Zombies

The Halloween season is just about over. Shaving cream is being washed away, witches are no longer posted on windows and cardboard skeletons are being taken down from their strings on porches. Though Halloween is over, me and my dad's zombie movie marathons continue. For years, my father, my brother and I have been watching and loving zombie movies. We've come to accept that as movie monsters go, flesh-eating, post-apocalyptic zombies remain supreme. We've seen just about every single zombie movie out there. The best have to be "Night of the Living Dead" and 2004's remake of "Dawn of the Dead." Zombies have made a huge impact on our lives. Its guaranteed that at least once every 2 weeks or so, zombie survival scenarios are brought up over dinner or in just random conversation between us. Though we love other horror and action movies, zombie movies almost create a new genre by combining the two in a way that draws us even deeper into story. I'm wondering how long it will be until another awesome new zombie movie makes it to our TV screen.

Music

Last night was one of the few times that I was able to slow down and relax for a while. I took out my MP3 player and listened to it for about an hour. I listened to The Who, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and other music from the late sixties and seventies. I've never been into rap and after hearing some great classic rock, I'm left to wonder where music is heading. Classic rock has survived for forty to fifty years. I wonder if rap will do the same or if it'll be a passing fad like disco. Will rock as we know it even exist in twenty years? While I do believe that my opinion of rap is simply an opinion, I feel like its leading music in a strange new direction. A large amount of rappers don't sing, they don't play instruments, its more like reciting angry poems with music and random sound effects to back them up. Will the youth now be embarrassed of liking rap as the youth of the seventies try to block out the fact that they wore bell bottoms and Afros? I try to be open minded, realizing that music changes often with or without the immediate approval of everyone but I feel like its more of a branch off of music instead of music itself. I'm wondering what defines music now and how it'll change in the next thirty years or so.

Balloon Boy

If you've watched the news at all the last few days, you must have heard about "Balloon Boy". If you haven't then basically the story was about a boy that climbed into the family's prototype weather balloon and took off from his house. Police and news crews followed the balloon for over fifty miles until it touched down. Police scrambled inside to find it empty, the boy had been hiding in the house the entire time. The press interviewed the family shortly afterward. The boy started to throw up and forced the station to end the interview. The family defended the situation, saying that it wasn't a hoax. Since then, coverage continues on the event and more evidence has come out against the family's claims. This morning, I only caught a slight part of the news but I think that they confirmed the family was lying and that it was in fact a hoax. Its a bizarre story and leaves many questions. Whats going to happen to the boy? Will the father or mother be prosecuted? Whats the future of the aircraft that sent people across the country into panic?

Video games

I was bound to mention this in one of my blogs, I am an avid gamer. I have been playing video games all my life, from my NES when I was 5 to my Playstation 3 today and I love it. I've spent countless hours playing. I've seen how video games have evolved over the last decade from random circles that move around each other to large open expanses with realistic physics and graphics. The changes over the last decade are jaw dropping and I'm very curious to see where video games will be in the next decade, virtual reality might not be that far away.

1st Entry

This is the first blog I've ever created, should be pretty cool. I watched the latest South Park the day before yesterday and I have to say, they got guts. I knew that they bluntly ran into even the most controversial issues in their usual comedic way, but I was still surprised by the last episode. It was about Kyle's brother being haunted by dead celebrities from the last year because Michael Jackson is in denial of being dead. They basically rip on Jackson by having him possess Kyle's brother and the explanation was that "he wanted to be a little girl". With all of the latest Jackson memorials, this is probably the first place I've heard anything bad about him since his death. I'm curious to see how far Matt Stone and Trey Parker go and am dieing to see their next episode next week.