My name is Cholton, i live on the second floor, my name is cholton, i think you've seen me before. Wow, been a long time blog. Well the weekend came and went, nothing much, hung out with Jay our trusty friend from Tech of Georgia. He spanked us hard in Settlers and showed how the mean boys of the Hot-house take it to the street as they say in settlers. Granted I always get taken out back as it were when it comes to settlers but wifey usually wins the fight while i get blamed for everything. Jay showed us no mercy and to the victor went the spoil... he got to sleep on our couch. We then went to Unclaimed baggage which was just bags load of fun. I perused the cd collection for several hours not getting to see anything else. Cds are the primary reason I go there so I was happy though I wished I could've had a little more time to look at the old and used undies. Mine have a few too many streaks on them but they have a policy, "Three streaks or less, or the undies, are yoursies." Its a good policy. I bought some mean cds, Ryan Adams Gold, Radio Head Hail to the Thief, Oasis Be Here Now, Moby's Veggie Manifesto (the one where he calls carnivores sinners), GooGoo dolls boy named goo, and a few others that slipped my mind. I couldn't however find the Transformer's soundtrack which i had encountered last time, that was a shame. The wife purchased a ton of clothes and Cinderella the dvd without the case or second disc.
On sunday after churchin it we dined with the Ryedawg, Super Mesh, and the Incredible Roes at sticky fingers then went home and proceeded to watch 6 strait hours of alias season 2. We regret nothing.
Season 2 is pretty good, but season one was hard to top. I like how they're showing the mending of the family ties between Sidney, her mom, and Jack Bristow. I can't wait for the future when Quintin Tarantino's character comes back, he was dang cool. You may have noticed his voice over two episodes ago or so, when they showed how Sid was reprogrammed his voice was among the shadows of her observers.
On a note that people care about... still no news about law school, though I'm tired of waiting. I'm heading off to see Matrix 3 tomorrow at the 2.50 theater tomorrow with a buddy of mine, i look forward to seeing it again as i was probably one of the three people who appreciated what was trying to be accomplished even though the Wackoski bros fell short of impressing the public three times in a row. Speaking of bros that make movies i like, check out SKY CAPTAIN Of THE WORLD OF TOMORROW or something like that, its my must see of the year for movies, download the trailer and crap your pants.
So that state of the union thing... how bout that? I would generally say I'm in favor of Bush, he's not my favorite guy, but hey I can't really be president so he might as well be there. But I must say tonight everytime Bush announced some new sweeping grand scheme plan, I cringed. I like some of his ideas but its like, "We're gonna have tax cuts... and then we're gonna devote more money to schooling... then we're gonna cut some more taxes.... and then we're gonna devote more money to faith based intiatives." Its like "Woah Bush reality check, one or the other." Its like he's trying to do plans that are Democratic like faithbased stuff which is throwing tax payers money away like its a monopoly money to "faith based" groups. And then he's doing republican things like cutting taxes.
I like the tax cutting thing, thats fine and dandy but man the faith based thing is something governmetn doesn't need to do. I don't want government taking my tax money that i pay them and give it some religious group that I don't approve of or even know. I got used to the whole welfare thing i guess but this just seems like welfare for religious groups. "Your ministry is falling down on hard times here's a grant to help you get out there and make muslims, jews, christians, or heathens whatever your faith is based in go make good things come to life..." I think God can take care of his own ministries and destroy the ones he doesn't approve of with his own sort of providence. I mean think of it, Scientology can now claim tax money as a faith based thingy dingy. "Yeah we need the money to go reseed Tom Cruises lawn." The government goes, "Hmmm that seems like its helping the community, Tom needs new grass we'll pay for it with Chris Holton's tax money, he won't need it!"
The immigration thing, interesting idea, don't think it will work at all. Doesn't seem well thought out or well structured, think bush needs to rethink that one and come up with a plan. I don't know i worry about that bush.
