through our online poll, in which we received 2 votes(thank you chuck). we have choosen "breakfast of champions." origanally the vote was split, but yip-e-ki-a mother fucker. this movie stars bruce willis.
you might be asking yourself, what do i do now? here is a step by step plan to doing well in HSBC.
1. get the book "breakfast of champions"
2. read the book
3. watch the film
4. consider, why does hollywood suck?
5. blog your ass off
you have 20 days, from the date at the end of this blog.
good luck.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
did you notice that every movie was once a book?
here's my top 5, I think:
1. James and the Giant peach. Very few Roald Dahl books get down with the precision of the original Charlie.
2. In that vain: Matilda
3. Curious George. Jack Johnson did the soundtrack. good or bad you decide
4. Dark Half. Another stephen king book.
5. Kite runner, have not actually seen the movie but it looks bad.
5a. Fast food nation.
5b. Native Son. A tribute to Kelly Mckninnon. You do see brooke shields underage nip...
5c. Ishtar- enough said.
Also, Jim took half the books I had prepared.
here's my top 5, I think:
1. James and the Giant peach. Very few Roald Dahl books get down with the precision of the original Charlie.
2. In that vain: Matilda
3. Curious George. Jack Johnson did the soundtrack. good or bad you decide
4. Dark Half. Another stephen king book.
5. Kite runner, have not actually seen the movie but it looks bad.
5a. Fast food nation.
5b. Native Son. A tribute to Kelly Mckninnon. You do see brooke shields underage nip...
5c. Ishtar- enough said.
Also, Jim took half the books I had prepared.
Science
In the interest of Science I request that you all view this video
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7607145.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7607145.stm
Sunday, September 14, 2008
andromeda strain
A military satellite returns to Earth, and a military recovery team, in an client van, are dispatched to retrieve it; while on live radio communication with their base, those in the recovery team die. Aerial surveillance later shows everyone in Piedmont, Arizona, the town near the satellite's landing site, is thought to have died. The base commander suspects the satellite returned with an extraterrestrial organism, and recommends the Wildfire team be activated.
The government-sponsored Wildfire team counters extraterrestrial biological infestation, its five members are (i) Dr. Jeremy Stone, molecular biology specialist; (ii) Dr. Peter Leavitt, disease pathology; (iii) Dr. Charles Burton, infection vectors specialist; and (iv) Dr. Mark Hall, M.D., Surgeon, biochemistry and pH specialist. The fifth member scientist, Dr. Christian Kirke, electrolytes specialist, was unavailable for duty because of appendicitis.
The scientists think the satellite, designed to capture upper-atmosphere microorganisms for bio-weapon exploitation, returned with a microorganism that kills by disseminated intra-vascular coagulation. On investigating the town, the team discover residents either die in mid-stride or go "quietly nuts" and commit bizarre suicide. Piedmont's survivors, the sick, Sterno-addicted, geriatric Peter Jackson, and the crying infant, Jamie Ritter, are biologic opposites who survived Andromeda.
The man, infant, and satellite are taken to the secret Wildfire laboratory, in Flatrock, Nevada, sixty miles from Las Vegas. More investigation determines that the bizarre deaths were caused by a sulfur-based, crystal-structured, extraterrestrial microbe on a meteor that crashed with the satellite, then knocked it from orbit. The microbe is composed of the chemical elements of terrestrial life, but not of DNA, RNA, proteins, and amino acids, yet it directly transforms matter to energy and vice versa.
The microbe, named Andromeda, mutates with each growth cycle, changing its biologic properties. The scientists discover that Andromeda grows only in a narrow pH range; in a too-acid or too-basic growth medium, it will not multiply — Andromeda's pH range is 7.39–7.43, like that of human blood. Thus, why Jackson and Ritter survived, both had abnormal bl...
The government-sponsored Wildfire team counters extraterrestrial biological infestation, its five members are (i) Dr. Jeremy Stone, molecular biology specialist; (ii) Dr. Peter Leavitt, disease pathology; (iii) Dr. Charles Burton, infection vectors specialist; and (iv) Dr. Mark Hall, M.D., Surgeon, biochemistry and pH specialist. The fifth member scientist, Dr. Christian Kirke, electrolytes specialist, was unavailable for duty because of appendicitis.
