Dread Pirate Alice

Questions Answered

1. What were three of the stupidest things you have done in your life?

The most recent stupid thing I have done is burn my hand in the oven (yeah IN the oven…my hand hit the roof of the oven while checking on dinner rolls).

other stupid things include: credit cards, loaning money to people thinking I’d actually get it back, and pretty much the way I handle finances in general.

2. At the current moment, who has the most influence in your life?

I don’t know…I guess my job tends to influence how I spend my time, what days I get to myself etc. But influencing like my outlook on life….eh… I dunno.

3. If you were given a time machine that functioned, and you were allowed to only pick up to five people to dine with, who would you pick?

I think the person Janine quoted as saying “what I only get to have DINNER?” put it SO RIGHT…cuz like if I had a time machine that worked I sure as hell wouldn’t pick up people just to go to dinner with them (unless they were all paying…)

I think the main person I’d pick to have dinner with would be me…I’d like to sit down with myself just after my high school graduation or perhaps just before when I’m planning my college life and let myself know what NOT to do and let myself know things aren’t always as bad as they seem.

other people would probably include my parents to ask them things I should have asked a long time ago, grandparents I never got to meet and Neil Gaiman. who I don’t really need a time machine to meet…

4. If you had three wishes that were not supernatural, what would they be?

What constitutes supernatural? Cuz ya know, being given 3 wishes that are automatically granted is pretty supernatural to begin with.

#1 Money
#2 Happiness (for me and everyone I know)
#3 Money

5. Someone is visiting your hometown/place where you live at the moment. Name two things you regret your city not having, and two things people should avoid.

Well, I’ll go with the area I grew up…
I regret that there are no restaurants that you MUST eat at. Well, El Taco Real is pretty good, but I wouldn’t call it a MUST. And really there’s not a whole lot there, it’s a suburb…nothing much there.

Avoid…The mall and Bennigans. River Oaks Mall was once named the #1 place for stolen cars and the Bennigans is the suckiest Bennigans in the country

6. Name one event that has changed your life.

the death of my parents

7. Tag 5 people.

eh… I don’t belive in pointing fingers…if you wanna do it, go ahead…

Review

So this weekend I went to see War of the Worlds. Yeah that new movie with that guy who’s all over the place talking about his love life with a girl half his age… Yeah his relationship got more press than his movie, and the movie is the reason he was getting all those interviews in the first place.

Well…the movie was OK. Fairly intense at times. TC plays a dick of a Dad… divorced and he’s got the kids for the weekend. He has no parenting skills at all. The daughter, Rachael (Dakota Fanning) is overly smart for her age, the teen brother, who’s character name and actor name I forget, is all full of teenage angst and “I’m shit upon by my loser dad” attitude. Then the big stuff goes down…and suddenly they’ve gotta just totally DEAL with their issues to survive.

The main issues I have with the film are this:

1. There’s this EM pulse that hits the city or country, which leaves everything eletronic (including wristwatches) dead….so how are these two guys in the film able to A) take pictures with a camera that is so obviously battery operated and B) use a video camera to take pictures of the Tripods coming out of the ground? Dude…don’t show me TC’s watch is dead then show me operating cameras….cuz that’s just WRONG.

2. At the end…like…HUH? I don’t wanna give it away but…seriously….What’s up with Boston? What did I miss? Something feels just WAAAAY too fairytale there at the end.

Dude, I got paid $4.50 to see this movie (due to a cashier who doesn’t understand the nature of the fabulous JC DECAUX movie passes I got. I know it was dishonest to not say anything, but it would have seriously taken me longer to explain the pass to the dude than it would have been worth to be honest.) Overall I’d say wait and rent it. The effects aren’t that fabulous that you need to see it on a big screen and honestly, can anyone stand to see anymore of TC? Especially a larger than life TC who’s playing a dick? yeah, didn’t think so….