Sunday, July 12, 2009
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
Horrible. I expected gore, adventure and Jane Austin-style drama. What I read was boring, verbose and aggravatingly slow. The book really should have focused more on zombies eating the whiny main characters.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Bitten and Feast
Feast: A horror movie from the crack team that is Matt Damon and Ben Aflec, Feast features a bar full of small towners who have to fight off four alien/monster/beasts covered in dead animal carcasses. There were a few genuinely funny parts, and the movie even had a wheelchair ridden young man who looked strikingly like Demitri Martin. Fun movie full of gore.
Bitten: A young, looserish EMT finds a woman who has been recently turned into a vampire and tries to help her adjust to her new changes. surprisingly adorable, this macabre romantic comedy is a fun watch.
Bitten: A young, looserish EMT finds a woman who has been recently turned into a vampire and tries to help her adjust to her new changes. surprisingly adorable, this macabre romantic comedy is a fun watch.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Zombie video game revies
House of the Dead, 2 and 3: Simple arcade style shooter with no option for weapon advancement. Fun and with some fantastically gory scenes.
Dead Rising: You are a reporter helicoptered in to a mall where an outbreak of zombies are terrorizing the few locals left. I consistently have issues with the controls, but they designed it so you can spend as much time and energy as you wish mercilessly slaughtering zombies with various mall items. My favorite is the hot frying pan.
Left 4 Dead: you and three of your frfiend can fight zombies together! That is, of course, if you can find enough people not made motion sick by the camera in this game. It is really fun, but I need to get over shooting in small places and the sickness that follows if I want to play this game
Resident Evil 5: Long, gory and challenging, the makings of a good game.
Dead Rising: You are a reporter helicoptered in to a mall where an outbreak of zombies are terrorizing the few locals left. I consistently have issues with the controls, but they designed it so you can spend as much time and energy as you wish mercilessly slaughtering zombies with various mall items. My favorite is the hot frying pan.
Left 4 Dead: you and three of your frfiend can fight zombies together! That is, of course, if you can find enough people not made motion sick by the camera in this game. It is really fun, but I need to get over shooting in small places and the sickness that follows if I want to play this game
Resident Evil 5: Long, gory and challenging, the makings of a good game.
Summer and Fall
I decided I hate Moscow so much I quit. I quit Moscow, and I quit U of I. After this summer I hope I never have to see this terrible boring town with smelly water again. While naturally I have learned a lot here, there has been a lot I have missed out on as well.
The hard water here left deposits in my hair and I had to cut it all off, I had to make three hour trips to have my braces tightened when I still had them on, and I missed out on time with Jack before he passed away in the fire.
It wasnt all bad, I have made many friends, found out what I want to do for a living and I have learned more about how much I love home. In realizing what I want to do for a living I have signed up for a summer course to become a Certified Nurses Assitant so that I can have a better job while I go to school to get some kind of medical technician certification. I plan to volunteer over the summer in the hospital to see what I might like to do.
It will be a while before I can get into any serious schooling again as I have the most busy next year I have ever had. For school I have my certification from June to Late August,I have Katie's wedding in August, followed quickly by my brother's wedding in early September in Virginia, followed by my older sister's wedding one week later back here. I fly to Phoenix with Cindy for a small vacation in early October, did I mention I have to be enrolled at NIC full time during the fall too? Then I must work as hard as I can and save up to fly to CHina with my family in April.
Too much traveling? never. I adore traveling and if I'm lucky I might get a traveling nurse job eventually.
The hard water here left deposits in my hair and I had to cut it all off, I had to make three hour trips to have my braces tightened when I still had them on, and I missed out on time with Jack before he passed away in the fire.
It wasnt all bad, I have made many friends, found out what I want to do for a living and I have learned more about how much I love home. In realizing what I want to do for a living I have signed up for a summer course to become a Certified Nurses Assitant so that I can have a better job while I go to school to get some kind of medical technician certification. I plan to volunteer over the summer in the hospital to see what I might like to do.
It will be a while before I can get into any serious schooling again as I have the most busy next year I have ever had. For school I have my certification from June to Late August,I have Katie's wedding in August, followed quickly by my brother's wedding in early September in Virginia, followed by my older sister's wedding one week later back here. I fly to Phoenix with Cindy for a small vacation in early October, did I mention I have to be enrolled at NIC full time during the fall too? Then I must work as hard as I can and save up to fly to CHina with my family in April.
Too much traveling? never. I adore traveling and if I'm lucky I might get a traveling nurse job eventually.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Las Vegas
I'm very excited to announce that my spring break trip to Las Vegas is only two weeks away! Sarah was able to get tickets for Penn and Teller for Saturday night. I'm so looking foreward to seeing them, their HBO show "Bull Shit" was amazing and I hope the use the same wit on stage. We will be staying at the Luxor and the Venetian, and we will drive back through the desert to see the sights between Las Vegas and Coeur D'Alene.
Desperation
I read Stephen King's Desperation. I novel about a young boy with a close enough relationship to God that God tells him how to defeat an ancient God of the desert that is trapped in the body of the local Sheriff. I love Stephen King's writing style but I found this book mind numbingly boring. I only finished it because I kept hoping for an amazing ending. I wasn't entirely disappointed. The movie was abysmal though, the young man playing David Carver ( the main character) acted like William Shatner. Steve Weber was a main character though, and as always his performance was a cut above the rest.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
