I hate most wedding announcements. They are boring, fake, nothing elegant, not original and most likely use that font called, wait for it, Papyrus. Oh how this world can do with out. But, this post is about how something can have a million plus dollars spent on it, yet that gross creepy typeface will sneak in to ruin everything. PapyrusWatch.com is where you can report your findings. Kind of like the people of WalMart site, and how we must make fun of them, I as a person who cares what font some one uses will make fun of Papyrus. woof.
But, it gets better. Avatar, yes you've prolly seen it, but i haven't. But guess what, Papyrus made it into the movie. Double woof. Anyways here is a letter of thanks from Papyrus to Avatar/Mr. James Cameron.
Dear Mr. Cameron,
A letter such as this can hardly do justice to the overwhelming gratitude I’m hoping to express herein. Your most recent film, Avatar, has finally legitimized my work in a way I’ve only ever dreamed of.
Goodness knows I’ve worked hard the past 26 years to make a name for myself. And it’s felt great coming to the aid of New Age spa owners, suburban party planners, and young couples looking to save money by making their own wedding invitations. But only now, by appearing in your movie, have I been given mainstream, high-level recognition as a serious typeface. And for that, I thank you.
Imagine my delight so many months ago at seeing the trailers and posters for this, your much anticipated return to science fiction movie making. To see the title AVATAR (all caps!) typeset in yours truly. Well, I practically wept. And to be rendered in such an artificial luminescent way... finally, in the hands of a true visionary such as yourself, my potential to look totally badass had been realized.
Little did I know that that was only the tip of the iceberg (no Titanic reference intended!). After seeing the finished film (in Imax 3D of course), I can easily say it is the greatest movie ever made! To think, among your many bold choices as a filmmaker—soldiers who fly helicopters despite mastering interstellar travel; inexplicable floating mountains; and humans still petty enough to commit genocide in order to acquire precious minerals such as the very cleverly named unobtainium—that I would be one of them. Kudos to you for not spending a single cent of your massive budget on an expensive, attractive font for the subtitles, and opting to put me to the task instead.
Shockingly, as if you hadn’t already done enough for me, when the title card appeared at the end of the picture, there I was again! Chills, I tell you, chills. I hardly have words, even now, to describe my sheer admiration for this final master stroke: glowing, green letters filling every inch of the screen. A lesser director man might have settled at filling the screen left to right, but not you. You saw me, in my humble proportions, and said No, not big enough. Undoubtedly, a few mouse-clicks later, your most talented technician had me soaring to new cap-heights. Let me never come back down.
Thank you Mr. Cameron, thank you!
Yours in friendship and wanton servitude,
Letter from Pr*ttySh*ttydesign
kbye. Don't use Papyrus and we can become/still be friends.
Read Hipster Runoff for your fix/breakdown of the Super Bowlz. Below is "I AM CARLES's" conclusion to the Super Bowl.
Does the Super Bowl bring humans together?
Is Hurricane Katrina ‘over’?
Is Haiti Earthquake ‘worse than’ Hurricane Katrina?
Should we pull troops out of Afghanistan?
Will New Orleans be destroyed by a Hurricane withing the next 5 years, making this Super Bowl victory irrelevant?
Who is the most marketable athlete?
Do lifestyle brands ‘waste money’ on Super Bowl ads?
What product r u gonna try because of the Super Bowl?
Do sports ‘matter’?
Is American Football overrated by Americans?
Is the World Cup the only pure sporting experience?
Predicted Super Bowl Halftime shows performers for the next 10 years:
2011: Kings of Leon
2012: John Mayer + Justin Timberlake
2013: The Killers + Jay-Z and Beyonce
2014: Arcade Fire / Death Cab
2015: Lady Gaga
2016: Coldplay
2017: Vampire Weekend
2018: The Beatles [via hologram]
2019: The Black Eyed Peas
2020: Washed Out, Neon Indian, Justin Bieber
(Who do yall predict?)
