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SBIFF: MORIARTY's A Big Fan Of AMY'S ORGASM!!
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
UPDATED - SUNDAY NIGHT!! AMY'S ORGASM just won the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Audience Award!!
There are times when it's genuinely difficult to find the way into a review, and normally, it's when that film gets under your skin, when it isn't just something you watch and process and spit back out. It's when the film stays with you, rattling around inside for days like a bullet ricocheting its way through your system, opening up old personal wounds and reminding you where each scar is, bringing back each old pain like new. It's when the film is not only obviously personal to the filmmaker, but also hits you in some personal way. That's when it's tough to know just what to set down on paper, just how to start. That's exactly what I've been facing for the last few days as I've contemplated how to write about AMY'S ORGASM.
Let me back up a few days. Middle of last week, I got a pair of e-mails from Jeff Dowd, The Dude. If you've been reading this site regularly, you've probably read about The Dude by now. He's a sort of guardian angel for indie filmmakers trying to find a distributor for their films, and in the year or so that I've known Jeff, he's always been spot-on in his recommendations. If he tells me something's worth my time, it's been worth my time. So when I got the two e-mails from him, I immediately opened them. One was the poster image that you see at the top of this review. The other was an incredibly impassioned letter that urged me to take a ride to Santa Barbara to get a look at this movie that had played twice already to sold out crowds, a film by Julie Davis. As soon as I heard the name, it rang a bell, but I had to actually hop on the 'Net and browse around for a while before remembering why. Julie's first film, I LOVE YOU, DON'T TOUCH ME, had been a Sundance hit in 1997 that sold to MGM. I remember reading somewhere about the incredibly difficult path that the film had followed between Sundance and its eventual unceremonious release on video. Knowing that MGM is a company that can't even open an envelope unless it's got the James Bond logo on it, much less a small romantic comedy without recognizable movie stars, I sympathized with Davis. I wrote the Dude back to tell him that I'd be interested in seeing the film, but there was a problem. See, I'm 230 years old, and I'm just not much of a driver. Last time I did any sort of serious driving was on the way back from Sundance with Robie, and the $3,200 worth of body work that's still being done on his machine should be a testament to why the Evil Professor doesn't belong behind the wheel.
Late Wednesday night, I got a call from The Dude and Julie together on my voice mail, and The Dude told me that I'd be riding up to Santa Barbara with her, giving us a chance to talk before and after the movie. Now, this is a potentially awkward situation like no other. What if you end up disliking the person? Will it color your viewing of the film? Or say the person's great and the film ends up being no good? What's that ride back going to be like? I'm terrible at disguising my reactions to movies. I wear it all pretty close to the surface, and on the few occasions I've run into filmmakers right after seeing something I've hated, one look at me has been enough to send them running. Even so, I know The Dude wouldn't put us together unless he was confident, and we made arrangements for how the next day would work.
And that's how I found myself sitting in the passenger's seat of Julie's new Aztec, cruising up the 101 on Thursday afternoon, talking movies and listening to a compilation of film music put together by Rolf Erickson, a friend of hers who rode along with us. Rolf owns an equipment rental house in LA, and he was one of Julie's first investors, claiming proudly to have made an 88% return on his initial investment in I LOVE YOU, DON'T TOUCH ME. As we rode up, Rolf told me stories about the early short films that he saw of Julie's, the films that made him invest in her first feature. An unabashed cheerleader, he spoke with real enthusiasm about the various things she's done. Julie was charming from the moment we met, confessing that she had done her homework the night before, looking up a number of my reviews to try and guess whether I'd like her film or not. She seemed convinced that I was going to hate it, and told me up front that all she cared about was getting my honest opinion. Not wanting to worry about it yet, I steered the conversation in another direction, and what ended up happening was one of those great getting-to-know-you conversations where you compare films you're fond of, art that's important to you, general views on life and the world. Julie struck me as sharp and funny and a real survivor in this business, someone who's been around for a while and knows what she wants. It turns out she moved out to LA the same month that Harry Lime and I did, back in the summer of 1990, and she moved from pretty much the same area. We couldn't help but compare a few battle scars, talking about what we'd each learned from the decade in the trenches.
By the time we reached Santa Barbara, I knew that I genuinely liked Julie, and that meant I was more tense than usual about seeing the film. We were very early for the 8:00 screening, but Julie said she needed the time to work out the projection of the picture. Because it's still unfinished, we wouldn't be seeing a film print. Instead, she had a video copy of the film, dumped directly onto tape from the Avid, and the first two times she'd screened it, the print had been bright orange, requiring some delicate fine-tuning to make it work. I took advantage of the time to walk around the area, picking up a Carl Hiaasen novel at a bookstore next to the theater which I read while I grabbed a quick bite. Afterwards, as I made my way back to the theater, I couldn't help but notice how many couples were out. That's the way it always is, though, isn't it? When you're somewhere by yourself, you seem to be the only one. Santa Barbara, for those of you who have never been there, is about two hours north of Los Angeles, and it's a sleepy little beach community. There's a lot of retired folks in the area, a healthy mix of college students and young professionals, and it's also got a fair amount of money in town. I've never actually ventured up the coast to see anything at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (or SBIFF, as noted in the headline) before, never having felt properly motivated. I guess I always pictured it as a bunch of bluehairs who didn't feel like going out of town to see films on the fest circuit.
Nothing could be further from the case, though, based on the crowd that was already forming outside the Fiesta Five on State Street. For one thing, most of those couples I'd seen walking around seemed to have ended up in line for the same film I was supposed to be seeing. Despite the fact that Julie gave me a ticket to the film, I was concerned about whether or not I was going to get in. As I stood in line, I listened to the people around me talking about the film, about the word of mouth they'd heard from other festival-goers. There was a definite buzz about the film, and part of it was the title. As people would walk up to get in line, the typical conversation would go something like:
GIRL: (walking up) Are you here for AMY'S ORGASM?
GUY: (already in line) Well, I'll do what I can to help. Are you Amy?
Seriously. I must have heard 20 variations on this basic joke within 10 minutes. It was like when SNATCH played the Butt-Numb-A-Thon this year. Everyone had to make a joke out of the title. Everyone had to say the title out loud and laugh at least once. One thing's for sure... no one in that line was confused about what they were there to see. When we were finally let in, I was shocked by how packed the place was. I ended up finding a seat in the fifth row, near the center, a little closer than I would have liked. I was stunned by how narrow each seat was. I was starting to feel like I was back at Sundance. The narrow seats, the people around me comparing notes on what they'd seen and what they'd liked in the fest so far, the Audience Award voting slip that I was given at the door, the fact that the filmmaker was in the room. It felt like I was right back there, two months ago, and I just rode the deja vu all the way to the moment when the lights went down.
