Monday, February 27, 2006

You Are a Fun Flirt

You just can't help yourself... you flirt with everyone you know. Guys, girls, crushes, and friends. They're all victims to your charm. You're into silly innuendos, sexy jokes, and playful touches. You are a huge flirt, yet you never make anyone (too) uncomfortable!

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Things we noticed during "Lady and the Tramp"

  • I bet they're monsters. That's why you can't see their faces
  • Because the dog can understand.
  • She got fat overnight.
  • Dogs love coffee and donuts and will dunk the donuts into the coffee.
  • I've never seen a dog so happy to get a collar.
  • Price can be detected by smell.
  • How come the two main dogs aren't trying to jump her?
  • Dogs take showers.
  • How does a dog know what starch is?
  • "That dog" is the most offensive thing you can say to a dog.
  • Why won't she walk her? She needs to poop!
  • When people have babies, animals piss them off.
  • Even dogs get the "birds and the bees" talk.
  • Is there a doggie-condom?
  • All baby food is green.
  • Why does the Scottish dog have a French name? Picard?
  • Everyone else calls her Darling too.
  • Cats aren't nice in Disney movies.
  • When dogs think to themselves, they sing.
  • Did no one tell Aunt Sarah about the rules of the dog?
  • Cats have a lot of dexterity in their tails.
  • She barks in time with cat songs.
  • It's obvious the dog did it all.
  • Jim Dear and Darling wouldn't mind that Aunt Sarah is buying a muzzle.
  • How come Tramp isn't territorial?
  • Dogs can fight and end up unscathed.
  • The beaver just broke his own cage at the zoo.
  • Beavers can support themselves on their tails.
  • All of this would kill the beaver!
  • Humans will spend more time catering and entertaining the stray dogs than the paying customers.
  • They know the dogs can read the menu.
  • The other chef is the only sane person: "Tony, dogs don't talk."
  • This is what we teach children: Give in to peer pressure.
  • Why doesn't she yell back?
  • Why doesn't the chihuahua just jump out?
  • Stereotypes are a real timesaver.
  • Dogs get married?
  • When dogs get married, they move in together.
  • Tramp can talk just as fine with a bone in his mouth than without.
  • A rat injures him, but three dogs don't.
  • The guy at the pound is psychic and can read Aunt Sarah's mind.
  • How did the other dogs know what's going on?
  • Is the black one a gay dog?
  • How did he get hurt, he was on the other side?
  • When dogs have babies 3 look like the mother, one looks like the father.
  • Who owns these dogs?
  • It's a good thing he doesn't have rabies.
  • The cats are androgynous.

Friday, February 24, 2006

You Are 42% Evil

You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side.
Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination.

Review of "Saved!"

I rented some more movies from the library and this is one of them. Nord told me good things about this movie so I decided to pick it up. This movie is very funny. It's basically about this girl who tries to cure her newly-gay boyfriend by having sex and winds up pregnant at a Christian school. It's a good parody of
über-fundamentalist people and how they judge and treat other people. There are some errors in the "Christian" teachings in this movie. The acts they do are more Catholic or televangelist than what would really be involving in forgiveness. The feeling that you need to confess verbally and in public is not dogmatic but seems to be encouraged in some situations which is alienating.

The movie actually has a message summed up in: "Why would God make us all different if he wanted us to be the same?" In the movie, everyone has a problem of some sort no matter how holy they makethemselvesf out to be. It shows that you can't get hung up on what people are doing wrong because no one can live up to purely Biblical expectations. It's not in our nature.

The movie is very good at emphasizing the clicks that form in social situations and how they affect who our friends are. The acting is solid and the story is fun to watch. Unfortunately the movie does suffer from the teen movie clichés that always show up: Everything happens at the prom, anything incriminating is revealed publicly, and the mean girl becomes the outcast. What I like about this movie is every "bad" character is somewhat redeemed and you don't really hate them at the end. I also like how naïve (so many special characters in one post) that the Christians are portrayed which seems all too real.

My rating: 7.5 out of 10
DVD-worthy: If it's cheap, it's a god buy.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Black Costume

It's not a black and white photo. This is an official picture of Spidey's new black costume. Whether this has anything to do with Venom is probably likely.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

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You're an evil genius. Whether a machine maniac or a psychological expert, the evil genius uses his/her wits and resources to defeat the opponent.

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Friday, February 17, 2006

Review of "Logan's Run"

Holy Crap, it's so retro it's scary! Logan's Run is a sci-fi classic. Basically, it's the 23rd Century and the world's population lives in a domed city where people only live to age 30 and they are ceremoniously killed. Logan is a sandman, ordered to eliminate any runners who are trying to escape their destiny. He is then ordered to find Sanctuary, the place where the runners go.

