Some Short Reviews

Number 23
2.5 G's out of 5. A mediocre thriller. From the trailer it looked like it was going to rock, plus it was directed by Joel Schumacher. However it didn't kick as much ass as I was hoping. I was fairly disinterested in the first half of the film. Once it got going it was okay, but the twist wasn't that big of a deal. As a psych major I did enjoy it on one level. I'll probably be picking this one up previously viewed.

Ghost Rider
2 G's out of 5. I was really looking forward to this one as well. The writer and director also did Daredevil and I think that has been my favorite superhero film to date. I was therefore hoping for another awesome film, but I was sadly let down. I think they tried to hard to make it too funny, plus the fight scenes were really weak. Maybe it's b/c I was still really sick when I saw it. I did however like it when Johnny Blaze flips the bird to the cops. That did make me laugh. I think I was the only who laughed at the scene making me think I was the only one who caught it. Or maybe I just imagined it thinking that's what the scene needed to make it better.

Blood and Chocolate
You know why it's called Blood and Chocolate b/c Blood and Donuts was taken. I think only Colin would probably get that joke but whatever. 2.5 G's out of 5. This film had so much potential, but then some moron had to come along and fuck it up. I never read the book (wanted too though) but I hear that a lot has been changed, the biggest being the ending. One major flaw was the film takes place in Bucharest when in the novel it takes place in America. Personally it would have been a lot better taking place in North America than Europe. It's just so cliche now to see a werewolf film taking place in Europe. I also hate it when they have the werewolf on all fours. In my mind they should be on two legs. At least they go about explaining things, making it make sense that they are on all fours. Plus they made it PG-13. When will Hollywood learn you can't make a good horror film with that rating. I bet if they had followed the book more it wouldn't have been so bad.

Los Angeles

I love LA…..We Love it!

Here is the much-delayed story of my trip to LA. For those who don’t know it was a surprise for my oldest brothers 30th birthday from his fiancée Aly. She had wanted to know if I wanted to join them. I’ve always wanted to go to LA, so I was like hell yeah. My brother didn’t even know he was going until the night before they left and he wasn’t going to know that I was going until I met them at the airport. Aly had planned it perfectly so I would end up meeting them in Calgary and we’d all take the same flight to LA. So was my brother surprised about seeing me? Partially. When he found out that their friend Jenn was also going he was a little suspicious on who else might be going. Therefore he called me on my cell phone while I’m sitting in the Vancouver airport trying to catch me in a lie. He wanted to know where I was and I wouldn’t give him an answer, so that raised his suspicions even more, but if anyone calls my cell asking where I am I usually never tell them anyway. I knew he might have know something so I called him like 10 minutes later making up some bullshit story. I got into Calgary before him so I got to wait for him to show up. When he did, I snuck up behind him shocking him, but it wasn’t the biggest shock b/c he thought I might have been going.

Before we even left Canada we got to see a famous person. Taking the same plane as us was Ex Super Model/ Ex Mrs Rod Stewart/ Stacy’s Mom Rachael Hunter. So that was pretty cool. We even took a picture of her. Even though it’s just the back of her head…Hehe. Unfortunately are plane was delayed for about 2 hrs or so. The good news was we were the only plane to actually make it out of Calgary to LA. Thankfully I didn’t plan on meeting them in LA, b/c I would have been waiting a long time not knowing when and if they’d show up.
On our first day we went to Warner Brothers Studios. The cool thing about this tour was we actually got to walk around some of the stages and back lot sets. It was pretty cool seeing the town square from The Dukes of Hazard, and the church used in The Lost Boys. We also got to see some vehicles they have used in some of their films like Scooby-Doo, Batman Begins, and Harry Potter. That night we did a tour of the Hollywood walk of fame, and saw Graumann’s Chinese theatre. I probably took about 50 or more pictures just of the stars on the walk of fame. The shitty thing was both Jenn and I wanted to see James Dean’s star but we couldn’t find it. The map said it was right out side the Capitol Records building but we couldn’t find the damn thing. We also went by some famous nightclubs on Sunset Blvd such as The Viper Room, The Roxy, The Whiskey A Go Go, and the Comedy Store. We also drove by some special event where we saw JC Chasez doing the red carpet.

The next day we went to Disney Land and California Adventure. For the first time I went on Roller Coaster like rides (at least that’s what they are promoted as). When I was younger there was no way in hell I would go rides like Space Mountain, the Matterhorn, or Thunder Mountain. They were pretty freakin cool. The awesome thing about Space Mountain was it was Rockin to the sounds of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. So I got to listen to ‘Higher Ground’ as I was riding Space Mountain. I may have gone on these rides but I still refused to go on the Roller Coaster that went upside down. Maybe next time I’ll go on a ride like that.

Then we went to Universal Studios. I’ve always wanted to do the Universal tour. Unlike the Warner tour, we had to stay on the tram the whole time. With the Universal tour it’s more of a ride itself. It was still pretty freakin awesome. I’ve always wanted to see the Psycho house and Jaws pop out of the water. That night we cruised through Beverly Hills and went back to Disney. On our last day we wound up back at Disney before we had to leave.

