Right nao

My mom is being really aggravating... Anyway, I have an appointment today at 3:30pm to get my teeth examined for some root canal goodness. After that, I plan on playing Xbox as I just got 13 months of Xbox Live Gold (actual good thing my mom has done for me this week).

I guess I'll just use the rest of this post to say that I wish I wasn't at school... And TF2 is amazing.

///also...

I have gotten a job

And that job is at the Beach Boardwalk. Yeah, I only get $8.25 an hour and I can only work 16 hours a week until spring break starts but I don't really care. I got a job. I get to give prizes to little kids and deal with angry people. So... now I'm gonna make bank. AND drive a Range Rover.

Academy Award 2008 results

I am so disappointed with this year's Oscar awards that I won't say much in this blog. 8/20 of my picks were correct and that means that 12 were not. Strongest in my mind, I am disappointed that the Wrestler wasn't even nominated for best picture and further that Mickey Rourke didn't win best actor. In then end, I think it is ridiculous how much critical success Slumdog Millionaire has earned because I really didn't think the movie was anything special.

Windows 7 MS Paint Update

The new MS Paint update that I got on Windows 7 is actually pretty cool. I've stopped using Vista completely because with Windows 7, I now realize how much I really hate it. Yet, I'm still not at the point were I have all my old software from Vista on 7. I just download things when I feel I want or need them. So, back to the point, I've been using MS Paint for all my Photoshop-esque needs and haven't yet had the need to pirate Photoshop CS4 or get back on the old GIMP. That being said, I haven't made any real artwork for a while so we'll have to wait and see. Also, I haven't really delved into Paint's features to see if it is even better than before. I just think it looks cool.

Runescape

Right now, I'm playing Runescape. More precisely, I am grinding on cows and eating kebabs. I just made 10k by cutting down oak trees for an hour and selling the logs. I was grinding for an hour on trees! I know the graphics aren't good, but I love this game.

The International

I just saw the movie The International with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts and I should say that it wasn't a terrifically good movie but I did enjoy it. It started off fantastic. There was great writing (Eric Singer), cinematography (Frank Griebe) and directing (Tom Tykwer). The film had a very interesting style that was similar to the British crime thrillers like Snatch and L4yer Cake but very different in a more subtle manner. The film was also more grounded which is something I enjoy in a movie of this sort. Up until the big action scene in the Guggenheim Museum (which was an entire replication of the museum! and was an awesome scene!), I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Then, just after that scene, the movie lost all credit for its great style and attention to detail by snowballing into a sort of cheesy Hollywood finish that had a very hollow meaning. Particularly, the interrogation scene and ending scene were disasters. The film touches on subjects like truth, corruption, the world's current condition and things of that sort, but where it started of hard it ended weak. I think the writer started of with a good point and way of putting it out there but got lost in the complexity of the issue and failed to come through with substance. All in all, I would recommend that you see it if you like yourself some Clive Owen.

Dollhouse Premiere

I know that it is about 3 or 4 days late, but I just had to make sure I saw the right video. Dollhouse sucks! It is one of the worst television shows I have actually watched in awhile. I don't even know if I will see episode 2.

American Idol - Season 8 Hollywood Outcome

WTF American Idol?! The last two episodes of Hollywood (S08E10, 11) weren't so bad after you trashed the previous one's with that drama bullshit. But towards the end of the Hollywood finale you fucking send the black guy with the piercings home and let Tatiana Del Toro through AND the chick with black hair who forgot her lyrics twice? First you use terribly poor editing to try and create drama in the auditions and Hollywood segments and then you implement groups AND the latest sing-off crap. So stupid.

Infectious mononucleosis

So, I'm sitting at a computer in the library getting warmed up by listening to IDM on Pandora Radio, reading some rss, checking my mail, and checking torrents. Then, I reach into my pocket to pull out my 8gb flash drive but it isn't there! So that sucks because I thought that I brought it to school today. There is always a chance that I left it at my house, but I really hope I didn't lose it.

Anyway, I still have a little over 30 minutes until lunch starts so I'll troll around a little longer. Also, I have to walk home today which really won't be that fun.

Academy Awards

So... the Academy Awards are coming. Last year the Oscars was the first award show I really watched with interest and I thought it was okay. I saw the Golden Globes this year and thought that was kind of lame. Anyway, here is what I want to win for each category that I can make a fair guess about (I know that a lot of these won't turn out how I would like).

Best Motion Picture of the Year - Milk (Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks)
(Why wasn't the Wrestler nominated?!)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Meryl Streep (Doubt)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)

Best Achievement in Directing - Gus Van Sant (Milk)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published - John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)

Best Achievement in Cinematography - Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight)

Best Achievement in Editing - Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Achievement in Art Direction - Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button)

Best Achievement in Costume Design - Danny Glicker (Milk)

Best Achievement in Makeup - Greg Cannom (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score - A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song - A.R. Rahman ("O...Saya", Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Achievement in Sound - Ed Novick, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo (The Dark Knight)

Best Achievement in Sound Editing - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood (Wall-E)

Best Achievement in Visual Effects - Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button)

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year - Andrew Stanton (Walle-E)

Best Short Film, Animated - La Maison en Petits Cubes (Kunio Katô)

Windows 7

I love Windows 7! I think that everything about it is an improvement from Vista. Recently I've been using the gadgets and althlough they aren't as good as Mac OSX they are 1000% better than in Vista (I am actually posting this blog from my Blogger desktop gadget). The new taskbar is also very great. It allows for better tasking and is very, very smooth. Although, (as Nicholas pointed out to me) it does not work like OSX's dock in which programs will remain open until closed (meaning that you can close your windows and leave the program running). The control panel is still a little messy but is definitely better looking in the finished view and the aero effect is also smoother in my opinion (especially with proper hardware). So I won't really go more in-depth but I think Windows 7 (build 7000) is a great OS, especially for a beta.

Two things I dislike, however, are that certain programs that worked for Vista don't work and that this beta is very lightweight and will probably be bloated in the official release. I am sure that the programs I need will work eventually and I hope that the official build is as light, in the end.

Nike Team Wolf sneakers

Nike is selling less than 72 pairs of these limited edition Team Wolf sneakers. They are SOOOOO awesome. And they are also $200.
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