Couldn't make it to Wicked Westie tonight, which was a bummer, because they were planning something a little different, called "So You Think You Can Dj?" Basically, anyone could contribute up to 3 songs to the dance playlist! And MAN did I want to contribute, if at least to have the opportunity to finally dance WCS to some songs I really wanted to dance to.
Off the top of my head, I would've picked my 3 from the following group:
Last Chance - Maroon 5
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera
Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolf
Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
Sex Bomb - Tom Jones
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
Island In The Sun - Weezer
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Guilty Pleasure.1
aka What happens when I all I listen to is the radio during my summer-work commutes.
Well, what can I say? This song is all about having fun. It makes me want to shuffle. Or at least practice my shufflin' skills. Yo.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
The Search for Pretty Woman
I find it most intriguing that a good chunk of visitors to this humble blog of mine open up my post about my thoughts on Pretty Woman (1990). Seriously. There have been hits coming from around the nation and even around the freakin' globe. It's crazy.
Two things come to mind when I think about this:
1. Are people really that interested in this movie?
2. Maybe they're trying to google search for a "pretty woman"...
...awkward!
So at this point I'm just gonna take down that post, or hide it, whatever.
Two things come to mind when I think about this:
1. Are people really that interested in this movie?
2. Maybe they're trying to google search for a "pretty woman"...
...awkward!
So at this point I'm just gonna take down that post, or hide it, whatever.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
I've got the moves like Jagger
"Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera
New single!
This is quite unlike anything they've done before, it seems. I like it. It's very club-y. Dance music! Cha-cha or West Coast for sure.
Speaking of which, WCS has to be my new favorite dance. It's just so much fun; it's easy to improvise and mess around with. It's just a shame because WCS doesn't seem to be a strong point for most fellow BPG-ers. That's ok! Just gotta spread the awesome-ness that is West Coast Swing.
New single!
This is quite unlike anything they've done before, it seems. I like it. It's very club-y. Dance music! Cha-cha or West Coast for sure.
Speaking of which, WCS has to be my new favorite dance. It's just so much fun; it's easy to improvise and mess around with. It's just a shame because WCS doesn't seem to be a strong point for most fellow BPG-ers. That's ok! Just gotta spread the awesome-ness that is West Coast Swing.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Ouch.
Welp, so long first paycheck of the summer. You're welcome, Apple. Hmph.
Leeroy has more issues. Took him in. Decided if he's going to give me more problems in the future, I might as well buy Applecare while I still can. I can hear my wallet weeping softly...
My next computer in a couple years is SO not going to be a mac. Mainly just because Macs are freakin' expensive yo.
Leeroy has more issues. Took him in. Decided if he's going to give me more problems in the future, I might as well buy Applecare while I still can. I can hear my wallet weeping softly...
My next computer in a couple years is SO not going to be a mac. Mainly just because Macs are freakin' expensive yo.
Day of the Dads.
Or (post)-Day of the Dads, I guess.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Let them eat cake...?
A: Sex is overrated, just so you know.
B: You keep telling me this. How do I know this isn't one of those times when, say, you have a piece of cake: You try it, then tell me, "oh wow, don't eat this, it's disgusting." But then you just keep on eating it.
A: I mean, if the cake is there, obviously I'm going to eat it.
B: Touche.
A: I must be missing something. Like, my cake must be missing frosting.
B: Oh. You'll get your "frosting," all right.
Cake has turned out to be the best, unintentional metaphor for sex, ever.
B: You keep telling me this. How do I know this isn't one of those times when, say, you have a piece of cake: You try it, then tell me, "oh wow, don't eat this, it's disgusting." But then you just keep on eating it.
A: I mean, if the cake is there, obviously I'm going to eat it.
B: Touche.
A: I must be missing something. Like, my cake must be missing frosting.
B: Oh. You'll get your "frosting," all right.
