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 That's funny that Jon Stewart talks about flipping words like sock cucker fother mucker after my roommate and I have been doing that for a while, flipping the names of everyone at work and laughing at them. LOL. |
Watch Mike Huckabee, former presidential candidate, talk about redefining marriage and then watch Jon Stewart stick 'em with a zinger and the crowd goes wild.
For whatever reason, I missed this news when it happened.
Here President Bush is out on the White House's north portico waiting for the tardy McCain to show up so he can publicly endorse him as the next President, something neither of them wanted to do but felt obligated to do, I'm sure. Either way, Bush in his waiting decided to embarrass himself (and McCain when he later found out) by entertaining the crowd with a little ... tap dance. Yes, hang your head in your hands and peer through to the awkwardness...
Youtube link
OH, shit...sorry. Wrong video. .... They looked so similar. That was Jesco White and friends. LOL Here's our president:
Youtube link
Yahoo link
"I seen it!"
It's good to know there are white trash folks up in Canada, too, hehehe. (No offense to my fabulous Albertan friend, of course.) If you saw it, you have to tell us all about it!
Read more in the CBC News article.
That's the sound of Peter Griffith's sigh, and it's a huge sigh of relief after the freakin' elections. Ugh! I thought it would never end! Just remembering debating Hillary version Obama seems like FOREVER ago. SO much changes so quickly!
Enough with the politics! I'm done. Oh wait, I'm gay. Damn it! LOL I'm still ... [insert adj. here] about Prop. 8. What a bummer, huh! I'm still upset with that shit. Freakin' hot Mormons like their freakin' fifty wives, and I can't get one husband. That line borrow from a picketer's slogan. Find many more here, I found. Oh, and the Connecticut Supreme Court rouled 4-3 in favor of accepting gay marriages in their state . I wonder if Connecticut Catholics (or Mormons, LOL) will raise millions of dollars in money to advertise their bigotry AND push their church on the state, all on display for its 3.5 million citizens. I don't know what it is about this intersection of religion and politics, but it evidently gets to me.
My only solacement has been my twilight-hour coding. I've put together a small collection of code snippets and demos to prove to myself that I could make it use this to do that, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. And I have put together a simple project that I am improving bit by bit. Maybe I will post it soon, who knows.
It's the start of a new era in America.
Hulu link
See Obama's first press conference including the quip, "mutts like me," referring to the upcoming choice in dog for this daughters.
McCain gave a gracious concession speech, despite the boos of his character-trashing followers, and I have to confess I was a little sad when I watched Tine Fay, I mean, Sarah Palin walking off stage, like that was the end of all that wonderful fun we were having with her, haha. Obama gave an epic, presidential speech to a freakin' SEA of people in Chicago's Grant Park. I mean I was just in awe of the vast number of people there, and then the guys panned the cameras down the length of the park and it behooved me to say OMFG with renewed awe. This picture just doesn't do it justice since this is about half the width of this elongated park.
I found this eerily funny game online today. It's called Oiligarchy and this is its stated description:
Delicious, profitable, stinky oil! Let's get stupid rich, huh? Trash the environment, bribe the politicians and squish the little peoples. Don't feel rich enough? Then Drill, Baby, Drill!
And it doesn't stop with references to the winkin' hockey mom we know and love, Caribou Barbie, LOL, but it starts post-WWII in Texas and and you start drilling for oil. Depending on the politcal climate in other locations, you can also drill in Nigeria, Venezuela, Alaska, and Iraq. You influence the president and try to get stinking rich over the years. I don't want to spoil the fun, but there are some overt suggestions. Don't forget the read the newpaper headlines!
TiVo is joining up with Netflix to bring tons of more streaming online movies to TiVo devices over the internet, browseable on any TV set. Netflix subscribers will soon see a ton of new movies and TV episodes. Soon it will work on XBox, too. Maybe the Google phone or iPhone is next?
It makes me wonder, though, now that we are getting TV and movies streaming online anywhere in the house, and Japan has had TV on their cell phones for years, . . . what the hell do the Japanese have now??
