So, assessing my life today as I bummed around the house, did school work and generally nothing else except age, I found this little quiz. I guess it's good.

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	6.6
Mind:	6.2
Body:	5.5
Spirit:	7
Friends/Family:	7.1
Love:	9.1
Finance:	6.3
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

P Is For Prince (And What I Just Did In My Pants)

Bless Jeff ,my best TokenManSexToyGuyMacPimp, for his e-mail with this Prince article. You absolutely made my day. Sexolocation. Oh my lawd I'm going to pee.

Prince: I do not have the keyboard functionality to make your symbol.

Yeah..So...Monster. Okay.

Well, we went opening day, but this is the first chance I've had to sit down and blog about it.

I anticipated and awaited eagerly the possibility of a good, fulfilling, monster catastrophe film. I've said it before ("Unearthed" entry...yech) I love monster movies. Cloverfield had the potential of sating that little area of my soul that needs monster goodness. However, it merely teased it.

The combination "Blair Witch Project"/"Godzilla" allusion is an easy one that's floating around everywhere. I, however, think it falls short in its description. In all honesty, to draw a comparison I'd have to go with: "Final Blair Godzilla Project X: Always Remember to Never Forget."

It really seemd to me like Blair Witch meets Godzilla and they sit down to play Final Fantasy X on 9/11. You, of course have your obvious BWP and Godzilla similarities in camera use and giant monster from the ocean, but it goes further than that. The feeling easily conjures images and emotions from September 11th, but really, is that intentional? Lots of critics scream it is and that riding on the emotional impact of such a situation is tacky. I don't really think it's all that intentional. And really, there are more than a handful of people I'd love to see get gobbled up by a monster in New York, but can we please destroy some other damn city? Hollywood is far too New York-centric.

Now the monster. Yeah. Anyone who's played the first bit of Final Fantasy X knows that, more than likely, so did someone that worked on this movie. It's pretty sad how very similar the two are with its litte cast-off creatures and look. I really wanted something fresh. What I got was something I'd already played through in a video game a few years back.

The speical effects seemed well done. Really well done. However, I can't be a very accurate critic of them since I never got a very good look at anything. This is where the home video camera thing enhanced the special effects by not letting us see them for too long, but detracted from it for me because I wanted to see them clearly.

And let me tell you this. If they ever anounce the brand name of the camera used in the movie I'm buying one because that is one nasty-ass sturdy camera. I'll never have to buy one again since it's apparently capable of enduring nuclear onslaught.

All this being said, it isn't a bad movie. It was decent monster fluff that was exciting for an hour or so. Overall I felt like I watched a well-done action segment from a larger movie, but haven't seen the rest of it yet. Hence the reason none of us will be at all shocked when a sequel or prequel comes out telling about how the creature originated.

Phred Phun Phactor: 5 out of 10

In my opinion, for a far more satisfying, though smaller scale movie of similar story, watch:

The Host

Even Klingons Cry Over This

So much for a game we'd been waiting for for so long.

Star Trek Online

Absolutely disgusted.

2008

Yappy Hoo Near.

2007, bleh.
2008? Who knows.

Head hurts. Too many mojitos.

You don't need acid if you play Warioware: Smooth Moves. It's like herowiine and marwiijuana all rolled into one big wiimote-shaped joint.

One Standing On My Last Nerve

So...

I could not be more disappointed in the end of Last One Standing.

No, no, that isn't true. Brad could have won. Then I'd be more disappointed.

Honestly, I was very sad that my man Richard didn't win, but I would have been perfectly content at Rajko taking the whole shebang. But Jason? The last thing that cocky, arrogant, narrow-minded, typical-poor-American-stereotype needed was to win. They say it was because he grew. Yeah. Maybe into a bigger, more annoying standard-issue Floridian thug. Frankly, even though I liked Corey, I would have simply preferred that no American won. How very, very disappointing. I still love you Mark, Richard, and Rajko. You'll always be my main athletes.

Mark, Richard, Brad, Rajko, Corey, and Jason

8 Films To Yawn For

"the content of these films are considered too graphic, too disturbing, and too shocking for general audiences."

Yeah. So.

Having missed the first horrorfest when it came through last year, I was pondering the thought of going to this one.

Last years batch of movies weren't innovative or especially, well, anything. Some were good, some were terrible and none of them were "too graphic, too disturbing, and too shocking for general audiences." The realization there was that the whole thing was complete gimmick formulated by Lion's Gate to show straight to DVD movies for blockbuster prices.

Since the access passess were 75 dollars a pop (yeah, thanks, but no thanks) I decided to take in one or two of the films. I love monster movies. Give me a good monster flick and I'm happy. So, tonight we were lucky to see that one of the 8 Films playing was just that! We took in "Unearthed" at 4:05. In short, it should have stayed buried.

The story was eh. They focused too much on trying to give these boring characters some sort of depth with more subplots that took up time better used to flesh out the real story. The acting was there. Then there's the monster. Okay...I'm a huge Giger fan. I have been since the 70's when I shouldn't have liked such graphic artsy fartsy stuff. I was spoiled, as was the audience world, when Alien came out and the most chilling, most creative creature to date hit the screen. Giger set the movie monster bar way the hell up there. I think maybe too far. Now every single creature in nearly every single movie looks like the bastard child of the xenomorph. This movie is no exception. Can NO ONE make something different? I mean christ, no one??? I love you H.R., but I think you ruined the next few decades of monster.

All-in-all, Unearthed was feh. I could have spent that 6 bucks on Wii points.

Phred Phun Phactor: 2 out of 10

Trinity of Terror

Music at the Moment: Britney Spears - "Break The Ice"

So...

I actually purchased a Britney Spears CD today.

*cue the shrill organ music*

The CD is really dancey and good hip-shaking music. Almost every song on it has me singing another song that I know so it's all pretty derivative, but still decent ("Heaven on Earth" is a total Goldfrapp rip-off, but fun for that very fact.)

What's more is I bought a Justin Timberlake CD earlier this year. Now if I just buy a Diddy, Daughtry, or Wicked CD before 2008, the circle of evil should be complete.

I Feel Dirty.

Music at the Moment: Britney Spears - "Hot As Ice"

Is it wrong that I love this new CD? Should I go into voluntary exile?