Archives
April 2005
4/24/05
4/23/05
Work Is The Last Thing On My Mind
4/20/05
4/18/05
4/16/05
4/9/05
4/8/05
Saturday, April 23, 2005
7:22:00 PM EDT
Hearing Better Things -- Fountains of Wayne
So, I get to work on friday what's in my mailbox? well, it seems
that the lead supervisors all voted for me as associate of the the
week... I was totally "enh, whatever" about it until I found out
it comes with a $35 (net, not gross) bonus. Then I was like
"yay me!" Then for the rest of my 8 hours there, I did, oh, maybe
2 hours of work? Suckers! I'm pretty good at the whole
"look like you're working" thing, though it's not always my choice,
sometimes my tools to do my job just don't work. I feel like all
I pretty much do are the besic requirements for whatever job I have,
but I'm finding more and more that many people just half ass their
jobs. Fine by me, makes me look better.
They're hiring a new quality supervisor and I think I'd have a pretty good shot at it. My boss likes my work a lot and suggested it (I'd basically be doing her job, but in a different, but very similar, department). It's tempting, but it is more responsibility and crap, but then again, I can just delegate to underlings if I get the job, haha. It's more pay, sorta. It's salaried instead of hourly, so good by paid overtime when I want it, basically. Also, I'm also always fearful that it will detract from my social life and that it'd make it harder to meet women. But then again, I don't have much of a social life and I'm not meeting women anyway. huh, I'll have to contemplate this whole thing more...
Friday night, Andrew and I edited our short film for hours and hours. Like most editing, it was very frustrating and ultimately rewarding. We have about 4 more days of principle photography (including some reshoots) left. It's really all starting to come together, I can't wait until I can start showing it to people...
Forgot to post this a while back:
Sahara
* * 1/2
Walking in to the theater, I expected Breck Eisner's Sahara to be a dumb, but enjoyable, adventure movie. Well, I at least I was right about the "dumb" part. "Enjoyable" only came in fits and spurts.
Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) belongs to a team of treasure hunters who work with the world's governments to unearth historical artifacts that have been long forgotten. But his true passion is a treasure that no one else believes even exists: an armored confederate ship that made the trip across the Atlantic to Africa. He believes that that it's current resting place is along the Niger River, so when his team just happens to be in the area, he used the chance to go out and find it.
Meanwhile, Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz) is working for the World Health Organization, try to stop an epidemic of unknown origin. The government doesn't want this story leaked and will go to extreme measures to stop Who from learning the truth. Could the impending epidemic be somehow linked to the lost ship?
Yeah, probably, but the story's so convoluted, it doesn't really matter. There are some very good action scenes in this film and a lot of the comedy works, but the story just tries too hard. Had it just tried to simplify things, it would have worked much better.
Written by nick2cool Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | 
digg this
7:22:00 PM EDT
Hearing Better Things -- Fountains of Wayne
Work Is The Last Thing On My Mind
They're hiring a new quality supervisor and I think I'd have a pretty good shot at it. My boss likes my work a lot and suggested it (I'd basically be doing her job, but in a different, but very similar, department). It's tempting, but it is more responsibility and crap, but then again, I can just delegate to underlings if I get the job, haha. It's more pay, sorta. It's salaried instead of hourly, so good by paid overtime when I want it, basically. Also, I'm also always fearful that it will detract from my social life and that it'd make it harder to meet women. But then again, I don't have much of a social life and I'm not meeting women anyway. huh, I'll have to contemplate this whole thing more...
Friday night, Andrew and I edited our short film for hours and hours. Like most editing, it was very frustrating and ultimately rewarding. We have about 4 more days of principle photography (including some reshoots) left. It's really all starting to come together, I can't wait until I can start showing it to people...
Forgot to post this a while back:
Sahara
* * 1/2
Walking in to the theater, I expected Breck Eisner's Sahara to be a dumb, but enjoyable, adventure movie. Well, I at least I was right about the "dumb" part. "Enjoyable" only came in fits and spurts.
Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) belongs to a team of treasure hunters who work with the world's governments to unearth historical artifacts that have been long forgotten. But his true passion is a treasure that no one else believes even exists: an armored confederate ship that made the trip across the Atlantic to Africa. He believes that that it's current resting place is along the Niger River, so when his team just happens to be in the area, he used the chance to go out and find it.
Meanwhile, Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz) is working for the World Health Organization, try to stop an epidemic of unknown origin. The government doesn't want this story leaked and will go to extreme measures to stop Who from learning the truth. Could the impending epidemic be somehow linked to the lost ship?
Yeah, probably, but the story's so convoluted, it doesn't really matter. There are some very good action scenes in this film and a lot of the comedy works, but the story just tries too hard. Had it just tried to simplify things, it would have worked much better.
Written by nick2cool Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | digg this
