The Woes of A Movie Lover

Summer's finally here!

Sadly I'm not in the mood for it. I'm quite bored. And since most of my friends are scattered all around the big land mass that is Region V, I have nothing to do with my life.

To think, I looked forward to this the entire freaking year. . . . . . -- __--

I miss my schoolmates: my friends, my annoying acquaintances, my classmates, clubmates, study mates, cheatmates and even the bitches that give me a god reason to lift my middle finger.

And now I'm missing all the tests and homeworks and "surprise" quizzes my teachers give me too...... Oh God, what the F*** is happening to me!!!

Instead of moping round looking at the ceiling and missing my textbooks(WTF?!), I'll think of what I'd love to do but can't when there's homework.....

I love watching movies.

I find them very interesting. They're like documented scenes of a person's life. I don't care if the movie's setting is in a parallel universe or the world after the most gruesome war that happened in history!

I love books.

They're extremely diverse and give me a wider imaginary world that I can explore.

I like both because you get to see the main character's development and such. The main character's the one that experiences the harsh challenges while I am beside him, learning as well.

I noticed that these days a whole lot of books are being turned into movies; Les Miserables, Pitch Perfect, Delirium (or so they say and so I wish), Beautiful Creatures, The City of Bones, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the Percy Jackson Series, the Avengers(comic BOOK), etc.

I'm not particularly overjoyed by this. Of course I'd love to see the Barden Bellas and Jesse and Percy Jackson and Lena and Jean Valjean and all my other favorite characters on the big screen.

it's just that it seems to me the movie makers are running out of ideas.......

Although, there are still movies that are pretty good. Silver Linings Playbook, Argo, Red Dawn.

Problem?

Most of the really good movies don'y get to show here......

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

The theaters here are showing The Last Exorcism (maybe nice), Must Be Loved(Kathiel, ew) and another one that I forgot the name.

I vsited one freaking website and saw that there were so many good movies shwing in America and I'm stuck here watching Kathryn and Daniel entange themselves in another love story where I wont watch the ending because I already know wht will happen.

Can my situation be any more tragic?

Director's First Cut

When I was in First Grade, I found out my aunt was a director of shampoo commercials in another country.

I was like,"Oooooooohhh." coz I've always wanted to be in the Film biz.

I kept day draeming about my life as a Hollywood director. I would go further than making 3 minute clips about fake girls throwing around their fake hair that's all shiny and smooth "because of the aloe vera extracts" as they talk in their fake accents.

DIRECTOR ME
boy version

So, I tried to make my very first video. It as supposed to be very good, because I wanted my biography entitled "The Director's Movie" to begin with my first attempt that won a dozen awards when I was just 8 years old.


I filmed and filmed and filmed. The stuff was random; I couldn't even remember what the movie was about. But I felt really happy when I realized I had already finished my very first film.

I sat on the couch and I when I saw my film, I was thoroughly disappointed. My film looked nothing like ET or Cinderella or High School Musical or even sappy and gross and cliche Twilight!

My film was a bunch of noisy, rowdy videos that had terribble sound and mis-arranged videos.

I was so low I was beyond the depth of the Marianas Trench. 

Of course, I was in my brightest mood possible after my grandma gave me ice cream.

A few years later, when the problems I had were now more mature and important, I read the Diary of A Wimpy Kid book that was about Filming, I was bummed out that the contents had nothing to do with the misadventures of Gregory H.

Although, the book made me realize that filming took a lot of processes. 

And the most basic part of it is having your own video editing software.

My first thought was,"There's a video editing software?"

I could already imagine 1st Grade me using Windows MovieMaker, which was according to the internet, the most used video editing software of students yet.

Yet, I thought, coz I haven't made one yet. . . . 

Kidding!!

We had a video editing lesson using Windows Movie Maker. It was quite easy. I think 1st Grade Me could have figure out how to use it easily.

And to think! If I had known about it before, I could've been a director with my own star on the Walk of Fame by now!

Okay, I'm in Super Big Headed Mode again. . . . 
Cut

Picture Magic

You know what's so great about Technology?

You can do anything you want with it. What used to be impossible 10 years ago is a habit of ours now.

FOR EXAAMPLE!! Before, people had to live with a photo of their that has, like, their huge pimple on top of their sorry little foreheads. And since photos before took, like, a billion years to take you have to keep it. FOREVER.

Now, before you post your picture on Facebook. you you clear your face of any debris using. . . 

THIS PHOTO
is Photoshopped

Many people religiously use this on EVERY SINGLE ONE of their pictures using this.

Sometimes I wonder when I look at my friends' albums if they used Photoshop on it or not.

It's hard to tell, really. 

