Thursday, November 25, 2010

Harry Potter, Harry Potter, OH EM GEEZ, it's Harry freakin' Potter

I recently discovered how to check stats on my blog. I can see how many people have viewed my blogs, which posts have been the most popular, and what item they were using to check my blog. Out of the many page views I have gotten, 1 single view came from an Ipad. To that person who viewed me via ipad, wtf? why would you buy an ipad? I have a better idea, mail me the 400 bucks it cost to buy that thing, or you could just mail me the ipad. My golf swings have been slicing a bit lately. I could use some practice. (Tosh.0 fans will get that one)

So, this past weekend, I went to the premiere of Harry Potter. It was quite the experience. So that's what I'll be talking about in this weeks

SPOILER ALERT.

Anyways, you've been warned. So don't complain about me ruining this movie. The books should of pretty much done that. 

So first off, I attended this movie at carmike cinemas in Pocatello. We were in theatre 7 (cause someone just has to be in an odd numbered theatre). We got there about two hours before midnight. Ended up playing Solitare on our ipods for a while before my sister showed up with her friend artie (or R.D.? I don't really know...). They show up, and midnight rolls around and they show some previews for some movies. Which is unfortunate cause I believe a midnight premiere... should have a movie start at midnight. Am I crazy for thinking that? God I hope not. So that was boring until the preview for Cowboys and Aliens showed up. That preview was a joke... right? 

Anyways, at 12:25 the movie finally starts. They start off with the scene where Harry says goodbye to the Dursleys. Which was a very good scene in the book cause Harry and Dudley sort of make up which I thought was rather nice. However, they completely cut that scene out of the movie. The Dursleys are just like "see ya later harry. Good luck saving the world." Freakin Dursleys.

Anyways, right after this, the Order comes to move Harry and he releases Hedwig into the night. Which I was soooo ready to call Bull**** on. Fortunately, they brought Hedwig back to take a hit for Harry. Which I thought was a rather nice way to die. Rather than just Hedwig flopping around in his cage and some death eater's wand just happens to drift lazily to the left to hit his cage. 

Next scene, everyone is at the burrow. Lupin comes up to ask Harry Potter a question on Harry Potter trivia. He gets it right, which impressed me. Cause if my 8th grade teacher asked me what pet he had in his class the first time I went there, no way in hell I'd remember. I'm proud of HP for keeping up on his HP trivia knowledge. Next everyone returns to the burrow. George has his ear blown off. Makes his 'hole-y" joke. Haha. Big laugh. Then *bam* (insert Tim slamming his hands against a hard surface) Bill just comes up and drops the bombshell."Mad-eye is dead." Followed by such a long pause.  I'm sure everyone in that room with Bill is thinking 'hey, we were enjoying that joke. Thanks for ruining the moment. ***hole."

Next, the big cock-block scene. By the way, for those of you at home keeping track, we are only like fifteen minutes into the movie. So Harry is all pimped out the day of the wedding. Then, Ginny comes up with her back exposed (s-c-a-n-d to the a to the l-o-u-s). She asks Harry to zip her up. He does, and then they start makking (which means kissing for those of you who haven't learned tim-speak yet). Then George does some pro-sneaking around and winds up near them. Harry and Ginny, so lost in the moment, don't notice him for a little while till they look over and see him enjoying the sight. At which point, I got mad at George. Harry is about to go off and save the world. All he wants is a little action from his girl and George has to go ruin that. Bad george. That is not cool.

Oh boy, I almost forgot about this scene (by the way, I'm writing this in parts over the last week). So Ron leaves. Shocker. I know. Hermione is really sad. What does Harry do now? Dances with her. Everyone in the theatre is confused. "I don't remember this part in the book." No one actually says that. We're all thinking it. Then the song ends. Harry and Hermione share an awkward look. Then she walks away. I thought she was gonna go in for the kiss. Nah. She just goes away. Not like he's gonna save the world or anything. You couldn't give him a little peck on the cheek? Real nice. Of course that would of proven Ronnie's suspicions that they were close, but I don't care about that. I'm team Harry f***ing Potter.

