So maybe I didn't go on a real vacation, but I have taken some time off from blogging. I've been a bit busy enjoying the summer.
I got a tattoo about a week and a half ago. It's the following line from the song Mrs. Robinson, "Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes." The words aren't tattooed but they are in two long black stripes on the back of my right arm. I do regret it a bit, but it's on the back of my arm so I don't have to see it very often, especially if I avoid mirrors and other reflective surfaces. I'll get around to taking a picture when I find someone willing to do it for me, as you can imagine it is difficult to take a picture of the back of your own upper arm.
I've also been promoted at work. I blogged last month about the diaspora that seems to be happening at my video store (I don't intend to find it and link back to it). Well we were short on underpaid supervisors, so I'm no longer an underpaid clerk. Can you feel the excitement? This has been a major reason for not blogging. I've been there a lot lately and my corporate overlords have blocked access to the entire internet except Rogers websites and the IMDB.
On top of that all I've been trying to watch movies again. Blogging kinda replaced that whole part of my life. War of the Worlds was awful. Litterally one of the worst films I've ever seen. Batman Begins was excellent. The Batman franchise has been saved from black rubber. Thank you Christopher Nolan.
I have nothing else to add.
Keep on Trangling,
Anthony
16 comments:
don't regret it babe, you have it for life now.
i regretted mine the day after- but i think it was just dehydration from vomitting.
yeah that's right- i puked, so what!!!
anyway...now i love it.
Glad you were on haitus for good reasons.
Congratulations for joining the tattoo world. Mine hurt like a bitch, but that was probably exasperated by the monumental hangover I had at the time.
I really like your tattoo, I think your's is my favorite of the tattoos that have been gotten as of late. It suits you and I think you will start to love it as time goes on
is it your first?
i have six little ones(well one big one) they all mean something very special to me. i seem to visit my guy when traumatic things happen to me, but i see them everyday and i regret them alot. except for one.
im glad your back. i was starting to get worried because you wrote about some depression not so far back and i thought it had maybe taken you over.
congrats on the promotion.
people, dont get drunk then get tattooed! that is the worst thing you can do! and NEVER EVER get a tatto on the top of your foot! it hurt more than all the rest of them combined.
LOL!
Saved from black rubber...tht is hilarious and oh so true!
Funny...I have the same tattoo, but it is hidden in one of my moles.
Haven't seen War of the Worlds yet... seeing as Star Wars III only just opened here last saturday, chances are we won't see Tom Cruise in his intergalactic debut until 2007.
I have seen Batman Begins, though, and I actually thought it was a bit 'maa-maa' (English doesn't haven't a decent word for it - just imagine me shrugging, and tilting my head slightly to the left). I thought it was OK, and Chris Nolan was well cast, but the whole thing left me just a little emptier inside...
Kallun, I think the English phrase you're looking for is "so-so", usually preceded by "eh?", the shoulder shrug, and sometimes a hand held out horizontally, moving in a see saw motion.
The French say "comme ci, comme ca."
I'm through with my international language lesson.
Further to Ubermilf's excellent treatise, the Italians say "Mweeeaauuuhhh" (or something like, it's hard to spell) and shrug emphatically with a spectacular grimace involving arching the lips and protruding the chin.
About the movies, there seems to be a concensus formed that Batman Begins ROCKS and a concensus building that WOTW sucks uncooked garden snails. I've also read that there are many times when the sound man's boom mike comes into shot in WOTW. Having not seen either film, I can't possibly comment. Any more than I already have.
Except to say sorry about the promotion, and yay for the tattoo. If you keep the tattoo on display then perhaps you can avoid further run-ins with increased work responsibilities, and thereby hold on to more blog time. :)
I love uncooked garden snails. They're my favorite of all the uncooked things in my garden. I have not seen any of those movies, mostly becasue I loathe the movie theater and the people there. We have some of the most awesome movie theaters I've ever seen and I hate every single one of them. Also I hate the people that go there, did I mention that. I think I did. Oh well.
I have a DVD player and a Netflix subscription for a reason. Sure I see all the "big" movies 7 months after they come out, but I don't give two shits or a fuck.
excessive vulgarity.
congrats on the promotion Ensign P-Diddy.
Thanks for the translations. I know thats the official translation that I can find in the dictionary, and thats what the Japanese people tell me is the English translation, and they try to use it, but maybe its just Australia because I have never heard anyone actually USE it. I know it exists in English, but its like saying "perambulate" instead of "walk"...anyway...
I know everyone says that Batman Begins is the bees-knees, but I've got a couple of gripes with it. Namely, the fight-scenes. They're too bloody quick for the human eye. I think I need the "Pow", "Bang", "Crash" signs that it used to have in the original to indicate to me when Batman actually connects his punches, because I just can't make them out.
Its like a blur of light, and then its all over. I'm like, "Wait... hang on.. go back... I didn't catch that." I get that he's crazy fast, and super-strong, that's great, but I can't see him beat-up the bad guys, and that makes me sad...
I love you Anthony. You're so cute!
Nick, do you have agoraphobia? Or are you socially maladjusted?
"I don't like live music. I don't like movie theaters. I don't like restaurants. I want to sit in my boxer shorts in the basement watching movies, so I don't have to share my milk duds or wear pants."
Live music is loud and annoying.
Movie Theaters are infested with people.
If the food was free I might go.
Pants are overrated and boxer shorts should be worn strictly by women. Mmmm... milk duds.
And yeah, I may be a little agoraphobic.
you're all the sunshine of my life.
adria - don't feel bad, the guy who got his tattoo done after mine passed out and broke the guy's chair.
kallun - is it possible that you don't see the punches connect because they don't? you know it's just acting, right?
milfy - you are truly a cunning linguist.
nick - i hate alot of stuff too, and usually people there are other people there. if i was there by myself it would be fine.
anthony - please post the photo. you've restored my faith in the wordy tattoo. but for now, i'm going to settle for getting my nose pierced.
good choice lozzy. as you can sometimes see in my photos, i've had my nose pierced for almost four years now. it didn't hurt at all and the aftercare for the first few months is minimal.
anthony, do you always have to be gone for a week at a time? we're really starting to miss you.
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