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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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12:58 am - Twenty-four, part duex
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Hey everyone,
I know it's been a long long time since i've updated, but here's some news.
I'm a professional swordfighter. What a great job.
Also, I've turned 24, again. make of that what you will.
I miss you all. are you still there?
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| Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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12:11 am
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| Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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9:22 pm
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So, today, hiliary clinton said in philly today that leaving the race for the nomination would be like rocky giving up halfway up the museum steps (which he does in the middle of the movie).
So clinton is rocky, huh? At first glance this seems to be a poorly thought out analogy, but actually, it's right on the money.
She and obama will wail on each other allllll the way to the last day, and then she'll lose to the popular, charismatic, beloved black guy at the end.
God, what a bitch.
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| Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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1:49 am
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As long as those little actors are up for it, the Duke of York is going to be a total fucking badass. Right up until he gets killed.
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| Friday, February 1st, 2008
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11:52 pm - Lost (no spoilers)
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Alright, so lost premiered season four yesterday, and apparently we're getting eight episodes this year, due to the writer's desire to get paid when people watch things they've written (i know, right, how selfish is that?). It was great, as it usually is, but it got me thinking about things, namely, Lost v Heroes.
Lost is a three year old show with a big cast, a huge overarching multi-season main plot full of twists and turns and secrets and red herrings and tons of little subplots, told both from the present time, and through flashbacks which reveal important details about the characters. It's widely regarded as having some of the best actors in dramatic television.
Heroes is a year and a half old show with a big cast, a large overreaching season-long main plot with lots of twists and turns and batches of little subplots. Oh, and everyone has powers. Until recently they were all individual, unique powers.
Lost v Heroes is weird, though. I think I have to say that Lost is the superior show, particularly after this season of Heroes. Heroes has some good stuff (plus i love superheroes), and Lost has episodes that just DON'T GO ANYWHERE. But Lost is just so good in so many ways that are important, primarily: characters. I've found that when you have great characters, it doesn't matter what they're doing, I'm going to like the ride. And there are some great characters on Lost (Primarily John Locke, Ben, Desmond, Mr. Eko, Jin, Sun and Charlie). Plus, Lost is essentially a big string of comic book characters. (Jack is Superman, he wakes up and saves like eight people. Locke is Batman, he's dark and mysterious and is a prime physical specimen - he's the hunter, the man who knows how to survive in any situation, Boone is Jason Todd, Batman's sidekick who was killed, Sawyer is Gambit, the thief and conman, Jack/Kate/Sawyer have the Scott/Jean/Logan triangle going on with the two different alpha male types, etc, etc).
And Heroes has some really good, great characters, too. Mr Bennet, Peter and Nathan Petrelli, Hiro, almost all of the last generation, I even really liked Isaac (before he got clean). But some of them are so....eh. Claire, Nicci, Micah, Parkman/Mohinder, ehhhh. Infact, yeah, screw the kids, all of them. And I kinda like parkman now that power is corrupting him a little. But that's totally why I love Nathan, because of his capability to be a villain.
Ok, so I think the thing i like best about Heroes is prolly the thing that gets me angriest about heroes: The fact that it's essentially a comic book. I know a lot of shit about comics, and everytime I come up with something i think is brilliant, and in Heroes it turns out that it's nothing like that at all, it's something very basic and obvious, I get really pissed off at Heroes. I had such big big ideas about Hiro and Kaito Nakamura and the legend of Taekezo Kensai, and not only did none of them come to pass, what actually happened was lame and simple. Even when what just happened made my idea completely bullshit, I came up with another cool one that was eventually revealed to be bullshit. And I came to a startling conclusion: Heroes was getting lame. the fact that the writers took off halfway though the season didnt help. But then I remembered that I thought the first half of the first season of heroes was lame.
Lost has lame moments too, sometime entire lame episodes, sometimes when I tune in and it's another goddamn jack or kate flashback i just dont care, but then Locke throws a knife into someone's face and I get all excited again. But Heroes just makes me mad, because it could be so so great, but at the end of the day Tim Kring still doesn't know shit about comic books.
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| Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
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11:29 pm
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The Dark Knight will be one of the highest grossing movies of all time.
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| Saturday, January 19th, 2008
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11:51 pm - Winter WonderGang '08!
