Lazyness

I should try writing in this thing more often.

Summer is Coming

I can't believe I haven't written in this thing for a little over a month. This semester has gone by faster than I thought. I am glad that it is almost over pretty much all of my classes have been boring this semester. I am really looking forward to summer. Unfortunately my family isn't going on vacation anywhere but I am really looking forward to the concerts I am going to which are:

Animal Collective in Austin on June 5th
David Byrne in Dallas on June 14th

I might also get to see Bob Dylan on August 4th at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock.

Other than that I don't really I don't really have much planned other than watching movies, reading books, swimming in my pool at home and going up to Denton a few times to visit friends and look for places to live next school year. I also look forward to having more time to write in this thing.

Your Life As A TV Show

Something I was thinking about today. Imagine this your life is a TV Show. What type of show would you be and what would your theme song be?

I think my life would be a sitcom and the theme song would be the guitar part to The Smiths song How Soon Is Now? Now I know that might be a strange way to open a sitcom but still I think it would be a pretty cool opening.

What It Is I Know

Today in my Philosophy class we were talking about Knowledge and how someone can truly know something. My professor had us take out a piece of paper and write What It Is I Know on the top and then told us to write whether we felt we were an Empiricist or Rationalist. Now from my knowledge of both terms I think I am a bit of both. She then told us to write what we know for sure. I think this is a fascinating question to ask people because it can provoke all sorts of responses. I wrote that the one thing I know for sure is change is the only thing constant in life as cliche as that may sound.

So I am curious all 4 of you people who read this and any others who wish to reply what do you know for sure?

Spring Break

I am happy that spring break is starting in the next week. This semester just hasn't been that good for me. I don't really like many of my classes this semester because all of them are core classes. My Philosophy class is pretty interesting but that's about it. I am looking forward to nine days of being at home doing stuff I enjoy doing without having to worry about getting schoolwork done. I am hoping I can find stuff to do in downtown Austin over the break. I didn't end up getting to do anything there over Winter Break because my brother and sister were in school 2 out of the 5 weeks I was home and my mom and dad were pretty busy trying to get stuff done around the house. I am also hoping to find the time to write more stuff in here.

15 Albums that Changed My Life

I stole this from Antonio. These are basically my favorite albums and a few of them have changed the way I think about music.

1. Abbey Road - The Beatles
2. Purple Rain - Prince
3. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
4. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
5. Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads
6. Ten - Pearl Jam
7. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
8. Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
9. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
10. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
11. Is This It? - The Strokes
12. Aquemini - Outkast
13. OK Computer - Radiohead
14. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
15. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Academy Awards Recap

Considering all of the hype surrounding the Academy Awards with the new format and all I gotta say they were just okay. Hugh Jackman wasn't that good of a host I think it would have probably been better if they would have gotten a comedian to be the host like they always do. I liked the stage and how it was much closer to the audience as opposed to year's past. A few highlights of the Oscars for me were Ben Stiller making fun of Joaquin Phoenix, Jack Black's comment on how he does voice work for Dreamworks and then uses the money to bet on Pixar at the Oscars, and Judd Apatow's short film with Seth Rogen and James Franco.

As for the presentations of the awards I really don't like the new format for presenting the acting Oscars by having a past winner talk about a current nominee. If the producers wanted to bring down the length of the telecast they should have just done the clips like they always do. I also found it odd that they had Reese Witherspoon presenting the award for Best Director couldn't they have just gotten someone who had won the award before instead of an actress? I did like the way they went through some of the technical Oscars pretty quickly though.

As for the winners themselves I got 19/24 right which is better than I did last year. I think I only got 15 or 16 right last year. I was a bit disappointed Mickey Rourke and Waltz With Bashir didn't win but that's about it. Anyways thats pretty much all I really have to say about the Oscars.

Coming soon an entry about something completely different.

81st Academy Awards Predictions

Here are my predictions for tomorrow night's Academy Awards.

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Best Actress: Kate Winslet – The Reader
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Director: Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black – Milk
Best Original Score: A.R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Song: Jai-Ho – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Best Foreign Film: Waltz With Bashir
Best Documentary Film: Man On Wire

I am not even going to bother with the categories for the Tech Awards and Short Films. They are the most wide open and the awards that most people who watch the Oscars care about the least.

My First Post

Hello everyone,
I have decided to start a blog. I dunno if I will end up using this a whole lot I just want to give it a try. I am thinking about making this be a place to post random thoughts about things and maybe even some movie and music reviews.