The scientists think the satellite, designed to capture upper-atmosphere microorganisms for bio-weapon exploitation, returned with a microorganism that kills by disseminated intra-vascular coagulation. On investigating the town, the team discover residents either die in mid-stride or go "quietly nuts" and commit bizarre suicide. Piedmont's survivors, the sick, Sterno-addicted, geriatric Peter Jackson, and the crying infant, Jamie Ritter, are biologic opposites who survived Andromeda.
The man, infant, and satellite are taken to the secret Wildfire laboratory, in Flatrock, Nevada, sixty miles from Las Vegas. More investigation determines that the bizarre deaths were caused by a sulfur-based, crystal-structured, extraterrestrial microbe on a meteor that crashed with the satellite, then knocked it from orbit. The microbe is composed of the chemical elements of terrestrial life, but not of DNA, RNA, proteins, and amino acids, yet it directly transforms matter to energy and vice versa.
The microbe, named Andromeda, mutates with each growth cycle, changing its biologic properties. The scientists discover that Andromeda grows only in a narrow pH range; in a too-acid or too-basic growth medium, it will not multiply — Andromeda's pH range is 7.39–7.43, like that of human blood. Thus, why Jackson and Ritter survived, both had abnormal bl...
Choke follows Victor Mancini and his friend Denny through a few months of their lives with frequent flashbacks to the days when Victor was a child.[1] Victor grew up while going from one foster home to another. Victor's mother was found to be unfit to raise Victor. Several times throughout his childhood his mother would kidnap him from his various foster parents. They would eventually be caught and he would again be rehanded over to the government child welfare agency.
In the present day setting of the book, Victor is now a man in his mid-twenties who left medical school in order to find work to support his feeble mother who is now in a nursing home. He cannot afford the care that his mother is receiving so he resorts to being a con man. He consistently goes to various restaurants and purposely causes himself to choke mid-way through his meal, luring a "good Samaritan" into saving his life. He keeps a detailed list of everyone who saves him and sends them frequent letters about fictional bills he is unable to pay. The people feel so sorry for him that they give him money, send him cards and letters asking him about how he's doing, and even continue to send him money to help him with the bills.
While growing up, Victor's mother taught him numerous conspiracy theories and obscure medical facts which both confused and frightened him. It is because of this and his constant moves from one home to another that has left Victor unable to form lasting and stable relationships with women. Victor therefore finds himself getting sexual gratification from women in sexual addiction support groups.
In the present day setting of the book, Victor is now a man in his mid-twenties who left medical school in order to find work to support his feeble mother who is now in a nursing home. He cannot afford the care that his mother is receiving so he resorts to being a con man. He consistently goes to various restaurants and purposely causes himself to choke mid-way through his meal, luring a "good Samaritan" into saving his life. He keeps a detailed list of everyone who saves him and sends them frequent letters about fictional bills he is unable to pay. The people feel so sorry for him that they give him money, send him cards and letters asking him about how he's doing, and even continue to send him money to help him with the bills.
While growing up, Victor's mother taught him numerous conspiracy theories and obscure medical facts which both confused and frightened him. It is because of this and his constant moves from one home to another that has left Victor unable to form lasting and stable relationships with women. Victor therefore finds himself getting sexual gratification from women in sexual addiction support groups.
bfast of champions
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.
Vonnegut sprinkled plot descriptions for Trout's stories throughout the novel. He also filled the book with some of his own simple felt-tip pen drawings, intending to illustrate various aspects of life on Earth. These drawings include renderings of an anus, an American flag, the date 1492, a vagina, little girls' underpants, guns, trucks, cows and the hamburgers that are made from them, chickens and the Kentucky Fried Chicken that is made from them, an electric chair, and the sunglasses the author himself wears as he enters the storyline.
you had me at vagina
Vonnegut sprinkled plot descriptions for Trout's stories throughout the novel. He also filled the book with some of his own simple felt-tip pen drawings, intending to illustrate various aspects of life on Earth. These drawings include renderings of an anus, an American flag, the date 1492, a vagina, little girls' underpants, guns, trucks, cows and the hamburgers that are made from them, chickens and the Kentucky Fried Chicken that is made from them, an electric chair, and the sunglasses the author himself wears as he enters the storyline.
