About three weeks ago I was at the YMCA and I ran into one of my students from volunteering. I asked him what he was doing here and stuff like that, and he told me that he’s been a member there for a while now. I told him I never really noticed him and stuff like that, then he mentioned to me how he usually comes here with his mom.
Anyway, I’ve been at home for the last couple of weeks because my neck was bothering me and I didn’t want to lift any weights at the gym with a bum neck, but today I was good enough to go back. The first person I see in the locker room is the student again and we just kinda wave at each other but didn’t actually talk. Guess he was too cool for me. I go downstairs and in the stretching studio is this woman with a smoking hot body doing yoga. She turns around and I see her face and I recognized her from before. I’ve seen her at the smaller stretching studio (the one we normally go to) but I guess she only goes there when the bigger one is being used for classes. Something weird about her face that I couldn’t quite pinpoint. When I was finished with the stretching I go grab a drink and I see the student come down and I look at his face, and it hit me.
That chick with the smoking hot body is his mom. They have the same eyes! That’s why it looked so weird to me because I could see so much of him in her face. I didn’t see her talk to him, but I’m positive that that is his mom. I’m afraid I’ll never be able to look this kid in the eye again.
Having just read this list, I am fairly disappointed at some of the movies that made it. I won’t argue with #1 because it was a pretty badass moment (but you’d have to watch the film to know that. To put it into context, Doc Holliday was pretty much on his death bed when he comes out for this gun fight and still fucks the other guy up), but, Bruce Lee and Wesley Snipes? While they are both badass people, their quotes aren’t that great. I’ll commend them though for going out of their way to put something different into their list, but the end result is that some of those quotes seem wedged in. They don’t fit at all.
So, here are some alternatives that I feel should have been included. These aren’t honourable mentions, more like, glaring omissions. I’m quite shocked that DeNiro didn’t make the list at all (“Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me?” is both iconic and badass, but I suppose that would have been a little too obvious and cliché to add).
Heat – Neil McCauley
“What am I doing? I’m talking to an empty telephone…”
I couldn’t embed this so you’re going to have to do the old fashioned thing and click on the link. In this scene Robert DeNiro gives a pretty chilling threat after someone botches a murder attempt on him during a money exchange. This is worthy of mention because it’s only something Robert DeNiro can get away with saying, everyone else will just look stupid because they can’t match his level of intensity.
Reservoir Dogs – Mr. White
“You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.”
Hmm, perhaps this list didn’t include any of these two quotes because it was difficult finding a YouTube link that lets you embed it. I think if you mine Tarantino movies long enough you could populate several lists with his quotes because he is such a damn good writer, but for the truly badass quotes, go to Reservoir Dogs. I’m sure I can find something badass from each character:
Mr. Orange:
“Fuck you! Fuck you! I’m fucking dying in here! I’m fucking dying in here!”
Clint’s another easy one. He could easily fill this list as well. Badass is trying to make someone apologize to your horse then killing them when they don’t.
I’d hate to say it but Twitter is stealing some of my better material. I’m usually able to churn out a blog post at least once a week, but now I just get lazy and throw up some one liners on Twitter instead. It’s just too easy! I can’t even put out those half-assed posts that I put into point-form notes because I do that already on Twitter! Argh!
So…
What have I been up to? Well…nothing. It’s sad how little I’ve accomplished since coming back from my trip. I’ve rejoined the gym, gone back to volunteering, and signed up for school again, but of the three, I’ve really just been volunteering. I’ve been too sick to go to the gym, and school doesn’t start until May, so between now and then I’ve got to kill time. I wish I could squeeze every second of productivity out of my day and feel as if I’m progressing towards a goal of some sort, but the reality is, the largest dilemma I face each morning is where my ass should park itself in front of first: The TV, or the Computer. Thankfully, I have an iPod Touch which is sort of a compromise that I can bring with me to the basement so I can both surf around on Facebook and Twitter while watching movies.
I’ve been getting a lot of those “see who’s viewing your profile” groups on Facebook and it just makes me laugh. If you want to know who’s viewing your profile, here’s a quick and easy method:
1) Put everyone you don’t want seeing your profile on Limited Profile. Make sure you configure the settings so they can only see your date of birth and school.
2) Make sure that your profile is utterly unsearchable on Facebook. No one should be able to find you through Facebook’s search engine, or on Google (or any other search engine, if you’re one of those people that use the different ones). When you do this, the only way people can get on your Friends list is if you add them.
3) Grow some balls and ask that person out, because really, the only reason you clicked on that link is not because you wanted to know who looks at your profile, but, whether he/she looks at your profile.
And that’s it! You have full control over who sees your profile and should assume that whoever is able to view it will at one time or another come across your Facebook page. Stalking? Please. You’re living your life out in public, of course people are going to watch you. Don’t flatter yourself.
I got the same vibe from people who put signin locks and friend locks on their Xangas. This blogger contemplated putting a “friend lock” (only people who the blogger has on their friends list are able to view their blogs) on their blog because they were worried that people were stalking them. Really? But, you put it on a blog! That’s sort of the point. I’m not worried who reads my blog because I choose to put my thoughts out there. If I didn’t want to share, or was afraid that people I didn’t know would read my stuff, then I suppose I won’t put it on the Internet. Duh! It’s friggin’ common sense. It’s like crapping with the door open, then complaining when people look at you. You chose to do it! It’s your own fault.
I’ve friggin’ had it with all this Tiger Woods news. It’s not news! It shouldn’t be. Say what you want about his extramarital affairs, or how he handled the situation, or his new commercial which seems odd (considering that’s his dead father’s voice), because in the end, he’s just a professional golfer. That’s it. He’s the best golfer in the world and if you’re a fan of the sport, that’s all you should be concerned about.
The public’s obsession with the lives of celebrities is something that has perplexed me for a long time. We have publications, writers, and photographers whose sole purpose is to find out every detail, no matter how mundane, about a celebrity’s life. Pick up any gossip rag and you’ll find critiques of what they’re wearing, photos of them walking on the street, and a section that shows you how “normal” they are by showing snippets of them pumping gas or doing the groceries.
Does anyone else find this to be insane? They pry into the lives of these celebrities and criticize them on how they live their life, well, fuck! At least they’re doing something extraordinary! Is that what people can’t stand? That there are people in this world that can do something exceptionally well, that they try their hardest to bring them down a few notches so they can relate to them?
I don’t get it, but, that’s just the world we live in.