| R.I.P. Kyle's LJ |
[Feb. 15th, 2006|10:11 am] |
you know what, let's go ahead and make this very easy for everyone...just stop checking my livejournal haha. i mean, it's pointless when everyone who looks at my lj is on my myspace ANYWAY and i write blogs on my myspace all the time. so, if you're interested in what i have to say, check out the blogs (which i write fairly regularly nowadays) on my myspace. i like writing on myspace because there's more traffic there, i know more people are looking, i mean i wrote a post last night and it already has 22 views...whereas 4 people will see this lj within the next couple weeks. so, let's all just save ourselves a lot of hassle and stop wondering when kyle's ever going to use this lj again...cause the answer's practically never. i will keep the lj, however, for the original reason i got one...to leave comments. however, i urge you to utilize the myspace blog because, let's face it, we all check that more often anyway.
thanks a bunch lj, but i have no need for you anymore. take care now. bye bye then. |
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| P.S. |
[Jan. 30th, 2006|12:40 pm] |
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P.S. if you have any questions about any of the movies listed, i'll be glad to answer any and all of them. |
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| TCM Movie Schedule |
[Jan. 30th, 2006|12:38 pm] |
Well, Turner Classic Movies is having it's annual "30 Days of Oscar" in February and I thought I'd share with everyone what MY movie-watching schedule is like this month. I'm sure I've talked to all of you about at least one of the following movies, so do yourself a favor and check out as many as you can.
February
1
11 pm - Shampoo (1975)
2
1: 15 pm - Citizen Kane (1941)
3
3 pm – In Which We Serve (1942) (Lean)
5 pm - Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957)
8 pm - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
4
8 am - On The Waterfront (1954)
5
11:30 am - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
6
2 am - Life Of Emile Zola, The (1937)
2 pm - Brief Encounter (1945) (Lean)
5 pm - Producers, The (1968)
6: 30 pm - Front, The (1976) (Woody Allen, Zero Mostel)
8: 15 pm - Zelig (1983)(Allen)
7
11 am - Gunga Din (1939)
8
12:12 am - Great Dictator, The (1940)
9:15 pm - My Fair Lady (1964)
9
12:15 am - Funny Face (1957)
10 am - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2 pm - Hamlet (1948)
5 pm - Big Country, The (1958)
8 pm - Boys From Brazil, The (1978)
10:15 pm - North By Northwest (1959)
10
11 am - Oklahoma! (1955)
1: 30 pm - Doctor Zhivago (1965)
5 pm - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
7 pm - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9:45 pm - Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)
11:30 pm - Lolita (1962)
11
5 pm - Graduate, The (1967)
7 pm - Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
12
12:30 pm - To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
2:45 pm - Sting, The (1973)
5 pm - Out of Africa (1985)
10:30 pm - Quiz Show (1994)
13
12:30 pm - Double Indemnity (1944)
8:45 pm - 12 Angry Men (1957)(Lumet)
16
7 am - Way We Were, The (1973)
9 am - Funny Girl (1968)
18
8 am - Rocky (1976)
10:30 am - Hook (1991)
1 pm - Dick Tracy (1990)
3 pm - Back to the Future (1985)
5 pm - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
19
6:30 am - Time Machine, The (1960)
11:15 pm - China Syndrome, The (1979)(Lemmon, M. Douglas)
22
5 pm - Professionals, The (1966)
7 pm - Airport (1970)
23
9 pm - Guy Named Joe, A (1943)
24
7:15 pm - Same Time, Next Year (1978)
25
8:15 am - How the West Was Won (1962)
5 pm - Awakenings (1990)
7:15 pm - Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
9 pm - Birdcage, The (1996)
11:15 pm - Tootsie (1982)
26
1:15 am - Network (1976)
3:15 am - Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
1 pm - Gone With the Wind (1939)
27
12 pm - Lion In Winter, The (1968)
28
12 am - Oliver! (1968)
1 pm - Captains Courageous (1937)
5 pm - Conversation, The (1974)
7 pm - American Graffiti (1973)
March
2
5 pm - Lost Weekend, The (1945)(Wilder)
9 pm - Paper Moon (1973)
4
1 pm - Lord of the Flies (1963)
5 pm - Funny Girl (1968)
5
3 pm - Haunting, The (1963)
10:15 pm - Westworld (1973)
6
12 am - Soylent Green (1973)
11
11 am - Fahrenheit 451 (1967)
5 pm - Hustler, The (1961)
14
3 pm - Ipcress File, The (1965)
18
11 am - Winchester '73 (1950)
5 pm - Quiet Man, The (1952)
19
7:15 pm - Robin and Marian (1976)
23
3 am - Seven Samurai (1954)
6:30 am - Throne of Blood (1957)
8:30 am- Yojimbo (1961)
10: 30 am - Outrage, The (1964)(Newman, Dir. Ritt)
24
5 pm - Murder by Death (1976)(Sellers)
11 pm - Wings of Desire (1987)
25
6:30 pm - This Happy Breed (1944)
26
1 pm - Sabrina (1954)
30
10:30 pm - Cape Fear (1962)
Enjoy the upcoming months! I know I will... |
