...returning as if dream..." Beautiful song.

I'm proud of all of you and what you did on my last blog. My previous record of highest number of comments was 36. Now, within two days of the last blog being made, it has

95 comments!!!

Good job on helping. And I'm gonna be a greedy little b!tch and ask that five more comments be posted on it so it can break 100 comments!

I declare that the First Dee Blog Party!!! I'm planning one more big blog party for Wednesday or Thursday. However, last night, we oved the "party" to an AIM chatroom, and that worked a lot faster. I'm trying to get everyone here's AIM (if they have one) so we can have a huge chatroom for 1. faster conversations/arguments and 2. no fear of censorship!!! That, and it's a hell of a lot easier for me :lol:.

Anyhow, moving on, I went to the movie theaters tonight to see my most anticipated movie of the year. Many people are anticipating The Dark Knight, and some anticipated Iron Man, but the one movie that I anticipated the mostfor the rest of this year was...

WALL-E

In case you didn't, know, I'm a huge fan of Pixar movies. My very favorite pixar movie (was) is Ratatouille, the genius that came out last year. It was followed by Toy Story and Finding Nemo. I personally believe that Pixar has never made an average or below movie. All their movies have been Grade A quality. They continue that this year, with this charming twist on the ****c love story.

The story takes place in a semi-post-apocolyptic setting. The world has been overrun with trash after BnL (Buy 'n Large) became the world government and created consumerism. The citizens of Earth have "temporarily" been moved to a ship in space, where they have all been overly pampered and have become obese. But, if it's temporary, what happens to all the trash?

That's where WALL-E came in. WALL-E was built to compact trash into cubes and organize them to make Earth habital. Unlike the other robots of his kind, this WALL-E has developed a personailty, that he was partly taught about by watching "Hello Dolly!" often. He is very curious (he befriends a cockaroach out of curiosity in fact), and keeps all the interesting things he finds in his home. Most of all, he learns about love. Specifically, holding hands.

In an attempt to scan the life for any growing plants, the ship Axion, where all the humans are held, sends down EVE units to scan the world. WALL-E encounters one and falls in love with her. At first, she is very unemotional, doing only her job, destroing things in her way, but WALL-E follows her, and befriends her. He shelters her in his house when in danger. He shows her all his little trinkets, and shows her his treasured film.

When he shows her the plant he found, she scans it, and her system orders that she take it, and lock up. WALL-E, saddened by her shutting down continues to protect her and takes her places. A ship takes EVE back to Axion, and WALL-E sees it in the nick of time, and clings on.

They then go on a "mission" to deliver the plant to the captain of the ship so he can set course to return to Eath. And in the course, they find true love in each other.

Now, I have to make a claim. I have to this day, never cried because of a movie. Sometimes, I think about part of a movie later, and something relating it to my life makes me sad, but i have never cried solely because of a movie. Some have made me sad, but never made me cry. While watching this film, my eyes were this close to tearing from joy. WALL-E was adorable, and when he romances while watching the movie you can't help but love him. When he ifnds himself in true love, and EVE loves him back later, your eyes start to tremble a little, and you can feel the tears of joy coming on.

I'm not sure everyone understands what this means. I've seen romance movies with beautiful love stories in between two people. But never, has a romance brought me as close to tears of joy as a movie about romance between two robots. I'm telling you, these Pixar movies have an effect on me like no other. Ratatouille made me actually love a rat, even though all non-pet rats are scary. They make me believe toys can talk, they make me believe in family among fish, and most of all, Pixar makes me believe in true love, for everything. Yes, even robots. Without much speech, these two robots touch me more than any human in a live-action movie ever has.

This is truly a beautiful movie, and it has many laughs. The story is...dare I say it at the risk of being made fun of...yes...cute. Beautiful. Cute. Inspiring. Perfect. All from a story about robots, and how they find true love, in the course of restoring life on Earth.

Score: 100/100 (and by the way, I have never to this day given a movie anything beyond a 100 like I have with music albums and one video game)

This is my favorite movie of the year so far, and it knocks Iron Man down to #2. Sorry, "The Dark Knight", I also doubt you're gonna knock this down.

I really don't want to review CDs right now, so I've decided to instead, do something a little more unusual.

MY TOP TEN SONGS OF ALL TIME

1. "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead- I really hate to "steal" Elmis' favorite song, but I really can't help putting it here. The beautiful song overflowing with torment and emotion. Powerful (emotionally powerful, not as in the voice) vocals, with such simple chord progressions build to an energetic climax towards the end, and soften up again. Practically the perfect song. Utterly beautiful and flawless. If they play this liv on August 25th, my life will be complete.

2. "Say Hello To Heaven" by Temple of the Dog- I dubbed this my favorite not too long ago, and it had its rightful place. Chris Cornell gives one of the best vocal performances of all time to express feelings for his dead friend, and frontman of Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, and his emotions after his death. Stunningly beautiful instrumentals come from the current members of Pearl Jam playing with the legendary singer, forming a song of epic proportions.

3. "Alive" by Pearl Jam- I never like to point out one of the most well known songs by a band as my favorite, but come on. It was the first song I ever heard by Pearl Jam, so it has a sort of sentimental value. not just that, but it's torture filled story of Eddie Vedder's troubles involving his real father and step-father (never met his father, didn't know for a while after his father died) is deep and well told through song. And, the guitar solo? Geez, what more could I want? bluesy, at times very simple, occasionally throws in a quick riff, but mostly just very well composed improvisation. Excellent.

4. "For Martha" by The Smashing Pumpkins- This will definitely shock a person or two. "Mayonaise" has always been my favorite song by The Pumpkins, but I've discovered that nothing quite rivals the heart and soul that was poured into this song. For being such an arrogant a$$hole, Billy Corgan wrote one hell of a song dedicated to his mother. The depressing piano playing in the backgrund, Corgan singing, and a soft acoustic guitar occupy the song. Unless this combinion is done perfectly, songs always turn out boring. The soft song packs a punch of emotional power, and is by far Corgan's most heartfelt song. This might not be permanent, but this is my favorite Pumpkins song right now. For the second time on this list, a song Elmis turned me onto is here.

From now on, no explanations.

5. "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead (sorry, I didn't wanna put two Radiohead songs in the top five because Shadow's gonna yell at me, ugh, but I couldn't put any other songs above this)

6. "All Apologies" by Nirvana

7. "Outshined" by Soundgarden

8. "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains

9. "Hey" by The Pixies

10. "Summer Babe" by Pavement

This changes too often, but the top 4 or 5 will probably stay.

Now remember, after you comment on this blog, don't be afraid to go down to the last blog and get me up to 100 comments :P. Come on!