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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | | 11:32 pm |
Rabies and Allergies
Okay, so first the rabies. Simply put, anyone who wants to see me act like a pitbull on a "28 Days Later" state, need only mention the atrocities that are the Twilight movies, and even the books. My hatred for those things know no bounds. I shall never understand the popularity of Twilight, and shall chalk up the success to just three words: fucking retarded teenagers. Allergies? Well, this one I really had it coming. If I sense something completely off on the flavor of my beloved Twix and still swallow? Totally have it coming. If I take a second bite just to see if they changed the recipe or that maybe it was just my imagination? Totally have it coming. Reading the wrapper and finding out it was Peanut Butter Twix only after (seconds after the second bite) I feel a sudden cramp in my throat, a rush of nausea, hives, swollen lips, and needing to stop the car at the side of the road to vomit? Totally have it coming. Lesson? With all sorts of new varieties of candy and chocolates coming out now, I really need to stop being a friggin idiot and start reading the damned wrappers instead of just blindly grabbing the candy and taking a bite of it. Yeah, reactions to peanut allergy are not pretty, folks. | | Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | | 5:20 pm |
Family movies or nightmare fuel?
Okay, so is it just me, or have some family movies lately been a little... disturbing, to say the least? I mean, check out that 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' one. Not only is the message of the film itself all fucked up (I know it's based on a book, but still...), but the characters and animation are so weird! Seriously, it's like stop-motion with seizures, or moving like that little girl from 'The Ring', and not an iota of cute in them, just... mangy, scary, Halloween Town rejects. But then there's 'Where The Wild Things Are'. I can barely even understand what it's about, considering that I get freaked the hell out just looking at the creatures. Seriously, they are the stuff of nightmares! Look at their size, especially those mouths. Must be the horror fan in me, cause I keep expecting them to munch on that kid. XD And yes, I'm bored and just had some urge to say something to pass the time. So, don't mind me. lol | | Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | | 3:15 pm |
That does sound like it could be fun...
So, recently my local buddy and me were hanging out and catching up to The Nostalgia Critic and The Angry Video Game Nerd. C'mon, I know you guys know who I'm talking about. It's then when my friend says that if I could, it could be fun if I were to make my own movie reviews of such kind, like the Critic and the Nerd do, and that it should be called "Rem-Rant Reviews", and that I should focus on the movies I dislike and everybody else likes. Granted, I don't believe I could manage to do the video clip thing like they do, where they show footage of the movies and games they're reviewing, but if I could, I'd so have a blast doing those. XD Current Mood:  amused | | Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | | 3:36 pm |
Really? That's unbelieveable!
I don't know, but it's finally happened. There is now wireless internet reaching my middle-of-nowhere home. I finally got wireless internet. I can finally watch videos on Youtube, and use the internet during the daytime. Sweeeeeeeet! Current Mood:  bouncy | | Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | | 6:12 am |
My room! Stupid storm!!!!
I woke up not 30 minutes ago for a glass of water and find it's suddenly raining pretty hard, the only rain that storm left, as it's passing us by. I go for a drink of water and suddenly slip and fall, banging my ass and getting wet. I turn on the lights and find that my whole fucking roof is leaking! The floor's all covered in water, my desk and dresser drawer are soaked and will likely rot cause they're made of wood, even some of my comic books got all wet and ruined!!!! I just spent that last half hour mopping up the water, and finding exactly zero bowls to put to catch the water, I was forced to prop up like a dozen towels to soak up as much water as possible as it falls, even if my room ends up smelling like hell afterwards due to the humidity. Man, this just sucks... Current Mood:  angry | | Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 | | 2:15 pm |
Uh oh, a storm's a'brewin'
Okay, so now we learn were gonna get hit by a storm, probably starting late tonight or early tomorrow. Considering where I live, all mountainous and rocky and all, I don't feel particularrly safe. Wish me luck, eh? | | Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | | 7:51 pm |
The nets and the glasses
Okay, so I've had my internet back for a few days now, but I decided to say it now cause today I also picked up my brand new glasses! Finally, after all the saving of money and like 4 years with the same old glasses that were currently quite obsolete, I can see well again. Man, I am a happy camper today! Current Mood:  giddyCurrent Music: Nagada Nagada by Sonu Nigam & Javed Ali | | Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | | 12:06 am |
Well, it's official, back to no internet