you had me at vagina
the razors edge
For years, this has been the book that I buy every time I find it so I can put it on my shelf in preparation to share it with friends looking for a good book to read. This story centers around four main characters (two men and two women) coming of age during and immediately following WWI. All four live a comfortable lifestyle until the two men experience the unthinkable as they work as field medics, ambulance drivers. My favorite character, Larry Darryl, returns from his ambulance-driving experience uncomfortable with the luxuries to which he was previously accustomed. Soon after his return, he decides to 'loaf' despite his female admirer's chagrin. Larry takes the road less traveled by exploring the world with little to no regard to the lifestyle Americans find so enchanting prior to the Great Depression...and without judging the people who come in and out of his life sometimes at their very lowest points. His former love marries the other man in hopes of achieving the social stature she craves. I won't give any more of the story away. The reason why I love it so much is that Larry could have lived the comfortable life, but he chose to do something uncomfortable so he could really experience life and people as they are. When I feel stuck in my comfortable American notions of the way life is supposed to be, I read this book and think about the difficult path that Larry took. Unpopular, imperfect, real.
A good, short read worthy of minor classic statusA reviewer (bpr2d@mtsu.edu), A reviewer, 02/08/2007
A thoroughly excellent read. I believe Salvadore Dali' must have read this book. His book HIDDEN FACES seems to echo some of the rich characterizations here. It may do well for our generation of war ravaged young people to read this. Men sometimes drift after witnessing the destructiveness of combat. This book deals with the destructiveness of World War I and its affect on Hemingway's LOST GENERATION.
A good, short read worthy of minor classic statusA reviewer (bpr2d@mtsu.edu), A reviewer, 02/08/2007
A thoroughly excellent read. I believe Salvadore Dali' must have read this book. His book HIDDEN FACES seems to echo some of the rich characterizations here. It may do well for our generation of war ravaged young people to read this. Men sometimes drift after witnessing the destructiveness of combat. This book deals with the destructiveness of World War I and its affect on Hemingway's LOST GENERATION.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Thin Red Line:
"When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was pointless, empty. When compared to the fact that he might be dead tomorrow, everything was pointless. Life was pointless. Whether he looked at a tree or not was pointless. It just didn't make any difference. It was pointless to the tree, it was pointless to every man in his outfit, pointless to everybody in the whole world. Who cared? It was not pointless only to him; and when he was dead, when he ceased to exist, it would be pointless to him too. More important: Not only would it be pointless, it would have been pointless, all along."
Such is the ultimate significance of war in The Thin Red Line (1962), James Jones's fictional account of the battle between American and Japanese troops on the island of Guadalcanal. The narrative shifts effortlessly among multiple viewpoints within C-for-Charlie Company, from commanding officer Capt. James Stein, his psychotic first sergeant Eddie Welsh, and the young privates they send into battle. The descriptions of combat conditions--and the mental states it induces--are unflinchingly realistic, including the dialog (in which a certain word Norman Mailer rendered as "fug" 15 years earlier in The Naked and the Dead appears properly spelled on numerous occasions). This is more than a classic of combat fiction; it is one of the most significant explorations of male identity in American literature, establishing Jones as a novelist of the caliber of Herman Melville and Stephen Crane.
"When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was pointless, empty. When compared to the fact that he might be dead tomorrow, everything was pointless. Life was pointless. Whether he looked at a tree or not was pointless. It just didn't make any difference. It was pointless to the tree, it was pointless to every man in his outfit, pointless to everybody in the whole world. Who cared? It was not pointless only to him; and when he was dead, when he ceased to exist, it would be pointless to him too. More important: Not only would it be pointless, it would have been pointless, all along."
Such is the ultimate significance of war in The Thin Red Line (1962), James Jones's fictional account of the battle between American and Japanese troops on the island of Guadalcanal. The narrative shifts effortlessly among multiple viewpoints within C-for-Charlie Company, from commanding officer Capt. James Stein, his psychotic first sergeant Eddie Welsh, and the young privates they send into battle. The descriptions of combat conditions--and the mental states it induces--are unflinchingly realistic, including the dialog (in which a certain word Norman Mailer rendered as "fug" 15 years earlier in The Naked and the Dead appears properly spelled on numerous occasions). This is more than a classic of combat fiction; it is one of the most significant explorations of male identity in American literature, establishing Jones as a novelist of the caliber of Herman Melville and Stephen Crane.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
please help
sometimes at night I think that maybe I don't like being a man. I tuck my balls into my ass cheeks and ask beth to suck my nipples. I'm confused. anyone else ever feel like maybe they are a cat stuck in a mans body?