So how's the movie? It's good. Darn good. Major arthouse hit good. Here's the thing: people frequently make the mistake of thinking that all indie films have to feature (as Matt Stone once put it) "gay cowboys eating pudding." There's a pretension, a willful artiness, that seems to be expected of anything that's called "independent" these days, and it's a shame. Where does that leave the filmmaker who wants to work in a truly commercial form, but who is financing a film themselves? That's the boat that Julie's in here, and based on the response of the crowd I saw the film with, she hit her target with precision and grace. This is a romantic comedy, plain and simple. It doesn't try and disguise its nature at all. It's a romantic comedy. The story is simple enough. Amy Mandell (played by Davis) is a self-help author who has just published her first book, a smash hit called WHY LOVE DOESN'T WORK. The book basically tells women that they don't need men in their lives to be happy or to be complete. Amy lives alone, and she lives what she writes. She doesn't date, and she seems to keep any possibility of a relationship at arm's length. The people she's closest to are her publicist Janet (Caroline Aaron) and her happily-married friends Don (Mitchell Whitfield, who many would recognize as Barry the Orthodontist, Jennifer Aniston's original fiancee on FRIENDS) and Elizabeth (Jennifer Bransford). From the very opening of the film, it's apparent that Julie is a major fan of Woody Allen. In fact, one of the films that we realized we shared a mutual love for on the way up to Santa Barbara was LOVE AND DEATH. She uses a jazz soundtrack in many places in this film, she frequently breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the camera, and there's a distinctly Jewish POV to much of the film's humor. One recurring thread in the film deals with Amy's desire to get help herself, but her fear of going to therapy. Instead, she opts to visit a confessional, using her time with The Priest (Jeff Cesario in a very, very funny performance) to sort out her life and her attitudes on love.
Then one day, everything changes for Amy. She's booked to do an appearance on a radio talk show hosted by Matthew Starr. And let's hold the bad '80s TV show jokes to a minimum on the Talk Backs, eh? No Peter Barton in sight here. No magical powers from outer space. This Matthew Starr is more along the lines of a Howard Stern or a Tom Leykis, a shock jock who trades on discussions of tits and ass, whose reputation is as a predator of the various bimbos who have guested on his show over the years. As played by Nick Chinlund, though, there's more going on with Matthew. He's a decade older than Amy, just starting to question the choices he's made in his life, and when she comes into the studio, her combination of sex appeal and smart sass hooks him at once. He pursues her, and despite warnings from everyone in her life, she finally accepts and goes on a first date with him.
What spins out from there isn't really all that complicated plot-wise. Amy and Matthew struggle to figure out if what they've got developing between them is real, if it's just physical, if there's any common ground where their philosophies can meet. Amy struggles to maintain her identity as the author of WHY LOVE DOESN'T WORK even as she gives love a chance. It's familiar territory right now, what with the success of HBO's SEX & THE CITY, but Julie manages to claim a corner of the landscape as her very own. She's got a genuine voice, and as I watched this character sputter her way through her relationship, I found myself identifying with so many of the particular moments and comments that were made. This past year, I've found myself entangled in a relationship with a truly wonderful person, never sure exactly where we stand. There have been moments of great intimacy, when it felt like we were sharing on many levels at once, and we've gone through months where we barely saw each other. Through it all, I've felt quite lucky to have had even a friendship with this person, and it was only when I decided to let go of definitions and worrying about exactly what was what that I was able to enjoy the moment. At 30, many of my friends are married now, and some of them are even starting families. For me, career still comes first, and there's a lot I've got left to do before I feel like I've reached any sort of equilibrium. I have no idea what role this person is going to play in my life in the years ahead, and there's no guarantee she'll play any role at all. That depends on a million different factors, any number of choices that the both of us face, and each day seems to bring some fresh reason why we won't make it. In the face of all that, the one thing I hold onto is that, more than anyone I've met in years, this person makes me feel like a better person when we spend time together. This person makes me feel like I'm the man I have always hoped I would become. Near the end of AMY'S ORGASM, Julie Davis has an epiphany of sorts as she addresses a crowd. "I need love," she says, any facade gone, her voice thick with emotion, "like food... like water." She's right. We all do, and it's that simple need that keeps films like this relevant and interesting and that allows us to connect with them when they work. They may not break new narrative ground, and they may not strike us as radical experiments in form, but a film like this can feed us in important ways. It reminds us of just how important and rewarding this struggle to connect is and can be.
The film isn't perfect. For one thing, there's an over-reliance on the extreme close-up, something that always bothers me. We rarely sit back to watch people as they interact, and that's important when the whole film depends on the various relationships we're watching. Davis is adorable, managing to be both funny and sexy in equal measure, and she gives a winning, deeply personable performance in the lead, but Chinlund never quite matches her in terms of energy or charm. To some extent, that's appropriate for his character, who always demonstrates a higher degree of reserve than she does, but part of it is a failing on the part of the actor. If you're an X-FILES fan, you'd recognize Chinlund as the hair and nail fetishist from a few seasons back, one of the more effectively creepy villains I can remember seeing on the show. Like Peter Greene, this guy exudes a bit of creepy, no matter how much he tries to turn up the charisma. Their chemistry is crucial to the film's success, and it's a credit to Davis as a filmmaker that she was smart enough to go back and reshoot key sequences in the film to warm things up between the two of them. The film is slightly unfinished, but that's something that a canny distributor should be able to remedy with a little bit of money and a wee bit of faith. Davis has poured her heart into this film, and as she's been trying to finish it, she actually went off and shot another film for producer Don Roos, a comedy called ALL OVER THE GUY that stars Dan Bucatinsky (who also wrote the film), Adam Goldberg, Richard Ruccolo, and the delicious Sasha Alexander. That's the first time she simply came in as a director instead of having to basically be a one-woman show. Serving as writer, director, producer, and editor can push anyone to their limits, and Davis seems to have managed the difficult balancing act with grace and style. She's got a hell of a career ahead of her as soon as she gets the proper exposure to the viewing public.
There was a Q&A session after the film, and the audience seemed deeply moved by the film they'd just seen. Frequently at this type of thing, there's a few perfunctory questions and the event's over. Not with this crowd. They stayed and they stayed, and there was always one more question they wanted to ask. There were a few spontaneous compliments yelled from various places aroud the theater, including one cry of "You're going to win the festival!" followed by a pretty rousing wave of applause. After the Q&A, a crush of people made their way forward to take their individual turns talking to Julie. Through it all, she maintained that same easy friendliness, making sure she took the time to listen to each response. When one woman complained that the title would never work in middle America, Julie didn't just brush her off. Instead, she talked with the woman, quizzed her on her feelings. The woman said she'd avoided the first two showings of the film at the fest expressly because of the title. Julie was kind enough to not point out that the woman had come to the third screening, and that the title hadn't changed. Personally, after seeing the response outside in line, I would say only a complete idiot would drop the title. It's distinct, it's memorable, and it captures the nature of this film perfectly. It's naughty in all the right ways, it's romantic and goofy, and it's sincere.
It may have been a long time coming, but now that AMY'S ORGASM is here, it's obviously well worth the wait.
"Moriarty" out.
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March 11, 2001, 10:07 a.m. CST
First Post!
by raizok
Well here's the first post.. now what the heck was that i just read? seems to be more about some chick than the movie :P
March 11, 2001, 10:13 a.m. CST
f*cking great....now you're reviewing PORN films too!
by mooncake
next movie to review is KINGDOM COME! hahahaha.....^_^
March 11, 2001, 10:14 a.m. CST
I will see it but...
by 0007
I stopped reading your review after the first eight paragraphs or so. You are too wordy sometimes, which is not always bad, but when too much is spent on personal anecdotes and how you ended up at the theatre, then it gets tedious when it is supposed to be a film review. However, since I think I tend to share your taste in films I will have to check this one out. Thanks for the heads up!
March 11, 2001, 10:28 a.m. CST
"I Love You, Don't Touch Me" is NOT a credit to Davis
by Theta
The movie sucks. I mean it really sucks. I like well-made chick flicks (an increasing rarity, but this guy finds them fun ocassionally), and this is most definitely not one. A Jewish princess who could have escaped from the Frank Zappa song (stereotyping is alive and well in this flick) is gold-digging for a husband who has a lot of cash but will leave her alone sexually. It's stupid, it's annoying, and it's actively offensive to both men and women. I hope "Amy's Orgasm" is as good as you say, Moriarty. I'll see it on your recommendation, because you've only been wrong once in my experience (I had a lot of fun with "Series 7".) Just thought I might let people know what they might be in for.
