Random thoughts- Dress shirt, Tie, and... Jeans ?

Is it odd for a guy to worry so much about his apperance as I do ? I'm not talking about my actual appereance I am talking about my out fit. I think I am kind of digging a hole of unmanlessness here, but what I am trying to get at really is that I think I have a very healthy obssesion with waring a Dress shirt, with some kind of Tie, and Jeans. If I had a decent pair of converse I would ware those also, but for now I stick with dress shoes. When I ware this attair, I don't know I feel kind of like a real author. That probably sounds kind of pathetic, but I can't really be sorry for something like that, it's just who I am. That's not to say with out this attair I feel like less of a writer or anything like that, but I don't know it kind of makes me feel like I am on top of the world, nothing can hurt me when I have my trademark attair. It's kind of like a knights armor, but more a less a geeks armor.

Bad days suck

What is about good days where it seems like ten bad days are around the corner ? Bad days have haunted every good that I have had for a long time. It's like for every amazing moment that I have where I just forget any problem or just any stupid nonsense that comes at me, a moment of suckeyness comes and screws it up and makes everything ten times worse.  It makes me question when can I just be happy ? I mean I hear of all my friends just constantly being happy, why can't I be like that ? This one thing that made my want to write a book about a suicidal author, that and my own battles with being suicidal, but writing it without a pessimistic view is quiet hard. I want it to have this uplifting feeling to it but I just don't feel uplifted. I miss the days were I could just vent to one person and they would assure me like no one else could that everything will be all right.  I just wanted you all to know Bad Days Suck !!!

Breakfast club remake/ Remakes in General.... Possibly John Hughes Remakes, Midnight Run

So here I am again, it's about 4:12 a.m. and I am writing a blog. What is different though is I kind of have a reason for writing this blog ( as if I am writing to stop some major catastrophe). So I decided to look up some covers of songs, like I do alot, because of course I am a big fan of cover songs, I don't they have intrest me seeing a song or a story from someone else point of view ( which is kind of hypocritical to the whole point of this blog). So of course I went to Yellowcard's performence of Don't You Forget About Me at the 2003 VMA's( one of the few good things to come fake award shows.) It is to me one of the best performences of any song ever, it mixes what is an amazing song with with clips that just seem to fit perfectly with how they are playing it. Every time I see it, I have to fight back tears knowing that we as a world will never see a Hughes film again. Breakfast Club is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I think putting it like that is putting it lightly. Breakfast Club is one of the few movies that I can say is more then a movie to me ( a really short list for me), it's a movie that just brings up so much amazing,painful, confusing, and changing memories for me. I honestly think that it's John Hughes Magnum Opus, though basiclay all of his films are classics ( his is honestly one of the few filmmakers or storytellers to ever get how young adults are) Breakfast Club is a film were everything just seems to align so perfectly. The cast is amazing, the dialouge is realistic to the point were even the 80s talk doesn't bother me,  music of course is amazing, there are very few things wrong with this movie. The movie to me just showed me an important message of life really, life sucks sometimes.  Through out high school no matter what problem I went through I knew that somebody was going to be there for me going through the same thing. It also taught me the age old lesson of not judging a book by it's cover, who gives a shit if someone is a geek and your a jock, people are people and to deny someone the same respect you ask for is a terrible thing. So to get to my point, I have come to a conclusion that Breakfast Club is one of the few movies that should never be remade. Now I'm some film snab saying that no film should ever be remade. I mean granted there are many films that probably shouldn't be remade, but I will give them a chance, I mean everybody was saying that remaking Dawn of the Dead was a terrible idea, but look what happened we got what I think is one of the best zombie movies ever made. The Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean's Eleven, The Fly, Scareface, The Thing all examples of why remakes work when done right. But to me John Hughe's films in general are just forbidden ground. I mean can you honestly see anyone else but Molly as Samantha Baker, or how about Shia as Bender ( scary thought, no offense Shia I seem to be one of the few people left who still likes you) or and I shutter thinking this Michael Cera as Brian Johnson. Hell I can't think of anyone else as Keith Nelson besides Eric Stoltz he was that character. I heard already ( take that as more of a rumor because these things float around all the time) that they were thinking about remaking Ferris Buller's Day Off. The fact that they would even think about touching that film makes me worry about Planes, Trains, and Automobiles  ( favorite Hughes film). But realisticly to me all of those besides maybe Ferris and Planes, all of those could be remade and I think that I would be fine with it. But Breakfast Club is unremakeable. Any attempt to remake it will fail, I'm not doubting any actor todays talents, but it would be like someone going back to remake Jaws or Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You have something that will be remembered by generations for being so great that in a way it surpassed it genre and should be on the list of greatest films ever made. To even try and remake would tarnish the romantizism of it a little bit. Really that's all I got to say about that. Oh and why has no one tried a Midnight Run remake, that is one thing I would love to write, there is a film that is pretty good amd the remake with some of the amazing actors we have today, WOW I am having goosebumps thinking about it, sorry for the little geek out.
See you later

Randomness: Titan A.E, Lit, Molly Ringwald, Rammstein, Heavy Metal music, Crappy Films,Nick Cage

So I have not written a blog for quiet sometime now, kind of mixture of being lazy and just being busy, I know oxymoron oh well. I kind of like this whole random thought format so I think I will stick to it for a while, and if you don't like thank you for reading my blog, I now know someone is reading my blog enough to not like a format, kind of a win if you think about it. So right now I am half way watching Under Seige 2: Dark Territory, Listening to Lit and writing a little bit on my stories. That brings up a question what ever happened to Lit ? I mean personally I always liked them, thought they were a good band who had at least a few hits like Over My Head ( on one of my favorite animated movies ever Titan A.E.), Miserable ( one of my favorite music videos ever, look it up), and My Own Worst Enemy( Just one of my favorite songs ever, have been considering listening to it and writing something).I mean at one time they were at least kind of big, they were part of that late ninties movement of poppy rock music that was not pop and wasen't alt rock, but really wasen't pop rock I dont really know to discribe it. Molly Ringwald might be 80s crush, like Ally Sheedy, Lea Thompson, Kelly LeBrock, and Phoebe Cates are all extemly beautiful ladies, but Molly was just I dont Know, she just had something that was like " Man she so hot, but she gets what us nerdy guys are going through, dont go for Jake Ryan Go for Jacob Pierce" kind of thing. Listening to Rammstein's  Dont die before I do( Translated Title), it could honestly be one of the most depressing songs in the world,  some people try to say that that Rammstein has no lyrical vaule, but that kind of seems like a load of crap. Why does Rammstein have no musical vaule ? Because they are a heavy band ? I hate the whole hippster hate against Heavy Metal music " It's not John Mayer so it's not good" " It's not the Dave Mattews band so why listen". I am sorry they try to do something more then depress the shit out of everyone, I mean granted I will always say that I love the depressing crap like no other, but that doesn't mean I think that the heavy stuff has any less of a meaning to their songs.  One thing I worry about is like lets say are civalization is destroyed and aliens or the remaining kids of the humans who survived come to earth and some how find out about love of crappy movies, that the will then base all there movies off of those because they think they are the way to do film.  Granted there are many things wrong with the situation I just said but hopefully you got what I meant. I am a man who loves to watch terrible movies. Not only do I love it, I can only do it with other people so then I am bringing down someone else in my terrible habit. I can not tell you why I love them so much, like after I watch a movie that amazes me like watching Ghost Dog and then watching Killer Clowns from Outerspace. It might be the fact that I love the chesseness, maybe it's the fact that someone could actually work on this and say " Yep the public should see this" ( Nick Cage ?). Also what the hell happened to Nick Cage ? I know it's really trendie to talk about Nick Cage and all, but this is a honest question coming from a Nick Cage fan. I know that he has had some trouble with money latley, but that does not excuse Drive Angry, Ghost Rider, Season of the Witch, Next, Knowing, and G-Force. The man was a above average actor I mean look at Adaptaion, The Rock, Con Air ( I know I like it cause it is kind of rediculious and also goes into my love of just crazy action films), The National Treasure Series ( what can I say I love history and I love the whole Indiana Jones think, thought Nick is extremely different then Indy I am just saying), Leaving Las Vegas, and of course Rasing Arizona. I am thinking of starting a compain of bring back sane Nick Cage, but I am kind of worried that he is long gone. Well Seya

Randomness again - writing, paramore,pet peeve on music fans, Pandora, sadness sort of, Dexter

