Last week "A Nightmare on Elm Street" came out to harsh criticism from across the board. Professional critics like Roger Ebert panned the film:
" The movie consists of a series of teenagers who are introduced, haunted by nightmares and then slashed to death by Freddy. So what? Are we supposed to be scared?"
Fans of the series hated the movie before it even came out. It is a remake after all, and no matter what haters will be hating. Me, personally, I enjoyed it a lot. I try to go in to every movie without any bias or pre-conventions. Of course that's impossible, but the point is I make an effort, and with "A Nightmare on Elm Street" I wasn't really able to do that. I am ashamed to admit that. As a fan of the series I had very low expectations, and thus I liked the movie a lot. Perhaps if I had went in level-headed I may have hated it? Who knows. That's the tricky thing about the brain; a lot depends on your mood.
Anyways, I'm rambling. The thinking about my mood and expectations and the Ebert quote got me to thinking about why I like horror movies.. It's not about being scared (although Halloween 1 still creeps me out alone at 3:am). It's not about blood-lust, because I tend to let flies out of the window instead of smashing them..
And then I came to a conclusion which kind of makes everything before this pointless: I don't know. I can humbly admit that. I don't know why I like horror movies, and that's fine with me. I accept that.
So now you're asking yourself: What's the point of all this? Well, let me explain. After wasting my time thinking about all this psychobabble I got a huge urge to watch all of the Friday the 13th movies so Friday night I bought the 3 pack of New Line movies, and today I received the F13 collection in the mail...
How does this effect this blog you ask? Well.....Starting some day near the weekend my "review/analysis" of Friday the 13th Part 1 will be up, and after that Part 2 will follow, and etc. etc. etc.
Until then I ask you to pray with me for a "Salute Your Shorts" DVD release
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Reading assessments
No names will be given due to some legality I have signed. However at the school I worked with, 1st graders, they took three reading assessments this year to judge growth. Students took one the first part of the year, another before christmas, and now one as the school year is ending.
My students showed TOO MUCH GROWTH. I asked the principal, is this not what you want? Her response was it was too high. So they retested all of first grade. Guess what, my students scored HIGHER. So now they think I have the test and shit. Like I am making my students read the test only, and they are memorizing each passage. So they retested Friday with completely new readings they bought, and....THEY SCORED HIGHER. Finally she admitted I was just a good teacher, and thanked me for preparing nineteen 7 year olds for second grade properly.
School administration is almost stupid.
My students showed TOO MUCH GROWTH. I asked the principal, is this not what you want? Her response was it was too high. So they retested all of first grade. Guess what, my students scored HIGHER. So now they think I have the test and shit. Like I am making my students read the test only, and they are memorizing each passage. So they retested Friday with completely new readings they bought, and....THEY SCORED HIGHER. Finally she admitted I was just a good teacher, and thanked me for preparing nineteen 7 year olds for second grade properly.
School administration is almost stupid.
Monday, May 3, 2010
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Confirmation Code: GHDVCVX23428689
CAN YOU BREAK THE CODE?
Probably not it's for our advertisers to verify the site.
Carry on.
These are not the droids you're looking for.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Salute Your Shorts
Well, JZBadblood made the above. You know why?
Salute Your Shorts is on iTunes. We're holding out HOPE for a DVD release, you see.
But yeah, I think I saw every episode of that 1000 times, because, well, they barely had any episodes. Love that shit though, because you know, I never went to camp as a kid, and them showing camp as something you suffer through instead of having fun made me feel a lot better about that, and man, you'd expect all the kids from that to be on more shit as adults today.
The thing that bothered me about the show is that Budnick was into the metal and shit, but whenever he mentioned cool bands he'd always throw Whitesnake in there. Come on, dude, nobody listens to Whitesnake. I guess I could let this go though.
The best episode was ZEKE THE PLUMBER, a great variation of the Cropsy urban legend that went around camps and also brought us the movie THE BURNING. I also learned giraffes have black tongues from Salute Your Shorts, and man they're totally right. Television is educational.
It didn't make sense that Ug was the councilor for both the girls and the boys so he was probably some kind of creepy pervert, or the female councilor was eaten by a bear or murdered by Zeke the Plumber. Either way, Ug probably has some statch charges.
In This Blog: FishHook Explains Absences and Advertises a Production Group on the Blog of Another Production Group
Hello, Kidnappers and Kidnappees! I do apologize for the long absence from the KBN network, but I just haven't had anything to write about. I really haven't bought a ton of budget games recently (or any games, to be honest), but that has recently changed as my local video rental shop is holding a closing sale and I've gotten a ton of good and not so good stuff from there on a budget. So, until that dries up, I should have a semi-decent amount of material to write Trash and Treasure on. I've got three that I'm looking at right now in particular, the first one should be up in a manner of days, maybe a week.
Anyways, that's not why I'm here. I'm here because we have new sponsors and if I blog enough, HeadNinja will give me Highspots' money...OK, not really, but do visit our new sponsors Highspots.com so that KBN can make money and stay afloat. I'm actually here because I want to advertise my new Youtube page and "production company", Machinery Making Modern Music Productions. I realize it's a long title (which is why I usually shorten it to 4M when I discuss it), but anything that's a reference to Tenacious D when they reference Rush is certainly great success. For those out of the loop, watch the concert on Tenacious D's Complete Masterworks Volume 2, specifically the song The Metal. It's just a little comment Jack Black makes, but I think it's pretty hilarious.
