Lessons Learned from the silver screen

Awhile back I recommended the movie I Heart Huckabees. One of the things they tried to get across in the movie is that human drama is unavoidable.

It’s true. The way I see it you can’t run from it, and you can’t hide from it. Even if you don’t interact with any other human beings you still aren’t getting away from it, because you’ll make your own personal drama and start worrying about shit and you’ll become your own one-man/woman soap opera. So just accept it for what it is, we can’t get away from it. All we can do is just figure out how to deal with it the best we can, either from personal reflection or learning from the actions of others. Then hopefully one day take all that drama and cash in on it; write a script; a book; or hell maybe even a play. You might as well, look at all the hell and torture that drama put you through. The least it can do is make some money for you.

Youngblood

Proper reading material

As some of you may know, I love comic books! I love everything about them. From reading them, to finding out how much they’re worth, to knowing which covers make an issue more valuable than others. If weren’t for comic books, I probably wouldn’t have learnt to read as well as I can. When I was first learning to read, I found that they interested me more than they anything else. A few times I even tried to do book reports on comics. It didn’t quite go the way I wanted to, but that didn’t discourage me, I kept on a’readin’ ‘em (that’s a lot of apostrophes, maybe I should have read some grammar books too).

I guess the point I want to make is that kids shouldn’t get discouraged from reading comics just because their teachers tell them they aren’t proper reading material. If they get kids reading, isn’t that what matters?

And they can even teach kids lessons that they should learn early in their lives? Look at X-Men, on the surface it may look like stories about a bunch of people running around in blue and yellow spandex, but the whole story of X-Men, ever since it began, is telling a story about racism, and that how even though they may look different they are still human on the inside. And look at when Superman died, he came back and kicked some ass. I think that says, that even when you think your down for the count you just have to get back up and keep on coming and don’t give up; don’t be a quitter.

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Youngblood at the Movies

As you may already know from previous a previous post, I really don’t like Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and I love to hate on this movie, but I figured I should give it a fair chance. I’ll give it a good look and point out any good points it has and its bad points in a fair way, instead of just unleashing my rage upon it. So here it is:

As far as I see it, the good points are few and far between with this one. One good point is the cast. Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, and Samuel L. Jackson were great, just because of who they are. They’d be good in anything. Their performances have never let me down (Sammy J. is so cool it hurts). But the cast can also be a downside as well. Sure, it’s a good idea to get an unknown to play a huge role, like Anakin Skywalker, and help launch a young career, but there are unknowns who can act a lot better than Hayden Christensen. His performance was just plain bad! For a role as coveted as the Dark Lord of the Sith and that has such high expectations, there should have been some better acting.

As much as everyone loved Yoda’s fight scene, I didn’t. I hated it, and I’m just going to leave it at that, because I’m just going to end up getting angry. I also didn’t like the whole: Jango and Boba Fett thing. They tried to make it seem like it gives some insight into the character of Boba Fett, but it doesn’t. It’s simply cashing in on a popular character. Think about it, for a character who could have been replaced by anyone, they sure have made a lot of money off it, through clothing, toys and video games.

It also didn’t feel like a Star Wars movie to me. All of the other ones worked on a system: they had an introduction that would last about 45 minutes (e.g. Battle of Hoth, the rescue of Han Solo), then it would break into the main story, and end with a battle sequence of some kind. This had nothing of the sort, at least that I could discern. Yeah there was a battle sequence, but it seemed like the rest was just a jumble of that intro and main story. It just didn’t feel right for me.

