-I guess its safe to finally say that I saw Wolverine. Initial thoughts? The trailer plays games with you when you watch it. You see all these cool action scenes and completely forget that the X-Men movies are not like “Iron Man” or “The Dark Knight”. I didn’t think Wolverine was bad. I thought the first X-Men was good, X2 was great, and X3 was like that family member you don’t want to acknowledge but you know they’re still around. Wolverine fits in between the first and second movies for me. Hugh Jackman is great as he usually is, but the other characters/actors, I really didn’t deep down give a crap about. Sorry. My gut tells me that Hugh Jackman/Wolverine is probably the only character people care about. I’ve heard talk about a Magneto movie or another “X-Men Origins” character movie. I honestly don’t think people will respond to them unless Hugh Jackman is involved. Thats just my opinion and I hope I’m wrong.
-Hopefully, I’ll be seeing Star Trek within the next 48 hours. Either in IMAX or good ole 35mm. Honestly, I don’t care how I see it. I just know I WANT TO SEE IT. I’m so happy to be excited about a Star Trek movie again. I grew up watching TNG. I knew who the original cast members and characters were based on the movies, but it was TNG that got me hooked. I think I was around 6-7 when it first airing on TV. It is probably the first tv show I ever watched on a regular basis. Every Saturday afternoon/evening, I was in front of that TV watching TNG on ch.17 or ch.30 here in Nashville. When the show ended, I remember hearing about the first TNG movie and I was SO excited to see it. I’ve loved every minute of Star Trek anything I’ve seen especially TNG, and while yes I’m sad that the time of TNG and Rick Berman is about 99.9% over, I’m super stoked to see what direction J.J. Abrams takes Gene Roddenberry’s idea in. I have yet to read a bad early review about the new film which gives me some relief but at the same time, I need to try and not get my expectations to high.
- Some posts back, I wondered about my neighbors upstairs. They were always there. They were always outside smoking and they unintentionally talked loud with southern accents. Really nice people, but confusing people overall. Anyways, they moved out yesterday. It will be a quiet for a little while thank goodness. Hopefully, the new people will be nice whenever they move in.
- My dad is trying to move back home from North Carolina. He’s been a chef my entire life and he’s had some really great jobs with some GREAT perks(Cabo!), but over the last few years he’s worked his butt off to finally get a college degree and also a masters degree. Well, as of last month, he finished. Now, he’s taking a huge leap and changing careers. I’m so proud of him. He’s an inspiration to anyone that if you want to do something you can do it. I know its a big risk changing careers like that and I just hope he knows that we’ll always be here no matter whatever.
- For the past two weeks, The Office has been really great! Not that the rest of the season hasn’t been great, but it’s had some down moments. These past two episodes though have been just stellar in my opinion. They’ve felt like older episodes that made the show what it was.
- The jury is still out for me on Parks and Recreations. I like Amy Poehler but I can’t decide if I like the show. It’s trying to be like The Office but in a different way and I can’t tell if that’s hurting it or helping it. I’ve watched all four episodes and I still cannot get a definitive feeling about it.
- I’m really hoping NBC doesn’t cancel Chuck. Its such a great show. I know it has its problems but overall I like it. I’m actually preferring it over Heroes. With Jay Leno doing his thing next year, I know NBC is going to have to cancel some stuff. I know it hurts to say it, but I would kind of prefer that Heroes be cancelled before Chuck. I know it’s not going to happen because NBC already announced it was coming back, but I think Heroes has used up all their chances trying to make it a hit show. They will be going into their fourth season next year and I still don’t think they know what they’re doing. Whereas LOST has a definitive story to tell, Heroes seems like they literally make up stuff each week before it airs kind of like South Park.
- Enough about TV and movies. I’m really excited about some of the draft choices the Titans made this past weekend. I think the Titans have worried for so many years about their defense and they’ve cared enough about the offense. For years, during a lot of games they’ve scored just enough to win. And for Titans fans, its aggravating. Getting down to that stadium in downtown Nashville is not an easy task on gameday and to get down there and watch them play just enough to get by, stinks. I’ve prayed that they would finally start getting some wide receivers that would make other teams worry and yet we’ve never had it. Every time the Titans have tried to get a big name receiver, that player gets hurt or just doesn’t live up to expectations. I’m hoping that this will be the year that we continue to see signs that Titans are working their way towards that explosive offense that a lot of Titans fans haven been dying to see.
- There are a ton of good big name shows coming to Nashville over the next few months and I can’t seem to afford any of them. They’re all so expensive. Even Metallica with their advertised economically affordable tickets are still a minimum $50 before ticketmaster starts adding all of their stupid fees. Its aggravating. I don’t know how people are buying multiple tickets to the big name shows coming to town.
Thats enough for tonight. I have to get up early tomorrow morning. Goodnight.
p.s. Here is your obligatory mention of “Swine Flu”.
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