real time jigga

yes, the layout is back to normal. yahoo just looked too busy on the screen. and my link box thing isn't working at my work comp so i'm hoping it is for the rest of the world. have a few movies to review, but considering today was the big night i'll save it for tuesday maybe. tonight as i watched the awards from work, i made comments as the show went along so i wouldn't have to try and remember every thought i had when it came time to write this up. so without further adue, your host presents a running commentary of the 77th annual academy awards:

chris rock is blasting everyone! this is great.

morgan deserves it all and more.

no singing! beyonce please exit stage right.

noooooo!!!! how could natalie not win??? she is so beautiful.

kirsten dunst is haaawwwt!!!

aviator winning a lot of awards. gonna be sad when marty loses to clinty.

no more singing! especially the counting crows. i thought they died in the 90’s. did this guy really date courtney cock? and how many guys are in this band? i’ve counted 7 so far.

pretty sucky commercials for the #2 most watched event of the year.

little joke between rock and sandler was pretty dumb.

i’m hoping for before sunset . . . nope.

i’m not liking this little display of nominees on stage. kinda like a miss america pagent. why don’t they throw the actors up there?

good job spiderman 2!!! Not.

why are there empty seats in the auditorium? i’m sure i could have gotten tonight off from work.

al pacino is so good looking! i want to be him. strange to think he’ll be getting this award like 20 years from now.

no more beyonce!!!

got a translator for salma hayek? can’t understand a word she is saying. and who cares what penelope is saying. she lookin so good. but can you believe these two chicks are actresses? they can barely read the english from the teleprompters.

ouch, funny stuff when winners get cut off.

santana is amazing, banderas is greasy. stupid song too.

perfection!!!! here’s my girl. she’s a little serious though. i bet she misses me.

john williams never seems to win.

zzzzzz, sorry, humanitarian award is going to who?

annette bening looks like she’ll be on next year’s montage o’ dead people list because she is dying of starvation.

puff daddy is gay. you and beyonce both need to scram.

is prince wearing high heels?

after all those performances, i hope none of the songs win. they were all terrible. i’m shooting for phantom though . . . nope. prince is like, “get the hell off me.” nice acceptance speech too. better than most.

sean penn should shut up about jude law. it was just a freaking joke loser! jude is probably so embarrassed right now. i’ll go for hillary, but i’m shooting for natalie portman as a write-in candidate . . . nope. but hillary is good too. annette is not gonna be happy about this. here comes the speech of the night, and here comes the cutoff music.

i love those HP commercials!! how do they do that?

gwyneth! we love her. and way to go on the pronounciations. she so perty. i love how since a movie from spain won, they keep cutting to all the mexican/spanish/latino/hispanic/whatever actors in the audience.

good for charlie. bout time he won. and about time for eternal too.

random thought, chris rock is good, but billy crystal last year was better.

charlize’s dress is huuuugge!

no big upset tonight. jamie won. and here we go with the speech. zzzzzzzzzzz

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here comes the music

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what the hell is he talking about? man, he is a good actor. what about thanking the wayans brothers? he’d be nowhere without in living color.

julia’s actually got some boobs. twins paid off.

please clint, please clint . . . YEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the man is perfect. his mother is still alive? she is 96!!! she must have been like 10 when she had clint. highlight of the night right here!! most deserving man in hollywood.

is hoffman drunk?

STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!! UPSET UPSET UPSET!!!!! that is amazing. can’t believe baby won! i truly feel bad for martin, but clint is genius. you can’t stop the man! i feel like packin my bags for carmel.

and ending the movie on the theme from the terminator. nice touch! listen to those trumpets!!! perfection!! ouch, so high. i used to be that good. i did!

my darling

The Way of the Gun (2000): they get an A for effort, but the movie was just too busy and because it didn't flow well, it started to get hard to follow everything and everyone. also, unlike other movies such as snatch or ocean's 11/12 that are also very busy, the characters weren't very unique which would have made you want to really follow what is going on with everyone. the end is very reminiscent of butch cassidy and the sundance kid, but not really. wonder if they had that in mind while shooting/writing. i have to cut off the line between buying and seeing somewhere, so i think this would be that line. del toro is always perfect and that curly hair sue guy married to reese witherspoon ain't bad either. see it.

Soul Survivors (2001): a pretty dumb movie that one of my co-workers wanted me to see cuz its her favorite. first of all, for me to like a scary movie, it better be next to perfect and 100% original. this movie isn't even worth writing a review about. are they trying to pull a sixth sense storyline? did they purposely make it not scary or suspenseful? the movie is very slow and takes forever to actually get to the point. and when the big surprise comes at the end (that she is really dead.) you are hardly left surprised at all. i'm perplexed how someone could rave and rant about such an awful movie, but then again, i like a ton of movies that many hate. don't see.

i think all dreams, good and bad, could be considered nightmares. either way you lose because if it is a scary dream, then its self explanatory why that would suck. but if its a good dream, its generally about something that you want and can't have. its basically a terrible way of teasing us. like watching a movie about what your life could be. had one of those very dreams last night and wanted so bad to not let go of it that i just woke up once the dream was over to stay awake so i could remember every detail. dream was interesting because this event happened which was amazing, then the next day i had jumped like 6 months later, so i never got to see the immediate effects that event had on my life. so its like the event happened, but then it didn't. like putting a piece of the richest chocolate ever into your mouth, but never being able to actually taste it because after your mouth closes you are living in the next day. so basically all dreams suck. except for fleetwood mac's version.

on that topic, went to buy a cd today and was headed straight for a stevie nicks cd i've been wanting for some time. ended up getting one of the new brighteyes cds instead, so i think it was a good trade off. my bro sent me a few cds he made with some interesting music on them. so far i'm really digging zeke and turbo negro. i still have some more to listen to so i'll report back if anything else strikes my fancy.

