Woah, got my first comment. I was surprised, to say the least ^^;. I’ll respond here as well as reply to the comment, but I also have Saturday – Wednesday to discuss.
In response to Deb: WALL-E was awesome, but Saturday I saw another movie, which I’ll discuss, and it may top WALL-E 
, though it was still a great movie. Did you hear people complaining about how the way humans were portrayed in the movie? Because they were fat, lazy, etc., people are actually upset, saying that we were shown in a poor way. I thought it was great, so they can all screw off in my opinion.
Rosetta Stone software (I got the French one, I still have the Japanese one somewhere) is pretty good. It dives right into learning with pictures, written / audible words describing them, then you have to listen and match up the words / sentences (like “The boy is under the table” and such). For now, it’s pretty cool actually, just have to stick with it.
I’ll get to Long Beach Island in this entry. I usually enjoy it, and I still did sorta, but this weekend was filled with stuff that just made it insane.
Okay, so onto Saturday. I woke up in Gavino’s living room because I slept over there from the night before. We started playing some Toe Jam & Earl on his xbox genesis emulator, then April came in and we were discussing breakfast while I loaded up and beat Junk Man and Cloud Man in Mega Man 7. We decided on Perkins instead of filming (procrastinating as usual, hah). Perkins was incredible. The place changed so much since I remember going when I was younger. Food was great and it was enjoyed by all of us. We decided while eating that we would go see The Dark Knight before I left for Long Beach Island.
I was pretty excited because I’ve already heard all the hype and wanted to see it since it was first announced. Just as I had hoped, it was incredible beyond all means. *SPOILER ALERT* From the moment the Joker came onto the screen with his pencil in the eye trick, to when you see him speeding away from the jail in a cop car with his head out the window, it was a rush. I gave the movie 3 3/4 stars out of 4. I can’t give it 4 stars because there were parts, like the end fight w/the joker, using that cell phone tapping technology thing, that I was just confused and didn’t understand why it was in the movie (it made the last fight scene too busy). *END OF SPOILER ALERT* Anyway, still a tremendously incredible movie that everyone should see, not only for Heath’s last performance.
So after the movie, I dropped Gavino and April off and proceeded to head down to LBI. There wasn’t much traffic on the parkway, so I got there in an hour and 20 minutes (give or take). When I got there, I already missed appetizers (clams /cry), but was treated to make-your-own paninis for dinner. Good stuff, had a few drinks to go with it. We played Mad Gab, which was fun, but nowhere near as fun as Scrabble/Up Words or any games involving charades of any kind. Walked on the beach for a bit at night before heading to bed.
Sunday was supposed to be beach day, but it ended up being horrible. The morning weather was nice, mom Suzanne and I went to the stores and they picked out some stuff and then got some Henna tattoos. Mom at first was the only one who wanted one. She got a tramp stamp (tat right above your butt on the small of your back, for those who don’t know) of the kanji for protect. Suzanne took 8 hours trying to figure out which one she wanted, finally chose one, then saw a girl with one on her foot, so had to choose again. By the time we finally got back to the house, torrential rains and winds had begun to rape the coastline.
So the rest of Saturday was filled with thunder/lightning ( which sadly, I heard someone was struck and killed while we were down there O_o), tons of rain and wind (tossing furnature outside all over the place), and insane family drama. I won’t go into it much. It was mom’s turn to make appetizers, so I helped her make the delicious bree & jam pastery dish and served drinks. Then after dinner, we ended up playing miniature golf and had a great time. I ended up leaving that night, opting out of having to wake up at god-awful o’clock to leave in the morning for work.
Monday wasn’t very eventful from what I can remember, except I think that night I finally got to work on the video? No, I got all the footage off the cameras and whatnot. Monday I think I fell asleep early? I can’t even remember. I obviously didn’t do too much on Monday.
Tuesday: Work went by as normal. Got home and was getting ready for raid. I believe by the time raid was over and I spent like half an hour more on WoW, I got my fishing and cooking over 300 finally 
pretty exciting, lol. Raid was Hyjal. Tore through it, though we wiped twice on Anatheron for some god awful reasons. Even killed Arch, full clear Hyjal in one night. It was a pretty exciting night, even though my internet (that piece of UGH, stupid Comcast, if it happens one more time, I’m just bringing the modem over immediately and getting a new one) died on me and I was replaced, with Arch going down two shots after ><.
Tuesday night I worked on the video for F.A.M. / Bless. Here’s the finished product before I discuss it:
http://vimeo.com/1434719 (HD version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2jnjnD9iOU (youtube version - can watch in higher quality by clicking “watch in higher quality)
I worked on the video for what seemed like 2 1/2 hours. The music video portion starts around 1 min 50 seconds. I was pleased, for the first time, in my own work. I think the simplicity of the job made me enjoy it more.
I’ll cut myself short here, at over 1k words at the moment, so I’ll finish discussing the video (and talks w/F.A.M. about it), Wednesday (hanging w/Gavino, filming 1st continuation episode of “How Was Your Day” skit, etc.), and today (going to Matt’s house for a bit after work to celebrate Haley’s [his daughter's] birthday and possibly over Gavino’s again for more filming).
Later.
