Brave Review

I will explain my self for the lack of video first. It needs to be done seeing as I feel some people were hoping for it over a written one.

First of all- it was at a drive ins, and was a double feature (Brave and Avengers) soooo we didn’t leave till 1:30….I was swamped…and had to be up early to watch Korra….I have priorities (I’ll discuss my reaction of Korra later maybe…kinda…OMG IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!)

Anyhoo yeah…with that out of the way hopefully my outbursts in the tearbending form shall be under wraps as I bring you the first Disney/Pixar movie since the death of Steve Jobbs. (I say that because the movie Brave…was dedicated to him and I feel it was rightfully good that it was.)

Now as everyone figured, this took place in (we can only assume) Scotland. Following the young princess Merida (best princess name to date in my opinion) growing up from a cute big headed poofy haired Scottish girl with a toy bow to the bad ass archer daughter of Legolas…I mean King Fergus the Bear King.

This movie was very true to the fashion of most Disney Princesses, minus one key factor. A “love interest” Merida is probably my new favorite because she doesn’t WISH to be married. She is fifteen and not ready for all of that. She knows that tradition dictates her to be betrothed to someone from one of the other three clans. Her mother has seen to that, but she is just too much like the Will o’ the Wisps (look it up I am not detouring for that lol)

So with that said I am gonna start with Part 1, the set up and Cast of Brave.


Part 1 -Cast Introduction.



Merida- you saw her above and you know her from all the previews. She is the spunky little poofy red head (WOOO) who loves her bow, her horse Angus and her family. She also loves being free to be herself. Like Jasmine before her and Ariel, along with every other Disney churned out Princess, Merida was raised lovingly yet somehow something was too strict to her. (this case her mother Queen Elinor being a controling mother preparing her for adulthood/queendom.
Merida is a good person, funny, witty and overall pretty cool. I don’t doubt if they made her older in the story (reaching 18 or already passed 18) she’d be really beautiful, however because as always- this IS a coming of age type story- she is 15 and just hittin puberty. (her mood swings prove this often.) The voice actress picked for her was perfect my only issue was her amount of complaining. Call it sexist but the story felt like she flip flopped too much and had little actual conviction in her complaints. Yes she was right to complain about them, but it fell short of her complaining out of genuine distaste instead of “I’m 15 and my mother is being a bitch, I’m gonna piss and moan like a wench.” Other then that I loved her, by far one of the best characters I’ve seen from Disney since Rapunzel and Tiana.


King Fergus

Billy Connolly people! King Fergus made me laugh, made me enjoy his pressence and over all reminded me of what a bad ass yet awesome disney dad was like. He was that father that most girls wanted to have and most guys want to become. The almost simple minded but fun and free spirited father and devoted husband but kind and just ruler of his kingdom. Having a fifteen year old daughter, three sons and a very stubborn wife, Fergus does what he knows best to stay alive- he has fun. With his two dogs and daughter he kicks back, makes jokes and pushes every button on his wife from grabbing her ass to playing stupid when she is mad at him.
Fergus also is a devoted father, he protects his daughter from a bear at the cost of his leg and then again in the castle. Doing this with little to no regard for his own safety, Fergus is that father everyone feels a man should be. (even when he is playing the fool)



Queen Elinor

Ok I am going to admit- she bothered me sometimes mostly because it seemed that for the first act she had no character, just a bothersome, stick up her ass mother. She had little sense of fun and adventure yet married a warrior husband and had a daughter bent on never growing up to be a Queen like her. Call it writing issues or something but I feel that they made her this way to make the audience not like her and grow to like her wisdom. Seeing as every story of this sort needed a hard ass bad person that really had your best intentions at heart, even if you wanted to bash her face with an ax just because she told you to not bring your weapon to the table…
The voice actress was Emma Thompson and wow I was surprised but enjoyed it, proving that a good actor/actress doesn’t need to be visually there to give a great performance. Convincing the audience of her motives was something Queen Elinor did with gusto and flawless effort. Many MANY kuddos to her.




The Triplets-

Oh ….. My……..God….these kids, I love them. I want them as my little minions. For silent devils I adored them. Charlie Chaplin would have been proud of their ability to convey everything about them, without a spoken word. Using their size, numbers and wit to pull pranks, steal, and cause mass mischief, the boys quickly became my favorite source of laughter in the movie.

Their names Hamish, Harris, and Hubert. Not sure which was which but you know what? I don’t care they rocked my socks, made me laugh, they were adorable when needed to be along with being everything you expect from red headed multiple siblings…Move over Fred and George, these three got your number and they want your spot.

These three were actually surprisingly not “anti Merida” they helped her do things when she asked and was actually quite like obedient servants to her when it came to the plot. Showing that even siblings as divided by age as them are- will help each other out….for a years worth of desserts.






Part 2
The First Act and Plot development.

Now as you can guess from the above section, Merida is the “I wanna be ME” type girl while her mother and the rest of the world (majority wise) says “oh well, grow up and be like us.”

This was the set up and the conflict we were provided at first glance and it was a pretty good set up. Merida is a confident, strong, independent girl. Especially for her age. She does what she is told but likes to add her own spice to it, which isn’t bad. Actually it’s good, it shows that she listens and follows the rules for the most part but even the oldest traditions change over time due to one reason or another, she understood this and it just so happened she wanted to change every tradition that she was supposed to take part in. Mostly because it felt wrong to her, it suffocated her (sometimes literally) Elinor- probably the first in a long time Disney Princess- MOTHER who wasn’t wicked step parent or evil to the core. All her problem was- was a generation gap. She grew up with a lot less then her daughter and  felt that she HAD to give that life to Merida not realizing that shockingly the child wanted nothing to do with it, she had rather been able to have fun and be a kid. No throne, no nothing.

King Fergus was never really any help, he did slightly feel the need to provoke his wife by not taking the situation seriously but in his defense why should he have, the problem wasn’t a world crippling crisis. It was a girl going through the change to adult hood from childhood and she wanted to blaze her own trail, that is always going to be hard, it’s going to be a challenge and she will eventually get hurt a bit on the way, that’s life. Her mother however wanted to give her the easy, traveled route.

Now I know you’re thinking this “He repeats this mantra a lot so far, doesn’t anything else happen?”

Well sadly- not really, that was my issue with this story. We find out that Elinor is having the Other 3 Lords of Clans come to try and win Merida’s hand in marriage. Now this is age appropriate for the times. Suitors coming to try winning the parents approval, get a fixed marriage and be done with it…oh wait, you’re telling me Merida got the balls in the family and decides to say fuck you to that. Alrighty we got a movie…sorta…what’s the conflict? Mother daughter yelling….oh…
PLOT TWIST POWERS ACTIVATE! FORM OF CRAZY BEAR CARVING WITCH!! (no really this hag carves more wooden bears then a hooker makes money in tip.) I am serious, a crazy old lady is a witch and she trades Merida a potion to “change ‘er fayte’ for a medallion she had. (oh and every bear in the shop….I’ll get to that later)

The potion is in the form of le cake.

This potion is to be eaten by the Queen and poof change of fate. Sounds simple. But there is a catch that the Hag can’t remember. Oh well we’ll probably find out later, nothing major I bet.



Part 3- The resolution/overall thought.


so that cake? well it did work…turned Elinor into the bear she was inside. No not gay fat man bear, like giant black furry roaring bear…with poise and grace of a Queen….I’m serious…even in a bear form- Elinor tries being all “queeney” It was funny and cool.