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Hey, hip cats, I was in Chicago last weekend, living it up and playing with swords galor. And drinking. Heavily.
Here's the rundown.
Thursday!
Flight from Philly International to O'Hare. Upgraded, drank a lot. Whee! Get in, hang out with the awesome that is Jess Fabo, get to the hotel, meet up with more of the wondergang, get lit, party into the night with Shosh, Owen, Buchs, Jason, and Fabes. Awesome.
Friday!
Classes!
Mass Battle Tactics: several-on-several fights, how groups deal with each other, how having people at your back affects you. totally sweet. plus pool-noodle beatdowns.
Changing styles with the short blade: Knife with Bob Macdougall. Western big open bowie style vs eastern tight inside cut the fuck out of you style. Mac's ridiculously awesome.
lunch!
Angelo Disarms: Smallsword with Dave Woolley and Lewis Shaw. Hilarity ensues when we learn Angelo's disarms and McBane's similar, if more fuck-up-the-other-guy equivalents.
Forensics of Violence: How your body reacts when force is applied in different ways. me and my swollen black eye are used as visual aids.
Opening night party and sale: Bought a Lewis Shaw Smallsword. It's awesome. AWESOME.
Saturday!
Kali Double Stick: Scott Mann is awesome. Escrima stick fighting, also awesome.
Lightsaber: I heart Chuck Coyl. He hearts cutting people up with lightsabers and Forcing the shit out of them.
Lunch!
Deadly Serious Single Sword: Richard Raether is too uptight, but still hilarious and great. Serious single concentrated on the actual danger of the weapon as a transitional rapier, rather than the big garish Hollywood-style buckling of swashes. Lots of fast kill cuts that were barely survived.
Weapons Maintenance: Mostly just an excuse to hang out with Lewis and Neil Massey. Though some excellent information was discussed.
Saturday night was slightly quieter, the NSCW 06 gang of me and Lisa and Chris and Dave and Sarah went out for dinner and then hung out for a bit. Much quieter than Friday night. i think.
Sunday!
Dexterity with the smallsword: Bob Mac teaches to concentrate on glissades and the lightness of the smallsword rather that direct parries. we have a little scene where the blades never leave contact with each other.
Fighting bound: (rowr!) Shosh and I get tied together wrist to wrist and go for a knife. Hair pulling, chokes, throws, and falling on my ass abounds.
Lunch!
bullwhip (ROWR!) playing with whips, cracking them forward, backwards, and over the head. Taught by scott mann again, who can do FREAKING KALI STICK WORK WITH SHORT BULLWHIPS. AMAZING.
watched the SPRs for those renewing skills. Very cool.
Sunday night party, get loaded, listen to the winners of the raffle prizes, I come away with half tuition to the Action Film Workshop this summer. AWESOME.
Monday, get on the plane (upgraded!) fly back to philly.
So basically there were two kinds of classes. The fun new weapon types (bullwhip, lightsaber, kali sticks, tied up unarmed) and using the standard weapons differently (knife, smallsword, singlesword, tied up unarmed). All in all a totally great workshop. I can't wait to go back.
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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12:11 am - Two thousand and Eight
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Happy new years, douchebags. Also happy new years to those who are not douchbags, and I think you all know who you are.
Now, I batdance!
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| Monday, November 12th, 2007
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10:17 pm
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Sooo....
Alvaro, having no time to read mainstream comics(since he's busy reading indy comics and webcomics), has requested that I podcast the plot of comics that i read. And also movies that I see.
Now here's an interesting idea.
Should I start podcasting summarys of basically everything i come into contact with? And do you have any suggestions?
lemme know
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| Monday, October 29th, 2007
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10:24 pm
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Hey! Hey, you reading this!
Sunday: You, me, car, rt95 south!
PROTOMEN!
The protomen are playing at Alley Katz in Richmond VA this Sunday, which means I'm GOING to richmond virgina this weekend.
Any y'alls want to come with me and see the greatest story ever told, let's ride.
Hope Rides Southeast, one last time before they're back in the studio for God knows how long.
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| Sunday, October 21st, 2007
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2:06 am
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In response to jenn molholt, the muse and all around cool gal (not to mention beautiful)
1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
1) What is it about The Princess Bride, exactly?
The Princess Bride is one of those movies that just sticks with you. It's also the first (and to date only) movie I've memories. Oh, other movies I've learned lots of, but at the high point (and still mostly now) i could recite the Princess Bride, starting from any line, all the way to the end, with perfect accuracy and idiom and timing (really. When we did it at PSU my sophomore year, I didn't bring my script to the first rehearsal because I didn't need it. i also went on to fix mistakes and be the vocal coach because I knew it so well).
Also, it's a damned great movie and hilarious. An all-star cast (minus Robin Wright, who went on to do great things, like Forrest Gump and Banging Sean Penn)and 70% of it is completely quotable by anyone with a modicum of memory. It's awesome. You know it is.
2) Is chivalry dead?
First, the philosophical: The fun thing about chivalry is that it never actually existed. My Midieval Studies prof was so keen on this fact. The whole idea of the midieval romance (as exemplified by people like Tristan & Isolude, Lancelot & Guineviere, and basically all Arthurian legends after 1625) is a complete fabrication to be laid at the feet of Chretien de Troyes. So blame him for it all. Now, as to the practical question, I'd like to say no. My father raised me to be polite. Yes, I may bitch and curse at people. Yes, I may hound them mercilessly over the most trivial matters. Yes, I'm kind of a jerk. But if i walk through a door in front of people, I always hold it open for them. If it's a group, I keep holding it until they're all through or one of them comes to replace me. I hold chairs for women. When I'm paying, I pay without looking at the bill. I'm always sure to thank someone when they're the one who prepared a meal. I try to stand up for people when they're being treated unfairly, both in person and behind their backs. I like to think I'm chivalrous.
3) What do you enjoy most about acting?
This is im relation to the next question, so maybe you should read that first (i wrote it first). The most enjoyable thing about acting is without a doubt that I do not have to deal with real life. Playing a character is seeing the world through their mindest, responding to challenges and ideas as they would. Being an actor means that you don't have to be yourself, at least, not just yourself. I'm convinced that most of us have inferiority complexes, and the ones who are all worshiped for their ability to "lose themselves in the character" are able to do that because they actually do lose themselves. At least in part. Method acting is simply becoming as much like your character as possible, to fully experience their life, and is one of the more prominent forms (notable practitioners: Christian Bale, Edward Norton). I often wonder if I'll actually lose myself, that is, I'll adopt traits from many different characters, but will have nothing that I can say is actually me.
4) Do you fear the real world?
Absolutely. It was the biggest fear I had while in college, and it remains to be so. The simple task of getting a job, earning money, and taking care of the little tiny things that make up life (bills, insurance, car, food, clothes, wallet, phone, computer) are completely beyond me. Well, not completely, since I'm dealing with them, but still. Ask me to imagine that I'm an Italian well-to-do cousin of a prince and best friends with the son of a big businessman, and a rival comes and challenges him to a duel and I have to defend him since he won't defend himself, sure, right, no problem, do you want to shoot it all at once or in segments?, but ask me to sit and figure a budget and make sure my checkbook is balanced and i have enough to take this pretty girl out and then find things to talk about and try to find other pretty girls, jesus christ. What am I doing here?
5) Do you have a favorite or vivid memory of me from high school? I realize this is a stolen question but I thought it was a good one and I'm curious.
I have a batch of vivid memories of you in school. A) I have a great memory, and B)You're my muse, c'mon, but the one I'll share with the general populace (lemme know if you want me to share more with you personally) is from 9th grade. It was a music festival, and you played piano. You were also the only Shanahanite dressed in something unique. It was a long black gown, and you looked amazing. I told you I'd been there the next Monday in Sr. Eileen's english class, where we sat in the back left. You sat to my left, Bridget Ward sat in front of me (I remember I caught her eye in that class because I knew what a claymore was, I also remember that when she and I started dating, the first thing her mother asked was whether or not I was an Orangeman), and Ian Sierry (or however) sat to my right. I was 14 and incredibly stupid, so instead of telling you how good you looked and how wonderfully you played, I told you something else instead, which was retarded then and is retarded now.