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
You All Suck Balls
Jon discovers the internet and all of a sudden we're in a book club?
5. The Thin Red Line -- I remember liking the book then being really disappointed by the movie.
4. Sphere -- I guess any movie where you really have to use your imagination gets ruined when people try to do it for you.
3. It -- Stephen Kings books don't always translate well to the screen, especially when they're made-for-tv miniseries.
2. Must Love Dogs -- I didn't see the movie or read the book, but I deduce they are both pieces of shit.
1. Running With Scissors -- fun book, bad movie.
Here's a good list of books to movies.
5. The Thin Red Line -- I remember liking the book then being really disappointed by the movie.
4. Sphere -- I guess any movie where you really have to use your imagination gets ruined when people try to do it for you.
3. It -- Stephen Kings books don't always translate well to the screen, especially when they're made-for-tv miniseries.
2. Must Love Dogs -- I didn't see the movie or read the book, but I deduce they are both pieces of shit.
1. Running With Scissors -- fun book, bad movie.
Here's a good list of books to movies.
Monday, September 8, 2008
list up bitch
1. oliver twist - i the jtt version ate my ass. in fact all jtt films eat my ass
2. moby dick - starring patrick stewart, stick to star trek
3. a christmas carol - you choose which film (scrooged had mary lou in it)
4. sum of all fears - ben fucking affleck, jack ryan was written gay for this film
i chucks idea of the shinning, but i like the movie. it makes me scared.
therkalsens?
Remember---- Who your Friends are
You dont want anybody to pick books that have commercial appeal today. Well you just narrowed this blog down to you and, um, let me see, NOBODY. I loved Jurassic Park as a kid. and was wholly disappointed in the movie. I'm gonna go back and get a masters in Lit so I can repost. Talk to you in 4 years.
The Fuckit List
This list is hotter than Beth in her maternity clothes.
5. Da Vinci Code- Book was good for what is was- Tom Hanks couldnt act sitting on the toilet.
4. Red Dragon- Not Manhunter- the newer one by the same name.
3. Dracula- I'm with CG- that book is good- movie is almost funny.
2. Lord of the rings- didnt read the books. Dont need to. Those movies suck hairy balls.
1. Jurassic Park- I even knew in my prepubescent years that that movie stunk like Chris Hartzell's whitey tighties.
5. Da Vinci Code- Book was good for what is was- Tom Hanks couldnt act sitting on the toilet.
4. Red Dragon- Not Manhunter- the newer one by the same name.
3. Dracula- I'm with CG- that book is good- movie is almost funny.
2. Lord of the rings- didnt read the books. Dont need to. Those movies suck hairy balls.
1. Jurassic Park- I even knew in my prepubescent years that that movie stunk like Chris Hartzell's whitey tighties.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Remember
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November...I could care less about Guy Fawkes, but what I do care about is that people actually choose books that are good. Who this immediately excludes is John Grisham/Michael Crichton/ Nicolas Sparks...so don't even try.
Respect My List
1. Breakfast of Champions (Wide Open Beaver)
2. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
3. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
4. In Cold Blood
5. Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jeez-o, Friend-O... I could go on for years with this business.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
the time has come, welcome
welcome to hollywood sucks book club
the goal of this group is to discover what truely is the worst book adaptation.
the tools you'll need are(in no particular order) a mind, video card, library card, and a computer.
what i need from each member of HSBC is a short list of book/films they would like to cover. no more than 5 each. you may add graphic novels, no more than 2. Also, i am new at blogging, so i could use some help on this site. all suggestions, FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HSBC, are welcome.
welcome to my world
the goal of this group is to discover what truely is the worst book adaptation.
the tools you'll need are(in no particular order) a mind, video card, library card, and a computer.
what i need from each member of HSBC is a short list of book/films they would like to cover. no more than 5 each. you may add graphic novels, no more than 2. Also, i am new at blogging, so i could use some help on this site. all suggestions, FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HSBC, are welcome.
welcome to my world
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