Bills Bills Bills

I have a problem with companies like Dell and Pacific Power (I am only picking on them because I am staring at the bills from them right now) who go on and on about how to make your life greener and how I should "GO GREEN! Pay bills online to save paper!" Obviously I have no problem with the concept of using less paper and doing things electronically, I have a problem with them writing that 12 times on an envelope that also includes 4 pages of advertisements. I have a better idea - why don't you money-grubbing whores stop accepting copious amounts of revenue from these advertisers and save the paper yourselves? Or is your game plan to make a few easy bucks from them while simultaneously trying to annoy me until I finally pay online?

Most of my bills I actually do pay online already; Pacific Power is an exception because their website wasn't working for like 3 months and I have never gotten around to doing it since they fixed the site. I did, however, write "fix your website..." in the memo line of one of my checks. Power to the people.

Dell's website is also a pain in the ass to navigate so they can shove their online payment system up their asses. I have a specific issue with them regarding the environmental soundness of their operations. I save paper by paying online but you are manufacturing printers and giving them away like ecstasy at a rave meanwhile charging out the ass for ink. Either poor college kids think they lucked out on a free printer and are losing hundreds of dollars on ink or they are throwing them away a month after they get them in favor of a cheaper option. Sure, maybe they are recycling them but the waste produced by electronics is only partially recyclable: here. China may be the most attractive option for creating a toxic waste shit storm, next to maybe Eugene, but it's still messed up.

Underated movies

Ghost Town

This movie is freaking brilliant. I got it randomly on Netflix after seeing a preview for it on another movie. I like Ricky Gervais so I got it in the mail a week or two later. I had forgotten why I ordered it and what it was about so I turned it on while I was doing homework. I didn't get through a single page. The movie was absolutely hilarious and Ricky Gervais is a genius. My favorite scene in the whole movie is his exchange with the nurse at the hospital before he gets a colonoscopy. You can see a couple seconds of it in the preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUul8PD_CGo

I don't know who was in charge of promoting this movie but they should get fired cause I don't remember seeing this movie once before it came out. It was like it went straight to DVD or something. Anyway, just rent the movie and watch it cause it will make you laugh.

The Mummy and The Mummy Returns

These two movies are just really fun. I love Brenden Fraser in them which is weird cause he's usually a pretty shitty actor. I never watched the third one that came out like 8 years after the second one but I was working at the theater when it did come out and people said it was terrible. That's what you get for messing with the classics. Well it's a classic to me.

Pure Luck

This movie reminds me of being in the basement of the beach house with that giant wooden TV stand and ancient VCR. We'd sit down there and watch this movie ever time we went to the beach. Martin Short is hilarious in it.

Kate and Leopold

I have no idea where I got this movie or heard about it or anything but I love it now. Usually I can't stand Meg Ryan and her gross face but she is entertaining in it. Having a hot Australian co-star helps too. It's a good movie to watch when you're not really paying attention.

I'll have to add more when they come to me...