Cake has turned out to be the best, unintentional metaphor for sex, ever.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Stereo Hearts
"Stereo Hearts" -- Gym Class Heroes, ft. Adam Levine
Yeah. Ok. So I really only like this song because of the guy who sings the hook. Yeah, it's Adam Levine. He's only the lead singer in Maroon 5. nbd.
The first time I heard this song, of course I got excited to hear his vocals, but then I thought the song overall was just ok. Then I listened to it again...and again...and goddamnit, now I see why they call that person the Hook singer. He hooks ya in! Conspiracy.
Anyhoo, new semi-favorite catchy song. So judge me.
Yeah. Ok. So I really only like this song because of the guy who sings the hook. Yeah, it's Adam Levine. He's only the lead singer in Maroon 5. nbd.
The first time I heard this song, of course I got excited to hear his vocals, but then I thought the song overall was just ok. Then I listened to it again...and again...and goddamnit, now I see why they call that person the Hook singer. He hooks ya in! Conspiracy.
Anyhoo, new semi-favorite catchy song. So judge me.
Friday, June 10, 2011
The Pool Cats are Back
There are a couple of cats that lurk around the pool. Or at least there are two, to my knowledge. One's a black cat (Hm. Ominous.) And the other has the color of a Himalayan cat, but it's not a Himalayan cat. It just has the light coat with dark face, paws, and tail. I think I'll name them Pool Cat 1 and Pool Cat 2.
I find it really humorous that whenever I start approaching one of these cats, it'll lie low to the ground and remain as still as possible while watching me, as if by not moving, it'll remain unseen by me. Silly cats. Then I just move closer and they dart away.
Fine, cats can be cute. But I'm more of a dog person. To put it, as I read somewhere, "I prefer the one who comes to you when you call its name." Thus, dogs.
So I watched the new X-men movie, X-men: First Class. I really enjoyed it. For some reason, I've enjoyed all the X-men films. But I really think it has something to do with many different people having many different abilities, and how the desires of said individuals meld and/or collide. Or maybe it's just the plain idea of "Wow cool! So many different super powers!" It's kind of the same enjoyment I got when I watched the television series Heroes. How many different abilities can there be? How would these people use them? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE THESE PEOPLE FIGHT (<-- most important question, obviously). Yeah. Maybe it's just a nerdgasm over all the different super powers. Fair enough.
But I don't consider myself an X-men fan. I've seen the live-action films, and I've read a graphic novel, so I'm at least familiar with the main players and their abilities. This recent movie tells the story of how the X-men started out. So, it's a prequel sequel. I mean there really isn't much to say about this film, other than it's pretty damn cool if you like these super hero movies.
Although I have to say, something Magneto says at the end about this villain killing his mother, so now Magneto has to kill him, made me laugh a little, mainly because it reminded me of The Princess Bride. I haven't actually seen that movie, but I'm aware of that one scene, you know, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya.You killed my father. Prepare to die." No? Never mind then. So I'm joking in the X-men movie that the line should be "Hello. My name is Magneto. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
Never mind.
I also played Alan Wake, a video game released last year. It's pretty much an interactive story, or an interactive television series. Genre: psychological thriller. Alan Wake is a famous writer with several novels published, but he's reached a massive writer's block. To clear his mind, he and his wife go vacay in a small, New England town in the mountains. Something (yes, someTHING) takes his wife, and Alan Wake must figure out a way to get her back. Along the way, the picks up pages of a manuscript to a book he doesn't remember writing. And all the events in this story are coming true.
Game mechanics aside, the story is very much Stephen King-esque. You could call it "Stephen King: The Game." The writers of the game themselves admit King and his works were something of an inspiration, the idea of a writer's story coming true. There's a lot of light vs darkness in this game. No, seriously. There is a lot of forces of darkness vs the forces of light in the story, mainly because it's what the story is about. A dark presence, an essence, a being, is slowly overtaking this small town. It possesses people and they try to attack you, and the only way to defend yourself is to shine your flashlight beam on them until their darkness "shield" breaks, and they're vulnerable to your bullets. This darkness can also possess inanimate objects, which makes things in the game very interesting. The first time I encountered this inanimate-object-possession was when I was being attacked by a fucking bulldozer of all things. If there was ever a WTF moment, this moment in the game would definitely be it. Anyways, this darkness has got Alan's wife, so he's gotta find a way to get her back.
