Monthly Archive for August, 2006

Episode 5 As it Should Have Been

Episode 5 As it Should Have Been

An Open Letter to my Roommate The Ninja

Good day my friend,

I’m sorry to have to tell it to you this way, but I don’t think we can hang out together anymore. I know that this may come as a shock to you considering we’ve had nothing but laughs in the three weeks that we’ve been roomies, but to be perfectly honest with you, things haven’t been going so great between us.

From the very first moment that we’ve met, I knew that we were going to get along fine judging from the way you didn’t kill me onsite the way you killed your other potential roommates who made the mistake asking you “What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue?” It is due to my awareness that ninjas aren’t much talkers that not only was I able to escape with my life that day, I’ve also made a friend.

Everything went well for the next few days. I’d teach you how to play badminton and how to speak. And you would teach me the vast benefits of comfortable silences. I however thought that it was too much when you decapitated the bully who was making fun of my knee high socks at the gym; but since nobody decided to press charges, plus the fact that you disappeared in a puff of smoke while benchpressing 300 lbs., I guess it was no biggie.
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BRICK

BrickIn the latter part of 2005, film geeks in several forums I frequent started to to rave about this movie. Words like “Awesome!,” and “Highly Original!” were used liberally when describing this movie.

The thing about film geeks is that you have to take what they say with a grain of salt. Because film geeks are notorious for being overzealous at times. They rally behind a small independent film that’s the least bit different and say that it’s the “BEST.MOVIE.EVER.LOL.”

But then again, them film geeks aren’t all that stupid. Annoying yes. But not entirely stupid. So I wasn’t too quick to dismiss all their frothing because truth be told, the concept behind the movie was enough to give me a massive boner even without any endorsements from any kind of geek:

“It’s Noir, but set in High School!”
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