The Eyes Of A Spectator

Iron Man 2, Longboard, Band, Mother's Day!

2010-05-08T07:25:00.003-04:00

So last night I saw Iron Man 2, and it was pretty good. The effects were pretty good, and the story was pretty good too, and after the end of the movie, if you stay, there's a little preview of something that'll make you really excited if you're a comic book nerd like me. I don't really want to get much into it, but it's great, and I think you should go see Iron Man 2, if you saw the first one and liked it. It wasn't as good as the first one, but then again how many sequels are as good as the original?

I also would like to work on my longboard today if I get the chance. I can't really do it, because my dad wants to do it with me, but we never get the chance to. I have the wood glued a lot better this time, so hopefully we can cut it down, put the resin on it, and install the wheels and that'll be it. I really want this project to be done.

I haven't been to band practice in a bit, last time I didn't go, was because Mike was busy studying, which makes sense since it's coming to the last weeks of school. They are going to have band practice today at around 11, but I'd rather work on the longboard, because I have to go to my mom's because of Mother's Day. It is the right thing to do.

Oh yeah, and if anyone knows anything about trucks and wheels for skateboards or longboards, contact me, because for some reason I don't think they turn, or at least right, I don't know.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3rwKDroyKw

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Longboarding and School

2010-05-02T07:47:00.003-04:00

It's been a while again. I don't know what's putting me off from making videos anymore, but there's only really one person who cares about it that much I think, and I saw him yesterday. Some people are already back from college, and I still have a month to go. It's pretty crazy. A couple of my friends are coming back in a week or two, but at least I'm still around so I can see them anyway.

I wonder why they don't just sync up all of the schools into one calendar, it would be so much easier. All of the breaks differ from each other, and so do the test dates and everything, oh well.

Not much else has been going on except for this one big project I've been working on. I've been wanting a longboard really badly within the past month, and they're really expensive, so I can't really get one, so I've opted to do the next best thing, make one.

Yeah, I'm going to end up making one, and it's going to be hard, but I want it that bad. I already made one, but it didn't turn out good, because it was my first time, and a lot of things went wrong. I rode it around, but it wouldn't turn, and the wood got all damaged because it was flexing too much, and it just didn't work out.

Maybe I'll end up working on it today, that would be awesome. I have all of the other parts and stuff, and I love the wheels I got, they just won't stop spinning when you push them, it's amazing how far technology has come. Anyway, that's really it for now.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pqcdX7OE7A

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Band!

2010-04-24T09:02:00.002-04:00

So I started a band, if you can call it that, with 2 other people, Ronnie and Mike. I'm the guitarist and singer, while Mike is the bassist, and Ronnie is the keyboardist. That's all we have for right now, and I don't think we need much else except for a drummer.

We attempted to have band practice with a couple of other people, but they didn't like that genre of music, so they just left immediately before we even did anything as a band. One of them thought it was going to be a screamo death metal band, which it isn't, and the other wanted it to be an alternative emo band, and I don't like either of those types of music.

Anyway, so we're still at 3 musicians. If you think you can drum, you should comment or send me a message or something. I'm going for the indie sound, and hopefully I'll have luck. I have all of this music in my head that I have to write down or something.

Not much else is really happening, I'm going to my mothers in a couple hours because she wants me. Today was going to be one of my friends birthdays and I wanted to go, but I guess I can't. It seems that every time my mother wants me, something always happens here on the island, but oh well.

Anyway, that's it for now.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sAlkU2-mTo

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2010-04-21T21:18:00.001-04:00

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Been A While.

2010-04-18T09:37:00.002-04:00

It's been exactly a week since I've done my last blog, and I'm sorry for those who wait in anticipation for any news from me, even though I doubt you people exist. Anyway, I'm back, and the reason I didn't do any blogs was sort of because I was busy almost all the time.

I do have some things to talk about though, not important but that's what this blog is for!

I met this guy Alex, who owns a store called KMI, in West Hempstead, and he's a really cool and awesome guy. His philosophies in life, are the exact same as mine, and I'm sure we'll become good friends. Hopefully I can get a job working there, and have fun at the same time. It's a comic book, card store, action figure, statue, nerd kind of store, and it seems really awesome. There's a room in the back where you can play card games with other people if you want, and it's a really cool lay out, and the store has really good prices and everything. I hope he succeeds, because his outlook on life is great, and it seems like he deserves it.

So on Friday, it was Allaire and I's one year anniversary, and we didn't really do much, but we did have a good time. She was tired because she didn't get enough sleep, but nonetheless, we declared our love for each other, and had a nice time just being with each other and other friends as well. We went to see Kick-Ass, which was a pretty good movie, and we also went to the mall for a little bit and had some fun.

Yesterday, we were together the whole day, but it was a really lazy day. We took a little walk around for maybe 30 minutes, then came back, ate, watched a movie, and just laid down next to each other the rest of the night. It was really nice, and we talked about some random things in life. She also gave me a gift, which is god damn amazing. If you want to see what she made me, look at the video, it's incredible how she did it. She's one of the most creative and artistic people I know, it's amazing.

I also met up with my friend Nicole for a very short while in the morning and we had breakfast together. We went to a bakery and got some food, then went to another deli and she ate there too. She asked me a very out of nowhere question that I was kind of surprised at. She told me she wanted to ask me an "awkward" question, and said that she had to wait for the right time to ask.

The question was something around, how come I'm so happy all the time and I never seem to get upset and I don't give up and keep going?

We talked for a long time about it, and I basically said that life is too beautiful to get angry, upset, give up, or even have pity on anyone or anything. I think that everyone should be treated equally, and that everyone deserves infinite chances because everyone can change. I'm let down by a lot of people all the time, but I never let it get me down, I nudge it off and I keep going. I always give, because that's the one thing in life that makes me most happy, giving people anything. It doesn't have to be physical, but it would be respect, caring, and even time. Everyone deserves that.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4j95cecZec

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Great Days.

2010-04-11T06:57:00.002-04:00

Yesterday I had a really good day. I cooked these wonderful pancakes for mike and we both ate them along with my dad. They turned out pretty good even though the first 3 were ruined because we thought the surface was stick free. The stove we have came with this pancake maker thing that you just put over the burner, and it's flat and stick free.

After that, we went to the park and started practicing volleyball, only because I don't really enjoy soccer all that much. I'm alright at it, it's just boring to me, and I prefer handball, frisbee, football, or something like that. There wasn't a net to play with so we used the tennis courts, and it was kind of fun.

Then Allaire and Erika came, along with Amanda and Zach, and then we all played together, and it was really bad, because everybody isn't that good, so we just kind of stopped. Then we all went to Mikes house and when we got there his dad wanted us to plant a new tree he got from Japan into the front yard. It was a tree that grows straight up and it's really thin, but it took a while, so I started grilling some hamburgers. I grilled hamburgers for everybody including Mikes mom and dad, and everyone seemed to like it but I think they could have been better.

I want to get better at cooking in general.

After that, we all watched a movie in Mikes basement. I kind of fell asleep during the movie, and apparently I like to twitch in my sleep from what I'm told. The movie was called A Serious Man. I tried to watch it, but I couldn't stay awake, I was so sleepy.

That pretty much sums up the whole day. I think it was pretty good.

Oh yeah, and I got a new keyboard to start practicing with!

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgFvKSIrKw

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Heat, and a Journal Entry

2010-04-07T13:27:00.002-04:00

Man, it's hot outside.

I don't really have much to talk about, so it's Journal Entry time. I'm going to recite a journal entry that I wrote, randomly. I'm not going to type the whole thing out, because it's not meant to be read kind of, it's more meant to be read out loud to you, for you to hear. If you want to hear it, you're going to have to watch the video.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuYS6I9gDbM

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April Fool's Day!

2010-04-01T13:22:00.002-04:00

Yeah, sadly, I won't be partaking in April Fool's day, that's the internets job, and they do a pretty good job. I'm talking to you, Topeka. If you don't get that, go to google.com.

Anyway, so as I'm listening to this song Jimmy, by K.I.A., which is an awesome song, I'm reminded of what my friends and I did a couple days ago. We were all in a car talking about how places don't exist. Sonic came up, and we my friend Reid says to us, no it exists, there's one in New Jersey. The journey had started. He must have driven for 6 hours, and that's pretty much all we did that one day. He came to my house at around 1 PM, and we got there at maybe 4 PM, and we came back to Pete's house at maybe 9 PM. Yeah, it was worth it.

The burgers are amazing. It's as if some type of fast food building fell down from the crack in the sky, and we found it. The burgers and fries taste so amazing, and I'm not one for fast food. And they come out to you in roller skates. Friggin roller skates, come on. Would you not spend hours on end to go to a fast food place that makes your stomach tear in ecstasy, only to have the burgers delivered on roller skates?

Anyway, some other news, I got a couch for my room! Yeah, after a long long time, I finally got a couch for it, and it's very nice. It kind of sits out because it's pretty big, but it's still nice to have in the room. Now when people come into my room, they have somewhere to sit other than my bed and my bean bag chair thing.

I'm probably going to end up reorganizing my room in a couple months, but I have to draw out the statistics and stuff like that. This spring break is being pretty good so far. I've been with most of my college friends outside of school, I've seen Allaire, they've met Allaire, and I think they all like each other, and it's great.

Only thing I miss is seeing Mike, haven't seen him for a good week and I miss the kid.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKE6MD1OMo

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Back from ICON!

2010-03-29T11:47:00.003-04:00

So I came back from ICON last night, and it was a lot of fun. I met many people, saw many interesting things, and it was just fun to be there. I went to a couple tournaments, had my laughs, stayed with friends at a hotel, and got a couple of things.

Friday night, we found the Magic room, and we spent some of the night there. After that we went to AppleBees and ate. Then we played some xbox until we fell asleep. Then on Saturday, we went to a huge room with lots of RP players, and RP'd for hours on end. It was a lot of fun. After RPing, we went to the Dealers Room, which is a bunch of panels and lots of things that people are selling.

After I went outside I saw some sword fighting, and it was awesome. It was 10 dollars to sign up, and then you can do it as much as you wanted, and it was a lot of fun. You sword fight with just random people, and everyone is really friendly and funny. After doing that, I longboarded around the entire campus for a little bit, and saw some amazing Cosplay.

I wish I had taken more pictures, but I got a decent amount, and a couple of videos. There were so many people who had dressed up as random characters in animes and comic books and movies, it was great. I got to talk to some of them, and meet some really cool people.

Overall I had a great time, and I hope to start going there every year, and make it a yearly thing in my schedule. I was going to go with more people, but some people couldn't go this year. Next year hopefully it will be better, and more awesome than it was this year.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH9mold21A

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Frisbee, Work, Magic!

2010-03-21T11:46:00.002-04:00

So on Friday, I played Frisbee with a bunch of people. It was kind of fun, but everybody who played wasn't really that good, and there were only a couple people who were actually good at it, and we were all on the same team, and eventually won 7 to 0. So it was a good thing that we were playing, we just all need to work on getting better is all. After Frisbee, we then went to a nearby bench and starting playing Magic, which I know sounds lame, but I know had some fun, I really like the game.

It's funny how people automatically assume I'm a loser for playing a card game that I really enjoy, oh well.

So the kitchen is coming along pretty well. I just finished working for a couple of hours, cleaning up all of the sheetrock from the walls that were broken down a couple weeks ago. We had to sort them all in bags, but my cousin was the one putting them into bags, and I guess we made them too heavy. So we had to distribute the weight among even more bags. It wasn't that hard, but it's really time consuming.

So today the plan is to go to a friends house, and just hang out. I hope I get some exercise and go out and play more Frisbee with more people.

Anyway, that's really it for now, not much else, the week after though, it's Spring Break for my school, along with most of my friends, so that'll be fun.

One more thing, if you think I should read one of my passages I wrote, tell me, and I'll do it tomorrow.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va7Z5MmklTY

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Sports and ICON!

2010-03-18T20:24:00.002-04:00

I've been playing a lot more sports recently, and it's fantastic. It's been so beautiful outside and the weather is just gorgeous enough that I can play frisbee and handball in just a shirt. I've been having a blast these past couple of days and getting in plenty of physical activity. I did rough out some injuries, but nothing substantial, and I'm a little sore, but that's probably from doing a ridiculous amount of exercise. I played maybe 3 hours of frisbee, and then after that, a couple hours of handball.

It's great and I can't wait to start doing some Parkour. I'm going to try to get some people into it, so that I have people to practice with. It's really hard doing Parkour on your own, because it's fun to do it with other people and have a team.

The only downside I see is that, it's technically still Winter, and it's almost 70 degrees outside. This really isn't that good. I'm not going to go into a huge rant or anything but I will say this. If you see a light on that's not being used, close it. Turn off your T.V. Unplug stuff you don't use, buy smarter, and stuff like that. It may seem like it doesn't do anything, but it adds up. At the end of the day, if there are 100 more people who do the same thing, you might have saved a couple dollars in electricity, and it really counts towards the environment.

Next up is ICON! It's coming soon, and boy is it going to be fun. It's my first time going, and I'm going with people who've been going for years. I can't wait, it's going to be an entire weekend at Stony Brook at a hotel full of people who cosplay, play games, design games, create comics, read comics and other stuff.

I'm going with 6 people, and we're all sharing a room at a hotel for the weekend for a very very good price. It's a cheap price for what we're getting. I just know that I hope for the best, and that I come back with more money than I left with. You see, at this event, you can play for money if you want to, and my friend and I plan to play together with Magic cards, and make some money. All I want is to have fun really, and I'm going on a strict budget, so if I lose some, I'll still be happy.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO08I8xugkc

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All American.

2010-03-15T19:37:00.003-04:00

So today I went to this place called All-American Burger, and there's only one of its kind. It's in Massapequa, out in Long Island, and it's a long ways away from most locations, but it's really worth it. Every burger there is around 1 to 3 dollars, and all of them are almost the size of your face. My friends and I got maybe 5 pounds of burgers for only 35 dollars maybe, and with fries and drinks. It's incredibly cheap and good.

It's not all that unhealthy for you too, because it's real beef, none of McDonald's secret sauce crap with artificial stuff in it.

