I Don't Care

Fall Out Boy just released a single off their new album being released in December. They originally wanted to release it November 4th though but had to push it back. Pete Wentz has been as obvious as possible about his support for Barack Obama which bugged me. Ryan Cabrera pretty much became my hero when he said that he knew he had influence over people and his fans looked up to him so he refused to announce who he was voting for so as not to influence the decisions his fans made. So I wasn't really happy that Pete decided to make Obama t-shirts and pimp the dude but the song is awesome, Patrick Stump is amazing like always and its pretty funny.



I dont get the thing about the cat (edit: the cat part was cut out of this edition i guess. when they get to the part about the fascist the whole thing pauses and theres this picture of a cat o_O) or Sarah Palin.... but still xD I started laughing when I saw the end. Even if I dont get it xD Sorry I fail

But I like the song...

nerd herd

HEYGUESSWHAT
I figured out how to change my language to French :D
so now all the dates and stuff are in... yeah. French. lol
I just learned months/days/time and stuff this week sooo maybe it'll help it stick.
OR it will just confuse you all. either way....

movie review: speed racer

Speed Racer
Starring: Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, Christina Ricci
Genre: Action/Sport/Family/Futuristic
Rating: PG
Age Level: family friendly
I give this movie six out of ten stars


Young Speed Racer has entered the world of stunt racing. It seems to run in his family. After losing his brother to a terrible crash, Speed picks up where Rex left off. After a bad experience with a big racing company, Speed teams up with some other racers to exploit some of the unethical things that have been going on behind the racing scene.

There are parts where its almost dizzying to watch because so much is happening. Its a futuristic family type movie so there are cheesy parts but it was a cute movie all in all and involved some pretty sweet Japanese dudes who looked like they walked out of an anime movie... But parts were rather predictable. Then again, it is a family movie sooo it has to appeal to the little kids too.

cursed photography

while i've been slacking off on blog posts, i have managed NOT to slack off on photo posts.
so while you're waiting for me to come up with something amazing, you should check out my photography blog

YOU CAN CLICK HERE

bulk movie review

21
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth
Genre: Drama/Based on a true story
Rating: PG-13
Age Level: teen/adult
I give this movie eight out of ten stars

A math genius MIT senior struggles with not dazzling Harvard enough to get a full scholarship. His math teacher at MIT realizes his talent and recruits him to a secret team of card counters. Weekends they don disguises and count cards while playing black jack in Vegas and split their winnings. But eventually casino security starts catching on to their scheme and they risk everything to get what they can.



VANTAGE POINT
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox,
Genre: Thriller/Action/Drama/Crime
Rating: PG-13
Age Level: teen/adult
I give this movie seven out of ten stars

The president of the United States is assassinated and you get to see it from several different points of view to put the pieces together yourself and figure out exactly what happened.

It did get slightly boring and it lost interest to a few members of our at-home audience but it was a really creative idea and i liked it.


I AM LEGEND
Starring: Will Smith
Genre: Fantasy/Future/Thriller/Horror/Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13
Age Level: older teen/adult
I give this movie ten out of ten stars

Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. (courtesy of IMDB because im somehow having a hard time with this xD)

IT HAS WILL SMITH IN IT. Its good.



MAMA'S BOY
Starring: Jon Heder, Diane Keaton, Jeff Daniels, Anna Faris
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Rating: PG-13
Age Level: family friendly
I give this movie six point five out of ten stars

Jefferey is in his late twenties. He works at a local book store, and he lives with his single mother. When his mother finally meets a man who she really connects with and falls in love with, Jeff has a lot of issues with that. After meeting a girl from a local coffee shop, together Jeff and his new found friend set off to tear the couple apart only to realize that Jeff had some issues all along.

Its not as funny as I thought it would be and there were some forced laughter bits but I still enjoyed it, it was a cute movie.


300
Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham
Genre: Action/Drama/History
Rating: R
Age Level: older teen/adult
I give this movie seven out of ten stars

Gerard Butler and Co. run around ancient Greece, twelve packs glistening in the sunlight of war. Xerxes is determined to take over the world but Sparta resists despite their minute army, they prove a fierce resistance. I wont give it away, lol.

