Weekend Part 2

Well Friends,

I decided I should probably try to finish writing about last weekend before this weekend truly begins, but then again that Bottle of Bacardi Razz I helped finish off last night may have truly been the start of the weekend.... who knows.

So where was I?

Ahhhh, Yes... there I was Sunday night hanging out doing work. Work? Yes, work. I spent from like 9PM to 12:30 PM checking Justin's reference files, finishing my flow chart which I will one day have to send to you all, just so you can see how ridiculous Blu-Ray projects are (I will also have to one day lay down in blog form what it is that I actually do... but if you are again interested, check out this website for more details.... 

http://www.herzogcowen.com/hce/main.php 

Anyway I went to sleep and woke up around 5:00 AM and began to do this

Look. Scroll. Copy. Paste.

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Look. Scroll. Copy. Paste.

Over and over again, creating Excel Documents. I did this from 5:00 AM to 11:15 AM and I had to fight off stomach cramps from not eating and the cold, it was a great teeth rattling, body shivering experience.

But once that was done I got ready for the day and I visited Rachel's Marine Lab, which is awesome and it faces a bay and it feels very right for a Marine Lab, I got to meet more of her grad school friends and we had an excellent lunch on the water. Good times for all. Then we talk a walk on the beach with the two PUGS that Rachel loves/hates. And then we made dinner and hung out. Overall very successful.

The next day I went to the SPA and got a CEDER ENZYME BATH, described below, and a massage, extremely relaxing and a little bit weird, but of course overall good times.

CEDER ENZYME BATH: Next, you change into a Japanese robe provided by Osmosis (you may enjoy the baths with or without a bathing suit), then enter the private bath area. Cozy wooden tubs are filled with a fragrant blend of finely ground cedar, rice bran, and plant enzymes imported from Japan. These ingredients heat naturally, by fermentation, creating biologically generated warmth that mimics the body's natural metabolic process. Once a place for your body is dug into the warm mixture, you step into the tub, settle into the place that has been shaped to support you, and are gently covered up to the chin. During the bath, you will feel the unique quality of the heat working through your body and you may perspire. The sensation may feel unusual, but will quickly become quite comfortable. The experience is deeply relaxing and restful. Let yourself go with the good feeling, surrender to stillness and breathe deeply and naturally

Let me just say that afterwards you kind of stink, because of all the stuff that you sweat out, but then you get to take a shower so you can get all the ceder off of you.

Then I drove home. Not too crazy. Good times for all.

Weekend Part 1

Okay...

I'm visiting Rachel and there is no cell phone reception... and I'm surrounded by cows. They moo...

Yes, I watched two Cows try to hump yesterday... The cows were unsuccessful. They have much learning to do, but I really appreciate them for their effort. If they didn't try, there'd be no calves and their would be no milk and tri-tip.

But since I have a lot of work to do from here 'til tomorrow morning I am going to sign off now, but you can be sure that I will return with more later!

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SuperHero Friday

Yay!

Friday is here, and I'm almost done delivering the Serenity Blu-Ray Feature that I've been working on pretty intensely for the past two weeks. But what I'm really here about is that it is "DARK KNIGHT" friday, where everyone and their mother is going to see "The Dark Knight". And in commemoration of that, I decided to take a few minutes and do the SUPERHERO QUIZ. 

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man		70%
Robin		62%
Green Lantern		60%
Superman		55%
Hulk		55%
The Flash		55%
Iron Man		55%
Supergirl		50%
Catwoman		50%
Wonder Woman		45%
Batman		40%

You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.



Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

I swear to ya'll that I've really been trying to cut down on my HERO COMPLEX ISSUES... but apparently, I haven't been doing too good of a job at it. At least, at least I'm not a female superhero.... although I am more Supergirl than Batman (not that that stings in any way.) 

Why don't ya'll take the test and hit up the COMMENTS with your results.

Hulu

Hey Friends,

I'm back!! I'm trying to not leave ya'll alone for longer then a few days, especially since the WILLGONGJOURNAL.BLOGSPOT.COM comes up on like page 4 or 5 when GOOGLING WILL GONG.

