February
27th - Trenchcoats Are Evil Aparently today, a lot of controversy was stirred up with the release of some evidence and videos of the Columbine killers. I watched some of the footage from some movie they made for school while some news guy and his buddy analyzed it. The professionality was amazing. First the dumb anchorwoman introducing the segment mixes up their names, calling them "Eric Klebold and Dylan Harris." Then the commentary on the video itself is just great. "There's the trenchcoats. And we know all about the trenchcoats.
These two guy were obsessed... with uh, Trenchcoats and uh,
movies with trenchcoats in them." So, I'm taking Japanese now. I guess I was wrong in my predictions to meet sweaty anime nerds, because there's only 3 other people in the class besides me, and they're all female. One's this asian chick Megumi who's like 18, Bonnie who's like 23 and some other lady who's like 80. It's really awkward having random conversations in Japanese with these people, but I managed. Plus I learned that "domo," has like 80 different meanings, such as "Ow," or "Mushroom." I also finally found out why Japanese people add u's to the end of every other english word. I'd tell you but that wouldn't be any fun. Also, the guys at The Lonely Island, who are downright hillarious, have some new clips. Go check those out stat! And Mr. Larsheveque took down my poster in his room, so if you see him feel free to punch him in the jaw and scream "BUTTERFLY KING!" It'll make the world a better place. SEE YOU LATERU! February 26th - Yatta! The Andy and Eddy Show. Thursdays at 8 on ACTV. I also now realize that I missed the African American history assembly, but I'm sure I'll learn to cope. All I learned last year is that white people are the devil, and I already knew that.If you remember my whole plan to beat up the kid switching with Luke Vexler for that tv show, well, it's been scrapped when I realized it already fucking happened. Can someone get me a copy of the Teen People magazine that names Luke Vexler as one of the 20 teens who will "change the world"? I want to read it and cry. I know it seems wrong to hate people just because they're more popular/talented than you, but it feels so right. Gamefags is having another one of their contests, except this time it's with games instead of game characters. Last summer Josh was officially in first before the last bracket, in which his dreams were crushed after Cloud made a crushing defeat over Sephiroth. That was an odd year. The year before it was Link vs. Mario in the finals. It's really sad to see that the Squaresoft fanboys now outweigh the Nintendo ones. Anyways, I made my nominations, which basically ends up being a list of my favorite games on each platform. I like to look at the list and be glad that I make no alliegance to any company or genre of games. Hooray! I'm not a fanboy! My Nominees Arcade - Street Fighter Alpha 3 February 25th - Nader Sucks Too Ivars also came over...again. I know this is like the 3rd time but I swear we're not gay. We watched some Clone High. God was that show great. If you've watched the ending it's actually kind of sad since you realize that there are no more episodes to try and make you feel better about all the characters being frozen forever in a freezer. We also rented some Japanese films again. Because subtitles are just funny. First we watched "Hard Boiled," this John Woo action film from like the 80s. If I learned anything, it's that Japanese cops are fucking invincible. Like, this dude swings into a warehouse filled with literally a hundred guys, and proceeds to kill all of them with an amazing ensemble of rolling, ducking, cavorting and other related shenanigans. Oh, I shouldn't say he killed everyone, because he managed to avoid killing the only two main antagonists in the warehouse. God job numbnuts. After "Hard Boiled," we popped in "If You Were Young: Rage," a 70s film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, the same man responsible for both "Battle Royale" and "Clock Tower 3." I love the title, like, they couldn't decide between the titles "If You Were Young," and "Rage," so they used the almighty power of the colon. This is officially my new favorite movie. It's all about how Japan used to put kids from the country in these piss-poor training schools, then shipped them off to the city so they could get jobs and help Japan grow exponentially. Anyways, all these country kids grow up with little to no experience other than as laborers, so they're all making terrible wages and the like. Five of these kids are sick of it though, and they decide that to make a life for themselves, they're going to all save up and buy a dump truck, hoping one day to own a legion of trucks and their own business. I never really saw a future in the dump truck industry, but hey, whatever works. Anyways, now it's a year or two in the future, and two of the kids have managed to buy the truck, despite have the other three either die, go to jail or get some bitch pregnant. So their truck, Independence No. 1 is finally on the road, and they're making the big money. But your past has a way of returning for you, be it your dead friend's sister trying to lay you, your jailed friend's sister trying to lay you, or that fucking bastard and his kids hitting you up for money. The best part of this movie, is all the running sequences. Apparently, in Tokyo, people just run through the streets constantly either with glee, though sometimes with rage. And I don't mean "Yay I'm Happy!" I mean "WHOOPIE FREAKING DOO I HAVE A TRUCK; JESUS; I CAN'T STOP RUNNIN'!" Me and Ivars both pictured a Tokyo with people just running through the streets screaming "Yatta!" and laughed. Japanese people are also apparently crazy all the time, as people often run around the beaches, cover themselves in sand and yell "ARGH I'M A SAND MONSTER!" I wish I was making that up. Seriously though, one of the best movies ever. Lastly was "Rebels
of the Neon God." If you like movies with no plot and mute
main characters then this is for you. Maybe I just didn't get it,
but 2 hours of apartment floors submerged in water, cavorting through
Japanese arcades, and random experiences in Love Hotels just doesn't
seem to add up. It was good though. I mean, if anything it's a good
lesson on what might of happened in Japan in the 90s. I guess that
kids dropped out of tutoring schools so they could buy air pistols
and stalk this one guy who broke the rear view mirror on their dad's
taxi. Oh, and people also played a lot of Street Fighter 2. Apparently
the main character was the reincarnation of some god. Yeah, it doesn't
make sense to me either. Oh, and the first scene is some kid jerking
off. Way to steal a page out of End of Evangelion guys. Oh well,
maybe I'm not big enough a film geek to understand. In school news, the "Latinos Muenedos" club, which is
Spanish for like, Latin Excitement or something (...ok so I made
that up, sue me); has a bulletin board at the end of the main hallway
in the school. On this board are about 12 little laminated paper
flags representing the countries the members are from. Apparently,
some kid tore down the Cape Verde flag. Now, instead of simply...
