What if the voting age were a bit lower?

Hm, as most of you know, I could care less about politics. Most of the time I find it boring and pointless because I am a rebel and know that my vote doesn't really count. However, I did find this amusing article on Cracked.com showing several ads for if the voting age were say lowered to 6. Although I don't usually agree with the Democratic national party, if they used this ad campaign I would so vote for whoever was bold enough to use it!
No, if I really thought about it, although this candidate is obviously amazing, I doubt I would vote for them anyway. (For reasons of my own which I am sure you don't want to hear)

Other than that, I learned today that the Earth is supposedly in a photon belt and thus what we know as time is being warped around us and thus moving much faster than we would normally perceive it. Which is especially inconvenient seeing as I have midterms right now and if anything, more time in the day would be beneficial. But that's the Earth for you, always thinking about itself, doesn't it know that it revolves around me?

As well, my horoscope says that Venus, the planet of love, is in my sign, so for the next few weeks I will be "super-cuddly". So come and get it! :p

What Drugs are Casting Directors on?

Ah, so here I am again, sitting in the Honors Lab on shift, bored out of my mind. Not only am I in the least used lab on campus, but its also 10:30 in the morning. So, out of boredom (and not wanting to do and reading for classes) I wandered over to rotten tomatoes, one of my all time favorite sites. And one article they had this morning really caught my eye, and so I thought I'd share it with you. And yes, this is about actors and the film industry, but this is not really from an entertainment reporter. It is actually a pretty interesting article (so don't judge me)

From TheMovieBlog.com

"We’ve all said this phrase several times about one actor or another: “How on earth does this person keep getting parts in movies!?!?”. Maybe sometimes we see and understand why someone keeps getting parts… hell maybe we even love seeing them, but when it comes down to it we admit to ourselves and others that the person in question is actually talentless and probably doesn’t belong on the big screen."

The article goes on to list 10 actors who truly are not talented at all. I like however, that this article merely ranks these actors on their talent level, not how much people hate them.

"NOW REMEMBER, I’m not talking about the WORST actors. You can have an actor with talent, but they find a way to screw up everything they do. At the same time, you can have someone with no talent at all… but they find a way to not screw something up (I have no talent as a painter, but if you tell me to paint one straight red line on a wall… I can pull that off without too much trouble)."

I like that, its true that while some people have no talent, they are quite good at playing roles that require no talent.

Well, I just found this article entertaining, and since I had not graced this page with my presence in the last few days, I thought I would share it with you. Other than that, not much has happened in my corner of the world that is worth sharing with all 3 of you reading this.

And with that I am off, so I wish you a good Tuesday and a Happy Bi-Sexual Day!

The Misadventures in the Dining Center

Well, before I get to the misadventures, I thought I would share my thoughts on last week's mix. For those of you who don't know, The Daily Evergreen prints a special section of the school newspaper every Thursday called the MiX where they discuss events happening around campus, have movie reviews and other non-news related articles. Anyway, I have been (for some time) in love with the guy who writes the movie reviews. Its a sad obsession, but nonetheless, he is amazing. He has a witty writing style that I appreciate and he has extraordinarily good taste in movies (except maybe for his love of B-horror films). Last week in the MiX he wrote his article about how he wished that production companies would stop doing two things:

1) Remaking classic asian films, and
2) Letting Nicolas Cage keep his job.

I like that he had not seen Nicolas Cage's most recent film "Bangcock Dangerous" but he already said he didn't like it. So as I have said, this obession has been 1 year in the making, and it looks like it will continue on this year.

As for the misadventures, this year me and my amazing roommate have taken residency in a hall that happens to be near to the Hillside dining center. Last year we lived near Stephenson and the newly renovated Soutside dining center. As we have had to eat more often at Hillside, we have come to the conclusion that Southside > Stephenson > Hillside. For one, Southside has an amazing pasta bar that prepares delicious pasta dishes right in front of you, and Stephenson had a station that rotated dishes everyday. These "scary meat products" were usually pretty tasty, and often times we would plan to go to Stephenson in order to get our favorites. Well Hillside lacks both of these, and really the only good thing at Hillside is their sandwiches, which really I could make at home.