To get her out of the castle and fix her, Merida asks the brothers to help, which oh god they love doing. It was prank central to them. Distracting Fergus and all the other clans through the castle allowing Merida and Elinor to escape, classic stuff. Resulted in the complete torment of one of the poor servant ladies…she just never got a break.

However after the girls leave- well lets just say the triplets got hungry…then cuter…in the form of bear cubs….with awesome prankster powers. One of them even got to motorboat the poor servant I mentioned earlier….over a key…I’m not kidding he does, and his brothers do the “Omg did you just see that?!” point/face.
Well we shall be skipping over the development of how to bring back the Queen to her human form because you know Pixar and Disney wrote out the hard work it would really have taken because they wanted to cover the movie in a few day span. I personally can’t really explain it because it’s seriously that- lacking hard work to break a bond between mother and daughter and instead poof instant closeness again through sarcasm and humor eventually leading to actual realization. Little effort/struggle put in…aside form Fergus trying to kill his bear-wife. You know, nothing major. (I kinda think that this was where the movie broke for me….it went from really innovative/new/original to “shit we are owned by Disney…we gotta follow that step by step plan they gave us!!”

Of course the way to bring back Elinor was quite interesting, I won’t ruin that for you seeing as I feel it was the most clever plot device in the story. I will say however I do enjoy that in the end of it all, Merida convinced her mother to let her be her. She didn’t like everything she did but she had to learn Merida would have to make her own way in the world, not follow her footsteps. Also you learn that a lot of the lessons that the two tried to teach the other, were one in the same. Just viewed from opposing sides of the coin. Teaching the audience that just because you don’t agree with a method someone has- don’t be afraid to listen to it if the end result is the same as yours, both sides might be right, but together you might be able to discover a third way or something. Besides….it’s disney there are morals about happy people, loving everyone, being nice, pranksters are the shit, you know all that good moral stuff Jesus would promote in his smashing best seller “The Bible 2- Jesus gets WiFi!” Now in E-book form and hard cover at your local book store :D



So yeah…again sorry I didn’t get to video the review, I feel that this movie would have been better reviewed in film form but honestly 12 hours after watching it, did nothing for the memory/initial after viewing review mindset you need. I do plan on seeing it again maybe in the theatres not drive ins, and when I do- I might just video review it then, giving me the ability to cover everything. Not saying this was a bad review but it is not going to be my best. Did I like Brave- YES. Would I recommend it? - Of course, to everyone of all ages. It is great, funny, emotional, it does speak to a generation that is trying to push their parents away too soon forgetting that our parents yes are always there for us but sometimes we push them to become things we regret.

Brave- the best animated movie I’ve seen all year. Hopefully it is a chance for Disney and those guys to get back on track on how to make good movies/stories.  If not, I’ll always have Merida to inspire me to be awesome :D RED HEAD POWER!!!
till next time :D

9 months ago

it's been 9 month-ish since I started publishing a book, feels like a week has gone by o.o

hasn't been dull though. I've learned quite a bit, expanded more then I ever thought I'd have to, and gained a confidence I knew was there but didn't think I had the right to express. Some call it an inflated sense of self/arrogance, but I know- it's pride. I've done something FEW do now a days- I finished a book I started 10 years prior.

and yes I'd like some fries with that to those who think little of that accomplishment

barnes and noble people watch

first odd person of the day- a mother and her daughter, the daughter just picked up a copy of twilight and asked her mother “why does this store sell bad books if no one buys them.” (should note the daughter is I am guessing 10-13ish…I have hope for the future of teen girls, granted it was kinda squashed when she looked down the anime/sci fi section and wondered why they had one of those too….she held on to it as long as she could I think

up, within a few minutes, number two pops up, an Asian couple with three kids. Now the mother and father (I presume) have real books and are enjoying them it seems. However the kids….are complaining how there are too many books and not enough kindles/nooks to read from, they don’t like books they like kindles/nook books because they are the better version. I think I know why the parents are now engrossed in their books and ignoring their kids…..


Should probably note I’ve only been here for like half hourish and I’ve noticed that the more I pay attention the more I realize I am completely really unnoticed in my little corner near the customer service section haha only like two people have really NOTICED me because they heard my headphones and said they liked my music….go me ^.^
There are days I wish I could video this and be like an announcer at a horse race so that it’d be funnier…but yeah…people’d notice, get mad and beat my ass with the latest copy of 50 shades of gray…..
Lady number 3- standing near me and staring at the bookshelf, JUST noticed her still there, she appeared about 5 minutes after I sat down and set up….she is STILL here….staring at the same shelf…I think she is having lag…should probably stop downloading my stuff and let her buffer xD


anyone else ever come to barnes and noble and feel underderssed/out of place? I always do, I see all these customers dressed nicer then me, then look at myself and go “….is this like a social thing you do? Do you dress up to stare at books/read/purchase books/get starbucks?!”


god that is gonna bug me…why do all these customers aside from like ME…dress in nicer clothing, clean shaved, etc…. EVEN THE KIDS ARE ALL DRESSED NICE?!?


Red flag!!! RED FLAG ALERT!!! Old guy like emperor palpatine old asking for a copy of 50 shades of gray and soul surfing for his wife….someone tell me that isn’t weird?!?


I think the starbucks ninjas know I am here, I’ve been stared at a few times by the starbucks people for munching on combos and not listening to their crappy instrumental music that really isn’t that relaxing, it’s kinda weird. I still wanna go into a starbucks one day with a SHIT LOAD of dunkin donuts crap and be like “yeah hi…I just need your internet…only be a minute.”


oh gender stereotypes you give me material to write about haha


two women, wanna say late twenties early thirties, in the sports/health section thing, one of them is looking at a hunting book and is like afraid to be looking at it so when she notices me behind her she quickly puts it back and grabs a health food book and pretends to be reading it intently.


I SAW WAHT YOU DID WOMAN!


anyone else ever wanna go up to the workers of barnes or any book store and ask where the literotica is? go with a straight face and be like yeah, you see porn just isn’t good enough too fake I like the written works of someone who knows the ins and outs of sex, know any good authors like that?


…well I lost hope for one girl who was holding a bunch of manga at the counter, before checking out she was like “oh yeah I was wondering I hoped you had Rush Limbaugh’s newest book still I want to read it, I love watching him on tv.”…dear god I’ve never seen a cashier/check out clerk glare so much for a question like that. Granted I probably just made the biggest “WTF!? face ever hearing it.”


Side note- it’s 10:40 now…I have until 2 pm before I leave….this is gonnnnnna be funnnnn >.> someone get the popcorn goin you might be in for a wild read.


gonna start a new entry later after I find a new spot to sit, the one I have now lacks a table and honestly the chair is uncomfy as fuuuuuhck. plus I need an outlet soon >.<

ugh

between my random reviews I've done.
Zombie march this past month.
graduations for friends.
 book publishing stuff.
randomly designing clothing that I'd want to make at some point.
and a bunch of other stuff within the past like MONTH/ish

I THINK I am a bit wiped out. >.<

Ink

Alright so I only found this movie by accident, it was because I was listening to music on youtube and someone actually use this movie as the topic of their fan made music video. Watching the music video I was curious to check out a movie that was based on what I watched. Plus over all for an indie movie it looked good.
Now I first should probably set up the movie that way you get the idea of why my mind had to actually be curious to investigate the movie. So here is the IMDB’s quick blurb about it.
As the light fades and the city goes to sleep, two forces emerge. They are invisible except for the power they exert over us in our sleep, battling for our souls through dreams. One force delivers hope and strength through good dreams; the other infuses the subconscious with desperation through nightmares. John (Chris Kelly) and Emma (Quinn Hunchar), Father and Daughter are wrenched into this fantastical dream world battle, forced to fight for John’s soul and to save Emma from an eternal nightmare. Separate in their journey, they encounter unusual characters that exist only in their subconscious. Or do they? Ink is a high-concept visual thriller that weaves seamlessly between the conscious and the subconscious. Ink has been hailed as the new “it” movie and compared to cult classics Brazil, Donnie Darko, The Matrix, Dark City and Pan’s Labyrinth.





