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This blog is going into hibernation.
Just thought I'd let you know.
(PS: it's my birthday in 2 days!!)

On a sidenote

>My new year's resolution is to not use "lol" for at LEAST a year.
>Loads of honor band/honor jazz band stuff to take care of
>For those of you who know saxophones, I was able to get a hold of a Brilhart Tonalin 3 tenor mouthpiece....for free. I know right?!

Those are the big points so far :)

It's 5! (Pt 1)

Shit, well its 12am and I have to write this up and be places around nine tomorrow. I've been going to sleep at 3-4am and waking up at 1-2pm for the past couple nights. Efffffff.

1 Wristcutters: A Love Story
2 Rushmore
3 Avatar
4 Inglorious Bastards
5 500 Days Of Summer

All the above were fantastic, in their own ways. The only movie I don't recommend is one called Happenstance which I rented because it had Audrey Tatuo (Amelie) in it, and it sucked; she was in it like 5 times throughout the entire deal. Anyways...

So, let's begin. I've been meaning to watch Wristcutters in the past many times. I've actually rented this before but never watched it. The takes place in a, lets call it, "second earth", where people who commit suicides go. There aren't any happy things in this place and no one knows who's in charge. Our main character Zia (a guy) is a perfectly average looking fellow, and he kills himself by slitting his wrists, landing him in this second world. Here he meets Eugene and Mikal (girl, pronounced me-call).

Upon discovering that his ex-girlfriend also killed herself, Zia embarks the land in search of her. Eugene's story is interesting because his family did a "chain suicide" meaning each of their death's happened because of the others, so they live in the second world more happily then they did in the real world. Throughout the story Mikal is trying to find the man in charge, because her death was an accident, but I won't go into detail on that.

I found this movie to be really creative and down to earth. I liked it A LOT. Throughout their embarking, I liked how it would show clips of how the people they met died. Each character had really likable qualities that blended together well so that the mood and style weren't thrown off. The concepts weren't too abstract and things kinda just workout for a really heart-warming ending. I Highly recommend it.

Moving on, the next movie is Rushmore, which I've seen TWICE since renting it. I normally wouldn't watch a rented movie more then once but I liked it so much (yeah it kinda looks like I like all the movies that I watch but it's just a coincidence that I'm watching so many good movies). Think of this movie as another Charlie Bartlett. The main character, Max Fischer (The Darjeeling Limited) is a determined high school over-achiever, who excels at extracurriculars and fails academically. He falls in love with a teacher and spend the the rest of the movie trying to win her over. This sounds wrong I know, but....well it is. But if you've seen other Wes Anderson movies, Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums, I think you would appreciate this movie for the similar style it holds with the movies listed. Max's character is just straight-up awesome in my opinion; kinda like a male Juno Mcguff, with slightly different traits. He sets himself in complete control, being strictly business like and very polite. It's funny, VERY clever, and incredibility well-directed, not to mention it has a sweet soundtrack.

At this point I'm kind of rushing this because I don't want to be up all night. If you want details, go a head and message me on facebook or something. I'm just here to give you the gist of things :)

AVATAR - Badass movie. Especially in 3-D. I cant really even begin to describe the greatness of this film. 12 years in the making; new technology invented for it's enhancement; visually orgasmic; matix-star wars-enders game-poccahontis all combined; premium battle scenes. You get the idea. Watch it.

To be continued for a day that I'm not so tired...

Bask Mix #2: Merry Christmas and Happy New Years

IT'S CHRISTMAS! Here's a neat play-list I was able to put together so enjoy it with all your new presents and whatnot. Anyways, I hope you're all warm and happy, or getting better from whatever illnesses you might currently possess, and Merry Christmas.

MP3 Adam Sandler - The Hanukkah Song Part 3
MP3 The Kinks - Father Christmas
MP3 Regina Spektor - My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)
MP3 Lacrosse - This New Year will be for You and Me
MP3Andrew W.K. – High Holidays
MP3 Blink-182 - Happy Holidays, You Bastard
MP3 Louis Armstrong - Christmas In New Orleans
MP3 Billy Mack - Christmas Is All Around (Love Actually)
MP3 Olivia Olson - All I Want for Christmas is You (Love Actually)
MP3 Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
MP3 Weezer – We Wish You A Merry Christmas
MP3 Weezer – O Come All Ye Faithful
MP3 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – All I Want for Christmas
MP3 Sufjan Stevens – Amazing Grace
MP3 Sufjan Stevens - That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!
MP3 Coldplay – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

...and why the crap not
MP3 Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo

not feeling it

Really, I'm not. I don't know what it is.

Finals week is coming to it's end and I don't want much on my mind. Tons of things have been happening and I just want to go into a deep state of relaxation. But if I've learned one thing this week, its that you don't get to the places you really want by taking the easy routes; I guess I haven't been able to grasp this concept yet. Oh well.

Time to juggle.

MP3 Beck - Golden Age
MP3 The View - Dont Look Back Into the Sun (Libertines cover)

Don't worry

I still write on this. SEE!

