So I’m well in to summer…I can’t believe some kids JUST finished with school.  I’ve been out for almost a week!  So I checked my grades today, and let’s just say I’m more than a little impressed with myself.  1.62, bitch!  How did I do it?  Well, if you lock yourself in your room for hours on end and don’t have a life all semester, then you’re on the right track.  Some people, like Kistenmacher, try that approach but keep ending up with As in their classes.  I know, it’s frustrating, but you’ll just have to keep trying harder.  Remember that school is like golf, the lower the score the better.  Right?

Anyway, I’m stoked about summer and I haven’t even done anything yet!  I’ve cleaned my closet, organized my movies and hung up some posters.  Still, I’m having a blast doing nothing.  I’ve gotten into this awful habit of sleeping late, but I think I might be able to break it today.  I had to wake up early to go to the oral surgeon (fun, I know) so I’m on a morning schedule.  Whenever I’m up early I feel so productive, even if I do nothing but watch TV.  As much as I love/worship/obsess over the wee hours of the morning, I always find myself doing nothing productive or remotely interesting during this period.  Goal #1 for summer: try to join those crazy, peppy people that walk the earth before noon.  This is the equivalent of me becoming a star athlete, but it’s worth a try.

I watched Elephant last night, and really liked it.  Gus Van Saint does a great job of setting the scene by including many wide shots that don’t cut away often.  The audience feels as if the schools is a huge place with many places to hide and enjoy yourself.  The overlapping storylines were also very interesting.  I loved seeing the ten minutes leading up to the shootings from every possible angle.  Once the horrifying event begins, the camera becomes much tighter and fast-paced, like the action.  Now, instead of long swooping shots, I felt very claustrophobic.  The sound was also long and drawn out.  You knew that the shooting was going to occur, but you never knew when or where.  This created great suspense and unease in me while I was watching.  I was relieved that Van Saint cut away from most of the violence.  The movie wasn’t about scaring America, the actual Columbine tragedy was more than enough to accomplish that.  Instead, the movie looked at these kids and why they were driven to kill.  Most of it is subtle, such as their parents not expressing their love or being frustrated with people ignoring them.  I think the scene where they were playing first person shooter video games was a little overdone, but other than that things were generally very good.  It wasn’t the video games that made these boys the way they were, it was something much deeper.  Still, the movie was a great look at how such an event would affect different people.  I only wish he would’ve included more about the community reaction after the shootings ended.  At 78 minutes, the film could’ve gone for much longer and still been captivating.  – 7/10

I just walked up the stairs carrying laundry in my hands and my glass of water in my mouth.  It was impressive, trust me.  Now nobody is home, so I’m doing various chores that make me feel more productive.  I think that’s my word for the day.  Oh, so I just went downstairs to do the dishes and there was a snake in the pool.  Scary, I know.  I would’ve gone and killed it, but laziness kicked in.  That, and cowardice.  As far as “productivity” goes, it’s confined to the indoors.

So all my favorite shows are coming to an end.  Project Greenlight and Scrubs are both over, and there’s two weeks left of Lost and one week of the O.C.  That makes me sad, but Revenge of the Sith comes out tomorrow night so that makes everything better.  Earlier in the week we watched the Original Trilogy on DVD in one day.  We also watched parts of the infamous Star Wars Christmas Special (1978).  Evidently it was made before Lucas knew there would be any sequels and is the dull shit-stain in the Star Wars universe.  I’m talking worse than Jar Jar.  Anyway, watching the originals was amazing.  We didn’t get to the new movies, but I’ll probably watch them tonight.  I don’t really hate them as much as everyone else, but they really don’t compare.  I think that half of the stuff in the new movies is amazing, while the other half (mainly Anakin and any dialogue with him and Padme) is about as bad as it can get for a big-budget movie.  Ex: light saber battle with Darth Maul: flippin’ sweet; Ani and Padme playing on the grassy hills in AotC: shoot me now.  Still, I always get excited when a new movie comes out.  The inner nerd explodes with excitement.  Who am I kidding, the inner nerd is the outer person.