This is going to be there short version of my decade/year. The longer detailed version can be read in Pt. II.
I am just going to start naming things off that meant something to me, ready, set, go...
Music, internetz, Hema, junior high, work, Datsun, hair, rock n roll, punks, surf, folk, Annie, Stu, Justin+Katie, sports, rap, hip-hop, hippies, design, Stu, Jake, parents, high school, Idaho, aunt Vangie/uncle Kim, TBS, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adobe, Mac, tight jeans, Mitzi, Barbie, Mason, B.Flow, The Killers, Los Lopez, Heimuli's, stuff, blah, blah, blah,...
I give up, just finish reading my long post in Pt. II.
kthxbye.
Well, I just thought the world was ready for this. Another GOFFGOUGH creation lies before you.
No one should ever have the power to dictate your life. Choose your own adventure. You can't always win. But you can always play by your own rules.
-Gabe Saporta
I HATE Halloween. Its lame. Its pointless. People should not need a holiday to get dressed up. Its just a fake holiday. But thats now that this post is about. What its mostly about is how I had the worst, I mean WORST weekend I have ever hard, and it happened all on Halloween day.
But before I get into that day particularly, I'm just going to let you in on something that happened last weekend. On my way to see the movie It Might Get Loud, a documentary on the electric guitar, I got in an accident and rear ended someone who stopped on a green light in the MIDDLE of the intersection. WTF right. Oh and PS, the movie I was going to see, quit playing the night before. FML.
Now to Halloween. On paper, the day itself was supposed to be a decent day, besides the fact it was Halloween. But who are we kidding, it sucked. It started out fine. I was in the right place at the right time, yet I still got screwed over. My car window got bashed in and my stereo was stolen. Of coarse I filed a police report, but we all know that does nothing. Whoever stole my subs and amp out of my trunk, broke my passenger window, glass was everywhere, then reached over and popped my trunk and wiped everything out. Left my CD player in the dash, but my trunk was left empty. Who ever did it prolly has a dozen CD players laying around and didn't need my ghetto one cluttering up their stash.
Not only did they ruin my car, they ruined my plans for the day. I was supposed to be going to an MFO, (mandatory-family-outing with my parents, one of my brothers and his wife) which was lunch and the Michael Jackson movie, This Is It. Luckily I have an awesome older brother who helped me out. While I called him only to tell him his stereo stuff he was letting me use was stolen, he just started to help by calling around and finding me a window. After finding a window at a junk yard, its almost time for the movie, since he wasn't going to the movie, he drove me back to Salt Lake and then volunteered to replace my shattered window while I was with the other half of my family. How nice is that?
By making the rest of the night as good as I possibly could with a start to a crappy day, I decided to relax in the hot tub. Once again, I get screwed over. My phone ends up being too close to the tub and gets covered in steam, leading my phone to look and act like its been in a puddle for the past hour. So now to top off my day, my phone decides to quit working. All in one day that people call Halloween, my car gets jacked and my phone breaks. This day was HELL. Happy effing HELLoween.
Now, I know this sounds like a poor me blog post, but srsly people, I just blame Halloween. They say bad things come in sets of 3. Lets count them out...
1. I got in a car accident last weekend
2. My car window got bashed into pieces and my stereo gets stolen
3. My Blackberry, my life, gets wet and now its just a fancy paperweight with a keyboard I guess the one thing I'm grateful for out of all this is my the fact that I still don't have the Swine flu. \
How am I late on this? Why didn't anyone tell me about THIS? I feel as if I've been lied to for the past couple of years. Well i guess its better I find out now rather than later. Mark my words, I'll bring it back from the dead in the next 10-40 years. You just wait.
