"Pinch Me": Barenaked Ladies
"It's like a dream, you try to remember but it's gone, then you try to scream but it comes out as a yawn when you try to see the world beyond your front door..."
So I'm back in Sackville. What a strange and fun filled weekend this was.On friday almost all of the guys on my side of the floor left to go to Cosmos for Mardis Gras to enjoy a night of drunken debauchery. So before going out to the Pub a bunch of us congregated to my room, put up the music and proceeded to party like there was no tomorrow. In fact it was a drunken orgy of rock star proportions. My room has been totally demolished, there are wine, and beer bottles everywhere and I can swear that that big, hairy, moving thing, well, I've never seen that before...
I'm being facetious in case all of you are wondering, however it would make for an interesting story now wouldn't it? I mean if I started acting like one of those sensationalistic rock stars whose behaviour are at once so compelling and also so distasteful. And some people are definitely more cut out for rockstardom and its excesses than others.
Tommy Lee, Kid Rock, etc. Not that I'm a rockstar or anything.
Yesterday morning Lindsay, Craig, Danielle, and I left for Moncton at 10:30. Originally it was supposed to be Lindsay, Craig and I but I think it's better that Danielle came along. What with Lindsay having to choose a bathing suit for her trip to Cuba. I don't think either of us was going to be of any help in that area. We actually ended up spending more time there than we thought we would. It was fun though to get out of Sackville for a day anyways. We went to the Moncton Mall and did a lot of shopping (well more like browsing) but I was able to purchase a black vest from RW& Co that was almost a steal. A $70 dollar vest for $17 dollars. Not too bad if I do say so myself.
We also had a strange incident occur. Before we went to go see a movie, two young girls, most likey 13-14 years old started throwing pennies at Linds and Danielle. Craug and I were at Future Shop and were running a little late so when we met up with the girls they were fuming! We thought they were mad at us and they explained why they were upset. We were walking to the Crystal Palace to watch the movie and pennies started flying around us. The annoying little brats were following us and they were still throwing pennies at the girls. Now, you'd figure that they would have stopped when we arrived but they didn't. Eventuallly we got to the parking lot and they were still laughing, and throwing pennies. I completely lost it. I turned around and proceeded to verbally berate them for being so annoying and for having nothing better to do than to follow and bug us. We were contemplating throwing quarters at them but refrained from doing so. Eventually they did leave us alone but they were so rude and annoying, we still couldn't believe it.
Anyways, we saw "Black Hawk Down" although we really wanted to see "The Mothman Prophecies" (however Danielle isn't neccesarily fond of horror/thriller's), I was pleasantly surprised by the movie's and portrayal of war. The action was relentless, not really letting you breath and it didn't sugar coat the happenings with empty patriotism.
Since our society has entered a new era of war, this film is more timely and meaningful than was probably intended when it was first made. I applaud the brilliant film makers and actors who manage to convey how horrible armed conflict is on screen. Taking place in 1993 civil war-torn Somalia, the audience get a first person view of why war is terrible for everyone and why the politics of war are so complicated. Ridley Scott really pulls you into a world of death and utter destruction in the blink of an eye, and Black Hawk Down doesn't let go until the end. 300,000 innocent people died from famine in Somalia, and the world just stood around and watched until it was too late. A very poignant movie.