Another Blog

So, because I've been on this whole movie kick as of late, and I really don't want to drown you all with movie babble in this blog, I decided to make a seperate blog where I can talk and babble about movies and review them and whatnot without worrying about boring those who could give a rat's left testicle.

Check it out if you'd like, I'm gonna try to keep up with it.

http://diabolicviews.blogspot.com/

Wise Words Of Mr. Opalko

So, at the moment I'm on my 10 minute break for my History and Analysis of Design class (Or Anal, as Ross and I refer to it) and I just had to hop on for a few minutes for this brief moment of inspiration.

My teacher, Mr. Opalko was just talking and babblin like he does oh so well, and he started talking about something that has been on my mind for many, many, many weeks now.

He started talking about professions and majors. He started talking about how he had a ton of different jobs and never kept interested. Until he got into visual arts.

He said he worked in construction and all these things but visual arts was what really interested him. He got into it on the soul grounds that he enjoyed it and that he was happy doing it.

Then he said something that basically summed everything I've been questioning when it comes to wondering if Graphic Design is right for me.

"I'd rather be doing this, than anything else."

When I think of all these things I could do, I really start to appreciate the field I chose.

The last damn thing want to do is work in construction or something.

Or worse.

Work at Subway for the rest of my years.

Operation Distractionless Begins

This is the last time I'll be on for awhile, because as soon as I finish this entry I'm going to unplug my computer until further notice. Some people may wonder why I'm making a big deal out of this.. I realize many people don't even have a computer. But it's just one of those thing where you get attached to something and when you realize it's the source of a problem it's hard to pull away from it. I'm a total internet junkie. Complete and utter computer nut is what I'm about... take that away and I'm just a nut.

not to big a deal though, I'll probably give up in 3 days.

At another note, I went to see Grindhouse Sunday night. Quite possibly one of the single greatest films I've seen in years. It's the definition of guy movie in every sense of the word. I highly recommend it to anyone.. granted they don't get offended easily or have weak stomachs. But honestly, the direction and writing and over the top exploition of the old style movie art form is worth every penny. Definitely made it's way into my top 10 list within the first hour. No lie.

In a word... Genius.

I've become such a movie junkie in the past few months. I live for that stuff. Almost makes me wonder if I'm in the right field.. but no time to wonder that now.

My goal this summer is to see every movie on my list, which I have updated a bit. As the summer goes on I'll cross off what movies I've seen and maybe put a 1-10 rating next to them.

Heh, like your all that interested =P Oh well.. I'm a sucker for things like this so just humor me.

(Already seen and rated struck through) (New additions bolded)(Really pumped for in Red)
Blades Of Glory 8.7
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters 8.5
Disturbia 8.9
Grindhouse 10
Hot Fuzz
The Condemned
The Invisible
Spiderman 3
28 Weeks Later
Shrek The Third
Pirates Of The Carribean: At World's End
Knocked Up
Ocean's Thirteen
Rise Of The Silver Surfer
Evan Almighty
Live Free or Die Hard
Rataouille
Transformers
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
The Simpsons Movie
The Bourne Ultimatum
Rush Hour 3
Super bad
Mr. Woodcock
Resident Evil: Extinction

God I'm gonna be so poor..

Scorn For Teenage Girls

I need to go to bed, I gotta get up at like 8 or so, buut, instead I'd rather browse Myspace and blog. Sounds like a good time, right?

Sure it does.

I've been thinking a lot today.. and I think that's may be a good reason why I'm still awake, but oh well. All I know is that it has nothing to do with the 4 vaults I had at work today.

Oh no.

I've thought a bit more on the whole putting my computer away issue and I think I may do it.. or at least something similar. My stepdad wasn't the most keen with hording it away mainly because he knows as well as I do that I'll just go and get it. Heh. At the very least if I just unplug the thing i can save myself and him the trouble of walking up and down the stairs with the fucking thing risking dropping it then I'm really out of luck. Although.. that would give me the time to do my project while it's getting fixed. But what if it wouldn't be able to be fixed? Yeah, bad times. I'm putting some thought into this but I really think that if I do something like this it'll be a great help for me and my grades. I need to make a ton of progress between now and Thursday... no room for fucking up.

.. Yet I'm gonna be out all day tomorrow and a good bit of Monday. Well.. I could always just go with the excuse of I work better under pressure. Yeah. That totally works for me.

Last night I saw Disturbia, which I thought was great. Shia Lebough is the fucking man. Pumped for him in Transformers. Robots. Lewis from Even Stevens. Sold.

Behind us in the theaters was this mass of 13 year old girls who screamed their god damn lungs out every time something the least bit startling happened. Oh god. I wanted to pop each and every one of them in the mouth. It was terrible. There should be a ban on retards in public places, I swear. But then all the stupid people of the world (which there sure are a lot of) will ban together and try to figure out a way to protest. Luckily for us they're to dumb to figure it out.

So we win.

You know who also wins? Steph for being able to digest the brain of a squid. DO squids have brains? Well.. if they do, this one is seriously lacking one now.

Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

So, I havn't updated for alittle while.. mainly because even though i've had a decent bit to talk about, I just havn't really felt like it.

