Love is fickle.

I just come to realization that of all the people to give advice about love… i am the worst. why? Simply because why should I give advice to someone about love when I, myself, have NEVER experienced love. Oh sure, there are a few people boys who I dated, went out with, had crushes on, but that is all the advice I can give. Dating advice, not advice about love or falling in love. I have had some pretty crappy relationships that I think I would be afraid to fall in love. I have also come to realize that the reason why I hate romantic movies or movies like Pride and Prejudice (no matter how great the cinematography is), is because I think so many girls have this mind set where romance is just like Pride and Prejudice or even Cinderella or Twilight (heaven forbid) and… IT’S NOT REAL! It’s all fiction ladies! oie.. movies. women. love. iono why i’m writing about this… just wanted to.

August Update

Hello World!

During the last week of October and the beginning of November, I will be traveling back to China and Hong Kong. Unfortunatly, this year, I will be skipping Halloween. That means no drinking for me. Muahaha! Although, I am curious to know if Chinese and Hong Kong people celebrate Halloween. I enlisted the help of my friend Google and this is what I found about Hong Kong during Halloween:

In Hong Kong there is a festival similar to Hallowe’en. During the Hungry Ghosts Festival or Yue Lan, ghosts and spirits roam the world for 24 hours. Some people burn pictures of fruit or money. This was believed to reach the spirit world and comfort the ghosts on this day.
It doesn’t sound like the typical American Halloween where kids run amuck in the neighborhoods, ringing doorbells for those glorious sweet and delicious treats. Or “young adults” and teens ensue the best possible way to get FUBAR’d (Fucked Up Beyond Absolute Reason) and see how bad they can damage, not their bodies, but the house itself (or how every costume a girl puts on is a “slutty __(fill in noun)___.”) I guess the Chinese are more traditional? Then again, c’mon, we’re in the 21st Century. Generation Z, or whatevers. Party ON! Chinese people will party of that American holiday. I bet you one arm and a leg. Ha!

I’m coming to the realization that my first paid “big girl” job is almost coming to one year. Will I get a raise? Nope! Sucks. I am proud of myself for sticking with it. I can say that having money in the account does help A LOT, especially when it comes to wanting to be financially independent from the parents and to pay the bills. Will I change jobs? Eventually. It’s not what I want to do persay, but it is an area I need to know about and WELL i might add. I’m itching to work for a studio company, but “Because of the economy” everyone is at a stand still. I am really lucky to have a job and a job I am good at. Which leads me to my next rant. I really do hate it when people say “Oh, you can afford it. You have a real JOB.” / “Yes, I have a job, but you have one too dumbass.”/ “Me? Please I just work in a clothing store”/ “Full time. Your an assistant manager”/ “Yea, but it doesn’t pay all the bills, I’m poor”/ “Same here, I’m poor too. I have to pay bills, too.”/ “Yeah, like what? Your new shiny iphone bill?(sarcasm)”/ “Um, Yeah. Oh, and, on top of my cell phone bill, I have to pay my own car insurance, AAA service, health care, state/fed taxes, license plate renewal fee, $500 in ‘rent,’ my own gas, my own junk food, any yearly car check ups, the bumper dent, netflix, water/electric, oh and guess what, if my dad loses his job, guess who has to pay mortgage and every thing else in order to keep my parents living under shelter??? ME you fucking turd!”/ “….”  Yeah, I hate it when people assume just because I have a “real job” means I have a lot of money. Well, I don’t have money. I’m in the same boat as anyone else with a job. Just be glad you’re working, PERIOD.

