Movie Scores

Ready your eyes and minds for a rant of epic proportions.

Errbody knows my favorite composer of ALL TIME is Alexandre Desplat. He made the soundtrack to The Golden Compass, Cheri, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (one of my most favorite movies of all time), Julie & Julia, Fantasic Mr. Fox and most recently The Twilight Saga: New Moon. His music is very light and magical. He uses a lot of string and wind instruments and uses them in a way that is both heartbreaking and uplifting in one note. I was kind of upset that he wasn't doing the original score to Eclipse until I found out he was doing the score for, wait for it waaait for iiittt.... HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS PART ONE!!! I almost peed my pants when I found out, srsly. PRETTY SWEET.

I'm listening to The Last Airbender soundtrack right now and it's hard to concentrate on what I'm trying to write. Lets talk about James Newton Howard, who composed the score for the movie. He did The Dark Knight, King Kong and the Village among others. His music is very... heavy. He uses a lot of trumpets and drums so his music sounds very epic. People have been saying that the movie seems too dark and judging by this score, the scenes from the movie I've watched in trailers and how Aang is either fighting or crying, I'm gonna go ahead and say it's gonna be pretty dark. I REALLY hope some humor was incorporated to the story. There is a trailer where Sokka is cheering but it's like half a second long so who knows.

I'm LOVING the Airbender soundtrack so far. It feels like I'm in the middle of an epic elemental battle FOR MY LIFE. It's like Zuko could jump in through the window right now and punch my face and steal Nimbus and for no reason eat some chips and then jump out the window and CUE TRUMPETS. I do feel like I'm cheating though, buying the soundtrack cuz I know what's gonna be in the movie now but I don't curr. TWO MORE WEEKS!! OMG I wonder is that song from the teaser trailer is in the soundtrack cuz I freakin love that song. Guess I'll fiiind out. Is it sad I'm more excited for this movie than Eclipse? ... nah. :)

Vince and I have been watching Avatar: The Last Airbender on DVD cuz we bought all three seasons. And for those of you not in the know, Avatar as in The Last Airbender was the original Avatar until James Cameron's Avatar came out, so from now on until further notice when I talk about Avatar I mean The Last Airbender. KAY? So anyways... we've been watching Avatar. Just finished the first season yesterday and Vince started the second season last night cuz I've already seen the entire second season on TV. But OH MAN. When we reach the third season... THATS where the crazy action epicness lies. I cant wait to see how the show ends!! Do Aang and Kittara get married?? Does Sokka finally become a true warrior? Will Zuko find his path to light... or darkness? WILL AZULA FINALLY BE KILLED?? SO MANY QUESTIONS! And does Firelord Ozai get defeated on the day of Black Sun? Does the Avatar cycle get broken? DO WE EVER FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO ZUKOS MOM OH MAN.

The countdown begins. 9 more days!

Summer Hawties

SO, I was walkin' around work, pretending to count things, pretending to do inventory when I started thinking about last year. I thought about the summer time actually, and what events marked the beginning of the most HORRIBLE season known to man (I hate summer time). I think last year it was the softball/bonfire (that WAS last year, right?) that kicked off the summer season for me. I wonder what event will mark the beginning this year? Hmm... maybe it will be my AWESOME PARTYYY!!! If you're reading this then you're invited!! Oh wait except for you. You're NOT invited. Get outta my blog you creeper!!!

Any-who, uhh so yeah. I guess, according to e-mails and stuff, I'm full time now? So that kinda sucks but it's cool at the same time. I mean, I like getting the perks like ALL THOSE SICK days and benefits but I was always afraid of it cuz I hate being obligated to do anything, ever. And now I GOTTA work a certain amount of hrs for an entire year before I can pretend to be sick and use sick days for FUN days :\ I guess a year can go by pretty quickly... this time next year I'll be rollin' in the sick days. DAS FO SHO. Oh yeah and maybe, for the first time in 8 years I'll be able to go on a vacation! I mean, PAID VACATION!

SO back to my awesome party. It's gonna be pretty epic. Cuz the last party I threw, my birthday after party where the party DIDN'T die, was super sweet amirite? Im planning on making a few delicious treats and there will be plenty of DRANK if you catch my drift. SO see you there? :D

Alice visited me and Vince on Sunday night through Tuesday night. It was fun. We had an interesting night that ended with me on a floor and Alice on World of Warcraft and it just felt like my b-day party all over again except a certain someone was missing. Not enough gropeage if you ask me. Of course, I would never do the grouping unless a certain cutie was in the room. We all know who that is! Or... maybe not. Good times and plenty of cream filled Popsicles. I'd show pics but Im too lazy -__________-

I havent been sleeping well since Alice came over. Not cuz she was here... well maybe cuz she was, but freakin' construction workers are taking out all the concrete around the pool and I guess adding something pretty freakin amazing cuz they show up at the butt crack of dawn (9am) every day with their sledge hammer action and they wake me up!! Also Nimbus is a freak who likes to run on my face when Im trying to sleep. I bring this up because it looks like that I'm gonna be sleepin' solo tonight, no cat, no distractions, at least for the few hours before the construction guys come around. And to add insult to injury, none of them are cute OR shirtless. WTFcakes.