Now it seems to me a there’s a rather large plot hole that I must address. Now granted the next movie might explain it, but I’ve done a lot of thinking about it and I can’t see a way around it. In the original Star Wars, C3P0 and R2-D2 are sold by the Jawa’s to Owen and Beru Lars, Luke Skywalker’s aunt and uncle who live on the planet Tatooine. C3PO mentions that working on a moisture farm was his first job. Skip to Attack of the Clones: Anakin and Padme go to Tatooine to find Anakin’s mother. They go to the farm were she and her new husband live to find her. She’s not there but C3PO is working at his first job on a moisture farm, and working for Anakin’s step-father who has a son named Owen Lars and his wife’s is Beru. Then a couple years down the road the driod’s cross paths with Owen and Beru again when the Jawas sell C3PO and R2-D2 back to them. Now here’s where things get fishy: wouldn’t they remember this driod? Ok, so what if they didn’t, wouldn’t C3PO remember them, or recognize where he is, or the name Skywalker? He did leave Tatooine with Anakin, Padme, and R2. And would he not have heard of Obi Wan Kenobi? Surely he must have had to considering that he was around during the Clone Wars. Obi Wan was a high ranking general. Okay, you might make the prediction that he had his memory erased, but if he did it still wouldn’t account for the fact that he remembers his first job or the Clone Wars. It’s a pretty big plot hole, and it’s gonna take Lucas a lot to fill it in. (If he even bothers to do it)

I think I covered about everything I wanted to say today, and if I missed something I’ll just let it go. As much as I didn’t like this movie and the one before it wasn’t much better (but it was better. I don’t care what anybody says), I still say BRING ON EPISODE III! Lets end this bitch already. It’s been damn near 30 years I think it’s about time.

So I am giving Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones þ1/2 out of 5

Youngblood

Just a little something

Ha! I tricked you all. I am posting today, just to give you an article I found written by Johnny Depp about Hunter S. Thompson. Enjoy.

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The New World Order

I’ll give you a heads up on tomorrows post: there won’t be one, that’s right there won’t be one. I just don’t think I’ll be able to do one, because I’ll be traveling back to Kamsack and whatnot for most of the day. Sorry, but I do already have a new movie review ready for Monday and it’ll be a good long read (as far as blog posts go). And also, from now to the end of April I’ll probably miss a few days here and there without warning due to finals, essays, and various other projects that need to get done, and I will have to move at the end of April. But fear not, come May I will be back to my usual ways and posting every weekday like usual. But until then, I give you today’s post:

A great mind once said, “white males are utterly useless. We’ve had our time to prove to the world that we are good leaders and we screwed up. I think it’s time to let someone else give it a shot.” It’s true. Look at the “great” white leader we’ve had: Hitler (nope), Napoleon (think again), George Bush (either one sucked). Sure you have good ones like Churchill, Trudeau and JFK in there, but even still, it’s time someone else got a chance. But if the white men don’t rule the world, who will? We’ve done it for so long. Who should take over? I’ll tell you who: Black Women!

That’s right I said it, all black women ages 30 and up should get a seat of power somewhere in the world. It doesn’t matter if they’re even from that country or not. Just give it too them. Think about it: as far as the western world is concerned they’re the most shit out of luck. Black people still get shit on, and women are still fighting for equal rights. That’s a double whammy! So lets just give them some power.

I think it’d be fun. Diana Ross could be the dictator of some Eastern European country. We could have The Right Honorable Halley Berry, Prime Minister Winfrey, and QUEEN LATIFAH! Not only would they have some good ideas, I bet they know how to have a good time too. They’ll know how to work hard and play hard. We’ll even make up positions for them to fill. Condolezza Rice can be “The Minister of Getting Horsewhipped”.

If they run out of black women to fill positions, bring on the black men. First up: Chris Rock and Al Sharpton. After the black men we’ll work our way through every ethnicity until we come back to white men, and if they’re still around at the time, our representatives will be George Carlin, John Stewart, and just for kicks Adam West! (why the hell not?!)

Call me crazy but that’s a world that I can’t wait to live in. And maybe, just MAYBE, if we run through white men one more time, MAYBE we’ll let Micheal Jackson and his race of freaks take a stab at it.

Youngblood

What would you chose?...

Yesterday I stumbled across an article which pitted Catherine Zeta-Jones against bagels. The article asked the question: what would you rather live without Catherine Zeta-Jones or bagels? So I asked myself a similar question: what would I rather live without, oxygen or Degrassi (in any incarnation take your pick)?

The answer is simple. Oxygen. Duh! Now I know your all shaking your heads, thinking “what a fucking douche”, but hear me out. The way the question stated implies that I could still live without oxygen I just wouldn't have any. I wouldn’t need to breathe oxygen, because I could live without it. If I could live without oxygen I would have no use for it anyway, so why the hell not? And I’d rather die than not have Joey and Caitlin around anymore…wait a minute…Caitlin left the new show…so now I’m stuck with just Joey? DAMMIT!!!

