Ok I know it’s been a couple days.. guilty as charged on the laziness factor going on. It really hasn’t helped that my internet connection has been fuzzy so with limited aim / web browsing I wasn’t actually able to do an update yesterday as was planned.. so Thursday I spent my time watching a couple movies while working on my grandfather’s journal (exciting I know!) and helping the ‘rents around the house.

Started off the movie day.. hell the day after I finally got around to crawling out of bed… by watching The Grudge 2. The first half of the movie was enjoyable in the exact same way that The Grudge had it’s good moments. Unfortunately … after that first half is when it started to slip into a downward spiral. Seriously I’m not sure if they switched writers or directors half way through but there was a NOTICABLE change in how the movie played out. You can almost tell the instant that it starts to drop quality wise. The acting and if you can call it development just become painful to watch after an almost enjoyable film. The way the ‘spirit’ starts killing people and the reasoning behind it which is slightly altered from the first movie HURT to watch. It almost feels like they tried to change it from a horror movie to a horror based badly done anime that just didn’t work out. Very not sold on the sequal and understand why no one has liked it *laughs* if they had sticken to how the first movie was done they probably could have at the very least made a decent profit on it.

The second movie of the night was Reign Over Me. HOLY SHIT YOU NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE. Ok.. well maybe not ‘need’ to.. but this has to be my favorite performance by Don Cheadle.. on top of this Adam Sandler and Liv Tyler both have great rolls in the film. Acting bonus that one of my favorite B movie actors Donald Sutherland had a part in it as well even though this was by no means a B movie. Basically Don Cheadle is stuck in a rut in his life and runs into Adam Sandler’s character who has ceased to want to function in the real world with the death of his wife and daughter. It had a serious and casual tone of Crash (shockingly another Cheadle movie) and … If its the type of movie you may like you should pick it up.

Friday wwoorrkk. Yay! Back at work! *sighs* absolutely nothing interesting happened at work. After work I had 2 invites to go out but decided it was in my best interest to stay in as I’ve been a bit low on sleep lately.

Saturday being Saturday I didn’t answer my phone and watched a movie before passing out.. what movie you may ask?
Ok.. Ghost Rider. The movie that EVERYONE I KNOW who has seen it loves to hate. Now heres the thing… the movie itself really wasn’t ‘that’ bad aside from 2 moments. The look on his face as he first turned into Ghost Rider and .. right as the movie was coming to the end I was fully convinced the ‘horror’ of the GR movie was overrated and he had a monologue with the main villian. This monologue RUINED the entire movie with how bad it was. I honestly had no complaints in any way shape or form until that point. (Ok maybe the ‘fight’ with the other main villian was a bit rushed… … ) .. ok so the movie was ok. Not great. Not worth a buy. Maybe worth a rent. That should cover it. It’s a superhero movie so I’m not even going to touch upon the plot. You’ll either see it due to it being a super hero movie or not. Not much to say on it past that

Sooo… Theres been Transformer pillows… Rex has a Transformer car horn.. what’s really left at this point? WELL USB STORAGE! duh… *laughs* You can get a 1GB autobot or 2GB Decepticon usb storage device for $40 and $60 respectively… however don’t assume you’ll get any respect from having to whip that out of your pocket to plugin (oh.. humor.. why have you abandoned me leaving such cheap jokes in your place!?) Both are only available on Amazon UK that I could find so.. happy hunting folks

Work seemed to take forever. That’s really all I can say about it *laughs* Of course it was my ‘Friday’ and I’ve been wishing the week was over since last week’s actual Friday The only real downside for the day was my boss vetoing my idea to cover Sal’s cube entrance and top with bubblewrap. Aside from that the day was busy but not so slammed I didn’t have a chance to breathe. After work I was a ‘bit’ tired though so ran home to spend some time vegging and watch a movie:
Rise: Blood Hunter… ok.. first off it’s a vampire action flick which generally gives you it’s going to be great or going to be absolutely horrible vibe. Theres very little inbetween grounds for vampire movies. Second off it has Lucy Liu as a vampire and Michael Chiklis as a cop (hello.. Shield)… that as a start alone is a working concept.. both characters should fall fully into the roles. There were maybe 2-3 other characters worth mentioning.. or SHOULD have been if their acting wasn’t completely flat or characters given any interest to them. So Luc Liu.. almost pulled off a vampire but her “coming to terms” with having to kill people for food… sadly not convincing. Chiklis… Now I’m a huge fan of The Shield… and Michael obviously knows how to play a badass cop… so… either the director didn’t want him being Vic or .. I really can’t figure out why he wouldn’t be able to play a cop past the director not wanting him compared to his TV SERIES. *shakes head* The plot wasn’t “bad’ even though they completely skipped out on the old guy who was helping Lucy find the other vampires shes trying to kill. Basically shes a reporter who stumbles onto a real group of vampires and is turned into one who now is lusting for revenge. Vic.. I mean.. Michael is a cop troubled by his daughters murder(see: vampires) and gets involved. Simple. It works. Or at least it should have. Oh it should have *sighs*

Wednesday was my usual relaxation. I actually almost went outside to pass out in the sun until I remembered it was getting cooler out… 60 degrees didn’t sound so fun in boxers so I decided to start the morning by working on my grandfather’s journal and watching a movie I’ve seen to kind of avoid getting too distracted.
Well .. Ok this was obviously the let down of the 2 Grindhouse movies but I of course snagged a copy anyway. I do have to say.. the transition between the 2 sets of girls bring ‘stalked’ in the movie is done 110% better with the cut scene actually in the movie and not taken out as it was originally. The little Kill Bill 2 ringtone stuck in was entertaining though I will admit… However my original thoughts on the movie still stand. It’s not worth a buy. If you aren’t going to buy the collector’s edition two pack that is sure to come out this is at most a rent. It would have to be quite easily my least favorite Tarantino movie. I hope this doesn’t become a trend with his work but with how much I love the rest of the movies he’s done I’m sure this is a one time deal.. hopefully… we’ll see.

