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Name: Clark
Country: United States
State: Georgia
Metro: Atlanta
Birthday: 1/22/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Too many to name.
Expertise: So little, I'm afraid to admit it.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Media
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Member Since:
6/10/2005
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| So, I don't ordinarily offer two posts in one day. However, stories just keep turning up today, so I couldn't resist.
Story #1: Who's In My Backyard?
So Bekah and I arrive home for lunch, and my next door neighbor approaches me. “Hey man,” he says.
“Hey,” I say. That's usually the extent of our conversation, with an occasional, “How you doing?” thrown in for good measure. However, today he wanted to talk.
“Look, I need to tell you about something,” he said.
“What's up?” I said.
“Last night, there was a man in your backyard. He was just standing there in the backyard, looking at your house and smoking. This was like, probably after you guys were asleep, like one o'clock in the morning. Anyway, he was just standing there. I was about to beat him up.”
“So... he was just standing in the yard?”
“Yeah, just standing there. And I told him to get out the yard, and he told me that it wasn't my yard and that it was none of my business. And I told him that I owned both of these houses – I know I don't, I just said that to make him scared – and that he had better leave. Anyway, I was about to fight him, but he finally left. I mean, he's just standing there!”
“Wow, that's odd,” I said.
“Yeah, well... just thought I'd let you know I'm keeping an eye out for you. Anybody else comes by, I'm gonna kick their... well, you know, I ain't gonna take that from people just standing around in people's yards late at night, you know?”
I nodded. “Yeah... hmm... well, thanks for letting me know.”
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Story #2: Slow
So I was standing in line at the post office, and this man a few notches ahead of me was starting to get very disgruntled. The line was long, and it was moving rather slowly. Finally, he said loudly, “This is what happens when you let the government run things! Just think how it's going to be when they get our healthcare! They're gonna treat everybody, and the lines will be so long that people will die of old age! That's what they want, too!”
Some people nodded and grinned, others quietly murmured and shook their heads. A lady behind me leaned over and whispered, “Rich people just think they know everything, don't they?”
A man in front of me said, “I guess everybody in the post office has decided to go on break today. That's guy's right, everything just moves so slow when you give it to the government.”
After a while, I made my way to the counter. I handed my packages to the girl at the register. “Anything fragile?” she said.
“Some of the people in line, apparently,” I replied.
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Story #3: You Can't Hide
I was sitting in my studio at the radio station when a woman entered with a great big grin on her face. “Hello,” I said.
“Hey,” she said. “Do you know what you when you cross PMS with a GPS?”
“No?” I said worriedly.
“A crazy bitch who will find you!” she cackled.
Maybe she knows that guy from my backyard?
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| Hey folks,
Continuing to churn out loads of reviews. The latest...
The new version of "Miracle on 34th Street" (Blu-ray)...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/miracle34th94bd.php
The Italian war film "Eagles Over London" (Blu-ray)...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/eaglesoverbluray.php
Six episodes of the new tv show "Iron Man: Armored Adventures"...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/ironmanaav1.php
The Merchant/Ivory collaboration "Howard's End" (Blu-ray)...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/howardsendbluray.php
The star-studded romantic comedy "Love Actually" (Blu-ray)...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/loveactuallybluray.php
Alfred Hitchcock's legendary thriller "North by Northwest" (Blu-ray)...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/northbybluray.php
Wim Wender's beautiful film "Wings of Desire"...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/wingsofdesire.php
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| Hey folks,
Sorry I've been a bit silent this week, but you know how it goes. Technical difficulties and such at the station have kept me rather busy, but that's just part of the job. Apparently, the Halloween goblins decided to visit my place of work a bit early this week. Fortunately, our blessed engineer has returned to the state of GA and is coming to apply his magic touch to our equipment this afternoon. Here's hoping he's got enough magic that we don't have to purchase lots of new equipment.
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Poor Rebekah has been ill or semi-ill or vaguely/almost/sorta-kinda ill the past couple of weeks, but today seems to be a good-ish day, so hopefully things will just get better from here for the immediate future. It seems like half the people I know have been sick or in bad health lately, one way or another. Here's hoping that everyone starts feeling better. And if you're well, stay well. Me, I haven't really been sick, just terribly insomniatic this week. Of course, this is a usual thing with me, but my mind has been a little frazzled so that's compounded the problem. Usually I own the night, but lately it's been owning me.
