• 20Oct 09

  Thoughts on becoming a mod, Where The Wild Things Are, Paranormal Activity, etc.

  Hello everyone. It has been a while since I've posted a blog. I just became a mod yesterday, and am having fun with it. It feels good to contribute to the community and feel like you are making it better.

  

  I saw Where The Wild Things Are this weekend. I thought the movie was great in some ways and lackluster in others. The movie really succeeded in making you feel like a kid again, but not in the joyful way that, say, a Pixar movie might. This movie made me cry more than once.(laugh all you want jerks.) It dredged up a lot of memories about how sad my childhood was, and how alone and out of control a lot of us felt growing up. I used to run away and hide too. At first I didn't care for how 'normal' the monsters where in the movie until I slowed down enough to think that these monsters were representing people in Max's life that scared him. On an emotional level, and a visual level, this movie was a great success. It is gorgeous to look at, and it makes you feel a lot of raw emotions about your childhood. The story structure is pretty busted though. The movie almost feels too short, and things don't really get resolved, but I that kinda describes my childhood too.

  

  My brother and I are off to see Paranormal Activity tonight. This movie was made for around $15,000 dollars and is supposed to be absolutely terrifying. I've been really curious to see it, and it is finally showing in my town.

  What is going on with you folks?

  • Posted Oct 20, 2009 10:29 am PT
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• 31Aug 09

  A weekend of Batman, Ponyo and burlesque ladytypes.

  I had a pretty solid weekend. I beat Arkham Asylum and have been fiddling around trying to find the Riddler Challenges left in the game. I absolutely loved this game. I'll probably do up a review for it later in the week... suffice to say it was a dream come true.

  On Saturday I bought a couch from St. Vincent's for $7.50. It is rad. Totally rad. I also went and saw the new movie from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli called Ponyo. It was gorgeous. Easily up there with some of my favorite Miyazaki movies.

  

  

  

  It also has the most obnoxious song ever that plays with the end credits. I can still hear it in my head and it might drive me a little insane.

  On Sunday I went and played some frisbee golf with a buddy and then went to check out Boise's first annual Curb Cup. Curb Cup was this thing where a bunch of random musicians, magicians and street performers all came out and took over downtown boise. It was sort of like a Battle of the Bands type event where every person who came voted for who they thought the best performer was. There was a wide variety of strangeness, with pockets of good stuff here and there. Here are some pictures...

  There was a dude that I won't show too much of that was wearing a medusa hat and not much else playing a guitar.

  

  There was a robot magician.

  

  There were these weird bastards... I'm not really sure what they were doing...

  

  There was a luchadore playing the drums!

  

  This is the cutest girl musician I've seen in a long time.

  

  The highlight of the whole thing would definitely be my friend Erin's RedLight Variety Show... they put on burlesque shows every once in a while that are a lot of fun.

  

  

  

  

  I had a pretty great weekend.

  • Posted Aug 31, 2009 11:11 am PT
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• 9Jul 09

  The Summer of Goose Crap

  How goes it? What have you people been up to this Summer? I haven't blogged about anything in a while, so I thought I'd post an update. I've been playing a lot of frisbee golf lately, and not a lot of games. We always play down at the big park in town, Anne Morrison Park, and while it is a great place to play, it has some issues. Mainly, the entire west side of the park is covered in goose ****, and there are a lot of water hazards, so any time your throw lands in the water, you end up wading into the goose crap infested stankwater...

  Here is my friend Jason after rescuing his frisbee from the muck:

  

  Here's me being chivalrous and getting my friend Heather's frisbee out:

  

  Oh... and for the lulz, here is a great picture of Jason and I:

  

  Outside of frisbee golf I'm looking forward to taking a camping trip down to the City of Rocks this weekend. I plan on getting drunk and falling off a cliff. At least the site of my death will be beautiful:

  

  

  I can't wait! It is going to be nice to get away for a while.

  In other awesome news, my brother and I are moving to a new place at the end of the month. It is an 1800 square foot monster of a place, which means I will be able to finally have room for my ping pong table. Here are some pics...

  The view from the front door:

  

  The room where the ping pong table will be:

  

  It has a huge back porch area as well as a two car garage:

  

  I'm getting a new roommate to go with the new place as well, my friend Loren is coming to live with us. He is a rad dude:

  

  Life is going well. Some of you might have known that I broke up with my girlfriend a while back. She was going to move to Korea, but now she isn't, and we are talking more often lately. Who knows what will come of that, but I'm happy that she is back in my life. What are you guys doing with your summer?

  • Posted Jul 9, 2009 3:37 pm PT
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