as far as my bro goes, the link o' the day is kinda for him. its compliments of matt by the way, but it basically tells you what hit song of '04 you are. i ended up being that sorry blink 182 song. hopefully you'll end up being something a little better than that. reason its for my bro is because the quiz is gonna force him to choose that he listened to =w=eezer last year.

snowboarding yesterday ended up being one of the worst experiences so far. for the first half of the day the snow was just packed as tight as could be. by the second half it was turning into mush. one of the only three lifts that sundance has was shutdown. i fell once in this pretty secluded area and nearly went off a cliff (no joke). that fall made me scrape my face on the snow which gave me a nice cut on my chin. after cleaning the blood off my gloves i decided to punish that biotch of a mountain and shed the crap out of it. did so until about 2:30 when she pulled a fast one on me and i was on my face again. this time with the wind knocked out of me. wish i could say that the fight was a draw, but robert redford's hometown i think did me in. its cheap, but won't be going back there for a while. so today the right side of my head is throbbing even after i'm dosed up on excedrin.

just got back from million dollar baby. gotta think about this one before the review, so i'll get back to you. however, eastwood, freeman, and swank all the way tomorrow night!

worthless profession #38: statistician

i hate this new layout more and more as the minutes pass. i'm desperately trying to find a new template to use but i'm having such a tough time. i've found 3 that i really like, but its gonna take a massive amount of tweaking for me to get it all nice and pretty.

in stats now and our teach is going over all the same crap he went over a week ago. not sure why i come each day. had a terrible time sleeping last night. good news is that it turns out that jAx's little husband isn't as perfect as she made him out to be. she came over late last night to complain about it to kim. from the sounds of it, he treats her a tad worse than i supposedly treat kimmers. anyways, i avoided her like scurvy last night while they blabbed on and played with the baby all freaking night. so it took me forever to get to sleep and i woke up with a pretty bad headache which never happens. it was so bad that i woke up at like 7 and couldn't sleep from then on. if there is something that prevents me from sleeping, you know something is wrong. also i threw out my back or something yesterday. no ryan, it wasn't from humping your mom. at work i fell asleep in my chair and was at a really bad angle with my back. its so bad that when i stand up now i can't even breath or talk for a few seconds. this happened once before and lasted a few days, so hopefully it will be gone by snowboard day.

this class is great. there are people sleeping, people riding the web, and people who are retards and don't remember that he's repeating himself from last wednesday. then there's an old guy next to me who is video taping and recording the whole lecture to his laptop. this class isn't that hard man. judge taylor is the best person in the world. he said he'd get my letter out today!! and my lovely boss said she'd get hers done as soon as she could! plus i got my transcripts today and revised my resume last night. all i have left are my cover letter, references, and umm, oh yeah, a writing sample. these three are gonna suck by the way. all this has to be turned in by next friday and the interview for that one cool internship will be the following friday. this makes for quite the dilemma. means i'll probably have to get a haircut which i was hoping i could last the semester without doing. its not super long right now, but its starting to go over my ears. i've been trying to think of a way to comb it where it still looks nice and professional but i think that will be impossible. it will be sad to have to cut away because this was supposed to be my crazy change for the year, last year being the nasty white trash beard.

and good news because there is a tentative summer schedule online so i'm already planning for that. its looking like the classes they are offering and that i need are gonna suck. stuff like comparative criminal justice systems and bankruptcy law. sounds fun eh? hopefully i won't have to deal with these though cuz i'll be living 2,100 miles away.

811,330,587 seconds left to live

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1984): this movie has such awful special effects and cinematography that i would swear it came out in the early to mid 70's. they sped up most of the footage to make it look like everyone is running 100 mph. and they did a horrible job matching up the voices in the soundtrack and the actual film. the quality of this film is beyond low budget. however. the story and concept are both very interesting and funny. i really grew attached to the main bushmen guy running around naked. it really helped that he really was a bushmen from africa in real life. and all the white people that were cast were all annoying, which was pretty much what they were supposed to do. and i think i saw morgan freeman in the tribe somewhere too. with so much national geographic boobies all over the place, how is this rated PG? anyways, after the movie was over, all i could think about was how retarded it was, but then it began to really grow on me. its definitely worth seeing and possibly worth buying.

The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 (1990): this is pretty much the exact same review as above. watching this movie you would think that it came out in the early 80's because again, its really bad. but i grew to love the african people even more in this one and the stupid americans are even dumber and more annoying. i think samuel l. jackson was in this movie. that guy's in everything! warning though: there are more half naked black people than you'll find in a california prison shower. but its very much worth seeing. you'll learn to like the movies.

Constantine (2005): don't ask me why, but for some reason i just couldn't get into this movie. the only thing i can think of was the plot because the fx were pretty decent and the acting was the same as any big action movie acting. maybe the plot was too thin. i guess there just wasn't much to it. i'm having a hard time describing why i didn't dig it. so for pretty much no reason in particular, don't see this movie. thought it was gonna be amazing but sadly mistaken. i just don't think i'm a fan of horror/action/demonic/monster movies such as this.

i've always had the feeling that i'd die young in life like around the age of 50 or so. you figure, i'm not the most active or healthiest eater there is. plus i just have always had that feeling i guess. anyways, did a death clock on the final destination dvd a couple days ago and was surprised to see that it said i'd die on may 27, 2020. little earlier than i had planned. granted, its just a stupid dvd so i won't worry too much. even if its true, still gives me time to go to law school, practice for a few years, and have a couple kids. then i did one yesterday online with my mom. that one gave me until 2035, which puts me at 54 which sounds about right.

as you can see, the blog has changed. at first i liked this nifty layout, but that was for like about 10 minutes. gotta find something new. it just takes so much time to make all the changes.