Seriously though, what is everyone’s beef with this show? I don’t get it, how people can bad mouth it and so many of them don’t even give it a chance.(I’m only allowed to do things like that) It’s one of the most critically acclaimed shows ever made (the originals that is). It deals with real issues, unlike pretty much every other teen oriented show. They talk about things that actual people can relate to. Seriously, how many people can relate to Dawson’s Creek or The O.C., and then look at how many people can relate to Degrassi? Yeah, all those crazy rich kids in Orange County, it’s so like our lives. But that Degrassi, oh that’s so fake, who can relate to teen pregnancy or someone’s parents dieing in a car accident? That’s just too far fetched for me.

Sure Degrassi Junior High or Degrassi High had some pretty bad acting. Most of those kids had no prior acting experience though. Now that Degrassi: The Next Generation has been on for a few years now, it still isn’t getting the respect it deserves from so many people that won’t give it a chance. Granted, I was one of those people in the beginning, but I just didn’t like the idea of a new Degrassi (as Kevin Smith put it: why fuck with perfection?). But it has proven itself and I think it’s better acted and (dare I say it) an all around better show than any of its predecessors. I guess it’s just too real for a most people, that’s honestly what I think. I guess most people would rather live in the fantasy world that is Orange County, or get caught up in the drama going on down at Dawson’s Creek than watch quality programming with a more real life, down to earth feel to it.

P.S. I realize the Dawson’s Creek reference is a little outdated, but c’mon work with me here.

Youngblood

Time for a brain fart...oh that felt soooo good

They other day while in the middle of a brain fart I had a revelation! It’s nothing too important but it’s kind of interesting I think.

Legend has it that after the second season Star Trek Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura, was thinking about quitting the show. She was unhappy about her part and wages and whatnot, until she ran into one particular man at a party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Turns out that the good doctor was a Star Trek fan, and was quite distressed to hear of her plans and convinced her to stay on the show. He told her that not only was she a major character on a popular series, but she was also the 4^th ranking officer on the Starship Enterprise. He loved the idea that an African American woman outranked so many other crewmen. The ranks went Kirk, then Spock, Scotty and finally Uhura. He told her that it was something to be proud of, and as we all know she stayed on the show and the rest is history.

While I think this is a fantastic story there’s something else to it that good ol’Martin there failed to mention it, and this is where my revelation comes in. Not only is it cool that she out ranks all these other men and women, but look who else was on the bridge. First of all, they wouldn’t have picked some guy that wanders the halls to be in line for command right? They would have picked someone else who was on the bridge. And what other main characters were on the bridge? Chekov and Sulu! So this African American woman didn’t just out rank a bunch of guys that would never get to sit in the captains chair, she outranked a couple of commies! Remember that the show was made during the Cold War. Could Gene Roddenberry have been saying that, even though women and African Americans were the more oppressed groups fighting for their rights, they still were better than a couple of commie bastards? I don’t know. I just thought that that was kind of neat, so I figured I’d share it with you.

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My new thang: Thirteen

I’ve come up with a new way to waste space on the web. I’m gonna throw you folks some movie reviews. Move over Roger Ebert, I’m the new critic in town. (that’s right I said it) I don’t know how often I’ll review something, but hey it’ll be easier than writing essays about immigrants. Am I right? And in the end I’ll rate it using some random webding. So hold onto your hairpieces, cause here we go!

So this weekend I watched the movie Thirteen starring Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, and Holly Hunter (and she even talks in this one). Fantastic piece of filmmaking that was! What was even more fantastic, I thought was the writing though. I don’t care what anyone says, it seemed very real to me. I was quite happy to discover that Evan Rachel Wood and Holy Hunter were both nominated for a whole pile of awards for their performances (such as Golden Globes, Oscars and a whole bunch of others) and won a few of them (much deserved I say). And the writing and directing also won a few a wards as well, so good on them.

