So… I’m not a huge rap fan… but recently I’ve been diggin the “All New Hot ninety tree pooo seven” lol… Because there are a few good songs that have recented the airways… This being one of them from Kanye West. Now, this was recently in a movie… And I can’t put my finger on which one… So.. If you know help me out.
And althought this is older, it still runs wild on my tongue… This is from Fight Night Round 3:
Good morning. I found it quite fitting that my first post on this nitro-glycerine riddled meth lab of an explosive site should be a review 18 years in the making. It’s not that this is the greatest movie ever made or even the one for which Arnold Schwarzenegger will ultimately be remembered, but there is something magical about this film that I can’t quite put my sticky little fingers on. Perhaps if we speculate for a moment. hmmm? Would that help? Maybe? Hmmmm?
You see kids, Total Recall was based on a short story entitled “We Can Remember it for you Wholesale” penned by one Philip K. Dick. He authored such noted novels as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the story on which the Harrison Ford film Blade Runner was based. He also wrote Minority Report, Paycheck, and A Scanner Darkly. It’s important to see how steeped this film is in a rich and creamy sci-fi culture. Throw in a couple A-list actors like Arnie and Sharon Stone, and you’ve got yourself a fuckin a bloody martian stew of tasty weird goodness. Total Recall starts out normal enough. A bored and frustrated construction worker named Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) is tired of living his sub par ho-hum life so he does what anyone else would do in the “distant future.” He simply goes to a clinic and has new memories that are more interesting and exciting implanted into his brain to replace those boring old yucky ones. These memories are of a secret agent’s suicide mission to Mars. However Quaid experiences violent fits during the procedure, and upon further examination the clinic discovers that another organization has already replaced his thoughts. Long story short Quaid actually IS the secret agent. I’m telling you, you cannot make this shit up. What’s more, Nation, Quaid’s hot wife Lori, played by Sharon Stone, is in on the whole thing. After some shit goes down at Quaid’s apartment, he does what I do on a daily basis. He goes to Mars to get his memory back.
On Mars is where the movie starts to get interesting. This where all the classic catch phrases such as “I’ll see you at the party Richter”, and “If I’m not me, den who da hell am I?” and of course who can forget “Impossible! Once the reaction starts, it’ll spread to all the turbinium in the planet. Mars will go into global meltdown. That’s why the aliens never turned it on.” Plus you get to see this guy’s face inside this other guy’s body. This guy right down here. Go on Nation have a look. This is what the leader of the mutants on Mars looks like.
In the end Arnie beats the bad guys, Cohaagen’s head explodes due to rapid decompression, and someone fucks someone else. Not a bad way to kill two hours. I never mentioned who Cohaagen or Richter was did I? HEY ALRIGHT!!!
I don’t know if you’ve seen this new tv show on the prestigious FOX broadcasting network called simply “Hole in the Wall” It’s a game show in which contestants team up to jump through different shaped holes in this large yellow wall which is moving ever closer to them. If they fail to jump through the hole they fall in a pool of water. Yes it’s that simple. The contestants, who are never of the highest calibur of intelligence, looks, or even hygiene, dress in silver jumpsuits with either blue or red trim depending on which team they are on. The teams are usually something clever like parents vs. kids, or dog lovers vs. cat lovers, or people who love George Wallace vs. Supports of Spiro T. Agnew. The list goes on and on. The show is one our long and is broadcast on Thursdays at 8pm. In case you didn’t know, this is the second most popular primetime spot in television behind Thursdays at 9pm.
If you read the above paragraph and nothing bad, idiotic, moronic, sad or depressing jumped out at you, please feel free to direct yourself away from this site and into a room with soft padded walls where people named Bert will come to give you hugs and pills every so often. It seems obvious to me that a person devoting one hour of his life a week to watching fat people trying to jump through catoonesque cutouts in a big yellow wall is doing nothing but contributing to the downfall of American society. Why is the economy failing? It could be the defaulting of so many sub-prime mortgages or the fact that the CEOs of a dozen of America’s largest banks control the stock market and do with it as they please, but I have another more sound theory. I believe there are too many people in this country named Billy-Bob or Jimbo who come home from sewage treatment/hog fat rendering/garbage burning plant, get drunk, smack around their families for a while and then settle in for a nice mind numbing hour of hole in the wall. Fox has to be stopped, and I have to stop them.
