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Hey, all!  My name's Tim.  I've agreed to take part in a behavioral study at the local University.  Here's the deal:

I'm being kept in solitary confinement.  I will stay in this comfortable, well-lit room for the next ten days.  I am not allowed any contact with anybody else whatsoever.  I am also not allowed to bring anything into this room, but am accommodated with a computer, a TV, a DVD player, and a copy of "You Got Served" on DVD.  A machine will dispense food and water from a drop slot three times a day.  They wouldn't tell me what this experiment is all about, and I can't say I'm wild about the movie "You Got Served", but hey, for 200 bucks a day I won't complain!

They set me up with this LiveJournal, so I can record all my *non*adventures!  The conductors of this experiment have set this Journal so that nobody will be able to comment.  I suppose that they did this so I could express my emotions while retaining sanity.  Because, as any of my friends will tell you, I'm known to get a little crazy and "off of the wall" sometimes!  Hey Ben, can you say "cheez doodles"?  LOL, that was an inside joke, but from now on YOU, the reader, will be on the inside of all my jokes.  Happy readin'!!!

    Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
    10:04 am
    The start of a fun adventure!
    Welcome to Day One of the Great Tim Experiment!!!
     
    They sent me into my room just a few minutes ago.  You know, this place isn't so bad.  Could use some wallpaper though, LOL!  I added the LOL because that is funny, because if I asked the professor if I could put up wallpaper he would probably stab my kneecaps off.  This is a serious experiment, after all, and who am I to jeopardize the pursuit of scientific understanding just because white-tile walls aren't good enough for me?  Heck, if I knew the answer to that I guess I'd be wearing those fancy lab-coats and using credit cards at the grocery store instead of whiling my days away as an air-conditioner repairman! 
     
    I see that this computer is hooked up to the TV.  I guess that they're hoping that I'll take screenshots of that "You Got Served" movie.  I don't know though.  I mean, that movie looks pretty crappy.  Besides, I've got ten days to watch it, there's no rush. 

    Current Mood: optimistic
     
    Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
    10:41 am
    Hoo boy...
     
    This is going to be tough.  It's only been like 30 minutes since I last put in an entry, but this is getting hard.  I don't know what to do.  I almost turned on the movie, but I promised myself that I wouldn't touch it until the second day.  I can't believe that I'm having to practically physically restrain myself from watching "You Got Served".

    Current Mood: bored
     
    Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
    10:58 am
    Hoo boy...
     
    Hey guys, I am reall89vhpuvb;bnl;jkbf
     
    God, this is pathetic.  I'm not going to post in this LiveJournal unless I actually have something to talk about.  Then again, if everyone followed that rule, the LiveJournal factory would have to shut down, and all the workers would trudge out the doors, hauling pickaxes over their shoulders as their downcast, soot-smeared faces stared at their shoes.
     
    wait, can faces stare? 
     
    OK, I promise that I won't post again until 8:00 tonight.

    Current Mood: bored
    Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
    8:00 pm
    FINALLY
     
    Jesus, I don't think I could have waited another minute.
     
    I'm reminded of all those times I got sent to time-out when I was a kid.  This was just like the good ol' days, I guess.  I masturbated 14 times.  #14 took me like an hour and a half.  I can barely even type now.
     
    And no, I didn't watch You Got Served.  After #9, I thought, "Maybe I ought to just watch it."  But then I started fantasizing about Amy Lee from Evanescence making out with Babs Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures, and it was off to the races again.

    Current Mood: bored
    Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
    6:14 am
    About to watch the movie...
     
    OK, I'm about to give "You Got Served" a try.  Who knows, maybe it'll actually be good.  Look for a review soon...

    Current Mood: bored
    Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
    8:55 am
    GOOD GOD
     
    Naturally, the movie I happen to get stuck with for ten days is also the most boring movie I have ever seen.  About 35% of the movie can be summed up in a single screenshot:
     

     
    The movie starts out with dancing.
     
     
    Then some more dancing.
     
     
    Then, for a little while they don't dance because they are talking or doing other stuff.
     

     But then, more dancing!

     
    After that, several things happen that turn their whole world upside down.
     
     
    Whoa, wait, they might do something other than dance!  Wait...no...still dancing.
     
     
    And then I died of boredom.
     