KARATE KID

Doodes. Tuesday was so much fun! I woke up and Vince was all like, "You wanna go with me?" and I was like "Bwwahuuh?" Cuz I had just woken up you see. I went potty and when I got out he's all like, "Meet me at the theater at 11:30. You're going" and I was like, "Bwaahuuhokay"

Vince got invited to go to a screening of the Karate Kid and the Lopez Tonight show through this dude who owns a karate studio. It was pretty neaaat. We were VIP, so that meant getting to go in front of a bunch of people in line and stuff. We went to Burbank and got to watch the movie which I enjoyed a lot. Then we went over to the Lopez Tonight show and the guests were Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith and Taraji P Henson. I think Jaden Smith is the cutest kid ever. And I thought this even BEFORE he said his favorite game was World of Warcraft and he likes the Twilight movies and is on Breaking Dawn. Best kid ever?? Hellz yeah! If only he was 13 years older :(

The taping of the show was tiring cuz we had to clap ALL the time, and stand up and sit down. But it was lots and LOTS of fun. After the show we headed home. But before that we had TACOS. And after that Vince and I went to watch Get him to the Greek at the IRVINE SPECTRUM which I didn't really enjoy much... and neither did he. I mean, it had funny parts but it felt like it dragged in some parts and other parts were totally unnecessary. I liked Karate Kid better. Highlight of the night? Need I say it? YES. We saw CASEY DIXON!!

Any who... I am currently talking to Alice on Skype lol and it's really funny right now. Oh yeah she's coming to visit on Sunday and staying til Tuesday. HOW EXCITING. It's a shame we can't have our third Musketeer with us :( Im still angry at the world.

And finally... Travis Mccoy!!

Hobo Elite

OK. So It's been a while since I posted anything cuz I've been too busy thinking about doing it and I never got around to actually doing it. Uhh

So as most everyone knows, Vince and I got a cat! His name is Nimbus. Vince thought of Harry Potter and I thought of Nimbus Land from Mario RPG so we agreed on the name for different reasons but the important part was that we agreed on something. HE'S SO CUTE! Here are more pics!

I also got a car last week. It's probably the most ghetto car in the history of Orange County but I honestly don't care! I call it Mexican chic (Danny called it Hobo Elite). I was kind of scared to drive it at first cuz it felt like it was going to break apart. The first place I drove it to was Irvine and I had to take the freeway. Yeaah I was freaking out. But it runs well enough and it looks ok... on the outside. Im afraid that Im going to get pulled over for being a Mexican driving a very Mexican looking car. I see at least one person get pulled over every day. Today I saw two people getting pulled over! One on the way to work and one on my way home.

It's crazy. I haven't had a car of my own for about a year. I no longer have to rely on other people to take me places. I now have the freedom to go wherever I want, whenever I want. I don't have to bum rides off people who happen to be going where Im going. It's such a strange feeling! The other day I was like, "OH MAN IM HUNGRY WHAT DO I DOOOO" and then I thought, Oh yeah I have a car, I can GO get food! I didn't go get food, I waited for Vince and then he drove me to the store BUT STILL. It's nice to know that I have the option to go out now.

Im super grateful for everyone who gave me rides over the course of a year and some change. Thanks to all my new work buddies, who I've only known for two months, but constantly worried about how I was getting home and offered to take me even though it was a million miles away from their house. You guys rock my socks off. Im especially thankful that Vince let me borrow his car for as long as he did. I miss that car. Especially it's air conditioning. And the radio. And the leather seats. And the power windows. And the cup holder. But I don't miss that wiggly visor.

So yeah, It's been an exciting week I suppose. Im kind of sad I was too poor to afford tickets to Blizzcon this year. There's always next year I suppose... I hope I can afford to go to the Final Fantasy concert cuz OH MAN if I don't go Im gonna be emo for the rest of the year, no matter how many kitties sleep on my face. I can't miss the chance to meet or at least SEE Nobuo Uematsu!! To be able to listen to his music played by a full orchestra? The thought of it makes me all teary eyed. And the Black Mages might be there!! I can't miss that opportunity. Meep.

I'm well on my way to becoming a functioning member of society, got the fancy iPhone, got wheels, got a pet. All I need now is a bed and I will be like a normal person! How exciting. Gonna go take a cat nap with Nimbus now!