So then some fighting and explosions happen. I don't really want to talk about those moments. I just want to get the moments that I find either humorous or freaky. The next scene I really care about is the horcrux scene. So Ronnie the bear returns saves Harry Potter from drowning. Thanks for that. Then Ron tries to destroy the horcrux and it explodes into this freaky smoke thing. Then a ghost Harry and a ghost Hermione emerge from the smoke trying to convince Ron that he'll fail. These ghosts are fully clothed while they are doing this. Then it cuts to a shot of Ron. Then it cuts back to the ghosts and they are naked and making out. It's tasteful naked. You can't see anything bad. The fog covers it up. Then Ron slices through it and that's it for naked ghost Harry and naked ghost Hermione. Needless to say, that scene freaked me out.

Finally, Dobby's death scene. Yes. It was sad. Portrayed really well. Almost as sad as Toy Story 3 was for me. Not quite crying but watered up the eyes. I can't believe I'm saying this but it was way sadder than the Dumbledore death was in the movie. Not in the book though. Dumbledore's death in the book was the only time I've ever cried reading a book. Sad stuff.

So yeah, that's Harry Potter 7 for you. Thank you for not sending hate mail about this. I know I probably have a terrible opinion. On I final note, I wish some of my best friends, Sean, Rob, Matt, and Mr. Kennedy the best wishes. Suffered a recent crash that sounded pretty terrifying but they're fine now. Anyways, keep it real. Thanks for reading. I'll see you when I see you.

From home sweet home,
Timmy D.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Cyanide, Happiness, and Harry Potter

Boy, Philly is just destroying Washington. I only bring this up cause that's what I'm watching right now. It is rather funny. Michael Vick must have become a lot better in prison. I also wonder if going to rehab gave Eminem super powers. Why might I ask this? Look at the videos for Love the Way You Lie and Not Afraid. In Not Afraid, He freakin flies. In Love the Way You Lie, he lights on fire. He's got super powers people. And I'm Not Afraid of him. (Don't you Love the Way I Lie?) Anyways, lets take a look at recent things that have happened to me.

First off, Harry Potter. As most of you know, Harry Potter 7.1 comes out in just a few days. I, of course, am going to the midnight premiere. I mean, it's exciting. I've watched the first 4 harry potters over the last 5 days. We took a day off to watch The Other Guys. Which was a hilarious movie. Tonight, once Alecia gets back from her band banquet, we'll watch the 5th one. Tomorrow, the 6th one. Then on Wednesday, we're going to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Which I've already seen once, but I'm told it's even better the second time. Then on Thursday we'll head down to Carmike Cinemas to see HP 7-1. You excited for me? Cause I'm excited for me.

Next, classes. Classes aren't exactly too challenging this semester. But there are some entertaining parts of classes. For example, the other day in English, We had an argument about whether or not Marijuana should be legalized and this one girl, I think her name was Abbi or Addi. Can't remember for sure. Anyways, she tried to justify her argument by saying it was organic. Which got me to laugh for a good 90 seconds.

Our football team is continuing it's downward spiral to terrible-ness. We lost 45-17 against Sacremento State. 1-9 now. Our last game is at Eastern Washington. So we're basically screwed. However, our head coach got fired. Maybe we'll get lucky in our last game Like the cowboys did and win a game after firing their head coach.

Anyways, I think that's all there is to talk about right now. I'm coming home on Friday. Looking forward to seeing my old friends again. And maybe you guys will get a chance to meet some of my new friends.