 So here I am again, 1:56 am, on 6/21/2011, having really nothing to do. Luckily this time I am writing from my handydandy labtop though so thats good at least. I have written a little bit of my vampire story, I think I might have written a little bit of my suicide story, maybe I will write a little more story wise probably. I am currently listening to The Only Exception by Paramore. Now if you didnt know I am kind of a big fan of Paramore, I really love basicaly anything they have made and of course for me even to try to describe how amazing Hayley Williams voice is would be giving it a discreadit which to do should commdemn you from being a fan of music, I mean say what you want about Paramore as a band,Hayley's voice is one of a kind. That's really why it didn't bother me that the Farro Brothers left. If you want my opinnion ( which I am expecting you do because you are reading my blog) they left because Hayley was getting the fame that she deserved and they were jealous, plain and simple really.  I mean you really can replace anyone in that band besides her, just saying Paramore is Hayley. The Only Exception is probably one of the best songs to come out of the past few years. People are going to judge my comment and say that I'm not a real fan and that I am a mainstreamer ( don't know if that is a word, but don't really care that much) screw them. Everybody is so worried about a song being to "Main Stream" not being inde enough I guess or another one of my favorite people who are intrested in music are those people who when there favorite bands become big stop listening or complain but still listen because in there opinnion that band "sold out". I mean if you need evidence look at Metallica, after they realsed the Black Album many people wined about the fact that they sold out and became Metallica-lite, and that because the album sold a crap ton of records that somehow Metallica sold out. Now I will grant you that the Black Album is not that heavy as Master of Puppets, but I mean how is a band supposed to make any money with out a album selling a crap ton, it just doesn't make any sense to me. But Metallica sort of went to crap after that album so Oh Well. There is nothing I love more in the world then when I am writing something for a story, for the words to just seem right. I know that sentence probably didn't make any sense,but for me I think that anyone who is a writer in somewhere and not published sort of has a lingering feeling that what they are writing is shit. I mean once you get publish and sell some copies I imagine that it probably gets easier because you know that someone out there will read your book. But that moment when I am writing something and I just look at it and it seems so write, I really can't explain it enough. Now listening to Pandora. God that is possibly the greatest invention in the world, the greatest invention to come along since........Hot Pockets probably haha. efully that doesn't seem like a plug, I'm just saying. Love kind of sucks sometimes. Really what sucks about it is loving but really not getting it back, the idea doesn't not suck at all, like I have said before and its kind of cliche but oh well, Love makes the world go around, but when you don't have it, it is sort of like a giant hole in yourself that needs to be filled. I am sort of in Love with the romantic idea of love, not to say it doesn't exsist or anything, it's just different for everyone. I hate the theory that marriage is archaic, I know a lot of stars have said that but whats archaic about. Granted I have said before that I don't know if I will get married, Marriage in all the right form should be the greatest thing in the world, these two people are telling each other that they love each other so much that they are promiseing to God or who ever else that they won't cheat and they will be there for them forever. Now that doesn't happen all the time, but the fact that it does still gives me hope. I am going to end this by saying that if you are not watching the show Dexter, you should start, well that is if you love amazing storylines, supber acting and a show that is breaking boundrays. Just Saying. Well See ya

