I’ve been watching a lot of movies these past few days and I must say, they are a great cure for being alone and mostly bored.
Hurt Locker, recipient of like 9 academy awards tonight, was a great flick. I remember vaguely seeing some of the promotion for it when it came out but dismissed it as just another opportunistic “Iraq” film. However, this movie rocked. Loved it from start to almost finish (it just sort of ends abruptly I felt). Kathryn Bigelow, the films director, was the first woman to win an Oscar for best director and she totally deserved it. I thought Jeremy Renner was robbed, and was disappointed Mo’ni’Qu’e or however she spells it won best support actress but, whatever.
I also watched ‘The Perfect Getaway’ and it sucked for almost 80% of the film until the very end. It has a good twist, which makes it somewhat respectable.
Next was Couples Retreat, and for a straight comedy I thought it was well done. It wasn’t laugh out loud funny, but entertaining.
Finally, just finished “Up in the Air” which was very good. I like Clooney and I thought that the younger girl Anna Kendrick should have won something for best support actress.
Categories: Movies.
For my wife Kelly! We finally rented our place in Phoenix. It took about a month and a half, and she worked her ass off but finally we found some tenants we were comfortable enough to leave our place with while we pack up the truck and move to Oregon.
Obviously, i am super excited about the move. For one, I missed my wife and over the past month and a half have felt more like a vacationer up here in Salem than an actual resident. Then there are my dogs. With the passing of my cat, its been pretty lonely. You never really know how much pets enhance your life until you lose one, or are separated from them. I have often wondered if they would miss me, or forget who I was. I guess i’ll find out next Friday when I see them. Really, i can’t wait to just let them maul me when i walk into the door.
It is going to be a little strange seeing my house totally empty. When i left it, it was full of our crap!
Get to grab the keys to the new place tomorrow evening, and that should be cool. We’ll have electricity, gas, water and all the utilities minus internet there. Maybe i should get that set up now? Still have my work furnished apartment for another 2 weeks so there isn’t a huge hurry.
Once Kelly gets here and we start to explore Oregon I am going to make this site (or some other site, i haven’t decided) more visual with pics and stuff.
Categories: Uncategorized.
Tags: dogs, move, Oregon, Phoenix
I swear I am not in a bad mood, but I’ve got a lot of negative things to say today for some reason. Although i rarely ever self-censor my writing or speech, even to clients when i was working in an agency, I tended to not go out of my way to really point out the dumb shit people say online when it comes to marketing.
For example, while I have trained clients on how to use Twitter, and how to integrate that into other communications, I never put it out there that I liked Twitter. My approach has always been, “you know I know a lot about this tool because i have used it for a very long time, and i am happy to show you how to use it, but for me personally, it isn’t all that great.”
Conversely, I am more than happy to teach AND preach the use of Facebook – because it is a site/tool i actually believe in.
I read something today which was absolutely retarded though. I am not going to link to it because I am a firm believer in denying links to sites which don’t deserve them. This post was on ‘content strategy’ and was absolute nonsense. It looked as if someone bought an introductory book to SEO and just stuffed as many keywords into her article as possible.
Now, I see links being published to shit like this all the time. I’ve even been asked to re-tweet or re-publish links to these types of posts. Its a basic tenet in social media – basically, to engage in a circle jerk, in order to build up your own personal credibility. I have seen entire consultancies built on this principle. All i can say is that I am so glad that I don’t have to be part of that world (in fairness to me though, I never was).
Categories: Rants.
