ixnay* on the atoos-tay

nobody ended up getting tattoos after all... the place was closing at 12 and we got there at 10... in my book that's 2 hours but the chick at the front desk told us that, 20 minutes from then, the one artist left would start a tattoo that would take him about an hour and a half... putting us right around 12 and no time for our tats...

maybe next time...  :(

Pineapple Express to Hilarity

Today I went to see Pineapple Express with my long time friend Mike. I think I may have hyped this movie up a little too much because I was expecting Platinum and only got Gold. The movie was HILARIOUS, don't get me wrong. I just thought it would be a little more... i don't know... BETTER.

There were a few factors that may have been throwing me off though... Usually I don't take text messages while I'm in a movie... but I was expecting some this time around and they game during some of the coolest action scenes. :(  

Also, and I'm usually pretty good about this, toward the end, I had to PEE.... SO F*CKING BAD!

I mean I was about to pee in my drink cup, it was so bad. That may have taken away from the ending. I really wouldn't mind seeing the movie again and I hope that I will soon. 

I think the reason I had to pee so bad was because all of the laughter. 

Overall the movie was funny, very unbelievable, but funny. About as funny as I hoped it would be but just not quite as good...

I'd say see it if you though it looked at all interesting. 

Level 7 accomplished...

I think I officially reached a new level of NERD tonight... from level 6 to 7...

I finished reading the All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder and I must say that it had it's ups and downs but all together it is better than Jim Lee's other baby... Hush. It is only better in the story. The art is the same, both by Jim Lee, and that makes the two of them the greatest comics ever written...

 

YAY me for being a dork 

omg... i'm behind

Lately, it's been fun, but not TERRIBLY exciting. 

I went to a going away part for my Graphic Design teacher, Ambica Prakash. Rode my motorcycle to Stout and got there around I think 7 or 8. It was really fun catching up with a few of my teachers. I ended up staying at my old roommate's new place in Menomonie, Zac's place. Zac, Chad, Derek and I all stayed there that night and went to breakfast the next morning. 

Yesterday I picked up the newest addition to my vinyl family, my Unicornasaurus.

the newest release by Joe Ledbetter

I've finished a few more comic books and I've also started a few new ones. All batman, and all good. I just started reading the All Star Batman and Robin the boy wonder by Frank Miller and Jim Lee... Just as good as Jim Lee's other baby, Hush. 

I think the reason I like Hush and this Batman series is because it's a little more dark than most batman comics I've read. Darker in ways that Batman, in more than one case, ends up beating someone to a bloody pulp. I know it doesn't sound very appealing but it is very exciting. The most recent thing in this book was that batman broke a guys arm and then explained to him that it is a compound fracture and that it will never heal, not right anyway... not nearly right.

Tomorrow is the day of tattoos. I'm not getting one but Chevis, Dan, Dan's friend Chris, and my girlfriend Gretchen are ALL getting tattoos... at least that's what they have planned. 

Dan's getting a bull, the spanish bull... look at the balls on that sucker.

Chevis is getting her name, in a way that i designed... not sure what colors yet... also not sure about the star yet.

I forget what Chris is getting... I believe something in Latin... he's a Latin teacher. 

and Gretchen is getting 3 starts... another design by me. 

as for me... no tattoo yet... not until i create something I like enough to have on me for the rest of my life. I was talking with Jerry, my uncle Tom's brother in law and he was saying.... if you create something why not just rend it really nice and put it up on your wall so you can look at it every day?... he's kinda against tattoos though. 

Jim Lee's Autograph :D

Saturday, 08-02-2008... Jim Lee, the man who's art has sold more copies of a single comic than any other comic in the world, was doing signings at the Source Comics off of Snelling and Larpenter. Dan and I, naturally, showed up. The night before I went up with Gretchen to check out the store and how to get there, good thing we did because they gave out numbers for the line. I got 2 cards, #975 and #976... this was going to be a long day. 

Jim Lee finally showed up around 1:30 and started signing... the whole even was supposed to be held between 1 and 4. But it took about an hour and a half to get through the first hundred. 

I saw my buddy Jesse's little brother Jeffery there and asked if he was going to stay. He said no and then offered me his ticket... #557. When we got that, dan and I each jumped in line under the one ticket. The guys were fine with it and we ended up getting 2 signatures each, the limit per ticket, even though we only had one ticket. 

This was taken with my iPhone

This was taken for his blog... and we're in the back :D

Jim was a very cool guy but you could tell he was getting tired... my only regret was not asking him for a quick sketch inside of my book. Other than that... AWESOME!

The Mummy should not have returned

Just got back from The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and I must say.... WOW... that was bad. It was better than I expected because I set the bar VERY VERY LOW before I left. I wasn't planning on ever seeing the movie... that's how low I set the bar. But I was invited to go with my mom and her friend, both of which thought it was also bad. 

Basically, if you wanna see it, expect very little and it will be better than you expect. Overall it was entertaining, explosions, monsters, fighting, shooting, etc. But be advised... not much to get out of it. 

Zoo and Trap shooting

Today was a good day. We (Gretchen, Kari, Matt, and Laura) took Torii, Chase, and Noah to the Minnesota Zoo for a day of fun in the HOT HOT sun. We even got to see turtles mating...   :D

First Saw this...

stuck around and saw this. 

Later on I went trap shooting with my dad and scored a 24 and a 21. I believe my dad got a 21 or 22 and a 19... first round was the best for both of us. 

anyways, good times.