I hate school. I’ve come to the conclusion that this semester isn’t fun. I attribute this largely to my schedule and the 17 hours of hell I go through a week. This semester I am taking three classes that I really hate and motivating myself to do the work is far from easy. Additionally, I haven’t been in Austin a lot this semester. Last year I was on campus nearly every weekend for football and I had plenty of time to relax. This semester I have been in Austin two weekends. Two! I’ve had retreats and crap every weekend that I haven’t been home in Friendswood. I don’t really think it would make much of a difference if I was here, however, because everyone else is also busy with work. In the end, everyone is off doing their own thing and I’m left counting down the days to summer. I know it’s sad that I won’t be living on campus again and I won’t see everyone for three months, but I am so ready to go home. I am actually looking forward to going home and working, reading and hanging out with all my friends.

It’s funny, I was thinking about it today and I’m excited to go home this summer to read. I don’t enjoy most of the readings I have to do for school this semester and summer will allow me to read books that actually interest me. I’ve already started the list, which will double when I add various comics to it. I am definitely looking forward to reading at least the following books:

* The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
* Atlas Shrugged
* A People’s History of the United States
* His Dark Materials
* The other six books in the Chronicles of Narnia
* The Godfather

That should take quite a bit of time but I’m actually excited. This summer should be great.

So last weekend was my Birthday and thank you to everyone who called, wrote or was at my house for the festivities. I got ridiculously amazing presents and had a great time. My sister is officially the most bad-ass Easter egg-hider of all time. There will still be hidden eggs for years to come. Also, Matt Rickard is freaking lumberjack and Armando is a huge heifer who likes to rip trampolines. It was good to be home, even though I’ve been there far too often recently. I don’t think I’ll be able to go back for a while though. I have a test every week until the end of school and then the much dreaded finals. It may actually be the end of May before I’m back. At least then it will be for a while and I’ll be able to relax and lounge around.

So I actually went to my crazy ass pre-law fraternity meeting this week. I decided that since I paid dues I should probably get off my ass and get enough points to become a member. We had this hippie judge from county court come and talk to us about law school and it was pretty awesome. She was really friendly and full of life since all she ever dealt with was bounced checks and fraud. Still it was really cool and she invited us all to come to the court whenever we wanted. She was really excited about students coming down and said she’d even let us know when the “juicy” cases were coming up if we called ahead. She got me excited to go sit in court and just observe everything going on.

Sometimes I wish I could take advantage of the time before my 11 am classes on Friday. If I went to the capital and just sat in on a session I would feel so productive. Instead, I spend my free time reading comics and watching downloaded TV shows. They’re so amazing, though. I still haven’t seen this week’s Scrubs, but Lost was great. I really love Locke’s character, even if parts of today’s episode were very predictable. I think it’d be cool (maybe for the video?) to have all of the cliffhanger endings of Lost back to back in one video file. It’d be awesome for those who have seen the show and confusing as hell for anyone who hadn’t. I’m gonna do that now!

Last week I started going through the whole “my how time has passed” phase of ones freshman year. I seriously can’t believe that One Act District was a year ago. Time has passed by so quickly and I’ve had so much fun that it seems like yesterday. I really think that December 2003 to December 2004 was the best year of my life. That’s hard to say, because I’ve been fortunate enough to live a pretty amazing life, but I think it was the best. Maybe I’m just pulling a Cohen and forgetting all the bad things that happened, but I know I’ll continue to look back on that year fondly. Now the next few years just have to be even better….starting after this semester. Seriously, if it were possible, I would hire Brandon and Veronica to Cadbury the hell out of the last four months (not counting my Birthday, of course). I’d even pay double if they offed my Sociology teacher.

I wonder what’s gonna happen on Project Greenlight this week. Boo! No one on DC++ has the last episodes so I’m sure no one will have this week’s episode. I guess I’ll just have to wait until I go home again. In the meantime I leave you with this picture of the always enticing John Gulager. Work it!

Hey, long time no post! I’ve been pretty busy over the last week having a great time. Camping in San Marcos was xtreme. We had a day of bad ideas (i.e. a two hour detour resulting from one bad choice) and a day of good ideas (exploring an awesome abandoned mill on the side of the road). We also developed hatred for the couple camping next to us and the owner of the campsite who told us we were being too loud after “quiet hours”. The theme of the weekend (obviously) was xtreme. We had xtreme dinosaur sliding, fire widdling, and smore making, to name a few. Anyway, I can’t wait to go camping again with everyone…I think we should go to Big Bend this summer. In the meantime, I’ll try to put up some pictures of camping later today.