::sigh:: I needed to get that rant out. Felt good. That’s probably my only rant for this year. Good stuff. So what else has been new? Swing danicng!!!! I’M BAAAAACCCKKK!!!! I love dancing. Taking lessons with Ben and Sheri was the best idea because it made me realize how much I love it! Sadly, I only have really time to stay out late on Fridays, so I got to Atomic. Yes, it’s a far drive, but I go there because I want to see my friends and get out of the LA area. After going to Camp Hollywood, I have decided that I’m going to try to enter in some Amateur contest. We shall see if I have the balls to do it, but I sure do have some tiny balls.. not big ones. Hahaha! JkJk. My sister always asks, “So, any cute guys?” *oie* >_< Cute guys… i’m not going to say there aren’t any… there are a couple… couple meaning 1… or 2…. but *shrugs* iono, i’m not sure if they’re even interested to be honest. So I’m not going to pursue until they do! hahaha yes, i let the guys go first. Only because I have had many guy friends so it’s really hard for me to tell if we are “hanging out” or “on a date” if it’s just the two of us. Yeah, I suck at this.. haha *shy face* ^_^

To end this blog… I love Dexter, the show. Everyone needs to watch it!

A Gangsta’s Life

My first real college essay in a film theory class. It’s OK, I just like the title for it. Yes I wrote the title with no “-er” hah!

