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Since I am seeing the new Indy movie today I thought I should catch up with the old indy movies really quick!

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Temple of Doom

The Last Crusade

Top 10 Indy moments

I just watched The Graduate again which I hadn't seen in awhile. That is such a weird flick, serisouly their isn't a normal character in the whole movie. Everyone in it is really pretty messed up, the whole story is pretty messed up. Maybe that is why it is so memorable, it is wickedly funny, and the whole plot is so surreal. Of course it also has some of the most easily recognizable music in it, and one of the most spoofed / quoted scenes. Anyways I really enjoyed watching it again, I highly recommend seeing, The Graduate, if you haven't already seen it.

I got the batman begins dvd yesterday (well it sat in the package room for a bit), and i watched that movie again last night. It rocks buy this movie help support the best comic movie ever made the more money it makes the more likely they will be to make better more realistic comic movies. Instead of making kiddy pieces of crap like catwoman, daredevil, or the power rangers... hehe through that last one in just to see if your paying attention.

So Batman Begins is sweet...

tonight i am going out with a bunch of people from the office for a bunch of co workers birthdays... yippie... it hsould be a good time, but i am tired... i need to run some errants this weekend and figure out the halloween costume...

I like comics... i like comic movies... I dont like when they ruin them, like xmen-3 having a new sex mutant that can seduce anyone... What? Did a 13 year old write his wet dream into the script of x-men? Or spiderman three having the scrawnies wouldnt hurt a fly actor playing freaking VENOM.
Spiderman 3 villains

i dont have much to say right now except that everyone should go see crash and that it is truely one of the best films i have seen, currently in my top 10 and it might make the top five it is still being thought about... so go see the movie and it will effect your thougths for awhile...

peace,
Movie lover

Alright after being gone for about a year my movie Dead Awake is back online. So if your interested in seeing the movie i made awhile ago, go check it out and leave me some feedback here.

Dead Awake

Yippie this is a video i always thought was cool and now the music video is online.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/26854/

Arrggg an idea i have had for a long time appears to already be in use... I thought it would be fun to hook up a huge helium balloon to yourself and be able to jump as if in a low gravity enviroment... it is cool and some company is doing it.

Para Bounce

If you need a smile on your face this will put one there....

white boy dance

Today I am all dresed up. this morning we did our final testing int he law school. At 1 we have our final senior projects presentation. This will really mean that we are done with the majority of our work. Yeaaaa... This means I can continue my string of, seeing an insane amount of movies.

This leads me to I saw Kill Bill 2 last night. I dont want to really say anything because i hate ruining movies for anyone. So i will just say, I liked it. It was good and I haven't decided if I like the first or second Kill Bill better yet, but I will get to it.

Well I guess the end of the year is closing out nicely and everything seems to be going to plan, which is good. At the smae time though it is probably a little boring for my posts. Nothing to exciting and I have been able to avoid breaking down pretty well. Oh well. If your bored you can always dance.... hehe

Wish me luck on my presentation.

Insane the amount of movie watching that i have been doing lately. Oh well it is nice to have the time for it again. It is bad that i dont spend a little more of my time on some productive work though. Oh well i will enjoy a bit of freedom before going straight into more hard work. so what did you just see to make this more of a movie madness weekend?

To start the day off, I watched old school Edward Scissor hands. Tim Burton is truely imaginative and visionary. He has creepy, surreal, but all together beautiful imagery in his mind. It was a great flick, it made me wonder in the end if Tim Burton has found his love, is he married? Has he loved and lost? Does he live a self torturing existance alone, but it pushes him to generate such amazing and emotional movies? Anyways great flick, and as always Johny Depp is amazing.

Then tonight I saw the whole 10 yards. It was ok I guess. I honestly wasn't that impressed. The first version was far better. It was a little force for many of the jokes. The attempts at bad humor thrown in where none was needed also was annoying. Oh well, it was nice to see one of the Friends gang out making movies again. Argggg how i love friends. Tomorrow night i think we will be seeing, Van Halseen (spelling?). Yeaaa for movies. I will have to come up with some video project this summer to work on. Something shorter and quicker to make than Dead Awake.

