Author: Joel M.

We had a surprise birthday party for Heidi last night and it went over rather well I think. Eric Barton and I made a cake and wrote “The Cake” on it with red gel and also put a bunch of candles on it and wrote “The Candles” with arrows pointing to the candles in more red gel. Yeah, we wracked our brains to come up with what we should put on the cake. Then a bunch of cool people came over and we played cards and then went out into the storm-soaked wilderness to play a bunch of rounds of Zombie. It was great great fun. Heidi seemed slightly surprised, though I think that she really wasn’t surprised, it being her birthday and all. Today I am hoping to get a butt-load of editing underway with Baby Watchers, we seriously need to complete this project no later than August so we can work on the propaganda that we’ll use to pump up the premiere at Bowling Green Covenant Church on the 18th.

Well, I haven’t updated since before I went on my merry vacation. And now things are starting to clog my veins again. I mean, I have been to work twice now at or before 6 a.m., and it is painful, but I like it more than staying until 10 p.m. and not having much of a day left to have fun with.

But- hey. In other news I finally saw 28 Days Later when it came to my beloved Cla-Zel theatre in B.G. It was pretty stinking cool, made cooler by the fact that it was done digitally. And also made cooler by the fact that it was done far more creatively than most zombie movies are. Now this only leaves The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Hulk, Pirates of the Carribbean, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, A Mighty Wind, and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas on my summer “to watch” list. And then there are plenty of other movies that will be making the rounds soon.

Well, I am out, other news forthcoming.

Well it has been nigh on a month since I posted last and I figure I ought to let you all know what’s been up before I skip out of the door and into Michigan for a few days. There hasn’t been a whole lot going on, save for the fact that I was in a little play production called “G.I. Jukebox” with a co-worker. Midway through putting on this play I discovered that my co-worker (whom I had to dance with every night) was indeed a stripper and possibly pregnant. Needless to say, this made me concentrate even more on my acting skills as I tried not to freak out every time we had to hug at the end of a slow song. Yes, I endured and played many many many games of Zombie during this month of internet silence. Today my dogs pooped in the garage, but that’s ok. Anthony Sitter upped and left for the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland today and we had a farewell hug and picture. It was a good stinky time. Over the past month I have learned a great deal about living in the summer…. huh, well I can’t really think of what I’ve learned. Oh yes, there is a movie filming now that I am helping out with, Jeremy Cordy’s immensely funny “Baby Watchers” which is going to knock the socks off of “Ready, Set, Bad!” (no offense Justin), mainly because I stay BEHIND the camera in this film. Anyhow, we’re gonna print off some huge posters for the movie at Saddlemire in the coming weeks and then we’re going to have a fun fun fun time editing it… holy crap editing is going to be hell, but it will be fun too and well worth the efforts. Well, that’s all the poop that I’m going to post for now, so, until my next post, which will likely be within a few days, I bid you all farewell.

Joel

played zombie a bunch of times last night over at Eric’s which was super cool. Today I worked a bunch at Panera.

Now, when I work, I get the idea that I will toil onward through the day, and go home exhausted or at least hungry and shaky feeling. Today, a number of people irked me, pissed me off, disturbed the fragile splintering placidity of my personality and provoked me to anger. I was very upset when I came to the back of the house, only to find my precious green soapy water sink drained and left for dead by a thoughtless employee who obviously couldn’t tell or didn’t care to check that I had just filled it up. I groaned and filled it back up. There was only one person taking other people’s money and the people behind the slow-to-decide-oh_i_think_I’ll_use_my_credit_card slowpoke customers were getting angry. Society is so high strung on speed (actual speed, not the drug slang word) I hate it. I hate it when people leave their soup after only eating two bites of it. There are starving people who gladly would’ve eaten that for you, you sick rich American pig! Then the young inexperienced sarcastic manager came in and started harassing me for being lazy. I had to wash dishes, clean tables, stock supplies, brew coffees, manage garbage, cut samples, ring up customers, make drinks, mark sheets, and watch a bakery for friggin cripe’s sake!