     
    I will stare at the ceiling for nine days straight before I watch this movie again.
     
    Current Mood: bored
    Friday, June 4th, 2004
    7:56 am
    ugh
     
    You thought I was joking?  Hell no I wasn't joking!  It was a matter of principle, I had to prove just how committed I was to never watching that movie. 
     
    Not to say that there weren't a few moments of weakness.  At around day three, I almost got up and turned on the movie.   I thought, "well, at least the moving pictures will offer frequent visual changes in texture and color."  But then reason kicked in, and I realized that any man who voluntarily watches "You Got Served" more than once is something less than a man.
     
    Anyway, I can't believe it, but my time here is almost up.  In a couple of hours they should be letting me out and handing me my check.  I am a compassionate man, so I'm going to use the money I get from this to start my own video rental store so I can package copies of "You Got Served" with cyanide capsules.

    Current Mood: bored
    Friday, June 4th, 2004
    9:59 am
    Bye, everyone!!!
     
    They should be letting me out of here in exactly five minutes.  It sure has been a strange ten days!  I guess that they were waiting to see whether I would crack, or end up loving "You Got Served" out of necessity.  Well, they were wrong!  It takes more than a comfy bed and a crappy movie to get the best of ol' Tim! 
     
    Just a minute ago I heard a boom that was practically deafening, and the room shook.  Guess that's their idea of a wake-up call!  It reminded me of every single time someone would hit the ground after jumping in "You Got Served".  The camera would shake, and then everybody would go back to gyrating and stealing each other's hats.  Actually, I'm pretty sure that the whole plot of the movie revolved around one team trying to steal the other's hats, or throwing their hats at each other, or wearing hats, or some permutation of the three.
     
    Anyway, I guess I should say goodbye.  Thanks for reading, everybody!  Maybe I'll see you the next time they hold experiments.  Maybe next time they'll give me The Phantom.  It is my favorite movie!
     
     
    SLAM EVIL!
     
    Happy trails, everybody!
     
    Your friend,
     
    Tim

    Current Mood: bored
    Friday, June 4th, 2004
    11:00 am
    uh...
     
    Maybe somebody overslept or something, because I should have been let out of here an hour ago.  This sucks, I hope I'll be getting paid overtime for this.

    Current Mood: bored
    Friday, June 4th, 2004
    2:43 pm
    HEY GUYS
     
    I AM STILL IN HERE
     
    PLEASE LET YOUR OLD BUDDY TIM OUT

    Current Mood: bored
    Friday, June 4th, 2004
    6:14 pm
    hmm...
     
    Did I hear them wrong?  I thought they told me ten days, but maybe they said "ten days, eight hours and fifteen minutes" and I just didn't hear them correctly.  In which case I'll get out of here in just a second!  Here's hoping!  Bye guys!
     
     

    Current Mood: bored
    Friday, June 4th, 2004
    6:16 pm
    ...
     
    :(
     
     

    Current Mood: bored
    Friday, June 4th, 2004
    6:55 pm
    worst
     
    OK, this is ridiculous.  I'm going to stop watching the clock.  I am going to lie face-down on the floor until they come to get me out.  It's a far better way to pass the time than watching "You Got Served".
     

    Current Mood: bored
    Monday, June 7th, 2004
    3:44 pm
    Son of a bitch.
     
    I lay motionless on the floor for three days.  But I was practically dying of thirst, and I couldn't take it anymore.
     
    I found, to my surprise, that this computer now has Internet access.  I was firewalled before. 
     
    What I found on the internet was even more shocking.  Check out what Yahoo.com looks like right now.
     
    i'm scared, i wish i knew what was going on.

    Current Mood: bored
    Monday, June 7th, 2004
    7:34 pm
    All I can do is hope...
     
    Things are not right.  I have to come to the conclusion that something very, very terrible has happened outside these four walls.  Was there a meteor, or a nuclear strike?  Or is this all just a big joke?  Maybe it's part of the experiment! 
     
    I tried shoving the door open, but to no avail.  I can't possibly open it from the inside.  And i don't know whether anybody outside is alive.  I don't know what I'm going to do.
     
    I'm starting to lose it.

