I should move to London.
There is a lot of rain right? Right now, it's that muggy overcast type weather
and it's about 45 minutes until work. Again, I always go into work thinking it
will be busy...if it's not, I'm pleasantly surprised and if it's not, I'm ready
for it. Oh, I have to change my password today. Woo. It's hard to think of a 4
digit code you can enter quickly, yet remember. I operate around a key group of
numbers, but I've used them all already.



As we speak, I'm trying to set up something with Elizabeth. I would like to do an inhouse
movie thing (note: move the couch upstairs) but who knows what we'll get into.



So, after watching "The Italian Job" (2003) on TV last night, I went
to bed around midnight. That’s really early for me. Somehow I woke up at 2 in
the afternoon and I'm still tired. Even if I try, I can't regulate my sleep
patterns. Still working on it.



You know, I did like "The Italian Job." Come on, how can you not like
a movie with Charlize Theron in it(besides Aeon Flux)? I almost felt bad for
Edward Norton in it though...I read in the imdb that he appeared in the movie
due to a contract agreement, not because he wanted to. You could feel it in his
performance. Meaning, I might rent the original 1969 version with Michael Caine
tonight. I know we have it, I just have to see if we have it in. Oh, after
seeing "The Italian Job"(2003) and Three Kings, my movie list moves
into a high school pass with 51%. Meaning I beat Mark and I'm one off my mum.
Of course other  "Firm" personnel are in the high
eighties...(sigh)



Maybe I won't move to London...but
it would be nice to visit for a while. You could say it's one half of my
"motherland"...the other half being Japan. Which also wouldn't be a bad
idea. I could fit it...When my parents spent their honeymoon in Hawaii, after a few days
of sun, my dad looked native and other tourists were asking him for directions.



I think I might buy the Buck 65 album "Wicked and Weird" next week.
If I see it in store, I'll buy it there but I probably get it on Itunes. I
think I've become hooked on buying music online. Of course, if they get The
Churchills in (I sent a request email) and Virgil I'll be an absolute addict. I
guess I do have an addictive personality.



I didn't know "The Postal Service" was a super group! Yeah, I knew
Ben Gibbard was in on it, but as is Rilo Kiley(well, Jenny Lewis the lead
anyway)...making it a super group...like...Audioslave? At one point I knew who
made it super, but I just can't remember. So I guess Rilo Kiley + Deathcab =
Postal Service...just like Metric (Emily Haines) is with Broken Social Scene.
Yes, I know...there is no such thing as an "indie" sound...you are
indie if you are on an INDEpendant label...so technically. Deathcab is no
longer "indie"...it's called Shoegazing...for those so inclined to
know....



It's easier to know movies than it is to know music. People can agree on
movies, but it's hard to agree on the type of music you like.





Yeah, I've been ranting for a while...I'm done...



-Cleric

Mood: Meh, still getting used to the new set up.

I don't want to pester all the admin people asking them when(or if) we'll get the calandar and the search option back. I mean, most blogs do have some sort of set up like that, don't they?

Playlist 2.0

1. Am I The Only One-Barenaked Ladies
2. Supermassive BlackHole-Muse
3. Don't Get Your Back Up- Sarah Harmer
4. In State-Katheen Edwards
5. The Hardest Part-Coldplay
6. Glass Ceiling-Metric
7. Can't Lose-We Are Scientists
8. Catch My Disease-Ben Lee
9. Riot Van- Arctic Monkey
10. Murder-Alana Davis
    

Wow, that's going to be so much easier now with the numbers feature.

Nothing really on tap for today. Might go get a coffee and chill later. I guess I need to calm down a bit after the frantic blog restart. I rented Firewall and I might get to that later tonight. It's been a real drought for movies over the past 6 months. Gah, "Underworld: Evolution" is out next week. *shudder* at the thought of it. I'll say it again: I like Kate Beckinsale in leather, gunfighting and vampires and I hated the movie! What does that tell you!?

Maybe I'll start writing prose again and not just spec sheets...

-Cleric

Mood: Ho Hum...

I guess I can get carried away with an idea. I jokingly write down "Special Special Forces Vampires" in an entry and for a couple days I leave it at that. Of course over the next three days I actually look into the science of an "amino acid dependency" and super solider projects.

I write down 18 names with cute little code numbers and suddenly I have pictures, PICTURES! Of people like Wentworth Miller, Lisa Ray and Nicole Deboer. I made them black and white to make them look less "Head Shot" like... I even found "vampiric" names like Vetala or Kitsune. For no reason at all, you have Natalie Portman as a character named "Elizabeth 2205." I'm also going to have to think of a better name for the "Project"...I used Darkstar, Darknight and Runescape. That leaves me with ugh, Dark Avenger. (sigh) I also have "twin" characters played by a younger Wentworth Miller named Van and Bram. Go figure that one out....

Yeah, Bugie could sue, but I don't think they will. Now I have 18 characters to play with. Add them to the Canadian Special Forces Team, The active CSIS Field Officers, The Big Town Homicide Detectives, and the rest of the so-called/poorly named "Demon War" plotline. Can you believe that story started out with a rich lawyer with guns? Lots of guns? Now look at where I am. Saint is going to get a kick out of it.

I bough a Feist album online to fulfill my need for Canadian "Indie" music. I should really wait for the credit card bill to come and not pay it off as soon as download them. I can't even remember which ones I've paid for...(sigh) Feist is awesome though, that ethereal breathy voice with those slow melodic groove. I know nothing about music; I just know what I like.

Speaking of Canadian girls: Ellen Page, Emily Haines and of course Leslie Feist are great looking women.

I dropped into work today to check my hours and ended up getting a sub par FPS for the PS2...Black. The graphics are alright, but all the rest of it seems to fall apart. I don't like having to unload a 60 round AK magazine into the chest of an AI Enemy before he remotely dies. The voice acting is silly at best and oh...just like Ghost Recon: stupid AI Teammates. An enemy walked right by and she didn't move! Then that enemy proceed to outflank me...(sigh) I'm just not a real gamer anymore. Just Halo...even then not that much.

A sunday opening shift and a 3 hour shift this week and ONE next week? Gah...Oh, did I mention I filled in for the last three hours of Tiffany's shift monday and had to shrink-wrap over 200 DVDs with a heatgun? Fun...

Done...

-Cleric

So, i finally settled on "The Daeva Project." Sounds pretty cool huh? Daeva is apparently Persian for a spirit that enjoys causing death and destruction. It's also a vampire clan in some White Wolf thingy. Yes, the "official" clan logo is a little fruity for military black black ops purposes, but i think we'll find something that's a compromise. I'm also debating whether or not they should "volunteer" or be "recruited." I want them to have lives before they joined the project so they all still humans, fighting with demons as demons. So let me get this straight: I have a group of 18 people, ranging from 19 to 36 years of age. I have to figure out:

A) Why are they recruited/why did they volunteer
B) What were they before?
C)What are they now?

Of course having 18 characters(I always make too many) some will be KIA*(All the mystic armor in the universe can't save you from a planet imploding or a black hole bomb) from the start. Some will be MIA* and some AWOL*. I wrote 13 cop characters over the years and I'm only using a core group of 5 right now. They just refer to the other 6 in passing. I think I can wittle it down to a core group of 6(three teams of six) and have some passing in and out.

Woo

Enough of that.

I'm working a really odd shift tomorrow: 4-7. It's probably one of those so-called "Cover Shifts" where I have to man the till while other things need to be taken care of.

I'm not working saturday(second in a row)

Pyro has become obssessed with Chuck Norris Facts...(sigh)...

I'm done...

-Cleric

I'm glad I have a good memory...

I just deleted a fairly large entry, but considering it's about my life I can manage to redo it. Sad thing is, the entry just won't have the same "something" that it did before.

To work in a retail setting that sells something as diverse as say, music or movies, you must have a diverse staff to back that up. of course, by diverse I mean Geeks, nerds and to a lesser extent freaks. Why am I bringing this up? I just finished watching the very excellent 1995 movie "Empire Records." I came across this movie twice. The first time was my digging for Gin Blossoms songs. "Til' I Hear if From You" it featured three times. Second time: Elizabeth loves it to death(owns the soundtrack) and she told me a couple days ago she saw it. More about my girl later on...

I also thought that no way would a retail store allow such people to work there...then I stopped at look back at my own crew. Yeah, I might not be the brainy guy(I'm smart enough.) I might not be the Zen guy*(I'm kinda zen)

It was a nice paring to go with Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman...(CGI was way too fake, but it had it nice moments...)anyway, back to Empire. I got excited that Anthony Lapaglia was in it(Much younger, look at the hair!) everytime he got angry I would think: "Oh, Jack Malone Moment! You're screwed!"  Also that Speed guy from CSI: Miami was in it(What? 21 years old?!) So it wasn't that bad. I might even buy it. EMPIRE! Not CSI: M****

 
I have to buy a lot of movies in a hurry. Word down the wire says "The Firm" is canning our sellthrough discounts to give us all 50% off of wireless stuff. (Cough) so I get screwed over. I bought three of my favourites today:

1. "Enemy at the Gates"
2. "Way of the Gun"
3. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

At least it gives me a good excuse to buy all those movies I keep talking about buying.

More about Elizabeth? Late last night on MSN she comes on with a nice little "Hey You." Told her I knew she was drunk, not because of what she said...just because. She did say she was "SO drunk..." considering that what she does at parties...I also knew she was drunk because something I typed she answered "lmao" she was drunk because what I said wasn't that funny. I'm leaving at that. Wow, life does imitate art.