If you haven’t seen it: it’s the story of, Tracy, a girl 13 year old girl who, in the beginning was a nice, normal 13 year old girl who gets good grades and what not, then she starts hanging out with the older cooler girls and things all go down hill from there. She looses all her old friends, starts doing drugs, shoplifting and all those good things as well as breaking apart her once close relationship with her mother. Now you might see this plot as being a normal based-toward-teen-girl-audience, and that’s kind of what I expected, but as I was watching it I started to see things that I had seen happen to other girls, granted they were a little older than 13 at the time but you still get the message. You really get the message that, this once innocent girl’s life, has gone to absolute shit just to be cool.

I think the reason why it was written so well is because Nikki Reed, the writer, wrote it about what her life was like at that age. On top of writing it, she also co-stars in the movie as, Evie, the cool girl whom Tracy forms a bond with. How can she do such a thing you ask? Write the film as well as co-star as a 16 year old girl no less. Your also probably wondering right now what difference does that make? Lots of writers do that. They take personal experience and make it into an epic tale. While that’s true, you should know that she was 16 when the movie came out so all that life experience was quite fresh in her mind still. Pretty amazing I think.

So rent it, download it or whatever. I highly recommend it. I’m giving it éééé out of 5.

Youngblood

It's time for history class kids...youngblood style

Damn I love this country we call Canada! And it pisses me off that the US has to be such a baby about this whole missile defense shit. It’s childish: “Oh, you don’t want to play missile defense with me? Fine you can’t bring your beef over to my house anymore…and we’re not friends anymore”. It’s childish shit. And I don't care what anyone says I'll always love this country no matter where I end up. And as much as the rest of the country rags on Saskatchewan, I still enjoy it. As far as I see it the rest of the country can kiss my ass. It’s full of diverse cultures and an even more diverse climate. I’m proud to say I’m from Saskatchewan. It’s played a part in shaping who I am today. But the history of the province isn’t the most incredible. It’s been made out to be seen as this wondrous land, where the prairie settlers came and brought Canada into the 20^th century. While it is true that the settlers did help in doing so, it still doesn’t mean that they were great people. It was because of them that the dark side of prairie society came out.

Now we all know about how about the Metis rebellions, and how the government made unfair treaties with the First Nations, so let's put that aside for now because that’s a whole other mess that I’m not touching (mainly for lack of time and knowledge about the subjects). Lets just talk right now about immigration to Canada following confederation.

This dark side I speak of dates back to when Saskatchewan was still part of the Northwest Territories. Canada was thought of as this new, incredible world where people would be free to get a fresh start; that is if you were a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP). So good ol’ John A. brings over these WASP’s because they were the desired culture for this new British Empire and could all be assimilated quite easily into British-Canadian life. These people consisted mainly of British and German’s. But Once Laurier came into power in 1896 things changed. Suddenly Laurier’s government was letting people come from countries, which prior to this time were not “preferred”. Once they were there for three years they could take the oath of citizenship and be full Canadians. Sounds good right? Well not all wanted to take the oath, and that’s where things get a little dark.

One such group known as the Doukhobors, who fled oppression in Russia, didn’t want to take the oath. They were pacifists, and if they took the oath they feared having to do military service. Makes sense doesn’t it? Well not if you’re trying to assimilate them into your society. So the Doukobors held a protest against the government by stripping down and starting to walk to Winnipeg. Well people didn’t like that very much and with that, along with the conservatives fear that all the immigrants would vote liberal (because it was the liberals that brought them over), there was an outcry for restrictions on immigration. These crazy pacifist/nudist/anarchists were ruining the British way of life. So after that everything under the sun was blamed on the immigrants. Prostitution: immigrants. Drinking: immigrants. Gambling: immigrants. They couldn’t do anything right.

Then war decides to breaks out. Great, just what the immigrants needed, more reasons to be shit on. The night war was declared there was a man almost beaten to death just because he looked German. He was British, but he looked German so a mob beat the shit out of him, and when he ran to the cops they didn’t care (happened right here in good ol’Reginatown). Also, now all people of enemy alien birth were now spies as well. They lived in Canada for 10 years but they were German spies. Makes sense doesn’t? How could it not?! Plus you know..they lost all their rights too.

