Paul Has Fun Paul V Perez

Here's my solo review of Twisters.  Was it fun or was it boring?
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Weird Stories are back!  Here are links to the stories covered below.
 
Egyptologists discover a connection between 31 tombs.
 
https://www.ign.com/articles/egyptologists-just-uncovered-an-ancient-secret-connecting-31-pyramid-tombs
 
Too much cocaine in Columbia.
 
https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/13/colombia-faces-a-new-problem-too-much-cocaine/
 
Ancient forest discovered in sinkhole.
 
https://www.ign.com/articles/china-hidden-ancient-forest-sinkhole-discovery-no-sign-godzilla-kong
 
Space shuttles left to rot in warehouse.
 
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/29198505/soviet-warehouse-russia-space-rockets-rot-decades-abandoned/
 
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The Callisto Protocol is now available on Xbox Game Pass. When I first saw the trailer, this sci-fi horror game was up my alley. It gave me Aliens, Lockout(Guy Pearce space prison movie from 2012) vibes.
The game casts actors we've most likely seen(or heard) somewhere before. The beginning portion introduces us to Josh Duhamel, known for his roles in the Transformers movies, Karen Fukuhara from Amazon's 'The Boys, and Sam Witwer, the voice of Darth Maul in the animated Star Wars Clone Wars series.
Playing the first 25-30 minutes of the game, I was immediately drawn into the story. These two cargo pilots are on a 'final job' transporting something. It all goes awry, and one of the pilots, Jason Lee(Josh Duhamel), ends up on the prison planet of Callisto. He is incarcerated for mysterious reasons not yet revealed. He wakes up after going unconscious from being painfully processed into the system, only to find his cell open and the prison in chaos.   
This is the beauty of streaming a story-based game like The Callisto Protocol. It hooks you from the start and leaves you craving to uncover the rest of this thrilling narrative.
Want to know more about Callisto Protocol? Check out the Wikipedia page here.
 
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On this episode Mike G, Jason G, and myself review Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man.  There are spoilers.  We saw this movie together at NYC's Alamo Drafthouse in Lower Manhattan, earlier this year.
 
Season 6 of this podcast will be ending soon.  Season 7 is coming!
 
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Just as the title says.  Here's the tracklisting.  Enjoy!
Stages and Lights
Sadat X
Men Vs. Many (Feat. OC and Royal Flush)
Mic Geronimo, OC, Royal Flush
No Fear
O.G.C.
Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka
Heltah Skeltah
Music Makes Me High
Lost Boyz
Lyrics to Go
A Tribe Called Quest
Oodles of O's
De La Soul
Soul Clap
Show & A.G.
Fuck What You Heard
Diamond D
Rakin' In The Dough Remix-BAM BAM RIDDIM
Zhigge
Murder She Wrote
Chaka Demus & Pliers, Pliers
Them A Bleach
Nardo Ranks
Rumors
Timex Social Club
Five Minutes of Funk
Whodini
This Is Something for the Radio (Best Of)
Biz Markie
Rhythm Nation
Janet Jackson
The Power
SNAP!
Makin' Happy (Hurley’s Happy House Mix)
Crystal Waters
Finally
CeCe Peniston
Show Me Love
Robin S
STOMP
K-Yze
Good Vibrations
Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch, Loleatta Holloway
 
I'd like to dedicate this mixtape to one of my favoritie DJs of all time, Mister Cee.  He passed away in April 2024.  Find out more about him here.
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I reviewed my journal notes from 2023; these were nine of my biggest lessons from last year.
 
Sugar dating is an expensive alternative to seeing sex workers.
 
I've been seeing sex workers for 6-8 years now, and it was getting old. I met someone in 2023 and wanted to date them seriously, but they didn't in return; I took that as a challenge and looked into sugar dating. I've been doing so since October and learned a lot since then. Now, I have sugar babies and sex workers in my regular rotation. There are growing pains in maintaining this, but I do like the variety.
 
Regular dating sites are a waste of time.
 
I've used dating sites and had some success, but it took time, patience, and messaging other members before meeting someone in real life. When I started sugar dating in October, I signed up and paid a month's subscription to a regular dating site(along with a sugar dating site). Conversations would begin after messaging several people, or they would contact me, but I would eventually get ghosted. Ghosting also happens on the sugar dating sites, but there's often a new person showing interest. The regular dating site was a desert wasteland with little interaction. The results I got in the 30 days when comparing the two were eye-opening. I won't be using regular dating sites for the foreseeable future.
 
Urges for destructive behaviors come in waves; your mind is not your identity.
 
For years, I've used sex, food, and TV to cope with negative feelings and boredom. Urges arise to indulge in one of these activities; I commit, feel the instant pleasure from doing so, but feel terrible after. I thought it was hopeless to change this pattern because this was who I thought I was. Listening to the Porn Reboot podcast, I learned that my thoughts and my urges are not my identity. I programmed myself this way. Urges are waves; they crest and trough. They pass. What do I do now when those strong urges emerge?
 
Have an awareness and self-dialogue on your urges and reasons why you choose to distract yourself.
 
Another lesson from the Porn Reboot podcast; self-dialoguing when those urges come up. Have the awareness to verbalize the series of events that led to wanting to act out with this behavior(food, sex, overabundance of TV and video games). This technique has helped 'walk me off the ledge' multiple times. The hope is to build the habit of doing this process every time I want to self-medicate and sit with those negative feelings. They do pass.
 
Scheduling and following through builds confidence, self-discipline, and capital.
 
This lesson I formed from listening to Ed Mylett's and, once again, the Porn Reboot podcast. I've heard Ed Mylett talk about how doing what you say you will do builds confidence. I started making a to-do list for daily activities and tried to get as much done as possible. In turn, these actions raise my confidence and build capital. What is capital? When those urges arise, I use my to-do list, which I've completed/mostly completed, to show myself, 'Look at all these good things I've done today. Things I said I would do, and I did them.' These good things build capital to fight urges for bad behaviors. These good things include self-care, such as eating healthfully, getting to bed on time, and getting to the gym. Doing something creative, and so on. It's not perfect and doesn't always work, but this method of building capital to quell my urges has helped me.
 
Follow advice from doctors and scientists, not influencers.
 
In 2023, I flip-flopped between a carnivore and vegan diet due to advice from influencers. Their stories are valid because they got the results they were looking for. But doctors and scientists have proven results from studies. Information can change, and doctors and scientists aren't always right. I go the vegan route because I want to prevent a heart attack and/or stroke. My father, in the last few years of his life, had multiple strokes and stents