If you were to sum up the history of the gangster genre in one word, what would it be? Violent, masculine, bloody, or funny? Perhaps the best word to sum up the history of the gangster genre is from Thomas Schatz, in his essay on the gangster film: peculiar. “The gangster genre has had a peculiar history,” Schatz notes, because it has endured boycotts, censorship, federal regulation, and other social factors. (81) Not only did the genre endure limitations from the film industry, but spanning almost over a century of American history, the gangster films of America have reflected what filmmakers believed was the main social problem with crime and gangsterism in American society. Writers such as Thomas Schatz and Robert Warshow have taken this unique genre and refined how the gangster genre evolved over the years to sum up what a true gangster film is.
When filmmakers take a complex genre, like the gangster genre, there have not been any films that could sum up an entire era of that genre. However, there are several films that have attempted to portray the gangster genre and eventually improving on the conventions of the gangster film and David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (2005) does just that. The film takes the form of a history book, like the history book you read through elementary school to college, and reflects how the gangster genre infinitely evolves due to the changes in culture, technology, and the film industry. Unfortunately, not all history books are complete because of the constant change and revision. The progression of the gangster genre made film producers and audiences become increasingly aware of a genre’s conventions and thus began to implicitly critique and revise this shared knowledge. With this shared knowledge, which has accumulated over the years, comes the gangster film we know today. In this essay, I will concentrate on how A History of Violence is a history textbook of the gangster genre by first discussing how the film reflects changes in organized crime and violence in contemporary America and the problem of how Americans react to these violent acts. Secondly, I will explain how the American film industry has gone through a number of changes which led to different trends in film styles, stars, and technologies. Finally, I will describe what kind of classic codes and conventions are associated with the gangster film and how those classic conventions reinvent themselves in Cronenberg’s film to critique and re-vision the American gangster.
From the prohibition era and Al Capone to the Enron scandal and Kenneth Lay, America has dealt with different problems in areas of poverty and different contraband and business run organized crime. In addition to organized crime, violence sometimes had its way in becoming the final result after a crime has been committed. When the issue of violence in America arises, there is the question of context that makes a culture wonder if violence should praised or should be condemned. For example, in A History of Violence, when Leland and Billy try to rob Tom Stall’s diner, Tom quickly grabs the gun after injuring Leland with a coffee pot and shoots both men dead. Afterwards, Tom is congratulated and praised as a hero by Millbrook’s townspeople. Later, in a different sequence, Jack Stall, an anti-violent teenager in the beginning of the film, turns violent when he brutally beats up a school bully. After his fight, Jack is yelled at for his violent behavior at school and receives a slap in the face by his father, Tom. So, what is praised and what is condemned? Thomas Schatz notes “that the thematic appeal and significance of conflicts… [are adjusted] to the audience’s and filmmakers’ changing attitudes toward those conflicts.” (Schatz, 31) The juxtaposition of Tom’s violent scene and Jack’s violent scene demonstrates Cronenberg’s reflection on America’s response to violent acts. In one situation violent acts are celebrated among United States citizens when those acts benefit the community. However, when violent acts are committed onto our own people and children, society looks down upon it and ultimately scorns the act. Therefore, how can Americans judge what is wrong or what is right when, in general, “doing violence is pointless and cruel.” Almost any act of violence is still a crime, even if it is used to defend or if it is to settle a dispute. People are still going to get hurt. In addition, the story in A History of Violence “represents the transformation of some social, historical, or even geographical aspect of American culture into one locus of events and characters.” (Schatz, 24) Crime in the nineteen hundreds was constantly committed in urban cities when entertainment and opportunities were plentiful for popular gangsters. Nowadays, crime has moved out of its main geographical urban scene and into rural America, just like the small town in Cronenberg’s film. In general, rural areas that are considered crime-free are now vulnerable to big city gangs and both settings have become more closely linked and interdependent.
The changing trends in the American film industry became a result from years of struggling to sway “the variety of governmental, educational, religious, and other special interest groups who felt that [gangster films] were providing unwholesome role models for impressionable viewers.” (Schatz, 94) The first primitive elements of the gangster film appeared during the silent era; however, the genre’s classical phase did not begin until the 1930s when the sound era made the machine gun become an important sound convention and the production code of 1934 was created in order to censor distasteful conventions. For example, sex, interracial marriage, and the “willful offense to any nation, race, or creed’” (Schatz, 96) are just a few of several contents in gangster films deemed “objectionable” (Schatz, 96) and are “off-limits to filmmakers” (Schatz, 96); whereas, crime, rape, and firearms were under “special care.” (Schatz, 96) Even with the general principles of the Motion Picture Producers and Directors Association’s production code, “filmmakers and audiences were cooperating in refining genres that examined the more contradictory [conventions] of American ideology.” (Schatz, 93) The new examination led to a number of genre variations and the recasting of the classic gangster. An example would be during the Baroque phase of the 1950s when the gangster became psychologically complex and the crime world expanded from the streets to big corporations. As each generation went by the culture changed and filmmakers reflected the change as the strict production code started to decline around the late 1960s. It inevitably led to the reinvention of the gangster genre where better technology, new styles, and new stars enhanced each film. For instance, a refinement on special effects helped filmmakers, on A History of Violence, shoot close-up shots of violent scenes. When Tom injured Leland with a glass coffee pot, filmmakers used a stunt man with a green mask and later added Leland’s face into the final footage. Situations like these enables the filmmakers to freely portray violence up close and personal without injuring major movie stars. Not only that, green screens and special effects allow the film industry to go beyond many boundaries with endless choices of camera shots, graphics, and stylistic choices than it did several years ago.
