:: it's a scary world: rants from a chemically imbalanced mind ::

:: Sunday, July 28, 2002 ::

THIS GUY is either a frickin' genius of dr evil-like proportions OR a certifiable madman... also of dr evil-like proportions.... nice how it works out like that.... imagine... i could drive the sound as LOUUUUD as i could possibly stand it for a viewing of blade in dolby digital 5.1 and NO ONE outside the room would be able to hear it..... oh my god. heaven. truly heaven, this must be.
 

:: Shaman 7/28/2002 02:49:15 PM [+] ::
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and the united states and its citizens roll on utterly oblivious to anything important...... while 9 miners remain trapped underground, corporate america CONTINUES to get away with bloody murder (ten bucks says most of the ceos get 4 years in a fucking country club minimum security prison.... ) and children continue to be snatched by the sickest of human scum off of their own front steps, AHMURIKA (as earl pitts would say) worries about...... the upcoming 9/11 anniversary!!! GODAMMIT PEOPLE! it happened! GET OVER IT! MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR LIVES!!!! but noooooooooooo..... it's more important that we relive the events OVER AND OVER AND OVER on the news, on tv specials, in special "benefit" concerts, etc etc etc! i once thought tom brokaw was an intelligent man.... no more.

“My own strong impression is there has been a drifting away emotionally and intellectually” from the events of last Sept. 11, NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw said.

uh... yes, tom. we call that "getting on with our lives". if we're going to waste an ENTIRE day with this bullshit, where's the day commemorating the MILLIONS of jews who died in concentration camps? and the multitudes of children who die every year from abuse and neglect? and the thousands of serbs who were slaughtered in genocidal rage? and so on and so on. what - you die in a really tall building and that means you get better treatment in death? Hmmmm..... doesn't sound quite kosher to me. should we forget the fact that it ever happened? no. should we spend every waking moment agonizing over it? uh..... HELL no. what dear mister brokaw seems to be ignoring is that "drifting away emotionally and intellectually" from the event is the way a LOT of humanity handles the horror of it all.... the way i see it, if you don't distance yourself from it SOMEWHAT, you'll never have another peaceful moment. and personally, i have no desire to spend my life living in the past and dwelling on what could've/should've/would've been.
 

:: Shaman 7/25/2002 02:10:31 PM [+] ::
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operation TIPS?!?!?! YOU BASTARDS! is it JUST me or do i smell just a hint of mccarthyism in the air???!!! mark my words..... dubya will go down in history books as the man who tried to set this country back 50 years.... think about it in a logical manner.... the people who do this shit DON'T DO IT IN PUBLIC!!! they've taken secrecy to the next LEVEL! c'mon! and in case you're curious, the USPS has already announced their employees will NOT be participating in "operation tips". nice to see somebody in gov't doesn't have their head up their asses running from the scary red menace! or the brown menace ... or whatEVER the hell the menace is supposed to be in dubya's warped vision..... this is a feeble old man's attempt to get you to GIVE IN TO YOUR PARANOIA!! HEY! THAT GUY NEXT TO YOU! YEA! THE EASTERN LOOKING MAN! KEEP AN EYE ON HIM! uh, what the HELL happened to "if we change our way of life - if we can't live our lives as we have, then THEY WIN!!" and many other words to that effect?? uh, news flash, dubya - they won that round. they killed 2000 people and there is NO way you will ever bring them back. they blew the shit out of two really big buildings and there is NO way you will ever bring them back. so, they won that round. the object is to make sure they don't win the next round, if there is one. not to make every american view every person around them in a suspicious and untrusting manner! i said it above and i'll say it again. this REEKS of joe mccarthy.
 

:: Shaman 7/23/2002 11:35:35 PM [+] ::
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damn i hate a shitty movie release day..... no real big blockbusters out on dvd today..... but NEXT week we get resident evil (RAWK!!) and the following week it's the director's cut of star trek II wrath of khan, lord of the rings: fellowship of the rings AND v: the final battle! WOOHOO!!!! which means i'll have to carve out an afternoon sometime to watch v and v the final battle back to back..... oh but the time machine with guy pearce is today.... so i might as well grab it.... time machine with rod taylor was always one of my favorite movies growing up..... sigh. bored now. need coffee. need food.
 