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-Paul

My goodness,

What an eventful night it has been.
1 - Vaca Christian's Country Fair
2 - PEP band amazingness even though I said I wasn't going
3 - Cleared up some things in my personal life

I just wanted to post this as sort of a bookmark I guess. Maybe I could impress you readers by adding the fact that I parkoured my way over the 12 ft fence thus granting me free entrance into the football game. My parkouring included running up to and jumping off a water fountain rail, then grappling on a small ledge over to the fence, and hoisting myself over. Mad skillz.

No mp3s for this one. Just the print.

Fall 09 (Mix #1)

The first ever Bask Mixtape!

1. A Tribe Called Quest - Check The Rhyme
2. Arcade Fire - My Heart is an Apple
3. Kimya Dawson - Better Weather
4. Radiohead - Airbag
5. Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife (404'd)
6. Weezer - I Want you To
7. Final Fantasy - The Power Of Love (Dion Cover)
8. Feist - Inside and Out (Bee Gees Cover)(This song is brilliant).
9. Noah and the Whale - Slow Glass
10. Weezer - I'm your Daddy
11. Regina Spektor - Sailor Song
12. Karen O And the Kids - Sailing Home

Get them before they're 404'd!

28 Dollars Later

My dad bought 1 and I saw 2 in the theaters.

1 Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
2 Paranormal Activity (w/ spoiler)

Starting off with the newer of Transformers series, Revenge of the Fallen, I'd like to say that this was SUCH a teen movie. Normally I'd lay back, give you some plot info, and allow you to form your own opinion on whatever I'm reviewing, but I have accumulated such a distaste for this film that I refuse to commit such a crime. It was as if the movie was leaning on Megan Fox's sluttiness, comstant super roboaction scenes, and American Pie humor to fill the absence of the prior two to satisfy the audience. Well you know what Michael Bay?!! NO! FAIL!
The script was terrible, the acting was a joke, and the action was so incredibly repetitive. I could go on and on about this but I don't really have the time, nor the stamina. If you fall somewhere in the ages 10-14, these trigger-happy robots will be the cheese to your macaroni. Everyone else, don't bother. Settle in the glory of the first movie and don't let your curiosity bring you to watch this.

Next up is...Paranormal Activity! WOOOT! no, not really. It was also a disappointment but not as bad as Transformers. Everyone told me prior to my viewing that they had trouble sleeping for the next few nights so I was initially nervous to watch it, butttttt boy I sure was overreacting.
The movie is about a couple that had just gotten engaged and moved in together. After a couple haunting incidents the viewer as well as the husband (Mika) learns that the wife (Katie) has been haunted by a demon since childhood. Determined to show the demon who's boss, Mika taunts it despite numerous warnings that signs of trying to communicate with it will only increase its activeness. His taunting included recording it's activity, shouting "Show yourself you fucking demon, so I can kick your ass!", AND -drum roll- the dumbest thing one can possibly do taunt a demon -drum roll continues- he brings in Ouija board! An effing Ouija board; I mean really, how retarded could he possibly be?? As his taunting becomes more empty-minded, so do the haunting incidents.
I have to admit this movie wasn't a complete disappointment because the haunting incidents were quite creative, but its problem was that they were too spaced out, and Mika was so stupid that it seemed unreasonable for someone to make the decisions that he made. You know how in most scary movies a girl would be running away from a killer and instead of running outside, she runs into the closet? That pretty much sums up Mika.

*SPOILER* The only part that really knocked my socks off scary-wise was the very ending. The final scenes happen like so: Katie is found with a bloody cross in her hand, half-conscious. Mika brings her up to the bedroom and tells her that they have to get out, and at this point she's in some happy trance replying with "Nooo, Mika let's stayyy. I don't wanna leaveee. We'll be fineee." The husband is flipping out but goes with it. That night, the camera shows her sleep-walking downstairs and in the morning we hear her scream. Mika wakes up and runs downstairs leaving the viewer hearing screams for a short period, than seeing only the silent dark hall/stairway for roughly 3 minutes. Out of the darkness, dead Mika is suddenly hurled towards the camera and a blood covered Katie slowly emerges in the doorway of the room. At this point, the audience knows shes fully possessed. She does a Golem crawl over to dead Mika, sniffs, turn towards the camera, and lunges at it. I'm pretty sure the entire audience, myself included, screamed here.

I personally think PA had potential to be so much more disturbing: the demon could've locked them in the house, blocked off all communication with the outside world, and tormented them to insanity...but nooOOOOoo.Overall, this movie could be called "The Diet Blair Witch Project". If you want some unsettling scenes, you go watch the BWP.




Playlist post soon.

Sipping Sleep

I feel really awful right now for no reason at all. Or maybe there are so many reasons that I don't know where to begin. Its hard to describe. Like I'm a wanderer of the earth without any sense or purpose...but that's just how I feel right now. Even though its not true. I'm more than positive I'll get better-

LINK Yann Tiersen - Summer 78
LINK Patrick Wolf - Epilogue


-update-
See, that didn't last too long
LINK Nikkifurie - The A La Menthe (Ocean's 12 laser dance song)