Woo hoo!! Got a call from the Mercy College Physical Therapy Program...got an interview with them on the 21st!! now, i was told that interviews don't start until end of February into March, so i'm paranoid as to what that means to being interviewed so early. maybe they'll just take me on the spot and then just let me take the licensing exam and then be done with it.

ok, maybe not.

Live Nude Men and Chicks!!

and all for $24.50 a pop!

how else can you follow up gay cowboys than with live nude people. and when i mean live, i mean in the flesh and when i mean in the flesh, of course, i mean dead. and when i mean nude, i mean w/o skin. and you know what people are.

i'm talking about the BODIES exhibition, at the most appropriate of new york landmarks...south street seaport--shop, eat, view dissectted cadavars. now, i a really good time...i found it amazing how they were able to isolate just the blood vessels and the nerves in an entire body...it was crazy. and then they had transverse dissections, pieces of people and stuff...the best part were the diseased parts...emphysema, TB, cancer, birth defects, conjoined twins, what babies look like in chicks.

you could totally go up and look face to face at some of these bodies, look inside them and everything down to the capillary. nan and i had fun playing anatomy...

then we tried to identify the different muscles and bones and tendons and stuff.

man, we were starving afterward, so we got a bite afterward...

which leads us to the Hollywood Gossip part of our blog.

BLIND ITEM!

one of my friends that is with child in the LA area is taking lamaze/pregnancy classes with a certain actor from an award-winning show that is getting the ax. when asked about the future of said show, the actor chuckled. so does that mean it's the end? or is it show time?

Gossip ends there.

And Because You Asked For It!!

a continuation of The 100 Things About Me (that i stopped writing sometime in August)

onto the Top 50!!!

49. i've cried watching a specific episode of winnie the pooh.

48. i've seen Neil Diamond...and it was GOOD.

47. my dad used to lock me in a room with a tape recorder and made me tape myself practicing piano--which he would listen to while eating dinner.

46. i think the catalyst for my mission of genocide on rabbits in my childhood neighborhood was the death of the 2 rabbits we had as pets, one we found infested by maggots and my fave loppy eared (who used to come when called) i found sick and dead in the backyard. just set me off.

45. i'll chew a spam cube like it was fresh fruit.

Just finished watching Spirited Away...what a great movie!! gives ya that warm fuzzy feeling inside. just like most of his movies...except my neighbor Totoro...what was that about?

OK. So we just came back from Brokeback Mountain...from seeing it, i mean...and i mean, the sexy nan and i. Well...my thoughts are, i think it's a good Ang Lee movie...but i didn't like it. i tried to like it, really i did and VelvetDe is right...the gay is inconsequential. What i mean by a good Ang Lee film...it has all the elements that he is so good at in his films...repression, subterfuge and the tension that builds as a result, leading to anti-climax, yet still potently powerful. overall, his movies are about what's left unsaid, and it resonates louder than what's on the surface. and Brokeback is no different. nan said that i kept watching w/ my forehead wrinkled most of the time---SEE!! very tense!

what bothers me is that i couldn't sympathize with the 2 guys at all...possible SPOILERS AHEAD!(i've always wanted to use that). i mean, they're ultimately adulterers...they're "love" hurts not only themselves but the people around...specifically their wives and their kids too--heath's daughter's were singing their own version of cat's in the cradle while dad was on "fishing trips". i mean, the look on that dawson creek girl's face...i found that more heartbreaking than when the poor man's tobey mcguire bites it in the end.

though, i totally thought heath was gonna eat a bullet...he really gets the shaft--at least jake lives comfortably and gets to have fun w/ mexican male prostitutes...while being married to the princess diaries girl...who will probably never make another one (you get to see boobies)--so there's another bad thing about this movie. the few attempts at humor fell flat too i thought...i swear i heard a laugh track during the thanksgiving seen over at jake's house. overall, i don't feel sorry for the two doomed lovers, theirs is a tragedy of their own making, their wives deserved better and thank god that girl from ER never got sucked into that dynamic.

if the movie was under or just at 2 hours, i think i would have felt satisfied. kinda slow...purposefully, i know--but come on you can still do it under dos horas. nan and i were debating which one was gonna die..she too guessed heath would. so kudos to you Ang for stumping us! though i guess the jake bar scene after the rodeo was foreshadowing...wish i caught that.

The Ice Storm is on...one of my fave Ang films. hope you tuned into that, cause you'd be missing Ang at the top of his game---just didn't feel Brokeback was anything special...better than "Devil" and i need not mention "Hulk". i hate to say that i even like "Crouching" better, but only b/c it had kung fu.

don't see the love story, it's more a story of selfishness and its consequences. see it, with reservations. don't expect full blown gay porn...it was nothing...trust me, i sat there actually being upset that it wasn't like Caligula.

Sorry De.

Now i have to sit through 4 of Nancy's pics before it's my turn. Narnia, Kong, Geisha, Brokeback---all mine sorry to say. which means i'll have to endure, rumor has it, family stone and any kate hudson or meg ryan cookie cutter lovefest

My Neighbor Miyazaki

tonite on TCM and every thursday this month...it's Miyazaki MONTH!! tonite is Spirited Away...which i've been dying to see but never got around to it! wish i had tivo damn it...check out the link for the entire schedule and have fun!!

Watch, Laugh, Be Merry...

I saw this on a friend's video iPod this morning...

rejoice in the "Chronic...What!! --cles of Narnia"

You Say You Want A Resolution, Weeellll, Ya Know...

hmmm...good question, already did your standard reboot the healthy diet and jump start the ole' exercise bug...so what's left? maybe help lindsay out w/ her bulemic problem...ya know what i mean?? humanitarian deeds---very 2006.

how 'bout any ideas about content you'd like to read on the ole' bloggy. i already know that rick wants to hear more poker tales...so i'll just respond to his last comment by saying...

i've become a little bit of "generous ricky" and "playing just plain stupid, rick"---not that you're stupid, i just mean super loose aggressive and such.

so let me know what you wanna read and i'll see what i can do.

so i got a B+ in Physics...i am a SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD!!! let's hope that Mercy College shares that sentiment.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! or I'm going to be writing 2005 on every piece of paper until mid-year

so...how was everyone's New Year's??? I spent it upstate almost dying on the way up when mother nature decided to give us the worst weather...snow, rain, sleet all at once!! that was awesome.

once we got up there, fun time was had by all...played poker a lot...lost, a lot...i realized that i have become the "rick" of the table...and rick...you know exactly what i mean. we played the kris kringle...although, forces conspired to ensure that no one could take exchange their gift with the previous person's gift as that was the gift that was bought by the previous person...comprende?

did you see dick clark? so sad...but kinda cool at the same time...can't wait until they fully CGI him...like gollum.

and mariah carey...does she now devour her prey whole and that's why she looked so enormous...she was still digesting that gazelle she caught at the bronx zoo.

i swear, these diva types...wish she swallowed that seacrest fella, that would have been spectacular.

i didn't drink a whole lot, yet managed to have the worst headache since new year's 2005. how did that happen? oh yeah, i'm old.

ok..so jan 2006 means, start working out again!! woo hoo!! and eating healthy again!! double woo hoo!!...

i give m'self 3 weeks. french fries can be so persuasive.

but i did get that damn metolius climbing board just got to put that thing up and we are so set for the climbing season.

why do i have to work tomorrow? i was getting so used to this not having to work thing.