it's that time of year again where i make my attempt at getting tanner and thinner. it happens every year. i'll start running most days of the week, try lowering my consumption of crap food, and on hot and sweaty afternoons you'll most likely find my nastiness laying at the park a few blocks away, roasting. sometimes i'm successful, but usually never to the point i want. last summer and my time in dc were the best results i've seen in a while. it's all cyclical though. there usually comes a point where i kind of relapse and gain all the weight back. i started early this year and so far i'm on a good track. i can't imagine it lasting though. we'll see.
today came seattle university's decision, which leaves zero to hear back from...sort of. believe it or not, i've applied to a few more schools in the past couple of days. these new options are basically schools you've never heard of, in states you'd never want to visit. actually, i hear vermont is lovely. actually, i've never heard that, but i envision vermont as a lovely place. i think i have good chances with them considering the whole ethan allen thing. how ironic would that be. if vermont says yes, then i will happily concede to kristin in believing that maybe things will end up the way they are supposed to. it would just be too weird and coincidental. let's hope they pay close attention to my name. so where to next? right now it's good old provo, utah for the time being. what a let down.
Poseidon (2005): it's your typical wolfgang petersen or actually roland emmerich type of movie. lots of action, great special effects, suspenseful, not terrible acting, but a few cheesy lines scattered throughout the movie. the opening shot is freaking incredible and i'm sure cost a fortune and took a couple months to create. seeing a movie like this you have to expect some parts to be unbelievable. like the amount of time these people were able to hold their breath underwater. they were all under so much stress, the water has to be near freezing, yet they seem to do fairly well holding their breath and swimming through corridors for two minutes straight. and this is including a ten year boy who makes fear factor people look like idiots. i was impressed though with the decision to not keep all the principle actors alive. those twists in the movie really added to the suspense throughout the entire film. the ending was really a let down. from basically the beginning of the movie and on, the suspense factor is like at an 8 or 9 (out of 10). when it was time to wrap up the movie though, they weren't able to build it any further for a climax. it just kind of ends on a lot of action, but the audience was used to that amount of action from the first ten minutes into the movie. again, special effects are great, but i would have liked to of seen more wide shots of the ship in the ocean. you see the wave hit the boat, but never really see a wide shot of the boat as the wave is passing and as it continues on. that would have been a nice effect. all that said, there is nothing great about the movie. a bunch of random people are all that is left alive and are trying to overcome a million obstacles to get off the ship. that's the movie. it's not bad, but not great. don't see.
p.s. i heard skynyrd's freebird on the radio today and it doesn't get much better than that.
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