Top Gun and The Astronaut Farmer

Well, my two blogs have been successfully merged. on to some movie reviews

Top Gun
Top Gun, which i haven't seen since i was little, was quite good. The acting was all very good, the action was very believable, and not at all over done, the soundtrack was good, and the whole movie was pretty fun. The plot moved along kinda slowly at times, but that's how movies seem to have been before we got so used to having action constantly thrown at us. Nothing much to say with this one, i give it 3.7 stars, it gets an extra .2 for being a classic.

The Astronaut Farmer
This movie, on the other hand, was not quite good. It was very close to being good, i wanted to like it, but it just didn't pull through. The acting, while not bad, was weird. Almost awkward, especially the little girls. The plot was pretty terrible, and the story itself wasn't believable at all. It was never very engaging, and almost nothing happens. When it does happen, it happens suddenly and it feels forced. While i like rocket building montages, i still don't know how he built a rocket when he had almost no money. The whole thing was just silly. Final vote: 2 stars. I'm just glad i didn't have to pay for this.

two things to do before this year is done:

Learn to play the guitar (i doubt that'll happen)
Learn to solve a Rubik's Cube.

The Daily Blah Indeed

I decided it's silly to keep to blogs. I'll merge my old blog into this blog at some point, and from not on good entries will be few and far between.

So today could have been far better than it was.

Camping is causing all sorts of problems. It would have been so simple if everybody hadn't found out about it. Roberta's being about as unfriendly as possible, which is not the way to convince me to go camping. There's really no possible way for everybody to go on this camp. Why does everybody think they can hike nine miles with 30-40 pounds on their back. I'm not sure i can, and i'm in better physical condition than most of my friends. It's almost worth letting everybody come and then just leaving them, but i wouldn't do that, because that'd be wrong, and the camp would end up sucking.

Other problems arise from other issues. Issues which i have to deal with, i really don't want to, but i need to, and it's going to be hard for me to tell people i'm friends with, straight out, you can't go. It really comes down to either completely scrapping this camp and doing somewhere else, or not caving and pissing everybody off. I love the idea of going camping with everybody. But it's not possible for this one, and i really want this to be exactly what i've planned and hoped it to be.

the other problem is money. Driving is going to cost over $100 per car, which means that we really need people in groups of 5.

So yeah, a simple escape from civilization is turning out to be very copmlicated and rather uncivilized.

In other news i've spent the last hour or so figuring out how to play zelda music using my shnazzy keyboard. So far i've gotten the bass, guitar, second guitar, and almost the trumpet part. I'm planning on putting it all together to make the song sound the same, which when i really think about it doesn't sound that cool on it's own, but i'll know how cool it'll be, and that's all that count.

Oh, and two of my sisters now have blogs. We're so cool.

Ghost Rider

hm, my monitor's a popping, that's never a good sign. Anyway on to movie review #4? sounds about right.

Ghost Rider.
First of all, i should say that i liked it. Now, what was wrong with it? The acting was a bit bad at times (though nick cage was cool like always) the dialogue was pretty terrible, predictable and corny. The plot was nearly as predictable and corny, and the final fight didn't seem quite epic enough. The fights all seemed to easy for him too. The music was great, the effects were pretty good, and i liked it. It was kinda campy, and felt very much like a comic book.

Final count: 3.5

A Vacation...from my problems

I was feeling like posting a picture, and that one caught my eye for some reason, then i messed with it in Picasa for a while, and so there you go.

I've been reading The Poisonwood Bible for a while, delaying the aweful amount of calculus take-home test i need to do, and generally relaxing. Church today was normal, i wore a suit, which isn't normal at all, and that was fun. I also pissed off my teacher by unintentionally calling him a bad teacher. In truth i was frustrated at the inefficiencies of the Socratic Method for teaching, mostly in the way that i answer a whole bunch of questions. I tried to steer us into a nice socratic debate about what freedom is as penence, and that seemed to cheer him up, so i felt a little better.

