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I think that an important part of life is recognizing the effects of your own environment. Example, the effects of movies on your reality. I got shitfaced on half a case of Miller Lite tall-boys watching Black Snake Moan on Wednesday. Last night, watching Pan's Labyrinth, only drank 3 beers during the entire movie, which had a longer run time than the Moan. Let's investigate this. Pan's Labyrinth is about a little girl that is a fairy princess trapped in a human's body and has to complete three tasks to get home, taking place in WWI Spain. The entire movie is in Spanish with subtitles and Fauns and Pixies and other mythological beasts. So, perhaps my intellectual portion of my brain, no matter how small, governed my imbibing so that I could get the gist of the movie. Let's take a peek at yesterday's post about the Moan...............hmmm...................yes.................yes.........I do see the difference. In one movie, I'm entwined in a mystical world where my wildest dreams can come true...........in the other Samuel L. Jackson has my soul in a headlock screaming "Yeah, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in Hell !!!! Now drink, muthafucka!!!" ;-)
Yeah, that's nice. However, true to form, I was in a staring contest with half a case of beer and wasn't about to blink. So, for some reason, yesterday, I was thinking of the movie "The Longest Yard" with Adam Sandler and in the movie a prison guard throws a grenade on a riot and the grenade explodes into a bunch of rubber balls. Very kool. So, I was thinking, "hmmm......bullshit, no such grenade exists........but it would be cool if it did......". One quick google search later and I found my grenade. Now, you're probably wondering why I'm thinking about grenades at work. Honestly, its a mystery to me too but when thinking about this non-lethal grenade, I'm getting excited at the thought of tossing it at my brother while he runs away :-) Now, before you get too judgmental, my brother bought a weight lifting bench and free weights with the sole purpose of getting big and beating my ass. True story, he txt msg me this thought. Its just the relationship we have. It works for us. So, if you ever see my brother running away from me, run the other way cause the effective range of the Hornet's Nest grenade is 3 meters ;-)
Segway, while reading the Wikipedia history of grenades, I was watching some YouTube videos of live grenade practice and a few links later, and 3 hrs and 9 beers, I'm watching the real life of 40 year old virgins. I got hooked on watching Airsoft battles till past midnight. These guys were the real life G.I. Joe. They were tossing around all kinds of military battle lingo and were wearing all kinds of camouflage and ghillie suits and realistic looking Airsoft machine guns of all makes and models (one nerd even had "Born to Kill" on his helmet like "Full Metal Jacket"). Some of the videos were entertaining with a good soundtrack and action shots. Lots of smoke grenades and flashbangs. Most of the videos were from Europe. I guess its the rave out there. I know there's a company in Joliet, IL that hosts events and you can book a party with them. That'd be a fun bachelor party. I'd go around pistol whipping prisoners that are in fact my friends and not feel bad at all cause there are no victims in war, only causalities...................... :-P