Monthly Archives: July 2006

Worst Driver in the Tri-State Area

You know what grinds my gears?

She (suprise!) had NY license plates on her minivan. I was going to work on Thursday, I’m making my way through Hillsdale and I come to a light where I want to make a left. She’s coming towards me and makes a sloooooow right hand turn, so she turned onto the street I’m turning on to.

She creeps around the corner and I am now behind her, following her. You know what this idiot does? The road we’re on is straight, and it has 2 streets that meet up with it. One on the right about 100 feet from he traffic light, and the next one is another 100 feet after that (a four way intersection, we have the right of way at both intersections).

We get to the first intersection and the woman STOPS. No blinker, she wasn’t turning. She stopped in the middle of the road to let the guy waiting for us to pass (he’s got the stop sign) so he could turn. He was on our right, he wanted to make a left onto our street, so he was going th opposite way. So I stop behind the genius and let out a WTF. We sit there and the guy wanting to make a turn looks dumb founded too. He figures it out and turns. The Stupid Woman continues foward. We come to the next intersection and she does it again.

No blinker, no warning, nothing, she just STOPS right fucking there to let someone who has a stop sign go. It was the dumbest, and most dangerous thing I’ve seen in a long time. This Stupid Woman has the right of way and is stopping at every fucking corner to wave people on! The guy behind me honks and I layed on my horn like a fucking crack fiend and let out a string of curses that would make a pirate do a double take. She takes the fucking hint and continues down the road as I make a right hand turn, still cursing.

I hope she gets a nose bleed that doesn’t stop.

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Random stuff

Misc., Movies

Some random updates. Script is on page 10. Looks like my goal of 20 pages is going to be easily achieved, some work is going to be needed to the beginning to get it the way I want. Length wise I’m fine but I want to make the setup as good as possible.

I’ve seen a bunch of movies in the past few weeks. Pirates 2 wasn’t as good as the first, but was still a fun movie. Part 3 looks like it’s going to be great as well. Depp kicks ass.

Broken Flowers starring Bill Murray sucked something fierce. Horrendous pacing, a shit ending that made me completely regret watching the movie. I actually fast fowarded though parts it was so boring. And I didn’t have to worry about fast fowarding through anything important because those parts were just traveling scenes. Bill Murray visits 4 ex girlfriends, and he’s shown him traveling to each of them. It had to have been at least 15 minutes worth of “watch Bill get on an airplane and then drive down the road”. You even get to see him get lost, ask for directions, turn around and then drive for another 5 minutes. UGH. There were two good parts that totalled 2 1/2 minutes of screen time. The first was a drug discussion between Murray, his neighbor and the neighbors 6 year old daughter. The second scene was this gorgeous girl (she plays Sharon Stones teenage daughter) who got naked. Totally didn’t see it coming and it was awesome. Almost enough to recommend watching this pile. Worse than Lost in Translation.

Clerks II turned out much better than expected. Got to see some favorite characters from my past, got introduced to some great new ones and shared more than a few laughs with 100 other people in the theatre. Dirty talk like you’d expect from a Kevin Smith movie (along with some safe direction) and writing that only he can do. It won’t convert any Kevin Smith haters, but it was a great flick that told a great story. Thank god it didn’t suck.

July!

Life

Summer, summer time! Time to kick back and unwind!

Some random updates from the top of my head. Script work continues. I’ve tightened up the beginning a bit and added about 3 pages. I’m right up to the killers introduction and in doing so I’ve realized that my original ending (everyone dies) just wouldn’t be satisfying. More than that, I think it would seem like there was no point to the whole story. My whole idea is to make something scary and realistic, avoid as many horror cliches as I can (and still keep it short). So even when I have the whole story done (I think I’ve come up some good work arounds to what I was going to have originally) I’m going to need to really fine tune it. I’ve got the locations down to about 3 places and the cast is small, although I do have a few bit parts that may go. Depends how it goes I guess.

I’m going to see Pirates 2 tomorrow I think, can’t wait to see it. A Scanner Darkley is also out but in limited release so odds are that one is going to have to wait for DVD. Clerks II hits this month too and Miami Vice….I want to see that for some reason.

Game wise, summer is it’s typical slow self. Big game for this month is Prey for PC and 360. Demo was pretty wild and the reviews I’ve seen have been positive. I started playing Burnout 4 again, still alot of fun. I’m currently 58% done according to the game so I still have a lot to do there.

Anyone who likes rock music has to check out the Wolfmother CD. It’s phenomenal. Easist way to describe it is The White Stripes and Led Zepplin. Really great, old school rock feel.

Big news this week, Jen is pregnant so that means I have another nephew or neice on the way. It’d be cool if it was a girl, nice to have one of each I think. That one isn’t due for another 8 months, so lots of exitement to come. Jen and Danny are visiting in August which is rapidly approaching. Summer months always go by so fast.