Furthermore, another important change in the film industry is the new genre styles that evolved from the struggling times. A History of Violence takes a certain style of art cinema where the cause and effect linkage is a lot looser. Narratives are built on two principles: authorial expressivity and realism. Cronenberg’s style is visible in the film because of his long takes, saturated look, and his interest in bodies and violence. However, it is the depiction of real location and real human problems that contains sexual explicit scenes where sex and nudity are not censored. In addition, Viggo Mortensen plays Tom, a psychologically complex character who strives for the goal of a better life, but in certain circumstances is flawed when he reacts to events which trigger Joey Cusack, the violent gangster. Tom inhabits characteristics of what bandit films of the 1940s call the tragic hero: a character who exhibits a fatal flaw, which eventually leads to his demise. “The hero’s transition in the more effective films from hardened, cynical gangster to humane, sensitive lover taxes the genre’s demand of moral retribution.” (Schatz, 103) Joey becomes Tom in order to escape the life he lived as a gangster in Philadelphia and tries to seek redemption for his evil acts of violence by changing everything about him such as a new name, personality, and family. Although Tom’s new and happy life seems forever, the “tragic irony of the hero’s certain death is intensified by his new capacity for romantic love.” (Schatz, 103) After years of being in love with his new life and family, Tom assumes his violent past is over until he becomes a small town hero and his face is on every news channel. It is at this point in time when Tom’s repressed secret is slowly revealed to his loving family and Carl Fogarty, a man from Tom’s past, comes back for revenge. Even as Tom kills all his enemies from his past he is still not cured from the “more serious problems that will lead him, inevitably, to his death” (Schatz, 104): his family. In the end of the film, when Tom comes back home from Philadelphia, he is unsure if he should join his family for dinner. When his daughter places a table setting for Tom and he sits down, it is here where the audience is left with a now dysfunctional family whose life is resolved through an ambiguous ending for the audience to conclude for themselves. Tom’s tragic flaw is not in the form of physical death per say, but in an ambiguous and possible destruction of everything he worked for in order to feel morally redeemed for his crimes because of a dark secret that was kept from his family,
As each new decade passes along, the gangster genre has proven to be a static and dynamic system that keeps certain conventions and iconography in place while continually revising itself to adapt to changing times and tastes. It is important to keep this iconography because it “involves the process of narrative and visual coding that result from the repetition of a popular film story.” (Schatz, 22) For example, the title A History of Violence, presents audiences with a film that will self reflexively critique years of different iconography of the gangster genre by taking classic codes and conventions of the genre and reinventing them in a way where the director is critiquing criminals and crimes, not just in movies, but in families and in the nation itself.
In the film, “the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche…which rejects ‘Americanism’ itself.” (Warshow, 130) Tom speaks to us as the new breed of gangster heroes who try to escape from a criminal life and decides to live out the real American dream: good American work ethics leads to success. However, his character is juxtaposed with his older brother, Richie Cusack, who represents the rich, classical gangster trying to violate the American dream: shortcut to riches and better life is crime. In addition, the gangster figure encompasses contradictory forces, such as Tom being the good son, family man, and father to his family, but he is also Joey, the ruthless killer. Ever since the 1930s, the concept of the good and bad dichotomies has been around to enhance the persona of the gangster-hero. A second example is the two sex scenes with Tom and his wife, Edie, which represents a figure of repulsion and seduction. In the first sex scene Edie is having sex with her husband Tom Stall, the loving and playful family man. In the second sex scene, Edie is having sex with violent Joey Cusack, but as their erotic sexual intercourse begins to turn violent, Joey pulls away, but Edie pulls him back for more. In these contrasted scenes, realism is used to deglamorize, in some ways, how sex is presented in movies and in real life. In one circumstance, some people are attracted to the good gentlemen who are romantic and passionate. In a second circumstance, sex is presented in a way which nothing is censored and that some people may enjoy real sex that is explicit and almost animalistic, just like Edie’s reaction to having sex with Joey. It is probably one of the main conventions where A History of Violence “celebrates [an] inviolate cultural attribute” (Schatz, 31) that has long been highly censored or taboo. Furthermore, the city is another classic convention where big cars, streets, bars, and big houses act as a contested space. However, the space has been updated in the film because the contested space also expands to the middle of rural America in diners, dusty streets, and old farming areas, suggesting that crime can be committed anywhere and everywhere. Not only is space perceived in the movie, but just like White Heat (1949), the toll of Tom’s gangsterism punctures a large whole in the family when the wife, son, and daughter are dragged into Tom’s past and have to witness several intense and bloody stand-offs.
All of these codes and conventions critique years and years of social problems that evolved into the new millennium. Instead of glamorizing the gangster, Cronenberg deglamorizes Tom’s life as a man who “must inhabit [a fake identity and life for three years] in order to personify it” (Warshow, 131) It leads to the inevitable results and struggles for one man, who is extremely notorious, to stray away from a life of crime for a better life, but ends up becoming the tragic hero. In today’s generation, conventions have had more freedom then they did a long time ago because audiences understand and are used to seeing blood, nudity, and violence more frequent because we are surrounded by it through the  media and in our daily lives.
All in all, A History of Violence is a form of the history book because it conveys how years of changing classic iconography has reinvented itself in the new century to reflect what filmmakers perceive is the social problem with crime and gangsterism everywhere in United States. This peculiar genre has demonstrated a pattern of increasing self-consciousness, where in this new century, the producer and audience will unite to revise a whole new era of gangster films from the classic American gangster genre.