and i feel like an idiot when it comes to school. i've taken a class on probates and a class on family law. so when issues have come up since on both topics, of course i can't remember a flippin thing about them. and its basic stuff too. so of course that scares the crap out of me when i'm gonna have to know this stuff for real. i have to go to the lsat class tonight. if i don't do good on that test, all this gpa and letters of recommendation and internships aren't gonna mean crap. speaking of, i asked judge taylor again if he'd write a new letter of rec for my internships. i felt so bad doing it because i feel like i keep bugging him and i know he is so freaking busy. he already responded to my email but i'm afraid to open and see what he said. maybe i'll look at it tonight.

and aren't we glad about the new paris hilton thing? it couldn't have happened to a better person i think. nice phone pics she had too! someone needs to hack into her bank account and steal all of her allowance.

my new toy

what a flippin mess. that little link thingy over to the right took me about 3 hours to get. it takes forever to actually add a stupid link onto it, but i still like it. its very much a work in progress and half the links don't work, but in time i should have it all down. i'll probably be adding new links here and there under the "on me" menu, so keep an eye out. it will usually be stuff that i find interesting out there on the web. and let me tell you, this little "blogblox" as i guess its called was one of the easier ones to put up. there was one that i really wanted to do but i'd have to be a programmer to probably figure it all out.

i got a few movies i need to review, but i'm too burned on to do anymore typing. i'm gonna be revamping the whole site soon. in need of a new layout and have a few in mind. sorry i got nothing interesting to say. but i got a good quote of the day from a friend. enjoy:

"I'm a pathetic loser that free loads from one state to the next, finding love so I can be hurt by it leaving my life empty and useless. So pretty much I don't think highly of myself and think it's everyone elses problem."

add this to my list of girlfriends

so this person wrote me yesterday on my yahoo IM out of nowhere. i, as would most, was fooled into believing for a few seconds that i was talking to someone real. then i realized that its some kind of automated IM with the same script for everyone. despite that, i thought i'd have a little fun with my new computer friend. warning though. it gets kind of graphic for all you virgin ear'd readers out there. you have been warned!!!

transparentluvproxy: hhi... anyone there?
Ethan: possibly
Ethan: depending on who you are
transparentluvproxy: oh your there hii...
transparentluvproxy: a/s/l (qge sex location)?
Ethan: 23/m/ut
transparentluvproxy: im 27/f/USA. was lookin at your profile. thpught you might like to chat.
Ethan: where in the US you from?
transparentluvproxy: so what have you bbeen up to weezermn?
transparentluvproxy: cool. i was just hangin out watching tv. i was getting kinda horny (*blushes)
transparentluvproxy: feel like a little cyber fun with e ? please please...
Ethan: maybe
transparentluvproxy: i think ill just take that as a yes... being as that im startingg to get real horny here.. lol ok?
Ethan: i'm a 10 foot tall black guy with a 34 inch penis. can you handle that?
transparentluvproxy: alright zow bout i get down on my knees in front of you and help you out of your pants?
Ethan: sweet ass!!! watch out for my hemroids though. they are a bitch
transparentluvproxy: tell me what you want me to do with you while i slip out of my panties
Ethan: could you make me a sandwich?
Ethan: turkey and cheese and tomato and mayo and bacon please
transparentluvproxy: oh yeah bage.. dont stop. while i slide my hand down between my legs and part my moist lips
Ethan: did you say bagel? actually, thats sound really good. put all that stuff on a bagel please
transparentluvproxy: oh it feels so good. Imm holding your pulsing cock in my hand, my shiny red fingernails dig gently into your balls, while my full, soft lips engulf the mass of your meat
transparentluvproxy: open my website so you can look at me while im sucking you. use the linkk in my profile!
Ethan: wait a sec. don't eat my meat. i thought that turkey was for me jerk off
transparentluvproxy: what do you tthink of my pics?
Ethan: you look like a donkey
transparentluvproxy: i have some pictures on my personal webpage. have a peek. the link is in my profioe.
Ethan: is that english? man you need to learn to type donkey lady. and where is my sandwich???
transparentluvproxy: shit the phone. dont stop stroking it. holld on...
Ethan: its your pimp telling you to make my sandwich
Ethan: you still there donkey lady?
transparentluvproxy: sorry, I have to take this call, probly take bout five minutes. If you want, come to my page and lets finish this. I have my cam on there cyberfungirls dot com look for me on there
Ethan: yeah i will you skank ho. thanks for nothing biotch

i go home to the coast. it starts to rain, i paddle out on the water alone. taste the salt and taste the pain, i'm not thinking of you again.

Alien vs. Predator (2004): surprisingly this is the best movie i have seen in years!!! nah, just kidding. it was pretty dumb. i love all but one of the alien movies, but i've never seen any of the predator movies all the way through. the story line was pretty cool and i was down with learning a lot about the predators. but aliens have been well overdone. there is only so many times the eggs can hatch and the aliens can come out of someone's stomach. the human characters made no difference because they were basically just in the movie to die. the only good thing i can say about the movie is the predators. in fact if another movie came out on just the predators, i'd probably be all over it. the only reason i saw avp was because i've seen every alien movie, but i think i'm done with alien movies. if you are into amazingly real fx and cool sci-fi movies and want to see the predator kick some alien arse, then see it. otherwise steer clear.

