Road House is one of the greatest films in the last 20 years.  Today my blog is in tribute to Patrick Swayze.

He’s just so damn good as Daulton.

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I love what the world is coming to.  It’s absolutely fantastic.  Ultimately everyone whom has recently gotten out of school and not been able to find a job in the market that we currently reside in, has thought of it, but who acts upon these impulses?  I really thought this was a joke when I started reading this quote…

As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. But Monroe’s career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment, she claims.

What bothers me is the sense of entitlement.  I myself have been through this in the 4 years I’ve been out of school, and found one universal truth.  That truth is, no matter what kind of job you try to enter, the only real preparation you can have is to put forth an effort into yourself.

My college experience taught me that they will only take part of the way (a very small part) and you have to put together the rest of it.  Only until I started pushing myself did I start to learn.  When I did that, I felt like I was far ahead of many of the students I spent college with.

I think its funny that someone has the gall to think that the college actually owes them something.  They offer the possibility of a job, the idea of the dream, but its a dream nonetheless. Undoubtedly I think schools get paid far too much for what they bring to the table, I think they owe it to their students to put their best effort into preparing them for the future, and pushing them as far as possible, which a lot of times I felt I was not challenged enough.  I felt as though the programs I was put through were not even close to preparation for the future, it was in fact what I learned on my own by challenging myself that turns out to be the most useful.

As much as I begrudgingly don’t want to be on the side of the school I feel like she’s majorly in the wrong here.

It’s been far too long in between updates here, and I’ve been personally asked on numerous occasions to step up my game.  Well for my brother’s sake, I’m going to post this up because it was quite shocking to me, and I personally think it sucks.

So my brother works for an unnamed valet parking company in Boston.  Obviously everyone knows valets work on a tip basis.  So one night a few weeks ago, local hero, Jon Lester was at the restaurant he worked at.  As you can imagine, for someone like him they give a VIP treatment, valet his truck and keep it close so he doesn’t have to wait long when he wants to leave.

The valet fee is $14 and generally speaking a tip to the valet is considered to be standard.  When Lester was leaving, he not only skipped out on the valet fee (which if not paid comes out of the valet’s pocket; fortunately the restaurant paid for it) as well as a tip for the valets.    Below is a snapshot of Lester’s baseball profile, and highlighted below is his 2009 salary.  A meager one million dollars.

Maybe this is a case of ignorance, but I can hardly imagine he didn’t tip the waitstaff inside the building.  I guess he’s just too cheap to tip the guys that go to the games so this guy can get paid.  I’m awfully disappointed that someone who’s makes that kind of money, and receives really good treatment in a city that loves our local players.  I guess your $14+ richer Jon.

Aww man, this guy is so absolutely hilarious, but this one really touches home, because I’m pretty sure I’ve been to every flea market, street fair, and market within a 100 mile radius.  I totally know what he went through, although I don’t have the same homicidal thoughts,  I can truly understand the useless crap you can see at some of these fairs.  And the idea of a ’saturday’ event that takes all day, and totally sucks.  Oh man, I’m so in for it.

For more from Bill Burr… check out some of the youtube videos.

I’m gonna go get some air.

This past Friday, was Friday the thirteenth, although I spent the night in Vermont, it didn’t keep me away from what was a hilarious adventure over the weekend.   I enjoyed a day or two in the Green Mountain State.

What was really interesting was the amusing people that I encountered at the Weathervane, a popular Brattleboro, VT music hall.

What was most interesting, sorry to anyone whom might have been there, and is currently reading this, but the booth that I sit in here, rotates 360 degrees.  So Amy and I spent the night at this fine establishment, spinning around in front of the window.  I’d certainly like to spend some more time now that I have a better idea of what is there.

When I arrived at home, I knew I would be called out at one point by a reader for not updating my blog here.  So, as far as that goes, I’m going to go double platinum today and finish with my experience with the slasher / horror feature remake of Friday the 13th!

The days adventure involved visiting the theaters to see the remake to the Friday the 13th series.  I couldn’t help but think of the possibility of this movie sucking the house.

Going into such a venue, one must realize the movie in question is that of a remake, so to leave your expectations at home is probably the best idea you can have.  I’ve started to really enjoy horror because in actuality, its so comical; so I knew I was in for it with a remake on this series.

The movie starts with some of the early Jason mythology, so you can get an understanding of how it all started, ie Mrs. Voorhies, how he gets the mask etc etc; and quickly moves through a simple plot line: kids enter woods, Jason massacres, never return.  Girls brother comes looking, meets up with more kids, lots of people die.  I don’t want to ruin it too much, but you get the gist.

Enjoyable as it was, there were a few things that put me off.  For one there was not enough of the creepy music that lead up to kills, it was more of a, isolate one person, pop up behind them, hack slash & repeat.   My other annoyance, as with any horror film, the participants are so pathetic, they can’t run, think, trick or any of the like.

As with many movies, anything that is unrealistic in general, a suspension of disbelief is needed.  Once you seperate from that, it really is a fun horror thriller with the established story that you love.

I had a good time.