I finished the game, but the ending still left me with a WTF. I think I need to google an explanation, because this is just too damn frustrating.
And I know it's been a while since it's been released, but I've been meaning to jot down my thoughts on Portal 2. Wow. What an incredible game. It's better than the first game in about every single aspect, except for the difficulty. The storyline is almost 2.5 times longer. The addition of more game mechanics, like the various gels, and accelerating platforms, all add a new spin to the game. The writing, MAN the writing. Brilliant. Devious. Dark. Snarky. Downright hilarious. If you enjoyed the first Portal game, you'll love this one. The reason I think this game is a bit easier though is that the single player campaign is basically broken up into introduction- testing chamber sequence - transition sequence - testing chamber sequence - transition sequence - testing chamber sequence - epilogue. And while the testing chamber bits are all jolly good and straightforward in terms of objective, the transitioning bits: those really aren't too difficult in the scheme of things. It's basically look-for-the-one-and-only-portable-surface and bam, moving right along. But pointing this out is like pointing out that my perfectly fresh lettuce leaf is just a bit too small in my excellent, delicious sandwich: it's really not noticeable at all while I'm enjoying it! Good stuff.
Finally, I'm realizing a type of filming/story-telling method in these K-dramas. In order to show audiences what a character is thinking, they'll often just have the character say aloud what he's thinking, either when he's alone in a room, or even when he's near other people. It's seems almost analogous to an aside from a Shakespeare work, when a character would turn towards the audience and make a remark unaware to the other characters, but known to the crowd. The only problem is, there's an understanding of this mechanism in Shakespearean works, and it's more disorienting in these dramas. I didn't really notice it at first, buuuuut now that I've completed more than a couple of series, the pattern is becoming pretty clear.
And in moments of extremely dramatic tension, they'll have the actors freeze and show multiple angles of that scene. It's...really unnecessary, and it's really clear they're trying to say "OMG LOOK: THIS IS SOOOOO DRAMATIC. LET'S SHOW THIS EXACT MOMENT FROM 17 DIFFERENT ANGLES." Ok maybe not that many angles, but they do cycle through 'em.
Also, some of these moments involve intense, passionate embraces and/or kisses. And they are always ridiculously awkward. Yeah, that's right. I've added hugs along with kisses. I really don't know what it is. I would have to guess it's something of a culture thing? Something about the carnal, physical aspect of love that's usually dodged around in these series.
And while I'm on that topic, the series I've seen so far all seem to deal with love in a rather...juvenile light. It's all cute, and warm, the butterflies-in-the-stomach kinds of attraction. It's fine and all, but it just comes across as...childish. It's extremely platonic. Now this could be just because the only series I've watched are comedies where the characters are young, and by young, I'd give an age range of late teens to late 20s. But even still, the writing in these stories just feels so skittish about sex. There, I said it. It's like all these characters have that basic attraction, but that purely, physical, lust is never touched upon. Well, it is, but it's disguised and dolled up so much that it just makes it silly. Ok, yeah, I'm getting worked up over fictional plots, but it does make me wonder about how the younger generation in Korea really feel about love and sex and all that good stuff what with these sorts of television series feeding their minds.
Also, I realized they like the idea of gender bending, cross dressing, and pseudo-homoeroticism. Yeah. Don't ask.
I find it really humorous that whenever I start approaching one of these cats, it'll lie low to the ground and remain as still as possible while watching me, as if by not moving, it'll remain unseen by me. Silly cats. Then I just move closer and they dart away.
Fine, cats can be cute. But I'm more of a dog person. To put it, as I read somewhere, "I prefer the one who comes to you when you call its name." Thus, dogs.
