I'm on hold trying to straiten out 3 of 4 billing snafus companies have me in. The first two were easy, this one Broadvoice is just not answering their phones and I can't get into their website. They do my business phone line and they can suck it.

I'll call them back later, Next up is Sprint who's been charging me for insurance even though I'm not eligible. This exact thing happened the last time I lost my phone. I figured they messed up and insured me anyway, and I was able to get a 3rd replacement phone, but only because they continued to charge me after I wasn't eligible. Don't ask about the other two, but the 3rd phone was lost at a concert. Oh.. faithless was worth it… but maybe not if they didn't replace my phone for $50 bucks. They made it very clear that they were being nice and I'd have to wait a long long while to be eligible for insurance again. (A year or two?) So while there's a chance I'm currently eligible, I haven't been all this time and they never stopped charging me.

Which allows me to convolutedly tie this all back to the title of this post and the very excellent movie.

The Quick and the Dead

Quick Story Overview

Gene Hackman is a misundersood former bandit who's given up his life of crime and settled in a failing town. He's taken over and provided it with a thriving entertainment industry. The problem is people in the town are bitter about his violent past and want to steal his money. They hire quick draw assassins to take him out so they can take his former ill gotten gains for themselves. This of course has made Gene Hackman paranoid and he has hired bodyguards to protect him and vital town locations like where he keeps his money, the clock tower, and the saloon.

He even lets his son Leonardo DiCaprio run the local gun store. They have a strained relationship but what father and son has never gone though a rough patch? Eventually Sharon Stone shows up and convinces them to fight to the death. They both die. The end.

Nah Most of that is lies. I'm really good at reciting movies, but I have to tell you it's a lot more fun to make shit up. The movie is good, really good. It’s a western about Sharon Stone coming back to avenge her father and most of the movie she’s like this;

And then at the end she suddenly becomes the 80s;

Which doesn’t break the movie, but not growing up watching Sharon Stone movies confused me a little. Apparently her hair is her thing.

Umm so Gene Hackman is a twisted baddass and makes everyone fight to the death because he runs things, has henchmen, and is an ass hole. I bring this up because if me and Sprint where in this town, I’d gladly shoot them in the chest a few times.

Everyone (who matters anyway) is a baddass in this film. I’ll leave you with that remark a picture of Russel Crow. Oh and this guy was part of the film and really enjoyed it.

_{And now to go back to dealing with Sprint.. I really posted this so I didn’t have to look at that god dammed stupid cover of 21 dog years whenever I looked at my site.}

*Update* A video showing a lot of these parallels.

____________________

It can't be love `1
For there is no true love `2
It can't be love
For there is no true love

Sure I'm C.F.K. `3
But you gotta love me `4
The cost, no man can say `5
But you gotta love me

Well, I'm sorry but I'm not interested in
Gold mines, oil wells, shipping or real estate `6
What would I liked to have been?
Everything you hate `7

'Cause it can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love

There is a man `8
A certain man
And for the poor you may be sure
That he'll do all he can
Who is this one
Whose favorite son
Just by his action has the traction
Magnets on the run?
Who likes to smoke
Enjoys a joke
And wouldn't get a bit upset
If he were really broke?
With wealth and fame
He's still the same
I'll bet you five he's not alive
If you don't now his name

You said, "The Union forever" `9
You said, "The Union forever"
You cried, "The Union forever"
But that was untrue, girl

—————-
CONTEXTUAL NOTES:

`1 "It can't be love"
Performed by Bob Haymes and The Vagabonds in 1944 (after "Citizen Kane")

`2 "It can't be love / For there is no true love"
SINGER: It can't be love for there is no true love, no true love
I know I've played at the game like a moth in a blue flame
Lost in the end just the same, just the same
All these years my heart's floating around in a paddle of tears

`3 "C.F.K."
Charles Foster Kane

`4 "But you gotta love me"
Kane: Whatever I do, I do because I love you.
Susan: You don't love me. You want me to love you. "Sure, I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever you want, just name it and
it's yours. But you've gotta love me!"

`5 "The cost, no man can say"
NARRATOR: For wife two, one-time opera singing Susan Alexander, Kane built
Chicago's Municipal Opera House. Cost — Three million dollars.
Conceived for Susan Alexander Kane, half-finished before she
divorced him, the still unfinished Xanadu. Cost — No man can
say.