Speaking of healthy, it's getting warmer and warmer everyday, and I can't wait till it warms up so we can play Frisbee, Football, or Handball. It's going to be great. My club at school decided we're all going to go LARPing the last week of school. If you don't know what that is, you're missing out on a lot of fun. It stands for Live Action Role Playing. Basically, it's like you're playing a video game.

There's healers, warriors, leaders, flag carriers, and so on with teams. You use actual weapons and flags and carry armor and everything. You do all that on rough terrain with random objects laid out everywhere. Then you set up your own rules and wreak havoc and have fun. I used to do it as a little kid, now I'm doing it as a 20 year old college student.

Isn't life grand? I have some more to talk about, but that's for a different time.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbtmClHzl2M

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Nothing to talk about.

2010-03-11T19:48:00.003-05:00

Yeah, so it's me here, but I don't have much to talk about. I was with a couple friends and they were going to have fun and have a get together. They used to be a big group in high school but some of them came back for different reasons, but I opted to come back home because I have school tomorrow.

It''s funny because I had a lot of friends in high school, and right before my senior year, I had a group of friends, and we'd call ourselves the hoodlums. Everyday we would get together and just do something else. It could have been doing nothing, or playing football or playing games or just hanging out and talking about nothing. It was a lot of fun.

I don't really have much of a group to do that with anymore, although sometimes I'll see a couple friends and get together and talk about life, it's great, but I don't have a regular group of friends that I regularly see and do things with. It's not really a complaint, but more rather something I'd like to see more of.

I don't really have much to say. I got Allaire an iPod, one of the older ones, the iPod Nano 8 GB, because I knew she wanted one, I could just tell, and I got it for a really good price. I hope she enjoys it and uses it because everybody should have music in their everyday life.

Not really much of a blog post I know, but not much has really happened. If this happens again I'll have to pull something from one of my serious posts, actually that doesn't sound like a bad idea.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJk43GgILo

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New Paltz? Old Friends?

2010-03-08T14:37:00.002-05:00

So today I saw one of my friends, Peter, who I usually never see. I have been seeing more of him recently, and that's definitely a great thing. Thinking about it now, I have been seeing a couple of friends more often than before, and I'd like that to continue. I never really hung out with some people from the olden days, and that's really a shame, because some of them are really good people.

I really have to look into dedicating my time towards more people, because they won't, and I won't, be around forever.

I might head up to New Paltz on Thursday just for fun with a friend, and hopefully we'll get some fun. A lot of college people are starting to come home from Spring Break, so maybe I'll join some people, because I get out a little early from school.

Construction to the kitchen is going pretty well. If you don't know, we're redoing the entire kitchen, and I mean the whole damn thing, it's all gone. My dad's replacing the floor right now, and we did the kitchen window yesterday, and it's starting to look pretty good.

Things are going pretty well, and hopefully they'll get a lot better, I know I'm going to try as best as I can. Things are starting to warm

That's really it for now. Not much news going on in my life, I do still want to go see Alice, but I heard it was really bad from a lot of people.

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfma1CjNc7k

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Cop Out.

2010-03-04T20:11:00.003-05:00

Cop Out is a movie that was directed by one of my favorite directors of all time, Kevin Smith. It wasn't written by the guy though, so it didn't urn out nearly as good as it could have been. It also isn't in the New Jersey universe with Jay and Silent Bob, or Ben Affleck or people like that. Jason Mewes is in it, but he isn't playing the comic jackass genius that he is in all of the other movies.

Review of "Cop Out".

Plot Summary.

I think the story takes place in Chicago, I'm not so sure, but that doesn't really matter much anyway. It stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan with I think his name is Sean Scott or something. Bruce is typically playing his funny tough cop act as he typically does in all of his movies, and Tracy Morgan is his partner who seems to be a little on the slow side. He is really funny though. So Bruce has a daughter who's getting married, and he doesn't have the money to pay for it. He doesn't want to let his ex-wifes husband pay for it, because that will make him look bad, not to mention that that guy is a complete ass. He decides to sell his baseball card which recently sold for about $80000 or something like that. He goes to the store, and he gets robbed. As he tries to get it back, he makes a deal with the guy that has it to get his car back that's been stolen. They get the car back, but there's a girl in the trunk who doesn't know English. There's a lot of comedy in between scenes to fill the gaps, but in the end, the card gets destroyed and he can't pay for the wedding, they get promoted and he earns his daughters love by walking her down the wedding. That's it, but there's a couple of things I left out, but they aren't so big.

The Good.

It was really funny. Both, if not all actors did a very good job at making my friends and I laugh. Never at one point did I get bored and wanted the movie to end or stop abrubtly. The acting was pretty alright too. I mean, I don't expect any oscars or anything, but it was decent. The plot wasn't very solid, but it was strong enough to keep the movie going and keep you entertained. Of course one of the key elements was that it was directed by Kevin Smith. Every movie he's done is really good. But this is the only movie that he's done that he hasn't written, so obviously it didn't turn out as well as it could have.

The Bad.

Well, it wasn't written by the guy, so that's a bad already. I never thought he would ever direct a movie that he didn't write, because I've seen him in tons of interviews and stuff, and I never would think that. The only real bad I can think of is that Bruce Willis always plays the same damn character every time. He never changes, almost ever. Anyway, that's really it. I can't really think of anything that was bad but I mean, there wasn't too much good, so it makes it okay.

My Overall Thought.

Eh. It was alright. I mean, it wasn't so amazing that I would watch it again and again, or maybe even a second or third time. It doesn't really have much replay value, unless your looking for a quick laugh. This definitely won't best any charts or any other movies, but it's just there because it can be, and because it's a fun movie, without any huge promises. It wasn't really brought out and advertised as an amazing fantastic movie, because it really wasn't, and I think Kevin Smith knew that. He probably looked over it and said, eh, it's alright. That's what I say at least.

My Rating.

I'd give this movie a 6.5 out of 10. It was definitely the weakest movie he's come out with, but how can you compare it to Clerks, Dogma, Zach & Miri, and Mallrat movies? You can't.

Video Link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGR_5pUTVt0

Busy, tired.

2010-03-02T18:54:00.003-05:00

If you read my blogs you should have known that I was going to come out with a review for Cop Out yesterday, but I didn't. Why you ask, why have you left me with no video for me to watch because I have nothing else to do?

Well, I got home at 9 PM last night, when I really didn't intend do. I ended up spending 4 hours at a place called Game Table, doing nothing but sitting around and play and watch people play magic. Nerd haven for others, but not for me. I was so tired by the time I got home, and my battery had died out.

Anyway, I was going to do one a couple of minutes ago until I decided, nah, another time. I'm also very hungry and I have to type up an essay and catch up on music homework.

So I took my math test today, but I'm screwed if I don't get another calculator that costs $120 bucks. Why does it cost 120 dollars? Because it does things like add and subtract and make pretty graphs that are super not useful in real life.

I also got my case in that I ordered for the iPhone, and it's real nifty, and very smug tight.

Last news for the blog, I can fix the PowerBook G4, for a nominal fee of around 350 dollars. But that's so expensive, you might say. Well, yes and no. One, it's mac, two, it's a really good computer and it gets the job done. Either that or get one of those netbooks.

Link to video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHBkwp0VSE

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Laptop? Movies? School?

2010-02-28T14:27:00.003-05:00

So yesterday I went to a movie called The Last Station. I was thinking of seeing it, but it wandered off of my mind, and I forgot about it. When I saw a commercial for it, which was very odd considering it was an independent movie, I thought it was about a radio station that was the last radio station to play a genre of music or something like that. I was way off, incredibly off. I'm pretty sure radio stations didn't even exist during that time period.

It was a fantastic movie about Tolstoy. I'm sure 90% of you don't even know who that is, and it's very sad. Well, he was a great writer, full name Leo Tolstoy. Almost all Russians know who he is because of what he did. He was like William Shakespeare, except maybe even better. He changed the way a lot of people thought, and entire communities of people were built following the Tolstoyan way. Anyway, it was a very emotional film and very long. I'm sure I'm one of the few young people who would have enjoyed it. Among the entire crowd who watched it, I was the only one below 50 years old.

Moving on, I want this new laptop that was shown at CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, which I've been following for many years. It's a great event, but very nerdy. Things like computers, new technology and games are shown there. This laptop called the m11x was shown and it looks fantastic, and it's generally pretty cheap for what it is. I'd love to get that if I could, I'm tired of waiting for a Macbook Pro. Not to mention it's $1200 cheaper.

Onward even further, my school is seeming to start pretty good. I've had 3 snow days, and that really seems to screw up college students a lot more. It's not like high school where you just come in the next class because you have it every day. Each of my classes only meets up twice a week, and class has been cancelled quite a few times, so it means more cramming in a shorter amount of time, aw well.

I also saw Cop Out, and I'll try to post a review of it up tomorrow. I have some schoolwork to do for today, and making a movie review is actually harder than it seems and takes some time, so watch out for that tomorrow if you're interested.

Link to video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwDxZX_8w4

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Dragonball: The De-Evolution.

2010-02-25T19:09:00.003-05:00

DragonBall Evolution is a 2009 live action film adaptation with the same name. The anime was amazing and is highly regarded as one of the greatest animes of all time, if not the greatest. But that's a whole different story. The movie however, is one of the most horrendous of all time. The transformation from anime to live action was probably the worst that I can think of, and I hope it ceases to exist. All in all, by itself it is a very bad movie, but it might thrill people who don't know about the anime. Let's review it. Spoiler alerts.

Review of "Dragonball Evolution".

Plot Summary.

Well, the story is pretty much nowhere close to what the anime is, but let's have a go at it. Piccolo, an evil namekian from 2000 years ago, escapes from imprisonment and is looking the the dragonballs. It's Gokus 18th birthday, and he gets the 4th dragonball, by his grandfather, Gohan. He meets his soon to be girlfriend Chi Chi, and his grandfather dies because of Piccolo. He meets up with Roshi, and eventually Bulma, Yamcha, Piccolo's servant Mai. They all eventually form a group and collect 3 dragonballs. They are stolen by Mai, and Piccolo turns out to have the other 4. Goku turns into the Oozaru, but mans up and takes its power and becomes one with it, then kicks Piccolos ass. That's pretty much it. You don't have to watch the movie now.

The Good.

Well, I don't know, not really much to say. Because it's really short, it makes it less painful. Less to watch. There's some okay effects, nothing to grand. Yeah I don't know, if you think anything was really good about the movie, then congratulations to you for not wanting to pull your eyes out of your skull. I guess they got the kamehameha, except it can't bring people back from the dead...

The Bad.

Too much, way too much. I'll simplify it as much as I can. The movie was way too short. I know this contradicts what I said earlier, but think about it. As much as it was short, it could have been longer, because the story could have been much better. Not even that, the story could have been the real story, and not some new one that the script writers decided to make while they were like "Screw it, everyones going to watch it anyway". The writers were James Wong, Ben Ramsey and Akira Toriyama, the same guy who wrote the god damn manga, yet the movie turned out horrible. Stephen Chow was going to direct it, but didn't. If you don't know who that is, he was the guy who directed Shaolin Soccer, and his more popular and very good movie, Kung Fu Hustle. Imagine how good it would have been! More bad? The god damn characters. If you watch the first season of any of the dragonball series, you will notice something immediately, the characters don't match up. Goku isn't supposed to be 18 at all during any time period. Bulma isn't some random girl, and certainly doesn't have brunette hair. Chi Chi isn't a high school student who's really patient. GOKU IS NOT AMERICAN AND DOESN"T GO TO HIGH SCHOOL. I don't even know how they fucked up Yamcha, Master Roshi and Piccolo. I don't even want to talk about it anymore.

My Overall Thought.

This movie, shouldn't have happened. It's odd that all of the horrible movies make a lot of money, but this is one of the few movies that I'm glad landed in the bargain bin if that. It was in the news that Wal-Mart had it on overstock because no one was buying it even though it had a ridiculous sale price of only 4.95. I don't have the link for it, but I'm sure it's in the news somewhere. This movie had so much potential. The moment I saw the trailer for it in 2008, I knew it was going to be horrible from the way it looked. Everyone was americanized! Horrible decision they made giving the director role to James Wong.

My Rating.

Now, this movie wasn't a complete absolute terror, it'll probably bring good to kids and people like that. I give this movie a 3 out of 10, only because the only people who should be watching this are 3 year olds. They don't have the mind to remember such horrible movies like this.

Video Link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMgPqsqhDI

Williamsburg, Cop Out, and Hating.

2010-02-23T20:05:00.004-05:00

The most exciting thing to happen within the past couple of days is this little place called Williamsburg. It's probably one of my favorite spots in New York, if not my favorite.

I went there with Mike and Allaire, and it was amazing. It was the first time I had gone anywhere with Allaire outside of where we live, so we actually had things to do and places to go. It's amazing there, and anyone who doesn't know of it,, should definitely look into it. You're accepted there, no matter what type of person you are. It's full of culture and it's thriving. People are incredibly nice, and very odd, but a good type of odd.

There's always clubs and parties to go to, there's stores everywhere, and the streets go on for miles, full of art on the walls of buildings, amazing landscapes, and tons of events. You can just go out and walk with no goal, and get entertained. I would love to live there one day, but it's really expensive there from what I hear.

Cop Out is coming out this week, and it looks okay, but what I'm most psyched about is that Kevin Smith directed it. He's one of my favorite directors, but I think he might screw this one up. There's no Jay and Silent Bob, there's no New Jersey universe, and it's with Bruce Willis and some other guy I don't know about. I hope it'll be good so I can continue to be a fan of his.

In other news, people have to stop hating other people, it's pretty annoying. I was going to go to a movie night at a friends house, but I was with a friend. When I went there, the person asked me why my friend was there. We stayed for a little bit, and she said that people would refuse to come because he was there. How stupid is that? Just because you hate someone, you're not going to come? Kudos to you.

Is it really that hard to withhold something towards someone? Not really, people do it all the time. Well anyway, me being the person I am, offered to leave with him so that they could continue on, so we left and came back to my house. It's sad that things like that happen, and it's a shame that there are people like that in the world. I know it might come out offensive, but there are annoying people out there in the world, but some of them are good hearted and that's all there is to it. Try to be a little more thoughtful before insulting someone you really dislike.

