Monthly Archive for August, 2009

Halloween 2 freeform review

Published on August 28, 2009 in Away Missions. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

So we had a small away mission tonight to see Halloween 2. The movie was more “trippy” than its reboot predecessor, but gory good fun. If you liked Rob Zombie’s Halloween, you should definitely see the sequel.

But for the love of your greater being of choice- don’t see it with our audience.

They were loud, they had cell phones, they hopped seats despite a managerial announcement to cease such actions before the movie. They brought children under the age of 6 to see a Rob Zombie horror film. That should be grounds to take children away from their parents.

According to many a crusader I should be monitored and tagged because of my hobbies. I play roleplaying games, violent video games, I read fantasy and science fiction. I wear all black under my various trenchcoats. I listen to rock and roll of all sub-genres. But never would I take a small child to such a film. Not only are they disruptive to the audience, it cannot be healthy to see a man decapitated by a serial killer sawing through his throat with a shard of glass. Then to have mommy and daddy hug them tight and say, “It’s ok, it’s ok”, what kind of values can that instill? Get a sitter, drop them off with a friend, or go see Ponyo. Being a parent means sacrifice, sacrifice your movie going experience, not mine, and don’t teach your child to sacrifice teen girls.

Sad to say, I’m not sure which annoyed me more, the children or the parents. I can only imagine the horrors the prior generation sat through because they laughed as a man sat grievously injured from a car wreck, laughed as he cursed again and again from the pain he was enduring. They laughed as a girl slipped in her friends blood. They laughed as the main character spiraled into madness. I’m a former rotten.com fan, I visited ogrish.com when it still existed, but never have I found the images there worthy of the braying laughter that beat into our ears as we tried to enjoy the horror. Laughter is a tension reliever, to be sure, but I’ve heard people laugh less during comedy films.

I suppose they must not have been aware of the horrors taking place in front of them, few could take their eyes from their cell phones for more than a few minutes or sit still for an equal period. I’d try to get away from the crying children if it were possible, but I stayed stationary and let the dismal experience of the audience swirl around me.

Of the few who will read this blog, fewer still will have any chance of succumbing to these sins of movie theatres. I’m also not the first to repeat these complaints, but in my long and appreciable history of movie going, this was the worst experience I’ve had.

Halloween 2 8/28/09

Published on August 27, 2009 in Away Missions. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

We will be meeting outside the student center at 7:10 to go to Halloween 2 at Reynolds Cinema aka Nova Theatre.

Minutes for May 5, 2009

Published on August 26, 2009 in Minutes. 2 Comments

Attendance: 14
Meeting Start: 12:01

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: It kinda fails. We have less people than usual.
Movie: Time to go see Star Trek will be posted on the website.
Office Resource: We should continue to have an office next year.
Trivia: Forrest still has trivia. In the Harry Dresden series, there are three kinds of vampires. Name them? Red, White, and Black Court vampires. Forrest continues to have trivia.
Party: The party is currently happening. Please take some of the food. Will be killed for another semester. Bang.
Discussion Group: Will not be meeting. Discuss what you want during the party.
Fundraising: Taia turned her laptop into a desktop and gets a Tiki god for it.
No Report: Alex has a story. Big mistake for the t-shirt creating party. Alex apparently has monkey arms.

Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Full of really delicious food. Probably ate too much. Will get over it, if he doesn’t have a heart attack. Worried about pass-fail finals. Torque game sucks. Rant is on his website.
Constable: Bleh.
Com Officer: Had a presentation today and is one half of the large project; the next half is the 30-page mostly-bullshit paper.
Grand Nagus: Jack woke up the Phoenix in an RP. He’s going home on Saturday.
First Officer: Went home to take a nap. Also known as sleeping for the night.
Captain: Gone to three concerts in a week because he has music appreciation. The nursing classes hate him. Two weeks to learn 16 chapters with no class time. Using pent up aggression on hoards of zombies. Online multiplayer is set up very well. Friends can pop into the game at any time.