Who ever told you to go to school, get a good job with great benefits, and save every penny was a complete fucking retard. These people might have even said stuff like… “If you’re lucky you’ll be rich” or “Life didn’t hand me that set of cards” or “Well, that’s good to have goals BUT remember you have bills to pay”. I really can go on and on with lines I’ve heard or people out there have heard, add to that the millions that are out there. Who are these people telling us these things? Well honestly gang, our parents, friends, co-workers, grandparents, teachers etc… The problem is this, if somebody wasn’t able to do it, or are playing victims for not being wealthy and are stuck in a job they are miserable, they are victims!… FUCK NAY!!! They aren’t victims, they may play a victim to this world, but they have been able to make choices from the beginning. Is it their fault? I don’t know. Some people just don’t know any different, or don’t know that there is something else out there. How does one realize that there is more out there than a dead end job? Though, instead of finding those answers we sit wishing we could be more. Wishing things could be handed to us on a silver platter. No, I don’t think like that anymore. I’ll be honest. I have a great paying job… But I hate my job, and I hate getting a paycheck. I don’t want a paycheck from a company that has control over my lifestyle. I work for an aerospace company that builds airplane engines. Did you know, that because of the current condition of the economy, my job is in jeopardy of layoff… HMM? How many people out there are experiencing that same fright? Remember “go to school, get a good job, with benefits, save a lot of money”? Well, hold on, that doesn’t really make any sense to me whatsoever! I just worked for the past 2 years saving money and now if I get laid off I’m going to be using that money I saved? Why would I do that? Just to start all over again? Now, I understand that there are people that are not like that at all. But the same still somewhat applies. Why is it that we don’t end up doing what we love? Have you ever met someone that does what they love to do? If you have, then you’ll be able to agree with me upon mention. If you haven’t, look harder. They may not be millionaires, but they are the most fucking happy people you’ll ever meet.
Doing things that we love to do and being rewarded:
When you say (example) ”man… I love to fish, I wish I could get paid to fish”. First, saying “wish” implies it’s not achievable. But damn this world if it isn’t. I’ll say that if you think fishing as a form of income is unattainable, you are blind. Turn on the t.v. and tell me you don’t see someone sitting there fishing on camera. They did it, what’s holding you back. So what you should be saying is “I love to fish, I’m going to find a way to be rewarded for fishing”. That was the first thing. Here’s the second. Ever say something along those lines of ”I would like to be paid for the things I love to do”? And immediately someone says, “well, if you did that everyday you would get sick of it”. This is what I want you to say to them, “my friend you are blind, we fish everyday and we’re not sick of it yet”. See, people say things to justify the reasons why they don’t have what they want in their lives. They tell themselves it’s not possible, they give themselves reasons why “not” to get it. Challenge: I want you to ask a friend, family member, or stranger if they did not have to work ever because they didn’t NEED to due to the fact they had money that they no longer needed to work for would they be happy? I’ll bet you most of them will say “no I would be bored out of my mind”. Really? Bored you say? So why is that you yearn for time off from work so much? Or “wish” you had more vacation time. See… In my opinion… Money is like politics and it becomes an emotional thing after a while. People are in debt, they don’t understand how money works, and they certainly don’t understand how to make money work for them. See, there is something that never sat with me right. People work 30, 40, 50, upwards of 70 hours a week sometimes more. Yet, at the end of the week when we see if they would like to go to dinner they say, “no, I don’t have enough money”!!!! Really! What do you do pay all bills and just save some “that’s left over”? What is the point of working 40 hours a week if you don’t have any legal tender to your name at the end of it? Don’t work so you can just afford to work some more. 99% of the people in the U.S. do that and it’s ridiculous.
I mentioned earlier that money is like politics, and it becomes emotional for some. Want to test that theory? Ask someone how much money they have, they’ll visibly tense up and say “that’s none of your business” and rightfully so it may not be nevertheless, ask them where do they work, which earns them their money and they’ll tell you, shouting it from the top of a mountain with extreme pride. Don’t ask them about how much they earn, or have saved. Ask them what their view is on money and how it should be handled. If they say save for retirement, invest in a 401K, bring up the idea of quitting their job and doing something they love to do. They’ll tense up and say “that’s not possible” as they huff and puff there way through reasons why that’s not possible for them to do.
Stop the excuses gang! Some may say to me that my thoughts about money, and owning a business are unrealistic. But to be honest, I say nay! I think your thoughts about money and working for SOMEONE are unrealistic. It’s alright though. I’m not criticising you for your interpretation on work, and money, and life. I don’t want to sound all hippieish here folks but seriously. How much time on this earth do you have? Do you want to work until you’re old and 65 and now that you’re retired, you’re too old to do anything? Oh but wait, that’s what you’re “supposed” to be doing right?
Nigh! Society has told you to go to school, get a good job, get great benefits, and save your money for a rainy day. If you plan on having a rainy day then chances are you’ll have one. Fix: I want you to take this time my friends and look at your financial blueprint and life blueprint and see how close it is to your parents. I love my parents dearly, they are amazing nevertheless there are things about their lifestyle that I’m going to discard and I encourage you to do the same. If there is something out there that you’ve been longing to do, go out there and do it and don’t care about what people say. If you’re at a campground and you want to light a fire and you’ve taken every bit of precaution to avoid an uncontrolled blaze light that fire. Build that fire as big as you want. If somebody comes a long and douses that fire because they are scared of the risks, even though you have a fire department next to you. Who is the fool? The one who lights a fire under your ass… or the one who puts it out because they are scared?