Now, before you really wonder, does it really live up to Darko? Labryinth and Matrix- I personally didn’t THINK SO. It was a good, I enjoyed it and would probably watch it again at some point in the future. However I can’t say that I was BLOWN away by the movie over all. Concept wise, yes, product that I was presented with- maybe. Alright on to the review.


Part I- Set Up (Over all 3/5 for the set up and first act)

Alright I am not gonna lie, it started out weird and wasn’t sure really what was happening, I mean it wasn’t like “O.O DEAR LORD WHAT IS GOING ON!!!” But I did have to rewatch it just to make sure I was actually getting what I thought I saw. But no, the idea is not thrown at you, the opening plot device is actually laid down in a bread crumb fashion, causing those who rely on the painfully obvious to actually do more then veg during a movie.
I didn’t care much for some of the acting. It just didn’t seem convincing to me at some points and one of them was actually a main character- the father. Sorry but driving down a busy city street screaming fuck for no apparent reason to the view does not make me relate. Was funny though just because hearing some yell fuck so much for again, no reason. It just made me giggle.


Part II- The Cast (Over all again, 3/5 the act it self was better then the cast development)

Alright so this movie follows John (the father) and Emma (the I wanna say 4-7 year old girl) as the story plays out. It does jump back and forth every so often and it isn’t very good at switching like most movies do. Maybe that was a budget choice, being Indie I am not going to hold it against them, I am just going to point it out, if you’re gonna be following two characters like that- end their segments a little better so that we are not left wondering what we missed or whatever.
Anyway, yeah during the second act we start to learn more about John and Emma through a lot of flash backs by John or arguments between him and Emma’s maternal grandfather- who we really don’t get to know either…shame he seemed like a guy I’d really go for in the end lol. (Yeah if you like character development more then story- avoid this movie, because honestly the character development portion is kinda lacking in some areas of the film.)
We also get to know Ink, Liev, the Blind Pathfinder….OH and- Mr. Black punchy man and chick with white tank top that really has badly written lines. (That is what I have dubbed them)
Talking actually takes off in this act in the sense of conversations between cast members where you actually can grab at straws to what is going on, and I won’t lie- the pathfinder with electrical tape ‘x’ing his eyes out…he was awesome.


Part III- The Plot Developing to Conclusion (This one shockingly will be getting a 3 and 1/2 out of 5. You’ll see why though.)

Alright so we have met the cast and learned that the story tellers (good guys) and incubi (bad guys) are at an unspoken, unexplained, undiscussed war. For really - no reason. Other then to battle over who gets to implant dreams into, well…US. Yeah not kidding they live in a parallel universe and affect what dreams we have but yet given the actual option to reveal what started this “good dream v nightmare war” we don’t know. Personally I think that the first incubi was just a little spitfuck who pissed off the wrong chick. (The story tellers are primarily female and the few men they seem to have- are kinda not ‘manly’ while the Incubi are ALL MEN)

Now back to the story- Ink (a drifter) has kidnapped Emma’s soul and is taking her to the Incubi to offer her up so that he can become one of them. Not gonna lie- until they revealed his face….I liked him a lot. I gained my interest back though literally at the end when everything came full circle. It was the face though that just bugged me. Anyway, yeah during that journey (he has to go the long way because Liev (Emma’s Dream….body…guard…stalker…weird thing) broke the little hand drum that Ink uses to jump from place to place….I think (unsure really how that thing was supposed to work especially seeing as no one really explained on it.)

Yeah but back to the real world, Emma is in a Coma due to her lack of a soul. With this however the story tellers think that by having her father reunite with her physically, as a loving father should do with his near dying daughter, it’ll break her sickness and wake her up. (Because you know- fuck modern medicine, if your kids in a coma, it just means some other dimensional creature took her soul and is gonna go all virgin sacrifice on her ass just to get a black and white tv screen for a face and creepy 70s glasses.)


  Now back to the plot/wrap up. Not gonna lie the ending was GREAT…until it ended. I mean the set up to end was awesome (not the BIG climatic fight I expected but that fight was more mental/emotional then physical for everyone- a lot of revelations, revealing of truths, etc) the physical fighting was cool, the story tellers fighting the incubi trying to take John in a hospital while he walked to find his daughter in the same hospital. All the while the blind path finder is off running and doing something that will make things all the better. And Ink discovers his true self leading to a revelation of kinda awesomeness.


So it ends happily and things go well for kinda everyone, you know aside from the fact that now Emma knows that there is another dimension of people, all of them you know- INFECTING US with dreams…fighting for our souls, capable of taking them, possessing them, etc. you know I wanna know what happens to her. No really. the mental trauma of waking up form that “nightmare” is just complete bull shit. Does she go for therapy? Does she some how learn to become one of the story tellers because of her good heart? Does the incubi come back in a fiery vengeance for the swift kick to the nuts? This is where I was left annoyed- most movies that end with questions- are small ones, you know. the Did they get together, did the good side characters get a good ending etc. Not this much wtf-ery.


So yeah. That is Ink. (Reason it might have sucked in this review is that I try to avoid giving spoilers) I recommend the movie. It was great, but if you’re one of those people (like me) who want a cohesive story, plot development, story expansion, character growth- avoid it like the plague. It’s an indie movie first, foremost and last. It reminds you of it a lot. Causing you to actually get upset with somethings. I mean if this had a greater budget and was Hollywood done with the same cast that it had- maybe I’d be less pissy. Again…maybe. There were a lot of plot holes I noticed but they were plot relevant so I am gonna let you watch it to find out.
Ink- Unbiased (never seen or heard of it before) review- 8/10
Ink- pre watching expectations- 5/10 honestly (looked like a quick thrill nothing more)
so yeah I reviewed something again…tis been a while but I think I did good.
Can anyone can think of a movie I should possibly review next?

Teen Titans Season 1

“1, 2, 3, 4, GO! Teen Titans”



That is what Puffy Amiyumi would sing for each episode and we loved it growing up. Those of us who watched Teen Titans that is. Now I am not gonna lie- I did NOT read the Teen Titan comics when I was a kid, I watched the animated series on WB kids every saturday morning or on Cartoon Network during Toonami.



A Series that took 3 years to cover five seasons, Teen Titans followed Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven- the five super teens as they protected the city from the Evil Slade and other villains. (Mad Mod, Cinderblock, Plasmus, HIVE, etc)



Now I will proclaim this- Teen Titans got me back into super heroes when I was a 13. I mean I grew up with the Batman Animated series, SpiderMan, X-Men, all the 80s-90s super heroes cartoons, but in the late 90s-early 2000’s I kinda fell out of that genre and focused more on anime. Then Teen Titans came out and BAM my Robin love came back…and my developed crush on the always ditzy yet hot as hell Starfire- YEAH I thought the red headed ditzy alien girl WAS hot….I blame her outfit.

Now seeing as each season was ABOUT 12-15 episodes a piece I’ll review season 1 today and another season at some other point. JUST BECAUSE I CAN!


