Top three jobs if...

... time, space, qualifications and sea sickness were not an issue:

1. Pirate (but a nice one, and before guns were invented- safe sex and pillage!).
2. Travelling Lava Lamp salesman in late 1960's. ( get to jet between San Fransisco and London, and is as easy as shooting shooting fish in a psychedelic barrel).
3. Percussionist in Jimi Hendrix's 'Band of Gypsies' (just tap away on the congas, watch Jimi do his thing, score with the less ambitious groupies).

Inspiration

So i knew i wanted to write something but i couldn't think of a thing. Then i read a post by Dave on his blog. It inspired me to write about the same kinda thing. The topic: i like my life right now. Sure there's a couple of things that could be tweaked, like i wish i was a millionaire but hey I'm not complaining....to much.

I work at a job that pays me well and i really don't have to be here. That seems to be a problem lately cuz i can easily convince myself to leave early or take random days off. The problem with that is cuz once summer comes around i won't have any accumulated time off to go on a vacation or something. At the civic things are cool too. I had a busy month working almost 4 days a week there and it takes its toll. At the Morrissey concert i took a camera from someone and at the end of the night when i went back to go get it, it was stolen. I felt horrible. But the month now is slowing down and i'm back to a max of two days a week. With all that working though i was able to pay off my car! whoo hoo! i guess that's what it really comes down to, paying shit off.

Living with Pete is freaking awesome ( i won't go into to much mushy detail about that). The management is making tons of changes around the complex and i'm not a big fan. If you've been over recently you'll know what i'm talking about. New landscaping and new gates. The gates aren't necessary and they cut down a perfectly good palm tree to put in grass. I enjoy my time off and with that i clean and buy things. And i do like cleaning! I can't wait till it gets a bit warmer and we can all hang out in backyards and the sun doesn't go down till 8pm.

So anyways, to sum it all up...things are good. :)

Hot Fuzz!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't know if it's made it out to you guys yet, but I saw the new pegg/frost/wright (shaun of the dead) film Hot Fuzz last night. It does for the Police/action genre what Shaun... did for zombie films, but with even more laughs and a bigger budget. Go see now!

Instinctive cheese makers and non ionising radiation

The title alludes to two of the reports I've leafed through this morning- the lack of security surrounding government files in this building is remarkable. I have access to all reports, including those marked 'confidential' and 'restricted'. although most of them seem pretty dull I'm sure a little research could turn up some interesting results. I have also casually asked my manager if taking a file out of the building would set off the security system- apparently it would not. It's not surprising how so many 'leaks' occur to the press- my local library has better security. While I'm in the area of politics I'd like to add my two cents worth to the debate going on over on Jeff's blog (for some reason the restrictions on this system allows me to blog but not to leave comments). I feel like you guys are having an intellectual dance around what I see as the main crux of the matter- All governments are liers and murderers. always have been, always will be, end of debate. Instead of us focusing on these things that divide us and simultaneously make us feel angry and helpless, let us concentrate on love, freindship, community and the things that unite us as human beings. And talking of such things I believe the possibility of me coming camping this year has been raised- if I can secure sufficient funds and time I would be honoured to attend.

Madman Ranting

Well I just felt like the new format of the "Life Outside The Rat Race" page called for a nice long post. Believe me the frustration of palpable over most of the posts of late being either pictures of or somehow relating to my continuing obsession with Star Wars. There just haven't been any really exciting revelations lately. I think finishing school and moving into a work-a-day life has somehow stunted my creativity. In fact, I know it has. I have tendency to go all in with any new endevour and the job is no exception and takes up a lot of my brainpower. (The parts I haven't managed to slowly annihilate with beer. Speaking of beer, we haven't been on the best terms lately. My age is catching up with me folks and while my tolerance for the sweet brown liquid is at an all time high, my tolerance for the after effects is pathetic. The nature of hangovers has changed. While I've figured out how to avoid becoming debilitated the day after, I still fall victim to the more subtle after effects. These after effects include: the charming phenomenon knwn as beer shits (all well and good if you've got a whole day to waste but not so easy to explain to your co-workers why your leaving the office and interrupting conversations heading to the bathroom with a sense of urgency every half hour or so.) Then there is anger. I don't know if any of you have experienced this before but I tend to get fucking angry a day or so after a decent bender. I could be doing nothing but watching TV, but if I drank too much the night before, I get overwhelming urges to through my shoe into the TV screen. Then of course there is the anxiety. Yet another new side effect of alcohol in my old age. I wake up with strange anxiety attacks the ngiht after or even 2 days after drinking too much. I'm sorry, I'm bringing you down. Don't worry, part of all this is my lack of exercise over the last 6 months. All that unused energy is manifesting itself in strange ways. But not to fear, I'm on the case. I've started doing First Water every chance I get. And its helped. Soon I'm going to have to upgrade to something harder, after all we have Half Dome looming just over the horizon. Speaking of which, you'll note in the links section of the blog I've change the name of the Webcam link to "The Half Dome Society" I suggest that those of you who are commiting to climb with me this summer, take a look at that page once a day or so. If you will permit me some advice I would say that there are two ways up that big rocky bastard, and that to either learn to absolutely hate it or absolutely love it. You can climb out of spite or out of a sense of connection. Immediately after doing it the last time, I swore that if I ever did it again it would be out of spite, out of a sense of revenge for the pain and humility inflicted on my last trip. Now that I have some distance I feel differently I feel like if I get in good enough shape by this summer to climb the rock with less hardship than last time, then I owe it a sense of gratitude. So I'm gonna go in with a good attitude and do what I always do when I hike, and thats just keep walking until the trail runs out. I'll go slow and I will enjoy myself. Thats not to say that I will denegrate the efforts of those that choose the other approach. Hate can be a powerful ally. (Here comes the obligitory Star Wars reference) You can think of Half Dome like the Emporer, "Release your anger, only your hate can destroy me." Or was that Vader? Anyway, I choose Yoda's advice when he says, "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny."
What else? Oh Yeah I would like to formally apologize to Emily for missing you at the crown on your birthday. What can I say? I'm a bad cousin. It was just one of those things, the night got away from me and I couldn't make it. I owe you one.

