Trust is a quality that - at first - is an easy undertaking. Having complete and utter trust in someone is tricky. It sneaks up on you, until the point you take it for granted. It quickly becomes something that you don't remember a time without, and can't imagine it ever happening again. You start to take it for granted, thinking that your trust is impervious to damage. You get so used to it, you stop thinking about it. That's just the way it is! However, once tarnished, the gape of past-trust seems daunting, and is nearly impossible to completely fill in.

What a long road ahead.

I have posted practically nothing since the 21st of December, and I feel guilty. I'm not entirely sure why I feel guilty, as it appears most of my regular blogs at least cut down production during holiday season.

And besides, it's not like that many people read me anyway. Oh well, I cheated myself. When I first started this thing back in October, my goal was to be a regular poster, and not have this site just dwindle away to nothing. If I would have kept on the pace of the past two weeks, it surely would have been over soon.

Oh well, on to the good stuff: HOLIDAY SEASON!

In Canada, the holiday season really only applies to the two weeks surrounding Christmas, generally ending on the day after the New Year's day holiday. So what did I do for the past couple of weeks? Not very much, and for the most part it was great.

I got off work on the 22nd, and started watching 24 Season 4 with Marc. It was great to get to spend a little bit of time with Marc, but we never did get to finish watching it. I will most likely end up finishing it off myself sometime next week.

On the 23rd, I headed to Yorkton, my birthplace and home to my father's family. I spent the 23rd and 24th there, and had a great time visiting with family and friends. On the 25th, I went to my mom's place in Regina and stayed there until the 27th. Also, a good time.

On the 28th, it was back to work. Not cool. I had to work New Year's Eve until 5:00pm, and then New Year's Day at 8:30am. Not cool. I suppose I'll get over it.

New Year's Eve pretty much sucked a great deal. We started trying to call a cab around 8:30, but were unsuccessful. We finally managed to get out of my house by 11:30, and ended up at our destination at approximately 11:45. Our destination was supposed to be a big party, but ended up being 10 people. Not a very cool situation for the count down. Oh well, once again, I'll probably survive.

Those were my holidays. Hope yours were fun, and all that jazz. To a good 2006!

I went to my first workshop this weekend in Regina. Script Supervision, instructed by Daniela Saioni.

It was incredible! I highly suggest anyone who comes across this course anywhere in Canada to take it. She offers a lot of insight into not just Script Supervision, but filmmaking and the industry of film in it's entirety.

I won't go into the details, but I will say 2006 has started off wonderfully for my film career aspiritions.

Sorry for the lack of posting to anyone who reads this on a semi-regular basis. I've been really busy getting Exploiting the Holidays ready to shoot.

We have finally gotten the script to a point we are ready to film it. The production draft falls in 10 pages total. Sweet. I am assembling a crew, and getting ready to cast right away. So if anyone in Saskatoon wants to act, post a comment or something, and I'll get ahold of you if you fit the part.

Locations have been confirmed, so I just have a few props and wardrobe issues to settle on, and then finalize all the equipment. We hope to be filming in the first week of February. I can't wait!

It's ten days until ballot-box time and I have no idea what I'm going to do with my ballot. I'm not going to vote Liberal. I don't want to vote Conservative. The NDP vote is a waste. I don't even know what other parties are running in my riding. And, I don't care.

I could really care less. I don't care about any of the candidates or the party leaders. None of them are qualified to run this country, let alone do something worthwhile with their opportunity for leadership.

Let's take a quick look at the Liberals. The candidate in my riding (Saskatoon-Humboldt) is Peter Stroh. I know nothing about Peter Stroh, his politics or his career. However, there is zero possibility of me voting for him. The rest of the Federal Liberal party made that decision for him, as I refuse to support another four years of Liberal corruption.

The Conservatives are running incumbent Brad Trost. There is a chance he will receive my vote, but not on his merit or politics. Simply as a "get the Liberals the fuck out of office" vote. Now, I don't necessarily like Stephen Harper, nor agree with the parties policies, but he's got to be better than Paul Martin. I just really can't picture myself looking at Stephen Harper as the Prime Minister of my country. His hair is plastic. He looks like a wax musem exhibit, and has no personality. Ugh.

Andrew Mason is running as an NDP. The NDP seems like the least threatening to our country, but this is pretty much like spoiling a ballot. If we don't have a majority government, everything that happens is a waste of time. The NDP have got zero chance of forming a majority, and I would rather have the Conservatives running Canada than the Liberals. Not voting NDP.

The Green Party is running Mike Jones. Fuck the Green Party.

Running as an independant, 19 year old Tim Nyborg has a chance of getting my vote. When I was 18 I thought about running, just for the hell of it, so why not help this guy out? It's better than spoiling my ballot completely, and every vote will boost the kid's self esteem. Actually, I just decided I'm going to vote for him. He's the only person here with nothing to lose. Go Tim!

I can't even imagine how many of my readers I'm going to piss off with this post, but I don't care. I'm off to send an email to Tim Nyborg to offer my support.

I was tagged by Krydor. I guess I'm supposed to post five weird things about myself.

1. I routinely stay up until 5:00 in the morning watching movies, even though I work at 8:00.
2. I was always the shortest kid in class in high school, but now I'm taller than almost everyone. Woot!
3. I've moved three times in the last year. All of them in Saskatoon.
4. I work in a corner desk, but it's the worst spot in the office, I swear.
5. I like my hamburgers plain. Meat + Bun + Ketchup. (I have to put the ketchup on myself, too.)

There's five. I don't care how much my list sucks compared to yours.

I've spent the last two hours upgrading the DVD Wishlist section of the website. It is now much larger, the list of DVDs I've purchased is up to date, and it now features alist of DVDs I've had stolen!

