Movies

So, what have I been watching?

I watched an episode of Walking Dead (Tv Show) and it seems cool. Maybe I'll watch more episodes in the future. Even if terror movies/shows just bore me and make me laugh.

I watched "Death at a Funeral" (US version) with Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence. Pretty funny, Chris Rock is hilarious and "Grown Ups" didn't make justice to his acting. There's a bunch of African-American famous actors there too, like Danny Glover, Kevin Hart and Tracy Morgan. I think it was the first time I found Tracy Morgan funny, I think the fact he doesn't have a major role was a factor in this.

I watched "Man on a Ledge". It's a good thriller. Not great, but it got up there with "Phone Booth" in the genre. Enjoyable.

I watched "Life as we know it". Rom-com with Katherine Heigl. I know, it's not my kind of movie or my kind of actress, but someone mentioned it was a good movie and I was bored one of these nights. It's not a bad movie, pretty decent, even if the end is so predictable.

I re-watched "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" with some friends. It's a great movie. Got addicted to some more songs from the movie.

So, I'll mention a few more soon, meanwhile here's one great song from that last movie.

"As I went down the river to pray, 

studying about that good old way

and who shall wear the starry crown, 

good lord, show me the way

Oh sinners, let's go down,

Let's go down, come on down,

Oh sinners, let's go down,

down in the river to pray"

Weekly Challenge - Seriousness (||)

Ok, I already failed, my brother was home for dinner with my parents and when I congratulated him on his new position on his congregation (he is Councillor to the National Superior - or something like that) he said jokingly "yeah, soon I'll be Pope" and I replied, "Yeah, we don't want that, if you get to Pope everyone will be poking around and digging dirt on your family members, and I have dirt that I don't want becoming public..."

And right away I remembered I wasn't supposed to make jokes for a full week.

Let's try it again. :)

This is going to fail miserably I think.

Weekly Challenge

Be serious for a whole week.

This is going to be fun. :)

And hard. :s

Christianity

There's no going back.

I've been on the other side. It's lonely and miserable.

On this side I'm never alone, my creator loves me, despite of all my sins, even the down moments are not so down anymore. I'm not ashamed of who I am anymore. None of it.

It doesn't depend on me anymore.

It depends on Him. I just have to let Him change me.

And let me tell you something else, I love all my friends, I truly do, I'm very blessed on that front. But Christians? People who walk with God for some time have something in them, they have flaws like everyone else, but there's this aura of niceness and unselfishness I can't see in anyone else.

I hope I let Him change me enough so other people can see that in me too. I want to be a lighthouse for other people to find God.

I truly look forward to it.

Fire Inc. - Nowhere Fast

Great old tune...!

Darling! Darling!

You and me, we're going nowhere slowly.

And we're going to get away from the past

There's nothing with going nowhere baby

But we should be going nowhere fast.

A great Quote from 'House'

Alvie: They broke you.

House: They didn't break me, I am broken.

- in House 6x01 - Broken.

Why is this so funny to me?

haha.

Pride (I)

I really think God is killing the last remains of Pride I have.

I didn't notice until recently, I'm really tainted with this.

A friend told me if I'm struggling with pride now, I'll still be struggling with it in 20 years.

I hope not.

This is toxic.

To become a better Christian I need to eradicate all of it.

And a quote of my own I just remembered

“Be a badass, not a jackass”

– Me, about one year ago.

Quote

“There’s no difference between a pessimist who says: ‘Don’t bother doing anything, it’s hopeless’ and an optimist who says: ‘Don’t bother doing anything, everything will turn out fine anyway’. Either way, nothing happens.”

– Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia

Song critic

Hmm... Maybe it's not exactly a critic, it's just a little more than simply posting the song.

"Kanye West ft Beyonce, Big Sean & Charlie Wilson - See Me Now"

Kanye West may be a crazy, egomaniac asshole (I'm not saying he is), but he does make great music.

And when Beyoncé's voice comes up? Damn!! Great tune...!

I know you see me now right now (x4)

I got my suit and tie

And I don't know if y'all know

Well, maybe y'all do

Or maybe y'all don't

But I don't really care

It's how we on it all the time

So I'ma get my money
Let's go

(...)

Number one (actually, zero, actually, 300 something...)

(I was writing a really good post to kick this off, at Starbucks, and noticed too late that the free Internet was only for 45mins :s)

Anyway, yesterday I got home, played a bit of World of Warcraft (yes, I'm playing that stupid game again, we'll talk about that someday later), and then...

Well...

Let me try to describe this, because it's been happening every 30mins since yesterday around midnight...

Here it goes...

This is really funny. Yes, even to me. Ok, ok, here it is:

Everything is calm, I'm doing something completely trivial, and suddenly my thoughts awake...

"OH CRAP! Not again... Rui... really? This shit again? We've talked about this... DAMMIT. Almost 1 year sober... I thought we were cured of this... Not... Not this... Not again... Dammit...!"

It's a stupid addiction. Even more stupid than World of Warcraft. It's not dirty, it's not detrimental to my health, it's just stupid. And it bothers me like fuck.

Anyway, I've been thinking on the best way of dealing with this... Nothing that'll work comes to mind, yet. But I'm not keeping it on my chest, I'm going to find ways to get this out.

It's funny, I've been at home for the last week and a half, for a bunch of reasons, and yes, I've been a bit closed off from everything and everyone, but I think this crap is going to make me go out again, even if it's not work.

So, tomorrow is booked, Thursday is half-full, Friday depends on either I'm showing to practice tomorrow (I have a schedule conflict with meeting George RR Martin), Saturday and Sunday I'm either working or I'll find something to do, actually, I just remembered something.

Hmm...

Anyway. that's about it for personal shit today :)

Hello my pretties

So, so, so, so...

Let's get productive again, now, shall we?

This blog is getting a little change of face.

Let's summarize what we want out of this: something that makes me write (first and foremost), personal daily stuff, music, funny and educational shit (less than in the beginning, but more than lately), rants (with a little change of attitude), Christian stuff (new), movie and book critics (old), statement and keeping track of goals/challenges

I think that's about it.

Let's get started.

Up-update

So............. I'll revamp this soon. A little change of face, a little update on how this'll work from now on.

Meanwhile, here's some tunes that I can't get tired of.

Another minor update

Friday I got home... "Finally, I can rest! Wait a second, whose voice is that?"

It was my niece.

Staying with us for a full week.

At least I can sleep as many hours as I want now, but still... As soon as I leave the room in the morning to take a piss or to go to lunch, I can't get any rest. Even now... As I'm writing this, the flood of questions and trying to climb my chair doesn't stop... This 5yr old terrorist has never-ending energy.

My brother arrives on Friday and take her. Guess what, on Friday, I have work hahaha

How fun would it be if I had a day to actually rest?

Ah... I can rest on my grave, right?

Anyway, I did play on Sunday game. My coaches kept telling me we were in dire need of players, especially on the secondary, so I made the sacrifice.

Almost made 2 interceptions, and playing on offense I did some great blocking.

Our team finally tried and scored with passes, that opened up our running game and we beat them up 33-7. Even our kicker scored 3 out of 5 extra points.

It was a good game.

In two weeks we're going to Galiza to fight the Spaniards.

What else do we have to say?

Too much and too little.

I need a break.

From everything.

From everyone.

Talk more later. When this brat goes to sleep.