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| I have no idea what to call this post. |
| 03.29.06 (2:39 am) [edit] |
Lately I've been obsessed with Back to the Future, an old favorite of mine. I did the math last night and figured that I've had a crush on Christopher Lloyd as "Doc" Emmett Brown since I was about 3 or 4 years old. Over 15 years; talk about a long-running one! Of course, I like him a bit differently now than I did back then... but anyway.It all started when we used to drive up to Tennessee every year. We'd stop at quite a few of the rest areas and Cracker Barrels along the highway in Florida and southern Georgia, whether to eat or use the bathroom, and I'd always pick up a brochure for Universal Studios. Every time! I dunno why I felt I had to collect them (they were all the same thing), I just really liked the guy pictured on the front, with the crazy white hair. Even though I had no idea who he was, I had a crush on him just from that picture. (This was before I'd seen the movies). Sometimes Mom and Dad would find up to 30 Universal brochures stuffed in the back seat pocket when we got home. Heh. Of course they'd tell me I could only keep one or two. Pffft. I remember that I always got mixed up and thought Doc was from Twilight Zone or something (until I saw BTTF for the first time). Well in the past 6 months I've fallen in love with the BTTF movies all over again. Seriously, we've watched all three at least 7 times in these past months, whether on TV or DVD. So now, I'm crushing on the Doc once again. I'm sure a lot of my friends think I'm nuts, but hey - I have a tendancy to like the eccentric ones... By the way, I'm downloading all three BTTF movies... WHY, you ask?!?! Well, I don't rightly know - I already got 'em all on DVD. Maybe I'd just like to listen to them sometimes while I'm doing other crap on the computer, huh?? You got a problem with that?! I recently went through a drawer in my room and found one of those old brochures with Doc on the front; I couldn't believe I still had it (Universal's brochures are much different today). I sent A.E. a long rambling email about Doc along with this scan of the brochure, and she replied, "It's those old-loves refound that are the best... :o)" You ain't kiddin'! 15 years later... So yeah, I love Doc Brown. I mean, I still love him. But don't worry!! Rickey's still # 1 - Doc is just the "secondary", as I call it. Rickey's the primary and there's usually a secondary guy that I'm crushing on. Hey, you've gotta have backup! Anyway, here's the brochure front:  And for no particular reason at all, this-here is my favorite picture of the Doc:  Oh, in other news, somebody tried to break into our house today around noon. Actually, now that it's past 3AM, I guess it'd be considered yesterday. Lovely, eh? I'd been up all night, of course, and had finally gone to bed at about 9AM this morning. All of the sudden, I'm woken by the sound of my aunt banging on my window, trying to wake me up. (Everybody knows I "sleep in", and that I wear earplugs because I'm such a light sleeper. Guess that's why I didn't hear anything). I open the door to my aunt, and holy crap there's 2 or 3 cop cars out there! At first I thought maybe something had happened to Dad and got a bit of a bad feeling... but then my aunt told me what happened. I guess it was just totally random - a tall, bald black guy saw that our car wasn't there, knocked on the door to see if anybody was home (I obviously didn't hear him), then when nobody answered, tried to get in the front door with a screwdriver. Now, I KNOW he wouldn't have been able to get in - Dad's a carpenter and knows everything about doors; you can believe that our door is a bit more "fortified" than a normal front door. I have no absolute clue who called the cops, but I guess the guy took off and jumped over a couple of our fences in our backyard and a neighbor's yard. I don't know what all happened, but they must've caught him on the other side of the block. I let the cops through the house and they went out back and climbed over the fence to the neighbor's back yard to retrieve a backpack the man had lost whilst running. Then, one of the cops (who was really cute) got my name, number, and address and asked me to come out and just look at the guy and say, "I don't know who he is and he's not supposed to be here.", so I did, and that's all they needed. Oh, did I mention I was home alone? Not to mention asleep... It's probably for the better though. Had Dad been home, I have no doubt he'd have shot the guy. (But then again, if he were home, this probably wouldn't have happened at all). Laws in Florida now state that if you feel threatened, you can shoot. And, if I had been awake, I might have shot the guy myself, which wouldn't have been good... Well, Dad came home and fixed the door and made both the front and back doors even more fortified with those metal edges that prevent screwdrivers from being able to be stuck in the side. I can't remember what they're called. He also put some metal strips around the jalousies of the windows out back so that they couldn't be taken apart (even though we can't open the windows now, but we never do anyway). This afternoon, Dad came up to me and very, very seriously told me, "I want you to have a gun near your bed. Just in case. You can choose which one you want." I now have a .357 in my room, but I'm not saying where it's at. I will say that it's a very nice compliment to the 7-inch bayonet and the brass knuckles, and I'll rest easier tonight. It sure has been an interesting day. Another thing for me to complain about is that my DSL modem is still being a little bastard. I think I now know what a couple of the problems are, thanks to Tree! It's connected at the moment (yay!), but who knows for how long. Gosh, a couple days ago, it disconnected at least ten times in 15 minutes. I reset it every time - sometimes it would reconnect, other times it would just sit there and taunt