politics and censorship

it seems the powers that be are trying to bring the man down. and than man is me.

i head into work for what should be another day another dollar and the moment a step into the store i hear over the loud speaker.. "ben to the managers desk.." my immediate thought was.. ohhh maybe my mac has arrived.. and i was wrong! once again it seems my reviews for movies have gotten me into trouble!

horton hears a who

"this anti-abortion film has its message cleverly hidden beneath the brilliant animation and hilarious jokes about an elephant with a mission" 4 1/2 stars

now i thought this was a positive review, and with the trouble i got into last time about bad-mouthing two and a half men, surely this was a glowing review about a product i liked!

NOOOOO

shit no... this was SO unacceptable and totally inappropriate for work! seriously? have a fucking laugh.. i guess putting in the kids section was a bit risky, but i could've just moved it to the a-z wall where all the other dvds are!

then came my review for crash- the 2007 film that beat brokeback mountain and won the oscar.

"this oscar winner delivers drama in tonnes as its all star cast delivers some racially profiling cliches and great performances"

doubt

"any actors wet dream, doubt stars meryl and phillip seymour hoffman as they go head to head in the catholic church. great performances and an ending that will leave you floored"

anyways... basically i had to go around the store and pick up any other reviews that might be considered "risky" or whatever! so, i took a quick trip around the store and took down any reviews that some loser might take offense to. it turns out that there were quite a few, maybe 20 or so that were deemed NSFW.

cut to:

2 months later?

i'm on the floor putting out stock and my software manager approaches me and asks to talk. oh, here we go.. he pulls out a review; twilight

"any young girl or gay guys fantasy, twilight might not have the best story but it does have a hot leading man that will have you glued to your seats." 3 1/2 stars

fucking hell! i cant write anything... i'm being censored at work and it's fucking pathetic.

and what shits me the most is that i was warned that next time it would be a written warning and there are people at work who do shit all and treat other staff members like shit and just fly under the fucking radar!

where is the justice? so apparently i cannot have any sexual references or jokes or anything remotely funny in these reviews! grrr it gets me so angry that in this day and age, and in a store like blah blah hi-fi i am being refused my right to express my opinions and thoughts?

the funny this is, that when i was taking some of my reviews down, a customer actually asked me why i was doing it. i told her why and she expressed her views on how pathetic and sad it was that i had to remove my reviews.

what a world we live in!

posters

touch okay?

this priceless video was on one of my film websites. she is the winner of a competition to meet the harry potter cast. out of 10,000 people who entered, she was chosen because she was the craziest and nuttiest person. and you can see why below!

dinner

meeting carol after work we decided to get some dinner in the city that was NOT asian... yes, it was a difficult mission and we gave up after about 2 minutes of trying!

we ended up at a new asian restaurant that was on la trobe st, above the hobby shop. we walked up the stairs to reveal a massive maroon room packed with asians of all levels of coolness. and carol was the one of 2 white people inside...

anyways the waitress hands us the menus and it wasnt soon after that we learnt that all the pictures on the front door that lured us in were nowhere to be seen!

so we quickly chose something off the menu to keep our stomachs at peace!

we ordered chicken and peanut with some black sauce and a cold dish of garlic cucumbers!

what a mistake! mmm it was very average, i mean, im sure it was good food but we weren't feeling it! in the words of larry david...

waaaaay too saucy! so we quickly finished our waters and beers which were the only thing worthy of completing and got outta there... not before paying a crazy price tag and digging into our bags and pockets to only just cover the cost of the meal...

cut to: hungry jacks to get a whopper meal to make us feel better! fatty fat fat!

what i will say is that i should've known better than to get the m&m storm! it was a horrible evening that not even hungry jacks could fix up! 2 and a half stars!

they're back!

you might remember a little while back steve per chance posted a clip to the prison inmates doing a mass choreography to michael jackson's thriller?

well... they are at it again and this time in a 10 minute tribute to the king of pop.

with only 10 hrs of rehearsal time, 1500 inmates got together and managed to create this amazing video..

how fucking amazing is this? anyways, i looked into things a little further and it turns out that there are heaps of these little performances that would make kim-jong jealous as all hell!

i've posted some links for some of my faves below! i hope you enjoy them... words cannot express how much i LOVE mass choreography!

JAI HO

I NEED A HERO