    Current Mood: bored
    Monday, June 7th, 2004
    11:42 pm
    HELP
     
     HELP ME
     GET ME OUT OF HERE
    HELP
    HELP
    HELP HELP HELP HELP
    HELPVASVAV
    VAV27Y4
    AWBVA
    SVF
    AVFBNB
    FBDG
    NE
    JUJNDH
    JEUK
     
     

    Current Mood: qBVFsjk>BGAERIBSDL;BSGTRIO;N;WETIO4O;
    Wednesday, June 9th, 2004
    1:20 am
    ...tell me it was a nightmare...
     
    Apparently, I blacked out about two days ago.  My consciousness must have descended into an animal-like rage.  The last thing I remember is shrieking cries of help in despair.  I woke up on the floor a few minutes ago.  The walls are streaked with blood. 
     
    Okay, I have to think smart if I want to get out of here.  Other than the door, the only openings are a vent in the ceiling, and the drop-chute where the food drops down.  That chute looks just large enough for me to maybe squeeze my way through.
     
    One oddity about this whole situation is that the drop-slot keeps sending down food and water.  I'm enjoying my crackers and Pop-Tarts, just as I was before, even though the world is probably a nuclear wasteland.  Weird.

    Current Mood: bored
    Wednesday, June 9th, 2004
    3:30 am
    Do or die
     
    I've decided that I have to take action.  I'm looking at this room, and I see guaranteed safety.  Nice accommodations, food that drops three times a day, and safety from the unknown.  But what am I going to do with my life?  "You Got Served" is too goddamn boring, and I'll eventually run out of tiles to count. 
     
    I'm going to leave this room now.  I hope that the chute leads to somewhere wonderful, or at least somewhere away from here.  I am sorry to have to leave you, dear LiveJournal, but it is my fervent prayer that I never see you again.
     
    God bless.

    Current Mood: bored
    Monday, February 13, 2025
    9:06 PM
    iui hasve dfsuond m y awey bakc
     
    I hvae escpaed mjy  chutwe priso/n
     
    parise god,

     


    Current Mood: bored
    Friday, February 17, 2025
    12:03 PM
    What a strange journey it has been...
     
    I apologize for the last entry.  I have spent the last three days regaining the dexterity in my atrophied digits, and am finally able to type intelligibly, so that I now may tell my story.
     
    It has been nearly eight years since you last heard from me.  I proceeded to crawl up the chute with some success.  Then, at the halfway point, I attempted to maneuver a tight spot.  I became hopelessly stuck, and there I stayed.  I survived on the food and water deposits that were inexplicably still delivered from above.  In my uncomfortable, dimly-lit prison, I was kept alive and warm by the thought of someday being able to return to my home, which was a heartbreakingly mere thirty feet away.  I eventually was able to free myself by wearing away the chute walls.  I have spent the last three days cleaning up all the petrified defecation that has accumulated at the bottom of the chute.  By the way, I do have a toilet in here, I don't know whether I mentioned that.  A long time ago I tried flushing "You Got Served" down the toilet, but it wouldn't fit.
     
    While up there, I had a lot of time to think.  I asked myself, "Why was I so loathe to turn on that movie?  It's just a movie.  It really wasn't all that bad.  You had your chance to enjoy it, but you didn't take it, and now you would give the world for it.  You miserable fool."
     
    So it is with a fresh approach and an eagerness to be entertained that I will hereby devote the remainder of my days in here to "You Got Served". 

    Current Mood: bored
    Thursday, February 16, 2025
    2:24 AM
    Cast of characters
     
    "You Got Served" is a great film, but it would be merely a good film, were it not for the depth of the characters involved.
     

    Elgin
     
     
    Elgin is the leader of his "krew".  Like all the other street dancers in the movie, Elgin has a macho attitude, despite the fact that he lives with his mom and is on a dance team.  He also has a second head growing out of his shoulder.
     
     

    David
     
     
    I hate this motherfucker.  First off, the guy who plays him is in B2K, which is the musical equivalent of your girlfriend shanking your balls off with one hand, and banging away at an electronic keyboard with the other.  Both result in the high-pitched screaming of OH GUURRRRRL [doot DOOT doot]. 
     
    And I'm kind of confused.  Why do girls think this guy is the shit?  Tell me he doesn't look like he should be a member of the Burger King Kids' Club.  Girls could have posters of real men like David Robinson or Vin Diesel in their rooms, but they'd rather stare at fucking Kid Vid.  This is precisely why most women grow up to be lesbians.

