The 2nd Week of December Recap

-Well one major thing was the final week of fall semester classes which went well, the survey presentation (which I might have mentioned last recap) went well. I have two finals this coming week and then I will officially be on my winter break. Speaking of school, I also sold four of my textbooks this week at Buyback, yay

-The stupid snow showed up a couple times, Friday and Saturday night were nice but I guess most can say it was the warm before the storm(s). Therefore I disliked the snow today, making today my hibernation day (charging iPod, catching up on TV shows and Geek Show Podcast, making ringtones, counting coins, etc busy work stuff)

-Got hooked to Bad Movie Beatdown (click the link to check it out)

-I rented a movie that I've seen a couple recommendations for. The movie was The Assassination of a High School President and I enjoyed it a lot. It will appear on annual movie list in a couple days.

- The highlight of the week was Friday and Saturday. Friday was a rare occasion where I hung out with both of my best friends whose names are Steven Lee (mentioned a couple times before on this blog) and Neal Black (someone I've known over 15 years who currently lives in California)

Steve and I got some lunch and I watched his TV while he played with a remote control toy car.

Neal and I drove around somewhat Friday night picking up and droping off his brother Justin who is also a very good friend. We also ate food, played games, and chatted it up with him and his family. Saturday was sort of the same except I brought Anna along to meet Neal and his family. This was awesome cause she hasn't really met any of my friends until now.

That's about it
now got to think about what to do this week when I'm not at school
there's a place that serves pizza that I want to try out
Will I go there!? Find out next recap post
Until then, enjoy the next couple posts celebrating my favorite movies and music of 2009.

Rolling Stone Albums of the Decade

I also looked up Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Best Albums of the Decade List and noticed which ones I had on my iTunes also.
**- Appears on my 60 Favorite Albums List (Starting December 21)

5. The White Stripes: Elephant
7. Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP**
21. Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
28. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
33. Daft Punk: Discovery**
44. System of a Down: Toxicity**
57. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
73. Coldplay: Parachutes
74. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium**
78. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
84. Eminem: The Eminem Show**
86. The Postal Service: Give Up

Rolling Stone Songs of the Decade

I looked up Rolling Stone's "100 Best Songs of the Decade" and I noticed that I had 23 of them on my iTunes.

6. Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes   ([pictured above] My Favorite of 2003)
7. Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs  
10. Stan by Eminem  
12. Lose Yourself by Eminem  
13. In Da Club by 50 Cent  
16. Last Nite by The Strokes  
21. B.O.B. by Outkast  
26. Clocks by Coldplay  
27. Such Great Heights by The Postal Service  
30. Ignition Remix by R. Kelly  
32. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand  
33. One More Time by Daft Punk    (One of my heavy favorites in 2001)
34. Yellow by Coldplay  
38. Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz  
39. Float On by Modest Mouse   (My favorite of 2004)
54. The Scientist by Coldplay
55. Ms. Jackson by Outkast  
58. Fell in Love With a Girl by The White Stripes  
62. Fallin' by Alicia Keys  
68. Viva la Vida by Coldplay  
70. I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor by Arctic Monkeys  
71. D.A.N.C.E. by Justice   (My favorite of 2007)
99. Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz 

Crappity Crap Crap- The Bad Movies of the Last Five Years

Thank you God for killing the projector when I saw Kickin' It Old Skool, that's what you get for naming your main character Justin, you dicks

Movie Dork here again, For the last 5 years I have kept track of the movies I see which has helped me make my annual "Best, Middle, and Worst Movies" list. Plenty of movies have fallen under the bottom third category also known as the "Bad" category and I sometimes get major flack for it. 

Doing research on my own stuff, here are some reasons why I call a movie "bad"
-Not kidding, one good joke in the entire movie.
-over advertised movies that don't live up to the hype
-Live Action Family Films (obviously not my favorite)
-Comedians I hate or who haven't made anything good in years
-Good comedians making extremely horrible film role choices
-Remakes, Sequels, Video Game Adaptations, or other ideas that don't make for good movies
-Singers I already don't like or care for trying to act
-Movies with beautiful girls to look at but the movie itself blows (What I sometimes call a "booty movie")
-The movies starring the hot couple at the time that turns out bad for both the movie and the real life relationship
-Crude humor that's just not necessary or that's just not trying hard enough
-Macho shithead movies that will most likely play on Spike meaning an abundance of stereotypical guy stuff- cars/racing, "hot" girls, guns, etc. 
-Boring, quiet, long, slow, common complaints, etc.
-All the good jokes were in the trailer
-All the potential in the world to be great but just doesn't use it
-One actor does incredibly great but rest of movie is awkward, uncomfortable, or just plain sucks
-Big budget holiday releases that in the end make me say "Who gives a shit?"
OR
Just needs a second chance but I'm not willing to pay for it

With that said, here are the bad movies in the last five years where they were so bad and so painful that the titles themselves make me cringe.