Part 1- The Cast





The Titans- Robin, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy. Five random heroes (random to me any way growing up) that united to live in Titans Tower and become what I saw as a the “Teenage Justice League” (I apologize for my arrogance back then, my only real evidence of heroes was not the comics- it was the animated series for D.C Related stuff…Marvel comics were my vice not DC)


any way the main cast contained those five along with an onslaught of villains that tested each Titan’s special abilities for 13 great episodes. (ok a few were kinda lame but I loved them either way)


Robin


obviously was in charge of the group, either because he was emulating Batman and how he “unofficial ran the justice league (Financially obviously)or just because he had most of the leadership qualities hands down. He was also quite the one track minded obsessive type (cough- just like Batman)who caused his humanity as a leader to show through a lot reminding us that not ALL leaders were perfect, a lot- if not all- had flaws/weaknesses too.



Raven and Starfire-



the female sex appeal for kids/teens. Not kidding what boy didn’t love seeing Raven in her leotard or Starfire in her two piece week after week. I sure as hell loved it. Not to mention Raven was hot as the “weird chick” the purple hair, the outfit, her taste in things (mostly her room period). Then Starfire had her bubbly personality that no one could hate in the end, the ever curious nature that made guys like “hmmm cute” not to mention she was for intents- the kindess/gentle of the Titans, always asking villains to please stop as they didn’t wish to harm the opponent if they didn’t have to.



Beast Boy!!!


DAMN everyone has a beast boy in their group of friends. The immature, prankster, kinda stupid in common sense but pulls through when you really need him. Not to mention the fact he is a GREAT gamer/awesome taste in music…and is a fucking shapeshifter. I repeat- the dude can turn into ANY ANIMAL he wants…at will. My only drawback on him- was that he was a freaking vegan…dunno why but back then I found vegans weird. Plus I still find Tofu gross.



Cyborg-


Tolken black kid…calling tolken black kid…oh wait he was always black? cool, nevermind, still though- Cyborg in this series was the stereotype black kind among white friends. He didn’t turn white but he obviously felt the need to push for his brothas back in the hood. Now don’t get me wrong- Cyborg rocked. Loved his car and all- but I dunno maybe as a reviewing standpoint- he might have been a BIT too “black” for the early 2000’s, You know- just escaping political correct 90s.


Now for the baddies- (naming main ones only)

Cinderblock- kinda a throw away villain, really dumb…made of concrete and really had no development to his back story in season 1. He primarily was just a “hire” villain sent to distract/piss off/beat up the Titans. (his design was cool though)

Plasmus- DUDE!? What the fuck made this guy become a walking hazmat container. This guy seriously only is human when sleeping but when he wakes up- he goes radioactive goo bent on killing/destroying/and creeping out.

BlackFire -The naughty Starfire, the fun one, the dangerous chick that every guy had hots for but knew starfire was their true girl. Blackfire is the older sister of Starfire (kinda wondering if Fire is their last name here? O.O SOKKA STOLE THEIR LAST NAME!)

Gizmo, Jynx, Mammoth- to sum up best without screwing them out of credit where it is due. Gizmo= tech genius in ADD midget form. Jynx- Raven’s lolita cousin with pink powers of bad luck who caught Cyborgs attention (ha- black guy liking the lolita) and Mammoth- …..the dumb brick who hits things…..yeah.

Mumbo- Blue, Magician, corny, lame, kinda unable to be taken seriously. Mumbo is somehow able to do lame party magic tricks for evil and uses those tricks to be a thief, and villain. Mumbo is kinda a one trick pony. That trick is a never ending railroad mess of puns. Not kidding.

Puppet King- creepy creepy creepy. Seriously- which person thought of this villain.

Trident- One time villain but a good one, gave a reason to introduce Will Wheaton…shit I mean Aqualad lol Sorry Will, had to reveal your secret identity.

Slade-
Enough said.

But No really- Slade is DeathStroke (Slade Wilson from the comics)





Now on to part 2 of this seasons Review-
The Plot


The story arc episodes of the first season focus on Robin’s obsession with stopping the crime lord Slade, while enduring horrible mind games created by the villain. Robin’s conflict with Slade culminates in the season finale “Apprentice”

Over the course of 13 episodes the Titans deal with a bunch of different things not all pertaining to Slade. In fact I think it only was 6 episodes that actually had him fucking with Robin. The other six were just side missions for the Arc.



Part three and the final wrap up of this review (seeing as for a whole season of a show I feel the need to do this part)


The NITPICKING/Critique

Alright this season was a good one, it opened up for the viewers a great retelling of from what I hear- a great comic series for the younger generation of D.C heroes (and Slade) at the same time telling it in a new light. (Raven gets a leotard…not a skirt)I will say though a few things did get to me.

1- Robin is not the same- Not kidding from what I’ve gathered (if wrong I’ll change this) in the Original Teen Titans Comics; Robin was Dick Grayson. NOT Tim Drake. If this was done due to the fact that Dick was Nightwing in all the other batman animated series that were airing at the same time- I’ll get that but I just was curious to why they would change that. Seeing as Robin may be in fact symbolically the same person. The different PEOPLE behind that robin mask are extremely unique to their own devices. (Dick was the best one by far, Jason sucked, Tim was a bit too cocky for his young age.)

2- Did they have to OVERPLAY Starfire’s ditziness? I mean I get it, she is not from Earth, but seriously in the time she has been there (which I am presuming is a while now) she should have adapted to the habits, customs, behavior, etc of our cultures. Hell if it wasn’t for her explodey sneezing of doom, no one would KNOW she wasn’t form Earth.

3- Lack of really revealing some of the villains. I mean you had 13 episodes I get that- it’s probably hard to compress everything you wanted done into 13 thirty minute episodes while still being entertaining but maybe instead of many villains for the FIRST season, just have a few and have there be developments and explanations, etc. HELL Dive into Slade. Why did he pick Robin to torment? Why didn’t Robin go “yo! BATS NEED SOME HELP HERE…WHO BE THIS BIOTCH SLADE?!” kinda thing? I dunno if Teen Titans is to be taken a BIT more seriously (granted the series is QUITE comical and I love that) they should have taken the baby steps for the first season and not worried about a variety of badies to thrash.




Anyway guys that is the Teen Titans. I know reviewing a Season is not easy and  I didn’t really TALK about specific episodes. I admit that I did that on purpose. Seeing as the show is as old as it is- I am presuming A LOT of you guys have either seen them all. OR just would rather I don’t spoil a good series that you possibly missed by giving the synopsis of 13 episodes, dragging this out more.

The season finale though I will quickly talk about- Apprentice parts 1 and 2.
My god, when I first watched TT- I was soo pumped for this watching the first 11 episodes, it was totally worth the wait. It revealed that Robin DID in fact have way more then a little obsession with stopping Slade, and it even revealed a few ugly truths about Robin that most of his fans probably hate being seen. I personally thought it was great to remind us that even though he is a spit fire from hell, he is still human.


SO back to what I was going to say- yeah Season 1: great opening to a great series. Amazing story line. AWESOME cast. GREAT comedy and enough action to make me happy.

I have to be honest and say my biased review of season 1- is a 9/10
my critiquing half though does say because of some minor things here and there that just can’t help but be noticed- 7/10 (mostly again too many villains not enough development of MAJOR cast)
So here it is and there it goes. Till next time. TITANS GO!




jM

Chernbobyl Diaries

^It’s coming alright…back up in a vomit of SHIT!
*cracks open a 24 box of booze*
hello-
I am gonna be DRINKING my mind away from this filth. SO BARE WITH ME.
you know what- fuck it- SPOILERS AHO!!! (this movie sucked so bad, spoilers are needed to save your wallet from a wasteful purchase)
I am not kidding. I hated this…and was SO HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED. (I actually looked forward to this movie. I really did.
Six tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. During their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone.



