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Bought a great movie, Idiocracy by Mike Judge. Yeah, it’s the same guy who brought us Beavis and Butthead and Office Space. It’s a dark comedy about what could happen in the world if we keep dumbing it down. The movie is hilarious at the fun it pokes at big corporations and I’m not even sure how the heck they got away with using so many corporate names and logos (Costco, Carl’s Jr, Starbucks, amongst others). But then again maybe they got permission somehow since instead of using the brand name Gatorade they use Brawndo instead.

The trailers for the movie online are terrible in that they don’t make sense out of context and because the movie drops the F-Bomb quite often some of the funnier lines couldn’t make it into the trailers. There is a rumour that 20th Century Fox didn’t do anything to promote the movie at all because of the blowback from corporations depicted in the movie along with FOX News appearing in the movie.

The voiceover narrator in the movie says, The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections. I think that sums it up.

Went to see Apocalypto tonight. Pretty savage scenes in the movie but entertaining. If you don’t like to read subtitles you won’t like this movie, it’s all in Maya so you’ll have to read. Or you can wait for the DVD to come out and probably watch natives running through the jungle with proper British accents or something in the dub. And if you are afraid of nightmares you might want to skip this movie.

One of the many previews and commercials (and there were a ton) for the movie was a long ad for the National Guard. The ad looked quite new with the newest tanks, weapons, BDUs, etc. The ad had images that stressed how the National Guard helps out in things like hurricanes (lots of images like hurricane Katrina rescues) and you serve places like wooded snowy forests, or other forest area that look like the Pacific Northwest or Germany and drive tanks through mud puddles on roads. I don’t think they had any images that looked like they were in the Mid East region fighting a war. And to top it off the closing background video image is a flag waving behind some title to join the Guard. But the flag was a 48 star US flag. How do I know? Because the rows of stars weren’t offset, they were straight even rows. WTF?

I mean, they want to brainwash people into thinking in the National Guard you’ll only serve at home domestically while both Alaska and Hawaii don’t even count as states.

Saw the movie Borat tonight. I laughed, I cried…okay I laughed so hard I was crying. Some folks walked out of the theater during the movie, guess it was too much for them.

Some post-movie pizza as Kitty looks up Borat clips on YouTube. You can also find some of the clips on Borat’s MySpace page.

Brendan chomps on some pizza as some alien death-ray light shines over him.

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A conversation from the movie Pulp Fiction

JULES Hamburgers. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. What kinda hamburgers?
BRETT Cheeseburgers.
JULES No, I mean where did you get’em? MacDonald’s, Wendy’s, Jack-in-the-Box, where?
BRETT Big Kahuna Burger.
JULES Big Kahuna Burger. That’s that Hawaiian burger joint. I heard they got some tasty burgers. I ain’t never had one myself, how are they?
BRETT They’re good.
JULES Mind if I try one of yours?
BRETT No.
JULES Yours is this one, right?
BRETT Yeah.
Jules grabs the burger and take a bite of it.
JULES Uuummmm, that’s a tasty burger. (to Vincent) Vince, you ever try a Big Kahuna Burger?
VINCENT No.

Okay, so why the photo of the McDonald’s cheeseburger? Well, it was my lunch but there’s another reason too which I can’t say at this time. But suffice to say that it’s your pretty standard run of the mill cheeseburger, not a Kahuna Burger and it was my late lunch on Saturday. Sorry if the photo grosses you out, maybe it’s supposed to so you won’t eat one.

Saturday, my Monday since I’m off on Thursday and Friday, had me shooting the rodeo and a track meet. I only pretty much shot photos for the newspaper at those two things so no POTD from those assignments. Better luck tomorrow.

Spent the day making another attempt at straightening up my apartment, no photos please. Manage to get some tasks done that I had procrastinated on so I could procrastinate on actually straightening things up. I just own too much shit, I’m a pack-rat, I admit it, I might need an intervention. “Hello my name is Baron and I’m a pack-rat.”

Why I always seem to head to town at about 3:30 p.m. when the traffic is terrible I don’t understand. Here traffic is backed-up on Hwy 190 going into Kailua town, this is about four miles from town. I was once told that it’s the result of turning a donkey path into a two laned highway. That may not be too far from the truth. Anyone will tell you that traffic is bad everywhere, but I’m just here to gripe about it where I live. Heck, it’s 3:30pm, don’t these people work? How can they afford all those gas guzzlers?

Here’s Gean, typing one-handed while in a chat with his daughters Leilani and Maile. I think bandwidth on the internet is decreasing, now that there are three Cannon’s online. I went back home, through light traffic thank-goodness, and back to town to get a microphone adaptor for the computer. Bought a boom mic for $1 at Salvation Army and gave Gean a set of amplified speakers, brand new. We were in business for some serious internet audio chatting.

We finally hooked up with Maile online and it was a wonder to see Gean chatting via voice, sooo much easier than typing. So now they can audio chat.

Me stuck in traffic once again but what a view. You could almost see every tree on Mt. Hualalai, a very clear afterhoon.

The cinema. Saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, very good movie. Jim Carrey shows some nice range in this, kind of reminds me of how Robin Williams was pidgeon-holed into comedy roles until he did some good dramatic work. I must admit that Tall Andrea and I missed at least the first five minutes, hey it’s not like it was Betty Blue or maybe it was as I missed the opening, since I was trying to get Gean’s Mac squared away and lost track of time before heading for the theater, with an on-time Andrea waiting outside. El-Ron and Jim were supposedly wanting to go to the movies too but they wanted to see Starsky & Hutch…I mean really, the 70s? Platform shoes? The Bee Gees? A Grand Torino as a muscle car? They passed on this movie, now if Jesus Christ was driving a black Trans-Am that answered to the name ‘Kit’ we might have seen another movie together, but I don’t think Mel filmed it that way.

After the movie we had to make a decision…where to eat in Kona at 9:45 p.m. It looked pretty bleak, Tacos El Unico closes in 15 minutes and Denny’s wasn’t sounding too appealing. We found a new place next to the theater, which also stopped cooking in 15 minutes, called Peaberry & Gelettes. The peaberry refers to the somewhat rare pea-shaped coffee beans that supposedly make really good coffee. Gelettes refers to the buckwheat waffles they make and they also make stuffed crepes. I got the spinach, cheese, mushroom and ham crepe which was very good (kind of expensive, about $9.50). I’d recommend it if you want something different to eat, it had that yuppie atmosphere in there which may be a plus or minus according to how you feel about that sort of thing.

And finally, I did have an espresso there which cost me over two bucks for a small cup. Seeing all those tins of Illy coffee there I couldn’t help but think about my own Illy tins at home when I make my own espresso for a fraction of the price, in real chinaware. I’m fading fast and need to get to sleep. Sorry this post wasn’t more interesting, isn’t that a theme everywhere recently? But it’s all I can do at the moment as my eyes are shutting down on me. Good night.