`6 "I'm sorry, but I'm not interested…"
COWORKER: It's from Mr. Kane.
THATCHER: Go on.
SECRETARY: "Sorry. But I'm not interested in gold mines, oil wells, shipping or real estate."
THATCHER: Not interested?

`7 "What would I like to have been? / Everything you hate"
THATCHER: Yes, yes. But your methods! Do you know, Charles never made a single investment? Always used money to–
KANE: To buy things. Buy things. My mother should have chosen a less reliable banker. Well, I always gagged on that
silver spoon. You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
THATCHER: Don't you think you are?
KANE: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.
THATCHER: What would you like to have been?
KANE: Everything you hate.

`8 "There is a man…"
SINGER: Good evening, Mr. Kane. There is a man.
DANCERS: There is a man.
SINGER: A certain man.
DANCERS: A certain man.
SINGER: And for the poor you may be sure that he'll do all he can. Who is this one?
DANCERS: Who is this one?
SINGER: This favorite son.
DANCERS: This favorite son.
SINGER: Just by his action has the traction magnets on the run. Who loves to smoke?
DANCERS: Who loves to smoke?
SINGER: Enjoys a joke.
DANCERS: Ha ha ha ha.
SINGER: Who wouldn't get a bit upset if he were really broke. With wealth and fame
DANCERS: With wealth and fame
SINGER: He's still the same.
DANCERS: He's still the same.
SINGER & DANCERS: I'll bet you five you're not alive if you don't know his name.
KANE: I don't know how to dance.
SINGER: What is his name?
BERNSTEIN: What is his name?
DANCERS: It's Charlie Kane.
EVERYONE: It's Mr. Kane. He doesn't like the Mister. He likes good old Charlie Kane.
SINGER: Who said the Miss
EVERYONE: Who said the Miss
SINGER: Was made to kiss?
EVERYONE: Was made to kiss?
SINGERL: And when he meets one always tries to do exactly this. Who buys the food?
EVERYONE: Who buys the food?
KANE & SINGER: Who buys the drinks?
EVERYONE: Who buys the drinks?
KANE & SINGER: Who thinks that dough was made to spend and acts the way he thinks?
SINGER: Now, is it Joe? No, no, no, no.
EVERYONE: No, no, no, no.…

`9 "The Union forever"
KANE (as a child): Come on, boys! The Union forever!
MRS. KANE: Be careful, Charles!

Also I got to make this clear first, because I started to confuse myself. Midnight on a date is the very start of the day. In military time it would be 00:00:00 or normally 12:00am regular time.

Also despite obviously being California (I love the mountains) the movie is set in Middlesex Virginia, which during the month of October is EDT. (Just like now here in New York,)

Near the end of the movie, when the clock strikes midnight, the movie claims

October 30 1988
(SIX HOURS REMAIN)

Which, seems wrong. I would argue 7 hours until the end of the world, but that "Six Hours Remain" may be until the start of the end or something. See at the beginning of the movie Frank the bunny calls Donnie out of his room, the clocks read midnight and the date given is,

October 2 1988

Frank has donnie walk to the golf course and then tells him that he has 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds left (28:06:42:12), assuming about 18 minutes to walk to the course, this places the end of the world around 7am.

The script (which I found online) says that sequence of events that end with the downed engine from Flight 2806 (with the mother and little sister, and I can assume all of "Sparkle Motion") falls starts at exactly 6am. It could conceivably take an hour to complete, having to drive up into the mountains with an indeterminate amount of time passing with a montage, where we see people on the plane and Donnie's flashbacks. Which would leave the collapse of the "Tangent Universe" at around 7am.

Now I'm going to apologize in advance for the next paragraph.

The website puts the end and collapse of the tangent universe at midnight on .. October 27th 2001 which is completely off base (by 3 days and 6 or 7 hours). Unless you look at the release date of the movie which is in October 28th, 2001 according to Wikipedia (the US release not the Sundance premier) and you can assume maybe that date was pushed back a day or something to coincide. (Wikipedia could be wrong besides.) But the 27th of 2001 was a Saturday and the 28th was a Sunday and in the past.. I don't know 10 years I can remember, Movies have generally been released on Wednesdays or Fridays. So.. I might even think that these dates could be when the theaters receive the movies and not when they first play them. Of course it's late, and I may not understand the intricacies of the movie system. Back to the main point, if you watched the movie in theaters that could be when the "tangent universe" first collapsed for you.

Seriously I apologize, I look at that paragraph and I don't even want to proof read it.