Well I sort of maybe, possibly, have started writing for the Chattanooga Pulse. If you don't know what the Pulse is its the new trendy hip Chatty free-bee paper thats out in response to the Adnigma and the Chattanooga Scene That We Have No Clue About. I really like the Pulse and the more and more I read it the more and more I wanted to write for it, however I didn't want to write news articles. I wrote for the high school paper and every time I was assigned a news article I would make up all the interviews and quotes. I'd either quote the guy i road to school with or I'd make up a person's name. I never really got in trouble, no one ever really read those articles anyway. My favorite though was my humor column Chris's Complaints which was me ranting and raving about this and that. And you may say to yourself, "Chris you wrote for a paper, how your blog is a perfect sign of how bad of a writer you are, I mean you, put commas, every where, like its some, sort of, obligatory, word and you cant spel wurf carp." Well thats true. I can't argue with truf. But back then i had the best editor and he would edited my stuff about three times before it went to print and now I have Roe and Mesh as my editors and as long as they don't put in bad words or phrases like,"Chris takes it" I'll be fine. If they get done editing my piece in time expect to see it possibly in next week's issue. Either that or look for it in the trash where it most likely belongs. Oh, the sort of reporting I plan on doing is pretty funny, I'm going to be the video game reviewer. Well thats what i hope to do. I'd like to just work on my reviewing skills and put a lot of humor to the pieces but also get people to see another side of video games, the softer side. I will most likely review games that appear on all three consoles, PS2, Xbox and Gamecube as i only have a gamecube and don't really just want to write about cube games since josiah and i are the only people iin the world with a cube. SO i figure if i hit games that hit all three systems i'll be able to reach more people. I wish i could do some computer games however I may leave that to Roe or collaborate with him on those as my computer is in no shape to play anything made in the past two years. His isn't too much better but maybe we can hit the local Chattalan cafe for those pieces. So check out next week's pulse you can find it in most coffee shops and bars and stuff. Even if they decide not to publish my stuff and pass on me as the gamer reviewer still check it out its a great mag and way better than the scene. Mesh's movie reviews are funny and inciteful. And all the food reviews are right on the money it felt like i was writing them or that they were reading my mind.
Well the weekend came to an end... that sucks. I can honestly say I almost saw no day light during the whole weekend, YES! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED> Lets recap. Friday night was great. Met up with Mesh, Andy, Isaac, and Joe Roe at Taco Mac and dined on the very good chicken wings which were very South Beach friendly... sort of, they were more Atkins friendly because of the high fat count but who's counting. Then we went back to my place to watch Super Troopers and play some Mario Kart Gamecube. Super Troopers was hilarious, but very wrong... not recommended for mixed company or men of the cloth. Mario Kart was cool, way better than the 64 one but simple like the original. Then after they left, I stayed up till 4:30 in the morning playing Civ 3... that was rough. Then i slept for a few hours and woke up and played civ for a few more hours... three Pm i think. I stopped to grab some food since the pot of coffee I had for breakfast was starting to eat the inner layer of my stomach away. So i had no food in my belly except for some of the remaining chicken wings and pot o' coffee: What do you think I should have eaten? Wrong, I ate the worst thing possible. French Onion soup with extra cheese, if this diet doesn't work at least I'll have ruined my digestive track. I then went out with Jesse, Soph, and Mac to where else... Taco Mac... which I'm still puzzled with by the way Strow. I mean you ordered Chicken tenders... you could have gotten that anywhere! So the second night in a row i had CHICKEN WINGS. Though the 2nd time i got mild as i did want to have a burning butt hole by the end of the night. But we had a good time so all was right as rain. We then went up to the Strow Lair to play some Halo. It was great except Jesse is insanely too good at that game. I mean people get annoyed with me when the play me but I usually feel sorry for them so say only try to shoot at people when i'm two steps away or only use vehicles to kill them like the jeep... nope not jesse, merciless. I then went home about midnight and went home to watch Gangs of NY. I didn't really want to watch it but i felt i should watch it before the sabbath... i know thats weird but I have a hard time watching movies of the violent, cussing, and nudity sort after I just went to the Lords house. So i stayed up till 3 watching that pile of trash. The movie was horribly stupid and I felt like I was watching a Scorsese lecture: "This is whats wrong with america....this is whats wrong with society...this is whats wrong with history...this is whats wrong with war..." Blah blah blah. The man's kind of a putz when it comes to his views on life. He maybe able to make old timey NY look cool but that was about all i got out of the movie. Though I liked Danial Dey Louis, he's dead sexy and good in the movie as far as acting's concerned. Though, I think he's irish, he's always in irish type movies, so why have him play an American and have Leonardo Dicrapio play the irish kid when his accent sounded more like an Irish Setter than Irishman.