Old Business: Zombie-fest is on the way. Jon is still an officer, until maybe the elections.
New Business: Apparently the voting process is difficult. Rate 1 to however many people there are on the sheet. No X, no circles, no checkmarks. THERE IS SO MUCH FUCKING FAIL.

ELECTIONS—
NAGUS SARAH WINS
Collier: He’s good with math and is an engineer. Will keep things straight.
Jack: He’s telling a Boy Scout story about something called a Hump Party. He sort of told his report in his election speech. Gets random stuff while he’s in office. “Due to a clerical error, I’ve been given a mech.”
Fluffy: He sort of knows math, I guess. Donates a lot. $10 at one point. Running on the platform that he will give the club money if elected.
Sarah: Proxy speech by Forrest: The previous platforms were I’m an accounting major; I’m cute; and I’m not Seth. A combination of accounting major and cute platforms.

CHIEF ANTI-MIKE WINS
Anti-Mike: On the jazz hands platform and I know how to make a website and know the passwords. Does not know the password to the vault. It’s a plastic box, my password is a hammer. Will add a submission form right away if he gets the job.
Ashley: Wants a new job. Would like to not be the bitch of the club. Knows how to make websites and does them quickly.
Alex: Can delegate.

CONSTABLE ALEX WINS
Erik: Proxy vote: Didn’t have anything written up for Erik, so will use what she had for Sarah: He’s cute, so vote for him.
Alex: Is standing up to look more menacing. Now has a beard like Jack. Is fucking crazy. Will kill his wife and run around while barking like a dog–actually listens to Ashley talk about crimes.
Fluffy: Will donate if he’s elected. Least threatening person that’s being elected.
Erich: If he’s elected, there will be 20% more Cthulhu and 80% less there.
Taia: Running on the platform of squirrely wrath.

COM OFFICER ASHLEY WINS
Ashley: Is good at being the bitch of the club and will actually get it done.
Jon: He’s lazy, has ADD, and watches too much MST3K; the minutes will be with ASCII Goatse and horrible thoughts.

CAPTAIN ADAM WINS
Adam: Aw, does that mean I have to speak? He mostly knows what he’s doing. I think. The SAO is a strange and wild place. The plan to fix the thing we can’t talk about is working–we’re making money, so…
Alex: Is better than Nixon? No. He in inadequate. Is busy with another club. Is efficient.
Fluffy: Would like to get to know everyone a little better. Would try to do a little bit more.
Anti-Mike: He is not Seth. He has been running the website. Wants to take a club in a direction no one cares to go in.

Other Organizations
Anime:
MCS:
Order of Xeen:
Theater:
Other:

Meeting End: 1:04 and I still can’t tell time

Quotes
Adam: Go, go bullshit.

Xeen: Tessalate the fucker.

Forrest: Why can you fly too? Get out of the sky!

Adam: It’s like watching golden retrievers.
Xeen: And then blowing them up!
Alex: Oh man, poor fluffies.
Adam: …So, yeah. I’m blowing up golden retrievers.

Adam: I remembered you, Taia. Remember that when you go on a rage.

Forrest: Sarah wants to be voted for Com Officer and wants to hold two offices simultaneously.

Fluffy: Is this like a Nixon thing?
Ashley: Yes, that’s how he got elected.
Adam: You missed my speech last semester too, didn’t you?
Ashley: The only thing that would make it better is a Nixon impression.
Adam: [Nixon impression]

Adam: And I’m going to go to the store to buy another gavel and I’ll walk out and the old gavel will fall out of my pants or something.

Forrest: I love the I’m-not-Seth platform.

