Posted in Sports

Break it down!!!

Posted on by Scarface

I figure I might as well mix up my blogs, add a little spice you know. So today I’m going to blog about something I guess is kinda sporty, atleast it keeps you in good shape if you do it a lot. Dancing!!!

Most of the time I HATE dancing, I’m horrible at it. I’m tall and goofy, and I guess I just don’t know how to go about it. Dancing to fast songs makes me feel like a tree swaying in the wind, I feel so out of my comfort zone. Then I have to look around and everyone around me is just totally having a great time, gettin jiggy wit it (not meant to be sexual). I try and get my groove on… but I guess I’m just useless at it.

I’m guessing some of you might feel the same way, or maybe you feel completely opposite.

I’ve enjoyed myself once or twice when it comes to dancing. I think the main way to have fun is to surround yourself with who you’re comfortable looking stupid around, that’s the way to go. And people who’s skills at dancing are around your own, then atleast you’re not the only freak.

My point is this, if you’re at a dance or something and you’re having a bad time (and when you have a bad time at a dance, you REALLY have a bad time), go find some people that are about as bad at dancing as you, then just be yourself and dance like an idiot. I’m telling you, you’ll fit right in and you’ll have a good time.

This is Scarface signing off.

Posted in Movies

Idiocracy

Posted on by Godfather

Never heard of it? Well, you should have. This is one of the most accurate portrayals of modern society I have seen. Sure, in movie making quality, it isn’t THAT great. The comedy is great at first, but kind of dies down towards the end, but I really don’t think that matters. The movie goes like this. A government program is testing a life freezing idea that could keep soldiers alive but in a sleep mode until the next war, then they can come out and fight years later for their country as if it were yesterday. They test it on two average people, but then, before they’re taken out of the chamber, the program is shut down and they’re left for 500 years before a landfill slide wakes them up. It turns out, in 500 years, everyone is an idiot and these average people are now the smartest in the world.

Now, if you have gone to High School in the last few years, we all know its not all the dancing and gayness (as in happy, geez you people are immature) of High School Musical. But we also see a trend, the smart people are doing good in school and going on to higher education, as the idiots get pregnant or do drugs. This is a little stereotypical, but it is the basic flow of things. Now, while these idiots have more and more kids, the smart people only have one or two, making for more stupid people in the world. While Idiocracy is just a comedy at a short glance, its also a horrifying glance into a worst case scenario of where our world is headed. If you have any brains, watch this movie and see for yourself an extreme possibility of the future.

Posted in Politics

Obama Wins…

Posted on by Godfather

Ugh, another election, another major party member easily making it in the White House, will the U.S. ever actually change from the two party system? No, because people are just gullible enough to think there are only two viable candidates that have a shot. If news showed more of these third parties, then there would be a much better chance that people hear of them, and vote for them.

Posted in Sports

Your mom’s like a postcard

Posted on by Scarface

Something I find a little… funny actually in sports, is how players get traded from team to team, state to state, city to city.

I don’t like it for a lot of reasons, I can just imagine having a family and all of a sudden having to completely change lifestyles because your coach doesn’t want you anymore. It’s absolutely a crazy thought, professional athletes are away from their family a ton as it is. It’s kinda funny because it’s so simple. A coach can just say he doesn’t want a living human being and easily send them away, it’s just so easy. I can’t imagine doing that to someone either, telling them they have to go live a world away and work for a guy they don’t know. I hate that, athletes lives are so unstable.

But the funny thing is I actually think it’s right. Athletes are obviously paid big bucks, a lot of people get traded to places where they’re gonna make more money anyway. It’s what they asked for, sports are extremely extremely unstable, nothing is set in stone. It’s the entertainment industry too, if they’re going to get a team more money by getting more people to go to the games then that’s it, it’s their job.

I don’t like it because I just wouldn’t want that to happen to me, it’d be so hard on a family. But the long and short of it is that it’s the world of sports, people have to get traded. They took the job understanding the risks, their jobs have cons too, not just pros. Trades are part of the game in my opinion, what’s yours?

This is Scarface signing off.

Posted in Bri

Why do we keep this up?

Posted on by Bri

I’m ashamed. But it had to be done. I hope you’ll understand.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen of Planet Bri, I have thrown away my spoon collection.

NOW, NOW, settle. Don’t freak out too much. I kept all the really cool spoons (colored ones and what not), one spoon from each person (I wrote who they were each from on them a while ago), and the spoons with the message on them from my dear Bridget. So I have the IMPORTANT ones. But come on, at least admit that 349 useless plastic spoons would take up space….

So I managed to contain the remaining in one drawer, which I will refer to the Horde Drawer. I then put all my tiny paper unicorns in there. (I have 89). The Horde Drawer is the drawer dedicated to my many obsessions and strange collections. Once it gets full, I have to throw stuff away to fit in more. Hopefully this will contain my packrat tendencies.

Posted in Movies

Some of My Favorite Scenes

Posted on by Godfather

There are so many great movies out there, and with that comes some of the greatest scenes that I’ve seen. Watching some of these whole movies can get kind of boring, but sometimes there is just one section that makes the whole movie.

Planet Terror (Part of Grindhouse)

This is a new zombie movie by director Robert Rodriguez with the help of Quentin Tarantino, and really is a departure from my favorite types of movies. I’m not really a fan of gore, but when El Wrey, one of the best action heroes I’ve seen for a while goes through a hospital to get to his girlfriend, the scene just had me pumped to go and kill some zombies. He took these knives and just plowed his way through the group, and came out pretty much without a scratch.

