Guilty Pleasures

I'm definitely guilty of giving into some rather..."childish" forms of entertainment.

For example, I love watching "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" on the Disney channel, along with "Hannah Montana". I'll also admit to watching Nickelodeon's "iCarly". Miranda Cosgrove is pretty adorable.

Along with that goes music... Miley Cyrus may be a little strange and annoying, but her songs are so damn catchy!

Not to mention this new one, "7 Things", fits too perfectly into my life right now.

The Smiths

I watched I Am Legend last night and sadly... I was rather disappointed.
It was nothing like I thought it would be. I was expecting a smart, psychological thriller... not an overdone plot involving crappy CGI zombies popping out unexpectedly. Not saying it was a bad movie, but I was not too thrilled.

Sure, Resident Evil is similar with the storyline, and yes they have monsters and zombies, but for some reason I just really enjoyed them much more.

Plus I've been watching way too much Fresh Prince lately, so I immediately burst out into
"In West Philadelphia, born and raised..." at the beginning of the movie, and my parents joined right in. I think they were surpised that I knew the entire song, and not just the short version they play as the theme.


I am looking forward to Will Smith's new movie Hancock. It looks pretty hilarious.

I've always wondered though... is Mr. Smith really a Scientologist? He's on the "rumored" list, but I just don't know. It would be rather upsetting if he was. Normally I'm all for "to each his own" and I'm usually fine with letting people believe in whatever they want to believe, but c'mon. How am I supposed to be fine with people buying into a religion formed around the idea of making money? And involving some alien as the connecting force between all humans? I'm serious... anyone who actually believes in that needs some help.

Alright, stepping off my soapbox... on the subject of Will Smith, ever since I found out it was her, I've been amused at the fact that Jada Pinkett Smith is the lead singer of Wicked Wisdom. Who would have thought that the wife of Will Smith would sing in a creepy hard rock band? They're actually decent too, I saw them live a couple years ago.

Summerfest '08

Anyone who lives in Wisconsin knows the excitement of the summer that is...Summerfest. I've only actually been once, which was two summers ago when I went to see Panic! At The Disco (yes, back when they still had the exclamation point). I think because such a popular band was playing there was such a huge crowd, because I couldn't see a damn thing and it wasn't a very good experience.





However, since there's no one too huge this year, I might try my best to see one of my favorite bands, Coheed and Cambria. They were in Milwaukee at the Rave a couple of years ago but I didn't get to see them, so I was quite disappointed. Hopefully I'll get lucky and score myself a couple of cheap tickets and bring a friend or two to check out the show. They're the only band I really feel like I *need* to see this year. They've been at Summerfest before but like I said, I have only been once.

I was considering getting a laptop for school next semester, as I have a desktop now and it's just too difficult to deal with notes. I'd like to be able to take notes on a laptop during class. Then I started thinking about getting a Macbook and I did some research on it. I made sure to stay off the Apple sites and choose relatively unbiased comparisons online. For awhile a Macbook was looking like a good option...until I spoke with my father. He is quite anti-Mac... to say the least. Luckily though he has actually used Macs before and it isn't just a familiarity preference. So if I get a laptop at all now, I'll probably stick with HP or something. But I might just stick with the clutzy desktop unless I make enough money from tips this summer to get myself a pretty new toy (though with the way business is going I'll be lucky to make $100 in tips in the next two months).