My include files don't work anymore. Which is why ... there's no menu over there ( <- ). I'm working on it. Hopefully, I'll be able to get it all fixed. Sorry. For now. Use the "back" button.

Vacation movie count (so far): 3

Whip It
Pretty badass if I can be honest.

Book of Eli
Overall, pretty cool. Although, the secret twist ending ... completely dissappointing. The most realistic post-apoclyptic movie I've seen thus far in my life until the end. sigh.

Tangled
Awesome. Clever. Creative. Stars my boy, Zach Levi!! I didn't expect singing. For some reason, I really didn't expect singing. I was kind of dissappointed with the singing. Go see it though, now that you have been forwarned about the singing. There's really wasn't that much singing. There's only like five songs and they're all short, I just didn't expect it at all.

There's many reasons why American citizens are looked down upon by the rest of the world, and here's another one:

Google started modifying their logo years ago. It's kind of cool to hit up the google.com homepage and check out what historic event they are paying tribute to today. I think by far the greatest one what the anniversary of Pac-Man. But anyway today is Veterans Day which means many people are giving thanks for our troops at home and a broad for the many many many ways they have dedicated their lives to keeping us safe from the evil. I'm not trying to joke. I couldn't do it unless I had to. Seriously, hat's off guys. But I digress.

Their have been several reports and conspiracy craps about Google's logo today. Some people are appalled that the "e" which is partially covered up by the American flag looks like the the popular Islamic crescent symbol ... What the fcuk people?!?!? How delusional can people get?! I can't really even think about what to write besides: How stupid can you be? Seriously, how mindlessly ignorantly idiotic can you be?! Someone even said that the flag looks like it's on fire!!! Holy shit, Batman, it's the sun!!

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. I hate people so much sometimes.

That's it. I actually have nothing intellectually interesting to say about this. Just that it never ceases to amaze me how absolutely stupid some people are. I'm truly surprised a lot of people I meet on a daily basis have made it this far in life. I really hope that stupidity will one day be cancerous. We're over populated, we need something to liven things up a bit. sigh. Sometimes I desperately wish the Zombie Apocalypse would go ahead and start.

to consistantly fail is like a tennis pro taking a bribe to double fault. always handing over the match. it's not whether it's good or bad, hell it's only a game ... right? sometimes the game, is life and sometimes you have to step up and ........ i'm still trying to figure out what comes next. ain't life grand. I keep thinking there's more to life than what we perceive it to be. actually I know this to be a fact. it's just hard coming to those terms. because those terms haven't existed yet ... I need to hurry up and make another movie ...

Here it is. It is MINE!!!! It's movie time, folks!! It arrived a whole day earlier than originally expected!!! so TOTAL AWESOME SAUCE!!! Can you tell I'm excited. I mean the movies are going to be in 1080p now folks. The native picture resolution is almost 42"!!! What the funkified corduroy pants!!! No offense to my first camera, but Le vase's native resolution was like 4 inches. I'm just saying. We're stepping up in the world.

If you haven't seen, you might want to go through the movie pages. They's been updated, honkies!!!<sup>*





*</sup>I shouldn't assume that all my readers are white. But it's not like this is a highly read blog. I'm pretty sure that the only people that actually look at it are family and friends. Not that I don't have any black friends. I just don't know if they know about this website. Not that black people don't know about websites!! Now, you're just putting words into my mouth!!<sup>**





**</sup>The other day a friend of mine was telling a story via status update on Facebook about how she stumbled upon this black radio show in the morning that airs around here in Athens. They made a joke that if you wanted to befriend a white person then all you need to do is buy them a cup coffee. My friend found it funny, as did I. But two of her friends found it quite rascist. So I verbally bitch slapped them and they shut up. Here's what I said: "Way to propagate racism!! I applaud you in your continous efforts to take steps backwards and not grow as individuals and as a society!! Go whitey!!" Now most rascist individuals I talk to are not very well educated, so just in case you are an uneducated rascist, that was a clever use of sarcasm.<sup>***





***</sup>And for future reference I have been called a "brother" and a "niggerlover" before. The first by a black man who I hold to the utmost highest degree of respect, and the second by an ignorant rascist white man. Both times a great sense of pride overcame me.

Aimee and I relaxing on the couch.

At work.

We went to a fabric store sometime ago and they had these weird animal puzzle things. This is what Anna and I came up with.

Anna a few months back. Modeling her new shirt.

Anna at the Commerce outlet stores.

That's right. That's a whole 1lb. bag of MSG!?!?!

Our mailboxes at work got hit one morning. The remains were found almost fifty feet away from where they originally stood. (We have since gotten new mailboxes.)