The long and short of it is that as a future telecommunications major in college, I'm very interested in the creation of media: television, radio, short film, etc. 4M will basically be the banner that I will post all of my various class projects and all of the other stuff I do under. The first of these are the videos from the class that inspired me to be a telecommunications major: the Mass Media class at my high school, which is basically a loosely organized class made pretty much just to produce the announcements you hear every morning at school over the PA, except we do them on closed circuit television over the school. Although that's our primary goal, we've also produced a couple of commericals for class projects and for other purposes, such as advertising sign-ups for the Mass Media class next year and various school plays and whatnot. These videos will be going up under the 4M banner on the Youtube page I created.
And now, I present to you...the MV94 News Team videos. There's only 3 thus far, and I'll post 2 of them here. First of all, there's the intro for the news show, which features the entire team and gratuitous use of STAN HANSEN THEME SONG (which I selected as our theme, conveniently forgetting to mention it was a pro wrestler's theme):
Secondly, there's the commerical/skit made to advertise signups for the Mass Media class. This one may not make sense to the masses, as there's a lot of inside jokes:
Well, that's basically it for now. If I have any more stuff, I'll let you guys know and show it off here. We're working on a short film about high school security, that'll probably be next to be posted. I'm very open to praise, criticism, suggestions, and anything else you'd like to add. Also, if you wish to subscribe, please do so at youtube.com/MachMakModMus (and trust me, there will be more than school projects on here eventually, so don't be offput by my first two offerings). By the by, that URL is VERY screwed up, as I needed to shorten Machinery Making Modern Music and I hadn't thought of the very simple "4M" shortening, so I shortened each individual word. "MachMakModMus" sounds like machs (like robots or something) making a modified moose. Which sounds...awesome, and may or may not be the logo.
- FishHook
Anyways, that's not why I'm here. I'm here because we have new sponsors and if I blog enough, HeadNinja will give me Highspots' money...OK, not really, but do visit our new sponsors Highspots.com so that KBN can make money and stay afloat. I'm actually here because I want to advertise my new Youtube page and "production company", Machinery Making Modern Music Productions. I realize it's a long title (which is why I usually shorten it to 4M when I discuss it), but anything that's a reference to Tenacious D when they reference Rush is certainly great success. For those out of the loop, watch the concert on Tenacious D's Complete Masterworks Volume 2, specifically the song The Metal. It's just a little comment Jack Black makes, but I think it's pretty hilarious.
The long and short of it is that as a future telecommunications major in college, I'm very interested in the creation of media: television, radio, short film, etc. 4M will basically be the banner that I will post all of my various class projects and all of the other stuff I do under. The first of these are the videos from the class that inspired me to be a telecommunications major: the Mass Media class at my high school, which is basically a loosely organized class made pretty much just to produce the announcements you hear every morning at school over the PA, except we do them on closed circuit television over the school. Although that's our primary goal, we've also produced a couple of commericals for class projects and for other purposes, such as advertising sign-ups for the Mass Media class next year and various school plays and whatnot. These videos will be going up under the 4M banner on the Youtube page I created.
And now, I present to you...the MV94 News Team videos. There's only 3 thus far, and I'll post 2 of them here. First of all, there's the intro for the news show, which features the entire team and gratuitous use of STAN HANSEN THEME SONG (which I selected as our theme, conveniently forgetting to mention it was a pro wrestler's theme):
Secondly, there's the commerical/skit made to advertise signups for the Mass Media class. This one may not make sense to the masses, as there's a lot of inside jokes:
Well, that's basically it for now. If I have any more stuff, I'll let you guys know and show it off here. We're working on a short film about high school security, that'll probably be next to be posted. I'm very open to praise, criticism, suggestions, and anything else you'd like to add. Also, if you wish to subscribe, please do so at youtube.com/MachMakModMus (and trust me, there will be more than school projects on here eventually, so don't be offput by my first two offerings). By the by, that URL is VERY screwed up, as I needed to shorten Machinery Making Modern Music and I hadn't thought of the very simple "4M" shortening, so I shortened each individual word. "MachMakModMus" sounds like machs (like robots or something) making a modified moose. Which sounds...awesome, and may or may not be the logo.
- FishHook
Hola!
So the past month has been wild for myself, and Mrs. Deli. We both finished up the last of our LEARNIN' and are both on the prowl for jobs. Money is short, time seems to be passing at a pace people from Kenya can't keep up with (cause they run). However a new chapter is opening. So I would like to publicly address some stuff.
1. When I die, cremate me. Then plant my ashes with a tree, and each year come tell me how big I have gotten.
2. To my unborn child(s), I hope you like stupid shit as much as I do. When we meet, I hope you don't call me a nerd and beat me up.
3. School lunches suck, and they always will suck.
I hope all ninjas are enjoying life. I hope to have something real to contribute to this blog soon. Unless you want to learn about my students fluency rates, and how my class scored too high on their final reading assessments then I have nothing to talk about.
WD
1. When I die, cremate me. Then plant my ashes with a tree, and each year come tell me how big I have gotten.
2. To my unborn child(s), I hope you like stupid shit as much as I do. When we meet, I hope you don't call me a nerd and beat me up.
3. School lunches suck, and they always will suck.
I hope all ninjas are enjoying life. I hope to have something real to contribute to this blog soon. Unless you want to learn about my students fluency rates, and how my class scored too high on their final reading assessments then I have nothing to talk about.
WD
Fuck that adsense shit.
No more google adsense. It wasn't doing anything, and man, I'd rather schill for advertisers I actually buy shit from.
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