Well so then I went to church today, the Roes invited me out for lunch with them but Lupis can't really help the no carb thing, i could've gotten a salad but whats the point? I'd be drooling over their calzones and pizza and bread rolls. So i headed home but went a different route. Wife pulled up some houses she wanted me to check out and one was on the south side of east ridge back behind those tacky hotels that sit on the cliff right there up from Yum yums. The house was awesome, perfect, old, and a good price... except like many homes in this area it was built on the side of mountain and has no yard. Its parking on the street and better be careful when you tell your son to "go long" for a pass because he'd fall down the cliff and end up in Alton Park. But i continued along the ridge up there and its amazing. Way nicer than Lookout in my mind. Lookout has too many tiers to be truly breath taking, but the houses on the ridge overlooked the Chatt Valley aka the city, and the valley on the other side of the ridge. They were some nice old homes too. SOme of them needed a little work but they were nice. I also found a nice way home that isn't so annoying like Rossville BLVD. Well thats about it, football sucked a big one today. Chalk up another boring super bowl. The last great Super Bowl In my mind remains to be Rams Titans where the game was decided on the last play by only one yard. That was truly amazing and heart wrenching every play of the game. Tomorrow the wife comes back from her ventures. I unfortunatley work for a racist company so need less to say i will not be celebrating MLK's B-day by sleeping in. As the song goes till we meet again... (Imagine nukes dropping to add effect)
Time has come for wifey to venture away from the nest, I've raised her well but wives reach a certain time when they must go find their way to Atlanta to meet their obnoxious, yet slightly endearing, college girl friends. So what does that mean for old Holtonian... BEER BINGE!!! Oh wait, that has carbs, no good. SEX!! Wait, no wife's gone can't do that. So what are we going to do then? The same thing we do everynight Pinky, TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!! in a video game. A whole lotta civ playin goin on! WOO, man i'm pathetic. But seriously folks, I will miss my wife a lot, it'll be the first time we're apart for a few days. Though I must say I will use all this time to get every ounce of video game playing i can out of my system. On another note, I have the most boring job ever. Eventually i should be doiing something, just not yet. Its times like these at my job that i wish i had a gameboy in my head so i could play games in my mind without anyone else knowing i was playing games... ooooh i smell patent idea. Thats right up there with my mustache trimmer that tells you when your mustache is getting to look too much like a Pornstar mustache. "Your mustache looks like Dirk Diggler... please take appropriate measures..." Thats the gist of it. On another note as law schools still haven't sent me anything I am looking more and more to the possibility of staying here in St. Chattaville. Though I must say our first step would be to move outta Ft Blowglethorpe.... er i mean Ft. Olgethorpe. I could handle flintstone, tiftonia, signal mtn back in the back is nice and secluded, and parts of hixson and redbank, but we're not looking just yet. Though I want to since it means we can move out of this death trap. Like a fat man in a speedo, we were in for a tight squeeze. Seriously we have outgrown this apartment to epic purportions. I don't even bother putting my clothes in the dresser any more because i know if i cram them in their they'll just get rinkled. I just throw them on the floor in a corner and hope the rats don't get to them.
On another note I've ran the past few days working on working out a bit. However the cold, mixed with my defective/out of shape lungs has caused a bit of a cough to develop. Its rather annoying.
