Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Do they serve beer in heaven?

..and if they do, is it on tap? (I'm hopeful)

After what just occured I'm almost certain I'm going to heaven. (As I was typing that I choked on my coffee and spit it out everywhere, sooo maybe I'm not.)

BUT! Hey, if there was a heaven, and I believed in it, I think I'd be going there.. assuming this one good deed makes up for a lifetime of very bad ones.

A woman was just in and her total was $3.99 and she gave me two fives, on accident I'm assuming. (This hot weather is really getting to people!) I push one of the fives back toward her and then give her $1.01 in change.. she only takes the dollar and penny and pushes the extra five dollar bill my way. It occurs to me that she still hadn't realized she gave me an extra five dollars, and instead of keeping it like any other broke 21 year old would do, I holler at her.. (yeah boiiiiiii) and I give her back her five and tell her she had accidently given me too much.. but that I'd gladly take the extra money as a tip for being wonderful. As is to be expected, she doesn't let me keep it. I guess it's better to feel good about one's self than to pocket a little extra cash now and then.. right?

I'm still trying to convince myself I did the right thing..


Do as Spike Lee would do















xoxo

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Blueray Shmueray

This falls under the "For the Love of Christ, Read!!" category as well..

So I had a customer half an hour ago and she brings me up a stack of movies and they're all blueray.. she's walking around looking like a giraffe in a babyshower so I ask her "you know these are blueray right?" Needless to say she has no idea what I'm talking about. So I have to go around the entire store and get the movies she wanted in regular format and then put the blueray ones away.. AND she didn't have a mother fucking account. This chick made me want to scream and cry, I almost lost my balls there for a second. (So I made faces behind her back, soo not juvenile.)

Countless customers do this daily. What? You can't read the fucking sign above the section that says BLUERAY?!?! And a lot of customers don't even knowww what blueray is.. where have YOU been?! It's like they all just flock to this special section with tunnel vision in tow and think that those are the only movies we have in the store. Look aroundddd you!! It's like they've never been into a videostore! (Don't get me started on that one.)

This one particular woman though.. god, she got so far under my skin that when she left I went strait to blog it but ended up just staring at the screen for 69 seconds.. I could feel my charming mood changing.. it went from good to gone in 60 seconds. She gave me a writing block for crying out loud! (Atleast that's my excuse if this post pigeonholes itself under the boring and completely unfunny subdivision of my blog.)


I need a clonazepam and an ice cream cone


STAT!







xoxo

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Customer a la nuit!

A customer came in about 40 minutes ago and throws LA VIE EN ROSE in my face. Why good day to you too my dear sir! What may I ask can I do you for??

Apparently he couldn't figure out how to work the subtitles on his dvd player, but alas, he blames the movie and not himself nor the machine! He says that this one particular copy of the movie just didn't come with the English subtitle option as the back of the movie so clearly states.

Monsieur please!

I try (in my nicest tone!) to tell him that it's not possible. That there ARE in fact English subtitles on the movie and he just wasn't able to figure out how to do it. Then he goes and blames the store for his troubles!

Oh no he di'int!

Finally, fed up, I throw in my towel. I give the man a credit for another movie. But I have the last laugh you see! I leave a note on his account calling him an idiot! HA! Take that!

Ancient Fool - 0
Miranda - 1



Ahh, perhaps it's a tie.. I did give him another rental and all..
C'est la vie, c'est la vie..







xoxo

Confucius say..

READ!


For the love of god, if there's a sign.. READ IT

When you first walk into the store there's a slot cut out of the front desk with a sign that reads: DROP BOX. But apparently the People of Portland haven't yet learned to read because I constantly get the question "Is this where I drop my movies off?"

No, that's absolutely NOT where you drop your movies off, there's just a hole there for no reason whatsoever.. and you know that sign there that reads that that's where you drop off your movies? Yeah, well that's there for no reason either. It just says that to confuse you.

Actually, let me SHOW YOU the drop box and you tell me if it's blatantly obvious or I'm just rediculous and my complaint holds no merit..





Thaaaaank you and goodnight

xoxo

Monday, July 20, 2009

You fools! All of you!

What in the world?!

Some time ago, I heard about this amazing movie. Like.. AMAZING. I'd seen bits and pieces of it but never really took the time to watch it.. that is.. until last night.

Bitches and broads, I watched.....

AMERICAN PSYCHO



Ummm, I'd give it a C+ at best.