So that’s my trip in a nutshell. In three days I took 700 hundred pictures. I had the space on my camera so I was taking a picture of damn near everything. We also did a lot of shopping, where I probably spent way too much on things I don’t need. I’ll definitely have to head back there sometime. There is so many more things that I want to do their. Eventually I'll get around to posting all the pictures on my picture page.

Spiders on Drugs

No spiders were harmed in the making of this video.

Freak On a Leash

KoRn feat Amy Lee on MTV Unplugged

David Usher

As I was driving home from work I heard a new song from David Usher on the radio. He has a new album coming out March 20th. You can hear two of the new tracks on his webpage. I remember when he first started his solo career. Every single released kicked ass, but I still hadn't bought one of the albums. I had resorted to just download all the singles released. When he released his fourth studio album I decided to just buy it b/c I liked every song he had previously released. After a few listens I wasn't a big fan of the album and just put it away. Then a year later I kept hearing the song 'Love will Save the Day' on the radio. This made me want to listen to the album again and when I did I loved it. Funny how that works.

Halloween

Here's a cool pic of Michael Myers in the new Rob Zombie film.

Glen & Garry & Glen & Ross

Four Men with Tourette's

New Blogger

I have a new friend in the blogging world. Her name is Jenn. If you have a moment stop by her new site.

(Dylan, Aly, Me, Jenn On the set of 'Friends')

FS

Hopefully this will be my actual return to posting. I've been so sick since I got back into town that all I ever have time for is going to work then going to bed once I get home. I'm sure that not taking any time off has just delayed me from getting better. I'm not at 100% yet but at least I'm getting close now. Last weekend I was at my worst. Even though I've been completely drugged out while working I've had quite the great week. This was a very important week. The manager of my department went to LA and in her absence she had left me a lot of the really important work. I've only been there for like 3 and a half months, so it's pretty cool that she actually wanted me to do it. The most important thing had a deadline of Friday, so she had scheduled me to be doing it all week in order to finish. Being as great as I am (yeah that's right) I finished by mid week. I was hoping that I would then be able to go back to doing my favorite job of doing DVD shipment. Everyone I work with thinks I'm crazy b/c I actually like doing shipment, while the rest of them believe it sucks the soul from them. I guess being soulless helps...lol. Instead I got to play detective.

During my trip to LA there was an inventory count, where every product in the store was counted. This helps determine what is missing. In most cases the product has just been stolen. I guess they came up with a large number of items missing. It was then up to people to find if the product was actually missing or if it was just missed when they did the count. It was left up to the heads of each department to find these items. The guy second in command in my department had been searching and I guess found all that he could. So once I was finished my task I got to help. The end of the week was the deadline to find everything that could be found. It was getting down to the point where the slightest dollar amount would decide whether or not our store would be classified as a high theft store. In my two days of searching I found close to a thousand dollars in lost merchandise, which is absolutely unheard of so close to the deadline. Especially in the entertainment department. All the things I had been finding were missing by only one item ranging between a 10 and 20 dollar amount so add that up and I found quite of lot of missing items. I instantly became a god in the eye's of all my managers. I've been nominated for employee of the month and I think that I have single handily helped in pushing our store out of being know as a high theft store.

NIN

Here is some kick ass NIN news. Releasing Fed 27th will be the Live DVD 'Beside You In Time' from the Live With Teeth tour, which I was lucky to see. Then on April 17th they will be releasing their new album 'Year Zero'. You can hear two of the new tracks on their Myspace page.

Audioslave No More

Chris Cornell has left Audioslave! Read the full article here. Too bad...I really liked this band. Now it's even cooler that I have seen them live. Plus having a few of their shirts, now that they are no more is also pretty cool. Maybe there is some good news from all of this. Chris Cornell will release his second solo album "Carry On" May 1st. Who knows what might happen after that? Maybe we will see a Soundgarden reunion. Plus guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk, have reunited with singer Zack de la Rocha to resurrect their former band Rage Against the Machine for some live shows. Maybe will even get a new album out of them. This is all very exciting and sading news.

In other news I have a really bad cold... I hate being sick. I haven't been sick in a while. It started on my day back from LA. I had a sore throat. I was hoping it wouldn't develop into anything, but when I got back into Van both my Grandparents had the flu so that didn't really help me. I'm a really big baby when I'm sick. I want to be waited on hand and foot. Unfortunately I have no one around to do that. I also hate that I'm one of those people who will work no matter what. I really wish I'd call in sick, but it's not in me to do it. The only way I'd never show up to work was if I was dead. So b/c I'm not feeling so well it will take a few more days before I get to telling you all about my LA trip :(

Hot Topic

Finally! I've now been to a Hot Topic. My brother told me about this store a few years ago. It specializes in pop-culture related fashion and merchandise. Every time one of my older brothers have gone to the States I've got then to buy me stuff. I have so many cool things from the store but I've never been to one. Now I can finally say that I have. The first one we went to I wasn't really impressed but that's b/c it was a smaller one. The other thing was there wasn't a lot of movie related shirts, but they are always getting new stuff so I probably caught then at the wrong time. The bigger ones we went to were really cool. I'd love to have a store like this in Canada. From the LA stores I bought an Army of Darkness shirt, another Boondocks Saints shirt, and another V for Vendetta shirt. I'm constantly checking their home page for all the cool new stuff they get. They have recently updated their web page. In true rock star fashion they want help trashing their old web page. If you head over to this link you can grab a guitar and help smash away.