One day down, who knows how many more to go. My first day on the South Beach diet was rather uneventful. I was hungry most of the day but thats standard protocol for me even without being on a diet. I must say I'm more tempted to go full Atkins at times but the wife and her book claims this is better so I'll take her word for it. The first two weeks are like any other standard diet. No fat and no carbs. I handled it well so far, though i almost by habit ate some chocolate covered popcorn at the mail station luckily my brain stopped my stomach. We went to Mart Wal tonight to load up on cheeses and meats. I got a lot of string cheese and feta which is cool because I'm a huge cheese man but for so long stayed away from the stuff because of its fat content, now its OK to eat some cheeses though I have to stick to the ones made of low to skim milk. We bought some no carb, no sugar ice cream, though it has both. It was pretty good however the wife was not a fan... more for me i guess. I also ran today however all the credit for the inspiration falls squarely on brother Obscene Gene. His visit which brought with it him forcing me to go jogging with him really inspired me of sorts to get off my duff and work my stuff. So i ran today and ran into my old pall Bronislaus. We're going to start running, hopefully, together at least once a week. I know if I have a partner to keep me going it will help me and I know that I won't want to look him in the eye and tell him I didn't run at all during the week so it should keep me in shape. Hopefully all this will not fade like my desire to learn Karate, or my desire to be an Archer, or my desire to go to Russia, or my desire to go grad school, or become a professional athelete, or pursue a career in rock music, or my desire to be a ninja, or be Dan Marino, Frank Wycheck, or Fred Thompson. So this diet hopefully unlike all those other goals, dreams, and dares will stick. Keep reading for a Quick rap up of weekend events
As mentioned my brother came up and it was a great time. I hung out with his old Catacombian buddies friday night. We went to pickel barrel and then to one of their houses for some Halo and cinematic experience, aka Tomb Raider the Cradle of Life. I must say it was good to play Halo, but after watching Tomb Raider I wished I had swallowed my own fist instead of watching that crap. It was great to see how my brothers friends interacted with him. It was sort of a comradery that is hard to come by these days. There was both the reminsicing of years pass and reliving of years past immaturity. One thing i found out was the "Luckiest Man Alive" does a great farting noise that is so on the money. The next day I finally got my digital camera from sears and will honestly say will never go to that store ever again to buy anything electronical. I'll still buy tools but nothing else, that store is filled with incompetency. Its pretty sweet little thing, 5 megpix, 3xzoom, Sony Cyber Shot. The memory stick only carries six pics though on full mega power. I could dumb it down a bit but the full power is so awesome. The quality is just great. I like being able to point a camera take a pic and it be great. So far the lighting has been perfect on all my shots. One time i moved the camera while it was taking a pic but that was user error not camera error. Its a great little deal and I can't wait to go somewhere cool to take pics. I need to travel or something, but first i must lose weight so i look good in my pictures. Obscene and I just traveled around Chatt for most of saturday talking a lot adn driving his sweet ride. He wants to buy one of those pick up trucks that can drive on train tracks... really i think he wants a train but can't afford one so he's going for the next best thing, eh every guy's got his dreams. Mine's to be the next Emmit Smith. The dream doesn't have to be accomplishable. We had a good home cooked meal that night and then went out to Big River to play some pool. Good time had by all. Big River though is bit too happening for me. I like my hangouts to be more lame, thats why I miss the Safari Pub so much, it was so lame yet so cool. It was the INDY PUB. ! we had a good time with Obscene and were sad to see him go but somebody's got fly them bi-planes. Speaking of Indy stuff, I joined Netflix today which was cool. I got three movies for my trial rental that should be here by the weekend, which is good since I'll be home alone this weekend. I got Adaptation (A Roe/Mesh Recommendation), Gangs of NY (Really I got this because U2 did the song for the movie and I'm that lame), and Super Troopers which i've been wantitng to see for some time. NExt on the list...... OH YOU GUESSED IT ALIAS SEASON 2! I convinced the wife we needed net flix with that one. I mean Blockbuster just sucks, they never have what i want and i pay 5 bucks to rent somethign for two days. I mean I couldn't even watch all of 2 towers the extended because i only got it for two days how lame was that?? Answer: Very. Well its late and bed is a callin. Keep those dreams a flowin and the coffee a brewin.
