10 Things I Love: Movies

Everyone loves movies, but most people don’t love them as much as I do. The whole experience, be it at an overpriced mega-movie theater, or sitting comfortably in your own home theater, is something that I’ve enjoyed since I was a little boy and could actually follow along with the plot.

I really get into movies, especially really good movies. I laugh, gasp, get scared, jump in my seat, shout at the TV, tear up at emotional scenes, and get excited at plot advancements. I’ve been known to exclaim “Oh shit!” loudly in the theater (embarrassing my mom during The Two Towers, hehe), and get so freaked out by Cloverfield that when the movie went all silent for a moment, all you could hear was me breathing hard.

I try not to be a movie snob when it comes to most films, but I have my limits. Ridiculous comedies (like most Adam Sandler films), Musicals, and blatant “chick flicks” (like Sisterhood of the Traveling Terms of Endearment or whatever) I mostly avoid. I can tolerate musicals sometimes, but it depends highly on the content. For instance Little Shop of Horrors is awesome, as is Chicago. The Sound of Music and Mulan Rouge, not so much.

Rather than discussing the entire history of my movie watching experience (a la the last article), I thought instead I’d list a few of my all-time favorite movies and why I enjoy them so much. Looking forward to hearing feedback about some of these in the comments.

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Posted by Haggis on March 12th, 2008 @ 4:54 pm.

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10 Things I Love: Video Games

I logged into my Wordpress dashboard the other day and realized I was only ten entries away from my 1,000th blog. I’ve been busy with life and haven’t had the motivation to post lately, even so much as letting the fifth anniversary of the website come and go without a mention.

Since 10 is such an easy number to work into blog entries, I thought I’d do a “10 Things” list, but break it into ten separate entries with more content than a typical top ten list does.

The topics discussed are in no particular order, except for the 1000th entry.

10 Things I Love: VIDEO GAMES

It’s no surprise to people who know me and for the regular readers of this website that I’m a big fan of video games.

It all started when I was a small child and my granddad let me play his Colecovision for the first time. Playing with those blocky characters and obnoxious tweets and chirps that passed for video game sound effects opened me up to a whole other world that I had never seen before.

My next great adventure in video games came with the release of the most perfect toy in the world for a boy in 1988: The Nintendo Entertainment System. I wasn’t fortunate enough to have one myself, but luckily I had a friend who was terrible at it and asked me to beat Legend of Zelda while he watched. I was over at his house every weekend for like two months exploring the first version of Hyrule, occasionally breaking to jump on Koopas dressed like an Italian plumber.

If the Colecovision was my gateway drug into video games, then Nintendo was the crack that got me hooked for a lifetime. The addiction only got worse as I grew older.

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Posted by Haggis on March 6th, 2008 @ 2:55 pm.

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Kick-Ass Wednesday!

One of the best damn writers in Comics, Mark Millar, is trying to promote his newest book, Kick-Ass!, out Wednesday February 26, 2008 via Marvel Comics.

The book features a “realistic take” on superheroes with storylines a little more mature than the standard shoot kid-friendly storylines featured in the books. How they can get more mature than shooting Captain America on the steps of a courthouse, or having seven villains raping Tigra, I dont know. I’ll read pretty much anything Mark Millar puts out though.

Also, I am kissing ass for the hopes of having my name included in a future issue of the book. Millar is asking anyone with a website/blog/forum to post the image above to promote the book, and the first 100 people get personally thanked by name from him in the next issue!

So dammit, go buy this book already!

Update: Apparently I got excited and can’t read. I wasn’t supposed to post this until midnight EST, but oh well, I guess a little early promotion never hurt anyone. Just for those who care, after I posted this article it was picked up by Google within 20 minutes, and currently (as of this minute) if you Google search “Kick Ass Wednesday” i’m the #2 spot. Yes, I OWN the internet.

Maybe I can get a little exception for posting early with my leet SEO skillz? XD

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Posted by Haggis on February 26th, 2008 @ 4:38 pm.

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Who has two thumbs and is going to see FEIST at Stubbs BBQ in Austin on April 15th?

(Points thumbs back at self)

This guy!

(Who’s goin?)

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Posted by Haggis on February 8th, 2008 @ 10:11 am.

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Posted by Haggis on January 19th, 2008 @ 3:20 pm.

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Trillian Astra Mini!

I’ve been beta testing Trillian Astra, the next version of the already popular multi-Instant Messaging client Trillian. The new version adds seperate gTalk/gMail login, as well as MySpace and a slew of other Instant Messaging connections along with the standard Windows Live/MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber, and IRC.

Below is a new feature they’ve been testing that generates a “signature” with info on it, called the Trillian Mini:

Fun stuff!

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Posted by Haggis on January 15th, 2008 @ 4:14 pm.

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The Long Road to 70

My name is Haggis. I live in San Antonio, Texas, and I’m an Orc Warrior. For the HORDE!

Of course it’s no secret that i’m an avid addict player of the Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game World of Warcraft. In fact I’ve been playing the MMO off and on since it came out.

I am attempting a milestone in the game, a first for me. The games level cap, or maximum level, is 70. I am currently 1/3 the way through level 69, so I decided to live blog the event.

I have vowed to reach level 70 before the new year, which is as the start of this article, 20 hours away. Since the company I work for is so awesome, I’ve got the next two days off to do nothing but play this game and ring in the New Year.

I stopped at the store and got a 24oz Mocha Cappuccino, a bag of Doritos, two bags of peanut M&M’s, some Sour Nerds (which are awesome, by the way), and a 12 pack of Coca-Cola.

If I don’t die from lack of sleep or go into a diabetic coma, I should be able to achieve this modest goal.

So here goes.

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Posted by Haggis on December 31st, 2007 @ 2:01 am.

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