    Liyah

     
    Liyah is Elgin's sexy little sister, and the only real reason to watch this movie.  She doesn't actually dance, because unlike the rest of the black people in this movie, she is smart!  She speaks without a ghetto dialect, and is going to attend Princeton!  Whoever wrote the script for this movie wanted to take great pains to ensure that she is unlike all those other black people.  You know, since in order to be bright and successful, one must set one's self apart from the proles.  Oh yeah, and wear as little clothing as physically possible.
     

    Beautifull

     
     
    Here we see Beautifull showing somebody how her name is supposed to be pronounced differently, since it has two Ls in it.  Beautifull is the producers' attempt to put at least one person in the story with any sort of personality whatsoever.  Unfortunately, it's a personality so abrasive that next time I get a bunion on my foot, I'm going to grind it away by rubbing it against her face. 
     
    Here is Beautifull's entire role in the story.
     
    Elgin: sup boo
     
     
    Beautifull: WHY YOU METTLIN
     

     
    Elgin: SHE TIGHT.  EEEEEEE
     
     
    Beautifull: WHY YOU METTLIN
     
     
    Elgin and David: We have won the competition!  We got a gold medal!

    Beautifull: WHY YOU MEDALIN
     
     

    Mr. Rad

    Mr. Rad is the coolest name in history, and it is a namesake that he has earned.  Of special note is the obviously radical solid-blue hat, anti-establishment Richard Pryor moustache, and anarchist jacket that he wears at all times, even in summer in Los Angeles.  Mr. Rad probably would have been in this movie a little more, except Steve Harvey knew a sinking ship when he saw it, and decided to jump into the ocean with a wooden chair so he could float to shore.

    WHAT BLACK MAN YOU KNOW GON KEEP PLAYIN WHEN THE DAMN SHIP GOIN DOWN

    I DO NOT KNOW, THAT IS WHY I AM GESTURING EMPTILY


    The Faggot Brothers

    Just this picture alone is irrefutable proof that these guys swallow cock mustard.  I don't even know their names, and I don't really think it's important.  They're the "bad guys", just like every single other white kid from the suburbs.  And just like every white kid from the suburbs, we have to exploit black talent to have a chance.  When the first showdown begins, Elgin and David discover that one of their black homies has joined the ranks of the Douchebag Patrol.

    Nothing screams intimidation like a bunch of man-dykes doing their best prison-bitch tough guy faces.  It appears as though Bushido Blood on the far right is giving the kissy face.

     
    And yes, Faggot Brother #2 is wearing a shirt that says "Actually, Yes, the World Does Revolve Around Me."  It makes him look like a hardass, and not at all like his mom brought home a shirt from the Stuckey's she works at so he could cut off the sleeves and exhibit his lack of muscular definition. 

    Whew!  Well, that was a lot of watching and a lot of writing, but it wasn't all that bad.  Check back tomorrow when I discuss the archetypal struggle between Elgin and David, and their obvious homage to Biblical figures David and Jonathan.


    Current Mood: bored
     
    Friday, February 17, 2025
    8:50 pm
    WHAT
     
    WHO COMMENTED
    WHO WAS THAT
    HOW DID YOU COMMENT
     
    PLEASE HELP ME FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST

    Current Mood: bored
     
    Saturday, February 18, 2025
    4:13 pm
    Farewell...

    What I am about to do is in the best interests of humanity.

    The "New World Covenant" has asked for my copy of "You Got Served."  And I am not going to give it to them.  I am going to destroy it, right here and now, before they have a chance to seize it and model human society after it.  For a world of "You Got Served" would be a world of inexplicable, phoned-in, self-serving cameos by La-La and Lil' Kim.  Grown men would dress like undersized clowns, and all women would be sassy gh3tt0 gUrLz.  Differences would be settled not through discussion, but through the ability to gyrate one's hips in rhythm with the guy dancing next to him.
     
    We have dishonored our fair lady Earth enough already; we need not aggravate her suffering.  May humanity die swiftly from the world's surface and memory. 
     
    For you, dear Gabriel, I only have one thing to say.
     
    You are just mad
     
    because you got SERVED.
     
     
    SERVED.
     
     
    SERVED.
     
    SERVED.
     

    Current Mood: served
     
     

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