I find those kind of people very conscious. I wouldn't care if I had a scar running down the left side of cheek. It's MY face, not theirs.

So, like I have already said in one of my posts WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in time, I find Photoshop dull and senseless.

And we had Photoshopping AKA Pimple Erasing lessons, so I think that Photoshop is Daedalus's other Labyrinth. 

But, we had another activity with Photoshop, which was making our own magazine cover. I was like What? coz I always thought magazine cover designers/geniuses/artists/madmen used Paint. 

I've tried making a magazine cover before, so many years ago. I used Paint. I couldn't understand how you can put the text behind you, so I just went like "UGH! I give UP!" 

You can imagine my surprise when I found out you have to use dumb ol' Photoshop when it came to stuff like that.

Photoshop isn't so useless after all, but I still believe very self-conscious use it all the time.

Running for the Second Time!!!

I like games where you seem to be chased or chase something. I love games with beautiful graphics and a lot of power ups.

Now, I have a love: Temple Run 2.

Take the idol if you wanna be chased by a gorilla

The new game is so awesome, I can’t wait for my money day! One of my friends has it (already) and, since I already tested it out, I know it won’t be a waste of money.

The characters and the graphics look sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than the old one. So better than it looks like the old version looks like a 13 year old made it(no offense to the graphics artist, of course).

And now, instead of being chased by a lot of monkeys, you get chased by a MONSTER GORILLA! I have no idea why primates hate adventurers, but hey! It’s probably coz they stole the only thing valuable to their little monkey hearts.

What’s annoying about the gorilla is that when you trip, he can get so close to you that you can effin’ see where you’re going!

And now, the new version is a bit more of a crybaby (sensitive). One wrong move and you’ll be falling from the temple of the clouds.

Me, in Super Big Headed Mode

Progress. It’s like a river; it’ll never stop continuing. As long as life is here, as long as your mom nags you about your chores, it’ll be here.

Some people say the future is now. Well, it is, really. Compare our lives to the very first homo sapiens, then you’ll be see my point.

But sometimes I wish I did live in the past. You know why? Well, since every basic out there has been already thought of by some dead guy in the past that we call ‘genius’, there’s none left, right?

I mean, not that I’m bragging or anything, but some of these other ‘revolutionists’ have really basic ideas. Like the lightbulb for instance. When I was, like, in 4^th grade, I already figured out how it worked.

But, of course, times are different nowadays. Maybe in the future, there will be a great invention that some blogger (or whatever they call it then) will say “I wish I lived in their time! I could’ve thought of it. . . . “

"

i could have thought of this..."

Then, I would smack ‘em in the head and say,”No you wouldn’t! Now shattap and freakin’ appreciate it!”

Sounds harsh?

The Four Elements

I really liked Avatar: The Legend of Aang. The fact that some people could connect with the elements in their environment really make me smile. It’s like, in another world, people really had a connection with their environment. With practice, you could be a master of bending your own element.

What if that is true now? Would there also be some kind of competition where the person who can bend like a boss gets a prize? Or you can prank your friends using you awesome bending powers?

I have no idea how to feel, of course. I mean, I have always loved the show, but if it was true to life, it wouldn’t be fair. Some people could bend while others couldn’t?

And sometimes, the element you can bend can not necessarily help either. C’mon people! What’s the use of Earth bending when you have machines to do the work for you?

Let’s just that I prefer this world to the arm waving, feet prancing and fire breathing world of Aang.

Please, don’t try to bend at home. You already look like a dork; don’t try acting like one.

Kidding!

Daedalus's New Labyrinth

Daedalus was the most brilliant mortal Greek that had ever (been said) to live. He was the creator of the Labyrinth, which he used to try to escape Death. The Labyrinth is a connection of rooms and tunnels meant to confuse ordinary people and even Death.

Daedalus has passed away and so has his Labyrinth. But Death hasn’t prevented him from making another. . . .

Meet, Windows 8, Daedalus’s new labyrinth.

Okay, I know I’m being harsh, but come on people! It’s kinda confusing coz now, Start takes over the entire screen. And there are a bunch of these little boxes that change like a chameleon whenever I scroll the cursor over to it.

And I remember when I used it the first time. I wanted to shut down the freaking computer but. . . .

where's the off button?

My cousin: Why don’t you turn the freaking computer off.

Me: Can’t find the Shut Down button.

My Cousin: Here, let me! Where was it again?

See? Even my cousin that was using it for, like, 3 days forgot.

Sometimes, I wanna approach the genius who came up with the idea and slap him in the face. C’mon! Windows 7 had no flaw (in my opinion)! And you know what they say; If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Oh well. What’s done is done, I guess. But don’t comerunningtome ifsomebody ever sues them of getting a headache coz of ‘Windows 8 Confusion’.