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HECK YEAH BABY!
For all of you fans who LOVE the Twilight series with Edward Cullen and Bella Swann, the fourth & sadly final book is coming out August 2nd of this year.
So now we can see how the wedding turns out and how Bella becomes a Vampire.
On a more serious note, there's a secret that some of you know about me. I get premonitions. Meaning: I can see into the future. That's my gift as a Christian. When I'm praying, sometimes my mind will go into Latin or Hebrew or Arabic.
Well, anyways, I had a premonition that Shyla, this flake who was a friend of Mother's and mine until she betrayed us to Thomas, my former stepfather that I've been having issues getting over (see older entries), accepted Thomas' proposal. This is BAD! I've been getting gut feelings that he hurts her worse than he hurt Mother and I and she begged Mother and I to forgive her. What the frick do I do?!
Last time I had a feeling like this, the New York Giants ended up winning the Super Bowl. (Again, see previous entries.)
~*Another Day in the Life of~*the freaked out Rebster*~*316*~
Smart. Privileged. Future doctor. Future lawyer. Future somebody.
It would be accurate, but it would also be incomplete. It wouldn't include:
Confused. Indecisive. Lacks confidence. Cynical. Spiteful.
I'm going to be a Navy SEAL. No questions asked, that's what I'm doing. I'm gonna make it or die trying.
The weird thing is that the same kid who wants to go through the toughest mental and physical training in the world so he can more effectively and efficiently kill people has an incredibly artistic side that wants to play music and take photos and do something beautiful.
This is the same kid who doesn't take notes, reads magazines, and sleeps all hour but still gets near-perfect scores on tests.
The same kid who could use a little potential-guiding light. I can do anything, I just need to know where to go and how to put myself to use.
And, because of this, I'm a fan of oozing cheesiness when it comes to it. "Demolition Man" with Sylvester Stallone looks at "San Angeles" a few decades from now. "Back to the Future II" shows Hill Valley in 2015 -- with flying cars and hover boards. "Total Recall" takes place both on Earth and on Mars -- and suspends reality enough to try to make you believed that Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an American construction worker married to Sharon Stone. Hell, even the Jetsons have always been a guilty pleasure to me.
Mostly I like the social-anthropological commentary involved within these stories. Especially the funny, throw-away bits. Like every restaurant in "Demolition Man's" future being a Taco Bell. Or the utilization and value of discarded trash as tools in "Waterworld" -- including a cameo by the Exxon Valdez. The overpowering use of DNA-typing in "Gattaca." And even the role of Jude Law's gigolo character and the virtual "wizard" in "A.I."
Perhaps this is why I really enjoyed "Futurama," the Matt Groening animated-series which was his follow-up to "The Simpsons." And why I'm looking forward to it's return later this year or early next year. It follows a guy named Fry who accidentally gets cryogenically frozen in the year 2000 and wakes up about 1,000 years later in "New New York." Sure -- there's a lot of travel to exotic planets and encounters with aliens and robots. But I prefer the ones which take place closer to home.
My favorite overall joke from the series.
Fry: Do you take Visa?
Clerk: Visa has not existed in 300 years.
Fry: American Express?
Clerk: 600 years.
Fry: Discover Card?
Clerk: I'm sorry; we don't take Discover.
... which is a joke that a lot of you won't get. But trust me. It's very funny. And a good social commentary on the Discover Card. If not a social commentary, then at least a good joke.
(The runner-up joke, by the way, is one which was spoken in a robot fraternity house at Mars University: No, Bender, wait. We're the lamest frat on campus. Even Hillel has better parties than us. Please, you've gotta stay and teach us how to be cool! But I like this one because (a) I'm an ex-Hillel employee; and (b) it's nice to know that Hillel continues to exist through the millennium.)
Oh -- I almost forgot -- I also enjoy seeing pictures of landmarks and skylines we know today which have been altered to fit the future. And I don't mean simply a Mad Max type car driving by the Washington Monument in Timecop. I'm taking about a completely rusted out Washington Monument and US Capitol building in Logan's Run. With vines overtaking everything. And full of cats. I even like the last scene of the original Planet of the Apes" with the Statue of Liberty. For me, the only redeeming quality of the film Bicentennial Man was the view of a double-decker Golden Gate Bridge.
There had been a few TV shows which never gained much success -- some of which never aired or only aired for a few episodes -- which are set in the future not as a space exploration-type program, but rather tackling other issues instead. Mercy Point (starring Joe Morton) comes to mind -- a medical drama akin to ER which was set about two centuries in the future at an outpost in space. Most of the patients and medical staff were human, and they dealt with similar types of issues. The show was on UPN and lasted about three episodes.
CBS had a show called Century City set in 2020 or so -- in a law firm. They dealt with civil and criminal cases of the time -- including issues of cloning, anti-aging procedures and the like. It was also pulled off the air very quickly due to poor ratings.
And there were two shows in 2003 and 2004 which never got to air -- NYPD 2069 is similar to Demolition Man in that a cop from the present gets frozen and then works for the NYPD in the future; and Future Tense,which I know very little about except that Christopher Titus was supposed to star in it.
I'm writing this as a two-part entry. Stay tuned for my next Blog -- where I give you a review of Idiocracy and the social commentary within.
