You've got to be fucking shitting me. I can't be getting sick AGAIN! If this is really a cold then I will be SO MAD. HULK SMASH!

I just saw Prince Caspian. I have a few comments. It was really entertaining. But I noticed it was WAY more violent than the last one. Not that I have a problem with that, but it's for teens and kids right? And isn't Narnia all about the Christian overtones? Then there's Ben Barnes. My, isn't he a tall glass of water? I wish I could have hair like his.

I saw on the website they're doing Voyage of the Dawn Treader next. I assume that they're doing it in this order so that the actors would be the right ages. They had to do Prince Caspian or else the Pevensie children would be Pevensie adults. I guess Caspian is going to get older as he does the next three. I'm also wondering if they're doing "The Horse and His Boy" and "The Magician's Nephew". By the time they get to those movies, I could logically be working on one of them =O

Anyway, I'd highly recommend it if you liked the first one.

The internet was down today, but something good came of it. My father called Bright House and we found out the reason our internet sucks so hard is we have a weak connection, and they're going to send someone out to look at it.

Went to the Academic Awards ceremony. I totally forgot that I was getting the TV Production award. Yay! Can't believe the valedictorian was Carissa Simone. I didn't see that one coming. I had to leave as soon as the ceremony was over to go do marquee. Even though Brian said he would take my shift he was sick. Some advance notice would have been nice :/ . Jerk face.

Marquee went swimmingly for the first time in a few weeks. Mrs Brooks got all the stuff to fix the pole and so I ripped off all the rotting line and balls of tape and fixed it. So it was easy to put the letters up since it actually worked this time. The only thing is I had to change 4 lines on each sign. So it took a while.

The downside was that it took so long that I missed the Narnia screening D=. I was going to the screening because Lou and crew are going to woodlands at 4, and have I to work at six. So I'm going to go tomorrow around noon tomorrow whether people come with or not. I was considering going at 3:15 which would be getting out right around 5:45, but I don't want it to run long and have to miss the ending... Whatever, depends on when I wake up.

Speaking of which, I forgot how nice it was to stay awake for ungodly hours of the night.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FeedlLL9WpU for Ammie

If you haven't seen it yet, you will soon.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/baghead/trailer/
Another interesting looking one...

Remember that LJ top commenters thing? I decided to try it again for old time's sake.
( RESULTS HERE )

The trailer I linked in my previous update is a film called Visioneers. I know very little about it except that it's about people exploding from stress. I think it looks pretty cool and unique, what little I've seen of it reminds me of a cross between Punch Drunk Love and Brazil.
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The Fall - All I can say is watch the trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thefall/ ...it looks mindblowingly beautiful, visually, and the plot reminds me somewhat of Baron Munchausen, to draw another Gilliam reference. Check the release dates, it's going on a limited release tour soon. I'll be catching it in Cambridge on the 30th, most likely.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Speaking of Terry Gilliam, here's his latest project, about some sort of magical theater troupe or something. It has Tom Waits playing The Devil. Heath Ledger was in it, and died before filming all of his parts. And so Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law have all stepped in to play his character, at various points in the film, due to his character being transformed by magic or something.
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Synecdoche, New York - My favorite screenwriter Charlie Kaufman wrote this, and it's also his directing debut. I read the leaked script, and it's unpleasant in a wonderful way. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a playwright who launches a retelling of every day New York life inside a warehouse. He recreates buildings inside the warehouse, hires actors to study real people and portray them. Things start getting really surreal when he gets an actor to play himself, the New York reproduction becomes life sized, and the laws of physics generally start breaking down. All for art.
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Where the Wild Things Are - I posted about this film before, and how it's been pushed ahead to October of 2009 and could potentially be mucked around with by the studio. There's a clip of an early test shooting, which I really love, and I hope the film stays the way Spike Jonze wants it. Here's a fan blog keeping track of various updates on the story.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Fight Club director David Fincher reunites with Brad Pitt to make a movie about a man who ages backwards. WTF I'll see it.
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Coraline - Neil Gaiman book, animated by Henry Selick, music by They Might Be Giants. Awesome? Yes. (Speaking of TMBG, there's also apparently some indie film called "Don't Let's Start" coming out. I know nothing about it.)
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Watchmen - Directed by the guy who did 300, which I don't care about particularly, but the source material is an effing amazing graphic novel which you should all read. As far as I know, they're staying pretty true to the plot and design and everything, so I feel pretty optimistic.
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Burn After Reading, Suburbicon, Hail Caesar, Gambit - The Coen brothers have four upcoming films listed on their IMDB page, one of which I believe is coming out this year. They're brilliant, so yay.
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Various blockbuster films:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - YESSSS PLEASE BE GOOD
Dark Knight - Batman Begins was slick but didn't kick my ass particularly. This looks better, so I'm excited.
WALL-E - Pixar can do no wrong.
Quantum of Solace - Bond fun.
The X Files: I Want to Believe - Oh hell yeahhhh


That's all I can think of right now. Any suggestions?