So the ambiguity is that at midnight on October 30th the movie says 6 hours left when Frank and the sequence of events indicate 7 hours are left and the website says fuckall. ("I will not be afraid!") Why does all this matter? I wanted to create a clock that gave the countdown to October 30th on the hour of the Collapse of the "tangent universe". But since I've been trying to figure all this out I'm now up way later then I wanted to be and I'm probably not going to make this stupid clock tonight.

Good night, and thank you Richard Kelly for making a good movie, even if I have no idea what time things happened despite you riddling the script and movie with plenty of time notifications.

Also, In my searches I've found only one other site confused about this, and they didn't care. I guess they weren't trying to make a clock.

–Francis

Pleix films
I found this site from stumble a few months ago. It's got a bunch of weird and neat shorts heavily compressed and skillfully done. The kind of stuff I wish I could do on the weekends, without really having to get heavily into it. (But of course it requires a lot more work then that.) It's art.

Today on Digg I found their "netlag" video (go to them to see it). Imagine you save the photos from hundreds of webcams all over the world and plot them so they're a map of the world. And then play the photos in sync with each other, fast. Days become seconds and you see the sun rising and setting as the different cameras update their images.

We're taken over North America and then to Europe and down to Hawaii. It's really cool.

–Francis

PS I asked them about a higher quality version, I'd love to host it (I didn't tell them that) but if you're from Pleix consider this my offer, I've got lots of bandwidth to spare. =)

The best part (Jason just pointed this one out.) is that a "Dr. A. Peper" from Rotterdam is given thanks in the credits. I think he's the mayor or something.

I could have cracked up for hours over that.

Dr. Pepper should not be confused with Dr. A Peper. While one is a nice "tart" drink, the other is a man I know nothing about. Please don't try drinking the man or expect the drink to run the city of Rotterdam.

Alright…

So I learned some things from Super Size Me. (Available at any video rental store. And under documentaries on Showtime In Demand Specials.) The pretence. Morgan Spurlock a healthy man eats Mc. Donnalds

Eating McDonnalds every day for a month is really really bad for you.

He gained 12 pounds in first 10 days.

Eating will make you feel good too.

That's not news. I've got a small weight problem, I weigh… 206 last time I checked. I don't have a scale so I don't have to know todays weight. I don't really need to, I can tell if I've been eating too much, I can feel it. Food tastes good. (Usually) Pizza, pasta, hamburger, chicken. Heck, tomato sauce too. I love these things, the flavors on the mouth, the taste on the tongue and the instant satisfaction of a full belly. It's addictive. And why not? Food is supposed to make us feel good isn't it?

When your not eating, you'll feel bad.

When you don't eat healthy, you feel bad when your not eating. This guy got headaches as bad as migraines between meals. He was tired all the time, stopped being able to walk up the stairs to his apartment easily, and felt like crap, often. When he was eating he felt great, it was good to get some food into him. When he wasn't on food he was depressed.

Other common effects from eating too much are Hypertension (75% of people can stop taking their hypertension medication after eating less, unfortunately these statistics came from a surgeon that specializes in reducing peoples stomachs to the size of baseballs.), high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and liver disease.

The Surgeon General says 30 minutes of exercise a day is required to maintain a steady body weight. That's 1/48th of a day it's not a lot. I know that the steps for me to loose weight are simple. 1) Eat less, 2) Move more. That's it. But that's me, I should be able to drop 10 pounds in a couple weeks. I hope anyway. I mean I feel like I should be able to, I've lost weight before.

Other fun facts.

Children watch 3000 hours of food commercials a year. Parents eating every meal of every day with their children get around 1000 hours a year. So even if you enforced healthy eating and educated them

He gained 24 pounds in 30 days, his BMI went from %12 to %21, his liver hardened… His doctor said it was like he was on a drinking binge and if he didn't stop drinking he end up dying.

It took him 4 months to loose most of the weight (10–20 pounds, I forget) and then another 9 to lose the remaining.

So I finished watching this and I think back to the other night when Andrew, Jason and I were hanging out. (As they read this they're going "Oh no…") We were hungry, it was late and none of us had really eaten much that day. So after spending some time at Home Depot we went to White Castle. We were filled with Regret afterwards. I mean it was tasty at first, but… we all felt sick later. I never want to do that again.

(After Morgan's first supersized Big Mac meal (1st or 2nd day of the movie) he threw up out the side of his car.)

