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Not a lot to say here...

I've been checking back to the forums on this site pretty regularly the last couple weeks just to realize that no one is on them.

Its pretty frustrating kinda? Some of the sections have literally not been touched in months. I'm starting to think whats the point? I enjoy the site to a point but there is just no one around.

Out of all the threads going only about 4-5 even get touched within the period of a week. This place is probably not going off of Beta for another year and there is no word that anything is going to change even close to anytime soon.

Any thoughts?

Down at the Lakes

I've taken my independant study down to my parent's house since they're out of town to procrastinate down by the lakes.

I'm down by Detroit Lakes, MN which is about an hour from where I live. I'll put up a couple pictures for my next blog. I came down last night and still haven't done anything but play guitar and watch movies so this hasn't been all that productive, yet again. I'm taking this stupid book down by the lake and if it accidentaly drops in I don't think I'll mind.

I have, somehow, crossed the 1/5 point of this ind. study but I have also watched Omega Man with Charleton Heston and caught the last episode of Battlestar Galactica.

Omega Man is based off the same story that 'I Am Legend' and 'Last Man on Earth' (starring Vincent Price) where based on. I had heard so much about this one being the best of the three so I finally watched it. Its kinda good, kinda funny. Charleton Heston is sitting in a movie theatre watching a screener of Woodstock reciting all the words instead of Will Smith reciting Shrek. Its defiinitely a 70s movie - if you see it you'll understand why its funny. You half expect everyone to fit 'jive-turkey' into their next sentence but it never comes.

Battlestar Galactica was actually pretty good. If you haven't seen this series I really recommend it. I used to see ads for it and I probably made fun of it at one point until I actually saw it. Its easily one of the best shows I've ever seen. I haven't been a huge fan of this last season but this last episode it has gotten a lot more interesting again - bringing back the action.

I'm probably going to put the 1956 version of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' in tonight and watch the string of remakes over the next couple nights. I may just skip 'The Invasion' this time around though. Seeing that again would probably just make me sad...

Well - I better get something done at least. See ya around!

The Midnight Oil

Its about 1:30 in the morning right now and I'm working on an independant study that I'm doing for the summer. Ok - I'm lying, I'm actually on Movie Tome reading people's blogs and writing movie reviews for films I've seen lately. I have the book open though!

While I'm 'studying' I'm going through the 2nd season of 30 Rock again. I'm such a geek but this show is so funny! I love the last episode with Homeland Security.

Lately I've been a watching a couple movies. I've finally seen 'The Last Man on Earth' with Vincent Price. This version was better than 'I am Legend.' It didn't have any CGI or anything like that but the CGI wasn't so great anyway.

There's a movie called 'The Last Minute' that you've probably never heard of but is totally worth the watch. Its kinda like Trainspotting in a way except its got a Drug-Dealing Mobster named Percy who randomly breaks into song. I could not stop laughing - you have to see this. Its written, produced, and directed by a guy named Stephen Norrington who I've never really heard of. He's only done one other movie that I know of called 'Death Machines.' Has anyone ever seen or heard of this?

I also threw in 'Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind' again just because its such a great movie to watch. - Evokes alot of emotion and it is such a visual show.

OK! I'm going to finally open my textbook again! - maybe...

When is MovieTome coming back in full-force?

I know the site had lost a lot of people after some issues last year but it seems to have bounced back a little anyway. I've come to like it quite a bit but there's no word of when submissions will be allowed again or if they will make further improvements to the site like they did with Tv.com (which is a pretty good site these days). I would love to see more people on this site but they don't seem to be doing much with it these days.

Look at the crazy amount of membership GameSpot has now.

Has anyone heard anything?

Farmer Wants A Wife

Yeah, Ok, I watched 'Farmer wants a wife.' For some reason this show upset me, then I got into it like I get into every stupid reality show (I can't shake my fist at you enough Rock of Love II!!!!!).

So anyway, now I hate this lady...nevermind Firefox is telling me yet again that I cannot copy and paste. This problem is not resolved because someone on their end is annoying and someone on my end is lazy. Just kidding Firefox God! I'm very thankful for you! - (That was pointless, wasn't it?!)

Well anyway - I hate Josie on that show but, the more I thought about it, thats probably why she's on there. - So I will tune in just to hate on that lady. Grrrrrrr! Stupid marketing...

Besides that - the farmer guy looks creepy - that's all I'm gonna say on that. Congratulations! I think I just wasted your time on this stupid, pointless blog....(this is awkward).

Horror and Thee Quest for Thine Cellphone

Its not like I know a ton on the subject, but I have a simple theory on what we can expect from Horror Movies for at least another decade.

Kung fu movies have always suffered when it came to the gun. You can fend off every kind of weapon ever made because you train all the time and no one can touch you - but then some guy comes along with one gun and you've gone down from being able to take on 50 men down to 1, about 7 tops but you have to get lucky and then die later anyway like in 'V for Vendeta.'

Some kung-fu movies choose to just ignore the gun - watch a present day setting movie called 'City of Violence' - not one of these 200 mobsters has one gun?