talk

I realized I suck at talking to strangers, especially male strangers who I don’t know so well… also I realize I need to stop talking about myself… like me being the cat lady… yeah. I’m… lame.

of the Dead…

I was listening to KROQ a while back and they had a discussion about people who constantly think about how to survive/fight a zombie attack. It was an amusing discussion to listen to, but now I keep thinking of ways to survive a zombie attack! Ugh… It’s a really stupid thing, but when I am bored, I start looking around to see if there is an escape route to the roof or a vault or something. Then I thought about super zombies, like the ones in the Left 4 Dead video game and how screwed we all would be if there were such a thing as “super zombies”. Seriously the things you thing of when you really concentrate on this one topic. Ultimately, I realized that 1.) we are all screwed in a zombie invation either way and 2.) I have way too much time on my hands. It is fun to think about. Hehe…

Rewind for 2009…

I haven’t written in this in a long time. Mostly because I’ve been busy with my new job, trying to find new hobbies, and dealing with some pretty personal issues. I’m doing well right now for those of you who care. I found a full-time job at a pretty big corporate company called Deluxe. They are part post-production facility, exhibition, and distribution company that serves the entertainment industry. It took me a while to figure out, after I got the job, what the heck I was doing. I’m a trailer representative or as it says on my business card: account coordinator. No, not like trailer homes…. more like movie previews. I work in the Exhibitor Relations department. I’m basically the middle person between the major studio and the movie theaters. I handle independent distribution companies like Afterdark and one big studio, 20th Century Fox. I make sure that their movie previews are distributed and sent out to the theaters nationwide. It was pretty tedious at first but soon became a little bit monotonous. The people is what is making me stay there. They rock. I’m getting paid a pretty decent salary to the point where I can buy whatever I want now. It’s pretty dangerous since I do like to go shopping or at least see what’s new. That is one of the things I have been doing the past four months. Just working and it is pretty nice. Although it is not what I ultimately want to do.

I’ve been going to the driving range on the weekends with my father, since he is the only person I know who knows how to play and has golf clubs. I didn’t have any clubs until he gave me a spongebob golf ball and then surprised me with my own clubs when we went to the driving range. It’s pretty awkward sometimes when I go with my dad. Some people find it boring and “froo, froo,” but I enjoy the peacefulness of it, the nice socializing aspect of it, and I think it will come in handly some day. I’ve been going to different courses in Burbank, Pasadena, Altadena… just some that are close by Glendale. I was going to take up Horse-back riding lessons, until I found out about a horse going crazy and stepped all over its rider…. yeah. I do still enjoy swing dancing, although I think I have lost the passion for it. I’m not going to the nightly dances as much because I have been in denial for while.

Basically, my mom was diagnosed with cancer. She found out a few weeks ago by a doctor who found a polyp. The largest cancerous polyp can grow up to 10mm, my mother’s was about 1 cm. It’s scary to think about it. Makes me cry every time actually. But whats scary is how the news affected my family. I am a very observative person, so instead of the bickering mother, the yelling, the fighting, the “ughhh mom! you’re so annoying!!!!”…. there was silence. There was silence and fear. Everyone was worried, especially my dad. He was most frightened of all. After that, I just wanted to be with my family, I dropped everything and wanted quit my job just to spend time with my mother. People who are I consider my close friends, best friends, people who I just met and wanted to just talk… I’ve pushed all of them away. I just didn’t want to talk to anyone or do anything. I just wanted to be alone and find some way of making everything normal again. I seriously tried everything to make the house and my mom “normal” again. I was wishing and I was praying (keep in mind, I don’t have any religious background). Looking back, it was like some Peter Pan movie or Pinocchio movie, “When you wish upon a star, Makes no difference who you are…” Exactly that.