So the war ends and things start to look like people might take it easy on the immigrants. Ya right! It was expected that soldiers would be able to return from war and pick up where they left off. Just one problem: someone had to do their jobs, and women did fill in, but the immigrants took quite a few of them too. So when the soldiers came back who got fired if a soldier needed a job? The immigrant of course. So then unions start up. Who gets blamed for them immigrants. They were apparently all Bolsheviks plotting a communist take over of the country. They were also blamed in the 1920’s for poor economy when in reality facts prove that the economy was getting better.

So really the immigrant got shit on and lied to. They couldn’t come to Canada to live their lives just as they did before. They were expected to assimilate and be Canadian by these stupid white men, and when they didn’t they got blamed for everything. Then in the mid 1920’s the KKK decided to roll into town, and that’s a whole other story that really makes these stupid white men look even stupider, but that will have to wait for another day while in the meantime I’ll turn this into an essay for history class. (Wow! Believe it or not, I actually learned something this semester)

Oh what to talk about...maybe...umm....I got nothing...sorry. I even already talked about having nothing to talk about, so I can't do that again, can I? Nope. And I refused to talk about my day or what I've been doing lately. So I'm taing the day off. That's right I said it, I'm taking the day off. And maybe tomorrow too...probably not...we'll see. Sorry.

Youngblood

Don't worry about stupid people

I recieved a comment recently that asked me to write about stupid people. But if you think about it, I write about stupid people all the time., the thing is, I don't adress them as stupid people. I simply break all the stupid people into separate groups. The stupid people aren't what we have to look out for. They aren't hiding. Finding a stupid person isn't like finding a needle in a hay stack, it's more like finding a green M&M in a bowl of brown ones. What we really have to look out for are the crazy people.

Crazy seems to be a hot commodity these days. Has the stock of crazy gone up or something, because it seems to me that crazy people are everywhere. They’re unavoidable. Chances are you run into a crazy person 2 maybe 3 times a day. Hell, people have told me I’m nuts, and your reading my blog. What other proof do you need?

I think that you can’t just group all crazy people together. It’s like grouping all kinds of fish together. There are too many kinds to call them all just fish. The same goes with crazy people. Granted there aren’t as many types of crazy as there are fish but I think you get my point. So where do you start dividing up the crazies? Well that’s a good question. First thing you want to do is determine what makes them crazy.

• You have to immediately separate the people who are crazy in a “let’s party hard” kind of “fun crazy”. They don’t count. So after that you have your genuine crazy folk.
• You still have to do some more spitting. Take the crazies that are the “let’s go kill people” crazy or the “I talk to trees and I’m married to a goat” crazy and throw them into a group I like to call “asylum friendly” crazy people.
• You also have to separate the people who have been told by doctors that they are schizophrenics, kleptomaniacs, and whatnot. They aren’t “asylum friendly” but they have an excuse.

What’s left, after all these divisions, are the people who walk among us. They are ones who look “normal”. They “don’t know that they’re crazy”, and all the rest of us are like that kid from The 6^th Sense. You’d never guess it just by looking at them, but deep inside they’ve got some crazy in them and it’s just waiting to get out.

These are the people to fear and watch out for, not the stupid people. If a stupid person is pissing you off all you have to do is tell them to fuck off, they'll get the hint. But you tell a crazy person to fuck off and they say "you don't mean that", or "why" or "what do you mean fuck off". They either won't leave you alone or come back and kill you because you pushed them over the edge, and that can get annoying. They worst is if you get two crazies in the same room and you tell them both to fuck off. Then what you've got on your hands is a clusterfuck of crazy. It's like when the green Hulk and the grey Hulk combined to make The New Increadible Hulk. Chaos! Utter Chaos!!!

So take the knowledge I have given you today with you in your travels and keep a watchful eye out for those crazies, because you never know when one is lingering behind a corner or secretly plotting your doom(hell, maybe its not even a secret and they're doing it out in the open and no ones taking them seriously).

Youngblood

On Bullshit

I've been criticized for being a fan of The Daily Show. Not because of its political stance on issues, but just because alot of people don't think its funny. Last night I was watching it dawned on me why I love this show sooooo much. The guest last night was a professor who had just released a new book. Sounds kind of boring doesn't it? Think again. The book was called On Bullshit. It was a 200+ pages book all about the study of bullshit and the people who tell it.