It's made in 1976 and has 1976 effects. The domed city is painfully obviously a model and the outfits look like bad Halloween costumes. The guns seem to shoot fireworks that hit only the ground and rarely people. People are killed in the psychedelic Carousel with visible wires and obvious charges strapped to them when they "die." It has the first use of holography on film to an even more psychedelic effect. You can see the human under the robot. Can you blame them? No, but it can be painful to watch and know that Star Wars was only a year away and doesn't suffer from these cliches.

The story on the other hand is awesome. It's a very compelling and touching story about what happens to Logan. It's creepy to see a young Michael York and Old Man doesn't shut up. There's a lot of material in this film and it runs long but you don't feel robbed. Despite the cheese this film is ripe for remaking. The story is so sound, it just needs to be de-futurized. Just because it's the future doesn't mean it isn't unrecognizable as Earth. I would enjoy watching this film again and would love to see the remake of it.

My rating: 7 out of 10, good but so, so scary
DVD-worthy: It's a bare-bones release so it's cheap.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Review of "Shattered Glass"

This is one of the movies I checked out from the library. I was a little surprised they had it because it's not very well known. This is an independent film about the true story of Stephen Glass who worked for the New Republic magazine and fabricated stories on a consistent basis. Of course, I wanted to see this movie because it starred Hayden Christensen AKA Anakin Skywalker. I had previously seen his work in Life As A House which was really good and once again, he performed well in this movie by contrast to Star Wars acting. I think his main problems with his acting in Star Wars is the fact that there's no backgrounds. It's all CG. In his other performances, you can see he kinda works with his surroundings and is able to act. He's very good at doing angst.

The film is not epic in scale and it's not supposed to be. It's a very limited story with a limited cast but the cast is really good. What makes this character fun is not how he gets away with lying but how he reacts when everything falls apart and it's fun to yell at him for being stupid. When you rewatch it, you notices several things in the film that you may have missed the first time around which is nice. What makes this film (or DVD) worth watching is the special features. It has a 60 Minutes interview with the real Stephen Glass which is amazing how twisted he is and how calm he is about what he did. The commentary has the director and the real editor Chuck Lane (who Peter Sarsgaard does a great job emulating) discussing the film and illustrates its amazing attention to detail. They tried to get as many people as possible involved and if they couldn't they created compsoite characters that were similar to the real employees. Some of the scenes are verbatim from the actual conversations which is so cool. You can only get factual events like that from an independent film. The ending was a little lofty but all-in-all it's a very enjoyable movie and a good rent. I fear the layman couldn't watch this movie because there's a lot of drama and dialogue but if you enjoy that then you will enjoy this movie

My rating: 8-9 out of 10, I'm trying not be too generous but I can't help it.
DVD-worthy: Yes! I liked this movie a lot and it's probably cheap because it's only a few years old.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Review of "Red Eye"

It's been a while since I've reviewed a movie and I've got a bunch coming because I checked out a few from the library over the weekend so here's one we saw in the Morey lobby. I had a feeling that I wanted to see this movie because I've heard good things about it. They are basically right. It's a compelling story and has awkwardly funny moments. It's those moments that aren't supposed to be funny but end up being really funny, like most of Fantastic Four. It's very suspense filled and I liked it because it was very liberal in showing the amount of pain this guy receives . Cillian Murphy gets the crap kicked out of him and they show no blood which is refreshing because I'm not watching Nip/Tuck. I get enough blood. It's also fun to yell at Rachel McAdams for whenever she does something stupid or just simply has bad luck.

The plot was solid with no major holes. I liked the music score. It was no John Williams but had a good theme that was repeated and worked well for this movie. I also like the name Jackson Ripner. It's just so cruel to name your child that. It makes me wonder if Cillian Murphy is as good playing someone who is not creepy since he does creepy so well. I liked the movie but it's losing some points with the super-super security for the Deputy Director of Homeland Security although I don't really know how much security the guy would have. I also felt a bazooka was a tad excessive but beyond that I really liked the acting.

My Rating: 8.5 out of 10
DVD-worthy: Not for $20, not yet. If I get compelled I might for that much but I'd buy it when it goes down.

Victory Comics?