Also, I remember the Santos moment of which you spoke. I also remember being pretty jealous of him at the time. I was jealous a lot in high school, mostly a result of being completely ball-less enough to go for it with any of the girls that I wanted to get into a relationship with. Mike, though, he was hilarious. His inability to not smile was the source of endless amusemnt for me. I haven't talked to him since Chick's graduation. I wonder how he's doing.
Oh, Chick's started a band with Hainer and Ed Mysak, they're calling themselves Seven Car Pileup.
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| Monday, October 8th, 2007
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10:49 pm - Asked forever ago, too
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Stolen from Jess Burke, hottie and awesome chick that she is.
1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
1) What's the best game (video or otherwise) you played all summer? A tie, i think. Urban Dead (www.urbandead.com)(wiki.urbandead.com) is a low tech browser based zombie apocolypse RPG in which you can play as a survivor, trying not to die, or as a zombie, trying to eat survivors and not really minding dying too much. There are no NPCs, all zombies and humans are real people playing. You can't actually die in this game, zombies can just get back up, and humans become zombies when they die. Zombies can also be tagged by a revival syringe to once again become human. So life in the city is very very fluid. Also, the real joy of urban dead is the playerbase and the wiki. hundreds of groups and organizations have started, with specific goals like healing the sick, reviving the dead, and holding territory. Zombie groups allow them to act as sort of a hive mind, all hitting the same place at one time. Probably the most fun part of this game is the Death Rattle skill, as it allows zombies to speak (they can only growl otherwise) but only to use the letters a, b, g, h, m, n, r, and z. After some early steps (bang, grab, banana, gangbang), Zombie lingusts have created an entire language for the not-quite-so-dead. For example, a zombie might feast on a human, then, before killing him, laugh and say "Grab mah manbagz, harman!" loosely translated to "Grab my testicles, human!"
Also in this category (though I started playing before summer) is the PS2 game Shadow of the Colossus. In it, you play a young wanderer hunting and killing avatars of the idols that imprison the god Dormin, so that you can free the god and they will bring a dead girl back to life. It's a very, very expansive world, and it's populated by exactly you, your horse, some birds, some lizards, and 16 giant stone monsters. Which you must climb up and kill. It's similar to a legend of zelda game, only with nothing but boss fights. You have to discover the weakness of each colossus, then find a way to climb up it and stab it. Some of them are straightforward and man-shaped, but there are several that are serpentlike, or turtle-like, or bull-like. There's even a giant bird that you have to hang onto as it flies through the air. Most of the time you have to use the terrain to help you get on top of them, sometimes you have to run them down with your horse, or fire your bow at them to get their attention. It's really one of my favorite games ever, now. It's haunting and beautiful and very isolating, when you're riding all alone, trying to find a colossus. Go play it and love it.
2) What are you doing these days? Jobwise? Schoolwise? No more school, unless you count swordfighting training in the city. Which I guess qualifies. I’m working with a fight director in Philly, playing with lots and lots of swords, and it’s totally awesome, I love it a lot. Jobwise I’m working as an engineer for a television production company while auditioning tons. Also plans to start a theatre company of my own. Slowgoing though.
3) Do you have a favorite film, what is it, and why? I have many favorite films, so this is a hard question. I love Citizen Kane most of all, not only for the popularization of so many of the modern techniques, but because it’s a great story, told in flashbacks, and I totally heart Orson Welles. I think my favorite comedy is either Brain Donors (think Marx Brothers, but with John Tuturro), or Death to Smootchy, because Robin Williams and Edward Norton are hilarious together. Plus Harvey Firestein, the ultimate “I need a name that says that I’m Jewish AND that I’m gay” name.
4) What is your favorite Penny-Arcade strip? Oh god. Oh, oh god. Uuuum…there’s a lot. I love the Cardboard Tube Samurai, I love every one about the Pacman watch. Plus all the series. And I really, really love this recent one: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/26 and also this one: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/06/25 and of course http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/04/09
No seriously, to pick one? I can’t pick one. Well, maybe I could, but it would take me a while.