Knocked Up

This movie is going to be hilarious

International Trailer
R -Rated Trailer
Official Trailer

V-Day

Happy Valentines Day to all the unloved!

In honor of this special day I'm posting the trailer for the 2001 horror film Valentine....Enjoy. Lol

I'm Back!

Hey, Blogger friends! I'm back in town. Did you miss me?... Sorry for the absence. For those who didn't know, I was in LA for the last few days. It was a surprise for my brother's 30th birthday party, so I couldn't mention it on my blog. I'm really tired right now so I tell you all about my trip tomorrow or Thursday by the latest. :)

I Fought In A War

Stole this cool idea from Nicole.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Even Deeper - NIN

WHAT'S YOUR OUTLOOK ON LIFE?
Street Fighting Man – The Rolling Stones

WHAT DOES YOUR FAMILY THINK OF YOU?
Waiting For You – Ben Harper

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Seems – Queen Sarah Saturday

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE SONG?
New Girl – Third Eye Blind

WHAT DO STRANGERS THINK OF YOU?
Proud Mary - CCR

WHAT DO YOUR EXES THINK OF YOU?
Beautiful Day –U2

HOW IS YOUR LOVE LIFE?
Storaged – System of a Down

HOW WILL YOUR LOVE LIFE BE IN THE FUTURE?
The Real Thing – Faith No More

WILL YOU GET MARRIED?
Good Times Bad Times – Led Zeppelin

WILL YOU HAVE KIDS?
Evacuation – Pearl JamARE

YOU GOOD AT SCHOOL?
Early Sunsets Over Monroeville – My Chemical Romance

WILL YOU BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE?
America! Fuck Yeah – DVDA

WHAT SONG SHOULD THEY PLAY ON YOUR BIRTHDAY?
Closer To God – NIN

WHAT SONG SHOULD THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Almost Over – Limp Bizket

YOU AND YOUR BEST FRIEND ARE:
Closer (remix) - NIN

HAPPY TIMES:
Keep On Rocking in A Free World – Neil Young

SAD TIMES:
Love of My Life - Extreme

EVERY DAY:
Sunday Morning – Maroon 5

FOR TOMORROW:
Breakin the Law – Judas Preist

FOR YOU:
Love is Only a Feeling – The Darkness

WHAT DOES NEXT YEAR HAVE IN STORE FOR ME?
Radar Gun –Bottle Rockets

WHAT DO I SAY WHEN LIFE GETS TOO HARD?
Come In, Come In – Velvet Revolver

WHAT DO I THINK WHEN I GET UP IN THE MORNING?
Vicarious - Tool

WHAT SONG WILL I DANCE TO AT MY WEDDING?
Teenage Rampage - Sweet

WHAT DO YOU WANT AS A CAREER?
Let It Roll - Train

YOUR FAVOURITE SAYING?
Now or Never – Duncan Sheik

FAVOURITE PLACE?
That’s How it Feels - Wave

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
St. Lawrence River – David Usher

WHERE WOULD YOU GO ON YOUR FIRST DATE?
Just Because – Jane’s Addiction

DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix

WHAT DO I LIKE DOING MOST?
Here We Go – Bouncing Souls

SONG THAT BEST DESCRIBES MY BOSSES AT WORK?
Behind these Hazel Eyes – Kelly Clarkson

WHAT IS MY STATE OF MIND AT THE MOMENT?
Through With You –Maroon 5

HOW WILL I DIE?
The Day The World Went Away - NIN

THE SONG THAT YOU'LL PUT AS YOUR SUBJECT
I Fought In A War - Damien Rice

Should I Bring Sexy Back?

I was thinking I may go back to short hair. I love me with short and long hair. It's a tough decision. What do you think?

Should I cut my hair?
	yes
	no
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Zodiac Signs

I love reading stuff about my zodiac sign. This is one that was emailed to me. As I was reading some of the other signs I noticed that they were all very similar. Which reminded me of a Psych class I had. The professor wanted us to all draw pictures of ourselves. From that pic, she was going to write a description about who we all were. When I got the description it was pretty much bang on. I believe the majority of the class felt the same way. How could that be done you ask? She had given the same description to everyone in the class. I forget the point of the exorcise but I think it had to do with proving that everyone is predictable. It made me think that anyone could have wrote anything about my zodiac sign and I'd end up agreeing with it to some extent. However in this case I would agree with it all.

Sagittarius: The Sexy One
Spontaneous. Freak in Bed. High appeal. Rare to find. Great when found. Loves being in long relationships. The one. So much love to give. Not one to mess with.Very pretty. Very romantic. Nice to everyone they meet. Their Love is one of a kind. Silly, fun and sweet. Have own unique sexiness. Most caring person you will ever meet! Amazing in Bed..!!! Did I say Amazing in Bed? Not the kind of person you wanna be with you might end up crying.