Before Sunset (2004): this is of course the sequel to before sunrise and i had pretty high hopes for it. throughout the entire movie however, it kept heading in the wrong direction that i had wanted it to go in. again its that voice of reason that they randomly throw in films. as pb has said before though, we don't watch movies to see real life, but for the fantasy of it all and to escape. but the way it ends was amazing and every doubt about this movie that i had while watching it went away. it was absolutely perfect. just like the first, its all talk and no action. lots of conversations, but they are so real and seemed to be done all on one take which i can't even imagine how hard that could be. and i loved how through the movie they would reveal a little more info about the characters that just blows your mind. at the beginning of the film you think you know each person but turns out you know nothing. it gets a little slow during the middle, but the payoff at the end is worth it. and there is no point in seeing this if you haven't seen the first, so don't even bother. for those who want to see one of the best love stories that film has to offer, its worth buying.

we are currently grading our first exam in class for stats. so far i'm 7/7. make that 8/8. yesterday i went off on the hollywood video crew for charging me for another month for that dumb pass. yelled at them for about five minutes and was pretty proud of myself. had to call corporate and ask them for my money back. looks like the lsat class started without me so i guess all my time will be going toward that again. my mom and sis got into a car crash yesterday. they seem to be okay, but got some whiplash.

hey guess what? let me tell you how cool my school is. the utah legislature pulled like the $37 million they were gonna give us for a new digital library thing because they didn't like us having michael moore and the vagina monologues and having mock gambling at some dance or whatever. the bastards up north want us to be the byu of orem. so the lawmaking body of the state of utah can go to hell.

once or twice a month i dream about playing the trumpet which is weird since i haven't played in years. i collected comics for like 4 years but i don't dream of them. and i keep dreaming of shaun seita from fresno too. such a good guy. i miss that kid. since i'm doing so well today in just giving random thoughts, here are a few more:

• i want the little mini sony vaio laptop they have at costco
• i can't wait for easter to have some cadbury eggs
• i'm sick of school
• i love mexican food
• i recently had some weird head thing where everything moves really really fast for like 10 minutes, which has actually been going since like 3rd grade
• i'm slacking on developing pictures
• i love red lacy undies with matching bra. they look so good on me
• i took part in a wonderful conversation online yesterday which i will be posting soon; probably later today
• US Weekly decided to do an article on which celebs weigh less than 100 lbs. i'm waiting for the edition that tells what celebs weigh more than 200 lbs
• sadly, this stats class is probably my favorite class of the semester
• old people in school are generally pretty dumb and annoying
• mark mcguire has got a hot wife
• and venus and serena are nasty. no one wants to see that

so that's all for now. watch later for my convo. its kinda dumb, but was funny at the time. out.

does senator chambers or chief justice chambers sound better?

A Day Without a Mexican (2004): really not as good as i had hoped. thought it would be a much more serious film, with some slight humor of course. instead it was basically a big joke. granted its an indi film, but still. there was a ton of news broadcasts in the film, but they were done like they were out of some disney channel teen show or something. at best, the quality and tone that was set was something like a very well done high school film department could put together. and talk about plot holes! for example, why did the mexican's disappear? did god do it, and if so, why them? are mexicans really the most oppressed and neglected group of people in the world? i tell you what, the only mexican i wish would disappear is that faggot greg sanchez jr. (my ex-step-dad for all that don't know). now that would be a good movie. don't see this one though.

its a nice and snowy day here in la la land. quite the surprise when i went out to my jeep this morning. of course we get all the snow the week i'm not going snowboarding though. just my luck i guess. but oh happy day yesterday. doesn't everyone just love valentine's day!!! well, as i mentioned yesterday, i'm not one of those people, but i'm all about getting presents! kim got me six feet season 1 on dvd. i've been waiting for freaking ever to get this!!! it was just too expensive for me to justify buying. and i got some tasty chocolates and a nice trip to the training table for a root beer float and burger. and if you must know, i got her nothing. she got an early gift when her wisdom teeth came out. got her season 1 of one tree hill, so that should count.

went to an internship meeting yesterday. i doubt i'll get the one they were offering. they go around to EVERY college and university in utah and have people apply. they said in the end, 4 people out of about 60-70 who apply will get the internship. good odds huh? plus, it would be in washington dc for all of the summer. kinda scary thinking about doing something like that, but imagine how fun that would be. i think i've decided that i'm gonna go ahead and apply and do the interview for it all. and if i don't get it, i'm probably going to look for more opportunities out in dc. this of course means i'll have to cram the classes i would have taken during summer into another semester, but it would be worth it.

a year used to seem like such a long time. kinda like as a child thinking adults were so dang big or that it would be impossible to fill up a 20 gig hard drive. now i long for that time when 1 year was an eternity to me. a year ago the law firm was doing our thing. can you believe that was a year ago? seemed like just a few months that it all happened. and soon it will be time to bust out the shorts again.

break out the boycott signs

West Side Story (1961): wasn't as good as i'd thought it would be. maybe there was just too much hype for me to like it. the music was amazing, but notice how i'm saying the music only. most of the singing i thought was pretty bad. it was too gritty, but real because you figure its a bunch of kids from hell's kitchen singing. so if i were to buy the soundtrack, i'd get an instrumental only or a rendition done by a drum corp or something. everyone was really ugly too. the only amazingly beautiful person was natalie wood, but it was hard to really stay focused on how hot she was because of her way exaggerated accent. but its amazing to realize what real actors used to be like back in the day. they were actually performers who could sing and dance and act at the same time. let's see anyone do that today besides probably the other perfect natalie in life. i think i've come to realize that i'm not a fan of musicals where there is dancing involved. musicals are obviously not very real life, so by all the hard core gang members of new york doing spins and jumps, it just makes it even more unrealistic. musicals are great, but just stand still and sing or give some kind of physical action. sadly, to the disappointment to probably many, i'm going to have to say to not see it. there are a number of musicals out there that i love way more than this. if you want a musical, do fiddler or jc superstar. if you want romeo and juliet, see leo and claire. and if you want natalie, come to provo cuz she'll be at my place tonight! allllriiiiigggghhhhtt!!!

third eye blind's first album is something else. one of the few albums i can just listen to over and over again. it brings back such a feeling of innocence and simplicity from my high school days. and believe it or not all you nonbelievers, when i listen to the cd i don't just start thinking about a certain person named pb. its basically my high school experience in colorado as a whole that i remember. its probably the closest and only thing that really takes me back in time.