A 60-year-old Anchorage Democrat filed a claim againt Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin claiming she abused her power and used state money to fund her children's travel and lodging.
And I got something in the mail about why I shouldn't vote for Obama because he's a tree-hugging liberal that doesn't want to tap into the natural reserves (location unspecified). And it wasn't from McCain's campaign; it was from a local branch. (Maybe McCain should get some of his wife's money involved. LOL!) But seriously, drill in the Gulf? Wait, how long does it take to build an oil platform in the Gulf? and how many offshsore rigs have been destroyed or damaged in the last few hurricane seasons? ... One second thought, maybe I shouldn't be reading a website in which their front page article paints a grim, dystopic future where society as we know it collapses in on itself.
The Alaskan Daily News, Alaska's largest newspaper, endorses Barack Obama for the next president of the United States.
The following statement refers to the economic meltdown, though it describes my reasons for voting for Obama (rather than a man with decades more experience who also happens to be so diametrically opposed to all of my opinions) better than I could have summized.
"[Obama] brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand."
About Palin's inexperience and McCain's old age the paper stated, "Gov. Palin's nomination clearly alters the landscape for Alaskans as we survey this race for the presidency — but it does not overwhelm all other judgment. The election, after all is said and done, is not about Sarah Palin, and our sober view is that her running mate, Sen. John McCain, is the wrong choice for president at this critical time for our nation. ... Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time."
I wonder what Ms. Shopoholic thinks of this!
Source: Yahoo News
And this may be a bit of old news, but I felt like I had to work this in. Here's what Matt Damon had to say about Sarah Palin.
YouTube link
Not having cable and finding only what I want to watch on the intratubes has led me to discover a lot of TV stations hosting their full episodes of shows on their websites (with advertising of course, some more than others)...
Hence, here's Family Guy Season 3 full episodes.
Episode 1 - Love Blackually
Hulu Link
Episode 2 - I Dream of Jesus
Hulu Link
I thought everbody had heard the news. LOL.
Episode 3 - Road to Germany
Hulu Link
"Well, we're in Europe."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have LOVED watching Tina Fey do those Sarah Palin impersonations on Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey has always been a funny gal, but this stuff with Palin has been so simultaneously hilariously and eerily accurate that at one time I couldn't believe that Sarah Palin actually said that she didn't know what the Vice President did every day... It had to be Tina Fey. (It actually was Palin who admitted she had no idea what the VP does. I bet McCain bursted a blood vessel when he heard that.)
Tina Fey went on Letterman talking about how she does Palin's accent, which I just told is a farce -- she never had that thick of an accent before six months ago. Maybe she's just doing it to look cute in the face of Mr. Wilson--I mean John McCain.
"She digs in those R's. I think she thinks there's oil in those R's." LOL!
In case you missed last Saturday's SNL, you can see clips of it here. Sadly, though, I think this may be the end of Tina Fey's Palin impersonations on SNL as she has been soooo busy working on 30 Rock, which was dismissively mentioned by SNL's producer and creator Lorne Michaels in last Saturday's SNL. =)
"CARIBOU BARBIE!?" LMAO!!
A friend sent me this link. Check it out. It's an old MadTV skit about A&F and it's SPOT ON! =D
YouTube link
Microsoft sent me a link to this in an email. I'm a PC! It looks like it's their attempt to get back at Apple for laying all those negative ads against them...
I'm a PC!
It would be more effective, I think, if this guy's sarcastic comment didn't ring so true. He goes, "I'm a PC and I like to watch videos that work." LOL Maybe it's due to Microsoft's new Silverlight they're using there, or maybe it's my internet connection. If it were the latter you'd think it would stream faster the 2nd or 3rd time, but that's not the case...
Check out this hottie!
