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Monday, 31 January 2005

DJ Groovy Slug is spinning...John Legend (with nothing else, because you cannot improve on John Legend)

Someone up there loves me:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/maindetails

Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlburg?!?!?!?! in the same movie together?!?!?!?!?! directed by Marty Scorsese?!?!?!?! That's a formula for success!!! It's like making a porno with Jenna Jamison, Asia Carrera and Ginger Lynn Allen or having A-Rod, Jeter and Matsui on the same team (oh wait...) As my one articulate friend put it: "It makes my loins flutter just thinking about it."


xxx, Luv, DJ Groovy Slug

by: DJGroovySlug at January 31, 2005 22:55 | link | comments random thoughts

Monday, 31 January 2005

Garden State Spoiler (devoid of any humor and certain scenes that have no connection to the main plot of the story)

Andrew Largeman (Large played by Zach Braff) is an actor/waitor at a Vietnamese restaurant in L.A. When we first meet him he is unemotional and expressionless in all his interactions. His father leaves a message on his answering machine saying that they cannot continue a relationship without communication, then reveals at the end of the message that Large's mom died the night before, drowned in the bathtub. Large flies home for the funeral and arrives at the cemetary where he discovers his friends from high school are the gravediggers. After the burial, back at home, Large has awkward conversations with family members, including his father. Large reveals to his psychiatrist father that he has been having headaches and Large's dad said he will arrange an appointment with a neurologist. Large goes out with his friends previously seen at the cemetary, they go to another friend's mansion; he became rich by inventing silent velcro (velcro that doesn't make a noise when ripped apart). Large is mostly unemotional, even after taking some ecstasy. He sits and watches everything around him, not taking part in the merry making. At the neurology appt. the next morning, he's filling out paperwork when a dog starts humping his leg and a girl starts laughing at him. She turns out to be Sam (Natalie Portman) and she is bubbly and full of questions for Large, she lies about why she is at the doctor's. In the doctor's office it's revealed that Large's dad prescribed him meds (prozac, zoloft etc.) since he was 10 and only recently Large felt the need to stop taking the meds. The doctor says he needs to find a new psychiatrist. Outside Large stops his bike in front of Sam who apoligizes for lying and he offers her a ride (well, it's complicated but that's how it ends up). In front of her house, Sam admits she lies all the time and doesn't know why. She invites him inside and her mom is crazy and her brother is an African exchange student she used to send her 34 cents a day to like from the TV commercials. They also have lots of pets and on this day, Jelly the hamster died, so Large and Sam go out back to bury her with the rest of the dead pets. Large reveals the reason he is home is because his mom died and Sam cries while Large doesn't. Back at home, Large's dad tries to get him to talk but Large avoids it all. He goes out with Silent Velcro friend and Mark and realizes that Mark steals jewelry from the dead people he buries. The next night Large picks up Sam for a date and her mom shows him some tapes of Sam skating which irritates Sam. They go to a bar where they meet up with mark and Velcro boy and they go back to the mansion of Velcro boy. They all jump in the pool (there's a big group of people there) but Large doesn't - he never learned how to swim. Sam and Large talk about why he missed out on so much during childhood - it's revealed that the reason his mom died was because she was paraplegic. The reason she was paraplegic was because Large pushed her when he was ten years old and she fell over the dishwasher door which had a broken latch. She hit her neck on the counter and was paralyzed from the waist down. Large was deemed a threat and sent to boarding school and hasn't been home until now for the funeral. He also admits to Sam he likes her. The next day, before Large is supposed to leave (still avoiding a talk with his dad) Mark tells Large he has a going away present for him. They bring Sam along and the first stop is a Home Depot-like home improvement store. Mark picks out something then takes it to the counter and returns it without a receipt (that's how he gets cash sometimes). Then they go to a motel to meet a guy (played by Method Man) who runs spy holes behind the rooms so people can watch other people have sex and whatnot in the rooms. Method Man tells them to go to this place that was originally dug up to be a mall but turned out to be an underground canyon so this guy lives there making sure no one goes in while the Mall builders fight it out with the government. He gives Mark what they came there for and Large is impressed by the guys drive to live in a house by the side of a canyon in th middle of nowhere (it makes him feel important). Large climbs on top of a tractor and shouts into the abyss. Sam and Mark join him and they all yell and you have the cover for the soundtrack that you see in iTunes all the time. Then Sam and Large finally kiss. They drop off Mark who gives him the package they searched all over for: it's Large's mom's favorite necklace (see back to the part where Mark steals things out of people's graves). Later, Sam and Large are later talking in the tub where his mom died and he says he feels like he's at home when he's with her and he almost cries. They have the hot loving shortly after (well, they are asleep and naked in bed). Large wakes up in the middle of the night and goes to his dad's room and talks to him about wanting to just be okay and not worry so much about being happy and that's why he's not taking his dad's meds anymore because he's tired of being so numb to everything. The next day at the airport Large spouts some bull to a tearful Sam about why he needs to go back to L.A. ("I need to figure things out first) but once he's on the plane he has a change of heart and goes back to Sam who is sobbing in a phonebooth. ("This is life. And I'm in love with you, Samantha. I think that's the only thing I've ever been really sure of in my entire life.") Close with them hugging in the empty baggage claim.
by: DJGroovySlug at January 31, 2005 22:38 | link | comments (1) dj groovy slug recommends

Friday, 28 January 2005

DJ Groovy Slug is spinning: Maroon Five and Blue Man Group

My Mantra

"Stress is caused by an unrealistic belief that other people care about you"

The wisdom of Dilbert never ceases to amaze me (although I should point out that the strip I pulled that quote from really sucked but that's irrelevent).