So I watched the new X-men movie, X-men: First Class. I really enjoyed it. For some reason, I've enjoyed all the X-men films. But I really think it has something to do with many different people having many different abilities, and how the desires of said individuals meld and/or collide. Or maybe it's just the plain idea of "Wow cool! So many different super powers!" It's kind of the same enjoyment I got when I watched the television series Heroes. How many different abilities can there be? How would these people use them? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE THESE PEOPLE FIGHT (<-- most important question, obviously). Yeah. Maybe it's just a nerdgasm over all the different super powers. Fair enough.
But I don't consider myself an X-men fan. I've seen the live-action films, and I've read a graphic novel, so I'm at least familiar with the main players and their abilities. This recent movie tells the story of how the X-men started out. So, it's a prequel sequel. I mean there really isn't much to say about this film, other than it's pretty damn cool if you like these super hero movies.
Although I have to say, something Magneto says at the end about this villain killing his mother, so now Magneto has to kill him, made me laugh a little, mainly because it reminded me of The Princess Bride. I haven't actually seen that movie, but I'm aware of that one scene, you know, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya.You killed my father. Prepare to die." No? Never mind then. So I'm joking in the X-men movie that the line should be "Hello. My name is Magneto. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
Never mind.
I also played Alan Wake, a video game released last year. It's pretty much an interactive story, or an interactive television series. Genre: psychological thriller. Alan Wake is a famous writer with several novels published, but he's reached a massive writer's block. To clear his mind, he and his wife go vacay in a small, New England town in the mountains. Something (yes, someTHING) takes his wife, and Alan Wake must figure out a way to get her back. Along the way, the picks up pages of a manuscript to a book he doesn't remember writing. And all the events in this story are coming true.
Game mechanics aside, the story is very much Stephen King-esque. You could call it "Stephen King: The Game." The writers of the game themselves admit King and his works were something of an inspiration, the idea of a writer's story coming true. There's a lot of light vs darkness in this game. No, seriously. There is a lot of forces of darkness vs the forces of light in the story, mainly because it's what the story is about. A dark presence, an essence, a being, is slowly overtaking this small town. It possesses people and they try to attack you, and the only way to defend yourself is to shine your flashlight beam on them until their darkness "shield" breaks, and they're vulnerable to your bullets. This darkness can also possess inanimate objects, which makes things in the game very interesting. The first time I encountered this inanimate-object-possession was when I was being attacked by a fucking bulldozer of all things. If there was ever a WTF moment, this moment in the game would definitely be it. Anyways, this darkness has got Alan's wife, so he's gotta find a way to get her back.
I finished the game, but the ending still left me with a WTF. I think I need to google an explanation, because this is just too damn frustrating.
And I know it's been a while since it's been released, but I've been meaning to jot down my thoughts on Portal 2. Wow. What an incredible game. It's better than the first game in about every single aspect, except for the difficulty. The storyline is almost 2.5 times longer. The addition of more game mechanics, like the various gels, and accelerating platforms, all add a new spin to the game. The writing, MAN the writing. Brilliant. Devious. Dark. Snarky. Downright hilarious. If you enjoyed the first Portal game, you'll love this one. The reason I think this game is a bit easier though is that the single player campaign is basically broken up into introduction- testing chamber sequence - transition sequence - testing chamber sequence - transition sequence - testing chamber sequence - epilogue. And while the testing chamber bits are all jolly good and straightforward in terms of objective, the transitioning bits: those really aren't too difficult in the scheme of things. It's basically look-for-the-one-and-only-portable-surface and bam, moving right along. But pointing this out is like pointing out that my perfectly fresh lettuce leaf is just a bit too small in my excellent, delicious sandwich: it's really not noticeable at all while I'm enjoying it! Good stuff.