MySpace is hosting a pretty cool web application now (and probably has for a long time running but that I'm just noticing) that surveys you on your political positions, provides you with a few opinions on a particular issue, and asks with which you agree most, and then it reveals the candidate who made the statement. At the end you see the results of the quiz and the results of all other MySpace users complete with maps and pie charts for the entire country or any state. Each map's color gradation is based upon the options from which you can so granularly select including gender, age, and issue. It's rather one-sided when you see it, but keep in mind these are MySpace users, not your average *ahem* conservative Republicans.
http://www.myspace.com/mydebates
Early Tuesday morning in the desolate Sahara Desert of northern Sudan, just east of the Nile River, a rock big enough to fill your living room came streaking in at eight miles per second, brightly flashing as it exploded in the Earth's atmosphere.
Meteors of this size enter the Earth's atmosphere all the time, but what makes this one unique is that it was the first meteor to be observed prior its impact with the Earth.
... *pause of dramatic effect*
These things are teeny tiny in astronomical proportions, but what makes them so hard to spot is that they're dark -- so dark that only the slightest fraction of the sun's light is reflected off its opaque surface, having about the same reflectivity as a lump of coal.
... Kinda scary, isn't it? Now guess how long we knew it was coming?
Less than 19 hours. Even worse, most scientist would agree that if a large meteor were to strike the Earth the chances that we would even see it coming at all would be slim. IF we were lucky enough to see it coming, we would probably know about it only a day ahead of time, similar to this meteor. In this case, the people of the world would not be notified and stirred up into a futile fury of panic; there would be nothing we could do about it at that point anyway. It would simply impact.
Read the Wikipedia article about 2008_TC3.
That's right. No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. Rednecks for Obama is a grassroots movement started by two self-labeled rednecks from Missouri in support of Barrack Obama for president. In learning about this group, I found out Barack Obama is black and that racism still exists in America! LOL But seriously, I just thought that this was awesome. And it was started by a couple of guys in Rolla, Missouri. (My uncle lived there his whole life. I've been there, and it's pretty redneck!)
Now, I don't identify as a redneck, maybe because I don't enjoy Nascar, cheap beer or putting vinegar or coleslaw on my barbecue. Yuck! But I have been called a "Southern boi" by some. And I have met my share of redneck gay boys, so all you Yankee bois best know that the two are not mutually exclusive. (Had better, even.)
So this is a great group, I think. It lets the rest of the rednecks in the many historically red Southern states know that you don't have to vote republican just because you're a conservative. You can vote for Obama this time around because it is what's best for our economy, our health care system, and for a timely and responsible withdrawal from our oil war with Iraq.
P.S. -- If you haven't registered to vote in your county of residence, the deadline for registration is October 10th, tomorrow! You must have your envelope containing your registration form post-marked by the 10th, so you have TONIGHT to get it ready and in the mail before the mailman picks it up in the morning. Go to VoteForChange.com to register to vote TONIGHT!
Oye, I hate working as much as I am now. It's like 50 hours a week, so don't beat me up if haven't been blogging lately. Oh, AND the cable company came out and fucked up our internet for a couple days. Go corporate giant dumbasses!
So, what have I missed?
Clay is GAY?? FINALLY!!! Good for you, Clay!
Queen Latifa is gay??? I didn't see that one coming, and I just found out.
Ricky Martin is -- Haha, gotcha! (Taking bets now.)
Gas Shortage in Charlotte! Oh Noes!!
Palin can see Russia from her house! LOL
Obama is "palling around with terrorists"?? LOL OMG Doesn't she think before those words fall out of her mouth?? She must think we're all ignorant on the subject and are too lazy to research it ourselves. I thought this argument was dead already. We've got an economic disaster on our hands, and McCain is avoiding it and dredging up this old crap instead.
Anyway, enough ranting. I have to get to bed. Laters!
And now, he's coming out on OUR side!
Brad Pitt, the loveably masculine man for whom at least two straight men I've talked to said they would go gay, has announced he donated $100,000 to fight California's Proposition 8 in November, a measure that, if it receives a simple majority vote, would reverse the state's supreme court decision to allow gays to marry in state.