Based on a true story, 300 takes on a different approach than most movies, and its given a comic-booky affect which was rather interesting.

movie reviews

HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITECASTLE
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Unrated
I give this movie 6 out of 10 stars

Harold and Kumar are two loser guys who share an apartment. Harold is the nerdy Asian guy who works for a stock broker and Harold is doctor's son, being pressured to get into medical school. So one evening Harold and Kumar are sitting around their apartment smoking weed and they get hungry. They see a commercial for Whitecastle and decide right then and there that that is where they are going and no other place will do. Along the way they encounter a lot of crazy stuff, guarenteed to have you cracking up.

Its not a good kids movie, at all. But it is pretty hilarious. If you can stand the crude humor and stuff, its funny. Not something I would watch again but surprisingly enough didn't leave me disapointed in the hour and a half i just wasted on a movie.

My Favorite Actors

I've been slacking off a lot on my movie reviews - I have a lot to catch up on. But while I'm working on those I decided to make a list of my favorite actors.

Fighting for the top spot are Will Smith and Johnny Depp. So lets start with Will Smith. When I see "Will Smith" in the cast list, I immediately know its going to be a good movie. So far, I have no seen a bad movie with Will Smith in it, he never ceases to bring it, no matter what kind of movie it is. Some Will Smith movies to check out are: I am Legend, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Robot, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Hitch.

Johnny Depp is probably one of the most talented and diverse actors of our time. He's been in some not-so-great movies but he has also been in a wide variety of good movies, probably most well known for his recent part in Pirates of the Caribbean as Captain Jack Sparrow. Some other movies of his to check out include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland, Chocolat, and Sleepy Hollow.

James McAvoy is relatively new to the popular movie scene but so far he has failed to disappoint. This Scotsman has mastered the British and American accents and is making a name for himself, starring with big names like Kiera Knightly, Anne Hathaway, and Angelina Jolie. Some good McAvoy flicks to see are: Wanted, Atonement, Becoming Jane, Penelope, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The With and The Wardrobe.

Jim Sturgess is also relatively new on the scene but so far has proven to have potential. I've only seen two movies with him in it. The Other Boleyn Girl and 21. 21 was a great movie, but The Other Boleyn Girl was a dud. However he did his best with what he was given and was probably the best thing (next to the scenery) from that movie. I've also hear that Across The Universe is good but its based on Beatles songs which means I probably won't get to see it with my dad around ;] and its in the sixties or something so there's lots of drugs going on and its weird. I'm not sure, just reading the IMDB comments. But I have heard some of the sound track and Jim sings at least some of the songs himself and they sound really good.

Matt Damon is a great actor, both as the intense thriller star or the the dorky innocent guy. I haven't seen a lot of stuff with him in it either but I've enjoyed the Bourne serious including the Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and the Bourne Ultimatum. According to IMDB, in 2010 there is going to be an Untitled Jason Bourne Project so hopefully that won't ruin the trilogy. It could either be very good, or ruin the whole thing, so I guess we'll see. He's also been in The Brother's Grimm, Oceans 11-13, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and even narrated for Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, go figure!

So there they are, :] my top five actors. Actresses are a lot more difficult but i'm sure I can come up with something, lol. Now I have to go work on those darned reviews.

smile for the paparazzi

This is torture xD Why do they have to do this to me?

One (1) Grand Prize will be awarded, consisting of a trip for two (2) people (the Grand Prize winner and one (1) guest) to Los Angeles, California. Prize includes: up to two (2) roundtrip, coach air travel tickets from a major airport near the winner's residence (as determined by Sponsor) to Los Angeles Airport or Burbank Airport departing on or about Wednesday, October 29, 2008 and returning on or about Friday, October 31, 2008; two (2) nights of hotel accommodations consisting of one (1) double occupancy room on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 and Thursday, October 30, 2008; two (2) tickets and one (1) press photo pass to take pictures o the band during the first three (3) songs for the Cobra Starship concert at House of Blues Sunset Strip on Friday, October 30, 2008; one (1) Canon Digital Rebel XT 8MP Digital SLR Camera; twelve (12) issues of Alternative Press magazine. Approximate Retail Value ("ARV"): $2,701.

