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Monday, August 30, 2004
No! I'm back in college.I moved in 2 Saturdays ago or so ...a new dorm, of course. Freshmen Year, College Lodge (crap); Sophomore Year, McConnell (crap); This Year, Craig (crap). I think that's enough evidence for the saying that "living in a dorm equals cold hairy shit" is true. I've heard that saying on several occasions, but scientifically, I can prove that it's true. It's a smaller room; however, less suite mates and my roommate and I have our own bathroom. And this year, my roommate and I aren't bunked up...I learned last year that bunk beds are evil, let's just leave it at that. No really, let's just leave it at that. Honestly though, everything is going swell. My only complaint is how my suitemates slam doors everytime they use 'em. WHAT THE FUCK? Just shut it, you don't have to fucking slam it. Goddammit! This is what happens: I'm relaxed I'm chilin, and then *SLAM MOTHAHFUCKAH! They don't say that, but that's what I'm assuming goes through their heads' whenever they get homicidal with a door. Last night, my friends and I were watching Star Trek: Nemesis (my roommate is a trekkie, but I'm black ...so it balances out), and I was sitting on the couch with my head against the wall. I wasn't really thinking about it, but this is the wall with my suitemates doorway in it. I'm sure you guys and guess what happened next; that's right: *SLAM MOTHAHFUCKAH! They slammed their goddamn door which made my head literally repel off the wall. It felt like someone punch the back of my head. "This was the last straw," I thought...at first I thought they would eventually grow out of slamming doors, but noooo. So the guy was about to go back in there, and I nicely asked him not to slam anymore. 10 minutes later, he came out ...and then: *SLAM MOTHAHFUCKAH! "Wow...what a douche bag," I thought. You know, the kid is still cool but come on! Common sense will tell you that slamming doors might disturb people around you. I hate jumping in fear everytime the enter or leave the suite. So, I'm gonna talk to them about it ...again. I'm calm, I'm breathing, it's all good baby. But yeah...it really is great to be back. Too bad I really don't have any money. I wanted this nifty powerbook, it set me back more than a couple of thousand...yay! That's a couple of thousand I kind of needed for food, lol. So sucks to be me right now. It's time to get a job.Tonight I'm going to my first party as a Junior. It's kind of my friend's way of celebrating his new house. It should be fun filled with tons of party games to "make you have more fun." This week, I swear ...there's going to be more wallpaper ("it's about damn time, it's been a year since you've updated your wallpaper section"), and more reviews. Now, go see Hero dammit. update. That was wrote last saturday. The fucking internet has been down all weekend ..those bastards. In regards to the party, let's just say this: I puked. Nuff Said. ¶9:28 AM e-mail me (6) comments Sunday, August 22, 2004 The Village, M. Knight Takes On God, by Alex H.You’ve saw The Village, and you left the movie theater chuckling because of the character’s ignorance. These people lived in this little village protected from all of the troubles of the outside world. But they couldn’t go anywhere else in fear of the creatures in red. Isn’t the ignorance of others wonderful?Wait…I swear I’ve heard that same story before. Isn’t that an indictment of modern day religion. It seems as if M. Knight had an underlying message in this film. Was he really trying to joke around with something as serious as religion? So these older people teach the people of the town that these creatures will kill the townspeople if they don’t follow certain rules set forth by the elders. Hey, if we don’t follow the Ten Commandments and other small clauses, we get to go to hell. So the monsters of The Village wore red; I believe that there is a monster in the Bible who was red. Wait, why didn’t the people try to venture out in to the woods to see if they could find other villages? Well, they were afraid of punishment, torture, and a horrible death. Isn’t that how Hell is described in the Bible. The only person who was ever able to leave the cult…village, was a blind girl. Come on now, I’ve heard of blind followers, but this is ridiculous. She can’t see the truth. She has no idea that they actually live in modern time, and she stumbles back to the village oblivious to the fact. Are you catching on? A twist to the film reveals that the creatures are actually town elders in disguise. Let’s do a little algebra. Elder =preacher Monster=Satan After the twist Elder=monster That must mean that Preacher=Satan Wow, now we’re talking. So if those calculations are correct, it seems as if Mr. Shamalyn is poking fun at religion. Do you really think that this was actually the point that he wanted to make with this film. You know, his other films actually had an element of fictitious horror to them. Bruce Willis was really dead, the aliens were actually real. So why would he make a film about ignorance and living in fear that could easily be happening as you read this. Maybe he took a walk down the street, a look at a newspaper, or listened to a political debate, and he decided that he wanted to take a jab at a hot topic. Jesus Christ, what a world! ¶10:39 PM e-mail me (13) comments Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Review: (movie) The Passion of The Christ, by StephenThis film is rated R for a reason. There is no cussing and no nudity, but a LOT of violence. Don’t take your kids to see this one unless you want them to be scarred for life. Wait until they’re older and accountable for their actions; you might be able to expose them to the agony that Jesus went through for us. Yes, I am a Christian. You probably would’ve guessed that if you had read some of the comments I’ve made on this website. So I did see this from the Christian’s perspective, utilizing a critical eye in areas of Biblical accuracy. I even read the gospel accounts recorded in the New Testament before watching the movie. I wanted to see just how accurate Mel Gibson had come to the actual events.From a religious perspective there is one word that could describe this film: Catholic. Moreso than Christian “propaganda” as my friend likes to call it, was its Catholic agenda. As some of the more strict Catholic believers hold the artists’ renderings of the crucifixion to be inspired by God, this just simply isn’t the case. Mr. Gibson used such paintings and other works of art to help him in stylistic areas of the