After church i came home, meandered around as is my custom, and eventually took a stats test, which wasn't so bad. I studied the stuff i figured would be on the test, so i was ok there, but then i kinda blanked on the process it was testing. Luckily it was mostly multiple choice, so we'll see how that goes.

I'm realizing the inherent inefficiencies of having two seperate blogs. Instead of digressing into happy philosophical thinking, i keep myself talking about my day and stuff like that. I guess i'll consolidate my blogs someday, till then i'll leave them. It does make my other blog a bit more interesting to read perhaps, although i'm really not sure which is more interesting, my emo teenager thoughts or my mundane daily toils. I think i'll just let this turn into a thoughtful blog and stick it on my good blog.

I'm realizing i need a break from my friends. I like my friends, they're fun, but when I need a bit of time to just relax and not do a whole lot. My vacations seem to become very busy. I'm looking forward to camping, and wondering how exclusive i should be. It is one of the last big things we'll do together, but in all honesty, i just don't want to go camping with everyone i'm friends with. And as hard as it is to explain, there is a very noticable and enjoyable difference in hanging out, especially camping, with no girls. I don't want my nice small camp get away to be turned into just a normal day but with nature. The other thing is that guys hanging out with their respective girlfriends and/or crushes just aren't as much fun. It's fun for them, but yeah. Maybe i just need a girlfriend. So i'm debating how this camping this is going to go. I also am wondering how everyone and their mom now knows about the camping thing. From my memory i've only told like 4 or so people. Everybody knowing complicates things.

So i'm realizing this blog is fairly revealing, and although only a few people read my blog, it's pretty thoroughly public. Chances are if you're reading this i'm not talking about you, unless you're spencer, and then i most definitely am. Sorry about that, just the way it goes.

Well, it's 7, so i'm going to start working towards doing my homework, starting with writing a quick review of Ghost Rider. Forsooth.

Del Taco?

ew, i just sneezed on my screen. There must be a way to delete entries, but since i can't find it, i'm just going to replace the previous entry with this one.

What time is it? VALENTIMES!

just fyi, i do, infact, know how to spell Valentines day.

So anyway, today was half an adventure, and that's something. English was busyness, as usual. Gov was a bad open book test, and then not much. Latin was reading and that sort of fun.

Then i went to give blood. Giving blood is usually pretty fun, i enjoy it. This time, however, was definitely the least fun. Happily the little finger prick was less painful that usual, that's actually my least favorite part usually.

I got a kinda sub-par nurse lady. When she stuck the needle in my blood spurted out, which hasn't happened before, and it hurt more than usual. She just left the blood there, which was kinda icky. When she pulled the needle out it hurt some more, and i think she may have cut me a bit or something. I held my arm up for a while, and then checked to see if i was still bleeding, and blood gushed out. So then i'm sitting there with blood dripping down my arm, but i can't stop it very well cus if i let go of my bandage i'll bleed all over the place. So then i kinda catch it with my thumb, but it starts to pool, and it's about to drip into my arm pit, which would just be weird. So i kinda wipe it on my arm, and then i make a little smiley face, because that was just cool. So hopefully i'll get some pictures of that when Caitlin uploads those pictures of that. Anyway, after that she had me put my arm down and wiped the blood off, and she checked and it was still bleeding. Eventually she stuck a bandage on it and wrapped the stuff pretty tight. It must have still bled for a little while, cus when i took it off it had lots of dried blood on it.

But that was fun. And i got a nice t-shirt.

After school, me and caitlin walked to my house cus everybody else had vamoose'd. After a little bit i went to the bank and deposited my checks (now i have a bit o' money to spend. fun stuff) and took caitlin home. Aaand, here am I. lost tonight, and maybe i'll do some homework. Mrs. D needs to stop giving us tests to do on our own time. The unfortunate truth is that i don't have a whole lot of my own time while at school. All my time at school is spent going to school, so yeah, that doesn't quite work out very well. So eventually i'll get that done i guess.

So my sister totally has a blog now. How greatly lame.