today is jessIE and rhett's anniversary. happy anniversary guys. they are living it up in glennwood for the next few days. speaking of mr. man, i went to see him at his work at Chili's, but i was totally snubbed. of course its because he didn't recognize me (am i that forgettable?) but it was funny because he brought out a drink for me, opened the door as i left the place, and even told me to drive safe. it was kind of embarrassing. well, happy valentine's day to all those that care. here's my theory. it obviously doesn't matter to those who don't have a valentine and it also shouldn't matter to those that are married or are in a really involved relationship. at that point you just celebrate your anniversary together (unless you are a loser who gets married on v-day). why do i need another reason to go out to dinner and do a whole date thing? i do that every weekend. and who wants to stand in line for 2 hours for the olive garden or whatever? if you can't give your partner some little gifts throughout the year for no reason, then you probably shouldn't be together. the only people that v-day should apply to are most kids 17 and under and those who have been together for less than 2 years. so don't waste your money today. you can get chocolates for easter and go out to eat next weekend or wait till st. patti's. and just remember, st. valentine was killed for the things he did, so unless you want that same fate . . .

got excedrin?

Finding Neverland (2004): i guess its okay. thought it would be more like big fish, but the movie just kind of came and went while i watched it without much hoopla. i do have to say however that i was either choked up or teary eyed for about 30 minutes straight during the end of the movie. its really sweet and depp has an amazing accent. winslet is amazing as usual and the boys' performances were either really amazing or really gay. the movie manages to stir up some really good emotions out of you, so for that i'll have to say its worth seeing.

Tom Jones (1963): complete waste of my time. it was retarded and most of the time made absolutely no sense. the entire plot was pointless. all the cutaways and fades and wipes were all so annoying. and let's not even get into the awful narration. they say its the best comedy ever made, but by today's standards it gets top prize for the worst. this is also jfk's last movie he ever saw before he died, which i feel truly sorry for him to have to sit through this. i think people were too concerned over him dying that year, that come time for the oscar winners they just picked out of a hat for best picture and chose this crap. if you want to see a pimp named tom, drive to boulder and visit tommy k. but don't see this movie.

Driving Miss Daisy (1989): this puts me at seeing every best picture winner in a row from 1988 to today. its a pretty sweet movie and kind of on the short side which is what i have been needing lately. most every movie i've seen recently is 2+ hours long. acting was perfect as expected from mr. freeman. the movie actually might have been a little too short. it was too cut and dry of a plot. even the ending was just too tidy and simple. its probably worth seeing because of freeman and tandy. they have their witty moments which makes it fairly watchable. see it.

ended up being a tough weekend. snowboarding was fun. headed to the canyons because jessIE is too good of a friend to me. she got me a lift ticket as an early b-day present . . . way early i might add. its a good way to make sure you don't miss someone's birthday though; just get the gift way early. the canyons was so nice though. i fell a lot and landed really hard on my head toward the end. have had some bad headaches since. oh well. i'll learn my lesson some day. got to have lunch with my ma on saturday, but other than that the nights and days ended up being pretty lonely. when your wife is gone and you have no other friends in town other than another married woman, you're ended up with limited options. except i think i spent hours upon hours on www.littlemidgets.com downloading what seemed like hundreds of videos. there are some funny and gory stuff there which i'd very well recommend to all. and jonas is finally back to his old self again which i was so happy about.

i have a horrible headache and i feel about ready to puke. i'm pissed off that they are releasing a special edition double disk dvd for heat. and my pass for hollywood is officially over. i ended up raping them for 42 dvds in the 1 month period. comes out to about one and a half dvds a day for a month. not too shabby for ten bucks! so you can keep your netflix for now.

i was alone, i was all by myself

Ordinary People (1980): zzzzzzzzzz. take good will hunting and add a lot of bore. it was sinfully dull and just dragged. i know it had a point, but i just didn't care about it. acting was great but i still didn't care. we all have to love mr. sundance for his work, but how did he win best director for this junk? don't see it.

In the Cut (2003): not sure why i decided to watch this movie. very uninteresting. its got meg ryan naked in it for those into naked chicks, but this broad ain't worth seeing. its basically a movie about her having sex, crying, and trying to figure out murders that i couldn't seem to really care about. they tried to make it suspenseful about who the killer really was, but didn't seem to care about that either. and when the murderer was finally revealed, i was just happy that the movie was almost over. the movie did go by quick though, but might be because i was falling asleep throughout. don't see it. and if anyone can even tell me what the title has to do with the movie, i'll give you a gold star cuz i have no idea.

Terms of Endearment (1983): such a heartfelt type drama/comedy or whatever you'd call it. reminds me a lot of as good as it gets. debra winger and good old jack are amazing in it. the movie is so funny at times, but as real as it gets when trying to show how life really is. just like life, nothing is perfect, but there is always so much love everywhere you turn. i'll stop before you start to puke. its a really sweet movie and worth buying. great story and great example of what acting really is all about.

i'm all alone now. this is actually the first time that i've been left at home while kim leaves me. i love my alone time, but its still gonna suck a little because its a little too much alone time. since i have no friends to spend the time with it will basically be me and my movies i guess. i get to pick up jonas today from the vet so at least i'll have him as company. not much else going on. been having exams here and there. nothing big to worry about yet. semester is just another semester.

and please, no one go see that movie hitch. you know its going to be terrible. and will smith has gotta go back to his fade cut. no one likes that thick little head of hair he's got. maybe he's going back to the fresh prince look. anyways, save your money for war of the worlds. so lets see what's going on the world today. prince charles is marrying that ugly old chick. bill cosby says he didn't rape and drug that girl 20 years ago. north korea is all set to bomb the hell out of us with their nukes. and people keep torturing their kids all over the country. what's up with that? and oh yeah, think i'll join the secret service if i don't get into law school. doubt i'll get past the door, but its worth a shot.

today she is wearing zebra striped undies

Stagecoach (1939): having an overload of westerns lately. my second john wayne movie in the last 23 years and the last week. slightly better than the first because there was some good humor. i wish i could have grown up during this time so that when i watch these, i could truly appreciate the innovation it was. i wanted to badly to feel scared as the stagecoach blazes through the desert at 25 mph and as 30 indians get killed by 3 guns. i can only imagine how suspenseful and action packed a movie like this used to be. i bet people left this movie from the theater in shock at how good it was. but its not like that today and it wasn't that great. i must say however, that the stunts these people pull off are sick. how do they get horses to just collapse like they are getting shot? they probably actually shot the horses then. there were stunts that they would never do today, much less allow the actual actors to perform them. we are much to cautious these days. don't see.

