Regional Student Convetion a.k.a.(a week off of school)

I leave tomorrow at 8:30 am on a six hour drive up to Newburg, Oregon to George Fox University for a ACE Regional Student Convention. I will be gone for 5 days, and will get back Saturday. There I will be competing in a basketball tournament, checkers, tournament, 400 meter relay with Malachi, Alex, and Jesse, and be submitting a short story into a short story competition.I also am on the PACE Bowl team, which is a team of four people who are quizzed on all subjects, all content, from final tests, grades 7th thruugh12th. Yea, that's a lot of stuff. Oh, and I forgot to mention, we have to answer before the other team from another school answers.Yea, it's going to be awesome!

But, in all that awesomesauce, there is a huge downer.You have to wear slacks, dress shirt tucked-in, and shiny shoes all the time. Oh, and, you had better be wearing a tie to the meals, otherwise, no food for you. Yea, but other than having to wear fancy-shmancy pants everyday, it should be uber fun.

The Next Three Days starring Russel Crowe(Gladiator, Robin Hood) is an extremely good movie. Great plot, pretty clean, and keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire movie. For reals!! I love Russel Crowe.

If I were a girl.....

...........I would TOTALLY have a crush on Russel Crowe. That dude is a MAN!!! And manly man at that. He has a beautiful mind,and he's a daring, lucky sea-captain, a gladiator and commander of roman armies, and Robin Hood to boot!!!


That being said, as you may have guessed I am somewhat of a Russel Crowe fan and today I saw Robin Hood for the first time. We gave the movie a B+. Good storyline, better acting, and a great ending. Other than Robin Hood my favorite characters are "Little" John and Friar Took. I have a tendency to favor the the co-stars just as much as the main stars. OH! And I saw the previews for some good movies, including one called "The Sorcerers Apprentice", starring Nicholas Cage which usually makes it good and Jerry Bruckheimer as the director, which always makes it a great movie...

Presently I'm in Denver and will be finishing our trip to Iowa tomorrow....

i love my job....well, its not really a job...but who cares..!?

It is a job, I'm just not getting paid to do it, but its still a job. Well, yesterdays show went quite well, even my youth pastor(who hates rock) listened in, scary.. I am still in the midst of trying to expand my band base, I don't think I have enough bands....but, I'm always looking for new bands so whats new?

OH! Last night I saw 'Green Zone' featuring Matt Damon, it was a BOMB(means it was great).Matt Damon played a captain soldier in Iraq who finds some inconsistencies in the intelligence they are getting and and eventually finds a conspiracy. It had plenty of action, was very detailed, and I thought Matt Damon did a fantastic acting job. 'Green Zone' is actually from the creators of the 'Jason Bourne' series(which are awesome)...The movie was set in Iraq, mainly in Baghdad, which i thought was cool, and as for not-so-good stuff, there were no sexual scenes, and because it was a war movie, it had its fair share of language, a few f-bombs too. It is rated R, oh, about that, funny, thing happened....

Okay, so like in our newspaper, the two theaters in town tell you what they have playing that day, the times its showing, and what its rated, well, I was looking up Green Zone and the theater we were going to said it was rated pg-13, but the other theater said it was R. So I called the theater and it still said it was pg-13. BUT, when we showed up, the sign said R! Go figure, I told my friend that the theater had better get their act together, they couldn't even get their rating straight....

Yea, I almost forgot, I also saw 'Public Enemies' a couple of days ago, we rented it, and i thought it was the best acting job by Johnny Depp that I had ever seen. It also had Christian Bale in it who did very nicely. Depp played a bank robber during the great depression and Bale played the cob chasing him. It was rated R but I'm not really sure what for, it did have one sexual scene which one can ignore with the fast-forward button, but other than that, the language was very minimal, the violence was not bloody, Ive seen pg-13 movies with more blood....So, yea.......i Love movies...And the movie now Number 1 on my list of movies to see is 'Robin Hood' featuring Russel Crowe from the creators of 'Gladiator......so, I can't think of a good ending so I think I'll just leave it like this

random things

Okay, so last night we rented this movie called State of Play...wow...what a movie! It has Russel Crowe and Ben Affleck in it. It was a great movie!....suspense, drama, no sex scenes, a little language(some, but not a lot)...not as much action as I would have liked but hey, i won't complain...it was great, keeps you on the edge of your seat....(or at least it did me)....I recommend it to everyone and anyone(who cares)...Russel Crowes plays a reported who, when digging into a murder case, discovers a conspiracy.....I gave the movie a A-...really good....

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