It is kind of strange to "celebrate" New Years, I was playing Modern Warfare 2 and when midnight hit told Whit Happy New Years...then went to bed, and then two weeks later have a birthday. Still can't be as bad as being a Christmas baby, or anything within a week of any major holiday. But I am going to take this time to write about some things I want to either close up on and/or start anew. First off, my closing comments about the Twilight "Saga."
In the past I have bashed this series, my wife and anyone who reads this blog knows this. But I do have a couple things that make me interested in the whole thing. First off the Eclipse has the potential for me to actually like it. With the first two movies I didn't like them, but then again I didn't hate them, so I am pretty neutral. But the third one has some intrigue, we actually get to see werewolves and vampires fight. I mean how often do you get to see that? Part of the main draw of the Underworld series was this and man those were some awesome fights. I understand that the gore level will have to be toned down a bit from those scenes but the still can make for some interesting movie making. Next up I am extremely interested in the character Jasper. To me he has the most interesting back story for all the characters, well Carlisle has a good one too but we are talking about Jasper here. He was created to be part of a vampire army, a frickin army of super strong vampires. In the Twilight canon newborns are stronger than almost any other vampire they come up against, and they have a severe bloodlust, i still have problems with Bella not having to deal with it. He was then turned into a general of sorts in this army and turned many of his "troops." Just imagine how awesome it would be to either read about or watch anything that has to deal with that time period with Jasper. Blood would be everywhere and then it would close with him meeting Alice and she helps him walk away from all the destruction...hmmm I'm getting too excited about this, subject change.
As everyone knows I am a huger gamer. I play a little thing called World of Warcraft. I have even gone so far as to buying an authenticator for it to make sure my account doesn't get hacked, Whit uses one to check on the bank account. At first I wasn't interested in the Warcraft movie coming up because there wasn't a director their wasn't a writer, I was afraid it was going to go by the way of the Halo movie. But recent developments have me super excited. Sam Raimi is the director, when given the reins to a movie he does very well, Robert Rodat is the writer, he was a writer on Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot, and now neither of them have anything to do right now. Spider Man 4 has been canned and Sam said that he would move on from Spider Man to Warcraft. So I have deduced that Sam should be moving directly to the Warcraft project and things can start to move, casting, scripts, storyboards, all that good stuff. Here's hoping it DOESN'T end up like the Halo project.
And my lol moment of the week, a 42 year old mother of 4 from Texas, met up with a 16 year old boy, sorry neither a guy nor a man yet, in Canada for a rendezvous. They met through Wow, but can we please not blame Wow in this. Yes Wow was the medium in which they met, but it did not tell them, "It is a good idea for us to do this. You should leave your family behind to go meet some teenager." /facepalm
And last but not least, I'm gonna miss EVZ. Even though last week I went by myself, Whit was sick, tired, physically and mentally, I still loved the game. Everyone is into it, the "student sections" are amazing, the game is a pleasure to watch, and where else can you get a brat in one hand and a dinner roll in the other? Also it could be I just like hockey and not being able to go every week is going to be a little bit of a downer. It is a different game here than in the US. It is really tough to explain though. They don't drag on for 4 hours but that is due to the lack of TV breaks. But then that is offset by the amount of adverts on the ice and on the players themselves. The purists would say that all the ads destroy the integrity of the game, but how does stopping for 5 minutes every 5 minutes of game time not destroy the integrity of the game? Anyway they also don't hit as much, which is a bit disappointing but keeps the puck moving and stops the trap game that teams in the NHL use. They also seem to be more stick happy because of it, they whack on players, try little hooks, more poke checks, it just keeps the play moving. Plus the rinks are wider but shorter, so it is harder to try and trap the puck when the walls aren't so close together. Anyway I love it, can't wait for Friday.
That is it for now, I am sure something else will grab my attention within the week and expect me to write about it, good or bad.
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