The College Dropout

I've noticed something about myself now that I have graduated from college; I rarely have anything to blog about.

The first piece of the puzzle is the fact that I'm not in learning mode every single day. In college my whole goal was to get the best grade I possibly could. This meant reading from the books, attending lectures, and studying during most of my free time. Learning new concepts or increasing my knowledge about certain concepts allowed me to look at issues in much more detail. Now the easiest ways to gain knowledge annoy me completely. The 5 o' clock news for example, which is a staple of American identity, is so negative I can't even stand to watch it. They can even ruin sunny days by telling everyone when the next sign of rain will be here. Therefore, I no longer really push along my thought process unless I hear something during my day that I don't really understand. My line of action then will usually consist of looking up the subject on Wikipedia and storing it into my memory bank.

The second piece of the puzzle is my general attire and actions I complete on a day to day basis. Since I have been playing basketball at open gym every sunday I have started to wear a headband. The headband is stylish and effective and lets everyone know I think I can play basketball in the NBA or if nothing else at the D-1 level. In order to not lose the headband I typically wear it throughout the week while I work out. One thing the headband does not convey to people is intelligence. Sadly, I am losing the battle before I even know it by wicking away the sweat from my head. My actions also don't help the battle. I usually workout, watch tv, and play video games. The only opportunity to really learn something during those three things is watching tv. I have the ability to put it on National Geographic, the History Channel, or Discovery, but instead I usually watch Sportscenter in disgust. When my brain falls out of my head I will look at this blog and notice all the signs to why such an event could occur...

...And boom goes the dynamite!

Well the Huskies beat Arizona State for the 2nd time this year so I guess it is a good time to blog. But I will not, in this blog, mention a certain someone who has been getting a lot of air time recently. Instead I am going with this:

'Rosie O'Donnell has her own show. I guess we are in a depression.'

That's a little excerpt from the blog 'Swinging for the Fences' and it gets a chuckle out of me every time. Take that all you overpaid economic analysts, the economy will rebound when we won't have to see Rosie O'Donnell on the boob tube. Disgusting.

Venoy Overton!
That's right, I said it anyways...

The kid in the front is drunk on warm Pepsi

Venoy Overton!

As if we needed a seminar to realize how to 'step up and get clowned' Venoy Overton stripped the ball at half court and then went in for the 2 handed dunk. Step up and get clowned.

If Venoy Overton dunked on Venoy Overton in NCAA '09 would Venoy Overton be getting a taste of his own medicine?

Also would the dunking Venoy Overton then point to his tattoo or simply give it a brush in order to draw Venoy Overton's (the Venoy Overton who got dunked on) attention to the fact he just got clowned?

A bizarre twist would be if the Venoy Overton who dunked it pointed to the tattoo on the arm of Venoy Overton who got dunked on!

Could Venoy Overton get a T for pointing at a tattoo of another player, in this hypothetical situation it is Venoy Overton, in order to prove his point?

Venoy Overton!

If the phone rings, tell them I'm not here

Blog views: 25

Seriously? Does anyone know if deleting old blogs reduces this numero or am I as unpopular as the red head commercials Coke did about a bajillion Superbowls ago? I looked for a link on those commercials or any youtube vids and came up completely empty handed.

I never expected to be as popular as Bobby, or be able to write as entertaining of a blog. It's just hard to push on when the competition is 6'4'' with big teeth and kinda gangly.

I try to get Venoy Overton dunked on in every game on NCAA Basketball '09. Then I usually shout something like 'Step up and get clowned!'Venoy please watch out for Quincy, he's busy making a path to the NBA. Oh Son!

Alright well I still haven't gotten the phone call I've been waiting for when I started this whole thing. If anyone is wondering I did indeed turn the xbox on, use two controllers, put Venoy under the hoop with the 2nd player controller, set a screen with the first player controller, and break to the hoop with the best college basketball player since Chris Botez to dunk on little Venoy.

Hasta Luego, although with as many profile views as I have maybe 2 people in the entire world will even see this blog post...

...and you got some change back!

To be completely unoriginal I'm feeding off of Pete and Bob's latest bloggeries. I enjoyed Peter's list of his favorite movies and now I know what Bob spends all his time doing when he is not answering my phone calls. This blog is not a list off some hundred odd movies I like or about my top 5 since Christmas. I'm just going to smack you in the face with a bunch of random categories that hopefully will make you agree with my often unimportant opinion.

