It's another installment of Brian on the Aisle! Well, not really. It's more of I have some more thoughts about the last movie I saw: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World & I didn't feel like editing the last post.
Over the last couple of days I've been thinking about the film. The "review" I was posted was very shortly after seeing it, like a half hour after seeing said film. Over the weekend I've been thinking about it further. After the initial "Man, that's was awesome!" has worn off I thought more about what did I actually see. Now I will say this the film is still good & worth seeing. There is some wonderful visuals, some good music & a good time still seemed to be had by all! But, thinking about the movie a lot of things just seem to happen & their isn't much depth to it. You don't really get to know anyone in the film. Your given enough to make them seem like real people but you don't get much:
"Who's that?"
"Oh, That's Kim. She & Scott use to date. They went high School together. She is the drummer in Sex Bob-ombs with Scott"
"Ok. How did they break up? Is she dating anyone currently?"
"Uh....."
It's like that with most of the characters. You get a few short sentences with minor details of who the person in relation to someone else (most often the people being Scott Pilgrim or Ramona Flowers). Now this might just be the Movie & their might be more info in the books (which I have not read) about the characters but this a Movie review & I'm basing my comments solely on the Movie I saw. Characters come in, have their scene(s) & then leave. The movie doesn't really even go into why the League of Evil Ex's are even evil. Where they always evil or did they become evil after their break up with Ramona? If that's true, then doesn't that make Ramona evil herself?
Maybe I've just been thinking about this movie to much. I did enjoy seeing it. I didn't get all the reference, a number of the Video Game ones probably went right over my head. And I still stand by rating but it might be a lower 4 then it was originally. It's still a high 4 but probably not as high as it was last friday night/early saturday morning.
Until next time: Stay Jazzy Everyone.
- Brian
Monday, August 16, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
This is Entry 157: Brian on the Aisle #7
It's another installment of Brian on the Aisle! This time I went to see Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
Leading up to this movie coming out everything I saw about about this movie made me want to see it more. Now this could either lead up to an awesome movie or a really crappy movie who shows all the good parts before you get in the theater. Scott Pilgrim is the former.
Confession time: I haven't really read the books the movie is based off of. I read the first book, a friend had it. It was good but I didn't really feel the need to read the rest of the books. Not sure I will. Maybe if they putt all the 6 books together in one big book? A Scott Pilgrim Omnibus! In Color!
But getting back to the movie: It was Awesome. Dare I say Pretty Super Cool Awesome? Yes, I shall: It was Pretty Super Cool Awesome! I'm not sure how to explain the movie it's like if a Video Game, a Music Video & Movie all had a threesome which lead to the birth of this movie, This awesome, awesome movie baby. There is so much to see in the movie & I doubt I caught all there is to see. This a movie definitely worth a second viewing. Possibly a third or a fourth. I hardily look forward to seeing what's going to be on the DVD (hopefully some of the stuff from the website).
I liked that there wasn't all that many "Big Name" people in the movie. Sure, Michael Sera (who plays Scott Pilgrim) is a Big Name but your main character should be a Big Name person. But most of the rest of the principal cast are mostly all known some how but aren't truly those Big Name people. Everyone did a superb job in roles. No one I thought was miscast in their role.
A great film. Wonderful visuals. Some good music. A good time seemed to be had by all!
So, what do I give this film: 4 Power Ups... out of Five!
BONUS CONTENT!
- Favorite comment heard pre-movie: "Why did you text me at 9:30 in the morning? It's summer, no one is up that early!"
- M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie coming out. When he name came on screen during the trailer laughter broke out in the theater. After it died down a voice was heard saying "Hey, Give it chance." which caused more laughter. Then some commented we should remember what he did to Avatar, a reference to the Last Airbender movie. As for the rest of the trailer no one really caught my eye as "I got to go see this movie!"
- In other news before the Movie: I had Sushi! And it was served on a conveyor belt!
So, until next time: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Leading up to this movie coming out everything I saw about about this movie made me want to see it more. Now this could either lead up to an awesome movie or a really crappy movie who shows all the good parts before you get in the theater. Scott Pilgrim is the former.
Confession time: I haven't really read the books the movie is based off of. I read the first book, a friend had it. It was good but I didn't really feel the need to read the rest of the books. Not sure I will. Maybe if they putt all the 6 books together in one big book? A Scott Pilgrim Omnibus! In Color!
