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Friday, February 27, 2004
Review: The Passion of The ChristI watched this movie without all the bias. I didn't try to think of it as Christian propaganda (which it basically is). I tried to think of it as a movie about a man. As a movie about a man who was crucified, it was pretty good. If you like gore, you'll love this movie. If you like seeing people tortured until they are barely alive, you'll love this movie. If you love reading, you'll love this movie (because it's subtitled). If you love Monica Bellucci, you'll love this movie (here, here, here). If you're a Christian, you'll love this movie.When the ending credits were rolling, I had a more comedic view of the film in its entirety. Sure, the content was tremendously serious - but seeing a man carrying a cross to the site of his eventual death for 40 minutes was a little too drawn out. Whoops, he fell. Whoops, he fell again. Whoops, he fell and they whipped him. Whoops, they whipped him. This was cycled for 40 minutes. It was tormenting to see it over and over again. It became...semi-funny. Seeing something horrific is very dramatic the first time you see it, but after the 5th or 7th time, it was tiresome and comical. It subtracted from the overall effect. This overly drawing out not only occurred when the man was walking to his grave, but when he was getting whipped by rope with metal brackets on the ends (which ripped flesh). Oh my god! That was the most violent, horrific, shocking thing I've ever seen. If you thought Kill Bill was bad, this movie tops it 10 fold. I swear, it should have been NC-17. What was horrific? violent? shocking? When flesh was ripped, IT WAS RIPPED. You saw the flesh flying/dropping/bouncing/ripping, you saw the blood splattering/dripping/oozing/spraying (every portrayal of blood & flesh in past movies are thrown in here, and magnified). Skin gets ripped off, enough to even see bone. I was looking at the audience reactions, that was hilarious. Almost all women had their faces covered throughout half the film. I have to admit, I had the urge to do the same...but I had to maintain my masculinity. Anyway, the true effect of the film occurs several hours after you've seen it. Everytime I close my eyes!!!!! I see the flesh flying, I see the gruesome images of beatings, and the reality of human nature. It's making me think. If I wasn't so grounded in my agnosticism, this film would have been the thing that converted me into a Christian. Fortunately, that's not gonna happen. Was this film anti-Semitic? No. But it's going to spark a lot of anti-Semitism. Because what's in the Bible is assumed factual (not by me), so how can any Jew argue against what they did in the past? Now, it's wrong to say "they" because it was merely a few of the "they" that did it. But, in a minority now a days (and forever), if a small handful of people do something, the entire ethnic group is forever stereotyped to do the same. It's funny how back in the Bible days, this theory still holds up. While watching the film...I was thinking, "damn those Jews are so annoying, they keep wanting to crucify Jesus." But again, it's not the movie's fault for making me think that - it's the Bible's. So, the film was good. I recommend it for Christians and non-Christians alike. Now go watch it GODDAMMIT! ¶11:19 PM e-mail me (0) comments The Passiong of The ChristI'm going to see it today. The showing starts at 7:30PM. I'll write a review of it. I'm not a christian, I'm agnostic...so don't think I'm gonna write up a biased review, FUCK THAT. ¶5:28 PM e-mail me (0) commentsTuesday, February 24, 2004 sleep.If I could only get one more hour os sleep a day, I'd be a happy man. But noooo!! RD2004's (Roommate Disease 2004's) gotta get up in the morning. It's gotta take an hour to get ready. My lovely 8 hour plan becomes a chaotic 7 hours + 45 minutes with an hour break in between. And, it takes me 15 minutes to get back to sleep. Not to mention that later 45 minutes is interrupted repeatedly by RD2004 forgetting something, so my sleep is interrupted even more. 7 hours would normally be ok for me, but an interrupted 7 hours makes me feel evil throughout the entire day. It puts me in such an evil mood. I hope RD2004 will one day ...go to hell (or realize how this is affecting me, and will somehow only take 25 minutes or less to get ready). ¶9:49 AM e-mail me (0) commentsMonday, February 23, 2004 Hey yo.Fuck my homework yo. Fuck it up its ass yo. No Japanese homework for me yo. Dawg. Mondays are cool because I only have 1 class to go to yo (I don't count pep band as class yo). Speaking of cool, the Jerry Springer show is actually cool today yo. They had these to fat bitches wrestle in a pool of corn to win over a guy yo. That's sick yo. And now there's this guy wearing women's clothes ... "I felt comfortable around my mom wearing these clothes." Hee Haw! I let someone borrow my virginity. Not really. Sluts, bitches, hoes - life is good yo. ¶11:20 AM e-mail me (0) commentsFriday, February 20, 2004 WHOOPS.I spent $100 on Anime. My bad. My dad told me it was okay to get a few of those. X - TV Series, Ninja Scroll - TV Series, Inuyasha 2nd movie, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. I downloaded about 3 minutes of Inuyasha the 2nd movie, and I HAD to get that shit. I'm a rabid Inuyasha fan (from watching it on Adult Swim), this move jumps right into a huge fight with Naroku! What the hell. It took about 100 for a fight of that caliber to occur in the TV series. Man. It's good stuff. Just one class today: Japanese. I've got a huge Kanji test today, I think I'll kick ass. I studied about 2.5 hours total, that's sufficient. I went to a party yesterday, and stayed for about an hour. I didn't feel like getting wasted. Thursday is a terrible get-wasted-day. This weekend, I'm relaxing because finally I'm gonna get a break from my horrible C++ CSCI230 class. Fuck yeah. ¶11:58 AM e-mail me (0) commentsThursday, February 19, 2004 things are looking upI feel very confident about my test in CSCI230 (that awful C++ class I've been bitching about). I think I actually made an A on it. It wasn't