Hot Sticky Love Knots

Everything is hot and sticky. The sides of buildings are wet with sweat, the streets are hot and hazy and everyone is pissed off. All the joy of summer, innit?

I love it to be honest. I wait all year for the hot, humid weather to bother the hell out of people. But it's usually not in May (yeah, I wrote this blog in May, and just posting it now). This kind of weather usually doesn't come until mid-June - I guess Global Warming is becoming more evident. I love it when people say "this shit ain't right, Canada should not be this damn hot, it's just nasty", because I can't get enough of this weather. I live for it, and when someone utters those words I just smile inside.

I smile inside about a lot of things. Well - not a lot, I s'pose - but there are things that I just can't help smiling about. This is especially true with some books I read. There are very few authors that actually make me smile, and Chuck Klosterman is one of them. Everything he says just sounds so much like 'that guy' you used to know. He sounds a lot like me when I talk, but with a lot better grammar. And on the same note, Joanne Kathleen Rowling is another author that brings a smile to my inside. She is just too amazing. Too amazing. Have I already mentioned that? So I think you get the point of what I am trying to say now. So I am going to let you know that for the rest of this blog I am going to ramble on about random things that have been bothering me/making me happy/ Because we all need to vent somehow.

Yeah, so I am really content with a few things in my life right now. It just seems to be going good. A possible new person I like (don't tell anyone) and I am doing fairly well in school. I just feel like singing to myself, even if my voice makes ears bleed.

Friday (as in June 1st) was a great, great night. I went to my friend Samantha's birthday party and I got to hang out with all my closest friends which was naturally a blast. Who doesn't have a blast when they hang out with friends? Seriously. Yeah, and now I have run out of things to say. Well that was my ramble. If you are still reading this, I pity you.

Pirates 3: Review

Exciting Pirates 3 Doesn't Dissapoint






The third installment of the Pirates drags on for nearly three hours, but is well worth it. There are times where you will be sitting in the theatre, wishing it would end, but after it's over you'll be glad you went.
Kiera Knightly, Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom reprise their roles as the notorious pirates. This time around, the trio (that seems to split up and get back together all the time) are trying to save the existence of pirates all together. With the East Indian Trading Co. breathing down their neck, it will prove a hard job.
The half-drunk Captain Jack Sparrow is his usual self. Pulling off quirky one-liners and openly asking "where has the rum gone?". It's Jack Sparrow that brings me to these movies. I must admit that Johnny Depp really has taken this character to heart. I can see him moving on to a pin-off of the series, but I can almost certainly say that this is going to be the last one with all the usual characters as this installment of Pirates really brings the series to a nice close. (Tip: stay until after the credits for a secret ending)
It was really clever how they ended this movie. They left enough things unanswered to make another sequel, yet tied up the series enough so that they don't have to. However, it's safe to say that we don't really want to see another installment of the series. Do we really want to see them coming back for another 3 hour film, sure it's great, but I think the makers are smart enough to know when to end it. And ending it now is the best.
This one will be really satisfying to fans of the series. The boring parts (which is rare, although there) are more than made up for with all the action sequences. It's that it looks so real -- everything looks so real, that is to say. When a ship breaks the water's surface and comes flying out from the depths, the audience actually believes this is happening. You can't tell between the animated and live-action parts, which makes a good action movie. I wasn't expecting the realness of this movie.
While most Pirate movies are 2 dimensional, the Pirates series really has a confusing plot. It's nice to see finally a movie with an actual plot line, but this is just confusing. Half the time I am wondering what's happening. But does that really matter? We came to see Jack Sparrow, we came to see the elaborate sword fights, we came to see ships blowing up, we came to laugh at the one-liners. That's what we're there for.
Fans of the series won't like how Elizabeth and Will decide their fate when he pops that special question, but then again - will the fans even care? I mean, it's Pirates of the Caribbean, dammit!

3.5/5 stars

Global Freezing, More Like

Last time I checked, I still lived in Canada.
The weather has been quite dreary here, and it seems like I am living in the UK with all these gray clouds lingering above. Although, I'm not saying that it's always raining there - it does rain a lot. And it's been cold here. Too cold. Today it was 10C (or 50F)!! I'm wearing 2 sweaters and big socks. It feels like winter all over again. I think we should invest in new forecasters. Where the hell is global warming at?
They keep saying all this mumbo-jumbo about Global Warming, yet it doesn't seem like it. Although this winter was unusually warm (and then get unusually cold)and true this spring we hit record temperatures at 27C (or around 81F) for Northern Ontario in Canada - it seems this cold weather is just balancing that out. Is there really global warming? Can you picture palm trees swaying in the wind in Canada? I wish.
I can't wait for the heat to get here. But some things in life just take a wile.

Avoiding Yard Work

Yes, it's the 'yard-work' time of year. Today was my family's 'yard-work' day - and it still is. But I am inside enjoying the comfort of my own room. I've casually avoided doing the yard work for now. They'll eventually hunt me down and make me do other things like... opening the pool, or raking the back yard - or worst of them all - gardening!
Luckily, I have escaped it for now, and have devised some convenient tips for anyone who wants to get out of yard work.
Tip One: Volunteer to go get the hosepipe so you can 'water the yard'.



This is always good because the hosepipe is usually in the garage or the basement and can take a very long time to find - especially if your parents are unorganized. This should kill about 10-15 minutes. After getting tho hose tell them you can't find the nozzle and/or sprinkler - you need to find this as well. Hopefully it'll be buried under a pile of garden supplies somewhere in the back shed.
Tip Two: Go get the 'refreshments' like juice, water, pop and whiskey if you parents like a hard shot of liquor in the middle of the afternoon. Getting them drunk isn't a bad idea either.



They will be waiting for you outside admiring the work they've done so far. They'll take a good look around at the oh so beautiful garden - and when you come back out, you're going to have to help them plant the flowers. BUT, you can avoid this (see tip three). Stay inside making the drinks for a considerable amount of time. You can even try making ice cubes if your parents don't come in and ask you what you're doing. If there already ice cubes, casually spill 'by accident' on the floor. Oops, looks like we need to wait for some more. This should kill anywhere from 10-130 minutes (yes, 130).
Tip Three: Adjust the sprinkler, because it's not going the way you like it.



Tell them you liked the way it worked when you were a kid, carelessly running around through it. Turn off the hosepipes and fiddle around with it, claiming that you are indeed fixing the problem. After 20 to 25 minutes tell them it's all good and get them wet when you turn it back on. This should get them quite angry and if you're lucky enough, you might get sent inside or asked to 'just leave!'.
Well that's it for now, I do hope your 'yard work' gets done without much help from you - unless you like this sort of thing. In that case, happy gardening. by the way, I love summer.

The Annoying Things

I recently watched a YouTube video that made me realize how many things that people do that really bother me. I feel as though I share this person's pain. Take a look.



Yeah, that really got me thinking. I agree completely with her. My mom, for example, takes an hour to send out a few emails to a few coworkers and friends, yet she sits at a computer desk and types all day -- how can she not know how to type quickly!? It's beyond me.
Another thing people do that's really annoying is post bulletins on MySpace all the time about useless little tidbits of their lives no one cares about. Stop posting things like "hey, please talk to me. you all suck". Do you really expect someone to say something to you after that? I just delete those sorts of people. They bother the hell out of me.
And don't even get me started on leaving your IM on ALL the time. That is even worse. There's people that have MSN or AIM or ICQ on all the time. It's down right stupid. You don't have that many friends that you need to be on MSN all fucking day. You're not that important. Get over it.
So yeah - for Natalie - I share your pain. And for those who do the things I've mentioned - please stop.