Doug Butabi: You can take our phones and you can take our keys, but you cannot take away our dreams.
Steve Butabi: Yeah, because we're, like, sleeping when we have them.
- Will Ferrell (as Steve) and Chris Kattan (as Doug) in A night at the Roxbury.

It's 1:08 am and here I am, still awake, haven't even drank any caffeinated products in the last six hours, finished my homework, ok well not really, only the stuff that I felt like completing. With only 9 days until graduation, I have absolutely no desire to complete any homework. But here I am, in the wee hours of the morning, with the choice of either going to bed or just blogging my pathetic inability to sleep. The thought of sleeping fills my mind only to be drowned out upon by the thoughts of all the things that I must complete within the next weeks limits. So this is were it leads to, me sitting Indian style with a laptop connected to my wireless internet connection, resting in my lap over cuddled on top of my oversized perfectly worn in dance sweatshirt, looking like Anakin Skywalker with its large hood draped over mine eyes. Only blogging to take away from the mindless insanity of actually sleeping, wow am I really that brainwashed? To think that nocturnally is a healthy lifestyle, to believe that this is not doing major damage to my immune system as I type, with each character my lungs becoming more and more susceptible to illness. And yet, I still sit, I still type each word making my eyes prayerfully get more and more dreary, but alas it workest thou not. Thoughts drowning my mind, ever so slowly, yet quickly at the same time. My two cents of words of wisdom:

"The weirdest feeling is not knowing what to feel"

"Befriending your enemies may seem like a good path, but in reality it just puts your back closer to there knife"

"You never know love until you've lost it, you never know your best friend until they die for you, you never know that they both are the same person, until they walk away"

Oh yeah, that reminds me things that I need to post:

Movie Review of: Wimbeldon
Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith

Well, I'm going to go grab some warm milk and attempt to get an hour or two of sleep before school, hopefully that wasn't to boring, if you fell asleep don't feel bad, it was intended for that, the effects were just supposed to work on me as well.

LYNN: So, what is the last thing that you remember?
ALF: . . . I saw a bright light, and I thought that someone was taking a picture of me, so I smiled . . .

WILLIE: Alf, now did you hear what the nice police man said about not misusing appliances?
ALF: What did you say? Sorry, I was hiding in the drier.

- Max Wright as Willie, Andrea Elson as Lynn, and Paul Fusco as Alf in ALF

Ok, for so long I have sworn that I never ever will get a my space. . . well. . . I lied, I caved in. . . I got one. You can access it here allegri. I don't know how much I will be updating it but its nice cause you can network on it, and stream live music, unlike those with the free (sorry poor high schooler here) version of blogger. It's were all my links will be to those that aren't attributed on this site.

John Bridger: How are you?
Charlie Croker: [shrugging] I'm fine.
John Bridger: Fine? You know what "fine" stands for, don't you?
Charlie Croker: Unfortnately, yeah.
John Bridger: Freaked out...
Charlie Croker: Insecure...
John Bridger: Neurotic...
Charlie Croker: And Emotional.
John Bridger: You see those pillars over there?
Charlie Croker: [looks behind him and sees the pillars] What about them?
John Bridger: That's where they used to string up thieves who felt fine.

- Mark Wahlberg (as Charlie Croker) and Donald Sutherland (as John Bridger) in The Italian Job

In my daily web surfing lingo I stumbled across a new post on one of my favorite sites, as of 11:17 last night Rob Cockerham (owner of cockeyed.com) placed 8 delicious pancakes for sale on Ebay. And as of 10:53 this morning it had already had 14 bids and was up to $5.00 charge not including shipping.

Now after seeing this it intrigued me and I began to search of other oddiditites sold (or attempted to sell) on Ebay, here are a few of the fingdings:

A Human Kidney
Twenty-four Children
A piece of Toast partially eaten by Justin Timberlake
A soul of a human being
The rights to name a child
A jar of air from Woodstock 99
Someone's life story

Now Rob mostly does these Ebay sellings not out of stupidity, but more out of a need for a income to support his pranks and "How much is inside Adventures", or just the sheer curiosity of seeing how many people will bid. My favorite "How much is inside Adventure" was most definitely the Sharpie escapade, in which he bought one sharpie and went crazy labeling CD's until the 7.5 gram marker ran out, 968 CD's later (Of which I am lucky enough to have outbid people for a batch of 5 of them).

These are just a few, there were a lot more and many that more freaked me out of even attempting to think of how they got the idea to sell certain items. Most of these where just pranks that people pulled to see how long they stayed on the Ebay registry but others were completely serious. I wonder how much those pancakes will sell for? Maybe I'll go bid on them, nah, I'll just go make my own, I can't wait a week of bidding then 3 days shipping time just to eat them.

Yeah I know, its not monday, but it just sounds good as movie quote monday...

"This is your life NOW. Life doesn't wait for you to get your stuff back in order"
- Tyrone Giordano as Graham Martin in A lot like love

Somewhat like love, alot like lust.

Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Amanda Peet, Ashton Kutcher, Molly Cheek
Rated: PG 13
Running Time: 107 Minutes

The movie begins with two strangers meeting at in a airport terminal waiting to board their plane to New York; Emily, a eccentric woman in her early twenties who has just broke up with her punk-rocker boyfriend, and Oliver, a geeky college graduate going home to visit his deaf brother. An unfortunate event of turbulence lands a cup of coffee all over Oliver. As he is in the onboard laboratory cleaning of the coffee, he is encountered by Emily and is soon to join the "mile high club". After landing in New York, the two's paths "incidentally" collide throughout the day. Still in the early hours of the day they are soon to end up in a bar together; where they make a bet that in six years Emily is to call Oliver's parents (because even if Oliver moves away, his parents will still be in the same place, hmm sounds like the way we all think of our parents, eh?) and see if he's become a rich, married business man successfully making his own way. From there, they part ways and go on to live their lives.