I didn't accomplish as much as i had planned today. I did however see an old fear grow within me again. It was unintentional and unnerving... I am not sure what I think about it yet. (Yes Dom^2, I am being vague on purpose).

Dream for now and dream again.
For tomorrow I will be dead again.
I wake in a trance.
Do my little dance.
Society will have it's way,
I am just it's whore today.

peace,
Dan "needs some good sleep" Man

I saw Eternal Sunshine of.... tonight. Flat out it was spectacular. I am glad i saw it. The problem is it makes you think alot about past relationships. Something i have probably been thinking about to much of late anyways. Anyways, i think this movie will have a effect on me for awhile. I am pretty sure that it will be keeping me up tonight.

Anyways as my first responce to the movie, I decided I might as well open up some of my past thought to others. I found a collection of poems that i wrote a couple years ago, and originally didn't think I should release them because they were quite personal. I decided that just because something is personal it always doesn't have to be hidden. I dont know what I think about these now, i dont really think I am in the same place anymore, but it is interesting none the less. Perhaps this will shed some light on my past to some of you that didn't know me at such a different point in my life. So if your interested you can find all of the poems i just realeased at the Wasted Brains Writting section. As a little sample I will include one of the poems below.

the hottest music video. EVER! hehe

If you want to suddenly think power tools are cool... Click the link above.

Anyways it seems that i need to get ready for some hard core constant coding. It seems that I have a coding project due thursday, 2 on monday, a paper tuesday, and a large homework assignment wendsday. Argg so bacically my week is screwed until next thursday night. I am highly excited. By that I mean this sucks.

Seconds ago I just learned my good friend Steve is in town. He is all in Air Force out by florida now. I guess he is going to be here a week and a half. That makes my above paragraph suck way worse because now it is going to be really hard to A) spend time with him. B) get my work done C)become the new leoperachan on the front of the lucky charms box.

Sometimes the weather gives insight into the future. It was 70 this morning it was snowing like hell by 5. I have a feeling that will be my life over the next week. from great to a snowstorm that there is no way out of. Well wish me luck... Also I am trying to ask out this girl i am interested in sometime, but there never seems to be any time.

Their is an interesting quote from Jim Carrey in his interview...

"...is that everybody has someone they'd rather erase: "Gosh, if I could just suck that out of my brain and my heart and never deal with it again, it'd be fantastic." Everybody identifies with that, has some relationship that hurts so bad that they just wish they could make the ghosts go away. You can't, of course."

I thought about this for a bit. I was like i guess I would want to get rid of all the thoughts i have of Laura (my ex). Get rid of the memories and feelings that haunt me. Just be able to move past it all without having the little things remind you of that person, what happened, and what was lost. Then i realized you can't just forget it wouldn't even be good if you could. It is part of what makes you who you are. forever there are many things i learn in that relationship that i will carry into my future. I am sure the same is for her. If we could just suck out memories because of the pain it causes in the future we would never grow. We could never change. So while i miss many things and have been upset time and time again by painful memories of a beautiful past. I wouldn't give it up for anything. I couldn't why would i want to get ride of some of the best memories of my life. Of some of the biggest growth in my life. Perhaps the memories or ghosts he speaks of still haunt people because their is still something they have to learn from thier past. So I will never forget, but here's to hoping that one day I will successfully move on.

All too often, I feel like my relationships fall into a rut of essentially four activities - sex, hanging out talking, eating together, and watching movies. The first two are staples of any good relationship (substitute "get it on" for "sex" if you're not quite there yet, with no loss of generality) and should be both common and exceedingly enjoyable, but the last two are starting to bore the hell out of me. There's a huge world out there, yet I find myself defaulting to dinner and a movie time and time again. Going out to a get dinner, coffee, desert is a pretty good activity for conversation, but you can only be hungry for that stuff some of the time. So here's my question to all you readers out there - what fun stuff do you go out and do w/ your girlfriend? Something that breaks out of this rut, something fun yet out of the ordinary? Especially at night? I've been racking my brain for some ideas, hoping to spark others from those more creative than I

- hit the bars together (instead of getting dinner, get a pitcher)
- bowling (although I hate it when if she kicks my ass)
- clubbing (although I feel weird, honestly, but that's another issue)
- casinos (if you happen to have them near)
- outdoorsy stuff, hiking, camping, skiing, etc (although it generally doesn't work so well at night)
- board/puzzle games (I feel so old suggesting it, but boggle is damn fun)

Help!

