follow my grunting
You know what is a really rad way to start your morning? Getting an auto-alert email from your bank saying that your account is suspended because someone failed too many authentication attempts. In other words, “Someone was trying to get into your money.” Very comforting.
I called and it’s all straightened out now, but for a few hours there I had neither a bank account nor a cell phone. I came very close to rubbing two sticks together and sorting through the recycling bag for tin cans and string.
On that note, I am hopefully going to the store after work today and getting a new phone. Because I am a sucker, and despite the fact that Apple is kind of creeping me out, I’m hoping to get an iPhone. If I can’t get one, I’ll just get a regular phone.
In other, “can I please be a yuppie?” news, I subscribed to a CSA that delivers to campus. I can’t afford to go nuts buying stuff from them, but I’m hoping that I can get a good base of vegetables and then maybe just buy fruit from a farmer’s market every week. I’m just trying to, like, be a good person or some shit.
We watched most of Starship Troopers last night, which I had seen bits of before…only enough to know that Casper Van Dien was in it and that men and women soldiers showered together. I actually really enjoyed it. The commentary on the military was heavy-handed enough that I don’t think I really need to go into it (plus, I just don’t feel like it right now). But what I liked most about it was the acting.
Hear me out.
Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien and Jake Busey. Those guys are some of the worst actors ever to get a SAG card. But it works so well for this movie. While it’s still kind of comical to imagine Richards getting a 97% on a math exam and then being an ace pilot skilled enough to give Luke Skywalker the sweats, you can’t deny that she nails that vapid, “Sigh…applesauce,” facial expression. They all do. And that’s why the did so well performing the roles of the, “Fuck rights! Let’s go blow shit up and/or get slaughtered!” dudes.
Plus, Brother Justin was in it. And “Girl with Cigar” from Swingers.
And, because it needs to be said…IT’S FRIDAY.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I have a sneaky soft spot for that movies. Giant bugs and all.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
giant bugs can be cuddly when they’re not ripping you apart.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
By brother Justin, you mean THE KURGAN!
July 11th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
no, by Brother Justin, I mean Mr. Crab.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
There’s a CSA that delivers to campus? That is fucking awesome. I also see from their website that you can just order a box if you want and you don’t necessarily have to subscribe. I may have to do that.
Let me know how it works out for you?