I don't understand what the hell everyone has been talking about. I got so tired of this movie that I got up and literally brushed my teeth. It was boring, it was confusing, and what was with the end? Is Paul Allen really mother fucking dead?!? I'd like to think that I'm one of those people that are able to comprehend confusing movies, but I definately did not follow this one. Maybe it was just oversold, (or maybe the fact that I dislike Christian Bale has something to do with it..) I went into it thinking it was going to be amazing and what I got was a huge letdown. As the credits started rolling, I rolled over and started analyzing the movie.. then I thought.. If I was watching tv, and American Psycho came on, I'd switch the channel! I'd rather watch Mtv's 16 and Pregnant than this movie!

I will give it some credit though, if one of the underlying themes/tones was that everyone's the same.. looks alike, acts alike.. then they cast it well. I couldn't tell one actor from the other. I liked the blood/killing.. the three way sex scenes caught my attention.. (as did Huey Lewis & the News)..

Is there something here I'm not getting? Is this movie one big joke and I'm just that one blonde bimbo in the group that doesn't understand?

I'm so confused

Dare I say.. I guess I just.. didn't.. "GET" it.

xoxo

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Creme de la Creme

A few months ago I started a "Miranda's Picks" section

Observe:



The movies change sporadically but I've always kept Igby Goes Down on the rack. I can't bring myself to take it down,.. I don't have a favorite movie, but if someone held a gun to my head and said I had to pick one or never drink beer again.. that's probably the first movie that would come to mind.

As you can see, the movies I currently have in my section (haha I have my own section!) are:

  1. Angel Heart (when Mickey Rourke was hot as shite)
  2. I Spit on Your Grave (wonderful rape scenes)
  3. Pretty Persuasion (Rachel Wood going down on Kaczmarek, priceless)
  4. Them (what The Strangers was based off of)
  5. Wonder Boys (give me more Robert Downey Jr. please!)
  6. Flowers in the Attic (kristy swanson killlls)
  7. She's So Lovely (best father daughter relationship I've ever seen)
  8. Igby Goes Down (the dialogue is magnific!)
  9. Mean Creek (amazing child actors)
  10. It's All Gone Pete Tong (you can thank my bf for introducing me to this one)
  11. Hard Candy (overrated but lovable)
  12. Spun (makes me want to do drugs and bang Brittany Murphy)
  13. White Oleander (I relate to the main character on so many levels,.. it's sad really)
  14. United States of Leland (Ryan Gosling's greatest performance)
  15. Sharkwater (save the sharks!)
  16. Willow (miiight take this one down already, everyone's already seen it.. I hope!)
  17. Candy (RIP Heath Ledger)
  18. Ghost World (early Scarjo and one of my favorite Buscemi roles)
  19. Secretary (I hate Maggie Gyllenhaal buuut the sex, nudity, self mutilation and sadomasochism more than makes up for my hatred of her)
  20. Freeway (Witherspoon is way better in her darker roles)
  21. Stealing Beauty (Liv Tyler is amazing and you see Rachel Weisz vagina. My mom turned me into this one, her personal favorite)
  22. Winter Passing (God, I fucking love Zooey Deschanel,.. Will Ferrell proves he can be funny without being over the top)

I'm supposed to try and change the selection every few weeks but it's got to be the most challenging task ever. Which ones do I take down, which are worthy of staying up there, have a shit ton of people already seen the new ones I want to put up?... blah blah...

I think I'm going to take off Hard Candy and put up Night Watch..

...and YES that is a picture of Robert Pattinson on my sign...

Report:

xoxo

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Blue Line Special: Aisle 69

I'm a sell out.

I just put ads on the side of my blog in attempt to profit from this ludacris hobby of mine. (blogging about work while at work) But does this make me a sell out? Shall we define sell out? Urbandictionary anyone?

  • Anyone who sacrifices artistic integrity in an effort to become more successful or popular (generally in music); someone who forgets their roots.

All right, so technically I'm not a sell out (I'm getting tired of saying that) I don't have any artistic integrity for one, for B this has nothing to do with music, but does the movie part of this site outweigh that?

Another definition:

  • One who betrays a cause for personal advancement

I'd like to think that someone would be me.

Have I really done anything wrong by bowing down to Adsense? I rather feel I'm making a bigger deal out of this than it is, but then why does it feel like such a sin? To me it's like watching a Michael Madsen movie and then liking it. Wrong on so many levels.

In the end, if this whole thing puts money in my bank account, then fuck it; I'm the next Greenday.

Does anyone fucking read this shit anyway? I'm I talking to myself here?

Now that that's over I feel obligated to share a Videorama experience since I've just rambled on about my issues (in the end this whole blog is just one big issue.)

SO!.. Today a customer scolded me for eating infront of him.

Big Black Man: You shouldn't be eating infront of customers Miss

Me: Oh.. really?.. Because I think you might be the only one who cares.. and in that case.. *nom nom nom

xoxo