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| disneyland |
[Jan. 24th, 2006|09:24 am] |
oy...was supposed to go to disneyland today, but it was cancelled at like 1 in the morning. what a time to find out, eh? i don't think i need to tell you what a disneyland fan i am...i do believe i once posted a 3 page essay on the subject. actually i started this post with the intention of getting into disneyland specifics, but now that i'm writing, i don't feel like ie haha. oh well, long story short disneyland is the happiest place on earth and i thought of another good reason why: no ashley simpson. seriously though, the thing about disneyland is that there are no pop-culture references within the park. you don't walk down mainstreet and hear the latest hillary duff single, the shows don't spoof the matrix, and they don't re-do rides and attracttions with the intent to appeal to any particular target market. everything is a complete world unto it's own. the only sounds you hear are classic disney sounds and songs and the only things you see are pure disney magic. it's as if for a day you are completely taken out of the world you live in...and taken to a world all unto itself where the outside doesn't matter in the least. disneyland's promise to take you away from the world of today is it's most appealing attribute.
after all, when you enter disneyland, you pass under a bridge. next time you go, take a moment to look up and read the inscription on that bridge. it reads: "Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy." |
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| Start Spreadin' the Newwwwws |
[Jan. 19th, 2006|06:08 pm] |
I realize my LJ doesn't have the largest fan-base...and I also realize that compared to MySpace, LJ is as dead as...dead. However, in an all-out attempt to be as vain and self-promoting as possible, I'm letting you all know that from tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 2 p.m. until Sunday afternoon at around 5 p.m., I will be on a retreat with the Confirmation class at Camp Lakota in Frasier park (hmm, I never noticed Lakota is the language they speak in Dances With Wolves...oh man, I won't cry, I won't cry...). SO, I of course realize that while I'm gone the world will keep spinning and MySpace will keep...MySpacing...so I've decided that you, yes YOU, the faithful reader (what are there, like 6 of you?) of my LJ should stop by my MySpace and leave me plenty of comments and Kyle-love so that when I get back, I will be totally happy. You know how when you haven't checked your mail in like 3 days and then you come back to find....nothing there? I hate that feeling. I like to see little messages of how much I rule and random funny memories and anecdotes when I return. So, if you truly, TRULY love me, you'll leave a bunch of crap on my MySpace. Go ahead, fill it up...I want the most popular freakin MySpace ever. Also, tell all your friends, even if they dont' know me, to join my fan club. I have a bet going on with...ah-hem, SOMEONE who says I can't get up to 150 members by the time the month is out. Well, I'll show him with your help.
SO! Farewell and have a great weekend, I know I will.
Your pal,
Kyle (add whichever nickname you have for me HERE) |
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| The E.T. Adventure |
[Jan. 17th, 2006|10:01 am] |
I wrote the following on Tuesday, March 25, 2003:
I'm very groggy today. My fingers feel weird and I keep hitting the wrong keys on the keypad. But, hey it is still early. Plus, I was up a little while last night very depressed. See, a good friend of mine...for a long time...is no more. He's also been a friend to a lot of you. His name is E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial and his ride at Universal Studios Hollywood has been closed down for good. Yes, the E.T. ride is closed...to make room for some Mummy crap or something. I'm sure hearing this many of you are pretty bummed yourself, but try not to worry about it. Just try to remember the good times you've had with E.T....picking funny names for him to say at the end of the ride...we flew with him over a rinky-dink miniature city in space (where it's really hard to breathe)...we saved his friend Tiki Mut-Mut from utter distruction...and we even met his teacher, Botanicus, while waiting in line. And let us not forget the special message from our good friend, Steven Spielberg. Never again will we be able to read the spanish subtitles on that classic video and say "Mi casa! Mi casa!" when E.T. says "Home! Home!" Ah, while he may be physically gone, he will always remain with us in our hearts and in our memory. Yesterday I bought an E.T. hat at Universal in memory of this tragic occasion. This will be my "new hat." May it be a constant reminder of one of the best friends this world has known over the past two decades.