March 11, 2001, 10:44 a.m. CST
AICN reviews
by MCVamp
Is it me or do all AICN reviews seem like they are written by Del Griffith from Planes Trains and Automobiles under seperate pen names? Not everything is an anecdote. Seriously, the builup to the review was longer than the review itself. If I want entertainment from a movie, I'll go see the movie. If you are reviewing said movie because some of us think you have good taste in film, here's a good idea: review the movie and save the anecdotes for a seperate column. Or here's a better idea. Why don't we have Harry make a new section, called "Geek Adventures" and then all the AICN staffers can tell their amusing little stories about the ass on the chick standing in line in front of them, or where they bought their donuts from that morning, and then link them to the review of the movie itself. It would save time for people who just want to click over and see whether or not a new indie flick is a masterpiece or a turd, and it would allow AICN reviewers to truly go balls-out and simply post their daily diary. It's not that some of these little side stories aren't occasionally amusing, but honestly, the long-winded reviews are really pushing me to ign.com, and I don't even LIKE that site outside of the video game stuff. Don't get your underwear in a bunch, I realize that you're trying to deliver a bit of personality and relay some of the geek experience. But we're ALREADY geeks if we come here regularly, so we don't need virtual-reality geekdom. And personality comes across better with an entertaining review with some salt and pepper rather than eight paragraphs about how you got into the theater that make me want to hit "page down" repeatedly. Just trying to help, guys.
March 11, 2001, 11 a.m. CST
To Respond...
by drew mcweeny
I think the reason you're frustrated is because you think that the "lead-in" was somehow separate from the piece. Take a look at it again. Am I just randomly talking about things I did, or am I specifically profiling the filmmaker, the experience I had talking with her before the film, and the reaction of other people to the title of the film? All of this is related, and it's not just "lead-in." I'm sorry television has ruined the attention spans of my generation and everyone younger, but it ain't my fault.
March 11, 2001, 11:10 a.m. CST
Moriarty is dating Helen Hunt?
by Pepperseed
This film sounds cool. I like indie Rom-Coms, cuz you get to see actors who are basically unknown, who carry no baggage. Unlike Hanks/Ryan etc.
March 11, 2001, 11:16 a.m. CST
'Love & Death'-influenced AND a jazz soundtrack? Am I in hell?
by Jesus Q Einstein
Plotwise it sounds like nothing more than a 2 hour version of 'I Need Love' by LL Cool J (Initial bravado and independence gives way to gushing of real need for affection). Oh dear. + Moriarty - don't say that we have no attention span cause we just want to hear about the movies - I thought that was the point of the site - not to hear about you guys (no offence).
March 11, 2001, 12:02 p.m. CST
I Love You Don't Touch me was abominable.
by TheKeenGuy
Based on such a terrible first feature, I am very hesitant to see any other film by this filmmaker. I Love You Don't Touch suffered from an unbearably smug script, poorly written and a weak cast. Skip this and go rent Next Stop, Wonderland instead.
March 11, 2001, 12:47 p.m. CST
oh please...
by Reverendz
Quote "From: TheRealMoriarty Subject: To Respond... Comment: I think the reason you're frustrated is because you think that the "lead-in" was somehow separate from the piece. Take a look at it again. Am I just randomly talking about things I did, or am I specifically profiling the filmmaker, the experience I had talking with her before the film, and the reaction of other people to the title of the film? All of this is related, and it's not just "lead-in." I'm sorry television has ruined the attention spans of my generation and everyone younger, but it ain't my fault." End Quote *********** It's great that you got to meet the film maker and all dat, but none of us will, so your pontification doesn't really add dat much for the rest of us. It's just more text to scroll through. The audience reaction could be summed up with more brevity as well "they all seemed to like it", or "they thought it bit" or "reaction was mixed". And does your story on HOW you got to see the sreening really add that much? Please don't get all hoity toity cause someone calls the review longwinded. It is. ***** As to the "my generation has a short attention span" quip. Ugh. Even people in Dickens time thought some of his stuff was verbose. P.S., if you don't have the attention span to read dis talkback, I'll understand :-D
March 11, 2001, 2:08 p.m. CST
Re: Oh Please
by GoBanana
I think Moriarty's defense of his comments was fine, in fact I enjoyed the anecdotes. If you did have a problem with them and wanted to respond maybe you should it in a more intelligent manner. Using real words such as "this" and "that" might help. I think his short attention span theory actually holds up better when responded to by someone who can't take the time to spell out words with four letters in their entirity. And in case you couldn't tell, I am "dissin' dat comment o' yo's".
March 11, 2001, 2:12 p.m. CST
jeff bailey's orgasm
by jeff bailey
Yeah...you know what I hate? I hate seeing people's fucking neurosis on screen. I mean hate all these lonely Travis Bickles who write movies with hookers, and strippers, and domantrixes with hearts of fucking gold. Not that I'm against sex industry workers. More then fine with me. But don't trivialize them and make them into romantic figures. And I equally loathe films where girls get involved with a "player" who could have any woman but instead sees her as his equal and the woman changes him. For more of this bullshit, check out the whacked Rene Russo character in the Thomas Crown Affair (thanks Leslie Dixon). Yeah we get it, guys have madonna-whore complexes, women like to "try" to change jerks who treat them like shit. Great, I don't wanna see your life on screen. Or at least your sad sexual/relationship hang ups. For great female charcters, I'll watch a Cameron movie. Well rounded, strong, maternal, and truely equal with their male counterparts. For a great romantic comedy, I'll watch Woody Allen. Yeah. he's got hang ups but at least they are in the middle of some complex bigger issues of dealing with death in the middle of life.
March 11, 2001, 2:56 p.m. CST
This review should have been called Moriarty's Orgasm
by Jack Lazarus
Does Moriarty seem to anyone else like he gets more long winded with every review? Seriously, this guy is the Charles Dickens of AICN (for all the wrong reasons, no flattery intended). Someone needs to put a governor on his keyboard or atleast rein him in with a wordcount limit. I don't even read his reviews for content anymore, just to get a quick chuckle at how pretentious and self important they are. As far as the movie goes, it sounds about as sophisticated as a reverse version of Down to You (though I do appreciate the non-intended subtext of casting the death fetish guy from X-Files as the romantic lead). Come on, quit recycling these tired character cliches and get a real plot...or at least have spaceships blow something up.
March 11, 2001, 3:40 p.m. CST
hey banana
by Reverendz
Gobanana quote "I think Moriarty's defense of his comments was fine, in fact I enjoyed the anecdotes. If you did have a problem with them and wanted to respond maybe you should it in a more intelligent manner" ************ Forgot the word 'do' didn't ya? Nothing looks sillier than an " I'm more intelligent then you" statement without those important two letter words. Ever heard of verbs? LOL Stinky Banana boy :-P
March 11, 2001, 7:02 p.m. CST
Off topid, but: HARRY FOR GODS SAKE MAN !!!
by Senor Askew
Harry, Jesus man. This new "Basic Instinct" animation is just too horrific to comprehend. "It's horrible, disgusting and crude, yet I can'not look away", it's The Harry.
March 11, 2001, 7:43 p.m. CST
Whoopee! Orgasms are FUN!
by Regis Travolta
Or so I've heard. Not that I've ever had one but some day maybe when I get married. Masturbation is a sin you know. You'll go blind and get hair on your palms if you do it then you'll go insane. Or so I've heard.