News for May 5, 2009

Published on August 26, 2009 in News. 0 Comments
  • The Wolverine prequel raked in 87 million opening weekend and is getting a sequel. The next chapter in Wolverines life will follow the Japan story arc established in the comic.
  • Actor Dom Deluise passed away in his sleep last night, he was 75.
  • The Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas is slowly reopening. The entertainment plaza shut down last year, but due to the resurgence in Trekkies, it will see new life, starting this week just in time for the movie debut. It will open in stages, becoming fully active in 2010.
  • Majel Rodenberry, late widow to Gene Rodenberry, has established a 4 million dollar trust fund for her dogs. The money comes partly from her voice work on the Star Trek light dimmer.
  • 30 Days Of Night director David Slade is learning the fine art of back peddling. He signed on to direct the Twilight sequel, after admitting in an interview that he wouldn’t see Twilight at gun-point. Now his tune is “Of course, I have since seen the movie and read the books and was quickly consumed with the rich storytelling and the beautifully honest characters that Stephenie Meyer created.”
  • Two physicists have published an academic paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist, since they would almost immediately deplete their entire food supply (a.k.a, all of us).
  • Hugh Jackman is staying with comic books for his next project: an adaptation of a graphic novel by the creator of Earthworm Jim. Jackman is teaming with Disney for a movie version of Ghostopolis, an upcoming graphic novel by Doug Tennapel that centers around a man who spent his life sending ghosts back to the afterlife having to rescue a living child from there, instead.
  • Chuck is still on the NBC bubble for next season. The shows fate has yet to be undecided due to the tragic sudden death of an NBC executive on the set of a new pilot. The death has caused several delays in announcing next seasons schedules.
  • Warners have picked up the rights to adapt Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s suspenseful 12 volume series about a teenager who ends up in possession of a notebook that allows him to murder anyone anywhere in the world, as long as he has seen them and knows their real name, according to Variety, and are clearly looking at the potential for a franchise; the movie will, apparently, only adapt the first quarter of the series.
  • Yesterday was Star Wars Day, happy belated May the Fourth be With You.

Minutes for April 29, 2009

Published on August 26, 2009 in Minutes. 1 Comment

Attendance: 15
Meeting Start: 10:01 and not a Jack

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Abby brought Lauren and Elly.
Movie: The bad movie is Redneck Zombies. Wolverine is coming out this week. Star Trek is coming out next week.
Office Resource: Office is still there. The microwave works.
Trivia: Forrest has trivia. Erich now has trivia. Which famous writer wrote the original screenplay for Trouble with Tribbles? Forrest has trivia? David Gerald.
Party: About $40. Donate please.
Discussion Group: Kinda happened. Talked about Post-Apocalyptic Pokemon. Poke-Porn? Topic for this week: Batman vs. Superman, the classic.
Fundraising: We’ve made about $7 this month. Please buy more stuff. Remember, the new rule is that you can find a weird item and donate half the amount to Psi Phi to enter in the contest as well. Sarah wants to buy a sonic screwdriver.
No Report: Fluffy almost died in D&D, but instead he let Hamz die. Saw Death Trap. Went 1-8 as Abbadon. He sucks. He killed his computer by spilling milk into the touchpad.

Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Computer exploded during a problem with file transfers. Computer would not boot. His harddrives sounded like a jet engine.
Constable: Never have Rook as your ally in Demigods–you will cry and he will eat your towers and leave you to die. Rook will make you so emo, you’ll write poetry. Pirates have the best ending to Deadliest Warriors EVER. The guy from 300 is the narrator–hearing him talk about Spartans again was fun.
Com Officer: It’s my birthday! Yay! I got drunk and when drunk, I don’t shut up. Ever. 6 hours straight of talking. And insistence. I wanted dancing and pie and cheesecake and Animaniacs. Argued with people at the movie about how psychopaths OBVIOUSLY don’t exist and Stockholms Syndrome OBVIOUSLY doesn’t exist. And how crimes can’t be solved without witnesses. Because evidence OBVIOUSLY doesn’t exist.
Grand Nagus: Proxy report: Ultima Online is releasing an expansion where you can choose a new player race: Gargoyle.
First Officer: Sarah just conned people into taking surveys. Girls can’t decide one number; ex. 1-3. Guys choose one number. Learning about college students makes her depressed. She is happy not to be 18 and not dating a 20-year-old with a child. Can not handle that level of drama in my life.
Captain: He thinks he did some homework… in between Demigod games. Have a really good time sitting around the apartment and watching MASH. Third thing he learned from the Japan class: Apologize early and apologize often.

