LONDON - With U.S. voters soon to pass their verdict on President George W. Bush, readers of a British magazine have rated him the year's top screen villain.
Bush won the dubious accolade, announced Wednesday, for his appearance in Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."
He beat a shortlist that included the nefarious Doctor Octopus, played by Alfred Molina, in "Spider-Man 2"; "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'"s cannibalistic Leatherface; Andy Serkis' creepy Gollum from "Lord of the Rings" trilogy; and Elle Driver, the eyepatch-wearing assassin played by Daryl Hannah in "Kill Bill."
Almost 10,000 people voted in the poll, conducted by Total Film Magazine.
"It is possible that people have been a little bit tongue in cheek here, but they are also saying that Bush was very scary in 'Fahrenheit 9/11,'" said the magazine's editor, Matt Mueller.
I'm eating some lasagna that I just microwaved. Stouffer's five cheese lasagna, or some shit like that. Did you know that Nestle owns Stouffer's? I saw that on the box. Once it was a question on Jeopardy!. Well, really, I guess it was an answer. I always like to read the cartons and boxes of food items...it's interesting the stuff you'll learn sometimes. Like how one serving of my fucking Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby ice cream has like over half of the "recommended" daily amount of fat. I probably didn't even want to know that, really.
I'm reading The Rules of Attraction, by Bret Easton Ellis. I decided since I love the fucking movie, I should read the book. So far I love the book - I just started and I'm already halfway through. It's nice having a book to look forward to reading when I get home from work - there's a certain amount of comfort I identify with that feeling. I love reading. While I was at the bookstore, I bought a few of his other books - Less Than Zeroand The Informers. I will begin those as soon as I finish my current one. I really like Easton's writing style, I want to read all of his books now.
I guess there's really no reason that I haven't been writing that much lately, other than being occupied, or at least being under the impression that I'm occupied. A lot of times I want to write something, even just like a random thought that pops into my head, but I just wonder what the point is. I feel dumb just writing one sentence or something, but I guess it's better than not writing at all. I'll probably start posting multiple times a day again...at least for a little while.
LA was alright this time around. Six hours of driving both ways (well, almost...I drive a little too fast sometimes). I visited with my family, my dogs, and talked to some friends. Unfortunately I didn't get to meet up with anyone this time, as the timing just didn't work out. I did however get massive amounts of laundry done, for free - always a wonderful thing. Now, if I could only put all this shit away...
Today is Indigenous Peoples Day (in Berkeley, at least)! We're too good to celebrate Columbus Day up here.
Feelings are weird. Emotions are confusing. I'm perplexed. I hate how emotions get in the way of my rational and logical thought processes, clouding the whole thought chain until nothing makes sense anymore. It's like standing on one side of bridge and looking at the other side, knowing the necessary steps to get there...but half the steps are missing, and even though you know they're there (or are at least pretty sure they are) despite being invisible, all of a sudden it just doesn't make cognitive sense why you would know they were there, even if they aren't. So, you don't take that step forward, that little jump. Will you fall? Will you be supported somehow by some unknown, unseen force? Who knows? Apparently I'd rather just sit here and wait for something to appear out of nothing.
I wonder if some kind of bad energy was stirred the wrong way when Kerry referred to him the other day in the debate against Bush...
Check it out:
Actor Christopher Reeve dead - report Mon 11 October, 2004 06:56
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paralysed film actor Christopher Reeve, who played Superman, has died, Fox News Channel television has reported.
Fox quoted a U.S. news agency as saying Reeve died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack on Saturday and going into a coma.
Reeve, 52, suffered multiple injuries including two shattered neck vertebrae when he was thrown from his horse at an equestrian event in 1995. read it yourself
"People given the message to eat more fruits and vegetables lost significantly more weight than those told to eat less fat," Dr. Rolls said. "Advice to eat more is a lot more effective than advice to eat less. Positive messages about what can be eaten are more effective than restrictive messages about what not to eat."
See! Stop telling me to eat meat everyone, I'm healthy!