Here's a list of songs you should download on your iTunes Right now:
Old 97's Time Bomb also Question
The Monkees Porpoise Song
Cat Stevens Tea For the Tillerman
The Coral Dreaming of you

Well thats long enough and thats all for now.

Another Valentine's Day

Another Valentine's day and I still don't have a valentine to spend it with. But of course the only women up here are all really old or really young so I am screwed either way. I'm just praying that soon I will get my job because I can't stand much more of this. I know everyone is thinking stop crying Alex but you don't know what it's like up here. If you lived here you would grow tired of being here because everything here is limited. Stores close at 8 restaurants close at 8. Can't drink because everyone is into everyones shit here. I want to be left alone if I had the job (Alaska Airlines) I'd be too busy working to worry and in my downtime I'd be planning trips to see you guys or playing my xbox 360. Right now my back is getting better from being hurt last thursday working at the church. Also working on HS Basketball games (I'm the sideline reporter). But other than that I'm doin nothing. I'm bored and need some big city life becuase that's who I am. Remember I'm "Hollywood" Alex Moe. Well I guess I should start thinking what to cook tonight cuz Momis sick and dad is going to Valdez. Well I just needed to vent kind of mad that I needed to change my blogger id to do that but whatever. Hey can I get my picture up on the blog too? Talk to you guys later!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Blogger Update

So...After getting some complaints about being able to access the "old Blogger" I've switched to the new one. So to post you'll have to set up an account with google as prompted by blogger. I did it and it only took a few minutes.
So Blog on!

Like a Proud Father

My trilogy posters are finally framed and hung.

Working for the Man

I am into my second week of working for the National Assembly for Wales (essentially a piss ant pseudo government for a piss ant pseudo country). Quite how I got the job is a mystery known only to the strange winds blown by employment agencies, it is however very timely as my adventure as a struggling artist was becoming more about struggle and less about art. Hopefully i'll be able to work this gig for a few months, then the conections/skills/ideas/delusional plans i've been making for the last couple of months will come to fruition in the summer, and i'll be back to my bohemian ways.
I am currently a 'reports officer' which seems to involve sitting around in a room full of files, going on the net, listening to your ipod and occasionally moving a file to another room in a different building where people are sitting around going on the net and listening to their ipods. I am fitting in well.
This will give me a large amount of time to write blogs, so hopefully any flashes of inspiration i have will make their way to the rat race (and perhaps encourage an upturn in the rather sluggish contribution rate of late?).
anyway, better go move a file, adios.

George Lucas Stole my DVD's

George Lucas, is the obvious culprit behind my Star Wars theatrical release DVD's being "lost" in shipping. For years he's tries to supress his original masterpieces with his very flashy but character assassinating "special edition". He doesn't want you to know that when he was younger, he thought better of having a song and dance number in Return of the Jedi. He doesn't want you to know that he once thought it was okay to be unsure of the good or evil of a particular character, thus having Han shoot greedo under the table before the little green bastard could get the drop on him.
But, fear not. Amazon is sending me a replacement shipment. Hopefully, these will arrive before Lucas can unleash his agents of evil. You would think that Hayden Christiansen would have something better to do with his time than doing Lucas' bidding and stealing DVD's from the post office anyway.

The Half Dome Society

I can tell by the strong reaction to my original post of the same name, that you are wondering (to yourselves apparently) What is "The Half Dome Society"? What I propose gentlemen (no girls allowed) is the formation of a group of men who make the commitment to begin training for an early to midsummer's summit bid of Yosemite's Half Dome. I will reserve a campsite, and handle the expedition logistics all you have to do is train, pay, and then climb. I propose one day to drive, one day for a warm-up Hike, one day for the summit bid, and a late departure on the day after the summit. Thats four days gentlemen. While the hike will be the physical focus of the trip, there is of course an...how shall I say it?... element of comraderie. Think about it gentlemen.

The Half Dome Society

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Apply within.