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I saw a private screening of Black Dynamite last night. I didn't know a thing about it, except it did well at Sundance. You'll be hearing about it. It's a "lost" Blaxploitation film, so it's in perfect style, perfectly bad good. Michael Jai White was amazing and it seemed perfect. There's everything in it. Pimps, Black Power, lovin', cuss words, Nixon, drugs, orphans, food, and a lot of...
I saw a private screening of Black Dynamite last night. I didn’t know a thing about it, except it did well at Sundance. You’ll be hearing about it. It’s a “lost” Blaxploitation film, so it’s in perfect style, perfectly bad good. Michael Jai White was amazing and it seemed perfect. There’s everything in it. Pimps, Black Power, lovin’, cuss words, Nixon, drugs, orphans, food, and a lot of strangeness. MJW is a humble dude, from his days playing Spawn to now this. His martial arts is a little too good to be from that period, but what the heck. Well done. The Sundance hit is sold to Sony. Sorry about the crappy photo. To end a night, it’s so odd to see this. It’s near 2:30am, in front of my house. David Choe and Harry Kim are eating Taco Bell on the hood of a rental car. It’s not the food, or the scene, but it’s the fact that they were talking about relationship stuff, and from afar anyone can hear the advice going back and forth. “That’s not what you should do!” “But, that’s what I have to do for her.” “Nooo, Harry! that’s stupid” in between bites of taco. It reminded me of some scene that didn’t exist from Lethal Weapon between Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. It was like seeing a buddy film.
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The pics might be out of order, but maybe not in my mind. That's Dave taking a bite out of a gigantic rib. I didn't know they come out that large, but then again, it's a cow and those are big. We're in Las Vegas. I think by now, we're at the Palazzo Hotel which is near the Wynn, but I ended up calling it the Nguyen. I went to Vegas for less than a day to see BJ Penn fight in UFC 94. The event was...
The pics might be out of order, but maybe not in my mind. That’s Dave taking a bite out of a gigantic rib. I didn’t know they come out that large, but then again, it’s a cow and those are big. We’re in Las Vegas. I think by now, we’re at the Palazzo Hotel which is near the Wynn, but I ended up calling it the Nguyen. I went to Vegas for less than a day to see BJ Penn fight in UFC 94. The event was grand and fun, even in the nosebleed seats which were going to be four digit money. Last time I was at the Wynn was Murakami’s event and I had dinner on Steve Wynn. He said an arms length away, and I swear I thought he was made of wax. He was actually pretty cool. Johnny Bravo, wait that’s not his name… it’s Mickey Avalon. That’s Mylan on the right, peering out of the car. Yes, only limo rides, buffets, and so on. Vegas is a weird place. Some people have great access to everything. I had that for less than a day. Lions at the Palazzo. Sucks to be them. David and Pat from RVCA. If you’re rolling in RVCA, then having the Toshiro Mifune hairdo is possible. If you’re rolling like David, then wearing an Adidas sweatsuit jacket with a big Vietnam logo on back is possible too. David also walked around with a pillow case with a hand drawn $ sign on it everywhere. Bets anyone? I lost on BJ Penn, but won on Karo Parisyan. Part of a buffet at the Wynn. People say that it’s the best buffet in vegas. I agree. But of course, you end up overeating and I was in pain for two days. That fat meat thing with pepper on it is bacon. It’s very harsh to your system. Mickey A and BJ Penn art. BJ lost in a harsh way. I wonder if he enjoyed the painting.
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Calls from telemarketers has got to be the most annoying calls you can get. I usually get them when I’m in a meeting, sleeping in late or away for work. What’s worse are the ones from your own cell phone provider. I got suckered into a call the other day from my cell phone provider. He hooked me by starting the conversation with, “You’re paying too much for you current plan.” He then convinced me to change to a cheaper plan with more minutes…cheaper by how much? 12hkd a month! Not much of a difference to make me jump for joy but since I had already been talking to him for a few minutes, I figured why not? Big mistake. He arranged to change my plan and even sent a customer service rep over to my office to sign the new contract and get the new sim card the next day. After signing the contract I was told to switch sim cards within a few days and the new plan would start.I switched cards that day but then realized I could only make calls. Somehow the sms function and the email functions on my Blackberry weren’t working any more. I couldn’t make long distance calls either and I assume my roaming function wasn’t activated either. After countless calls and tinkering back and forth turns out the guy that changed my plan, didn’t bother to reactivate all the features I had before. When I changed everything back to what it was before…it all ended up being MORE than what I was paying before. WTF? Wouldn’t you be boiling in your own skin if that happened to you? Nevermind that I was without Blackberry functions for 5 days(that’s a long time for a Crackberry addict like me) and wasted all that time calling back and forth, being put on hold a million times only to have the same plan I started with but more expensive! Seriously WTF? I kick myself now for even talking to the guy.Right after this happened an old friend coincidentally sent me the following email. It’s from Andy Rooney, that old guy who wraps up every episode of 60 Minutes. I wish I had received this sooner… Andy Rooney Tips for Handling Telemarketers Three Little Words That Work !!(1)The three little words are: ‘Hold On, Please…’ Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then when you eventually hear the phone company’s ‘beep-beep-beep’ tone, you know it’s time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting. (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to...
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