He spends his time like any other kid with no plan and lots of money does, he learns how to work on cars, shoot a gun, open wine bottles (something I've had down since I was strong enough to open one — I used to beg to open them for my parents as a kid), and flirts with the two girls that live on the same floor at him. (Jane and Lisa or Franka Potente and Mandy Moore) Oddly enough he's too young for Mandy Moore (born in 84 and 18 at the time of the movie) but ends up hitched with Franka Potente (born in 74 and 28 at the time of the movie) and Elijah Wood himself is actually older then Mandy (born in 81 and was 21 at the time of the movie — and in the movie he successfully argues that he's 21 to a liquor store clerk. He claims he has a bone disease.)

I kept saying to myself that I recognized Jane from somewhere. As it turns out she's the star of Run Lola Run.

I'll give this movie a 3 out of 5. Mostly for potential. Maybe if it had a reworked last half hour that seamed plausible and didn't seam rushed I'd give it more.

–Francis

EDIT Lost about half my post there! All fixed.

I'd give Amelie 5 stars in my (new) little library program, if only I knew where my DVD was so I could catalogue it.

–Francis
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PS. Jason gave me a nice christmas idea, one I'd like to use too. (more on that later) Never mind I don't bother giving winter gifts on a holiday. I may call them Christmas gifts (or if I remember Chanukah gifts) but really, around this time I try to find things that yell or scream about the person, and then I buy it. For for the 3 months of winter most of my friends get gifts. With the exception of famiy who normally gets gifts on Christmas due to the fact that if they have nothing under the tree from me I feel bad. (Tradition)

Also wether (a misnomer Frank pointed out to me) means "A castrated ram".

I've had a picture from the downloads in my picture folder from a long time ago, back when the movie was a small independent "off the shelf" production. Apparently they were all… umm not out, on production software so they could afford to do the project, I guess. Honestly it was a long time ago, nice to see it's finally released.

It's French "Kaena: La prophÈtie".

–Francis

Well I found out why.

Dailyboredom.com which boasts "Boredom Reduction Is Just A Click Away! Visit These Incredibly Un-Boring Sites" linked directly to the movie. Apparently its a semi popular site. It generated 1240 hits on the movie.

Well they're going to have to read my post about it before viewing the image now.

Anyway I'm pleased I've been been main stream before.

–Francis

–Francis

This is a car advert from somewhere. When they finished filming the ad the people who made it noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist.

Watch it and about halfway look and you will see the white mist crossing in front of the car then following it along the road… Spooky!

Turn your sound on, then click here to watch the movie.

–Francis

PS I hate you Kevin Rose

Most of his music videos rock. You only get to see him slightly during the test for the Rockafella skank video (which never was produced but led to..) and the Praise You Video which he was the lead dancer. Everybody (But the Beastie Boys) described him as cuddly and fun, perhaps like a teddy bear. They all liked him but called him weird.

It seams like Spike was just the weird kid up the block who started making movies, short, long, and music. And he has really good ideas. He even directed being John Malkovich. Like.. the guy rocks.

Anyway The Beastie Boys had their own little commentary about some of the videos (so did a few other people) which lasted like 40 minutes. The entire time one of them bitched about not getting paid and how other people probably didn't get paid either. And how people probably wouldn't work with him now because they wouldn't get paid.

"Spike is a friend, he's just cheep."

Oh man. Also..

"Billy Corgan he's a jock, he's a gangster jock."

I have no idea where this is coming from. But… anyway the Beastie Boys never disappoint even if they are fuckers who want to fight everybody.

"Would Billy Corgan ever do a video with Spike? No, because Billy Corgan is a financially wealthy person and he knew Spike would take all his money."

I bet Spike owes one of them 10 bucks or something. Jeesh.

–Francis

"That dog probably sued Spike."

(I wish I could sleep.)

The movie 21 Grams was well worth seeing. I'm glad I saw it alone, away from a crowded or empty theater. I saw it with the soft glow of my over head light, the wide screen of the tv, the sound filling my head. I don't want to hear peoples opinions on this movie, its got this fragile pedestal in my mind.

And of course that's what this movie is about, fragility. Human fragility.

The rest of the movie is well done. The cinematography was quite a pice of work, being non-linear. Instead showing different things about the characters instead of actually telling their stories. The story becomes apparent eventually. Its kinda like how I would tell a story. I'd want you to know the people first but without just telling you about them, I'd show you them.