Well he shouldn't quit his day job....

but this is pretty funny xD

WTF?

what the heck is up with these spammers suddenly BOMBARDING my awesome blog of awesomeness crimpin/crampin WHATEVER my style yo.

gosh. ive gotten like four lame-o spam comments in the past half hour and i ABSOLUTELY hate those stupid things where you have to type in the letters and numbers before posting.
so dont make me change my preferencessss.
gosh.

cold as ike

so i guess ike's remains hit us today.
i was trying stuff on in walmart when the power went out.
just my luck right?

anyways yeah it was all dark and windy and trees and power lines were out everywhere. its kinda creepy because i know this is nothing compared to what people down south had to endure and weather like this even makes me nervous.

just a storm in your teacup, girl

YAY. I changed my link, hopefully everyone remembered, lol.
I also slaved away over my layout which i love xD I wanna try and do a new one each month if i can remember :] actually i just made the banner and slapped some stuff together, it wasnt THAT hard but some parts were frustrating.
Anyways, yeah that was it. lol

save you from yourself

Today was my school picnic. I've been kind of looking forward to it for a while and this was one of the "high school hot spots" meaning it would feature a few high school teachers - and hopefully high school students. It was raining a lot today though, beautiful weather for a picnic.


We ended up getting lost and arrived half an hour late but we were just in time because shortly after we signed in they started the games they had planned. they split the kids up into groups - little kids and sixth through twelfth.

The first thing we did was the human knot. Everyone stands in a circle and reaches out and takes a hand. Eventually you have this giant knot of people all connected by hands and you have to use team work and communication to separate yourselves and form a circle again. That was kind of fun, so we did that a few times.


Next, the teacher put a folded piece of paper on the ground, after we were divided into teams. We had to have ONE person standing on the paper and no one else could touch the ground or touch anything touching the ground. Eventually someone figured out somebody stands on the paper and then we all jump in the air, lol.

After we did that, we had to form a line in an order that made sense without speaking to each other. Then we had to form a line by something other than height, etc. and we couldnt speak or move our arms. THEN we had to form a line by grade without speaking or moving our arms either. That one was tough because nobody knew what grade everyone else was in except for the few people who wrote it on their name tags.

Then we ate lunch.
Unlike OHDELA's picnic, they did not provide the food and as you can see it was a lot smaller. It also only lasted for a few hours rather than the whole day.

I AM SOCIALLY AWKWARD. Let's get that out of the way now, lol. For the veteran readers of my blog you should know I have a this problem with talking to people - especially girls my age - that I don't know or have no introduction to. It took me at least twenty minutes to actually go interupt my teacher's conversation to introduce myself and I talked to him for a while. Of course my mind went blank when he asked me who my teachers were and then he says "So do you have a lot of friends in OHVA?" BAHAHAHA. Thats funny.

No.

I think I know 4 or 5 kids, two of which I've met in person, one I've known for at least two years, and two others who just added me on facebook for the heck of it xD So when he asked me which kids were my friends in History I kind of went "um..."
So that was the easy part.
THEN i tackled the huge scary intimidating beast also known as TALKING TO GIRLS MY OWN AGE. dun dun DUN.

I dont know what it is that makes the idea of making the first move so intimidating to me >_< Meanwhile the little kids were being loud and playing with a parachute.
It brought back memories from the good old days in gymnastics when i was three :]
I LOVED the parachute.
But anyways...

Tommorow I'm changing my link! Dont forget!

seven things

The rules are that you tell seven weird or unknown things about yourself and then tag seven other people. My mom tagged me and the funny thing is she tagged me for something very similar last year in October xD And last July I did "ten things you might not know about me" so i'll try to come up with some good answers :P

1. One of my pet peeves is when people make noise while they eat. Its gross x3 And you would not believe how much it bugs me :P
2. I actually miss playing soccer and I wish I could play softball.
4. My seventeenth birthday will be on Friday the 13th. I should have this huge awesome party... with... all my friends. ☺
5. I'm taking French and so far I love it but i feel like a moron trying to pronounce most of the words
6. I'm thinking about growing out my hair a little bit and then cutting the back short... like a backwards mullet xD only not.
7. I used to despise the idea of concerts but now I luff them <3 i get to meet my favorite famous people at them xD some of them anyways. But I'm still afraid of moshers.
8. I skipped number three. because thats how i roll.
9. I decided to actually post seven facts because i'm not a cheater so here it goes.
10. I am mildly curious as to what crowd surfing is like but too chicken to actually do it. At least while wearing glasses ;]

I'm not tagging anyone because all the people i know have probably been tagged already or something xD so if you really want to do this go ahead xD

a heavy hearted work of staggering genius

HAYGUESSWHAT?
I found a blog name I like :]
And I had this great idea. Are you ready?