2005- The Perfect Man

2006- School for Scoundrels

2006- Waiting

2007- License To Wed
2007- The Ex 
2007- Kickin It Old Skool
2008- Four Christmases
2008- The Love Guru 
2009- Year One

If some movies seem to be missing from this tiny list, it's most likely because I was smart enough to skip them. There are still several titles where you'd have to pay me extremely large sums of money to watch.
I'll see you in hell dumbass movies!! Seriously, they will play these in hell over and over. I'm not looking forward to it. 

Coming next week- My 5th Annual Best, Middle, and Worst Movies of the Year List

1st Week of December Recap

- Went to see the lights at Thanksgiving Point with the fam, I thought they were nice. I stayed inside the car while the rest sat in the back of a truck. They had some song from Bambi on repeat on the speaker system WTF? Went to eat some food at a little cafe place there, and I was not expecting how yummy the food was. Mmmmm I'll drive over there just for that.
- I saw the movie Surrogates, not much to say about it, I think I got the point of what's going on I dunno I was dozing off during the movie.
-Oh yeah, I also saw the new movie Brothers. It was good and all but totally not what I thought it was going to be. I have come to like this trend in movies where the trailer doesn't give it all away or make it really predictable. I would have made it more predictable by switching some scenes around but that's just me.
-Had a great weekend with Anna, we got some Christmas pictures done and went to one of her family Christmas parites.
-I've been dreading stepping on the scale cause of the ridiculous amounts of food I've been eating in the last 2 weeks. The results turned out to be I gained only a couple pounds. So I'm going to be not so crazy with the food this week.
- Went to the Festival of Trees on Friday night, which was a bad idea cause it was obviously the worst night to go. The crazy traffic on the way, the parking space hunt, and the enormous crowd killed any enjoyment I could of had. I caught a glimpse of a couple cool trees which satisfies me enough, I'm mostly there for the sweets.
-I'm entering the last week of Fall classes and cannot wait to get it done, the big pain is a group presentation of a survey done for a class on Wednesday night. The big pain is not knowing which portion I'm talking about yet as I write this.

Special- Favorite Movies of 2000s

Being such a movie dork I decided to note my favorite movies of the last 10 years. There's probably so many I should mention but basically these are the ones I have in my possession. I've decided not to rank them cause it would be a little tough, but here's a list of some heavy favorites followed by my 5 FAVORITE MOVIES OF THE LAST 10 YEARS

The 40 Year Old Virgin  

Batman Begins

Borat

Brick

Brokeback Mountain

City of God

Clerks 2

Crash

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

The Departed

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Gran Torino

I Love You Man

Into the Wild

Juno

Kill Bill (Of course both volumes)

Knocked Up

Pineapple Express

Red Eye

The Simpsons Movie

Sin City

Snatch

Son of Rambow

Spider Man Trilogy


The Transporter

This Divided State

Undercover Brother



 Michael Moore Movies, 
kiss my ass if you don't like it

Bowling For Columbine

Fahrenheit 9/11

Sicko 

Turkey Day Week, actually more like Burger Day Week

perfect image for this post, thanks to Steel Closet for having this image

So much stuff went down on Thanksgiving week. It's one of those weeks when you don't realize how awesome it is at the time but when looking back it brings back great memories. Soo went to the short week of school and then awaited for the arrival of my sister Crystal and her two children that are visiting us until later this week. Wednesday was a big food shopping day for the Thanksgiving holiday with stops at Sunflower Market and Costco. Wednesday was also the day of the burger where I had both Five Guys and In-n-Out which at this point are the kings of the burger places. I'm not going to choose sides on the better burger, but Five Guys gets points in having a bigger selection, better french fries (the peanut oil just beats out vegetable oil), and last but not least Five Guys has my soda mistress Coke Zero. Anyway, I went to In-n-Out with my cosuin David AKA Nacho who worships the burgers made by them. It was a great chance to sit and discuss some things while chowing down on yummy food cause I don't do much with him these days.

