So Long and Fair Well

Yea I know it's fare not fair but yesterday I went to the W.T. capital of the world, the Alameda County Fair! Alyssa and I went with our friends Ryan and Bryn Lack, and had an absolute blast. I almost made myself vomit with the combination of greasy foods, beer, jerky rides and super sweet desserts. Ryan and I used all the tickets up on the good rides so the girls only got to go on this Merry-Go-Round.

Yes that is me doing the sound effects.

Also, the Blog will be going on a bit of a hiatus, I'll be in Europe for the next three weeks (Ireland and Paris) and when I get back I'll be moving in to the new house I just bought with my buddy Josh. So things will be a little crazy until we both get settled in.

Pulp Fiction

This movie rules. Straight up awesome. Probably the best comedy I've ever seen in its originality. Also has tons of violence and swearing, they drop the F-bomb 265 times in this movie, but the dialogue is so brilliant I can't help but to laugh out loud over and over again. And, surprisingly, Alyssa enjoyed it also, though she did say she'd never watch it again. I caught her laughing a lot. "have you ever given a man a foot massage?"

Movie Ideas

I don't know if it is just watching all these "great" films or me being bored but recently I've been running movie ideas through my head. On my way home from work today I started thinking about Battle Royale, a Japanese movie with a cast full of high school classmates that are left on a deserted island and are forced to kill each other off to survive. Only one person gets to win by killing everyone else and being allowed to live. Anyhow I would love to see an American version with all of the overexposed, unenlightened, Lala Land morons roaming around. Starring in no particular order, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, maybe include the outspoken politico's; Brad Pitt and wifey, Bono,the scientologists; John Travolta, Tom Cruise and throw Shia LeBeouf in there cause he's in everything now anyway. I can only imagine watching them fight to the death and how little their celebrity ideals would mean to them in that scenario. Just an idea. I think I'll start working on a script.

The Last Picture Show

Another movie down. Monday Alyssa and I finished The Last Picture Show, a 1971 movie about a 1950's town. Pretty boring and really unrelatable for us ( I just made that word up, it means I was unable to relate to a movie about expansion and the loss of small town community when I've never seen small town community in my lifetime). It was decent though and a trip to see Jeff Bridges and Cybil Sheperd looking young and hot. Cybil even got a little naked for it which was a shock considering what she looks like now. Pulp Fiction is next which I love and crack up to every time I see it.

Father's Day at the Ginn's

Today was (and is) Father's Day. My family got together at my parent's house around noon for a BBQ and cards. My dad got a set of Philips noise canceling headphones from my mom. She saw them at Costco for $60 and thought they'd be worth a shot. Unfortunately my brother, mom, and myself also could use a nice pair of noise canceling headphones, what with the upcoming flights and extended periods in the car with my family over the next two+ weeks, so she got everyone a pair. My brother and I chipped in on some pipe wrenches for my dad. His reaction was essentially "Yay, pipe wrenches" Nothing to get too excited about. Anyhow, here's a horrible picture of my family trying to get the smile cam on my camera to work from far away. Like my brother said, "it's a smile cam, not an eyebrow cam."

And yes, I know, we are a bunch of dorks.

The Skullet (or is it Skullit, skullett or skullitt?)

As evidenced by the no hair shot in the Whoops post I recently cut my hair. Due to increasing pressure from an incredible and varied number of blog readers (Ryan), I felt obligated to show the middle step of my hair cutting process. The Skullet:

And yes Alyssa thought I was serious about keeping it like that but she forbade me from publishing the video I took of her entrance. And her reaction was more apathy towards it as opposed to outright revulsion so it doesn't make that great of theater anyhow.

The Right Thing Was Done.

Alyssa and I got to watching the Spike Lee joint "Do the Right Thing" on Saturday night. I thoroughly enjoyed the flick, she had seen it before and didn't like it. I think her ideal movie involves sunshine, rainbows and a happy ending, but I'm hoping to convert her to more pics that require you to think.
I found it interesting that as a person generally shown to be at least somewhat radically inclined towards his race, Spike Lee did a very good job portraying racial tension in this country without bias. Or at the very least didn't try to justify the actions of the black people in his film. Also interesting that someone shown to be a peacemaker early in the film ultimately has a breaking point just like everyone else and evolves into a fire starter (figuratively and literally).
Ultimately I found the film to have two morals; one, the racial situation in this country has got to be changed for the better and two, don't hang out in a poor New York neighborhood on an incredibly hot day, because people can have short tempers.

Whoops!

So I was cutting my hair in the normal fashion yesterday when the strangest thing happened. Namely, I screwed up. I gave the clippers to Alyssa to trim the hair I couldn't see to a shorter level due to my hairy neck. After she finished she gave the clippers back to me and I proceeded to clean up the work I had already done. Without realizing the clippers were now set to a different length. Whoops! So now I have the shortest hair I can recall having. Thankfully it still grows back.

Tate's 30th

My cousin Tate had his 30th birthday a couple of weeks ago. He is the first of my first cousins to reach that age. I gave him a nice "my condolences" card to commemorate the event. The party was a lot of fun including a game of Tate themed pictionary. While at the party I also found out that Tate and his wife Claire will be in Paris at the same time as my family this July. We are making plans to go to a nice American themed bar on the 4th and have an Independence Day celebration in Paris.