But where the real adventure came was on last Friday when we both trekked to the dining center to get dinner at some odd hour, thus there were very few people there. Well my roommate wanted to make the jukebox there play the song "Tainted Love" (seeing that we were sitting next to it, and its free) however, she didn't really know how to use the jukebox, so in trying to flip the pages of the songs, she managed to select a terrifying hord rock veering towards metal song. Now there is a delay after you select a song before it starts to play, so she continued to press buttons several times before the song came on. Once the first song came on, she snuck back to our table, disappointed and discouraged.
After her song had ended, one of the employees there went up to the jukebox to pick the next song. He was one of our favorite employees at Stephenson last year, he would always sing to us while waiting in line at the grill. But he was at Hillside today cleaning tables, and as he was standing in front of the JukeBox trying to pick a song, my roommate's second song choice came on, it was none other than "Opps I did it again" by the ever popular Britney Spears. As soon as her heard the song he immediately stepped away from the machine claiming "I didn't pick this!"
We felt just a little bit sorry for the guy, but it was too funny, so before people could realize that it was my roommate who picked the song, we snuk out the backdoor, just lauhging to ourselves. My reaction was "Out of all the songs on that juke box, you have to randomly pick the one Britney Spears song?!".
We are now determined to at some wee hour of the night and try to figure out the jukebox, preferably when there are not very many people to be witnesses.

In other news, another spammer succeeded in surprising me today. When I checked my email address reserved solely for spam, 0ne of the messages managed to catch my attention. It read something along the lines of "You're AAPR membership needs to be verified". I just laughed for a second before deleting it. I mean, really? Did you even take a second to collect any data on me? Oh well, I guess it will go nicely with all the viagra emails I get...

Another misunderstanding...

So the other day I got a but excited about some news posted on the mtv blog Splashpage. They "reported" that Micheal Caine said Jonny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman had been slated as the villians in the next Batman film. Well, I stumbled today upon this little article on the same blog:

From MTV Splashpage

Published by Casey Seijas on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 4:00 pm.

Yesterday, we reported that “Dark Knight” castmember Michael Caine claimed that as far as he knew, the villains for the next “Batman” film had been cast with Johnny Depp landing the role of The Riddler, and Philip Seymour Hoffman playing The Penguin. Today at the Toronto Film Festival, we went right to the source and asked Hoffman directly if he indeed had been cast as The Penguin.

“No one has talked to me about it ever — never,” replied Hoffman. “It happened, like, five years ago, too. It was a rumor back then and it’s still a rumor. [laughs] It’s just in the press. It’s funny.”

I think its funny that mtv news has this big article on the rumors about the next batman movie, and then the next day they turn around and go "oops, just kidding". Ugh and I feel worse for getting caught up in what was obviously a rumor... -___-" But oh well, these things happen, that's how people are.

Johnny Depp is Riddler, Philip Seymour Hoffman is Penguin

“They’ve already got them in mind,” said Caine, when asked who he’d like to see take up arms against the Caped Crusader. “It’s Johnny Depp as The Riddler. And The Penguin is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I read it in the paper.”

read more | digg story

Ok, so Digg.com is amazing. However, you have to wonder about the validity of this article, I mean, it did come from MTV News. But still, I am a bit torn on this one. True I do love Johnny Depp, and he always manages to amaze, but doing the Riddler right after the Joker, really they are very similar characters. I don't know if they could pull it off. And I am not a huge fan of Philip Sermour Hoffman, so seeing him as one of my favorite batman villians, is a bit disappointing. And if its anything like "The Dark Knight" they will end up spending the entire movie on one story arch and then just throwing in the story of the other villian at the end. Really, I think that The Dark Knight might have turned out better if they had left the story of Two Face for the next movie. It was just too much. And the same might happen to the riddler or the penguin. And I really hope that it doesn't happen to either of them.
And you have to take into consideration who they are talking about. I doubt Hoffman will have any scheduling conflicts. But Johnny Depp is finally being recognized as an amazing actor (much to my relief) and he is slated to be in several movies in the upcoming few years. Between The Run Diaries, Shantaram, Dark Shadows and who knows what else, will he really agree to be in the next Batman? Its a tough question, part of me hopes he does and the other doesn't just for the sake of the quality of the film...

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The Misadventures Begin Again!

Today on Digg I saw that there was this BS list of books that apparently Sarah Palin wanted to ban from a library somewhere. While the list was silly and obviously fake, it was humorous. However, if it were a list of books that Christians would find offensive, then there were some glaring omissions, and really they were all books that could be considered "classics". So what really got to me was the fact that while I like to say I am well read, and have in fact read a great deal of books, most of the books I have read were obscure "classics" that most people have never even heard of, let alone read. So I was reading this list and was quite disappointed at how many books I have never read. So I think I will make it an effort this year to try and read more of the "classic" classics. But then again, I can hardly keep up with the reading for my GenEd class, let alone books I'm not required to read.

