HBP /HP6

I will be writing a review for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but it's going to be a very in-depth review. I also may need to see the movie again before I do, and I'm unwilling to spend another dollar on a ticket, so we'll see... Not like anyone reads this anyway. :)

Crap.

I was going to post yesterday, just so that I didn't go the entire months of March and April without one, but oh well. Okay, so in the last few months a lot has changed, and last week we bought a house. Well, a 'manufactured home' that needs some work, but it's a house to us -it's better than an apartment. And it's across the street from my brothers...who are moving to Ohio soon anyway.But it has a yard! Somewhere for my kid (and the dog) to run! and ride his bike! And it has a large kitchen. And for the last two days, instead of being at work all I want is to scrub and clean that kitchen so I can start moving stuff in! I'll probably be doing that tomorrow though since I can't help with the insulation. We completely demolished the walls in the kid's room and are rebuilding them this weekend. Fun stuff!

PS you can now find me on Facebook and Twitter.

Oscars

Okay, just a little blurb about the Academy Awards. THANK GOD Heath Ledger got Best Supporting Actor -we were going to have to boycott the Oscars from now on if he hadn't. That said, WTF people. Dark Knight was definitely one of the best movies of the year and it won only 1 award -for sound editing. And Wall-E should have won one of the sound categories too. Arrgh. anyway.

Here's my beef: Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Everyone I know who's seen it had said "it's okay....it's good, but..." Everyone I know who saw Dark Knight? "That was totally wicked!" or something similar :) Benjamin Button came out in the last week of the year and overshadowed all these other great movies that came out last spring/summer. From now on, if a movie comes out after November, it shouldn't be counted until the next year's award season. And this now segues into inconsistancy -they award the movies that came out in the calendar year, but when they do the tribute to those who have died, it's only those who died since the last Oscars' broadcast. I was expecting to see Heath's tribute since he died in calendar year 2008 but no. Moving on.

I was happy to see Kate Winslet finally win, she is a great actress. And hopefully Anne Hathaway can win next year. I guess I'll have to go see Slumdog Millionaire now since apparently it's the best movie of the year. Oh and kudos to the academy on Robert Downey Jr's nom for Tropic Thunder -completely surprising since it was a comedy! The Academy really really really needs to get away from only honoring dramas and "artsy-fartsy" movies. Sure sure, actions get their squeeze in too, but when will they learn that comedies have their place too?** Talk to any actor and they'll tell you that comedy is much harder to do than drama. But oh well, cheers for now.

**Yes, I know I used "too" twice in a sentence, but I don't feel like editing it. Instead, I'd rather write this little note that takes much more time and effort. Kinda like the joke about the mom who writes a letter to her son with the postscript that she was going to send him money but the envelope was already sealed.

I'm an Assassin...

....on Burnout: Revenge. Well actually, I've reached Elite rank, but as of last night I have perfected every event up to the Assassin rank. That's right, I'm a perfectionist.

I love this game because it's got diversity: road rage (where the goal is to takeout all your opponents -over and over again), traffic check (hit all the cars in front of you and watch them fly! Come on, we all want to do that!), racing/time trials/burning laps, and then there's Crash --where the goal is to cause the biggest multi-vehicle pile-up carnage you've ever seen. Have I mentioned that it's all very cathartic? Need for Speed series is good (Underground 2 is my fav) because they have different kinds of skills competitions (i.e. drift, circuit, drag) and you can completely customize and mod your car, but it's really nice to just forget about the technical stuff and go all out sometimes. Pedal to the metal balls to the wall I'm gonna kick your fuckin ass at 200+ mph cuz I can.

Man, I can't wait to play tonight. After perfection within the events have been achieved, I will work on getting all the Signature Takedowns (I have 15/24) and completing all the Challenge Sheets to get the special cars. Hell yeah. Peace out.



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