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...

The House Warning Party

Hello!!!

It's Sunday Morning.... 9 hours since everyone evacuated my new apartment and I just wanted to share a few memories from the night last.

Was I responsible for getting everyone drunk?

Hmmm.... Well maybe...

1.    I uh, started the night out by making everyone these drinks called "The Hulk". They consist of Hennessey and Hypnotiq over ice, and you know it's good when it turns the color of the Hulk. Well, that's a lot of liquor, but it's delicious. (and apparently the original reason i started drinking Hennessey, didn't know that... huh.)

Consequences --- All the guests got pretty drunk (Josh told me twice) .... not too much damage though, thank god for the complimentary water bottles I put out...

2.   And Anne Marie came over asked me to drink out of the HALF YARD GLASS OF ALE and I was like that is Gabe's and he should drink out of it.

Consequences ---  Ask Gabe.

Some other Random Memories...

- I gave some pre-teen/kids a tour of the apartment. They came up from the neighborhood and wanted to party, but they only got the tour.

- I did a Vodka shot with the Russian neighbors. (I never knew the Vodka thing was really real.) Cool guys, they were just chilling.

- All the people that showed up for like half a second and then disappeared. Did they only show up for the complimentary water bottles? I wonder...

- Being told that I TOTALLY F%*^&# UP putting up all my poster frames. That may have been the funniest moment of the night for me.

WILL - "God, people need to stop bumping into this frame and knocking off."

Hutson - "No Will, you totally F&*&%#$ UP putting the frame."

Will - "No the poster frame is totally warped."

Hutson pulls the frame off.

Hutson - "No, you see these brackets don't go on the wall, they go on the frame."

Will visualizes how it's supposed to go.

Will - "..."

Will hangs his head. Starts laughing to himself. "I didn't know, I didn't know...."

EVERYONE LAUGHS.

- Running out of Toilet Paper. First the main bathroom ran out. Then I took the last of it from Gabe's bathroom. Then his bathroom didn't have any, but I was advised by some girls that it was okay to put tissues on top of the toilet lid so that they can use that. Then Gabe being like WHAT THE?!?! And then GUY TOAM going out and getting TP for everyone. THANK YOU GUY!

- "Planet Earth" playing in the background... The little Ducks jumping out of the tree in slow motion was a particular highlight, especially since 50 Cent's "In Da Club" was playing. Awesome.

- Giving Anne Marie a test of her cognitive skills, before she left. She seemed okay and I've seen Anne Marie not okay... she was okay...

-Guy spending the last half hour of the party addressing Gabe as "Drunk Gabe." --- As in "Okay Drunk Gabe... you need to let Will clean."

- The responsibility of all the DD's. Thanks guys... without you I'd probably be kicking people out as we speak.

- Oliver showing up, making his own musical playlist for everyone...

- Getting yelled at for having Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" on my playlist... (I like that song dammit! No Hating!)

- Josh had his VIDEO CAMERA!!! Oh dear... I don't want to know what he caught... - For a Second I felt like I was on  J.J. Abram's television shows or "CloverField".

- The popularity of the LOVE SAC! Go out and get yourself a LOVE SAC! You won't regret it.

- Cleaning up at 1:45. Cleaning up at 8:00 AM. Doing the Cinderella thing. i.e. scrubbing the floors, (I sang a little song.) Cleaning up at 10:00 Am. I love cleaning!!!

- I hid the SPEAKER VOLUME remote from people at the end of the night. People would keep turning the music up WAY too loud and I'd sneak around and turn it down. This dance went on for about a half hour.

And seriously I just want to thank everyone for showing up last night! I hope ya'll had fun. I did. I also want to thank everyone who brought something. And everyone who brought someone!

Oh, and Corey I'll hit you back for that Hennessey.

Will & Rachel Conversation #5

Will is at Von's Grocery Store ordering a sandwich.

His Phone Rings.

Will: Hey Rachel.

Rachel: So I just saw your twin and he was 70 pounds overweight and he was really ugly.

Will: What? I couldn't hear that too well.

Rachel: Will, I just saw your twin, he looks like you, but he's really really overweight and he was really ugly.

Will: So you're saying I shouldn't gain any weight or I'll be really ugly.

Rachel: No, I'm saying you shouldn't gain 70 pounds ---

Will: Or I will be ugly ---

Rachel: Yes.

Will: He looked like me?

Rachel: Yes, exactly like you, but he was really fat and ugly.

Will: So I shouldn't gain ANY weight.

Rachel: Yes, No, Whatever... Just don't gain any weight.

How do I use this thing...

You just have to hit a few keys... maybe one key at a time... ugh...

So... I've been A.W.O.L.

Like really A.W.O.L.

Like "Will why do you even have a blog anymore?" A.W.O.L.

What does A.W.O.L. mean?

Well, I moved. I painted the place. I built furniture. My thumb hurts. I finished the Super Important Crazy Disney/Bruckheimer Sizzle Piece for a Licensing Show. I made it to my class, but did not actually term in the final assignment, so I will not get a grade, and if I do, it will start with Effe... and there is some other stuff I did too... but I forgot a lot of it already.

But.... well I'd just like to thank Everyone who helped us move, and helped me get through this stressful, but not bad, period. Here we go...

Aaron

Brian Armes.

Brother.

Coffee.

Corey.

Gabe.

God.

Guy.

Hutson.

Jason Carter "The Spicy"

Jeremy Cook.

Josh.

Lindsey.

Sara O.

The Editors I'm working with.

"The Runaways"

Tracy x2

Man, I'm totally forgetting someone or people or something.

Anyway. Things are starting to simmer down a little bit. We're still on Medium Hot. But we ain't boiling.

Now it's time for the fiesta. If you're around we're doing a housewarming party at my new place on JUNE 28th.

Will & Rachel Conversation #4

Rachel: Hey Will.

Will: Rachel!

Rachel: How's your new place?

Will: What are you doing?

Rachel: Good. How's your new place?

Will: It's great. I love it.

Rachel: That's great. I wanted to know. You know, since you don't blog anymore, I had no idea.

Will: ...

Rachel: Yeah, I thought so.

Jorge had a good month

Many of you don't know Jorge Avellan ... well that is too bad. Because Jorge is awesome. He's just one of those people that you come in contact with and know... really know... that he's special... and not just for his magical ability to make any piece of clothing look good, but also because, well you'll notice that first. But then, eventually you'll notice how damn happy he is... and positive... and how everything good seems to happen to him... and yet he is so down to earth and real that it's incredible.

Well I'm glad to say that Jorge had a particularly good month. Not only did Jorge become a citizen finally... but he also won an Emmy. Jorge's family came over from Nicaragua when he was very young... and for the life of me I really thought he had become a citizen by now... but eh. And over the last year he created a thirty minute show on "Immigrating to Canada (in Espanol)" and how there is the belief that if you go to illegal immigrants went to Canada they'd be made a citizen... well If I'm correct, they could go there and get some rights, but a few months later would then get deported back to where they came from. It was some scandalous business, and Jorge got to the bottom of it, and for that he won an Emmy.

So here's a picture of good old Jorge. Copy and paste the link.. you can also go to univision detroit to catch his nightly news clips. If he ever comes into town I will shepherd him around like the celebrity he is...

http://media.wudt23.com/images/JAvellan(280).jpg

Well done! Jorge. Keep on Truckin'

The Old Days and the New Days

Things are busy.... they've been busy.... and they are still busy...

We painted the New Apartment last weekend. From Dawn till after sunset.... we painted or did paint-esque activities, like taping or pulling off tape. I can't wait to move in... just wish I had a little more time to get there.

OH and Then My Corolla died... Grr... Arg... It's like having a piece of you gone... losing a piece of you... anyway...

So, today I bought a new car. The 2008 Honda Fit -- Sport --

I'd like to thank Gabriel Reiter, Daniel Morfesis, and Joshua Rosenfield, for suggesting, talking up, and helping to make this happen. I'd also like to thank all the other people who were very supportive in the process, including my brother Joe, without him saying F$&%^ IT just buy the car, I'd be rollerblading to work tomorrow. So guys, THANK YOU!

Here is a pictures of the link

http://www.cardata.com/images/2008_new_cars/Honda/2008_Honda_Fit_Milano_Red.jpg

I hope you can see this...

It is good. I really like it. It is fun. Hopefully, I will get the chance to enjoy it pretty good. Gotta run, got some work to do tonight.

Peace!