A lot of times, when I look through my previous installments of Mingled-up Musings, I wonder why I am the way that I am. Then I realize there’s no answer to that. There should be. And there probably is. But I feel like any sort of “answer” would only change. I’m just a continuous mass of energy that’s always changing like Daniel Day Lewis when he becomes… pretty much anything. He could play a shark and people would give him an Oscar. And ya know what, I’d not only second that notion. I’d third it, fourth it, and even say, “Just cast him in a remake of Deep Blue Sea already!”
I remember when I saw that at the drive-in. Can’t recall what the other movie was that played after it, though. I’d ring up my brothers and ask, but I highly doubt they’d remember. They’d look at me and go, “…we’re in the middle of a pandemic and you’re concerned about some double feature that none of us will remember?” And I’d be saying, “Hey, suppress the memory all you want, but face it… there is a movie where Samuel L. Jackson didn’t play a hero like you expected and actually got eaten mid-way through a movie by a questionably bad CG shark in the late 90’s.
Spoilers, by the way. Anyhow, lemme check the googled results for “Movies released in 1999.” Be back in a jiffy.
Heh, I was almost tempted to write that as giffy. Sweet Raptor Jesus I spend way too much time on the internet sometimes. Or at least, I used to. In a way, I do still spend lots of time on here (albeit with less Raptor Jesus memes). But between work, productive goals, learning music production skills, binge-watching Hulu & Netflix content, and other things, I don’t go too crazy with surfing the internet like I used to.
When I am online though, it’s often the endless little rabbit hole that is the related videos section from whatever I watch on Youtube. Whether it’s a music video, nostalgic gaming content, or motivational stuff, I am likely to come across something that makes me go, “Oh hey! What does this video touch on?” and then boom… all that time from my precious day goes right out the window.
You know there’s actually a word for that. Defenestrate. Some of you probably heard of it, but for those of you who never heard of it, it’s actually a thing. From the Merriam Webster site:
It has a real ring to it, doesn’t it? I don’t even remember how I heard of it. It was likely from a random person in a Twitch chat room thingy who was like, “Google it, it’s a thing.” And yeah I know what you’re thinking… and yea, I agree with you. One shouldn’t google anything that some random person (likely a crazy person in a chat room) tells you to google in the event that it leads you to learning about something you wish you never heard of (lets not speak of the AOL days when people would mention “lemon party.” For real… do not google that*.).
On the other hand… defenestration is a pretty funny word and I’m glad I learned it. I mean, the subject matter is odd because it implies that a poor unfortunate soul got thrown out of a window and became the reason that someone was like, “Hey… we need a word for this!” Rest in peace, that person. Whoever you are. Maybe your name was Fred, and I’m sure you were very cool.
Then again, it’s very possible that the poor chap wasn’t cool enough for a party and, thus, was defenestrated by some random person who had free time and a serious temper. So what do I know?ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
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Hmm, ya know… the movie that played after Deep Blue Sea might have been the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. I’m not entirely sure, but I do have this vague memory of watching something with Pierce Brosnan during which I managed to fall asleep. That was likely from me wondering why I wasn’t watching a better and more exciting Pierce Brosnan movie. It’s like if you’re watching The World is Not Enough and wondering why you’re not watching Goldeneye. Because even Denise Richards’ ass couldn’t save what is quite possibly one of the strangest and bizarrely forgetful James Bond movies ever made.
Then again, this is coming from someone who never bothered to watch Die Another Day, so what do I know? ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Come to think of it, I’ve been wanting to watch every James Bond movie for a while. I used to have a list of the ones that I’d watched so far, but it was either accidentally thrown out, or I might have lost it. I was also doing the same thing with Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I feel like with things such as this, it’s helpful to keep track of the episodes or whatever that you’ve watched so far. And then, when you make it through that entire film series or TV show, you can pat yourself on the back and say, “Ya did good, kid! Ya did good.”
Go ahead, give yourself a pat on the back. No really, go for it. It feels nice. Sometimes, ya gotta give yourself props for little things. Heck, for the last couple days I’d been doing a lot of tidying up and cleaning in my room. I may have to show a photo of the ‘ol “studio” sometime soon. Nothing is more motivating than to see your own workspace clean and ready for use. I look at it right now and I just hear it saying, “Use me. Create something damnit!” And then I tell myself, “What’re you waiting for? Do something man!”
It’s very satisfying to know that you can make your preferred spot look polished and organized, but it’s even more satisfying to look at it and remind yourself, “Holy crap… look at what I have.” Know what I mean? Seriously. After cleaning up my desk space, I forgot that I have sriracha-flavoured almonds on my drawing desk. Why? Who knows?!? But they’re there, and that’s all that matters.
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I remember the night when I first tried sriracha. It was in the evening and I was watching a pretty relaxed Twitch stream where FrozenSorrow604 was playing World of Warcraft, and she got a little hungry at one point. So she’s like, “I’m gonna make a quesadilla.” And, naturally, my mind went to this part from Napoleon Dynamite.
Yep, it still makes me laugh.
So anyway, she gets up and makes it pretty quickly. Then, before she sits down to eat it, she’s like, “Hang on, I need some sriracha.” And I’m thinkin’ to myself, “Sriracha? Hell, I think I got that in a cupboard somewhere!” She mentions how she likes it on all sorts of stuff, and I think to myself, “…yes, I am most intrigued.” And just like that, I make myself a dang kaysadilla and squirt some sriracha on it. I take a bite of it, and what do I think?
To quote Smash Mouth, I think to myself, “What a concept! I could use a little fuel myself, and we could all use a little change.” I was already kind of getting used to spicy stuff, so it was nice trying another thing and putting it on different foods. I haven’t eaten it that much lately, but man oh man is it good on fish. Love it.
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Or maybe the other movie was Blue Streak. Pffft who knows? Maybe my subconscious is trying to suppress one lesser-appreciated Martin Lawrence movie in an attempt to make an even less-appreciated movie like Nothing to Lose stand out more. That one’s seriously underrated if ya ask me. Martin and Tim Robbins have solid chemistry.
Oh hey, I forgot that Dr. Cox from Scrubs was also in this.
Like it? Here’s another great moment. These two are seriously great together. Martin’s energy perfectly contrasts Tim’s deadpan reactions. On top of that, the dialogue is pretty great too.
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…I feel like having a taco. So until next time, always remember that when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad. We don’t want your damn lemons!
Except maybe me, I actually do need some for a recipe that requires lemon zest. Anyway, have a good one! o/
*Seriously, don’t google it.
EDIT: Ah! I got it. I am now quite certain that the movie I saw after Deep Blue Sea was actually Entrapment. Very cool heist flick. Check it out! š
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