I still have that hat today. We miss you, E.T.. Universal is not now and will never be as fun without you. May we meet again one day in that great theme park in the sky...
E.T. Adventure, Universal Studios Hollywood
June 1991 - March 2003
"Beloved friend and theme park attraction" |
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| Stick with me, I'm going somewhere with it... |
[Jan. 16th, 2006|12:17 pm] |
You grow up and you learn. Everything is a learning experience, whether you know it or not. And you grow up with certain finite knowledges. For example, you KNOW fire is hot and you KNOW ice is cold. In the same way, you know certain things about more obscure circumstances, such as television. You KNOW that every time you watch Sesame Street, the same song is at the beginning of every show and you KNOW Big Bird is a big yellow bird with a big hairy elephant-friend. But, there are also things that you don't usually think about because the average person doesn't question things that they KNOW. There are plenty of things that have bothered me about things that we supposedly KNOW all about, but in the end have no knowledge of whatsoever. For example, what kind of bird IS Big Bird? And where do Snuffalufagus' come from? And is Snuffy the only Snuffalufagus? Because, the guy's name IS Snuffalufagus, implying that he is in fact the ONLY Snuffalufagus. If he weren't the only one, then he'd need some sort of surname...in this way he's sort of like Tigger. He IS a Tigger, but there's no confusion as to WHICH Tigger you're reffering to when you SAY Tigger because, as the song says, he is, in fact, the only one.
Of course, I realize that these questions can never be answered because obviously the creator of Big Bird didn't have a particular bird in mind when designing the puppet, and Snuffy's creators didn't have an elaborate backstory on the evolution of the modern Snuffalufagus. But, there are questiong that obviously must have some answer within the world that's created onscreen. One legit question might be concerning the sexual preference of fictional characters. For example, I always thought Rabbit from The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was a lesbian. Now, later in life I found out that Rabbit is a guy, but as I said before, many of these cartoons make no references to gender, they simply ARE. So, I always assumed Rabbit was a girl, but that she was a frigid bitch...and eventually that conclusion matured into the assumption that she must be a lesbian. Now, the writer of the original stories did NOT have sex in mind when he wrote them. However, we DO know that there IS sex in the Hundred Acre Wood because of Roo. Roo is a child kangaroo who has a (single) mother named Kanga. Now, for Roo to exist, Kanga had to be able to find and mate with a male kangaroo...further implying sexual inercourse, finally revealing that there must be some concept of sexual preference within the Pooh universe. Ergo, when I thought Rabbit was a woman, I assigned the title of homosexual to her. The point is that while the easy way out of these types of questions is to just say "They have no sexual preferences because the creators didn't give them any." But, to some extent, the world in which the fictional characters exist escapes the perameters created by the original author. For example, if the writer of the original Pooh stories said that the Hundred Acre Wood was an island, there's nothing from keeping someone else's imagination to expand upon the already created fictional universe and create a mainland across the sea in which the island is located. This is possible because, unless specified by the author, every question that CAN be asked HAS an answer within the universe somewhere. So, yes, Kanga DID have sex with a male kangaroo. Why? Because I said so and I was the first one to say so because the original author said nothing about it.
