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Friday, June 27, 2003

Friday Five

1. How are you planning to spend the summer?
Working as always...

2. What was your first summer job?
The first job where I was paid? Cuz the first summertime job was volunteering at the local pool teaching kids to swim. But the first paid job was at the local Arcade/Mini Golf place Wright's Barnyard.

3. If you could go anywhere this summer, where would you go?
Disney World...or some tropical island and I'd stay on the island for the rest of my life.

4. What was your worst vacation ever?
Never had a bad vacation - there were bad parts in good vacations, but the vacations themselves were all good.

5. What was your best vacation ever?
wow... hard to say. Florida was a good vacation, very relaxing, lots of beach and pool time...and yeah, Disney... But Denmark was cool too whole other country, needed a passport. Saw lots of cool stuff ate new foods, got to see Tina Turner. That was all very cool. Those two are the best so far.

That's what I said at 12:57 PM

Thursday, June 26, 2003

New Blogger

My blog has been transferred over to the new version of Blogger. Interesting thing is that the MAC version of the new Blogger is different from the PC version. But it's all good cuz now my template has been updated and I don't have to worry about it going wonky like it did before. WOO HOO!!

New Blogger format is good.. pretty..but prettier on the PC than on the Mac

That's what I said at 7:42 PM

28 Days Later

So I went and saw the movie 28 Days Later last night. The reviewer from the Daily Mail said it was "Scary as Hell." I don't know if I agree with that. It did have some tense moments, I did jump maybe once. I coverd my eyes and turned away often. It was quite gorey. But as horror movies go these days, I'm just not feeling properly scared or terrified. The movie's premise is that three PETA types break into a lab to try and liberate the chimps that are being experimented on. The scientist type walks in on them and tells them "no, you can't let them out, they are infected" and the kids are like..."huh? infected with what?" and the scientist says "infected with RAGE!" So naturally the kids scoff at this and open the cage anyway. The chimp, as we just know is going to happen, goes into a rage and bites the stupid girl and then she gets INSTANTLY infected and starts tearing at the others in an incredibly gruesome and disturbing scene.
Fade to black...then on the screen we see "28 Days Later" and there's a naked man in a hospital bed with wires and tubes all over. He wakes up with a start tries to get out of bed, the IV stand falls on him...he rips all the tubes out of his arms tries to leave...but the door is locked and no one is around. By the way, we also don't hear the beeping of a heart monitor as you'd suspect from someone in a hospital bed. Well, he finds a key on the floor...and it opens his door. the hospital is in disarray...gurneys are knocked over, chairs are on the floor....but it's deserted. The guy keeps calling out saying hello but there's no answer. He goes outside...there is no one around (I think he was in London).
Finally he finds a church, he climbs the stairs inside...and in the chapel is a pile of dead bodies. He looks around, then shouts "HELLO?" and two of the dead bodies sits up, then to his right behind a door, there's all this pounding and moaning. The door opens and there's a priest acting all weird...as he gets closer we see his eyes are red (like the iris of his eye is red, not like his eyes are bloodshot) he's acting crazy and trying to attack hospital guy. Hospital guy has a plastic bag filled with cans of pop and he hits the priest to make him back off. The priest falls but is alive and growling at dude... Dude does run away...and this is when the wackyness of the movie ensues...
As in all horror movies, Dude finds out what happened to everyone, meets up with some people who save his sorry ass and then the adventure through Zombie Land begins. The adventure is typical, they have the usual cheap scare (it's all quiet, the hero looks around for the badguy...BAM! some loud noise...it's a rat - you know, cheap scare).
My friend was bored with the movie...I was excited while it was going on, but on reflection...it didn't move me...much less scare me. The music was cool, this was done by the same guy who did Trainspotting. So you kind of expect some good music from him.
But I was hoping for a scarier movie. Scary movies just aren't that scary anymore.
I'd say this is OK if you wait for the $1 show. I think the dark theater and big screen will help in the enjoyment of the movie....at least better than on TV at home.