That was my lovely set up that I got excited for. This is a concept I like. A horror/Thriller movie taking place in the only ‘legitimately’ SCARIEST place on Earth. AT NIGHT…alone.
I mean ok because I feel the need to- I am providing a QUICK history lesson.
The disaster began during a systems test on Saturday, 26 April 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant, which is near the city of Prypiat and in close proximity to the administrative border with Belarus and Dnieper river. There was a sudden power output surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, a more extreme spike in power output occurred, which led to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of explosions. These events exposed the graphite moderator of the reactor to air, causing it to ignite.^[3] The resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive smoke fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area, including Pripyat. The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union and Europe. From 1986 to 2000, 350,400 people were evacuated and resettled from the most severely contaminated areas of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.^[4][5] According to official post-Soviet data,^[6][7] about 60% of the fallout landed in Belarus.


^source Wikipedia/chernobyl disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster (for those who want to find more)


Any way now on to my 3 part review. I am gonna take a detour from my normal routine of doing this because this movie just filled me with RAGE from the get go. (not kidding…much rage was had.)



Part 1- The Set up and Act 1

Bow chicka shit fest! that is how this movie starts out. I am not kidding I figured it’d be low budget but OH MY GOD IN HELL Bradley Parker- your first directing job and you’re having us watch this shit in “shakey idiot with the digi cam view” well I am regretting my choice already. Thank…OH SHIT it’s Jesse McCartney…and boy did he gain weight….wow sorry folks that distracted me for a minute, seeing a ‘husky roxas.’
yeah so anyway, I guess “Chris” (Jesse) and his girlfriend Natalie (no one important) and their friend Amanda are apparently GOING TO EUROPE to travel the sights and eventaully meet up with Chris’ brother, Paul, in Kiev (little fun fact but my great grandmother is from there lol) where he now lives. This is typical movie starting- really cheesey sight seeing. Lame picture opps, bad puns/jokes and occasionally corny moments for the couple. (sitting on the back of a cannon while she sits on the front and acting like it’s your dick is NOT original McCartney!)

Now when we get to Kiev finally (god it was painful to wait) Paul and Chris are talking about how Amanda is now SINGLE (yeah guys- Paul, is a man whore. ladies line up at the exit because he just wants your jiggly parts) but Chris eventually steers the conversation to him and Nat, and about how he wishes to propose to her in Moscow when their journey/trip is at it’s end. (Whooo for Moscow!!) Well that night/next night (not sure really they don’t really explain  time very well here) they are out partying/drinking in Kiev and almost get in a fight. (POINTLESS)

NEXT MORNING (this one is actually obvious due to the banter about hang over foods) Paul bursts into the dining area of Chris and the ladies and says “I have met Uri. and URI is *mocking Russian Accent* excited to take us to Pripyaht.” (Chernobyl for the ignorant masses.) Chris- being McCartney- says no and that they should just go to Moscow. Paul -being the douche- says NO!! It’s the dead city, photo
ops…mystery…FUN!!!! (some how winding up conning the ladies into it…wait what?!)

Later we move to meet Uri. Ex Spec Opp of the Motherland, over all bad ass and kinda likeable. Even though we know little to nothing about his character other then he does extreme tours, likes jokes and occasionally talks big and flexes his lovely arm muscles. We also meet the hipsters. (anyone wanna bet how they die?! Russia loves hipsters) Michael and Zoe (wow we have a Chris, Michael and Paul. Zoe Amanda and Natalie. Then Uri….you know for a movie taking place in Russia/Kiev/Ukraine- I expected…I dunno a lot more diverse names. oh well.)



Part 2- ….yeah just part 2….


As you all probably do or do not know. Recently (few years now I guess) the Russian Government has opened up some/parts of Pripyat to Tourism. *twitch…twitch* However this only is possible by armed escort and such (kinda sketchy if a DESERTED TOWN/CITY NEEDS RUSSIAN SOLDIERS TO PROTECT IT’S TOURIST!!!….no seriously)
back to the shit. Uri brings them to Pripyats checkpoint. Soldiers tell him- NO today, maintenance is going on, come back later. Of course because it’s a movie- Uri goes “well fuck this shit, there is back door Uri knows about, let’s use back door!” Which they do…it’s a dirt road in the woods abandoned and kinda sketchy. Leading them through the back way into Pripyat and by a River. (Yes there are still rivers in that area, they are HIGHLY contaminated so don’t swim in them!) Well they stop next to it first and Uri plays a prank and fakes a creature grabbing his arm in the water to scare the group. (was actually QUITE funny till he tosses jerky in the water and bunch of things swim after it) before they leave they find a “dead fish” (no picture sadly I actually looked for a “picture of said fish” and yeah moving on.


They finally reach Pripyat and park near the ferris wheel.
^THIS ONE lol

the proceed to look around the town and be all stupid. Sorry but I personally would LOVE to go to Pripyat and poke around. BUT not without at least 1 Apache Indian, 25 Russian Bounty Hunters, 4 stormtroopers, Leviathan, Cthulhu  10 marines, 4 chuck Norrises and maybe a nuclear holocaust causing device which I am safe from. But still six tourists and an ex Russian Soldier are strolling through the streets and checking out the buildings. Eventually leading to one of the apartment buildings. WHERE A DEAD…DOG…THING is rotting on the stoop. They just walk by and up to the top floor apartment to overlook the city at the reactor. So far nothing “BAD” has happened which is alright. I mean giving an atmosphere that maybe the “bad stuff” will be mental you know? Radiation from the city causing them to go gaga and see shit? Who knows.
THEN CRASH, a noise and everyone goes dead silent. The soldier in Uri comes out of no where and prepares to investigate, creeping down halls towards the noise, everyone follows at a distance and after a few minutes of GUT WRENCHING ANTICIPATION WE GET!!!…WE GET …..

hahah Russian Bears on Unicycles… not really it was actually THIS






barreling down the hallway at our young hero…idiots. scared a few people- I laughed.
Anyway apparently smokey over here convinces everyone that it was time to leave. Yeah…not the dead mutant fish….the dead mutant dog…but smokey the russian bear without a unicycle….FUCKING TOURISTS!


Part III…..
ok so a horror movie in daylight would be innovative, but not the case here. We need a little MOOD lighting…in the form of pitch black scary dark, quiet and over all GET ME THE FUCK OUTTA THERE with a touch of stress, hunger, paranoia and such.
(bad movie….giving us the exact OPPOSITE of what would get us paranoid.) Well in the dark you can’t see shit out of the van that got us to Pripyat AND….well apparently something broke the starter wires. Not worn down but BROKE as in something “semi intelligent” chewed/ripped/broke them on their own of a conscious decision. So now we get to fun stuff, what oh what could have done this? Was it ….sorry kids no time to think about it- it’s SEARCH THE DARKNESS FOR THE SOURCE OF THE SOUND GAME!!
Zoe hears “a child” and Uri pulls outta gun (ha, Russian with a gun, who saw that comin) and tells everyone to STAY put..wait…really? oh smart move movie. Ok I’ll take this, Soldier telling civilians to STAY put in sense of danger while he goes to look in the dark with a gun…and wait..NO!! NO JESSE…You HAVE MORE TO SING FOR!!……yeah Chris gets pissed yells at his brother then follows Uri. after ear piercing silence the gun goes off…a few times….and then silence again…followed by Paul bailing out of the van to save his little brother…(held on as long as you could huh movie? the ONE SMART GUY….ignored in a shit storm of idiocy…well I know where this is gonna lead.)
Well Paul returns with Chris…and apparently Chris was mauled by either:

• A- A tiger
• B- The bear
• C- Dogs
• D- Derpy Pony on Meth while tripping shrooms he bought from sunshine bear and howdie doodie. (I think it’s this one)

Well sadly we don’t find out…but what we DO FIND…are fucking mutant hybrid dog bears raping the van on the outside while everyone screams and tries to clean up Chris’ wounds.

THE NEXT DAY- well we wake up, Chris is getting worse and everyone is freaking out because Uri is not back and well HE HAS THE GUN. So Paul, Michael and Amanda decide- WE WILL FIND HIM!…leading to what I call  “dumb fucks r we”
Now don’t get me wrong, I guess in a REAL situation after what they saw happen to Chris you want to at LEAST find out if Uri is alive/hurt/dead….not for actual curiosity but guilt/riddled with compassion. We are after all human and would want the same done for us…but in this case- I say fuck the Commie Marine, he had his shot but chose to get bum fucked by life. Now while they search they have eventually reached where he was last seen and discover…Blood. along with a DARK spooky hallway.

THAT kind of creepy/dark/quiet/weird- not this exactly but close to it. Well a lot of blood is trailing the floor (no I am serious- they make a point that there was TOO MUCH blood trailing the ground leading them deeper in the building) Well we find…what’s left…of Uri, yeah something/someone ate him, well was eating him. They didn’t show anything “DETAILED” but silhouettes of someone.

Well they got the gun now and PAUL LETS GO THREE ROUNDS! INTO A DOOR!! GOOD GOING GENIUS! I am guessing there was what? 3/4 shot last night, plus your 3, so if we are using real guns here there should be about….8 (at most) bullets left in a city full of things trying to kill you….just give up, you all are dead just stop, go lay in the road and wait for them to eat you. it’ll be easier. seriously. easier for me.
Well on their way back, they meet back up with everyone and decide they are gonna book it on foot, 13 miles to the exit- MEN CAN DO….oh wait…Chris can’t walk…at all…ok, Paul, Michael, Zoe, Amanda- leave them alone with the gun and a walkie talkie and go look for something/someone to help. >.> really?!?
They do this and along the way find the dogs again, eating what looks like a corpse of some kind. So avoiding it, they continue through the woods and find a parking lot with buses, cars, and shit from the time of Pripyat…when it was well, not dead. Including a bus RIDDLED with bullet holes. Not shooting IN but out. Some one was INSIDE blasting his way out at everything outside. I am starting to get sketched out to my “yeah…lets just fucking leave, no more looking around, but LEAVE” mode. But no, Michael finds a van (just like Uri’s o.O wtf?!) and rips out the EXACT part they are looking for, and it seems to be in perfect shape. (eh alright maybe this is where it gets back to normal smart land.) NOW MIND you remember how I said ealier- time was fucking dumb here?

Well they are at the car lot at like I wanna say mid day or ish and they are chased from there BACK to the van (getting from the van to the lot must have taken maybe 2 hours max- so getting back is what? 3 at most? so AT LATEST it has to be like I dunno 6/7 at night…IT shouldn’t be pitch black yet! (BAD MOVIE!! pick if you wanna stick with physics or not!) -.-

Oh and the van is gone….a chair is left….so is some blood. but the van….IS GONE….nope no its not, it’s around the corn….er…. destroyed…. ransacked… ruined… in pieces… and missing Chris and Natalie. *insert Paul’s Breakdown*
SEARCH FOR CHRIS! (oh I guess Natalie too)
Not really, everyone but Paul says they need to leave, and find help, because finding Chris would be easier with help…not with a bunch of scared, hungry, stupid 20 year olds with a tire iron, gun and camera. well Paul is like FUCK THIS SHIT!
and they go looking….and find natalie….freaked out and completely outta her gourd. Oh apparently at that time Michael finds a map.




Part EHHHHH…..
I am making this part to skip a lot of chases/jump scares and useless dribble. To paraphrase- Scary girl from trailer appears. Natalie is taken. Michael wastes the last of the bullets on hungry hoard of Chernobyl zombies, then is eaten/dead. Zoe breaks down. Zoe is killed trying to climb ladder. …..uhhh yeah that saved me a whole hour of typing…
*presses play* back to normal Now we are down to Amanda and Paul running through underground tunnels to God knows where (I apparently am God cause I called it during the movie) and being chased by “le Horde” well low and behold…they arrive in a “room” and find a ring…an engagement ring….of Chris’ and then LEAPER ZOMBIE! (jump scare) *fast forward again* ok so more running, random crying…umm a few more jump scares…gut churning silence/atmospher…..ok here we are.
oh look…that radiation meter thing Uri had is beeping!…ALOT and your face is melting? eyes burning…radiation killing you…hmmm where could you be…REACTOR NUMBAH FOUR BITCHES! you have gone where Uri said NOT TO GO… NOT TO GO…DO NOT ENTER…AVOID AT ALL COST…well let’s see if they make it, they MUST be near the end. we have runnig through stair wells, down halls, across a bridge thing and to what looks like a loading bay door….FREEDOM…safety….they made…OH no…more zombies…and look- two have jumped you form behind and Paul is now blind from the radiation….Amanda- to the rescue!!! kill/knocks out the zombies and runs BACK INTO THE reactor building…down more halls.. dear god just DIE you two end this fucking movie…wait what is this…no way…*goes into announcer mode* they are running down the home stretch. We know because the soundtrack is getting hopeful. The music is getting louder and their pace is quickening….is that a doorway ahead….oh it is…they are right there folks! WHAT’S THAT ahead of them?!



no not that…kinda wish it was that..would be scarier then what I’ve seen so far.
any way- no it’s the fucking RUSSIAN MILITARY…with an APC (armored personal craft) ready to save the…wait…you’re shouting at me in russian.. *Reads subtitles* “…stop or we’ll shoot!?” Wait no…we need help!! we are being chased by shit, we are sick…we need help…Oh wait…Paul is shot…damn…Amanda cry over his corpse…cry like a woman cries in these movies….what is that soldier doing?! AMANDA!!…Apparently covering living people with a tarp is a Russian thing…in this situation.


Ending-

Ok….finally it’s over. Amanda lives…kinda cliche but I’ll take it…doctors have her, she is safe. they are asking questons…her body is scared, she is mentally destroyed, all intents she just got raped by life and is realizing her mistake in coming to Europe in the first place….ok…moral conclude…wait what do you mean she is now in some concrete walled, secret like building/bunker with doctors in all hazmat gear and everything all creepy….wait a minute….they are not doctors!!…That was not how it ends happy… NO DON’T PUT AMANDA IN THAT CONCRETE ROOM WITH THE GIANT STEEL DOOR…..




AMANDA!!!!!!….well this blows….she is in a Russian Therapy mental place…I guess it’s to help with the truama…wait?…..FUCKING A it was a conspiracy movie…..FUCKING A!!!!

fuck you movie

FUCK YOU

yeah…that is…was…I guess…Chernobyl Diaries…shitty movie..everyone dies…we don’t even see them become part of the horde thing, we don’t see much of really anything sadly…over all the reason this scared me. Was because I was scared the shit fest wouldn’t end.

Post Zombies

As some people will see my outfit for Zombie March was not complete >.> le shame.

However with that known, I know what I gotta do for next to have it done AT LEAST a few months prior. (Work on it between now and then instead of waiting)

Instead of the mrk 1 outfit however I have decided to either do the mrk 2 or mrk 3 I designed. Giving me an actual outfit and more props (the hidden blade, baton, etc)

more work but oh well I have a year to do it all.

I am probably going to TRY doing the props first and if that is the case I'll be uploading pictures of the "between" process but not the final results. As again I'll wait till the day of that way I can have the pictures be showing off how they look as a whole.


Zombie march was a fun day, even after the march, had some....interesting dinner conversation at dennys that normally would have broken me XD

got to watch a friend drink a thing of syrup like a shot glass, twice.  Then a girl we met do it as competition with him XD
twas interesting

Of course as you see all that was really missing was the hood but still >.> IT WAS MISSING lol

gahhh tomorrow is zombie march >.<

Updates of Sorts

To those who NORMALLY actually read all my stuff you've probably noticed a lack of well...normalcy.

I haven't done a 16 list or any real rants lately.

Kinda been buzzed out of that mental state recently. Busy I've been though.


With book related stuff (time line making and working on other stuff.)

I've also been preparing for zombie march. Which is in 2 weeks >.< EHHHHhhhh

(the stress of that is actually getting to me in a sense where I am beginning to wonder why I made such a difficult task for myself)

along with a bunch of other things that have been dancing around in my day to day routines.

SOOOooooO with that said I'll still be doing updates on the Zombie March Prep. After that is done I might be able to settle back into my routine and such but if not I'll figure out some new schedule. It would probably help me some if I had been getting feedback on things seeing what people liked most- my rants/lists/etc



so yeah, off I go, back to work. Gotta do some book stuff so I can feel like I accomplished something today. >.<

Zombie March Prep Part 2

Alrighty guys

time for some pics lol (nothing GOOD just you know...pics)

 recon cs-6 unpainted and in pieces

 recon cs-6 pre painted and assembled

 muah vest pre hooded >.>

 muah armory of stuffs

 Deploy CS-6 unpainted

my awesome nite finders XD

Anyway yeah you now see what I am working with.

Now to the "to do list"

1. Paint Stuff
1. Paint Recon CS-6
2. Paint Deploy CS-6
3. Paint Nite Finders
4. Paint Sword
2. Unseam base of hood to add the red
1. De seam black hood >.>
2. Cut red fabric out to attach to black hood
3. re seam it all
4. attach to vest
5. pray for success XD
3. Make Sword Scabbard (back)
1. make sheath
2. make strap to hold it on my back 

so yeah as you can see I have a long list of stuff to do. In 3 weeks >.>
wish me the best of luck lol.


hopefully end of THIS week I'll have the guns done. along with MAYBE headway on the vest/hood. (MAY Have to ask for help on the hood >.> hopefully not though)

Not to mention I am helping the girlfriend and two other friends with painting their guns and such. SO zombie march I hopefully will look just devilishly smashing darhlings :D (no I shall not upload "final" result pics till Zombie March. You'll have to wait till May 20th to see my awesomeness if I complete this all right.


till next entry this is JM :P


@JMMUlqueeney

Zombie March 2012 Part 1

Alrighty there is about a month (give or take) left till Bostons 2012 Zombie march (wooo)


and this entry is part one of maybe 3-4 that'll be showing steps I go through to make my outfit FOR zombie march.

No real NAME for it yet other then "Red Hooded Zombie Hunter Assassin" or Red Zombie Assassin lol

annyhoo- yeah I plan to be uploading the pictures showing of my outfit/props as they go along. Seeing as I right now only have the vest (hoodless) one nerf gun and such, I shall use THIS entry to explain what I'll be doing and such.


Part 1- the Nerf Supplies


Every Zombie Hunter Needs weapons.

I am a swordsman normally in life. ok always. So I am gonna be acquiring a Nerf N Force sword (for my Zombie head chopping) to accompany my nerf gun armory. (Recon and Deploy CS-6 and two Nite Finder single Shot pistols)

After getting the said things above- I shall be disassembling the guns and spray painting them to make them look less...Yellow and orange. Maybe a Black and Silver or something. But point is- I'm gonna have smexy nerf guns...not yellow ones XP
This process shouldn't take me long- maybe a week at most (gonna take my time with these to ensure they look GOOD)


Part 2- the threads

Every Zombie hunter- needs to look gorgeous


As I said- every zombie hunter has to look good. So I shall be wearing a tank top, my vest (which hopefully will be hooded) my black jeans and sporting a backpack. Possibly.

Anyway about my outfit- I'll be adding the above said RED HOOD to the vest giving me an Assassins Creed style hood allowing me to avoid sun to the face (bad) and also giving me a sexy allure of mystery :3 (no not really I just like hoods that make me look spooky). ALSO I shall be finding a way to make a scabbard for the N force sword (so it can be on my back at all times) ALSO maybe try making some SORT of thing for my Deploy CS-6 so I am not like custer fucked with guns lol

Also I was considering (pending prices) getting a thing of tennis balls, removing the felt (burning it off) and making "ball grenades" to strap to something and wear as a "explosive contingency idea" lol


Part 3- the month prior= work

I am  gonna be spending as much time as possible making the sheath for the sword, the hood for my vest, painting everything and hopefully fine tuning anything before the actual day. (Back yard to test how good everything fits and such so I dont break things in my room.) DOUBT there will be a "finished product" photo till Zombie March. Then I'll just upload all the photos of me I find :D

SO with all that said here is my "To Do List."


1- Acquire Recon CS-6 Nerf Gun- Complete
2- Acquire Deploy CS-6 Nerf Gun- In Progress
3- Acquire two Nite Finder Nerf Guns- In Progress
4- Acquire Red Fabric to Make Hood-In Progress
5- Acquire N Force Short Sword- In Progress
6- Acquire Spray Paint to paint above nerf guns- In Progress
7- Paint said guns - Unstarted
8- create sheath for sword on back. - Planning
9- Clean/Shine Boots weekend of - Will Get to
10- Last Minute checks between May 9th-May 18th- ???
11- Zombie March - O.O ^.^


This sums up my basic outline of the project and next Monday hopefully I'll start the process of getting things done. (Acquiring paint and materials for other stuff)


Please if you guys have any suggestions for paint scheme of the nerf guns please comment and let me know- I am unsure yet but will probably make up my mind between now and then. And if you want, go to my deviant art page (link on top of the blog page) and follow the progress I make as I make it if I don't upload photos here.


@JMMulqueeney   <- Twitter

On Philosophy

(TRYING to) Have a Philosophical discussion with a scientific friend over the art of science vs philosophy, etc.


(Black is friend, Red is myself)


"Religion? Philosophy? Or Science?"    

"*mumbles* Science."

"Anything to defend your argument?"

"*still mumbling*- Science."

"Anything to accelerate your defense?"

"Science!"

"Anything to sexualize your defense?!"

"...>.>
....<.<
....^.^ SCIENCE!!!"

"...o.O....-.-* you ruin all my fun sometimes you know??"

"science"

wish it was clearer but thats the best I could have done with bad artsy skills >.>


I swear I don't try to suck at art T-T

(speach bubbles are the conversation above)


So yeahhh

Random thought of the day

The idea of suicide is generalized as so depressed you must take ones life to escape it all.

What if you aren't depressed when you die. You just are content with what you've accomplished. Lived a full life and want to die with a "perfect" record (to use the sports analogy) is it so hard to conceive the notion of a happy suicide?

I am pondering this notion quite intently lol   <- my current facebook  status

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    Its not impossible but very unlikely
    

    86 % of suicides happen when you are depressed and can't take it. The rest fall under.. Mentally Unstable and Mentally Challenged people. The estimate of a happy suicide is possible but very unlikely. Normally when your happy and or content the feeling of suicide wouldn't enter mind because life hasn't gotten bad enough for the person to feel the need to die. As far as the perfect record people, I figure they wouldn't have a happy suicide but kill themselfs after seeing how far they could go before blemishing their record, when the record is marked I'm sure a depressing state would set in weather it be failure, disapointment, anger, whatever the cause of depression I'm sure a person who is concerned with record would be depressed before suicide.
    This has been advice from TheBoomBoxGuy (High)
    Saving the world one status at a time!

    Myself 

    
    

    
    

    xD That is a valid logical arguemnt and I agree to it but I was looking more along the lines of say a hunter. Travels the world has hunted every prize/challenge there was in his life span and is not yet "old age" there for he has lived an enriching life (travel,sights,events, etc) he has accomplished every goal he set for himself (hunting all the game he was able to hunt (legal and possibly illegal) maybe has loved and lost etc etc etc. Could it be possible he is content in his accomplishments that it is like a book that you must just end it before you ruin what good story you've left to the world. and If so- why does it have to be lumped under instability/depression/etc why can't it be what it was "the ending that is neither happy, nor sad. Just an end."
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    Well the reason for it being depression or mentally unstable would be mostly because the % of the deceased have been researched, or prior notice from a family member or friend that the person hit a rough patch and couldn't handle it. Or they were on/off their meds in which leading to such a decision. So with that being said its a bigger majority of sad and or depressed people or feelings that occur towards suicide. And as for the "hunter" I'd figure it to be "I can die happy" meaning the person who has accomplished their goals would fear death less instead of "I want to die because I did all I want to do". Normally upon completion of most desired goals the person would slip into a state of bordem and or confusion which might sooner lead to depression. All I'm saying is 9 out of 10 depression is almost always a deciding factor in most suicides

    
    
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     I do agree with that. I guess over all the NOTION of a non 'depressed" suicide caused me to be like "...wow we really do stimatize polar views on everything even in the idea of death as a people"
    

    
    kinda unsettling to realize that even DEATH is extrmeley polarized as goods and bads instead of in the eye of the beholder I guess.
    
    AGAIN- thank you Boom Box Guy- I quite enjoyed this conversation :D it was actually more engaging a result then I expected to get with the facebook company I keep. ^.^ 

     

     

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    Well death is just one of those subjects like meaning of life, afterlife, religion, conspiracy, etc they normally strike an interesting conversation with people depending on who is paying attention and has a shred of common sense.
    Just felt like I was high enough to give my input on the topic lol

    
    
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  • And great input it was indeed. I must learn your "schedule" to arrange more great conversations to inspire knowledge in my friends and possibly your own. Shall be our gift to the world :D

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    Now this is a conversation I just had. I quite throughly enjoyed it. Luckily I wasn't in a mood where this answer would bother me. The input of someone else made me realize I wasn't the only one contemplating the idea of death being more then just a "black" in the black v white of life v death :D

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

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Stop (trying to Stop) Bullying

I am not "Pro Bully" I am pro common sense.


Today's entry might piss a lot off so if you are sensitive to 'possibly offensive material' PLEASE skip this entry.




1st-  bullying does not lead to suicide. Yes bullying cause depression, self esteem issues, etc.

2nd- Bullying happens...in ALL parts of life. High school, elementary/grammar school, the work force, the bedroom (ladies calling a guys dick not big enough is bullying...dicks have feelings too...oh so do their penises I guess >.>)

                  any way yes


3rd- you know that bully you stigmatize because he is a bully, THAT IS BULLYING.


Bullying- Verb- Use of superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants.
               Sound familiar? Yeah that punk who calls you a slut because you didn't blow him at the football game. He is a bully.
Wanna know what also is bullying?

"You, stop picking on little timmy, his speech impediment isn't something to make fun of him for. Either you stop or shit will happen to you."

You call it "discipline" I call that bullying or ABUSE of power. wait...those are the SAME THING (who knew!?)



I was bullied in high school. I'm still bullied (by high schoolers while I am 'college aged'. So I want to point out- bullying is part of life, it builds character, teaches one to learn to handle stress. Deal with adversity and over all just handle LIFE...because life sucks. It isn't flowers, candy necklaces and ponies. (those things are fucking expensive.)



I find these are "common reasons to be bullied"


Someone's appearance (e.g. hair colour or style, height)
Someone's race
Someone's religion
Someone's nationality
Someone's sexual orientation
Someone being jealous


 Notice all of these reasons...they are based primarily on negative emotions from the bully. MEANING the bully is just as 'depressed' as the target bullied. The only thing "keeping him from walking up the street with a blade" is that his outlet is pissing off the world with his negativity. I.E- bullying the shit out of little timmy.



NOW let's take a GOOD example.


Johnny is walking through the school and sees little Timmy, now little Timmy is in the musical and that means he is "gay" Johnny calls Timmy a fag. Now Timmy loves tits. BIG TITS and the women attached to those tits, meaning he joined the musical to get laid. (Good boy Timmy, knowing what it takes to get access to those bra straps Uncle Sam is Proudofya!) Now Johnny gets a few girls here and there because he is the BAD GUY but Timmy...well Timmy's the man whore of the school musical., all those girls Johnny got are Timmy's sloppy seconds.


Timmy doesn't care if he is called fag by Johnny because he knows he isn't a fag. He holds his head up proud. Johnny however calls Timmy a fag because he is JEALOUS of the fact that Timmy has talent, women, able to have fun doing something, and isn't afraid of doing what he wants. All things relating to IMPOTENCE. (Not sexually- mentally here) he is impotent mentally in the sense where HE CAN'T do what he wants, fearing his 'image' will be ruined so he picks on people who CAN do anything they want because they want to.

Johnny gets more and more MAD at Timmy for not caring about the bullying but when they are seniors and about to graduate, Timmy goes to Johnny and they talk. At first Johnny is insecure, scared and thinks he might be gay anyway. Asking Timmy for advice he forgives Johnny understanding the stigma of being the bully and accepts him for who he is, allowing Johnny to be himself finally in turn NO MORE BULLY.




Now don't give me the "well thats one case! it doesn't always happen that way!" Because honestly- I don't care. My point is this= the reason many kids commit suicide of being bullied- is that they allow the words (that is the BIG part there, most of them are just words) to affect them. Yeah there are physical bullies- to deal with those you learn to fight back. Simple as that.


Now for the "cyber bullies"- my solution- don't feed the god damn trolls.
IF someone has nothing better to do then pick on you via the internet, guess what? Block them. Ignore them. Call the FBI and rat them out. Do anything to STOP it. Don't bottle it, and cry in bed reading the taunting remarks. Go to your mom and dad and show them the offenses and say "I want to take them down, call the FBI!" It'll work. Nothing says "stop bullying" like two suits coming to your house and locking you up for calling Suzy a whore on facebook. :D




Any way that is my rant.

My opinion on bullying is this- don't try stopping it, just deal with it the old fashion way= fight back/ignore it.

Plain and simple.



Alright guys follow on twitter and here, leave your comments below and questions about things for me to rant about. I probably left this unfinished in a sense because I was getting more and more side tracked while writing because I was actually bothered by this topic.


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