What is up people who still read this...

Your boy is back again with another update.

Well, I am working again, this time for a wonderful company named Top Producer. I make an awesome amount of money (salaried position over 34 grand a year) and work Monday-Friday, 7am-3:30pm. I just started on July 19th, but I think this will be the last company I might ever work for. I get RRSP, full benefits, and a chance to actually move up in the company. Can't go wrong there. The commute is only 45 minutes either way (beats the crap out of West Van at 2 hours per way per day), and I more than enjoy the drive there and back.

The heat out here has been stifling to say the least. Sometimes you are lucky if you get any sleep in a given night, because the heat that happens during the day stays for the night as well. I wish it would rain, because it would be a welcome change from the heat quite honestly. Freaking global warming...Al Gore was right, and even then it wouldn't get him elected unfortunately.

Can't belive the insane shit that has been happening lately in the world...Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Israel and Lebanon, Syria, Iran, the US, and Canada. It seems everybody is losing their minds...Zidane headbutts a guy during the World Cup final, a guy headbutts a horse, and a guy who rides a bike in the Tour De France and actually wins it is found to have a higher testosterone count than the average male...maybe he was carrying Lance Armstrong's cancerous ball with him....I don't know. The entire world just needs to stop, sit back, take a deep breath, and say "What the fuck?" every once in a while.

Anyway, I saw Clerks 2, and it was the perfect way to "finish" the entire series. jay and Silent Bob strike back was supposed to do it, but I think this one is more complete, ending with the same two characters, Dante and Randall, who started the entire thing in the first place. Rosario Dawson bouncing around to the Jackson 5 is awesome to watch too...she is gorgeous. Sadly, the song picked by my high-school graduating class was used in the film, right after a scene in which two characters describe beastiality...err...inter-species erotica. Kind of disturbing, but we couldn't have seen that coming back in 1997. The movie was funny, and I recommend it.

In addition, there are a lot of movies out there that not very many people have seen that should be seen, as if to promote the film gentre and support original ideas in Hollywood again. These movies are as follows, and I recommend all of them.

1) John Q - Denzel Washington's post-Oscar role where he plays a father who takes a hospital hostage in order to get medical care for his son, who needs a heart transplant. Well worth it, and james Woods is excellent in it as well.

2) Cinderella Man - Russell Crowe gives another excellent performance that quite honestly I would consider his greatest role since "Gladiator". The true story of Jim Braddock and his family, fighting to survive during the depression. It was filmed in Toronto, and there are a ton of canadian actors in this one, including Nicholas Campbell (Da Vinci's Inquest). See this film, I beg you.

3) The Rocket - A great Canadian film in mixed French (with English subtitles) and actual English, this is the true story of Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, from the first time he laced up skates while he was working in a factory as a young 15 year old kid making munitions for the war, to making the Canadiens team, to the language barriers that existed and the somewhat barbaric way that the game was played and the fans were treated in the infant NHL. Roy Dupuis was born to play that role, and he does so perfectly.

See these films...soon. The way Hollywood is going with remakes, there may never be an original idea left.

That is my rant and update...tell me what you think. Comments are welcomed as always.