Amadeo Sogni

So once again I have been tagged. Which is good cause now I don’t have to think of something to write about. Bonus is I get to write about me…we all win.

The parameters:
1. Link the person who tagged you - NinaMM
2. Mention the rules in your blog
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking to them
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blog letting them know they’ve been tagged.

6. I crack my jaw (hands free) 5 times daily.

1. I have internalized most rules of conduct and protocol, but don’t get to use them cause most other people don’t.

I’ll just leave this open…cause I do feel lazy today.

“In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)

That’s what you say when you finish watching these movies. I saw one on this list over the weekend and when the credits rolled I literally said, “Huh?” These are the movies that make me want to go to the directors house and say:
“You avant garde mothafucka? Was that artistic? You had a hidden message in there or something…huh…answer me!…Say what again!”

Shadowboxer
Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Mirren, Stephen Dorff…and some other people.
What the hell was the point of this movie? And Hollywood…save the ass shots of dudes for romantic movies that women want to go see. This is one of those movies where in the end I think I understand the point…but still…huh? Who the hell read this and said, “Yeah let’s do that!”. It’s the type of thing I want to show people like I was rick-rolling them.

Donnie Darko
Jake Gyllenhall, Holmes Osbourne, Patrick Swayze.
This one is weird, but I actually like it. It’s a movie I did end up understanding and still watch to catch other little hints from. However, if I show it to a room full of people most of them would probably go, “Huh?” A 6 ft tall rabbit that predicts the future…that’s the only part of the plot I will mention…and that’s pretty much enough.

The Peanut Butter Solution
This is a weird ass french movie from the 80’s that involves ghosts, kids, hair loss, a hair growth formula involving peanut butter, kidnapping, child labor, magic and just weirdness. At first it seems like it will be a funny light hearted movie and then it just takes strange turns and in the end I just have to ask “WTF?” Who thinks of stuff like this?

Plan 9 from Outer Space
Bela Lugosi…and some rejects.
This one is honest…the director was weird as all hell. This movie includes Aliens using zombies and vampires to stop earth’s “stupid minds” What’s really ill is that Bela Lugosi was in this and it seemed like he could never be in a bad movie. I always have to ask though…what were plans 1-8 and why didn’t they work?

Name some weird movies.

“The game of chess, is like a swordfight. You must think first, before you move.”
Wang Lung Wei

ANY MOTHAFUCKIN’ CONTENDER!!!!!

Ahem…

After a search I finally found a chess set I could roll with. I was looking online and for real for the prices some of the ones I found were some bullshit. This joint ran me 40 slugs.

So if anybody wants to see me bring it on. I haven’t played in a while…but I won’t make excuses. En Passant bitches! What ya’ll know about that! I’ve thrown a few peoples games off with that move. Anyway I have rants and since I have a blog you will read every damn word I say!!!!

1) To the dude from comcast who setting up my girls internet…whoops who tried to. You ain’t slick ass clown. It don’t take that long, oh and guess what? He didn’t even get it finished! Now he has to come back tomorrow (on his day off) to finish the job. Look here dick weed: I will throat chop your punk ass without a second thought. How come you didn’t have any software with you, hmmm? Routers come with software dingleberry. By the way…if you can’t get it set up at her house what the hell good does taking the router to your house to “check it” do? Answer me that. Seems like even if it works at your house it still doesn’t help with trouble shooting it at her place. You ain’t slick and she knows I has the hot lovin. So get it straight and go tell to your geek friends you were within 5 ft. of a good looking women, cause that shit won’t work when I’m there and I’m grilling you.

2) MD State Lottery…what the hell man…I don’t remember the last time a city resident won big with you guys. I recommend that you pick my name when you do that drawing for the set for life chumpee. I know the cash payout will be less then a million, but I don’t care. I can do a lot with what remains. Get at me before I start saying how you are discriminating against black inner city residents. I’ll do it. I work in Human Services and I’m annoyed a lot.