I've been planning a post dedicated to something I call drive-thru etiquette. This situation will be discussed. This jackus ordered 20 chicken biscuits at the drive-thru.

I took the liberty of pixelating The Avett Brother so as not to ruin their freshly pressed suits ... actually, my phone camera just sucks. The concert was awesome. They didn't play the "Will You Return" Encore, but I guess I'll just have to go see them next time they are in town. I'm sure Aimee won't mind going with me again.

Anna with, although you can't see them all, five pigtails.

When read properly this reads: "We are closed. Sunday through Monday we will be opened. Tuesday through Saturday. At 9:00am, please call for appointment."

A surprisingly awesome picture from my camera. Not sure why I like it but I do.

As the sun rose this day, the man did proclaim: "This morn, I shall eat steak!! Because I can!!" So he put pan to fire (or electric stovetop) and in went butter. He seasoned the meat with Freshly Ground Pepper, Garlic, Kosher Salt, Love and Desire. And in a bold move he slow cooked the meat at low-medium heat to further break up the connective tissue of the steak. And then he ate. And it was good.

sorry, i'm a day late. with this completely unfitting tribute. but i'm working on it. maybe next year i'll have something worthwhile for you. maybe blackbird. and a smoke. and hopefully, i'll be on time.

i watched the first episode of bewitched today. i used to stay up super late watching shows like bewitched, i love lucy, and green acres all the time. one summer i visited my grandparents in florida and they were always in bed at like nine. and they didn't care how late i stayed up as long as i was quiet. sometimes i kind of miss those days. staying up late with the stephens' and the ricardo's.

My wife loves me. Amazingly she loves me so much that she thought it would be nice to show me Jenna Fischer's butt (the attached picture [above] from Jane magazine). Unfornuately, wherever she first saw the picture was an highlu unreliable source. Unless of course if "reliable" means downloading something that breaks a computer ... then hey, SUCCESS!!

newegg.com is awesome!! After Mrs. Fischer's butt deleted something from my Boot Record ... I needed a new hard drive. pup pup pow! 1TB after a 10 dollar instant savings and free shipping!! nah, couldn't be ... 65 chedder!! (that's monetary units to you scientists out there)!!

I'm pretty sure that I could be typing anything right because you are either a. you think Jenna Fischer is crazy sexy and haven't even read this because why would you, that's Jenna Fischer's butt up there. or b. you're greatly offended by my abrupt posting my a femals butt that you have left the page for other web pleasures do not include naked bottoms of famous actresses or c. you can read this because you're old. I have a goat. His name is Joanson Sunson. And he makes me breakfast every morning. One day he will leave me for the lady across the street and have little kids made of paper kits and plastic spoons.

perhaps ... i'm still thinking about it.

i decided that i needed to head this post off with a picture of the greho being interviewed by creative loafing at dragon*con two years ago. because the greho, my hetero life mate, and i will be going to dragon*con again this year!!

anyway, that wasn't exactly the point of this post but whatever. i'm famous for my tangents...

lego harry potter years 1-4 the video is out and it. is. awesome. just to let everyone know.

also,

I've talked about this before.

I've been smoking on and off, more on than off after I turned 18, since the the seventh grade.

My Uncle Tim offered me an interesting offer last saturday. He told me that if I quit for a year he'd give me a hundred bucks. There was some confusion as to when I would quit. When the year would begin and upon this we argued. You see, I wanted to quit the following day, allowing me one more night with which to smoke. He however wanted me to quit "right now!." "Right now" being the moment I told him that I was going to go outside to smoke. Regardless, I declined to accept his offer. In one year, I will not be 100 dollars richer. I told my uncle that I was going to smoke that night and then quit the following day. I then proceeded to tell him that I didn't want his money and that I was going to quit for a year because that's what I said I would do originally. That being said. I'm putting up a timer because I have nothing else right now to do with this site. Lately, I've been plagued with web design block. It's a vague misinterpretation of ones own web posting miscommunications and typing skills for chili. Or whatever.

I'm going to post this on the front page too.



If I even want to again. I'm not stupid, I know why he chose a year and not one week or one month.

So it's been two and a half days since The Rock was posted on samdeeds.com and YouTube and it's already up to 61 hits. Does anyone realize how awesome that is?!?!?! I'm an effing nobody. The only people who visit this website are friends and family of mine!! So 61 hits in two days ... is huge.

It's already being hailed as "superb!"* and "PURE FUCKING GENIUS!"** Show your support for your favorite neighborhood ogre!! ... Watch it here!!***











*Ryan Petty
**DAS GROENS!!
***or just scroll down to yesterday's post.