It's true!! People stress about things because they really think other people care!! And they don't! My boss didn't care when i called in sick last Friday, so I shouldn't stress about it. My problem with the quote is that it elliminates self-imposed stress: I feel bad about skipping Pilates today to work on my paper, but either way, I'm stressed. Oh well.

The mantra works when it comes time to stressing about what other people think. No one should care because no one actually cares. It's very freeing.

In the spirit of that, you suck, you fucker!

xxx, Luv, DJ Groovy Slug

by: DJGroovySlug at January 28, 2005 10:12 | link | comments random thoughts

Thursday, 27 January 2005

I just wanted to share that I hate Lindsey Lohan. What an idiot. I would hit her with my car if I saw her walking through the streets.

I would speed up if Tara Reid was with her.
by: DJGroovySlug at January 27, 2005 23:26 | link | comments (1) random thoughts

Thursday, 27 January 2005

DJ Groovy Slug is spinning...Dr. Dre and "The Aviator" soundtrack

Why Spoil Movies?

Why not? Everyone has their things. My boyfriend doesn't like mayonnaise (freak). I hate cinnamon. HATE it. Don't like cinnamon gum, cinnamon rolls, anything that even tastes remotely like cinnamon. Que sera sera.

But one thing that I find progressively weirder the more I think about it is my total distaste for renting movies. I hate renting movies. If it's already out of theaters and I want to see it, there is a 70% chance I will buy it before I will rent it. The other 25% of the time I won't buy it and I won't see it. There is only a 5% chance of me renting a movie. What makes the anti-renting movies attitude even weirder is the fact that I can easily watch movies broadcast on television (HBO et al). I will sit through the last half hour of a movie I have seen a million times when it's showing on TV. I know, I know, my therapist and I have lots to talk about.

You probably think I have the world's biggest movie collection. Not really. I go to the movies A LOT. And if I don't want to see it bad enough, I just won't see it. This may relate directly to the fact that I LOVE going to the movies and I LOVE watching movies in theater. I will make every effort to see a movie in theater before it retires to the world of video and obscurity.

What does this have to do with spoiling movies? Everything. I love movies so much however I can't see them all. And some of them I don't want to see but I want to know what happened. There might be other people out there who don't want to sit through the end of "The Aviator" (you're missing out) but want to know what all the hype was about. I follow a few movie spoiling sites but sometimes I feel like the quality of spoilers is sub-par. So I will spoil all the movies I see for the rest of the semester. Happy reading!

Tonight: Garden State, look for the spoiler soon!

xxx, Luv, DJ Groovy Slug
by: DJGroovySlug at January 27, 2005 14:41 | link | comments dj groovy slug recommends

Wednesday, 26 January 2005

 

posted 11/29/04, image and information courtesy of http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war43.html

by: DJGroovySlug at January 26, 2005 15:07 | link | comments random thoughts

Tuesday, 25 January 2005

Thoughts on Blogging Articles

Two of the articles stressed the need to remain consistent and have no unexplained periods without entries. I foresee this as being my biggest problem. My last journal is about 7/8 empty and I got that for Christmas LAST YEAR (that would be 2003). I used to be an avid daily journal writer but as though someone turned a switch and suddenly I just forget or don't force myself to find the time. This blogging thing will hopefully get me back into that.

Apparently I need a theme. Hmmm...right now I suppose my theme is "This Blog is a Required Assignment for a Class" but I do like the idea of having a space where I can just put down thoughts whenever I feel like it (and whenever I'm close to a computer of course.)

I was struck by this particular bit: "Be Sexy: You are a sexual being. So are all of your readers (except the Google robot). Sex is interesting. Sex is life, and life is interesting. " Whoa.

With all these lists of how to blog, what a blog is and common blogging mistakes, my main concern is how in the world a blog became so much work! Themes, links, length of posts, etc. etc. I just thought they were fun little online journals that everyone could read. Of course not, things are never that easy. Blogs are cultural symbols, they speak about our time and place and 5000 years from now, people will be digging up old blog archives and saying that the blog was the formitive zeitgeist of the 21st century. Ah, I hope I'm quoted for that one day.

Let the blogging begin!

xxx, Luv, DJ Groovy Slug
by: DJGroovySlug at January 25, 2005 23:01 | link | comments dj groovy slug recommends

Monday, 24 January 2005

 Essay: Why I Signed up for English 344: Digital Writing Across the Genres, Non-Fiction

Why does anyone sign up for a class? Me, I base it on whether or not it will conflict with Pilates classes.  However, everyone picks certain classes for a reason and I'm always fascinated by the combinations.  But I digress.  The least complicated way of explaining is by simply stating that I'm in my final semester as an undergraduate student English major which means several things:

1. I'm about to be thrown into the "real world" (no MTV intervention)

2.  I will need to find a job and an apartment

3. I have no real skills except the ability to write a really great term paper

4. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the rest of my life

So I realized sometime last semester that in order to get a job that actual required brains and didn't involve customer service, I would need to have an edge.  When the course description said I would be learning HTML, Dreamweaver, etc. I signed up because I figured I needed SOMETHING to get me a job besides knowledge of proper grammar and the characters of all the Jane Austen novels.  So I am here to learn how to do things on the web besides read ESPN columnists and buy boiled wool sweaters.  The End.

P.S. Reason as to why I chose to go by "DJ Groovy Slug" will be posted at a later time. xxx, Luv, DJ Groovy Slug

by: DJGroovySlug at January 24, 2005 20:50 | link | comments (1) random thoughts, dj groovy slug recommends