Charlie Sheen

Shire Times Session 8

Charlie Sheen

The man, the myth, the lunatic genius:

·         “I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy.”

·         “If you borrowed my brain for five seconds, you’d be like, ‘Dude! Can’t handle it, unplug this bastard!’ "It fires in a way that’s maybe not from, uh… this terrestrial realm.”

• "I was banging seven-gram rocks, because that’s how I roll.  I have one speed, I have one gear: Go."
• "I am on a drug, it's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."
• "I'm bi-winning."
• “I’m sorry man, I got magic and I’ve got poetry in my fingertips, you know, most of the time, and this includes naps." 
• "I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren’t special. People who don’t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA."
• "The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children."
• "You can’t process me with a normal brain."

·         “Winning”

I was just wondering why I haven’t blogged about Charlie Sheen yet; everyone else has and everyone has an opinion on him. If you haven’t been on the internet or watched TV in 2 weeks I’ll catch you up real fast. Charlie Sheen had an interview with CBS and basically said ridiculous stuff like the quotes I just wrote. He and his wife got a divorce and she got custody of the kids, now he lives with two porn stars, aka “The Goddesses.” Now the debate within me is whether he had a meltdown or epiphany.

He has made staggering amounts of money from Two and a Half Men, which reportedly paid him $1 million an episode. This is more than enough money but what is he doing now? Now Sheen is tweeting company names for money and is even in higher demand for endorsements; he is also webcasting with his “Goddesses” for a ridiculous amount of money. The work to money ratio has shifted drastically. Now he makes a million per Tweet, not per shoot.

So has Charlie Sheen gone insane or is this train wreck just an idea he thought would make him famous his addictions without doing a thing except Tweet 2 words?

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/ask_the_answer_bitch/b229732_charlie_sheen_worth_more_trainwreck_tv.html

http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/8e4a8d6fd5/charlie-sheen-quotes-crazy-insane-winning

ACC vs. SEC

Shire Time Session 8…

ACC vs. SEC

While the battle of the conferences is one of physical geography for the most part, this battle is an internal one for me. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in the sticks and boonies of Bama, a town called Smith’s Station. It was right on the Eastern and Central time change line which brought about tons of problems. Half the town was Eastern Time and half the town was Central Time. What the hell? Why would they do that? My intermediate school was on one time while my sister’s middle school was the other time. It was a huge mess every day and you think after years on this you would get used to it but you don’t.

Anyway, back to the discussion, so I was an Alabama fan from before I can remember and I honestly don’t know why. My dad and grandpa are die hard Tennessee fans; older sister and uncle are for Auburn; I was the only Bama fan until my dad got remarried. Therefore, the earlier years of my life were straight SEC but this soon changed.

5th grade I moved to Chapel Hill and in 7th grade I moved to Greensboro. I got a lot closer with my mom’s side of the family and a special area of my heart became ACC also. My mom’s entire family is from this area. My uncle is die hard Carolina, grandpa is die hard Wake, aunt and cousins die hard Dook. My problems and tension between the two conferences run deep. When I was deciding where to go to school I basically had to decide which side of my family I liked more, which sport I liked more basketball or football, which climate I liked more sizzling hot summers or snowy winters, which music I like more country or rap, which colors I like more…it was tough. I went ACC, cold, and Carolina blue and white; but I can’t deny that I still like football more and like both sides of the family in their own unique ways.

Also there was the issue of rivalries. Alabama-Auburn or Carolina-Duke? Although I chose the ACC. SEC will always rule in rivalries. There is something about the south and the steaming heat mixed with beer, shirtless rednecks, and football that just brings out the intensity of the rivalries. Carolina Duke is an awesome rivalry too but the conditions just aren’t right. We kill them in football and it’s not even close to a rivalry, then when Basketball season rolls around its cold and there aren’t are many rednecks ready to fight…it just isn’t the same intensity.

Summer Projects

Shire Time Session 7…

Summer Projects--What does every Shire need? Some landscaping and furniture!

So I’m contemplating what to do in my spare time over the summer and I have some solid possibilities; but I don’t know if I have the motivation to do everything but I’ll try. There are 2 possible projects: build a fire pit and re-landscape my girlfriend’s back yard and build a nightstand and bookshelf for my apartment next year. The trick to both of these is to do them for almost no money because I don’t want to spend any, nor has college left me with any.

This is a basic aerial paint picture of my girlfriend’s backyard. The white is the house, light grey is the patio, and the green is the yard and brown the woods. I want to add a the red fire pit with the dark grey stone surrounding and the yellow hammock with the light grey stone path and the flowers around the borders.

