Avocado
First off I think I coined a new term today. You know how people say n00b slammed? No? Well some do because I saw it on a t-shirt once. Well today I said n00b slammer, as in: I hope I don't get thrown in the n00b slammer. It's a jail for neophytes.
I hate that I say neophytes here. I don't talk like that, I don't use that word. If anything I would use the word n00b, or possibly newb, but I was attempting to not use the same word in the definition.
I am so terrible at grammar, which is weird because I've been paid to write a couple times but anyway, I was about to say 'I was trying to not use the same word in the definition.' Trying to not use doesn't sound OK. I mix up the order of words and we all know about my pronunciation issues.
I think all of that stems from a desire to be understood. I over-enunciate so people know exactly what I'm saying. I start sentences then abort them and start over constantly, and I'm talking about in speech, not just writing.
Maybe the term already exists but I've never heard it before.
What, they didn't have Google back in 2008? Sweet burn on past Pete current Pete. Thanks slightly past Pete, love current Pete. Future Pete is going to read this and call all these past Petes a bunch of loons.
I know everyone is wondering how I'm doing with my 366 movies this year.
Read: no one. But I was probably being sarcastic anyway.
Also, this shows that 2008 was a leap year. It didn't really effect me whatsoever.
Today is January 10th and I am currently watching my 11th movie which is The Boondock Saints. Is anyone else embarking on this task with me?
I don't think anyone did. A couple people halfheartedly did. Oh wellllllll... I didn't even complete mine. Really it's devoting two hours of every day to something and that's tough. Currently I work 8 hours, sleep 8 hours, and try to hang out with my wife and dog while pursuing a writing career and take meetings and exercise and blah blah blah. So my list has been lacking.
I'd like to hear how many movies you've seen so far, what they were, etc. The rules are: go to the theater, rent, download, watch on TV, buy on iTunes and watch 366 movies this year (since it's a leap year and there are 366 days in 2008). You can contact me at PeterLHarmon@gmail.com and I can send you my list also.
And then I discovered IMDb's My Movies. So much easier than what I was doing.
The only movie I've seen in the theater so far this year is One Missed Call and it was really bad. It was a The Ring/Final Destination ripoff except not as scary or well done as The Ring and not as funny or ridiculous (or Devon Sawa starring) as Final Destination. The best parts of One Missed Call were Shannyn Sossamon and Johnny Lewis (aka Chili from The OC). I really want to see There Will Be Blood and Southland Tales right now.
The people I was watching The Boondock Saints with just turned it off and are now turning on Blue Crush instead... no comment.
I was live-tweeting before it was popular.
I guess I'll begrudgingly erase Saints from my list, so right now I'm 10 for 10. Hopefully I can stay awake through all of Blue Crush but I doubt it.
Anyway, today we went all around California. Newport Beach, Dana Point, Ocean Side, LA, etc. My car held up and my GPS was a lifesaver. I bought a digital camera today so I'll be able to post pictures on this blog. I got it at a place called Geeks.com. It was a huge warehouse and they had incredible deals on computer stuff and video games and TVs and stuff like that. It's also a website, same good deals so check it out:
http://geeks.com/
I'm glad I gave the website for a place called Geeks.com, otherwise how would you have known to go to Geeks.com to find Geeks.com? That camera sucked by the way and I sold it for almost the same price I bought it for on eBay. Now who's the geek dot com?
I dropped some serious Targ Skrill at Target too.
One thing I really like about California is that you can get avocados on your sandwich at Subway. I thought avocados (plural) had an e towards the end but spell check says that that is not the case.
mmmmm.
I've told this story too many times and it's not funny or interesting but still. When I was first in LA I would go to Subway and be all like, avocados on my sub? Nice. Then the guy would ring me up and the footlong (I believe this was before the $5 footlong craze) would be like $7 and I would just think, man, LA is expensive. Eventually I opened my eyes and read that adding avocado to your sub cost like 60 cents per 6 inch.
As a famously brilliant movie's tagline once told me "If you want to feel the rush you have to take the risk."
* Editor's Note: I did stay up late enough to watch all of Blue Crush. It turns out that the screenplay was inspired by an article written by Susan Orlean who wrote the book The Orchid Thief which of course inspired Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation.
In Boston accent: Who carrrrrrres?
Posted by Pete at 8:55 PM
2 hollers:
Andrew said...
By "the people I was watching it with," do you really mean "the dad I was watching it with?"
January 11, 2008 5:54 AM
Pete said...
and some interns
As if this makes it better.
January 11, 2008 9:08 AM
And, because this is the blog that even less people read than my real blog, which already no one reads (in fact, negative people read this blog, this blog gets read so little that other people are starting to write it. I don't think that actually makes sense) I will say this:
I saw that the blog post before this one was about Carmax. Today Ash and I bought our first car (she's pretty much buying it, but I was there when she did and I'll probably throw her a couple bones, especially when this blog gets monetized and I start making the big bucks) and it really solidified something that I've been grappling with lately.
Side note, people who want to say they've been wrestling with something but want to say something fancier than wrestling say grappling. What's fancier than grappling? I've been Greco Roman wrestling with this for a while.
Anyway, a lot of people have absolutely no shame in straight faced lying if it benefits them. I asked these car salesman direct questions and they lied to our faces then the truth would be revealed later in the transaction and I would call them on it and they would lie and say they had told us the truth earlier. I am not that kind of person. I am honest and probably kind of a pussy. Liars continually push me around.
I'm sure they are fine with themselves, they rationalize it by telling themselves it's a job, it's an art, whatever. I wouldn't be able to do that. I wouldn't be able to do a horrible, deceitful job and feel OK about it.
A recent example is this "rewrite" I did for Black Christian Movies. They sent me a script I was supposed to rewrite, it was bad but not horrible, still I didn't feel comfortable just fixing it up and putting my name on it, I didn't want my name to be associated with a bad script (which is funny that I care if you've seen Johnson Family, just kidding the SCRIPT is good). So I worked my ass off for a couple days and completely rewrote the whole thing. I mean, I didn't rewrite anything, I wrote an entirely new script from scratch using absolutely nothing from the script they sent me. It was more worth it to me to do that than to take the easy way out.
So many people are willing to take the easy way out.
Are you...?
Haha, what if I seriously ended this post with that? That'd be so weird!!
Or would it...?
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