Link to video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXd4uE12umE

Blog you later!

School's Almost Here.

2010-02-20T10:24:00.005-05:00

School is on it's way back, and I still have a lot of reading to catch up on. I have a couple test this week, which is kind of odd, because I had the whole week off, so we're not really learning. I don't know how well I'll do on the tests, but I hope I do well, wish me luck.

Yesterday, I made Jell-o, or Jello, or however you spell it. Here's the question of the day, is Jello solid or liquid? I don't know what the hell it is, but I think it's just a viscous awesome substance. It's a lot of fun to make, play with and eat, and I'm thankful that it's around for all of the boring days that my friends and I have.

So I got a call from my mother yesterday, and she really surprised me. She told me she was going to move away to Hawaii next year, and that seems really odd. She just moved to Harlem around 2 years ago, and it seems like she's just settling in. I don't know what's going to happen, but I guess I wish her the best.

I also started drawing with Charcoal. It's a gift that Allaire got for me, and I really appreciate it. I never really used it before, but Mike tells me that I'm supposed to use it for shades of colors, but I think using it any way I want is better. It's not always fun using things the way they were meant to be used, especially when it comes to artistic things.

I have no idea what's in store for today, but I was thinking of going to the park, because it's very beautiful outside.

Click on the link to watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oYKdSLMNQM

Blog you later!

Video Blog? Boring Day?

2010-02-17T14:50:00.006-05:00

So I'm going to try to create a new type of bond between written text and video. I'll try this, maybe a few times and see how it goes.

Yesterday was pretty boring, but I did do some things that kept me a little entertained. I didn't really do anything, but I did see a horrendous movie. I was watching this movie, 17 Again, which wasn't too bad, I actually kind of liked it, but it ended, and then I was going through the list of movies on the guide channel, and I reminded myself that The Wrestler was going to be on.

I saw it movies, and I must say, it's an amazing movie. It's sad to hear that people have been seeing it in the bargain bins in places like Wal-Mart and Best Buy or whatever. It's a really good movie, and I do recommend seeing it. Maybe I should do a review on it.

Anyway, so after realizing it wasn't playing, I kept scrolling through the movies, and I saw Dragonball: Evolution. One of my friends Patrick, has an utter hatred for this movie, and we've discussed it's horribleness, many a times.

I watched the whole thing through, and during the early parts I messaged Patrick saying I was watching it, and he told me to prepare myself. It was my first time watching it.

Anyway, today, I've been trying to crack my iPhone 3GS, which I just got, but it won't happen because of some new firmware they released, they being Apple.

I have been playing Magic: The Gathering a lot on an application called Lackey, and it's a lot of fun, and it's free best of all. People who play that game, know that it's an expensive hobby, and it's very consuming, but I have a life, or at least I think so.

Click here to watch the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NElP3hj2tHU

Anyway, blog you later!

Valentines Day!

2010-02-14T08:06:00.003-05:00

Well, here it is again. Some of you may be with someone, and some of you may not. Today is one of the highest suicide death ratings throughout the entire year, and throughout the entire world, which is very sad. I've been reading a lot of negative comments on Valentine's Day throughout the past couple of weeks, and it's probably because you might not have what you want, but I think it's a great holiday.

It isn't meant to put you down, it's meant to enthuse and excite you. Just because you don't have a significant other doesn't mean you can't celebrate the day. You have your mother, grandmother, aunt, friends, it could be someone you've never even thought of. There's a lot more people in your life than you really think, and I'm sure that today, someone is thinking of you, and you don't even know it.

Last year, I made Valentine's Day cards for all my friends that were girls, and they all seemed to really like it. It wasn't out of romance, but out of making them feel good about themselves, and myself as well.

I also wrote "Everybody deserves some recognition, even if it be from a friend" and I'm sticking to that.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone, have a good one. Blog you later.

Snow Day!

2010-02-10T14:53:00.003-05:00

What better a day than today, the day when I have the most classes. Yesterday I was at school and told everyone that school was cancelled and I heard pure happiness. Right after I went to a friends house and we had a pretty good time.

Things have been going pretty good so far. I'm about to see Allaire and Erika and maybe some others a little later, and I hope to have a good time. Whenever she's there.

I finally started getting some Rolling Stone magazines, and I've been reading up on them, as well as Freud, and I gotta say, both things are pretty interesting, setting aside the differences. I like reading all of the music stuff, and it helps me find new stuff to listen to. Maybe I should do another album review one of these days, I've only done 1 in my entire history of blogging.

Anyway, Valentine's Day is coming up, and I'm so confused, I have no idea what's going to happen. I want to see Allaire, but there's a lot of complications. I don't really know what to do, but if the worst case scenario happens, I'll just see her on Tuesday, which is our 10 month anniversary.

It's been quite a while, for me at least, and it will last far longer.

Blog you later.

Movie Collection!

2010-02-06T07:49:00.002-05:00

So I have this gigantic movie collection that some people know about. Probably composing of well over 200 movies, and I want to end up watching most of them. Who needs a Netflix account when you have all of these movies, that no one has heard about?

I doubt anyone who's looked at these movies knows more than one or two of them. Some of them are foreign films or old black and white films. I'll name a couple of them, see if you recognize any of them.

French Connection

Conversations

Up In The Sand Box

Siddhartha

May

The Hidden Fortress

The I Inside

Idle Hands

The Hudsucker Proxy

I won't name any more but yeah, those are all really good movies. Some of those are foreign films from Sweden, Japan, and Spain, and they're very good. Idle Hands is one of Jessica Alba's first movies, when she was not nearly as popular as she is today.

In other news, it was supposed to snow yesterday but it didn't, but it is snowing now, but only very lightly. I really like snow storms, they're very fun, and I love to walk in in them.

Anyway, blog you later!

In class optimism.

2010-02-03T09:30:00.000-05:00

In class right now. As I wait for my teacher to come to class, I keep wondering about my future. I really want things to change, but not in the dramatical sense. I feel like things are good for me, and I'm really pushing hard to do a lot better. My mind is clear, things aren't bad, but things aren't amazing either, but I'm okay with that.

I'm more worried about the people around me though. My father has always had it rough and I want that to change, but it's tough for everyone in the house in general. Some of my friends seem to be having anxiety with a couple of different things ranging from home life to school to freedom.

My teacher has just arrived, and now I'm off to class.

Before I go though, I hope you all have optimism. I know I do and you need it to get through life.

Blog you later!

Classes

2010-01-31T08:01:00.002-05:00

High schools and colleges have very different schedules and it kind of rises my curiosity as to why it's like that. Why are they so different? In high school you don't really have that much flexibility. The most you can choose is a couple of courses that you can opt to take for fun, but even then, you have to take them earlier. Later on when you're a senior there's not much work to be done except for college.

I know they're adding a lot more programs for high schoolers and giving them a lot more options than what my father or I had, and I'm not that old. I know at my high school they have all of these classes and courses that I would have loved to take, but now I have to pay for them in college.

High school is basically the same thing nationally. Around 7 to 8 it starts, and around 2 to 3 it stops. Then there's other stuff after school if you want to hang around.

College is so much more different. You have total flexibility with absolutely everything. You can choose your major, choose your minor, what time you want your classes to be, what day of the week, and what classes you want. You can take as much classes you want, or as little.

I think high school should be like that, to some degree, but it wouldn't be as controlled, but I do think it would be better overall. It would enthuse people more, I believe anyway.

So my classes for this semester are Making of the Mind, Statistics, Listening to Music, Sociology, and Science of Modern Electronics.

That's it really. Blog you later.

Nerdy Sadness.

2010-01-27T19:05:00.002-05:00

Today was Apple's keynote event, which most of you readers probably don't care about, but I cared about it, cause I'm a nerd, aw yeah. Just like the long run on sentence, the keynote was pretty useless and it didn't help me out in anyway. They released this new tablet called the iPad, and I must say I'm disappointed. Especially because they didn't talk about anything else really.

I was hoping for them to release a new laptop or something so that I could get it. For those of you who know me, or read up on me, know that I've been wanting a laptop for years. anyway, all that aside, i guess i won't be getting a new laptop.

From the first day of running my legs are still sore, so that's both a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because it means I'm developing more muscle and that's definitely a plus. It's a bad thing because I didn't think my legs were this weak. For everyone who knows me, I'm a generally fit person, and am well able to do anything I really want to, but I guess running for a couple miles just isn't fit for my legs just yet.

Anyway, that's going along, and I don't have much to say about my classes just yet. Maybe on Friday or Saturday i'll make another post, because that's the end of the classes for the week.

Blog you later!

School tomorrow.

2010-01-24T20:14:00.002-05:00

School starts tomorrow, and I'm starting off with math and music. Not very advanced classes but they'll do nonetheless. I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of my college friends again, most of the ones I haven't really seen. Some of them I guess I won't be seeing because my schools system screwed them over.

I've also decided to start jogging, every other day, in order to better myself. I also wanted to get my dad into it, because it would be really good for him. Yeah, I'd love to get rid of asthma, and other stupid stuff, and be happier.

In other news, nothing else is really going on. Maybe that will change within the upcoming weeks. I feel like it should.

Blog you later!

Internet's been out.

2010-01-21T17:31:00.003-05:00

My internet got cut off because of my router going bad. For you non-tech savvy people, that means thats bad.

Anyway, now my internet is back, and rolling, so I can happily keep occupying your minds with my words! Or so I think, and let me have some hope.

I got a letter from my school saying that my classes have been held, and it doesn't really state exactly why. I go online, and everything seems to be fine, but I feel like something stupid is going to happen, and they won't notify me of anything until the last second. Stupid school system.

My friend was telling me how they screwed him over. He was signed up for classes, and they just dropped him immediately because they have a new policy. Your supposed to pay for classes the day you register. Well, they didn't tell him, so they just dropped him. He was going to get a loan, but you have to wait 3 weeks for the loan, and classes start next week, so he can't do that. So the system has screwed another one. I doubt he's the only one too, I'm sure there's tons more people.

I'm going to retire and play this game called Beautiful Katamari, which is a lot of fun.

Blog you later!

Birthday.

2010-01-17T09:54:00.002-05:00

Today, is my birthday. I should be excited but I'm really not all that crazy for it. Yesterday some big things happened, and now I'm just troubled. I don't really want to say much about it online, because it is pretty personal, and honestly, knowing people, if I talk about it, it will probably cause more high school drama, and that's not what I want.

Needless to say, my 9 month didn't go so well, but you know, I still have hope, and I'm going to keep on pushing. Remembering the post I wrote on optimism one day, it's key, especially in my life, and I'll never give up, on this thing or another.

I'm now 20 years old, and full of a lot of more wisdom then I was earlier on in my life.

Thank you for the birthday wishes everyone, I hope I'll have a great birthday!

9 Month and Birthday!

2010-01-15T22:54:00.003-05:00

What a weekend! Tomorrow will be my 9 month will Allaire, and that's quite a while for me. It's been a great 9 months and nothing has gone wrong and there's been no problems since the beginning. It's great to have her around, and I feel happy when she is. Then the day after that is my 20th birthday. Yeah, I can already feel the wrinkles starting to appear on my face.

I wonder how the whole weekend will work out to be.

I invited a bunch of people to my house on Sunday because my father said I should, so if I forgot to invite you, let me know.

That's all really, I don't want to go into detail about any specific thing, so, blog you later!

Closing In.

2010-01-12T09:54:00.002-05:00

My birthday is in 5 days, and although I'm not as excited as most people are during their birthday, I'd like to celebrate in some spectacular way. I was going to go to this thing called Golden Festival, but they rose the price so it's not even worth it. Most of my friends wouldn't even go anyway, so what's really the point?

I figure I just spend some quality time with my friends, and have some fun, just like any other day really. I'm also going to a show on Monday and Tuesday, at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, so that'll be fun. I might be seeing some friends on Wednesday next week too, so we'll see what happens.

I returned a package that I found in Bank of America to the owners. I tried looking their addresses or phone number up online, but I couldn't find anything, so since I had the address, I went there with a friend. It was pretty nice. We went to Far Rockaway, and tried to find the apartment. After we gave the package back, we went to the beach and admired the beauty of it. It was really nice and peaceful.

Anyway, I might go to an archery range again today, or within the coming days.

Blog you later.

Birthday's Nearing.

2010-01-07T08:54:00.002-05:00

My birthday is closing in, on the 17th, which is a Sunday, and I have no idea what to do for it. There is this thing called the Golden Festival which I will definitely be going to, but it's in the city, and it costs some amount of money for each person. I've been going there every year since I was a little kid, and it's a lot of fun.

I doubt many of my friends will be allowed to go in though. It's in the upper west side of the city, and it goes on till about 3 AM. It's basically a festival type of thing, and I'm pretty sure I wrote about this last year as well.

If anyone has any ideas of what I can do, besides that, for my birthday, then I'd be happy to take some advice.

Blog you later.

Archery Ranges and Warhammer.

2010-01-04T08:48:00.002-05:00

Those two things in the same sentence is pretty hard to understand, they're the complete opposite of each other. I went to an archery range yesterday and shot some arrows with a bow for around 2 hours. It was a lot of fun, and I think I did pretty well for my first time. After that we went back to my house to eat, and then we went to my friend Matt's house and played Warhammer.

Warhammer is a really complicated game, and it's one of those stereotypical nerdy games, but it's a lot of fun, at least I think so. Think Dungeons and Dragons, but not as complicated. You basically have pieces, and you can paint those pieces. You set up your own army, you cast spells and move and attack, and it's a per turn basis game. I think it's a lot of fun, although it's very time consuming.

Anyway, on Tuesday I'm going to go to Mark's Comics to see Matt play a real Warhammer game, and it should be interesting. There's no way I can afford those pieces or mats or paint or anything, but I'd like to get into it.

I'd also like to get into archery, although the bows are ridiculously expensive. The cheapest one I could find is around 65 dollars, and you still have to buy the arrows separate, the arrow holder, and finger protector, and the arm protector. At the place we went, there bows that were being sold for hundreds of dollars, some even almost a thousand.

Anyway, if you want to come with me next time I go, just tell me, it costs 20 dollars.

Blog you later.