I am pleased to announce the arrival of The Rock: The Life and Death of a Sedimentary Icon: A Documentary!!

I didn't know that I was getting such good recognition for my mediocre web and mini-movie skills?!?! This is awesome. Starbucks has decided to celebrate my birthday and give everyone who goes in and buys a coffee a free pastry!!! How cool is that!! Those guys are so kind. I just can't believe that they even remembered me this year.

So on March 23rd, remember to go to Starbucks and get a free pastry and be sure to tell them, "Hey, I know Sam, too!!"
[insert thumbs up here]

The Rock: The Life and Death of a Sedimentary Icon: A Documentary is done!! March 27th is the official release date. So check back on March 27th around ... 7:00pm to see what all the hype was about. It's been a long journey and the weather has, frankly, been a biznatchio. The one good thing about it being over is that now I can start the next one. Which brings me to the next part of this post ... I am now accepting financial donations for the next movie. Make checks payable to me. And then send them to my house.^* Thank you.

Secondly, I found this:

And thought of you.

Thirdly, (sorry it was an after thought), Le Vase hit 319 hits on youTube!!! I don't think anyone realizes how awesome that is. If all of my friends and all of Greg's friend watched the video five times ... then we've gotten 300 more hits than what we thought was possible. (do that math, stevo!!)

... add another hit ... watch it here, Le Vase.






^*Yeah, I can start a sentence with "and" because I'm that BA, so shut it!!

The script for the Untitled Couch Project is complete. Filming is scheduled to start sometime mid-summer 2010. Yep, that's like five months away but The Rock: The Life and Death of a Sedimentary Icon: A Documentary hasn't been released, let alone finished, so that's what's the deal with the delay. The Rock is still on track for a mid-March release. More details on both movies to come, hopefully, soon.

... but I'm not going to talk about it right now.

So I just have to explain to the internet world how awesome my daughter Anna is. She, at the age of three, asked me if she could listen to some music. To which I said okay and we turned on Windows Media Player, the preferred Music Player here at samdeeds.com, but I digress. The song that she first wanted me to play was "Here Comes the Sun." After that was over, she requested "You Never Give Me Your Money." And then after that was over she said, "And now Octopus's Garden." I'm sorry to tell everyone else who has a daughter, but I win. I got the best one. I mean it's pretty obvious isn't it. I really don't even have to keep talking ... but I'm going to. I'm going to call the Awesomeness Commitee and tell them to go ahead and send her the Totally Most Awesome Award. They need not search further.

There is a parable called The Elephant and the Six Blind Men. It’s used by the some religious “philosophers” to describe that Ultimate Truth is not relative. Most people have no problem with other’s believing in something besides that of their own faith. Others think that believing something other than what they believe is wrong.

The parable goes like this.

There are six blind men, each have their hands on a different part of the elephant. The six blind men represent the six major religions of the world; Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Atheism. The elephant represent Ultimate Truth. Each man states what he is touching; a rope (the tail), a tree (the leg), a spear (the tuck), a vine (the trunk) ,,, and whatever else, it really doesn’t matter. But each man claims that he is right and that everyone else is wrong.

Now how this is used to say that religion is not relative to one’s own views is that not one of the men came to the conclusion that what they are holding is an elephant. There the religious “philosopher” stops and says “See, it can’t be relative.”

First, I’d like to point out that not even the religious “philosopher’s” beliefs, which ever religion he attributes himself to, is right. No one is right. That being said, I think that this parable is an incredible tool.

You see, most religious “philosophers” are going to continue and describe how their religion is obviously right for various reasons. These reasons are based on faith not fact and theories which, again, are not factually sound.

The parable is almost perfect. I say almost because when it comes to the concept of God one can’t compare this supposed infinite intangible being to something like an elephant. What should happen is this:

The six blind men are put around a small circular stage; small enough so that they all fit and large enough so that they cannot touch each other. On the stage is nothing. Each man is then instructed to reach above the stage and make their claims. As God is an intangibility so is what they are seeking. Each man may then make their claims on this Ultimate Truth and point out the wrongs of the others’.

This is what is going on in the world today. And people are killing each other over it.