I was listening to my library on shuffle today, waiting for something to hit me and this Red Hot Chili Pepper's song comes on and so boredly I looked at the song and it was called Storm In A Teacup. And I was all like VOILA fo' seriously xD
I thought I could change the link to storminateacupx.blogspot.com - storminateacup etc. is taken by someone who hasn't posted in seven years o_O but whatever, lol.
I was looking at song titles and I started writing down all these ones i liked so I was thinking I'll change the link since I really like that name, and then when I felt like it, I could just change my blog title and description whenever.

So i think I'm gonna go for it xD
And I'm not gonna change it RIGHT now so that everyone wont be all confused. I gueesss I'll change it on the thirteenth. Thats a week and a half, and unless I get some serious hate comments or I find something better, its going to be storminateacupx.blogspot.com

one more weekend

School has been going pretty well. Some of the classes like American Literature are a little boring and some of the classes don't take too long to go through. Usually I only have to spend half an hour on some of them. Others take more time, obviously. This week I'm making a topographical map of a potato o_O

My favorite is French, :] The program I'm using is called Power-Glide and its tres bien. ;] They have games and stories to help with vocabulary and stuff and I could seriously sit here and do it all day, its pretty fun. I just have to keep an open mind set and remember I'm not going to pick it all up right away. I'm doing pretty good so far, but it's only been a week ;D

So far Photography has been a little confusing not to mention slightly disappointing. Maybe I expected to jump in and do some exciting stuff right off but I looked at my calendar for this week and we're spending a whole week cropping one picture. That kind of confused me. But all there is to do is read the steps on how to crop pictures using Gimp, open Gimp, open a photo, crop it, write about it and compare. I did most of that last week. >_< Hopefully it'll pick up later in the semester since its only a semester long. It probably will...

Thats my name... Don't wear it out

A while ago I said I wanted to change my blog name and I think I'm finally gonna do it xD Links and everything.
The only thing is I need some suggestions >_< Any ideas?

Movie Review: Beowulf

Title: Beowulf
Genre: Animated/Action/Fantasy
Rating: Unrated - DUN DUN DUN
Starring: Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, some animated peeps.
I give this movie 6.5 out of 10 stars

King Hrothgar's town is cursed by a horrible murderer, Grendel. After the death of many of his people, all the heroes that have come to slay the monster have perished. Until Beowulf.

But Beowulf's pride and love for material things are his curse and in this rather well animated movie, that curse follows him to his death. There were some confusing parts in the movie but the graphics were pretty good for this genre of movie. It's not a kids movie, there are several frightening images and what not but it was a good movie. I can't say its on my favorites list but it wasn't bad.

ah, the smell of servers crashing in the morning

the first couple days, if not the first week, of school are always like walking around in the dark. we have no idea whats going on, i dont even have supplies yet, but school has started. It's kind of awkward at first because there's nothing to do if you dont have your books and stuff, but within the next two weeks it picks up and in the first month you start to adjust to it all and you're off to the races.

Except you have to survive the first day first. I had a class at nine o clock. Someone had the genius idea to put a thousand kids in one online class room. pfft. Even *I* know thats a bad idea. So they had some technical difficulties and an hour has passed and they just gave up and said come back at one. Which was when I had another class to do but I guess they're just changing everything. I dont know. And now I cant do anything because I cant log in to the website and I dont have books. So now what?

Semi Parking Made Easy

A couple months ago I got a baby tooth pulled and when the adult tooth grew in the orthodontist said it would be like parallel parking a semi truck. Well, it has finally gotten into its correct position. It is no longer behind another tooth or too far back so that my bottom teeth prevent it from moving forward. That was pretty easy, so parellel parking a semi must not be that hard xD it only took six months (almost exactly, i got the tooth pulled feb. 21st) but its finally there. Which means NOW i can get my stupid bite guard off the back of my front tooth (one of them fell off xD) and I can finally get my expander off! yay. next month the orthodontist is going to put a real band on that tooth and take the button off that he's been using to attach some kind of string to, to pull the tooth in the right direction.