ok, here we go again.

(e:pmt), (e:enknot), meg, and anyone else i'm forgetting. can we pleeease get out shit together and go to the movies sometime this week to see tropic thunder?

i am in love with lady gaga right now. she reminds me of a female vincent gallo and looks like donatella versace and sounds at times like peaches.

in all actuality she's a pretty established song writer and trained musican. here's her bio.


learned piano by ear at the age of four
wrote her first piano ballad at thirteen
was one of twenty people in the world to have gained early admission to the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
By age twenty she began writing songs for Interscope Records artists

and this is her mini movie with a taste of her what's to come.
can i just repeat that i am soooo loving her right. i want to get her drunk.

if you watch until the end it's got naked tits

So we went to see Tropic Thunder yesterday. OH MY GOD...can I just say FUNNY? I seriously was laughing my ass off throughout the entire movie. Robert Downy Jr. is unbelievable. It worth seeing just for that. He is so good that he should get an oscar for that. Oh jeesh, you have to see it, you wont regret it.

my entire household watched that race and i can assure you not one of us will forget that night for many, many years to come.

faben came to me last thursday night and said she could not wait to watch the olympics this year. this, coming from the most un-sport like child on the face of the earth that has never expressed any interest in anything sport related during her entire 14 year existence, was a shock, to say the least.

allthough our trip to china a few years back was probably the catalyst for her olympic interest this year, nevertheless, she was so excited and awed during the opening ceremonies and throughout the weekend, including last night, that i'm sure she too, will not forget these olympics for as long as she lives.

for her it’ll be one of those moments where you think back on your childhood and realize that this was the year where she became aware of the importance and impact that the olympics have on the entire world. she has always known what the olympics were, but until this friday, she had no idea as to what the olympics meant. what they meant to the athletes, to their families, to the host nation and the visiting nations and what it all means to the citizens of the world who are counting on their athletes to represent all that their county stands for and is hoping to achieve.

this is the year that she will realize that the olympics are the one and only event (other than a tragedy) that can bring together the entire world and the one event where people feel tremendous national pride coupled with a truly genuine human experience that unifies peoples of all cultures, races and ethnicities, while standing side by side with dozens of other nations and cheering for our country and their county and countries with which we have conflict, and countries whose names we cannot pronounce or locations we cannot identify. The countries that are our allies, our foes, our friends and enemies. the one and only time in which the entire planet respects and honors all of its neighbors regardless of their GDP or military power and it is one of the few times in which a 16 year old girl, from a dairy farm in indiana, can become a true princess based solely on her hard work and dedication and not on the size of her cleavage or one of the few times in which a man without money, power or connections can become the king of the nation who provides his people with tremendous amounts of optimism, inspiration and enthusiasm by nothing more than hard work, dedication and the true love he has for his sport and his country.


this is the only time where humanity becomes all that it stands for; kindness, charity, compassion, sympathy, mercy, and pride. pride in our selves, in our country, in our people, in our culture and values and beliefs. pride in our work, our dedication, our sport and leaders and friends, teammates and coaches. pride to be part of a movement, of a world wide event, pride in ourselves, in our neighbors and families. the olympics mean so much to so many. once every four years, for two weeks you can become THE ambassador of your country and of your sport to the ENTIRE world and carry on one of the oldest traditions known to man. the olympics continue to represent what it means to be human, what it means to compete, to work hard, to give it your all, to sacrifice, forfeit and to surrender yourself for the honor of your nation and your sport.

this is why i love and respect the olympics and all that it stands for.