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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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