Although it is only three years before she makes that call after she is again bumped and on the rebound for a date for a New Years Eve party, happening that night. Giving his parents a call, she finds out that Oliver is now starting his own dot com business selling ..... diapers. But again, the next morning the two part ways and periodically continue their friendship this way during the six year running length of their bet, all the while falling slowly in love. With their continual on-again off-again relationship that is splattered with different bed partners, on both of their sides.

The film shows the worldly view of love as boldly as ever with stating that love is having someone in your bed whether they know you or not. A Lot Like Love is a gentle, lightly dramatic romantic comedy about two mismatched people who we in the audience know should be together, but events in the story keep them apart. The movie explores the subject of mistimed romance, as well as difficulties in commitment and the whole "you don't know what you had 'til you've lost it" thing.

I would give A lot Like love a 7 out of 10 stars, great cineamtography, great actors, and acting, just to much basing the storyline on sex and that who you have in your bed defines your worth.

Director: Garth Jennings
Starring: Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell
Rated: PG
Running Time: 110 minutes

After having a rough day attempting to save his (Martin Freeman) home from its inevitable destruction for build a bypass through the area. Soon to discover that not only has he lost his home but his planet as well. After the Earth has been destroyed by a bureaucratic race of aliens known as the Vogons, making room for a hyperspace expressway. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is saved by his alien friend Ford Prefect (Mos Def) who hitchhike their way onto a spaceship called The Heart of Gold. It's there that Dent meets two-headed galaxy president Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell), earthling Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), and depressed robot Marvin (voiced by Alan Rickman). They are soon to find out that Zaphod was the one who signed the order to have the Earth destroyed.

Jim Henson's Creature Shop came up with the Vogons, an impossibly ugly race of monsters who use poetry to torment their victims. Although early on thanks to a musical number for dolphins who try to warn the human race that their planet is about to be destroyed. The warnings, of course, are misinterpreted, but not before the dolphins have delivered a fondly choreographed farewell to the planet, which they thank for "all the fish."

The movie was very interesting and confusing at parts, mostly because of the fact that I have never read the book before. There was some good humor although the story plot seemed as though the author was on crack when he scribed the screenplay. I would rate this movie as a 4 out of 10 stars, 6 out of 10 if you have 6 friends with out at a drive in at one in the morning.

For the last 24 hours my left eye has been plagued with a "floater", which pretty much looks like a chromosome-like image floating this inside your retina. The clear gel like material that fills in your eye is called the vitreous. About 80% of the eye's volume is vitreous, many people would equate it to a small spherical fish tank.

The vitreous in children is very firm and gelatinous, while in older folks the vitreous turns to water. That means there's a transition period during which the gel "melts." The medical term for this process is Syrnersis (sin-err-ree-siss).

During syneresis some of the gel is still partially formed in chunks. These free-floating chunks represent your floaters. Although they are clear, these chunks cast an optical shadow on the retina, giving them a dark appearance.

Most floaters go away over time. Either the gel completely dissolves, or the chunks settle down to the bottom of the eye, or (most likely) your brain learns to simply ignore them. There is no medical therapy available to eliminate floaters.

In short it feels like you should be on LSD because you are seeing something that one else can, a thing that is actually inside of your retina and keeps passing in front of your optic nerve. At this point I really want to pull an Oedipus and gouge out my own eyes just to make this nuisance stop.

At times the world can seem an unfriendly and sinister place. But believe us when we say there is much more good in it than bad. And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events, may in fact, be the first steps of a journey.
-Emily Browning as Violet Baudelaire in A Series of Unfortunate Events

As a friend (Kines) pointed out this past week, that all places may have their superstars, but they also have their exiled. Not only is it with Paris, but indeed it is true with Utah as well. I'm sure that most people reading this have heard of the phrase "Utah - land of the greatest snow on Earth," it is indeed the most annoying and commonly uttered phrase about the state other than "the home of the Mormons."

Each winter thousands of people flock like geese to these Mountains to take part in a few runs over "the greatest snow on Earth" for a hundred dollars a day. This state is not all roses. But even though we quite possibly have the "best" snow, and the largest (and supposedly most beautiful) Mormon Tabernacle in the world. This state has a few downsides including (but not limited to), the highest bankruptcy filings in the nation, the state with the 3rd highest births per capita, and rates among the highest in the nation for people on anti-depressants and suicides.

Now I know, not all that glitters is gold, but all those that are a little less than perfect, should not get swept under the rug. Every place has its flaws but hiding them and pretending that they don't exist just worsens the problem. Naively people flock here in droves believing that this is the "real" Zion, that because of its acclamation from its two most prestigious items, that it is immune from having any flaws and imperfections.

Now Utah is not the only place that is like this, Oh no; never believe that for one minute. As one friend stated, that Paris is the same way, so many people lay to believe that Paris is the most beautiful place because of it acclamation due to Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Versailles castle, the Champs Elysees, it also has its own "Red District" and its streets are covered it feces of animals, because of irresponsible owners.

Every place has its flaws, yet no one seems to ever notice them until they live in that city. The thing that we all need to realize is that even the "prettiest" places in the world have the normality of every other places, and the slime and grundge as everywhere else.