Randomness-long

So I really dont have a plan set out for this blog, its currently 2:09 in  the morning, in Illinois and I am up for many of reasons, and I thought that since I cant really write a story on my labtop, I might as well write in my blog. Maybe this will prove to be better then the rest cause I am really just going off of anything, maybe it will really suck, oh well. So I am listening to The Script's For the First Time, The Script is a band that to me many people are on the fence about weather they like them or not. One thing I always hear is a debate weather they are pop, alt rock, or many other labels that people like to put on bands. I dont really think it matters. I personal am a believe in music, just music. What I mean by that is I could honestly care less weather something is Pop or Heavy Metal or Grunge, to me music is music, it all inspires me. I personal believe that their songs are incredible written and that O Donoghue's ( got to love the irish) voice is amazing. Though their songs do make me incredible depressed when I listen to them at this time in the morning. I guess I just wish I didnt feel so lonely you know, dont get me wrong I love life. I love my friends, I love my famliy at times, I wish I got to see some friends more but you know what are you going to do, I love how much I have been able to write recently something I havent been able to do in a long time. It's I have always really felt like I'm missing something, as if I have a huge hole in me and I just need something to fill it I guess, I dont really know how to explain it. I'm not depressed, but I am. I'm just waiting on that person you know to come along, or  I dont even know really. I dont like being that guy who is just a friend, I want to be more I guess. Thats another problem I deal  with though, wanting to be more. I dont really have a high self esteem, I have always wanted to be something more than I am, not really that I want to change my self, because I do love who I am right now. Just I want to meet my potential at ....everything really. Now I am listening to Train Marry Me, sort of masochistic I guess, but I mean I think everyone just gets into that mood where you really just want to be sad. Marriage has never been important to me really. I'm not saying that the idea of loving one person for every is stupid ( quiet the opposite really) it's just, what does Marriage really mean in the end, so you take my last name, woo hoo. I am not oppose to getting married, but if I never did and just lived with a girl I loved, I am fine with that. Now its Maroon 5 Wont Go Home Without You. I have always love the idea of romance really, as dumb as that sounds. The Idea that too people, out of all the people in the universe, can find each other and love each other with the love that people do, it kind of is amazing to me. Which then comes my belief in god. My view really differs with the Church, but I still consider myself a Christian. I just cant deal with that fact that there are many people out there who cant be happy because someone thinks that Christianity goes against it. I believe in Gay rights ( thought not gay, just believe in love like I said), I dont think people who commit Suicide get a instant sentence to hell ( not that I think its a good idea, life is deffiently worth living) and I dont think  that because you believe in a different religion, you may go to hell because of the big wheel of religion that some thing we are playing. But I do believe in a being that created us, and that he is looking out for us. That doesnt mean he is the proverble glove catching us when ever something goes wrong. And it doesnt mean that are lives are predestined really. I think that we all have many paths in front of us, but its are choices that mark are destiny. Now its the Doctor Who theme. By the way if you are a Scifi fan, I recommend watching Doctor Who. It is a brillant show, that if you didnt know has been on for ever. The writing has been amazing latley and Matt Smith is doing an amazing job as the Doctor, probably the third best behind Tennant and Baker. Well I guess this is where I end my huge rant, and since I am bad at endings I will do this
Goodbye

Movie Adaptaions of Books

So last night I rented to movies that I had been kind of dieing to see, I Am Number Four and No Strings Attached. Now while I was very disapointed with No Strings Attached ( No Movie with Natatlie Portman,Kevin Kline,Mindy Kaling and that plot should not be that bad, thanks again Ivan Reitman for showing me that you can not direct) I have actually been quiet suprised with I Am Number Four. Going in I had heard mixed reviews. Some saying its allright movie and others saying that it doesnt fallow the book at all and is terrible. I actually have found enjoyable, and a pretty decent scifi movie, and I plan on reading the books soon, but more importantly the movie brought up a question in my head. Should the movie adpation of a book be called terrible just because it misses parts from the book ? When ever talked about, movie adaptions get sayings thrown around like, " The Book is always better" but I dont think that is the case in most cases. One prime example is A Time to Kill by John Grisham . I saw the movie before I even thought about reading the book, and I loved it, I consider it one of Mathew McConaughey's only good movies. So I tried to read the book, and i just couldnt read the whole thing .I found the movie to be ten times better. The dialouge was more realistic in the movie and Idk it just seemed to do everything better. Now I am also comeing from a life long experance of seeing directors ruin comic book films becuase they like to change major details in characters personalitys and sometimes just dont take it seriously. But I also coming from being a comic book fan, a movie fan, a novel fan, and a inspiring writer understand with novels expecally that not everything can get in. Many subplots have been taken out of the Harry Potter films and those are still great adaptions.So I would just like to ask my fellow geeks to remember this when watching a adaptaion of there favorite book, that it is a adaptaion not the book itself. I am not asking you to let big character development, big time plot develping and terrible screenwriting go, but what I am asking is to not let the small stuff get in the way of what could be a pretty good movie.

My Geek Bucket List

1. Go to the Dr.Who Museum
2. Take A road trip to California just to go to the San Diego Comic- Con
2. Propose to my future wife at the same Comic-Con
3. While Proposing to her say" One Ring to Rule Them All" at the San Diego Comic-Con
4. Publish A book that I know combines all my geekatude
5. Get a movie Greenlighted that does the same
6. Meet Bruce Campbell( almost did this one)
7. Meet Sir Ian Mckellen and ask him the question we all have, Who would win Magneto or Gandalf
8. Meet Zachery Quinto and Lenord Nimoy
9. Meet a sexy ass robot
10. Go back in time and save John Conner
11. Go back in time in a totally badass car that will go out of style in ten years
12.Write a Comic
13. Meet Harrison Ford and tell him he can stay on my plane
14. Go to Hogwarts and totally kick Voldmorts no nose ass
15.Stop a Vampire with a baddass katana, while shooting a werewolf who in turn killed a Leprechaun who is in the hood
16. Fly a space ship..... any where
17. Have sex with a celebrity
18. Say Shazam while having sex
19. Fight a demon with a giant ass sword
20. Be loved by future geeks to come