Thanks Brad! We appreciate every penny, AND yours and Angelina's votes in November!
http://www.VoteNoOnProposition8.com/
My roomie showed me a new game on the interwebs, similar to Magic Pen, but a little different. It's called...
Fantastic Contraption
Making tank treds seems to do the trick nicely on many of the levels. I've even figured out how to devise a coveyer belt and a cannon... but some people seem to be quite devoted to their tanks...
Yet another addition. .... You know, it feels like I've seen more in just two months.
Seen in Theatres
Not a damn thing. I haven't been out the movies in a while... not since Wall-E and "Eeeeeeeeva!"
Recent Rentals
American Beauty - If you haven't seen this, let me just say Kevin Spacey plays a pothead. There, now you have to see it.
Breach - Ryan Phillipe is such a hottie in this movie... except for that irritating buldge in his forehead that's so pronounced in this movie. What's up with that?? Anyway, this was a great show, I thought. I read all about Robert Hannsen on the interwebs when it was over. =)
Hostage - Bruce Willis, hostage negotiator. What else can I say? It was decent. Oh, and what's up with the crazy, dark kid? They have him identified on the Wikipedia entry for the show as something I didn't ever see in the movie.
The Fountain - I totally forgot to trip balls when I watched it, so I was a bit out of the loop. Still, it was a good movie....weird, but good. Doesn't hold much of a candle to Pi but maybe Requim, IMHO.
Alexander: The Theatrical Cut - Gotta get the theatrical's cut. I fear you might miss out on Colin Farrell's fine ass and genitals if you don't! Good movie, though I'm sure it's riddled with historical inaccuries as most historical movies are, but I have to admit I'm a bit too ignorant on the subject to notice... or care -- sometimes you have to just acquisce to the fact that it's a movie not a documentary.
Eragon - Two cute boys wrestling in hay was the best part of this movie. .... I can't remember if they were shirtless or not. I Googled their names for shirtless pics, LOL. ... No, they were shirtless, I just decided. ... Wait, what was this show about? Something about a dragon or something.
Crash - Mmmm, Ryan Phillipe...again. It's like I'm in a trance when he's on the screen, LOL. Anyway, this was a good movie, not because it made you feel all warm 'n' fuzzy, but because it's the ugly truth about prejudice.
Children of Men - This was a great one! I love futuristic, dystopian movies, this taught me. I had to watch it again to pick up on those clues for which I didn't yet know I should be looking.
Weeds (Season 1) - I know Season 4 is airing now, and I'm behind, but I've had a few friends tell me I should see this now, so I'm starting from the beginning. So far, I've seen just season one. (Just finished actually.) Somebody tell me: what the hell happened to the cute gay boy from the beginning episode?? I want him back! At least we have the adorably cute Hunter Parrish playing Silas. (HOT Screencaps here, LOL) P.S. Please don't spoil anything for me. =)
GLBT Movies
Garçon stupide - I'm still not sure what to make of this movie. It's about a guy with a wannabe girlfriend who's also a gay hustler and wannabe photographer. It's in French with English subtitles.
Zerophilia - Very unique movie, but good.... and the main character is cute, too!
Very Natural Thing - 1973 gay flick about a gay teacher and his love life. Kinda meh.
Denied - A small town high school football star turns out to be gay, he finds out, when moves in with his sexually indecisive fuck buddy. This shows what happens when the football jock finds out that he's gay and what he does about it.
Check this video out and see for yourself.
Last night at about 2:10am, Hurricane Ike made landfall at Galveston, Texas and passed over Houston. (Actually the eye wall was 60 miles across, so it made landfall over a larger area that just the island.)
Actually, I read a funny note on the Weather Channel about the mandatory evacuations:
The police chief asked one stubborn couple to write their names and Social Security numbers on their forearms in black magic marker "in case something bad were to happen." They soon changed their minds.
Though the island of Galveston is protected by a 17-foot-high seawall, it still flooded out the island in the storm surge, and glass was still falling from skyscrapers to downtown Houston streets this morning.