Thanksgving Day
Woke up and watched The Taking of Pelham 123 which is just a bland movie compared to other vehicle hostage movies like Speed. I like Denzel and everything but it's just boring and not much action until the end but even then it was weak. I had the main Thanksgiving dinner at my girlfriend's grandmother's house which went OK, I watched The Little Rascals movie on the TV and I realized just how influenced I was by that movie. I know which months have 30 days in it thanks to that flick, it helps with my brain that remembers a boatload of stuff. Then my girl Anna and I went over to my parent's house to chat and eat some pie. We were originally going to see an evening showing of The Blind Side but it was sold out so we ended up seeing New Moon (which is kinda what I wanted to see in the first place). I enjoyed the movie and it was a fun experience cause of how soap opera-ish it is mixed with the oohs and awws at Edward and Jacob.

Weekend
The rest of the weekend consisted of going on an impulse trip to Park City with my family (so my niece and nephew can see some snow), two nights of Beatles Rockband thanks to my brother bringing over all his gear to play, hanging out with Anna just kicking back, going to In-n-Out again (Note to self, skip getting fries from them, they just taste like potato chips anyway), and watching the first season of the British Whose Line Is It Anyway? on DVD. And ooh boy I've had sooo much food in the past week it's ridiculous.

Ehhh this week didn't have much to it

 Ooooooh I'm excited to see this movie next year. I've heard good things about Kick-Ass.

Anyway
Let's see what there is to say about this week
-It wasn't all bad, I heard from a couple friends which is always good.
-I went to funeral on Monday for my dad's uncle (also my hairstylist's father, and speaking of her I have an early hair appointment with my parents hours after typing this blog)
-I went and saw Love Happens on Tuesday and wow that movie was a huge downer. It had a couple good moments but was pretty boring and stupid. Watching the Nostalgia Critic (mentioned last time) made me wanna point out strange parts and make silly comments toward the movie. Side note- I also like watching the Nostalgia Chick on thatguywiththeglasses.com
-I got a Swine Flu shot, yay for me, they are offered at my mom's work so I took the chance since I fit the criteria and yadda yadda
-In-n-Out finally opened in Orem, UT a couple days ago but I think I'll wait just a little bit before confronting the extremely huge lines to get a burger. Yes, a burger, that seems to be everybody's mentality- "It's just a burger" well, if it's made right- it's one of the best burgers in the land.
-Got a crap load of schoolwork done this week, making yesterday pretty boring because of no more big assignments to work on. So I filled my time on the computer finishing ranking albums for my list I keep talking about, organizing stuff in my room, watching several programs like Geek Show (Comcast On Demand), PTI (sports show I've watched over 7 1/2 years now), and R. Kelly's Trapped In The Closet Chapters 13-22. Oh yeah I also went on long walk yesterday which I haven't done in a while.

Speaking of time, it was one year ago yesterday that my life was turned upside down when I met the girl in person who would eventually be my first girlfriend, who would later introduce me to my current girlfriend. The first week of knowing her was so surreal and not anything like my life had been.

That's it for now peoples

Random Post- Top Ten Years in Music From 2000-2009

While my big decade album list is still a work in progress, I've come up with a tiny list of my Top Ten Years in Music (Out of the last 10 years) based on how many albums represent each year. Enjoy, I guess

1. 2007
2. 2001
3. 2005
4. 2008
5. 2004
6. 2003
7. 2000
8. 2009
9. 2002
10. 2006

New Internet Obsession

Yes I always seem to have a current internet obsession, whether it be somebody's videos (Angry Video Game Nerd for example) or some random Facebook app such as Restaurant City or the Friend of the Day Application which makes me feel special cause I get to say something really nice about the majority (I know I've probably mentioned this before so just bear with me) of my friends and hopefully they notice and acknowledge the honor with a comment of some sort. Hopefully someday I get to be somebody's Friend of the Day. The highest probability will most likely be from my girlfriend since she uses that app too.

Anyway the internet obsession thing, I've spent the last four days spending hours upon hours watching The Nostalgia Critic on thatguywiththeglasses.com who makes fun of old movies and TV shows. I find them hilarious first off because the films he talks about are the ones I watched with my friends as a kid including 3 Ninjas, Sidekicks, and Blank Check. I also laugh cause he points out the lines and stories that have been used abundantly in other movies and tv shows. Sound effects used also have me rollin on the floor. I admire that he at least tries to be creative and make each review a little different. As I write this I'm watching his review of the Michael Jackson movie Moonwalker

Where do I get the time to watch all these videos you ask? Well there comes a time in every college school semester where the worst of it is over. Presentations, big papers, and big exams are out of the way so I can relax more and not have to be so concerned with school assignments. Also I have no job and nobody to hang out with, at least today. For the last 5 weeks or so I have been in the compnay of my best (local) friend Steve on most days since his driver's liscense is suspended and he needs rides from work and to places to smoke since he cannot smoke anywhere near his apartment. Our basic plan every time we hang is to go to the mall, go to Wal Mart, and back to his aparmtent which is nearby both places.