Finally, I'm realizing a type of filming/story-telling method in these K-dramas. In order to show audiences what a character is thinking, they'll often just have the character say aloud what he's thinking, either when he's alone in a room, or even when he's near other people. It's seems almost analogous to an aside from a Shakespeare work, when a character would turn towards the audience and make a remark unaware to the other characters, but known to the crowd. The only problem is, there's an understanding of this mechanism in Shakespearean works, and it's more disorienting in these dramas. I didn't really notice it at first, buuuuut now that I've completed more than a couple of series, the pattern is becoming pretty clear.
And in moments of extremely dramatic tension, they'll have the actors freeze and show multiple angles of that scene. It's...really unnecessary, and it's really clear they're trying to say "OMG LOOK: THIS IS SOOOOO DRAMATIC. LET'S SHOW THIS EXACT MOMENT FROM 17 DIFFERENT ANGLES." Ok maybe not that many angles, but they do cycle through 'em.
Also, some of these moments involve intense, passionate embraces and/or kisses. And they are always ridiculously awkward. Yeah, that's right. I've added hugs along with kisses. I really don't know what it is. I would have to guess it's something of a culture thing? Something about the carnal, physical aspect of love that's usually dodged around in these series.
And while I'm on that topic, the series I've seen so far all seem to deal with love in a rather...juvenile light. It's all cute, and warm, the butterflies-in-the-stomach kinds of attraction. It's fine and all, but it just comes across as...childish. It's extremely platonic. Now this could be just because the only series I've watched are comedies where the characters are young, and by young, I'd give an age range of late teens to late 20s. But even still, the writing in these stories just feels so skittish about sex. There, I said it. It's like all these characters have that basic attraction, but that purely, physical, lust is never touched upon. Well, it is, but it's disguised and dolled up so much that it just makes it silly. Ok, yeah, I'm getting worked up over fictional plots, but it does make me wonder about how the younger generation in Korea really feel about love and sex and all that good stuff what with these sorts of television series feeding their minds.
Also, I realized they like the idea of gender bending, cross dressing, and pseudo-homoeroticism. Yeah. Don't ask.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
"waldosia"
waldosia
n. [Brit. wallesia] a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.
Friday, June 3, 2011
I'm gonna show that bitch my scars. Bitches love scars.
Yikes, irony at its finest.
Did a dive into the deep end of the pool where I work. I immediately felt it was a bad dive before I entered the water. Then I entered the water and smashed into the bottom of the pool, specifically, the slope as the floor goes into the deep end. Scraped my face up pretty badly.
Talk about embarrassing: a lifeguard that injures himself by diving into the pool. Good stuff.
Minor, light scraping on my nose. More severe scrapes on my upper lip and chin. My sister is completely grossed out by it, so I use this to my advantage annoy her more. (TEEHEE.)
This is the kind of scraping that would leave some serious scarring. Luckily, there's Tegaderm Dressing, by 3M! I was introduced to this stuff about a year and a half ago after I took a serious spill off my bike as I was on my way to orchestra rehearsal. My violin was ok. The rest of me: not so much. I had a couple of scrapes on my face and I was given a couple of these Tegaderm films at the health center.
These things are amazing! They're not the most comfortable of dressings for wounds, and they're certainly not the most attractive. It looks like you stuck saran wrap over your wound, and they're transparent, so people can see your lovely scrapes with all their bloody, oozing glory underneath them. However, the reason they're so awesome is that scrapes will heal twice as fast compared to using bandaids, and they don't leave scars! Pretty neat, eh?
And finally, this kid can give one pretty epic inspirational speech.
Did a dive into the deep end of the pool where I work. I immediately felt it was a bad dive before I entered the water. Then I entered the water and smashed into the bottom of the pool, specifically, the slope as the floor goes into the deep end. Scraped my face up pretty badly.
Talk about embarrassing: a lifeguard that injures himself by diving into the pool. Good stuff.
Minor, light scraping on my nose. More severe scrapes on my upper lip and chin. My sister is completely grossed out by it, so I use this to my advantage annoy her more. (TEEHEE.)
