Daily stuff

I haven’t posted in a while, I know… I was looking for some inspiration. Since I can’t find any I’ll just update the loyal readers with the latest events of my life.

I bought a new CD, an impulsive buy but a good CD. It’s my first classical CD, ever. My dad would laugh his butt off hearing about this CD, remembering hopw much I would complain about him playing classical music… the CD I bought is “Tchaikovsky – 1812″, performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. The reason I wanted this specific performance is the cannons. Yes, the cannons. The 1812 ouverture involves several cannon shots, and some orchestra’s are on a low budget and use firecrackers or even sloppily tuned bass drums. Not the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal though, they use actual cannons. Combine this with a good subwoofer and you’ll shake the whole house.

A few posts back I mentioned watching the Fast and the Furious. Well, me and my friend decided to watch the other Fast & Furious movies as well. Why do people watch these movies (Yes, I realize I watched them too)? Especially the last one is insulting to anyone’s intelligence. The movie is called “The Fast and the Furious – Tokyo Drift”, so you would expect drift races. Drift races are held thusly: one car at a time tries to impress the audience and maybe a jury, by sliding through corners in the most extreme angle possible. The point is to give away the best show. Speed isn’t really an issue, though it does help since keeping control of a drift at high speed is even more challenging. Well in Tokyo Drift the races are held by drifting two cars at the same time, and the goal of the race is to finish the track first. Firt of all, you have to be a total moron to drift two cars at the same time on a narrow track with spectators on both sides without any protection. You gotta be a moron to do street races in the first place, but this really takes the cake. Second, if the point is to finish first rather than give a good show, why not lay off the fancy cornering and just going as fast as possible? Going sideways with a car looks really fast, but trust me when I say it really costs tremendous amounts of speed.

The worst part is a dialogue between two characters – character A let character B drive his car in a race and character B wrecked it. Character B is wondering why Character A let him drive his car in the first place since it’s a very expensive car. Character A replies: “I got money. What I need around me is trust and character. And one car in exchange for finding out what a man’s made of is a price I can live with.”
Sure, finding out what a man is made of may have a price. But how does letting a man race your car and wreck it enable you to find out what he is made of? He obviously can’t drift. Wow. That was definitely worth the $150.000 (rough estimate) car. Not.
Or how about this one:

Guy: The day I got my license is the day I got my first speeding ticket. Day after that I won my first race, I beat this rich kid by three lengths. I got to admit it felt good. It felt like
Hot chick: Like everything else just disappears
Guy: No past and no future
Hot chick: No problems, just the moment

Holy sh… I know how winning feels, and I know that if it feels like this, you’ve got issues. Seriously. That’s messed up.

~ by bigphil1004 on May 31, 2008.