5) If I teach a (short) unit in my class this semester about comics as a medium, what strip/author/series should I absolutely not fail to mention? There are so many. So so many. I could talk on and on about writers like Alan Moore (Watchmen, From Hell, The Killing Joke, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, Ronin, 300), Jeph Loeb (Spider-man: Blue, Daredevil: Yellow, Batman/Superman, Batman: The Long Halloween), classic strips like Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, and artists like Tim Sale (A Superman for all Seasons, Batman: The Long Halloween) and Jim Lee (Hush, All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder), and the newish world of webcomics (PA especially, but also dozens of others you should ask my pal Alvaro about), I think the best thing you can do is to tell them about Scott McCloud and his book Understanding Comics. It’s an entire book on comics as an art and communication form, what we think about comics and how writers and artists use standard conceptions to screw with us and make something totally sweet.
So apparently what these questions say about me is that I can’t ever have a favorite anything because I love so many things for so many different reasons. Scary, no? Me loving many things? I thought so, anyway.
current mood:  whooo!
current music: Jonathan Coulton - Creepy Doll
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| Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
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4:11 am - Oh, woe.
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Sad news, fantasy fans. James Oliver Rigley, also known as Robert Jordan, is dead now just before his 59th birthday from complications with amyloidosis. Whether you love his ingenuity or hate his rampant borrowing from other literature, myth, and culture, enjoy all of the books or just up until "Fires of Heaven, when they started to suck", you have to admit that his death just before he was due to finish the last book in the goddamn series is a great big burn on us all.
Godspeed, RJ, and thanks. I hope the army of writers clamboring to finish up the last one don't fuck it up too badly.
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| Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
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9:35 am - Not-spoilers for hp
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"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his stlye."
Now, I haven't read the new hp book, and i doubt I will, as is mostly evident from my last post, but I've had that line running through my head for a while now whenever someone mentions it. A line written by a much better author, in a loooooooads better series.
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| Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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11:38 pm - out of the loop
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So everybody's excited about the new harry potter movie. Lots of people I know have seen it, and apparently it's the best of the bunch. It kinda makes me want to like harry potter more than I do, so I could dig going to see it, and being excited about harry getting into some kind of trouble because the school wants to stop him from trying to (find a rock/find a room/find an escaped convict/be in a tournament) because he's (too young/too inexperienced/doesn't know what's good for him), but he continues on because he's (smarter than he looks/really talented at being sorcerously/destined to fall ass-backwards into whatever he's looking for) and ultimately has to confront an (incarnation of/ghost of/lackey of/reincarnation of) the evil wizard guy, succeeds despite overwhelming odds and (repeated assassination attempts by the faculty/giant monsters/evil faculty/giant spiders/more evil faculty/that guy that turns into a rat/MORE evil faculty).
Not to mention the (kind of scary/usually hilarious/sometimes poignant/but always heartwarming) antics his friends land him in, even though one's (kind of retarded/a whiner/a pussy/sometimes a douchebag) and the other is (stuck up/a know-it-all/a bitch/[smarter/better at magic/holier-than-] him).
But wait, we can't forget the (evil teaching position/douchebag faculty members/asshole blonde kid and his fat and lazy lackeys/douchebag and -evil- faculty members/big fat incompetent bearded guy who takes the blame every time something happens).
And also, there's the one or two scenes in the classroom or on the broom-riding game that showcase (inane psuedo-latin phrases/traditional and hackneyed concepts of the occult/overly complicated and practically useless [or at least never used] magical applications/give the aforementioned friend a moment to shine, cause she can proudly say she did her homework like a good little suck-up, even though [there's a killer on the loose/people are vanishing/there's an escaped killer on the loose/shit's going down]).
In the end, though, we can all kick back, and relax as our intrepid hero saves the day and defeats the (incarnation/ghost/lackey/reincarnation) though the power of (love/stabbing a book/the framed killer/love again) and is commended by the powers that be at the school, even though he (explicitly disobeyed orders/put himself in danger/almost got killed/almost got OTHER people killed/didn't actually accomplish anything because the villain doesn’t really suffer setbacks. like at all.)
Now, this is just a glib interpretation of the first four movies, each of which I’ve seen all of at one time or another. I understand that the film adaptations are -adaptations- and that the books are more in-depth, apparently full of wit and double entendres and clever moments (which I’d bank on, as the chick's english and they're all like that), but this is what I took away from the (from my, non-book-read) near identical railroad plots. Harry is great because he's destined to be great. He looks for something, he gets it. He wants to disobey his professors and put himself and others in danger, over and over, OK, that's cool, after all, the most evil guy ever is out to get him, so he's got carte blanche to do what he wants, since it's all going to turn out okay because (say it with me) he's destined to be great.
