The Eyes Of A Spectator: 2009

New Years!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 2:13 PM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:35 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:34 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:56 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 5:19 PM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:30 AM

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?

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 6:16 PM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:41 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:39 PM

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.

1 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:02 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:34 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:05 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:55 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 2:43 PM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:59 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:33 PM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:09 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 6:45 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 3:27 PM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:50 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:32 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:38 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:49 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:01 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:10 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 3:04 PM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:39 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:58 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:47 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:06 PM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:39 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:37 PM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:18 PM

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?

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:22 PM

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

1 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:23 PM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:12 PM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:06 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:04 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:20 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 1:55 PM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:59 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:24 PM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 12:48 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:48 PM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:17 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:14 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:39 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:04 AM

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.

1 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:28 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:34 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:38 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:31 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:12 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 12:08 PM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:42 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:13 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:29 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 3:01 PM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:36 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:33 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 2:12 PM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:34 AM

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!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:45 AM

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

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:00 AM

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.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:47 AM

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.

Happy 4th of July!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:58 AM

I've got a really nice day lined up. Going to a free concert at Battery Park today in the city. It should be really good. One of my favorite artists, Jenny Lewis, is playing. Another artist, Conor Oberst, is also playing, and he's pretty good as well. I can't wait, because I've really wanted to see her live for a while. I heard she's great live too.

The greatest part, is that's not the end of the day. After the concert, I'm going to my friends penthouse in the city, to chat with wonderful people, and watching amazing fireworks. I'm going with Mike too, so it should be great.

Yeah, I think today is going to be a great day. I'm going to see another friend tomorrow, and those are my plans.

I went to another BBQ yesterday, and it was pretty fun. I cooked, I served, and I played some guitar, talked to some people whom I haven't seen for a while, and watched a movie, 28 Days Later.

Good times. Things are going a lot better, and I'm very content with everything right now. And a certain person is really helping.

Ordered new shoes!

2 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:45 AM

I ordered new shoes online the other day, and I designed them myself! The thing is, it's going to take them at least another 12 days before they get here. At most another 26 days. That's a lot of waiting. But oh well, I can't wait.

They are premiere player shoes, by Converse.

I'm not a big shoe person, but I've been constantly looking at stores all over for the type of converse shoes I want, but I can never find them, so I just made some online, and put them on a wish-list, and asked my dad.

I'm very content!

In other news, tomorrow I have a BBQ to go to, and I'm looking forward to it.

Great BBQ

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:19 AM

I had a great day yesterday at Phil's house. Phil and I hosted a BBQ, and I pretty much did all the cooking, and it was really good. People got full, and they enjoyed it. We had quarter pounders, and hot dogs, and it was very satisfying. We had about, at peak, 10-12 people at the BBQ at the same time.

Other than the BBQ it wasn't that eventful, we went inside the house and pretty much did nothing. Later we went to grant park, and just stayed at the park for a couple hours. Then part of the group left to go to Long Beach, and I stayed with the others.

Then we walked around for a bit, and we parted ways.

Camp is starting for a lot of my friends today, and I won't be seeing some of them for a bit, or as often. Some are going upstate for the summer, some are going away, some are working, but it's fine, I still have friends I can be with.

Dream.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 12:15 PM

I had an incredibly weird dream. It actually involved the entire world, and everyone in it. It was one of those dreams which is so big, it's hard to believe it didn't happen, or won't happen. It was pretty amazing, it was practically a revelation.

I don't exactly remember how it starts, but I know that I was dating Allaire at the time. Then for some reason, I end up going to jail, but while I'm in jail I'm isolated from everyone else.

While I'm in jail, some people discover a new substance that gives everyone who takes it a specific ability. A bill is passed by the united nations, and it's decided that everyone will be able to get the substance. So I take it, and it gives me the ability to become completely invulnerable to everything.

One of the catches is that, there's only a specific amount of people on this world who can have certain abilities, and I turn out to be one of them. There's only like 5 other people in the whole world who are invulnerable like I am. So I end up having to wait in jail for a long time, but that's okay, because I can't age anymore. But when I do get out, All of my friends and family are either old or gone, and life sucks.

And I can't do much about it, so I try to help out the world in any way I can, and eventually I lose everyone slowly.

That was my dream, but if you saw it through my eyes, it was a lot more mystical and adventurous.

Newer Posts Older Posts Home

Labels

Blog Archive

About Me