El Cielo

Work is back up and running and with that I can see some decent money coming my way in the future. I’d been promoted at the end of last year and every consecutive year we get a pay bump so yeah two more dollars an hour is awesome. It’ll make a plan seem that much more attainable.

My second year at the SRC blew the first one away not just with my ability on the phone, but with the sheer amount of badass friends I’d made. This year has started with a bang in terms of the amounts of surveys I’m getting and fuck you, I take pride in my work. I was only an average, I don’t give a shit worker in pretty much every other job, this one I’m good at and I take pride in it. I even go over my breaks and still bring the awesome sauce.

I’ve gained weight over my break from work due to lazyness and I’ve lost a kilo already with the amount of walking I’m doing. I’m reading more and I’m more motivated. I need some kind of routine to get my ass into gear. With this motivation I hope to use it to y’know actually do stuff.

Transient Global Amnesia

Some of the shit you see at work could be hilarious if it wasn’t true. Though the person suffering sever depression and anxiety for innapproiate criticism, might have been home schooled or is just a natural panty waste. Also the guy suffering depression from working in at a place with so many cultural backrounds should just up an retire right now.

TGA though? Fuck that why even bother putting him in the sample list for the survey?

No I’m not going to have sensitivity training.

All Talk

Engaging in small talk with someone you didn’t expect can be just as good as an important conversation.

Midnight of the Century

Ever have one of those nights where there isn’t really anything to do, but sleeps the last thing you wanna do?

No? Yes? Ahh who cares I’m a gonna watch me some DVD’s.

Owls & Roosters

I am, but not always, drawn to ambitious TV. The Prisoner for reasons that need not be explained, 24 for it format and balls, the reimagining of Battlestar Gallactica, Twin Peaks, the Wire and the Shield. I finished a series that got cut short, it was the darkest and most bleak piece of drama I’ve ever seen and I’m a huge fan of Oz. I’m talking about the bastard child of Chris Carter, Millennium.

As a whole it’s a compelling and disturbing series, but what makes it worth talking about is its second season. The Prisoner would be nothing without its final episode and in a slightly lessor vein Millennium would not be worth talking about if the second season never happened they way it did. The show was basically serial killer of the week show, before serial killer of the week shows became popular. Towards the end of the first season it had dipped its toes into some supernatural stuff, but as a whole it was a rinse repeat deal. Then season two comes along, with two different show runners who took what could have been a formulaic series into deeper and darker territory, it explored different kinds of horrors and formed a mythology for the show.

The Balls on the guys, James Wong and Glen Morgan, were massive, they made a season filled with horror (like season one) despair, intrigue, finally a full on apocalypse.

See a formula can be boring, but when you turn it on its head and you explore things only teased before, you can come up with something truly mind blowing, as powerful as the final fate of number 6 or as ambitious and weird as the red room. Are Millennium cancelled after 3 seasons a year short of 2000, but you’re impact on me has been great.

Metaphorical pies

I dream of many things and sometimes think I’m a child of six who wants to be a fireman or an astronaut. Many people know what they want to do and they set about in doing it, study hard, get a career and make something of themselves. Then there are the people who get a bit older, older, older still and they don’t know what they want or they want too many different things and cannot choose between them. Most people find a passion or an obssesion that drives them, the one thing that will take them on a journey whether sucessful or not, they do it anyway.

I know what I want when it comes to anything other than a career and while there are things I like I have no passions. I’m twenty seven and I still have no idea where I’m going.

A Taken For Mad Odyssey

No I’m not immune from using an Arthur C Clarke reference for the blog.

I’m, for a reason I can’t yet put my finger on, am pumped for the year ahead and thats only because I have some things I wish to achieve this year and that unfingerable reason I believe I can actually do them.

Season 3

I’m finding it hard to wrap my brain around the fact I’ll be starting my third year in the same job. I’m usually in and out in a year, move on and do something else.

Luminary

Some films or episodes of a TV show I’ve seen before I can’t be in the room when other people experience it for the first time. Whether they like it or not is important to me sometimes, but I have to be prepared that others will find it average or hate it.

I had an experience with a slice of TV recently where I had to leave the room till it was done. Coming back to ask them what they thought I got an “All right” and a half sincere “It was good” It figures though, the episode took me a couple viewings and a podcast discussion to appreciate it. I’m not saying everyone needs to do what I did to get a love for it, but I was disappointed only because I really wanted them to love it as much as I do. It happens.

Sooooooooooon

Been missing from here for, well too long, but I’ve got no internet at home. I’ve got some stuff to write about so I’ll flood the place when I’m reconnected and can take my time with what I want to say.