Christopher Walken is the best Bond villain ever.

So, House of Leaves was a pretty nifty book. Go read it. It will ruin your life, but in a good way.

Anyway, TheatreFest. I'll sum it up because I'm lazy.

Highlights:
-Urinetown, the Musical. Vulgar, offensive and hilarious. Lots of real catchy tunes that I still find myself humming.
-The Three Sisters. Well-acted and very character-driven.
-Hamlet. Awesome set design and choreography. I talked to the guys who did it at KFC with Erikka. That was pretty rad.
-The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde is ridiculously awesome and so were the actors who performed it. Great play.
-Stage Kiss. Cute and funny. Consisting only of two excellent actors.
-Crazy people in line for a PS3 at Wal-Mart.
-Using a cell phone and actually understanding how to for the first time.
-Hot Chocolate
-Introduction to Improvisation. Fun workshop. I had thought about doing it again. Pretty much played a bunch of silly acting games.
-Oi! Workshop on English dialect and accents, mates.
-Getting some sleep on Friday night.
-Visiting every fast-food resturaunt between UW-Whitewater and the hotel.
-Stupid bus driver crashing the bus into the roof of the hotel entryway.
-Hanging out with friends basically the whole time.

Downlights:
-The Trojan Women. Boring and overracted. Of course, I had just woken up.
-The Laramie Project. Yes, I get it. Hate crimes = bad.
-Friends talking about other friends behind their backs. Seems like everybody just hates everybody all the time sometimes.
-The Three Sisters. Really depressing ending. Wanted to go home and kill myself.
-Boring Shakespeare workshop. Why would anybody feel the need to spend fifteen minutes explaining Imabic Pentameter to a bunch of drama students? Ugh.
-Sunday Tea with Desiree being the last play to go on Saturday, meaning no other schools stuck around to watch it. Even though we were awesome.
-No awards for said play. Plenty of nominations, but no awards. Damn.
-Having two big tests the Monday afterward.

In other news:

Casino Royale
Best Bond movie since Goldeneye. Daniel Craig is James Bond, no question about it. He makes Pierce Brosnan look like a pussy, taking a huge beating over the film. It doesn't rely on any fancy CGI or nifty gadgets, just well-choreographed fights, a character-driven story and a great plot, built around many twists and turns. The poker game is surprisingly intense with lots of behind-the-scenes action going on. Great work from actors all around, not a single dissappoitning performance. Easily one of my favorite movies of 2006.
Rating: A
Bond is back.

Fullmetal Alchemist - The Movie: Conqueror of Shambala
I was finally able to see this on an official DVD instead of a poorly-done fansub. Kind of a departure from the series, but wraps up most of the plot points nicely, especially where Dante and the remaining Homunculi are concerned. Eckhart is a rather uninteresting villain and doesn't do much other than scream maniacally and shoot her subordinates. Ed and Al are in typical form and it was nifty seeing the latter finally out of his armor. Mustang didn't have nearly a large enough role. In the end, it's all right, but it could have been so much more, especially with a great 51-episode anime preceding it.
Rating: B+

So I guess opening night for Trolls is this Friday.

Shit.

What happens in TheaterFest stays in TheaterFest.

I cannot wait. TheaterFest is this weekend and it is going to be so awesome. You know why? Because we are seeing a play called Urinetown - The Musical. I can only imagine.

Casion Royale is out this weekend. Will Daniel Craig be able to fill the shoes of the 007 name? Find out Sunday.

So hey, I started House of Leaves today. The typography is really zany and fun to follow. I'm not completely sure where its going, but hey. Meanwhile, Brave New World is alright, though I think I prefered 1984 as far as dystopian novels go.

Strategists Club has finally started up, much to my happiness. Good crop this year with a boatload of clueless Freshman taking dodgy advice from Erikka who has taken up a position of leadership for no reason.

I've played through the entire Megaman X Collection, beating all six of the traditional 2-D games. Good times.

What else? Um, I started dating Therese five months ago today. She is a beautiful girl.



I'm out of ideas. This post will explode the second you finish reading it.








...Now.

In this post I will complain about Physics, talk about D&D and whatever else happens to be on my mind.

Fair warning. I'm currently trying to keep from having to do my Physics lab report, even though it's incredibly easy and not at all time-consuming, or so I am told. Isn't that the strangest thing? I really don't like Physics, though. I miss Chemistry where everything made complete sense and variables took one meaning and stuck with it. On the plus side, Pre-Calculus makes perfect sense at the moment.

I'm running a campaign for Strategists Club and it's going to be so awesome, you'll probably go blind. Or awesome insofar as it rips off Seven Samurai. Regardless, I'm looking forward to it.