But getting back to the movie: It was Awesome. Dare I say Pretty Super Cool Awesome? Yes, I shall: It was Pretty Super Cool Awesome! I'm not sure how to explain the movie it's like if a Video Game, a Music Video & Movie all had a threesome which lead to the birth of this movie, This awesome, awesome movie baby. There is so much to see in the movie & I doubt I caught all there is to see. This a movie definitely worth a second viewing. Possibly a third or a fourth. I hardily look forward to seeing what's going to be on the DVD (hopefully some of the stuff from the website).
I liked that there wasn't all that many "Big Name" people in the movie. Sure, Michael Sera (who plays Scott Pilgrim) is a Big Name but your main character should be a Big Name person. But most of the rest of the principal cast are mostly all known some how but aren't truly those Big Name people. Everyone did a superb job in roles. No one I thought was miscast in their role.
A great film. Wonderful visuals. Some good music. A good time seemed to be had by all!
So, what do I give this film: 4 Power Ups... out of Five!
BONUS CONTENT!
- Favorite comment heard pre-movie: "Why did you text me at 9:30 in the morning? It's summer, no one is up that early!"
- M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie coming out. When he name came on screen during the trailer laughter broke out in the theater. After it died down a voice was heard saying "Hey, Give it chance." which caused more laughter. Then some commented we should remember what he did to Avatar, a reference to the Last Airbender movie. As for the rest of the trailer no one really caught my eye as "I got to go see this movie!"
- In other news before the Movie: I had Sushi! And it was served on a conveyor belt!
So, until next time: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Saturday, August 7, 2010
This is Entry 156: Blog turns 3
Today, 3 years ago I started this Blog! Woot to that!
It is also the 219th day of the year (or 220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year. It's also considered to be halfway through its summer (Or halfway through the winter if you live south of the equator). Also, Last year at this time I had made 101 posts which means at my current rate of posts I should have over 200 posts by next year's birthday. :)
What else happened today in History:
2008: Georgia launches a military offensive against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.
2007: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
1990: Desert Shield begins. U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia.
1976: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1976: Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars.
1974: Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers.
1970: 1st computer chess tournament.
1970: WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1965: The infamous first party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
1964: Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1964: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1963: Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland.
1961: Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2.
1959: The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use
1959: Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space.
1957: U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1956: Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans.
1955: KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins.
1954: Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full UN delegate.
1944: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1942: 1st American offensive in Pacific in WWII, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
1940: Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana).
1930: The last lynching in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1927: The Peace Bridge between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York is dedicated.
1909: U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny.
1820: 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1794: George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1791: United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1789: Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service.
1782: George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1679: The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1606: The first documented performance of Macbeth, at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
1498: Columbus arrives in Caribbean.
936: Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
Who was born today:
1987: Hollis Leroy Crapo, my friend.
1975: Charlize Theron, Actress.
1960: David Duchovny, Actor.
1958: Bruce Dickinson, Singer for Iron Maiden.
1955: Greg Nickels, Former Mayor of Seattle.
1955: Wayne Knight, Actor. (Newman!)
1942: B. J. Thomas, Singer.
1942: Garrison Keillor, American writer & radio host [Prairie Home Companion]
1928: Amazing [James] Randi, Skeptic Magician.
1927: Carl Switzer, Actor [Alfalfa].
1926: Stan Freberg, Satirist/Ad Executive/Cartoon Voice.
1886: Louis Hazeltine, Inventor of the neutrodyne circuit which makes radio possible.
1779: Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography.
1751: Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange.
At the other of the spectrum, Who died today:
2009: Mike Seeger, American folk musician, Age: 76.
1997: Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, Age: 109.
1957: Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel and Hardy fame. Age: 65.
1917: Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. Age: 25.
1033: Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine.
For a Birthday present to all you out there: Here is a funny interview Warren "The Ape" Demontague did on G4's Attack of the Show.
As always: Stay Jazzy.
- Brian
It is also the 219th day of the year (or 220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year. It's also considered to be halfway through its summer (Or halfway through the winter if you live south of the equator). Also, Last year at this time I had made 101 posts which means at my current rate of posts I should have over 200 posts by next year's birthday. :)
What else happened today in History:
2008: Georgia launches a military offensive against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.
2007: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
1990: Desert Shield begins. U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia.
1976: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1976: Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars.
1974: Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers.
1970: 1st computer chess tournament.
1970: WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1965: The infamous first party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
1964: Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1964: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1963: Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland.
1961: Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2.
