Good Friday

It's Friday! And that means I no longer have to work for the hell hole I was working for! Monday is the start of my new job and hopefully it's awesome and I begin to enjoy what I do again. I'm very excited. So just a warning, I may not be able to post blogs everyday. I'm still going to do my best to post stuff, but it might be sporadic throughout the week because I'm going into a job where I will actually have work to do and no time to surf the web. Thank you all for coming back here everyday and reading. I hope to continue to wile you with random wit and wisdom. I hope everyone has an awesome weekend!

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Is it Halloween yet? I can’t wait! I keep reading about so many awesome Halloween events happening this year. Now that people are starting to have money again, they’re going all out. Especially, Universal. This year, their tram tour theme will be Scream. Honestly, that sounds pretty cool. It’s going to be called “Terror Tram: Scream 4 Your Life.” The title is kind of lame, but I like the Scream movies. They entertain me for some reason so this sounds very cool.

Universal is also bringing in some big names to create some awesome mazes. I hate mazes because I hate people jumping out at me, which is ironic because Halloween is my favorite holiday, but I would have loved to work on all of this stuff. Universal brought in Eli Roth to create “Eli Roth's Hostel: Hunting Season" maze. They also brought in Alice Cooper to present "Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare" and they even brought in Rob Zombie for "Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: In 3D ZombieVision." A 3D maze? That’s kind of insane and it sounds freaking terrifying. I know some people working on the Bill and Ted show as well and it’s supposed to be awesome again this year. I worked on it the first year they brought Halloween back to Universal in 2007. It was so much fun! I would kill to do that again.

Halloween, please come faster!

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I found this blog not too long ago and the content is all about going for you dreams and doing what you love and being happy. This video was posted the other day and I have to share it. It’s pretty inspiring. It’s about 7 minutes long, but it’s worth it. I hope everyone has an inspiring weekend.

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Yet another reason why I should have been an animator or need to work in that field. Ex-Pixar animator William Joyce heads the Moonbot Studios team who has created an iPad app called The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. It’s meant for kids, but I would totally buy this app and play with it all the time. The book is an interactive book, which I think are the best. I feel like it helps kids become one with the story. Very cool. You have to watch the video to know what I’m talking about. Now I need to go out and buy an iPad. Happy weekend all!

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I hadn’t heard of the movie Life in a Day until a friend posted the trailer on Facebook and then I immediately felt like I lived under a rock. Apparently, last year YouTube had this thing where it asked people to film their daily activities and send it in and then of course they created this documentary with all of that footage. The people who sent in the footage didn’t try to do anything special, they just sent in daily routines and activities. I read an article the other day about how the directors had to watch 600 hours of footage. How grueling! But whatever these directors saw and pieced together looks amazing. The trailer looks absolutely stunning.

The movie takes place on July 24, 2010 and starts with people waking up and it shows their morning routines and a lot of them are the same where people turn off the alarm clock and brush their teeth, etc. It takes us through the day with all of these various people doing their everyday things. The thing that I find interesting about this documentary is that each one of these clips from totally different people around the world has a theme. People want their lives to mean something and have the same wants and fears. So naturally, that’s the theme of the movie. That all people everywhere want to be loved and don’t want to be alone. The documentary seems to map that and I love it. It’s always nice to know that people out there have the same fears and it’s always interesting to see how they overcome them.

I’m really excited to see this. It comes out in select theatres today. It looks very uplifting and might be one of those movies to show us that we’re not alone and what we do and feel is normal.

Have an uplifting weekend everyone.

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Ugh! Rebecca Black is back with a song called My Moment. It’s so awful. At least Friday was catchy. This is just bad. I wish she would just sing and not have machines make her voice all weird. I heard her sing live on a talk show when someone asked her to sing on the spot and she was fine. This makes her sound like she can’t sing in the least. I’m not a fan! Either pick up your game or go away! Plus, it feels like she’s kind of throwing this song in everyone’s. I know people were saying some really harsh things about her and that sucks, but I don’t really appreciate the obvious attitude in this video and with the lyrics of the song. The people you're singing about can make or break you. The public can be really cruel and I would have cautioned against her attitude, but I guess we'll see where she goes.

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I hope everyone enjoyed Harry Potter last night. I had an issue with the ending, but otherwise it was very good. Another awesome movie opens today and I feel like my childhood is being revisited with Disney’s new Winnie The Pooh movie. John Lasseter had a hand in making this so I have no doubt it’s going to be good. It’s been hand animated giving it the look and feel of the original, which I truly appreciate. Seems like Disney is actively trying to stay true to their own roots and not trying to out do themselves. My mom refuses to see it because she loved the original so much, but I honestly think this movie will be just as good and I’m looking forward to it. I might even bring my little Tigger stuffed animal with me.

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Isn’t Meryl Streep just amazing? I think I first noticed how amazing she is in The Hours where she was having a break down in the kitchen. When the scene was over, I noticed that I was holding my breath and then I knew. I knew how good she is. She has the ability to completely change herself and it’s just amazing. She can play super serious or she can play a silly mom who sings a lot. She can do it all. I have no doubt her new role as Margaret Thatcher will be incredible as well. I mean, her appearance has totally changed and that’s just the first step. Oscar nom anyone?

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Another 3 day weekend ahead of us. Sounds very delightful and I can’t wait. I hope everyone has an awesome time. Please don’t kill yourself with illegal fireworks. Watch them from a distance and hang with your friends. Or go to Disneyland where they have special fireworks. Happy 4th everyone! See you back here on Tuesday.

