Blog Review

This was the first time I had ever blogged and I didn't mind it. I would have enjoyed it much more if it had been a little less. It was a high word count for 3 blogs a week. I really ran out of stuff to write about. I just had nothing to say and couldn't think of anything I wanted to talk about. When I was first told about the blogs I was pretty excited. I was psyched to have my own webpage to do whatever I wanted with. Once the blogs started got going though, I began to dread them from lack of ideas. But the ones that really got going I enjoyed. They just started flowing and the ideas began pouring out of me. I enjoyed letting my thoughts and ideas out on paper... um on screen I guess. I think my favorite blogs I wrote were the ones that I ranted and just vented. Those would include Kids and Creepin' Creeper.

I just realized one of the hardest parts about blogging... It's way to distracting. You get on the internet to look for something, and you get drawn up by browsing the whole web for random stuff. I just got held up for ten minutes because I opened up Yahoo real quick and started reading all of the articles. But maybe that's my own flaw: short attention span.

I think my favorite part of my blog was just setting it up, designing it, adding stuff to it, and making it look tight. I also enjoyed adding pics and videos to posts to make a dull text full page into an interesting display. But my favorite part of the whole blogging assignment as a whole was just reading other peoples blogs. I learned so much about other people, including some stuff I didn't necessarily want to know. But the majority of the stuff was really interesting and worth reading it. I think the one i enjoyed reading most was Spencers, because it was so outrageous and I disagreed with it so much, that I actually found it really interesting and enjoyed it. I don't know maybe that's weird. But anyway as a whole, I thought it was a pretty interesting assignment and I definitely feel I am a better writer because of it.

Talent SSSShow

I reluctantly went to the talent show saturday. I went for two reasons: To see a gorgeous version of "Guy Love", and to see improv. I didn't care much about the other acts, but overall had a pretty good experience.

The improv was easily the highlight, and best part of the show. The games were funny, the kids were great, and it was a great way to pass the time between each act. They were actually more interesting than the acts.

But some of the acts were still really good. Third place was an incredible original guitar composition by stuart something. It really was amazing. Second place was a country song by some freshman. It was pretty good, but I hated the song they did. The winners were Paige and Josh. They did a song from a musical, and it was really really funny. Some other good acts were the scientist by Emily Kipper and Micheal Sepulveda, and guy love which was by Sam Krause and Alex Green. Then there was a scene from an acting class that the teacher of it just inserted in the show. It was AWFUL. It was 20 minutes long, boring, not funny, had bad acting, and would not end. It almost single handedly ruined the whole thing.

Ok now back to the improv. It was awesome. The first game was party quirks, where guests included all of the muppets, sperm, Mr. Yuska, and Britney Spears? The first three were funny, but sperm easily beat them all. It was Evan O'brien and was funny as hell. Then there was the ABC game where it took place at a bank, there was press conference where scooby had killed shaggy, and they did a competition like skit. It just may have been enough to convince MR T IS ON THE CUBS GAME me to do it next year. Sorry about the last comment. It surprised me. Damn now mr T is throwing a pitch. He's a beast. He has all American attire plus a cubs shirt. Hardass.

Hawks

Unlike the title of this blog suggests, I haven't been talking much about the Hawks, but that's mainly because there hasn't been too much to talk about. Spring football is in full swing, basketball is over, and I really don't care about anything else.

But I'll try to fit in some news concerning Iowa athletics. Well.... King got hired as a free agent by someone... Tony Moeaki should be back by fall and a key member of the team.... umm.... Keenan Davis will be on the team next year.... Iowa is ranked no. 2 in the nation.... that last one was a lie.... so yeah not to much to say.

But I just realized I can talk about the cubs. THEY SUCK WHAT THE HELL HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. Those are a few thoughts that go threw my head when the cubs come to mind. Last year, they had the most wins in the MLB at the end of the regular season. This year, they are 21-21, 4th in the central division. They have lost seven in a row. What's going on? seriously.. And now I'm watching a cubs game right now and they have red hats on? I have no idea what is going on. The only good news I can think of is they are winning the game I'm watching right now... yeah not great but it's a start.

Then there's also the vikes. Bad news for them too. The Williams's's are suspended for four games for substance abuse after the williams's's's' brought the case to the supreme court saying that they didn't know they couldn't use it or something like that, and now they're screwed. But in better news, they didn't get Favre since he's remaining retired, and they got some good recruits. Their number one pick was an amazing receiver from florida, who is a bit of a hothead, but they need a receiver. So yeah there's the news

Movie

In AP US History we were assigned to do a project about anything in history. Me and Rog decided to make a Vietnam movie. We decided to make it accurate and went to uncle stan's military surplus to get some supplies. We asked the guy about some fatigues that we could find for our movie. He proceeded to get us fatigues worn by marines in the vietnam war. tight right? Well then we got some vietnam era grenades, and guns. The movie was turning out really legit and we couldn't wait to shoot.

Today we shot the first little bit, and lets just say it didn't turn out very well. It took us about 45 minutes for everyone to get ready, then we went out and shot for about an hour, and got nothing done. It didn't help that the cameraman didn't know how to film anything and any good scenes we would have had, turned out bad cause he did a crappy job of filming.

