine that instead of you, Brad Pitt had asked this same woman out. Would she use the same excuse with him? If Brad Pitt asked her on a date, would she still say she had to study or was going to the movies with friends that night? Nope. She would have dropped. pretty much anything and everything to be able to accept a date with Brad.
Now you’re not Pitt obviously. But if a woman is interested in you, she will drop her other plans to be available to go out with you.
Of course there are exceptions; the woman may have a legitimate reason she cannot make the date. Perhaps she has to work or go to a funeral. But, and here is the real clincher, she will suggest a different time for the date. She will say something along the lines of “I can’t do it Saturday night, do you want to hang out next weekend?”
If she makes up an excuse and she does not suggest an alternative plan, you have been shut out. She is not interested. Do not ask her out again. Doing so will only result in awkwardness and you feeling like a tool.
But don’t worry, she probably isn’t as cool as you thought she was since she doesn’t appreciate your charms. Start pursuing another lady who will.
I think I’ll start employing this soon. Very soon.
1. While I am a frugal person 95% of the time, there are days when I throw caution to the wind and spend like there’s no tomorrow. Unfortunately, these days seem to piggy-back on each other and I end up going a little crazy all in one (or two) weeks. This happened the last 2 weeks and I am now the proud owner of a Wii (2nd one) and 2 pairs of shoes (both pairs “needed” as I have tired of untying my shoes at the airport security gate each week). Hopefully, the spending bug is gone and I can return to normal.
2. Just got back from Oklahoma where I spent the weekend celebrating Valentine’s Day. Calm down people. It was my sister’s birthday. She is still 6 years and 6 weeks older than me.
3. Reached a personal best in bench press tonight. Probably not the best thing to try when you are the only one in the hotel gym at the time.
4. Thought about whether or not I would die if I were to drop a dumbbell on my head due to it being to heavy, or me losing a grip on it. (I’m not suicidal – I just think about random horror things happening to me due to being alone in a gym while lifting weights, which normally isn’t a problem since I’m so weak and can’t lift much more than my 6 year-old niece)
5. Changed my opinion on what my 3 superpowers would be. #1 – Flying/teleportation. #2 – Ability to stop time. #3 (New) – The DTR superpower – I would be able to “Determine The Relationship” with anyone I met so that I would never have to waste my time wondering they like me and if there is a chance for anything beyond friendship. This combination will now allow me to fly to Australia, meet someone and then play a practical joke on them if they are not my soul mate (by stopping time and messing up their hair).
6. I want to go to Las Vegas at the end of March. I need someone to go with. Fun times will be had by all.
7. View from the Hotel Room – Week 11. I’m going to show this picture I took this afternoon to the hotel with the hope they love it and want to pay me tons of money to use in an ad campaign.
Seriously… is this why we elect people to office? To talk about steroids and HGH?
If a candidate were to say in his/her campaign, “I promise to focus on the real issues of our country rather than try and put my name out there for the sports (specifically baseball) world to see”, then they would have my vote.
Plus… what’s up with Roger’s lawyer massaging his back?
Second movie of the past weekend – There Will Be Blood.
In his ruthless pursuit of wealth, misanthropic oilman Daniel Plainview tricks a local farmer into signing away his valuable drilling rights and rejects his own son, H.W., when the boy loses his hearing in an accident. As he becomes increasingly isolated and unstable, Daniel places his trust in a vagrant claiming to be his half-brother, and finds his position unsettled by H.W.’s return and the growing popularity of the farmer’s son, now an evangelical preacher.
Probably not one I would have chosen to see by myself, but a friend wanted to see it, so I went.
I think this is a movie that I would say is very well done, but I would be hesitant to recommend to people. Or, at least, I’d recommend with certain qualifications.
Regardless, the movie is nominated for 8 Academy Awards and I won’t be surprised if it comes away a big winner. Daniel Day Lewis should definitely win for Best Actor.
This is one of the strangest/most interesting things I’ve seen in a while. To reduce the severity of Joe’s epileptic seizure, doctors performed a drastic brain surgery: they cut the corpus callosum and severed the connection between his left and right cerebral hemispheres.
Seeing it at an “older” theater was alright (was the only theater showing this movie). I definitely missed my reclining chair and the large number of senior citizens watching the movie with me was quite odd. Especially since the movie is about old age and being put in a nursing home.
Miraculously, I was able to get on the 10:11 flight.
Unfortunately, we then sat on the plane for 1.5 hours while waiting for the pilot to find an alternate landing route, then waiting to be pushed back from the gate, then waiting to be de-iced (due to the fact it was now snowing in MN), then waiting to take off.
So… supposed to leave at 6:54 am, finally arrived in Missouri at 1:00 pm (though I can’t complain around here because a co-worker was supposed to land Sunday night, but had his flight cancelled 4 times over the past 2 days and didn’t get here until 9:00 pm on Monday night).
Today started out so well. I woke up at 5:00 am. Hit snooze and jumped out of bed at 5:09. Showered, dressed and in the car at 5:25. Waved to my normal taxi driver as he was pulling up to take me to the airport (umm… awkward – didn’t need a ride this week).
Arrived at the airport at 5:50 (ish). Parked and then somehow found a second security entrance. Boo Yah! Score 1 for me on that one.
Checked in and changed my seat assignment to 1-B. Best seat on my flight, thank you very much. Another point in my favor.
Wait a minute… did it say “flight delayed”? Oh well. Score 1 for NWA.
Tram to gate broken. Have to walk. Point for NWA.
Arrive at gate. Yep, flight delayed 1.5 hours to 8:04. Oh well.
Pull out laptop and start doing random work. EXCEL! (what is up with there being so few electrical outlets?).
Overhear some random person say, “Flight canceled.” Look up and see that everyone at my gate is now standing in line and changing their flight plans. NWA gets another point.
Walk over to some other random gate and get switched to flight leaving at 11:10. Walk over to second random gate and get put on standby for 10:15 flight. No longer in the best seat on plane – possibly on the worst. Point NWA.
