It's April 30th, I look out the window, and I see... Snow?!?! C'mon!. It's supposed to be warm already. Why is it that Utah has to be so schizophrenic when it comes to weather? I needed to run 10 miles today, but it looks like I will have to wait till Monday. Why run at all you ask? Well, I kind of signed up to run a half marathon. I figured it would put me on my way to finishing a bucketlist item. But now, it snows. I hope it doesn't snow next week, that's the half marathon day.
I am done with school for now, and there is a void. I don't rightly know what to do with myself. I read a lot, and have watched a lot of Seinfeld. I wonder if this is what being unemployed is like somewhat. I am employed, but I don't feel like I'm doing anything if I am not pulling full a full course load with 2 jobs I guess. I cleaned the house though. Seems like I always do that when I have a life transition that involves downshifting. After my mission, I cleaned the heck out of my parents house for a while. If I had lived there more than a month, I may have even cleaned the attic and dusted all my legos... who knows? I have also watched some craptastic movies. Just for the record, GI JOE really sucks. It's like they found every class B actor that wasn't the awesome Bruce Campbell, and stuck them in there. REALLY.CRAPPY.ACTING. Plot, dialogue, everything was pretty bad. Ray Park was cool though, no speaking lines, as usual.
Stupid snow. I looked outside again and it snowed at least two inches. That means scraping off the ol' car. I think that I will move to Florida. Hurricanes are worse though. Maybe California? Nope, Earthquakes. Hmmm... Well. I'm open to suggestions. Let's here where I could find an ideal climate without some crazy natural disaster.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
My last 3 or so years in one place...
Want to see what I have been up to in school? Here's your chance to see all of the things that I have had my little fingers in since I declared Print Journalism as my major:
http://jasonsweat.weebly.com/
http://jasonsweat.weebly.com/
Monday, April 11, 2011
It needs to be said...
Here is a book I'm writing:
Lets just say that I love Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and even American Graffiti. That being said, my love of all things Lucas started to wane in 1999. This was the year that The Phantom Menace was released. Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for anything that has Liam Neeson in it. Throw in my boy Samuel L and now we're talking. Also, Darth Maul is undoubtedly the the quickest Sith ever and he is pretty darn cool. (I'm a big fan of Ray Park, and his work). All that aside, a little character named Jar Jar Binks was introduced. Nuff said about him. Other things that were hard to swallow were the ever more ridiculous "princess/queen hair doos" and Little Orphan Annie. I mean, come on, I can understand wanting to highlight the slip from innocent and good to dark and evil in Ana-kin Skywalker... But Annie?
Lets step back a bit. The original Star Wars are hands down the best movies ever. But most people don't know that the best two (IMHO) The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, were directed by Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand respectively. WHAT??? So it wasn't Lucas who directed the best Star Wars? Hmmm....
Indiana Jones? Directed by Steven Spielberg. And here we arrive at the grain of the matter. LUCAS, PLEASE STOP KILLING CLASSICS IN ORDER TO MAKE MORE MONEY! I can only imagine that is why you decided to do the prequel. I like a lot of things about the first three movies, but there are some parts that bring me to tears ... of sadness for how cheesy it is. For example, newly assembled Darth Vader falling to his knees and yelling,... you know what? I can't even write it. You all know what happened. And I trust you were as disgusted as I was. There is a long list of these things, but it pains me to recall them so you can just think of them yourselves.
Back to Indiana Jones: What. The. H@#$. I generally pretend that the latest Indiana Jones movie was never made. It's bad on so many levels. Spielberg, Lucas, let it go. I really frown on Shia LeBeouf making an appearance in any story dear to me (Like Transformers). There is a time when it's OK to revive a storyline long dead. Like TRON, nobody really cared about that, so it was all fine and dandy to drag it out of the dusty closet. But not Indy, and not Star Wars. I felt that the worst thing that was to done to Star Wars was the Clone Wars Animated Series, which I checked out from the Provo library and didn't even make it through the first disc. I'm not talking about the 2003 animated series, which was sweet, but the 2008 3D computer animated series, which sucked.