:: Shaman 7/23/2002 10:55:40 AM [+] ::
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i LOVE this shit! if you haven't heard yet, they captured some dood bringing $12 MILLION in fake cashier's checks into the country..... and it JUST so happened that he's apparently an al-queda trainee..... and he's jordanian..... ya think he might've been up to no good? or for all we know, he might've been planning a surprise birthday party for dubya hehehehehehe..... regardless, here's an interesting fragment from the story:

“The arrest of Omar Shishani and the seizure of $12 million in counterfeit cashier’s checks by U.S. Customs officials in Detroit demonstrate the effectiveness of U.S. border security systems and the improved interagency coordination since Sept. 11,” the Customs Service said in a statement.

now TRANSLATED, that means - we got SO incredibly lucky, even WE can't believe it! and i like that "improved interagency coordination" line.... the cia, fbi, nsa and every other organization with a bunch of letters are scared to death they'll all have to answer to some mucky muck in the new "homeland security agency" .... or worse yet, be absorbed into one giant intel organization.

sigh. you got one guy. good for you. now, about the other 50 or so that are trying or have actually made it into the country.............
 

:: Shaman 7/20/2002 07:17:14 AM [+] ::
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okay. i just got in from a sneak preview of eight legged freaks and all i can say is this.

hehe. hehehehe. snicker snicker snicker. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!

damn the world needs more movies like that.

OH!! and this OHOH SO happy note from the world of entertainment... some of us have been looking for this one since seeing the Alien head in a trophy case in the ship at the end of Predator 2:

After months of rumors, innuendo and vitriolic diatribes, it’s been confirmed that the powers that be at Twentieth Century Fox have tapped RESIDENT EVIL and EVENT HORIZON director Paul Anderson to write and direct the years-in-development ALIENS VS. PREDATOR.

Producers for both series, John Davis, David Giler, Lawrence Gordon, Walter Hill and Joel Silver among them, have decided Anderson is the man to bring the project, rumored and delayed so many times it’s almost become akin to FREDDY VS. JASON in Hollywood’s development Hell, to the screen.

According to VARIETY, the story will center on a human scientist on a distant planet producing an alien in the hopes of luring the PREDATOR hunters to the planet.
 

:: Shaman 7/15/2002 11:23:46 PM [+] ::
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and back he goes to work in seven hours................ sigh. dammit. and i STILL didn't make it through the entire nightmare on elm street dvd series. maybe next vacation.
 

:: Shaman 7/14/2002 11:51:31 PM [+] ::
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oh oh OH I WANT THIS BITCH IN THE BAAAADEST WAY!! you look at that and tell me it is not the SINGLE coolest desk chair for a geek in the history of mankind!!! WOW. now to find 2000 bucks to blow. BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

and by the by - road to perdition raaaaaawks, my children. dammit i want to hate tom hanks SOOOO bad. but i can't. he's just so damn good. bastard. do NOT go see perdition if you're looking for a fast paced, slam bang action flick. true lies it is not. but i think it IS hanks' ticket to another best actor oscar.

alright, back to pi. must finish. (gee, i've only had the dvd from ken for almost two years now......... )
 

:: Shaman 7/13/2002 10:26:46 PM [+] ::
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hey! wait a minute... it's the first sign of a new millennium!! READ HERE!! and then go read THIS ONE TOO! meant to point this one out last week but forgot in the excitement of being on vacation.... you know - the whole "lethargic" thing.... doesn't matter... because even if they did legalize it, don't fool yourself - john ashcroft and his black boot los federales will be down nevada's throat so fast they won't have TIME for a gag reflex. no, no, no. can't have something out in the world that KEEPS people from getting angry.... that CALMS stressed nerves NATURALLY... let them have jack daniels and miller lite..... driving under the influence and cracking up busloads of kids.... piloting planes at who know's how many thousand feet........ OH yea, let's do that. bill hicks said it. "i have NEVER seen two people on pot get into a fight. they can't. it's just not possible." and if you won't believe me, bill hicks and amsterdam, HERE!

Ted Williams' heirs may be feuding over what to do with his body now that the legendary slugger has passed on to that field of dreams in the sky, but Larry Hagman, of dimly remembered "Dallas" and "I Dream of Jeannie" fame, is spelling out his last requests in no uncertain terms.

"When I die, I want my friends to eat me," Hagman told celebrity researcher Baird Jones the other day. "I want to be fed through a wood chipper, be spread over a wheat field, then have a cake baked from the crop for all my pals to munch on."

