Naaaa na na, na na na...

So, Lucas has his birthday on Saturday. It was pretty awesome, and, quite seriously, it was the first time I've ever seen Old School (which isn't really a GREAT movie, but one that most kids our age should see :P). It was also a good post-endofschool get together with everyone (and I do believe that's only the second time I've met Mark (tAH.Bunnz), and the first time I've really conversed with him)

Sunday I went to my grandmothers for a short visit and to take my uncle (who's from Alberta) to the beach before he left for home. We went to St.Margert's beach and I cooled off in the, at the time, pretty cold water. This was also one of the rare occasions that I got sun in the summer. I also got to wear my cool new celebrity shades (see old post) outside. They work pretty good as sunglasses should.

Monday...driving school from 6-9.

Tuesday I discovered a new game that goes by the name Navy Field
www.navyfield.com
it's pretty cool. You build a WWII-Era naval warship. You start off with a frigate, arm it with guns, engine, armor, etc. and then go into battles against other players in this kind of MMO experiance. As the sailors on your ship get more xp, you unlock bigger and better ships. I'm currently using a Destroyer 02 class with an erection-enducing 6 guns mounted on it, meaning I'm basically ranning down the HE shells on other ships. Good times ensue. That was basically what Tuesday consisted of. I did have a soccer game but decided not to because I didn't feel like driving 2 hours to Winsloe (I think that was the place) to get my ass handed to me by a premier team.
After driving school, my dad prompted my and my sister to go see Fantasic Four, and since I really wasn't going to be doing anything else, I went.

My Review of Fantastic Four:
As I drove to the theatre, I had this sickening sense that this movie would contain every damned hero movie cliche there was, and would of course have the super long, completely pointless openings that these Marvel movies always have (Xmen, Spiderman, the Hulk are all guilty). I was wrong on one of these things.
The movie did not have a super long opening. But you can tell they DID have it but cut it out at the last second. The movie starts with them flying through their massive 50 story logo, then flying up and looking at it as one should see it. The big 4 in the circle. It lasted a good 10 seconds, which seems a peculiar length to have an intro, but meh.

Cliches. They are killing (or have killed) the superhero movie genre. Mr.Fantastic, The Invisible Women, and the Human Torch are all victims of massive cliches
(Mr.Fantastic is the super-genious who won the International Teen Science Competition but can't figure out what anyone else is doing...the Invisible Women has a suit that her boobs are basically shooting out of...and the Human Torch is the hotheaded young rebel who can't be controlled by the evil old people).

While these others are wading in an ocean of cliches, Ben Grim, or The Thing, is drowning in it. He's the big brute who is always picked on, then when he turns into The Thing he's picked on even more and becomes an outcast. Oh, and his wife leaves him in one of the most bizarre outburts of fear ever seen on film (she comes outside to see him, and runs away screaming. After he promptly saves a firetruck full of men from falling off a bridge, she looks at him again, throws off her wedding ring, and runs screaming through a crowd of clapping people.).


I'm so ronry...

Of course, like all outcasts, he is easily seduced into going with the evil guys (I predicted this part of the story when we were driving to the theatre, and I won 5 bucks because of it). After he turns into The Thing, he whines the entire movie about being normal. Of course, like every other movie out there, he gets turned back, stays as a human for about 2 scenes of acting (1 scene with him lying down) and then turns back into The Thing. Funny. Naturally, The Thing finds another outcast type women (who's blind) to call his own, Mr.Fantastic marries The Invisbile Women (didn't see THAT coming) and the Human Torch ends the movie with The Big Cheest; by creating a flaming 4 in the sky, and then having the camera backout to include the Statue of Liberty looking on.

Alright, now that I've gotten off that chest...


Hey jude, don’t make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

Hey jude, don’t be afraid.
You were made to go out and get her.
The minute you let her under your skin,
Then you begin to make it better.

And anytime you feel the pain, hey jude, refrain,
Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.

Hey jude, don’t let me down.
You have found her, now go and get her.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

So let it out and let it in, hey jude, begin,
You’re waiting for someone to perform with.
And don’t you know that it’s just you, hey jude, you’ll do,
The movement you need is on your shoulder.

Hey jude, don’t make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her under your skin,
Then you’ll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh.

Na na na na na ,na na na, hey jude...