So yesterday was the Friendswood Filmfest! I dressed up as Indiana Jones, with hat, whip and bag. Leahanne wore a garbage bag a la Garden State, Kistie was a Ghostbuster and Katie dressed as a naked person. Seriously, she looked naked half of the time. Anyway, we got started a little late, but it was awesome once it began. We started out with a personal favorite, Glengarry Glen Ross. It’s based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Mamet and has one of the best ensemble casts of the last twenty years. After the movie I gave everyone three leads (it’s a movie about real estate) and they had to try and find various snacks hidden downstairs. Next we watched City of God, which was definitely my favorite movie of the night. I had to leave early, though, to start cooking spaghetti and meatballs. After dinner, we finished the festival with Before Sunrise. I thought it was a great movie to end the night on and I hope everyone watches Before Sunset so we can talk about it. All in all, I think the Friendswood Filmfest was a huge success. I hope everyone who came had fun and I was really disappointed when none of my friends from Europe showed up. Now you all have to come visit me…

The O.C. was magical this week, as always. I’m glad that Alex is leaving and things are slowly going back to normal. I loved the scenes where Seth was remembering last year and how much better it was. Things were so much better before that whore Theresa or Lindsay or Alex. Funny, they’re all gone now. Oh, Ryan was awesome in this episode. He was back to brooding, fighting, designing and spending time with Marissa. It will be interesting to see how his brother plays in to the next few episodes. Hopefully he’ll go back to Chino and kill Theresa. That would be perfect.

OK, well I’m tired and don’t feel like writing anymore. I redid the top 100 and made my poster of all the movies. I have almost 60 honorable mentions so I’m gonna make my top 150 when I get a chance. Also, I forgot to include Close Encounters and the Right Stuff so I’ll add those in soon. Don’t expect all that many posts this week because I have a lot of work. Too much now that I think about it. Screw it, I’m gonna forget about everything and go watch the O.C. again. Sounds good.

I’m in Metro procrastinating and I thought I’d give a shout out to Ve-Ve. I was surprised to not find her here, but I guess she has to go out every once and a while. Anyway, this week I’m having a lot of trouble finding the motivation to do my work. I have a test tomorrow and a paper due Thursday but that’s really it. The test is in philosophy which I know pretty well (and we’re reviewing tonight) and I’ll do the paper the day it’s due. Maybe Artsy Avenger can draw my paper for me and make it real. That would be awesome.

I’m gonna update my wish list with a bunch of really cheap stuff so if you guys have any left-over money after buying Brandon’s half-Birthday present than you can get me something. Oh, and my friend Alexia just sent me my Birthday card from last year. She sealed it, addressed it and forgot to send it until she found it over Christmas break. Anyway, it was hilarious, and I loved it. I can’t wait to send her 20th Birthday card a month before she turns 21.

So camping is official! Yea! I can’t wait for Friday…the sooner I’m out of here the better. Ok, well to please Leahanne and waste some more time I’ll list some of the things I would like to do before I die.

* Go back to Europe with all of my friends.

* Go to New Zealand, buy some property and reconstruct Hobbiton.

* Own all of my top 100 (According to my current top 100, I own 69…yeah, I know.)

* Produce a movie.

* Produce a movie by MNL Studios.

* Act in a movie.

* Take a spontaneous road trip with a friend.
* Go to a World Series game.

* Live in New York City.

* Spend a month in Japan.

Own an awesome studio loft apartment.

Write my memoirs (how pretentious am I?)

Design, build and live in my own mansion.

Donate ridiculous amounts of money to the College of Liberal Arts so that they can build a building that will make the School of Business look like dog shit.

* Kill Clint Eastwood with his Oscars.

* Give his Oscars to Martin Scorsese.

* Blow up Stanford, Columbia, Duke and Yale.

* Spend a year traveling the world by boat, writing and taking pictures.

* Learn Greek.

* Live in Mystras, Greece for a summer (my grandma’s village)

Ok, that’s enough for now. Most of them involve living overseas for a period of time. I really want to do that once I retire. Hopefully I’ll have earned enough money in life to afford this lifestyle but I’ll honestly be thrilled if I end up doing a quarter of the things on this list.

So expect an update to the top 100 pretty soon. I’ve printed out over 130 covers and plan on “laminating” them tonight instead of studying. For those of you who don’t see me regularly, I’m making a poster of my top 100 movies that will hang on my wall. I stole the idea from Brandon who stole the idea and format of his Top 100 list from me, so it’s all good. I don’t know whether I should put the posters on the board with ticky-tack or velcro, though. Velcro seems like it would last longer but it’s more or a hassle. Anyway, I’ll decide next week. Now I think I’m going to put in a good ten minutes of work and then surf the internet for porn, or hentai, or naked pictures of Gosha. Mmm, Gosha.

