Thursday, September 23, 2004

Will Smith should not be immortalized as a fish from a Finding Nemo knockoff- he should be a gopher in a Caddyshack knockoff.

Comment Commentary

Mimmi- The solution is only seven digits away, but it seems HP Customer Support is based in Bangladesh and all have really thick accents..

Shin- Uh.. Early bird. Wow, that insult sucked.

Godel- I sort of look forward to it, because we can run around restricted school areas in the dark.

StarBound- I blame George Bush, because I blame him for everything. :P

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Ooh, a lot to talk about today. Let's hope this post turns out better than the last one.

After posting yesterday, my mother ordered that the final modifications to furniture moving needed to be made- we've had my grandmother's computer desk blocking half of the piano sitting space and our old television blocking half of this room for quite some time now. We moved this room's couch out to the curb in hopes that somebody would take it overnight (which they did), dragged the computer desk in here, and set up the PS2 and Gamecube. That's right, there's a television sitting behind me (with no cable, but whatever) with both consoles at my disposal. Get me a toilet and I could live in this room. o.o

After playing a little bit of Devil May Cry and Half-Life, it was time to jump into the car and head over to the school for open house. By the time we got there (legal) parking was incredibly hard to find, so we had to drive for a while into the wild unknown neighborhoods to the west of the school. Walking through was nice, I guess. Unlike a lot of streets in that area there were lots of big trees and the houses were fairly decent, though there were a few shady characters. We got there at the end of the principal's boring speech thing, and then it was off to tell my parents where to go. Both my parents, especially my mother, know where all of my classes are except for two, and I clearly explained where those rooms were, but I was dragged along anyway. I saw quite a few familiar faces, but there was little galavanting until the fourth session. That was when we were getting bored, and a lot of us went outside to talk. Soon enough there was a small group of us running around on the "forbidden" half of the field. I know it sounds sort of immature, but it was truly enjoyable, if you try to not think about the crazy skater-punks that were but one hundred yards away.

There was a meeting for the advanced students after most people left, in which we mainly discussed the plans for GATE this year. I'm starting to get really, really anxious about that two-year self improvement project, which nobody has even touched. I hope it doesn't come to this, but I'm probably going to end up making a bunch of trash up at the last minute, pretending that I did actual work.

After a bit of conversation afterwards, talking with a close Juniper alumni about past on-campus deaths, we were kicked out of the school and I went to bed soon after. I was exhausted.

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I got a little angry today when discussing the universe with my science teacher. We're constantly shown images of the universe from side and above angles, and I asked one of those unanswerable, thought-provoking questions about what lies beyond what we know. It was something about the universe and if it spans off in all directions, instead of on a two-dimensional plane pictures in textbooks lead us to believe, and how there could possibly be a second universe far above ours, and stuff like that. I wasn't expecting a solid, well thought out answer, just something that seemed slightly informed. Instead, she answered a question I didn't even ask, which hardly related to anything, and that left me sour. Oh well.

In journalism I was ordered to type up a Resident Evil: Apocalypse review someone wrote.. They gave it five out of five stars. God, it wasn't even a review, but more of a lame-ass summary recalling all of the "awesome" events. I didn't bother editing it, because other people needed to use the computer, but it hurt every time I typed a double negative.

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Ugh, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a disappointment. I was informed after school that we were going to go see it, and I went along with it because I have been really interested in the visual style they have put to use.

At times the whole 1930's theme was cool, such as seeing Times Square with old-time neon advertisements, but stuff like the circular radio waves flying at the audience was lame. The dialogue felt rather rigid, spare a few humorous lines, but a lot more could have been done with it. The acting wasn't spectacular, either. While Jude Law wasn't so bad, Nicole Kidman didn't fit the "Classic Film Leading Lady" role (I was hoping she'd have that accent everybody back then seemed to have), and Angelina Jolie was just meh. They seemed to cut her out of the story rather quickly, and it might have been interesting to see tension between Kidman and Jolie's characters heighten.

The visuals, of course, were snazzy. It looked exactly like a colorized movie from the golden era of film, aside from maybe the island at the end, but it was definitely the best part of the movie.

But the plotholes! Oh, the plotholes. It's supposed to be comic book-esque, I know, but there were so many little things that didn't make sense in it. I can't really say much without spoiling anything, but there were many times where I asked myself, "Why doesn't he just fly over that?"

Perhaps I should write a newsletter review for it, but it's so hard to put a score on it. On one hand, you can praise it for revitalizing classic film, and on the other you can criticize it for being so unoriginal. Kill Bill's story, when you think about it, is extremely clear-cut and typical, but the amount of style Tarantino threw onto it made it a great movie. Sky Captain, not so much.

Bleh.

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Teh SillyCircus Day 39- No homework, whoo!

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*goes to sleep*

EDIT: Oh, look at this. See that laptop on the right-hand column? Yeah, that's amazingly cool-looking, and it's tricked out. *crosses his fingers and hopes he wins it*

ANOTHER EDIT: My thoughts on Donkey Konga summed up in one conversation snippet:

OtakuSennen: Grr, I want to throw things at whoever pitched the idea of Donkey Konga.
OtakuSennen: The selection of songs blows.
OtakuSennen: Nintendo tunes including the infamous DK rap, plus Blink 182's "All the small things."
OtakuSennen: >:o The hell is that?
Xz verOxz: Haha
Xz verOxz: they should throw in a Pokemon song for the heck of it.
Xz verOxz: :-X
OtakuSennen: They did.
OtakuSennen: o_o
Xz verOxz: omg
OtakuSennen: And the Kirby theme song.
Xz verOxz: what losers.
Xz verOxz: Lmao
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