1. You liked that movie?
The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford/ 2007/ Andrew Dominik
This two hour and forty minute marathon is probably one of the favorite recent movies I have seen. Bob said it bored him to death and he even gawked when I purchased it. That is the first reason it got this category title. The second is because Peter would probably make out with Orson Welles for his directing skills in Citizen Kane. He probably would not believe me if I told him I loved The Assassination of Jesse James for many of the same reasons that Citizen Kane gets so much hype: Cinematography. This movie not only makes good use of camera angles but the story presented actually shows what life in the old days would have been like, such as when it takes them days on end to get somewhere by horseback. It puts other Jesse James movies like American Outlaws to shame.

2. Some middle movies I could do without
The Bourne Supremacy/ 2004/ Paul Greengrass
Doug Liman directed The Bourne Identity. I guess the steady film hand wasn't a high priority for the people running the show on this triology so they switched it up to Paul Greengrass who spends about as much time on one shot as I'd want to spend locked in a closet with Julia Stiles. Literally milleseconds. The Save the Last Dance star would have done a better job playing a ghost in The Sixth Sense. Greengrass at least draws out the shot a little longer and does an awesome job closing the trilogy in The Bourne Ultimatum.

Ocean's Twelve/ 2004/ Steven Soderbergh
I have only seen bits and pieces of this movie and that is all that I've been able to handle. From all of the people I have talked to who have watched the whole thing, I've been told to stay away from it completely. With a cast that has Clooney, Pitt, and Damon you think you'd be able to make anything entertaining but I guess the European Theater just wasn't in the cards for this movie. It was good to see them return to Las Vegas for Ocean's Thirteen.

3. Movies that put people on the map. (1 that's obvious, 2 that I don't get)
On The Waterfront/ 1954/ Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando plays the tough former boxer Terry Malloy who fights against the corruption of Mob rule that holds the docks with an iron fist. While Kazan had already been busy filming movies like Gentleman's Agreement and East of Eden, this was Marlon Brando's first big score and he definitely doesn't disappoint. After laying down a pretty solid job of acting in this movie he went on to do The Godfather.

Taxi Driver/ 1976/ Martin Scorsese
After pondering over this movie for a good amount of time I might let Scorsese off the hook. In filming this movie he manages to make NYC look like the most downtrodding and disgusting place on the planet. But as far as Robert DeNiro's role goes I'm just not so sure. I felt nothing for him at the end of the movie, no sorrow for the fact that he was a Vietnam Vet who returned to no welcome, because he just doesn't do it for me. He left me uninspired and he even had my name...

Reservoir Dogs/ 1992/ Quentin Tarantino
Somehow Tarantino managed to make Pulp Fiction only two years after this movie. This movie was just something I watched and that's all I felt about it. I didn't feel it was revolutionary and if I don't ever see it again I'm not sure if I would even care at all. I better not get the stereotypical response: "He pretty muched filmed it with no money!" I don't care, it still bored me.

4. Some great performances
There Will Be Blood/ 2007/ Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis is captivating in this film. If you haven't seen it then go watch it to find out for yourself because anything I say probably won't do it justice.

Gran Torino/ 2008/ Clint Eastwood
I thought Bob's explination for this movie was not only spot on but comical as well, so just read it. This movie inspired me to go out and buy some other classic Eastwood flicks like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and The Outlaw Josey Wales. That kind of performance in a movie should always be noteworthy.

Hittin' the reset button

First of all I haven't posted a blog in ages.
Second of all I deleted all my old posts.
I performed the second action because I've made some big changes in my life recently and I am thinking in a different mindset. This blog was created as a way to update people to happenings in my life and letting them know stuff that I felt was important.
The topics I will write about will still go through the same channels of development which would be me thinking about something and then a. writing about it on here because it is something worth sharing or b. not writing about it because it is either 1. not important or 2. I am too lazy to do so.
Yes, I am throwing a lot of a/b and 1/2 points out there. My writing style refesuses to fade into Bolivia.

After that little explanation paragraph I will finally start writing about what I really wanted to write about in the first place...

I hope I can use this blog post to maybe inspire at least one person. Recently I can't explain the joy and absolute awe I feel when thinking about the gift of salvation.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8

Recently that has been one of my absolute favorite verses. Maybe because it is so overwhelming to really think about. I like this verse because it can be such a powerful verse for anyone regardless of where they are at with their walk with the Lord or if they have even started their walk with Him. I would love it if fellow believers took sometime to read and think about this verse. Think about how great the day you got saved was! For anyone who hasn't asked Jesus in to their life I would like them to read this and realize we are all sinners, we all fall short of the glory of God. But God loved every single person on earth that Jesus Christ died for all of us.

That's all I have for now and it is way past my bedtime...