I know lots and lots of people in the world have those weird feelings. Sometimes something will cross your mind - perhaps someone you haven't thought of in ages - and damn, if in the next little while, you either see them or they call or someone else mentions them or something. Something will occur to coincide with your thought. Hence, the word 'coincidence' - but, shit, how many coincidences can there be. I mean, after there being so many so-called coincidences, they're actually not coincidental anymore, but rather, expected. 'Know what I mean?
So, what's this "power" about? Haven't you heard of people being trained to use their ability to its fullest? 'Seems like I've heard of, like, psychic mentors or some shit.
I like to watch the show "Medium" when I can catch it. There really is an Alison DuBois - and the episodes are loosely based on her real-life experiences. They obviously take advantage of the tools of the industry - 'cos I mean, no way some of that junk really happened - don't you think?
But, then again, I guess anything is possible.
Another time I'll get back to my point! Right now, I gotta go - ANTM is on-TTYL
I'm writing this entry at 12:30 on pen and paper in the new den that I have constructed in my bedroom which I have to say is very cosy and comfortable with "You could have had it so much better" playing. My reason for doing this is that I have felt that my entries of late have been lacking in depth and having found a second wind when I have come home late having been working in the restraunt that rather than lie in bed restless I could better use this time constructivly. Which is what I shall do and write my entry for tomorrow now, which means dear reader that you are reading something written at least 12 hours in the past. How starnge, doesn't it just mess with your mind? (A bit like "Lost" does, the 1st season of which I have started watching on DVD again having decided to wait for the 2nd season to arrive on DVD so that I can watch them all one after the other the way I like it). Even more so as you now see words I sit here writing with my penmenship whci I have in actual fact typed and put onto my blog somewhere on cyberspace as a chronicle of my life. Boy! This is going way off track of my originally planned entry, perhaps I should return to this topic I have stumbled across in the near future and grab myself top blog in the process (which I did once do with my former PirateSteve5 blog, good times as they say).
Well back to my original plan.
To give you all a bit more detail as to what has been going on in my life of late or rather just today's action which is now yesterday (that..........CRUMBS!!! I saw what I'am now seeing in a dream recently, spooky. You all probably all think I'm losing my marbles now but it's true throughout my life I have had these occurences when I have seen things through my eyes in a dream only to in the future see that very same flash of vision that I witnessed in my dream whist I am awake. I can't tell the future or anything so don't bother to ask me to but I do every once and awhile see something whilst I'm awake something that I saw earlier in my dreams. Anway before that realisation hit me I was just about to say that my whole strange angle had entered this entry again, perhaps forces are at work to get me to discuss this rather than neuroscience and chef's on the rampage as I planned on adn still intend on doing so! What do you think of all this dear reader?)
Anway for you out there who are regular readers of mmy blog and past incarnations will be aware that I did not sit my neruroscience exam in December as I had hoped and which I am now due to take in August. So that I may gain my BSc before undertaking my training as a CSI (perhaps my psychic abilities will aid me in fighting crime like those seen in the character played by Lance Henrikson of TVs "Mellenium"). Well I feel that today (yesterday) was the first true step to achieveing this goal by reading a chapter of "Neuron to Brain" on direct synaptic transmission. Interesting. I plan to do a lot of this textbook reading over the coming weeks and to then produce answers to past exam questions in preperation for August so that I have all my bases covered come the day I take and pass the exam. That is a day I look forward to.
The restraunt tonight can only be best described as "Hells Kitchen". I don't know what has got into Stuart (a senior chef) but he had been in a bad mood with his jon of late. Always swearing and threatening to walk out, what he would achieve by this I don't know? Perhaps he is in a certain point now in his life where he is npt happy. Anway, some steak fillets that I stacked in the oven (230 degrees celcius, twice the boiling point of water) fell out on him (having already being badly burnt once that evening) and he was burnt by this and I took a right bollocking (felt like I was about to be given the sack from this job as well, story of my life at the moment living with the constant threat of being fired) before being told that there is a correct way to stack them, the way I had been doing it was incorrect. Well! In my defence if I had been shown this in the first instance (the training scheme in that place is non existent) then this incident would have been prevented. Throw in loads of incorrect orders made by the waiting staff, a kitchen where the temperature and blood pressure were building, a limited number of certain types of plate, staff becoming tired and tempers becoming frayed I hope you can see how it was Hell's Kitchen tonight (at least I'm on the day shift tomorrow, things should be less hectic). However, one has to wonder with summer approaching every day and with it the high season of tourists visiting, we will be into our busiest time of the year soon I can only wonder if Hells Kitchen is not going to explode into Dantes Inferno!
On another note about the restraunt as I had chosen not to take the car tonight I was left waiting outside and had my first real chance to look at the menu and was left gobsmacked at how high the prices were and yet I'm left working for peanuts for the work that I do for them. I guess that is capatilism for you.
Well, it is now 23 past 1 in the morning and I'm working a 7:30 to 5 shift today going straight from one of my jobs to the next so I had best get some sleep if I'm going to get through it all. And most of all publish this entry which I suppose if your reading now means that I have been successful in doing/
This has been an intersting expereince. What will I write this time tomorrow or do I mean today, heck, why not even yesterday? Hvae I invented the time machine? Or is this all just an optical illusion?
I shall let you decide dear reader,
Long days and pleasant nights,
And remember to keep watching the skys
Stephen
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