Sorry, you guys, but my computer's modem has officially gone defunct... again!!! So, yeah, this means zero internet until I can finally get a new modem once again, which is a lot harder than it even sounds, especially lately. Sure, I got my laptop, which I can use at my bud's house and my aunt's too, but it's not the same when I can't chat with my friends late at night. I hope I can get this fixed soon. Current Mood:  discontent | | Monday, July 27th, 2009 | | 8:35 pm |
Happy early birthday, ya big, loveable sabretoofer
So, my buddy Stormca... errr, I mean, Hunte... nope, I actually mean Vanderian! Yup, birthday coming up in a couple days, so here's taking advantage of some time off to wish you a happy one, big guy! Hope you have a nice day then and enjoy your b-day. ^_^ | | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | | 1:50 am |
Transformers 2 *unimportant spoilers*
Okay, so I saw Transformers 2 today, first showing of the day, only 3 dollars (yay for savings) and while the place was packed, the crowd was surprisingly well behaved, despite a couple of loud brats. So, how was the movie? let's start with good points: 1. The opening scene in China was pretty darn good. 2. The fight scene in the forest was also quite well done. 3. Wheelie was actually a pretty amusing and likeable little bot, his quips and being voiced by the dude who voices Spongebob notwithstanding. I really could've done without his humping that girl's leg, though. 4. Ironhide barely gets screentime, yet he's still such a likeable character. 5. Despite barely getting any screentime and just one or two lines each, the Arcees rocked, Ravage rocked too, and Sideswipe rocked even harder, definitely my new favorite bot. 6. The whole Megatron/Starscream thing being played out here was much appreciated to us fans. I always liked Starscream, and always hated Megatron, such a lame-ass villain. XD Okay, so that's about it for the good side. Now, the bad stuff, which was just about the entire movie apart from the bits I mentioned above: 1. The movie is long. loooooong. 147 minutes long, give or take. It does NOT help that there are barely any action scenes and most of the movie goes into long-winded explanations we don't care about and the worst humor I've seen in an action movie in ages. 2. The final action scene lasted extremely long and we barely see anything that happens in it, just too many explosions. I think maybe one or two of the Arcees died, and some of the Constructicons. 3. But wait, why are the Constructicons fighting the other Autobots while Devastator, who is composed by the Constructicons, is doing something else somewhere else at the same time? Bleh! 4. The coolest bots did little in the movie, barely appearing or having unimportant roles. Soundwave, Ravage, the Constructicons, the Arcees, Sideswipe and Jolt, who didn't even get a single line or action sequence dedicated to him, and I wanted to see that electricity in action. 5. The Fallen? The bitch barely did anything at all! You give us the awesome Tony Todd to do his voice and waste it all like this? Oy... 6. Megan fox. honestly, what do people see in this bitch? She is not as hot as they say, and her acting plain sucks (unless she's playing a bitch), and she's just not likeable. 7. Skidz and Mudflap... just... Skidz and Mudflap. 8. The humor. Ugh, the humor. It's simply a stand-alone just because of how baaaad it was! What the hell where the makers of this movie smoking?!?! Most of the movie is composed of lame-ass humor! People around me where giggling like morons, whereas I was about to growl! here are examples of the horrid humor: a. Sam, the main character, being his usual annoying chatterbox self. Why must Shia lebouf play the same character in every movie? The guy's not likeable! b. Too much slang by the bots, especially by Wheelie and the twins. Ugh. c. Dogs humping. Twice! And let's not forget Wheelie humping that slut Megan Fox's leg. d. Fart jokes... by the bots! Old Jetfire actually farts out a parachute. e. Speaking of, Jetfire did not work at all as a cantankerous old fart. f. Skidz and Mudflap, now I see why people are calling racism in this one. It was like putting the Wayans brothers in one of their usual freakshow comedies. Too much ghetto slang, their extremely huge-eyed goofy faces, and even Skidz had a gold tooth! Huge mistake with these two. g. Sam's mother being psychotic, then willingly munching down on cookies made of marihuana and doing several stoner antics. h. Did I mention Devastator, the biggest bot of them all, has a pair of huge testicles? Yup, you heard right, testicles. A pair of wrecking balls dangling there in-between his legs for the world to see. Overall, my final words... other than a few nice bits and pieces, this overly long movie SUCKED! I expected it to be at least average, or at least mindless entertainment like the first one was, but this was just wrong. Come on, people, is it really that hard to make a good Transformers movie? Two sides, one good and one evil, composed of robots who transform into vehicles and vice-versa, and fight each other in this planet. It's not fucking rocket science! | | Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | | 11:08 pm |
New things
So, not much new to report over here, everything's just normal and, overall, uneventful. Though now I was given a brand new laptop as a present and that eans I can use super quick connection away from home, thank goodness. Also, my cat, Fuzzie, gave birth to 4 adorable little kittens. So, yeah, that's all for now here. Be well, everybody! | | Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 | | 12:52 am |
Free Comic Book Day. Owowowowowie!
