"I'm just a sexy boy..."

Jukebox: Bill Hicks - Rant In E-Minor

Lots of stuff been going on. My boss (not Springsteen) came up to me last night and asked if something was bothering me. He pre-empted my "letter of discontent." Anyway, we worked out everything and it's all good now.

We watched a dumb movie called the Majestic. I guess in some ways I could've enjoyed it, because I did up until a certain point. It's kind of an interesting story until, just like the beginning of the movie showed, the Hollywood parts get thrown in to the movie. The entire ending was so stupid.

I liked that Bruce Campbell was in the movie in the movie. It was funny because I was talking to Jeanne about him before hand.

Another thing that made me realize how dumb the movie was is that Jim Carrey was in it. After about 10 minutes into it I realized, "This is dumb. This is when Jim Carrey was trying to be an actor." Not that I have anything against him being an actor. I enjoy a lot of his films. It's just that I hate that he was trying and talking about becoming a "real" actor.

If he was just himself and started doing roles like this, I'd enjoy it a lot more. I'd have more respect I guess. And I know that Hollywood is dumb and they typecast people and it's hard for them to get roles, but that's all the studio movies. Most independent writers and directors know diversity and what type of character a person can do well. Case and point, Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love. Or write your own fucking movie. If you can't, buy a script. You have the money. Direct one with yourself in it and show what you're capable of doing.

It reminded me of the Mariah Carey debacle. After Virgin dumped her, she was shopping around for a record label. That dumb bitch. I guess it's because it's the only way that she knows how to get records out or something. One, she's rich enough to start her own label and put it our herself. Two, she's popluar enough to be successful enough to afford to put her own record out. And she can't fuck over herself. But then again, it's that record label mentality. She might be thinking, "If I put it out myself, I may sell only 5 million units."

I don't understand that about those people. A band is unsuccessful because they sold only 500,000 units. That a lot. All the independent labels consider 100,000 as a fucking milestone. They aren't fucking greedy or anything. I think even Tommy Lee's stupid band, Methods of Mayhem, went gold and it was unsuccessful to him. The Motley Crue book said that before they signed to Elektra they put out their own album and sold 20,000 by word of mouth only, but they made it sound as if that wasn't that much. It's stupid. I see it as if I sold one copy to someone who loved it, I'm successful.

People are dumb anyway. A lot of people knocked the Cable Guy. Most of their reasons were that "it wasn't like Ace Ventura." That's stupid. I like Ace Ventura a lot, but Cable Guy is such a brilliant film. And it's funny as fuck. Anyone who thinks otherwise is entitled to their opinion, but have some real reasons behind that. Pick something valid.

The other thing that was on my mind was our friend Dawn, back in Omaha, is on disability and welfare because she can't work as she's dying of a liver disease. She owes $30,000 for a student loan and as a result of that they are taking her welfare away from her. Let me restate the fact that she can't work because she's dying. She is physically unable to work. Oh, yeah. And she has a kid. so there's no way for her to make a living, hence the welfare, and so they're taking it away until she pays back a fucking $30,000 loan. Pretty much, in a nutshell, they're saying, "We're fucking through with you. We don't want to help you out anymore; you're on your own." I wish I could help her out in some way.

I guess that's one of the programs that are cutback to make the huge tax cuts Bush is enforcing possible.

What's more about Dawn is that her ex-husband/boyfriend (not sure) in Georgia reported her for welfare fraud. She didn't commit welfare fraud but in order to contest that, she needs to go to Georgia and hire a lawyer. Both of which she cannot afford to (see aforementioned paragraph).