The fact that someone has taken the time to write a book on bullshit is fantastic. I'm actually supprised that I never wrote a post about it. The point I'm trying to make here is that...well I don't know what my point is...I guess I just wanted to say that I love The Daily Show...and oh yeah, last nights show is exactly why I do. It has such wonkey topics and they're right up my alley. And sure they make alot of jokes, but they do ask questions that no other news show does. Most other news shows just report on the news. The fact that they poke fun at the news means that they actually have to pay attention to whats actually going on. Anyone can just go on T.V. and tell the world what happened that day, but to make fun of the world the way they do takes real talent.

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One of these things is just like the other

About a week ago a friend of mine said "I shouldn't have went to film school, I should have went to movie school". I feel the same way quite often. But then I thought about what he said, and what's the diffenece between a film and a movie. Where did this division come from?

I'm sick of hearing people say, "it's more of a film than a movie". They're the same damn thing! By calling it a film are you implying that it's more artsy? Oh you are...well I don't care! Why is it that if something is refered to as a film it's more intellectual, and high brow than a movie? They're the same thing! It's not like we're talking about apples and oranges, it's apples and apples! What makes a film a film, and a movie a movie? They're both shot on film. I could see if one was shot on video maybe. But even music videos are shot on film.

So what I'm saying is that all movies are films and all films are movies. Everything that's shot on film, is a film or a movie. Call them what you will they're the same thing. And if films and movies weren't one in the same then in films there would be no movement, just still shots, because lets not forget what the term movie implies: movement.

So call them whatever you want. Just don't think that there's any difference between movies and films because there isn't. Personally I like the term movies better, because the majority of what people consider "films", I also like to call "boring as shit".

(now lets just hope that any of this rant actually makes sense to someone besides me)

Youngblood

Taking up space on the web

Just to take up space, here's a few random things I thought of this week.

• I like the word bum…I think it’s hip.
• If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s around to hear it, did the animals it crushed make a sound?
• Snow isn’t cold, unless it’s cold out, and if it’s not cold out it’s warm/hot. If it’s warm/hot out then the snow melts and becomes water. If it’s warm/hot out then that water becomes warm, so in turn that means that snow is warm. (try argue with that logic, I dare you)
• Poo is definitely not as funny a word as poop. Never and was never will be!
• I don’t care what anyone says Christian rock IS inspirational. It inspires me to vomit.
• How can you have a special edition DVD when it’s the first edition to come out? There was no normal edition. What’s so special about it?

I'll be back monday with a real post...I promise.

Youngblood

That guy from that show based in the 70's....you know the one I'm talking about

What’s the deal with Ashton Kutcher? Ya sure he’s funny on That 70’s Show, But I’m kind of getting sick of the guy. When is he going to stop hiding peoples cars and laughing at them. The joke is dead. Ya, I get it, people get pissed off when your take their shit, even celebrities. Give it up! And what’s with the whole “punk’d” thing anyway? Is he trying to get it in the dictionary?

Punk’d (adj.) To have your car or other belongings stolen while Kelso laughs at you

What’s with the whole apostrophe thing? Is the word cooler because there’s no e? And is he ever going to get busted for grand theft auto? I think it’s only right.

And what’s the deal with him making the trucker hat cool? Truckers and farmers have been wearing them for years. It was already an established fashion of sorts. But this fucking clownshoes comes along and wears it once and suddenly you can buy a John Deer hat at the Gap for $30. And ya since then I have bought a trucker hat but it was 25¢ at a garage sale.

I guess I just don’t understand celebrities and the star system. But one thing I do understand is that if I’m ever, even quasi-famous and I wear something that was made 20 years before, I can start a trend. BRING BACK THE FLANEL JACKETS!!!!

Youngblood

Out with the new, in with the old

So the other day I’m in Value Village and I spot Ice Hockey for the NES. Now, I have gone on an excruciatingly long quest to find this game. When I saw it in that box full of other crappy games, it took all the energy in my body to stop me from giggling like a little girl. I now could take control of the fat guy, skinny guy or the middle guy and have some incredible 8-bit fun. So there I was with the game that I strived so hard to obtain; I went home, tossed it in and started to play, what would be a glorious game of Ice Hockey.