This is the kind of scraping that would leave some serious scarring. Luckily, there's Tegaderm Dressing, by 3M! I was introduced to this stuff about a year and a half ago after I took a serious spill off my bike as I was on my way to orchestra rehearsal. My violin was ok. The rest of me: not so much. I had a couple of scrapes on my face and I was given a couple of these Tegaderm films at the health center.
These things are amazing! They're not the most comfortable of dressings for wounds, and they're certainly not the most attractive. It looks like you stuck saran wrap over your wound, and they're transparent, so people can see your lovely scrapes with all their bloody, oozing glory underneath them. However, the reason they're so awesome is that scrapes will heal twice as fast compared to using bandaids, and they don't leave scars! Pretty neat, eh?
And finally, this kid can give one pretty epic inspirational speech.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Word of the Day is 'Ridiculous'
Texas is great and all. The sky is pretty damn amazing, if you ask me. But I would not live there, no thanks, even if it has In-N-Outs (aka the closest In-N-Outs to the east coast at the present). Too much wind, kinda too hot, and it's just so flat. Then again, Texas is a pretty big place and I was only in a small section of it.
Highlights of the trip:
-Fed a couple of adorable donkeys
-Got jostled by a hungry cow
-Consumed ridiculous amounts of ice cream
-Shot a pretty sick gun
-Handbrake'd a few movies. Stoked.
Watched Jennifer's Body (2009), aka hey look it's Megan Fox! Honestly I knew it was going to be ridiculous, and guess what? I was right. This movie is pretty darn silly. There were so many plot holes that didn't get resolved until nearly the end of the film, which was rather annoying, and even then the resolutions were pretty rushed. Also felt a touch deus-ex-machina. And they gave Megan Fox some pretty ridiculous one-liners. I would say, think Regina George from Mean Girls except black hair, way hotter, and evil (no, really, like legit demonically-spawn-of-hell evil). At least I can now associate Amanda Seyfried with another character other than the air-headed Karen from Mean Girls.
And then Kick-Ass (2010). Pretty good movie, but there were some moments that seemed a bit far fetched. The synopsis is basically one kid sets out to be a super hero in a realistic world. Then, they start introducing other characters and a plot with conflicts that's beginning to feel like an actual super hero story/movie, which is a bit jarring. Otherwise, it's a really cool film that is worth a watch.
Look at this girl's hair. It's wild. It's crazy. I kinda want it. Oh well.
Highlights of the trip:
-Fed a couple of adorable donkeys
-Got jostled by a hungry cow
-Consumed ridiculous amounts of ice cream
-Shot a pretty sick gun
-Handbrake'd a few movies. Stoked.
Watched Jennifer's Body (2009), aka hey look it's Megan Fox! Honestly I knew it was going to be ridiculous, and guess what? I was right. This movie is pretty darn silly. There were so many plot holes that didn't get resolved until nearly the end of the film, which was rather annoying, and even then the resolutions were pretty rushed. Also felt a touch deus-ex-machina. And they gave Megan Fox some pretty ridiculous one-liners. I would say, think Regina George from Mean Girls except black hair, way hotter, and evil (no, really, like legit demonically-spawn-of-hell evil). At least I can now associate Amanda Seyfried with another character other than the air-headed Karen from Mean Girls.
And then Kick-Ass (2010). Pretty good movie, but there were some moments that seemed a bit far fetched. The synopsis is basically one kid sets out to be a super hero in a realistic world. Then, they start introducing other characters and a plot with conflicts that's beginning to feel like an actual super hero story/movie, which is a bit jarring. Otherwise, it's a really cool film that is worth a watch.
Look at this girl's hair. It's wild. It's crazy. I kinda want it. Oh well.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/theuniblogger/gorgeous-rainbow-hair-bhd
And then Insanity Wolf here actually kinda makes sense, shockingly enough.
http://memebase.com/2011/05/27/memes-insanity-wolf-you-are-the-seven-evil-exes/
Scott Pilgrim anyone?
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