Sunday, June 18, 2006

If The Flintstones has taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement

Oh yeah, I forgot to post this. I just stole this from Ben's Blog:

Yes... I leave for Kosovo at 7 PM tomorrow. If for some reason you'd like to keep up with what goes on over there, there are a few ways to do so.

1. The Kosovo Group Blog should be updated daily by our youth pastor Micah, as well as random updates from various members of the team. I may make some posts there, although I might also make some posts on here.

2. You can also send a blank e-mail to list@kosova06.com with the subject line "Subscribe News@Kosova06.com". There will probably be daily updates to this as well.

Anyway, have fun whilst I am gone and all that. See you in two weeks.


"My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star." ~Grandpa in The Simpsons

Saturday, June 17, 2006

dsfdhsfdhshfFIVE DOLLARS?!!!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!? Get outta here....

So, I leave for the airport to go to Kosovo in say...oh...I dunno...about sixteen hours or so, give or take a few minutes. Funny thing is, I'm completely calm about it all. I mean, I'm a bit anxious because I feel like I've forgotten to pack something, but that's about it. Other than that, I feel really at ease. I hope and pray that that means that good things are to come from this trip.

So anyway, I didn't ever write about my amazing journey on Wednesday that involved me buying a crapload of books for dirt-cheap from the booksale at the library. Because I know you'd all love to hear about it, here's a fantabulous list of what I got:

Katie Maxwell, They Wear What Under Their Kilts?
Stephen R. Lawhead, Avalon: The Return of King Arthur
Dave Gross, Black Wolf
Piers Anthony, Faun & Games
Mel Odom, The Rover
Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
L. E. Modesitt, jr., The Spellsong War
Gerasimos Xenophon Santas, Socrates: Philosophy in Plato's Early Dialogues

I also picked up a set of two very, very old volumes, which are known as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. They contain all of his plays, poems, and sonnets, which is just fabulous for me, since one of my goals this summer is to read all of his works. They also had an entire set of the Deluxe Edition of The Harvard Classics, which had the likes of all of the old, famous writers, philosophers, etc, and I really, really, really wanted to get the whole set, as the whole thing would have only cost me $4.50, which is horrendously cheap considering what they are and the fact that they're all hardcover, but my mom said I didn't have enough room for them and couldn't buy them. I convinced her into letting me buy at least two, and ended up just getting the books for Homer and Dante. I love the Odyssey, and have always wanted to read Inferno, so I just figured I'd get those two. Poopy...I wanted the whole set. :p

I haven't read any of the books yet, but I'm bringing the philosophy one with me to Kosovo, so yeah. I will probably post more on the books once I actually read them. I shall be going now.

"Books have to be heavy because they hold the whole world inside of them." Meggie in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart, quoting her father Mo

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Look at the name of this country... "You Are Gay"

Yes indeed, I am one trendy poser. I now have a blogspot in addition to a website, a myspace, and a deviantART page. w00t. I suppose that makes me horrendously special or something. Yeah, whatever...

So I guess this blog is here to give congratulations and commiserations to things, whether it be music, movies, books, people, or just life in general. Ranting is what I do best, but if something is good, I will let you know. I guess...

I'm going to start this off right now, and say that last night, I went on a shopping spree to Borders with money I got from Confirmation. I was originally going to buy a portable DVD player to take on the plane ride to Kosovo (which I leave for in 4 days!!!), but that turned out to be 119 bucks by itself, not to mention the $70 extra battery so I could use it for at least half the plane ride. Therefore, I decided to go spend a large portion of the money I was going to use for that at Borders. I was able to buy Wormwood by G.P. Taylor, Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, and The Encyclopedia of Mythology (which contains Norse, Classical, and Celtic myths) by Arthur Cotterell, as well as the movies Corpse Bride, Pride and Prejudice, Monty Python and the Holy Grail Special Edition, and the special edition of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for about $98. Oh, and I also bought some Cockroach Clusters. Let's start with the rantings and such, shall we?

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the best movie ever, and this special edition DVD has so much extra crap that it makes it a billion times better than my VHS version. Nuff said.
Corpse Bride, which I watched this morning, was a really good movie. Typical Burton film, really dark but yet horrendously funny in some parts. I still think that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is my favorite of his movies, but this one is still good. The plot was great.
Pride and Prejudice is a good movie. I haven't watched it since I bought it, but we watched it in English this year while reading the book, and it was really good. I liked it a lot better than the book, at any rate. And Matthew MacFayden, who plays Mr. Darcy, is a total h0ttie, which doesn't make it any worse either. He's not as good-looking in real-life as he is in the movie, but then again, I'm partial to long hair, which he doesn't have in real life. Saddens me a great deal. Actually, to be honest, he kind of looks like John Cusack in real life, and that is a pretty decent-looking man right there, so I guess he's not too bad. Still...

Well, considering that's all I've gotten around to right now, I'll wrap this up. I'll probably post more on the other things I bought once I read/watch them.

Later taters!

"And in my best behavior/I am really just like him/Look beneath the floorboards/For the secrets I have hid" ~John Wayne Gacy, Jr. by Sufjan Stevens