Friday, November 25, 2011

Corporate Frenemies

Hello, this is what competition is all about.  Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.  I think what I like about this commercial is that is pokes fun at the culture that has become synonymous with Apple buyers.  At the end of the day folks it is still a corporate company, just like Samsung, Wal*Mart, Goldman Sachs or any other company that Occupy Wall Street is currently protesting.  Occupiers protesting Apple?  I just blew your mind didn't I?


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Render Queue

I have a couple of clips that I am rendering out so I thought I would take the time and write a little on here.  So lately, I am trying to remember what it was like before Facebook existed.  Before I was connect to 500 plus people every waking moment of the day.  It makes sense that we as humans yearn for such a connection and yet its also a curse.  I have so many of these friends and hardly ever talk to any of them.  And when a conversation does spring up it tends to be empty and half-hearted.  Lately it seems as though that is really the only kind of conversation that I have with anybody.  The GF works and goes to school enough that we don't get to spend as much time as we'd like to.  It's funny that when we do have a real conversation it throws me off a little bit.  It just doesn't happen often enough.  But, we will have this holiday week.  Finally.  Yay!
There was a time in my life when I was spontaneous.  When I had a list of 20 people that I could call and something interesting would materialize.  These times, that list of 20, the something interstings; they have all eroded from my life.  What replaces them is a constant push in business interests in an effort to make more money.  The goal is to make my 30's more enjoyable, more travel and what not.  I am maybe growing impatient waiting to work through the next 3 years.  It is partly my fault for this dilemma because there was a weening effort on my part as well.  Those moments of spontaneity became less and less interesting and more revolved around drinking at some location.  Soon the location even became mundane.  A look at those 20 folks today will not reveal anything different from those same folks ten years ago.  So what am I supposed to do for fun now?  Searching for it is getting a little tiresome.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Holiday Rush

Excuse me, I am trying to get out of here.  Well, it is the holiday rush, so who are you to sit here in line as if you had nothing else going on.  My clients are needing all there work yesterday.  The very fabric of their family structure hangs in the balance.  My edits could make their season or crush all hope of their survival.  Just as well, I have a house to clean and grill to prep.  We decided this year Thanksgiving will be done here at home on the BBQ.  Yeah it is a little non traditional but non the less I still need supplies, and fast.  Have you no plans other than to stand in this line and listen to me rant about the season.  And don't even get me started on the gifts.  So many gifts.  I think people refuse to by anything for themselves the last quarter of the year in hopes that others will do it for them.  Don't see much good in that do you?  See, I figure folks just end up getting disappointed really.  Sure they may get some of what they want.  Who the hell really knows what they want anyway!?  They only thing I want right now is to get the hell out of this store.  I have a client meeting in an hour and phone conference thirty minutes after that.  Shit, wait.  Maybe it was a conference call in thirty minutes and a client meeting an hour after that.  Bah!  What is with this lady anyway, who needs that much Koolaid the Wednesday before thanksgiving.  You know you don't say much man.  My clients are kinda like that too.  I need an assistant; she. . .(pause). . . or he should be here doing this.  I think I have waited here so long that it is actually costing me money.  Look at this damn toy.  I don't even know what this toys do anymore.  But the bosses little girl needed something, right?  Hopefully I'll get a promotion out of this or something.  It's $60 dollars.  In fact look at all this shit in the basket.  None of its for me, except for the toothpaste.  Ridiculous I say, I'm going to spend $135 dollars.  Know what I'm gonna get outta the deal?  That's right, toothpaste.  Well, theoretically it will save me hassle and nagging later, but you know what, I think it just gives everybody to check something off the to do list and move right on down and start up on the next one.  Hell I wish I had a nagging list,  too busy filling other people's request.  You know what would be number one?  Getting the hell out of lane 13 here at this damn store and getting to the damn meetings and phone calls that I am can't even remember the damn order and time of because I am too busy buying whatever the hell this toy is and rendering out this video before tomorrow so that I can relax.  (Pause)  Well hell buddy if you don't wanna here what I have to say you can move to another line.  Look sir all I am doing is trying to vent.  And I never touched you so I don't think that was very appropriate at all.  Bah, shit. other loud noises.  Look officer this guy shoved me first.  All I am trying to do is buy this stupid toy for some kid that I don't even like and get out of here to a meeting.  No I don't have time to go with you and talk about it.  Shit Shit.  O come on, man.  Are the cuffs really necessary. Bah!!

Unobscured

I continue to spit because this life is disgusting.
But what else would you expect from a child left behind


"And why do some many people like The Twilight Series but no one is a big fan of The Host?"

"Let me ask you this; would you rather give your daughter the life that you have been giving her now, or would you like to work towards giving her the world now.  I mean look at you, sacrifice this and sacrifice that, what the hell do you think you are already doing?  You might as well push through and give her what you think she deserves."

"Pancreatic cancer is the #4 killer in respect to all cancers?  What the hell could the first three be!?"

"He loves the wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle part"



That all that I really have right now.  Sorry. It's kinda terrible