"Love in an Elevator"

Seeing as I need to make up five blogs, I split the last one into two. The second topic was if we got stuck, who would it be with? To knock out the obvious, I said Megan Fox was not allowed to be an answer because she is way too understandable in this situation. My second thought was someone genius, maybe Bill Gates? And then it hit me. How about Benjamin Franklin? He could easily bring electricity back to the elevator and we’d save ourselves! Granted, I would take half the credit of keeping us alive. Marty said we couldn’t chose people from the past, so I decided on Mark Titus, because he clearly knows how to have a good time in that circumstance.

Willingly Trapped

So if you’ve been following these past few blogs backwards, you’d know we lost power and someone got stuck in the elevator. This brought up a couple topics between my roommate and I. First of all, would you want to get stuck in an elevator? And secondly, if you had to get stuck, who would you want it to be with? The former of these two questions may seem like an obvious answer, but I think I would love to get stuck. Not for too long, of course, but how many people can say they’ve been stuck? My roommate said he would absolutely not want to get stuck, but I hope I do someday. I really do.

250 Remarkable Years

The recent “Guinness” commercial has inspired me. No, not to drink more dark ale from London, but to join in on anything other people are doing. If someone raised their glass and cried, “To Arthur!” how could you not join in? The excitement shift from person to person is just too much of a powerful thing to skip out on. I tried to start my own the other day. After filling my plastic cup with Minute Maid Apple Juice from the Philbrook dining hall, I lifted my glass and said “To Arthur!” just like the commercial. No one joined in and it was an utter failure. I just looked like a fool.

What starts with F and ends in UCK?

To continue, and to make up for missing a bunch of blogs previously, why hasn’t the power come on yet? I’m not an electrical engineer but I know there should be a semi-easy way to bring back the light for all of us. Can’t someone just reconnect wire A to wire B? Maybe tape up the red cords? But as I’m pondering over how easy it may be, a fire truck just pulled up outside my window and I think, how do we have constant power? If we need a fire truck to assist on fixing this problem, it must be a big deal.

NOTE: After writing this, I found out the fire truck was here because someone got stuck in the elevator.

The Only Good Thing Without Energy

“This power outage has really put a damper on my day,” said the great Andrew Martin, “and I just used the word damper!” Yes, this lack of power has definitely caused a halt in my busy schedule full of an endless amount of writing, but I guess it has improved my roommate’s speech, so it was not all that bad. I’m sitting here now, writing this blog on my Microsoft Word. It just doesn’t have the real feel of writing a blog. This Times New Roman font just doesn’t have the same look as the Courier on blogspot. I just hope it’s over soon.

The "Crackberry"

In the past, the Blackberry phone as used only for the business industry. Who else needs e-mail and internet access at all times? As they get more revolutionary, it seems like more people are getting them just to get them. Most people think this is stupid, but it's exactly why I want one. I mean, who doesn't like brick breaker? I tried to talk my dad into paying the extra $29.99 a month for Verizon phones but he was against that. I even offered to pay for the first 6 months and buy the phone. He just said that if I can afford the extra thirty bucks a month, I should be paying for my phone bill already. I decided not to push him and I'm still stuck with the same old phone.

She's evil... and not just high school evil.

To build off my last blog, Megan Fox is starring in a new film. Jennifer's Body, which premieres this Friday, is about the most popular girl in school, Fox, and how she slowly kills her male classmates. Adam Brody of The OC and Amanda Seyfried of Mean Girl's and Alpha Dog co-star. From the looks of it, this movie will only make money of the SuperFox fan club. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, seeing as I am a true member and will probably go to opening night but not necessarily to see the movie. Diablo Cody, the script writer, also wrote Juno, so it has some chance of being decent.

Megan... I mean, Jennifer's Body

Everyone knows who superstar Megan Fox, a.k.a Foxy Megan, is. Notice I said superstar, not superstar actress. If you've seen either of the Transformers, which you probably have since combined they've made over $1,500,000,000, you know Ms. Fox was not hired for her acting skills. The real reason is quite relevant in the poster on my wall right now (Note: I'm not positive this is suitable for an English class blog). Recently, she has been quoted on calling producer Michael Bay "...like Hitler." Personally, I don't believe anyone who made millions for you can be like the The Fuhrer, but if she's trying to team up with Brad Pitt for a sequel, I'll give more credit than the crew did. An open letter from unanimous crew members called Fox "Classless" and "Dumb-as-a-rock." How rude.

Kanye West is going south

Is it just me or is Kanye making himself look more and more like a tool? Taylor was clearly touched by the voters opinion on her music video, so who would go and ruin a moment like that for someone? Kanye, she's married so you're not getting anything out of this. Maybe a feature in Beyonce's next jam, but wouldnt you rather rap with T-Sweezy? Jay-z can't even spit fire like a nineteen year old white country girl from hicktown Pennsylvania. No one should ruin a moment like this, hair like this, or sunglasses like this.

Roommates

Living with another person every night is a very new experience to me. I haven't shared a room with someone since 1996 when my youngest brother was born and my parents stuck me and my other brother together. For college, I went with the uncommon route and requested one of my good friends from home. Everyone says we're going to hate eachother by the end of the year but we've had no problems yet. I think it was a smart idea to room with him because we got everything we need for the dorm before and knew we would be all set when we got here. It's only been two weeks, so we'll see what happens the rest of the year

Latest Form of Procrastination

Today (this isn't an FML), I picked up a pair of Bose speakers from the GSS mail room that I ordered online about a week ago. Nothing too big or expensive, but with these speakers are great. The only problem is now that I have these speakers all of Christensen 4A can hear, I have to get some new tunes to go along with them. I planned on starting this blog at 3:30 but I've been too busy downloading free mix tapes off a plethora of web sites. All legal, I swear. Without the use of Limewire on campus, this website has to do.

The Boondock Saints

The Boondock Saints has to be one of my favorite movies. It combines a little humor with a lot of violence, perfect for a guys watching. Director and writer Troy Duffy adds a new concept to a gun slinging movie. With no romance scenes, or really any girls at all, it is just a complete action movie. Besides Willem Dafoe (Spiderman, American Psycho), there are no famous actors seen. Actors Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus, who played the infamous McManus brothers, seeking out evil and killing all scum. I'm very excited for the sequel to come out early next year. What do you think of this movie and how Duffy twisted the "shooter" movie into a comedy/action film? Will you watch the next movie?

First Blog

After reading "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X, something really stuck out to me. In the final paragraph, the author talks about how he thinks he got a better education in jail than in college. He says this is because "...there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and coola-boola and all of that." I think this is very true because in my first week of school here, it's been very hard to concentrate with so many things to do. I'm not saying I'd study more if I were in prison, but it's definitely something to think about. Do you think it would be easier to study in prison?

Also, I didn't know we were supposed to blog on Friday, so I hope Sunday counts.