March 12, 2001, 11:36 a.m. CST
ok i'm a moron Poison Ivy...that's because....
by mooncake
........i don't have indepth knowledge of porn films like YOU DO! hahahahaha.....^_^
March 12, 2001, 12:01 p.m. CST
hey prof
by MCVamp
Thanks for responding at least. I do trust your judgement and all, you seem to have good taste in movies. But I still don't view my minor criticism of your review as the result of my short attention span, I just think maybe you could edit yourself more carefully. Maybe tighten up or drop a few sentences and I...and I...hey look there's a squirrel...here, squirrely squirrely...dear god, what the hell is that new animation...anyway where was I? Oh, yeah. That's why I think that Ghost Dog was at least the best movie I've seen on the Sundance Channel this week. The End.
March 12, 2001, 6:04 p.m. CST
Umm...There ARE female perspective porns! There are whole catalo
by 0007
March 12, 2001, 9:10 p.m. CST
Chalk me up on the Too Much Anecdotes side
by carouselambra
Sheesh, some of these anecdotes are just a little too much. I'm going to have to disagree with you here, Moriarty - you claim that your telling the whole story adds to your opinion and review. Not really. Not at all. Oh sure, if you had a conversation with the filmmaker, we'd like to hear about it. That's cool. But ALL the details about how you were picked up and why and where and blahblahblah. We don't need or want to hear about your date. In fact, I came away from the review thinking "This movie might suck", but the reviewers opinion was tainted by having become chummy with the filmmaker. That sounds like I'm accusing you of selling out, and I'm not. It could've been subconscious, and really weakens your viewpoint, in my opinion.
Dec. 16, 2002, 8:09 p.m. CST
I just saw the film on video
by Boris Grushenko
First of all, if you noticed my screen name, you'll know that I too am a fan of Woody Allen's "Love and Death". That is the first coincidence. The second is that my wife is named "Amy". How could I resist a movie titled, "Amy's Orgasm", even if I just brought it home as a joke to tease my wife. As it is, I am a big fan of dialogue-driven neurotic comedies, so I was interested in seeing it too. Besides Woody Allen, I've loved the work of Whit Stillman and Noah Baumbach and bits and pieces of Ed Burns's stuff, among others. So this film seemed right up my alley. Well, I wasn't a big fan of the film. I wanted to like it all the way up to the end, but couldn't. It just felt too familiar, too formulaic, and way too long. It felt like a 250 page screenplay, even though it was probably the standard 100-125 pager. (And this from a self-proclaimed "talkie" junkie.) That said, I like Julie Davis and hope she finds her niche in the business. I'd like to see her focus on acting actually, or if she wants to continue writing and directing, I hope she finds a good writing partner. I'd agree with Moriarty's assessment of her male co-star... he definitely didn't help Julie out, but even with, I don't know, say, Matthew McCounaghey (sp?) it still would have felt tired and contrived. I'd chalk it up to the fact that I am a "dude", and this was a "chick" flick, except I've liked other independent chick flicks in the past. (Anyone remember "Walking and Talking"?) It didn't help that I'd seen "Kissing Jessica Stein" earlier, basically the same plot except with a lesbian angle... and then there was that big-budget Ashley Judd movie that was once titled Animal Husbandry, or something like that, but was later changed to a name I can no longer remember. Same basic story. How can an over-educated, neurotic, and single Jewish girl find true love... blah! But, uh, keep at it Julie.
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In more than 50 years of existence, Monterey County's Laguna Seca Raceway has been the home of countless world-class events.
It's primarily known, of course, for motor sports; every year, the track hosts multiple races ranging from historic sports cars to American Le Mans to Champ cars to AMA superbikes. Pick a summer weekend, and chances are that you'll hear the roar of engines drifting over the nearby Fort Ord open spaces, or that you'll be stuck in traffic behind thousands of gearheads who flock here from all over the world.
In recent years, the venue has hosted a wider variety of events, including music festivals and the wildly popular Sea Otter Bicycle Classic. One of the only racing events it has never hosted is a running race – but a friend of mine is trying to change that.
Even better, this friend is the kind of guy who has an ideal combination of passion for the sport and a long list of contacts to actually make his plans come to life. So he made a few phone calls, talked to some people, and checked a list of requirements for what it would take to pull off a running event on one of the most famous racetracks in the world.
And then he sent out an e-mail to a handful of friends: We're doing a feasibility study for a race on the Laguna Seca Raceway – you're invited to come run a few laps.
This isn't the kind of invitation that comes along everyday; for obvious reasons, the course is pretty much never open to the public, and track management is extremely strict about keeping the course clear for various driving teams to run practice laps throughout the week. I had never set foot on the track in my whole life, and if my friend's race plan somehow fails to materialize, I might not get another chance again.
In other words, I was in.
Which was how I found myself in an empty paddock (click to enlarge any of these photos) inside the raceway at 6:30 on a weekday morning a couple of weeks ago, along with a few other lucky friends willing to run a few hot laps under the guise of information gathering. After a few basic instructions - basically, 1. Stay on the road, and 2. Be off the track in exactly one hour - we were on our way …
… beginning, of course, at the track's start line, to commence a series of 2.2-mile loops through motor racing history.
Several features of this track are legendary among auto race aficionados, such as the Andretti hairpin just beyond the opening straight. Honestly, the curve didn't seem like such a big deal to us at approximately 8 miles per hour; I suspect that at 120mph it might be a different story.
The hairpin drops you in the main infield area, where you enjoy one of the few flat stretches of the raceway ...
... as Laguna Seca is more famous for its hills and curves, such as this climb up the Rahal Straight …
… leading to one of the most notorious spots in all of racing:
Turns 8 and 8A, known more commonly as The Corkscrew. It's an S-shaped curve down a steep drop that is always a gathering spot for race fans generally looking for one of two things: spectacular wipeouts or spectacular passes. Even on foot, our first reaction to the downslope was, "Whoa, this is steep" – the thought of negotiating the turns in a Formula 1 car or a crotch rocket motorcycle was a little more than any of us wanted to fathom. I suppose that's a reason why we're runners instead of race car drivers.
After the Corkscrew, there's a short straightaway before reaching Rainey Curve …
… and eventually the final drag in front of the grandstands to complete your first lap. By this time, our group was nearly unanimous in our belief that having a footrace on this track would be awesome – but since we still had plenty of time left over, we decided to do a couple more laps just to confirm our theory.
On our second trip around the course, I noticed a few maintenance people on the track, blowing pebbles off the asphalt, grooming the shoulders, or sweeping the blue and white course markers, and it occurred to me: this is probably one of the most well-groomed and well-maintained roads in America. Meaning, of course …
… that I had to try it barefoot. I kicked off my shoes for the final lap, and was amazed at how smooth the ground felt underfoot. If every road in America were like this, I'm pretty sure there would be a lot more barefoot runners out there.
Unfortunately, time ran out on us after the third lap, so we climbed back into our cars (which still weren't allowed on the race track, by the way) and headed for work, agreeing to compare notes and discuss the possibility of hosting an event here sometime in the future. There are still a lot of considerations to account for and hurdles to overcome, but one thing seemed clear: this would be an ideal setting for a race.
Hopefully things will come together for such an event to happen, but even if it doesn't, I've got some cool memories of our hot laps in the dead of winter this year.
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Santa Clarita City Council race heats up with campaign announcement.
Standing in front of City Hall Friday morning, community activist and local businessman David Gauny unveiled his approach to how the city of Santa Clarita should be run, as he officially announced his candidacy for City Council.
