I don’t go to the theater very often, but in the past 2 weeks, i’ve gone twice. (also - before i get into this… im on a broken laptop, the regular shift key that i used doesn’t work, so im not going to put anything in caps. also, the last letter of the alphabet doesn’t work, so i couldn’t spell capitali_e just now…sigh… i love my best friend, but he’s sort of a space case sometimes.)

Last weekend i saw the ever famous Expelled. i’m sure everyone’s read 1.4 million reviews of it online already. so i’ll just say this. …it was the worst thing i’ve ever seen in my entire life. i’m sorry, but sitting there watching hours of stein compare evolutionary biology to hitler and the holocaust?? yeah, definitely not something i’d ever want to do again or recommend to anyone else to do. it was so horrible. i thought that there would at least be a few good points in it or something… but no, it was just bad. i hadn’t read any online reviews of it, so i didn’t know what i was in for… sigh.

On the other hand…Wall-E??? cutest movie EVER… i totally loved it. it was great to see something environmentally AND sciencey being done for kids. not only that but there were 2 other previews for science-ish kid films. one about monkey’s in space and another about a science fair that an igor tries to win. science is awesome, and there should be more science films for kids made. so this is good. yes, wall-e was great, and the perfect date movie, btw… if you haven’t heard about the plot line - the robots fall in love. and its the cutest thing since kittens.

a lot of other stuff happens too, but that was the part i was focused on. yeah, i couldn’t get enough of it. wall-e good. expelled bad.

im back in toronto this weekend, sans hemant. we’re having a whole crew of people go to the rom tomorrow, so that should be a lot of fun. science science and dinosaurs. awesome. im sorry about my lack of content, but… i’ve been busy trying to figure out plans for september. as it looks now i’ll be moving to toronto at the end of august to go to york university. … where i plan to live… i dont know yet. where i plan to work… i dont know what either. what classes i plan to take at school…. haven’t quite got that under control. but hey, it’s only the first week of july, i still have some time here. and yes. im aware that this is like my 80th university. shut up.

I saw 10,000 BC. Now I want to cry.

I’ve recently learn to just STFU and watch movies understanding that they can’t be historically accurate and that they are meant to just be entertaining. But this one was SO incredibly bad, that I couldn’t help but go “omg, that’s just ridic” because it was.

Our first animal - the saber-toothed cat that appeared in the movie… sigh. This animal, the smilodon, lived entirely in the Americas - 10 000 take places in the Old World. Granted, there were other animals such as the homotherium that lived in the Old and New world. But the size? And the timing? The homotherium would have died out about 20 000 years before the time of the movie and would have been half that size of that which appeared next to the humans.

The “terror birds” lived 40 million years ago… an early bird that couldn’t fly, and just stocked around preying on animals all day. It wouldn’t have been in the Old World. And lets not forget the woolly mammoth… this is the only animal in the movie that would have been alive at the correct time - but in like… the Arctic, and much smaller.

The woolly mammoth is often depicted as being substantially larger than it actually was, this movie isn’t the only one that does it. Even in cartoons, or other movies the mammoth looks larger than modern day elephants - but really it would have been about 10 feet at the base of the neck… but then they had big heads… with big tusks attached, so people assume that they were larger than they were but its an optical illusion of sorts. You know what I’m sayin’ yo?

Anyway - I started watching it thinking “I don’t even care about historical accuracy” but there was nothing else to catch my attention. It took all cliches and SHOVED it all into one movie. There was no action, there were no dinosaurs, there was no love, there was no epic ending or heroic tale. …Sigh. It was hard to look past the fluent english, nicely done eyebrows and perfectly polished teeth too…

There was potential, but it fell flat. Real flat. …I hate watching bad movies, I just feels like wasted life. I will admit that the boy was quite nice to look at.

From the first time I fell in love with him - 10 Things I Hate About You. …Pretty horrible movie but man… from that day on I watched every movie that boy popped up in. 

Sigh.

A Manhattan city medical examiner declared that Heath Ledger’s death was completely accidental due to “the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects” of a number of different prescription drugs. He was apparently on a painkiller, oxycontin and the ever so popular anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax. (Prescribed together quite often.)

