Not off to a good start, missed a day of everything yesterday, didn't get to walk/write/blog... But at least I had a good excuse, Kari and I spent all day doing a mail-out, folded/stapled/stuffed/stamped 400 or so envelopes yesterday for the business, it's the summer newsletter that we wanted to get out so that was our day yesterday.
I couldn't believe it when I woke up this morning and Kari pointed out that it was raining today, it was almost unheard of (I worked nights the last day it rained so I slept through most of it.)
That's the weird thing about working shift, your timetable is so completely off of the rest of the world, my breakfast is some people's supper, I'm having lunch at midnight, and then supper at 3 or 4a.m. and when I go to bed, most often, most people are starting their days.
People say all the time that they couldn't adjust to it, I dunno, I just take away any preconceived notions, I sleep when I'm tired, I eat when I'm hungry, and that's about it, I'm the only 1 I know who doesn't get tired at night, but I think it's my ability to sleep all day.
I had no idea what today's topic was going to be, I had a couple of ideas but I didn't like anything so I just started listening to some tunes 1st, I threw on Nelly Furtado's "All Good Things," song and searched for a live version and for some reason, I started thinking about Metallica and searched for some of their stuff live.
I came across someone who has their Monsters Of Rock stuff from Moscow in 1991 so I started watching that. It's amazing to watch rock bands live who don't rely on heavy synthesizers, these are 2 guys on guitars, a bass player, and good ole Lars on drums.
These guys knew how to bring it (I'll never forget when I saw some MTV thing about them and Rob Trujillo had just gotten hired and he was the loudest of "We're Metallica, we rock!" Blah blah blah, shut up Rob, you just got the part, it was like when Van Halen brought back that guy at some MTV awards show, and he spent the whole time saying "you never thought it'd happen, we're back we're back we're back," oh wait, 2 weeks later, you were gone again, ha ha!
I think I watch too much MTV some days...
Point being, they were/are truly great musicians, completely innovative and just honest real musicians. I couldn't believe when I found out the guy who wanted to make their S&M album (full live orchestral accompaniment for those of you who aren't familiar w/ it) came up w/ the idea like 20 years ago and it came to fruition back in '99 - phenomenal album!
Kari and I watch a lot of movies, date night is often a trip the theatre, it's probably one of my favorite things to do. We rent a lot of movies home at too, usually the ones that we wouldn't want to pay full price for both of us in the theatre. A lot of times, some of the movies, i.e. Step Up To The Streets 2 are the ones where you can just sit there, tell the whole plot of the story.
Boy meets girl, girl overcomes great obstacles, friends leave girl, girl takes on the world alone, ~or so you think~ and then the friends get the heads out of their ass, come and save the day, blah blah blah... A + B = C.
Same formula for sitcoms, and if you want to have mediocre success, sure, it's a great avenue but at the same time, what's new about it?
So many authors/writers come up w/ that great original idea but that's it, it's done, how do you replicate it, I forget what movie, it's from the late 90's, and it had one of those surprise endings and that dominated the genre which was fine for the 1st few but afterwards, it's like, done now, time to move on.
And there are many ideas while absolutely brilliant are so horribly executed that they shouldn't have been brought to the public, 1 fails me right now but you know they're out there. Last week on Canoe.Ca, M. Night Shyamalan got ripped a new one and was told maybe he should retire.
So, how far do you push the envelope? Or do you just rinse/lather/repeat? I'm left w/ wondering which is better, safe and secure or fast & furious?
Today's pic is of our room from that Chateau Frontenac, we stayed on the 11th floor, it was absolutely magnificent, I told Kari I felt like Trump when we walked in there, it's an amazing hotel, I'd go back in a heartbeat.
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