i played tennis competitively (and poorly) for several years when i was a young’n, and i never got tennis elbow.  fucking wii tennis has given me tennis elbow.  heather and i got a wii for christmas this year.  i realized that the only video game systems i’ve ever had were given to me by my parents at christmas. nintendo, super-nintendo, xbox, and now a wii.  wii is fun as hell.  heather and i have made the following “mii”s.  myself, heather, my dad, ben, carlos, irish bobby, bart, quang, cody and bridget.  i think my finest work was bart.

we just got back from seeing avatar in 3d.  i can’t see any reason to see the movie if it’s not in 3d.  some crazy neat-o visuals, some awesomely bad dialogue.  the movie is basically “halo” meets “fern gully”.

first semester of graduate school:  got my first 4.0 since 1988.

FINALLY got to see “house of the devil” tonight.  it was definitely worth the wait.

imagine that you get taken back in time to the early 80’s, and get to see a movie where the leading lady does everything you want her to (apart from taking the babysitting job…you have to accept that there is going to be a fucked-up situation to get into and that it will be-uh-gotten into.  it’s a horror movie.).  she doesn’t go in that room, she grabs the gun, she stabs that dude straight out…she’s a stone-cold-killer-badass-college-sophomore.  it’s another movie that gives me hope in the “saw era” of horror movies.  lots of long LONG tension building sequences, but great pay-offs.  oh, and by the way, the credits are fucking awesome.  my favorite part?  greta gerwig’s (who we all know and love from “baghead”, and hate from “hannah takes the stairs”) death scene.  four booyahs.

i’m halfway through the movie “donkey punch”.  that’s right.  there’s a movie named for the…uh…act. it’s got the token horny twenty-somethings, booze and drugs, and … a portrayal of the infamous “punch”.   a few observations thus far:

1.  during the title sequence…there’s something about seeing a beautiful landscape and the words “donkey punch” floating above.  “are you serious?” comes to mind.

2.  these girls are pretty good lookin’.  except the blonde.  who gets “punched”.

3.  lots of weenies.

4.  hairlip british dude is begging for a violent death.

5.  one of my favorite broadcast songs is in this movie.  ???

6.  so far it is not as bad as i have been warned.  and the music is…good!

like i said, i’m only halfway through, and will hopefully finish this thought when the movie is over.  my final critiques for school are friday, and i’m shockingly not flipping out.  and justin– feel better!

UPDATE:

1.  death by roman candle action = 8 points.

2.  slow death by leatherman = 5 points.

3.  death by outboard motor = 10 points!!

4.  death by drowning = 0 points.

5.  death by horizontal hanging = 2 points.

6.  death by donkey punch = priceless.