Woo!

I don't think I've posted a picture of me before, and I found this one browsing around on Lana's computer. I don't care what you say about me, bwahaha!

I have been hearing conflicting stories about the strength of Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds since the day it came out.

Good friends of mine, whos filmic opinions I truly respect have for, have given truly polar reviews of this movie. Some loved it, some hated it and it was pretty much split right down the center.

So when I picked the movie up last night, I watched it with anxious skepticism. A part of me thought it would be great, the other half was scared that the next two hours were going to become a bad memory.

Cut to today. The next day. I'm with everyone. I thought it sucked, but I thought it was awesome at the same time. I will try to explain what I mean here.

Steven Spielberg is undoubtedly one of the best story tellers alive today, and that comes off in this movie as well. While I didn't like some of the things he did visually -- mainly with the lighting of the early scenes -- the man can sure put an interesting visual on the screen with ease. He got great performances out of all of his actors, a feat I became even more impressed with when I thought about the actors jobs in this movie. Imagine having to act out all that fear, only imagining what is going on. That leads into part of my hate.

I have never been a fan of sci-fi movies, with a few exceptions: comedies, and movies set "realistically" in the future (ie: I, Robot, etc.). The premise of this movie is ridiculously far-fetched, I found it hard to buy in to. I'm sure the ridiculous premise was the whole point of the movie, but it just doesn't do it for me. The idea that these "tripods" were planted in the ground a million years ago is ridiculous. Especially considering that they end up looking a lot like something a human might produce - same metals, look, etc. Just outrageous.

Expectedly, Tom Cruise was good. Any less than good from Cruise and the movie is useless. I really bought his character, and loved the arc he followed. From a throwaway dad to the savior. Wonderful.

Dakota Fanning, ahh Dakota Fanning. I really can't believe how good of an actor this 11 year old child is. Personally, I think she out-acted Tom Cruise. Which is a bit troubling. I really don't want to see her become victom of the child-star syndrome. I hope she takes about 10 years off, on her own accord and then comes back big time. I really see it as the only way for child stars to make it.

I will probably watch this movie again, and will undoubtedly buy it on DVD. It's no E.T., but I would recommend you to watch it.

I drove my RX-7 today for the first time in about three months. Tough cookies with this much snow on the ground I tell ya. First of all, it was buried in the Mainway Mazda compound, with about six inches of snow covering the whole thing. It was also surrounded by about four inches of snow all the way around the car. I knew from the get go it was going to be a bitch to get out of that compound.

So, after snow-brushing the crap out of the car, to pop the hood. We jumped it and it came to life instantly. Not bad for a car with no block heater, that hasn't run in over a month. I let it run/"warm up" while I took off to an SGI broker to get a 24 hour permit on the car. I came back, and the car was still pretty much frozen solid. Not cool.

So I started to move the car, and on the first shot with no assistance I moved it about three feet. Then I, of course, got stuck. So I went inside and got one of the wonderfully helpful service agents - Bryce - to give me a hand. He grabbed a shovel and came out.

We shovelled around all four tires of the car and gave it a shot. Still couldn't move the car at all. Tried reverse, nothing... and I stalled the sum-bitch. So we boosted the car again, and Bryce tried pushing me forward. Didn't happen. We tried backwards and got somewhere.

After moving back to the original location, we cleared a path with the shovel and with a slight push I was on my way.

Thankfully, the majority of the trip was on main roads that were for the most part clear. Coming onto Circle Drive, I got a bit sideways. Not because I wanted to, but because my rear tires are almost bald, the roads are frozen and covered in snow. Not cool. So I drive down Circle drive, keeping it under the posted speed limit, until I can get to the exit at Idylwyld.

I hit the exit, and tried to accelerate a little bit. Back tires broke out instantly. Damn. So I hobbled along Idylwyld at around the speed limit, turned on to 33rd and then on to a side street.

The real fun began when I got to my mechanic's parking lot. His shop is in a big warehouse that is also the office/warehouse for a couple of shipping companies. So the majority of the parking lot is full of semi tractors. Needless to say, there has been zero snow removal in this parking lot since the beginning of winter.

Braking resulted in flat-out slides coming dangerously close to semi trucks and trailers. Accelerating at all resulted in fishtailing/360s, etc. until I was finally able to negotiate myself into a parking stall.

I'm going to be doing quite a bit of work from now until spring time so I'll have the car ready to go. I can't wait for the first day of spring. I can't wait to really drive the car again!

My roommate and I made a rare trip to the video store to rent a movie. After spending about 25 or 30 minutes walking around blindly, looking at almost every flick they had available to watch, we decided our best course of action would be to pick up some stand up comedy.

Our options were limited to pretty much: Eddie Murphy Raw; Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat; some old Bill Cosby piece or (according to the lady) some trash by Eddie Griffin. Ugh. Then we came across Jerry Seinfeld in Comedian. Even after reading the back of the DVD case, I was expecting stand up.

Wrong.

Not stand up. Really not funny except for few (and far between) scenes. I am glad to have seen this film, but it really was a let down to a couple of guys looking to see a good stand up routine.

The film is a documentary that follows Jerry Seinfeld's journey to get back in to stand up with a new act. At the begin he vows to not do any of his old jokes, and he starts hitting the clubs.

Also featured in the movie is an asshole up-and-comer Orny Adams. Who really is quite funny, but his unearned sense of entitlement is very off-putting. At the end of the movie, we learn he goes nowhere. A quick check of the IMDb confirmed that.

I'm really quite disappointed with this film. I found a lot of it was done in a very artsy student film type of way, which I found very distracting while trying to laugh. I got a new piece of Seinfeld, which is always good. Ok, I can't even form a decent sentence this early in the morning. This movie sucked. That's all I have to say.