So yeah, this pretty much sums up my week (and last week, grrr I sucky at bloggy) so far.
let's see what updates can I bring to you readers

Remodeling- it's pretty much done at this point, there's stuff to be added later but the major stuff is over with.

Music/Movies- Excited to unveil my "60 Favorite Albums of the 2000s (2000-2009)" list next month along with other lists like my "Favorite Music of 2009", my "5th Annual Best, Middle, and Worst Movies of 2009 (Which I saw), and maybe even a bonus 10 Favorite Movies of the last 10 years. Yay for lists and junk, it's just my thing, sorry if you don't care.

I may have started a Saturday Movie Late Night tradtion (after the Halloween viewing of Hard Candy mentioned last time) for myself with the viewing of Sex Drive last Sautrday. Makes me tired as hell for church the next morning but oh well.

Later y'all
thanks for reading

Yay November's Here

Hip hip hooray, even though I hate when it gets dark so early which throws me out of my f-f-flow.
anyway, last week had its ups and downs while my throat was being groggy the whole time.
-I got one half of a big assignment over with, I had to interview somebody i don't know who works in the field that I'm studying. It's a little tough to get up the nerve to do so sometimes with me. I contacted someone through e-mail and luckily I got a response 4 days later. The interview went really well though I feel I had pretty weak questions that won't make much for an interesting paper, which is the 2nd part of the assignment. Oh well the hard part is done
-I left my most expensive textbook in one of my classes last Thursday, thank goodness it's just sitting in the teacher's "box" as I write this. It was quite the mystery though of what could have happened to it.
- I forgot to take a little online quiz. My Sociology of Deviance class has quizzes on UVU's Blackboard. The quiz was up for 24 hours and I totally spaced it. I must be slipping in my old age haha totally kidding. Then I come to found out that the quiz I took last week scored me a 0, no clue why, just didn't lock in my answers correctly or something. I'm taking the remaining quizzes the second they go up dangit.

Anyway, enough of the bad side
Good Stuff
-Food from Five Guys, Applebees, Taco Bell (Again!?), and a couple others
-Hung out with a couple good friends during the week, always good
-Had a Happy Halloween with my girl, we just chilled out watching Movies and stuff. Then later on, I watched the movie Hard Candy (with Sweet & Spicy Doritios and Coke Zero on hand) which I think may be my new Halloween tradition. I love that movie sooo much as crazy as it is.

-I saw The Time Traveler's Wife last week. It had its moments of humor and everything, but it did drag on a little too long. All I say about the way it ends is "IRONY!"
Well that's all I got on my brain

My Halloween Costume 2009

I'm gonna be Butthead, got all the clothes and just have to do up my hair and I'll be all set for Halloween on Saturday

Week in Review

I guess this will become a weekly thing, or least until my head gets a lot clearer.
So what happened this week
1. My mom and I went to Joe's Cafe in Orem for the first time on Monday and then again on Wednesday. It was pretty good food (see burger above) and the atmosphere is awesome. The first time my mom and I stood still like two scared white people until the black owner named Joe popped his head around a corner and said in his Louis Armstrong-type voice "Come On In!!" There's not much selection but like I said, the food's pretty good. Well I guess on Friday it was in the news that Joe got in trouble for offering alcohol and sex to a minor employee or something like that. Say It Ain't so Joe. That don't mean I'm staying away from the Cafe for good.
2. I saw G.I. Joe (again) and bought the new Flight of the Conchords CD on Tuesday. Good Stuff
3. Been doing an application on Facebook that picks a "Friend of the Day" then I say something nice about each one and my hope is to get all the people picked to comment back. It's been quite a success so far.
4. Watching baseball playoffs, both teams I liked lost this week. Now the World Series will be Phillies vs.Yankees. I hope Philadelphia kicks the crap out of New York, even though I hate repeats.
5. Had a good weekend hanging out with my girlfriend. On Saturday, I helped out at her family Halloween party by co-running a Pumpkin Bowling Game. It was more like Pumpkin Throwing from the kid participants if you ask me and surprisingly we only lost one pumpkin.
6. Realized I've been to Taco Bell four times in the last 2 weeks- Monday and Friday both weeks. I got different stuff each time, it's just yummy stuff what can I say. Love the Beef and Potato Burrito
7. Walked a couple times this week while being bored
Me tired and can't think of any more
bye bye

