School, cake, & competitive eating...

... is exactly what will go in this post.

January 26th marks my first spring semester in college, and I'm excited! Sad, you may say, and it's true. However, for the past month or so I have literally done nothing. Waking up at 1PM and sitting on the couch and watching TV all day. I mean who wants to do that for a month (give me a week in school and I'll be complaining again.)? So I'm glad to be back at school.

My schedule is as follows:
Mondays, Wednesdays &, Fridays.

• English 114, 10AM-10:50AM. I'm not the biggest fan of English class, but I do enjoy writing essays with interesting topic (sans book reports). Although give me a book, and I'll most likely not read it. Good thing the book I got seems to be more of a text book.
• History of Asian Americans, 12PM-12:50PM. Now, this class comes with a chapter book. No fun, but I choose this over History post reconstruction, wouldn't you?

• Algebra 2, 1PM-1:50PM. Don't judge me, I realize that I'm in college taking algebra 2, but if you were taking a test to see what math class you would fall into on a Saturday at 9AM and had the choice to leave when you were done, you would rush through it too.

Tuesdays & Thursdays

• Communications, 8AM-9:25AM. Jesus Christ, two things I hate in an hour and a half: being awake at 8AM and public speaking. Just kill me now, alright?
• Journalism & Mass Media, 2PM-3:30PM. Five hour break inbetween classes. How very exciting for me, but this class sounds fun. Writing and media, my two favorite things combined, wahoo!

Now I'm excited for school and all, but what's more exciting than food? Especially when it looks badass and is being consumed in mass portions. Right, RIGHT?! Which brings me to my two favorite shows at the moment: Ace of Cakes and Man V. Food.

(Alright, the rest of my post will be in italics, damn blogspot sometimes, seriously.)
If you don't like Ace of Cakes, then you're just weird. I recently found out their cakes cost a minimum of 1000 dollars, but the creativity with their cakes is flawless and they can pretty much do anything you ask. So I'll take an Alkaline Trio heart/skull multi colored patterned cake with three teirs, thank you very much. Plus, Chef Duff is hilarious cause he's kind of a dork and quotes movies like I do.

My love for Man V. Food knows no bounds. I don't know why I enjoy this competitive eating so much, and it can be pretty disgusting to watch a guy eat a burger with eight patties, but I got to say, this show makes me hunger for all large foods. Jumbo ice cream sundaes, a giant steak (he ate a 72 oz. steak in 29 minutes, that's just unhealthy.), or some buffalo wings (to not as a spicier extent though). And I'll admit that this Adam Richman fellow can be rather cheesy, especially with the Q&A's following his latest food conquest, but why should that matter when the food looks delicious, albeit most of the time rather unhealthy.

Got slapped by Marshall so hard he died...

Review: Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series

Ahhh, the joys of Freaks and Geeks, the show that was cancelled before it's prime (as many other shows have). Why did I become a fan of this show? It was the summer of 2008 and I had just jumped on the Judd Appatow bandwagon. I already loved Superbad and was completely excited for Pineapple Express. Shortly after my viewing of Pineapple Express, I was in a James Franco craze (I tend to be in some 'insert actor name here' craze after every movie I watch.), on the Alkaline Trio Fan Club that I am a part of, I was reccomended Freaks and Geeks due to my James Franco/Judd Appatow addiction.

I watched the show for the first time online and instantly loved it. It's realistic portrayal of high school is amazing, which is odd because it takes place in 1980 and I wouldn't be born for another ten years. It's subtle humor which is definitely shines through the talent of Martin Starr as Bill Haverchuck and Seth Rogen as Ken Miller. Although, the rest of the cast is just as amazing. I can relate to Linda Cardellini as Lindsey Weir as being a nerd and trying to rebel, Jason Segel as Nick Andopolis is just adorable, yet pretty creepy, (hey, I'm probably the only one who thought it was sweet when he went to Lindsey's house in the middle of the night to tell her he wanted to see her face.) and who doesn't love James Franco? He's yummy. It's a great ensemble cast and everyone portrays their character amazingly. Also, Freaks and Geeks could have easily fallen into the typical cliche show about high school, but the show had new and fresh storylines every week. The morals of each episode were also not drawn out in the typical way. It's a shame it was cancelled, probably because it was too smart for it's own good.

As for the DVD package, it's pretty amazing as well. twenty-nine commentaries for eighteen episodes from cast members, the executive producers, fans of the show, etc. You get to hear many different perspectives on the show. They were fantastic commentaries and rather hilarious too. The special features are also amazing; seeing the auditions and deleted scenes were great. Very much worth th 56.99 that I spent for the boxset.

The actual show: 8.9/10
Special Features: 9/10
Packaging: 8/10

It's Christmas time, again.

It's time to be nice to the people you can't stand!

Ah, just kidding. I love Christmas to no end. It's been a a couple weeks since my last post. Nothing exciting in the world of me. Finals are over! Which means no more nine and five page essays on ethical relativism and the rights of property owners and laborers. Yay! It's also winter break for a month which also means Christmas, giving, recieving, new years, etc. Awesome, right?

Since I'm spending Christmas in Vegas, I've already recieved many gifts! Yes! I mean, we all love giving gifts (well atleast I do), but recieving gifts is just as awesome. We all know the truth! Here's what I have recieved so far:

• Matt Skiba/Kevin Seconds LP (grey and pink swirl)
• Skullcandy noise canceling headphones
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall DVD (Which I plan to do a review on soon!)
• Camp Rock DVD (Total joke, I swear.)
• Mystery Men DVD
  
• An awesome hand knit scarf

And it's not even Christmas! Joy! I totally love presents. I don't care if I sound greedy, we all love them. Although I would appreciate Freaks and Geeks: Yearbook edition and an iTouch, muchos gracias.