New Years Resolution

2010-01-01T17:37:00.002-05:00

It's the first day of not only the year, but the decade. Last decade started off crappy and it certainly ended crappy, if everyone tries to make a bigger impact on the world, I'm sure it will be better. I hope when I turn 30 in 10 years, the world will be a better place. I can already see more crappy movies and music arriving though.

As the New Years passes, New Year resolutions come. I like to write a list of everything I want done this year, and then seal it and put it somewhere you won't find until the next year comes and you open it and see what has changed since you wrote that list.

I had a pretty good New Years with only a few people, but it was fun nonetheless. I hope you all had a good one. It's national hangover day, so stay safe.

New Years!

2009-12-31T14:13:00.002-05:00

Hey peoples, this is me wishing you a happy new year. There's some crazy parties going on, and some crazy people doing some crazy things. I opted not to go to this crazy party that I was invited to, and I'm going to play it safe.

If you're going to the city, or into any crowded area, be careful, it's the single most dangerous night of the year to be in the city. I've heard some crazy stories in the past, and I'm sure more crazy things will happen as well.

Happy New Year!

Approaching.

2009-12-28T10:35:00.002-05:00

The end of the year is pretty close, and to some, the end of the world is even closer. I don't know why there are people who believe in the end of the world at 2012, but I find it to be pretty funny.

Anyway, for new years I have the option of going to a crazy party, which I don't want to go to alone. It's in brooklyn, and it's one of those wild artistic parties that crazy things are probably going to happen in. I don't really have much else to do, and I certainly don't want to be bored on New Years.

The day after New Years, I'm going to be seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show with my friend Jenna in the city at 12 AM, and hopefully it'll be good. One of my friends said he saw it, and that it was pretty fun, so I'm a bit excited.

In other news, I have to get some people to watch Trigun, an anime, and one of my favorites, if not my favorite.

Blog you later.

Christmas Eve!

2009-12-24T11:34:00.004-05:00

Well tomorrow is a big day for many, but not for me I guess. I'd like to celebrate it, but not religiously. Anyway, today at night, I'm supposedly going to a christmas party, and I don't really know if I want to go, because I want to see Allaire, but eh.

On saturday, I'm going to my mother and I won't be back till around monday probably, because she'll probably want me there for a bit of time. I don't know when I'll be completely free, because then after that is New Years, and I'll probably be doing something with that with some of my friends maybe, so I have no idea.

Basically, a lot of plans that I don't even know I'll follow.

Happy Chrismahannaqwuanza.

Getting Closer.

2009-12-20T08:56:00.002-05:00

Tomorrow will be the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. I think the sun will go down around 4 to 4:30, which is so depressing, but at least we all know the days will get longer from then on until July 21st.

It snowed yesterday, and everybody called it a blizzard. People looked at me and called me an idiot for walking in a blizzard. I have this to say, this was not a blizzard, and I don't know why everybody thinks it is. A blizzard is when the snow is coming down so hard that you can't see anything. A blizzard means there's no cars out on the road, and the wind factor is way below chilling. I was outside walking around for hours really happy, helping people get their cars unstuck in the snow.

Today, I was going to go shoveling and try to make some side money, but I'm afraid I won't be able to. The cold air doesn't fair well with my lungs and it sucks, but it won't stop me from having fun!

Blog you later!

Bad music.

2009-12-17T17:19:00.002-05:00

You know, scientifically speaking, there is such a thing as bad and good music. I've talked with a lot of people about this topic, and it's always the case where I'm completely alone on it. Even though I give evidence of there being such a thing, it's still put on me that I'm always wrong.

Well, as explained to my friend, I'll explain to everyone who reads this.

There is bad music, and good music, scientifically speaking. I'm not reaching into peoples opinions and destroying, all I'm saying is, factually, some music is bad for your mind, and some is good. I'm not going to bother linking to anything, because if you want to do the research, do it on your own.

Bad music includes rap, hip hop, emo, and metal.

Now before you get all pissy and say it's not true, there have been 1325 colleges that have participated in this. Some guy went to the schools and asked them to compile a list of people who volunteer the music that they listen to, and their SAT scores. Guess what, you might not be surprised but Lil'Wayne scored the lowest. Another non-suprising fact, Beethoven and Mozart scored among the highest.

If that's not enough for you, they took rats, put them in the same exact mazes, with no variables. They put metal music on one maze, and classical music on the other. 9 out of 10 times, the classical music maze beat the rat with the metal music.

Furthermore, surgeons seem to work better and are less stressed around a classical music environment. Yes, it even affects the way people react physically, to most things.

I won't indulge you with more facts than this last one. Plants were raised in greenhouses. They put music on 24 hours a day for a month, and concluded that rap, techno, and alternative music were detrimental to the plants because of disturbances in the sound waves. The complete opposite with classical music.

I'm not saying that you're listening to music that I'm called bad, I'm saying it's not good for you, and it's pretty much proven with all of this.

That's all I really have to say, feel free to send hate mail.

Almost over.

2009-12-14T10:30:00.002-05:00

I just finished having kahvalti, a turkish breakfast, and a very good one. Out of the many traditional turkish things, kahvalti has got to be one of my favorites. It's basically everything is set in front of you, and you eat with your entire family and it's great. If I ever have a family, I hope we do it every morning. You can pick anything from bread, cheese, olives, jelly, and some other stuff, it's very simple.

Anyway, today I'm presenting my really bad project in my science class. I made a pan flute out of PVC pipe, and that's pretty much it. I have to explain how it makes sound and resonates and all that good stuff.

That's about it.

Blog you later.

Ice Skating? Ungrounded Party?

2009-12-10T18:16:00.002-05:00

Tomorrow is my friend Alicia's ungrounding party, as funny as that sounds. She's been grounded for a while, just because she decided to date another guy. She's 15, and the guy's a really nice guy, and I don't understand bad parenting. Yet again, it makes me want to question the ways of so many parents, oh well.

Well yeah, tomorrow she'll be free, and then hopefully I'll end up going ice skating later on in the day, for a mere 10 dollars. I haven't gone ice skating for a long time, but Mike came up with the idea, so I do want to go. I'm good at roller blading, and it seems to me like it's the same exact thing almost.

Let's see, what other things are in the news. Ah yes, I unearthed my love for french rap. Yes, french rap, I know it's pretty random. Around a year ago, maybe a little less than that, I started to try to get into rap, but good rap, and I couldn't. However, I discovered french rap, and I fell in love with it. Almost all of it sounds so amazing and smooth, it's so beautiful. The language just has such a suave seamless smooth sound to it, it's great. I love it all.

That's really about it.

Blog you later.

Not Paying Attention.

2009-12-07T08:41:00.002-05:00

I was in math class, and I found out that I had missed the midterm, so in return, I dropped the class. While I was in that particular class though, I felt really depressed and wrote something down on a piece of paper, and I crumbled it up after words and ripped it. I put it back together now, and maybe this will strike some peoples hearts. Maybe not.

Untitled.

Sometimes when trying to get rid of all of the anxiety that one person has, they turn to different methods which to me seems very unmethodical. It's almost barbaric to me. The things that some people, while they are sad, in order to become happy sometimes surprise me, although it's rare. One thing that comes to mind is selflessness or self infliction. Selflessness to me can be a great thing, I'm a pretty selfless guy, and I seek to help others, almost all the time, but there are those times where I know I can go too far. Speaking of these type of things, it may seem unwise for someone to be selfless as far as to hurting themselves, but it's actually a great feeling. I love having those moments where you're being chivalrous and helping out other people, and when you feel good about it. It's like you're contributing to other peoples needs for no reasons. I think that everyone should be like that all the time, but obviously will not. It's just not in human nature, for most people, to be kind and sincere to everyone. You can't be amazing to every person you encounter anyway, but I still think it's better to try than to completely repeal your acts of selflessness. Although I know this won't happen maybe ninety percent of the time, I can at least try to get people to, pay it forward, in a sense. Paying it forward is a completely selfless act in which you help out any one random person, you deem worthy of helping. In response to helping them, that person helps another and that person another, and the cycle keeps going. I think this is a great concept, and I got it from the movie Pay It Forward. When I first saw this movie, I really fell in love with the idea of it, even at a very young age. I wanted to just help everyone for no reason and I think that's where it came from really. I can't say much else except for, I wish that more people were like that. I think someday everybody will slowly realize all of this.

If you read through all of that, kudos to you.

Blog you later.

Jury Duty, Procrastination, and Writers Block.

2009-12-03T19:39:00.002-05:00

First up, I have to reply back to this jury duty, which I wrote about last time, but you know, looking into it, the whole system is so fucked up. I usually hold back on these type of things, but in seriousness, it's so easy to get out of things that you did, or get into things you didn't do, just thought I'd like to share. Another thing, something you did can screw up your future for the rest of your life, even if you change, it's a permanent brand, and that's annoying to have to see other people deal with it.

Second, I gotta stop procrastinating so much, I really do, I'm beating my own mind in telling myself that, hopefully it works.

Third, I haven't been able to write anything decent for the past couple of weeks and it's bothering me, I don't know why, but it's putting me really down. I've always been creative with almost everything, but it seems it's beginning to vanish a little, or somewhat.

Fourth, there's really awesome food waiting for me in the kitchen.

Blog you later.

School Calls.

2009-11-30T09:02:00.002-05:00

Thanksgiving break is over, although it wasn't really a break, I had a decent time. Met some new people, had some fun, went places, bought things.

I also beat Assassins Creed 2, which was pretty fun.

I'll probably be writing a review on that later on.

Let's see what else is going on. Well, I'm making a pan flute, for those of you who don't know, google it, they're pretty cool instruments. I went to home depot and bought the pvc pipe, and I just have to cut it, and then solder it together, pretty simple job. And I'll have another working instrument!

Oh yeah! Very interesting job I got, I've been called to jury duty. I have no idea what the case is, but I gotta take it, as it's a requirement of being a citizen. I've always wanted to be on the jury of a big case, although this'll probably be something ridiculous, like theft or something.

Anyway, blog you later.

Batman: Arkham Asylum Review!

2009-11-27T11:34:00.003-05:00

Batman, he's awesome, he's a superhero, and he has no powers. He's just a regular dude, who puts down evil dudes. He's part of the DC Universe, so he won't be affected by Disney at all, thank god. This is a game that pretty much follows all of the comics, almost spot on. This is in no way related to Batman Begins, or The Dark Knight, not even the same Joker, are the same. For those of you who know, this is Mark Hamill's Joker, which in my opinion is the greatest. There will definitely be spoilers in this, but read my experience if you don't want to be spoiled.

Review for "Batman: Arkham Asylum."

What It Is.

For those of you who have played any Metal Gear Solid games, may fit very well into this game. It's a stealthy game, and if you go Rambo, you will die. There is no weaponry, other than batarangs, explosive gel, and the batclaw. So, it's a stealthy action platforming puzzle game. It's not a game for pure destruction, and there is a lot to do within the game, even after you've beaten it. If you want to get something that makes you think, with rewards, this is the game for you. It's main storyline will drive you maybe 15 to 30 hours, depending on how much you get distracted. If you go straight for the storyline, you can beat it in maybe 10 hours.

How It Works.

This game pretty much uses your mind. As the storyline progresses, you start using all different types of batman's equipment in order to progress. There's also a lot of enemies that have weaponry, that you can't do anything against directly, and you have to approach them stealthily. There's only a couple boss fights, and sadly they aren't that hard. I found that some of the challenges, such as fighting 20 people at once, while you're getting shocked by the floor, to be harder than fighting Bane, or Poison Ivy. You have health, and you can upgrade it, but your health never recovers on its own. You have to either progress in the story, or get batpoints by completing certain things, such as beating up thugs, scanning tombs, or even solving riddles.

My Experience.

I got this game, because of my friend Mike, who told me that he played the demo, and that it was really good. I downloaded the demo, and I loved it, so naturally, I got the game. The game is fantastic, and it bears a lot of neat things that only true Batman fans can appreciate, but it is fun, for even those who know nothing about Batman or the world of Gotham. I loved playing through the game, and hearing the interview tapes, or reading up facts on the Joker, solving riddles and finding question marks. I played the game a couple hours everyday until I beat it, and it was very rewarding. The cutscenes are great, the gameplay is great, and it's a challenge.

The Bad.

When I first started playing, and I got a couple hours through, I thought I had gotten very far into the storyline. Then when I log back into the game, it says I had completed 3% of the entire game. I got so happy about that, because I thought there was a ridiculous amount of stuff to do. When I beat the game, I was at around 40%, and I got very confused. It turns out that the game measures every single thing you've done in the game, including Riddlers things. The Boss fights are also very easy. It's not hard at all to find a pattern to subduing your enemies, and bosses take you a couple tries at most, and it only takes a couple minutes, maybe even less. The thugs in this game are a lot harder than the bosses, and that is very displeasing. When you fight Poison Ivy, I thought it would be the hardest boss ever, because she's inside a plant that's 50 feet tall, and your just you. Nope, took me 2 tries, and I beat her in maybe 2 minutes. It was boring. There's a lot of characters that you see about and read about, but they aren't in the actual game, like scarface, two-face, clayface, and going on. The entire game almost requires you to play in detective mode the entire time, and that really drags the game, graphically. Probably doesn't give everyone to appreciate the amazing detail and graphics put into the game.

The Good.

The fighting! My god, the combat system is really amazing. Once you're good, you can find yourself chaining up to 10 hits and throwing and grabbing enemies like crazy non-stop. Once you get really really good, you can chain up to 20 hits, and just go crazy smashing buttons and having a blast. I also love the stealthy stuff in the game. You have to plop yourself on top of Gargoyles and takedown everyone in the room. If they hit you with your guns, your health is screwed, and I love that, because a gun acts as it should. It shouldn't be that you can take 50 bullets in the chest and just get up and run away. When you're spotted, you have to run away before you get shot. Another real subtle effect in the game is that, as the game progresses, you can notice batmans suit getting fudged up, and I really like that. I think the greatest part of the game are the characters. This follows all of the stuff from the early 40s to the early 90s, none of the new stuff, except for the actual Arkham comics which came out a couple years ago I believe. The riddles will keep you playing the game for hours, and there are 240, yes 240 riddles to solve. It's nearly impossible to find some of them, and a lot of them are directly tied with characters. The graphics are also beautiful, and the entire game is amazing, but yet again, that's dragged out by detective mode somewhat.