I had some trouble keeping the actors apart in the beginning but thats a shortcoming on my part. I also read some reviews where people compared it to Memento just because it wasn't showed linearly (ironically it was shot linearly — made the actors lives easier I'm sure.) and I hate them. This movie's got nothing to do with Memento, I couldn't even relate the two… they're both movies. Thats all I'll say about that.

Thinking back piecing the movie together… I dunno, I think I'm going to keep my mouth shut.

Find someone good, who likes movies, who can appreciate them and watch this with them. Or do what I did and watch it alone. Either way it's more then worth it.

SCI FI Brings Back Farscape

I was watching Stargate SG1 and I saw this commercial and it was for a mini series of Farscape and it was good. This show was really good, oh man I'm so happy they're bringing it back, if not at least for a mini series.

–Francis

On more important matters I saw Shrek 2 finally. It was cute and had a lot of humor that went right over the kiddies heads. Didn't let down my expectations but they weren't that high anyway.

I was going to do an entire post on Raising Victor Vargas about a week ago. It was a good movie about a family of 3 coming of age kids and an old grandmother growing up in the Projects. I kept seeing it in video rental places and something about it just made me want to rent it. I didn't even know what it was about. The synopsis I read on Netflix really didn't do it justice.

Victor (Victor Rasuk) is a Latino kid who fancies himself as a bit of a lothario around the ghetto. But when word gets out that he's been romancing a fat girl in the apartment upstairs, his credibility as a stud is thrown into question. So, he finds himself a hot new girlfriend (Judy Marte) to shut everyone up.

Yea… the movie wasn't really about that. Check IMDB for reviews. Oh and it has a pretty good website even though it was never completed. I want to see Five Feet High and Rising but netflix nor my local movie rental store has it. (It's the director's first movie about the same family.)

I commented some photo galleries for your amusement. I can't say I'm too happy about the quality of many of the pictures but they all tell a little story. I need a camera with a bigger aperture. My current one (Nikon Coolpix 995) is nice but its got 3 broken pixels and needs a lot of light. Anyway, enjoy the pictures — they're in a new section dedicated to Events and Outings with my friends.

Nick's Graduation
The 4th of July
The 5th of July with Nina, Ellie, Becky, Jenny, Jason, Brian and Myself

–Francis

It fits.

Doc Oc was done quite well (though he shouldn't have been able to take so many punches from spidy) and you got to see Peter Parker a lot more. Our beloved hero spent quite a bit of time with his mask off and you got to know the boy Peter Parker (My age it seems.) a bit better.

But even though in the previews he gives up being spider man you know he comes back, and you know that Peter Parker doesn't loose to Spider Man and that things work out. I mean there's going to be a Spider Man 3 in 2007.

"Go get em Tiger"

–Francis

It cracks me up every time.

–Francis

One day I'll watch the movie with someone and it will have the effect it should. I saw it in theaters a long time ago but that night my mind wasn't really there. I didn't get that fulfilled feeling, I wasted my time.

Thanks to Frank for buying me the soundtrack off my Amazon wish list. It's good music for a dam good movie.

–Francis

didi-5 writes;

deeply unpleasant movie with a star performance

All this would be so much hogwash if it wasn't for the stunning lead performance of Harvey Keitel, certainly taking his acting talent right to the edge to give us a nothing-held-back portrait of his character. There are several scenes of great power (and one or two which are deeply repellent); certainly this isn't a film you can easily forget when you've seen it.

Go figure.

So I did some good stuff today to unwind. I got to hang out with a very good friend of mine and watch Being John Malkovich.. the kind of friend who I haven't seen enough of and I'd like to see more of. I did some work in the morning and got most of my domains straightened out. I had to use a lot of my skills to get things to move smoothly and I wasn't even trying to do anything hard.

Frank kept asking me; "How is a normal person supposed to deal with this?"

They can't. Thats why I think my business will work well even if its primary goal is small time.

I'm about to hit the sack, I stayed up to watch the season finale of The Sopranos. It was a good ending but a bad season, you won't find any 4 dvd packs of this one. Only 13 episodes and half of them had little to no purpose.

Sarah yelled at me for giving away stuff, she wasn't serious but it's been on TV already so excuse me if missed it. Regardless I'm not going to say much more about the Sopranos, I just hope I don't need to wait another year and a half for another season, they better put it back on normal rotation. (Never mind Alias was put on second half rotation for next year so the 4th season won't happen for a while. I can't say too many good things about the 3rd season though, Sydney doesn't wear her bangs well, she shouldn't be playing the hurt little girl character. And Vaughn doesn't play the raging heart broken lover very well, I like the show and the characters but I was greatly disappointed this season.