Don’t friggen sass me about why I can’t seem to keep up with things… geez.

So anyway, the point of this story is not to bore you with the more work elements of work… but to tell you of the female coworker of mine who came in as I was preparing to clock out and asked me “do you know how to swing dance”

I do, and she does too. She is in the Black Swamp Players production of G.I. Jukebox, a little musical written for the Delta Queen Steamboat Company a few years ago. Anyways, I’m in it now as a swing dancing sailor with a foul mouth and a penchant for large ladies and bourbon. You all (meaning anyone and everyone who knows me, has heard of me, and ever thought of me in passing) should come out to one of the six shows: June 13,14,15,20,21,22

And the cirlce is completed…. man, it’ll take a million years to load my blog now.

It’s good to have you back, Eric.

“What good will it do us to learn many things, the knowledge of which will not help us on judgement day, nor hurt us if we do not know them? It is foolish not to learn those things which are necessary for us and to waste our time on those that end. For if we do so, we have eyes but cannot see.”

-Thomas A Kempis, THE IMITATION OF CHRIST

Divine Reasonings Of Faith

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33

Immediately we look at these words of Jesus, we find them the most revolutionary statement human ears ever listened to. “Seek ye FIRST the kingdome of God.” We argue in exactly the opposite way, even the most spiritually-minded of us- “But I MUST live; I MUST make so much money; I MUST be clothed; I MUST be fed.” The great concern of our lives is not the kingdom of God, but how we are to fit ourselves to live. Jesus reverses the order. Get rightly related to God first, maintain that as the great care of your life, and never put the concern of your care on the other things.

“Take no thought for your life…” Our Lord points out the utter unreasonableness from his standpoint of being so anxious over the means of living. Jesus is not saying that the man who takes thought for nothing is blessed- that man is a fool. Jesus taught that a disciple has to make his relationship to God the dominating concentration of his life, and to be carefully careless about everything else in comparison to that. Jesus is saying- “Don’t make the ruling factor of your life what you whall eat and what you shall drink, but be concentrated absolutely on God.” Some people are careless over what they eat and drink, and they suffer for it; they are careless about what they wear, and they lok as they have no business to look; they are careless about their earthly affairs, and God holds them responsible. Jesus is saying that they great care of the life is to put the relationship to God first, and everything else second.

It is one of the severest disciplines of the Christian life to allow the Holy Spirit to bring us into harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these verses.

— Oswald Chambers, MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST

Well, last night I played some Risk with Andrew, Sam, Josiah and Mike. It was good times. We braved whipping winds and wet streets to go to the old Taco B. and have some vittles afterwards. Justin Edwards had his graduation party yesterday and it was considerably more successful than his birthday party was. Today the winds continue and I’m sequestered in my room, updating my blog before I set about the herculean task of cleaning up and organizing my room. Looks like the weather will be wonderful for the very first softball game(s) tonight. Oh yeah, in my surfing adventures today I’ve unearthed quite a treasure trove of new links to enjoy. One of them is a Cinephile forum site: XIXAX.com. And another is P.T. Andersons’s Website.

¡Adios!

Well there is hardly anything to report other than the fact that I am done with History for good. I hope I pass. This year has sucked grade-wise, I mean, VCT classes haven’t been that bad… but boy oh boy, Ethincs Studies and History have kicked my butt this year. Theater class was brutal but very good and I learned a lot and I think of all the classes I’ve taken it’s given some of the most valuable skills, right up there with my Photography class last semester, my VCT 204 class this sememster and my Video Essentials class. Yup. My finish this year should be a mixed bag of crap and gold. Gold with poop on it is still valuable, but it’s kinda gross.

I only have to say one more thing: I am a poopslob crapface. No, no, not literally, I am actually a jerk. Jerks wait for three days to see X2 with their friend coming home from college and then at the last minute go and see it anyway without him when he would have been back home in a mere hour. Jerks do this without any good excuse and then they laugh but they don’t know why, because they know that they’re dirtbags and deserve to be shot or worse. Jerks then sit around and make sport of themselves for being jerks, and then they get what’s coming to them when they least expect it.