From a labtop that isn't mine,
Tim Davis

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

With apologies to loyal ones, week 11 is here

Wow. It's been way to long since my last post. I apologize to my many many followers. I have had a no free time these past few weeks. Why? Because my friend, Alecia Lee Stauffer has been taking up all my free time to hang out, do math, and watch movies. So who has suffered from this? You, my loyal followers... and my grades somewhat. We don't go to bed early. Anyways, now to talk about life.
First, I got to go home a couple of weekends ago. First time I've been there in about 2 months. Lets sum it up like this. I got home around 5 30 on Friday. Ate dinner with the family, showed my parents an episode of the Simpson's that featured flight of the Concords, went to Linder Farms with Jacquie, went to Sean's house and watched The Office for a long time. Then we hung out in front of Sean's house talking for about an hour and a half, then Marcus drove me home and we talked for another 90 minutes. Ending my Friday. (quite the run-on sentence).

Saturday, I woke up, ate breakfast, went to the mall with Addy so she could get a hair cut. Then I played frisbee with some of the old team. Followed by a trip to Wendy's. Then back to Sean's house for Modern Warfare 2 and Great Dalmuti. Great night. Then Addy and I returned to the house and watched The Incredibles. Then we went to bed and when we woke up on Sunday, we spent most of the day watching tv. Fun stuff. And now I'm back at ISU. Quite the weekend. For anyone at ISU, did you know you take exit 69 to get here? I saw that on the trip back. I got a dirty mind.

In other news, ISU's all star football team managed to lose another close one. This one was actually close. 13-16 against Weber State. Then last weekend, we actually managed to get to overtime against Montana State. However, Montana State would win it on their first play on offense. It was... pathetic... to say the least. Now we're 1-7 and just... just terrible.
In my classes, (at least the ones I manage to pull myself out of bed for) I am growing more and more bored. I can barely focus in Bio most days. However, two of my classes ended (college learning strategies & frisbee). So I have a lot more time to nap. This is fortunate, especially since I'm pretty sure my college learning strats teacher hates me. And all because on an assignment about time, I put "this class" as a time waster.
I suppose the only class where I'm really entertained is English. Most recently, because of this discussion we had the other day. We were talking about the sizes of cities near pocatello. Someone said that Pocatello had about 50,000 people, and then the teacher asked, "Is that including Chubbick?" The girl who sits next to me (no idea what her name is) immediately says, "No! We are our town." And it surprised me how much pride she has in her town. Coming from a girl who has not said more than 3 sentences in the first 8 weeks.

This last week has been rather exciting. First, I pulled an all nighter with Alecia. I still don't know why. We were having one of those really great conversations (the ones that you don't want to end). Next thing you know, it's 3:30 and she says "We're past the point of no return. No point in going to bed now." I could still easily get 5 hours of sleep and make it to my first class, but she insists we do the all the nighter. So we went to Winco to get muffins and Amps (The breakfast of champions) Then we listened to some Dan tosh until we were about ready to fall asleep. Then we went to our respective floors, took showers and got ready, and went to our first class... which was the only class I went to that day. I took a long nap afterwards and did not return to any other class.

So that was an adventure. Then this last weekend was Halloween. So on Saturday, we watched some scary movies. Such as Dead Silence and Paranormal Activity. And of course I still have scars from it. how does a scary movie give you scars? Well certain people get so terrified by these movies that they drive their nails into the nice guy sitting next to them. (you know who you are... and so does probably everyone else). Then on Sunday, we shot a short film for James' youtube page. here's the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1msm8Z1Qxs
Feel free to check it out. I make a short cameo in it. Then after that, while still in make-up, me and Alecia took Felicia trick or treating. It was her first time trick or treating... ever. What kind of (almost) 19 year old hasn't been trick or treating? So that was fun. In retrospect, we should of stopped by my sister's house. Apparently no one came to her house the whole night. So we could of gotten tons of candy. But that was fun. Then we watched silence of the lambs until we went to bed.

So this is all of the most exciting stuff that has happened in the last few weeks. Again, sorry for taking so long to post this stuff for you, my o' so loyal followers. I hope it won't take this long ever again... but it probably will.

With hot cheese burns on his arm and neck,
Tim Davis