Ok you guys got check this out. Girls, you can check it out too i guess. If you haven't heard about this dude Black Eagle Thunderbird... then something. It seriously has to be the lamest excuse for a cult I've ever seen. Read up on it and I plan a blog later. And if this link doesn't work just search Yahoo news and type in "Cult." The reason its Yahoo news is its the only thing I check online because its all i have access to at work.
Well Peteapalooza starts tomorrow, also known as Petestock. I don't think some people understand the magnitude of my brother's visit. For starters I haven't seen Pete since my wedding in June. Secondly usually Pete's visits are marked by him coming unannounced up to Chattanooga, not calling me and not letting me know he's been in town till the last day of his visit, an hour before he has to leave. One time he called me up at Covenant,
P "Hey man I'm in town."
C. "GREAT!! Lets get together!!"
P. "Well I'm leaving in an hour."
C. "What?? How long have you been in town??"
P. "A few days, but I guess I want to see you so meet me at Greyfriars in ten minutes."
Thats pretty much the typical way pete announces his visit. Like a fart at the dinner table, Pete makes his presence known, abrubtly and rudely. But this time he's taking a more grown up approach, he called ahead, which is always nice for me, I mean it gives me time to put my pants on. Tomorrow will be the psuedo old school catacombian reunion where Pete and his friends sit around at a bar and talk about the wild and crazy stuff they used to do... and then sigh as they realize their lives are pathetically boring in comparison, eh such is life. Plus they'll have the company of a guy who will be THE FIFTH WHEEL and have nothing to add to the conversation but an occasional blackwatch anecdote that no one cares about and pales in comparison because we never did anything remotely dangerous or risque! Yep thats Me. My role as the out of place youngest brother continues. You know I thought once that I got married I would get rid of the role as tag along... nope. I still tag along with my brothers, and now I get to tag along with wifey, basically my whole life I have been a tag along. Even now. Every few days I just ask wifey "can I come too, where are we going, and are we there yet???" And then as I get older I'll be an old man asking the same questions to my kids, only I'll ask again in five minutes because I'll have lost my short term memory by then. Crazy Whipper snappers!
Wifey and I had Mrs. Roe over for dinner tonight which was a lot of fun. Though my obscure humour was somewhat lost without her other half... though I still got most of my own jokes... which is nice. I also went to the Mart of Wally and picked up some film we had dropped off. This film was seriously old. We had pics on the role from Jesse and Sophia Strows wedding in July on these things. Though we had actually no pictures from the wedding we did have pictures of us in D.C. which we got to visit while up there. There's some pretty funny pics of me reflecting at the reflecting pool thingy infront of Lincoln's hood. Even I am too cynical at times for the solemnness of the mall, though not the Vietnam Memorial that was something that just left me speachless. You just see all these names on this wall and you're completely speachless. My favorite memorial remains to be the Korean War one with the soldiers wandering through the fields. Its very errie yet very cool. The new WW2 memorial, which is pretty much close to being finished, was ok, it kind of just looks like a weird plaza of sorts with pillars and plaques. There were also some good pics of me after wifey messed up my hair and gave me the buzz. Someday i'll figure out how to put some pics on this blog and maybe some of you can check it out... though then all my stalkers could find me and that'd be bad for business. I mean I have a hard enough time with the psycho fans i have now, but man if they only saw how dead sexy i was, then... it'd just be all over. Well the diet starts on monday and my goal is to lose about thirty... thats a big goal but i think it must be done. We'll see how it goes. The wifey is supposed to be checking out the Sports Barn tomorrow to see if we could get a membership for a discount. With me working at Cigna and her at the Crei Leike we should be able to get something good. I mean Cigna really just needs its own gym.... the people there are the biggest bunch of fatties I've ever seen, myself included. Its so ironic too since the company is a health insurance company and all its employees are unhealthily overweight, obeese, fat, huge, and dang freaking big. The worst are the people who get on the elevator and ride it to the second floor. I mean come on its one floor, it'd help you out tons, or at least help lose the tons. I try to take the stairs to the 5th floor everyday, I'm usually successful but sometimes get caught up in a conversation that I don't want to interrupt by saying, "Excuse me I have to take the stairs." Like i'm some arrogant health nut that thinks he's better than people who take the elevator. Though really thats what i think when i take the stairs... i just don't want people to know that.