What amazes me is that the three main religions of the world; Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, all came from the same place. The Christians broke away from the Jews to start another Jewish sect; it was never supposed to be a new religion, just a little branch. Islam was started for Jews to get back to their Jewish roots. Again, Islam was not supposed to be a different religion, just an offshoot. They all use the same book, The Old Testament, although each has its own translation. The Christians of course have The New Testament but the foundation is the same. And now everyone hates each other. Allah is Arabic for God. God is English for Allah. So even though everyone hates each other, the bare bones of these religions all believe the same thing. So where’s the problem. The problem is the people. The people choose to interpret the holy book differently. The people choose to branch off and then to hate each other. The people choose to reach over the stage and make their claims and shun everyone else. Nowhere did God actually change but people choose to interpret God in new ways because they felt the world was heading into a wrong direction. The people judged the rest of the world and said they were wrong. Which is funny because all three of these religions believe that God is the judge of all and that we as beings on this planet are not fit to pass judgment on others.

The concept of God is just that, a concept. We build our beliefs around our own personal concepts and most people find others whose concept is similar and they mingle amongst themselves. Not once have we ever talked about our differences as differences, we always talk about our differences as wrongs, even though when we reach upon that stage each of us is holding the same thing.

Just a few thoughts.

You see, snufflegogs like to laugh alot. So their favorite thing to do is to chase fiddlewacs. Why? It's because fiddlewacs are very clumsy runners... well clumsy walkers... they're just plain clumsy. And this amuses the snufflegogs very much.

What makes fiddlewacs so clumsy? Well certainly you've seen a fiddlewac,... yes? No?!? Well... Their eyes are on the backs of their shoulders, so they can see who's chasing them, and their very sensitive nose is located about 6 inches above their anus. Which is rather unfortunate, seeing as how they get gassy when they're startled.

I'm either a fat Ben Affleck or Greg Grunberg. I prefer Greg Grunberg (see above) for two reasons. He's a badass, and ... well that's about it.

We (Aimee and I decided to use facial recognition software the other day to see which celebrity we looked like and nothing cool happened but while we were looking for pictures to upload we stumbled upon two pictures that we had to upload. One was my World of Warcraft character Deedsy ...

As you can see that who was already a badass is even more of a badass because he looks like those guys.

The second picture is one of the lovely British actress, Emma Watson. Aimee wanted to see if we uploaded a picture of an actual celebrity if the program would generate them as a result ...

After we laughed we decided that it would probably be better if we found a pic that was more of a straight shot. So after visiting our local Google Images we tried again ...

Although, I still think that it's pretty funny she only looks 97% like herself.

I check jkrowling.com every now and then to visit her "office door." If you are a Harry Potter geek, you probably know what I'm talking about. Usually when she is in the middle of doing things she puts a "Do Not Disturb" sign up. You have to turn the time-turner to today's date to see it but it's up again. I've checked the door before using whatever date it happened to be when I looked, and I don't recall having seen the "DND" sign up. I could be wrong but it seems that she is up to something again. Perhaps, she has finally sat down and started the Harry Potter Encyclopedia she had alluded to writing shortly after Deathly Hallows came out. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I look at the currency rates between the UK and the US. One immediate thing I see is that we are doing better. What I mean by that is, that long swiggly line is going down, which is always a good thing for wannabe UK travelers. Another thing I see is that I should have gone back over for a holiday last January. sigh. Oh well. Now I just wish my Amazon Prime account worked on amazon.co.uk.

We were planning to go on vacation to London this September but I think we're going to have to wait. Although, you never know what might happen over the next couples months to swing things in our favor. If we do go, here's hoping the exchange rate hits 1:1.

I can't really give any details or say much about it. You'll see some familiar faces. There'll be more drama, more action. Possibly a samurai fight? A giant spaghetti monster? I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my head with this one. Actually I do but where's the hype for you in that. Oh well. Just announcing that after The Rock: The Life and Death of a Sedimentary Icon: A Documentary is complete (or in between shoots.) I'll be working on the next film from LRC International whose title can't even be disclosed at this point. Mainly, because it doesn't have one yet, but that besides the point. All the details, when they come up, will be posted henceforth on the movies page.

The Rock: The Life and Death of a Sedimentary Icon: A Documentary, while still technically in production had begun it's first round of editing. So far, the film is coming in at a respectable 4 minutes and 35 seconds with footage still left to be shot. It's looking good. Hopefully, it'll be coming to a computer near you very soon.

Sometimes I let my logical intellect have fun and contemplate if I would go insane if I went back in time to visit myself. If I had the means to time travel, that is. I’ve been thinking about this for years so that’s an advantage if I decided to go back, perhaps, last year. It wouldn’t be hard to explain to my past-self that I was from the future if I had already started contemplating the encounter anyway. Of course, no one knows what one would do if their future-self was suddenly walking towards you.

