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I am going to sit down and force myself to write... so... SIT DOWN, YOU FOOL, AND WRITE!
So... Fahrenheit 9/11 was good. Nothing really unexpected, just two hours of Bush bashing, and facts about how corrupted our government is. I kinda already KNEW that Bush was an idiot and that our government was corrupt before I saw the movie, so nothing really changed. And I really doubt it'll affect the election. Anyone in that movie theater was probably already planning to vote for Kerry. How many right-wing Republicans are going to sit through that kind of movie? Not too many.
This is what happens when I don't write updates close enough together. I have this big blank space between seeing that movie and going up to the Incubus concert last Saturday. So I guess I'll just skip to that.
Last Friday I got out of work, ate dinner, and went over to Nick's house. Zach was there, too. We hung out, I tried to save Nick's computer (it's on the edge, I swear), we watched Kill Bill, and I got completely addicted to this game at 12 am. EVERYONE should play this game. And no, I'm not going to tell you what it is. Hah. So I didn't finish playing this game for three hours I think, and then we stayed up until five or so torturing Zach and generally being very silly.
Saturday I got up around 11 maybe? It's so hard to remember. Nick and I went to the mall, and I bought a handy-dandy FM transmitter for my MP3 player (which is now on it's way to being, hopefully, repaired at the Creative repair facility). Then we stopped at my house so I could take a shower and put clean clothes on. I burned Nick a CD, then we went back to Nick's house. There we watched Jeff Eckman's stand-up routine, which was alright, then went over to Eckman's house for a bit and watched this weird improv video. Some of it was funny, but basically I just wanted to get going to the show. And around 4:30, that's exactly what we did. We stopped at Macdonald's on the way, and nearly got lost in Massachuesettes, but eventually we made it to the Centrum Center. After standing in this HUGE line (like... three blocks long), we talked to a guy and found out that we didn't have to wait there since our tickets were at the box office. So we got our tickets, and found our seats, which were unfortunately not general admission, but balcony seats. So we're WAY up in the second balcony, all the way at the top, to the left of the stage. Not the greatest seats, but at least we had a good view of the band from there. The opening band, Sparta, really, really sucked. They played five or six songs, unfortunately, which we had to sit through. Then Incubus came on, and on the first or second song the crowd started pushing the crappy barrier they had installed forward towards the band. Basically they rushed the stage, and the band had to stop the show. Then everyone had to wait probably 30 minutes or so while the security team installed a new barrier.
Then the show started, and it was good. I was rather surprised that Boyd, the singer, was as good live as he was. The dude didn't miss a single note. And the huge drum break was really, when both the drummer and the bassist had sets and were rocking out, with Boyd on bongos. All in all a very good show. We were both tired on the drive home, but we blasted music and that kept us awake. We stopped at Wendy's and got frosties. Got back to Nick's house and fell asleep around 2 or so.
Sunday morning I woke up at 10:15, and got driven home by Nick. By 10:30 I was in the car with my dad, going to pick up Bryce and Chris to stay up at camp for the night. That whole event was fun, basically a lot of walking to the store and back. We went swimming once. It was really cold, but they made me stay in. :P We watched Gatacca, even though Bryce didn't want to. Chris and I overpowered him. We bought hotdogs, and ate them. Uhm... and then we went home the next morning around 4.
I didn't have to go to work that Monday because of the Fourth of July, so I don't know what I did. Summer is flying by, I can't remember what I did at all. I've been going to sleep really late (3-4am) everynight, and waking up around noon. It's such a waste, but I have almost nothing to do except work and read a few books. I read the first chapter of APOTAAAYM for World Lit, but haven't gotten back to it since then. I'd have gone to drumline that day, but it was too late already.
This last week has been pretty cool. I hung out with Jon and Nick watched Eurotrip on one day. The movie was funny in parts, the best being the little German boy doing the goose step. Absolutely hilarious. Bryce and I hung out a few times I think. I got this wicked annoying computer virus (at least.. that's what I think it is, some folks on #help suggested it might be a bad mobo..) which randomly moves the mouse around and clicks things. Really, really annoying. I'm trying to click and link and... VOOM it flies off to the left or right. So Thursday (or was it Friday? I can't remember) I formatted *sniff* my hard drive and installed XP. And guess what? It STILL moves around. But it stops randomly, too, like now it's not doing it. I will go nuts if it keeps it up.
And returning to current events, last night I went to see Spider-Man 2 with Erin, and it was GREAT. Much better than the first one, I thought anyways. I really want to see Venom/Carnage in the third one, and not the Hob Goblin (who's completely LAME). No cool villains ever rode a Fisher-Price surf board. *shakes head* Plus the villain died way too abruptly in the first one. You keep waiting for this cool ending fight scene, and it never comes. Disappointing. Doc Oc was way cooler. The CG still needs a little work, you can still tell when it's not the real dude, but it still looks very good. I'm just waiting for transparent CG work in movies a few years from now when you can't tell at all.
Today my family went up to camp without me, because I didn't want to go. I'm a 17 year old boy all alone in a house for a day! WAHAHAHAHA. It's actually pretty boring. I just put chicken tenders into the oven. Woo....etc.