3) Baltimore City Schools…I’ve seen your drop out statistics and I know you are liars. According to you the drop out rate was higher in 1993 then after 2005. BULLSHIT. I noticed how many schools closed. I’ve noticed how many schools you plan to close. If my old high school has about 1800 (I’m being generous) students in it now, my class graduated 300 seniors but started with 1100 (generous on the low end) freshmen. I calculate about 500 students left between the middle two grades in order to make your numbers. Did I mention that the 1800 is split up between two schools and most of the high schools here are two schools in one these days? So if I give you an even split…you have less people in one school then my entire freshmen class and the seniors I graduated with would take up a third of one of your schools. You’re lying…not mention the report that came out saying Baltimore only graduates 34% of it’s students. I’m on to you.

4/17/08 Update: So the Comcast dude calls around 7:00pm, I was eagerly awaiting him, and tells the Vixen that his mother died. WTF!?!?! He was getting his wife to pick up the router so he “could work on it”. Get the hell out of here! What type of “work” is this cat doing on the router?!?!?! On top of that if my mama dies that’s three days (at least) that I’m not going to be working so I would just pass that job on. I have a sneaking suspicion he’s show up and get some conversation started and it would involve how his wife not supporting him and blah, blah, blah. I told my girl to call Comcast..locate an office, drop off her boxes, get a self install kit and I’ll hook it up. Slick ass…

Every other Monday people…I need my attention from multiple sources.

“The woman who appeals to a man’s vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him”
Helen Rowland quotes (English-American writer, 1876-1950)

I’m a fortunate man. For a number of years I’ve held on to the thought that I am a prize. As such, when I make up my mind to involve myself with someone they need to be a prize as well. Usually people believe they are with only a shallow idea as the justification or they won’t believe they are unless someone else enforces the thought with them. I’ve been involved with enough women in my life to have been driven completely out of my mind. Some of them recognize your good traits and try to lock you in right away…a man such as myself will run from that in a heartbeat. To borrow a quote (cause I like quoting):

“I am like a wild horse. You can’t tame me. You put the oats in the pen, though, and I’ll come in for a nibble every day. But the minute you shut that gate, I’ll jump the fence and you’ll never see me again.”

Then others, I assume, just didn’t realize…lost me while they were looking for themselves somewhere. People tend to make things much more complex then they have to be. My saving grace was finding someone who understood how basic this really is. How upfront presentation is the best thing there is. She didn’t close the fence. She didn’t judge me according to the assholes from before. She didn’t try to make me jump through a bunch of silly hoops. We talked and listened and that was what it took. It wasn’t formulaic like a movie. It wasn’t grand and dramatic like a novel. It was subtle like a flame building. First there was warmth, then heat and finally fire sprang to life. She’s a prize and she knows I am. She is the color in my world. She makes me show all of my colors. In some ways I think she’s better than me and it makes me remember I can be better. I want her to be her best. I don’t want her to worry. She’s more together then she knows. She’s nicer then most of the people I know. Tears welled in her eyes cause a little boy thought his mother left him. She forgives people quicker then I ever could. I find beautiful things to show her cause I know she’ll appreciate them. She sits with me through my geeky movies. She tell’s me I need to eat more then one meal a day (and coffee doesn’t count). She always asks what I think. She believes I can do…whatever idea it is I’ve come up with…then she remembers the ones I forgot. She doesn’t curse…and it reminds me I should do it less. She won’t admit it…but she likes South Park too. She’s weird and I like it. She knows I’m weird and it doesn’t make her nervous…not really. She’s beautiful for several reasons…mostly because she is. More than anything…I love her.

“Anonymous is Legion. Anonymous does not forgive. Anonymous does not forget.”
Ummm…Anonymous

I’m not sure if any of you are down with this, but the interwebs are powerful. I’d recommend that you read more about Scientology. I won’t even bother to get into some of the things I’ve come across. I will say this though…you do need to read about Operation: Snow White…you thought the pulpit pimps being tax exempt was bad, oh yeah Scientology has it’s exempt status now despite all that went on. Anyway…Anonymous is fricking beautiful. I always laugh at adults that say young people need to be more computer literate…mind you not all of these cats are “kids”, but they’ve done some things that most of the adults I hear this from would have no clue about. Besides their beef with Scientology the have put out alot of info and even taken down some people. Remember that whole High School Musical nude photo drama? Well Anon made sure it got out there (by repeatedly posting the pictures until MSNBC picked it up…that’s when you heard about it), when Disney’s forums claimed they were fake. Not impressive? How about this:

“On December 7, 2007, the Canada-based Toronto Sun newspaper published a report on the arrest of the alleged Internet predator Chris Forcand. Forcand, 53, was charged with two counts of luring a child under the age of 14, attempt to invite sexual touching, attempt exposure, possessing a dangerous weapon, and carrying a concealed weapon.[11] The report stated that Forcand was already being tracked by “cyber-vigilantes who seek to out anyone who presents with a sexual interest in children” before police investigations commenced.[12] A Global News report identified the group responsible for Forcand’s arrest as a “self-described Internet vigilant group called Anonymous” who contacted the police after some members were “propositioned” by Forcand with “disgusting photos of himself”. The report also stated that this is the first time a suspected Internet predator was arrested by the police as a result of Internet vigilantism.[13]”

And then there is this:

“Allegations that Turner acts as an informant to the FBI surfaced after unidentified hackers claimed on Turner’s website’s forums that they had read email correspondence between him and an FBI agent, apparently his handler.[30] This led to a discussion on a neo-Nazi website on 10 January 2008, in which Turner revealed he was quitting political work, was ending his radio show and that he was separating “from the ‘pro-White’ movement”.[30] Both the FBI and Turner declined to comment on the matter.[30] The Southern Poverty Law Center later reported that they had “revealed… that Turner was an FBI informant”[31] and the Anti-Defamation League reported that “a neo-Nazi Website had posted material reportedly found by the hackers, including alleged exchanges between himself and law enforcement agents that indicated that Turner had been providing information to them.”[32]”

On the real though…despite the general depravity and…lulz that the internets boil down to. The page on Scientology has alot of actual information…and lulz. You can check out one of their bases of operation here. Check it all out…matter of fact goggle anon vs. scientology and read some of the news articles, then go back and read the Citypaper one. If anything these dudes are showing what the internet can really do. If you know anything about how Scientology likes to sue the living hell out of people…this is the best way to go about doing anything to them…and anyone else who sucks.

“You are never going to meet someone who likes Seinfeld and the Wu-Tang clan as much as you do.”
Chris Rock

I think it’s pretty much established that I am a geek. If you didn’t notice I’m also hella cool (yes, hella…I make it cool, words don’t control me). Anyway I thought I’d give you all a glimpse into the duality of me. Bask in it…BAAAAAAAAASSSSSSK!

I do like Seinfeld and Wu-Tang.

I wear motorcycle boots and blazers.

I love kids but I will use duct tape on them.

My ipod has a Dead Prez album right before a Bjork album.

I tell people to work things out with words, but I can think of several things that would make me punch someone without a second chance.

I don’t trust most people with guns…but I believe in owning one.

I hate drug dealers (except for weed), but admire intelligent criminals (with morals).

I teach Job Readiness and use my sick days when I don’t feel like working.

I will post on internet forums to be an asshole and still phrase my comments with respect and intelligence.

When I was young I hated being around kids…now that I’m grown I prefer them to adults.

I have gone from people thinking I was an Oreo to thinking I am a Rasta.

I control my emotions well but, I would love to cut loose in a rage and destroy things.

When people clutch their purse as they pass me it makes me want to take it and throw it.

I like to gamble but in a casino I’d only place sports bets.

I care alot about peoples well being and try to help, but I rarely tell people when I’m having problems.

I’m more likely to check out a woman in a business suit then one in revealing clothing.

I’m going to register as republican…even though I’d be identified as a democrat.

I’ve done over one hundred resumes in the past year…and I still haven’t updated my own.

I give great advice and help people plan but, I live by the seat of my pants.

I grew up wanting to join the military, but if there was a draft I’d become Mexican or Canadian.

I’m an excellent public speaker, but I spend most of my time in silence…or talking to myself.

In casual, group settings people tend to forget me…Bums and drunks always remember me.

I actually am a little bit Rock and Roll and a little bit Country.

I normally have a calligraphers pen and a balisong…google that one.