I make movie trailers. She makes ceramic art. We got married.

Friday, September 23, 2005

My teef hurt!


I went in to the periodontist today to have a wonderful procedure performed called a "gingival graft" on my lower two front teeth. In a nutshell, if you have receding gums, they cut back your existing gums, cut out a piece of the roof of your mouth, and graft that piece of tissue where you need more gum tissue. Not only do you have a decent amount of pain and bloody seepage after it's done, you can't brush those teeth for 10 days after the procedure! I'm going to be Death Breath Mike (a reference to last nights O.C., which sucked, and I'm not wasting any more time on that damn show). But I must say, if you're reading this because you're getting it done, it's not that bad if you've got a good doctor doing the procedure. Mine took the tissue from the area behind one of my wisdom teeth, so eating while healing won't be to bad, and he talked to me through the entire procedure, letting me know what was going on. Spent a lot of time afterwards talking to me.

I've stumbled onto the best dental practice in the L.A. area, it seems. I'd never had a dental work done while watching Sportcenter before, but I have now. There's a flat screen on a swing arm at each chair. The place is like "Pimp my office".

Thursday, September 22, 2005

"Jesus is Magic"


Sarah Silverman has a new movie coming out, and who doesn't love Sarah Silverman? Check out the trailer. Sure, the movie looks like it has all the production value of a high school A/V project, but it kind of makes it that much funnier. It's kind of a concert film, and the director is one of the guys who did the Sifl & Olly show on MTV (the show with the sock puppets, remember?), so it's not much of a surprise it looks this trashy. It's like comedy porno.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Post 1


As this is the first entry in this here blog, It's wild that today would be the day that I would find this article today about the how Generation X is getting older and *shudder* moving into middle age. While the article generalizes a generation which never felt comfortable belonging to any big group in the first place, it's surprising how similar the situation of Shoshana and I is to some of the people in the article. Shosh left a job as Director of Admissions at a university so she could own her own pottery studio, for cryin' out loud!

I think a lot of us, people who grew up during the age of Mudhoney, Richard Linklater and political correctness (notice the generalization?!), find themselves, well, almost burdened with some of the feelings that we had but were told time and again that we would grow out of once we had to find a real job. Well now I've grown up; I've got a job and a mortgage and a wife... But I feel miles away from being the responsible, sensible person that our parents and grandparents' generations seemed to grow into. I own three video game systems and play them all pretty regularly. I still want to wear t-shirts to any and every occasion. I still spend way too much time being cynical and overanalyzing my cushy life, as this post is making abundantly clear. It worries me sometimes that I feel like I'm not ready to grow up, but It's reassuring hearing stories from people who are in the same boat.