April 11- The Saw Franchise

When you think of horror franchieses what comes to mind. The Halloween Series ? The Nightmare on Elm Street Series ? The Friday the 13th series ? Arguable the most popular series today is the the Saw series.It's twist endings and new torture devises have become known to many horror fans around the world . I am writing this log because of what I had to deal with a few nights ago. A few nights ago I decide that since it was the " Final Chapter" and I am a big fan of the first three movies. The first film to was one of the first original horror/thrillers, that created an idea that many directors and writers have tried to deublicate ever since, and gave us a villian that will go down as one of the best in horror movie  and movie villian history. Saw 2 then gave us a different twist on the idea and added a pretty decent character into the mix with Detective Matthews ( who if the series would have been done right, could have went on to be Jigsaw's nemises, in my opinnion). It had a pretty good script that keep me captavied right to the end. When the third one came out it , the whole idea was waring a little thin, but the third movie still was a decent movie, had a decent script and put great characters into the mythology and had a decent twist at the end, that seemed like it would have been the logical end. Now I'm not saying that I ( like many people) am biased against movies with 4 movies in there series, done right we could have a amazing horror series the like that noone has seen. But of course they had to go and ruin it with the next pieces of shit in the line up. Now I saw, Saw 4 and it was a piece of shit, I decided after that I would not watch any of the other pieces of crap in the series intill the series was done. But then the " Final Chapter" allorded me. I thought what the hell, maybe they have finally done another good one and will end the series on a high note. I am here to tell you that Saw " The Final Chapter" Is the biggest piece of shit to ever come out in movie history. It is worst then any direct to dvd movie I have ever seen. I would rather watch Gamebox 1.0( former worst movie in my history of watching movies) Ten times in a row while listening to Justian Beiber, then ever have to watch that piece of crap again. To even comprenhend how bad this movie is you would have to go watch unfortunatly. The film seemed to do what ever 3d movie in the 80's ever did and try to gimmick the 3d, I thought we were pasted that phase in movie making. The script was just plain awful and seemed like a 5 year old wrote it, and I never once cared for any character or event in this intire film. That is my rant

March 30, 2011- Battle L.A.

So this is my blog post and hopefully this will be a good start. I think I will review a movie I saw last night.  Now going into Battle L.A. I had heard a mix of this from people saying it was a great movie that every Scifi fan should see, too people like Roger Ebert ( who I don't agree with often in his movie reviews) calling it  "noisy, ugly, stupid, " and going as far to say that any one who liked this movie is not a intelligent person. My opinnion of the movie was that it was ok. As anticlimactic as that is it's all i can really say about the movie. There were parts I loved and parts I didn't. I thought that Aaron Eckhart,like always, gave a pretty good performence and really got me as a leader with a shady past, but a leader who loves his men none the less. I thought for the most part the acting was fine, I had no problem with the acting. The Aliens though having a few problems( they our supposed to be more advanced then us, but there soliders are useing weapons that barley even match the one's the humans were using) have a pretty good design to them, and really have a intresting reason for attacking, and I thought this movie really stood out from many of the other Alien movies out there. I thought that the affects in this movie were also pretty good, when seeing the destoryed L.A it really gave me a chil, because of the realisim of how L.A. looked and just how disastrous it looked, really all the carange and how the main characters reacted to and seeing them break down so realisticly was one of the big things that keep me into this movie. Now on to my problem with this movie While watching this movie I questioned wheither or not this films Director of Cinematography was purposly going for the shaky, trying to make me puke look or if he had Parkinson's Disease. Many times through out the climatic battle's I had trouble paying attention because the camera was shaking so much. Another problem was some of the plot holes in the script. Like I said earlier these aliens are supposed to be more advanced then us to the point were we can barley stop there air attacks, but they still use weapons that are so weak they really fail in conparastion to what the humans were useing. Many of the characters in the film who are supposed to be main characters arn't really developed well, Eckhart's character is developed fine, and they attempt at a few others but in the long run a few characters die that you really dont feel anything for. I will have to give this movie a 6 out of 10 on the Pierce scale.