After all this, I can't help but think how much worse it could have all been. It almost seems like Rita was worse, but that was because my own hometown of Beaumont took a direct hit. I think if it had been a slower moving hurricane or a little bit stronger, or if it had a higher storm surge that things would have turned out much worse for the country's 4th largest city. I still have to call my family up north of Houston to find out if they got any damage from the storm.
And wouldn't you know it -- Last night everyone here in Charlotte RUSHED out and bought up all the gas in the area in a mad panic before the impending shortage or something. Yea, they shutdown a number of refineries in the Houston area, but those refineries aren't very prone to wind damage or power outages. The one thing that would cause serious damage to them is flooding, so I don't think that the price in gas is going to spike (with good reason). This is to say, the price could very well spike with for no good reason at all .... which, isn't that why the price always spikes?
I took the scenic route one day, and wound up behind Charlotte Catholic, a local crazy school for reason-underdeveloped adolescents. The road soon dead-ended, so I needed to turn around....
and then I saw this....
I felt behooved to take and post pictures of the new place due to the persistent nagging of one particular Canadian friend, and it's been sooo embarrasingly long since the last post, I felt I had to post some pics.
So this is the new pad. I just realized today that I haven't bought gas since before I moved, which was about 3 weeks ago, which is amazing, since I'm so used to buying gas every week and watching that needle constantly. I need to drive up and get some of mom's food, though. No couch yet, but there's a PS3, PS2, and an XBox360 (not pictured). =)
This is the desk that took 6 hours and a trip to Home Depot to put together.
This is my room, probably as clean as it has ever been. The cabinet in the middle is a bookshelf and CD/DVD tower me and my dad designed and built. The room's got its own bathroom on the right. Yay.
It's me, a guy from work, and his two kitties. They eat and poop. What more can I say. The gray one is older and calmer. The little one is a lil crazy sometimes.
Last Friday I moved out of my parent's house and into an apartment about 5 minutes from work. It's a pretty nice place so far. I'll be sure to take some pictures for ya once I get around to it. Actually, I don't have internet just yet; I'm borrowing the neighbor's right now, hehe. Soon I should have lots more time to put into sharing all the details, but for right now there are so many things to do and I need my beauty sleep. Stay Tuned!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have been GLUED to the Olympics as much as I can this year! I've been watching them at work on NBC.com where they have a metric shit-ton of videos online.
It seems everyone in the country and undoubtably others are all cheering for Michael Phelps to win the gold in all eight events this year. He has publicly repeated his goals since Athens to beat Mark Spitz's record by winning the gold metal in all 8 swimming events at the Olympics in a single year AND to break all the world records in each event. So far, he has done just that. He's already gotten the gold and broken the world record in the two events that held him back from this goal back in Athens four years ago. It's only 3 more races to go!
Okay, I confess. I'm sure just like all the rest of you the only reason that I'm so obsessed with the Olympics is because of all the hot, muscular, chilseled, dripping wet athletes strutting around in their tight speedos. I'm in fucking heaven. If they release the olympics on DVD I'd totally buy it. But it's not just swimming. There's DIVING, WRESTLING, and GYMNASTICS! I can't decide which one I like the best. They're all just a visual eye candy binge. OMG last night I was watching the wrestlers squat down on all fours in the middle of the mat -- HAWT!! Wrestle me doggie style in a singlet ANY DAY! The wrestler boys I saw were short and stout, though, they weren't very well proportioned. And some of them were kinda busted looking. But I really enjoyed watching the gymnastics at work tonight.
I enjoyed it too much I think. I watched a group of them go for a round and then some other group came out, and not only was this one boy muscular of course (but not overly so because he's a gymnast) but he was fuckin' CUTE!! I didn't get a picture because I threw down my headphones and had to walk away for a few minutes. The eye candy had made me sick to my eyes I think, LOL.
Very soon I hope to acquire a photo collection of the Olympics that would make any stalker proud.
I found a new fairly decent site with lots of nice pics. They're not like wallpaper size, but it's a good collection regardless. And well organized! =)
ChadzBoysz.net
I stuck a link on the right. Enjoy!
