Dave Kellam

I watched eXistenZ yesterday, i think it was the first cronenberg movie I had watched in entirety. It was pretty good, it messes with your perceptions of the characters reality. It’s hard to figure out what’s going on, but that’s the point.

Drinking has been linked to high dropout rates in Irish universities. Read the last paragraph of the article, it’s pure gold.

Another uneventful day draws to a close. I performed a couple exciting tasks that included cleaning the bathroom and cleaning the kitchen. I also cashed my paycheck and picked up a few groceries. Holy shit, this is boring. I just finished watching platoon, which is a damned good movie and I can’t really explain why I hadn’t seen all of it yet. I had seen a few select clips from in in high school english, but that’s about it.
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I watched The Untouchables on television tonight. I hadn’t seen it before and thought that it was a decent movie. I found that it almost seemed short to me, they probably could have done more with it. I found the scene on the stairs in the train station, with the baby carriage, to be a tad on the over-dramatic side of things. I also finished reading Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbons tonight. It took me a little while to get into it, but I found myself drawn to it as I got further in. I haven’t read anything else by the author, so I can’t really compare it with any of his other works. Parts of it are deffinitely abstract and make you think.

Japanese doctors have discovered that it’s healthy for men to stare at women’s breasts. I want to know how people get funding to study these things.

Stephen Ambrose, the author of a new world war ii history book aimed at kids, is lambasted in this article. It’s essentially pointing out inaccuracies in his coverage and his pro-American attitude. It’s kind of nice to see a protest against some of the excessive flag waiving that occurs in the US.

Another interesting read is an article written by a war correspondant shortly after world war ii. It was linked from within the previous article.

Halogen has some damn cool stuff going on. I really like the look and feel of it.

Well I have a part time job as a carney in the amusement section of a local park. Ohh, the fun. I had my second day of work there this afternoon, I ended up with a mild sunburn. It was a bright sunny day until about 5:30 and then a crazy wind whipped up accoss the lake bringing with it lots of rain. They ended up closing the park down a little on the early side. And for some reason I have resorted to talking about the weather.

The sky is yellow outside, it looks like someone stuck some sort of filter over my window. It’s hard to say if this will turn into a saturday night in front of the computer, odds are now. But it happens. It’s staying light outside for longer with the summer soltice approaching quickly.

I just finished watching Ben Hur this afternoon. It was on television and for the most part without commercials. There was just one bank of commercials at the scheduled intermission in the movie, it was nice. The movie was one of those ones that I had been meaning to see for awhile and it just happened to be on television. I thought it was pretty good, especially considering that it was made in 1959 with the absence of computers.