Current mood:	complacent
Current music:	Pissing Razors

consumer responsibilty
I just read online that most aggression experienced in the work place is not between co-workers, but between employee and customer, and as an employee for a bookstore for the Savannah College of Art & Design, I completely agree. Having snotty, elitist cunts treat you like dog-shit b/c YOU'RE not a snotty elitist fuck sucks, sucks, sucks. I want so BADLY to say to these people, "What happened? Did they fuck up on the assembly line and ram your silver spoon up your ass by mistake?" I love it when they come in looking for a textbook, and when they ask you to help them find it, they don't know the title, the author, which class they need it for, or who their professor is...and that's YOUR fault, not theirs. I think the part that really bites my turkey is that they're almost all retarded to boot. I couldn't even begin to guess how many times a student will come in to sell a book they don't want, and say, "My stupid professor told me this book was required reading, and we didn't even open it once; what a moron." And I'm like, hmmm, you or your parents are paying $100,000.00 per year for you to go this school (if you're a full time student), you spent almost $100.00 on a textbook your prof. said was REQUIRED READING FOR THE COURSE YOU'RE TAKING...and you, as a COLLEGE STUDENT needs someone to take you by your little hand and say, "ok, read pages 8 through 12 in chapter 1 tonight dearie,"? How about, you're a COLLEGE STUDENT who's paying an assload of money on school and books...why not take some initiative, open the book, and read it your damn self?!? You're going to school, your teacher told you it's required...SO READ IT! But no. Guess someone needs to upgrade the Freshman First Year Adjustment Seminar.
Well, Broken Flowers was a little disappointing, but only b/c the last half hour or so was SOOOOOOO depressing. As everyone probably already knows, it's about a man getting a letter from an old flame telling him he has a son, but it isn't signed and there's no return address, so he goes around looking up the different women from his youth, after a pushy friend arranges EVERYTHING, flights and stuff. While preparing all this though, the pushy friend discovers that one of the women died. The part is very minor, and Bill Murray is just kind of like, damn...I really liked her, and that's it, movie moves on. But you see, he goes to see her anyway, takes flowers to her grave, and let me tell you, that was one of the saddest things I've ever had to sit through movie-wise, and I just recently saw King Kong (depressing!). The only reason it's so sad though is b/c J. Jarmusch is always cool about letting the scene tell itself, and not allowing sappy violin music to tell you how to feel, a lesson S. Speilberg would do well to learn (the violins! what about the violins!). The ending initially left me irritated ("that's it?!") but after awhile, I figured that it was just J. Jarmusch's way of letting you use your imagination, and end it the way you want, b/c it could go SO many different ways. I like to imagine that the kid runs off, and after awhile, his search proves successful, and they get to remeet each other, and have a good laugh at the same time. It just sucks though, b/c the other way it could go is...well, just too damn depressing.
OK, so who else thinks Anne should've conjured a giant fire ball to blast the bi-planes out the sky, after which King Kong sprouts wings and they fly to Skull Island to live happily ever after? eh?eh? I like.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS PLACE???!!!???
A woman in Orlando, FL checked into a hospital to give birth, and checked out with no arms or legs b/c the doctors amputated them in her sleep AND WON'T TELL HER WHY, SAID THAT IF SHE WANTS TO KNOW, SHE HAS TO SUE THEM FIRST. WHAT.....THE......FUCK! Woman can't even hold her baby now, let alone take care of it, or herself. It's like what Kurt Vonnegut said in Blue Beard, one of these days, all the beautiful things in this world, music, art, literature, are going to rise up and say, "this place is just too shitty for us, and no one really, truley appreciates us anyway, so bye-bye!" wish I could go with them. this place gets uglier and uglier.
docbrite, you finished the new King novel, and now you feel you have nothing left to look forward to? yeesh! I wonder if you'd like SiP....
Speaking of which: BOO-HOO-HOO! I just read issue 78/79? and found out that *GASP* the series is coming to an end! It's over at issue 90, folks! Kiss Francine and Katchoo good-bye! And I SWEAR he's going to kill David. That's going to HUURRT! When I found out the series was drawing to close, my heart stopped. It ends at issue #90?!? If he had stated that it would over at issue 120, I would've been in tears, but 90?! I felt like it was already over. It was a surreal moment to sit back and review our history (herstory? :) ) together: me sneaking issues into copies of Uncanny X-Men (I read those too though) to read in the bathroom (my parents opened a comic book store when I was 5) at 12 years old, and feeling an instant connection, INSTANT connection. I remember it was a High School story, the one where Katchoo reads This Mask I Wear. I remember it was the day before or the day after that I discovered David Mack's Kabuki, another comic I had to sneak. I was in ecstasy: 2 bad-ass comics discovered, back-to-back! I was already reading the Maxx, (ANOTHER comic I had to sneak) and I was obsessed, and still am to this day. The Maxx, Kabuki and SiP, the only comics of my youth that didn't go to pot. X-Men sucks so bad, well, except maybe the Astonishing X-Men, I enjoyed that, it leaves me heart-broken. Why can't there still be great writing and even greater stories? The Asgardian Wars, the Dark Phoenix saga, X-Tinction Agenda, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, Excalibur's Cross-Time Caper or whatever it was called, the whole thing when the the world thought the X-Men died when they were really holed up in Australia and the introduction of Jubilee! The Morlock Marauder Massacre, oh GOD, I could go on and on. But not anymore. Now it all sucks. And SiP is leaving!! The Maxx ended years ago! BUT!........David Mack recently resumed the Kabuki storyline, and even though I'm DYING to read it as it comes out, I'm going to wait for it to come out in graphic novel form, and read it all in one orgasmic sitting.
Well, my sister just showed up from ATL and the grinch man is on his way, so I bid you adieu.