Targeting specific issues, Gauny touted zoning and planning to be among his chief concerns.
"In the mid- to long-term, I am committed to higher quality development in our valley," he said. "Such strategic planning takes much more effort but we can and must avoid the high-density, strip mall mentality that has ruined greater Los Angeles. Our city can enjoy similar tax revenues without further cheapening our neighborhoods, clogging our roads, or ruining our quality of life."
Gauny established that he is not anti-growth, but instead focused on what he calls "smart development."
"Just increasing densities triple and four times, as is proposed in One Valley One Vision, doesn't bring smart development," Gauny said. "It requires people sitting down and planning our city, and I think that our Council needs to be instrumental in that and I'd like to bring more checks and balances in that respect."
Gauny went on to say that he would like to see a top-notch corporate center and a premier arts or convention center in an effort to attract tourism and larger corporations. All this, he says, helps to keep residents employed locally and boost the city's revenues.
"We need to look at how we're developing," he said. "We need to get back to the 30,000-foot view and take a look at what's going to be the crown jewel of Santa Clarita. Is it going to be urban sprawl? Or is going to be premier venues where we have a convention center and maybe a good commercial center?"
The newest City Council candidate is no stranger to planning, development and zoning issues. He formed and led Smart Growth SCV, a large group of residents who opposed the original size and scope of Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital and G&L Realty's master plan for expansion. After several years before the Planning Commission and City Council, the plan was eventually passed, although at a reduced size.
In the immediate future, Gauny hopes to focus on helping local companies.
"As a potential city councilman, among my chief concerns in the short term will be a stronger effort to identify and communicate the many programs available for local struggling businesses," he said.
Gauny himself is a local business owner; he serves as principal and managing broker of Smart Money Broker, a mortgage company he shares with his wife.
In the public safety area, said he would be supportive of special gang and white collar crime units for the Santa Clarita area.
Renovating facilities and services for seniors, along with "complete transparency at City Hall," were also items of discussion for Gauny during his announcement.
The City Council election will be held in April, and Gauny faces the challenge of unseating at least one of the three incumbents. Frank Ferry, Marsha McLean and Laurene Weste are seeking re-election. TimBen Boydtson is also running as a challenger.
Of the endorsements in Gauny's corner, perhaps the most talked about is that of sitting Council member Bob Kellar.
"I know David. I've spent many hours talking with him about matters affecting this community, and I'm convinced that David, along with a number of other good people in this community, would be of great benefit to the City," Kellar told KHTS.
He says that since his endorsement, people have asked him if he's attacking his fellow incumbent Council members, to which he replies "absolutely not."
"I know this is an issue of sensitivity," Kellar said. "I think my fellow council members have done an outstanding job. But we've got a lot of very fine people and some of them wish to come forward and be a part of the process. And you know what? It's a good thing to have this kind of interest in our community. Occasionally, and I'm a 'case in point,' we have to kind of step aside and let new people come on board to bring forward their ideas, their energies."


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Your build is pretty bad for both PVP and PVE. I figure for the lazy casual player who doesn't want to respec for 4 months and only does casual BGs and instance running it would be fine, but otherwise this is severely gimped spec for arena especially. I wouldn't take this build into an endgame raid either.
for arena and bg's this is more appropriate for the MM pvp build. The last 2-3 points can be moved around but the essentials are there.
Don't forget that imp conc. is useless, effeciency is huge, in both pvp and pve. get it. always.
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Members of Congress may be telling others to cut back and criticizing corporate CEOs for lavish perks, but taxpayer-paid junkets are on the increase in the House and Senate and family members often go along for the ride.
A study by the Wall Street Journal shows traveling well at taxpayer expense is a perk that hasn't been cut back in these financially-trouble times. To the contrary, travel is up and the costs continue to rise.
Members of Congress usually fly on government planes and bring their spouses along at taxpayer expense. They stay in expensive hotels, shop at a discount in embassy gift shops and eat lavishly at top restaurants.
They call these trips "fact-finding tours" but the only facts they obtain are usually information on the best places to sight see, the best places to eat and what other perks might be available.
Golfers in Congress take along their clubs. Spouses bring their shopping lists. At the lavish Paris Air Show in June — where defense contractors ply members of Congress with free booze, gifts and expensive dinners — members lived it up.
Sometimes, the members of Congress and their spouses buy so much that bathrooms on the Air Force planes are turned into storage areas.
As a staff member of the House Committee on Science and Technology, I attended the Paris Air Show in 1985 with a Congressional delegation.
We ate and drank a lot and saw a strip show in Paris but conducted virtually no government business.
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The Journal analysis, based on information published in the Congressional Record, also shows that taxpayer-funded travel is a big and growing perk for lawmakers and their families. Some members of Congress have complained in recent months about chief executives of bailed-out banks, insurance companies and car makers who sponsored corporate trips to resorts or used corporate jets for their own travel.
Although complete travel records aren't yet available for 2009, it appears that such costs continue to rise. The Journal analysis shows that the government has picked up the tab for travel to destinations such as Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Lawmakers frequently bring along spouses on congressional trips. If they take commercial flights, they have to buy tickets for spouses. If they fly on government planes — as they usually do — their spouses can fly free.
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Friggin hypocrites!!! You take the state of Va. Closing 19 rest areas, while Gov. Kaine will not reveal his "travels" and to think I voted for the hypocrite, will someone kick my ass???
But to make a brief comment on the closures of the rest areas. I wrote my state rep., Mr. Steve Landes and he never responded. But as I told him, personally, the state of Va. could close every rest area brcause I will not stop at one of the nasty dumps. Va. is for lovers, not for natural body functions. Next trip through Va., bring a pee jug.
Every one of them should be voted out and thrown under a bus. And no doubt that the very ones who abuse this more than anyone are the big cheeses (or those who want to sit back on their sorry ass and think they are the big cheese) – Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Dodd, Frank.
If they are any kind of cheese, it is limburger. They all stink.
We The People re-elect them, so we are to blame. We the people need a candidate that will vote for fairness for congressmen. Their reasonable expenses should be reimbursed if they can prove they really worked at least 8 hours every day while on these trips. And they should be made to pay taxes on the value of the trip, especially if they bring family members along. Why shouldn't they be treated the same as all other American Citizens? Why not make them clean some of those rest stop toilets? They are always spouting shit and dumping it on us, let them clean it up for a bit of exercise.
If we make the position of congressperson a little less imperial, we might find some reasonable people running for office especially if they can only serve one, three year term.
Yeah, we "voted" for the pre-selected and groomed candidates the globalist corptocracy offered to us.
Meanwhile on Main Street, "staycations" are quickly becoming the norm. That's where I went on my unpaid vacation this year, no where.
I have some facts I'd like to help Congress find.
I'm beginning to wonder about this corporotocracy thing, Woody. How do you think it fits with the facts in this article?
What, no strip show photos?
The phrase "let them eat cake" came to mind as I read this article.
I don't think it's easy to classify just what we are dealing with today. There are facets of capitalism, socialism, fascism, and communism. For instance, the TARP legislation represented the worst of capitalism (greed driven losses) combined with the worst of socialism (government backed loans and ownership). Our military is actively defending corporate owned property around the world and Congress creates legislation harmful to the public good but in support of corporations such as the Medicare Reform under Bush Jr. (fascism). Some refer to this as the Imperial Executive. Just a fancy name for dictator.