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Rebekah wants to give candy to trick or treaters this year. I want to turn the porch lights off. Last year, I went through the trouble of preparing for kids to come a-knockin', and only two people came to the door the entire evening. And one of them was a teenager who wasn't wearing a costume. And they didn't even say, “Trick or Treat”, just, “Do you have any candy?” So yeah, whatever. Be thankful Rebekah's looking out for you, kids on my street.
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Did I ever mention that I got an e-mail from my Senator? Did I ever mention that I e-mailed my Senator, for that matter? Anyway, you may remember the post that I posted some time back about the “corporate rape amendment” that our Senators voted against. A couple of days letter, I decided to type up a letter explaining my feelings and such. I sent it off. The first Senator (Saxby Chambliss) only sent back an automated e-reply: “We've received your question and/or concern. Thank you for taking an interest in government!” etc. and so on. However, a day or two later, Senator Johnny Isakson sent me an honest-to-goodness detailed reply, explaining his actions and why he voted the way he did. I still disagree strongly with what he did, but I do appreciate the reply. I would post it here, but I'm not feeling like messing with politics today, so it can wait until Monday or so. Because I would like to write up my own rebuttal of sorts to go along with it.
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Heading up to Atlanta to see A Serious Man today. He and I are going to watch a new film called “A Serious Man”. Anyway, I greatly look forward to that, as getting the chance to watch a new Coen Bros. film is for me what Christmas morning is for a lot of people.
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Bill Murray is starting to get back into acting a little more actively. He says he contemplated retirement after he made “Broken Flowers” because he wasn't sure that he could top it. He may be right. I'm glad that he's sticking around, but “Broken Flowers” is a deeply resonant movie (and far and away my favorite Jim Jarmusch film). If you haven't seen it, and if you regard yourself as a patient and thoughtful person when it comes to movies, I would recommend it. It's a superb film, and it benefits from one of the most devastatingly perfect final shots I have ever seen in a film. And it's better than the slightly overrated "Lost in Translation", in case you were wondering.
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Rebekah and I have finished season 4 of “Lost”. It was a very good season; better than Season 3 by a long shot. The definite high point for me was “The Constant”, a tremendous blend of fascinating sci-fi concepts and heartfelt romance that may very well be my favorite “Lost” episode. Man, that was good. David, please tell me you love this episode as much as I do.
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Why does the NRA keep calling me? Do I look like a man who needs a gun? I got your guns right here.
(Flexes biceps)
(Realizes his biceps are lame and unimpressive)
Yeah, well, uh, whatever. I still don't need a gun. I have a samurai sword. And my wits. And very big, very heavy books. Anybody who breaks into my home will have to reckon with the forces of the “Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Omnibus”, which is capable of taking out even the most notorious of villains.
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I see it's Nia Long's birthday today. When I saw that, it reminded me to mention a strange news piece I saw the other week. A CNN guy (I forget which one) was interviewing Nia Long about her participation in the new Chris Rock documentary “Good Hair”. Anyway, the interview quickly turned from professional to gushy, as the news guy just started going on and on about how much he loved Nia and how beautiful she was and how much he admired her... I mean, we're talking “Ain't It Cool News”-level gushing here. Then Tyrese Gibson called in and spent a few minutes talking about how wonderful and beautiful Nia Long is. Anyway, it almost felt like an Onion headline: “This just in: Nia Long is beautiful and perfect and marvelous and I LOVE HER SO MUCH! More at 11.” I suppose that's what happens you spend your entire day looking at images of politicians and then suddenly Nia Long gets thrown into the mix. Don't even get me started on what happens when I'm sitting on the couch watching C-Span and suddenly Rebekah walks into the room...
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Why do I have Hall & Oates' “Rich Girl” stuck in my head today? I haven't even heard that song in a while. For that matter, I don't know any rich girls. Ah, well. You know it don't matter, anyway.
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| Hey folks,
I may have more to talk about later if I get the time, but for now, let's just link up some DVD reviews...
Because I was destined to see it one way or another, "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs"...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/iceage3.php
"Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen" (old review plus new bits specific to the DVD)
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/transformers2.php
The awfulness that is "Stan Helsing"...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/stanhelsingbluray.php
Michelle Pfeiffer teams up with director Stephen Frears for the period drama "Cheri"...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/cheri.php
A CD/DVD Combo, "Otis Redding: The Best"
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/otisredding.php
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| From an interview with "American Psycho" director Mary Harron...
How did you and Christian Bale develop his character in American Psycho?
"It was definitely a process. We talked a lot, but he was in L.A. and I was in New York. We didn’t actually meet in person a lot, just talked on the phone. We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy."
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