My Future Expectations.

I really don't think that there will be a direct sequel to this game, simply because there can't be. There can be a couple spin-offs but I doubt it. A lot of characters did escape from the asylum, so maybe something can be done with that. If there were to be another batman game, I'd expect it to have more bosses, and better ones at that. I can't ask anything more of this game, because other than that, it gives a lot.

My Rating.

This beautiful game deserves a high score of 9 out of 10 for it's well thought out story, beautiful design, amazing repertoire of riddles, and great gameplay.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2009-11-26T09:05:00.002-05:00

I hope everyone has a good thanksgiving! I don't really have much to say, nothing much has been happening, but I have been focusing on getting another review out of this game called Batman: Arkham Asylum, which is pretty amazing.

Anyway, make sure to eat all the turkey at night, cause it puts you to sleep fast, because of all the good chemically stuff going on in your body.

Remember to give thanks, to everyone, especially the ones that deserve appreciation.

Blog you later.

Good Days and Boredom.

2009-11-22T10:55:00.002-05:00

Yesterday was a good day, I really liked it. It was nice and relaxing. I hung out with my friends Armando, Henry, Peter, and Max. I haven't seen Peter and Max for a long time, and it was really nice. We pretty much just relaxed in my house and played games, and then we went out to the park for a walk.

Then after Armando and Henry left, Peter, Max and I met up with a really old friend, Chris.

We just hung out for like an hour and just talked about random things. The whole day was really good, and I hope more come like them.

Today is starting off really slow and boring. I woke up at 7, only to have nothing to do, so I went and played Arkham Asylum, for the 360, which is a really good game.

As I wait for my grandmother to finish making awesome cookies, my father told me we might go out as a family to somewhere random with some family friends.

I also can't wait for thanksgiving, I don't have evening classes on Wednesday, so it'll be a good 5 day weekend.

This is for you Nick if you're reading. Blog you later!

Walkin in the Rain.

2009-11-19T14:43:00.002-05:00

So, Allaire and I, have discovered, very oddly, that we have never, ever, walked in the rain together, purposefully. How sad is that?

We both love the rain, and love walking, yet have never done both at the same time on purpose. It's been so long that we've known each other, it's just a mystery. Tomorrow it's set to rain, and hopefully we'll do so, but her parents are being doodoo heads, and for some reason they won't let her out on saturdays for the whole day, but only a portion of the day.

Anyway, I'm having some friends over on saturday from college, and I'm hoping we'll have fun, like play xbox 360, or play handball or something. A relaxing day.

Now, I have to write me an essay!

Allaire!

2009-11-15T09:59:00.002-05:00

Today Allaire is free, I haven't seen her for a while. She's been grounded, but today she's allowed to go out. It's very odd though, her mother said she can go out today, but she's not allowed out on Sundays ever again till she says so. She also has a choice between whether to go out on Fridays or Saturdays.

I don't know where this bad parenting comes from. It's horrible. I decided to write a book called Bad Parenting 101. It will be very short, and it will be comical, but it will share the memories of either mine or my friends and how they sometimes ridiculously get grounded for ridiculous reasons.

Anyway, Allaire is hopefully going to come over, and we gotta go out, and walk or something. I still have this pumpkin that I want to carve, it will probably be bad in a week if we don't finish it today.

Mike was also in Connecticut, and he's coming back home today, and hopefully we'll meet up with him and do random things. I figure we could go play pool or something, maybe bowling, whatever, just an activity, we all need it.

I can see, today will be a good day. I won't let anything ruin it. Blog you later.

Weird Dream.

2009-11-10T19:33:00.003-05:00

I had a very interesting dream the other day involving Allaire and I. It was a really weird dream involving this made up thing in my mind called Plasmire, where it's just an entity in the world. It goes into you, and you have all these really weird powers, like you can alter reality and warp it to whatever you want. You think it, it happens. Anyway, it was weird, and I typed it up as soon as I woke up, because I didn't want to forget about it. It scared me a little, but I love the idea of Plasmire itself, and how powerful and odd it can be.

Also, I've been burning xbox 360 games, and it's been a real good old time. For some reason though Grand Theft Auto IV, won't work, and I don't really know why. I want to either burn another copy, or get my hands on a real one, and see if those work.

If anyone has any recommendations for anything, just comment or whatever.

In other news, I don't have school tomorrow, and I have no idea what I'm doing. Also in other news, I'm learning to expect people not to follow up to their word. It's becoming quite easy.

Museum Today

2009-11-07T07:09:00.002-05:00

I'm going to be going to the museum today. If not today, then probably tomorrow, either way I have to go.

I have to go because of a psychology project. We go and we have to look at all of the modernist and surrealistic art, and then write a paper about all of it. It's due next week, I'm pretty sure, so I won't really have a chance to do it any other time anyway.

In other news, I beat the game Crackdown, which was somewhat fun, while it lasted. It doesn't have much re playability to it, because once you finish the game, there's nothing else to do. It's just done. I probably won't review it.

I also have to go to an academic advisor to see what classes I should pick up, because I have no idea what classes to go into.

Anyway, it's time for some Brutal Legend. Blog you later.

It's Been A While

2009-11-04T06:45:00.002-05:00

Sorry to those who read with excitement. I've been pretty busy lately. School has really caught up with me, and on top of that I have some side things that I've been doing on my own. I successfully flashed the xbox 360, and I've been having fun with that, I really needed that, and I've been having anxiety about not seeing Allaire that much.

Oh well, things go by. I haven't been typing that much on my typewriter too, and that kind of saddens me, I really want to pursue typing almost everyday on it. The other day in math class, I wrote something very long, and I haven't written like that for a while.

In other news, there isn't really much. I have to go to the city on either saturday or sunday to do a project for my psychology class, and anyone who wants to come, just send me a comment or something.

Anyway, I'll blog you later.

Halloween soon!

2009-10-29T15:27:00.003-04:00

I really wanted to go as a ninja, but I don't see that happening, unless I can muster something up really soon. If I did, I'd have to fork out a couple bucks, which I really don't want to.

I'll probably just look in my closets and try to find something that fits or not, I don't know. I'm kind of sad, because Allaire is grounded, for very stupid reasons, and I obviously don't want her to be. She doesn't deserve it, never does, but oh well. It's her favorite holiday too, which just saddens me even more.

Hopefully, she'll be able to do something, hopefully.

Let's see, what else is there in the news. I'm trying to hack my xbox 360, so that it can play games if I just burn them onto discs, so hopefully that will happen. One of my friends at college said that he can do it, but he charges 80 dollars for it. I asked him who actually pays for that, and he said that people do pay that much.

And I'm going to be selling some cards, so hopefully it'll be a good couple next months.

Broken Free Stuff!

2009-10-25T07:50:00.002-04:00

I now have a non-working xbox 360, and I don't really know what to do with it. It has the ring of death, that I actually know about, because of the nerd I am.

The hard drive failed, and I have no use for it, there is a quick fix for it, but, I don't even have a controller. It costs money to get a controller, and that's all I really think I need.

Anyway, I'm hopefully going to make some side money pretty soon, I'm working on a little something right now.

Today, is the day of the making of pumpkin brownies, and I hope it goes along well. I tried doing it on Friday, but we didn't do it because my grandmother wasn't feeling well, and she didn't want all the mess or whatever it is, even though I said I would fix everything.

We'll see what happens today, sorry I haven't been blogging that much recently, I'm a very busy bee, although I doubt a lot of you who read this, or don't read this, care very much.

On that depressing note, I flee!

Presentation

2009-10-21T09:32:00.003-04:00

I couldn't do the presentation on Monday, because the person who was supposed to bring in his amplifier, couldn't bring it in, because it was broken. Now I have to bring my amp, and it's a pain, because it's decent sized. I'm going to have to be carrying that thing around the whole day.

Oh well, at least I'll be able to get rid of it.

I hope you all read my review of Where The Wild Things Are, even if you loved it or hated it. I wrote both good and bad things, or whatever I could think of at the time.

Let's see, what else. Right, I want to make pumpkin brownies, and anyone who wants to help make them with me, is duly invited so.

Where The Wild Things Are Not

2009-10-18T10:38:00.002-04:00

Where The Wild Things Are, is an adaptation from the picture book of the same name. Not getting into the details of the book, the movie is about Max, a young boy, who has troubles in his house, and escapes to an island. That's barely covering what happens. I won't say much else, but it is a different type of movie. I won't say anything negative or positive in this section, that's for later. The story is very very short, only a couple pages long. Within the entire story, there were only 8 sentences, or it might have been 9, I don't have it with me, I have it at my mothers house. Spike Jonze directed this movie, and he's relatively new, although he directed a very good movie called Being John Malkovich, which is one of my favorites. This is the review.

Spoiler alert. Don't read if you don't want to be spoiled!

Review of "Where The Wild Things Are".

Plot Summary.

This is very hard to nail down. During the first 15 to 30 minutes there is a plot, somewhat. It starts out as Max outside building a fort and having a snowball fight with her sister and her friends. Stuff happens, he gets pissed, breaks her stuff. The same night, he wants to play with his mother, she won't, stuff happens, he gets pissed, runs away. He takes a boat to this island and discovers these "things". I'll get into more discussion on them later. There's a lot to talk about. I can't really describe a plot to what happens after he gets to the island. There's no real climax, and if there are climaxes, it just seems to be a bunch of ups and downs throughout the entire movie. Then he just goes home, sits down with his mom, who smiles and falls asleep, and credits roll.

The Good.

Alright, the good. There really isn't much good, but there is good. I mean, things do happen, but it's not part of the plot, or character development, or scenery, visuals, summary, acting, or any of that. There's some humor, which is somewhat odd. There's some fear, despite it coming out as funny to me. The greatest thing I can emphasize on, is the ridiculous amount of metaphors, and symbolizations, and personifications. There's just way too many. That part of the movie, gets a 10 out of 10. Spike Jonze, the director, really nailed it with those. I'll list a few, I really looked closely at this movie, and I made a lot of connections, and they seem to fly by some people. All of the wild things, are basically people in real life. They are all big, because he's small. I don't know if you can make this connection, but think about it, the goat, is max. He's ignored a lot, and people don't really pay attention, and he's the smallest out of all of them. He gets all excited when any body pays attention to him, and he wants Judeth, the other thing, Ira's wife, to carry him, which symbolizes how he wants attention and wants to be guided and whatnot. Ira, is the husband of his mother, in real life. All of this is starting to get confusing, but it's true, if you put it together. There's still more to go. Carol, is max. Yeah, he has two incarnations of himself. The really quiet and alone side, and the crazy wild side, which is Carol. He acts just as he did within the first 15 to 30 minutes. He got stepped on, he bit his mother's shoulder, he goes crazy and yells a lot, and is very confused at many things. KW, I think can symbolize his sister. His sister disregards him, just like at the snowball fight. I don't really want to put more emphasis on this whole things, because I've written a lot. But there is a character in real life, for every wild thing, even Bob and Terry. Just look it over. That's really all there is for good.

The Bad.

Jesus, this is where I get to let loose. I can't really write this like I would say it, but nothing happened. Nothing happened. Nothing Happened. I can't really say anymore. I mean literally, he goes to the island, everything from there, just has no point. No point at all. It's almost a pointless movie. Nothing happens, and I can explain to everyone why nothing happens, and how nothing happens. First off, there is absolutely no reason for anything going on. Everyone is completely sad almost all the time. They have some fun, but even after they have fun, sadness entails. It's just like a really version of chaos. It's a chaos of nothingness happening. The way I can describe it is like this. He goes to the island, he becomes king, because no one knows what lying is. Apparently Douglas knows the truth the whole time, but says nothing. He starts letting everyone go crazy, and they all jump around everywhere and then he sleeps. After he sleeps, he wakes up, and goes to this cavern, which means nothing. He decides to build something to make Carol happy, which looks nothing like what was in the cavern. So they all start building a fort. After the fort is done, Carol goes apeshit, because Max wanted a place where he could be alone. He rips an arm off, chases Max to kill him. Then he leaves the island, but Carol comes running, to say goodbye to max. They all love each other, after everything thats happened. That's it. Isn't that an amazing plot? I mean seriously. Just the plot itself, and what happens, or rather, what doesn't happen, makes the entire movie go down in flames. You really can't have a more disgruntled plot. It was just all over the place, and nothing happened. Okay, I get it, there was a lot of emotion, but you can't say just because the movie had a lot of emotion, makes it a good movie. That's like if you were to meet a girl or guy, do absolutely nothing, get pissed off at them for no reason, then say that you love them, and you become best friends. It just doesn't work like that. No plot, no coordination, no real sense. The very last scene, where Max is just eating, and his mother just falls asleep, and it goes to credits, I actually said out loud "I swear to god, if this is the ending...", and right after I finished saying that, the credits just rolled. I can't say anything else.

My Overall Thought.

Ugh, this movie really hurts my mind. When I was in the movie theatre, at the end, when the god awful last scene ended, and the credits came up, I heard clapping. It wasn't a little amount of clapping either, it was like, almost everyone in the audience. Mike thought the movie was absolutely brilliant, and I explained to him why it was horrible, and he didn't really have any rebuttable except for the whole emotion thing, and that's what everyone said. I went to see it with maybe 15 people, Allaire and I were the only ones to despise it. I was so confused, I just got up and just started talking to everyone, "Was that a movie? What was that? Did I just watch a movie? Where was it?". I was so angry, and disappointed. I wanted to get my money back, but I couldn't. I can't believe this movie got somewhat decent reviews, it just angers me even more. I think this movie was the worst movie of this year, and that's saying a lot. I've seen a lot of movies, and this is just down at the bottom. What I don't understand is how so many people liked it that much. I'll never understand it. I think I understand the movie more than most people, maybe that's it.

My Rating.

This god awful movie, doesn't deserve anything more than what I'm about to give it. Let me direct the goddamn movie next time. 2 out of 10.

6 Month!

2009-10-17T08:49:00.003-04:00

Yesterday was Allaire and I's sixth month, and I'm very happy about it. I got her a bunch of roses and wrote her something from the heart, and now people are saying I don't have a heart because I didn't like the movie Where The Wild Things Are.

I shaved too, and I don't know why, I just felt like it was appropriate.

Anyway, we hung around my house for about an hour or so, an had fun and talked about different things, and then we got a call from some friends saying how they wanted to see the movie.

So we go to see the movie, and I just don't know what to say. Allaire and I were the only people, out of maybe 20 people, to really dislike the movie. It was borderline hatred, I wanted my money back. Seriously.

In my opinion it was the worst movie of this year, and that's saying a lot, there were some really bad movies. I'll write up a review on it, because I feel I have to. A lot of people are telling me I'm cold and I have a black hole for a heart because I didn't like it...no it was just a bad movie, to me.

Anyway, today I'm supposedly going to have a grilling session with some friends, not a big thing. Chelsea wanted to do it this week, but I couldn't for different reasons, and she couldn't for different reasons too.

Anyway, blog you later.

ICON and Burning Man!

2009-10-14T09:01:00.002-04:00

So I'm going to 2 things, that I've wanted to go to for a couple of years. Now it's all a matter of actually going to the website and ordering the tickets.

The Burning Man, is what I really want to go to, but I don't know if anyone would come with me. It's not worth it to go alone, and a bunch of my friends can't go. Mike can come, but he has something to do in the morning, and it's really hard to contact him on the weekdays. I'm going to give him a call later, and see what happens.

The Burning Man is pretty much an art festival with freedom to express anything in many ways, that sounds like a vague description, it is. It's very hard to describe what it is, but look it up on google or something.

ICON is the International convention of nerds, which is a long time away from now, it's held in March. I've wanted to go for the past couple of years, but it's very expensive, and far away, and other things got in the way. This year I'm going to go for sure. My college is offering this amazing deal. The ticket costs 35 dollars if you buy it before December or something like that, and they're covering the hotel and everything for free. I heard they might give a rebate too, which is amazing.

Anyway, that's it for now, I gotta go type on my typewriter!

Toy Story!

2009-10-10T09:10:00.002-04:00

I'm going to see Toy Story in 3D in a couple of hours, and I think it'll be great. Toy story was a great movie, as well as Toy Story 2. I'm glad they re-released it, because nothings like watching a movie on a screen that's bigger than your house.

I've been getting into this card game, don't hate on me, called Magic: The Gathering. Yes, I am a nerd, but I'm proud to be one! I hide it very well anyway. I don't really buy any cards, and I haven't bought any since my middle school days, but I just play with what I have. The reason I'm playing again is because it's fun, and I actually found people to play with, at my college. There's an entire room dedicated to games, and card games are one of them.

Let's see what else. I still want to share the thing I wrote with the world, but it seems it's a bit depressing. I showed it to Allaire and Phil last night, and they said that they couldn't really articulate what feelings they had after reading it, and that it was impossible to tell. Anyway, I'll show a few more people before typing it up.

I'm going to go show my dad now.

Blog you later.

Zim and chai.

2009-10-06T15:04:00.002-04:00

I've just ripped an Invader Zim disc, and by rip it doesn't mean to physically rip, for those of you who aren't into the technological lingo. It means I just put the video on my computer, and I watched it and it was great. Old memories, they hit you sometimes. It's pretty funny, that show.

You know what really hit me hard? I got a C- on a paper I wrote, about an analysis for a scene in the movie Citizen Kane. C- in writing, seriously. I felt really bad about it, but I'll improve I guess.

I'm also listening to a great album called Get Ready by New Order. It's so good, I might put it in my favorite album list.

I'm also drinking chai, which I've been getting into more lately. It helps with my whole nose thing in the morning. For those of you who don't know, every morning I wake up, my nose is clogged until I get outside. About an hour after I'm outside, or I interact with someone, it goes away, but until then, it's horrible.

I also want to go see Zombieland, because I hear everyone talking about it. I'd like to see it today if possible, but yeah, I doubt it, because Mike has plans tonight, and Chelsea isn't answering her phone, and my other friends are probably busy because it's a school night. Oh well.

Until next time, readers!

Blogging and...stuff.

2009-10-03T10:39:00.002-04:00

I haven't been really blogging all that much. I keep meaning to, and I have ideas of stuff to right about, but I don't know. Yesterday I went onto blogger, and I looked at my last post date, which was September 29th, and it's been 5 days since my last post. It was the 2nd yesterday, and I asked myself "I've missed 5 days, should I do it?", and instead I went to sleep, because I was so tired.

I'm not going to quit or anything, it's just that I've been very busy ever since school started, and if you actually follow what I write, which probably no one really does, but I haven't been writing as often as I was before school.

That's not a bad thing, because it just means I have more stuff to do, and I''m pretty occupied. I started this whole blogging thing to get all of my thoughts out anyway. I also haven't written much in my Bijan's Aquarium of Swimming Thoughts of Existentialism and Stuff.

So anyway, today I'll hopefully watch London with Chelsea, then after that, Allaire and Mike will be free, and then we're planning to watch Invader Zim, a whole marathon. It's going to be awesome.

Another note, to all creepy people out there who don't have the courage to tell people that you like them, stop staring at them and purposefully bumping into them. It's not good.

Problems and Pistachios.

2009-09-29T08:58:00.002-04:00

You know, it's really unsuspecting to see such happy people have all of these closeted feelings. It's kind of sad too, because when they really need to let it out, they don't have anyone to go to, and I used to be one of those people. You just hold it in, and then you explode.

I remember exploding at my father, my mother, and some of my other family members, and even at school, or when I'm alone, it's a horrible feeling. I've learned a lot since then, but I do know that you'd be surprised at who's there for you and who isn't. It really shows what kind of person someone is, when you go to them for help.

I also remember that when I was at my mothers house throughout the years, I didn't have anything to do, and I didn't really have any friends, so I'd be stuck doing really boring things. She'd try to take me out to events and parties and galleries, but I'd either rebel or just get into fights or do nothing.

So in return, I had my own calming therapy, which was, believe it or not, eating pistachios. My escape from all of that frustration was to eat pistachios, and it really gave me something to do. Reflecting back on it, it really did help. Everyone has their weird things, and I've got a couple of them, and that was one.

I just discovered a bag of pistachios yesterday, and I started thinking about my past. Then I was looking at a bobby pin, and it reminded me about how screwed up life is. The bottom side is completely straight, because you're born with not knowing anything, and you keep going till you hit the corner.

Then you turn around completely, and it's a really bumpy ride with ups and downs. You keep going, and you get right back to where you were in the beginning, not knowing anything, or what to do with yourself.

It's a horrible way to think, but I think I'll eat some pistachios now.

Thoughtfulness, and appreciation.

2009-09-26T07:47:00.003-04:00

I was just talking with a friend the other day, about some really bad things that I've been seeing lately. I don't mean for me, but I mean in general. In general, I've been seeing more and more homeless people, and beggars, and elderly people looking sad. It's starting to really put me down, because I know that some of those people are some of the most nicest and sincere people you can meet, and they just don't get what they deserve.

What's shocking to me, is that my friend, whom I'll not name, because people will jump on him, is that he believes that it isn't his problem, and that he doesn't care. I tried explaining how I thought to him, and that to care about other people who aren't of any influence in your life, is to be human. You can't just go around not caring about all the dying or sad people with no food and no homes, and he responded, fine, I'll give a dollar or something.

I promptly responded with, I'm not asking for you to give your money to them, I'm asking sympathy from you, for all of these people. I don't think he understands much of that, but that is what makes a person human. Human in the way that, you care for another being, even if he's not related to you. What type of person are you if you don't care about someone who's dying?

Anyway, it just saddens me that all of this is true, and I would do so much if I could, but I can't. One day, if I have more money and more time, I want to stretch my arms out, and empty my pockets for these people who don't deserve any of this. One of them was my mother, she lived horribly as a starving artist, and I don't think any one person should ever be living like that, they don't deserve it, everyone needs some help.

Those are my thoughts, if you have any opinion on anything, be sure to comment. I don't want to open debates though.

Not much going on.

2009-09-23T22:06:00.002-04:00

Everything's pretty average right now, I know boring. I did however meet a new friend, Chelsea, who's a really cool person. I hope to spend some more time with her and get closer, I think it would be worth it. We seem to get along very well. On the opposite side, my other friend, Kaitlin, has completely disappeared. She deleted her facebook, and I threw a text at her, but there wasn't a response. Oh well, hopefully she's alright.

Let's see, anything else interesting? Kind of.

There's this new technique of sleeping that I absolutely cannot commit to at this time, but I have to do more research on it. It's pretty much no sleeping at all, just a bunch of naps during the day. From what I read, it's a real struggle for the first two weeks, then after that, it's like heaven. I don't know what to think of it, but I'll try it out someday.

Oh yeah, and I had a pecan cinnabon with extra glaze and sauce, and right after that I had fried ice cream. If you haven't had either of those, tell me, and we'll go get one, or both.

Shout out! You know who you are, if you manage to stumble across and read this, which is doubtful, but yeah!

Typewriter!

2009-09-20T09:39:00.002-04:00

Yes! I walked to Staples yesterday and they actually had typewriter ribbon. So I bought it, and went back home and see if it fit and it worked. They really made it difficult to replace the ribbon for some reason. You have to loop it over, bring it under, bring it over, and bring it under to fit into a hook, it's very odd. There's very little space to work with too. Anyway, because I'm a genius, I figured it out, and now I have a typewriter that I can write with!

The only issue is that some of the keys get stuck, especially the Q, A, and W key's. Oh well, I have a typewriter, and I'm very happy.

In other news, I saw Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, which was pretty okay. It wasn't like fantastic or anything but it was decent.

There was also supposedly a birthday party that was supposed to happen with my friend Jordan, but it didn't, and I called him and he didn't answer, but whatever, another time. I have his gift lying on my floor right now, gotta get rid of it.

And lastly, It's also Mike's birthday in a little bit, so Phil and I got him a gift. We split the cost because it was a bit expensive for my pocket, but not his. Yep. He wants to go to the Bronx Zoo, so we'll probably do that, it'll be fun. The season's just about to end, and I don't want to miss any more warmth, and beautiful days.

Blog you next time.

Something Smart

2009-09-16T21:37:00.002-04:00

I wanted to post something intelligent, smart, and quirky, but I can't really come up with anything, because I'm too damn tired. I'm tired of being tired, it's pretty horrible. You ever try coming up with something really smart to write when you've been at school for 12 hours? It's really hard.

Anyway, the powerbook experiment has, in very light terms, failed. It works for about 15 minutes, then precedes to kick me in the face and give me the finger. I don't really know what to do with it, and I don't have much time anyway, nor do I have money to try and fix it. I guess I'll throw the problem in Apples face and see if they can diagnosis it.

On another note, today is Allaire and I's 5th month. Yes, yes, I know, such a long time! I assure you, her, and myself, I can feel this will last a lot longer. I hope so anyway, things are going really great, although we can't see each other as much, we get by, and we're doing great.

Blog you next time.

Powerbook!

2009-09-14T23:18:00.002-04:00

I'm trying to fix up this Powerbook I got from a friend's friend. She hasn't called to take it back, so I took it for now, because I need it for assignments and whatnot. Anyway, it's proving hard to fix it, but I'll get it soon enough.

Trying hard. With effort comes rewards, well, sometimes at least.

This has to be the shortest blog post I've written.

Carnivale / Firehouse?

2009-09-11T23:22:00.002-04:00

Tomorrow there's a carnival, but it's been raining to all hell, so I don't know if I'm going yet. If that doesn't work out, there was a sign that was talking about a haunted firehouse or something. I want to go do something this weekend, because I was planning out out the carnival, but this rain might get in the way.

Anyway, I got a present for Jordan's birthday, and I got two for Mike's birthday, but I have no idea what to get for Ryan or Amanda. Maybe I'll figure it out as the days pass by, oh well.

Yeah, I really don't have much else to say. My fifth month is coming up with that special someone. And in other news, I still really want a macbook pro.

16 Hours of School

2009-09-09T22:23:00.002-04:00

Well, I'm home from school, and I literally got back around an hour ago. I still have some work to do, but I'm too tired to do it, so I think I'll just go to sleep instead and do it tomorrow morning. Procrastination is a good thing, right?

Anyway, I spent a lot of time doing nothing, and I even walked to the mall, which was somewhat fun, because I got a little lost, but when you have 5 hours to do nothing, it helps.

So while on my way back home, my father and I, had a discussion on what I could do, to cure my boredom. He told me and insisted that I get a car, which I don't have a license for, so I would have to commit to a 6 hour video course, which isn't that bad, so I might do it.

The other part is that I want my own laptop, a nice shiny macbook pro, which I would gladly accept by donation, by the way.

Anyway, I'm too tired to type any more, so goodnight and farewell.

End Of Summer.

2009-09-07T20:12:00.002-04:00

Today was pretty much the end of summer. Everyone's school is starting tomorrow, and I have homework to do. I'm procrastinating right now by writing this and not doing my work, but I will right after this, I think.

Anyway, I'll be pretty closeted in my house besides the weekends, but I won't really have much to do on the weekdays. Mondays and Tuesdays is hell for me, and I don't know what I'll do, but I guess I'll get by, I have to.

This summer hasn't been unique, but it's been a decent one. I've done some interesting things, met some interesting people, gone to interesting places. Interesting.

My father agreed to get a Macbook Pro, actually he just offered it as soon as I asked him if I could borrow the netbook on Wednesdays, but I didn't take up the offer because I feel like the family needs the money way more than I do. I'd feel selfish getting myself something while others want other things.

Anyway, blog you later.

New Professors.

2009-09-05T10:06:00.003-04:00

So I went to 3 classes so far, and they all seemed okay. My math class will be completely easy, and my psych class looks a little difficult. English looks alright too, I don't think I'd have a problem, I like writing a lot anyway.

So for my english class I had to purchase The Metamorphosis, which is one of my favorite books written by a man named Kafka. He only wrote very little, and died a relatively young age, but was an amazing writer. He took very simple ideas, and wrote them beautifully, someday I hope to write as well as him.

Anyway, I was going to go to a carnival today, but I realized it's next week. Oh well.

School is starting for my friends this Tuesday, right after Labor Day.