This game is so simple, yet it is so much fun. This game proves that you don’t need 128-bit graphics to have fun playing video games. Just because you can’t design every aspect of the game and customize options and whatever, doesn’t mean it’s not good. Hell, they didn’t even give Canada red jerseys or even white ones. But those things don’t matter.

What matters is the simple fun you can have.

To close, I’ll give you a link that shows that you don’t even need to play the games to have fun with them. So here it is, check it out.

Youngblood

Bus Drivers

Fuck, bus drivers piss me off! I’m at the bus stop yesterday, sitting there on the bench, as clear as day. I see the bus coming, and before he even gets to the intersection, before the stop, I get up and start walking towards the stop. What does he do?! Nothing, except blow right past me, and I see some of the people on the bus looking at me and probably thinking, “Uh hey there’s a guy there”. So I had to wait another half an hour for the next bus. Am I a ghost or something? Can no one see me except a small boy? (It would explain why the elevator door closed into me the other day)

But seriously, what is with these people? I realize that having to deal with weirdo’s all day probably gets to you, but suck it up. It’s part of the job. Then there are those ones who act like they’re the most important people in the world. They talk to the people getting on like they’re the law or something; like their shit don’t stink. Well if you’re so advanced and better than everyone, why the fuck can’t you show up on time?!

Now I want you all to realize that I am talking about city bus drivers only. School bus drivers are a totally different thing. School bus drivers have real shit to deal with. They’re in charge of the youth of the nation for the duration of their ride to school. That’s responsibility. Plus they get to know the kids they’re taking back and forth every day. City bus drivers don’t give a shit about who’s on their bus.

And another thing: school bus drivers don’t have to deal with this “I’m a dime short of fare” shit. I’m sure they’d take that any day. They have do deal with the, “Hey you little bastard! Quit throwing rotten apple cores”, kind of shit. That’ll get to you more than any weirdo

I have a lot to thank my bus driver for. When I was little, I thought he was so mean. He wouldn’t let us walk around or eat on the bus; he was pure evil I tell you. Actually, he was just being responsible. It’s largely because of him that I grew up the way I am. He did more to stop me from acting like a little bastard than any teacher did. So even though he’s probably never going to read this, I say: thanks Al for stopping me from becoming the shithead that I could have been, and not the nerd that I am today.

Youngblood

A real post

First off I’d like to apologize for Friday’s ever so shitty post…but seriously…go see that movie. Anyway….

They say that curiosity killed the cat. How do they know? Was there an investigation? Personally I don’t think there was, so I’ve decided to take it upon myself to find out who in fact killed that cat. I’ve been told that it’s actually just a figure of speech, but to those that tell me such hogwash I say FUCK YOU JERKOFF! That’s right I said it. And if that cat did die under those circumstances then I guess I’m next…if I was a cat…or does it apply to everyone? Has someone checked?…

Now I know what you’re all thinking: when’s he going to get to the fucking point. And I will. Riiiigggghhhhhhhtttt……..NOW! Human curiosity. It’s a natural thing. I came to this realization while cutting open a toothpaste tube. I was perplexed by just how they get it in there. I was saddened to learn nothing (also the fact that I felt the need to cut it open is pretty sad too). Now this whole “cat” theory makes one think of foul play; that curiosity is a bad thing. Ok now I’ll admit some things you just shouldn’t be curious about or at least don’t pursue those curiosities. Things like, what would happen if, oh I don’t know, an atomic bomb was dropped on a city…yeah not good. But things like: “Hey I wonder if we can cure this cancer thing?”, let’s keep those ones around.

So why all this hostility towards curiosity? What’s with the cat metaphors? Who started this hostility? How can we stop it? How much longer can it go on? How many more questions will I ask? Who really gives a shit about what I’m saying? (Not many I figure, and I only asked 1 more question. That’s 2 out of 7…not bad) Like I said human curiosity is a natural thing, it can’t be stopped. The fact is no one’s going to stop wondering about JFK’s assassination any time soon, or that whole Caramilk deal. So now when some one asks what you think about JFK assassination, just say, “Who cares, we’ll never know”.

