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Matt and I went to see the 12:30AM show of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
This movie kicks ass. There is not one moment in the movie where it takes itself seriously. There are so many cameos in this movie. There are two different actors that do to different cameos. There are so many cameos that you sometimes forget if the guy is playing himself or a character in the movie.
There is only one bad thing I can say about the film, (YES, I called it a FILM not just a movie.) The only bad thing I can say about this FILM is that to really enjoy this movie you should make sure you've scene his other movies. Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma.
It is sort of one long dick joke. But it also has a lot of fart jokes. You can't forget the fart jokes!
Good Night, Good Morning, whatever.
MrQuick 4:19 AM
This post is short because I have some work I'm doing.
I'm going back to my pictures from 1998 and uploading some of the better photos to dotPhoto.
You can take a walk down memory lane and remember when we were young all that time ago. Three whole years but I admit it seems much longer.
Good Night, Good Morning, whatever.
MrQuick 4:15 AM
Update!!!
I didn't win. But if I read the lottery webpage correctly... Nobody won the big jackpot.
The next drawing is 08/25/2001, with a Jackpot of $280 million and a cash option of $162.9 million. Without the cash option you will get $11.2 million a year for 25 years.
MrQuick 4:53 AM
Helene celebrated her birthday last night.
She was trashed when I got there at 12:30am. But she was able to hang in there until about 2:30. Matt gave her this handheld Whack-a-Mole game. It was actually the hit of the evening. We all spent a good amount of time playing the game, whacking the mole. (Isn't that a term for masterbation?) In a way it was almost a drunk test. The faster you whacked the mole, the higher your score was. The highest score was achieved by Bill and myself. I believe Helene had a good time.
I haven't had a chance to check my Powerball ticket numbers yet. The Kentucky Lottery webpage hasn't posted the winning numbers yet, so I can continue my delusion for a little while longer. There was one point today when I was talking to an irate customer, when I thought to myself, "If only I knew if I had won the lottery." The conversation would have gone much differently.
Yesterday, I mentioned that I would quit my job if I won, but I didn't mention that I would work one more day. I would ask to take every irate call. I would tell each customer the exact truth, which in most cases would be that they didn't have a fuckin' clue and if they want to get their service back they need to shut the fuck up and listen for a minute. It would be so liberating.
I get one more night to dream about the millions of dollars.
Good Night, Good Morning, whatever.
MrQuick 4:25 AM
The Powerball Jackpot is an estimated $200 million with the Cash Option - $110.1 million. The drawing is tonight.
I don't normally play the lottery. At this moment I still haven't purchased a ticket. I know that, no matter how many tickets I would purchase, I will not win. Its next to impossible. I have a better chance of getting struck by lightning. But then again... someone is going to win.
The thing is even with the cash option, $110.1 million dollars is more money than I can even comprehend. With that kind of money I could actually buy the company where I work. HSA, the third largest cable modem company in the country. I'd even have several million left over. Of course that isn't what I would do.
I don't think I would even want the cash option. I have no fucking idea what I would do with that kind of money in one lump sum. $200 million would be $8 million a year for 25 years. I think I could live off of that. Even with half of it going to income taxes.
I have mentioned in this space that I'm a little cheap. How would I react to having more money than I could spend? It boggles my mind. I do know that at the very least my friends and family would have a good Christmas.
(Pause.)
I just spent the past 10 minutes sitting here daydreaming about what I would do with the money and I can't spend it fast enough. A nice house, a new car, a nice motorcycle, vehicles for my family members and my good friends. The best PC I can have put together, TV, stereo, a maid, clothes. A month of parties to celebrate and I still would have millions left over of the first annual payment.
Did I mention that I would quit my job? It fucking kills me when people win a big jackpot and say that they are going to keep their jobs. I guess they like their jobs better than I like mine. Don't get me wrong, I like my job. Not enough to keep working it, if I didn't have to, however.
Its time for me to go to bed a dream of fortunes that won't be mine. Well, I can dream at least.
Good Night, Good Morning, whatever.
MrQuick 4:25 AM
A long while ago I had the idea that I wanted to do a short movie that was basically a tribute to The Sopranos. I wanted to do the beginning of the Soprano's except I want to have Louisville landmarks in the video.
It's nearly impossible to drive and shoot video at the same time and since I tend to procrastinate, the only time I got out to shoot some video was when Roy helped me replace the alternator on my car.
I brought along the video camera and shot the drive on the way over to Indiana to get the part and the drive back. I didn’t get nearly all of the landmarks I wanted and there was other footage I wanted to include that I still haven’t shot.
Thanks to the Movie Maker program built into WindowsXP I have finally been able to capture the video without dropping a bunch of frames and the edit functions served my purposes.
If you would like to see the 2-minute clip, here it is.
Good Night, Good Morning, whatever.
MrQuick 4:35 AM
I only lasted about 7 hours. I have no doubt that if I would have stayed home tonight I could have made the full 24 hours. I had no idea how frustrating it would be.
I was mostly an observer at conversations. I could write a quick note but in most cases it wouldn't be funny by the time it was actually read. Then there were the moments where I wanted to say something that was just too long and complicated for me to write it down.
Its just as well that I quit because I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow that I had forgotten about. My doctor may have thought I was crazy when I handed him a note that I had taken a vow of silence. I wonder if medical doctors can have people committed for a mental condition.
I never thought that it would have been so difficult.
I did talk to Jeff tonight though, he lasted 28 hours. He even made it through work without saying anything and he is a bartender. The biggest surprise for him in this little experiment was the number of people who actually got pissed at him because he wouldn't speak. I must admit, that I was surprised by that also. Not in my case really because I think I gave up to soon. But Jeff had several people who were either pissed at him or later admit that they didn't like it.
I'm going to spend the next 8 hours not talking. I think it will be pretty easy.
Good Night, Good Morning, whatever.
MrQuick 5:34 AM
Well, I started my own personal vow of silence. I started at 7PM Sunday. Roy just gave me a call. Luckily, he knew I was probably going to do this. I got on a text-to-speech webpage and had the computer speak a few words for me.
It was incredibly hard not to just say fuck it and start talking.
The bar will be a supreme test, but at least I'll have pen and paper and body language.
This may be a long night.
MrQuick 9:20 PM
I didn't get a chance to talk to Jeff tonight and see if he made it the full 24 hours without speaking.
A my friend Bob, did tell me that he saw him at Ear X-tacy and he didn't say anything. At the time Bob had no idea why he wouldn't speak.
I'm looking forward to see if he made it. One obstacle he had to overcome is that he had to work last night. We all know he couldn't call in sick.
I'll let you know tomorro if he made it.
Good Night, Good Morning, whatever.
MrQuick 4:34 AM
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