I think it was a Saturday where I finally realized that nothing will go back to the way it was. It took me a while to realize that everything I was doing and saying wasn’t being realistic. I was trying to simply “cure her,” which I obviously cannot. I guess I just realized that she’s not going to be the same person she was prior to it and that I the only way to “cure” her is to live life with her. She’s “cancer free” and I only put that in quotations because, lets be real people, even though she’s cancer free, she has the risk of getting it back, higher risk then a smoker according to the doctor. It’s a matter of prevention and getting tested every so often. She’s changing the way she eats and exercercising, which is great, and getting more sleep.

I have friends whose parents died of cancer and I never knew how they really felt and how it really affected them until now. Their pain, their fear of losing their parent, the realization that their parent died of cancer, how the news just makes one not want to do anything. I’m going through that exact feeling. I’ve felt the pain, I’ve felt the fear, and I’ve pushed people I care about away. I even realized that 30 years down the line, me or my sister will have to get tested because it’s now in our blood. It’s part of our DNA. So, I’m taking the necessary steps to at least make my life a little less dull, boring, and pathetic then it is right now.

I’m OK now. I’m talking to people who I have ignored (and I apologize) and I’m starting new hobbies and continuing old. It a great relief to let people who ask what I’ve been up to and tell them about what I’ve been through. It’s like I don’t have to keep this secret to myself anymore. It’s just better for me to talk about with people in my opinion. Although, I don’t like it when people say “Oh, no, i’m sorry to hear” or something along those lines. It’s because it really is OK… I accept it and am being realistic about it.

We are all just trying to see the brighter side of things. It would help if I had stuff to do over the weekend… haha… we’ll see.. I’m just glad she’s still here.

Alright, enough of this depressing stuff… lets enjoy a minute of pure randomness… i love random, pointless moments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8

surveys

i was bored and decided to do these surveys i haven’t done since 4th grade… now i know why:

♥ About me.. ♥

Name: Doris
Age:: 22
Birthplace:: Los Angeles, CA
Eye Color:: Brown
Hair Color:: Black
Single, Taken:: Single
If Single, do you want to be:: be what? taken? i suppose
Do you drink:: rarely… like twice a year on special ocassions
Smoke:: no
Like to party::
Are you thinking about someone right now:: yes
Do you like someone:: uh maybe
Do you like yourself:: I’d say i’m not perfect
Believe in yourself:: Ummm… yes and no
Have you ever drank so much you can’t remember what happened the next day::: no
Blacked out:: no
What song makes you sad/wanna cry:: “I’ll try” don’t know who sings it
Number of things you regret:: several
How many CD’s do you own:: 30+
Whats in your CD player right now:: i don’t have a cd player so in my car is Coldplay and Snow Patrol
Favorite alcoholic drink:: coke w/ Ameretto… it tastes like cherry coke
Favorite non-alcoholic drink:: water
Like to dance:: swing dance yes
Sing:: in the shower
Sing in front of people:: no…
Personality or looks:: personality then looks…
Niice body or Great Smile:: great smile!++++++
Kiss or hug:: hugs!
Are you missing anyone:: yes… kc! my sister’s little puppy. what color underwear ur wearing now?: … le sigh what are u listening to right now?: the news The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?: Their smile When shopping at the grocery store, do you return you shopping cart?: yes, sorta.. i put it to the side…? Favorite flower?: gerbera daisies and tulips Favorite TV show?: family guy, the office, 30 rock Favorite holiday?: thanksgiving day…FOOD! Favorite restaurant?: depends what i want to eat Favorite time of day?: night Favorite football team?: uhh…gooo chargers?!??… UCLA!! Piercings?: ears Tattoo?: nope Oldest CD you currently own and still listen to?: ace of base!! Last place you went out to eat?: some chinese place Funny or serious people?: both Chocolate or vanilla?: both Hugs or kisses?: hugs Ever lied to get out of a date?: no Ever met someone you met on myspace?: no Could you date someone with different religious beliefs than you?: sure If you could fast forward your life would you?: no How many pillows do you sleep with?: one Do you look like your mom or dad?: dad Last thing you ate?: andes chocolate mints Last time you cried?: november 20th… found out my mom has cancer Last movie you saw?: dark knight blue ray Last person you received a text from?: julie Last thing u ate?: answered already Do you have a secret fetish?: no Ever fired a gun?: yes Are you a gullible person?: er? iono Are you missing someone right now?: yes Do you have any strange phobias?: i don’t like the pitch black dark… seriously i’ll just stand there Last concert you went to?: i’ve never been to a concert Ever kissed someone of the same sex?: no Favorite drink?: water! Favorite Starbucks drink?: i don’t like starbucks Have you ever cried in public?: yes as a child duh Do you sleep with or without clothes?: with What kind of jelly do you like on your PB&J?: anything Have you ever went to someones myspace more than once a dy just to look at their: huh??? Thing that scares you the most?: no mommy Last person to tell you they loved you?: mom Pet Peeve?: repitition and backseat drivers Name 1 secret noone knows about you?: i… pick my nose? lol iono Do you sing in the car?: yessss How many drinks does it take to get you drunk?: .0005.. it’s why i don’t like to drink Do you want to bring sexy back?: shoot…. i AM SEXY BACK… hahaha jkjk

SAVE THE PANDAS!

http://www.pandarelocationfoundation.org/

I love Tropic Thunder. I know it’s racists and crude, but you have to give some props to the writers. Creating funny one liners ain’t easy… and there were A LOT of funny lines.

KROQ’s LoveLine

So on my drive back to Glendale (after swing practice) I listened to Kroq’s Loveline. Some guy got a tattoo near his scrotum and it started irritating his private area a month after it healed. My first thought was “Ouch, that must’ve hurt” and my second thought was “Hrmm… i wonder what tattoo he got?” Well, I guess I wasn’t the only person thinking of the second question. The hosts played a game: Guess the tattoo, so I played a long.. sorta. One guy said a bullseye, the other a Leperachan (sp?) or the word “lucky,” and I guessed BELLS. I don’t know it was the first thing I thought of. The right answer was: BANANAS! …….. *sigh* why in the heck would someone tattoo bananas near their scrotum! WHY? OIE. The caller even said he didn’t know why he decided on bananas. Stupid. Oh well. I guess i’m a believer that if you’re going to get a tattoo you better have a story behind it, even if it’s on your balls. I think it makes the tattoo and the artist’s work that much more beautiful.

Nouveau

So I’m going to be using this site from now on. I think this blog site has less “buttons and banners” then my old xanga journal. I’m thinking of doing more then ranting. I’m going to use this to write little stories, dialogue, thoughts, paste news clippings of interesting or funny articles i find on the web, and maybe some insights/quotes.

I guess to get things started… One of my good girlfriends told me of a neat commercial which stars two reality “actors” from the TV show The Hills: Lauren Conrad and Brody Jenner. I finally saw this commercial on TV a couple of days ago and I must say, I really liked the way AT&T marketed their new phone.. the LG Shine. It’s cheeky and the commercial gets the point across: the LG Shine is metallic, sleek looking, and has a mirror on it… ooOOoO.. haha. Well, they convinced me to buy it, but I’m not really going to get one.

Here’s the youtube link: