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Go to www.imdb.com and look up ten of your favorite movies. Post three IMDB plot keywords for each movie, and have your friends guess the movie titles!
1. Exotic Dancer, Machete, Military Base
2. Undercover, Psychiatrist, Text Messaging
3. Very Little Dialogue, Surrealism, Artificial Intelligence
4. Owl, Killer Robot, Melancholy
5. Head In Toilet, Pornographer, Nihilism
6. Crooked Lawyer, Extramarital Affair, Faked Pregnancy
7. Presidential Election, Based On Novel, Cover Up
8. Necronomicon, Chainsaw, Shotgun
9. Sex With The Dead, Disgruntled Customer, New Jersey
10. Existentialism, Environmental Protest, Body Bag |
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Feb. 12th, 2007 @ 04:39 pm
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mood:  bored tunes: The Knife - Deep Cuts - You Take My Breath Away |
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And I've been a busy boy.
This and last semester of school have been really, really kicking my ass. Tests up the wazoo, little to no free time, etc. But, everything feels good. My life is pretty fantastic on the whole. The only thing that is getting me down is my stress.
I've been accomplishing a lot lately though, for example, I am in the College Dems of WMU, for which I set up and run their website and accompanying blog, complete with Google Group/listserv. I am trying to join the WMU Pre-law society (if they ever have a damn meeting) and I am a senator in the WSA. Once and a while I catch an SSE meeting when I can, too.
I constantly miss Cam though, though I get to see her ever couple of weeks (on average) it is simply not enough.
I made the jump to Linux (specifically, Kubuntu) this week. In part because last week I fried my internal hard drive, leaving it open for a full format. Thus it seemed like a good time to install. amaroK is awesome as far as media managers go.
But yeah, my life in a shell is: study. I miss the dorms, I had so much fun there, I was so carefree. Now I am crazy.
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Nov. 19th, 2006 @ 12:18 am
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fuck you, %fp, I hate you for never being where I need you to be. -68 my ass. |
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Boooo!
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Nov. 18th, 2006 @ 03:27 pm
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Really?
Read about this organization here.
They are called Quiverfull.
That and the new guy the lame duck Bush Admin put into place to control Title X (the federal funding for sexual education budget) is a very, very strong supporter of abstintence only education. And we all [ACLU] know [planed parenthood] how [PBS] well that works.
According to a July 2001 Surgeon General's report on sexual health:
"Programs that typically emphasize abstinence, but also cover condoms and other methods of contraception, have a larger body of evaluation evidence that indicates either no effect on initiation of sexual activity or, in some cases, a delay in the initiation of sexual activity. This evidence gives strong support to the conclusion that providing information about contraception does not increase adolescent sexual activity, either by hastening the onset of sexual intercourse, increasing the frequency of sexual intercourse, or increasing the number of sexual partners. In addition, some of these evaluated programs increased condom use or contraceptive use more generally for adolescents who were sexually active."mood:  angry tunes: Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn - Ontario Plates |
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Long gaps between posts.
Anyway, so what have I been up to lately? Trying to keep my head above water in all my classes, stay ahead of the game if you will. Japanese is kicking my ass as the thing that is blocking me from studying other subjects like I would want, so much busy work, so much to learn for each test cycle, so little time. My classes have been going well thus far, I am either 4.0ing or close enough to 4.0 all of my classes by the end of the semester, which really means a lot to me to prove to myself that I can do this, I've never done this well before.
Hopefully this rigorous scheduling will pay off.
Essentially though, I'm ready for winter break. I'm just about burned out, I'm done. Ready to go home and get out of here for a while. Kick back, relatively stress free, drinking coffee and Denny's and/or Starbucks (ew) and hanging out with Cam and the Macomb crew. Not that I don't love my crew from the K-zoo, but I miss ya guys back home.
This is sort of exciting from me, I've never been burned out before.
So I've been jumping from one stressful thing to another. When I'm not studying I'm prepping for the LSATs, which are coming up in June. June is coming around a lot faster than I would like to think. On top of that I really slacked on the whole finding a summer internship and now I need to call every court, law office and political campaign house in the tri-county area in the next couple weeks and fax them resumes. Blah. And of course, Western's internship finding program is useless.
There is not enough time in a day.
Nov. 14th, 2006 @ 11:04 pm
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Yes, those are, indeed, Starcraft quotes.
Oct. 5th, 2006 @ 07:54 pm
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Man, this weather is all over the fucking place. Perhaps it is because of that my roommates are either now sick or fighting off illness. It has not hit me yet, though I am sure it will soon.
Have I mentioned how much I love my Tuesday House/Boston Legal lineup? Yeah, well guess what is canceled until after the World Series-of-the-lamest-sport-ever-that-never-will-cease-to-be-the-baine-of-my-existence? Yeah, House. Canceled until Halloween because of baseball, of all sports. Screw that. Thank god I can still get my weekly James Spader/William Shatner fix though. Guess what else won't be on until Nov because of the damn World Series? The O.C.
Yes yes, laugh it out... but seriously, all gay jokes aside, it is a good show and I stand by that. I mean, I don't know how good it is going to be this season since it seems they are changing format around, but we'll see.
Man, excuse me for being excited about this election, but this is super interesting. Since the Foley scandal appeared, the Dems have picked up a significant shift in the vote, and if the current ratings held steady, it would be a Democratic House of Reps come January. However, it can always swing back either way, and I fully expect it to swing back and forth a few times before Nov.
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Oct. 4th, 2006 @ 05:09 pm
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| » Of politics, computer code and jalapeno cheddar bagels |
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Have I mentioned how I love each of those things?
The last couple days have been fairly crazy as far as politics concerning the upcoming midterm elections. The Dems need to win 29 seats in the House of Reps to win back control. So it will be close to see whether or not Dems can win back control. However, if it does come down just that one seat, House Rep Foley (R-Florida) may have just given it to them. If you haven't heard, Foley suddenly resigned the other day following the release of text messages and emails made to 16 year old pages. The messages released are among the lines of "What do you want for your birthday? Send me a pic of yourself", but apparently there are more sexually explicit unreleased ones. The Republicans are going to have to play good damage control on this one because it is also being reported that there were complaints about this from other House reps to the House leadership and nothing was done. Needless to say, because the ballets are already printed and Foley's name will still be on them (there will be a placeholder running under his name), the Dems are almost guaranteed what was a strong Republican slot.
The other bit of exciting news is Bob Woodward's new book "State of Denial", which goes against the grain of his last two books that praised the Bush administration. The book essentially asserts that the Bush Administration has purposely mislead the American public on a number of issues involving the War in Iraq. There have been discrepancies between what Bush has said and what actually happened, but no one as prominent has Bob Woodward has come out saying anything about it, which makes it substantial. Bob Woodward is not Michael Moore. His last two books praised the Bush Administration for how they were handling the War on Terror. Which, never the less, I need to get this book and read it sometime.
However, yesterday, those two events both made a large splash yesterday and it will be interesting to see where the pieces fall as the election draws nearer.
EDIT: This was in the Washington Post. It is about Rice brushing off Tenet and Black when they were warning her that the Bin Laden threats were real, in a memo entitled "Bin Laden threats are real", but she ignored them. Two months before Sept 11. Yup, totally Clinton's fault. The Bush Administration, over the last couple weeks, has been pointing fingers at Clinton and blaming him for 9/11, when he tried to get Bin Laden and failed (he had three months to do it after the Cole before his term was up). Bush was in office for eight months and did nothing but ignore memos such as "Bin Laden threats are real". And also, for those who didn't see, here is Clinton's response to when he was asked "Why didn't you do more to prevent 9/11?" by Chris Wallace of Fox News, Part 1, and Part 2, which Keith Olbermann's biased follow-up defending Clinton.
Oooooh politics.
Now, of computer code, have I mentioned how much I love to code? I really forgot how much fun it is. I love puzzles and writing in C or Assembly is a blast. I can't believe I forgot. So glad I am doing a compsci minor. w00t!
Many though, studying is getting to be a pain the ass. So much to study for, so little time. It is really just Japanese that is killing me though... thank god this is the last semester. Though, when I get it, I love to do it. And I, for the first time ever in that class, feel like I get it. So I am pretty proud of myself there. I just need to keep on memorizing. Times have been great here at the doomhouse, we watched this really fucked up movie called Beg. last night, which is a Trouma film (Trouma films suck, suck hard, and they know it) but it actually wasn't that bad. It reminded me of a bastard child of Brazil and Logan's Run, but if David Llynch had directed it.
There are a couple movies coming out (or, well, one is out) that I really want to see. The Science of Sleep and Children of Men. Both movies look simply amazing. I need to find where around here Science of Sleep is playing so I can perhaps see it in a couple of weeks. Children of Men is a Christmas day event now, which I will hopefully be able to see shortly thereafter. But oh god do I love Post-Apoc dystopia, thriller/action/philosophical sci-fi flicks. Seriously, any movie of this genre is almost an instant winner for me. 28 Days Later fits in there, sort of, as does 1984 (which, was only medicore but the book was amazing and made up for it), Half-Life 2 (the video game, best game story in years... maybe ever), Deus Ex (second best game story ever). That, and I am a sucker for any trailer with Sigur Ros in it.
Anyone have any recommendations for this genre besides those listed and Soylent Green (which is one of my favorite films and one of two chuck heston films I like, woohoo planet of the apes!)?
Well, back to the studying I suppose. Man, we need some food in this house.
P.S. Jalapeno cheddar bagels from the Bagel Beanery rock my world upsidedown.
Oct. 1st, 2006 @ 12:29 pm
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Long time, LJ. Long time.
So, I've moved back out to Kalamazoo. In our glorious house. I am out here with Ryan, Andy and SkaMike and boy is it a blast. It is only the third week in and I feel like I have already been run ragged. I have so much to study and so little time to do so. Japanese is killing me, and remembering all that C code for my assembly class is not fun. However, my "shit I learn each day" ratio is higher this semester than any previous. I love my Civil Liberties Law class and it makes me excited to go to law school.
The worst part about being here is missing my Cam, but do is made. I just felt like checking in and writing down whats going on, and things aren't bad, just stressful. I feel like I am cheating on my studies for taking the 5 minutes to write this post. But that is what college is all about, right?
The house has been dubbed the Doom House, not in least because we have a Doom Clock that always points to 6:30. Many nights have been spent watching the second hand come around and pick up the loose minute hand, bring it up to the 57 second mark and then drop it, allowing it to free swing. It is quite the mesmerizing feature of this house. All four of us have our own rooms and our own living styles, the clashing of which can be most entertaining from time to time.
I miss all my Macomb homies... not Macomb so much... just the people there.
God I hate Macomb.
Well, back to the studying.
Oh, by the way, I am in a statistical political analysis class right now, so if there are any two political statistics someone wants cross referenced let me know and I can post a nice little histrogram (my personal favorite so far is "belief in literal interpretation of bible by state compared to number of women in governmental positions from that state".
Sep. 17th, 2006 @ 10:29 pm
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Avatar: The Last Airbender THQ
Barnyard THQ
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII Ubisoft
Blitz: The League Midway
Call of Duty 3 Activision
Cars THQ
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 Atari
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Square Enix
Elebits Konami
Excite Truck Nintendo
Far Cry Ubisoft
GT Pro Series Ubisoft
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers Square Enix
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Nintendo
Madden NFL 07 EA
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Activision
Metal Slug Anthology SNK
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Nintendo
Monster 4x4 World Circuit Ubisoft
Need for Speed: Carbon EA
Open Season Ubisoft
Rayman Raving Rabbids Ubisoft
Red Steel Ubisoft
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab THQ
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Sega
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam Activision
Trauma Center: Second Opinion Atlus
Wii Sports Nintendo
27 Games, however, Smash Bros Brawl isn't on there. Apparently that will be shortly after release.
Still, a very impressive launch list with Metal Slug, Red Steel, Trauma, Wii Sports, Metroid, Zelda, Dragon Quest and Monkey ball
Aug. 19th, 2006 @ 12:39 pm
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Fucking awesome. Need I say more?
Aug. 18th, 2006 @ 03:21 am
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Hey ya'll.
Man, three weeks until I move back to Kalamazoo and I couldn't be more excited. However, leaving my Macomb buddies here always blows. Drew, Dani and Sarah, you simply must all come visit me. I'll miss having to part with Cam again too, but I suppose we will still manage to squeeze in enough time together. This time we don't have to worry about roommates or dorm closings on breaks. Living in the geekiest house ever will be a ball. Here is the cast list of Geek House '07:
Ryan - Pretentious music lover extraordinaire. Also, has the widest collection of movie posters that will, hopefully, be sprinkled about the house in a tasteful fashion. Has a fetish for zombie movies.
Andy - The Hobbit (Half-ling) Rogue. Will be living downstairs in The Shire. Loves medieval metal bands. Emo kid at heart. All around fun. Has not seen the inside of the house yet.
Mike - Pretentious ska kid. Has vast knowledge of local ska bands, including Pete's amazing ska band who's name I cannot think of right now. He gets punchy when he drinks.
That is the lineup and it will be amazing.
And on that note, three days until Snakes on a Motherfuckin' Plane. Yes, I am excited. Yes, I am going to the midnight show. Yes, I may splooge. I watched the Snakes on a Plane panel at ComicCon online last night and it just got me more excited. Plus, I got to the Sammy Jackson dropping Pulp lines, but in regard to snakes. Cannot wait.
Speaking of movies, Little Miss Sunshine was probably the best movie I have seen in a long time, at least all summer. You should all go see it. Now. Steve Carell and Greg Kaneer are both amazing in it. I saw it last Friday in the quaint little town that is Birmingham and saw KT driving around down there. It was a lovely little date, Einstein Bros Bagels, movie and Java Hut. But, go see this movie.
Aug. 15th, 2006 @ 01:24 pm
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Rockstar North proudly presents: "Holy Man - Old Testament Style!" - Steal another player's sword and cut off his head with it!
- Throw your virgin daughters to the gay rapists to save your own ass!
- Wade ankle deep through the blood of thousands of your enemies!
- Rape a woman and kill her man, then become king of your people!
- Don't like no sass? Cut out your opponents tongues!
- Want your own slaves? Build up the biggest posse! Whip 'em into shape - literally!
- Three words: Stoning! Stoning! Stoning!
- Ritual human sacrifice!
"E" -- Content rated by ESRB -- Everyone
Aug. 11th, 2006 @ 04:02 am
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From the National Catholic Reporter (full text here)
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the White House announced recently that the president vetoed the bill that would have allowed embryonic stem cell research because "he thinks murder is wrong." True, the next day, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow changed the language to say that what the President really meant to say was that stem cell research "involves a destruction of human life." But the situation only proves the point. We are into terminal inconsistency here. The administration presents itself as moral -- as "pro-life" -- but what does that mean? The words change from day to day. The ideas change from day to day. The policies change from day to day. The explanations change from day to day. Inconsistency reigns. Unfertilized microscopic cells are called "innocent life." The25,000 Americans they stranded for days in Lebanon under siege are not,it seems. Innocent or mentally challenged prisoners on death row are not considered defensible at all. The 14,000 Iraqi citizens killed since January -- by us, because of us -- in this great war of liberation, are, apparently, not lives worth saving. The people who die from the weapons we so blithely provide to countries around the world under the guise of "foreign aid" and"security" are not. The babies in the United States that are dying from lack of proper medical care because of lack of universal US medical insurance are not. The adults whose lives will be shortened because they can't eat well, live well or die well on the present minimum wage are not. There is something inconsistent about all of this, something so skewed at its moral base that we can't even begin to talk about it rationally.
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Makes some good points.
Written by a Catholic Nun.
Aug. 7th, 2006 @ 01:50 pm
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Whoa. Alright, so I have never, ever been rocked so hard by an opening band before. Holy Fuck, who opened for Wolf Parade along with Frog Eyes last night, was electrifying. Absolutely incredible. They improv all of their music on stage. I don't know if last night's show was just exceptionally good, but wow. Wolf Parade was spectacular also. I just wanted to hear them play Fancy Claps, which they did. I did clap. In a fancy manner.
So, are there any good bands on the scene around here? I honestly have no clue about any of them, the last halfway decent Detroit-area band that I heard was Pas/Cal. There is also always Wolf Eyes... who... well... sucks. There are a couple decent K-zoo bands that I have heard and word on the street is East Lansing has some good ones, but Ann Arbor/Detroit... I haven't heard anything good in a while. Someone prove me wrong, please. Who is good in Detroit?
Aug. 7th, 2006 @ 01:42 pm
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Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said, "An Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet." Stevens sagely pointed out that the Internet "is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck." Instead, he explained, "it's a series of tubes."
(Alternet)
I'll just let that sink in for a while before I tell you what Mr. "I Will End You Ted Stevens" himself is doing saying this.
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Speaking against network neutrality (meaning all providers would provide essentially the same internet, instead of it being sectioned off).
I want Senator Stevens' downspeed if he was sent an entire internet over the weekend. I mean, holy shit. How did he store all of that?
Jul. 12th, 2006 @ 11:39 am
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Nostradamus once predicted in his journal: "In the century 21st, the one known as Jacques will be the savior of the world... five seasons in a row."
Moments later, Jack Bauer knocked down the door, shot Nostradamus in the kneecaps, and yelled "WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR?!"
Jul. 11th, 2006 @ 02:56 pm
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