The Spread (Or Movies are fake)

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
-Network (1976) written by Paddy Chayefsky

Saints beat the Vikings in the NFC championship bur failed to cover the spread by 1 point. The local video store is going out of business and I picked up Taxi Driver, Network, and The Piano Teacher on VHS for a dollar. I should have bought a point with the Saints and pushed. Cut myself shaving. Real blood looks phony and movie blood looks real. Gunshots pop like firecrackers but in movies they sound like cannons. Actresses with bleached teeth pose in carefully choreographed pictures with anyone slightly higher then them in the food chain.

Watched: The New World

Football season is (almost) over.

"I can't sleep"
last words of J.M. Barrie

Haven't posted football picks since the postseason began. Here are some basketball picks instead.

Miami Heat vs. Washington Wizards Heat -1.5
Portland Trailblazers vs. Boston Celtics Blazers +10
Los Angeles Lakers vs. New York Knicks Lakers -5
Golden State Warriors vs. new Jersey Nets Warriors -8

Watched: The Savages

Plasma

"When you left me, I left Earth"
-Watchmen

Videogame blood looks very fake lately. Too much like strawberry jam.


















Watched: In The Valley Of Ellah

Week 17

"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid"
-Aliens

27-20-1

Baltimore Ravens vs. Oakland Raiders Ravens -10.5
Washington Redskins vs. San Diego Chargers Chargers -3
Denver Broncos vs. Kansas City Chiefs OVER 38

Watched: Freaks & Geeks (Disc 1)