ok people- i'm on a roll today- i can feel it! so- go ahead and ask me to do something for you. chances are it will be succesfull. i'm serious- i had this conversation with my new roommate (a cool roommate for a change) about "recharging" your karma. the idea is, in simplistic terms- if you want something, you first need to give away something else. thing is- you have to give it away without knowing what you'll receive. and it has to be honest- not just giving for the sake of receiving but a true selfless act of giving.
so if there's anything i can do for yous guys- just go ahead and ask. (you don't have to do anything for me in return)
meanwhile- a new top 5 list:
Top 5 best casting calls:
1.Clancy brown- Kurgen in Highlander now theres a scary mofo for ya- the guy stayed in costume throughout the entire shoot!
2.Jeff Bridges- the Dude in The Big Lebowski- nuff said.
3.Joel Gray- Chun in Remo- unarmed and dangerous have you seen this one? You should- its one of the most underrated good action movies of all times- especially for the martial arts lessons scenes.
4.F. Murray Abraham- Antonio Salieri in Amadeus- simply brilliant.
5.John Cusak- Rob Gordon in High Fidelity not exactly the same character as the book, but it works so well for the movie.
Honorable Mentions- Robert De Niro- Jack Walsh in Midnight Run, everybody in: The Breakfast Club, Brad Pitt- Micky the Pikey in Snatch, Floyd the stoner in True Romance, Michael Douglas- the guy in Falling Down, Jack Black- Barry in High Fidelity, Ewan McGregor- Renton in Trainspotting, Harrison Ford- Indiana Jones, William Zabka- Johnny in Karate Kid, Choobaka- himself.
feel free to add yours,
and be well and happy.
G.
so if there's anything i can do for yous guys- just go ahead and ask. (you don't have to do anything for me in return)
meanwhile- a new top 5 list:
Top 5 best casting calls:
1.Clancy brown- Kurgen in Highlander now theres a scary mofo for ya- the guy stayed in costume throughout the entire shoot!
2.Jeff Bridges- the Dude in The Big Lebowski- nuff said.
3.Joel Gray- Chun in Remo- unarmed and dangerous have you seen this one? You should- its one of the most underrated good action movies of all times- especially for the martial arts lessons scenes.
4.F. Murray Abraham- Antonio Salieri in Amadeus- simply brilliant.
5.John Cusak- Rob Gordon in High Fidelity not exactly the same character as the book, but it works so well for the movie.
Honorable Mentions- Robert De Niro- Jack Walsh in Midnight Run, everybody in: The Breakfast Club, Brad Pitt- Micky the Pikey in Snatch, Floyd the stoner in True Romance, Michael Douglas- the guy in Falling Down, Jack Black- Barry in High Fidelity, Ewan McGregor- Renton in Trainspotting, Harrison Ford- Indiana Jones, William Zabka- Johnny in Karate Kid, Choobaka- himself.
feel free to add yours,
and be well and happy.
G.
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let's just say that from November of '99 through June of '01 I went through a series of events that no publisher would ever run with because it would be too unbelievable. dead parents, lost jobs, a DUI arrest, and being the sole eyewitness to a botched robbery that turned to murder. truth truly is stranger than fiction.
anyway, three years ago this week, in a nutshell:
12/13/99 dad has nasty sore throat so sees doctor
12/15/99 dad goes to another doctor for biopsy
12/16/99 dad diagnosed with throat cancer, admitted to hospital
12/17/99 dad has tumor removed from his throat
12/18/99 mom gets "flu" ... refuses to go to doctor
12/20/99 mom just up and dies out of nowhere
12/20-12/22 i stay up for two days straight and clean my parents house from top to bottom ... including the paramedics' debris from the attempt to save her.
12/24/99 we bury mom ... dad (and his fresh tracheotomy) is the hit of the funeral
after that it got strange ...
anyway, you asked ... there you go.
[Edited on Dec 19, 2002]
Translations and linguistic changes in languages have always been problems over the centuries. But still the church insists the bible is the unchanged word of god, hehe. It can awkward enough to get the correct meaning of english documents from 400 years ago, let alone shifting from hebrew, aramaic, greek, latin and so on.
Hmm, doom. In what way I wonder. Sometimes a word has different usages in different cultures and languages. I quite like way it can be used in Norse and Saxon mythology.