I saw big fish tonight. I would recommend it. It starts a little slow and wierd. Then it ends being wonderful and wierd. The movie makes me want to sit down and have a conversation with Tim Burton, he must be a very interesting man... (Nightmare before Xmas, Edward Scissor hands, Big Fish, and other wierd movies) I bet he has an amazing mind. That I would love to pick apart.

I made this because i was bored a techno music video... You can get it from the videos section of wasted brains... or for a short time from the front page of wastedbrains. Dom hurts scott in the video it is funny.

I was planning to run home and review it. I warned friends not to read my blog. Instead even in case someone stumbles apon this i don't want to change their own personal impression and interpretation. So I just will leave you all with it is worth a watching.

We rented the second matrix on saturday and watched it again. So now were ready for the 3rd matrix to be released on wendsday. We currently have 9 tickets for the 10:30 showing on wendsday and i think that is awesome. It should be a good time full of chatting sitting freezing, and seeing the twists that the final movie takes us through.

I hate this new style of movie that is incredibly popular right now. Such as Meet the parents, The bosses daughter, and anger management. I hate these movies where they show everything possible that could go wrong does. This movie just makes me want to explode. I really want to kick people right now because i am watching anger management for the first time.

Our movie Dead Awake is now the number one result when you search dead awake on google. That is really cool seeing as there is some real movie called dead awake. I am excited because that means people might actually find my movie on Google and watch it. Anyways I just got a bunch of bandwidth and I am prepairing to launch my movie on Fark and see how many downloads we can get in a day. I am guessing a few hundred. It should be exciting to have our 15 minutes of fame.

Public service announcement: I just watched the movie head of state. This has got to be the biggest piece of crap ever written and made. It is horrible. Chris rock isn't even trying to act in so many parts of it because he must have realized how bad it was going to suck. The budget must have called for chris rock and video cameras. The acting and everything was just horrible. It might have been funny if i was like 13 and on pain killers after having evasive surgery. Oh well. Just dont waste your time this isn't even worth renting.

Well i just finally watched a american classic. It has truely been inspiration to all the sex comedies that have come after you. I was amused at how raunchy some of the jokes were. I thought it would be pretty tame compared to american pie, but it was pretty bad also. It makes me wish the cops would buddy up with me and my roommates. hehe and then we could screw the university. hehe

I think it has to be something with similar mind set. I always enjoy movies more when i am working on a movie. I watch them more, i pay closer attention, and i enjoy them more. I have been watching a ton of movies lately. I have watched at least one movie a day. It is cool.

Fridays are always harder to work on. I mean something just starts to shut down your brain. It sucks because i am right at the end of a project. If i could just finish it i would be able to start all new stuff monday. Also inevitably monday i wont remember crap about the project so it will take even longer to finish. Ahhhh so i am going to work on it as hard as I can for the next 2 hours. I will fight my brain and it's wondering thoughts and it's eagernes to leave.

Who knows how many of the people out there care about this part of my life, but i am making really good progress on dead awake. I finished with the second rough draft of the film. At this rate it could be done in the next 3 or 4 days. So that means ia m ever closer to getting to have my world priemer of my movie at my house. I will have to get it all on a tape and watch it on our big screen and with our sound system to see if there are any big more noticable flaws.

This is the problem with being me. Even if your tired and you try to go to bed early to catch up on sleep. You can never count on a good night of sleep. It is 4:30 and I am still awake because i can't sleep. I have just layed and bed and rolled over like 3000 times. So now i will be even more tired tomorrow than i was today. Does this mean i will sleep well tomorrow night. Probably not. And the trend will continue until i am so tired that i sleep under my desk at work. arggg....

I am seeing the new matrix tonight at 10... Be warned i will come home extremely pumped and probably try to hack into something... hehe I loved the first lets hope this does it some justice.