DVD Collection #5: Alien Vs Predator, and Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem (spoilers)

OK...Alien Vs Predator, the original is better than the both the Alien and Predator movies put together. It is. Even though the original Predator is a CLASSIC Shwartzenegger movie, right next to Commando which also starred Alyssa Milano...it's true...look it up. Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem...not quite as good, although in Bluray, you can almost see some aliens and predators through the shadows of the small town that they destroy.

So anyway...Alien Vs. Predator, the original actually makes you pick a side. I choose Predator because Alien is just an asshole. Both sides are violent aliens that have attacked Earth (or humans anyway) at some point, but I did find myself rooting for Predator. Especially when he teams up with the human to kill the Alien queen, but not before she shoves an alien egg down his throat to create Alien Predator hybrid for the sequel. Now, since they have a single being that they share...a being to bring them together as one big nasty Predalien family...can't they all just get along?

Been Cookin'

Lately, both Katharine and I have become sick and tired of takeout. There are only so many choices in our area...Pizza, Roast Beef Place, Chinese food, Seafood...Pizza...Roast Beef Place...you get the idea. And the ONLY wing place that I knew of JUST closed about a week after I found out about it. So, we've started cooking again...yes, I said WE have started cooking again. Katharine has increased in the number of things she can cook that aren't desserts to 2 things now...lasagne, chicken cordon blue in the crockpot, and salmon with sweet potato cassarole. Wait...I count three things there. I made some American Chop Suey (at least that's what we called it growing up, but it's really just macaroni, ground turkey, onions, peppers, garlic, and sauce) and tonight I'm making minestrone soup from a recipe I found online with nice crusty Italian bread (and we'll make cookies because that's healthy).

Here is my Amercian Chop Suey:

{Hours later} Here is how the minestrone came out:

DVD Collection #4: Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Ressurection

Yes, it's true...I own them all...even Alien 4, which some people say is the worst one, but I liked it. By today's standards, the Alien Quadrilogy isn't really scary, but it's an enjoyable monster movie...about monsters that think and they also remember Ripley over generations. She must be a special lady.

The only part I thought was strange is that the Aliens never age...over thousands of years they look exactly the same. I also feel like, because of the changes in filmmaking technology, that the Aliens in Alien Vs Predator are cooler looking and more advanced than the Aliens in the original. But that was just a battle movie afterall and the Quadrilogy is a scary alien movie.

Who would win in a fight? The alien from Alien or the aliens from Independance Day?

WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE: OK, If I were the main character in the Alien movies, I would have done everything the same as Sigourney Weaver's character except for cuddling with the Alien at the end of Alien 4. It's true...I would have attacked it in the first one to save myself, I would have been pissed that it survived into the second movie when clearly I had thrown it out an airlock...so I would have killed it again. I totally would have thrown myself into the lava at the end of the third one if I had one of those damn things inside of me...just waiting to crack my chest and pop out. And well...how exactly did they recover her DNA after she had one of them inside her to create a clone??? Don't ask...just watch and pretend it makes sense.

DVD Collection #3: 40 Year Old Virgin (spoilers)

Let me get this straight...he collects action figures, plays video games, and works at...ahem...Best Buy-ish. And because of all that, he's a virgin at 40?

What happened to realism in movies?

OK, this is a pretty funny movie...I like to watch movies I don't really have to think about on occasion and this is one of those movies. It does drag on a bit much, but that's what's good about DVD...you can stop and start it whenever you want if you want a break.

DVD Collection #2: 30 Days of Night (spoilers)

30 Days of Night, which I'm watching right now, takes place in a small small town in a cold cold place, where all of a sudden, all of the cell phones are stolen and melted down...all of the dogs are killed...all of the power goes out...and all of the residents are preparing to leave for the "dark time"...the 30 days of night when everything shuts down and you can't leave until the sun comes back up. Oh...and they ban booze. A place I wouldn't want to live in for all the money in the world.

The sheriff's department has more police than they could possibly need, but they need all the help they can get when a band of vampires shows up to own the town. I personally would have known there were vampires coming with all the blood and darkness. If you live here and don't expect vampires, you're not that bright. Oh...and the sherrif and his wife are estranged...and she's trapped in the town, of course.