I was just flipping through a friend's photos on Facebook of London Pride 2008.
Looks absolutely fabulous. I'm so jealous.
Drag Queens with BIG Hair
And then I saw this and thought, "Don't Buy Heinz? What the hell?"
This article posted by another blogger explains it all. See the advertisement here on YouTube.
The thing is I have a hard time forming an opinion on this. So, they pulled their ad because some conversative, old foggies got their panties in a wad. They always do. It WAS out there on the tele and now it's all over the internet, and we're talking about it now! So it's gotten out, and now we've seen the advert and its scandalous gay kiss (as if it's the first on TV). So who cares?? I'm sure Heinz won't go under because they stop getting my $1.50 every couple of months from that single bottle of ketchup.
I'm curious to know, but I really don't care. Looks friggin' hot to me regardless.
They just still look straight for some reason, don't they?
I have to rant for a minute. Since I've been on Facebook, I've gotten all kinds of friend requests from Charlotte gay boys like myself. The thing is, 99% of them never say anything to me, never comment, never message. It's like, what's the point? Same thing bugged me with MySpace. Why should you remain a "friend" when we've never met and we never talk?
But the one thing that just gets under my skin more than anything with them is their incessant relationship status changes. One day they're married, the next they're single. Literally, I've seen it. It's like if they're serious, I can imagine they'd be a real emotional wreck right about now having been through all that in one day. But they're not serious; they're just throwing these terms around like farts in the breeze... Married, Single, Engaged, Divorced, it's like a carousel gone out of control with some of them, like this guy for instance.
Does he not know that people are reading this shit he's posting? I mean, they have a fight, and 20 minutes later they're "engaged." Then the next week it's all over?? Gimme a break. I bet he got dumped because his "fiance" saw his Facebook page.
Can we all just take a deep breath and stop for a minute? Look at yourselves! Unless you live in California or Massachusetts, you cannot "marry" or be "divorced" or "engaged" in this country. You're only denigrating the meaning of these words when you toss them around so thoughtlessly and carelessly. Do you really expect the straight community to take us seriously when we don't even take own relationships seriously? Isn't this all counter-productive to what we've been fighting for for all these years?
I totally geeked out today. I put together my very first YouTube video! I'm so proud. =)
YouTube link
Earlier today, and by today I mean Saturday, the Gateway Village once again hosted the annual Pride Charlotte in uptown. It was probably the fifth one since I've lived here and only the third that I've heard about, which is interesting in itself. The only reason I knew about it this year was because of a Facebook friend's status message. I remember not going last year because I had errands to run, and I this year had to work. I half-ass tried to get up early, but I slept through my alarm and still felt tired all damn day regardless. So, I have no fun, fabulous photos of rainbow boa bestowed 'mos to show. LOL. Hopefully no Queen City queens are reading this, but from the pictures on the website from last year, it doesn't look like I missed a whole lot. I didn't see hot boys everywhere, or even one. LOL, that was a little mean. I went to Gay Days, so I might be a bit underwhelmed, I think. Any Charlotteans (or whatever the hell you're called) wanna tell me how it all went and prove me wrong? I'd love to see pictures! =)
As you all well know, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is, what, less than two weeks away now. I'm excited. The Olympics are great to watch on TV -- that stuff you didn't think was humanly possible, they're doing, and you don't even have to leave your couch! The winter Olympics look fun to watch, too and all, it's just that summer brings out all that delicious eye candy for us all to drool over. You bois know what I'm talking about!
My favorite are the divers -- one, because I look like a cat forced into taking a bath when people try to get me to dive, second, because they're all beautifully chiseled, muscular men (and women), and third, because they're not in the water the whole time; they're standing up out of the water, thinking about their next dive, but just standing there, drenching wet in their Speedos with the water dripping off of them. Yummy. Well, I'm rambling, but see for yourself. Here are some pictures from OutSports showing the 3-meter men's synchronized diving practice at the U.S. National meet at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena, California.
