Then and Then again.

After work last night (10:30), I decided to catch a movie. With two choices I went with ‘Superbad’ with Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, Evan Goldberg.  Yeah, that what I thought. The other film: ‘Death at a Funeral’ with Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves, Alan Tudyk, Daisy Donovan, Kris Marshall and again I have no clue who these people are.

So as I said… I ended up going to see Superbad. Not the best choice. The trailers and reviews run it as a comedy and basically it’s about two high school nerds who want to get laid before going to college.

Yeah like that storyline hasn’t made the rounds.

And in order to do this they needed to purchase a shit load of alcohol, which creates the plot line seeing as how they are not of legal age to follow though on such an unlikely task. Oh yeah, did I say it is rated a comedy.

Well unless one enjoys watching someone become a vomit target and then later or someone else stopping a barrage of internal chewage with their face or several pencil drawings of various penis sizes by an obsessed horny kid, or having menstrual blood from some jocks girlfriend staining your pants as you are in the middle of dirty dancing you won’t find much humor in this coming of age film. How it ended up with such rave reviews is beyond me. My blood sugar must have been very low when I decided to shell out $10 for this fiasco.

The other film… the one I didn’t opt for: Death at a Funeral – basically it is about a dysfunctional British family that gathers for the patriarch's funeral. Tensions rise, old conflicts are uncovered and, when a man arrives saying he's the dead man's gay lover and threatens blackmail, drastic measures are taken.

Now that is comedy. Will have to catch that this weekend.

Which allows me to launch into my next feature.

Notable Blogs of Interest... 

Remember when surfing into a journal or diary, meant you could kick your feet up, sit back, catch a little insight from the author of the journal, find a great photo or two of his /her adventures into the real world or you would find something to muse over and if nothing else that just a plain old good laugh.

Then we became comfortable in what the 90’s journal world offered and as we lived from various cupsof tea, napped, or just plain enjoyed recording life as we knew we became complacent and out of nowhere, silently hovering overhead hummed the mother ship, barely audible, but there, it was not long before she began to unleash her multitudes of baby blog pods into the Blog-o-Sphere and before we knew it: Online journals and diaries became a thing of the past.

Journal / Diary burbs began to die off. (Spit, Glance, Upoad and No Spring Chicken) went 404 or were bought out by porn sites. And they didn’t just die off but were vacuumed from memory, leaving most of us with an a fading attention span and before we could say “Pamie, Tigers and Bears” we became adapted to clicking though blog links like a sailor through whores on a Saturday Night.

Well some of us avoided the song of the mother ship and continued to record our lives and art for nothing more than just doing it. Call it a natural compulsion of sorts.

Here are a few online of those journalist that held out for the long run and still write and post in a manner that makes cruising the Blog-o-Sphere enjoyable.

The Sole Proprietor: And one great photographer… Feel like taking a festive stroll through the bay area, find the best sushi houses this side of LA or just see what its like to live in curtain of white noise then this would be a nice stop over you wouldn’t want to miss. Posts are short, thought provoking and offer up a slice of real life..

Idle Idiom: Quick, witty, and the perfect definition of ‘Snap’ Bump into her car and I guarantee that she would be so kind as to take a photograph of your auto so that you would have a decent idea and to what it looked like before she began work on it. You’ve just gotta love that kind of consideration. Curry and Gucci she is.

Obstination.  No that is not a typo… What can I say about the one-woman think tank? We’ve been around the block a few times over the last six years. You may remember her from the journal Inertia. A long time friend, whom now freelances for the local paper in Montreal and is a very dear friend IRL.

Awoni: Damn this girl has had so many journals, diaries, blogs not to mention a boat load of crumpled postit notes with jotting for an entry that I have to keep a log just to know where she’s currently writing. It would be nice Alice to keep me updated. Memory is tough on a guy that spent his formative years in the 60’s

And of course I could not leave without Mercy Street formerly known as Suicide Blonde

And where world the Internet of years past be without The Wondering Jew.

Sasha just gave me a raised eyebrow for not mentioning her... but sheesh, you need a sledge hammer to get into her site... and if anyone looks back to the code of this site you will see that it is named after her old site. I'd Rather Eat Glass... women!!

 

Do drop in and give these folks a read… they will add a smile to your day. I promise.

 

Comments

[Paulineee]

Thanks for the link and kind words, Alvin!

[Carol]

Thanks for thinking of me.

[Carol]

Oh yes, enough about me, I love the photo, what a beautiful woman and great photogragh which really brings out her beauty.

[Carol]

That is a maniquin isn't it.

[Alvin]

thanks all, yes it is a mannie. the way to give them life is to shoot after dark with basic street light. Some times I will use sidewall bounce flash to give a more soft feel to the photo.

Thanks again all.

=a=

[Sasha]

Thanks for linking to my journal...oh, what? You didn't link to me!? Mygod, Alvin! Have I sunk that far down into the journalling underworld? Oddly enough I know that there are quite a few of the formerly popular old-school journallers who retreated to Livejournal after the mothership beamed down the blogs. I enjoy Livejournal but sometimes I think I would like to return to the old style but Livejournal keeps me feeling less exposed and I heard that over exposure causes cancer in lab mice. Yep. xoxo

[Alvin]

Ahhhh Sasha love, I have you linked now but I figured that since one needs to have a LJ account to read your journal and that some people don't have an LJ account and .... well you know. But I have you linked now and OH BTW. if you run the code on this site WLA, you will find that I have it named I'd Rather Eat Glass ahem... in tribute sweetie.

[Polly]

Curry and Gucci !? Well I don't own any Gucci and my stomach can only tolerate the occasional curry nowadays, but I know where you're coming from. I so wish I'd thought of that name for my blog - superb!

[pamie]

Does that make me a lion?

[Alvin]

By all means Pamie, You are the lioness of the original real diaries. ;-)