1959: The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use
1959: Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space.
1957: U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1956: Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans.
1955: KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins.
1954: Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full UN delegate.
1944: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1942: 1st American offensive in Pacific in WWII, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
1940: Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana).
1930: The last lynching in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1927: The Peace Bridge between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York is dedicated.
1909: U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny.
1820: 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1794: George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1791: United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1789: Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service.
1782: George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1679: The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1606: The first documented performance of Macbeth, at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
1498: Columbus arrives in Caribbean.
936: Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
Who was born today:
1987: Hollis Leroy Crapo, my friend.
1975: Charlize Theron, Actress.
1960: David Duchovny, Actor.
1958: Bruce Dickinson, Singer for Iron Maiden.
1955: Greg Nickels, Former Mayor of Seattle.
1955: Wayne Knight, Actor. (Newman!)
1942: B. J. Thomas, Singer.
1942: Garrison Keillor, American writer & radio host [Prairie Home Companion]
1928: Amazing [James] Randi, Skeptic Magician.
1927: Carl Switzer, Actor [Alfalfa].
1926: Stan Freberg, Satirist/Ad Executive/Cartoon Voice.
1886: Louis Hazeltine, Inventor of the neutrodyne circuit which makes radio possible.
1779: Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography.
1751: Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange.
At the other of the spectrum, Who died today:
2009: Mike Seeger, American folk musician, Age: 76.
1997: Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, Age: 109.
1957: Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel and Hardy fame. Age: 65.
1917: Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. Age: 25.
1033: Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine.
For a Birthday present to all you out there: Here is a funny interview Warren "The Ape" Demontague did on G4's Attack of the Show.
As always: Stay Jazzy.
- Brian
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
This is Entry 155: Wonder Woman's New Outfit #4
It's another week & another post about Wonder Woman!
Back in Entry 151 I posted an ad for Wonder Woman & wondered why she wasn't wearing her new costume like the one see in Issue 600 & on the cover (as seen in Entry 153).
Well, I was reading my weekly stack of Comics & saw this ad:
Now this Ad is a mass-up of both things: The Text from the Ad & the Art for the Cover. But that's not all In both costume she is the same pose! It's almost the same drawing!
I say "almost" since after looking at both side by side not only do the costumes change but the expression on her face change.
Also, "glow" on the lasso changes.
Now I am getting slightly obsessed about this thing: maybe. But hey, I've gotten 4 whole posts about this thing! Anything that gets me to make more posts can't all be bad.
Until time: Stay Jazzy!
-Brian
Back in Entry 151 I posted an ad for Wonder Woman & wondered why she wasn't wearing her new costume like the one see in Issue 600 & on the cover (as seen in Entry 153).
Well, I was reading my weekly stack of Comics & saw this ad:
Now this Ad is a mass-up of both things: The Text from the Ad & the Art for the Cover. But that's not all In both costume she is the same pose! It's almost the same drawing!
I say "almost" since after looking at both side by side not only do the costumes change but the expression on her face change.
Also, "glow" on the lasso changes.
Now I am getting slightly obsessed about this thing: maybe. But hey, I've gotten 4 whole posts about this thing! Anything that gets me to make more posts can't all be bad.
Until time: Stay Jazzy!
-Brian
Friday, July 23, 2010
This is Entry 154: Wonder Woman's New Outfit #3
In a attempt to have a larger readership, on my Facebook page & at a few other websites I visit: I've been directing people to read my Blog. On one website, I got this comment about my recent posts about Wonder Woman:
My response went a little like this, well a lot like this since I'm just reposting it:
That's my reaction to most things, I don't get upset about most things other get up in arms about. With Wonder Woman: it's a drastic change that will mostly run it's course & then be changed back to what how she was before when the new writer comes on the book. Or it might change back before JMS is off the book, from the little story I read the classic ideas aren't completely gone just cut off from Diana at the moment. At the end of this story she might get all that stuff back or back in some altered form.
After posting thins comment I was thinking about things that I did get up in arms about & I didn't really come up with much. There are things in comics that I don't like but for the most part I just either choose to ignore them or try to find something I like about it. (which can sometimes be hard).
Until next time: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
A nicely low-key reaction, all things considered. ;)
My response went a little like this, well a lot like this since I'm just reposting it:
That's my reaction to most things, I don't get upset about most things other get up in arms about. With Wonder Woman: it's a drastic change that will mostly run it's course & then be changed back to what how she was before when the new writer comes on the book. Or it might change back before JMS is off the book, from the little story I read the classic ideas aren't completely gone just cut off from Diana at the moment. At the end of this story she might get all that stuff back or back in some altered form.
