You Tell Me That I Make No Difference...

I have not been the greatest at keeping these things updated, and I think it has less to do with what's going on in my life (because surprisingly while things seem boring on the surface, there's a whole bunch of cool stuff happening in my life) and more to do with the fact that out of like twenty plus people I could count on having new blogs and musings up to read while I worked on my own, that twenty plus is down to a consistent two or three. It's a lot more interesting to post new stuff when you still know people are alive on teh interwebz. But I digress...

The New Year has been good to me thus far. I quit Kroger's after deciding I was sick of being exploited since I couldn't be unionized until early February and having to work double the shift times I was scheduled for. So one night while kicking it with Sarah, Zach and John I decided "You know what? I don't wanna go back to Kroger's. I'd rather sit here and keep talking about horror movies and comic books." and the rest was history. I'm a lot happier since I quit and I'm also a lot less likely to perform poorly academically as a result of a weekly 20 hours of sleep.

Academically speaking, classes aren't too bad so far. I'm in Film Comedies where we watch film comedies, Geology of Dinosaurs where we learn about the geology of dinosaurs, Society, Culture & Rock n' Roll where we talk about society, culture & rock n' roll (and it counts as a history requirement), History of Film where we talk about films (historically speaking) and Digital Filmmaking & Technology where we make films digitally...with technology.

After getting an in with a friend who works at the BG News, I'm applying to be a writer for the Forum section (since, unfortunately the Not News section which recently featured nothing but humorless humor pieces has been discontinued for not being funny anymore) so I have to submit a writing sample sometime this week and hopefully they'll like it. The parameters seem pretty broad, so I'm hoping I can talk about things like the threat of zombie epidemics and sentient technology insurrections instead of borin' old politics, but it's hard to say and I might be hoping for too much with that, but I'll find out soon.

My girlfriend Sarah=The greatest thing in my life right now, and I'll leave it at that so as not to annoy all four readers of this blog with my constant praise of her.

I might get to see my best friend next week, and I'm excited for that because it's been far too long.

I'm slowly piecing together the initial scripts for The Bouncer series and I Am Legend:The Dustin Meadows! Chronicles and me and my friends are very excited to begin work on those.

This July will see me finally bid farewell to The FratCave and hopefully moving into The Enclave with Zach, Travis and John, a residence which we have already begun affectionately referring to as The House That X Built and I'm excited to finally not be living on my own for a change.

In movies that I didn't make news, Sweeney Todd was boring and sucked, First Sunday needed more Wu-Tang Clan references and Cloverfield was fucking amazing and is already in my bid for top ten movies of the year as decided by me. Tomorrow night I'm going with Travis and Zach to see Rambo and I'm pretty excited for that, then this weekend to see Meet The Spartans...The fact that I can see shitty movies I would otherwise never see for $2 will continue to amaze me. I will probably miss $2 movies at the Small the most when I finally do graduate from Bowling Green.

In post-graduation plan news, nothing is set in stone yet but I'm already feeling less worried about life after college if everything goes according to plan.

"...at least I'm fucking trying! What the fuck have you done?"

Sooo 2007

YEAR IN REVIEW: 2007

THE BEST OF THE YEAR
ALBUMS
Bad Religion's New Maps Of Hell
Dethklok's Dethalbum
Every Time I Die's The Big Dirty
Fall Out Boy's Infinity On High
The Hives' The Black And White Album
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Motion Picture Soundtrack
Lifetime's Lifetime
Lily Allen's Alright Still
Against Me!'s New Wave
Wu-Tang Clan's Eight Diagrams
The Sleeping's Believe What We Tell You
Timbaland Presents: Shock Value

SINGLES
Bad Religion's Honest Goodbye and New Dark Ages
Every Time I Die's We'rewolf
Fall Out Boy's Thnks Fr Th Mmrs and The Take Over, The Break's Over
The Hives' Tick Tick Boom
Lifetime's Airport Monday Morning
Lily Allen's LDN and Alfie
Against Me!'s Thrash Unreal
The Sleeping's Don't Hold Back
Circa Survive's The Difference Between Medicine And Poison Is In The Dose
Timbaland's The Way I Are
Paramore's Misery Business
Lodi's Hard Rock Hallelujah
Say Anything's WOW (I Can Get Sexual Too)
Smoke Or Fire's Patty Hearst Syndrome

I didn't get a chance to listen to nearly as much new (new meaning released in 2007) music this year as I would've liked to, but here's my favorites of everything I can recall.

MOVIES
300
Knocked Up
Spider-Man 3
Shoot 'Em Up
Hot Fuzz
Juno
Live Free Or Die Hard
Transformers (This makes the cut solely because I saw it on the IMAX and it looked so badass that it almost made up for a shitty script and phoned in acting)
Enchanted
Aliens vs. Predator:Requiem
Hellboy: Sword of Storms
Hellboy: Blood & Iron
The Bourne Ultimatum
Grindhouse
TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Ratatouille
Waitress
The Simpsons Movie
Superbad
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Halloween
Hairspray
Lars And The Real Girl

TV
I didn't watch much TV on account of the writer's strike, but I got into the following shows-
Reaper
The Office
My Name Is Earl
30 Rock

WORST/MOST DISAPPOINTING OF THE YEAR
ALBUMS/SINGLES
Say Anything's In Defense Of The Genre
Paramore's Riot!
That stupid fucking Soulja Boy song about “Supermanning hoes”
Fergie's Personal (Big Girls Don't Cry)
Rush's Snakes & Arrows
Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing
Serj Tankian's Elect The Dead

MOVIES
Resident Evil: Extinction
WAR
Balls Of Fury
The Comebacks
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Fantastic Four:Rise Of The Silver Surfer
Hitman
Alvin And The Chipmunks
Good Luck, Chuck
28 Weeks Later
Pirates of the Caribbean III: At World's End
I Am Legend

THE LOWS OF 2007
Lackluster summer at Recreation Unlimited
The single worst relationship I've ever been in (and hopefully the worst I'll ever have been in)
My month long employment as a Kroger's night stock boy

THE HIGHS OF 2007
Making BG's long form improv team, Bad Genetics
Making two new films, Werewolf Doctor:The Quest For Blood and The Bouncer or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Scene
Rock Band and the general camaraderie it brings
End of the semester slumber/movie party at Alex's
Finally getting my license, and driving around and hanging out much more as a result of said freedom
The Strike Anywhere show in September
mc chris in November
My birthday being the best ever this year by starting off with a great night at karaoke
My amazing girlfriend Sarah who puts up with my general nerdery all of the time

There will be a real update soon, I promise. And you won't have to wait two months this time!