Chariots of Fire (1981): one of the first movies i've seen lately that i had no clue what it was about before seeing it. basically a bunch of brit runners going to the olympics in the pursuit of winning. its very slow at the start, but you do get to see where that music comes from that you always see in commercials or shows where people are running slow-mo. you know, that piano song. anyways, the movie really picks up when they finally get to paris to the olympics. and actually, its pretty sweet seeing an olympics so long ago. as you watch it, you'll want to turn it off and go watch the A team, but it ends very well, so see it.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948): it was strange seeing bogart as a the villain. he's always the scoundrel type, but you just don't expect him to be the baddy. the movie was interesting i guess. still not sure what the sierra madre is. they never mention it in the movie. am i supposed to be able to translate? let's see, um, the mother mountain. okay, i guess that makes sense. either way, its a "human nature" type of movie. you gotta wonder what you'd do in their situation. what does gold or money really make a person do? ending was kind of sad because no one really wins, except the old guy. there's nothing special about the movie though. don't see. but don't go searching for gold either. in the end, you'll just get your limbs chopped off like bogart.

on the way to school this morning i saw a wonderful bumper sticker that read, "tv is better than family." kinda funny since this dumb state is all about family. our poor little kitty is at the vet now until thursday. he's got some liver and kidney infection and he is so dehydrated that the doc says he probably wouldn't have lived much longer. what, you may ask, was the cause of such an infection? well, he was eating the flowers i got kim for getting her wisdom teeth out. i guess that's what i get for trying to be nice. i wasn't even gonna get those stupid ass flowers for her. flowers are so overrated anyways so i don't think i'll be getting flowers again any time soon. so don't expect any for v-day. by the way, this is gonna cost us hundreds of $$ to them to keep him over night and get him better. meaning, snowboarding might be out.

still waiting for my doc to get back with me to get my other pills. actually, still waiting for me to call him so he can get back with me. but i did take one of them yesterday. felt kinda weird afterward. it could have been because i was so apprehensive about taking it, that i just made myself feel all weird. could have been a placebo for all i know. not sure if it made any effect, but maybe i'll try again another day.

the school paper gave the new bright eyes cd's glowing reviews yesterday and that with all of matt's thoughts on it, i might have to go out and grab em. i'm so far behind with all the new music that comes out, so i might take the plunge and get it sometime. and 18 more days until the oscars!!! woohoo!!! so excited for that. and something big is coming up next week that no one knows about but me (i hope at least). this could be probably the third biggest news of the year for me if all goes well. i'm not getting my hopes up, but its worth a shot. if it goes good then i'll post it here, if it doesn't then nothing gained nothing lost. okay, gotta take a test for stats and listen to this stupid retard girl cry that he is giving us only 5 days to do a take home test. why couldn't she eat flowers and get an infection?

my fate 

love me, that's all i ask of you

The Phantom of the Opera (2004): wow. buy it. i've never actually seen the musical or knew much about it, so this is why i'm so into this movie. i loved when the phantom would sing. sounded a ton like bowie belting out all these songs. and the chick was amazing. the girl is 18 freaking years old!!! unlike oliver, i loved every musical number and the plot seemed to make more sense. and like oliver, the acting was perfect and the art direction was unreal. this is definitely a must see in the theater movie, but make sure and buy it when it comes out.

The Searchers (1956): this is my first john wayne movie i've ever seen. instead of a review, i think this calls for a little history lesson of my life. my dad was a huuuuge john wayne fan, probably the biggest there is. in fact, his middle name is wayne, which i'm sure is just coincidence or fate. i had always thought that i was named after a john wayne movie, where the duke played the character of ethan allen, who was the leader of the green mountain boys in vermont during the revolutionary war. turns out that i was named after this john wayne movie, where he plays a character named ethan edwards. i guess the allen part was just thrown in as my middle name because that is my dad's first name. so basically, ethan allen just happens to be my name, which just happens to be just like ethan allen from vermont, which just happens to be like the ethan allen furniture store. what are the odds? then again, don't forget all the michael bolton's in the world. i'm gonna have to buy this movie because of its roots to me, however i don't think many of you care about how i was named. don't buy it, even though i will.

Pale Rider (1985): another clint eastwood movie, another western. this didn't have the humor that his previous movies had. still pretty cool to see because its set in northern cali during the gold rush. brings back all the memories of learning about california history in elementary school. yes people, i could pan for gold if i wanted to. first saw this movie like 13 years ago at my grandpa's house, but it seemed better then. i dig westerns, but only if they have that wry humor to it. the deep westerns aren't my thing, meaning i probably won't enjoy too many john wayne movies. don't see.

still not much improvement for our cat. poor little thing. sucks to see him so sad and really not know what is wrong with him. i seriously love the little thing like he is my own child. i'm at a point now where i'd be okay if he were to die. i don't know what that means about me though. it would be sad, but i guess this stuff happens. i know kim would be devastated though. maybe that is why i wouldn't be so sad. if all my attention goes to her and trying to comfort her, i could overlook my own sadness. not like the cat is gonna die or anything though . . . i hope.

had a really weird dream. had some spanish teacher or something, blah blah blah. basically, i decided that it would be sweet to go to law school in barcelona at like the main university or whatever it would be called. we'll call it University of Spain at Barcelona. anyways, i just pictured me living in a little part of town in an old stucco type house. it would be so amazing. then i started thinking about The Rentals' song Barcelona and hearing it in my dream. as i was talking to my teacher though, i realized that i would probably have to learn spanish but decided i could probably just move there and pick up the language by being so immersed in it. i can already understand a good portion of spanish. can't really converse, but i'm sure i could learn. woke up shortly after and realized that it probably wouldn't work. first of all, could never convince kim. second of all, doubt jessIE cares to learn corporate law for the country of spain. now berlin! that's where the money's at.

way i see it, we're all on the hindenburg, no use fighting over the window seat

Oliver (1968): lots of good and lots of bad. the musical numbers are easily forgettable aside from one amazing one in the street with all the peddlers. i actually got chills. the plot is dull and i even wonder what the whole big deal was about oliver anyways. why did bill want him dead or whatever? the acting was amazing though and the cast included the best child actors known to man. oliver and dodger and the old scary guy and the hooker girl and kill bill were all amazing. and the settings and streets of london were done so well you'd think they really filmed it in the 1800s. but set design and acting aside, plot and songs are gay, which makes for a gay musical. don't see.

Cimerron (1931): waaaay old movie and it barely had a plot. its such a flat movie with no rising action or climax or any of those things i've forgotten since that stupid class i took. the quality of the movie was terrible and the soundtrack was so awful sometimes that i had a tough time hearing the dialogue because of all the crackling. i could have sat and counted the millions of scratches that were part of the actual film. it was also hard to follow along with the main character. couldn't really figure him out. and, since it's so old, they didn't know how to make good use of music at the time, so a few scenes just seem like awkward silence. and all this from a best picture winner. i'd hate to see what it was going up against. don't see.

The Sweetest Thing (2002): refreshing to see a kooky movie based on a bunch of girls and their little adventures rather than the usual guy stories. and hot girls at that! the movie is completely ridiculous and unbelievable. acting is terrible and so on. basically, its your everyday comedy. but i'm gonna have to put it on my back up list to buy because i did enjoy it and its off the wall enough to keep my attention. the girls are hot and funny, and i was really impressed with christina applegate. so, either see it or buy it, but do at least one.

in my stats class once again. there is this chick in here who is so freaking retarded. she just asked a question that she asked last week in class. and her butt crack is hanging out too. pull up your pants gimpy. weekend pretty much sucked. kim's grandma died on friday which really blows cuz they were super close. she'll be flying out for services on thursday and come back sunday. her wisdom teeth experience was awful. bleeding and headaches and throwing up and chipmunk cheeks and "chinkity chang chang, i can't understand you." i don't mean to make fun, but that's how it was. i'm sure we'll laugh about it some day. and finally our poor little cat seems deathly ill. i'm really afraid something is very wrong, so i might take him to the vet today.

on the good note, i got my letter of recommendation for law school from judge taylor. its sooooo amazing. very short, but perfect. i'm so grateful for him. the retard girl in my class just said, "i have a high gpa and high IQ, but i don't have ADD." funny that she is the only one in class out of 28 who is yakking away and asking idiot questions. she's pretty much the only one that doesn't get it. with kim gone this week, i think i'll make it trip #7 for snowboarding this year!! not like i need her out of town to go, but since she gets to spend moola on a plane ticket, gives me a good excuse to spend money on me. so i'll be hitting up sundance on friday if all goes well. and i think i need new socks. i keep running out. lastly, my hollywood pass runs out this week. i'm debating whether i should just get a new one at a different store. i figure while i'm so into the habit of watching all these movies, i might as well keep it going. but then again, it takes up a ton of time away from things like homework and combing my hair. also takes up valuable space on this here blog. the final tally of movies will be coming soon. i think i broke some kind of western states record on video rentals. it will come out to slightly more than 1 a day. kim is getting sick of all these super old movies, but actually i'm really getting close to finally being done with my list. have like 50 left, which sounds like a lot, but i guarantee that there will be some i will never find to rent. enough yakking. i'm turning into ms. ass crack in front of me.

. . . and in the way she makes every rotten thing about life seem like its gonna be okay

Collateral (2004): how can anyone not like this movie? first off, the acting was great. i've never seen tom cruise become so involved in a character. i mean, he's good in movies like the last samurai, but he is still tom cruise and you know it throughout the movie. here, you never see tom as tom, only vincent. next on to jamie foxx. what was so cheesy about his performance? it was soo real and his dialogue was not your typical scripted movie talk. it had such a new type of gritty feel to it despite the colors being so vibrant. looks as though it were shot in all high definition. its just a great story with amazing characterization and a good ending. buy it.

yesterday ended up being a pretty tough day. i was scared out of my mind during the morning before the doc visit but i finally made it to see him. he was an amazing guy and really seemed to care, but i guess that's what he gets his $100+ an hour for. we talked about nearly everything there is to talk about, even the really deep secret crap in my life. i guess there was no point in beating around the bush. might as well just spill it all. in the end he gave me a prescription for two drugs, told me i've got all the clinical symptoms of male depression (this makes me sound like a wuss), and i should go see a different therapist for my other issues. so that's that. made for a crappy start to a day by having to basically relive every problem i have in my life. sometimes its nice just being able to shove it all away and pretend the problems aren't there.

at school i got a pathetic attempt by someone trying to cover the fact that they think my hair looks like crap. and this is after that dick at hollywood video was kind enough to say how he liked my hair better in my drivers license. then later that night i was showing someone a pic of me waaaay back in the day and this person commented on how skinny i was then. seemed like the person tried to correct what they had said by saying that i look better now though. so let's get this straight, i look better fatter? makes absolutely no sense, so that kinda got me really down last night. so i'm gonna try and go on another kick. it won't last of course but i'm gonna try anyways. and its not this person's fault. truth just sucks.