Don't think he hasn't contemplated the alternatives.

"Cremation's fine, but it uses an awful lot of energy," Hagman says. "Burying someone in a steel casket doesn't do any good. I want to return to the earth as soon as possible."

Thus, the cake plan.

"I want the cake to be made of half marijuana, which makes people so much less violent than booze, and people should learn to eat pot rather than smoke it because it damages the heart and lungs less that way," Hagman opines.

Shocked at the aging actor's drug endorsement? Hagman contends you shouldn't be, bleating, "It's high time someone my age talked this way."
 

:: Shaman 7/12/2002 12:07:26 PM [+] ::
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phew. done. and with my "time-saving" idea to use a re-encoded cue cat scanner for a barcode scanner, it only took 5 hours to input my entire dvd collection via barcodes..... now, 3 hours of that was fiddling with drivers, experimenting with settings and various and sundry such hoo-haa so i guess the actual scanning only took a couple of hours total.... of course, then there was the constant stopping and restarting of the barcode masking program..... why? well, it's shareware and you can only use it for ten scans at a time.... so of course, i hit paypal and paid the $5 shareware fee (hey, i'll pay five bucks ANY day of the week for a program that i need thats well written and works!) BUT it took the programmer a few hours to get back to me with my reg code.... and in the meantime, i'd said screw it and just restarted the decoder every ten scans.... a lotta work for some possibly useful, probably trivial knowledge..... on the other hand, i can put together a mean barcode scanner system now with a cue cat..... and yes, it would work in a retail establishment on a pc based point of sale system..... hell, i could turn this into a bidness! you know how much a regular barcode scanner costs?? start at about 125 or so, if i remember correctly. sigh. yea, that's what i need. one MORE project. too many ideas, not enough time.
 

:: Shaman 7/11/2002 11:40:19 PM [+] ::
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okay, first off - black hawk down RAWKS the casbah! (no pun intended!) what an incredible movie... and even worse - it's one of those movies that makes you think about what the gov't does behind our backs.... except in THIS instance, i can see the sense in their assigned mission..... aidid HAD to be removed from power... which doesn't quite mesh with my "keep the gov't out of other country's business!" philosophy..... i hate it when something comes along and forces you to readjust your beliefs or philosophies....... shit.

saw lord of the rings yesterday too and MAN oh man i wish i hadn't waited so long.... that is going to be THE most impressive series of movies in cinematic history, bar none..... only 3 weeks or so till the dvd release now.... i'm sure i'll be watching that one a few more times before the two towers arrives in december.....

and now i'm off to run more errands, grab a coupla dvds at the store, pick up my weekly shipment of comics at collectibles etc and then pop back here for the rest of the day... where i intend to vegetate and probably watch trainspotting ONE more time hehehehehehe.... damn i love that movie.....
 

:: Shaman 7/10/2002 08:34:16 AM [+] ::
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i've always wondered which trainspotting character i'd be... well, according to the tests, here's the answer........ and if you've nae seen the movie, do so, ya bleedin' poof...


Which Trainspotting Character Are You?
 

:: Shaman 7/09/2002 12:20:44 PM [+] ::
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oh HERE'S an interesting article for you today.... more positive proof of the UTTER stupidity of the human species as a whole.... the gist is this: apparently, the LESS food you eat, the longer you live. yea. whateva. kinda of like aspirin was really bad for us one year and then the next, it was a wonder drug? when science gets its collective shit together, expect the world to end ten minutes later. this guy interviewed in the report talks about how GREAT he feels and how much LONGER he'll live than most people.... WOOO.... he apparently thinks 120 years old is not out of the question..... and he does it by eating around six pounds of vegetables a day. okay, that's all well and good... if he can survive on rabbit food, more power to him. BUT then they go on to admit that one of the results of this "improved" diet is..... bones becoming more brittle.... and a reduced libido?!?! HUH?!?! how in the HELL does this IMPROVE your life?!! brittle bones means a LOT of activities you probably can't partake in.... basketball would probably be kind of risky..... same with tag football.... Hmmm... how about wrestling around with the kids? nah, might be too dangerous.... BULLSHIT! what you have done is improve the quantity of your life while REDUCING the quality of your life! if i've got a choice between a two liter of coke and a 16 ounce bottle of mountain dew, gimme the dew. may be more coke and it may last longer but it takes like shit. i get no enjoyment out of it. oh sure, it'll satisfy my need for liquids but that's about all it'll do. and i'm not EVEN gonna start railing on the reduced libido thing... that's just flat-out, inbred stupidity. why in the name of all that is unholy would you want to feel LESS inclined to have sex???? CHRIST!
 
