Day N Nite..

This song has been out for what seems like forever now, the remix has been somewhat of a house anthem for just about as long, and the video has now been out for awhile too, but I'm bored and so I thought I'd post it up, regardless of my tardiness.

I never thought this song was anything amazing, but definitely not bad. But this version of the video brings this song to another level. The editing style was pulled off nicely and the video has virtually seamless transitions that work well with whats going on in the video and also connect well with the lyrics.

Pick ups

been too busy with school to post on here recently..not that there's ever been anything worth posting about anyways. Spent 20 hours at the library within 2 days, slept at 7AM and then 2:30PM the next day..it wasn't too fun.

Anyways..heres some random crap i've picked up recently..well most of its recent.















And finally..having a sweet tooth + sales = bad..

Hello, Again, and goodbye.

Haven't posted or even gone on here in a long time.. been too busy :( Not that I ever post anything of actual content anyways. Hopefully I'll post some more sometime soon..

For now,

R.I.P Dorothy Kiekhaufer; 1917-2009.
Always Loved,
Forever missed,
Never Forgotten.

Seven Pounds

I was able to watch Seven Pounds today. This review it going to be hard for me, because I feel like the less you know going into the movie, the better. The trailers don't really tell you what the movie is about, except that it's a fairly serious movie with a pretty good cast. I guess I'd say it's about Will Smith trying to fix things, in many different ways.

On a semi-side note, usually as movies get closer to their release date, the trailers reveal more and more of the movie's plot. This held true for this movie, and for the most part I don't agree with that decision. Although they don't give too much away, I think the 'mystery affect' is part of whats drawing the consumers to the movie. I know several people who have said 'Oh that movie looks good.' But don't even know what it's about. The only reason I can see them doing it is for marketing purposes. By creating a mystery movie, they're counting on sales that mainly come from the start power involved, not because the movie sounds/looks interesting. By revealing more of the story, you bring in an audience who wants to know what happens.

Anyways, onto the review. I really liked the cast, and thought they all played their parts well. Will Smith said it was his darkest role yet, and I agree with him. His character in this is semi-typical..a fairly strong male saving the universe. Well, maybe not the entire universe..but saving people. He's able to showcase his acting ability in almost all areas in this movie from happiness to hate. Rosario Dawson also does a good job. I haven't seen too many of her movies, but I thought she did a good job diving into the role of her character. I was definitely able to get attached to her character in the movie. And on a side note: Rosario Dawson is hot.

The story/structure of the movie was kind of confusing in the beginning to me. There were a few flashbacks shown, which I didn't realize were flashbacks til later on. I think the beginning is the only time when it's better to know part of the overall story, or at least what should be going on in the first few scenes. Besides that, the movie flows well, and Will Smith and Rosario Dawson take you on an emotional ride. There are many bittersweet moments, that tear at your emotions.

I liked the soundtrack as well..besides two songs. One song sounded like a My Chemical Romance (?) cover of Michael Buble - Feeling Good, and whatever that song was, just didn't seem to fit as well with the scene as different songs could have. There was one other song that didn't seem all that great either..but besides those two songs, it was good.

All in all, this is a dark romantic feel-good-while-being-stabbed-with-a-knife movie, and I'd recommend seeing it.

Goals unmet.

So late Saturday night I decide to make a planned impulse buy for early Sunday morning. I woke up at 6:15AM, and at 6:45AM called a cab to take me to a store. I arrived there at 6:55AM and was greeted by a line of ~10 people waiting outside. After waiting in line for 5 minutes, figuring out whether or not to buy out the entire store's stock of Nintendo Wii's for reselling and a ~$35 cab ride, I found myself back at home with this:



And these:

Winter Break Goals

Finally on winter break.. and I have some goals for it:

•Register for classes
•Vacuum & Dust my room
•Keep my room clean

•Find a roommate
•Make one new friend
•See as many friends as possible while I actually have free time

•Go up to Beaverton at least once

•Read one book
•Maintain a fairly steady (and normal) sleep schedule
•Work out 5 times a week
•Eat healthier

•Eat out less
•Spend less than $100 per month, excluding expenses
•Attempt to budget my money for the next 6 months
•Deposit 50% (Or more) of each paycheck into my savings account
•Never have more than $200 in my checking account, unless it's to pay for bills.
•Sell clothes and shoes

•Finish my concert picture project (Whenever I get my $300 from work)
•Figure out what new phone to get and when to get it
•DJ for at least 5 hours per week
•Reformat my desktop????