Old Business: Zombie-fest is on the way. Jon is still an officer.
New Business: Need a 8×11 poster for Psi Phi for the binder-replacement flashdrive. Send Mike posters. They should be JPG. If you can’t convert it, send to Mike anyway and he’ll convert it for you.

NOMINATIONS
Chief: Anti-Mike. Ashley. Alex.
Com Officer: Ashley. Sarah. Jon.
Constable: Erik. Alex. Fluffy. Anti-Mike. Erich.
Nagus: Collier. Jack. Fluffy. Sarah.
First Officer: Elected at the second meeting of the new school year.
Captain: Adam. Alex. Fluffy. Anti-Mike.

Next Tuesday: 7:30pm. Hanging out in Harper/Wycoff. Meeting starts at Midnight.

Other Organizations
Anime:
MCS:
Order of Xeen:
Theater:
Other: BPA is selling homemade t-shirts on move-in day.
Nerf Commandos tournament on midnight on Tuesday next week for Late Nite BU.

Meeting End: 11:01 PM 4/29/2009

Quotes
Anti-Mike: I want to join a sexually-oriented team.
Adam: You wish.
OR
Jon: You can be the pony.

Anti-Mike: Filming in Atlantis is cheap.

Erik: And in the end, you become the little girl to protect the big daddies.
Anti-Mike: And this is the part of your fantasy that I don’t want to explore further…

Adam: It’s okay, Mike is just letting out all the mans…
Anti-Mike: I’ll tell you all about the manitees.
Adam: Can we talk about dewgongs?

Anti-Mike: It’ll be the starving people on radioactive velociraptors…
Erik: The thing is, starving people aren’t very good against velociraptors.

Adam: There is lots of starving people and not a lot of veliociraptors.
Jon: For now.

Anti-Mike: It doesn’t make sense.
Jon: Especially because you didn’t finish your sentence.

Ashley: And now for the last bit of news…
Lots: Noooo.
Anti-Mike: We need to stretch it out.
Ashley: Don’t worry, there’s going to be lots more bullshit.

Anti-Mike: When I saw Wolverine jumping from an exploding car onto a helicopter, I wrote it off.
Erik: I wrote off Die Hard for that. But you know who can do things like that? Wolverine.
Adam: Bruce Willis.

Alex: George Washington.
Adam: I think we’ve gotten into the wrong category of people. Those are presidents. He’s asking for writers.

Anti-Mike: What color is he wearing?
Alex: He’s wearing more than one color.

Anti-Mike: We’ll go over lots of different scenarios.
Ashley: And then we’ll input all the data into a spreadsheet and run 1000 tests.
Adam: Deadliest Superheroes!

Jon: Q-Q over spilled milk.

Erik: Did anyone else here hear the chorus of girls going yay when he said that he spilled milk into his computer?

Adam: He asked nicely.
Erik: We’re not polite! No report!

Collier: We’re not asking for a report of your week. Tell us about the stupid stuff!

Anti-Mike: I have a key blade.
Ashley: [takes keys] Mine now.
Adam: Oh hey! I have a car now!
Anti-Mike: But which one?
Ashley: It’s a bug. And it’s red. And it has California license plates.
Anti-Mike: Stop helping him~

Fluffy: Oh good, my computer isn’t the only one.
Jon: He didn’t pour milk in his.

Sarah: I need two volunteers for Speech… Don’t get too excited. I just need you guys to take… SURVEYS!

Sarah: He did manage to circle “Male” though, so…

Erik: Wait. Japanese world history class?
Anti-Mike: It’s in the future. SHH!

Sarah: You know what you learn from Mexican history? Sex, drugs, and violence… it’s the red, white and green on their flag.

Anti-Mike: Make a Sci-Fi-esque shirt.
Erik: Make stars that when you connect them they mysteriously spell out Psi Phi.
Adam: Number the stars.
Anti-Mike: Actual members can connect the dots later.