MUST CHANGE SUBJECT, PULL FOOT OUT OF MOUTH.
Well things are ho humming right along in life. Work is work, and after work is the same as alway. One new event is that the wife and I are gearing up for a diet. We waited some time for the New Years Resolution window to close so that we don't fall victim to the demise of another resolution. Wifey got the book on the South Beach diet and after reading it has deemed it acceptable and doable. I don't really care as long as I eat. For those who aren't hip on the diet world, South Beach is similar to the Atkins diet with two major differences. 1. On the South Beach you don't have to give up nearly as much food choices as you do on Atkins. You can eat some carbs and pretty much any vegetable you want. Certain things are totally off limits like Bagels and pasta but such is the life. 2. The second major difference is unlike Atkins you don't pig out on high fat foods like beef and cheese. You still have to eat healthy sticking to vegetables and high proteen low fat meats like chicken, pork, and fish. It doesn't sound too too too bad since we kind of eat like that any way. We hardly ever eat red meat and cutting back on the carbs will be a good thing i think. Thats another thing, with South Beach after the first two weeks of no carbs you can slowly incorporate some carbs into your diet, basically you could have one day every other week of some serious pasta. The hardest part will be giving up Beer, and no i have no intention of getting that Michelob Ultra crap. I'll just stick to the finer alcohol, wine, which is allowd. I'm just determined that something has to be done about my lbs. I don't exercise anymore, don't have the time to as I did as a student, I mean i go home and its dark and I can't afford to pay the gym fees and covenant is 45 minutes away almost.
Plus I've come to the conclusion that people today, especially in America, don't need high carb diets. Back in the oldend days people needed their breads, tortillas, rices, and potatos to give them the strength and energy to work out in the fields or do the heavy labor that was required of them back then. I mean people walked every where back in the day, now we don't even like to walk to the TV to turn the channel. So it seems as our habits of lifestyle have changed so should our eating habits. Its either that or we exercise to compensate for 8 hours of sitting at a desk all day where the only exercise you get is a few clicks of the mouse. So i realize that something has to change, and since its too cold to run right now and I get home at dark I figure its the diet. Eventually I'll try to work in the old exercise routine, but until then lets hope the diet can shed some pounds. Otherwise I'm screwed and I might as well just become Jaba the Hutt, move out to the Desert, get me some of them frogs, and a big Rancor pit--complete with real rancor, and throw me some parties. Hmm... that doesn't sound half bad...
Well in typical Obscene Gene fashion, Pete called last night and post poned his trip till next week. No big deal for us what ever works out for him, but it left our saturday a little dull. Friday night we watched Braveheart which still impresses me. It gave a rebirth to the modern day epics. Braveheart brought back the amazing epic films and is so reminiscent to Spartacus, Ben Hur, 10 Commandments, and any other Kirk Douglas or Charlton Heston flick. Now you have at least one psuedo epicical movie a year. Gladiator, Last Samuarai, the Patriot, and Zoolander are all mere copies of the Braveheart formula for the new epic. As I watched Braveheart I was still so engrossed as ever. I remember the first time I saw it in Highschool, yes thats right, unlike nearly 99% of the covenant student body, I saw Braveheart before I even knew anything about Presbyterianism or Scottishism. I also owned the soundtrack before ever coming to covenant, all you dorks just wanted to be like me. Though I can say no other soundtrack has ever in my mind been so familiar. I don't know if anyone listens to it and just knows the whole thing by heart, but i do. Right down to the Irish Illian pipes that have nothing to do with Scotland. I still kind of shake my head when the movie shows the "outlawed tunes being played on outlawed pipes." funny those pipes don't make those tunes. Just goes to show you scotts, the irish have one upped you again. Not only did they not cave as easily to british oppresion they also have musical instruments that sound pretty and are not loud and reminescent of a fart machine. There, that should make some people angry... heh heh heh...
