Thursday sneaked up on me and I was completely unprepared. It had been a crazy week. So please enjoy this picture I found until next week:
May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
So if you haven’t heard: The Hunger Games came out today! And I had the privilege to see the film at midnight along with thousands of other movie-goers.
In case you don’t know The Hunger Games is set around a young girl named Katniss (played by Jennifer Lawrence) who lives in a dystopian futuristic North America. The country is split into twelve different districts. Every year each district must send one boy and one girl to compete against each other in what is known as the Hunger Games (don’t ask me why it’s called that, I honestly don’t know). But this isn’t your average turkey shoot (excuse the hick expression…). There can only be one victor and most families consider it as a death sentence whenever their kid gets picked.
Katniss doesn’t feel any different when she volunteers to take her little sister’s place in the Games.
Interested? Maybe? Well here’s a trailer:
Okay, enough of the synopsis. On to the review. No spoilers, I promise.
Why Haven’t You Been Posting???!!!/Mass Effect 3
Because my imagined crazed fan, between the constant drone of work, school, and me time, I’ve been very busy (playing Mass Effect 3 and watching the first season of Game of Thrones…). However, over the past couple of weeks, I have been posting things just not on here.
There’s an article on the Versailles I did for one of my classes:
http://bonjourparisnsuok.blogspot.com/2012/02/voila-versailles.html
Btw: Keep an eye out for more Paris related things in May when I come back from my trip. (Yep, going to France!)
and
My monthly post for RTF (Real Teen Faith):
http://realteenfaith.com/2012/02/08/real-devo-life-isnt-a-fairytale/#more-5473
As I’ve said, between classes, work, and personal dilemmas, my time has been occupied mostly by Mass Effect 3. It took me about a week but I finally finished it! Following are some of my favorite parts from the game as well as usual ramblings of what I thought about it overall. If you haven’t played yet I would suggest that you stop reading because there are most likely spoilers ahead.
The Walking Dead Returns
Since I somehow completely forgot last week, the Walking Dead got shafted from last week’s post. So now it’s getting it’s own little segment! WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Monthly Recap
All righty folks, new month, new entertainment recap. Looks like February’s trying to make up for the dry spell (so to speak) we suffered in January. There’s going to be a lot coming out in both the movie and video game department. So let’s get started!
Parody
So I guess the (semi) new thing to do now is to take a Disney movie and splice it into a parody for an upcoming movie.
The first one I saw was “The Lion King Rises.” If you haven’t seen it, check it out in the video below:
Looking Forward
Hey Everyone,
Hope you all had wonderful holidays! From Thanksgiving to New Years, it was pretty hectic around here so I decided to take a little break in order to focus on more important things (Fine, I’ll fess up. I finished Skyrim 
) and figure out where I’m needing to go with this blog. That being said, let’s get down to business:
10 Reasons Why Skyrim is the Best Game Ever!!!
With the long-awaited release of the fifth installment of The Elder Scrolls, I’ve decided to compile a list of why this game could possibly be the greatest thing ever known to the gamer universe.
Madness
“Thanks for listening to KRPS, 89.9 FM. It’s a beautiful day here in Pittsburg, Kansas. A high of eighty today, so be sure to get out there and have some-.” Jake turned off his truck which silenced the ceaseless drone of the radio. He didn’t really like that station, but it was one of the only ones his old Sierra Grande would pick up. Plus, some music was better than no music at all. The antique truck was his dad’s, who had handed it down to Jake’s older brother, Russell, before it had finally been passed to him after he’d gotten his license. Jake had half a mind to give it to Maddie, his little sister, whenever she started driving. But by then the truck would probably have long disintegrated into a pile of rust and bolts. The door protested loudly as Jake opened it and got out. He would have to remember to put some oil on the hinges later.
The early summer sun bore down on him as he walked across the blacktop to the convenient store where his girlfriend worked. He could see Sarah now through the window, acting like she hadn’t noticed him yet. She hid her face behind a magazine, trying not to let him see the smile playing on her lips. A smile of his own spread across Jake’s face as he stepped into the store.
Fighting
I feel like dropping to my knees and screaming to the sky,
Why, oh why, do I feel that it is better to die?
Death seems better to me than this masquerade life.
To have no more fear, no more grief, no more strife.
Then before my eyes flash the faces of those that I hold dear.
And then I remember that it’s for them that I’m still here.
They comfort me, hold me, and make me laugh.
They remind me that there’s good in this life that’s ripped in half.
So it’s for them that I continue to fight,
In this bleary, ordinary, every day life.
*I wrote this poem back in 09 when several people I knew were going through a tough time. Since then, it has become one of my personal favorites.*