Anyway, I just wanted to talk to everyone about HULU.Com  ... 

Hulu is a website that shows TV shows and movies and sometimes they're new and sometimes they're old. But they play nicely and look good. And you can make little popups of the show and shrink them down or blow them up, so you can have it on while you're doing other things. Oh and they also do like the best clips of a show, so if you want to just see the funny bit of a show, it'll be there. Also,  it's nice being able to go to one website for lots of shows and some of them are shows that you could only find on ITUNES, but what if you don't want to pay for them, you go to HULU.

And also... if you want a good time: Watch BONES!

Oh NO!!!

Bad news amigos...

My inconsistent blogging has kicked me down on the GOOGLE - WILL GONG scale. You now have to go to the second page to find the blog... and this is behind like THREE LINKS for the new Comedy Central "Gong Show." (I'm not even going to start on that.) So I guess I need to write more.... 

Ok. I'll get on it.

The Sugar Problem

How many sugar packets do you put into your coffee?

Well, about a year ago I was putting three sugar packets into my coffee and I was looking to maybe make a switch to Splenda. So I called my foremost expert on things that are healthy and bad for you.

Will: Hey Rachel, so uh, I have a question.

Rachel: Okay. What's up?

Will: Well, I'm thinking of switching to Splenda?

Rachel: For like everything?

Will: No for my coffee. Splenda and non-fat milk.

Rachel: How much sugar do you use?

Will: Three sugar packets.

Rachel: Jeez, I can see why you'd want to switch. That's A LOT of sugar for like every cup of coffee.

Will: I know!

Rachel: Well, I wouldn't switch to Splenda, because (can't remember the exact smart words she used...) because it's like really really bad to not be natural and natural is the best way to go... (sorry Raye, I just can't remember)

Will: So, I should stick to sugar.

Rachel: Yeah, if you don't want to put bad S$!& inside of you.

Will: Okay, that sucks.

Rachel: If I were you I'd just cut back.

Will: Great.

After my conversation with Rachel I tried cutting back, but you know, for the life of me, I just couldn't it didn't taste good, especially, non-fat lite sugar coffee. Yuck.

So it's been a year now, and over the past year, I've really tried to think about what I eat and what goes inside me. And I just read this great quote from some journal that was posted in the kitchen at work, that basically said that your body remakes itself twice a year, and it uses what you put inside you to remake it. So if you want to get ridiculous with that, think about being a human hamburger like I used to be. I mean when I was 8 my whole body was sponsored by McDonalds. "Will Gong has been brought to you by MCDONALDS!"

All of this brings me back to the past week. Something happened to me, oddly enough it appears that my mouth and tongue have decided to reject all the sugar I've been putting in my coffee, by making me feel kind of sick with it in there, like my mouth is sending my brain signals that this is way to much sugar, but then another part of my brain is like, WHAT? I need the sugar. So after this happened, I cut back to one sugar packet per coffee, and you know what I've been okay. It just goes to show how oddly connected all of the parts of our body and mind are....

Weird stuff.

"Will Gong has been brought to you by Trader Joe's & some random miscellaneous restaurants."

Random Thought #1

Just a hunch... but I think some exciting things are coming... seeing that things are slowing down here at work... and my life may begin to resume again. (Hmm... I'm feeling a little deja vu here... dammit.)

The Mid-Summer Movie Report

EEEEvvvvvvaaaaaa....

Hello Friends,

Well, it's the beginning of July. July 4th to be precise and I'm here to give my mid summer movie report.

And I'm just going to get out of the way and list them out in order of liking, top to bottom people:

Top 3

Wall-E

Iron Man

Wanted

And everybody else:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Incredible Hulk

So is this really surprising. No. I guess. There were a few movies I wanted to see but just didn't the chance to catch. Films like "Speed Racer" which I heard was terrible, but who knows, maybe I would've liked it a  little. Oh and I wanted to see the Narnia film, too, but there was something about Prince Caspian that seemed a little too fakey. Know what I mean?

WALL-E

So I went back to my Possible Fave 10 Blog from late April and I found that uh I didn't put Wall-E on it, I said it might have been a possible Honorable Mention... huhuh...eek.

But you know, I'm just going to say that I completely avoided learning anything about Wall-E so I had absolutely no expectation going into, and I feel good about. But check it Wall-E is incredible. It's amazing. It may be brilliant. It's definitely touching, gorgeous, intelligent, occasionally frightening, BEAUTIFUL... that's really all I am going to say. Cause you may not like it and that's cool, but is it really cool? I mean I want to get like a stuffed animal of Wall-E. For realzzzz...

IRON MAN

Hmmm... let us see. Wisecracking, hard partying, hard drinking, ass kicking, super hero. Yeah... that's Iron Man. Aka Tony Stark... Aka Robert Downey Jr. doing whatever the hell he wants to, in the best super hero movie of the summer, so far.

As I look back on Spider-man 2 & 3... especially three, I ponder whatever happened to our fun loving, incredible, amazing friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. The one who is so scared that he constantly has to make fun of everything. There was a lost opportunity there, especially three, which is just really a lost opportunity in general. (I shouldn't go down this path.)

Anyway, some of the fun missing from those films was present, front and center in Iron Man. This guy didn't give a shit. Gosh, he's so BAD ASS. It had been a while since I'd seen a Super Hero movie and said, damn I want to be him... well for better or worse after Iron Man I felt that way. The acting was great, the effects were great, the directing was great. Just some real solid goodness all the way around.

WANTED

Well... hmmm... lets go ahead and mix in Fight Club and the Matrix, and add the spirit of Trainspotting. Yup, that's Wanted. And it's got some of the most amazing action I've seen. Just some real jaw dropping stuff. Yeah, the plots ridiculous, the messages are terrible, but what a great time. This was a movie that wasn't afraid to go there, to really GO THERE. Like when they were on that train and  (EDITED/CENSORED) and then all those people (EDITED/CENSORED) it was ridiculous and sick and really well done. But this movie isn't everybody's cup of tea. That's for sure. But I liked it enough to get seconds.

Now the sad stuff.

INDIANA JONES and the blah blah blah...

Solidly done. I guess. Pointlessly unnecessary. Doesn't really bring anything new to the table, and I'm not including Shia and Cate Blanchet's silly hair cut and weird, borderline bad accent (although she was kind of hot.) Most people I talk to are like, I just wish they hadn't made it. And I'm like eh... well it was fun to watch, not a bad way to waste money, you know, like renting a Matthew McConaughey movie (Random fact, as I was looking up how to spell his name, I saw that his highest grossing film is "A Time to Kill", but this was back when EVERYONE would go see whatever the hell Samuel L. Jackson and Sandra Bullock was in...anyway...)

Look, it was just plain weird at times, and awkward at time, and some times it was good and fun and exciting, and other times it was like what the hell is going here... and then there's the monkeys... and really... really... REALLY... and like why does this feel like a video game. Look for real... in the bathroom stall of that movie, you should've been able to see some door graffiti that read "For a Better time go play "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune," so much more fun then Indy 4... but I got nothing but love for those guys. Just don't do it again.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK

Indiana Jones is rated higher here, because I had more fun in Indy then in this. The movie was solidly mad, and it gave fans a version of Hulk that they wanted and it was closer to the TV show, but dammit, dammit, I liked a lot of that psychological shit in the first movie. If I could combine the two movies, I think there would be a hell of thing, but in this one, the new one, I just didn't care about what was happening, especially in the end. 

To Hulk Smash or to not Hulk Smash, I just didn't care either way.

So that was the first half of the summer movies. No real surprises here. Probably should've seen more movies. Probably seen like an art house movie or two. BUT whatever, I moved and decorated and produced like 3 projects at the same time.

But JULY & AUGUST should be a good month. We've got HELLBOY 2, THE DARK NIGHT, and so many others... like TROPIC THUNDER... but I'll keep you posted.

Adios Muchachos!

1 Month to 10 year high school reunion...