The vampires are creepy, fast, and they scream a lot. You never find out where they come from...which I like. Leaves a little mystery, which makes them a little scarier. And of course, they're just hungry and they don't actually want to turn people. The worst kind of vampire...one that doesn't speak English or negotiate. And the leader has a great haircut and a pressed suit.

So the hero is the sheriff, and he leads the good people of deserted ice land from place to place to hide from the baddies. And then he remembers that there are only a few ways to kill a vampire...a stake through the heart, chopping off its head...oh wait, that's a zombie, or letting them get baked by the sun. OOOOOOORRR, by turning himself into one of them, by injecting hiself with an infected person's blood, to save the woman he loves and becoming stronger than the leader of the vampires! After he kicks the leader's ass...he lets all the other vampires go so they can come back next year and hangs out with his woman until the sun comes up and fades away into the sunset...literally. Why didn't he just wait until the sun came up if it was coming up so soon? Because that would have made for a boring ass movie.

WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE: I never would have been in this deserted and cold place in the first place...a place that has 30 days of straight darkness. See how foolish it is to live in a place like that? It's where vampires live.

Hows About a Little Bit O 'Acupuncture

For the past two weeks I've been going to an acupuncturist to try and loosen up some tight muscles and it's been really interesting. If you've never had acupuncture before, they basically plug needles into various places on your body that correspond to other points in your body to relieve pressure or pain or tightness. In addition to this, they have been inserting needles directly into specific muscles and contracting them so they will eventually release themselves and not be as tight. There was even one spot that he said corresponded to my calf muscle which is regularly sore, and when he was done, the soreness was GONE. Pretty cool.

Yeah well, I'm not a doctor or an acupunturist myself so you'll have to accept my explaination as it is. So the last time I went, my doctor was teaching other doctors about acupuncture so my appointment ended up taking 2 hours instead of an hour. I guess I got my money's worth, but I also go too much information. As he slid one of the needles into my left hip area, he says "and this one I'm going to try and slip between the muscle and the bone"...what?...really?...did I need to know that? "and then watch what happens when I move the needle like this"...no really...I don't need to know what you're doing. The needle part of acupuncture doesn't bother me at all...I know the idea of needles bothers some people, but you can't really feel them once they're in. I've done acupuncture before and the needles were in my head to work on an inner ear problem. This is much easier than that until he contracts the muscle...almost jumped off the table that time. And then they leave you in the room to wonder if it's going to contract again. I just pulled out my iPhone and turned on the music and chilled out to that (and managed to take a picture with it too). The doctor thought I was multitasking...but no...working while under the influence of acupuncture is not necessary.

Phew.

Quiznos and Cake

I knew I was going to be working late today, so I took a late lunch. I went to Quiznos...because they have a pepper bar...which I don't use anymore because it's not that good. Quiznos has decent subs, even if they all taste the same...mostly. After Quiznos, I went next door to Coldstone Creamery. I'm not a huge Coldstone Creamery fan, I think it's a bit overrated...however...comma...I've never had their shakes before. The shake I chose was the BEST shake I've ever had. Or, was it cake? Or was it a shake? Oh yes my friends, it was BOTH. It was called a Cake N Shake, not to be confused with Shake N Bake.

It literally is...a shake, made from cake batter ice cream...and it has cake in it. REAL pieces of crumply good, moist and delicious CAKE blended within it. A big old cup of cake. If you've never tried this, you should go out to your nearest Coldstone and get a Cake N Shake. Wow...I still feel sick 8 hours later. And I wasn't hungry for dinner either. Go figure. I had CAKE.

They're Doing WHAT???

OK...I don't know anything about science, but I heard this morning that there's some sort of particle collider being turned on in Europe today that could "potentially" create a black hole and destroy the Earth and that some countries are against it. Seriously...here's the article if you're like me and you live in a black hole where news is concerned.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html

Now, don't get me wrong...I'm all for advancement...and Bidiak is telling me I'm wrong to care, and that he wants to stand in the waves and get mutant powers like the X-Men....but who the hell gives permission for something like this? Here are a bunch of people cheering for it:

They won't be cheering when a black hole is created and swallows them. Isn't this like playing Russian Roulette with the Earth? Or maybe I'm just having a little fun being dramatic, because as I said in the beinning, I don't care about science, but this did give me something to post this morning. Thanks killers of the Earth for letting me provide some entertainment on a Tuesday morning.