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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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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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

I present to you Christian and Jay, the Brothers Dewald, performing Deep Blue Something’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s for their Dad this weekend at his 60th birthday party. I took the video with my new digital camera (Polaroid i531 for $80) which lets me record clips in 320×240, perfect for YouTube hosting.

I also got the pleasure of designing a poster for the party, which you can see after the jump. Enjoy!

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Posted by Haggis on August 18th, 2007 @ 9:30 pm.

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Introducing Smokin’!

I’d like to introduce everyone to the newest contributing editor of The Daily Haggis, Smokin’!

He’s a frequent commenter on Pajiba and a treasure trove of useless pop culture trivia, so of course he fits right into this website of useless pop culture news.

I’ve known Smokin’ for over ten years now, since we met in English class back in High School. We bonded over a Nine Inch Nails song of all things, and since then he’s proven himself to be a great friend many times over.

He’ll be covering many of the same topics that are already on this site, as well as some new features and content yet to come.

Welcome him to the team!

(I’m sure he’s gonna kill me over that picture.)

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Posted by Haggis on February 22nd, 2007 @ 11:04 am.

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What the Fark is an RSS Feed?

RSS Feeds. I’m sure you’ve seen it written everywhere, but what does it mean?

As articles are published on web sites, they are archived under their own URL, or website address. Behind the scenes, the website is also making a minimal version of the articles that do not contain all the style and design that the main site has.

These minimal versions are called RSS feeds, or Real Simple Syndication. If you are using Firefox or IE, you may have already noticed that your browser can read these “feeds” from websites supporting RSS. In Firefox, you’ll notice an orange box with three wavy lines in the right of your web address bar. In Internet Explorer 7, it will light up the same orange icon on the toolbar.

The point of subscribing to websites is to allow you a quick and easy way to read new updates on your favorite sites without having to navigate to each one. Think it like almost a custom Newspaper just for you, with only the stories and topics that interest you all on one page.

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Posted by Haggis on February 22nd, 2007 @ 10:40 am.

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Made With White Meat

While feasting on a 50 piece bucket of chicken McNuggets from the local McDonald’s, we noticed this odd packaging design on the outside.

Look very closely at the picture above, and if you don’t get it, hover over the picture for a clue.

More pics of the bucket below:

Note: I’m probably a glutten for punishment, but I’ve submitted this story to Digg and Netscape. Click here to vote on Digg, and click here to vote on Netscape. -Thanks!

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Posted by Haggis on February 18th, 2007 @ 5:03 pm.

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