Red Friday

This year I didn't know anyone who planned on spending a lot of money for Black Friday. No one I knew, including me needed/wanted to make a big purchase, regardless of the fact that there were no really good deals. Getting a $1189.99 42" 1080p LCD HDTV for $581 beats any of the TV sales I saw today. I went out shopping just for the hell of it, and partially because I felt like I was obligated to at least go and window shop/browse. My goal for the day was to spend under $250 total, including random stuff like food.

Black Friday started at about 1:55AM on Thursday night, when I began waiting for Amazon to put some bluray movies on sale. The actual day started out at Best Buy around 7:30AM. I picked up a few DVD's, then headed to the Streets of Tanasbourne mall, mainly for Express. I only walked out with one sweater, well on my way to meeting my spending goal. After Express we went to Banana Republic just because it was basically next door. I somehow talked myself into buying a $59.00 scarf, basically regretting my purchase as I was making it. That is, until I saw it rang up on sale for $34.50 :)





Once we were done with that nice surprise, we stopped by REI, which did a pretty clever promotion. They gave shopping bags to customers entering, and each bag had a random gift card in it, ranging from $5.00 to $100.00. Both Jason & I got $5.00 :( But it definitely made us both feel like we needed to buy something. $5.00 off a clothing/sporting goods store anywhere, especially a store like REI is not a good sale at all, when there are North Face jackets running at $400. But the fact that are giving you free money makes you feel obligated to spend it. In addition to that, they didn't really even have any sales going on, which just brings them in even more profit.

Anyways, after that I went to a differnt friends house to go on Part II of my shopping spree. We went to the Nike Employee store..which was really busy, and shitty. They denied me as a guest, but I still got access to Friends & Family stuff later on. :)

After the Nike disaster, we went downtown. We stopped by several small stores, then went to the REI downtown. I spent the $5 gift cards on Odwalla drinks, because I couldn't find anything I actually wanted.



After shopping at those ~5 stores we went to eat at Mio Sushi, which was good as always, then headed over to Puma and Adidas. I ended up getting a pair of Puma x Evisu jeans at Puma. This put me pretty close to maxing out my $250 goal.

Pic of the jeans didn't come out so well, and I'm way too lazy to take a better one right now..



Next up was Niketown. On the way there, we heard some yelling and then 'I SAID GET ON THE GROUND!' I looked in the direction of the shouting and saw a man laying face down onto the sidewalk, and then saw a cop holding a shotgun, aiming it at this man on the ground. Then a few more police cars pulled up. We decided to take a detour route to avoid that drama. Later, while on the detour route, we saw the man yelling at the cops saying he didn't do anything, and why white cops gotta act like this to black men. :/ Wonder what he did, if anything.

After that interesting moment, I found my way into Niketown's checkout line, buying a pair of shoes, putting me over my $250.00 limit :\



Once I was done wasting my money at Niketown, we wasted a little more time, talking with a store owner, and managed to get a 30% off Nike/Niketown/Nikeoutlet/NikeWomens :) Then I went back to Best Buy so we could look at DVD's, then being unsuccessful at finding all the DVD's my friend wanted, we went to a different Best Buy, which had plenty. I walked out with more useless DVD's the second time going there.

I finally ended my spending spree at a nice, cheap, sit down, Thai restaurant around 8:30PM. Over 12 hours of being out and about shopping, walking and eating, ending with a relaxing dinner and a nice train ride down to Eugene. Except I fell asleep on the train, and now I'm not tired, and I have work at 9:00AM today.

I brought my camera up..but forgot to take it anywhere..so theres no pictures of any stores/scenery/food :(

Total Amount of Damage done (Minus food): $359.44 :/

Final Group Shot of my what I got..minus a few DVD's I bought online and haven't received yet.

Reaching for Mountains

Spending Spree Conclusion..hopefully.

Hopefully this is the conclusion of the rampage that has eaten up my bank account. I've looked at all the Black Friday ad's and have only seen a few random small item's I want..so hopefully I won't spend over $100 then.





and a new case for my Nano.



Little Big Planet is awesome, by the way.

Sweet tooth.

I've had a big sweet tooth lately..and I keep buying random stuff.

Got these within the last week, both are pretty good.