Not too long this time, eh? Happy now?
So... Fahrenheit 9/11 was good. Nothing really unexpected, just two hours of Bush bashing, and facts about how corrupted our government is. I kinda already KNEW that Bush was an idiot and that our government was corrupt before I saw the movie, so nothing really changed. And I really doubt it'll affect the election. Anyone in that movie theater was probably already planning to vote for Kerry. How many right-wing Republicans are going to sit through that kind of movie? Not too many.
This is what happens when I don't write updates close enough together. I have this big blank space between seeing that movie and going up to the Incubus concert last Saturday. So I guess I'll just skip to that.
Last Friday I got out of work, ate dinner, and went over to Nick's house. Zach was there, too. We hung out, I tried to save Nick's computer (it's on the edge, I swear), we watched Kill Bill, and I got completely addicted to this game at 12 am. EVERYONE should play this game. And no, I'm not going to tell you what it is. Hah. So I didn't finish playing this game for three hours I think, and then we stayed up until five or so torturing Zach and generally being very silly.
Saturday I got up around 11 maybe? It's so hard to remember. Nick and I went to the mall, and I bought a handy-dandy FM transmitter for my MP3 player (which is now on it's way to being, hopefully, repaired at the Creative repair facility). Then we stopped at my house so I could take a shower and put clean clothes on. I burned Nick a CD, then we went back to Nick's house. There we watched Jeff Eckman's stand-up routine, which was alright, then went over to Eckman's house for a bit and watched this weird improv video. Some of it was funny, but basically I just wanted to get going to the show. And around 4:30, that's exactly what we did. We stopped at Macdonald's on the way, and nearly got lost in Massachuesettes, but eventually we made it to the Centrum Center. After standing in this HUGE line (like... three blocks long), we talked to a guy and found out that we didn't have to wait there since our tickets were at the box office. So we got our tickets, and found our seats, which were unfortunately not general admission, but balcony seats. So we're WAY up in the second balcony, all the way at the top, to the left of the stage. Not the greatest seats, but at least we had a good view of the band from there. The opening band, Sparta, really, really sucked. They played five or six songs, unfortunately, which we had to sit through. Then Incubus came on, and on the first or second song the crowd started pushing the crappy barrier they had installed forward towards the band. Basically they rushed the stage, and the band had to stop the show. Then everyone had to wait probably 30 minutes or so while the security team installed a new barrier.
Then the show started, and it was good. I was rather surprised that Boyd, the singer, was as good live as he was. The dude didn't miss a single note. And the huge drum break was really, when both the drummer and the bassist had sets and were rocking out, with Boyd on bongos. All in all a very good show. We were both tired on the drive home, but we blasted music and that kept us awake. We stopped at Wendy's and got frosties. Got back to Nick's house and fell asleep around 2 or so.
Sunday morning I woke up at 10:15, and got driven home by Nick. By 10:30 I was in the car with my dad, going to pick up Bryce and Chris to stay up at camp for the night. That whole event was fun, basically a lot of walking to the store and back. We went swimming once. It was really cold, but they made me stay in. :P We watched Gatacca, even though Bryce didn't want to. Chris and I overpowered him. We bought hotdogs, and ate them. Uhm... and then we went home the next morning around 4.
I didn't have to go to work that Monday because of the Fourth of July, so I don't know what I did. Summer is flying by, I can't remember what I did at all. I've been going to sleep really late (3-4am) everynight, and waking up around noon. It's such a waste, but I have almost nothing to do except work and read a few books. I read the first chapter of APOTAAAYM for World Lit, but haven't gotten back to it since then. I'd have gone to drumline that day, but it was too late already.
This last week has been pretty cool. I hung out with Jon and Nick watched Eurotrip on one day. The movie was funny in parts, the best being the little German boy doing the goose step. Absolutely hilarious. Bryce and I hung out a few times I think. I got this wicked annoying computer virus (at least.. that's what I think it is, some folks on #help suggested it might be a bad mobo..) which randomly moves the mouse around and clicks things. Really, really annoying. I'm trying to click and link and... VOOM it flies off to the left or right. So Thursday (or was it Friday? I can't remember) I formatted *sniff* my hard drive and installed XP. And guess what? It STILL moves around. But it stops randomly, too, like now it's not doing it. I will go nuts if it keeps it up.
And returning to current events, last night I went to see Spider-Man 2 with Erin, and it was GREAT. Much better than the first one, I thought anyways. I really want to see Venom/Carnage in the third one, and not the Hob Goblin (who's completely LAME). No cool villains ever rode a Fisher-Price surf board. *shakes head* Plus the villain died way too abruptly in the first one. You keep waiting for this cool ending fight scene, and it never comes. Disappointing. Doc Oc was way cooler. The CG still needs a little work, you can still tell when it's not the real dude, but it still looks very good. I'm just waiting for transparent CG work in movies a few years from now when you can't tell at all.
Today my family went up to camp without me, because I didn't want to go. I'm a 17 year old boy all alone in a house for a day! WAHAHAHAHA. It's actually pretty boring. I just put chicken tenders into the oven. Woo....etc.
Not too long this time, eh? Happy now?