I still refer to it as the corptocracy due to the continued push by US multi-national corporations to exit the US labor market while their boards and executives still expect the US market to buy their products. I guess they figure someone else will employ US citizens. That and it's the same large multi-national corporations that support and buy our Congress critters via lobbyists. I don't think your cited article covered any of this.
Well, read it again. All of that was covered, albeit from the Keynesian perspective. Something I've mentiond elsewhere, though, is the lack of definitional anchors, which makes wandering back and forth among philosophical monikers rather difficult to keep up with.
As you have even talked about elsewhere, it's the bankers most of all that have the stranglehold on our economy and our politicians. Busily bankrupting us all, they are.
Multi-nationals own the pols too, but they try as much as anything else just to game the system. Their pipeline to power is not nearly as cut and dried as that of the bankers, thus the need for all those lobbyists.
Bottom line – we're being sold out to anyone and everyone. That is the real meaning of the article.
I think he concentrates too much on blaming Congress, particularly Democrats, and does not follow the money, junkets, and hookers to the real power.
Like it's some big coincidence the Keynes worshiping Progressives take over after the Keynes worshiping Neo-conservatives just left. They've only been doing it openly for the last 30 years.
Basically Congress is just useful idiots. A distraction. Actors on a stage. Totally controlled. TARP proved that. The so called Medicare Reform bill proved that.
Now Obama wears the crown but the real power is being handed over to quiet and secretive bankers that send the militarized police forces and shut down your business if it interferes in their plans.
What sort of government and economy is that?
The evil sort.
If you don't like how your representatives are behaving – TELL THEM! Let them know that you are watching and will not tolerate abuse of the system. Tell your friends, spread the facts – if your representative abusing the system, they won't want the facts exposed. If they are not, then tell them you appreciate their integrity.
Go farther to take back our country. Use your spendable dollars to buy American goods, and refuse to buy foreign made. Let the retailers know. We, the American citizens, still control where we spend our money, and in this world, money talks. Spend a little more and buy American. What is so hard to understand about that? Look at where the t-shirt was made before you hand over your money. It's just as easy to support American workers as some poor sap working for pennies a day in a foreign country to fill the coffers of some corporation. Buy from the local farmer's market when you can. Buy your meat from local farmers – if you can't afford a whole hog or steer, find some friends and split meat and the cost. Keep your money local and support family farms. If products are not made in America, don't buy it! How simple is that. It will bring American jobs back, but YOU have to care enough to do it.
Write your representatives, call their office, write your newspapers, do something. Don't just sit on here and bitch, but get up off your behinds and DO SOMETHING! This is our country, and we control our own money. Use it to direct action. In this country, MONEY speaks – use it to shout!!!
Declare independence from corporations, big money, and corruption on this July 4th. It's time to have another revolution in this oountry; this time each of us can fight the good battle by using the collective strength of our dollars. It's time to stop whining and to do something about it.
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Welcome back. June 2011 was not a good month for boxing. Here are some key points and recap:
-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr defeated Sebastian Zbik June 4th in a majority decision. Chavez Jr marches on and we all hope he can someday get the opportunity to fight against Miguel Cotto, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, or Sergio Martinez.
-Carl Froch defeated Glen Johnson in the Showtime "Super Six" Middleweight Tournament. This was a semi-final matchup that went the full 12 rounds and was decided on the cards. This leads to the finals which will be the American Andre Ward in a face off against Carl Froch. Time and Date still TBA.
-Saul Alvarez defeated Ryan Rhodes. Alvarez continues his dominance and looks to match up soon with higher quality opposition.
-On July 2nd the dream heavyweight matchup of UK's David Haye against Ukrainian champion Wladimir Klitschko finally came to fruition. Unfortunately no one reminded the fighters they actually needed to throw punches in the fight. One would think that a matchup 3 years in the making with very personal taunting back and forth would lead to more firepower. Not the case as the entire boxing world lost on this one.
-Last night, in one of the worst decisions ever in sports history, Paul Williams defeated Erislandy Lara. The judges must have been paid off, the apocalypse is upon us, or a full moon last night as Lara clearly won the fight in everyone's eyes but the judges. Even Paul Williams himself thought he lost the fight prior to the announcement. If there is any justice in the world the judges will be arrested for robbery.
-Also last night, Brandon Rios defeated Urbano Antillon in spectacular fashion via a 3rd round KO. This is a MUST SEE fight. Hopefully this will be posted on Youtube soon- check it out for yourself.
-In Floyd Mayweather news, the P4P boxing kind is returning in September against young lion Victor Ortiz. Many are speculating this is a warm up fight for Floyd before he takes on Pacquaio. Both Ortiz and Manny are left handed fighters. This fight is September 17th in Las Vegas. Expect the full media treatment in coming weeks.
-In Manny Pacquiao news, Manny has his next fight lined up for November against Juan Manuel Marquez. This will be the 3rd time the pair has met in the ring. This is finally a match-up that I applaud.
Will Floyd and Pacquiao ever meet in the ring? As I have said before- 2012 will be the year. The issues of drug testing still seem to be evident- but hopefully they can overcome the hurdles. For a chronological timeline of how we have arrived to July 2011 with still no Mayweather-Pacquiao fight click on these links:
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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine: What You Need to Know
HPV vaccine may be given at the same time as other vaccines.
4. Some girls or women should not get HPV vaccine or should wait.
- Anyone who has ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction to yeast, to any other component of HPV vaccine, or to a previous dose of HPV vaccine should not get the vaccine. Tell your doctor if the person getting the vaccine has any severe allergies.
- Pregnant women should not get the vaccine. The vaccine appears to be safe for both the mother and the unborn baby, but it is still being studied. Receiving HPV vaccine when pregnant is not a reason to consider terminating the pregnancy. Women who are breast feeding may safely get the vaccine.
Any woman who learns that she was pregnant when she got HPV vaccine is encouraged to call the HPV vaccine in pregnancy registry at 800-986-8999.
Information from this registry will help us learn how pregnant women respond to the vaccine.
- People who are mildly ill when the shot is scheduled can still get HPV vaccine. People with moderate or severe illnesses should wait until they recover.
5. What are the risks from HPV vaccine?
HPV vaccine does not appear to cause any serious side effects.
However, a vaccine, like any medicine, could possibly cause serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions. The risk of any vaccine causing serious harm, or death, is extremely small.
Several mild problems may occur with HPV vaccine:
- Pain at the injection site (about eight people in 10)
- Redness or swelling at the injection site (about one person in four)
- Mild fever (100 F) (about one person in 10)
- Itching at the injection site (about one person in 30)
- Moderate fever (102 F) (about one person in 65)
These symptoms do not last long and go away on their own.
Life-threatening allergic reactions from vaccines are very rare. If they do occur, it would be within a few minutes to a few hours after the vaccination.
Like all vaccines, HPV vaccine will continue to be monitored for unusual or severe problems.
6. What if there is a severe reaction?
What should I look for?
- Any unusual condition, such as a high fever or behavior changes. Signs of a serious allergic reaction can include difficulty breathing, hoarseness or wheezing, hives, paleness, weakness, a fast heart beat or dizziness.
What should I do?
- Call a doctor, or get the person to a doctor right away.
- Tell your doctor what happened, the date and time it happened, and when the vaccination was given.
- Ask your doctor, nurse, or health department to report the reaction by filing a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) form.
