Peace out Mississauga

Leaving for Rhode Island tomorrow in the wee hours of the morning.

Had some pretty good times in the last couple weeks, but glad to be leaving the burbs in favor of beach.

I`ll try to update this more often while I`m there, I realize there`s been a little bit of a drought, I apologize.

The Hurt Locker

So I saw "the Hurt Locker" yesterday, and I gotta say, it's pretty awesome.

For those of you who haven't seen the commercials (there haven't been many), The Hurt Locker is a movie about a bomb defusal squad in Iraq. A new team leader gets brought in, and he's so good at his job, he takes a lot of risks he probably shouldn't in order to make things more interesting. This of course leads to plenty of tension between him and the rest of his squad, because he frequently endangers their lives as well as his own.

The story is solid, and the actors are good enough to convey it and make you believe it. The special effects are great, I particularly loved the bounty of explosions that took place. The camera-work was similar to many movies nowadays, frequently switching between far-off camera views to in-your-face suspenseful shakiness.

Despite the war setting, this movie was more suited to the suspense/drama genre, because most of the time is spent getting to know the characters, and even the action sequences are followed by another scene just as long showing how that experience affected them.

Consensus; if you liked movies like Jarhead or The Kingdom, you should definitely see the Hurt Locker, and if you haven't seen those movies, you should watch all of them (excpet maybe Jarhead). If you didn't like those movies, then you could still appreciate the Hurt Locker, as it has its own merits which the others didn't share, and provided you don't mind the main character being a dick.

Book List

It would seem i've fallen behind on my reading,

here's what I've got;

Currently reading : Duma Key (Stephen King)

Must read soon:

• Dark Tower 4 (Stephen King)
• Next (Michael Crichton)
• One Flew Over the Cuckooo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
• Taken (Thomas Cook)
  

Long time no see,

sorry its been like 6 days since i been here,
i know all three of you are heart broken.

anyways, had a crazy week including such shenanigans as:

Pirate-themed magic brownie party,
chilling with cassie for the first time since god knows when,
and performing impromptu brain surgery on a penguin with nothing but a toothpick and a sledgehammer.

K so that last one may be a little bit of an exaggeration, but still, great week.

BIG NEWS!

I'm Rhode Island-bound! That's right, next Saturday, I shall be leaving the Great White North, in favor of the American east coast. The plan as I understand it will be to spend a week there, visiting my numerous relatives and lazing around on the beach.

For those of you counting, this will be my first trip out of the greater toronto area this summer, and its about time.

Sloth; one down, six to go

So,

I spent the day reading webcomics again.

Nothing especially important goin on right now, and that's the way I seem to like it.

Anyways, time for me to leave my room for something other than food or gastrointestinal relief.

Some half-asleep morning poety

Sleepin in 'til noon,
Nothing else for me to do,
Writing a Haiku.

It is Mid-July at 1:20 in the morning.

What am I doing?

Why its what I've been doing for the last several weeks at roughly the same time of day, nearly ever day,
facebook-whoring while listening to some choice progressive rock, and trying to figure out what normal people are doing (which is beginning to seem very similar to what I'm doing, whether that is wishful thinking or a life-crushing realization I'm not as weird as I once thought remains to be seen).

Sorry about the not-so-uplifting mood of this blog so far, this is due to a day spent viewing several hundred pages of a webcomic I had never heard of before this weekend, and which I may reveal when my shame subsides.

On a brighter note, here are two videos that have amused me thoroughly these last couple days;

Some more information.

Alright, morose introduction aside, this is my attempt to make this summer less of a complete waste of time, and possibly amuse one or two like-minded individuals, as there is no way I can believe there are more than three of us.

I'm currently going into my second year of Computer Engineering at Ryerson, although "second year" is a term I use loosely, as I have yet to slay the hideous, GPA consuming dragon that is Calculus II. This means I will likely have a lot more spare time than I did last year.

Basic things to know about me:

First Name: Franz

Last Name: Perez

Middle Name: None

Unnessary Other Inherited Family Names due to Latino-European Heritage: Huttenczapski Isippon

Nicknames (in order of frequency of use): Tesla Coil, Pukeshit (long story that will come later), and a ridiculous amount of mispronunciations or liberal interpretations of what my "real" name is but I'm sure I'll speak of those later on, probably after someone else asks me if "FRANCE" is a French name.

Birthday: August 18, 1990 (For those of you currently looking up our horoscope compatibilities, I'm a Leo to the Greeks and a Horse to the Chinese)

Place of Birth: Toronto, ON.

Places Lived Since then: Mississauga.

That's basically all that the prying eyes of the internet need to know about me at the moment, more will come as I post real blog entries as opposed to these ridiculous background entries.

A message to the future.

On a dark, but otherwise clear and seasonably appropriate night, one Mississauga resident, a jobless, penniless, and until recently completely hobby-less Ryerson Engineering student decided that he may as well use his time to prepare a guide of how not to live one's life.

The result was a Google search which led him to a simple-to-use blog website that would allow him to convey his thoughts, opinions and pointless internet media with as little originality as he saw fit.

He realized that few would actually be interested in the ramblings of yet another middle-class suburban late-teen, and gave his page a name that would show how he knew it would fall flat from the beginning, or else be a completely hilariously ironic name on the off-chance that he learned to write and it became successful.

As you have probably guessed, this website is what came about, and I'll try not to fuck it up too bad.