I guess you could say that I’m just curious about curiosity…and how the hell they get the toothpaste into the tube.

Youngblood

Check this out

I don't have a whole hell of a lot to say today, so I'll say this: If you want to watch a good movie that just came out on DVD check out I Heart Huckabee's. It's funny, well written, and has a stellar cast.

Youngblood

Get Rich, and Quick!

They say that money is the root of all evil. It’s true, but what is it that makes it evil. People tend to spend all their money on trying to get more money. Casino’s, VLT’s, the lottery. I say screw the lottery; hunt Leprechauns.

Those wily little bastards have been dodging us for years. You ever meet someone who’s caught one? Didn’t think so. So there’s got to be an abundance of them kicking around. What you’ve got to do is get a team together and go hunting. You won’t even need any big equipment. Guns won’t work; all you need is a butterfly net, because lets face it: they’re no good to you dead. And don’t just go to the end of the rainbow. There’s nothing there but a leprechaun with an AK47 laughing his ass off because you fell right into his trap.

So now I send you out into the wilderness with your butterfly nets and the knowledge that because I gave you this idea, I get 10% of the cut right off the top.

Youngblood

Different is the new mainstream

If you haven’t noticed yet, there’s a lot of people who piss me off. Don’t worry, chances are you’ll get your turn one day, but today I’m going after a group who has been bugging me for a long while now.

These people of course are the ones who always strive to be different than everyone else. The people who have made it a hobby to try and stand out amongst the rest of society. And I don’t mean someone who’s dyed their hair blue or something. I’m talking about the ones that, if they see someone else dressed remotely like them they go home and change, or change their whole wardrobe for that matter, just for the sake of standing out and being different. Why can’t you just be yourself?

Now I know what some of you are thinking: Maybe that is who they really are; maybe by doing that they are being themselves. To that I say: Okay maybe. But if they were being themselves then why are they always changing to be the opposite of what’s in the mainstream or what’s “cool”. If they have their own style and then something that they wear comes into the mainstream, they automatically change. Why?! Oh Why I ask you!

Now I’m not necessarily saying that it’s a bad thing to want to stand out, but the fact that there are so many people now that do it kind of defeats the purpose of what they are trying to do. The fact that so many people are kind of slowly bringing it into the mainstream itself. It’s becoming common for people to strive to be different. So what happens when everyone starts dressing like these people? Well then these people who are striving to be different will have to do the opposite of what every one else is doing and dress like everyone else used to. Then what happens? We’re back at square one that’s what, and this whole thing starts over again.

I dunno maybe it’s just me.

Youngblood

Life's great mysteries

Show of hands: who thinks that the sasquatch exists? Ok, now who thinks that there’s intelligent life on other planets? Alright, now who believes in ghosts (and I don’t man Patrick Swayze)? The results are kind of what I figured they’d be. Personally I do think that life exists on other planets; I do believe in ghosts (just look at the house I grew up in and you’ll know why); but the whole sasquatch business is what I’m not convinced about. I think it’s just some hairy guy. If you don’t think a guy can be that hairy just watch some of those late night infomercials. But those infomercials also prove that, that hair can be easily removed. Think about it: the only proof is that old footage of it stepping over a log, then no one saw it ever again. You know why? Because it shaved that’s why! Everyone’s looking around all these islands for some big hairy monster, but time and time again all they keep finding is some tall clean-shaven motherfucker. That was its plan all along: grow a lot of hair then when you get spotted shave it off and laugh at all those conspiracy nuts.

What really bothers me though is this whole Loch Ness Monster thing. How hard could it be to find it? It’s in a lake; they know which lake it is, just search underwater! Get some scuba gear, maybe a submarine! You should be able to spot the damn thing if it’s as big as they say it is. Quit just standing on shore with binoculars and go for a swim! Are they afraid of being eaten by the damn thing? Bunch of morons they are. All these “scientists” that are spending all this time trying to find this stupid thing should spend some time trying to solve life’s greatest mystery: Why the hell do they call him Silent Bob?

Youngblood