The Good Shepard

So I watched The Good Shepard yesterday, and I am here to tell you it is awesome. For anyone who doesn't know what it is about, the movie stars Matt Damon and tells the story of the founding of the CIA. The overall movie is a little lengthy but the ending is great because it leaves you wondering who did what.

Other than that I haven't been up to a whole lot. I went to Buffalo Wild Wings last night for the first time in a few weeks and watched the wings defeat the predators. Afterwards we watched some tv at adam's and called it a night.

I have a new project to work on in my digital imaging class, this project is suppose to be our most important one and it deals with either time lapse or metamorphisis, maybe I mentioned this already. I didnt really have much of an idea until yesterday while I was watching a movie and doodling. If it comes out the way I sketched it and want it too, then it should be a pretty sweet piece. I will keep you posted on it.

Something new

Alright, along with putting off posting, I have been procrastinating checking out this newish site called twitter. Finally got signed up today and it is kind of neat. It isnt something I would necessarily say is cool on its own but when used with other things, like your blog, it becomes a cool way to have a status feature like facebook. A way to keep a live update of what you are doing, where you are doing it, or what you are thinking. You can text twitter via your cellphone with your updates, so you dont even have to be on the internet. Check mine out in the top right corner, and check out twitter at www.twitter.com.

Miss you guys

Alright, I want to apologize for non-existent in the online world these past few weeks, I have had some financial stress, and just overall been exhausted. Here I am though, ready to write and toss out all my ideas and adventures back to you the reader. BE EXCITED!!!!!


Alright first up, I have been checking out this new website, www.justin.tv, and I am enjoying it a lot. It is a guy who has a video camera attached to his hat, using a computer in his backpack it constantly streams live 24/7 to his website where you can see what he is doing. He also has his calendar of events up for the day so you can see what major events are going on, and what time to tune in.

I also checked out the new turtles movie, and while I enjoyed it, it reminded me of how much I loved the old movies, and I miss the big fake suits and everything with real people in the movie. Other than that sudden flash back and a single tear, I enjoyed the movie a lot. It had a decent story and it had a couple really cool fight scene. The CGI was well done.

I joined a gym, well more specifically my family joined a gym for me. My first workout day was friday where I met with one of the guys that runs the place, and he put me on a basic program to start me out. I also went back sunday and did the same routine and probably am headed there tomorrow after racquetball at delta. If anyone is curious to what gym it is, it was formerly powerhouse gym, and then elite gym, now currently something family gym or something like that over by meijer on wilder rd.

Those are pretty much the key points I have right now. I have to work on a photoshop project with a theme of either metamorphosis, time lapse, or something else I forgot. I currently have very little idea of what I will do for it lol.

Hey the weather is awesome today, I missed the sun.

ZOMG I W1N

so I was playing marathon mode on tetris on my DS like I always do. I almost always lose around the 130-150th line. Tonight at 12:05 am I made it to the 200th line on the 20th lvl to beat marathon mode on Tetris, I wasnt aware there was an end to marathon mode so this caught me off guard a little bit. Also my old high score was 247,982, but now my new high score is 336,181. Ya I am pretty much amazing, and I had to come post about it.

The Black Donnellys

So I dont know if anyone has been watching this new show on NBC Monday nights after Heroes but I started checking it out this past week. The first episode I saw didnt really grab me that much but now the more I see it the more it drags me in. It is very Sopranos meets network tv but I enjoy it none the less. If anyone is interested in checking it out you can see this weeks episode at NBC.com HERE

Yay A New Day

So first off, I dumped Kubuntu, it was a rough break up but after a few days of fighting I think we both new that it was coming. I mean all I wanted out of the relationship was to play Unreal Tournament 2004 and apparently all it wanted was me to learn the entire Linux language. Way to much of a commitment. So I gave Kubuntu the kick and called my ex-girlfriend Windows XP up and had her settle back in. I still am not that big of a fan of that windows gal but at least she lets me play UT2004 whenever I god damn feel like it.

Onto other things...I found a new website called Virb. Basically its myspace or facebook, or myspace and facebooks offspring that offers the best of both worlds. I started my profile yesterday and have been working on it since. At first I wasnt too sure about it, but the more I play around with it the more I like it. Check out my profile at www.virb.com/matt4tw. Seriously though, its pretty customizable, but at the same time it can be as easy to customize or as nitty gritty difficult as you want. The music player is neat, and I like the idea of playlists. A lot of the cool factors that are in Virb I have seen people put on their myspace profiles from outside sources, and addons and stuff but this is all built in which adds to the convenient factor. I dont know check it out. www.virb.com


I also bought the new Relient K cd, Five score and seven years ago. I wasnt going to because money has been a little tighter lately but I had been looking forward to it for some time, and everytime I walked by a cd store it got to me a little more and then finally I just picked up a copy at Target for 10 bucks. So far I like it a lot, I tossed some of their songs on my playlist on virb so check it out there if you want.

