I just got back from seeing the IMAX version of Avatar, and my mind was BLOWN.

I am thoroughly convinced that James Cameron cannot make a bad movie. He's like Pixar for adults. I'm not a fan of Terminator and I flat-out dislike Aliens, but both are great movies. Titanic is fantastic. And now there's Avatar.

I mean, wow. Yes, the movie is visually gorgeous: some of the scenes in the jungle of Pandora are absolutely beautiful, with their plants and animals. The Na'avi look awesome and live within their own culture, which is similar to the native American indians' in some respects.

The movie is also full of emtotional roller coaster rides, particularly near the end. The most emotional part, however, is that point in the movie where it suddenly hits you and you're like "Wow, this isn't actually real."

The movie is cliche; there simply can be no denying it. It's very reminiscent of Disney's Pocahontas. Of course, everything is cliche to some extent, so this isn't a complaint of mine. Cliche, when done right, can be just as spectacular (or moreso, depending on the competition) than an original idea (if such a thing exists anymore).

Forget every negative thing you've read or heard about Avatar; they're wrong. The only thing I'd call "negative" about this movie is that it moves too fast in the beginning. That's it. Go see this movie and love it.

And though I hate to admit it, the trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians looks awesome.

As for the IMAX, this is my first IMAX experience and it's probably going to be my last; yes, it was really nice, but I just can't see this 3D crap without getting a splitting headache afterwards. Avatar was only playing in 3D here, so I figure, might as well go for IMAX.

The next Titanic? Not really. More like the next Wizard of Oz.

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the mushroom kingdom, and cried incessantly, "I seek Mario! I seek Mario!" As many of those who do not believe in Mario were standing around then, he provoked much laughter. "Why, did he get lost?" said one. "Is his princess in another castle?" said another. "Is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage?" Thus they yelled and laughed. Then the madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

"Whither is Mario," he cried, "I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the Mushroom sea? Who gave us the Fludd to wash away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained this Earth from its Sun?Whither is it moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually, as he did? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Must not fire flowers be ate in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet the noise of the gravediggers who are burying Mario? Do we not smell anything yet of Mario's decomposition? Mario does decompose. Mario is dead. Mario remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the koopas of all koopas, comfort ourselves? What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. What festivals of atonement, what sacred stars shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become Mario just to seem worthy of it?"

At last he cast out a fireball from his hand, and it fizzled and went out. "I come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering--it has not yet reached the ears of Toads. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of stars require time, deeds require time even after they have been done even before they can be seen or heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars--and yet they have done it themselves."

It has been said that on that same day the madman entered diverse pipes and sang his mourning. Led and called out to the account, he is said to have replied each time, "What are these pipes now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of Mario?"

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There's some swearing.

The ending is especially funny.

Rofflcakes.

I remember when I would watch The Nanny when I was ten and just laugh my ass off despite not understanding half of it. Now that 23, I still laugh my ass off and understand all of it. The Nanny was the perfect sitcom: it developed over time instead of piling a bunch of useless crap in every episode (lookin' at you, Seinfeld!), the characters grew and changed, the jokes were hilarious (and most of them HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SEX, a concept most sitcoms can't even fathom these days), and the interactions between Niles the Butler and C.C. Babcock were challenged only by the quips of Jeffrey from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (A close runner-up for best sitcom ever).

Even the Jew jokes are funny.

I had a panic attack at school that I mistook for a heart attack (a common mistake, apparently), and was rushed by ambulance to the hospital where I waited for six hours for someone to tell me that there's nothing physically wrong with me, here's some Ativan and that'll be $5,000.

Isn't life just grand?

Remember a few months ago when I said I'd pass my math class with an A this semester or I'd paint a square root sign on my balls? Here are the grades to my tests this semester (there's one more test plus the final, then the semester is over):

97
100
97
93
100
100
85
96
102
100

Hard to believe I previously failed this course.

List of stuff I'm thankful for goes here. Enjoy the turkey.

hey guys im on a gaming forum so i have every excuse to communicate like a drunken kidf a t a frat party but its okay because werre on a gaming forum and i can make ridiculously long sentences without punctionation that nobodyu can read hahahalolol and if you criticise me then your a nub cus i expect you to read my incomprehensible nonsense and understand it EVEN THOUGH I DONT HAVE TO MAKE IT LOOK PRESENTABLE so heres my caps sentence to emphasise my sarcasm lol but hey if i wanted to sepll right id go back to high school which was dumb btw cuz all i lerned in high school was how to sleep all day amirite ladiez but yeh grammer nazis is dumb lol its a forum its not like u need 2 read to understand or communicate lol and if you cant read it then your dumb and should go back to colleheg or sumthin cuz ur dumb and dont be correctin my grammer cuz im on a gaming forum lol lol roflmao ITS A FORUM NO NEED TO CRRECT GRAMMER PEEPLE ITSJUST stupid as whu u want to be readin is a smrt person if he cant get his point acorss lol readread arent i a genius or sumthin lol

MIND****.

That was the weirdest ending to anything I've ever seen, and so awesome! I want AC3 now.

Oh, and the Truth video? Crazy as hell. Look it up (spoilers). You may need to turn your volume up.

You may have noticed that I didn't blog yesterday. That's because I was too busy having my MIND BLOWN by AC2, which I got yesterday morning (Master Assassin edition).