me, daring me to try to kill it. Piece of crap. I'm so FED UP with this danged thing, I cannot wait to resolve this blasted problem. Why is it that internet companies always send you THE crappiest modems available? Let's see, what else is happenin'... The Hollyweirdos are nuts!!!. Oh and King Kong is finally out on DVD!!! Paddy told me to pre-order it on Amazon.com, sure hope it gets here soon. I got the special two-disk version, heh heh heh. That reminds me, Jack Black is hosting Nickelodeon's Kids' Coice Awards and did this crazy commercial for it. The video in the link is actually a video-camera recording of a TV itself, and the picture is a few seconds off from the audio, but it'll still give you an idea of what it is. I don't know why but it really makes me laugh - I turn the volume up every time it's on. By the by, the best part of King Kong had to be the T-rexes in the vines. How COOL was that?!?! I love the one with the buck teeth... Maybe I'll try to draw him some day. OHHH, and I recognized the German ship captain as the guy who played the German U-boat commander on U-571. Dang-I'm-good. Hmm.... oh yes, the essay. Over 2 months ago, I asked a friend to help me with the essay I'm supposed to send in for my diploma. I was hoping to get it sent out before my 20th, but he hasn't helped me yet so I'm just going to send it like it is (I'm bad at sentence structure, but that's okay, it looks good to me). I have to pass at least 75% of the test to get the diploma, so I'm sure I'll probably get it whether the essay sucks or not. For after I get my diploma, I found a little job available online a couple days ago that I'll possibly be interested in. I found it on Yahoo's HotJobs - it's for a home typist. I type fast and enjoy it, so why not? You work at home, part-time or full-time, choose your own hours, get full online training (no experience required), and you can earn $300-$600 a week. The only requirements are a computer with internet and email access, good typing skills, basic internet knowledge, high-school education, and self-motivation. I'll work on that last one a bit.... This is only a possibility anyway. The job is strictly data entry for processing orders online - no phone work or telemarketing. So first I get the diploma, then I get this danged DSL fixed up right. Then... we'll see. Oh, and then I'll learn to drive. Hopefully I can save up for a downpayment on a big ol' truck...... heh. I'd better stop and not look too far ahead - first things first. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my new hatband will get here tomorrow!! I just can't wait to see it on the hat. I'm also watching an auction on eBay for a neon lamp in the shape of an electric guitar. They used to have them at Walgreens but I haven't seen one in a very long time, and Paddy and I look for them every time we're there. Not sure where I would put it, but I'll find a spot. Maybe above the computer monitor. I have a little sputnik-shaped, spinning fibre optic lamp there right now, but I can move that next to the fibre optic Christmas tree above the television I suppose... Wowzers... that BBQ'd pulled pork is really working on me now, if ya know what I mean. On top of that, I have a painful zit on my scalp that I can't get to because I can't see it, and it's made a lymph node on my neck swell up and they both hurt REALLY BAD. I also whacked my elbow real hard on Dad's headboard... gonna have a huge bruise there! One last thing - I now have a lovely picture of Ronnie Van Zant next to my bed (right below Neal McDonough and Tom Hanks). There used to be a little shelf thing there, but I kept knocking it off the wall in my sleep, so I decided to just hang a picture there instead. Well now I do believe that's about it. I wonder if anybody'll read this whole thing... holy cats... I didn't intend for it to get so long, it just sorta ...happened... ...and.....BEHOLD!!!!!!!!!....the flux capacitor!!!  |
posted by: aesav23 (reply)
post date: 03.29.06 (5:15 am)
I read the whole thing!! :o) My favorite bit: "I now have a .357 in my room … I will say that it's a very nice compliment to the 7-inch bayonet and the brass knuckles…" LOL LOLOL!!! That's EMU!
Oh, that German actor was also in this incredible (and strange) film called "Immortel", which I really enjoyed. He IZ TEH HAWT!11!!1! www.imdb.com/name/nm0470981
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 03.29.06 (2:36 pm)
Reply to: aesav23
Hahahaa! I was being totally serious though! The awesome thing about the brass knuckles? They double as a belt buckle!! Whodathunk somethin like that.
I see he was also in The Pianist (which I still haven't seen), and another movie about U-boats called "In Enemy Hands". It sounds so familiar, came out 2004.
posted by: Kelly (reply)
post date: 04.05.06 (3:16 pm)
Ohh.. I try going through my email sometimes too .. it is a very tough choice sometimes: delete or keep? lol!
That's scary someone tried to break in.. I'm glad he didn't get in and that y'all are safe!
Once on a late nite, a man (I think he might've been drunk) was pounding on our front window with a lamp stand or something.. that was scary too ... I think dad called the cops.
Good luck Mal with the diploma! - And the typing job, that'll be cool! Right from home, and the pay sounds really good! :D
Love ya!
~* Kelly ^_^
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 04.20.06 (11:16 am)
Reply to: Kelly
I finally went through and deleted everything I knew I probably wouldn't read again (even if it's something I liked, I didn't NEED it!).
I'm glad we're safe too! Dad put more jimmy-plates on both doors so it'd be even tougher to get in. Our doors are very.. fortified!
Glad the drunk dude didn't get very far, I wonder what he wanted? Did the cops catch him?
Thank you!! When my computer crashed, I thought I'd lost the essay I'd typed up, but I got it back and now I just gotta send it in!! I'm still not sure about the typing job, gotta look more into it.
Love you too!
Mal
