:: Oh, Look, A Tumbleweed ::

:: Saturday, July 12, 2003 ::

So I'm back from vacation...fairly uneventful. We watched Trading Spaces on TLC a lot...I swear, TLC airs up to five epidoes of this a day...and now I'm an addict.

My parents thought it would be a good idea to stay near a marina...okay, fine, but it's the beach! We had to drive about five miles just to get TO the beach access path. And then my brother got stung by a jellyfish (I will call him my Squishy, and he shall be mine, and he shall be my Squishy) so we never went back to the beach (All these things culminated yesterday to make me mad at my mom and brother...I'll get to that in a second) and that made me mad. We went once on monday. Never took any walks, nothing. Plus, even though we had a pool right outside our condo, the marina seemed to attract every single kind of biting insect known to man, and I have two welts on my left shoulder, one behind my ear, and a bite on my neck, plus numerous other mosquito bites.

My mom then says that she has been bored out of her mind this week. I about fly into a rage because I HAVE BEEN BORED OUT OF MY MIND THIS ENTIRE SUMMER BECAUSE I'VE BEEN STUCK IN THE HOUSE. It's not my place to say this, but I couldn't believe she would say something like that ON VACATION and in FRONT OF SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE NOTHING THIS SUMMER! I was a bitted pissed off at her last night.

My brother, of course, decided that vacation week was the time to make everybody hate him, which he did perfectly. My dad, I'm sure, wanted to throw him to the sharks, and I probably would have helped. He was so annoying sometimes...and he only does this on vacation. He'll just start trying to get in on conversations where he "assumes" an authoritarian posistion...he thinks he actually has a say in what goes on while we were in Charleston...

Overall, I did enjoy the vacation, and I'm probably the only one who did. It got me out of the house. That's all I care about.

While we were down there, I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and LXG.

Pirates was good. A little...long...but good. Johnny Depp deserves an Oscar Nomination, as far as I am concerned, and I don't care how Elizabeth spins it, I was so not not impressed by Orlando Bloom that, by the end of the movie, I wanted to throw something at the screen whenever he was on it. It was too long, and that's my main complaint.

LXG, on the other hand, was...not so good. Maybe it's because that of all the characters in the League, the only character whose book I had not read was Dorian Gray, but there were so many mistakes in there that after a while it became almost laughable. First of all, I don't remember Mina Harker ever being bitten by Dracula, or any vampire. And, also, aren't vampires supposed to fry in the sun and not have a reflection? And what about the Invisible Man? Is he really so anal retentive that he puts cream on each hair follicle on his face? How in the hell did he have a beard? And, if memory serves, Captain Nemo was NOT arabic, and, furthermore, the Nautilus was SUBMARINE, not a Cruise Ship. And don't get me started on Shane West's acting ability. My god I wanted to shoot him. Sean Connery, Nemo and the girl who played Mina Harker do the best they can with the script, and they do give good performances (Stuart Townsend also wasn't bad) but the rest of the cast just bombs. Furthermore, because I don't mind spoiling the ending to this movie, why did M set up the League? Couldn't he have gotten these samples without setting up an opposing force? Oh, yes, and Mr. Hyde? He should have been the scariest because he is dangerously and silkily evil. Instead, this movie makes him Hulk-like. And, apparently, invincible. He (And Mr. Invisibility) somehow never seem to get attacked at all. Or hurt. And Tom Sawyer somehow survives a huge drop in a car without getting killed OR injured. Tell me how. Please. I really want to know. And I am getting tired of the current movie trend to have sequel written all over the movie. This movie has sequel written all over it. It worked for X2 because it played into the storyline. It does NOT work for this movie because they tack on this extra scene that everybody should be smart enough to figure out why it's there.

See Pirates, Rent LXG if you really want to.

Another Rant: The pool? There was this family that WAS ALWAYS THERE. Always. And I didn't even go down that often. But they were there when I was there, and they were still there when I decided to head back up to the condo. And they seemed to grow more numerous as the week went on. They looked like trailer trash, quite honestly. One had a beer gut, another had tattoos everywhere, there were about 10 little kids running around, at least three sisters, one grandmother, and they would take over the pool, which wasn't that big to begin with. They were loud and obnoxious, and after a while, you just wanted to come down to the pool and not see them there. There is so much other stuff to do, how come they were always at the pool? And how did all of these people fit into one condo? There couldn't be room.

But, anyways...read three books, reviewing two of them, and finally decided to read a Margaret George book. She's the one who writes all those historical novels (She's done Queen Mary of Scotland, King Henry VIII, Cleopatra and Mary Magdalene) and I've always been fascinated with the English monarchy system, so I decided to get the King Henry book. I'm about halfway done with now, and it's fantastic. Anne Boleyn was a bitch.

Current Mood: Blah
Current Music: Old Blind Dogs - Monaghan's Jig

:: Nick Saturday, July 12, 2003 [+] ::