Speaking of my arts, I guess now I'm going to write a spec sheet about people working in a video store. Come on, I just finished the spec sheet for a team of supersoliders in the latest high-tech armor fighting an unbeatable foe after getting Halo. Why do I suddenly have a forbidden Elizabeth character working at a music store?! BOOO! Didn't I say I'd never write an Elizabeth character? (Minus the Daeva Op played by Natalie Portman....or Rachel Leigh Cook)

I guess I'll go on to work. Sunday Openings are nice...it the rollercoaster ride between lull and hype I can't deal with. Give me either or, but not the combination. I find it draining. We're supposed to be having a staff party later in the week. No Idea when, no idea where...as staff parties usually go...we all figure out the day of. I invited Elizabeth, but after her little "incident" last night...I don't think I should...we'll see...
 

 That's pretty much what I typed. A little more than I typed before and somethings are missing...but it should be a problem...End Transmission:

PS: "Line of the Time": "You're a manager...so Manage"

I couldn't have just made that up....

-Cleric 

Mood:

I've decided, like several times before to let my mind wonder in the javascript and see where I go with it all.

I do have a thing for Goth/Punk girls. I classify them in one category(the more the merrier) but in reality they are separate, but they can be one in the same. Elizabeth told me one Halloween she dressed up like a goth punk. I told her I wouldn't mind see it one day. It has to be a combination of the eyes and the hair. The dark circles and maybe pink? Or even purple? Or The Anna Mccormick Blue Special hair.

The logistics of moving out with my current salary while supporting school are difficult, but I'm still looking into it. All on the downlow of course. Just in case the parentals find out. They're against me joining the CF, so we'll see where we all stand in a couple years.

Still no word on the party. The Lt. was ill today and the Sarge has no idea what's going down: It's the Lt.'s op after all. I might end up not going. The idea of my co-workers with 400+ worth of alcohol isn't a cool thing.

I caught a rerun of "How I Met Your Mother" hoping to see one of those 4 eps with Alexis Denisof WITHOUT the british accent he is so well known for...nope...but seeing in Alyson Hannigan in something not stupid*was a nice consolation.

I also was reafirmed that clubs suck. I don't comprehend why shaking and writhing/gyrating to obnoxiously loud "music" is considered "fun." I'll have to bring that up with Elizabeth as she is always excited when she gets items that are considered "clubbing" clothes. Then she talks about how stupid bouncers are when it comes to ID...I work in a rental situation and "I forgot my ID at home" doesn't even work with me. I don't even want to know what she wants to do with a New Brunswick ID. No. The less I know, the better.

See? I guess we're at this point in the "Relationship" (I didn't type the R word) where we can talk about the things we don't like about each other. I can't wait until she unloads both barrels at me with 10 gauges of "I can't drive" or "Don't like Mark in the OBC" or "Not as hot as insert guy's name here" See? I'm still a little insecure with all this. Not as often as I used to be, but it creeps it's ugly 3 headed face every now and then. I deal with it for a roughly half an hour then it goes away. I'm not stronger for it. I'm not any weaker. I'm just the same with a little less nagging doubt in the back of my head. This is all the normal background noise anyway.

My internet sucks. Almost as much as my cell phone. Same company by the way. I'm not angry because I work for the competition. I'm angry because I'm a customer. I have full right to talk trash about an internet connection that goes dead from 5pm to 11pm like clockwork everyday. Or a cellphone that gets no reception any where. This is made worse by the fact the wireless internet interferes with my cellphone connection. Funny, that still seems to interfere with the phone after 5, but not connect to the internet.....Grrrr...

Maybe I'm more emotionally fragile than I thought. If Pyro's banter about "being a pussy because I read and a have a girlfriend" doesn't bug because Pyro is just a stupid grade 10 who's idea of a good time is blowing his nose into his hand and rubbing it in his face....but there's another nagging doubt that somethings he says(WHICH I SHALL NOT REPEAT HERE) might be right.

God I feel old sometimes. Of course, not mature/responsible...just old. I'm not...whenever a parent rents kids movies I always talk about how I used to "love it" when I was young. One time a parent said "You still are young." I've always felt older than I was. Always the "mature" one back in day(Grade 8 or something) I always thought if I would have "rebelled" like most teenagers my collage years would be more stable because I wouldn't have this itch that I can't sratch. Classic Cleric Conflict: I don't like the idea of partying, but I feel like I should to "release"...release myself from what? Meh, we'll leave that for another entry.

Pyro got his yearbook today....so I looked up Elizabeth and I thought her grad write up was "cookie cutter"(or heavily edited, but that's unlikely) Her spotlight was "Most likely to put on a one person show of Rent" was dead on. I just have to remember that the grad write up is a snapshot of one day in...December? usually...mine was really angry. So forever I'll be known as the angry kid...not "Angry Kid" because that's funny....

Don't take this as whining, no...this is just one of my cycles. I'll be fine in the morning. Which is in about 6 hours depending on who you talk to.

I'm going to go do something else...

-Cleric

*LIKE DATE MOVIE! OH DEAR LORD DID THAT SUCK!