This has been building up for a while now. I thought I could just calmly keep it to myself and things would work/die out for the better. But it hasn't. The topic here is the word LEGIT. It can be a good word, but in this day and age, I hate the word legit. I hate that everyone uses legit to describe anything. I hate that people made bracelets with the word legit on it. I hate that people who use legit think they're cool and have a huge vocabulary. I hate that legit is so common to use that its lost all of its originality to speak of. So please for the sake of me, please don't use legit like you own it, because if you do, I will think less of you. Thats a promise. PLEASE don't use the word legit. I beg you.
Along with legit, I have a list of other things I can't stand in today's society.
This list includes:
-the word 'chillax'
-the term 'Cali' when referring to the state of California
-when cause is spelled 'cuz'
-when people use emoticons in every message I get from them, when in reality they would never make that face toward me when saying said message in person.
(In my opinion, the people who do these things, are the same people who are texting with emoticons and every other word is legit, oh and they probably spell cause 'cuz' and they talk so much about how they had the best time in 'Cali' while they 'chillaxed' at the beach the whole time....)
-I hate corn. I hate corn-on-the-cob, I hate popcorn, I hate anything with corn in it.
-I hate cotton candy.
-I hate pajama pants, I hate when people wear them in public or to bed.
-I strongly dislike the mid-life crisis, muscle bulging dude (or female) who wears Ed Hardy and Affliction clothing.
-I hate when people throw up peace signs in EVERY picture they take of themselves, or that their friends take of them.
-I don't like how the radio is powered by ads and not music, but when the music does come on, I get mad and wish it didn't suck the originality out of people listening to it. I always feel like an old grandpa when I listen to the radio, I'll hear a song and think to myself, 'Oh, so this is the song everyone has been singing lately.'
And you get my point, just about everything can bug me in one way or another... The list could go on. But, FOR THE LOVE, please stop doing these things.
Thank you.
What am I supposed to say? If you want to be 'different', you are going to have to be 'different' along with everyone else who thinks they are 'different'.
But, I do however think that people have a right to be whoever they are, not whoever social protocol tells them to be. When you do the things you want to do, you do them well, and awesome. When you do the things you hate, you'll be unhappy. If you try and fake your way thru it, people can tell. All I'm saying in this cluster of words is the fact that people need to be what they are comfortable with. Not what they THINK they want to be. But, hey, don't you have to want to be, before you can be?
If you get anything out of this, I commend you, because I wrote it and I don't really know what I'm trying to get across. Bah.
I know I'm a few hours late on this post, but I seriously need to pay my respect to say the least. Think about it, we all need to do this. I remember everyday in 8th grade listening to the 'Bad" album every morning, then listening to the 'History' album to finish the day. From his dance moves that tried and tried to be emulated, to the music that everyone loved, no matter what it was, Michael Jackson started a lot of trends that changed just about everything.
How about we now talk about something a little bit more serious... Is this the time frame where its possible to see the Beatles songs to be bought back from the name of Michael Jackson, or does the legacy of all the songs die with the man who owned them? It will be interesting to see how much they all sell for, and what actually happens.
All in all, you know you'll miss him, and if you say you don't, then you're the problem in this world.
Dang. I'm so ungrateful its unreal. I know now that I officially hate things that must be perfect. This list includes, weddings, Christmas day, New Years Eve and now my birthday. I'm not saying I hate these days, its just that I expect way too much out of them and always come away with nothing. I'm ungrateful. I'm selfish. I'm a wishful thinker that expects too much. This too shall pass, Lets see here, now to something more original. How about we get some creative energy going on and take everything we now know to the next level so we can all be awesome. Lets do this. We all need this to happen for the sake of natural progression.
Now with that said, I'll put this picture of what makes me happy. It has an edge that can make some people feel a little uncomfortable which will make me feel a little bit better. And its my favorite person to follow on twitter, the one, the only, Sarah Morrison.
Oh wait, I just remembered I made a fort out of bunk beds the other day. That alone should be amazing. Save summer by building forts.