I got my paper back on Monday for World Lit on Nigerian and Irish Nationalism and I am so happy (still). I got a 180/200 points which is like a 90%! He said I had no factual errors, just grammatical ones which I noticed upon review. It bugs me a little because I gave him my rough draft and he only pointed out 2 things but I should've checked it harder. I think he liked my PowerPoint because he has a dry wit and as I was transitioning from a map of Nigeria to a timeline of the history of European contact, I just threw the title "The British Are Coming" at the top of the slide and I think he got a kick out of it. He says he wants me to keep it to give it back at the end of the year to use as a sample for future classes. That makes me very happy. I just have to remember to print off my slides to include in my packet. I'm also excited because that's really the only project for that class. We picked our times for presentations and mine was the 4th but became the first so I'm done with papers until April for that class when I have to do a response. I wish I was done with all papers as I have my Auckland paper due on Friday, my Machiavelli paper done and due tomorrow, my Military History huge essay test next week and other stuff for the semester.

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Your Scholastic Strength Is Deep Thinking

You aren't afraid to delve head first into a difficult subject, with mastery as your goal.
You are talented at adapting, motivating others, managing resources, and analyzing risk.

You should major in:

Philosophy
Music
Theology
Art
History
Foreign language

Saturday, February 11, 2006

You Are Curling

What you lack in athleticism, you make up for in concentration.
And while curling isn't much more of a sport than bowling, you *can* win a gold medal for it!

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Dohnny Jepp

We're watching Spaceballs and The Lion King while coloring and we noticed some things:

  • Bill Pullman will go on to play the President.
  • Where exactly is Nunavut?
  • Book Lady doesn't know which Transformer is H_t Sh_t.
  • She's insane. She's Martin Lawrence on a bender.
  • Nice dissolve.
  • Mel Brooks is obviously on his knees.
  • I hate Yogurt!
  • Spaceballs the Blog Post.
  • Nobody notices the Alien scene.
  • We don't talk through major plot points.
  • Steph knows the entire script in her head.
  • It's essentially Hamlet meets Hitler.
  • Why is everyone American except Zazu and Scar?
  • The new song sucks.
  • Why is Darth Vader so happy?
  • A smiley face would look wierd on the Emperor.
  • "I'd say he looks more of a goldish-brown." is something we would say.
  • We're gonna need a montage.
  • We can talk but we don't have opposable thumbs.
  • Slow-motion makes it faster.
  • In the special-special edition of The Lion King, Mufasa's ghost will be digitally replaced by a younger version of himself.
  • Where's Laertes?
  • They should make a Disney movie without character names and instead use actor names such as: "Why are you attacking me, Matthew Broderick?" "Because I can, Jeremy Irons."
  • Fire and rain can undo anything.
  • How can love make kings and vagabonds?

I have to vent something

I called my mom on Monday and caught up with things at home. It turns out my cousin refuses to be in my brother's wedding in November. She was aked to be a candlelighter and she just doesn't feel like it. So now my brother's anxious about asking anyone else. This bugs me because she's just a 16 year old who actually knows him and she's just being a pain. She's done this before. When my grandma was near death and my cousin from California came out we were going to get a picture. She didn't feel like it being in it. I would've told her that I don't care if you're sick, this only happens once you're going to do it. This is just another snag that disturbes my brother and that's not good for him. I'll admit that I didn't want to be in my cousin's wedding last fall because I was up in Wayne and I couldn't do much but I got over it. To just flat out say no is rude and I can say now that when I get married, she will not be asked. It may be cruel but that's just the way it goes.

Monday, February 06, 2006

YOU ARE DR. SEAN MCNAMARA!
You are Dr. Sean McNamara!


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You Are Gonzo the Great

"Is something burning in here? Oh, it's just me."
You're a total nutball who will do anything for attention.
The first to take a dare, you'll pull almost any stunt.
You're one weird looking creature, but your chickens don't mind!

Sunday, February 05, 2006

I have Hitler hair!

Angie came up this weekend so we would not go crazy. Yesterday we went to ACME Comics because I got my homework done and I could get a reward. I picked up a couple in a series I've been working on and then we went to the Dowry to get Daniele's Harley Quinn shoes. We then went to the mall and there was a Beatles hirt that was shiny that I liked but I resisted. We then went to Besst Buy and Target. I picked up a magazine rack and a Star Wars coloring book. Eeee! Then we went to McDonald's to eat and then to Wayne. Book Lady was ready to throw her blue hair dye in so she gave herself some Rogue streaks and they look cool. There was some extra so we threw some in at random patches and my hair was surprisingly uncooperative. I have so much that the small streaks kinda disappeared into the hair. Steph tried to add a stripe but it just bleached near the roots without coloring so she had a patch.

We went to Pamida to get some repair dye for Steph and I picked up Star Wars Game of Life which is surprisingly fun. I also taught Book Lady how to play Miniatures. Steph dyed her hair blue and it just absorbed into her black hair but it worked in mine. So now I've got a few random blue patches of hair for about a week or two.