It might sound weird working on my girlfriend’s backyard but I like doing stuff like this and it never hurts getting in better with the girlfriend’s parents, duh. Anyway, I think it would look good and shouldn’t be too expensive if I can find the materials cheap (although I’m not paying for this they don’t want to spend much either). I’m thinking instead of buying a fire pit stone kit, I will just buy random stones and piece them together with concrete. Also, I want to add the flowers around the border of the house and patio because it’s just dull now. After this I think it will look pretty cool and I’ll want to sit outside there more.

Next year I am living in an apartment and it’s not furnished and I don’t want to spend money on furniture so I’m trying to think outside the box. I’m going to get those big wire spools that construction companies and people use and mess around with them. I’ll sand them down and add sealant then a big spool is now a medium sized table. I want to also cut a big one in half vertically so that it is a semicircle and sand, finish, seal that so that is can be put against a wall and be a cool like hall table or something.

Then I want to build a bookshelf. I can’t decide between one that is traditional and stands by itself or one that doesn’t actually come away from the wall for a couple feet so it can go over a bed. I’m not sure but either way it’ll be interesting to make.

Nothing like a little TLC to make the Shire a better place!

“The Adjustment Bureau”

Shire Time Session 6…

“The Adjustment Bureau” Movie Review

What if your whole life was planned out and you were just fulfilling that plan? You had the ability to make small choices like what you want to drink and eat or what flavor toothpaste you want but the major life decisions weren’t decided by you. What if there was a team of overseers, or “The Adjustment Bureau”, that looked over the whole world and manipulated certain people so they unknowingly made a better decision for the future of the world. This Adjustment Bureau was made up of “angels” that were more like case workers for the big man upstairs. They made sure that his plan was carried out so that the world could continue to grow and exist.

But what if you accidentally met the girl of your dreams that you were never suppose to meet? If you were told that by being with the woman you truly love, you would destroy both of your dreams, what would you do?

This is the basic concept of “The Adjustment Bureau.” While it sounds like a love story, which it is, it is more of an action/thriller with a big dose of philosophy tossed in. This is just my type of movie, something that makes me want more or have more drive in my own life. Obviously the main character, played by Matt Damon, decides to go after the girl; otherwise, there would be no point to the movie. He shows such determination and drive that I was left with many feelings: first, I want to have as much drive for something as grand as his in this movie; second, I want to have something happen to seriously test my drive in an action packed way; third, I want to have the ability to teleport by opening doors; and forth, I want to be in an action packed chase for something I truly believe in through the streets of New York City.

Matt Damon, George Clooney, Sean Connery, and Clint Eastwood are my favorite actors in that order; so obviously, I had to go see this movie. Matt Damon is an extremely talented actor in my opinion. Even in dud movies his acting is still great, such as in “Hereafter.” So I was interested to see if he could keep it up—he did. He was great in this movie and it just pushed him higher up on my list of top actors.

Legalization of a Special Plant that is Currently Illegal in Most States

Shire Time Session 5…


What do you think Gandalf and Bilbo were smoking in their pipe? This was an intense discussion me and my roommate had the other night. I thought it was just pipe tobacco but then Jamie, my roommate, had an exceedingly interesting point—Gandalf smokes his pipe when he wants to calm down and get a better perspective on his current situation. “So what?” you might ask, “tobacco can calm you down and clear your thoughts; yes it can but then why does Gandalf walk away from other people when he smokes his pipe? It is almost like it is shunned upon in society. I don’t know… you take your choice but I’m gonna agree with Jamie; I think he is smoking marijuana. Also he always seems to smoke in different towns, sometimes in Rohan, other times it’s the Elvin bud. While this is all just in some books and movies, there is a real debate going on over the legalization of weed.

Proposition 19 is an initiative that had high hopes for legalizing cannabis in California; however, it failed to pass a couple months ago. The debate of Proposition 19 brought up a lot of thoughts and emotions on the topic. Personally, I think it should have passed and I believe it will pass in 3 or 4 years. The benefits far outweigh the drawbacks; our economy and society would prosper from this. Economically, the sale of cannabis would stimulate the economy and provide tons of tax money for the government. The sales of weed, weed smoking devices, and probably even grocery store sales, due to the munchies, would bring vast amounts of money into California.

The opponents of this proposition claim that crime rates would increase and everyone would basically turn into pot heads; this just isn’t true. The crime would actually probably lower after an initial upswing. Once local businesses start producing weed, no criminals will smuggle anymore in because it is produced locally now and is a lot cheaper. Although more people will smoke, the increase in number of weed smokers that these opponents suggest won’t cause “pot heads.” Weed is so easy to come by that if someone had potential to be a pot head, they would regardless of the law. In the end I believe this proposition would stimulate the economy and only slight changes would occur to the crime rate.