Besides that people just weren't focused and it was extremely unorganized. We didn't have the part we were filming written out and were just kind of making it up as we went. This seriously hindered the whole experience. I feel like once get a completely clear idea of what we want, it will be much easier to get on camera but until then......

Going out

Last week, going out concert occurred. This is always remembered for the sobbing that occurs during the show, and afterwards. This year was a little different, but not much.

As always, it was a very boring show, with tons of gifts exchanged before each performance and it got a little ridiculous. Ok I can see giving gifts to the directors and so on, but when every parent that helps with the show gets a gift too, it gets a little lengthy. Especially when it's done for an audience that really doesn't give a shit and just wants to see a show. But apart from that, it was a pretty good experience.

Our performance was pretty good except for the ballad which was AWFUL. But for the whole show we were really feeling it, and were making the best of it since we knew this would be the last time we performed together as a group and we would never perform this show again.

After the show, everyone in the group got in a horseshoe to prepare to sing the annual "Forever". It's a song about leaving, and missing everyting etc. It's a pretty emotional song, during a pretty emotional time, but surprisingly not many people were crying or getting emotional. This was a very surprising change, escpecially considering the type of year we had, and how close we all were. We were all just having a good time singing with each other, and as the seniors went up to the front to say their last goodbyes to showchoir, only a few were balling. It wasn't until after the show that everybody broke down into tears.

For the most part, I kept my composure and just supported everyone else, but I knew that next year might be a different story. But i felt bad for several of the people that had showchoir as their life, and that would never experience it again. They felt like they had lost a relative, and they showed it. They stayed onstage for almost an hour after the show was done, just crying over their loss and the memories.

Scrubs

This is a little late, like over a week late, but I still want to talk about it. Scrubs season/series finale aired 2 weeks ago and it was not fun. Not because it was a bad episode, cause it was an awesome episode. But it wasn't fun because scrubs has been my favorite show for a while now and I have greatly enjoyed the new episodes and have been dreading the end of the show.

The final episode and last few episodes of the season involved JD leaving the hospital to work at a hospital closer to his son Sam. The finale was his last day at Sacred Heart and how he pictured the rest of his life.

In the very beginning of the episode they start off by Elliot telling JD not to be too disappointed if his leaving isn't as big as he imagined. As the day goes on, it quickly shows that this will be the case as it seems Turk is the only person really taking notice and trying to make it special.

Since it is probable that this is the last episode ever, you can feel the emotion in all of the actors through several points, such as when Carla is telling JD how much she will miss him. But where I felt it the most, and where it could be one of the most emotional points in the episode is when Dr. Cox is defending JD after he leaves when an intern says he wasn't that great. He then goes on to say that he was the best doctor to ever come through their and he was also an exceptional person. He ends it by saying that JD was his friend, all as JD is listening. After this rant, JD gets his dream by giving Cox a hug.

After this occurs, he begins his walk out of the hospital as many old characters make appearances as he imagines them wishing him goodbye. When he leaves is when they kind of resolve everything. A montage begins playing as he watches and it's home video like footage of his future. After the montage gets done playing, you could see Zach Braff (JD) crying since this was his last moment ever on scrubs. JD thinks to himelf as he walks to his car, "maybe this once my fantasies will come true." implying that this montage was indeed the future. After he thinks this, Bill Lawrence, the creator and director, is seen as a janitor saying goodnight to him.



Then the credits got rolling and it was somewhat hard to watch. They played the theme song as they showed them shooting the last episode and they showed everybodies last scene. It was pretty emotional. I liked this finale, but felt like it came a little short since I wanted to know what was going to happen. I wanted JD to propose or something like that, instead of just saying, yeah this could happen.

This was supposed to be the last season of scrubs, since it is definitly Zach's, and without JD, there is no scrubs in my opinion. But I guess now they are saying that they will continue next season, maybe with most of the same characters and cast. I'm not totally sure about how I feel about this because I love scrubs, but the main thing I love about it, is JD. He is the show for me. so I think if he guest starred on it every once in a while, I would enjoy it. But they can't just continue without him and expect it to be great still.

Wolverine

This weekend I saw X-men Origins: Wolverine, the newest X-men movie in the series. What I was expecting was an intense action movie, with a pretty good story to reveal how Wolverine's, or Logan's, previous life went down. And that was exactly what I got.

I'm not going to go into too much detail to prevent giving away the entire movie, but t started off his troubled life by showing some traumatic events that ocurred during his childhood. In these early moments, you learn that Victor Creed AKA Sabertooth, is actually Logan's brother. They had a special relationship and made a pact to always look after the other one, and not to let anyone get in their way.

In the very first scenes, it showed their roles in the civil war fighting for the union, in WW1, WW2, and the Vietnam War. And that's about all I'm going to say to not reveal anything more.

One of the coolest aspects of this movie were all of the references to other mutants, including Gambit, Deadpool, and many others. I was also really surprised when the movie started and I saw all of the people that were in this movies. I knew Ryan Reynolds was deadpool and that Liev Schreiber played Sabertooth, but I didn't know Will I Am and Dominic Monaghan were in it. That was a very pleasant surprise.

Some of the effects weren't great, like his claws at a few points. There were also few really bad/lame parts including the fiery explosion of a helicopter as Wolverine walks away from the wreckage. But I didn't pay much attention to that seeing as the fights kicked a lot of ass.