So I tried to post what’s above last night but someone sucks at life. I’m not gonna name names, but it starts with Kistenmacher and ends with tard face. Anyway, last night at dinner Veronica and Steph decided that they wanted me to have sex before my birthday and offered me $100 if I could do it. I find it funny that they want me to get laid more than I do. Veronica even tried to pimp me out to my friend Erin, who signed over her body in exchange for an ab machine. Jose also listed off all of the sluts he knows in San Antonio so if I’m desperate to prove myself and earn $100 I have my options.

Speaking of desperate, last night Veronica and I decided that Katie would sleep with me if Veronica promised to date her afterwards. Then we made fun of her run/walk for about ten minutes. That, and her ginormous jugs. Ok, I’m late for a meeting. Later.

Just saw the new Sin City trailer and was so amazed by it that I had to write a quick post. Go watch the video here. I love how they decided to extend the use of accenting colors to every chapter. For once it looks like they’re doing what they promised…faithfully portraying Frank Miller’s story on screen. I just watched the trailer three times and can’t express how happy this movie makes me. King Kong is gonna be great, but I’m looking forward to this movie more than anything else. Ok, make sure you go watch it…multiple times. I’ll post more later.

OK, I just saw this poster and I want it more than anything. If anyone knows where to buy it PLEASE let me know!!

I’m sitting at home and decided to take a break from studying. My mom and sister have officially become addicted to Lost, having watched ten episodes (and counting!) in the last 18 hours. I’ve watched about half of those with them, and it’s really cool to go back and catch the little things they only hint at in early episodes. I can’t wait until they get to last week’s episode because it was awesome.

I’d like to officially invite everyone within a 50 mile radius to attend the 1st Annual “Friendswood Filmfest”. I just came up with that name but I’ve been planning the festival for about a month now. The first movie will start at noon on Friday, March 18 (unless this date doesn’t work for everyone). The festival will probably be about 8 hours long with snack, trampoline and bathroom breaks. Right now I plan on showing three feature films, various trailers and a short film. Hopefully the movies will be original, but I’ll come up with a backup incase anyone has seen one of them. Oh, and I plan on stealing an early test print of Sin City so we can be the first place to show it. Dinner will be served, probably before the last movie. Even though I’m picking the movies, if you have suggestions for food or entertainment let me know. After all, ya’ll are the ones who will have to sit through it all. Tickets are free as long as I like you and you’re not ugly (sorry, Leahanne). You must have a ticket before attending the festival, so let me know if you’ll be coming and I’ll get you one.

Recently, I’ve also decided that I want to have a Sin City-themed Birthday party. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to have it, though, unless we have it over Spring Break. If we have it on my birthday then everyone would have to drive to Austin or Friendswood (probably the Wood) and that’s kind of a hassle. Anyway, I think it’d be awesome if we could do it but I don’t really know how. Everyone would have to dress up in black, white and gray and that includes the hair. I’m just a huge nerd and think it would be cool to have everyone dressed up. Anyway, if you think it’s possible and have any good ideas about what we can do at the party, let me know.

This is an unusual post…I’ve asked for your input twice in a row. Whatever. I want to add more pictures to my room. I think I’m going to put up all of those pictures I printed out at Brandon’s next week when I’m home. There’s just too much blank space on my walls and it bugs me. I also want to put up some better posters. Even though they’re good movies, The Green Mile, Spy Game and Meet the Parents are coming down. I want to get a Sin City, Spider-Man and Batman poster to replace them (Birthday, anyone?) I still can’t decide whether I want the Hartigan poster or the Jackie Boy poster. They’re both awesome. All of the guy posters are awesome, really. I don’t like the girl posters…they’re too sleazy to put up in my room. I’m not cool like Kistenmacher’s roommate.

I didn’t do work all afternoon because I was busy trying to design a poster for the filmfest. It’s pretty hard when you can’t draw and don’t have a scanner, because I was limited in my resources. Anyway, I think it turned out pretty good. I tried using different movie fonts whenever possible, and tried to make the scenery look like Mordor. This, and the picture of Indiana Jones swinging allowed me to combine elements from my two favorite action movies. The sunset symbolizes the internal struggle that we all must face while the spotlight exposes my lack of self esteem. I tried to use many browns to signify that we are all no better than feces. This coloring complemented the piss yellow title design. If this didn’t pop out at you immediately than you’re an idiot and need to develop a taste for good art.