kim gets her wisdom teeth out today which i'm actually happy for cuz she was always in pain recently. maybe it'll clear up some of her headaches too. so for the next couple days i'm on servant detail. also today is mrs. jessIE's 22nd b-day, so happy birthday to you. she's as fond as birthdays as i am, so i guess we'll say its her 21st. hope she has a good weekend and day though (minus her wisdom teeth of course). on that note, i'm done.

kinda scared

Beautiful Girls (1996): another example of perfection on film. of course i'm talking about natalie portman. as i was watching the movie, i wished that i could just take out her scenes and storyline and just watch that. screw all the other crap. the movie ended all wrong. the guy should have ended up with nat or waited for her or something. it ended with the voice of reason winning the day. curse that vile voice of reason!! and uma had a great little scene with the main guy in the fishing shack but like above, she was the crappy voice of reason so i hated her for it. all the other storylines were so-so. matt dillon is horribly gay by the way. basically the movie is all natalie. she carries the movie as always. it would be worth buying if i could take her scenes, but the movie is nothing special. see it for nat or not at all. she is the greatest actress of our time.

The Cooler (2003): great movie where we get to root for the underdog and the perfect girl falls so far in love with the goofy guy. hard to watch and not compare to leaving las vegas and the girl next door. its a little hokey at times, but all in all not bad of a movie. macy and baldwin are amazing. what's her face isn't bad either. she also likes to be naked in the movie a lot. in the end, its a sweet little story with some very believable characters. it doesn't have the depth of leaving lv, but it still works. leaving lv is the way to go, but if you are in need of a rather unknown fun movie, this works too. see it.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973): geez, last one finally. first fifteen minutes recapped the whole story which was a waste of my time. first off, if you haven't seen the first four, i doubt you'd be seeing this one. secondly, they all came out only one year apart, so its not like anyone has forgotten what has gone on since the last one. again, i have the complaint about how stuff has changed so quickly and its not that far into the future. a lot of the story revolves around the future and how it is destined that certain things will occur. it ends nicely by showing that the future possibly has changed and that humans and apes can co-exist. but they don't really show the future altering event that made this happen, so whether the future has changed is debatable. the entire storyline is interesting and creative, but the movies suck. don't see unless you really loved the first one, which is me, so don't see.

today is my appointment with the doc. been thinking about all the crap i can shovel to him, but i'm wondering if he is gonna think i have a problem at all. i don't even know what my problem is anymore. all the things that seemed like problems at one point are just everyday life for me. i've gotten so used to hating 80% of the world and hating myself and being so anal that i don't care anymore. its just all part of me now that i'm wondering if i even want to change. that's what i'm afraid of actually. i'm gonna get there and we're gonna discuss all my issues and figure out why i am the way i am, blah blah blah. but in the end, its really up to me and if i actually want to make these changes in my life. part of me doesn't. for instance, i'm getting older and am soon gonna have to grow up and not act like a 19 year old. but who said i don't still want to act like that? and will he even think that these issues are so major that they need changing? i don't know, just stuff i've been thinking about. guess i'll find out at 1.

pointless

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005): as far as action movies go, this is where the money's at. the movie is crazy intense and i was happy to see that not everything goes all perfect and planned. when you got a movie with ethan, morpheus, and adriana la cerva, can it go wrong? its just a really good action packed, entertaining movie. i have a complaint about the end where they randomly end up fighting in some forest area, despite this being in the middle of detroit or somewhere. kinda hard to believe, but i guess it just added to the action of it. buy it.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972): probably one of the better of the sequels. things really start to take shape as far as the apes' future goes. its also getting really deep with the nature of humans. the movie is by far the most violent and at times it seemed the little battles stretched on forever in order to get the movie longer than an hour. as these movies progress, the length of the movies get shorter and shorter probably because they are fighting to keep the plot moving. i could write a dissertation on the plot holes they have made since the first movie, but i'll spare you. one that i want to get off my chest is how in the world could life progress so rapidly in such a short time. the movie goes from the normal U.S. in the 70s, to some whack future in 1991, where the world revolves around a mile radius community in cali somewhere (looks like century city). you'd prolly have to see it to understand. but don't. don't see any but the first. one to go.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004): i hate meryl streep's performance. talk about over acting. granted, i've seen the original, yet i still kinda thought it was too predictable. the first was better in that it really went into detail on the brainwashing activities that went on. i just didn't like this one very much. its not a bad movie, just not very good. wished i had seen it without seeing the first one, but what can you do? see the first one, don't see this. denzel has done better.

i don't want to talk about anything right now. this blog has become retarded. for a while there i was pretty happy with it, but now its just a waste. it could be because most of my time is taken up with the movies, but luckily that will end soon. hollywood vid is running out of movies for me. i've gone through every new release and dvd that are on my lists and last night i started working on their vhs sections. lots of goodies in there. but it all comes to a crashing halt on february 11th. then i can get back to maybe writing about my past. the only problem is that i probably can't get away with writing about certain things on here. for some reason, the majority of things i remember usually involves girls and partying and acts of illegality. basically the crazy years of my teens. i know some people would rather go without having to read about all that. we'll see what happens.

kim gets her wisdom teeth out on thursday and jessIE on friday. feel pretty bad for both of them, but hey, if i can get a kidney stone and live through it, i'm sure a little pain for a few days won't kill ya. looks like my scholarship moola will be headed for bush's pockets because my job is a freaking joke and i've been taxed like a mofo. that's always the day brightener.

i see my psychiatrist tomorrow at 1 for the first time so maybe i'll have more to write about then. i keep picturing me going in there and talking like tony and hashing out all my troubles in the waste management business. i'm sure it won't happen and the doc will just tell me to suck it up and quit complaining about life. should be interesting.

look, i'm feeling a lot of pressure right now to write something clever, but don't come to me looking for that. i'm just me and i really don't have anything to tell you. if you want the goods, go talk to matt (this and that). that stuff is interesting, not my movie reviews.