One minor downside; there’s the whole space-time continuum thing to worry about. Logically, meeting yourself would change your life as you know it and therefore might influence or negate the meeting all together. As soon as the future-you started talking, he’d immediately disappear because he no longer would exist in your future. And that’s what I really ponder over. Would it be possible to tweak certain circumstances of situations without causing a massive space-time breach?

The saying goes, “A butterfly flaps its wings in New York and cases a typhoon in China.” Something like anyway, I’m sure there’s hundreds of versions. But that doesn’t exactly make sense. It’s logical, but only to a degree. It’s more like something you’d see in a sci-fi movie than happen in real life. However connected the things are in this world, I guarantee it’s not to that grand of a scale. The world would be destroyed in about thirty seconds. Flapping wings; Typhoon; Hurricane; and then suddenly the earth just explodes because all the lava in its core erupted from the surface. The theory just doesn’t make sense. If everything is escalading exponentially then we’d be dead in a matter days.

But that’s not to say that we need to discount Chaos Theory altogether. Let’s say, I tweak the circumstances on the lottery. Yay! I just won 250 million dollars. Every bill I ever had trouble with just got a whole lot easier to pay for. I can buy a house, move to France, buy Rhode Island, who knows, this kind of action would most certainly case a rift in what my life had become to enable me to travel through time and visit myself. Not exactly a hurricane but you get the idea.

I guess, I should elaborate on one point at this juncture. I’m happy with my life. That’s the whole point of all of this. There’s nothing I would want to make massive changes to because I wouldn’t want to lose anything I’ve gotten so far. I’m happily married with a beautiful 3 year old girl. I own my own house. I have a decent job that allows me to provide for my family. Not much I’d like to see changed. So no, I don’t want to start over just tweak.

So I find myself trying to think of ways to outsmart myself. This is a classic time travel dilemma because rather you admit it to yourself or not, you have weaknesses and you know every one of your own weaknesses. You also know you’re strengths. You know how your mind works and you always assume that since your future-self is older than you’re smarter. But the giant folly in outsmarting your past-self is that your assumption is right, you are smarter and so that means your past-self doesn’t know what’s going on. He’s reckless. Any false move on his part and you’re toast and he doesn’t know what not to do. You see? It’s not as easy as the movies and TV shows make it out to be.

So you have to think about small changes. Changes that the space-time continuum are going to overlook. No big movements. Easy. You have to weight your every emotion. You have to be able to predict your unpredictability. If you slip yourself twenty bucks and then past-you goes and buys a lottery ticket and wins $50,000 ... poof! you’re gone. Every action might or might not cause that sudden life altering change that disrupts your whole tweaking agenda.

The more you get to thinking about it, the more you come to the understanding that you wouldn’t be able to make direct contact at all. Which would suck because who wants to go back and time and just stalk themselves? Yes, you’re helping yourself but it would be a lot simpler just to say ‘Hi, don’t do this, don’t do that, go here, buy this’ and then go back but it wouldn’t be that simple unless you just wanted to change everything drastically; which we don’t want to do, tweaking that’s our goal.

Would I go ahead and try if I had the capabilities ... I’d think about it and plan, plan the hell out of it and hope that if I needed to actually meet myself that my present-sanity would handle it.

...to be continued...

They pushed the release date back to may the fifth?!?! So balls on that!!! (or everyone who said FEB. 23rd didn't get it right)

apparently, it's snowing. so i'll be so kind as to tell the world why the majority of georgians are idiots. so, this is georgia. it snows here like once a year for a day and then it melts the next day. that's what happens. so why does everyone go out and buy all the milk, eggs, lunch meat and bread?!?!?! there's always this mad rush to the grocery store anytime there's mention of the word snow. if anything, we'll be snowed in for a day and i highly doubt that you'll be in great need of three gallons of milk, four 30 pack cartons of eggs, 8 loafs of bread, the equivalent of five small animals in lunch meat, 6 propane tanks, 58 AA batteries (as well as, 26 C and 16 D batteries), the 14 blankets you bought your family of 4 and dog to stay warm when you're power doesn't go off.

i just don't understand it. i have half a gallon of milk, a carton of eggs, half a meatloaf, left over white beans and rice, 3 or 4 frozen salmon burger things, a nearly full bottle of whiskey, four 2 liters of coke, and candyland. [insert thumbs up here] i'm set ... for the next week. georgia blizzard watch 2010, i'm ready.

well, i'll be damned, 2010. guess it's time to do a redesign. might take me a couple of days but i'll get it worked out eventually. happy twenty-ten!!

the movies page will be coming very shortly.

i am too tired to do any more work today and very soon i have to drive 60 miles across town.

also, according to anna i have a game of candyland to attend to.