Today is a great day. Starting the day off by sleeping in, then watching about 3 hrs of That 70s Show. But even better, the holiday is great for the fact that we don't go to school/work. But to trump all that, this day is in remembrance of what could be a pivotal part of the 60s. This day is known to be all about civil rights, the rights everyone has, no matter what. How great is the day that we can celebrate what our country has done, and name that day after someone who lead movements, who lead half this nation, who brought this nation together in the end. And, to top it off, the whole Obama thing is happening before we know it. Boom.
Just be grateful for what we are given today.
Right now I'm an official hater. Hater of what? many things. First, snow. second, cold weather. third, my stupid psychology teacher. fourth, actors that ruin the movie. The current actors I hate right now are Samuel L. Jackson & Robin Williams. The last 2 movies i saw they were in them (separately) and it made me just hate the movie and made me hate them even more for making me hate the movie. The movies i saw were August Rush and Jumper. Robin Williams looked exactly like Bono from U2 and it was killing me alive. Seriously. Next Samuel L Jackson was in Jumper and he had white hair. WTF? what black man wants white hair? it looks HORRIBLE! and he was the bad guy and so was Robin Williams and I hate the bad guys or the cops that suck like in the movie Disturbia. That cop sucked. But anyways... I really-really-really don't like these actors very much. Enough said.
Now, my psychology instructor, Minen, on the other hand, he just sucks at teaching and his tests are even worse. He will just open the book read from it and if he knows more about the topic he'll start writing things he knows about it on the board. If he gets side tracked, which he always does it takes a solid 10 min each time he does and that just leads to more stupid things. He repeats the same jokes time after time each class hoping someone new might laugh but really nobody cares at how stupid he is. His tests are so wordy and make no sense, all the answers are correct but the catch is you mush select the most right according to him. WORST TEACHER EVER, besides: meyers, boyd, rich, progess, and i'm sure there is more, but none the less, horrible at teaching. I hope he reads this is starts to get his butt in gear and teaches me something so i can do good on his worthless no good tests and pass his class from you know where.
Its official, i'm a HATER.
Lets see, whats next? oh the gay kids that deny their homo and it would just make things better for everyone if they just admitted they were gay. If not, then start acting like your not. You know who you are, and you know who he is. Watch out your probably next on my hate list.
This is all so funny and so true. Straight from Sarah Morrison herself.
-”LA will never make you famous”-No one cares how many times your picture has been on the Cobrasnake. There is no section for that on a resume. Unless, you are a DJ or aspiring CW star leave LA now.
-”Once you have lived in LA you will never live anywhere normal again”-Try moving to Philadelphia. Seriously try it. You will want to die.
-”Do nothing for free”-If people “need” you to do things, they are things that make them money. They are asking you to do these things so they make MORE money. They are asking you to do things for free because they are cheap and are using you. Oh and by the way “Intern” is just another word for slave.
I officially just gave up my current dream of being an LA hipster. oh well I'll cut my losses now.
Skip from the movie Lords of Dogtown kicked the can... total loss of a great character.
Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger was found dead in a New York apartment late Tuesday afternoon. The star of such critically acclaimed films as "Brokeback Mountain," "Monsters Ball" and the upcoming Batman sequel, "The Dark Knight," Ledger was 28.
An NYPD spokesman told MTV News that the body was found at approximately 3:30 p.m. As yet, there is no official cause of death, although CNN reported that the NYPD suspects a possible drug overdose. "Pills were found in the vicinity of the bed," police spokesman Paul Browne told CNN. "This is being looked at as a possible overdose, but that is not confirmed yet." The pills appeared to be over-the-counter sleeping medication, police spokeswoman Barbara Chen said. Ledger was unresponsive when he was found by a housekeeper who had gone to wake him for an appointment with a masseuse, according to Browne. The New York Times reported that an autopsy will be conducted on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the office of the city's chief medical examiner.
"This is an unimaginable tragedy. Heath was a true artist, a deeply sensitive man, an explorer, gifted and wise beyond his years," said Todd Haynes, who directed Ledger in the recent Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There." "There is no finer person on this Earth."
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