Max Payne Movie Review!

SUCKED!

It was a weird day in Wonderland...

It certainly was!
Some friends and I went to Canada's Wonderland for the annual Halloween Haunt event.
I have to be honest I was a little scared (I'm a wuss when it comes to scary things), but once we were there I was really excited and couldn't wait to go through some of the Haunted Houses!
The first one we went through was called Massacre Manor and it was one of the only houses that gave me a real good scare. Throughout the night we went on some roller coasters as well and my one friend Kiera kept asking me to do magic tricks for the people around us in line. Eventually I did and it became a little ritual to perform for the people in front, behind, and in some cases all around us. While we waited in line for the Vortex coaster we met this one girl who can only really be classified as Genuine Crazy. She thought it would be a good idea to come to the park in slippers, or should I say "slipper."
You see, she was wearing a shoe...and a slipper...a dolphin slipper...named "Flipper."
and she felt the need to keep announcing to everyone in the line that her slipper was a female dolphin and that it's name was "Flipper."
I managed to haggle (read: asked) her for a photo in exchange for a magic trick.
Luckily she obliged and I got this wonderful souvenir:



Anyways, we went continued through the line and just as we were about to get on Vortex the announced that the ride was closed due to weather conditions.
We were rather pissed.
So we decided to try some more haunted houses and I must say I'm quite pedantic (overly concerned with minute details or formalisms) and in my opinion the houses were rather lackluster (Lacking brightness, luster, or vitality; dull).

The one thing that most people were very happy about was...

BEHEMOTH!
I've been on the ride several times now, but nothing compares to going on it at night...in the dark! You can't see the track that well and the wind makes it seem like you're going that much faster.

The final house of the night was "Clowns at Midnight" which we just so happened to go through at midnight, which made it really literal (but not anymore terrifying)

I decided to see what would happen to the "scareactors" if I did my famous "puking the cards from the mouth trick." (see photo)


As it turns out, the people inside "Clowns at Midnight" went from creepy clown people to normal people in a second. The one guy kept asking me to do it again, but the best was the guy who said "That's the craziest shit i've seen all night!"

So all in all it was a pretty awesome time and I can't wait to go back next year!

BUT the biggest, craziest, and most scary thing of the night came long after we had left the park.
We were all hungry so we decided to stop at Wendy's for some food. There was this long ass line that wasn't moving, but we decided to stick it out. Then when we were getting a little bit closer, these 3 people cut right to the front of the line to "look at the menu."
Everyone knew right away that they had an attitude and that they were really trying to get ahead of everyone. People started complaing both to the cutters and to the Wendy's staff, yet neither of them were doing anything about it. That's when this big black guy behind us started to get confrontational with the line cutters.
My favourite quote from the guy behind us had to be:
"You get outta my face BITCH...Fuckin' Mouthpiece!"
The lady taking working the counter eventually took their order, much to the amazement and anger of the people who had been waiting in line for at least 20 minutes.

Luckily I got it all on tape with my handy-dandy camera phone...Enjoy!






FUCKIN' MOUTHPIECE!

Tuesday Tunes!

I'm not quite sure if today's Tuesday Tunes post really counts as a music video, but it features music and a video.

Before I get to the video I have one thing to say. There's something about little British kids that just irritates me to no end, their accent...don't get me wrong I love the British accent, but when little kids have it, it sounds more annoying than nails on a blackboard.

Here's the video (more comments after)


My first gripe is with the kid at 8 seconds. This is the perfect example of the annoying little accent. For some reason I have this idea in my head that all British kids are little brats, it's probably just stereotypical TV and Movies that have made me think this way, but check out the girl on the far left at 9/10 seconds. It's very obvious that she needs the attention as she pushes her way through the other actors.

Next point of interest, the lyrics "It's a brilliant new toothpaste, like the colour, love the taste." The shot right after them saying this shows the kids EATING the toothpaste...

Also the line "It's from Colgate, we can tell!"
no shit...it says it on the tube...

Does anyone know what they're saying at 19 seconds?
"I want bumble hair???"

and one final thing (as a friend brought up)
Don't most British people have bad teeth?!?

ANYWAYS, that's enough criticizing for now, although there is another video about the "New Colgate Pump!:

Mr. Lonely

Poor poor Brad Pitt...


P.S. My internet was down for a while so that's why journal entries weren't submitted.

Tuesday Tunes!

This video is a winner right from the start because it features the band "Justice", which is sort of a misnomer because they aren't really a band, but rather a duo French Electronica musicians.
but this video wins for another reason...
OLD PEOPLE DANCING!
WOOO!
Who doesn't love it when old people try to dance?

Anyways, this video is really up for interpretation and according to one YouTuber this is what it is trying to show:

"I think this video is brilliant, taking the supremely mundane event of another little girls birthday and making it meld with the song by using somber lighting, clipping and slowing down the video and adding the subtext of a dead grandmother and the necklace the girl inherits. It tells a story, and adds humor to an event that might otherwise be something eerie or depressing."

That's a lot of reading so why don't we just watch the video...

Dear Diary #2

What is Your Favourite Fairytale Creature? Sept. 16, 2002

"My favourite fairytale creature are the ones from Harry Potter. I like the griffin and Fluffy the 3 headed dog. I think the gremlins at Gringotts bank are scary looking."

Oh Harry Potter how I loved thee so much more when I was younger...

Dear Diary...

I recently stumbled across my journal from Gr. 7 and it's quite amusing to read some of the old entries.
I've decided that this week I'll post a new story every day.
Today's entry is about what I thought I would be doing when I was 25 years old.

25 November 11/2002
"When I am 25 I hope to be a magician working at M.T. Bellies or doing stage shows. I will have my own house and a car. I will make lots of money. I will have lots of magic friends and will be a much better magician."

Wow...pretty optimistic huh?

While most of it is true I can see now that I probably won't own a house by the time i'm 25, but hopefully I will have a car sooner than later.

I'm wailin' about Palin!

Sarah Palin annoys me so much!
She knows nothing about politics and she is certainly not ready to be vice-president.
This video just makes me laugh, the only people dumber than Sarah Palin are her followers:






Yup this just about sums it up...

meow meow meow meow meow meow...

Simply amazing...I wish I had detective skills like Detective Mittens:

This is just wrong on so many levels...

It's things like this that make me say...why?!?

Can I put this big sausage in my mouth ;)

When I stumbled across this video, I was so happy. All of my classmates gathered around the warm glow of my laptop computer screen to bask in the glory of: "Don't Put It In your Mouth."
This was a PSA from the mid 90's from the "Concerned Children's Advertisers."
The only thing I'm concerned about is the creepy pedophile lion at the end of the clip...

Tuesday Tunes!

Fergie likes to partay!
Actually the Venga Boys like to party and I know that everyone has heard this song at some point in their life, but I had never seen the music video for it before tonight, and now all of you can see this masterpiece too!

15 milleseconds of FAME!

Today marks my television broadcast premier!
I was featured as a student in a 20 sec. commercial for the Liberal Party of Canada, which aired nationally (across Canada!!!) on Canada AM this morning.
It will also air on Friday, but if you want to see the commercial it's available from the CTV website right here:

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/election-2008/ad-challenge/#clip100326
(The commercial starts at 1:11 into the clip and that's me in the green/blue striped shirt)

The commercial was shot in 35 millimeter film (same as feature films), and marks the first time any of the Niagara College student directors have been able to shoot in such an impressive format.






FUN FACT #1: The ball rolling into the hole at 1:21 was a really tricky shot and took at least 20 takes!

FUN FACT #2: I can also be seen at 1:24 planting a tree in the background!

STOP...in the name of animation!

I've always enjoyed stop animation. You can do lots of neat things with it and lately I've found lots of interesting examples from YouTube.
Here are just 2 that I think are pretty sweet.: