The Adventures of Indiana Schwartz

R.I.P. Kyle's LJ

2006-02-15T18:15:56Z

you know what, let's go ahead and make this very easy for everyone...just stop checking my livejournal haha. i mean, it's pointless when everyone who looks at my lj is on my myspace ANYWAY and i write blogs on my myspace all the time. so, if you're interested in what i have to say, check out the blogs (which i write fairly regularly nowadays) on my myspace. i like writing on myspace because there's more traffic there, i know more people are looking, i mean i wrote a post last night and it already has 22 views...whereas 4 people will see this lj within the next couple weeks. so, let's all just save ourselves a lot of hassle and stop wondering when kyle's ever going to use this lj again...cause the answer's practically never. i will keep the lj, however, for the original reason i got one...to leave comments. however, i urge you to utilize the myspace blog because, let's face it, we all check that more often anyway.

thanks a bunch lj, but i have no need for you anymore. take care now. bye bye then.

P.S.

2006-01-30T20:40:50Z

P.S. if you have any questions about any of the movies listed, i'll be glad to answer any and all of them.

TCM Movie Schedule

2006-01-30T20:40:17Z

Well, Turner Classic Movies is having it's annual "30 Days of Oscar" in February and I thought I'd share with everyone what MY movie-watching schedule is like this month. I'm sure I've talked to all of you about at least one of the following movies, so do yourself a favor and check out as many as you can.

February

1
11 pm - Shampoo (1975)

2
1: 15 pm - Citizen Kane (1941)

3
3 pm – In Which We Serve (1942) (Lean)
5 pm - Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957)
8 pm - Sunset Boulevard (1950)

4
8 am - On The Waterfront (1954)

5
11:30 am - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

6
2 am - Life Of Emile Zola, The (1937)
2 pm - Brief Encounter (1945) (Lean)
5 pm - Producers, The (1968)
6: 30 pm - Front, The (1976) (Woody Allen, Zero Mostel)
8: 15 pm - Zelig (1983)(Allen)

7
11 am - Gunga Din (1939)

8
12:12 am - Great Dictator, The (1940)
9:15 pm - My Fair Lady (1964)

9
12:15 am - Funny Face (1957)
10 am - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2 pm - Hamlet (1948)
5 pm - Big Country, The (1958)
8 pm - Boys From Brazil, The (1978)
10:15 pm - North By Northwest (1959)

10
11 am - Oklahoma! (1955)
1: 30 pm - Doctor Zhivago (1965)
5 pm - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
7 pm - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9:45 pm - Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)
11:30 pm - Lolita (1962)

11
5 pm - Graduate, The (1967)
7 pm - Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

12
12:30 pm - To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
2:45 pm - Sting, The (1973)
5 pm - Out of Africa (1985)
10:30 pm - Quiz Show (1994)

13
12:30 pm - Double Indemnity (1944)
8:45 pm - 12 Angry Men (1957)(Lumet)

16
7 am - Way We Were, The (1973)
9 am - Funny Girl (1968)

18
8 am - Rocky (1976)
10:30 am - Hook (1991)
1 pm - Dick Tracy (1990)
3 pm - Back to the Future (1985)
5 pm - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

19
6:30 am - Time Machine, The (1960)
11:15 pm - China Syndrome, The (1979)(Lemmon, M. Douglas)

22
5 pm - Professionals, The (1966)
7 pm - Airport (1970)

23
9 pm - Guy Named Joe, A (1943)

24
7:15 pm - Same Time, Next Year (1978)

25
8:15 am - How the West Was Won (1962)
5 pm - Awakenings (1990)
7:15 pm - Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
9 pm - Birdcage, The (1996)
11:15 pm - Tootsie (1982)

26
1:15 am - Network (1976)
3:15 am - Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
1 pm - Gone With the Wind (1939)

27
12 pm - Lion In Winter, The (1968)

28
12 am - Oliver! (1968)
1 pm - Captains Courageous (1937)
5 pm - Conversation, The (1974)
7 pm - American Graffiti (1973)

March

2
5 pm - Lost Weekend, The (1945)(Wilder)
9 pm - Paper Moon (1973)

4
1 pm - Lord of the Flies (1963)
5 pm - Funny Girl (1968)

5
3 pm - Haunting, The (1963)
10:15 pm - Westworld (1973)

6
12 am - Soylent Green (1973)

11
11 am - Fahrenheit 451 (1967)
5 pm - Hustler, The (1961)

14
3 pm - Ipcress File, The (1965)

18
11 am - Winchester '73 (1950)
5 pm - Quiet Man, The (1952)

19
7:15 pm - Robin and Marian (1976)

23
3 am - Seven Samurai (1954)
6:30 am - Throne of Blood (1957)
8:30 am- Yojimbo (1961)
10: 30 am - Outrage, The (1964)(Newman, Dir. Ritt)

24
5 pm - Murder by Death (1976)(Sellers)
11 pm - Wings of Desire (1987)

25
6:30 pm - This Happy Breed (1944)

26
1 pm - Sabrina (1954)

30
10:30 pm - Cape Fear (1962)

Enjoy the upcoming months! I know I will...

disneyland

2006-01-24T17:33:08Z

oy...was supposed to go to disneyland today, but it was cancelled at like 1 in the morning. what a time to find out, eh? i don't think i need to tell you what a disneyland fan i am...i do believe i once posted a 3 page essay on the subject. actually i started this post with the intention of getting into disneyland specifics, but now that i'm writing, i don't feel like ie haha. oh well, long story short disneyland is the happiest place on earth and i thought of another good reason why: no ashley simpson. seriously though, the thing about disneyland is that there are no pop-culture references within the park. you don't walk down mainstreet and hear the latest hillary duff single, the shows don't spoof the matrix, and they don't re-do rides and attracttions with the intent to appeal to any particular target market. everything is a complete world unto it's own. the only sounds you hear are classic disney sounds and songs and the only things you see are pure disney magic. it's as if for a day you are completely taken out of the world you live in...and taken to a world all unto itself where the outside doesn't matter in the least. disneyland's promise to take you away from the world of today is it's most appealing attribute.

after all, when you enter disneyland, you pass under a bridge. next time you go, take a moment to look up and read the inscription on that bridge. it reads: "Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy."

Start Spreadin' the Newwwwws

2006-01-20T02:16:05Z

I realize my LJ doesn't have the largest fan-base...and I also realize that compared to MySpace, LJ is as dead as...dead. However, in an all-out attempt to be as vain and self-promoting as possible, I'm letting you all know that from tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 2 p.m. until Sunday afternoon at around 5 p.m., I will be on a retreat with the Confirmation class at Camp Lakota in Frasier park (hmm, I never noticed Lakota is the language they speak in Dances With Wolves...oh man, I won't cry, I won't cry...). SO, I of course realize that while I'm gone the world will keep spinning and MySpace will keep...MySpacing...so I've decided that you, yes YOU, the faithful reader (what are there, like 6 of you?) of my LJ should stop by my MySpace and leave me plenty of comments and Kyle-love so that when I get back, I will be totally happy. You know how when you haven't checked your mail in like 3 days and then you come back to find....nothing there? I hate that feeling. I like to see little messages of how much I rule and random funny memories and anecdotes when I return. So, if you truly, TRULY love me, you'll leave a bunch of crap on my MySpace. Go ahead, fill it up...I want the most popular freakin MySpace ever. Also, tell all your friends, even if they dont' know me, to join my fan club. I have a bet going on with...ah-hem, SOMEONE who says I can't get up to 150 members by the time the month is out. Well, I'll show him with your help.

SO! Farewell and have a great weekend, I know I will.

Your pal,
Kyle (add whichever nickname you have for me HERE)

The E.T. Adventure

2006-01-17T18:08:06Z

I wrote the following on Tuesday, March 25, 2003:

I'm very groggy today. My fingers feel weird and I keep hitting the wrong keys on the keypad. But, hey it is still early. Plus, I was up a little while last night very depressed. See, a good friend of mine...for a long time...is no more. He's also been a friend to a lot of you. His name is E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial and his ride at Universal Studios Hollywood has been closed down for good. Yes, the E.T. ride is closed...to make room for some Mummy crap or something. I'm sure hearing this many of you are pretty bummed yourself, but try not to worry about it. Just try to remember the good times you've had with E.T....picking funny names for him to say at the end of the ride...we flew with him over a rinky-dink miniature city in space (where it's really hard to breathe)...we saved his friend Tiki Mut-Mut from utter distruction...and we even met his teacher, Botanicus, while waiting in line. And let us not forget the special message from our good friend, Steven Spielberg. Never again will we be able to read the spanish subtitles on that classic video and say "Mi casa! Mi casa!" when E.T. says "Home! Home!" Ah, while he may be physically gone, he will always remain with us in our hearts and in our memory. Yesterday I bought an E.T. hat at Universal in memory of this tragic occasion. This will be my "new hat." May it be a constant reminder of one of the best friends this world has known over the past two decades.

I still have that hat today. We miss you, E.T.. Universal is not now and will never be as fun without you. May we meet again one day in that great theme park in the sky...

E.T. Adventure, Universal Studios Hollywood
June 1991 - March 2003
"Beloved friend and theme park attraction"

Stick with me, I'm going somewhere with it...

2006-01-16T20:53:01Z

You grow up and you learn. Everything is a learning experience, whether you know it or not. And you grow up with certain finite knowledges. For example, you KNOW fire is hot and you KNOW ice is cold. In the same way, you know certain things about more obscure circumstances, such as television. You KNOW that every time you watch Sesame Street, the same song is at the beginning of every show and you KNOW Big Bird is a big yellow bird with a big hairy elephant-friend. But, there are also things that you don't usually think about because the average person doesn't question things that they KNOW. There are plenty of things that have bothered me about things that we supposedly KNOW all about, but in the end have no knowledge of whatsoever. For example, what kind of bird IS Big Bird? And where do Snuffalufagus' come from? And is Snuffy the only Snuffalufagus? Because, the guy's name IS Snuffalufagus, implying that he is in fact the ONLY Snuffalufagus. If he weren't the only one, then he'd need some sort of surname...in this way he's sort of like Tigger. He IS a Tigger, but there's no confusion as to WHICH Tigger you're reffering to when you SAY Tigger because, as the song says, he is, in fact, the only one.

Of course, I realize that these questions can never be answered because obviously the creator of Big Bird didn't have a particular bird in mind when designing the puppet, and Snuffy's creators didn't have an elaborate backstory on the evolution of the modern Snuffalufagus. But, there are questiong that obviously must have some answer within the world that's created onscreen. One legit question might be concerning the sexual preference of fictional characters. For example, I always thought Rabbit from The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was a lesbian. Now, later in life I found out that Rabbit is a guy, but as I said before, many of these cartoons make no references to gender, they simply ARE. So, I always assumed Rabbit was a girl, but that she was a frigid bitch...and eventually that conclusion matured into the assumption that she must be a lesbian. Now, the writer of the original stories did NOT have sex in mind when he wrote them. However, we DO know that there IS sex in the Hundred Acre Wood because of Roo. Roo is a child kangaroo who has a (single) mother named Kanga. Now, for Roo to exist, Kanga had to be able to find and mate with a male kangaroo...further implying sexual inercourse, finally revealing that there must be some concept of sexual preference within the Pooh universe. Ergo, when I thought Rabbit was a woman, I assigned the title of homosexual to her. The point is that while the easy way out of these types of questions is to just say "They have no sexual preferences because the creators didn't give them any." But, to some extent, the world in which the fictional characters exist escapes the perameters created by the original author. For example, if the writer of the original Pooh stories said that the Hundred Acre Wood was an island, there's nothing from keeping someone else's imagination to expand upon the already created fictional universe and create a mainland across the sea in which the island is located. This is possible because, unless specified by the author, every question that CAN be asked HAS an answer within the universe somewhere. So, yes, Kanga DID have sex with a male kangaroo. Why? Because I said so and I was the first one to say so because the original author said nothing about it.

Now, I know what you're saying, WHY is Kyle thinking about sex inthe Pooh universe. Well, that's not what I'm thinking about, I'm merely using it to illustrate a point. The failure of the author of the Pooh books to mention sexual preference is not a problem because the only consequece of such an action is that I'm sitting here thinking about who boinked who. But, the same concept applies to other things that DO matter, and that's what I'm concerned with. Take the bible. We don't know who wrote all the books in the bible, but we KNOW who wrote the gospels. We know that IN the gospels, it's written that Jesus went to the garden at Gathsemene the night before he died and prayed and that when he came back from praying, he found all the apostles asleep and then spoke to them as they were asleep. Now, if we didn't think outside of the box, here, all this would make sense. However, take a moment: if the apostles were asleep...and the apostles wrote the gospels, then how did they know what Jesus said to them while they were asleep? And how did they know what Jesus was saying when he went away on his OWN to pray BY HIMSELF? The truth is that there is no way they could have known...they were asleep. This means that at least THIS portion of the bible is a fabrication. Now, if we know that ONE portion of the gospel is fake, then how do we know what OTHER parts are fake? The problem here is that the content of the bible is no small matter. Wars have been fought, religions and ways of life have been formed and crushed based on the words that ended up in that book and for some of it to be nothing more than the whim of some fiction writer and for us to not know which parts are real and which parts are fake is a BIG fucking deal. Now, it's easy for one to speculate on what might have happened...but unlike my theory of "what I say about the Pooh universe goes," thoughts like these shake the very foundations of lives and nations.

THOUGHT is the most powerful weapon mankind has ever known. All the power in the world began with one man's THOUGHT...before the drive, before the means, there was the idea. Where Snuffy came from is not a powerful concept, but ideas for weapons of mass destruction and ethnic cleansing...those are thoughts that the world hinges on. And all thought stems from man's struggle to make sense of the world and how to work and live with it, within it or without it. And knowledge...knowledge is NOT finite...not because there's an infinite number of THINGS to know about, but because the imagination has the ability to perpetually create an infinite amount of new facets for existing concepts.

Hmm...good thought, Kyle.

indianaschwartz @ 2006-01-14T17:21:00

2006-01-15T01:44:04Z

For my 21st B-Day, I went to Las Vegas. I ended up coming home 300 dollars poorer, but I had a blast. Basically, the trip went something like this...

On Friday, we hit the road to Vegas...boy, we were happy then. I sat behind Jehisol, which is fun in itself...

On the way to Vegas, we ran into some interesting characters...

But, that didn't stop us. When we finally arrived, I couldn't believe the sights there were to see...especially the view from my balcony...

After taking in the view, we headed down to the casinos. Louie was loaded...

I forgot my wallet at home, but Louie was more than willing to help me out...

By the end of the first day, Adam was out of money...he ended up waiting for 12 a.m. so he'd be able to take more money out of the ATM machine...

But when 12 hit, you better believe where HE ended up...

Besides gambling, though, most of our time was spent taking in the city...

...and meeting the locals...

I even found myself a nice girl to spend some time with...

After the weekend was over, we were all pretty short on cash...

But, we sure left happy!

And that about sums up my 21 birthday trip to LAS VEGAS!!! Can't wait to go again...anyone game?

indianaschwartz @ 2006-01-08T11:03:00

2006-01-08T19:53:45Z

I was up late the other night watching TV and I had the great luck to stumble across something wonderful. It's truly one of those gems of a show that only comes around every once in a great while. This new show is quite possibly the most fascinating show since VH1's "Strange Love" and DEFINITLEY the most exhillerating television-viewing experience since "The Surreal Life 3." You guessed it, I'm talking about...

[TRUMPETS: BUM BUM BUM BUUUMMMMMM!]

Yes, it's VH1's new entry in the annals of quality TV history, "Flavor of Love." In case some of you have been living in a cave since the new year, let me tell you a little about the show.

"Flavor of Love" features 20 young women like these:

vie for the attention of ONE man...

FLAVA FLAV!!!

The show consists of daily challenges (i.e. pantie parties and turn-your-stomach make-out sessions with the Flav-man himself) and at the end of each episode, Flav hands out clocks to the "hoodrats" he wants to stay with him in his "phat crib."

Quote, Flav: "Whoever ever get a clock, knows what time it is. Whoever don't get a clock - that means your time's up."

At the end of last week's episode, one of the girls, Cherry (nicknamed for the size of her nipples) was extremely disappointed, saying, "I just don't understand. I just don't deserve it. I'm like way better than half those chicks that he kept here...I don't wanna go home!" But, she was probably just mad because she let Flav feel her up earlier in the episode. Quote, Cherry: "His hands felt so good on my little Cocopuff..."

Eventually, Flav will, through a series of events (including a lie-detector test administered by Flav's Ex "Strange Love" and "Surreal Life" co-star, Brigitte Neilson...)
Flav will choose the love of his life. Of course, we all can't help but feel sorry for poor Cherry. Too bad she won't be spending the rest of HER days with this...

indianaschwartz @ 2006-01-07T18:20:00

2006-01-08T02:20:54Z

Kong is King

2005-12-16T01:50:02Z

King Kong was FANTASTIC! Everyone knows the story of King Kong and everyone knows that there is a 1933 version of the film, but not many people have even seen that movie. Well, to get in the mood for seeing Peter Jackson's King Kong last night, Michael and I watched the original 30's movie in the day. We laughed at how dated a few parts were, but in general it was a pretty impressive movie. When I was finally in the theater watching the new King Kong, I decided, even before the movie was finished, that it's possibly one of the best re-makes EVER. It's EXACTLY what a re-make should be. A re-make shouldn't change the entire concept of a movie or throw out old storylines, and a re-make shouldn't completely re-do the old movie frame-for frame, either. What Peter Jackson has done with his film is simply re-make the 1930's movie and expanded on certain relationship aspects of the movie as well as make the old action sequences exciting for a modern audience. And let me tell you, this movie was EXCITING. Some of these sequences will literally knock your socks off...like literally I had to walk across the theater when the movie was over and pick my socks off the floor, they were knocked off that far. Initially I was worried about the CGI, and while you can totally tell it's CGI, you are so invested in the intensity of the CGI and the action and the character of Kong himself that by the end when he's on the Empire State Building, you're so completely blown away that you forget that it's CGI...hell, you even forget you're watching a movie, it's so engrossing. Apart from Kong, Jack Black is the second best character...there was some speculation as to whether or not Black would be right for a serious role, but let me tell you, he was absolutely perfect. He was just quirky and funny and, believe it or not, eerie enough to make the role completely his own and totally believeable. And on another filmmaking aspect, the music was great. I was wary about the music because it's from a...well, an overrated composer, to be honest...but he really delivered a score that was thematic, strong, beautiful and action packed.

Without giving away all the specifics, all I'm going to say is SEE T HIS MOVIE IN THEATERS. Don't let the hype get you down and don't let the length of the movie stop you from seeing it. It's well worth it...especially the last half.

On another note, I've created a fan club for myself. Don't ask why, I just want to see how many people I can get on it. Visit my MySpace for details.

Me and Marcela after creating the group:
DetachblePianist: ha ha ha! we're the only 2 members!
IndianaSchwartz: so far...
IndianaSchwartz: feel free to invite anyone...actually, invite people i don't know
IndianaSchwartz: i want a bunch of peopel i don't know to join
DetachblePianist: ha haha
DetachblePianist: right on
IndianaSchwartz: i'm in the middle of posting a bulletin on why kyle is so kool
IndianaSchwartz: oh shiz i got 3 members now
IndianaSchwartz: ok if you go back i have links
DetachblePianist: ok
DetachblePianist: 4 members
IndianaSchwartz: fuckin sweet
IndianaSchwartz: 4 members in like 5 minutes...that means in a couple hours i will have hundreds of members
DetachblePianist: ha ha ha
IndianaSchwartz: lol 6 members...
IndianaSchwartz: 9...i'm so awesome
DetachblePianist: ha haha

That convo literally was over the course of 15 minutes...i now have 16 over the course of about an hour....hmmm.....

Kong Has Arrived..and Kyle Has Something To Say

2005-12-14T19:54:34Z

Just for the record...I want everyone to know that I've already written my review for King Kong, which I saw last night at 12:01 a.m., and it's sitting there ready to be posted. Why did Kyle write it so early? Was it because it was absolutely fantastic or a disappointing travesty? What are you guesses? I'd like to know.

The review will be posted on Thursday, giving Michael a chance to see the movie before hearing what I have to say. For those of you who don't want to know anything about it or just don't want to know what I thought, don't come back here until you do see it.

Who Likes The New Layout?

2005-12-12T22:38:36Z

Ok so I'm walking into the library this morning and this guy behind me is totally talking some other person's ear off about absolutely nothing. I mean, he's talking about how he thinks the library should be symmetrical and how he doesn't believe in escalators and I'm like who the hell is this guy? He's talking about nothing at all with no thought behind it whatsoever. But then I thought to myself, "Oh my God, I talk about crap like that all the time!" And I had just decided that this guy didn't have a decent thought in his head...but does that mean that I don't have a decent thought in my head? Do people really hear me talk and ramble and think "Oh crap, there goes crazy Ol' Kyle again. Brace yourselves."? I always thought of myself as a deep thinker..I mean, not contemplative in the sense that I sit and stew over philiosphical arguments, but I mean I think that what I do say has some serious thought behind it, even if it's about something stupid. But, I mean, if I sound like this guy...and he thinks that he is a deep thinker, maybe my deep thinking is actually just regular thinking and I'm not special at all. I like to think I'm a guy with some vision and some wit...but gee, the fact that that idiot thinks of basically the same things I do scares me. I mean this whole post that I just wrote...does it sound like ramble crap to you? I'm extremely distraught now..................Ok I'm better now. Thank God that passed.

Oh, a thought occured to me today, i think it's from a movie though, so I can't take all the credit:

"If the world didn't suck so much, we'd fall off."

indianaschwartz @ 2005-12-05T09:47:00

2005-12-05T17:51:43Z

Ugh, so much pressure to keep this thing alive. Oh, wait...no, there's not haha. I always feel like I'm letting someone down by not posting in this LJ (you've all heard it before), but I know that only an average of like 4 people look at this anyway...

LJ's are like dead...it's all about MySpace, but no one ever reads people's MySpace blogs at all...hell, I'm probably breaking some crazy copyright rule by even mentioning MySpace...next thing you know I'll be getting a message from Tom telling me I'm an asshole and owe him $3000...well, i got news for you, TOM...you can SUCK MY FUC---- whoops, sorry...i just got a phone call, I have to go have lunch. To be continued...TOM!

Thanksgiving UPDATE

2005-11-24T19:09:44Z

Ok, just when I thought nothing could ruin Thanksgiving, my dad turns on the food network and PAULS DEAN is on! I fucking hate Paula Dean...she's SO annoying! I just hate her southern mentality...that whole "Oh, anythin' with lard is better, and my food's always brown, hot and lots ooof 'it."

I'm in my room and since Predator is over, I have nothing to drown the sound of her voice out...so I shut my door and started blasting Die Walkure...but even through the "Hojotoho-ing" her pitches pierce through and find my ears...

HAPPY (because it's a holiday) Thanksgiving

2005-11-24T18:24:01Z

Ah, Thanksgiving...my second favorite holiday. The first is, of course, Christmas...mostly because of the multitude of presents, but also because of the ambiance, the decor, the smells, the music...just that all-around feeling. But Thanksgiving is a holiday all unto itself. The following are the rules one must abide by during Thanksgiving:
1.) Eat
2.) Nap

How nicer can a holiday fucking get? You got the best damn food of the year (let's face it, it's the only time of the year when you can have pumpkin pie without anyone having to ask "Pumpkin pie? What's the occasion?"), and then you got....THE BEST DAMN FOOD OF THE YEAR! Of course, the weather as of late isn't really helping the whole "holiday" feel...I mean usually at this time of year it's nice and blustery and ya got leaves blowin around...but now it's just kind of hot and well...until this morning it didn't really feel like Thanksgiving at all. But, I awoke this morning and walked into the kitchen to find my mom and dad preparing the yams (of which I am the official taster) and a few other items (my grandma is doing the turkey) and everything seemed right with the world. Then, I got all comfortable on the couch to watch the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...and after about five minutes of that crap, I went back in my room and turned on Predator (perfect holiday entertainment). BUT, nonetheless, later I will be going to visit some family and eat eat eat. Then, it's just a matter of coming home and going to sleep. Tomorrow, the world begins to turn once again and I will have to go to work and with the exception of Michael's birthday on Sunday, not too much else lies in my weekend except horrible crowds and rabid sale-seekers...yipee kie yay...

But, until then, I have my turkey...and candied yams...and stuffing...and mashed potatoes...and seasoned green beans...and pie...and cranberry sauce........and gravy...lots of that oh so wonderful, wonderous gravy....

No joking - I checked this stuff in encylopedias, as well as Scientology's official website(s)

2005-11-17T16:47:50Z

Last night's episode of South Park tackled the issue of the religion known as "Scientology." The GREAT thing about the episode, however, is that it finally publicly explored the "hidden truth" story that Scientologists so often refuse to talk about publicly. For those of you who are not too savvy on what Scientology even is, let me enlighten you.

As many of you might know, Scientology is an extremely popular religion, followed by numerous celebrities, such as Tom Cruise. Most people also know that Scientology was created in the 50's by L. Ron Hubbard, a very successful science-fiction (FICTION) writer. Basically, Scientology claims to be an alternative to psychology and other religious endeavors, focusing on the power of the individual.

What most of you might NOT know is that about 15 years after starting this popular religion (which borrowed many of it's ceremonies from Hubbard's own experiences with the occult, a la Jack Parsons and Aleister Crawley), L. Ron Hubbard decided to finally reveal the truth behind human existence. Of course, Hubbard tried to keep this revelation secret, save to those members of Scientology who reached level III (OT III) in the religion. Nowadays, full information regarding this great revelation (and reaching OT III) costs about 360,000 dollars.

This is what Scientology claims is the "hidden truth" behind human existence (PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS REAL. SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS):

75 million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having on average 178 billion people. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with people "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth.

Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of "renegades", he defeated the populace and the "Loyal Officers", a force for good that was opposed to Xenu. Then, with the assistance of psychiatrists (yes, you read right...EVIL PSYCHIATRISTS), he summoned billions of people to paralyze them with injections of alcohol and glycol, under the pretense that they were being called for "income tax inspections." The kidnapped populace was loaded into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The space planes were exact copies of Douglas DC-8s, "except the DC-8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't." DC-8s have jet engines, not propellers, although Hubbard may have meant the turbine fans.

When the space planes had reached Teegeeack, the paralyzed people were unloaded and stacked around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were lowered into the volcanoes, and all were detonated simultaneously. Only a few people's physical bodies survived.

The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for 36 days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data" (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, etcetera". This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The interior decoration of "all modern theaters" is also said by Hubbard to be due to an unconscious recollection of Xenu's implants.

In addition to implanting new beliefs in the thetans, the images deprived them of their sense of identity. When the thetans left the projection areas, they started to cluster together in groups of a few thousand, having lost the ability to differentiate between each other. Each cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as body thetans, which are said to be still clinging to and adversely affecting everyone except those Scientologists who have performed the necessary steps to remove them.

The Loyal Officers finally overthrew Xenu and locked him away in a mountain, where he was imprisoned forever by a force field powered by an eternal battery. (Some have suggested that Xenu is imprisoned on Earth in the Pyrenees, but Hubbard merely refers to "one of these planets" [of the Galactic Confederacy]; he does, however, refer to the Pyrenees as being the site of the last operating "Martian report station", which is probably the source of this particular confusion. Teegeeack/Earth was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah "prison planet" to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since then.

Within Scientology, the Xenu story is referred to as "The Wall of Fire" or "Incident II". Hubbard attached tremendous importance to it, saying that it constituted "the secrets of a disaster which resulted in the decay of life as we know it in this sector of the galaxy". The broad outlines of the story — that 75 million years ago a great catastrophe happened in this sector of the galaxy which caused profoundly negative effects for everyone since then — are publicly admitted to lower-level Scientologists. However, the details are kept strictly confidential, at least within the Church.

Hubbard claimed to be the first to map a precise route through the Wall of Fire, "probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years". He first publicly announced his "breakthrough" in Ron's Journal 67 (RJ67), a tape Hubbard recorded on 20 September, 1967 to be sent to all members of the Church. According to Hubbard, his research was achieved at the cost of a broken back, knee and arm. OT III contains a warning that the R6 implant is "calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it."

OT III also deals with Incident I, set four quadrillion years ago (considerably longer than current scientific consensus holds the age of the universe to be). In Incident I, the unsuspecting thetan was subjected to a loud snapping noise followed by a flood of luminescence, then saw a chariot followed by a trumpeting cherub. After a loud set of snaps, the thetan was overwhelmed by darkness. This is described as the implant offering the gateway to this universe, meaning that these traumatic memories are what separates thetans from their static (natural, godlike) state.

Hubbard uses the existence of body thetans to explain many of the physical and mental ailments of humanity which, he says, prevent people from achieving their highest spiritual levels. OT III tells the student to remove the body thetans by bringing them to awareness of themselves as individual beings: "One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I." The student is directed to find a cluster of body thetans, address it "telepathically" as a cluster and take first the cluster then each individual member of the cluster through Incident II, then Incident I if needed. Hubbard warns that this is a painstaking procedure, and OT levels IV to VII continue the long process of dealing with one's body thetans.

Believe it or not, for some strange reason, the Church avoids making mention of Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable effort to maintain the story's confidentiality, including legal action on the grounds of both copyright and trade secrecy. Despite this, much material on Xenu has leaked to the public.

Well, it's quite a lovely little story and I can totally see how Tom Cruise can believe in that. So, basically the ultimate belief of Scientology is that you are possessed by the spirits of aliens murdered 75 million years ago by "Xenu" and you have to exorcise these spirits.

Oh, by the way, let's not forget that this entire religion was just MADE UP by a science fiction writer who PUBLICALLY stated in a 1980 issue of Reader's Digest, "If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." Also, fellow science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers) stated that scientology was based on a bet between the two authors...a claim never denied by Hubbard, but vehemently condemned by the Church of Scientology.

Oh, and on a final note...what pisses me off MAYBE more than anything about Scientology (more than the brainwashing, even) is the official symbol of Scientology....

Yeah...it's a cross. Nice one, you Scien-fucks.

I took an online quiz...and I'm apparenly a "Funny Asian Man"

2005-11-16T21:01:32Z

I needed to post SOMETHING on my LJ cause I haven't for a long time...and after reading Michael's latest entry about stereotypes, I've decided to re-post something I wrote a while back from my old blog.

On Feb. 6, 2004, Kyle wrote:

There's a guy sitting behind me in the computer lab giving Asians a bad name. He's like this guy here, but he's not clean cut at all, and he's not a funny asian man...but an asian man who thinks he's funny. He's sitting behind me talking to someone on the phone, but it's on one of those hands-free devices so advanced that I can't even see it and you can only buy them in Japan. So, here he is, talking and laughing his abnoxious laugh and speaking in some asian language...I think Chinese. He gets up every few minutes for I don't know what reason...but when he does, he gets up and walks around the library yelling in his foreign tounge and laughing like a complete idiot. He smells, too. He sat down at his computer and farted a few minutes ago. Farted. In a library full of people. Farted. And he laughed it off, too. Like, I can't understand him, but he's probably saying to his buddy, "Hey, I just farted, dude. And no one can yell at me because they think I'm just a weird asian man and if they call me on it I can just blame in on the fact that I'm from another culture ahhhahahahahahahooohooooo."

This gives asian people a bad name. I mean, here I am, someone who's taken Asian American studies classes for an entire year now and this guy is totally part of the problem in this country today. He exudes every bad stereotype of an asian man ever and he's got to know it, too. He's totally using his status as foreigner to gain some sort of leeway on the general public. He knows that he can do whatever he wants and most everyone won't even bother setting him straight because most Americans sort of write foreigners off as crazy because they're from another culture. So, this guy decides to act completely obnoxiously, giving the average person a reason to believe that all asian people are just like they are in animes: small people with big mouths who scream randomly, laugh at bodily humor, and plot to bring communism to America.

Now, of course I don't subscribe to any of this, but seriously. I mean, I resent white people sometimes because white people nowadays are TOTALLY white. And by white I don't mean like me, geeky and lacking any sort of rythm, I mean when white people are all trendy and try to be like other cultures by calling themselves Niggah and Dawg...I just think to myself, "Wow, ignorance IS bliss, isn't it? Cause I'm in agony watching this." And Asians are from other countries, which is cool and all. I mean I have a lot of Asian friends, and I have even more Asian American friends...and they'll say the same thing. People who get on their nerves are people who are TOTALLY asian. I mean, here are Asian Americans...they still get slack and discrimination because they look different or because they have Asian heritage...but they're Americans just like me and they are just people trying to get along. Here comes this asshole behind me who is so totally Asian that it's obvious that he's not even trying to fit into American culture whatsoever. I mean, I'm not telling you to change who you are, but if I moved to China, I'd try to learn the culture...I'd WANT to. This guy is such a social deviant that just looking at him laughing idiotically away makes me feel so bad for the world because this is what will happen: white people will see this man and they will think all Asians are like him, and Asians will see this man and think, "Damn, we're in for some shit down the road..."

Zoo...OLD

2005-11-01T18:04:35Z

Heh, I wrote this over a year ago...notice how I refer to Rosy as only "my friend." Of course, at the time I tried not to mention her too much in my post for fear I might be revealing some liking of her...

Ah, the Los Angeles Zoo. I love the zoo. When I was a kid, I used to love seeing the flamingos. For some reason, they don't interest me as much now. I think it had to do with the fact that they're the first animals that you see and when I was young and full of wonder, the first animal I saw would naturally be memorable. I went to the zoo yesterday and when I looked at the flamingos, I was just sort of bored. I'd like to see them fly or something, but all they do is just stand around and it struck me as a painfully pointless exhibit. Then we moved on and I realized that all of the zoo is a painfully pointless exhibit, so I got out of the mindframe and started to enjoy myself. All the animals were out, but it was hot, so you had to look harder to see them (as a sign pointed out to us...without that sign, I don't know what I would have done). I finally saw a koala in daylight, but I was somewhat dissappointed because it was in a tree eating ucalyptis (spelling?) leaves...but koalas are always in trees eating ucalyptis leaves. I kinda hoped it would do something different.

Not to say that I didn't have a good time. I was there with a lot of people and it was pretty funny...and very interesting, to say the least (and NOT because of the animals). But, it was more of a contemplative experience. My friend Rosy was the reason for the visit. She doesn't like the zoo because she's a vegetarian and she doesn't like the idea of animals cooped up in cages. Of course, the zoo isn't just a bunch of zoos locked up in cages; the zoo is not what it used to be. It's not a place purely for our amusement and the animals aren't locked in small cages being poked with sticks. The Zoo is a great place for animals. Zoos take in animals from all over the globe that have been injured or in danger. One of the gorillas at the San Diego zoo was donated to them by a primatoligist who found the gorilla in a marketplace in Tangier. So, instead of ending up on some poacher's wall or having it's head and hands end up in a street bazaar in Morocco, the SD Zoo took the gorilla in. Plus, Zoo reproduction rates in gorillas and elephants are higher than they are in the wild, and zoos will ensure the existence of dozens of species for generations to come. Zoos are not places of opression, but they are sanctuaries.

Yet, at the same time the real reason zoos are able to function in this way is because they are, more than anything, attractions. They're on display for our pleasure. So, when I didn't see the koala do anything exciting, I thought BORING. BUt, afterwards, I sort of felt bad for feeling that way because I was observing a living creature in it's home. It's not it's original home in the wild, and in many ways living in a zoo is harmful for animals. Animals in captivity sometimes develope emotional and psychological problems from lack of contact with their natural environments. At the same time, though, if a gazelle breaks its leg at the zoo, the zoo will tend to the animal, whereas in the wild, the gazelle would surely die. Also, in the safety of a zoo, gorillas, elephants, lions, tigers, and a number of other animals are guaranteed not to be murdered by poachers. And have you seen the habitats they have for these animals? I would LOVE to be a chimpanzee in a zoo. They have the best habitat in the whole zoo, and they seem to love it. It's like living in a mansion.

In the end, I'm pro-Zoos. I'm very much for human intervention in the animal world, and I do feel that I can rest easy with the assurance that these animals are not suffering at the hands of their caretakers.

ZOO HIGHLIGHTS
1. Chimpanzees
2. Bugging everyone as much as possible, esp. the vegetarian
3. Orangutans
4. The petting zoo. This particular petting zoo was a let down, but come on, where else can you kiss a goat and not end up on Jerry Springer?
5. That groundhog area where you can put your head into those glass orbs(?)
6. The 3 minutes Kat was there.
7. The food (Having a place in the zoo called "The Grill" with pictures of animals all around it was at the same time morbid and irresistable)
8. Koala (even though I didn't get my Koala Yummies)
9. The backside of water
10. I was able to avoid that boring bird show

Pictures courtesy of Rosy...even though I didn't ask permission.

Hitch, bitch!

2005-10-26T23:29:42Z

About once a year, Turner Classic Movies (channel 58 on Time Warner) decides to put together a tribute to THE great director of all time, Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock gained the title "Master of Suspense," and like many other "master" filmmakers (Wes Craven, for example) actually EARNED it. He's responsible for not only some of the greatest films in history, but also some of the most important and influential films ever made. The way we see movies today wouldn't be the same if it weren't for Hitchcock...before 1960, people bought tickets to the theater and showed up even if the film was in progress. They'd stay until the movie was over and then watch it until the point where they picked it up. The element of surprise and suspense wasn't made so important until that year, when "Psycho" was released. To ensure that people got the full effect of his meticulous timing and unique film-structure, Hitchcock would only allow people into theaters at the beginning of the movie and NO ONE was admitted into the theater after the movie began. He also asked that audiences not reveal the secrets the movie contained to other potential moviegoers to ensure that they have the same surprising experience as anyone else. So, the entire WAY we see movies today is directly linked to Hitchcock. Not only that, but, as I mentioned before, "Psycho" is uniquely structured in that it was the first time that the main character and biggest name in a picture was killed off...and not only was she murdered, but she was killed half way through the movie after the audience has already invested time into this character. Because of this revolutionary structure, one must wonder if we would have had that famous scene from "Scream" with Drew Barrymore if "Psycho" hadn't been around. Remember that famous shot from "Jaws" where the main character sees a shark attack for the first time and the camera zooms up on his face while the background of the shot withdraws? Well, that's a camera effect invented by Hitchcock and his cinematographer at the time for "Vertigo."

I could go on all day and night about Hitchcock and tell you stories upon stories, but intead, I just want to inform you that starting at 5 o'clock every day through the whole weekend on TCM, Hitchcock movies will be featured. And they cover basically all the best of them...from his early black and white pictures to his technicolor hayday in the throughout the 1950's and early 60's to his last film, "Family Plot," in 1975 (with music by John Williams, btw).

Someone recently asked me what my favorite Hitchcock movie was and I had a hard time answering. What you have to understand is that he made so MANY movies that there are so many titles that I will leave out by choosing just one...and there are so many QUALITY movies that even if I name all my favorites, it might seem like I'm listing them in decending order...but believe me, if I were to list 10 or 15 of his movies, rest assured that all 15 of these movies lie somewhere in my top 100 favorite movies of all time. So, for them, I will list the best Hitch movies, in my opinion...in decending order of personal taste (again, just because a movie is at number 15 DOESN'T mean it's far from #1 at ALL):

1. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Suspense/Mystery/Espionage
2. North by Northwest - Adventure/Espionage
3. Psycho - Horror
4. Vertigo - Drama
5. Rear Window - Suspense/Mystery
6. The Birds - Horror
7. Rope - Suspense
8. Marnie - Drama
9. To Catch a Theif - Adventure/Mystery
10. Dial M for Murder - Suspense
11. Torn Curtain - Adventure/Espionage
12. Family Plot - Mystery
13. Frenzy - Suspense
14. Notorious - Espionage
15. Strangers on a Train - Suspense

Great great GREAT movies...those are the top Hitchcock 15, for me, and for the record, the top 6 of this list are like some of my FAVORITE all time movies, so when/if you see them on...PLEASE check them out. And if you REALLY wanna get the full effect of a Hitchcock movie, be sure to wait and watch them eith me ;-)

I'm So AWESOME

2005-10-24T17:52:19Z

I really love the way I write...I amuse myself so much. With some of my free time this morning (time that I scarcely can find, mind you) I did a little work on the project that Michael and I are currently developing. I wrote basically a detailed synopsis of the events in the film that Michael and I have developed equally, but to add that unique and world-famous "Kyle FLARE," I threw in little inside jokes or Kyle-isms (words that Kyle has taken from standard english and KYLEIFIED to make them his very own) to make this document a one-of-a-kind read. So the whole time I'm writing, I'm laughing out loud at my devilishly funny details and quick wit. Now, I know what you're thinking: "Kyle! Can we read some of this ultra-secret, 'too-awesome-for-normal-people-but-just-cool-enough-for-Kyle-fan' material?!" Well, the answer is NO! You all will have to wait to see my words come alive through the visionary work of the Kaye/Scott team...but I am contemplating auctioning off this original synopsis, along with previous drafts and deleted scenes, in a package at the film's premier. Just a thought...

Ok, well I just thought I'd check back in with my LJ crowd and let you know I'm not dead yet...I'm still very much kicking even though things aren't as perfect as you'd expect Kyle to be. But hopefully that will change soon.

Take care all.

indianaschwartz @ 2005-10-03T08:54:00

2005-10-03T16:23:14Z

Does anyone know who "Penelope the Cat" is in Looney Tunes? You remember her...she's the one that "Pepe le Peu" chased around all the time. She was a black cat who'd always somehow end up with a stripe of white paint along her back, making her look like a skunk...and making her look quite tempting to Pepe. Pepe, being the master of love, would try to seduce her...but his stench drives her away and many a cartoon was based on this premise. More often than not, Pepe would somehow loose his smell somewhere near the end of the episode (usually something to do with flowers or perfume) and Penelope would begin to chase HIM.

Anyway, last night my sister Katey walks into my room and says, "Hey, Kyle...check out my new shirt!" So, I looked to find that she was wearing a bright pink shirt with green lettering (that I can't recall) and to the right of the lettering was the figure of Penelope the cat from Looney Tunes. I said, "Oh! I remember her...do you know who that is, Katey?" And she said, "No. I just liked the shirt...it's Looney Tunes!" So I said, "Yeah, it's Looney Tunes, but why would you get it if you didn't even know which Looney Tunes character it is?!" At this point she started getting upset and I backed down.

This whole situation bothers me for some reason. I think it's because Pepe le Peu and Penelope Cat were always one of my favorite Looney Tunes segments...I mean I loved them on the show...and here's my sister with a Penelope shirt NOT because she likes Penelope or even knows who she is, but because she's a victim of fashion. She bought the shirt because it was cute...but she's wearing a shirt that would represent a fan of the show. She's wearing it as if SHE was the one who knows who Penelope is and when people see her on the street, they will think that SHE knows what she's talking about...but she has no idea. I'M the one who knows who Penelope is...I'M the one who loved Pepe. She's wearing MY memories!

This isn't the firt time this has happened...and I blame Hot Topic. First, I want to say that I like Hot Topic. They have a lot of really cool merchandise, a lot of it based on obscure movies and television and music that I loved as a child (i.e. Back to the Future, The Goonies, Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc.). But, the problem is that they put out SO much shit that it becomes TOO much of a fad and gets people wearing their clothing JUST because it's Hot Topic and looks cool and NOT because of what is ON the article of clothing. What happens is that they bring back an old movie or cartoon and it gets out of control. For example, Hot Topic's big thing (for a while now) has been and is "The Nightmare Before Christmas." It was cool in the beginning because I had always liked that movie and the music that's in it. But now it has ceased to be cool and it's simply something that everyone has JUST because they got it at Hot Topic...and it's become sort of an Emo thing. I got a Jack Skellington face decal for my car window like a year ago and I get people commenting on it all the time...except they're NOT the kind of people I'd like comments from...they're people who THINK they like Tim Burton or THINK they like Danny Elfman's music but in actuality they're tools of a great marketing device created to facilitate the selling of the "Emo" image, which has adopted "Nightmare" as one of it's many mascots. At the same time...all Hot Topic has to do is pick a show at random and produce an entire line of products from that show and the visuals from the show will become an automatic "in" thing...REGARDLESS of whether or not anyone knows (or even cares) where the origins of their merchandise lies. A specific example...Care Bears or Strawberry Shortcake. These products sell like MAD and just yesterday I saw a commercial for new Care Bear dolls that you can write on and then wash or something. I'm willing to bet that 80% of the people who buy all this Care Bear paraphanalia (my sister included) have NO FUCKING IDEA that the Care Bears was a TV show...and furthermore I will bet money that 98% of the general population can't even sing me the Care Bear theme song. They just get it because someone tells them it's cool...if it's at Hot Topic it MUST be cool. If the head slut at your slutty little school has a Care Bear, well then you better get a little something Care Bear, too or else the slut won't regard you as one of her elite group of fellow sluts and you'll just become an outsider. I was a Care Bear fan when I was a kid...I can sing you the Care Bear theme song...I can recall plots from actual Care Bear episodes, but I don't own anything Care Bear because a.) it's gay, b.) I don't want to facilitate this fad and c.) I dont' need to prove my Care Bear pride by wearing fancy-marketed clothing to prove that I'm a fan.

This sentiment is much like the sentiment I have for my fellow "filmmakers" and "film buffs." You get all these people saying that "I'm a film buff" or "I love film" or "I know so much about movies" or "I want to be a filmmaker because film's an art"...but then you come to realize that these same people either a.) only know the things about movies that someone else told them was important or b.) doesn't know jack shit about movies. I hate when people half-ass their "devotion" to something that I take very very seriously. In the same way, I hate people who half-ass knowledge or devotion to a show or movie that I loved very dearly at one point in my life. They're horning in on MY memories and MY passions and are stepping on my toes in the process. Stop saying you're a film buff and return that fucking Penelope the Cat shirt before I kick you in the goddamn nuts.

Superman Returns

2005-09-14T16:57:18Z

Oh
My
God

The trailer for the new Superman movie is online. It's called "Superman Returns," and allow me to pump you up about this movie. A.) The film is a continuation of the ORIGINAL Superman movies with Christopher Reeve, none of this "Batman Begins" not-part-of-the-franchise shit. B.) Because it's a continuation of the original series, the music will have the SAME THEMES as the original Superman movies. Yes, the Superman theme WILL return for this film. In fact, on the trailer that just came out, all of the music you hear is FROM the very first Superman movie, all composed by John Williams (who I MET!!). The new music is by John Ottman, a great young composer. C.) The film is being directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men, X-2, The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil). D.) The movie will contain stock footage from the original movie of Marlon Brando as Superman's father. E.) The Superman costume design has barely changed (a SLIGHT update of the logo and a darkening of the blue and red, but nothing to disappointed by) AND rumor has it that the actor who plays Superman was chosen in part because of the fact that he holds a resemblance to Christopher Reeve. And finally, F.) This movie is going to fucking rock. Watch the trailer in all of it's John Williams majesty here:

http://www.supermanimagery.com/SRmovies/Superman_Returns_Teaser_Trailer.mov

Oh, did I mention Lux Luthor will be played by KEVIN SPACEY?!!?!??!!

My 21st Year

2005-09-12T19:08:52Z

Well, a whopping 3 people voted on what post they'd like to see so for those 3 people I will write about my "Chicago: 1930" party.

Also, just wanted to say that I'm pumped because my MySpace now says I'm 21 years old for some reason. Oh wait, that's because I'm 21 FUCKIN YEARS OLD, BITCH!

party post to come - waiting on pics

You Decide...

2005-09-10T19:31:40Z

Well, wow it's been quite some time since I've updated and this is for two reasons...a.) I've been very busy these past two weeks and b.) SO many awesome things have happened and I've wanted to write a major post about all of them, but it's just too much Kyle for anyone to handle. So, you all have your options...

I will write an awesome post about one of the following things, but I can't write a whole post about all of them. So, I will tell you about some of the cool things that have happened to me in the past couple of weeks and I'd like you all to vote on what you'd like me to expand on in a kick-ass post.

Things Kyle Has Experienced In The Past Two Weeks:
1. Disneyland, featuring the brand new Space Mountain (pics included)
2. Beginning of school
3. Meeting John Williams, history's greatest film music composer
4. Camping in SB (pics included)
5. "The Great Burger Adventure Continues" and "The General"
6. 1930's party at UCLA (pics included)

Comment with your preference and be a part of Kyle's LJ.