Today went by at a normal pace. We finished Braveheart today as we were too tired last night to finish it. I watched the Titans Ravens game over at the Trygars house, it was pretty good game though McNair was not in MVP form at all, I mean come on third and inches and he throws a long pass, what was that?? It was reminiscent of the stupidity that Mike Martz is known for. I'm thinking it will be a Patriots Super bowl, I'm not sure anyone has the skills to take them, though I don't like them at all. sorry to end this but i have a big head ache and need to go
Happy 2004 everybody.... now what. We went down to the Crabbs for new years and played settlers till 3 am. It was intense, one game led to some tears, others were just frusterating, while others were over before they started. They were good sports, I was so suprised how quick they picked up on the game, those smarties. I also got my gamecube back from crabb, now i just need some Mario Kart Action, right Roes?? We had a good time with them, and got a little taste of their Atkins lifestyle.... it was a little too greasy, sorry Crabbs. New Years night was great we had stirfry, champagne, wine, pistacios... good stuff. Though after a long night of coffee and alcohol I met Dr. Atkins style breakfast head on and after that night it was rough. Real bacon, strait from the pig, real eggs strait from the chicken, and some heafty biscuits strait from the Pilsbury dough boy. I haven't had real bacon in sooooo long. It was sooo good but man its hard on this belly. We're the hard core Turkey Bacon people, yep we try to stay on the kosher side, just incase we're wrong about this whole Christians can eat pork thing. I'm more of a cereal man too so anytime I eat real food for breakfast my stomach does a double take, "What the crap where's my Grapenuts? I don't know how to digest Eggs," says my stomach. The girls went out today and did some damage to the old checkbook, while Crabby and I rented some flicks. We got 28 Days and Identity. 28 Days was crabby's idea, just for the record. 28 was ok, not great but not horrendous. It was pretty well done for not a huge blockbuster and I must admit it was pretty cool to see the main character walking down down town london with no one there, we kept wondering how they filmed that. How do you get everyone out of down town london? It didn't look like a set or computer enhanced. The movie was interesting, a plague called Rage spreads through london and you don't know if its affected the whole world or just london. Is the whole world a zombie or just a bunch of brits? It really wasn't scarry but interesting in a way, think of it as a glimpse of Resident Evil (thats a game) and 12 monkees from a different take. I don't necessarily recommend it though, one thing I got annoyed with was all the gore and violence. Also the movie had four different endings, which to me shows a real crappy plot behind the movie. Its like, "Lets see.... we need to make a movie..... Zombies, yes, zombies should do. London? Yeah why not.... ending? Hmmmm..... lets make four and pick one at the end. Luckily they picked the best one but still. Also I like my horror movies to be more psychological and imply things instead of explicitly showing things. If you don't want to know the ending of Identity don't read the rest of this cause thats what i want to talk about....
I think Identity may have been tooo complex for my imagination. I think the story would have been cooler if all the people weren't personalities in the guys mind, that was a little hard to follow. I liked the movie a lot and thought it was more creepy than 28 days. John Cussack was pretty cool but I think the movie would have been a little more interesting if the story didn't switch between reality and the man's mind, though that was a pretty cool concept but hard to follow and differentiate.
I must say both movies weren't soooo scary. Identity was freaky, 28 days was ok, but neither scared me. Movies for me that scare me have to be believable. 28 days wasn't believable because the people kept making stupid decisions. OK zombies are attacking you in london where do you go???? Well if it were america you'd go to walmart pick up a few 20 guages and do what it takes. But them english have some stricter gun control so where do you go??? Policia my friends. They got the weapons, and with all the people dead and a few zombies you could waltz right in grab a few of them Brit automatic rifles and just go to a roof top and take zombies out like shootin fish in a barrel. But alas the people weren't that smart. Also one of the more scary movies of the year, the Ring, wasn't scarry for me after they showed the girl coming through the TV. I mean people dead or alive can't come out of TVs! Only Freddy Krueger, but he only does it out of means of necessity not for joys and kicks like Ring girl.