Conversation’s getting dull, there’s a constant ringing in my ears
Killing for Love
July 31, 2008
Woah, got my first comment. I was surprised, to say the least ^^;. I’ll respond here as well as reply to the comment, but I also have Saturday – Wednesday to discuss.
In response to Deb: WALL-E was awesome, but Saturday I saw another movie, which I’ll discuss, and it may top WALL-E
, though it was still a great movie. Did you hear people complaining about how the way humans were portrayed in the movie? Because they were fat, lazy, etc., people are actually upset, saying that we were shown in a poor way. I thought it was great, so they can all screw off in my opinion.
Rosetta Stone software (I got the French one, I still have the Japanese one somewhere) is pretty good. It dives right into learning with pictures, written / audible words describing them, then you have to listen and match up the words / sentences (like “The boy is under the table” and such). For now, it’s pretty cool actually, just have to stick with it.
I’ll get to Long Beach Island in this entry. I usually enjoy it, and I still did sorta, but this weekend was filled with stuff that just made it insane.
Okay, so onto Saturday. I woke up in Gavino’s living room because I slept over there from the night before. We started playing some Toe Jam & Earl on his xbox genesis emulator, then April came in and we were discussing breakfast while I loaded up and beat Junk Man and Cloud Man in Mega Man 7. We decided on Perkins instead of filming (procrastinating as usual, hah). Perkins was incredible. The place changed so much since I remember going when I was younger. Food was great and it was enjoyed by all of us. We decided while eating that we would go see The Dark Knight before I left for Long Beach Island.
I was pretty excited because I’ve already heard all the hype and wanted to see it since it was first announced. Just as I had hoped, it was incredible beyond all means. *SPOILER ALERT* From the moment the Joker came onto the screen with his pencil in the eye trick, to when you see him speeding away from the jail in a cop car with his head out the window, it was a rush. I gave the movie 3 3/4 stars out of 4. I can’t give it 4 stars because there were parts, like the end fight w/the joker, using that cell phone tapping technology thing, that I was just confused and didn’t understand why it was in the movie (it made the last fight scene too busy). *END OF SPOILER ALERT* Anyway, still a tremendously incredible movie that everyone should see, not only for Heath’s last performance.
So after the movie, I dropped Gavino and April off and proceeded to head down to LBI. There wasn’t much traffic on the parkway, so I got there in an hour and 20 minutes (give or take). When I got there, I already missed appetizers (clams /cry), but was treated to make-your-own paninis for dinner. Good stuff, had a few drinks to go with it. We played Mad Gab, which was fun, but nowhere near as fun as Scrabble/Up Words or any games involving charades of any kind. Walked on the beach for a bit at night before heading to bed.
Sunday was supposed to be beach day, but it ended up being horrible. The morning weather was nice, mom Suzanne and I went to the stores and they picked out some stuff and then got some Henna tattoos. Mom at first was the only one who wanted one. She got a tramp stamp (tat right above your butt on the small of your back, for those who don’t know) of the kanji for protect. Suzanne took 8 hours trying to figure out which one she wanted, finally chose one, then saw a girl with one on her foot, so had to choose again. By the time we finally got back to the house, torrential rains and winds had begun to rape the coastline.
So the rest of Saturday was filled with thunder/lightning ( which sadly, I heard someone was struck and killed while we were down there O_o), tons of rain and wind (tossing furnature outside all over the place), and insane family drama. I won’t go into it much. It was mom’s turn to make appetizers, so I helped her make the delicious bree & jam pastery dish and served drinks. Then after dinner, we ended up playing miniature golf and had a great time. I ended up leaving that night, opting out of having to wake up at god-awful o’clock to leave in the morning for work.
Monday wasn’t very eventful from what I can remember, except I think that night I finally got to work on the video? No, I got all the footage off the cameras and whatnot. Monday I think I fell asleep early? I can’t even remember. I obviously didn’t do too much on Monday.
Tuesday: Work went by as normal. Got home and was getting ready for raid. I believe by the time raid was over and I spent like half an hour more on WoW, I got my fishing and cooking over 300 finally
pretty exciting, lol. Raid was Hyjal. Tore through it, though we wiped twice on Anatheron for some god awful reasons. Even killed Arch, full clear Hyjal in one night. It was a pretty exciting night, even though my internet (that piece of UGH, stupid Comcast, if it happens one more time, I’m just bringing the modem over immediately and getting a new one) died on me and I was replaced, with Arch going down two shots after ><.
Tuesday night I worked on the video for F.A.M. / Bless. Here’s the finished product before I discuss it:
http://vimeo.com/1434719 (HD version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2jnjnD9iOU (youtube version - can watch in higher quality by clicking “watch in higher quality)
I worked on the video for what seemed like 2 1/2 hours. The music video portion starts around 1 min 50 seconds. I was pleased, for the first time, in my own work. I think the simplicity of the job made me enjoy it more.
I’ll cut myself short here, at over 1k words at the moment, so I’ll finish discussing the video (and talks w/F.A.M. about it), Wednesday (hanging w/Gavino, filming 1st continuation episode of “How Was Your Day” skit, etc.), and today (going to Matt’s house for a bit after work to celebrate Haley’s [his daughter's] birthday and possibly over Gavino’s again for more filming).
Later.
Conversation’s getting dull, there’s a constant ringing in my ears