After posting thins comment I was thinking about things that I did get up in arms about & I didn't really come up with much. There are things in comics that I don't like but for the most part I just either choose to ignore them or try to find something I like about it. (which can sometimes be hard).
Until next time: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Thursday, July 22, 2010
This is Entry 153: Wonder Woman's New Outfit #2
So, this post is a follow up to what I posted in 151: Wonder Woman.
Yesterday while I was at the comic book store, I got a copy of Wonder Woman #600. It was probably a second printing but i didn't care I bought it to find out what all the hub bub was about.
Here is the cover:
I think the art is done the same person who did the art for the ad I posted. I think she is even posed in the way as the Ad. Now I'm not sure why this art wasn't used for the ad but as I said in 151 maybe the Ad department didn't get the Costume change memo. :)
So, what did I think of the Comic: mostly pointless. I felt there was too much filler. There was 10 pages of art pieces by various artists, most were well done but I felt like there were just too many. The stories in the comics just didn't seem all that interesting, most of them all had the message "Gee, Wonder Woman is amazing!" Yeah, I know this was a Wonder Woman comic but I thought was a bit odd that that almost all ended on that on that thought. Now for why I bought the book: the story by Straczynski where he sets up the change on WW's status quo. What did I think of it? I thought it was interesting. It sets up the story nicely. Now, I'm not sure if I'd pick up the monthly issues to follow the story but I might pick up the story when they collect it into one book to see how the story went.
until next time: Stay Jazzy, everybody!
- Brian
Yesterday while I was at the comic book store, I got a copy of Wonder Woman #600. It was probably a second printing but i didn't care I bought it to find out what all the hub bub was about.
Here is the cover:
I think the art is done the same person who did the art for the ad I posted. I think she is even posed in the way as the Ad. Now I'm not sure why this art wasn't used for the ad but as I said in 151 maybe the Ad department didn't get the Costume change memo. :)
So, what did I think of the Comic: mostly pointless. I felt there was too much filler. There was 10 pages of art pieces by various artists, most were well done but I felt like there were just too many. The stories in the comics just didn't seem all that interesting, most of them all had the message "Gee, Wonder Woman is amazing!" Yeah, I know this was a Wonder Woman comic but I thought was a bit odd that that almost all ended on that on that thought. Now for why I bought the book: the story by Straczynski where he sets up the change on WW's status quo. What did I think of it? I thought it was interesting. It sets up the story nicely. Now, I'm not sure if I'd pick up the monthly issues to follow the story but I might pick up the story when they collect it into one book to see how the story went.
until next time: Stay Jazzy, everybody!
- Brian
Monday, July 19, 2010
This is Entry 152: Slice & Dice!
A week or two a friend of mine bought a Thor comic, As I was looking at it there was a panel inside it that I thought was awesome!
So, I went out bought the issue in question (I could have borrowed the issue but I didn't) & I'd like to show you the panel. Now I've put the panel behind a "jump cut" since the panel is rated Teen for some goriness but it's not too gory so you are warned! I repeat: Don't click if you don't want to see the panel.
So, I went out bought the issue in question (I could have borrowed the issue but I didn't) & I'd like to show you the panel. Now I've put the panel behind a "jump cut" since the panel is rated Teen for some goriness but it's not too gory so you are warned! I repeat: Don't click if you don't want to see the panel.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
This is Entry 151: Wonder Woman's New Outfit #1
So, I was reading my weekly stash of comics & I saw an ad for the new Wonder Woman writer & artist team on the book:
After looking at I noticed something wrong: She's wearing the wrong costume! For those that don't know major changes went down last issue (#600) & Wonder Woman got a costume & back story make over. Princess Diana now apparently wears this:
I say "apparently" since I've yet to read/look at any of the Wonder Woman books with this new look. All I've seen is the image above. But I think the Ad is kind of odd: If in this "all-new era" where you change up a whole bunch of stuff with the character why have the character's old costume on the Ad? Is DC afraid of the change up? I don't know. Maybe the people in the Ad department get the memo that said they were changing the costume.
As for what I think about the change: I'm rather nonplus about it. She's changed her costume before & changed it back after awhile. The thing I'm not so sure about is the change to back story, from what I gather they changed pretty much everything. She now more urban (hence the pants & leather jacket) & other stuff. This doesn't really jive with me. But I'd save finally judgement after the story line is over.
