Saturday, July 17, 2004
Guess who just got his vacation approved? That's right! It's me! I'm going to be off the week before Halloween, so I'm going to try to get a job at a haunted house. It's perfect. Sometimes I scare people when I pay to enjoy the place myself. Many times I hear, "Who's That?!? Oh, it's just the guy behind us." Half of the time I end up leading complete strangers through the houses. Anyway, I'm going to try to get a job at the The Haunted Prison. I say job, but honestly, I'd work there for free. Have power tools, will travel.
There's one thing that's been sticking in my craw for a while. It's this whole issue of having a black president. It seems that we will never be a country of equality unless we have a black president. Why? Did you know that the president only gets paid four hundred thousand dollars a year? Granted that's nothing to sneeze at, but really for what. The presidents always get out of office looking 20 years older than they went in, even if they just serve four years. Your on call 24/7. You get blamed for stuff you have absolutely no control over. You get blamed even before you get the job. Sure, you can get your friends some good jobs, but you get left splashed all over the front page for it. Heck, some people even make films about how terrible you are.
Why try for the president? If you want a white man's job, be Bruce Willis. Look at how many times he's saved the planet. Once in Armageddon, possibly once in Unbreakable, and all of life as we don't know it The Fifth Element. He got paid two years of presidential salary for Pulp Fiction, and that's at the bottom of the list.
Heck, I wouldn't mind taking a black man's job. Did you know that Chris Tucker was paid 20 million dollars for Rush Hour 2? I want to be Chris Tucker. And I really get tired of hearing, "Chris Tucker needs to do something else." Look, he got paid 20 million for his last movie. He doesn't need to do anything. Ever again.
I were a big time actor. I'd star in flicks for nothing. Independent flicks only. The big time movie studios could pay me big time money. But little guys are the most grateful and in the end they help you out in the end. Did you know that Ben Affleck was paid $30,000 dollars to star in School Ties? Then he appeared five years later in Mallrats for $7000? Later that year, Kevin Smith submitted Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's script for Good Will Hunting to Miramax. The studio bought it for $600,000.
See no matter how big you get to be, good deeds still pay off. I guess I shouldn't look at being president as being just about the money, but no one will like you, you possibly won't have a job in four years (Less if you get impeached), and if you're the first black one, you'll get shot at. At least, in Hollywood you know it's blanks. And if you do a bad job, you can usually get another one pretty shortly there after. They just call you a comeback king.
There's one thing that's been sticking in my craw for a while. It's this whole issue of having a black president. It seems that we will never be a country of equality unless we have a black president. Why? Did you know that the president only gets paid four hundred thousand dollars a year? Granted that's nothing to sneeze at, but really for what. The presidents always get out of office looking 20 years older than they went in, even if they just serve four years. Your on call 24/7. You get blamed for stuff you have absolutely no control over. You get blamed even before you get the job. Sure, you can get your friends some good jobs, but you get left splashed all over the front page for it. Heck, some people even make films about how terrible you are.
Why try for the president? If you want a white man's job, be Bruce Willis. Look at how many times he's saved the planet. Once in Armageddon, possibly once in Unbreakable, and all of life as we don't know it The Fifth Element. He got paid two years of presidential salary for Pulp Fiction, and that's at the bottom of the list.
Heck, I wouldn't mind taking a black man's job. Did you know that Chris Tucker was paid 20 million dollars for Rush Hour 2? I want to be Chris Tucker. And I really get tired of hearing, "Chris Tucker needs to do something else." Look, he got paid 20 million for his last movie. He doesn't need to do anything. Ever again.
I were a big time actor. I'd star in flicks for nothing. Independent flicks only. The big time movie studios could pay me big time money. But little guys are the most grateful and in the end they help you out in the end. Did you know that Ben Affleck was paid $30,000 dollars to star in School Ties? Then he appeared five years later in Mallrats for $7000? Later that year, Kevin Smith submitted Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's script for Good Will Hunting to Miramax. The studio bought it for $600,000.
See no matter how big you get to be, good deeds still pay off. I guess I shouldn't look at being president as being just about the money, but no one will like you, you possibly won't have a job in four years (Less if you get impeached), and if you're the first black one, you'll get shot at. At least, in Hollywood you know it's blanks. And if you do a bad job, you can usually get another one pretty shortly there after. They just call you a comeback king.
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