So, I went to Free Comic Book Day today, albeit about two hours later than what I usually get to go. What a difference! The line was long as hell, and I stood on it from 11:00 in the morning to about 2:30 in the afternoon. It's weird how standing in one line tired me out more than standing at my store attending customers, and it didn't help that I came straight home at about 4:30 and went straight to work with no rest. I am beat! Still, I did get me a few comics, but then something weird happened. Normally, it's one free comic per person, but the store owner, who's always been cool with me, slipped me in an extra three. Whoo, bonus! As if that wasn't already nice enough, I got to meet Dave Alvarez, the genius artist/writer behind my favorite comic strip of all time, and he was a cool and friendly guy. Even better, he was offering sketches, so first thing that popped on my head was Tai Lung, from Kung Fu Panda (sucky movie but I love that leopard). Obnly reference we find is a teensy tiny pic of like a half inch, and that was all it took for him to pop out a way cool and quite accurate sketch of Tai Lung, in like 10 to 15 minutes, and it's so damn coool to see an artist do what he does best. Shame I don't got a scanner to put it up around here. So, overall, the day tired me up to no end, but it was pretty damn nice anyway. now all I need is a looooot of sleep and I'll be fine and dandy again. | | Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | | 3:25 am |
Caught some virus
So, yeah, I caught one bad virus. I got really, really bad diahrrea and spend most of the time in the bathroom now. And let's not forget the ocassional belly-aches, headaches, cramps, nausea, cold sweat, shivers and when it gets hard to breathe. So now I'm in medication, and a strict diet of nothing but dry, tasteless, cardboard-like soda crackers, jell-o, and plenty of water to keep hydrated. Man, this sucks. Hope I can recover soon, don't wanna end up having to sleep while sitting on the toilet. Current Mood:  sick | | Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | | 6:55 pm |
I am so geeking out right now
Okay, so you all know that I buy comic books monthly. I went recently and picked up only four new ones, including #14 of Astounding Wolf-Man, which I've followed since it began. Imagine my surprise when I get to after the story, to the part where fan letters are posted, and I find the one letter I sent some time back! I mean, there's gotta be quite a number of people who write to the author, and yet it's my letter that gets posted. That totally made my day. ^_^ Unfortunately, no internet yet, my cousin's looking into it to see if he can find out what's the matter... Current Mood: geeky | | Friday, March 27th, 2009 | | 7:36 pm |
Feeeeeed meeeeeee...
Hey, everybody. So, it's been 3 weeks since I lost my connection... again! I'm actually very surprised at how calmly I'm taking it, though, usually I go berserk after just 3 days without internet. Now, what's weird is that my lak of internet seems to be taking its toll not in my patience this time, but in my appetite. I am a damn eating machine lately, eating enough for two people, at times even 3! Okay, I better get my net back soon, cause I don't wanna get tubby. And I know I'm late with this, but, Happy Birthday, Courtney! | | Friday, March 13th, 2009 | | 7:13 pm |
Oh, darned update
Figures the only thing worth mentioning in an updte is... you guessed it! ore phone line problems and unable to connect to the net. Man, I am a phone line jinx, I am. | | Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | | 7:14 pm |
Friday the 13th review (no spoilers)
So, went to see this movie at its first showing during the afternoon. There were like only 10 people, all adults, all quiet and well-behaved. Such bliss! And best of all, I only paid 3 bucks to get in. First showings are so damn wicked. ^_^ So, how was the movie? Well, it wasn't the best Ft13 movie out there, but not the worse either. It moved a tad slow at times, then picked up, and it was one death after another afterwards. Characters were all cookie-cutter stereotypes, which was to be expected, but I was surprised to see 3 actually likeable characters, one of them being the goofy asian stoner, and I usually hate stoners! It truly felt like an old-school 80's slasher, and I quite appreciated it. Overall, it was a pretty nice movie, certainly better than My Bloody Valentine. Disappointments? Well, could've been better, that's for sure. The actor playing Jason wasn't much good, he ain't even worth for licking Kane Hodder's boots. Also, what a huge lack of gore! A so-so slit throat, stabbings and some mild blood splatter here and there. I can't believe how little gore there was here compared to the gorefest that was My Bloody Valentine. So, my veredict? Friday the 13th is an overall entertaining slasher, though I wouldn't recommend watching it in theaters, unless you manage to find a good time and good price like I did. Now I wonder if I can be any more of a smug bastard. lol | | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | | 1:24 am |
| | Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | | 4:40 am |
Something I really needed to hear
