- HAPPY HALLOWEEN! -

It is finally here and will soon be gone again. This year I carved a pumpkin, and not in a normal carving fashion. I used the "glow effect" way of carving instead of the traditional "saw all the way through" way. As you can see it turned out alright, but next year I will easily have to top the bat pumpkin.

I'll be sleeping for most of Halloween, considering that I have to work a graveyard shift that night at 10 p.m. But I still want to wish everyone a Happy Halloween as it is my 2nd favorite holiday.

My Wife, Son, and Mother in law are all visiting my brother in law and his family in the beautiful state of Washington. So I'm here with just me and my Father in law. We just got done watching "Super Size Me" as it has been my battle cry against a life filled with constant weight gain. The movie really is a good one time rental at least. Thankfully I've dropped a few pant sizes and really hope to finally beat the Weight gain this year as I ramp up to tastey Thanksgiving and Christmas months.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is just around the corner to coming to Theatres and after reading the books, I gotta say I'm excited. The first movie was good, the second followed suit, the third movie was fantastic...the fourth one.... well we'll just have to wait and see. But common sense tells me I'll be seeing lots of people running around with wands and Hogwarts uniforms in the Theatre parking lot come November.

So Happy Halloween and lots of candy for all! :)

- MOVIES -
BATMAN BEGINS - A Dark Knight we can hope one day to be like

As Halloween approaches and will soon be gone, I was thinking about watching Batman Begins for the 5th time and decided that I would rather pay homage to such a brilliant film before I cave in and yes...watch it for the 5th time. When my boy is old enough do you think I'll let him watch Batman Begins? Yes, please...

The soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard got my blood pumping with great rythum for the action sequences, and made me gulp a few times as the young Bruce Wayne shared a remembered moment with his deceased and kindly father. A movies soundtrack seems to be the backbone to every great movie, and with Batman Begins this is evident.

Nolan did a great job with directing Batman Begins. I have an inkling that if both hands were tied behind his back, he'd have done just as good, with a well aged and loved cast of Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Liam Neeson, Batman Begins was bursting from the gate with talent. Katie Holmes(her first good movie), Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, and Tom Wilkinson also did quite well in their supporting roles, never once taking away from the feeling that I was really watching a Batman comic come to life(and a good one at that).

Here is a review taken from IMDB that sums things up better then I could put them...

"This film easily trumps any live-action incarnation we've scene of the Dark Knight before, borrowing heavily from both the comics and the Dini and Co. animated series.

This is a hard, fast, driving, heartfelt epic that draws you into the character of Bruce Wayne and makes you damn well care. Batman doesn't play second-fiddle to the villains here like in the other films. It's his movie and that's the way it should be.

Much has been said of the film's "reality" quotient, and I'm here to say it works. Nolan talks about how Batman's strong because he does push-ups, he gets around because of his gadgets, and by introducing each of them with a plausible explanation, we forget to quibble and go along with it. The technology may be fantastic, but it's believable. And, unlike the "reality" of something like Daredevil, Nolan doesn't forget his ideals halfway though and start having Batman wire-jump thirty feet into the air."

If I had to choose one word, "Believable" is it. Now I watch happily for the sequel to this new age of GOOD "comic book" movies which is slated to come out in 2008. Batman Begins has really raised the bar.

In the Beginning there was blogging...and it was fun for the moment, but alas it was NOT good. Why was it NOT good we asked ourselves? Because it had no anchor to hold itself there, with no mind to flitter here and there and run amok.

What I will be writing here, I do not consider blogging, and not to pretend that I am "cooler" or "seperate" from anyone else, but to define my life's thoughts, dreams, ideals, and fun...to take ownership of what I wish to write, and to do so with conviction. My hope is to give you some insight into what makes me tick.

I've decided that a life without Organization, is a life lost into piles and piles of thoughts, drowning, ever drowning. So I've decided that each title will be under a reocurring heading - "MOVIES", "MUSIC", "ANIME", "GAMES", etc. Spammers, which took the wind out of my sails on a previous attempt at "blogging", deserve to die. :)

I will also attempt to attach an image to each post as to give some "eye candy" for definition as well, as we all are entertained by words AND pictures to a much greater degree. The picture I attached is one of the only pictures I have to date that have my family(myself, my wife, and my kid-the 3 on the right) in it. The two on the left are my brother and sister in law, both great friends, who have helped me to see a better future. We took this picture around Christmas time last year.


Here's to a wonderful year of happiness, merrymaking, comfort...and a lack to all the negative emotions that make life less enjoyable.