Heading to the dentist tomorrow. Will be my first look at the local medical scene. It's just a routine cleaning but I'm expecting leeches and whiskey to play a major role. Hope they have head bandages in my hat size.
So they're sending Garth Drabinsky to jail for 7 years, of which he'll serve one. They say he would have been sentenced more heavily if he wasn't physically handicapped. Met the guy once and he's a pretty intimidating dude - he was on trial at the time and there was a serious dark cloud over his head.
Here in CPH they come down hard on white collar crime, even harder than in the US. Many are outraged with the laws here - apparently you go to jail longer for fraud than you do for rape. If that was the case in Canada, Garth D would be looking at a Madoff style sentence of 150 years and he sure as fuck wouldn't be out in 12 months.
There's a place around the corner from my office that served me the single worst meal of my life. It was a schwarma platter - chicken on rice. I asked for the kabobs but got the little shards of chicken and didn't realize it till I was at the office and had my red and white napkin tied around my neck and fork and knife sharpened and ready to cut those sweet kabobs. The meal had hunks of gross chicken fat and was generally disgusting and terrible. It wouldn't have bothered me so much, but the dish was about $16, which is expensive even for here. Talk about a rip off.
Now when I walk by the place I give the chef in the window the evil eye. I walk by often and distribute the bug eye, mean eye, cruk eye and recently the squint eye. The strange thing is, it's starting to work. The chef is actually getting upset - I think he's gonna jump me soon. They must really put curses on each other wherever the fuck this guy's from, because he's about to lose it.
When was the last time you saw Rick Moranis in a movie? Apparently the little guy was a big ass jerk and nobody wants to work with him anymore. Considering most comedians are more evil than rabid gorilla's, it's more likely that he's not working anymore because he's too busy counting his dough or he just isn't funny anymore. Which happens (see: Chevy Chase).
For the unfamiliar, Spalding Gray was a master of the rare art of soliloquy. His famous movies SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA and GRAY'S ANATOMY (trailer below) are marathons of storytelling and pretty much the artsiest things I've really truly loved in my life. A few years after getting into this guys work, 9/11 happened and the sensitive creature that he is, couldn't take the sadness and killed himself. Gray had always been obsessed with death, owning a home that bordered on a graveyard and writing about it often. A true artists soul, gone and missed.