Anyway, that was my thought for the day.
Not much else has gone through my head that will seem exciting to you as a reader, or that I am allowed to share on this blog. XD
Yes, we had a meeting (we being me and my suitemates) decided that when it comes to posting information about each other online we should just not be a dumbass. Thus, I don't think I can mention what we talk about last night whilst eating chinese food, but it was hilarious. I just wish I had had more exciting stories to tell...
But there was one exciting adventure. So it was down to me and my roommate over who was to drive us all to pick up the chinese, and so I offered to drive since my car was closer and I hadn't started it in a while. So anyway, we drove over to New Garden, and one of the girls asked if she could roll down the window and I said yes except for the back right window. That window likes to roll down, but it doesn't roll back up... So apparently another one of my suitemates didnt hear that, and the next comment I hear is "um, sam, your window isn't going back up" She had managed to roll the window all the way down.
See, normally how I get that window back up is I pull on the acutal window while holding the switch to roll it up. But there was no window to pull on. Luckily my father was in Walla Walla today and dropped down to come and fix it. And! He made it so that the window doesnt roll down at all now.

So in the end everything worked out fine, and my car only sat in the parking lot for 1 day with the window completely rolled down, and sadly, no one stole it either.
And this has been another installment of The Crazy Misadventures of Sam and Co. Please tune in next time for another exciting story...

Oh! and one more thing! Apparently "Casette" and "Party Pete" have both made an appearance in my Physics lab (which sucks by the way). Now for all of you not in the know, the communications between yours truely and Party Pete have been down since the beginning of the last school year, so maybe some of the lines can be repaired with this class. I will have to keep you updated!

- Cheers, Sam

"Disaster Movie" Scores A 0% On Rotten Tomatoes

Congratulations, Disaster Movie! You’ve finally brought the “Movie” movies into the elite company of Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.
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Wow, I'm glad that people are finally starting to grow brains.... Really, I hope this prevents them from ever making another one of these horrible movies ever again, now if we could just talk Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg....

Hello World!

Well, obviously you have seen my other blog by now and have wandered over here to see whats so great about this one. Well, seeing as I am writing this one first, I will tell you.

So lately I have been talking with friends, and going to conventions, and I have had a growing feeling that myspace is dying. And while it was nice at first, most of my friends who actually read and followed that blog have now moved on to bigger and better networking sites. And well, as much as I love Facebook, there is an obvious lack of the blog option. It just doesn't work out over there. So that is why I am here.

I have recently returned to WSU for my second year and am ready to move on from the silly bulliten surveys and whinny blogs of my myspace days. I would hope that you (my friends) have come here to check up on me and see how my life has been going. Anyway, I recently went to PAX this labor day weekend. (That's the Penny Arcade Expo, for those you not in the know) It was amazing, it was my first year attending, and I really wish I had gone last year. BUT! This blog is not about PAX, its about some of the things I learned at PAX. I saw that there are many people out there who use blogs for very important things, not just to whine about thier roommates. (not that I'm whining!) So I would like to make this blog a place where people may acutally learn things, like the fact that I just spilled my vitamin water all over my pants. And not just come to hear my emo poems.

So on that note! Here's a snippet of an article I saw on Digg.com today. Its about one of the pannels that was at PAX. But MSNBC made me a bit sad when they edited their quote. True, the author probably would have gotten in trouble for saying "dick" on the MSNBC website, but still, it does lose some of its meaning...

From MSNBC.com

By Kristin Kalning

Games editor

MSNBC

updated 6:08 a.m. PT, Thurs., Sept. 4, 2008

If you want to turn your lady friend into a gaming fan, here’s some advice from Xbox Live community manager Christa Phillips: Don’t be a jerk.

Sounds obvious enough, but the statement earned knowing laughs and enthusiastic applause from the standing-room-only crowd gathered for the “How to Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming” panel at the Penny Arcade gaming convention in Seattle recently.

Really, I wish I had seen this pannel. As a girl who games occasionally, its interesting to see what other girls have to say about what would get me into gaming more. True, I don't play games that as much as many of my male friends, but actually, what the rest of the article suggests sounds fairly right on. If I had a boyfriend, and he wanted to get me more into gaming and followed these suggestions, I probably would game more with him.

And on that note, I am off. I am at the Gannon Lab and am quite bored, but my Physics homework is calling. And I will be updating my myspace blog less and less as the days go on, but will hopefully be updating this one more and more with interesting stories and snippets I find in life and the internet. I will let you know when I have a new blog by updating my facebook status. So to all I wish you good night.

&c.