Went to the gym tonight to catch the third period of the Canucks game on the cardio machines... not since Wayne Gretzky high sticked Doug Gilmour have i seen such insane officiating.



Tonight there were some phantom calls when the game was on the line, and the calls changed the game... I would be more enraged if i had paid top dollar to see the game live... which of course would never happen (me paying top dollar to see a sports event totally geared for television). I believe i went in to that concept a few times so you can sift through the archives if you care.

I went to see Avatar on Saturday Night... I'm not a movie guy, but there was a "woman's" meeting in my house that night... where women talk about spirituality and goals and do tarot card readings, which is too much of a kook show for my man blood, so the options were drink and watch the Flames douse the Canucks or go to that other side of life and see a very popular 3D movie at a Cineplex Odion.

My friend had a "herbal remedy" that we sampled before going into the conglomerate complex of noise and lights... we had our tickets... my friend is very organized and he got them online in an effort to lessen the stress on our poor hearts. To make a long story mid-length we were there with our tickets a good 45 minutes before showtime.. we were actually outside listening to the end of the Flames Canucks game on our trusty portable radio thinking time was on our side... but we were wrong.

we went to our gate (gate 5) and they sent us to gate 10 on the other side of the building where there was a massive line up and people yelling at people... the crowd control people were shouting orders at the crowd... it was most degrading, and i was thinking that they are really wasting an opportunity here... they have all of us "consumers" here there should be screens on the wall or a designated waiting room hitting us with "cool" advertising rather than some middle aged troll barking at people not to sit against the wall but rather stand in an orderly fashion for the next 40 minutes waiting to hear some teenage jackass yelling have your tickets ready... as you can imagine we were rather traumatized by these events.. i just covered my ears when they started yelling as to shut out the bad energy. When the line finally started moving it looped into this strange hallway and back out

this was me in the hallway:



it was around this time i decided to ask anybody shouting for a pen... i had a bunch of ideas and the pen talk seemed to put them off their game and shut them up for a bit.

we got into the theater grabbed some decent seats and spent the next half hour being the suckers i wished we were when we were in line having fools yell at us. We sat comfortably and were the victims of some aggressive advertising. This is where i was thinking that a band would be a nice touch... i mean we are all here paying top dollar taking hit after hit... you could give us something... I'm sure i stand alone.. loud commercials me swearing for a mute button and then i remembered that i had to take a shit... now was my time to rid myself of that long skinny fecal matter that had been barking at my sphincter for some time... eventually that was over and i made it back for a few thousand previews and then our movie started.

the movie was pretty good... i liked the fact that it was low on the love scenes... the 3D was pretty good... i kind of wish i saw in in Imax but i imagine you would have to be in a line for hours with people yelling at you, which is worth nothing in this world.

but i guess the movie is about another world and it sure was that.

The other thing about the Movie was that one of the main characters, a woman scientist was chain smoking in sealed chambers where the humans had to live becuse the "gas" on the planet didn't jive with human breathing. She was smoking away and they really played up the "she is strongly addicted" card, which from what i have read is one of the primal bases of unconscious smoking addiction... ie: the smoking fetish.

good that our hero Mr. Cameron didn't pass up the opportunity to get in bed with the smoking industry in 2010. some things never change.