Enough about Star Wars.  I don’t really know what else to talk about.  I’ve spent most of the last week cleaning or watching TV.  When I’m done with my room, hopefully it will be covered in pictures and posters.  That’s what I’m going to get back to doing.  I’ll update more frequently, I promise.

Classes are over!  It’s weird to think that my first year of college will be over in four days!  I’ll miss it, but not as much as other people.

So I finally watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.  I started watching it last night, but fell asleep from exhaustion and finished it this morning.  It’s definitely the best western I’ve ever seen.  The story is perfect, combining the tales of three different people on their quest to find a buried treasure.  Clint Eastwood, for once, is great! He has the best stare in all of Hollywood.  Also, Huge Jackman looks just like him!  It’s pretty amazing how similar they are, especially since they’re from different parts of the world.  All of the lead characters did a great job, especially given the amount of silence they were forced to deal with.  When Clint Eastwood’s face was blistering from sunburn, he made me feel all of the pain along with him.

While the acting was great, the best part of the film was the direction and editing.  Wow, Sergio Leone knows how to make movies.  The shots were so interesting and innovative!  I loved how he would show open landscapes, yet still surprise you when one character sneaked up on another.  It was almost as if the camera was confined to a given character’s perspective.  It was just amazing.  Also, the cinematographyhy was excellent and they managed to really capture to vastness of the west.  My only complaint with the film was the excessive use of dubbed dialogue.  It was very obvious and occurred quite frequently.  It wasn’t a problem with the lead characters, however, and the majority of the film does not contain dialogue.  I’m pretty sure this was a result of Leone’s inexperience with English.  I know that he doesn’t speak English very well and probably directed the film as if there would be no dialogue, relying instead on imagery to tell the story.  Also, the music from this film is ridiculously amazing!  It’s also the hardest thing to try and explain to people because I can’t imitate it at all.  Anyway, I’m really glad I decided to watch this movie and it will surely go in the top half of my top 100.  I also need to add Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which I forgot about seeing and loved!  Though I’m not as obsessed as Brandon, I really loved this movie and recommend it to anyone who loves good action. -8.5/10

Not much else has happened.  There’s a Film Committee party tonight that I might go to, but I also might stay in and watch movies.  Also, expect another update to my top 100 coming soon.  There are a bunch of films I have to reconsider and some I should move down.

So today officially ends my one year reign as the UIL AAAA Computer Applications State Champion.  Am I sad to see my title get passed on to another nerd?  Let’s just put it this way: I was about to go to the award ceremony and dropkick that fucker, but I didn’t wake up in time.  Who cares, I’ll always have my title as “Most attractive person to ever win Computer Applications”.  I don’t think that one will ever be in jeopardy, which says a lot about the guys who compete.  Also, I went to see the first wave of One Acts yesterday, and thought they were pretty awful.  The only decent show was the last one, and even it wasn’t state caliber.  The competition last year was so much better!  Longview: Pinetree (Aaron’s rival school, who stole his old drama teacher) won, but I didn’t get to see them.  Kistie said they were the best, but he wasn’t really impressed by it.  Hopefully there will be better shows next year.

That’s all for now.  I’ll update again when I have something interesting to say.

This is just a quick update.  I’ll write more later tonight, so check back again then.  The video from Austin’s CBS news station came online, so everyone should go and check out the back of my head.  It’s sexy as hell.  Anyway, I found a way to save the video, so I am demanding that it be in the end of the year video.  It’s the first time (to my knowledge) that I’ve been on TV!

I’d also like to wish my friend Gina a very happy 18th Birthday!  We were drama twinkies together in high school, and have known each other for a little over three years.  She’s also on my Facebook, if you don’t know who she is.  Happy Birthday, Gina!

More to come after I write my paper this afternoon…

So I’m done with all of my work until finals. Yeah! To celebrate I watched King Kong after class today. Actually, I forgot my ID so I had to walk all the way back to my dorm, get someone to let me in, find my key (I let someone borrow it) and finally get my ID. It took like twenty minutes, but it was worth it. I hadn’t seen a movie in a long time!