Now, I know what you're saying, WHY is Kyle thinking about sex inthe Pooh universe. Well, that's not what I'm thinking about, I'm merely using it to illustrate a point. The failure of the author of the Pooh books to mention sexual preference is not a problem because the only consequece of such an action is that I'm sitting here thinking about who boinked who. But, the same concept applies to other things that DO matter, and that's what I'm concerned with. Take the bible. We don't know who wrote all the books in the bible, but we KNOW who wrote the gospels. We know that IN the gospels, it's written that Jesus went to the garden at Gathsemene the night before he died and prayed and that when he came back from praying, he found all the apostles asleep and then spoke to them as they were asleep. Now, if we didn't think outside of the box, here, all this would make sense. However, take a moment: if the apostles were asleep...and the apostles wrote the gospels, then how did they know what Jesus said to them while they were asleep? And how did they know what Jesus was saying when he went away on his OWN to pray BY HIMSELF? The truth is that there is no way they could have known...they were asleep. This means that at least THIS portion of the bible is a fabrication. Now, if we know that ONE portion of the gospel is fake, then how do we know what OTHER parts are fake? The problem here is that the content of the bible is no small matter. Wars have been fought, religions and ways of life have been formed and crushed based on the words that ended up in that book and for some of it to be nothing more than the whim of some fiction writer and for us to not know which parts are real and which parts are fake is a BIG fucking deal. Now, it's easy for one to speculate on what might have happened...but unlike my theory of "what I say about the Pooh universe goes," thoughts like these shake the very foundations of lives and nations.
THOUGHT is the most powerful weapon mankind has ever known. All the power in the world began with one man's THOUGHT...before the drive, before the means, there was the idea. Where Snuffy came from is not a powerful concept, but ideas for weapons of mass destruction and ethnic cleansing...those are thoughts that the world hinges on. And all thought stems from man's struggle to make sense of the world and how to work and live with it, within it or without it. And knowledge...knowledge is NOT finite...not because there's an infinite number of THINGS to know about, but because the imagination has the ability to perpetually create an infinite amount of new facets for existing concepts.
Hmm...good thought, Kyle. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 14th, 2006|05:21 pm] |
For my 21st B-Day, I went to Las Vegas. I ended up coming home 300 dollars poorer, but I had a blast. Basically, the trip went something like this...
On Friday, we hit the road to Vegas...boy, we were happy then. I sat behind Jehisol, which is fun in itself...
On the way to Vegas, we ran into some interesting characters...
But, that didn't stop us. When we finally arrived, I couldn't believe the sights there were to see...especially the view from my balcony...
After taking in the view, we headed down to the casinos. Louie was loaded...
I forgot my wallet at home, but Louie was more than willing to help me out...
By the end of the first day, Adam was out of money...he ended up waiting for 12 a.m. so he'd be able to take more money out of the ATM machine...
But when 12 hit, you better believe where HE ended up...
Besides gambling, though, most of our time was spent taking in the city...
...and meeting the locals...
I even found myself a nice girl to spend some time with...
After the weekend was over, we were all pretty short on cash...
But, we sure left happy!
And that about sums up my 21 birthday trip to LAS VEGAS!!! Can't wait to go again...anyone game? |
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[Jan. 8th, 2006|11:03 am] |
I was up late the other night watching TV and I had the great luck to stumble across something wonderful. It's truly one of those gems of a show that only comes around every once in a great while. This new show is quite possibly the most fascinating show since VH1's "Strange Love" and DEFINITLEY the most exhillerating television-viewing experience since "The Surreal Life 3." You guessed it, I'm talking about...
[TRUMPETS: BUM BUM BUM BUUUMMMMMM!]
Yes, it's VH1's new entry in the annals of quality TV history, "Flavor of Love." In case some of you have been living in a cave since the new year, let me tell you a little about the show.
"Flavor of Love" features 20 young women like these:
 
vie for the attention of ONE man...
FLAVA FLAV!!!
The show consists of daily challenges (i.e. pantie parties and turn-your-stomach make-out sessions with the Flav-man himself) and at the end of each episode, Flav hands out clocks to the "hoodrats" he wants to stay with him in his "phat crib."
Quote, Flav: "Whoever ever get a clock, knows what time it is. Whoever don't get a clock - that means your time's up."
At the end of last week's episode, one of the girls, Cherry (nicknamed for the size of her nipples) was extremely disappointed, saying, "I just don't understand. I just don't deserve it. I'm like way better than half those chicks that he kept here...I don't wanna go home!" But, she was probably just mad because she let Flav feel her up earlier in the episode. Quote, Cherry: "His hands felt so good on my little Cocopuff..."
Eventually, Flav will, through a series of events (including a lie-detector test administered by Flav's Ex "Strange Love" and "Surreal Life" co-star, Brigitte Neilson... )
Flav will choose the love of his life. Of course, we all can't help but feel sorry for poor Cherry. Too bad she won't be spending the rest of HER days with this...
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