Yesterday we stopped and looked at a 1965 Mustang. I wants it! It's got the original engine with 50,000 miles on it. The car does have some rust, but it's not noticable (on the frame mostly) and it's certainly not rusted out. It would need a new paint job and the body parts need tweaking to get them to fit right (doors, trunk... etc). The best part? IT'S ONLY 37 HUNDRED DOLLARS!!! Sweet huh? To bad I hate debt too much to buy it :-).

On a lighter note, I saw a neat bumper sticker today. It read:

"Meddle Not In The Affairs of Dragons...

For You Are Crunchy & Good With Ketchup."

Hey everyone, I watched Star Wars III last night! Awesome. Totally :-). I'm not sure if movie theaters are appropriate even if the movie is appropriate (something I'm going to investigate), but the experience is definately better with Dolby Sgitial Surround SOund and a screen as big as my house as opposed to my 20 inch monitor at home (plus, I would have had to wait...)

Definately well done movie. They depicted Anakin's move to the "Dark Side" perfectly. It really showed the all the little subtleties that evil uses to attract a person. There was no swearing, no skin scenes, and no excessive gore.

I was thinking at the end of the movie how much it reminded me of the Macbeth movie I was watching for school - the whole rise and fall of a great man thing. Star Wars III was definately more entertaining :-), but Macbeth would have been awesome to if the same technology was applied to it's making (the movie was done as a play, set against a black background). This got me to thinking, if script wrighters would only take the classics and update them to Modern English, with our actors and our technology, they would be incredible! Why bother with new ideas for movies when we already have centuries of classics written out, ready to be put to the screen?

It is some consolance that movie makers are beginning to follow this trend. Take for example Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (Walt Disney is supposed to be coming out with an amazing production of it this Chirstmas). However, these are all modern day classics. How about classics from Shakespeare's time or even from the Greeks? Amazing literature back then. I doubt that grade schoolers would curse Shakespeare's name and doubt his genius if such works would be put in a production the caliber of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. What do you think..... even more importantly, do you think? :-P

Okay, so here goes. I woke up at 8:00 AM, clocked into work at 9:00 and got off at 2:00. Took a nap. Went to the gym. Got home, showered and got ready to go to the Friday night youth meeting. Got all spiffed up and then told the girls (who were watching a movie) that they'd better get ready for the meeting, we leave in 10 minutes.

It was at this time they chose to release their knowledge that THE YOUTH MEETING WAS CANCELLED!!! It turns out that they KNEW THIS SINCE 11:00 AM!!!

There you have it. I'm the last to know everything.

Ummm.... yeah... oookay...

Uh, yeah. So I'm not the best grammarian. A few mistakes from my last post:

"polite terms, I don't him..."

"it looked like see just took a ready made..."

"want to use, right? right.)."

Yeah, and I'm the editor of Youth Quake News. Now that's a laugh! Anyone wanna take my place? It's up for auction. Just post your bid as a comment and we'll call you...

Okay doke, I'm off to go edit my post.

Living on a line...

OK. So here's the deal. I decided that it would be a cool idea to have a website contest for Youth Quake, seeing as I'm looking for a re-design of the website anywayz. Sooo, my first contestant submits his entry and I send him an e-mail back critiquing it. I really didn't like the website and it looked like he just took a ready made template and shoved Youth Quake's content into it. Anyhow, in what I thought were polite terms, I told him that perhaps the website was too "guyish" and that it was nothing personal, but I prefered lighter colored backgrounds (his was totally black). I then proceded to feed him a variant of the "we'll call you" line. All well and good, right? Well, I find out later that HE'S POSTING THESE EMAILS ON HIS XANGA. no big deal. Except that I feel the need to write him another e-mail, making clear to him something that I should have made clear earlier, that Youth Quake is in no wise obligated to choose a winner of the contest if we don't want to use any of the entries for our website (because if all of the entries stink, we don't want to have to fork out $100 dollars in prizes for something that we don't even want to use, right? right).

Anyhow, the knowledge that it is more than likely that he will post this on his website and also knowing that if presented wrongly, things could get touchy in a hurry, made we very careful in my wording of this e-mail. Add to that the fact that I was writing this @ 1:00 in the morning and... yeah, not cool. So, anywayz, my e-mail will more than likely go live in the next 24 hours. I just hope that I don't get any flack back :-(.

Oh, did I tell you that I bought my self a long sleeve shirt. Yeah, I know it's too hot for long sleeves, but the best deals are the season end deals. Banana Republic shirt for $7 - now beat that!

Welcome

Wow. My first post. Feels like I should say something dramatic. But that's not what this is about, so really I ought to start it out the way it's going to continue. Not boring but lively, because this is about life and life is lively.

So. To bring my blog to date: I'm in my senior year of high school, but while everyone else is graduating this month, I'm going to continue to battle dragons in English Lit and argue with demonstrative pronouns in Understanding English II. Unfortunately, I underestimated the time it would take me to finish these last couple subjects and I won't be getting much of a break between high scool and college.

Anyhow, I've got o get ready for church. I'll continue to bring you up to date in my next few posts while commenting on life's daily quirks.