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Today the second song from 'Deathless' is receiving its exclusive premiere courtesy of Noisey. The song entitled 'Madness Opus' can be heard HERE.Read More
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Long running UK extreme metal duo/recent Metal Blade signees, ANAAL NATHRAKH, are pleased to soil your day with the repugnant sounds of 'Monstrum In Animo', now playing at Decibel Magazine.Read More
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Swedish heavy metal icons, AMON AMARTH, have launched their brand new music video, the title track to their 2013 album, 'Deceiver of the Gods.' The video features clips from the upcoming film, Northmen - A Viking SagaRead More
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DOWNFALL OF GAIA has just launched the landing page featuring a brand new song and front art of their upcoming album 'Aeon Unveils The Thrones Of Decay' to be released the 7th of November, 2014!Read More
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At the 2009 New York auto show, Ford showed off two new features that will keep teenagers safer and help old ladies expedite their parallel parking experience.
The first feature is Active Park, which automatically parallel parks the vehicle using a number of sensors. In this version, though, the driver still controls the throttle and gear. Also new to the technology is a 'search mode' that actively searches for suitably sized spots while traveling up to 20 miles per hour. Pass a spot and the Active Park system chimes when there's a match.
The second feature, which will surely result in a little teenage angst, is MyKey. Parents, or who ever holds the admin key, can set the max volume of the car's stereo and speed of the vehicle. Additionally, the system will disrupt audio playback if the seat belts aren't engaged.
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Court to rehear Obamacare case
A lawsuit challenging the core Obamacare insurance subsidies will get another hearing in December.
New HealthCare.gov CEO named
Kevin Counihan "brings ... technological expertise," the HHS secretary says.
Protecting the sick? Not so easy
The administration is being pressed to enforce Obamacare's anti-discrimination provisions.
Report: 10 million newly insured
The study is the latest survey showing the number of uninsured dropping since Obamacare started.
W.H. officials to talk migrants on Hill
Jeh Johnson will give a closed-door presentation to all 100 senators about the border crisis.
Govs talk border with HHS secretary
They want to emphasize the potential ramifications of keeping the children in the country.
ACA chief ran textbook campaign
Sylvia Mathews Burwell is already cultivating healthier relationships with the GOP on the Hill.
Burwell passes last hurdle
The Senate vote was only a procedural move; final confirmation is expected Thursday afternoon.
Castro announcement coming Friday
Obama is "thrilled" and "excited" the San Antonio mayor will be coming to Washington.
Burwell approved by Finance for HHS
Her nomination is sailing through the Senate despite her chief responsibility: running Obamacare.
The day in photos, May 14
Here are the top photos from May 14, 2014.
Burwell goal: Recoup misspent funds
During a confirmation hearing, she says she wants to learn from states with failed exchanges.
Burwell gets GOP bump for HHS
John McCain lends his support to the Health and Human Services nominee.
Questions Burwell will face on ACA
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The Obamacare war that wasn't
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Burwell: Do's and don'ts
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Blackburn: Sebelius resignation won't stop Obamacare fight
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Scott noncommittal on HHS nominee
He does not say that Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the best choice for the job.
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Is this you? http://t.co/lr8CtlyW @mrnickknows
Has anyone else found it physically impossible to actually purchase anything from b&q peckham? It's like they don't want to sell me stuff
You think you're a nerd until you end up at a transport depot..
In milton keynes, now what?
End of the 453 free student shuttle service as we know it
Never really thought of homerton hospital as a medical institute more of a travel destination.
Out of service buses should avoid their normal route, or implode instantly
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I swear to god that this is the most shitty of times for everyone on earth. All of these god-forsaken videos and articles about how we are getting dumber and our technology is getting smarter really pisses me off. For example, when the video "Look Up" came out, the 'host' if you will was explaining how our generation has become dumber and our technology smarter. It pisses me off to no extent that this buffoonery can over-come us and make us realize that "oh! Maybe we should do something about that!" and then it just makes up re-tweet" it and share it on damned social websites. I may be a complaining little sack of crushed crackers right now but i just feel like venting about some stupid little peasant trying to get everyone to take a movement. Do you want to know why he probably made the video? Attention for himself. Explaining how your whole life could have changed if you weren't on your phone; or how you died because you weren't looking and you were looking at your phone. I'm going to have to call bullshit on that because most of the time when someone is on their phone at the crosswalk, they are either talking to someone, on Reddit looking at articles on world news, or are on Facebook being completely illogical or being interactive with posts, news, and other useless things. This whole crisis about the Isis organization completely makes me angry about how illogical people can be because of their lack of care, or their lack of being twat-headed; and yes, I just called them a vagina head. I don't know; it may just be me, but when that video came out about our social interactions, I called out "HYPOCRITE!!!" And that is why I believe that this is a mockery of crap. We shouldn't be confined to sharing something that has a cause of chain-reactions, but that we should be able to express how social we are and either be out-going or confined as we like to be. And this whole passage is completely illogical because I am posting this on a social website. Yay.
|I just feel that I need to type something. Nothing in-particular but just something. Something that has meaning. Something that won't get passed up in everyone's news feed here on this social media. I want to write what is i my mind. I want to express myself. But I can't, due to the fact that my brain and all of our brain is so uncomprehending and that we are doubtful and we are scared to express ourselves. We are placed into a toxic wasteland about how we must feed our time and ourselves into his social media contradiction. How we are trapped in social media, how we are shy in front of our friends and how we can not confess to the actual facts that are presented to us every single day. We are not freed to express ourselves, if I want to express myself, I can not because of all the un-profound things that are on Facebook, and that a picture of something that I have seen over twenty times just ends up with even more attention than a world crisis. We are dedicated to this social contraption that we do not even notice it. And that we are so empty inside that we want to make ourselves something, anything. Just to be noticed from this extremely barren wasteland of social media and how we are just inanimate on the internet. We can try to be a part of something on the internet, we can try to make a difference, but in reality; we are blackmailed and we are tricked into thinking we are doing good but when we are actually doing an extremely massive amount of evil. We want to have a word said in this crazy expanding time evolution but we can not even make an attempt of saying it because as I said before we are drowned into despair. We are nothing, we are just students going to a school to try and fit in with the rest of the people in the world. There is no meaning to anything and there is always an equal solution to everything. We try and try again, but we get nowhere. You probably won't even read this, where ever it will end up, but this is society. We dislocate ourselves from our surroundings. Trying to get our mind off of the evil from what is around us. And yes, I am just contributing something this stupidity on Facebook. It is ridiculous of how we are parted from society.
My friends and I are on Skype right now. I'm thinking of all the things going on right now, the crisis in Syria, the whole world in general. I was talking about Katawa Shojo and how emi's roll was and how it was so heartwarming in the end. It is very interesting. I went on /r/Depression during the Skype call. I was on a post about how some teenager was ranting about how he spent a supposedly "Half-hour" typing a post. He was honestly being a bit of an asshole. Typing something and then ranting about it. So you know what? That guy sucks. But then again, I am ranting about a rant on /r/depression. So that's a bit Ironic.
|Ok, sorry if this is a big insult to some of you but I'm just going to express my opinion. Apparently North Korea "approved" a nuclear strike on the us (according to the news). I'll just let you know one thing. If this does happen, and if we do get into a war, we will beat the living crap out of them. I am just saying that right now. North Korea is only trying to intimidate us. We have retaliated before in our past with two nuclear bombs and we will most likely do it again. Good lord, it's going to be just like Pearl Harbor all over again.
|So apparently I sleepwalk. yeah… Here's the story. A long time ago I was attempting an "all nighter" and I ended up falling asleep in my chair around 6:00 am. Note that I fell asleep in my chair. When I woke up I was in my bed. I asked all my family members if they had moved me and they said no. I was considering the fact that I sleepwalked but it was just nothing and I forgot about it. Now here is the scary thing. Last night when i went to bed I put my socks and my pants and socks on a chair not too far from my bed. This morning I didn't find them there. I remember having a dream where I went into the bathroom with my pants. When I walked into the bathroom they were there. Right where I had dreamt where they were. My socks were not too far from the chair on the floor. I am seriously considering that I sleepwalk now. Possibly I do, but possibly I don't. But this is the second time I have woken up in a different place, or couldn't find something. But yeah…. That was a thing.