Review: Scrubs Season 7 DVD

I knew that I would start getting addicted to this blogging business. I told ya! Only 2 days in and I'm already super excited to write another one.

So, what will this fantastic blog entry entail this time? One of my favorite television shows: Scrubs.

But first off, I'd like to start with my addiction/fascination of your typical American sitcom. It's true, it's a large one and I'd like to point out, it started with Scrubs. Anyway, I can say that if you name me a TV show, there's a likelihood that I have not seen it. Although, I just might end up listening to you and end up watching it, but it isn't always likely. It would have to be a strong reccomedation, a show that falls under comedy, with some slight drama, and I'd have to atleast be somewhat familiar with the cast. Beware though, those aren't finite details for my TV shows. I tend to find out about shows on my own at random. So it's really all up in the air.

However, the shows that I do end up loving, end up in my room in completion on DVD. I don't particularly watch shows that I feel mediocre about, only shows that I absolutely love. They are a few shows in that collection, but they're always in rotation and practically all that I watch.

So there's a small intro to my love of televsion.

I had first become a fan of Scrubs in the fall of 2006 prior to the 6th season. I had bought seasons 2-3 (for some reason I had the need to buy them out of order) so I was familiar with the charachters, the basic idea of the show was run, etc. Although you could imagine that the storylines had made not much sense to me. But by the time season 7 rolled around on NBC in the fall of 2007, I was completely caught up with the whole show.

Now, I would say that the show had gone downhill in the midst of season 5 with it's unrealistic acts (JD fitting himself in Turk's backpack, sure.) but it wasn't all bad. I wasn't seeming to mind it as other hardcore Scrubs fans would. And this goes for the season 7 DVD aswell. When I was watching season 7 through the 2007-2008 season, I thought it was fairly hit or miss. I was bugged by the constant use of beardface and snoop dog jokes that they felt to have in every single episode and the fact that they kept on doing parodies of themselves, which is a good concept, but did not work for the show. However, the storylines were very well done and they were going back to having doctor storylines unlike in season 6 so I was pleased with that.

Now, when I had recieved the DVD about a week ago, I was currently going through a Scrubs relapse. I hadn't watched the show since season 7 ended in May, but as I started watching the show on DVD, it wasn't as bad as when I was watching new episodes every week. I don't know why. Yes, there were still the annoying beardface jokes, the parodies, and also the 2 minute fantasies, but I noticed some pretty funny stuff that I had not laughed at before. Dan's (JD's brother) zombie hug, the whole Kim giving birth episode, JD being the village idiot, etc. It seemed that the funny things outweighed the good in season 7. The only problems were the continuity with "My Princess" and that there were only 11 episodes due to the writer's strike.

Now since I'm a huge TV DVD buff, I love special features, commentaries, etc and I was a little displeased with the DVD content. The DVD menus resembled the whole rateyourdoctor.org website, so there were links everywhere that look like they could be clicked on, but it wasn't the case so that was rather annoying. I was fairly pleased with the "My Princess" featurette. It was very thorough, funny, etc. The alternate lines were funny as usual, and the bloopers were a little short, but still a good laugh. The commentaries were mostly done by producers, writers, etc. and I'd much prefer the actors, but they make good laughs anyway. I still need to see the deleted scenes and the "one on one" featurette with Ken Jenkins (Kelso) still though.

All in all, I give:
The episodes: 6.8/10
Special Features: 7.5/10
Packaging:4/10
Overall: 7/10

Uno.

Blogging. Hmmm... Why did I even start wanting to blog? Am I even going to continue this? Most likely not, but it seems like it could be fun for the amount of time that I'm addicted to blogging.

Can't say I really know where to start. What sort of things are even going to be involved in this blog? It'll probably be a large spectrum of things, I imagine. My thoughts are always over the place. Maybe an idea of what to expect? (To the very few that will read this, I'm thinking 2, and that will only be occassionally) I talk a lot of what I'm obsessed about at the moment, a la Alkaline Trio (all the time is more like it, band that changed my life), also other obsessions at the current time, maybe my thoughts and feelings, venting, reviews of movies/tv shows/music (since I love all those things more than I should), things I'd want to tell people, but I'm too much of a wuss to do so, and the list shall go on.

But for my first post, I wanted to do some venting:

I've suddenly (but always thought about, but now have possibly come to a conclusion) realized that I do not hate people, it's rather that I feel as if I feel uncomfortable in sizeable groups of people (basically, more than 3 or 4). For example, I don't look forward to hanging out with friends if there are like more than 4 people I will be hanging with. I mean, I'll do it on occasion and I'll enjoy it, but I'd MUCH rather hang out with friends with 4 or less. I guess like the personal(ness) of it all. I don't know, per se. Maybe, to be a little of a narcissist, (which I can be, when I want to) there's more focus on me? Or rather, no one isn't focused on? I feel as if in groups of 4 + there tends to be a bit of impersonality (right word?). Who knows really? I'd also like to point out that in groups of 4 or less, there's awkward silences a plenty, but those are kind of fun, right? Ha. I guess it's all up in the air and maybe I've come to no conclusion at all. And to point out why I brought this up is because I tend to avoid situations with interaction of 4 or more people. It's a trend, I've been noticing and it's been worrying me, to be honest.

That seems about it for now. This was kind of fun, I hope I'll be able to keep it up (aka. me having less of a social life than I already do.