I don't know, going and making a new one, the club instead posted
a letter on the board in big angry bold type. It was something along
the lines of "How could you steal this Cape Verdean flag?!
It is very disrespectful to all our Cape Verde members!" It
was wordier than that but you get the gist. Anyways, I was pretty
amused by this. You know your school has become a little too politically
correct when some kid absent-mindedly tears down a tiny little flag,
and this is taken as a personal attack against everyone from Cape
Verde. I went and printed out a little poster of my own, with a
picture of the Cape Verde flag being held by the Mooninites
with the caption "We have taken the Cape Verde flag in the
name of the moon! - Mooninites." I took that and posted it
right next to the original. This morning both the posters were missing.
But for one whole day Cape Verde belonged to the moon damnit. Mooninites
forever. But seriously, I know this is going to turn into a witch hunt to
single out nerds, freaks and the like. Mr. Minks already told us
he would be watching all of us for any suspicious behavior (I think
I'm going to lay off the McDonald's massacre stories for a while).
And the teachers are all monitoring who goes to the bathroom so
they can figure out who would have the opportunity to write the
threats... or have the opportunity to... you know... pee. I hate
how it's only the loner kids they have to check on. Like, they're
already unpopular; do we really need to accuse them of plotting
murder? That's messed up. But if you're set on checking out some
geeks and their behavioral patterns, check the anime club first.
I stopped by the club room after school just to see what they were
up to. A room full of maladjusted teenage kids laughing their asses
off at some batshit crazy anime called "Galaxy
Angel," is a sight to behold. I almost miss them... those
fanboys in the mist... But then again, I've already figured out
every anime is the same. Some random guy, who would normally be
a complete loner, ends up living with a whole mess of beautiful
females and then wackiness ensues, usually involving one or more
of the many body parts of the various aforementioned females. Then
you just take that formula and add some stupid twist on it, like,
all the girls are from outer space ("Tenchi Muyo"). Or
the guy also transforms into a girl at all the wrong times ("Ranma
1/2"). Or better yet, every time the main characters attempt
to have sex the girl turns into a cat ("Fruits
Basket"). "Japan, making bestiality fun again."
I really need a picture of me like, hugging Domo-Kun
or something like that, with the caption "I Love Japan!"
That way I can just put that image in like, every entry. Josh,
get on that. And The Nominees Are... There's this little bit of graphitti you can only see from the window of Mr. Moran's classroom. All it says is "This is a great in the history of Latvia" in large red scrawl. It doesn't make any sense, you keep looking for the word 'day' somewhere in there but it never appears. And even if the word was there, what are they referring to? Is it a quote? Is it a statement? Or is it just there to taunt you, knowing you'll never know what it means? It drove me crazy for the last 3 months until today in programming class. This kid Michael figured out an error in his program and suddenly says "This is a great in the history of Latvia." I laughed, realizing that someone else had pondered the mystery graphiti too. It didn't matter that it didn't make sense, in fact, it just made it all the more interesting. Michael laughed too. And that's all that matters. And yes, today is a great in the history
of Latvia. Amen. February 4th - It's Crew Against Crew You know, when I first caught wind of the movie "You Got Served," I didn't know what to think. I mean, I guess my first reaction was "What the fuck?" Every time I think America can't get any dumber I get proved wrong. But, it wasn't enough for this movie to torture me by simply existing. It had to go to number 1 in the fucking country. Dear America. I hate you. I mean, I just don't get it. Now I have this dull ache in my heart which will likely not go away until I find who is responsible for this piece of youth culture garbage and murder them in cold blood. I was in English when this kid Connor had probably the best breakdown of the movie I've seen so far. "Well, when I first saw the trailer and that one guy says "It's crew against crew," I was like, "Oh cool, a gang movie." But then all of a sudden all these kids burst out with..." *Starts making wild hand motions in the air* I'm all for movies where the overly stereotypical main character
makes an extrodinary breakthrough and proves that if you put your
mind to it you can do anything (e.g. "Rocky"). But if
you're going to fight your way to the top of anything, can it be
something other than break dancing? I mean, fighting your way to
the top of Dairy Queen management or something like that would be
more entertaining than this. The worst part is this whole movie
is played out in some sort of racial conflict, whereas the black
dancers who are drug dealers just trying to struggle and make a
life for themselves have to reclaim the top of the dancing hill
by taking down the spoiled bastard rich white kids who have stolen
their culture for the last time. I have nothing against break dancing,
hell; I love to watch Azn Mike perform some popping with a small
side of locking. But when you take the dancing, try to turn it into
some sort of race war, and then splice in as much broken English
slang as possible... well, it just isn't fun anymore. I've heard
it most often compared to "Bring it On," which is hardly
fair because at least "Bring it On" realized it was supposed
to be a comedy. "You Got Served" just seems to take itself
too seriously. Then again, I'm basing all my arguments on what I've
seen of the trailer, and this one fucking
hilarious review, so you can take what I say with a grain of
salt. All I know is that this movie brought in over 16 million dollars,
which more than assures me we'll be seeing "You Got Served
Again," very soon. Frankly, I think the only people you got served were these four. Zing. In other news-
Right now, I am listening to Reo Speedwagon's "Can't Fight
This Feeling" because I have terrible taste in music. But
somehow... it feels right. -- And I can't fight this feeling anymore. forever. -- Good night everyone. Last Month's Stuff (Organized archive
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