Yeah....so i'm thinking of changing my name to either Osymandias or Psychadelic Mango Cherry Crush. A lot of people don't know how to pronounce Osymandias i guess...they ask me a lot at Subway how to say it. (Oh yeah did i mention my name tag now reads Ozymindias?)
i saw Grindhouse, i invited a friend to go with me for once, because i didn't want to see it by myself. For all his bravado i think it traumatized him. It was pretty wretched, Terror Planet was pretty yucky, full of bloody goo and dismemberment, but Death Proof i thought was of exceptional quality. (and only one dismemberment if i recall correctly.) For those of you that don't know the orginal meaning of grindhouse. i've taken the liberty of using an excerpt from wikipedia.
A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. It is also a term used to describe the genre of films that played in such theatres. Grindhouse films are also referred to as "exploitation films." Grindhouses were known for non-stop programs of B movies, usually consisting of a double feature where two films were shown back to back. Many of these inner-city theatres formerly featured burlesque shows which included "bump and grind" dancing, leading to the term "grindhouse." Beginning in the late 1960s and especially during the 1970s, the subject matter of grindhouse films was dominated by explicit sex, violence, bizarre or perverse plot points, and other taboo content. Many grindhouses were exclusively pornographic.
On a more intellectual note Amy Tan is the guest speaker at Kachemak Bay's writers conference down in Homer this year. i really hope i can go but i seriously doubt it. Hey guys, all you wonderful Barclay people. Less then two weeks until i can grace you with my presents, and yet run like from the undesirables. i'm so excited...i want to stay up late and watch the night fall. And cry because i'll be so happy, and sad and scared all at the same time. i can't wait!!!!!!!!
love, Osymandias Psychadelic Mango Cherry Crush
Oh yeah i almost for got...
Here's the poem that the name came from:
Osymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-Percy Bysshe Shelly
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