I could go on and on, but then you wouldn't buy my book, so I'm stopping here.
I can't help myself. Here is a few flash words of why I try to pretend there is no such thing as Indiana Jones 4:
Aliens
Vine Swinging
Communists?
Refrigerator/Nuke
Mariachi
Old People
Lets just say that I love Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and even American Graffiti. That being said, my love of all things Lucas started to wane in 1999. This was the year that The Phantom Menace was released. Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for anything that has Liam Neeson in it. Throw in my boy Samuel L and now we're talking. Also, Darth Maul is undoubtedly the the quickest Sith ever and he is pretty darn cool. (I'm a big fan of Ray Park, and his work). All that aside, a little character named Jar Jar Binks was introduced. Nuff said about him. Other things that were hard to swallow were the ever more ridiculous "princess/queen hair doos" and Little Orphan Annie. I mean, come on, I can understand wanting to highlight the slip from innocent and good to dark and evil in Ana-kin Skywalker... But Annie?
Lets step back a bit. The original Star Wars are hands down the best movies ever. But most people don't know that the best two (IMHO) The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, were directed by Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand respectively. WHAT??? So it wasn't Lucas who directed the best Star Wars? Hmmm....
Indiana Jones? Directed by Steven Spielberg. And here we arrive at the grain of the matter. LUCAS, PLEASE STOP KILLING CLASSICS IN ORDER TO MAKE MORE MONEY! I can only imagine that is why you decided to do the prequel. I like a lot of things about the first three movies, but there are some parts that bring me to tears ... of sadness for how cheesy it is. For example, newly assembled Darth Vader falling to his knees and yelling,... you know what? I can't even write it. You all know what happened. And I trust you were as disgusted as I was. There is a long list of these things, but it pains me to recall them so you can just think of them yourselves.
Back to Indiana Jones: What. The. H@#$. I generally pretend that the latest Indiana Jones movie was never made. It's bad on so many levels. Spielberg, Lucas, let it go. I really frown on Shia LeBeouf making an appearance in any story dear to me (Like Transformers). There is a time when it's OK to revive a storyline long dead. Like TRON, nobody really cared about that, so it was all fine and dandy to drag it out of the dusty closet. But not Indy, and not Star Wars. I felt that the worst thing that was to done to Star Wars was the Clone Wars Animated Series, which I checked out from the Provo library and didn't even make it through the first disc. I'm not talking about the 2003 animated series, which was sweet, but the 2008 3D computer animated series, which sucked.
I could go on and on, but then you wouldn't buy my book, so I'm stopping here.
I can't help myself. Here is a few flash words of why I try to pretend there is no such thing as Indiana Jones 4:
Aliens
Vine Swinging
Communists?
Refrigerator/Nuke
Mariachi
Old People
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Cha Ching$$$
Last Friday, my antics and extravagant Saya Costume finally paid off. Malu and I won the "Most Creative Display" at a BYU internship contest and I am glad to say that it's a cash prize. That means that we are slightly less impoverished than before. Big news, I know. On a side note, the film contest for Global Citizens for study abroad (which I was way more involved in that I had originally anticipated, went well. Here are most of the videos, there are two that I can't find:
Mariah Proctor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbTJFeP-ERI
Jared Holloway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9R53qMyS8o
K Bryce Larson (second place)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCHe-0SNCS4
Justin Mendoza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4VRW_Avuo
Natalie Raines (Third place winner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DF0q4Lyn64
Joe Robins (First place)
http://www.youtube.com/asianjoe
Todd Robins
http://www.youtube.com/zhoujunzhe
Lani Harris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gQXEdZ_bPE
My favorite was Asian Joe's, that is to say, Joe Robins. Well, it was fun while it lasted.
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