With horror movies - we have the cellphone problem. Yeah - scary guy chasing me in the woods, but realistically for about 30 minutes - because I will have called the police and whatever hillbilly shotgun-toting friends I have in the area. I probably would have time to google his parents and shop for a good deal on a plane ticket to fly them out and have them talk him out of his bloodlust rage.

More and more we are seeing movies set in third world countries to explain why the tourist could lose cellphone reception or not easily replace their cellphone in 5 minutes at the Chilean Best Buy that is probably within walking distance. A few more have been set in the past or the future, which is telling me that we will find cellphones unnecessary in the future. Heck - why not an underground cave filled with de-evolved flesh-eatinghumans (I actually liked Decent).

There are a few that actually use the cellphone as a tool (One missed call, every psycho who lives in a city mysteriously already has your number, etc.).

Ok, enough ramble - my point is this: If 90% of the horror movies over the next decade spend 15 minutes out an 80 total minute movie explaining away the plausibility of a co-ed, not like the other girls, brunette being able to use her cellphone, then - an avid horror movie fan will spend about 1/5 of that horror movie watching decade learning how to lie really badly. - or they'll get really good at scaring us into buying cellphones and I should go work for Verizon.

Horror Lately

Just lately I watched Guillermo del Turo's 'The Orphanage.' I love his movies. They always seem to be a little misgenred though. If you haven't seen Devil's Backbone, its one of the best movies I've ever seen and you should pick it up when you get time. Anyway - its scary in parts but its got a full palete of the other genres attached to it - same with Pan's labyrinth. These movies that he's been putting out, for me, seem to be stretching the bounds of what I consider horror movies. Now I'm del Turo spoiled and refuse to put up with one-dimensional horror flicks!

Psycho guy chases blonde girl for 80 minutes no more!

I also watched Alien II lately. That is probably one of the best horror sequels out. I honestly can't think of anything close. They should redo the third to have the alien meeting with the pope so that he can legitimize the family business through casinos but his ways of the past keep pulling him back in and he goes back to wreaking havoc on passer-by ships, drooling - always drooling.

Anyway - I was about 1/2 way through a no-budget flick called 'Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.' Yes, it really does exist. I haven't had the nerve to finish it yet. I can't say its great - its got some funny parts - but I think Jesus would be angry if I gave it a recommendation. Btw - no really - its a real movie.

Computer Lab

I am in the computer lab on campus getting ready for finals. When I look around there is one person working on a trend analysis and the rest are on facebook or poker, me included. We are all doomed. When I come down with some life-threatening disease, these will be the people with my life in their hands. I'll be waiting on the bed with the stupid little paper sheet and they'll be in the other room on web MD trying to figure out why someone would sporatically grow nipples well into maturity.

Then, they'll lose a hand on the other screen and say screw it. They'll write a prescription for insulin just to get me outta there and poof! - gone like Kyser Sose.

I Stole This - but it was too funny not to!

I got this from Animefan91tx's blogs. After I read this I thought the more people that get to read this, the better. Its just that funny. So - sorry to Animefan91tx. I can remove it if you'd like, it just put a smile on my face so I thought I'd spread the good word.

Enjoy!

The following are actual answers given on history tests and in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th and 6th grade in Ohio. They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers.

-Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

-Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandos. He died before he ever reached Canada but his commandos made it.

-Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He was an actual hysterical figure as well as being in the bible. It sounds like he was sort of busy too.

-The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a young female moth.

-Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

-In the first Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the java. The games were messier then than they show on TVnow.

-Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul . The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out "Same to you, Brutus."

-Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw for reasons I don't really understand. The English and French still have problems.

-ueen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "Hurrah!" and that was the end of the fighting for a long while.

-It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood.

-Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.

-The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.

-Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Since then no one ever found it.

-Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backward and also declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." He was a naturalist for sure. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

-Abraham Lincoln became America 's greatest Precedent. Lincoln 's Mother died in infancy, and he was born in log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation.

-On the night of April 14, 1865 , Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor.This ruined Booth's career.

-Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German,half Italian, and half English. He was very large.

-Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he wrote loud music and became the father of rock and roll. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

-Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits, but I don't know why.

-Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species. It was very long and people got upset about it and had trials to see if itwas really true. He sort of said God's days were not just 24 hours, but without watches, who knew anyhow? I don't get it.

-Madman Curie discovered radio. She was the first woman to do what she did. Other women have become scientists since her but they didn't get to find radios because they were already taken.

-Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the movies. Karl made speeches and started revolutions. Someone in the family had to have a job, I guess.

I hoped that you enjoyed that, and had a good laugh.

Vikings Signing Jared Allen Today?!

This might not mean much to a lot of you but I'm just too excited! The Vikings are signing Jared Allen (DE) from the Chiefs who led the league in sacks last year. I am running around in circles right now.

They should velcro Jared Allen to the back of Adrian Peterson for some weird joust kind of ordeal, and scream 'For the King!' after every down. Every time the camera goes up to Ziggy Wilf (owner) they should show him eating a giant leg of turkey and drinking mead. That would also make this team better.

Alright, I will have to make a point to think of something else today because I have a lot of homework to finish for school tonight but (graduating soon still hopefully) - Go Vikes! Hmmm, just 4 more months to go.

Ok - now I'm done. Also - why would a team pick purple as their team color?

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