then again. if we can get more people like this "dean" interested in this diet, we may end up snuffing out an entire line of people capable of thinking like that. which would NOT neccesarily be a bad thing.

oh and BY the way..... FINALLY got around to watching AI last night......... visually stunning movie.... beautiful to watch.... good story..... UNTIL SPIELBERG WUSSED OUT ON THE END!!! argh you bastich. when will i learn NOT to get suckered into spielberg shit!!!!! dammit.
 

:: Shaman 7/08/2002 07:08:25 PM [+] ::
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it's not very often i'm moved by an article of clothing...... (maybe the REMOVAL of an article of clothing but that's a digression of a different sort....)......... BUT, as i was saying, THIS is one goddamned BEAUTIFUL shirt............ wow. that's all i can say. wow.

and in the 'damn this could be a really cool movie' dept -

Forest Whitaker is Selling Time for Fox 2000. The Panic Room costar is set to helm the supernatural thriller about a man determined to alter the worst day of his life. He faces dangerous consequences, however, when he's given a chance to go back and relive the experience. Whitaker is also working on developing the script for the project.

goody.... i like creepy thrillers......
 

:: Shaman 7/07/2002 11:35:10 AM [+] ::
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don't miss the royal tenenbaums if you get the chance.... GREAT movie, very funny, very well written..... and DAMN but now i'm hooked on 'that 70's show'.... i've caught a few eps over the past few years but downloaded a batch recently and can't quit watching... VERY funny show.... and the scariest part is that red WAS my dad to a large degree and kitty was my mom to a tee..... that god for p2p file sharing hehehehehe.

well, no big terrorist attack on the 4th.... on the OTHER hand, this is the "july 4th holiday weekend"..... sigh. so how anal retentive about dates ARE extremist islamic terrorists?? we need to know these things dammit.....

oh now THIS is some funny shit! (no pun intended).... and don't ask me where i find this shit (again, no pun intended)... i just roam the web and read..... and when i find a nugget (ooooh... bad choice of wordage...), i pass it along..... hehehe... oh, the puns are just a flowing today.... either that or my mind's in the gutter yet again..........

and if you don't laugh out loud at the "big book of sign language" over at the gapingmaw, yer a lost cause, chuckles.

and this is NOT a joke.... oh man oh MAN we are a twisted up society on the road to DEGradation... with a capital D and that rhymes with P and that stands for POOL! (all respects to robert preston...):

SAN JOSE, CA - A beloved 12 year old Calico choked to death on a plastic six-pack drink holder Tuesday, in plain view of the family Web cam. Images of the strangled cat's head wedged against a stereo cabinet were broadcast every two minutes for seven hours, until its owners returned from the beach.

and probably my final note of the night (it's actually 8:45p as i re-edit this one MORE time..but the original timestamp remains intact....): if you haven't heard the latest about michael jackson..... well, all i know is there's one thing about the whole "howard hughes recluse" act that michael's NEVER been able to do real well... and that would be to STAY HIDDEN!!! he comes out at the most inopportune moments and says the WACKIEST shit! read here for the latest... apparently poor mj's fallen into the evil clutches of al sharpton..... er... REVEREND al sharpton... ah, but he's not really evil... just incredibly stupid... but i digress.... michael: go back into hiding. it's better this way.... trust us....
 

:: Shaman 7/06/2002 02:19:57 PM [+] ::
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ohhhh... it's vaCAtion time again! woo hoo!! which of course means i'll be writing a lot more here.... gotta expend my energy someplace and there's only so much x-box i can play before my thumbs give out.... the newsflash for this morning is ............ JULIA ROBERTS WALKS DOWN THE AISLE!!

uh.... does ANYONE actually give a SHIT?!?! it's july 4th.... we're all on alert for SOME kind of terrorist attack..... and msbnc puts THAT on the front page?!?!?! AGGGGHHHH!!! jesus.

welcome to america. home of the mindless and the inane. oh.... and under god, apparently.

whatever.
 

:: Shaman 7/04/2002 10:52:15 AM [+] ::
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