Wild Weekened!

First I'd like to say I am sorry to my faithful followers who have waited so long between my posts. I blame Hollywood because they have just had suck movies come out recently and new movies is which calls for my blogging. But I am about to step out of the movie realm...

I went to my first Seahawks game today. Early November so the drive was interesting. My wind shield wipers did not Work! Which I realized so conveniently when it started to rain. So I'm driving, not to bad because at 70 the rain rolls off even though I had about 60 percent visibility. Then the top comes, dry snow which is good because it did not stick to the wind shield. That heaven lasted for about five minutes until I had to suffer through slush which brought me to 30 percent visibility through my wind shield. Wow, I found out that our God is a good god, I'm a great driver, and windshield wipers are over rated.

Now to the good stuff. I got to the game and got my face painted for free which was cool. I got kind of a Phantom of the Opera in Seahawk colors. We make the trek to the top of the stadium and with in the first 3 plays my voice won't allow me to talk because I got caught up in the moment of my first game and sprinted before I warmed up vocally. So the rest of the game my yelling was the equivalent of a marathon runner pulling a muscle in the first mile. Great game except the drunk people who are absolutely retarded. "Score a home run!" "I could beat you in an arm wrestling match." " What kind of call was that." They all chanted these type of chants throughout the game. Useless. You don't score home runs in football, there is no way a guy with a beer gut is taking a pro athlete in an arm wrestling match, and don't you think that the ref can see the play just a little better from his view of 5 yards aways compared to our view of 500 yards away!

The game ends and we are waiting for our driver Scotty Woodward to come get us. We are in a parking garage. People are slowly getting out. People are honking. Dear God, what is honking going to do? There is a traffic jam, it will naturally flow out, event though it takes a while. It is not like people hear the horn and then suddenly realize there is open freeway. I think people need to mentally prepare themselves because there is 60,000 people in one stadium trying to leave at the same time, something tells me you should bank on there being a traffic jam! Idiots. Needless to say, I had a great weekend, I also went to a conference which I will get a little deeper with you in my next blog.

Disappointment

My life may or may not revolve around the summer movie releases. The summer of 2009 has officially come to an end. The word that comes to mind is disappointment. We had Transformers 2, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Up, and Wolverine. That is only four weekends of a lot of summer weekends. Those were the movies I was excited about and Wolverine even let me down a little bit and the new 3D let me down even more. (Makes me furious at the thought of the 3D)

Maybe, just maybe, the summer of 2008 spoiled me way to much. They came out with the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the Dark Knight, and so many more. Those are just the super hero movies. I had such high hopes and dreams then Hollywood went doo doo on them.

There will be a few coming out in the fall to hold me over till the winter/ Oscar season. The good news is that next year The Last Air Bender is coming out which is going to be awesome. 2010 looks to like a great summer.

Until next time, keep it real and stuff.

GI Joe Rise of the Cobra

What to say, what to say? GI Joe was an entertaining movie. There was tons of action, comic relief by Mr. Wayans, and of course there was cool special effects. This movie should be watched in theatres, preferably in the afternoon.

I enjoyed the action and the corniness behind it. It is GI Joe, for it not to be corny would be ridiculous. I laughed out loud a few times. Brendan Fraiser made an awesome cameo which made me smile. Understand that one doesn't see this movie for Oscar winning acting or a best picture nominee. It is purely entertaining.

The bads... Channing Tatum. If I had an option of punching a celebrity it would most definitely be Meagan Fox but if I had a second it would be Brittney Spears, but if a third opportunity came along it would be Channing himself. The other bad is that when it came to computer animation I believe they got a little lazy or the producers didn't give out enough. The Sci-Fi stuff was cool but when it came to real things they did a crappy computer duplicate.

I give this movie a 7 out of 10 in the action genre. It is no Shia Lebouf movie. For a film as a whole, 6 out of 10. I'll give it to them, it was entertaining which I believe was their goal.

Summer Camp!!

Well, one week of summer camp down. I think it went pretty good, the first day was a rocky start, but good. I decided to get the kids there all safe, nobody was to badly injured except for scraped knees. Pastor Kyle and myself taught an all boys class, which was sprung upon us that day. Our last day we had a break down on our 5 foot high rock wall. The child would not move! He preceded to yell and shout and then he climbed higher instead of lower. Finally the problem was solved with a ladder only because we didn't have step stool. When I was his age I climbed to the top just to jump off.

