Martin Luther King Jr. Day

MLK day is coming up this next week and with this comes many opurtunities to give back to your communities. I am volunteering in a MLK Day of Service for my college and I encourage you to volunteer for something, it doesn't matter if it's a small service or a very large one, but please give back to your communities.

First class (Film Appreciation)

I had my first class today which was Film Appreciation, of which I had to walk to an off-Campus building and freeze my ass off because my car wouldn't start lolz. This class is supposed to teach the student how to appreciate and analyize Movies as an art form. From what the professor said, we have 10 chapters that we will go over with a quiz at the end of each (We can take it twice!) and 10 Film tests that we take which will coincide with each chapter.

One thing that my professor said that I found very shocking was that, since this class is fairly new, they haven't yet standardized what films to present in class. According to him, in the previous years, there were some videos that were rated X to appreciate the "Artwork"! =O Rofl, what the hell were they thinking? But apparently they have now set a limit to films being Rated R at the max.

I am very excited about this class because I very much enjoy films and learning how to appreciate them as an art form is very interesting to me. Also... it counts as a Humanities credit for my General Education credits. Ha Ha =) The professor reminded me of Fonzie and Adam Richman from "Man v Food", because of his leather jacket and hair straight from the 50's. He also entered the room "Fashionably Late", *cough* 15 minutes, and started violently grabbing a nearby desk and table which made my friend to make a funny observation and said "Haha this guy looks like a badass."

I am largly considering to start a blog that will hold any movies that we view in my class, or just ones I like, aswell as my thoughts and analyses because I wish to share whatever knowledge I can gain from this class with whoever cares to listen. So if you're interested in Films or just want learn about the artwork of film making, stay tuned for my next blog. For now, I'm going to read up on my textbook and head to my next class in an hour... on the sixth floor with the elevator shut down for mantaince. Nooooo!

Aside from the goofy professor and loads of familar faces in this class, I believe this will be one the classes I will enjoy the most during this "Spring" Semester.

1st day of school iced out

Yesterday, my spring sememster has started and classes were to have begun. However, it was also a chilly 27 degrees out and had been snowing and icing since the day before which caused my classes to be cancelled. I had been looking forward to attending class so I walked to the bookstore to purchase all of my textbooks which cost 815 Dollars!!!! =O. Luckily, I have good financial aid which will cover the rather large expense...phew.

When I got back home, I just flipped on the television and watched "Kingpin" which is a pretty good comedy, but also is balanced with some rather serious moments that makes for an all-around great movie. It stars Woody Harrison, Bill Murray, and some other guy.

When the movie ended, I had saw a preview of the latest movie, "The Green Hornet" which stars Seth Rogen, which comes to theatres this Friday. I'm pretty interested and may see if I can get a few of my friends to come with me. Luckily for me, a friend of mine works at the local movie theatre here and can hook me up with some free Popcorn!

If anyone has any movies that are good, whether it be in theatres or DvD, let me know and I'll see if I can find it somewhere. I may be making a new blog dedicated to movies/books that I have recently seen and my thoughts about them.