Those pills with some ibuprofen and a sleeping pill turned into one fatal night. None of the drugs were found in access, just the combination wasn’t the greatest idea. That makes it all so much sadder…

He is having a privet burial in Perth, Australia, and a public one in Los Angeles. I hope for the sake of the family and loved ones that no dumb asses show up at Heath’s public funeral ranting and raving about the time he faked being gay for a movie. People are retarded.

Here is the kicker of the article that I linked to. Out of literally, no where it states that once in 2006 Heath declared that he smokes pot. …. WTF?! How totally irrelevant is that?! He was apparently at a party and said on camera “Sometimes I smoke 5 joints a day”… … You’d think that alone would have been enough for his anxiety… at 5 joints a day I don’t think I’d need valium.

You know what I’m really super duper excited for though? The next Batman. And Heath appearing in it as the joker! COOL!

Fiddy might be taller, but Kanye is a better dresser, sexier, better singer, smarter, politically active… and the list goes on.

You may or may not know this about me… but I love Kanye West. Like, looove. His new CD, Graduation, came out yesterday and I got it today. I’ve been listening to it for like 4 hours straight. It is SO GOOD. So far, my favorite song is Flashing Light .

Kanye and 50 cent released their CD on the same day with a bit of a competition. Kanye is going to sell more, hardcore. Kanye reaches a wider spectrum of people, he doesn’t dress like a thug, he’s super sexy, his music is good, he’s got Mos Def and T-Pain on the album… So good. Fiddy just has one sort of sound, and he doesn’t even get very good beats going on, really. But, I’m a little biased here, I’m completely in love with Kanye, and haven’t liked Fiddy since this one song that drove me CRAZY. I don’t remember the name of the song though, I’ve blocked it from my memory. Although, Fiddy did give us the like “i love you like a fat kid love cake”. Nice. That was probably his greatest contribution to society, that one line.

I like this little paragraph talking about the two styles and men:

As on his previous releases, West measures his overflowing arrogance with self-conscious dollops of doubt, humor and vulnerability. Meanwhile, Fiddy’s outsized cockiness sounds like a comfortable artist repeating himself, afraid to tinker with his winning formulas.

BWA so true. Anyway, have a listen to that track, it’s really great. The whole album is. My little brown lover at work, Dhanung, has basically made me listen to Kanye, Craig David, Usher, Akon… etc. He’s trying to take some of the white-ness out of me.

Dhanung is the short one, Harry is the tall one. I love them both.

Speaking of Mos Def, you must check out this movie trailer, it looks absolutely hilarious. That could just be because I love Jack.

My mom and I just got back from the theater - we saw the Simpsons Movie and my goodness… it was funny. I recommend that everyone go and see it. I don’t think it was *as* good as some of the regular TV episodes I’ve seen, but if it’s not… it’s pretty darn close. It was very cute.

My absolute favorite part went a little something like this:

Grandpa: *goes crazy on the church floor*
Marge: Homer! Do something!
Homer: *picks up bible flipping pages wildly trying to figure out what to do and says:* This book has no answers!!!!!!

Aaaaaah hahahahahaha. I had a darn good laugh at that one. My mom and I were also the only ones who laughed at a few of the jokes, not because they weren’t funny, but because they were political and everyone in Guelph is an inbred hic.. err, never mind.

Now that I’ve seen that, the next movie I plan on seeing in the theater is Horton Hears a Who. See - I don’t go to the movie theater all that often. I used to a lot when I lived in Mississauga, but now I think it’s just a huge rip off. I feel so bad when I see families that go that are clearly working class and they can’t buy their kids popcorn because it’s too expensive. And then you realize it cost them over $50 for their tickets… Thats groceries for an entire week, just to go see a movie. Fucking capitalist pigs. No wonder people have to choose between rent and food sometimes.

Anyway, because of this I don’t go to the movies very often. But there was a preview for Horton Hears a Who, and I absolutely love Dr. Seuss, and I don’t have kids or pay rent.

The point of my story is this:

Go see the Simpsons movie.