So now for the point, what's in a blog?
Do I use this space for random shit in my life? Do I gossip about my feelings for or about people? Do I account for my actions in life? or do I use this space to just vent?

I have no idea, but I'll continue to write what comes to mind, in the mean time I'm starting my business. And apparently I haven't told everybody, I'm moving back to Brooklyn and I'll be here for a while. New Jersey was nice but I wasn't flourishing there. My friends, my family, my work, and my home is here, and this is where I want to be. I'll miss you rowan people but you won't be far away. If we're meant to keep in touch we will.

I'm also not returning to school in the fall, this next spring I plan to. But this fall I want to keep working on my business and my life. In the mean time I've got a list.

1) Get my self together
2) Fix up my apartment — I've put a lot of work into it already but I'm far from finished.
3) Help my parents clean out problem areas. — Currently they've taken enough of my help and I'm done for a while, but I'm a "strapping young man" and I know how to effectively clean and organize.
4) Make sure my business including MS 51 is running smoothly.
5) Do a double check on my self.

And then, once I have all that finished, I'm going and spending 2 weeks in london. I'll have earned my vacation by that point.

I need a disclaimer at the bottom of wizard computing.
"All information is subject to change with out notice and all advice is to be followed at your own precaution."

I'll have to work on that a little, but I think it applies here too.

Good night all, hope your all getting by alright if not wonderfully. It's just being wonderful is hard and is rare, so be happy when it happens but keep in mind it will happen again.

–Francis

(Btw I'm hosting that trailer off my own server not apples so if you want a link to show your friends either send them here or send a link to roborooter. I don't mind spending my bandwidth if they bother to read my site, but I want them to bother.)

In other news I'm living in brooklyn. This entire week (I'm checking my calendar — I'm using iCal exclusively now, its keeping me sane.) and some of last week I've been moving. Part driving my stuff up from Glassboro, park moving it in to my new apartment (at Franks) and the last and hardest part putting my stuff into franks and making the place livable.

I took a break on monday and hung out with Yana. She's the Jill I never got to know. (few people will understand this) I walked around park slope and we got to talk about many things. It was quite fun. And I've captioned each picture so it tells a little story. As stories go its a short one but its got plenty of pictures.

I also wanted to show you a little of what I was doing at franks. I've got the kitchen almost setup the way I like it, sorta have food in it (I need to go shopping but the food around here isn't as good as the big ShopRight in Glassboro.) and its clean. I've been cleaning a lot.

I figured I'd start from the back and work my way front. So my room and the kitchen first and then the main room. I've got some photos of the process. More when I find my cable for my camera.

You might notice all the milk crates. I love those things, they stack, they're easy to put together and they don't break or crush like boxes. I could make a couch out of them if I wanted to, but I'll stick to night stands and shelves for now. Cleaning them is a bitch though.

I'm still going to be on my mega pace working on things for the next few days. Sunday will be my day of rest, and NOW is the time to sleep.

–Francis

American Beauty was… beautiful =)

–Franics

PS. Alright you deserve a better update then this. I've been moving, I've got most of my stuff here in ny and I'm trying to not live out of stolen milk crates (I've got sooo many.) I've been spending quality time with old friends but I need to go reach out to other ones I haven't seen in a while.

If I haven't done the folowing in the next 2 weeks I need to be slapped.
1) have wizardcomputing setup and clients being taken
2) Jazz club with Yana, she loves the music as much as I do.
3) Finish cleaning the apartment and have room for a couch. (So many bags of trash I've taken out already!)
4) At least called emily.

Francis
–Good night

(I've got about 1000 thoughts I want to share inspired from this movie. About love, hate, time travel, alternate dimensions, pre-destiny, self censorship, small town society, beliefs and how then can consume, and some more on love.)

I'm a firm believer that a belief or theory should be used, shared and discarded. Like shucking fresh corn. Except I don't think we'd ever be done believing things, I don't think we'd ever find what ever absolute truth we were looking for.

I think I also miss California. The kind of missing where you haven't actually had the thing you miss, it's almost like I miss the yearning for the mountains and the climate. I wonder how my mother puts up with such a loss.

And while I'm on the topic (whether you know it or not). A Home Test for Parallel Universes I don't actually believe it but it is neat. It really shows diffraction at its best, I'm remembering something about double-slit experiments in physics. Either way, its neat.

–Francis