This is beginning to become a recurring theme here on my little bloggie-poo. Here's a list of the recent movies I've seen since my last laundry list and what I thought of them. The Netflix account got bumped up to 3-at-a-time, and I'm tempted to step it up even more, actually.
Seen in Theatres
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Though the movie has some HUGE "Ah, com'on!" moments, you just have to forget that and just sit back and enjoy the nostalgia of Indiana Jones...all the first three were better, though I did enjoy this one.
WALL-E - Visually busy and interesting to watch. A few cute/romantic moments here and there. Kids may enjoy it, but the GREEN storyline is definitely intended for adults: trash, superstores, and obesity. Oh My!!
Recent Rentals
Into the Wild - Interesting kid, and I would say I have to agree with some of his ideas, however, I have to ask, "Why Alaska of all places?" One other beef: TOO LONG!! One can only drool over him for so long. (Pookie, have you found the full frontal yet? Hehehe)
Stephen King's The Shining - This shit pisses me off. I LOVE The Shining....the original by Stanley Kubrick, not this made-for-TV crap they slapped together is trash in comparison. Don't fuck with the classics!!
The Illusionist - Excellent movie! I had to go back and watch it again and see everything that I missed the first time around. You really have to pay attention to this one, but it's well worth it.
Resident Evil - Guns, zombies, and gory action scenes...maybe a little too gory for me. I never played the games, and now I'm debating whether or not I want to see the rest of them.... I might.
Lawrence of Arabia - I'd heard so much about this and I've always seen it on the top 5 movies of all time, so I had to see it... and I was disappointed after all the hype. First of all, it's almost FIVE HOURS LONG!! FIVE! One, two, three, four, FIVE! There's a friggin' intermission and even it's like 4 hours through the movie, which makes no sense to me. As for the movie itself, it seems alright to me. Watching this, I couldn't help but think the actual person on whom the character was based was a little bit gay if not bisexual. =)
Juno - What a great movie, if for nothing else than the fact that's so quotable. Love it!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - OMG! WTF has Tim Burton done to this CLASSIC?!? It's positively mutilated! The annoying children, the crappy scenery, the friggin' music makes me wanna shove some cacti in my ears just to make it stop!! This movie is absolute torture to watch.
Children of Men - Though it is a tad gory, I really enjoyed this one. I always love an alternate future science-fiction, especially if it's a dystopia; somehow they just feel more realistic as sad as that sounds. This one is just chock FULL of little morsels of our time's culture that have gone horribly wrong in their time. Loved it!
National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze - Talk about plot twists! It's just all over the place. It was an interesting movie, more so than Van Wilder, but you'd definitely have to be drinking to enjoy it.
National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze 2 - I liked this one better than the original for some reason. I think it's the murder mystery and the play within the movie. Still, I think you'd have to be drinking to really enjoy this one, too.
Documentaries
Who Killed the Electric Car? - Utterly fascinating. This documentary reminded me that I still have faith that generally people out there are working toward the greater good, only now I have a lot less of that to go around.
Super Size Me - Wow, I had no idea fast food was that bad for you. It made me want to eat more veggies, but then I realized, I don't like many veggies. Oh well, at least I can try to cook at home more often and save money in the process.
Walking with Dinosaurs: Allosaurus - It's really amazing that they can tell so much about the life of an animal that lived over 70 million years ago by its fossilized bones. Must see for dinosaur nerds.
Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project - The development of the atom bomb has always been a fascinating subject to me, but this show has really filled in the gaps of my knowledge about how it all works and some of the history of its use on Japan in WWII.
NOVA - Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold - Interesting chronology of the inventions that brought us ice and air conditioning.
Global Warming: The Signs and the Science - This didn't really tell me anything I hadn't already heard before about global warming...but it was weird coming from Alanis Morisette.
GLBT Movies
Big Eden - Meh. I seriously doubt every in a small Montana town would be hooking up the gays, so I didn't buy it. Besides, there aren't any hot guys in it.
