Just got through watching the movie Outside Providence and it really hit home in a lot of ways. The movie is set in Rhode Island in 1974 and involves a lot of beer drinking and pot smoking and just hanging out with the rest of your friends lamenting your sorry station in life. One year earlier and 100 miles west and it could have been my life they were filming. Not the lead character mind you, but one of his stoner pals. 🙂
Latest and lamest of the BMW Films. It got a write-up in yesterday’s paper because the Godfather of Soul who stars in the movie with Clive Owen was born and still lives around here. I don’t remember what the fellow said about the film because he was mostly commenting on JB’s performance. I thought the film stunk, especially when compared to “The Hostage” the first of the new Z4 series films. The best part is at the end when the Devil’s neighbor comes knock to complain about the noise. The Devil, played by Gary Oldman says, “Tell him I’m not here. He gives me the creeps.” The neighbor is….ooh, go download it and watch.
At yesterday’s poker run one of the door prizes I won was a $25 gift to certificate to M M Marketing. I looked in the catalog they gave me and I was going to use that money as a big chunk of the cost for some nice driving gloves at $39.95. They use symbols to signify S & H costs and when I saw that they wanted $5.95 to get the gloves to me I was stunned. Must be a mistake, so I went online to see what the shipping and handling should really be. Added the gloves to my cart, filled out the billing information, the shipping information and on page 4 I selected ground UPS. Page 5 informed me that my total cost would be $48.90! Online they wanted 8.95 for S & H. I could drive up to NC (where they are located) for less in gas money. I think I’ll get my gloves somewhere else and just pick something for $20 out of the catalog and hope I can get something that they only want $4.95 for shipping….
…fatback is listed as a vegetable on the menu.
Donna wanted to go someplace different for lunch, so she picked a restaurant out of the coupon book that offered a buy one – get one free deal. She really wanted seafood so she decided we should try Crabby Abby’s. There was a good review in the local paper, so off we went to Augusta. If you don’t do the buffet and order off the menu, you get a choice of two vegetables with each entree. Your choices are: Fresh Shucked Corn-on-the-Cob, Green Beans, Early Peas, Fried Rice, Tater Tots, Fresh Fried Green Tomatoes, Fried Onion Rings, Fried FatBack, Mashed Potatoes (gravy upon request). FatBack? Fried Rice? 🙂
What’s with the spoilers on cars these days. Everybody’s got to have one. Spoiler = Sporty? My neighbor’s new Toyota Camry’s got a little wing spoiler, even the “sport” edition Camry is not sporty. Wolf’s clothing will not make a sheep a carnivore. I’ve seen wing spoilers on the newer Ford Tauruses as well. Come on people, I’ve rented a Taurus SES and trust me neither of those esses stands for sporty. Today’s 4-door sedan spoiler sighting was even more out of place, a current body-style Mercury Sable. WTF? To make it even more oxymoronic, if that is possible, was the vinyl roof treatment. 😎
Back earlier this year I signed up for a CD Mix of the Month Club . Cool idea. This guy in Texas creates a mix CD and mails it to you once you have mailed him one. As a bonus, if you mailed 2 CDs he would sent you his and one from somebody else who sent two. All it cost me was some time, a couple of blank CDRs and $2 to mail them off. Well poor Josh on the other end had a few more bucks wrapped up into this as he was mailing out a couple dozen, then 50, then 100 and now the last 2 months nearly 400 CDs. Yikes, that’s a lot of postage! Well today, I got in my email, a note from Josh that if you want to continue to play along in the CD MotM Club you will have to kick in 3 or 4 dollars. I think this may be the end of my ride. I just have this thing for somebody offering me something for free and then latter charging for it. Its a principle thing. You have to stop agreeing to give it away, once you have reached the point where you are no longer comfortable with the total monetary outgo. If you don’t mind spending $100 a month and it costs $1 per, don’t sign up 200 people and then go gee, I’d better charge money to make up the shortfall. Stop at 100.
I just finished listening to Beth Orton’s CD, Central Reservation. There are 12 songs and I’m not to sure they weren’t all the same tune, I don’t think she changed pitch the entire 58:50. I wonder what happened? Her first CD, Trailer Park, was so darn good. She has a new CD out now called, Daybreaker, that I probably won’t buy now because of this listening experience….though I might download from the net and give it a listen, if I remember to.