"You are not the same Chris we previously knew a few years ago. Something about you changed at one point." A good friend (more like a big brother in my eyes) told me this just a bit ago. It means what it says, and the change is the bad kind of change. First thing I felt when I read it? Well, honestly, it hurt, especially knowing that it's more than one person who thinks that way. But then I realize it's the kind of hurt that I need. I really needed to hear this, because it certainly does seem that I'm too emotional and narrow-minded (or more like a complete fuckhead) to realize just what an asshole I've become to people whom I'm supposed to be a friend to. So I'm very grateful to this friend for being honest with me and telling me what I need to hear. Now it's all up to me to deal with this bad attitude I've developed, because it's both for my own good and because I hope I can make amends to those I've hurt. Current Mood:  contemplative | | Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 | | 12:48 am |
I had a fucking Jerry Springer show in my store! (long story)
So, Sunday night, store's pretty full, and unfortunately, it's mostly drunks, the usual redneck drunks that annoy me. Dad's stuck to the tv, mom's eating dinner with an aunt, so it's just me. A neighbor arrives, her name is Lulu, and she arrives with this bald dude named Oscar, and her son joseph, who's 12 but pretty big for his age, also arrives. I already know trouble's brewing there, especially as i spy Joseph glaring death daggers at Oscar. Then lulu's husband arrives at the store, never known his real name. And not only is her husband an absolute moron with a one digit IQ, he also cannot hold his liquor and is already tipsy. I just know things is gonna explode, and I stay on the alert. You see, everyone and their momma up in this entire area know that Lulu and Oscar got a thing going. So Lulu's husband arrives and sneers at them, who are sitting together and had gone to hang together since the morning (it was nighttime now), then he enters and orders a beer. I serve his beer, and Oscar (who is also married) right then gets up and goes "You don't got to be disrespecting me!". Husbany suddenly smashes his beer can on the counter and splatters it all over the place and shouts at oscar to fuck himself. At this point I also yell out at them both, and tell them they better not start any shit in my store. They shut up, but then suddenly Oscar fucks it all up and says "Just because I hang out with your wife all the time doesn't mean we're having sex, so don't disrespect me!" See, now, right there I just had to laugh, right on their faces. Cause to everybody who knows them even a little bit, they could pretty much have "I'm fucking your wife right in your face" tattooed on their foreheads, no matter how much they try to deny it. But, at this point they start screaming at each other again, and I keep shouting at them that they better not start shit in my store, and get in-between them. They shut up again, and the second I get away is when they go back at it, in front of everybody. Meanwhile, Lulu's sitting there, fresh as a lettuce, simply enjoying seeing them fight over her. Then she gets up and screams at her husband to shut up and leave oscar alone, and that he's a useless dumbass. next thing we all know, it all starts going by sequence. POW! Lulu's husband smacks her upside the head, and then Oscar and husband start fist-fighting. What did I do? I let them go at it. Fuck it, I'm not getting pucnhed by standing in-between them. Well, that's when mom and dad FINALLY come on out and do try getting between them. It only ends up in mom getting a finger bent till it hurt and had beer spilled all over her. Oh, yeah, she was pissed off! Next thing we know, Joseph comes by, and it's just a huge treat to see Oscar, a grown man, getting punched on the face by a 12 year old kid, and I mean SMACK, right to the floor with him! Mom, drenched in beer, finger hurting and pissed off beyiond reason, starts screaming at them, about to call the police, and basically kicks Lulu out while everybody else (except me), keep husband and son joseph in one side of the street below and oscar in the other. Meanwhile, Lulu, classless dumbass she is, starts screaming at her husband that he's a useless asshole and a coward, hitting a woman, and then she actually screams "Oh, you hit a woman, huh? Some man you are! Why don't you go fight a real man, like Oscar? Go on, go fight Oscar and then you'll get your ass kicked!". Damn, seriously, is that retarded redneck for real? Goddamn bitch, bringing her shit up to my store! Well, afterwards everything starts calming down, people going their own way, until oscar comes to apologize to me and say he didn't start it. And, yeah, that's pretty much when i blew up. "I don't give a shit about any apologies. I don't like nobody starting shit in my store, and I told you guys to not start shit like sixty fucking times, and you do it anyway. And now you want to apologize after all this bullshit? Motherfu... honestly, just...AAAAAAAAAAAAH! You know what, get the fuck out my store!" Yup, I screamed. And dude, I mean screamed! Everybody heard, everybody saw, everybody was shocked, especially my parents. normally that'd get me a huge lecture, but I think they didn't dare cause they have never seen me act up like that. Plus it helps that I closed up the store, rgabbed my car and didn't come back till like 3:00 AM. Thank goodness for buddies who let me hang till so late while watching Youtube. XD End of the story? Things are back to normal... for now. None of them dropped by on Monday, but I'll keep an eye open. Cause the second any three of them step foot in my store and ask for anything, even a measly little bubblegum, I'm kicking them the fuck out. That's it, I get annoyed but can handle dumb drunks, but fighting in my store? Yeah, thats not about to happen again here, ever. |
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