And I made the wooden sword! I really did, I'm very happy about it. Now I need to make another one and I can practice dueling with someone. It turned out okay, not magnificent, but it's pretty cool.

Anyway, that's it for now.

Meaghan's Birthday

2009-09-02T09:04:00.002-04:00

Yesterday was good, I went to this girl Judy's house, and it was amazing. It's such a big house. It has like 5 bedrooms, 4 floors, a sound system in the entire house, huge kitchen, huge backyard, crazy stuff.

We played a lot of manhunt, and just bullshitted around, it was a pretty good day. She liked my gift, a stencil set, and I hope she uses it well. Actually I know she will.

Different topic, Burning Man is in effect. I don't think many people know what burning man is, but it's one of my favorite things to watch / celebrate. There isn't really much of a point to it, and I've never been to it, but it's one of my dreams to attend it.

They do it once every year in Black Rock City, all the way in the west, it takes days to get there by car from New York. It basically consists of an almost no rule policy, and you have no restrictions to what you can really do, except for the basics. Art is everywhere in this place, and anyone can make or bring anything they want that they feel they can contribute. It's great. Then at the end, they burn a huge wooden structure that looks like a man.

Anyway, I'd like to go one day when I can.

Manhunt is fun.

2009-08-31T09:20:00.003-04:00

I played manhunt the other day, and it was pretty fun. I got to meet a new person whom was cool. I saw some friends I haven't seen in a while, which was interesting. They didn't really pay much attention to me, and almost seemed as if they were trying to ignore me, but I guess I'm okay with that. Drama is stupid.

Anyway, we were playing at my friend Galinsky's house, and then we moved it to Grant Park because the neighbors were getting annoyed with 15 kids on the street yelling and cursing, and alternative music blasting from a car. That annoys people at 9 PM on saturday night.

After we got to grant park, we didn't really play manhunt anymore, we just kind of sat down and talked and ran around and climbed stuff. A couple people branched off, and went to their own isolated location to talk about private things, while the rest of us bullshitted around.

School is starting for me pretty soon, in 3 days, and hopefully it'll be great. Looking forward to meeting my professors. Mike started yesterday. I've also got a party to go to tomorrow.

Peace out.

Yo Punk.

2009-08-29T13:55:00.002-04:00

School is starting next week, and I'm pretty excited, except for my whole schedule thing.

Anyway, I was with my friend Meric yesterday, and her friend Erica, who was pretty annoying. I didn't really like her that much, but whatever, I wasn't disrespectful or anything. Anyway, I guess we had some fun, even though I only saw them for like maybe an hour or two. My mother had an attack right in front of them, and it was bad, but she came back up.

I also saw my other friend Gabrielle, whom is a really cool person. We had Dim Sum together, and it was my first time. It's like a salad bar, except they bring the food to you, and they ask you what you want, and you can take it or leave it.

Then we went around to random stores, and she got a ceramic bowl, and a book, and I bought a gift for an upcoming birthday.

I also got this magnetic ring that I really like, from a store called Evolution. Pretty cool.

No Sleep, New OS

2009-08-27T07:59:00.002-04:00

For those of you who don't know, Snow Leopard just came out. That's the new Mac operating system, and I got it and installed it. Right now I'm importing all my music and photos and stuff.

For some reason I couldn't sleep at all tonight, yet again. I've been having some sleep issues, and I hope it doesn't last until college gets started. It's been out of whack, but I haven't dropped dead yet, so I guess it's not all that bad, yet.

Tomorrow I'm seeing a friend I haven't seen a while, and hopefully we'll have fun.

I also have a new idea for a video, although I'm sure it's been done before. I won't say what it is, but a couple of my friends have had a glimpse of what it is. The trouble is, the camera I have, has such a small SD card, it's only 512 MB, and that's enough for maybe 5 minutes of video.

Anyway, that's all for now, maybe I'll put up another review of something.

Not so pleasant.

2009-08-24T23:24:00.004-04:00

I'm looking at a not so pleasant future. Short term anyway.

For the next couple of months my schedule is going to be horrible.

That's what it is. I have to wake up really early, transfer 2 buses, come back really late, transfer 2 buses. That's 4.50 a day just for MTA alone. Then there's food cost. I'm there the whole day, and I eat a lot of food. So I'd be spending at least 10 dollars every day. Then there's book costs, which really add up sometimes. It's going to be very annoying and tedious.

I don't have a car, or a laptop, so I'll be bored out of my mind at times. I can read and study only for so long. Plus there's people that I want to see, and I don't know if I'll be doing much of that, but yeah. Bleh.

At least I'm alive.

Haven't been sleeping much lately.

2009-08-22T00:48:00.003-04:00

My father proposed that we and some of his friends go to Bear Mountain. I don't really know what's up there this time of year, I figure nothing exciting. I went there once a couple years ago with my dad during the wintertime, and it was alright.

I also want to go see The Allman Brothers, before they, you know, die. Cause they're like almost 100 years old, and the guitarist is one of the greatest guitarists in the world. Anyway, I'd like to do that, but the tickets are expensive as hell. Not all that expensive, but 110 dollars for 2 people, is a lot. At least it's like 400 dollars cheaper than a shitty Jonas Brothers concert.

We also want to go paragliding, or power-gliding or whichever one of the terms it is. We want to do that, and I would love to. I'm not sure how much that costs, but I'd guess around the same as the concert. So it comes down to either concert or gliding. I'd love to do both, but I'm not sure which would be better.

Oh yeah! I also want to construct swords out of wood. I don't really know how hard it would be to do, but I have it set in my mind, and I can see how it would come out, if I did it right. My father has the tools. All I need is to cut the wood to the right length, width, and depth, and sand out the rest with a machine, or by hand. I'd use pressurized wood, so it won't rot as easy.

That's it for now.

Shout out to Wordan. Bloodclot.

Finally.

2009-08-19T22:48:00.003-04:00

Got rid of my iPod Touch, after a while. I wanted to sell it for 120 on craigslist, but no one wanted to buy it, so I lowered the price to 100, and I got jumped on. I just sold it maybe an hour ago, and I guess it's a pretty good win. The downside is, I bought it for 350 dollars, of my own money, 2 years ago, so I lost 250 dollars in the long run, but I didn't use it at all anymore.

Anyway, tomorrow I have an ophthalmologist appointment. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's an eye doctor. I might be getting eye surgery, so I don't have to wear glasses anymore, and I won't be cross-eyed.

I also have the 5 hour pre-licensing course planned on Sunday, so that's another step closer to getting my license. Only trouble is, it's an extra amount of money just to have my license, so I don't know if we can afford that. Money goes by really fast in this family household of 6 people.

District 9 Review

2009-08-17T10:17:00.002-04:00

District 9 fits into a couple categories, those being, drama, science fiction, documentary. It's hard to do that with any movie, but this movie, I believe has succeeded, and is unique and different from many other sci-fi movies. It's directed by Neil Blomkamp, who also is going to be directing a Halo movie later on, so watch out for that. This movie was based on a short film that was 6 minutes long, and was basically the same thing. I went to see this movie on opening night, and surprisingly there weren't many people there.

Spoiler alert. Don't read if you don't want to be spoiled!

Review of "District 9."

Plot Summary.

This guy Wikus, is set as the new director for the MNU, for the mission to move 1.8 million prawns from District 9, to District 10. Obviously, all does not fare well, and he has some troubles. One of them being that he tries to evict Christopher, whom is secretly, the leader of the mothership, that is hovering above the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. He's been looking for liquid for 20 years, and just got enough to start the ship and go home to his planet, but Wikus takes it for the research department for the MNU. The liquid does him good, and starts turning him into an alien, and his left arm is completely alien, after around 30 hours or so. This enables him to use the alien weaponry, which the MNU really wants badly. They take him in, want to harvest him, but he escapes. He then finds Christopher again, and breaks into the MNU to get the liquid. Basically, after that part, there's a lot of killing and death and chasing and whatnot involving a huge robot. That's always fun. The ship leaves, Wikus turns into an alien fully, and Christopher promises that he will return in 3 years to turn him back into a human.

The Good.

The first thing I'd like to get out, is that the graphics in this movie, are outright amazing. Obviously the film industry has gotten really advanced, but some recent movies, like Transformers, Harry Potter, Wolverine, didn't really have good graphics. I'm pretty keen at spotting good graphics, and this movie had top-notch graphics. Other than that, even the advertising for the movie was really good. I'm sure you've noticed if you go out and venture, that you've seen "No Non-Humans" signs in random places, and I think that's really cool. The acting was okay, and the weapons and robot were amazing. I loved the way the weapons work. The plot was really strong and very good. I like how the beginning and end part of the film were shot in documentary style, it was very nice. Yeah, lot's of good here. There was definitely very little cliche, and many unique ideas in this movie. It's not like other movies.

The Bad.

It's not hard to think of bad things about movies like these, but this one is an exception at it is unique. It does have some faults that I don't like about it, obviously. I didn't like that you leapt directly into 2010, when the aliens came in 1990. There were details about what happened, but I would have liked to see some more of what happened in the beginning, it would have been nice. I also didn't like how the aliens and humans communicated, but it is how some people communicate. For those of you who don't know, it's called Non-Convergent Discourse. It's used when certain dialects can't be used. In this case, humans can't talk like the aliens can, so they learned to translate each others languages through the years. It's as if you understand spanish, don't know how to speak it, but they understand english, but they don't know how to speak it. I also didn't like how some of the weaponry was reminiscence of the game Half Life 2, it was practically directly taken. Anyway, I think that's all.

My Overall Thought.

I thought overall, the movie was a pretty good one, and I look forward to a sequel, although there is no promise to one. The way the movie ended, the movie itself, and the people in the documentary section, gave all the possibilities to us anyway. I think in the end, it all depends on how successful the movie was. Looking back at Cloverfield, that movie was immensely successful, yet they are still reluctant to create a sequel. I would hope for a sequel from both of these movies. I'm also upset that it wasn't as big as a crowd as it usually is on opening days of films. I think this is a pretty good movie, and since it fits into so many genres, and is so creative and unique, it's worth a look at.

My Rating.

I'd give this movie an 8 out of 10. It's pretty good, but something just isn't there for me to give it a higher score.

Cityand a good movie.

2009-08-15T09:14:00.003-04:00

Going to the city today with a couple friends. My friend is actually allowed to go, so we'll be having a good old time. I'm going to look up some events that we can go to maybe, right after I post this.

I saw District 9 last night and it was a pretty good movie. It was a unique one, I'll give it that, maybe I'll do a movie review on it, if I feel like it, I haven't done one of those in a while.

I got a check from my college for a dollar. Yeah, a dollar.

Anyway, pretty short blog post, see you next time.

City with more peeps!

2009-08-13T09:39:00.002-04:00

So my friend Amanda is able to go to the city now! I think I told you in some earlier posts that her mother wouldn't let her, but now she's able to go, because her twin sister keeps going all the time with her boyfriend.

I'm going to be going with quite a few of my friends, and hopefully we'll go to Governor's Island, it should be great. I'm thinking of not going there, but sticking around the village, it could be cool.

Anyway, I signed up for classes, finally, and my financial aid got accepted, finally. It took way too long for them to do it, it's crazy. They pulled me out of my original classes, the beginning of this month, and I signed up for classes the beginning of July. Of course, I just signed up 2 days ago, but so many classes were filled up, my schedule is so spread out. Here's a look at my schedule if you care.

Well yeah, there it is, see you guys next time.

Saw Family

2009-08-11T08:04:00.002-04:00

I saw my Aunt Ferhan yesterday, and it's been way too long. She's a really cool aunt, and a really cool person. I haven't seen her for a very long time, and I went to see her with my father after I went to a doctor's appointment. She has a daughter, Ela, who's really cute, and I remember when she was the size of a pillow. She's grown to be really cute and smart. She's in 3rd grade and she's in a 7th grade reading and writing program, it's amazing. She's even reading the Harry Potter series.

On another note, I went to see the doctor, because I might be getting eye surgery. I've been saying that for years, but this time, it's actually happening, because I was too lazy to ever do anything about it, but now I actually set it up. I have to call the doctor today, probably around 10:00 AM, because thats when most clinics open up.

Hopefully I'll be glasses-less, within the month!

Carrying a notebook.

2009-08-09T09:28:00.002-04:00

I've been carrying a notebook around with me for the past couple of weeks. I've only written in it twice, but it's a good feeling to have something to write on. See, I love to write, I can always write, usually in any circumstance. Some of my friends know that, some don't, but I think I'm a decent writer or author or whatever it is.

I also want a typewriter, so anyone who can clue me in on where to get one, would be great. If I got a typewriter, I would type every day, and write really awesome funtastic things.

Anyway, I like the stuff I write, and I entitled the notebook, Bijan's Aquarium of Swimming Thoughts.

I saw a friend in the city, whom I haven't seen for a while, and it was great to see her, we had fun I think. We went to Governor's Island.

Anyway, I'm in a pretty good mood, later homedawgs.

200th Post.

2009-08-05T08:34:00.002-04:00

This is my 200th post on this blog! This is almost a landmark achievement. I've had a lot of doubts my blog would get this far, but it seems it's doing well. I will say though, not many people read from this blog directly, but rather from the imported section on my facebook, which is still great I guess. It's a good feeling to know that people read about stuff that you write about.

My foot is pretty screwed up, because I jumped off of the Hewlett Elementary School on to grass, and I didn't know it was wet, so I slipped and bruised my heel. This means I haven't been able to work for the past 2 days, and today also.

I hope it will be gone by tomorrow, because I'm going to an Eagles of Death Metal show. It should be very very wicked.

On another note, NCC, Nassau Community College, is driving me crazy. About a month ago, they sent me a bill for tuition, I signed up for Financial Aid, but FAFSA lost my saved report, and I had to do the whole thing all over again. Then NCC said they didn't get anything, so I went to FAFSA, and they wanted corrections on it. I gave in the corrections, and by this time, all my classes got cancelled because I didn't pay the tuition, which I was never supposed to. So I submitted it 2 days ago, and still haven't gotten a reply.

This pretty much sucks, I hope I'll get it in time. Last year, I got it about a week before classes started, but it was so much of a hassle.

Scary Dream.