That's what I said at 1:24 PM


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But the first paid job was at the local Arcade/Mini Golf place Wright's Barnyard. 3. If you could go anywhere this summer, where would you go? Disney World...or some tropical island and I'd stay on the island for the rest of my life. 4. What was your worst vacation ever? Never had a bad vacation - there were bad parts in good vacations, but the vacations themselves were all good. 5. What was your best vacation ever? wow... hard to say. Florida was a good vacation, very relaxing, lots of beach and pool time...and yeah, Disney... But Denmark was cool too whole other country, needed a passport. Saw lots of cool stuff ate new foods, got to see Tina Turner. That was all very cool. Those two are the best so far. That's what I said at 12:57 PM Thursday, June 26, 2003 New Blogger My blog has been transferred over to the new version of Blogger. Interesting thing is that the MAC version of the new Blogger is different from the PC version. But it's all good cuz now my template has been updated and I don't have to worry about it going wonky like it did before. WOO HOO!! New Blogger format is good.. pretty..but prettier on the PC than on the Mac That's what I said at 7:42 PM 28 Days Later So I went and saw the movie 28 Days Later last night. The reviewer from the Daily Mail said it was "Scary as Hell." I don't know if I agree with that. It did have some tense moments, I did jump maybe once. I coverd my eyes and turned away often. It was quite gorey. But as horror movies go these days, I'm just not feeling properly scared or terrified. The movie's premise is that three PETA types break into a lab to try and liberate the chimps that are being experimented on. The scientist type walks in on them and tells them "no, you can't let them out, they are infected" and the kids are like..."huh? infected with what?" and the scientist says "infected with RAGE!" So naturally the kids scoff at this and open the cage anyway. The chimp, as we just know is going to happen, goes into a rage and bites the stupid girl and then she gets INSTANTLY infected and starts tearing at the others in an incredibly gruesome and disturbing scene. Fade to black...then on the screen we see "28 Days Later" and there's a naked man in a hospital bed with wires and tubes all over. He wakes up with a start tries to get out of bed, the IV stand falls on him...he rips all the tubes out of his arms tries to leave...but the door is locked and no one is around. By the way, we also don't hear the beeping of a heart monitor as you'd suspect from someone in a hospital bed. Well, he finds a key on the floor...and it opens his door. the hospital is in disarray...gurneys are knocked over, chairs are on the floor....but it's deserted. The guy keeps calling out saying hello but there's no answer. He goes outside...there is no one around (I think he was in London). Finally he finds a church, he climbs the stairs inside...and in the chapel is a pile of dead bodies. He looks around, then shouts "HELLO?" and two of the dead bodies sits up, then to his right behind a door, there's all this pounding and moaning. The door opens and there's a priest acting all weird...as he gets closer we see his eyes are red (like the iris of his eye is red, not like his eyes are bloodshot) he's acting crazy and trying to attack hospital guy. Hospital guy has a plastic bag filled with cans of pop and he hits the priest to make him back off. The priest falls but is alive and growling at dude... Dude does run away...and this is when the wackyness of the movie ensues... As in all horror movies, Dude finds out what happened to everyone, meets up with some people who save his sorry ass and then the adventure through Zombie Land begins. The adventure is typical, they have the usual cheap scare (it's all quiet, the hero looks around for the badguy...BAM! some loud noise...it's a rat - you know, cheap scare). My friend was bored with the movie...I was excited while it was going on, but on reflection...it didn't move me...much less scare me. The music was cool, this was done by the same guy who did Trainspotting. So you kind of expect some good music from him. But I was hoping for a scarier movie. Scary movies just aren't that scary anymore. I'd say this is OK if you wait for the $1 show. I think the dark theater and big screen will help in the enjoyment of the movie....at least better than on TV at home. That's what I said at 1:24 PM	Tidbits Blogger Code: B5 d- t k s-- u-- f i o+ x-- e l c My Bloginality is INFP! The Sideblog
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