Weird Week

Hey everybody, still suck at posting a lot on this blog
This week I hung out a lot (Monday through Saturday) with one of my best friends Steve while he was moving out of his mom's house. She said on Monday she wanted him out by Saturday and pretty much that's what happened. Tuesday he checked out a couple apartments, he picked the second out of two cause the first one was kind of a shithole haha. Ahhh it was fun though. I did 70% of the moving while Steve was busy being onery about the whole situation. If I had a job and his new apartment had an extra bedroom I would totally wanna move in.
Besides that, not much new this week.
Except
I passed out in the school hall on Tuesday during a lesson on Sexual Functioning for my Abnormal Psychology class. I seem to have history of this, this is the sixth time in the last 12 years of school where I feel like fainting when this topic is brought up in one form or another.
1999- 7th Grade Health- nothing happened but I felt like I was going to explode
2002- 10th Grade Health- passed out in class and slammed my face against the wall breaking my two front teeth, excused from school to visit doctor and dentist
2004- Adult Roles- left the classroom to chill out then went to read in the library until class was over
2004- Health 1010 at UVSC- left the classroom briefly to get a drink and walk around and returned without any problems.
2007- Marriage and Family- same thing
2009- Abnormal Psychology- briefly left classroom then returned where I felt faint again then went out in to the hall to chill out then the next thing I know I'm being woken up by passerbys in the hall. It's a strange feeling like you're in the middle of a damn good sleep and people are disturbing you while wanting to go back to sleep. It's weird also to have to use your brain to answer questions when you really don't want to. One student called the campus police who then called the paramedics cause it's "procedure". So I told the same story three times of what happened. "It was a lesson on  . . .it's happened before when I was . . . . I take lisonopril for high blood pressure . . . .haven't eaten . . . .this never happens otherwise . . . .I'm not diabetic (Yet) . . . . It must be police/paramedic's job to not believe me the first time. My vital signs were OK, said Hell No to going with them to hospital, and I was on my way to one more class where I felt exhausted followed by me vomiting all over myself in the hallway. So yeah- fun day. Had to go shower while my house was filled with toxins and such while our remodeled area was being spray painted.
I don't know what's up with it exactly. I can talk and joke about sex with friends and nothing happens. But the heat of the classroom, my shitty not eating breakfast before school habit, and the detailed thoughts of what's going on internally and externally during the sexual cycle just knocks me out.

Besides that the weather was topsy turvy, it was my Fall break from school which felt more like a week break, I went nuts eating what seemed like everything in sight, and the list goes on. Just strange and I feel like I won't be sane until I turn in a big assignment that's due on Tuesday.

Updates

Remodeling is almost complete. Just some last plumbing and electrical stuff mostly. 

Music is cool. Excited for Tuesday when the new Flight of the Conchords CD featuring most of the songs from the 2nd season of the HBO show comes out.


Movies are good too. Saw Zombieland which I thought was a lot of fun after the excessive gore of the beginning.Whoopee I'm gonna see G.I. Joe again this week.

Later dudes, I'm sleepy and confused about everything, yes every thing!
I weigh in tomorrow, hopefully I didn't gain too much

Gradually getting sadder

Ok, just to get the title out of the way, I dunno I just felt a little sad last night. This is the time of the year that if I'm alone on a Friday night then I feel a bit lonely and I haven't felt this way in a while. I've cried in parking lots on nights like this in the past. It just feels like nobody wants to invite me to do anything and all my friends are doing fun stuff with their other friends. What I did do was go to Shopko where I got a couple cheap DVDs, got 5 Buck pizza with my mom, watched a little baseball playoff action, and retro gamed with The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Monday was an awesome day but then the rest of the week got dumber and dumber . . . Just ate a bunch of food and stuff I already don't remember

Anyway, here are the updates
Remodeling- got the new countertops this week, finally!! Next week some painters will come in and do their thing, then we finally put in all these new appliances which are just sitting there after being delivered this week.

Movies- Finally went to the theater last Saturday with my girlfriend, we saw Whip It. I was pretty excited for it and I was not disappointed at all. Got several DVDs in the last week including Death At A Funeral, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Rock-n-Rolla (which I watched some of today), and Frequency.

Music- Anticipating the October 20th release of the new Flight of the Conchords album, until then I got a CD by Sufjan Stevens and an album from The Decemberists from an amazon.com order made two weeks ago. Already excited for a couple releases in 2010

well that's about it
can't think of much else
my fall break is next week
hooray, maybe