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Just when we thought we were free of 3D movies, 4D theatres are being built. I keep reading that fewer and fewer 3D movies are being made because people just aren’t seeing them anymore. People are tired of them. So then why the hell would you go out and make a bunch of 4D movie theatres outside of a theme park. It’s fun and cool in a theme park when you’re watching animatronic characters, but not when you’re watching a real movie. I would not want to be watching Transformers in a 4D theatre. I don’t want to feel the explosions or feel water falling on my face. That’s just too intense. I can handle it at a theme park for a 15 minute show, but that’s as much as my sensory over load can handle. There’s a 4D theatre ready to open late August somewhere in LA. I didn’t get the details on where, but trust that I will never go there. It might be cool and fun for one movie, but I doubt people would go back for that. Maybe I’m wrong and I have no idea how the world works, but knowing how sick people are of 3D doesn’t make me confident that they would be interested in 4D. Am I alone here?

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The new Pixar short, La Luna that will be shown in connection with the new Pixar movie Brave premiered at the Annecy International Animation Festival in France on Monday night. The director was finally able to share the poster on his blog. How gorgeous! I can’t wait to see it!

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MTV has posted the first 8 or so minutes of their new Teen Wolf series premiering on Sunday. The filming style is interesting, but the acting is already super over dramatic. I guess we have to wait and see how the rest of it pans out.

Teen Wolf - MTV Shows

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Yes! 3 days weekends are always welcome around here. I mean who doesn't love a longer weekend? Crazy people, that's who. There are so many things to be done over long weekends, including visiting Disneyland where new things are popping up everywhere! “Mickey’s Soundsational Parade” makes its debut today. The parade will kick off Disney Soundsational Summer, which will also include the openings of The Little Mermaid Ariel’s Undersea Adventure and Star Tours, along with new experiences at the Disneyland Hotel and Paradise Pier. Awesome! Here is the description of the new parade:

“Mickey’s Soundsational Parade” will feature Aladdin, Ariel, Peter Pan and more, all led by Mickey Mouse.

With unique rhythms and instruments, they will tell the story of Disney music as drumlines, percussion teams and jazz horns bring a new energy to each storyline. Nine newly designed float units, each telling its own musical story, will travel from Main Street, U.S.A., to “it’s a small world.” Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Chip ‘n’ Dale and Goofy get the party started with a six-member drumline, followed by characters from Disney’s classic film, “Aladdin,” including Genie as Drum Major and six cymbal dancers. From there, the parade goes “Under the Sea” with a distinctly Caribbean-style sound including steel drums and marimbas, and on to the spicy sounds of Latin America with The Three Caballeros. Next, a grand procession of Disney Princesses, including Belle, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White, is followed by Rapunzel’s tower rising overhead. Then, jungle drums sound the arrival of Simba, who is perched majestically atop Pride Rock.

Princess Tiana glides past next on a classic riverboat surrounded by Mardi Gras dancers beating tambourines in time to a New Orleans jazz beat. Adventure is waiting in Neverland as Peter Pan, Captain Hook and Mr. Smee are joined by Tinker Bell, who is playing a rhythm on mushrooms instead of drums. Finally, Mary Poppins and Bert bring “Mickey’s Soundsational Parade” to a close, along with chimney sweeps performing a broom dance amid the rooftops of London.

Sounds awesome. I'm never one to stop and watch the parades, but this one sounds really fun! Check it out! I hope everyone has an awesome weekend!

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I read BBC.com and LATimes.com every day to try and keep up with the insanity happening in the world. Yesterday, one of the headlines on BBC read “US man beats record with 25,000th Big Mac” and of course I needed to click on that article to find out what the hell it meant. A retired prison guard, Mr Gorske has eaten 25,000 Big Macs! McDonald’s even had a ceremony for him in his home town of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He said he would eat Big Macs until he dies. This is insane. I mean I used to eat Big Macs every once in a while because I had a craving for a burger, but I always regretted it. No one needs that much hamburger. This guy was even in the documentary Super Size Me, which I really liked. If you haven’t seen it you should. It doesn’t make McDonald’s food look gross so no worries there it just shows the effect it can have on the body. Well, this guy is thin and his cholesterol is said to be low. I have a very hard time believing that! Anyway, Mr Gorske says he eats a Big Mac in 16 bites and keeps track of his consumption on calendars. Every week he buys six on Monday and eight on Thursday and keeps them in his fridge or freezer until he is ready to eat them. He said his wife told him the end will come when she has to put them in a blender. Seriously sick. This guy is insane. Obviously, his doctors don’t like what he’s doing, but I’m sure that won’t stop him anytime soon. Please don’t eat McDonald’s this weekend. I feel sick thinking about it.

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YES! I am very much looking forward to Cars 2. I’m also really looking forward to their new land at California Adventure. Here is a brief trailer from the movie. It looks awesome. Plus, the cast is an all star cast!

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I think every Friday should be called Good Friday. I mean it’s Friday and that’s good because Saturday is here and then Sunday comes after. Ok, sorry I had to channel Rebecca Black for a second. Well, anyway Happy Good Friday. I have to share this because to me this is very good! I am so excited and I hope Grey’s Anatomy doesn’t do anything to fuck it up. Also, spoiler alert!

Happy Easter and Passover everyone!