Anyway, King Kong was pretty good. It’s not top 100 material, but it’s definitely one of the best movies of the 1930s. I guess I’m just a product of the 90s and old fashioned black and white action movies just don’t cut it anymore. I really admire the film and how innovative it was, but I kept thinking was how much better Peter Jackson’s version will be. In all honesty, King Kong is a movie that should’ve never been made until CGI came around. Much like LotR, the movie industry was just not ready to take on such a project until recently. The story is much better than I ever thought it would be, however. I always saw it as a Godzilla-like story, with little plot or substance. Sure, the script was pretty cheesy and awful, but the story is what gives me hope for the new movie.

Enough about Kong…I’m watching the O.C. right now. Good episode so far, but I’m getting a little tired of the over dramatized characterizations. Seth just isn’t the same. He is over the top and the only time we see him it is in situations where he has to once again fight for the girl that he already won back once this season. Plus, Zach is a complete ass. He really needs to just crawl under the stairs and die. Also, poor Marissa. Yes, I said it. If Trey wasn’t such a dick, everything would be perfect! Well, if he wasn’t such a dick and Zach shot himself in the face. Then everything would be perfect. Well, those two things, and if Kirsten finally got over Carter and realized how amazing Sandy is. And if Seth and Summer are honest with each other for once. THEN, everything would be great. Don’t think that will all happen in the next two episodes. Expect many angry rants about the direction the show is taking this summer. Thank God for season one on DVD.

OH-MY-GOD! I can’t believe Kirsten got into that accident. Thankfully, the preview made it obvious that she doesn’t die. I don’t see how Summer could be mean to Seth after that happened to his mother. In real life, anyone would be super-nice to him.

Ok, well that’s all I feel like writing today.  I rented the Good, the Bad and the Ugly so I think I’m gonna watch that piece of shit.  I’m pretty sure it’s going to be the worst movie I’ve ever seen and I’ll want to kill anyone who likes it.  We’ll see…

The Ann Coulter event last night was crazy! A protester during the Q&A session asked Coulter what she thought of a husband “where all he does is fuck his wife in the ass.” Needless to say the guy knew how to turn a phrase. I think this fall he’ll finally be done learning his 5th grade verbal skills. After the question, in which he didn’t wait for a response, he skipped up the isle pretending to masturbate. I tell you, these college kids are so clever. So clever that he failed to notice the two police officers at the top of the ramp waiting to remove him. After temporarily resisting, the officers arrested him for disorderly conduct. Anyway, it’s become national news, appearing on The Grudge Report, Shooting Gun, Rush Limbaugh, and FOX News. Everyone on campus has been arguing about it for the last day, claiming the guy had a right to say whatever he wanted and should not have been arrested. I’m sorry, but the first amendment guarantees his right until he decides to use it in a lewd and unnecessary manner. He was in an official UT event at the LBJ Presidential Library. Saying fuck and making “masturbatory gestures” to an entire audience, including some kids is not a right you have according to the Constitution. I’m a pretty liberal guy when it comes to this stuff, and I think Ann Coulter is a crazy whore, but this guy was an idiot. I was pretty disappointed with the questions that liberals asked overall. They could have really challenged her, but instead acted like third graders spitting out insults and running away. The best part about the arrest was that all of the protesters left the building, allowing the event to finish up smoothly. Hate her or love her, don’t disrupt the event. Be civil and ask her questions!

Ok, enough of that. Oh, one last thing. Evidently I was on the local CBS news last night and they referred to me as one of Ann’s bodyguards. The video should come out sometime tomorrow at http://keyetv.com/videolibrary/ so check it out. I’ll let people know if and when it’s there. I’m gonna try to somehow capture the video so we can include it in the video!

So I really hate this week. It’s definitely been exciting, but tests are never fun. My final test is tomorrow and I can’t wait! Afterwards I’m gonna get drunk and find a hooker…and a goat. It’s gonna be the best night ever. I should really by studying right now, but I don’t feel like it.

I lied, I’m going to study, and leave you with my short Ann Coulter update.  Some highlights of the event:

Ann believes: homosexuals should all die and rot in hell, anyone who doesn’t believe in God or worshiping McCarthy is an anti-American traitor who deserves to die, it is cool to weigh 85 pounds when you’re over 40, and that she is smarter than everyone else.

Ann doesn’t believe: in evolution, giving gays any rights, that liberals exist, in actually killing liberals (“I think you missed the joke.”)

I’m out like Carson from Queer Eye, bitches.

So I have some time before my 4:00 meeting, and thought I’d make a quick update. I have two tests this week, and two finals the next so I don’t think I’ll be updating much.

I watched the Comeback of Rob “I hate being called Vanilla Ice” van Winkle. For someone who claims to be a hardcore rock rapper, van Winkle is a really pussy name. Anyway, he was a huge dick and made me hate him more than ever. Then I watched the 10th Anniversary of Inside the Actors Studio, which was amazing! I really hope they show it again so I can tivo it and show it to everyone.

Also, I watched two Project Greenlights yesterday, and they were glorious. John Gulager’s dad goes ape-shit and tells the producers to fuck off while John is trying to work out a scene with the actors. It’s really awesome. Then they take some of the cut footage to Dimension and they love it! I’m excited, and really hope that they end up releasing the film. Evidently, the whole Miramax/Disney split may result in the movie being shelved (boo!!!). I think it would actually do well, though, since more people are watching the show than ever before. Still, as much as I love this season it isn’t the second season. HBO was a better channel to have a show like this on, because you can show just about anything without censorship.

I’m gonna start a new section of my daily entries called “Stalker Express”. In this section, I will reveal things about my past that will allow all of the stalkers out there to do their job better (except Davide…this section will be pretty useless for you). Today’s fun fact is that I am self-diagnosed with “neckaphobia”. Whenever someone tries to touch my neck (from the front), I FREAK out. I think it all stems from my fear of being strangled. Many people find it funny to exploit my condition for their own personal gain. Fucking bastards. That’s like forcing an alcoholic to binge drink! Decent people don’t do things like that! I’m not one to talk, however. If I knew things like that about my friends I would exploit the hell out of it.

I’ve officially decided to not take any more pictures of Leahanne until she puts pictures of my on her website. That means that the end of the year video is going to be seriously lacking. Don’t worry, though, there will be TONS of everyone else. I’ll even take more, just to make up for it. It all works out for the best…no one wants to see her annoying pouty face anyway. I hope she runs out of meal plans and starves to death.

By the way, I realized that some people who read this site have no idea who my “Friendswood friends” are, so I thought I’d put up pictures of them. Also, I’ll put up pictures of my Belgian friends. This way you’ll have a rough idea of who I’m talking about. You can also check out Brandon or Leahanne’s websites to see what I’m responding to. Brandon is usually much funnier than I am, and Leahanne is an old, annoying whore. Literally. I’ve seen her working Sunset after midnight.

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Well that was fun.  I’ll probably make a separate page soon that has those three tables, and I’ll update it if and when I make more friends.  At least for now you can put a face to the name of my few friends.  If you want to be on the list, email me!

I need to cut my fingernails, but I left my clippers at home. Maybe I’ll just let them grow out like that awesome guy in the Guinness Book. I’m pretty sure the ladies would flock to me if I did that.

Veronica and I stalked my philosophy professor after class today. He was walking towards his car at Jester (I know he parks at Jester because I’ve stalked him before) and we ended up two people behind him. We slowed our walking pace to admire the gorgeous gray curls and small water glass that he carried so proudly. I’m not gonna lie, I took a picture. Now our obsession is complete: a collection of quotes from class, a facebook group about him and a picture. “Taking a joke too far”? What are you talking about, everyone does things like this. Right? Oh.

I felt like a badass today, because I stole a bottle of A1 steak sauce and a spoon from the cafeteria. Also, on Friday I stole a trey from Jester. By the end of the year, I’ll have enough silverware and condiments to keep our apartment stocked for months. I think I should just steal silverware everyday and then never do the dishes. That would be awesome. Maybe I should stop, though. After all, I’m stealing from Armando’s work.

Ok well that’s it for now. I’ll try to update again, but I’m not sure when it will be.