Fight Club

While there it doesn’t stick out too far from this overall great movie, there is this one section of the movie that just keeps me laughing every time I see it. Since the narrator has insomnia, he decides to go to some peer support groups to see what real pain is like. After going to one, he becomes addicted to them and just goes to every single one he can find.

Kill Bill Volume 1

I will kind of ruin this one, but hey, I’m not telling you the ending of the series. So after the bride kills another one of her targets, she takes a woman hostage and uses her in order to find Bill. The scene goes between before and after the questioning, and Bill is asking the girl questions about the bride. At the end, he lets loose a secret that just blindsides you, making you beg to watch the second one. The way this scene is shot is why it was so good, too bad the next movie wasn’t anywhere near as good as this scene.

That’s all I can think of for now, but I’ll do some more in the future.

Posted in Sports

Hoop it Up

Posted on by Scarface

The NBA season is kicking off today!!! And for those of you that don’t know what that is, it’s the National Basketball Association. I like basketball, I’m really good at it, I have some insane skills. It helps when you’re 6’1″ and can shoot lights out. But I don’t play anymore, I quit so I can concentrate on school. But anyway, I still watch basketball, it’s a REALLY exciting sport to watch, especially in person.

A lot of people don’t like sports because of how slow some can be and how little action there is. Yet you don’t have to normally worry about these problems with basketball, it’s extremely fast paced and full of action.

Especially with the NBA, there are a lot of great athletes that play. It’s great to watch because it’s full of high flying stunts in mid air and mind boggling dribbling skills. The crowds are very loud and the athletes are easy to see, unlike football where they wear helmets. I KNOW that people who don’t normally watch sports can atleast bear basketball, Bri did it.

So turn on the TV and switch to a game, it won’t hurt you to try it out.

This is Scarface signing off.

Posted in Issues

Tolerance

Posted on by The Maker

I have a very confusing conjectural moral question I was hoping the internet population could help me out with. Regarding Tolerance.

Now, It is not nice to prosecute people with a differing opinion than yours, and there are many pleas for tolerance from writers and critics old and new, attesting the desirably of tolerance. But…

If we accept tolerance, we are basically saying that every system of beliefs is equally valid and that we need to accept diversity.

That is saying that there is a possibility of our system of beliefs being wrong and their system of beliefs being right.

And to admit that possibility, we concede that we have doubts about our own system’s validity, which basically defies our system of beliefs.

So the only way to be true to our system of beliefs is to not accept any possibility that it is wrong, which sparks intolerance.

But to carry out that intolerance, we must squash the dissidents. But that leads to the first point, as persecution is not nice. And the thing goes round and round again.

So what do all you intelligent and opinionated people think? I hope you can alleviate my confusion. Or, if not, then you can join me.

Posted in Movies

5 Movies That Should Be Required Viewing

Posted on by Godfather

All of the films on this following list are great in many ways. They are all amazing movies, but more importantly, there are messages that we all should learn. Some are brutal and would normally not be watched by people in their teens, but the messages are so important to learn, especially in the teen years of someone’s life, that they must be seen. No violence in them is without good reason, and all it does is make the story more powerful.

5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Every aspect of film is top notch in this drama. But its on this list because of it’s message. Jack Nicholson plays a guy who gets stuck in a mental hospital where all of the patients are trained to do whatever the nurse says. Throughout, he tries to make them realize that there is a whole world out there where they can be free. The purpose? To show viewers not to get to attached to “the system” in which we live our lives. Live on the edge, take some chances and have some fun while you’re here.

4. Raging Bull

It is a boxing movie, but there is so much more to this than that. Raging Bull is the story of Jake La Motta, a great boxer, but a horrible person. With some anger problems and being a womanizer, there wasn’t much for viewers to like in his character. Really, this one is about being a good person to those around you. Raging Bull shows how he lost everything because of the way he acts, and that its a hard road to redemption.

3. American History X

When I was talking earlier about some of these movies being brutal, I basically thought about this one and the #1. American History X is about two brothers who are involved in a neo-Nazi gang in their town that terrorizes African Americans. The older brother is arrested when he kills some of them at his house. I bet you can all guess what the point of X was, which is don’t be racist, but the way that it’s told is why I put it on the list.

2. Schindler’s List

Before seeing the #1 this weekend, I would have had Schindler’s List top this list for sure. It’s about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman during the holocaust who employed Jewish people at his factory. He saves 2,000 from death by getting the Nazi’s to let him take some workers for his ammunition factory. But none of the bullets or guns ever worked. While some would think its about the same message as American History X, its actually about being good to the less fortunate, and standing up for what is right.

1. Requiem For a Dream

Again, the brutal thing I was talking about earlier, applies to this one. With a wonderful score, great acting, editing, and story this is one of the greatest movies of all time to me. Requiem is about 4 people who each have a drug addiction. Diet pills, cocaine and heroin are just some samples of what they are doing. By the end, they are all withered away from this, and its not too pretty. I won’t go too much into it, but some of the images just makes your stomach drop, and really no one could ever take drugs after watching it. It is NC-17, but there’s not too much more shown in this than there is in R rated movies. Watch it, and the next few days this will be all you’re thinking about.