To quote a friend of mine, "The Matrix not only has you, it owns your sorry ass."

That was the best movie EVAR! Okay, maybe not, but it was really good. Honestly, it started out somewhat slow, with the completely unnecessary sex/rave celebration sequence that lasted far too long. But it picked back up as soon as they left Zion. I'm not going to go through the whole plot, but soffice to say, it was better than satisfactory. For the first third of the movie however, I couldn't help but think, "This is somewhat of a let down." I mean the graphics were nice, but it seemed to me that they were too enamored with their own special effects (which were very good) but once they got back to simple (more or less) gun or martial arts fights and witty dialogue it became instantly more enjoyable.

It seems to me that everyone liked Neo fighting multiple Agent Smiths, but I found that to be the worst of the movie. Conceptually its the boldest and fanciest idea, but I don't like the fact that they did most of the fight with computers. I realize that they had to do it with computers in order to achieve what they were looking to do, but it was distracting, in my opinion. It wasn't bad at all, just of all the very cool fight scenes, that one ranks the lowest for me rather than the highest as it does for most people. The plot was also quite sufficient in that it left several questions for everyone, and with that Revolutions trailer that followed the credits (hopefully everyone stayed past the strangely long credits). The preview, though short, showed some pretty sweet stuff coming to conclude and I'm excitied! November I get Matrix: Revolutions and December I get Return of the King? Oh crap, I may have to go relieve myself in a bit.

Anyways, enough about the best movie of the year. Being a resident of Los Angeles and a basketball fan I feel I must comment on this Lakers debacle. I'm not really a Lakers fan, never really caught onto them, but I just watch them on account of the fact that I dont' have cable at home and all I get is the Lakers when they're on local channels. At any rate, all I can say is that Kobe was very disappointing. I know, I know, he scored like 30+ points/game but that doesn't mean he was good. Okay, scoring 30 a game isn't bad per se, but he simply didn't dominate. Shaq was dominant at times, but he wasn't dominanting. I kept saying and watching, hoping that Kobe would simply "turn it on" and torch the Spurs for 50 like he did when they played the Wizards in Jordan's final game against the Lakers or like during his streak when he seemed like he could score at will. I don't know if it was his injured shoulder from the Minnesota series or if it was Bruce Bowen's defense, but Kobe just didn't step up. Then at the end of game 5, when he passed to Horry for the shot, that was a shot he should've took himself. He had Bowen in the air on his pump fake and he could've gone to the line for 3 free throws or even got a 4 point play, we've seen him do it before (re: Minnesota series). If the Lakers learned anything this series its that Robert Horry is worn out and needs to be let go, they need to resign Medvedenko (who I'm a believer of after seeing his game 5 performance) and that they need to make some moves, might I suggest Juwan Howard. He's a free agent and can likely be had for the mid-level exception they've got this offseason. He'll provide them another post presence, seeing as how only Shaq and Kobe can successfully post people up, he is also a good guy as evidenced by his lack of complaining, playing for the worst team in the league, Denver. He's also willing to play third option, as evidenced by his time with Dallas a few years back. This is unlike the pipedream free agents some Laker fans I know have been wanting like Karl Malone. Anyways, just my two cents on the Laker situation.

Sum 41 - The Hell Song

The Matrix Has You

The Matrix: Reloaded is on tonight! Don't miss this, because you'll wanna tell your children that you saw one of the greatest trilogies ever when you were young and that their movies are crap. You must aid your own senility by watching this! Goooo! And how can you want to miss Neo's acting ability!?

Rob D - Clubbed To Death

I figured its about time I revive this sucker. I haven't had much to say lately, but then again, what I say on here is mosly for my own future nostalgic benefit anyways. I was very recently asked "What've you been up to?" and I found that I never have anything to say to that and my response ends up being something like "Oh, not much", "Same ol' ol'" or "Uhhh.... nothing." I used to find that somewhat disappointing that I didn't have anything to say because I would think that I'm not a good conversationalist but then after some thinking I realized that its not because I'm not a good talker, (I would say I probably talk too much when its not necessary) its the fact that I really haven't done anything. Nothing new anyways. If I did say something, it'd be rambling about how I went to class and fell asleep. Sadly most of my days consist of that. And its not like I could tell people "Yeah, yesterday I played this awesome round of Warcraft and I kicked the computer's ass! Hard!" At least most people wouldn't care too much.

Last night, or this morning, I watched X2 at the 12:01AM showing and it was very good. As an occasional comic book reader and past comic book collector, I found the movie throughly pleasing. Showing a bit more of Lady Deathstrike or at least mentioning her name would've been nice. Showing a bit more of Shadowcat wouldn't hurt either. But I liked seeing the other characters all the same. And the cliffhanger ending was awesome. I already can't wait for the next one. This one was definately an improvement over the first X-Men movie and I would say its better than Daredevil too.

I was going to start taking more pictures again but when I pulled out my camera I found it had a problem with it and I won't be able to now. I think I need to take more pictures now so that in the future I won't be senile and if anything I'll be able to look back at them and pretend I was happier in my youth, (or younger days, now that I'm 19 and not really a "child" any more) which seems to always be the case, even if you're rich or whatever.

Shakira - Antologia