It’s 4:43 in the morning right now. I have guard duty from one to nine in the morning. It’s really not that bad I get to listen to music, read comic books, and write this pathetic post for my blog :). I talked to Shareese just before. I haven’t seen her online in a while so I gave her a call. She seemed kind of busy and I was pretty tired so it was a pretty lame conversation but it was good to hear her voice. Or maybe it was just hearing a female’s voice lol. I am living with 500 guys right now with not a single female. Anyway right now I am just listening to some music. I have Doby Gray, Drift Away on right now. I like the original so much better than the remake with Uncle Cracker. I also found out there were a few remakes of this song but none of them beat the original.

What is it about oldies music? I think everyone likes oldies rock and roll. Some music is just intrinsically good and no matter how much you wish you hated it you still like it. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like the Beatles or Elvis. You might not play their music while you drive to work every morning but everyone knows the words to at least on of their songs. Oldies are used in so many commercials because those songs appeal to everyone.

I just finished watching Pulp Fiction. I have always loved that movie. I think what I love most about it is it’s remarkable believability. I mean in the beginning when Vincent and his partner are going to kill that guy to get the briefcase for Mr. Wallace they are arguing about whether a foot massage constitutes infidelity. The point they were discussing is mute. What makes this such a great scene is because even though they both know that in about five minutes they will have killed at least one person but it ends up being two they have foot massages on their mind. This isn’t far from the truth at all. Once when I drove up to a check point in Baghdad, a car bomb had just went off and dozens of people were wounded or dead. It was really nasty and smelled really bad. I did my job in cleaning the place up but I had other things on my mind. I remember that day, I was collecting body parts and in the back of my mind I was thinking about going home and getting a French vanilla coffee and coffee roll from Dunkin Donuts. I think the brain automatically thinks about other things when presented with things people don’t want to think about. Normal people don’t want to think about death so they think about foot massages and coffee and donuts instead. These parts of the movie add more realism to it.

I am pretty tired now so I probably rambled in the past three paragraphs but that’s ok. I killed 15 more minutes of my duty shift and I got my post done so when I get off I can connect to the internet and put it online. Oh only 4 days until I am on a plane heading home. I can’t wait and I get a tingling feeling every time I think about it. It feels like the first day of school or something. Later.