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It’s hard to argue when.. you won’t stop making sense

Having to get up at 8am to drive my mother to the doctor was OH SO FUN!.. specially after being out til 1 and up til who knows when ;) Bitching aside I at least had almost 2 hours to read which gave me JUST enough time to finish up:

Yes that’s right I finally had enough time to finish up the newest in paperback Kellerman book (by finish I mean of course that I started it the night before and finished it that morning… had I not been distracted by drinking it would have been done Wednesday night…) Gone was.. as every Kellerman book to date.. completely distracting of my free time. I can’t help but get sucked into his books though I have to admit this was (I think..) the first one of his that I felt I knew who was responsible in the first 1/4′th of the book.. and I’m not sure why either. Still.. great book and great to see how Alex’s personal life is coming back together. Kellerman has yet to let me down aside from not writing fast enough!

While I didn’t go with the running route again I alternated between situps, pushups, and finally giving up realizing I was still half asleep from the night before while watching:
*sighs* I don’t know what I can do aside from sigh. Keifer voicing the character he was born to voice and still I sigh. Dragonlance was one of the only novels set partially in the view of D&D that I could get into (for a WHOLE slew of series) and I had nothing but high hopes for the animated movie. With how well animated movies are going now how could I not be excited? While the plot was transferred over pretty well… the animation for the most part felt as if it was from a mid to early 90′s American cartoon… as in… It hurt to watch a lot of it. On top of that the voice acting aside from the main characters was sub-par and the end of the ‘movie’ felt entirely too rushed. Unless you are a hardcore fan this is just not worth the effort in purchasing or getting a copy of, and I feel bad about that.

Dinner with the parents, some online gaming with friends, and finally watched:
Having not seen a horror movie in awhile I have to say Return to House on Haunted Hill was perfect to pick it back up. The transition from the first movie to the sequel was ok but where they went with the plot after that didn’t really seem to follow the ideas of the plot. Still it went over well and had a lot of continuance from the first movie including plot, characters, and location. (Though I hope they don’t use the ending to make a third since there’s no possible way the series could work from it… unless they go with a new name based off the same concept through threw in. That’d be ‘ok’) While the gore level for a horror movie was decent the creativity on the death by ghosts was a 50/50 split on being ok to enjoyable. Some of the kills (specially the very last one… which, while basic, fit perfectly) were spectacular and fit great. Some were just ridiculous. Worth a watch for horror fans who enjoyed the first… a buy? Probably not.

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