easy, but I studied for about an hour and a half prior. I'm serious about this shit now. I can't loose all this extra money I'm getting just because I'm getting lazy. Fuck that. I'm a smart bastard, it's time to prove that to the world once again. Tonight I'm planning on studying for a Japanese Kanji quiz, and then I will be playing DDR with some people. If you don't know how big of a DDR fan I am by now, get a gun, and shoot yourself in the head. End it now. You're wasting my time (somehow), and the world is tired of people wasting my time. Well, I'm outta here...it's class time. (college is hard!) ¶5:09 PM e-mail me (0) commentsWednesday, February 18, 2004 life sux.Sorry about the lack of post. I've been working on my computer program nonstop for the last week or so. at least 5 to 6 hours a day. Even with all the hard work I put in it, I still couldn't manage to get it to work by the deadline. I'm gonna get yet another low ass grade, even though I deserved higher due to all the time I spent on it. It's a dumb ass class. Why the fuck is this professor making us write programs in C++? Pointers, bus errors, segment fragmentations, error 11s, error 6s, error 12s - I hate all of that shit. I'm almost at the point of giving up, but something in me isn't letting me do that. This makes 2 assignments that I've scored low on. If I make anymore low scores, I might as well forget getting a B in this class. I need B's in all my computer classes to keep a scholarship I have. Dammit. I could lose it. It's 1:40AM (finally, I'm not going to bed at 4AM from working hard on that goddamn program), I can get some sleep. Oh wait! I'll probably be awakened at 6AM (or 7AM) in the morning again, and kept up for an hour! Thanks RD2004, that's wonderful. All I crave at the moment is 7 hours of continuous sleep. Have I got that any this semester? YEP, but only on Sunday. During the freaking weekday, I'm lucky to get 5 hours (at the most). And my lack of continuous sleep is really effecting my attitude in the room. It's really making me antisocial to everyone, not just RD2004. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel so sleepy that I have to take naps throughout the day (I'll never do that...once I'm up I'm up). Things just really suck right now. And I'm tired of my bed vibrating at times throughout the night. It wakes me up, and irritates me too badly to smoothly fall back asleep. Am I a happy camper? FUCK NO I'M NOT. But I'll tell you one thing - I'm back. ¶1:34 AM e-mail me (0) commentsThursday, February 12, 2004 It's party time!It's one of my friends birthday parties tonight. I'm suppose to be going there around 9PM. He's coming to pick me up since I don't have a car of my own :-( Yeah, I know. It's sad. But it should be good times. It'll be a small get together type situation. About 5 - 8 people. This guy is expecting to get himself wasted; me, not wasted. I'll drink a little. I'm planning on spending the night, since my ride is going to be drunk. It's not a good idea to be a semi-sober passenger while the driver is semi-wasted. Don't worry, I'll be back just in time for my 1PM classes (so shut the fuck up about that). What? I'm listening to rap? That's different. RD2004 just sat in a chair for 20 minutes...nothing but staring at shit. It makes me a little uncomfortable. But whatever. Who cares? I stopped caring a long time ago. I ready for changes. Lot of 'em. (i.e. - next semester w/ RD2004-2005). ¶2:19 PM e-mail me (0) commentsQuizilla Time. ~ BEETLEJUICE ~ You're a live, animated person -- literally. You're more twisted than comes to the eye, and are, mostly likely, incredibly dark in a humourous way. What TIM BURTON Movie Are You? brought to you by Quizilla ¶9:46 AM e-mail me (0) comments Tuesday, February 10, 2004 The Simpsons NewsDVDFanatic.com News: 02/10/04 - PART 1 INTERVIEW: Producer Mike Reiss talks "Simpsons" DVD and Movie!: "DVDFanatic.com: How long do you think “The Simpsons” will run for on T.V.?Mike: I think there’s no end in sight. I have to give credit to Al who went back to the show. I feel he rejuvenated it. It might have gotten a little tired but there’s a lot of fresh blood in the show. We’re writing next year’s episodes already and it looks good. There’s plenty of juice left in it. I think “The Simpsons” conceivably, if they run it right, could run like SNL, where it just runs and runs and runs and keeps refreshing and rejuvenating itself." ¶7:49 PM e-mail me (0) comments Friday, February 06, 2004 Sing for the moment.My Japanese sensee (that means teacher, duh) made the entire class sing this song a couple of days ago. And then had us individually sing the song. Here it is (it's to the tune of "Santa Clause is Coming to Town"):u, tsu, ru ta nu, bu, mu da sushita, kuita, guida kurukita, surushita ta faamuru Basically it's how to congugate any Japanese verb into past plain tense. We're having a quiz on this stuff today, I think I go it down back. The only thing I need to study more are the negative past plain tense. Ay Chihuahua! ¶10:49 AM e-mail me (0) comments Thursday, February 05, 2004 Lack of time.I don't have time to do much of anything enjoyable anymore. I need to study my ass off starting now for the next week or so. Don't expect many posts. And now that I have calculus homework to do, I will have to depart from our current intercourse. Peace out. ¶10:01 PM e-mail me (0) commentsSunday, February 01, 2004 Yes! C++ Hell no more!I have been working on a C++ program that was due tomorrow, but thank god my professor extended the deadline to Wednesday. Hot damn. I swear to god, I have been working on this thing for about 16 hours these past 2 days (yesterday, 10-12 hours straight) - today, out of no where, I create these awesome algorithm that almost solves my problems. Though, I can get it perfect with a tweak here and there. I huge rock has been dropped onto my shoulders, riding on me piggy back style for 16 hours, and then the hands of my malicious god sat on top of the rock for another 2 hours, and finally took it off. The deadline has been extended to Wednesday at 11:59AM. I can relax a little now. 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