The Long Awaited Weekend Update

Except this is actually last weekends recap, which means this news is pretty much a week old. Ya If I did this professionally I would be fired I think. I dont though so you guys can just deal lol.

Last weekend we celebrated Adam's B-Day and so he planned a trip to "Clyde's", a hamburger restaurant on the other side of the Mackinaw Bridge. In theory we were to leave Saturday morning kind of early and be back in time for JR to work at 5 or 6.

Things got under way pretty flawlessly, Shelson and I both crashed on Adam's couches from the night before so we were already in the designated meeting place, JR also showed up on time. Unfortunately Greg is a little MIA and we were worried that we might fall behind the schedule, but luckily Greg was only a half hour late or so. We piled into shelson's suv thing and began the trek north.

The over all ride went pretty smooth, everyone was pretty comfortable, shelson has a fm transmitter for his iPod so we were making on the go playlists and joking around. We made one stop at a gas station maybe half way up. Most of us grabbed drinks or munchies, but Greg and Adam didn't think we should eat anything because the hamburgers were to be THAT good.
Some time went by and as we were joking around, someone made the comment about Clydes possibly being closed. The thought quickly pushed its way into all our minds and Adam began calling his sister Donna. Adam asked Donna to try and find a number for Clydes, and after a little bit of digging she found it for him. JR made the call on his phone and unfortunately no one answered the phone. Its funny how when you see the outcome that you don't like making an appearance you find excuses and reasons to explain the events. We soon decided that maybe they just weren't open for the day yet, or maybe they were really busy and under staffed. Eventually we got another phone number for the B&C Pizza in the same town. Adam made the call.

"Hi, this might sound weird but is the Clyde's restaurant open?"

Then it came, just thirty miles before the bridge, the answer we had all feared. "Nope, Clyde's is closed for the winter season." Adam was crushed. It was unbelievable, so unbelievable that Greg thought Adam was pulling some sort of joke on us. After a few minutes of disappointment we decided to turn around and at this point just find anywhere to eat because, frankly we were starving. A quick decision was made to eat at the Big Buck Brewery in Gaylord, it wasn't to far behind us and at least it would be something mildly more special then taco bell.

The brewery had alright food, and one of Shelson's friends from school that lived in the area came and visited with us while we ate. Even with the disappointment of not having Clyde's famous hamburgers I think everyone enjoyed themselves and we returned back to the apartments and continued on with the rest of the schedule, as kari was planning to have people over later that night to see her new apartment at waterside. That's another story, for another time though.


Threw these pictures together from the car ride, enjoy.

During some Scrubs action

I was watching Scrubs on comedy central and noticed this commercial for a movie called "Reign over Me", maybe you guys have seen the trailer? The movie starts Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle. You can check out the whole thing on the internet movie database HERE. The movie apparently comes out the 23rd and I kind of would like to check it out.

This weekend

Its Sunday morning and the weekend is coming to an end, but not without a weekend finale of Jim Gaffigan tonight at 7. It should be pretty awesome. Outside of that we have played some crazy racquetball, watched Wild Hogs, and also watched An Inconvenient Truth. At this minute Adam, John, and I are watching the wings lose 2-1 against the colorado avalanche. I dont really have a lot to say here, I really just wanted a reason to post this cool picture I made in comic life.

Wow....

So tonight I joined the other five people in the world that watch last call with Carson Daily. I mainly found myself watching because Masi Oka was on ( Hiro from Heroes) so I wanted to see his interview. Unfortunately in the process of curiously watching the show I discovered how horrible the comedy is. Also is it just me or does Carson look like he could afford to eat a hamburger? skin and bones, skin and bones. Anyways Masi Oka is an amazing guy, Carson Daily scares me. Thats my current verdict.

Posting from my new Kubuntu PC

So I am running kubuntu ( a branch of ubuntu gui for linux) on my pc. Its a pretty exciting time. Everything seems to work. Making games and stuff work might be intense but I look at it as a learning experience. My brother thinks its just because I am set to run every OS possible but I just like to try new things. Anyways here is a picture.

Wow this is Crazy

I was cruising digg.com today and saw this story about facebook. Its a bit conspiratory but an interesting watch none the less, check it out HERE and let me know what you think. Maybe they are just digging a little to deep and are a little paranoid or maybe there is some truth behind the madness.