If anyone of you were wondering, I just made a SoundCloud. I'll put some stuff on here very once in a while. ;]
It was a casual mid afternoon. I was in a panic to find my other flip flop so I could go swimming the following hour. I knew it was in my room, but I couldn't pin-point the exact location of the "Nike" flip flop. I immediately started to think about what is under my cluttered bed. I entered the room, it was very cluttered because I hadn't cleaned it for quite a while. I was planning on doing that on the weekend. As I entered the room I proceeded to walk around all the aimless things. I kneeled down and I started to crawl under the bed. I had to push basically a tunnel to make my way into the mess. When I was there I started to look around, but about a minute later I realized I forgot my Flash light. I scooted back and went to ask my mom for a flashlight. She told me where there was one and I got it. I went back under my bed to continue to find my other flip flop. I struggled to see, even with the flash light. I tried to move my arms around so I could hold the flashlight and see better. I continued to look as I wiggled and moved objects around and out of my way. Then I came across something I hadn't seen for over three years. The tracks were ever so delicate, and it's paint so vibrant and yellow. It was still connected to the platform it was originally placed on when I had received it three years ago. The over case was missing, yes. Yet the thought had still amazed me that I have not seen this object for over three years, and there it was; under my bed in one of the most obvious places. I never had realized I lost it. I grabbed it and started to back out from my bed. I had started to cough really badly when I was under the bed; when I got out from under the coughing subsided. I turned off the flashlight and thudded through the hallway. I was going to kitchen where my mom was. I showed it to her and explained what it was. She said that it was cool that I had found something that I lost so long ago. I replied something that I can't remember but I went back to cleaning. I placed it on my dresser and went back under the bed. I continued to search for the flip flop. I turned my flashlight back on and continued to look. It was really "mysterious" because I was still thinking about the Tractor I found. As I looked for my flip flop even more, I found yet another item I had lost. It was the over case to the Tractor! I was astonished at what I had found all while looking for a totally opposite thing. I once more got out from under the bed and went to show my mom. She said that it was neat that I had found a set of two things that I wasn't looking for. She also said, "Sometimes you find things that you aren't even looking for and have forgotten about!" I replied with a simple "Yep!" I went into my room and assembled them together and continued to look for my flip flop. So here I am now, today on the 5th of March, 2013. I still have the Tractor in my sight, but as for the flip flop? I never found it that day and I had to wear my shoes to go swimming.


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How do you feel being the VOTW ?
Shocked at the same time I was getting a feeling I would. But I feel honored
Some words about your first VM ?
My first VM was a birthday mix for shabir, never thought about making one.. finally decided to make it and during the process I was panicking cause it was crap but then finally decided to publish it and to my luck people liked it. I was kinda of shocked with the response.
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Windows Movie Maker XP
How often do you make VM's ?
One almost every day.. many must be thinking I am crazy. But I just love making mixes cause it also makes me relive memories of my fav couple Michi.
How do you take Video mixing - Hobby or Stressbuster ?
Both... earlier it was a hobby but now it has become my stressbuster
Your most liked VM ? Can be yours as well as others !
All means all of Jess mixes
How do you choose songs for mixing ?
I just think of songs randomly (old and new) daydream michi and voila I make the mix. I am not fussy about songs cause all songs fit michi. To add, I like making hindi mixes as opposed to english song mixes.
Your advice to all VM makers ?
Don't stress making mixes, just day dream about the song with the couple u are making it. Your mix will be magical. It works in my case
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 16 (UPI) — A Florida man who stole a friend's identity to illegally kill a bear in Alaska has been sentenced to pay more than $66,000 in penalties, Alaska officials said.
Prosecutors said Jack Vincent Dickerson, 35, of Spring Hill, Fla., illegally killed a female brown bear in October 2009 in Game Management Unit 9 on the Alaska Peninsula, the Anchorage Daily News reported Monday.
After the hunt, however, Dickerson complained to Cabela's Outdoor Adventures, saying he'd wanted a larger male bear, and made a claim to his credit card company that someone else had made the charges for the hunt.
Dickerson pleaded guilty to one count of felony identity theft and one count of violating a wildlife protection act.
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This is the first time im actually posting/starting a thread but i think i am due for one. I currently have played well over 4000+ games on tt alone and maybe 5-6 games on SR and probably only 8 games on dominion. Needless to say im pretty much am a tt only kind of guy. Though at first i was quite disappointed that the only map that i played on in lol was gonna have a complete remake ill admit that i jumped to the immediate conclusion that they destroyed the map. After playing around 20 games on the new map i have to say that its not the case. I love the new game play of not having "lanes" and the new items as well as the obvious fixes to the old tt map.
while the new speed shrine where red buff used to be is a nice thought i find myself avoiding/not utilizing the area completely and feel at odds that the most prominent space in the map has nothing going on.
On to the altars..... for one i like the concept of the altars being objectives in the game giving people reason to leave the lane/global buffs and gold, but if feel like its almost takes away from what i think the main point of the game is (solo/team/ganking fights).
I feel that this problem may be solved by reducing the 2 altars to just one and placing it at the center of the map where the speed shrine is now. This would make use of the middle of the map. You may ask that what about where the 2 shrines are now? well my proposition is to make those into speed shrines because those will see more usage in the form of ganking potential.
Also you may be now thinking wow well wouldn't that just concentrate all the action on the one altar and my response would be yes and no... this problem could be fixed by having an objective to capture the new altar... maybe slaying a stronger neutral monster equivalent to ... ohhhhh say a red buff creature and making the altar lock only until the neutral monster respawns. This would then generate more team fights early on as well as the ability to "steal" buffs like the old tt map.
On to the vilemaw...... i for one don't think it is living up to its purpose... now hear me out.
The dragon on the old tt was the main reason for team fights and initiated most team fights this was because it was an easy target that granted large rewards.
Now vilemaw on the new tt map is much less of a draw not to mention much more out of the way because the lack of a top jungle (i by no means mean to say there should be a top jungle in the new map). This basically halves the draw to go fight a stronger dragon for less benefits while giving the enemy team time to push lanes. Because the way the map is now i see almost no reason to fight vilemaw when you can receive just as much of a benefit by staying in lane to farm a single wave of creeps and pushing a lane to win the game.
I propose a fix to this as the introduction of the second altar area.... supposing the speed shrine from above is changed to what i mentioned earlier. I'm not saying nerf vilemaw here i mean to say keep him the same with the same re spawn timer. This way its actually a fight to obtain the coveted second altar buff ( a nice increase to ap and ad). This would create initiative to actually go and kill vilemaw as well as not be that much of a punishing mechanic if one team were to kill him because worse case scenario the other team gets a 5 min altar lock with a second altar being fought over in the middle of the map.
Thanks and TLDNR:
I want to thank everyone who has read the whole thing on my thoughts and feel free to share your opinions as well and maybe riot will see this thread and make some of the changes suggested.
1. make speed shrine into an altar spot that locks by killing a neutral monster
2. make current altars spots into speed shrines for better ganking and usage
3. make vilemaw into an altar area that locks by killing him so that part of the map
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Hope you enjoy the new map. Good luck.
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