I can't believe Stephen Colbert left the cast of Harvey Birdman: Attourney at Law. Things just aren't the same without him. I also can't believe the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are in reruns this week.

Bleach fails to impress me. It's nice as a dumb shounen-action hero anime though. Trinity Blood is kind of nifty I suppose, but I'd like to see some semblance of plot. Also, the Never Land episode was kind of silly. Meanwhile, Eureka Seven has finally hit the halfway point and finally starts being excellent. And I'm still pirating Le Chevalier D'eon. You gotta love using the pre-French Revolution period as a setting for zombies and posessions and sowrdfights, because it works so perfectly.

I don't really like this entry. I'm not feeling it. Actually, I don't much care for anything I've written as of late. Oh wait, I've got something.

The Illusionist
Suprisingly fun to watch. The magic is pretty nifty and there's some wonderful casting. The plot has a suitably mystical and romantic feel to it and it has a very-well done twist ending. I don't have much else to say other than it's well worth seeing in the Theater or even getting on DVD, if you're into this sort of thing.
Rating: A-

So I leave you with this one bit of advice: Go read The Picture of Dorian Gray. Just trust me.

Hey, they can't bill me if I never stop eating.

So, Homecoming.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself and was glad to have somebody along to share it with. It would have been undoubtably painful and boring if I had went by myself, which is what kept me from going the past years. I don't plan on dancing to rap again for a long time, though.


Well shit.

Looks like I'm going to be coughing up something like 750 bucks within the next year. I promised myself the only way I'd get a PlayStation 3 is if they made a sequel to Zone of the Enders 2: The Second Runner, my most favorite game EVAR, something I was sure would never happen. But lo and behold, Hideo Kojima up and announces that he's going to work on ZOE3 once he finishes up with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. I am at the same time ecstatic and angry. My dream game is coming out, but I can't get it because I'd like to maybe go to college someday.

So I'm going to start playing Paranoia, right? With my gaming group it should be loads of hilarious. I just need to order it from Amazon now.

Dude, I watched Episode 2 of Hellsing Ultimate. Because everybody needs a healthy dose of the old ultraviolence now and then. Also, Luke and Jon Valentine are the coolest villains ever. Well, maybe just Jon. Luke's kind of a pansy.

I get the feeling there are tons of grammar errors in this post. Don't care.

My agent is so fired.

You know what this web journal needs? More surveys.

1. Seven things I plan to do before I die.
- Get married to the love of my life
- Maybe have a kid or two
- Publish a semi-successful novel
- Visit at least four countries not currently on this land mass
- Be in some classy Broadway production
- Show up on TV somehow
- I dunno, graduate college and get a half-way decent job

2. Seven things I can do.
- Write fairly well
- Dance to some degree
- Act
- Recite useless trivia
- Read really quickly
- Listen to people and their stupid problems
- Math, especially Trig. And English. And History.

3. Seven things I can't do.
- Get into a fight
- Feel completely confident about something
- Make somebody do something they don't want to do
- Sing well. But I'm going to keep doing it, dammit.
- Science outside of Chemistry
- Take something from somebody for nothing
- Think on my feet.

4. Seven things that attract me to the opposite sex.
- Intelligence
- Good sense of humor/witty
- Shares at least some interests
- Tolerant of my personality quirks, as well as having some of her own
- Looks past appearances
- Dark hair (There's some other superficial stuff, but that's the big one)
- Adventurous on occassion

5. Seven things I say the most.
- "Awesome"
- "Zany"
- Censoring my own curse words
- Random Pop Culture Reference
- "Really." (in a droll, uninterested voice)
- *strokes non-existant goatee*
- "Oh for the love of..."

6. Seven celebrity crushes.
Can't really think of any. There are a multitude of celebs I would love to simply hang out with though.

7. Seven things that make me uncool.
- Extensive useless trivia
- I listen to music that nobody would ever listen to in a million years
- I get a kick out of doing Trigonometry
- I check my e-mail compulsively, whether I'm expecting something or not
- I can recite an in-depth history of the Star Wars universe starting with the Battle of Yavin 4 and ending with the Second Corellian Insurrection
- I'm very excited about doing Teacher Assistance work
- I play Collectable Miniature Games competitively

I got a part in Trolls. I am simply "Man". I'm rather dissapointed with this development, but it at least preserves my perfect record. I would have liked to get into the competition piece, but children's plays are fun, too.

I rearranged my bedroom the other day. It will henceforth be known as "The Great Dust Bunny Migration of '06".

There was something else I wanted to write, but this entry is long enough as it is.