I mean, holy crap. I thought the first one was good. It sucks compared to this. AC2 is so awesome. I mean, really, really, REALLY awesome. Every negative of AC1 is gone, replaced by this masterpiece.

Get it. Get this game. Even if you thought the first one was the worst game ever made, get this one; it improves everything from the first.

We will make it out alive
there's a note in the pages of the book
So Sleep tonight,
We'll sleep dreamlessly this time
When we awake we'll know that
everything's alright

And sing to me about the end of the world
End of these hammers and needles for you

Hold on to the world we all
remember fighting for,
there's still strength left in us yet
Hold on to the world we all remember dying for,
there's still hope left in it yet

The snow on your face, and your razor blades
The twilight is bruised and there you lie

And sing to me, about the end of the world
End of these hammers and needles for you
We'll cry tonight, but in the morning we are new
Stand in the sun, we'll dry your eyes

Hold on to the world we all
remember fighting for,
there's still strength left in us yet
Hold on to the world we all remember dying for,
there's still hope left in it yet

And sing Sing Arise

Arise and be,
All the you dreamed, all that you dreamed

Arise and be,
All the you dreamed, all that you dreamed

Arise and be,
All the you dreamed, all that you dreamed

Arise and be,
All the you dreamed, all that you dreamed

And that, children, is why George Takei is awesome.

Word count: 12,609. Number of pages: 21 (41 double-spaced).

What the word count should have been as of last Monday: 15,000. >_______>

Well, there goes whatever blind hopes I had for this movie.

Novel's at 7,500 words (15 pages). I'm a tad behind, but it's okay, because I have plans. . . yes. . .plans. . .mwahahaa. Ciao.

With this nanowrimo stuff going on, I'll be away from GS for most of November, though I might poke in on the seventeenth after I get the Master Assassin's edition of AC2. See you later!

In 1476 Da Vinci and some other guys were anonymously accused of committing homosexual sex with a male model of his time. Da Vinci was held and questioned quite thoroughly on his sexual life and thoughts, and always insisted that his sex life was nonexistent as befits an artist. He was acquitted and his sexuality has been in question ever since; it was even the subject of a Sigmund Freud book, who maintained that Da Vinci was, in fact, gay.

And for grins and giggles, the beginning of Assassin's Creed 2 (which features Da Vinci as a supporting character) is set in 1476.

This game just looks better and better every day.

*Note: If you haven't read George R.R. Martin's book, A Game of Thrones, you may not know what I'm talking about here.*

Well, they have pretty much everyone I can think of casted for HBO's Game of Thrones, and most roles (that I can find) look pretty good, with a few that are "ehh. . . .". I'll only post the major and semi-major roles; for the minor roles go to imdb.

Eddard Stark is played by Sean Bean:

My opinion: Looks pretty good. He was good as Boromir.

Tyrion Lannister is played by Peter Dinklage (click for photo).

My opinion: I'll be honest; I wasn't certain at first. I loved Prince Caspian, but an issue I had with it was (and I admit that this is somewhat politically incorrect): the dwarves's voices were too deep. Yes, I admit it, I want my dwarves with high-pitched "Nyaa!" voices (with the sole exception of Gimli, who is more a man than any of us will ever be). Plus, I never pictured Tyrion with a deeper voice. But then I read this quote from Dinklage on his Wikipedia page, and now I know he's absolutely perfect for Tyrion; it's about his size: When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humor. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.

Jaime Lannister is played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau:

My opinion: He looks perfect for this role.

Viserys Targaryen is played by Harry Lloyd:

My opinion: Again, he looks perfect for this role.

Robert Baratheon will be played by. . .Mark Addy. . .

My opinion:. . . . . .it could work. . . . .Robert is supposed to be fat and somewhat incompetent, after all. . . . it could work. . . .

Jon Snow will be played by Kit Harrington:

My opinion: He looks a little young, but from what I hear the producers were amazed by his audition, so we'll see.

Catelyn stark will be played by Jennifer Ehle:

My opinion: I don't care for this one. I never pictured Catelyn with short, blonde hair, and Ehle seems a little old to me. If they grow her hair out then maybe, but I don't know. . .

Cersei Lannister will be played by Lena Heady:

My opinion: I always pictured Cersei with red hair, but otherwise she looks perfect for the role, and her role as Leonidas's wife in 300 (I think it was her, anyway) only excites me more (not in that way. . . ).

Robb Stark will be played by Richard Madden (click for picture).

My opinion: He looks young, but Robb is only supposed to be sixteen-ish, so we'll see.

Daenerys Targaryen will be played by Tamzin Merchant (click for picture).

My opinion: I don't know. . .she looks too. . . girly. . .if you've read the series so far then you'll understand why I feel that way. . . I just get a "damsel in distress" vibe from her when the role demands the exact opposite.

Sansa Stark will be played by Sophie Turner:

My opinion: Perfect. I just wish there wasn't a soft porn star with the same name; it made Google search quite a hassle for me. >_>

Arya Stark will be played by Maisie Williams (click for picture).

My opinion: She seems to have the same problem as Daenerys: too much "helpless girly girl" vibe going on. But then, she is a child. We'll see.

If any of these images are broken or. . .give a hotlink issue. . .please let me know.

Overall, I'd say the cast looks pretty damn good. I can't wait for this series.

I just ate a Pringle and I. . .can't. . .stop. . .I have school tomorrow but I just keep eating!

I think I'm going to try this.

I just stumbled upon it today. I think it would be good. I signed up and everything.