Camp was fun, not a lot in the middle. The last day, the very end we are driving home. 3 years in a row e vantage hill has claimed our van and now I see myself face to face. Just like any other hill our van began to struggle, not unusual. We begin to creep up the monster and have almost summited the beast. "We did it," I said aloud. After hearing this I thought I heard a laugh, and then our van made a klunk noise and then we creeped to 25 mph then it turned off. The hill claimed our van for the 4th year in a row.

Just as I said in the previous blog I wanted a 95% return rate... which I achieved, only forgetting one person. I know, not bad for my first camp.

Kids Camp!

To my faithful followers (John) I apologize for my absence of blogs. Since we last met I had an auditions in Seattle with a big acting agency. Just as you thought they said no. I also have watched Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, which was one that blew my mind. However, that is not what I am going to talk about. Side note, I also apologize for various spelling and grammar errors.



Kids Camp is upon me. I leave tommorow at 9 am. We are taking 28 kids! Awesome right. What is not awesome is that the most kids I have ever been in charge of is 5. Now I'm taking these kids out of town. So if parents you are worried... you should be. Your kids are only semi safe. Rest assure though, if one is left behind it is either because he was acting up or they failed to know what the movie Topgun is. (If you bring your kids to Club 180, be sure to educate them on great movies so they can laugh at my references to movies like Topgun and Dances With Wolves).



Anyway, I will write again to tell you about my adventures. I am shooting for a 90 percent return rate. Thats an A, right.

4th of July

For the Fourth, our youth ministry went to the west side of the mountains to sell fireworks to make money for our ministry. We got there Friday sold fireworks and hung out. On Saturday the plan was to sell until midnight, light fireworks off, and then drive home.

We finished our business in Spanaway at about 1 in the morning. Then I took my death defying mission to drive our summer interns home on this 3 hour trip. I drank an energy drink hoping to increase my chances of living, then we were off. My friend had one task, talk to me and keep me awake. An hour past... he fell asleep. I found myself singing every song I knew out loud, white knuckle driving, trying not to close my eyes. We pulled into town at 4 in the morning with out any stops. Impressive, I know.

Sunday, I slept for an hour, went to the morning service where I played guitar. Then our Pastor put on a video that was slow at first, but regardless of the content the room was dark and I fought to try and not fall asleep. I succeeded. Then I taught our coffee shop lesson, about a confident warrior, which I kept their attention... Kabang! Then I decided to teach our children where I jumped around as much as I could until church was over where I went to sleep for a few hours.

Moral of the story, even though this was extremely hard to do, it was awesome and I don't regret it at all or think about what could have happened if I fell asleep. I just finished Stranger Than Fiction which reminded me to live my life. Afterward, I can confidently say I am.

Public Enemies

Public Enemies was great! It truly brought you into the story line and got you interested in all the characters. Michael Mann (Director/Writer) did a terrific job with the screen play, giving foreshadowing, humor, and intensity in this clever film. Mann has created great blockbusters in the past (Heat, 1995 and Miami Vice, 2006) but has out done himself in Public Enemies.

Johnny Depp plays an outstanding anti-hero in the form of bank robber John Dillinger. With his odd style of public relational robber, you fall in love with Dillinger, a straight to the point kind of guy that never lets his friends down, and he didn’t let us down either. Depp delivers an amazing performance giving us memorable lines like, “I like baseball, movies, fast cars, whiskey, and you.”

Christian Bale plays a FBI agent assigned to hunt down Dillinger and as the “Hero” Bale delivers a stone cold performance as just the right agent for the job in the young Federal Bureau of Investigation. Even though as good Christian Americans we are suppose to root for Bale and the FBI, Mann turns it around and you root for the bank robbers.

The things I didn’t like about this film are that a few parts were slow where it seemed the story line had a hard time moving forward. In these situations the dialogue was not clever enough to keep you interested, however there are not too many of these situations.

The rating I would give this movie as a drama is 9 out of 10 and as an overall film 9 out of 10. I would have no trouble watching this movie again and very well could have earned a spot on Jesse’s top 20.

(If you don’t like the movie, it’s not my fault; you just have a bad taste in movies.)