In somewhat related news: Straczynski is almost now the writer on Superman & did read his first issue. Superman is walking around Philadelphia & doing stuff (Having Pie, talking people off buildings, finding gas leaks in Trucks, other random stuff). It was an interesting issue, written quite well, but this was also part 1 of story line & I'm not sure I'd want multiple issues of Superman just walking around Pennsylvania doing stuff. I know we just came off a year or more of Action packed stories but you don't have to cut it out completely. :)
That's all I got for this time. Until next time: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
After looking at I noticed something wrong: She's wearing the wrong costume! For those that don't know major changes went down last issue (#600) & Wonder Woman got a costume & back story make over. Princess Diana now apparently wears this:
I say "apparently" since I've yet to read/look at any of the Wonder Woman books with this new look. All I've seen is the image above. But I think the Ad is kind of odd: If in this "all-new era" where you change up a whole bunch of stuff with the character why have the character's old costume on the Ad? Is DC afraid of the change up? I don't know. Maybe the people in the Ad department get the memo that said they were changing the costume.
As for what I think about the change: I'm rather nonplus about it. She's changed her costume before & changed it back after awhile. The thing I'm not so sure about is the change to back story, from what I gather they changed pretty much everything. She now more urban (hence the pants & leather jacket) & other stuff. This doesn't really jive with me. But I'd save finally judgement after the story line is over.
In somewhat related news: Straczynski is almost now the writer on Superman & did read his first issue. Superman is walking around Philadelphia & doing stuff (Having Pie, talking people off buildings, finding gas leaks in Trucks, other random stuff). It was an interesting issue, written quite well, but this was also part 1 of story line & I'm not sure I'd want multiple issues of Superman just walking around Pennsylvania doing stuff. I know we just came off a year or more of Action packed stories but you don't have to cut it out completely. :)
That's all I got for this time. Until next time: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
This is Entry 150: Random Photos #1
wow. I've made a 150 posts here.
To celebrate this & me finding out that my scanner isn't completely useless I thought I'd start up an idea i've had for some time. It's called Random Photos! What I'm proposing might be considered something in a similar vein as AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com but I'm not going of the completely awkward photos (I got some of those), but just the random photos.
How I came to owning these random photos: At my last job, one of my task was to take in donations from the general public & do a general sort of the items. These items were sorted once more by other people & priced to be sold out front in the Thrift Store. In this sorting I would sometimes come upon photographs & knowing that they would not be sold I had two choices: 1. Throw them out or 2. Save them & take them home with me. I choose Option 2. Over the course of my time with the store I gathered up a two dozen or more photos. I would now like to share them with you all.
Here is the first random photo:
This also the first or one of the first I came across. I have no idea who these ladies are, where they other then on beach some where or what that ladies in the blue dress is wiggling vigorously at the other is. But it is a random photo.
I'll be back with more Random Photos later.
So, until next we meet I bid thy a Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
To celebrate this & me finding out that my scanner isn't completely useless I thought I'd start up an idea i've had for some time. It's called Random Photos! What I'm proposing might be considered something in a similar vein as AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com but I'm not going of the completely awkward photos (I got some of those), but just the random photos.
How I came to owning these random photos: At my last job, one of my task was to take in donations from the general public & do a general sort of the items. These items were sorted once more by other people & priced to be sold out front in the Thrift Store. In this sorting I would sometimes come upon photographs & knowing that they would not be sold I had two choices: 1. Throw them out or 2. Save them & take them home with me. I choose Option 2. Over the course of my time with the store I gathered up a two dozen or more photos. I would now like to share them with you all.
Here is the first random photo:
This also the first or one of the first I came across. I have no idea who these ladies are, where they other then on beach some where or what that ladies in the blue dress is wiggling vigorously at the other is. But it is a random photo.
I'll be back with more Random Photos later.
So, until next we meet I bid thy a Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Monday, July 5, 2010
This is Entry 149: My Summer To Do List!
It's summertime & I've recently come into having some extra time on my hand. So, I've made up a list, a To-Do list of stuff I want to do this summer. This is not a full of stuff I'll do this summer. I might not even get around to half of these things but it's a list of stuff I want To-Do.
- "Cleaning" my room: It's sort of getting messy. My cleaning method is basically this these:
1. Identify pile of stuff on my floor.
2. go through pile to see what stuff I want to keep & what I don't want to.
3. Put what I want to keep back in pile. Dispose of stuff I don't want to keep.
Now this might not make my room look all that cleaner but I'll know what is in those piles won't feel bad about there being piles of stuff on my floor. :)
- Driving: I've never had a driver's license & one of my goals for 2010 has been to get one so I'll be going about doing that this summer. Hopefully having that magic laminated piece of plastic by the fall.
- Job Searching: My time at my last job has come to an end so I am now on the hunt for a new one. Much like the Driver's License I hope to have one of these by Summer's end.
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: I've never really read any Manga or have not watched all that much Anime either but I'm open to expanding my horizons. So, after seeing a video review of this Anime I decided to give it a go (you got to start somewhere). So, I bought the first series & am in the process of watching it.
- Blog!: With my new found time I want to update this here blog more often. Maybe not everyday but maybe twice a week would be good. I want to at least update it a few times a month with quality posts, stuff of substance. With some things I've got planned I should have enough stuff to do so. Some of this stuff is more planned out then others but they will hopefully be up soon.
- Read a book or two: I've got a pile of books I have yet to read/finish. With this time I could be reading actual books & not just comic books. :)
- Video Games: Growing up I never really played Video Games, the only time I would is when I was over a someone elses' house & then It wasn't for very long. I recently bought a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) from a thrift store & have 20 some odd game cartridges for it. In trying out the various cartridges I have some to know that I suck at most of these games. So, this summer I want to become better at one of these games. Out of the cartridges I'm thinking that I'll go with a classic: Super Mario Brothers. I've spent more time with this game then others (it was also one of the first I got, too). I've made it past stage 1 of level 1. I want to see at least Level 2 at the end of the Summer. Maybe Stage 3 by the end of the year.
Be more Social: I'm all that social out in the real world. For the most part I fine with my little world I crafted by myself but It cane be lonely sometimes. With getting a driver's license I can drive a car to other people & do stuff with them. I sporadicly do social things but I need to do more.
Will all this happen this summer: Maybe. Maybe not.
Until next time: Stay Jazzy Everyone!
- Brian
- "Cleaning" my room: It's sort of getting messy. My cleaning method is basically this these:
1. Identify pile of stuff on my floor.
2. go through pile to see what stuff I want to keep & what I don't want to.
3. Put what I want to keep back in pile. Dispose of stuff I don't want to keep.
Now this might not make my room look all that cleaner but I'll know what is in those piles won't feel bad about there being piles of stuff on my floor. :)
- Driving: I've never had a driver's license & one of my goals for 2010 has been to get one so I'll be going about doing that this summer. Hopefully having that magic laminated piece of plastic by the fall.
- Job Searching: My time at my last job has come to an end so I am now on the hunt for a new one. Much like the Driver's License I hope to have one of these by Summer's end.
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: I've never really read any Manga or have not watched all that much Anime either but I'm open to expanding my horizons. So, after seeing a video review of this Anime I decided to give it a go (you got to start somewhere). So, I bought the first series & am in the process of watching it.
- Blog!: With my new found time I want to update this here blog more often. Maybe not everyday but maybe twice a week would be good. I want to at least update it a few times a month with quality posts, stuff of substance. With some things I've got planned I should have enough stuff to do so. Some of this stuff is more planned out then others but they will hopefully be up soon.
- Read a book or two: I've got a pile of books I have yet to read/finish. With this time I could be reading actual books & not just comic books. :)
- Video Games: Growing up I never really played Video Games, the only time I would is when I was over a someone elses' house & then It wasn't for very long. I recently bought a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) from a thrift store & have 20 some odd game cartridges for it. In trying out the various cartridges I have some to know that I suck at most of these games. So, this summer I want to become better at one of these games. Out of the cartridges I'm thinking that I'll go with a classic: Super Mario Brothers. I've spent more time with this game then others (it was also one of the first I got, too). I've made it past stage 1 of level 1. I want to see at least Level 2 at the end of the Summer. Maybe Stage 3 by the end of the year.
Be more Social: I'm all that social out in the real world. For the most part I fine with my little world I crafted by myself but It cane be lonely sometimes. With getting a driver's license I can drive a car to other people & do stuff with them. I sporadicly do social things but I need to do more.
Will all this happen this summer: Maybe. Maybe not.
Until next time: Stay Jazzy Everyone!
- Brian
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