Almost Normal - Meh. Back to the Future goes gay when this aging queer gets transported back to his high school to face his secret crush, though this time everyone's gay. I can see why some might like this one, but it didn't do much for me.
Sugar - The guys were kinda cute, but it was hard to watch with all the drugs and prostitution. It was okay, but it's not something I'd keep for any reason.
Open Cam - I remember seeing this at [heartless, corporate giant movie rental store] and was too embarrassed to rent it. The main character was really hot, but he was about it IMHO. Besides seeing him half naked most of the time, it was hard to watch at times. I'm just glad I stuck it out to see the ending.
Mysterious Skin - Though this one, too, was uncomfortable to watch at times, it was very realistic and well worth the insight. It's a believe able story surrounding a touchy subject that I think they handled well. Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a pretty good job, too.
Boys Briefs - I don't know why I thought this might be good. The acting is corny, cheap, and cheesy. Looks like they spent a good weekend filming on a home camera. And, no, I don't plan on renting the other 18 volumes, thank you very much.
The Color Purple - "You sho' is ugly!" LOL Yes, I'd never seen this one. Watching it, I was wondering how on earth this was a gay movie. It wasn't until afterward when I thought about it that it kind of made some sense.
Happy Endings - This may or may not be a "gay movie," but there are two gay couples, and there's a kinda hot gay make out scene at the end. It's a tangled web of lives that all intersect at the end. There are lots of well-known actors in this one, too.
Defying Gravity - Here's a touching story about a couple of frat guys who are only just seeing each other when of them gets gay-bashed and put into a coma. The other has to come to terms with his relationship with the boy, his frat's homophobia and his own sexuality. That's quite a lot to deal with at once if you ask me! Definitely worth seeing.
New Movies I Want to See
Let me know if they are any good!
The Happening
The Dark Knight
Sex and the City
If Barbara says so, it's true. A couple of guys bought this little lion cub in a Paris department store (Imagine that! It wasn't in Thailand or China!) and brought him home to raise him. They released him back into the wild and years later went to reunite.
My apologies for the overdramatic music. YouTubers. *rolls eyes*
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In the last month or two, I've acquiesced and joined the masses on Facebook. I'd actually had an account for a few years, but it went completely ignored until just a couple months back when I got an add request... I cancelled my account. The next day I had two guys at work wanting me to join and friend them, so I said fuck it and joined again.
Then I got to looking, and there's some neat stuff on there. I added all kinds of pictures of friends and added a few applications. Some of the apps are neat but meant for those with ADD, LOL. The BEST part is that, unlike MySpace you don't have to choke your site with HTML and CSS in their clunky editor; you can't actually, but it has TONS more functionality than MySpace, I think. I've found all kinds of friends that I went to school with and lots of people from work. The bad thing is it makes it easier for people to stalk you, haha.
So, look for me or leave me your email or something in a comment, and we'll friend each other, or something.
YAY for an addicting physics/engineering game I can play at workie! How fun is this shit?!?
MAGIC PEN!!
If you really must cheat or just get plain stuck, there are cheat vids on YouTube, 1 & 2.
Dad made the mistake of singing a bit of this song today, and it's been in my head ALL DAY LONG!
Sing along, girls!!
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The annual festival of San Fermín is underway now in Pamplona, a normally quiet town in Spain's northern Navarra province that comes alive each year with this long-lived festival. The most famous event during the festival of San Fermín is the encierro or the running of the bulls. Thousands of people from all over the world flock here to adorn themselves with red scarfs tied to their necks and waists, to bathe in an orgy of red wine in the plaza outside the town hall, and to await the release of a herd of angry bulls into the crowded streets. The bulls then race down the city streets, cumbersomely slidding and falling at times, goring red-adorned runners in their path, and finally running into the stadium to commence the bullfight wherein FABULOUSLY- and tightly-dressed matadores put on a show for the cheering audience that eventually leads to the slow death of the bulls.
¡¡ ES FABULOSÍSMO !!
First, everyone has to get fuckin' tanked.
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