It ain’t for everybody.
There are times I’m glad for my twenty plus years in the blue collar trades. For one it means my family will never go hungry because I’ve always got a fallback position to go to. The other thing my trade gave me is that sometimes, you’ve just got to bear down get through the task at hand. No matter how much you’re sweating or how much it hurts.
There isn’t always a slick technological solution at hand.
…The marker you bought before the new one and cheaper too.
So I went out and played some Paintball again last night. That makes for three Mondays in a row. A bit of a record for this year. I was hoping to offload my Automag but the guy I talked to didn’t have the cash… No worries, I can wait and it isn’t going anywhere. I was able to get another Select Fire Trilogy for one of the other players. I got a smoking deal on Ebay and because he works for one of the major Paintball Manufacturers I’ll be taking a few cases of paint in trade. Which works out for everybody. He gets a good marker and I get a ton of paint.
I went and saw Pirate Radio tonight. The critics are giving the film mixed reviews. Of course I only got to see the two hour nine minute American release apparently the European release is another twenty minutes longer. On of the critiques I read stated that Richard Curtis had been right to cut the twenty minutes because it was still too long a film in his opinion.
Well mate, opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one.
So the new marker arrived today. It required a bit more assembly than most of my other Paintball guns. Not that that’s a bad thing. We all have our little rituals related to our markers. I’m all about the proper amount of lubrication on the bolt, that sort of thing.
One of the hardest things to figure in film is when you are on the receiving end of a large amount of bullshit. Which can be tough as the industry as a whole is powered by bullshit, collusion and treachery. For the most part that’s fine, you know where you stand.
Above is the new BT Delta Elite that I’ve just purchased. It comes stock with an E-Grip, Rip Clip and an Apex™ Barrel. It’s rock out 13 balls per second and the Apex barrel lets you literally shoot around things. There are many guns like it but this one is mine.
…Don’t give it to the government.
I was four years old when we went to the Moon and like every kid I wanted to be an Astronaut. I’m forty four now, and next year the Shuttle goes offline and there isn’t another craft slated to replace it until 2020. I’ll be fifty four in 2020 and I’d like to know just what the fuck happened?
Kennedy gave America a mission.
You know you’ve hit a certain age when you want to start the article with, “The trouble with kids today.” But then I realized thats really Andy Rooney’s territory and seeing as I’m not that ancient, I decided to let it go. Well that and the fact it’s really disingenuous to lump the scourge of, “Instant gratification,” on just the youth. We’re all guilty of wanting the quick buzz of no time in with maximum return.
So here’s the majority of the main cast working their way through the first read through of the script. This is always followed by a flurry of activity by the writer as small mistakes are made evident and larger ones become apparent. All in all, it went okay. I think the current cast are all great and will bring tons to the script. I’m looking forward to sitting in on some of the rehearsals and seeing what they do with the scenes once they’re off book.
“Just Kidding,” is the sort of phrase dropped on you by somebody who really want’s you to consider the idea they’ve just put forward. In other words, what it really means is, “Heads up, this is going to be an issue.”
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