So I’m back in Austin now. The ride home was awesome. The rain kept most people home, so the roads were relatively empty. I just blasted my music (I made an awesome car playlist) and relaxed while cruise control did all the work. I already told Brandon, but I got to be a part of a real-life game of Frogger when frog suddenly started jumping across the highway. Unfortunately for him, he lost. Also, I decided that sometime in my life I want to take a trip where I just start driving at midnight, when there are few cars on the road. I don’t care about speeding or really getting anywhere, it’s just the feeling of being completely surrounded by darkness and listening to music. It’s the most relaxing thing I’ve ever done. I know it’s kinda emo, but I don’t care…you know you want to do it also!

Ok, well I have a two page paper to write before midnight so I’m gonna get on that. The filmfest is coming along nicely, I just need ya’ll to show up! Expect new updates to my top 100 this week…I’m finally going to print all of the posters out and update it to include new movies. Stay Perfect everyone….

It’s March! March is my second favorite month of the year, next to December. This year, in just 31 days we celebrate my mom’s birthday, my parent’s anniversary, my birthday, Jesus returning from the dead and Mrs. Nowalk’s birthday and Mr. Hansen’s birthday. Start saving people; I expect amazing presents.

Anyway, I thought it was time for a rant. I was watching TV the other day and a commercial for the new ABC show Grey’s Anatomy came on. It’s a show about twenty-something doctors and they were playing “Such Great Heights” while showing clips. I couldn’t help but feel bad for Zach Braff. They’ve used music that he made mainstream and applied it to a show that is an obvious rip-off of Scrubs (though it seems more serious). It really sucks, because Scrubs has terrible ratings this year and deserves recognition. Damn ABC. The worst part about it is that the show looks good. I almost don’t want to watch it, though; just out of protest. Here’s hoping it fails and only reminds people of how awesome Zach Braff, and Scrubs really are.

So I’d like to apologize for the excessive use of profanity in my last post. I do not apologize, however, for it’s intentions. I still hope that justice is served, and by that I mean officially recognizing Hillary Swank as a man, and Clint Eastwood as dead since 1997 (You don’t believe me, just watch him “act”). Anyway, I went and found an apartment yesterday, so that’s cool. It’s pretty nice, and the facilities are amazing. They have a 24 hour gym, wireless internet by the pool and in the “clubhouse” and a hard line connection in each room. Oh, and they have a concert every month on the property, and they’re actual bands. For SXSW they’re having Steel Train and Limbeck come play, so that’s really cool. Anyway, I’m really excited about living there…I can’t wait to move out of the dorms.

I can’t believe that camping is nine days away! That’s so soon! It should be awesome, though, even if Veronica and Steph won’t be able to make it. I say we make little dolls of them out of clay and hair and then talk to them like they’re real people. What? Why are ya’ll looking at me like that? Hey, where are you going?

I’m starting to wonder what I would do without my iPod. It’s probably the greatest thing I own, next to my laptop. Does anyone know where I can buy “sticker paper” so I can print something out and have it be a sticker? I really want to put a picture of Gandalf on the back of my iPod. I guess I should just go find some LotR stickers.

Last night’s Lost was great, but I can’t believe there’s not going to be another episode until April. That’s insane! Thankfully, I’ll have the O.C., Scrubs and (April 1!!!!!) Sin City to hold me over. Anyway, I really want to know more about this damn metal hatch that they first introduced to us three freaking months ago!!! We haven’t learned anything about it since that episode, and that’s starting to really annoy me. It really had nothing to do with the episode last night, either (the numbers aside, obviously). I’m starting to feel the frustration that Brandon is feeling. I almost think that it would’ve worked better as a 20 episode season. There was plenty of information that could’ve been cut without sacrificing the quality (Like Sawyer’s connection to Jack’s dad…who cares? Not me!). Still, I’ll withhold judgment until the end of the season, when everything will (hopefully) make sense. Maybe there’s a reason for the over-developing of each character’s back story. Oh, and why do you think Hurley was on television in Japan in last week’s episode? I know he was rich and everything, but they wouldn’t show an interview with an American lotto winner in Japan. He had to be talking about a company that he owned, or something. Maybe he’s even connected to the father or Sun (whatever her name is); a rival business owner maybe? I’m just making stuff up, but still.

Alright, well I have a Spanish test tomorrow that I should really be studying for. Leahanne should update her site. It’s really her only redeeming characteristic and when she doesn’t update I tend to forget why we’re friends.