2009-08-03T10:38:00.003-04:00

I had a really horrifying dream. I wouldn't even classify it as a horror dream or nightmare or anything, it was just awful. It wasn't like painful or I wasn't panting or anything like that, it's just bad.

I'm on the street walking in a plaza or something. Out of nowhere I hear incredibly loud and painful noises. When I say that, I really really mean. You know how you hear thunder, let's say that, at it's highest loudest point, times 1000. It's so excruciatingly painful. Then peoples ears just start to bleed while I'm walking, and so do mine. While this whole thing is going on, then everyone just looks up to the moon, and 3 objects, maybe meteors or asteroids just collide into the moon.

The moon, is literally destroyed, and it caved in on itself. It was hit so hard, that it broke like glass, and pieces of it went flying. Then all of the sudden, everyone else around me just gets a huge whiplash, and we all just drop to the floor. What happened next was so weird.

My eyesight turned into something like a channel without reception, and I actually heard the noise. Then it started fading into black. What's scary was that, I could only see complete black, but the black started shaking so hard, and vigorously. It was really scary.

Well yeah, that's my dream. I don't know if it means anything, but it may not read like it's scary. But when I dreamed it, it really felt horrible.

Necklace, Money, Happy

2009-07-31T11:31:00.002-04:00

Things are going great so far. I'm finally managing to save up some money, as I just sold the iPhone 3G, and made money off of working, and I'm going to be selling the iPod Touch too, and hopefully, make some good money off of that. Although I will be losing 200 dollars. I bought it for 350, when it first came out, and I'm selling it for 150 now. Oh well.

If anyone wants an iPod Touch, contact me, at dragonmantek@msn.com, or on AIM, dragonmantek, or on facebook.

I also found my necklace, which is really really a great awesome thing. I've had it for many years, and Lisa, my friend's mother, found it in her car. I'm very grateful for her, and this make me very happy.

I also won an actual game of poker, with money and all. Although I don't feel that good about winning, because I dislike seeing other people lose money like that, I guess it's okay. I would feel horrible cheating people out of money, but then again, they are going in, knowing that they have that risk.

Tomorrow I have a birthday party to go to, and it should be fun. An old friend I haven't really hung out with in a while.

A Night At The Opera

2009-07-29T10:12:00.002-04:00

For today, I'm going to be reviewing an album, well, because I feel like it. I'm going to choose a random album, out of my personal collection of over 1500 albums, by shuffling the songs, the song that is chosen, that album, I'll be reviewing.

A Night At The Opera - Queen - 1975

1. Death on Two Legs

2. Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon

3. I'm in Love With My Car

4. You're My Best Friend

5. '39

6. Sweet Lady

7. Seaside Rendezvous

8. The Prophet's Song

9. Love Of My Life

10. Good Company

11. Bohemian Rhapsody

12. God Save The Queen

Background?

This is a pretty popular band, that almost everyone knows. They've done many popular songs, such as You're My Best Friend, Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, Don't Stop Me Now, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Under Pressure, and many other great songs. The band is made up of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon. They have quite a number of albums, and most of them are very good. They were voted as one of the best live rock groups ever, and you can't see them perform any more, because of Freddie Mercury's death, but you can pick up a DVD of the concert, and it's great.

Album?

Released in 1975, it topped out at number 4, but stayed on for 9 weeks. It earned Triple Platinum status, and has sold over 3 million worldwide. There are 2 singles on this album, both of which you probably know. You're My Best Friend, and Bohemian Rhapsody. The latter, is probably one of the most famous songs of all time, because everyone knows it, recognizes it, and can sing at least one line of the song. It's great when I'm with some friends sometimes, and I just burst out "Is this the real life?", and friends reply with "Or is it just fantasy?". Great stuff.

Special?

This album in particular has a couple hits on it, and when released was given the title as the most expensive album to be released at the time. This is due to all of the echo effects and precision engineering. When you listen to this album, it sounds very modern, you can hear Freddie Mercuries voice coming out of 5 speakers at once, if you have the right sound system, and it's amazing to listen to. Considering this came out of the 70's, for it's time it was amazing.

Sound?

I personally really like this album, and I think this is the greatest album they have. I absolutely love the drumming, and his sound bouncing off the walls in every direction. It sounds great, because the same tone isn't the same on every instrument for every track, which is usually the case in most albums. The beats are really good, and you can definitely bob your head to this music.

Personal?

I carry this album with me wherever I go, because it's great. This album really put a great impression on me, and it's great to have, especially if you want to just hum or sing along to some great songs. This is definitely on my favorite albums list, because it sounds and feels great.

Score?

I'd have to give this album, an 9 out of 10. I highly recommend listening to this whole album.

Bong time.

2009-07-27T12:08:00.002-04:00

This day was a pretty funny day.

It starts with me on the computer, and my father just comes in, asking me "Bijan do you know where I can get a Bong or something?"

I then reply with laughter, and I didn't really know if he was being serious. Naturally, I'm not a smoker, and I don't really know where to get one, but I looked it up online, and saw this place called Daze. I then call up the place, and ask them "Hi, do you have Bongs?", and they just say no, and hang up on me.

Then after that happens, my dad and I, just go out for a drive, to spend some time together. So when we're going back home, I told my dad, "We're going to be passing Daze, if you want to stop by and check it out."

So we go into the place, and there's Bongs and Pipes and Cannabis Chocolate Bars, and Incense, and Grateful Dead stuff. This is a really big stoner place. And there were a couple people in there, who just looked like stoners, and they wanted to buy a small pipe.

Anyway, my dad is looking around in awe of everything he's seeing. I kept telling him before, it's illegal to sell bongs, and they call them something else to get around the law, and that I forgot what they call them. He doesn't understand why, so I tell him, because Bongs are used for smoking marijuana, and they can be used for tobacco, but no one does that.

Well, when we look around we find out they are called Water Pipes, and that if you even say any of the terms that related to illegal activities, like Bong, Marijuana, or anything of that thing, they kick you out, and you can't joke about it at all.

So my dad is looking at all the Bongs in the store, and he's amazed at all the stuff he sees. After 10 minutes of him looking at bongs, and me looking around in the store, he purchases an 80 dollar bong.

He told me his friend wanted one, I believed him, because my dad wouldn't smoke, but it's really funny, and I thought I'd share this story.

Great Party, Great Music.

2009-07-25T11:42:00.002-04:00

Came home from a party at 2 AM this morning, it was great. I met with my friend Samantha, who had moved into the city recently, and I hope to become good friends with her, she's a really nice person.

I had a great time, talked with some really cool people, and met some cool quirky interesting characters. My friend Nejat was there too, it was a great time. I had some alcohol, and didn't get tipsy, which was a great thing. I don't want New Years happening all over again.

In other news, my keyboards are completely fixed, because my father's a genius, and that's how he rolls. They sound really really nice. My dad told me that the DX7, was the first to specialize in many features, and it cost an ass load, and he was really happy that I got into it.

I'm going to get really good, and make some music for the world to hear.

Exercise!

2009-07-23T10:13:00.002-04:00

So I went jogging for the first time in a long time, and I haven't done it for a while either. See, I have asthma, and I've been trying to get rid of it, by regularly doing any strenuous physical activities, that involve my lungs.

I developed asthma, when I went to Turkey a couple years ago, and then I got Bronchitis. It eventually went away, but it turned into permanent bronchial asthma. It's not that bad, I just run out of breathe very fast.

Another issue is my heart. I don't know if I quite have a weak heart, but it seems to be that way. Whenever I do any activity that's of minimum strain, it shoots up, and it takes a while for it to come down. Oh well.

Well yeah, my main story was that, I had never jogged for more than a lap in my entire life. Now I just jogged 6 laps, and I was really impressed with myself. It's probably from all the parkour and exercise before this, but I didn't think it would have helped that much.

Keyboards!

2009-07-22T10:29:00.003-04:00

I got 2 new keyboards! Whoo! I'm very happy about this, I really want to learn how to play, and now I'll be able to.

One of them is very big and very heavy, and was very expensive at the time. It's a Yamaha DX7, which apparently revolutionized the 80s music style. I'm not so much into the 80s, but it does release some really awesome sounds.

The other one is a very bare minimum simple keyboard. I looked it up, and one was being sold for 25 dollars on ebay.

The Yamaha used to be worth $2000 dollars, when released, now you can get one around 400 dollars.

Good thing I have an amplifier, because they are synths. They also have MIDI, so if I get a MIDI cable, I can hook it up to my mac, and then really have some fun.

Frisbee

2009-07-20T15:01:00.002-04:00

I had a pretty good time yesterday. I woke up a little late, but then I met up with Zach and Michael and we went out to eat at Burger King. After that Allaire came, and then we all went to the high school football field.

At the field, we just threw the frisbee, talking, and played soccer. After we played soccer, we continued to sit around, and the group was around 6 people.

Amanda and Ryan came, but I didn't really get to talk to them that much. They left really soon. Amanda was grounded for very very stupid reasons. She put on her sisters flip flops, and then her sister didn't want that, and she was grounded for that. Maybe I don't know the entire story, but it's still stupid nonetheless.

After the soccer game, we had a tire flipping contest, which was kind of fun. Then we went to my old friend Smores house, and no, that's not her name. We watched You Don't Mess With The Zohan, which I reviewed on this blog, a long ass time ago.

Maybe I should get back into that.

Oh yeah, and my shoes came, and they are great.

Back from Upstate!

2009-07-19T09:36:00.003-04:00

After a very short 4 days, I''m very satsified. That doesn't sound very excited, but it is, I assure you, I'm gleaming with ecstatic anticipation.

The house that I stayed at, was absolutely beautiful and huge. It was really nice, I would love to have a house like that. It was so well decorated, and felt very nice. All of the rooms were huge, and it was so comfortable, you had so much space to roam around the house. Very nice.

I went hiking, tubing, saw a movie, went to a concert, and took walks all around. It was great. Hiking was really a lot of fun, and what better to hike, than with your best friend? We had a really great time.

Hiking was really awesome, it was so steep, and we had to work really hard to get up the mountain, but it was worth it. The sight was really beautiful, and I took some really awesome pictures. Hopefully, I'll get those pictures soon, and post them up on Facebook.

Tubing was kind of a drag. We went down some river stream, and it was kind of boring. There was a very low tide, but it was kind of fun nonetheless. I flipped over once or twice, got stuck a lot, and had some "oh shit!" moments.

I also saw Harry Potter, which was okay. I thought it was one of the weakest out of all the films, it was kind of boring, and the drama was really not good. I tried to like it, but eh.

The concert was fun. I saw Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, and Willie Nelson. They were all great performances live, although it started raining and we left, so we didn't get to finish the whole concert, It was still fun though, we met these 2 crazy drunk girls, who were looking for something we couldn't offer though.

It was a great time.

Going Upstate!

2009-07-15T09:33:00.002-04:00

Going upstate today! Some place called Jewitt. Never been there before, but I'm going with Mike, his mom, and his dad, and staying at their uncle and aunts place. I hope for it to be a lot of fun.

I'm leaving at around 7 PM today, and I won't be coming back until at least Sunday. It'll be great to get away for a little bit, it'll do my mind good.

I gotta go do my laundry and start packing!

Fireworks and assholes.

2009-07-13T14:12:00.002-04:00

I went to Rockville Centre to see fireworks with some friends the other day. It was really nice besides one part of the specific day. Meaghan, Ronnie and I went to the playground part of the park, and just kind of hung around. After talking with some kids and taking pictures, this guy came from behind me, yanked my head down with my hair and asked "Did you call my son a retard?"

I responded with "No! I don't even know what your talking about!". He then pointed his finger at me, and said "If I ever see you around here or my kid again, that's it", then let go and walked away. While he was walking away I started yelling at him "I don't even know why you did that!" Then he responded with a "Good". Then I yelled at him "You're an asshole, you have no reason, what you did was really stupid."

While this was happening, there were parents and kids all around watching as it happened. When I called him an asshole, he started coming back at me, and I was going to go towards him, but he realized there were people everywhere watching, so he just walked away.

I really wish someone had taken a picture or something. There were police everywhere, but none took notice. There really is no justice.

iPhone!

2009-07-11T10:34:00.002-04:00

I got an iPhone! Well, it's an old iphone, about 2 years. It's the old 2G iPhone, but hey, it's still an iphone.

I'm still very happy with it. So now, I want to get rid of my ipod touch, cause they both have the same memory, 8 GB.

Now I need an application to remove all these mosquito bites from my body, and I'll be happy.

Bruno!

2009-07-10T11:45:00.002-04:00

I want to go see Bruno, as it opened today. I think it will be good, but not as good as Borat. I saw Bruno in a couple interviews here and there, and it wasn't as funny as Borat, but it still made me laugh.

I also want to go see Harry Potter which is opening next week on Wednesday.

Oh yeah, I'm going upstate with Mike for a week, and we're hopefully going to do some cool stuff, like hiking, hanging out around town, meeting new people and stuff. Hopefully my shoes get here before then.

Deathnote

2009-07-08T10:00:00.002-04:00

I'm watching these 2 series of movies called Death Note, and I like them so far. I'm watching the dubbed version, so it's kind of stupid to watch, but it's still a good movie, disregarding that. I really like it.

I started the second one last night, but I got too tired to finish it, so I'm going to watch it later today.

My father is FINALLY cleaning out the garage, and I'm about to go help. It's about time, because there's 2 keyboards in there, that I really want to put into my room, so I can learn how to play the piano. I really want to.

In other news, I've got my own fridge! It's great, I have some things in there that I wanted so I could just eat something whenever I want to.

Great 4th of July.

2009-07-06T10:47:00.001-04:00

The concert with Jenny Lewis and Conor Oberst was really good. Jenny Lewis was really amazing, and I recognized most of the music she was playing. She did a fantastic job, and she was all riled up, and had the crowd going. I didn't know she would be that good live. Her voice was also spectacular too. Conor Oberst was okay, but we got really close, and it sounded like a huge wall of noise, and then we left, and it started sounding better from afar.

After the concert, we went to the BBQ party at my friend Nejat's apartment in the city. It was a pretty cool time, and I met 2 new people, that I hope to hang out with in the city some day. Adam and Samantha, they're pretty cool.

Yep, it was a really good day.