I'd like to personally thank the casting director and anyone else resonsible for picking Daniel Craig as the new Bond. The only Bond flick I've ever seen in the theater was A View To A Kill and it was because Duran Duran did the theme song that year. Amazing how I can be easily swayed sometimes. The trailer for the new Bond movie almost had me stroking out over the following image. Enough of the chicks in bikinis...although I'm sure there will be a few of those...I want to see this guy come walking up out of the ocean on a 40ft. screen, preferrably in DLP. Not just eye candy, you should check out Mr. Craig in Layer Cake if you need convincing he can do Bond justice. I need just a moment.
Ok, I'm good now. Listening to Portishead, still waiting for the new cd sadly.
Just a couple of things to chat about tonight/early morning.
First, I was updating my queue on Netflix and saw that the number of movies/tv shows I've rated is currently 1,831. Everything from Meatballs to a French documentary on the Holocaust. And I'm still single...hmmm...perplexes me too.
On a not so light note:
I was mean to someone on Friday. Or rather, I had replied meanly to something he said. The guy who brings us our main book shipment is a pretty decent guy most of the time. I feel fairly safe in saying I think if either Jinn or I needed help he would be there in whatever way was possible. That being said, he has the complete polar opposite political view of myself (and Jinn for the most part as well, but I won't speak for her). He is a fairly hard-core conservative Republican. Me, well I think most of you know I'm liberal and if they aren't acting like a bunch of wankers, a Democrat. Our driver knows this and usually brings up things he hears on Rush's show or sees on Fox to try and spur a comment from us.
Usually the banter is pretty good natured. I certainly don't approve of everything the Dems have ever done so it's not too hard to poke fun at them along with the Republicans. Every once in awhile though, we touch on something that rubs me the wrong way. I'm still not sure what our driver meant by the comment he made, but my reply was mean spirited. I couldn't tell if what I said bothered him. Still, I felt bad about it. But I didn't apologize because I was unclear on what he meant by what he said. If he meant what I thought he meant, then I think I was within my "rights" to call him on it. If I'm wrong, then I guess I'm a confusing witch.
It's really difficult to reconcile liking someone and thinking they are a good person with the fact that you disagree with their political outlook. A person's perspective on politics is part of who they are and it can get tough to seperate the two. It's one thing to ignore a friend's love of let's say, the Dave Matthew's Band (which I can do as long as I can refer to the band as the Dead Lite for sorority girls). It's another to like someone, but hope that they never have the power to make political decisions.
Also, trying to juggle a liberal outlook while not going overboard on the PC stuff while also not letting someone's bigoted opionion go unchecked is no easy task. I firmly believe everyone has a right to their opionion. Liberals, Nazis, Dave Matthews, all of us. The problem then arises when it all turns from discussion to noise. I could never do what Jon Stewart does. I would be so angry with some of the guests I wouldn't be able to speak.
I should just say Jon's name and count to ten the next time I feel the need to respond. Not only to get the facts straight, but to be less mean on my end.
Hmmm...and I'm still single...shocker.
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