Commission: Kotemon Plush by =junoluver on deviantART

More pics available in the progress post too. :D

Eeeeee I hope you like how he turned out icebilby.

Hey guys check it out!

Monkey Mayhem!

Those are my designs on the shirts...they're still working on the site, I might ask her if she'd like someone to help out, but I don't want to offend her if she has someone who is working on it now. D: I'm not trying to sound egotistical, I just think the layout could be made more functional for visitors.

We plan on meeting again soon to set up 3 more characters for designs to be released in October.

Spent my day at work drawing.

I can't express how big a difference having a job you enjoy can make.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nfsb5HUFMQ0

I'm not sure if this will be better if you haven't seen the original video or not. Either way, enjoy.

Both tests today were fairly easy though I didn't remember much about the questions on economics, but I frankly don't care at all.

Anyway! I'm randomly excited about picnicking tomorrow. I'm hoping everyone will be online so we can make plans tonight without having to call. I figure we'll meet about 11:30 or so, since that'll give us more than enough time before the Statistics exam. I haven't decided whether I want to get us Pizza, KFC, or Taco Bell. But the good news is I have the whole morning to decide and subsequently get it.

Yay!

Why am I always so tired? ARRRGH

I was telling Kelly today that I think I sleep too much and that does it to me. I need to get up earlier, I mean I sleep in past six friggin' o'clock some mornings, and go to bed around nine.

THIS POST DOES HAVE A PURPOSE

IT IS TO TELL icebilby THAT THERE IS A PLUSHIE UPDATE

I was talking to Andy today and I sort of realized something. For my whole life I've lived next to CCC. Before we moved down the road I wasn't even a block away! And before I went there it was always this sort of huge idealistic edifice of HIGH SCHOOL that was far away and detached. Over the years I've watch it grow from a far. I used to ride my bike around the empty campus on Saturdays when I was bored. I was there before they got the new bleachers. I was there before the science building. I was there before the PAC. I remember I used to ride down the ramp that used to be where Mrs. Condon's office is. And I even remember the alumni reunions we went to every once in a blue moon. The one thing that hasn't changed: The speed bumps were still gigantic back in the day.

When I actually came to school as a student it was still big and full of possibility of friends and classes and clubs and all that. I went through a lot there. I gained things I never had in Middle School. I learned about Love, Hate, Freedom, Tyranny, Loyalty, and Life. Be it for the better or the worse, I am not anything like the freshman that came in.

Today was the last day of high school. As I was leaving today I stood on the green outside the senior building for five minutes straight. And as I looked around I realized that it all seemed so small now. Like when I go to my elementary school and see the tiny desks and tiny doors and tiny people. Now everything seems so far behind me. It made me want to weep to think that this would be like leaving Middle School all over again. That it would never be like it was ever again.

I left without really participating in the end-of-school revelry, but I really feel like there will be plenty of time for that at graduation. But the truth is that I will never see CCC in the same way, as a sort of second home for six hours a day.

Logically speaking there are going to be people I leave behind. But I hope there are some people who I never lose. But really, who can say. So though today feels like the end of my life, I really need to hold tight to the realization that this is the beginning.

How's that for a Dear God letter? I appear to be getting sentimental in my old age.

my god... I was working on my Final Project for Mr Konrad ALL. DAY.

I want to kill that man right now. Even with 6 or 7 hours of work I couldn't fulfill his ridiculous rubric. 10 pages for each section!?!? So I'm still going to get a horrible grade. But whatever. Fuck him.

And because of that I didn't get to study for one minute for AP Bio Test tomorrow. Hip hip hooray for failure! But I was probably going to fail anyway because a 60% is a perfect score and I'm horrible at Bio.

ASDFGHJKL RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR

Went to work for a long time then to the Elks banquet. I came out of that long thing with NO MONEY. Andy and Jen got the monies. Bah!

Though it feels rather disturbing because it's Christina Aguilera, I listened to this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNthqC2fsVw )and thought what a great message it gives.It really struck a chord.

While we're talking about songs that really strike a chord, this one almost made me cry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CywPhnDJdm4