Day 96: I've Been Busy

Okay? So get off my back.

Day 92: Steady as she goes

Got a job interview. Won't jinx it by posting the details in cyberspace.

12 left to go in the AFI list.

Still 147 pages left in 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"

Sorry folks. That's all I got.

Day 91: The AFI 100

Back in 1997, the American Film Institute put out their list of the top 100 American Films. At the time I had seen 14. I started watching quite a few that summer. Mind you, this was before the days of DVDs and laptop computers, so I once ended up with a 20 pound tv/vcr combo on my knees in bed at 4 am watching A Clockwork Orange. That was traumatizing.

This constitutes a major piece of unfinished business. It was this list that first set me on the path to film school (and consequentially to unemployment and this blog? Trippy). Of course it also led me to discover David Lynch, Kurosawa, French New Wave, Cinema Verte and all sorts of pompous stuff. But enough of those distractions! It's time to finish what I began back in '97.

I have 13 left to go.

First up on the Netflix Queue is perhaps the most glaring omission: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

P.S. Wuthering Heights (1939) is not available on Netflix. If anyone happens to own this movie, let me know.

Day 89: (In)dependence Day. (Posted 48 hours late!)

Its the 4th of July. I'm blogging on the weekend and a holiday. (Not really I wrote this days ago and am just posting this now to look cool -- it didn't work did it?)

Alas, another Independence Day has gone by and my own independence seems just out of reach. I am still on a limited from of what I and my sister like to call Welterfare.

Welterfare is TOO big to fail.

I don't want anyone to worry. As far as I know there is no danger of this. But if the time comes for a government bailout, I want this to be the CW* already.

*CW in the political blogs means "conventional wisdom". On the TV blogs it is the 5th place network behind even NBC, that destroyed and then canceled Veronica Mars. You'll have to use contextual clues to figure out which meaning I am using.

I don't collect much in Welterfare these days -- though I guess my unemployment benefits do still come from them indirectly (see day 17). But getting off Welterfare is my bit of unfinished business to focus on for the day.

I'd also like the give the US of A a shout out this 4th of July for taking care of a bit of unfinished business and electing a black man to the highest office.

In all sappy seriousness, the collision of this revamped blog and Independence Day brings to mind the preamble to the Constitution. "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union..." It seems that this 233 year old experiment in democracy is one big unfinished work. (the constitution itself was a redo). So my preachy call to all of you is get and/or stay engaged and we can keep striving for a more perfect union.

Oh. And here's some Bill Pullman:

Day 87: Rosetta Stone

Para el navidad, recibia la programa Rosetta Stone para estudiar el espanol.

As you can see from the above sentence. I failed. I made it through level one, and most of the way through level 2.

But no worries, I can get right back on that caballo again.

I may or may not be going the Chile in 5 weeks, so lets learn some Spanish!

Expect updates in god awful Spanish when I finish level 2.

Day 86: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The first unfinished book on the list is the Jane Austen classic, but with zombies. I am currently on page 105 of 319. This should be an easy one to check off the list. A comedy of manners with zombies, it's a page turner. This one's cheating a little. I didn't ever stop reading it; it's just the most recent book I picked up and it needs finishing before I move on.

Official Stats:

Pages Read: 105

Pages To Go: 214 (picking up right where I left off)

First Started: 6/22/09

Time how long it takes me to finish!

Oh, and I finished off my bottle of Jack Daniels. It only had a little left, and it needed finishing.

Day 85: Unfinished Business

I've returned dear readers, if I still have readers, if I ever had readers.

Bad blogger! 2 whole months without a post. Well I have returned with new resolve. First on the agenda is unfinished business. Here is Bill Pullman to explain:

Okay, I couldn't find the clip I was looking for, but you know the one I mean. With Bill Pullman explaining how ghosts need to resolve their unfinished business to crossover to the other side.

Don't worry; I'm not dead. But I do feel Karmically its best if I resolve a few things, and maybe, just maybe it will lead me to my job. First on my list is this blog. Sure a blogger's work is never done. How can I say that the blog is finished? But I do re-resolve to get a job, effectively ending this blog (and I will actually blog the whole way there).

Second on my list: unfinished books. I can spot over a dozen from where I am sitting, books I started and never finished. This will be a challenge and regular feature on the Blog.

I have a few other things in mind, but more on those in the future, I don't want to spoil the surprise.