film where historically these are proven false. First, the Bible never says Jesus was held on to the cross by ropes. Second, He was no doubt punctured through His wrists, which were still considered part of the hand, so that He could actually stay on the cross. Third, the cross of that time period was supposed to be in the shape of a capital T, as what the criminals were mounted on either side of Jesus. On a linguistic sidenote, the Romans were pronouncing their V’s like our V’s in the film. In the First Century, Latin’s Vs were pronounced like our W’s. Mr. Gibson was using Church Latin rather than the language that was spoken in that day. There were other Catholic ideas floating around in the film. The soon-to-be apostles seemed to venerate Jesus’ earthly mother, Mary, calling her mother. The Shroud of Turin, a relic of the Catholic Church, was placed in here. At the beginning, Malchus’ ear is chopped off and he receives some kind of spiritual revelation after Jesus heals him. There is no indication of what happened to Malchus after Jesus replaced his ear. There was also an odd baby that the character portraying Satan held during Jesus’ scourging. I’m not quite sure what that was supposed to be. The first Messianic prophecy was put into literal terms at the beginning of the film which I thought was a nice stylistic touch. It did add some dialogue between Pontius Pilate and his wife, but it seemed like a good addition. It was what many people throughout the ages no doubt have asked, “Would you recognize truth if you saw it?” Some say the film was anti-Semitic. Who was to blame for Jesus’ death? Truth be told, it doesn’t matter. It happened two millennia ago. What does matter is that He died for us. Some say that the film should have focused more on Jesus’ teachings. I suppose it could have. But that wasn’t its purpose. Its purpose was to show the depths of His love through His is sacrifice, hence the “passion” of the Christ. Now, I don’t agree necessarily that the event should be called the Passion, since this is nowhere found in the Bible. But that’s neither here nor there. There was a beautiful song that was playing in my head during His violent scourging and crucifixion: He could have called Ten thousand angels To destroy the world And set Him free. He could have called Ten thousand angels But He died alone For you and me. It reminded me of what Jesus could have done, but didn’t so that we might be brought back in fellowship with God. This movie had a LOT of strengths despite its few inaccuracies. It did depict our Lord and Savior as He was murdered for our sins. Aside from the few things I mentioned, this was done very accurately. The most poignant scene was an aerial view of Golgotha. You see some wavy distortions. Then a lone tear falls from heaven. You realize the pain God must be going through to see His Son go through such agony and torture. The whole movie brought Christ’s suffering to the forefront of people’s minds, and made it more real, more palpable. You read the accounts in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and the prophecy of it in Isaiah and you read that He suffered and died, but the reality doesn’t really sink in. Surely these accounts are enough to maintain our salvation, but this movie brought home the extent of His love for us, what He was willing to go through on our behalf. ¶12:51 AM e-mail me (8) comments Friday, August 13, 2004 AvP Smells like ...um, Pee PeeThursday. HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU MAKE AN ALIENS vs. PREDATOR MOVIE RATED PG-13???????? I'm so fucking pissed off about that! What a horrible, cheesy, disloyal thing hollywood has done to the faithful fans of both franchises just to make a buck. You'd think after all the negative criticism in reviews of that horrific Aliens Resurrection movie, that they'd stop farting up schemes just for profit. Fuck this dumbass movie; fuck it more than Halle Berry in Catwoman. I refuse to see this movie...initially. Now if this movie gets positive review (which would surprise the fuck out of me), then sure...I'll go to the movies and pay for an overpriced ticket. But, I think it's highly unlikely that that'll be the case. Fuck this movie. Say it with me people... Fuck, This, Movie.I've been searching the web for reviews of this flick, they're no where to be found. Further prove of how badly it's going to suck. Fox doesn't want anyone to see it so that negative reviews will be no where to be found prior to its Friday release. Friday. Finally, reviews are in. Rotten Tomatoes has a fresh batch of AvP reviews. The results? 8% of the critics like it. Only 8%! That's almost as bad as Catwoman...almost. I expected worst really. This movie could have been something great, but they fuck everything about the Aliens/Predator's mythology all up. FOX sucks dookie now. I just hope they won't ever sellout their X-Men franchise. ¶4:22 PM e-mail me (0) comments WOo HOo! Things are a little different.Yeah, I tried making this redesign more massive...you know, with color and all. But in the end, the color that defines me best is white --> hahahahaha, I'm crying, hahahahahaha, 'cause I'm sad, hahahaha. Okay, that was a little self-deprecation there; people who know me will understand. But really, just like how clean a white background with black/greyish text is; it allows the reader to focus on what I write. So there. Another guideline for this redesign is that everything that's suppose to be a link is a fucking link, and goes somewhere. And I accomplished that, so I'm glad. I'll start testing how shit looks on PCs and at different resolutions later. Having it look right on my 15.2 inch powerbook is all that matters to me at the moment. But really, now I can begin to provide more content: reviews and other stuff. I should create an AIM conversations sections, in fact, I think I will. In general, all sections were tinkered with a little (except for my pathetic wallpaper section...at least it doesn't say copyright 2003 now). If it ain't broke, don't fuck with it...isn't that how the saying goes?That's about it. Posts are going to be more topical. Even less about my everyday life, and more about looking at American culture through my eyes. So hopefully you'll relate to what I say more-so than be offended; but I really don't give a fuck. Complain, bitch, agree in the post's comments section. Enjoy. ¶4:20 PM e-mail me (0) comments Tuesday, August 03, 2004 New Posts on Aug. 13thI'm spending the next couple of weeks redesigning the shit out of this site. Come back Aug. 13th. 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