So take the annoying, clueless protagonist, an annoying, clueless retard sidekick, an annoying, bitchy not-love-interest (which I respect) chick sidekick, a big fat incompetent guy who gets blamed every time someone does fucking anything, an old, codgery guy who's incapable of stopping a teenager from almost getting killed a dozen times. Throw in a running joke about the Evil Faculty Teaching Position, a bunch of regular ol' douchebag faculty (including, but not limited to the guy who WANTS the Evil Faculty Teaching Position and the little blond asshole's dad, plus a sycophantic jackass magical superstar), an entire student House chock fucking full of douchebags (seriously, is it a house requirement that you have to be a fucking asshole to everyone you meet?) and the most evil bastard of all time who for some reason can't kill this clueless protagonist even though he's the most evil bastard of all time. Why? (say it with me again) He's destined to be great (and has the power of love, plus a never-ending supply of Deus Ex Machinas).
Plus, we've got little wands and broomsticks, two witch-related items I’ve always found immensely lame because (aside from being hackneyed and really, really LAME), they take the magicalness out of the characters and puts it in their stuff (which is fine for sci-fi, okay for some fantasy, but not this one because in this case we're left with a bunch of fucking annoying children who can barely take three goddamn steps without fucking something up).
Sorry this not-review went on so long, but let me just finish by saying that if you like harry potter, you'll probably like this movie. People seem to think that it's well written and faithful to the book. So, enjoy. I won't, but that's me. And hey, you knew that already, didn't you. Remember, I think harry potter sucks, I don't think that you suck for liking harry potter. Not anymore, at least.
current music: the protomen - hope rides alone
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| Friday, May 25th, 2007
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2:48 am - Brains?
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Like awesome games that happen to be free to play?
Like killing zombies?
Conversely, like eating human (and sometimes zombie) flesh?
Go to www.urbandead.com, sign up and enter the horrors (and hilarity)of Malton.
Be sure to read the EXPANSIVE wiki at http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Gameplay
The coolest thing? Well, the two coolest things? First, if you're a human and you fall victim to the undead, no problem, the courteous members of NecroTech supply a special revivification serum to bring you back to life, so just becuase you're (un)dead doesnt mean you're out. Second, this is a low-tech mmorpg with NO npcs. that means every single person you meet, human or zombie is actually a person at their own computer.
So come on down and play in a really cool world. If you're going to play a human, look me up and we'll hang out and wreck some zombies. If you'd rather be a shambling corpse, look me up and I'll be sure to put my axe in your face.
Remember: Success is being killed ten times, and standing up eleven.
Cheers!
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| Friday, May 4th, 2007
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1:09 pm - Wherever there's a bang-up, wherever there's a hang-up, here comes the Spider-Man!
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Spider-man 3 adds several things to the franchise. Several things it needed. I won't ruin anything for anybody, but I'm just going to say that the three things MOST needed, and three things delivered, were and are:
-A more confident and MJ-like Kirsten Dunst, even when things arent going her way
-A totally Emo Peter Parker
and
-An absolutely bitching Saturday Night Fever montage. Absolutely bitching.
Go. Go see. Contribute your 5-10 dollars to breaking box office history again.
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| Friday, April 13th, 2007
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12:00 am
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I've learned some information that's terribly interesting...
I dont know what i should do.
I'm really afraid of it, too.
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| Saturday, March 31st, 2007
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11:23 pm - Hope Rides East!
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They loaded the battle wagon at dusk.
They were ten and five in number.
Behind them were the charred ruins of a burning city.
Before them lay nothing but endless battles.
Their destination?
Here.
The Protomen came. The forces of Wily fell before their might. The city burned. They taught us what it ment to be truly free.
Just as suddenly as they arrived, they were gone. They declined an honor guard. Their cry was raised by the masses:
Hope Rides Alone!
current music: The Protomen
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| Sunday, March 25th, 2007
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9:05 pm
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going home for easter.
anyone wants to hang?
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