John Boord let me borrow his Wii for a while while he takes midterms and things... this is great for me cuz I've been waiting to play Zelda:Twilight Princess for quite some time. I've very grateful and really appreciate him letting play it for awhile.. and for that.. he is my new god.



I encourage everyone to do so.



Anyways, so, I've been in a bit of a slump lately. I've just felt down. I would get inspired to go gung ho about things, and then something happens and I just fall apart. I don't feel like doing anything productive. Not a thing. I don't know what's wrong with me and it's really really bringing me down.

I really like my Illustration class. I've mentioned this before. I really like the whole idea of what an Illustrator does and what they are about.. but I just can't get myself to be serious about this class. I had to miss last week because of some unforeseen circumstances.. and you'd think I'd kick into gear and catch up..

Think again.

I mean.. call it lazy, call it what you want.. but I think it has a lot to do with distractions and me just overall not feeling like doing anything.

So.. I had a sudden thought.. something that could probably kill me.

But.. I realize a big reason to me being distracted is my little baby I call my computer. I can't pull away from the thing. I just can't do it. It's been pretty obvious but I never wanted to accept the fact that this is a big reason why I'm slipping, probably because I love it so much and don't want to be without it... sitting on my computer has become a part of my daily life and pulling away from that is hard.

But..

I really, really think I need to pull away for a bit. At the very least until midterm when this project is finished. I'm thinking maybe just giving my computer tower to my Stepdad for a few, or maybe just simply giving him my keyboard and mouse so that i can still stay connected to aim in case anyone wants to message me. but to be honest it would probably be more effective if I just got rid of it all together.

John Boord doesn't think I can do it. He said flat out he has absolutely no faith in me. Not that I blame him.. I do have a habit of getting great ideas and never following through with them..

But this is serious. I need to find a way to get myself back into school. It's become a serious problem that I constantly think about and I have to do something to help myself.

What do you think? Think I can do it? Give up the computer for a few weeks so I'm not distracted to go on the computer? I don't know..

If I go through with this, I'll probably start it on Monday.. but I think I really want to give this a shot. I don't want to be useless anymore.

If I do this, I will still have access to the internet via the Wii, so maybe I'll still post blogs and stuff to keep everyone updated? Maybe that's cheating.. but to be honest I can't use the Wii's internet browser for very long before I go mad with lack of keyboard.

Well, let me know what you think of this.. think I can do it? I'll give the final word tomorrow or Monday.

I'm tired of complaining about this. I'm tired of being useless. It's time to step up.

Video Picks

I'm a bit of a closet Modest Mouse fan, and their new album is incredible.

Not to mention their new single's video is one of the coolest music videos I've seen in a long ass time.


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I also have a huge soft spot for the new Linkin Park single. I don't know what it is, but I can't get enough of it. The video is also really sweet.


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And then there's this.



I don't want to play Quinten Tarentino Theater anymore.

I Got This.

I have to admit... I'm really glad I came to this school. To be honest I'm still not sure if College is going the way I wanted it to.. but out of any other school out there this is the one for me. Everyone's different, and I wouldn't last a day at a place like Penn State or even Cal U.. it's just not me. Hell.. I still have problems focusing here, but either way, I'm pretty satisfied with how things have turned out here.

I've met a lot of awesome people, some of them I've become good friends with and I'm really happy about that.

















I'm really grateful for my friends, the year so far wouldn't be what it is without them.

Heh, I'm being corny today, I know it.. but I guess I'm just in one of those appreciative moods.

On another note, today was my first day of the new quarter and my first class was Intermediate Illustration. I can honestly say that class has lit some kind of fire in me when it comes to this school and my art. I hit this sort of slump, not really knowing what I'm doing here and was having a problem finding something that suits me, but that class really interests me. We're starting to step into some heavy and sometimes difficult stuff, and I dig it.

Illustrating is an insane field to get a job in... the competition is ridiculous, but it's very rewarding.

This is the site of one of my teachers, who does illustrating for clients on the side .
http://www.benderillustration.com/
He's amazing and really creative. That's the kind of thing I'd like to do one day.

But who knows.

Go Has Been Go Has Been GO!

Ok, so I was just surfing around Myspace and I came across this ad:

The first thing I saw was the photo and I seriously had to think as to who it was.. until I read the text.

All I wanna know is..

Who the FUCK wants to hang out with Vanilla Ice? Like honestly, what has he done in the past 15 years that's recognizable?

Seriously the last.. no ONLY cool thing he's ever done was this.



Sorry, Homie, but your career was dead before it began.

ALthough I have to admit, it was damn hilarious seeing a Vanilla Ice album mixed in with the array of Metal albums of my Stepdads collection =P

Not Thrilled To Be Awake Right Now

Ah hell...

It's 2 something in the god damn morning and I have to be up at 5 for school. I just can't freaking sleep.

Normally I'd be all "heh, I'm not sleeping, that makes me awesome." but I'm actually for once trying really hard to sleep right and live a little healthier but it's just not working. I'm so fucking wide awake right now it's ridiculous and I didn't even drink any caffeine today >.< What the hell is wrong with me?

Lame.

Instead of sleeping like normal people, I watched Family Guy clips on YouTube.



For some reason, this just cracks me up.