Sooo.. chilled for the majority of the rest of the day until I went over to work to see what the plan was for tonight. On a spur of the moment Joe decided ‘hey let’s do a new bar.. and I’m not sure which one so let’s drive around aimlessly for an hour instead of going out to drink now.’ …. after I got fed up with that I let him goto Harry’s with Eddie and went to pickup Rob so he, Rex, and myself could chill at Houlihans. Very relaxing night with our favorite waitress Chris actually chilling at the table for a change due to it being slow (and the fact we don’t care if she sits around and does nothing while half asleep… I’m sure that helps) At any rate. It was a nice relaxing night that I actually passed out after for a change instead of staying up rediculously late.

More news from the world of Lego’s.. for those who want to live in a world of fantasy.. now while opening up your booze to get there you can pre-game pretending your in lego land! Yes that’s right the Lego Store has a corkscrew / bottle opener set made just for the escapist in mind!

So another day of work with nothing much of interest passing there.. I’d love to say it was a lazy day but it was the same far too busy with not so much on the fun end as usual. A prank or something is due at work just for the entertainment level to kick back up.

When I got home I made dinner and decided to just relax. Messed around on the computer for a little bit while talking to Rose who needed a distraction from work and was getting ready to put a movie in when Jen msg’d me having not had all that hot of a night and needing some calming down. Drove her around for a few hours while ramblings aimlessly and trying to cheer her up… once she was I ended up taking her home and.. got rolled! Yes! At least it was a warning not an actual ticket so that’s not an issue Stupid headlights. At least I think I partially cheered her up~

When I got home… yes those are achievement picks… too late to put in a movie I decided to dust off the 360 and play some Puzzle Fighter HD. Beating the game with Dan btw… is a HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS. Ok it wasn’t that bad but a headache anyway. Oh and that may have been a mistake as now all I can think about doing is sitting on the 360 for hours on end playing mindless games. MMMM that sounds fun. (And… just maybe.. finish one of the 3 big games I put down and haven’t picked back up… maybe..)

Oh how this would have been useful in the middle of gym class back in high school…

As you may have noticed…. theres a new header on the blog! (and if you haven’t your going to hafta click F5 to refresh since your cache has the old one…) Thanks Rob (whose blog I would link if he wasn’t so lazy always saying hes gonna make one 3x a week and never does… ) for the new logo. The old one was getting old and played out and it was time for something a bit new.

Waking up for work Sunday morning was nothing but painful. Add in a long, painfully busy at work day and when I got home I kinda sat down and vegged.. putting off plans with Rex and Rob to the point of them being cancelled. I honestly did want to go out.. I just did not have any kind of energy to persue actually going out. So of course being at home that meant I had to get in at least one movie and that was:
So everyone who I know that has seen The Reaping has told me it was a complete and total waste of time. There’s no point in seeing it, bad horror movie, yadda yadda yadda. Don’t go see it. That’s all I heard… so apparently I have bad taste because while it was predictable as all hell it was actually… very entertaining. Hilary Swank should really do a few more horror movies *laughs* sadly with the reviews it got that probably won’t happen. SOOOO. There’s a woman whose profession is a college professor and whose hobby / side job / research is disproving miracles. She gets a call that plagues (as in the 12 biblical ones) are slowly popping up in a town in the middle of nowhere, America. Yes clearly the likely place for such an act of God to occur. They believe it is the coming of the anti-Christ and she gets invited to prove them wrong. The only real problem I found with this movie was the DVD Cover.. this is actually from the Russian release of the film as both American DVD Covers looked like total ass. That’s all. I’d recommend it but I seem to be in the vast minority on this one.

Finished that up and… HELLLLOO Damages. I’ve had a couple people tell me this last week’s was the last episode of the season. After seeing it I had to find out for sure.. Episode 8 down of… 13! Yes my lucky # is how many episodes will be airing this season so I still have plenty of drama in the 5 weeks ahead to watch. If you have not picked up this show yet I seriously suggest investing some time in downloading / watching / preordering / whatever it is you do to get your TV Fix… my copy of S1 is being preordered the second I see it available. WOW. All I can say.. the plot and character development for a TV show… it’s almost as good as BSG. In some instances better (… totally different types of shows though so I can justifiably say that..)

Only Ninjas May Enter…

Ok I have no reason to have this pic of Cairo progressing from old to new aside from the fact that it’s both real and amazingly badass… that and I had no other ‘section’ to put it in… I might need to add in a misc. section for tags… meh .

Work was exceptionally painful Saturday so of course I decided .. long week.. long day.. I’m going to go home.. curl up in front of my computer and/or tv.. game and watch a movie or 2 while fooling around online. So when I get home this plan seems absolutely great!

… of course my Internet was out so that didn’t really help. Found out Rex was around so we decided to meet up for a couple of drinks.. Very entertaining night.. specially some guy who tried to dance.. I personally called it the “upside down seizure” with him standing there and kind of shaking… while Rex thought it was hilarious apparently the guy heard and told us to go fuck ourselves *snickers* I think.. I think cried… *laughs* .. ahh well at about 1:30 I ended up getting home which should have left me a bit of sleep for Sunday morning.. if my net access wasn’t now working which made me mess around online. Pain!

Oh how I adore thee sleep.

…a Big Daddy.. and a children’s toy… wow.. ’nuff said.
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