Beware of the cat.

Would you say that Dracula is a zombie movie?

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:02:48 GMT

Okay so I was reading this thread about Zombie movies. Everyone was posting their favorite zombie movie, and someone posted Dracula. Now I know that vampires are undead, but if you’re comparing Dracula to movies like Night of The Living Dead, would you consider that to be a zombie movie? Personally, I think of it as a strictly vampire movie, because while vampires and zombies are both undead, they’re still quite different from one another.

I know it's a little late, but...

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:28:44 GMT

Happy Valentines day! I hope you all had a good one! :) Mine was actually quite boring, but I did get a box of chocolates. ;) You know I gotta have my chocolates.

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:10:54 GMT

I told you guys I’d tell you more about Halloween Horror Nights, so here goes. We got to Orlando around 4:15. We checked into the hotel and waited for Nick and Bethany to show up. They got to the hotel at around 5 and then we left. The park opened at 6:30, but we left early because it takes forever to get to get to the park, find a parking space, and then walk to the actual entrance.

First off, let me just say that the decorations and the production were both amazing. When you first walked in, there were dead bodies that were impaled up side down. They looked so awesome. Then, there was a stage set up. The Terror Queen (she’s like the icon of this year’s Halloween horror nights) was sitting on a motorcycle next to it. Anyway, on stage they’re doing a human sacrifice. The blood and everything looked so real. When it was finished these guys with chainsaws that came through the crowd.

When we got further into the park, there were a bunch of people on motorcycles that were dressed as demons. The first haunted house we went into was called Demon Cantina. It was this bar with demons in it. When you first walk in, you see people on these tv screens. You could see them fighting and being beat up. And then of course you have these nasty people jumping out and scarring the crap out of us. When you got pass the area where the bar was, there were all these vampires and demons and they were eating human body parts. Have you ever seen the movie Dusk Til Dawn? The bar kinda looked like that. Then we went and rode the Incredible Hulk. Best roller coaster ever! Then we rode Dr. Doom’s Fear Fall and the Spider Man ride. Every time we got off a ride or got out of a haunted house, our friend Broose had to get something to eat. He’s a nice guy and all, but we got tired of having to wait for him all the time.

The next haunted house was The Body Collectors. It was a factory. When you walked in, there was a machine that pumped out guts and other body parts. As you walked through, there were a bunch of people being tortured. They had this one where this girl was lying on a bed and this guy was ripping out her spine. It was sooo gross. The next one we went to was called The Skool (that’s the way they spelled it). Basically it was where all the children had taken over the school. They had the teachers hanging from the ceiling. It wasn’t all that scary though. That particular one was rated as being one of the best.

After that was the Terror mines. Before you went in, you had to choose one person out of your group to be the leader because they had to ware this hat on their head. On top was a light that the people in charge of the haunted house could turn on and off whenever they wanted. That house wasn’t that scary either. Although, it was a lot better than The Skool. All and all, I had a great time. You can see the website At http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com

Black Creek Crossing

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:37:29 GMT

Today, I just finished reading Black Creek Crossing by John Saul. The book was excellent! Its about this family that buys this house that noone seems to be able to stay in for very long. I'd write more, but I'm a little busy. To see a more in depth review, click the link below.
http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0345433327.asp

Friends only.

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:28:09 GMT

I've decided to make my journal friends only. If you would like to be added to my friends list, please leave a comment.

Hurricane Katrina.

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:26:15 GMT

I spent most of last night and part of this morning watching the reports on hurricane Katrina. I feel really bad about those people in New Orleans and Mississippi. I heard a report about a woman who called 911 because her house was completely flooded to the ceiling. She was trapped in the attic with her three kids. A bunch of people are trapped on the roofs of their houses. It makes you stop and appreciate everything you have because in just one day, you could lose everything.

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:28:04 GMT

So, here’s how my weekend went. We spent Friday afternoon cleaning the guest bedroom. Then on Saturday, some of my aunts and uncles came to visit. We were rushing to get things ready because we didn’t know they were coming until two days before. They left around nine in the morning. We spent the rest of Sunday in the pool. Well, that’s pretty much it for now. I’ll post more later.

The Historian

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:44:06 GMT

Today I just finished reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I absolutely loved it. It was one of those books that once you get into it, you don't want to put it down. If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend it. You can see reviews of the book and an interview with the author
here

This just pisses me off.

Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:21:24 GMT

Someone posted this on a message board. I can't begin to tell you how angry I was when I saw this.

This was published in the NY Times:

Torture, American Style
By BOB HERBERT

Published: February 11, 2005

Maher Arar is a 34-year-old native of Syria who emigrated to Canada as a teenager. On Sept. 26, 2002, as he was returning from a family vacation in Tunisia,
he was seized by American authorities at Kennedy Airport in New York, where he was in the process of changing planes.

Mr. Arar, a Canadian citizen, was not charged with a crime. But, as Jane Mayer tells us in a compelling and deeply disturbing article in the current issue
of The New Yorker, he "was placed in handcuffs and leg irons by plainclothes officials and transferred to an executive jet."

In an instant, Mr. Arar was swept into an increasingly common nightmare, courtesy of the United States of America. The plane that took off with him from
Kennedy "flew to Washington, continued to Portland, Maine, stopped in Rome, Italy, then landed in Amman, Jordan."

Any rights Mr. Arar might have thought he had, either as a Canadian citizen or a human being, had been left behind. At times during the trip, Mr. Arar heard
the pilots and crew identify themselves in radio communications as members of "the Special Removal Unit." He was being taken, on the orders of the U.S.
government, to Syria, where he would be tortured.

The title of Ms. Mayer's article is "Outsourcing Torture." It's a detailed account of the frightening and extremely secretive U.S. program known as "extraordinary
rendition."

This is one of the great euphemisms of our time. Extraordinary rendition is the name that's been given to the policy of seizing individuals without even
the semblance of due process and sending them off to be interrogated by regimes known to practice torture. In terms of bad behavior, it stands side by
side with contract killings.

Our henchmen in places like Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Uzbekistan and Jordan are torturing terror suspects at the behest of a nation - the United States - that
just went through a national election in which the issue of moral values was supposed to have been decisive. How in the world did we become a country in
which gays' getting married is considered an abomination, but torture is O.K.?

As Ms. Mayer pointed out: "Terrorism suspects in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East have often been abducted by hooded or masked American agents,
then forced onto a Gulfstream V jet, like the one described by Arar. ... Upon arriving in foreign countries, rendered suspects often vanish. Detainees
are not provided with lawyers, and many families are not informed of their whereabouts."

Mr. Arar was seized because his name had turned up on a watch list of terror suspects. He was reported to have been a co-worker of a man in Canada whose
brother was a suspected terrorist.

"Although he initially tried to assert his innocence, he eventually confessed to anything his tormentors wanted him to say," Ms. Mayer wrote.

The confession under torture was worthless. Syrian officials reported back to the United States that they could find no links between Mr. Arar and terrorism.
He was released in October 2003 without ever being charged and is now back in Canada.

Barbara Olshansky is the assistant legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing Mr. Arar in a lawsuit against the U.S.
I asked her to describe Mr. Arar's physical and emotional state following his release from custody.

She sounded shaken by the memory. "He's not a big guy," she said. "He had lost more than 40 pounds. His pallor was terrible, and his eyes were sunken. He
looked like someone who was kind of dead inside."

Any government that commits, condones, promotes or fosters torture is a malignant force in the world. And those who refuse to raise their voices against
something as clearly evil as torture are enablers, if not collaborators.

There is a widespread but mistaken notion in the U.S. that everybody seized by the government in its so-called war on terror is in fact somehow connected
to terrorist activity. That is just wildly wrong.

Tony Blair knows a little about that sort of thing. Just two days ago the British prime minister formally apologized to 11 people who were wrongfully convicted
and imprisoned for bombings in England by the Irish Republican Army three decades ago.

Jettisoning the rule of law to permit such acts of evil as kidnapping and torture is not a defensible policy for a civilized nation. It's wrong. And nothing
good can come from it.

I'm so bored.

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:17:53 GMT

My weekend has been so boring. All it did was rain and I wasn't able to go to the movies again. This sucks!

Hell yeah!

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:06:48 GMT

I just found out the Resident Evil Apocalypse movie is going to be released for the PSP in April. I can't wait!

gizoogle.com

Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:32:14 GMT

Someone posted this link on a message board so I thought I'd check it out. Oh man, this is so funny. go to www.gizoogle.com and search for http://www.livejournal.com/~allycats86
You can also search for your own live journal or another website.

PSP

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:17:41 GMT

I got the PSP today. It kicks major ass. You can download music and pictures on it. You can also watch movies. Mine came with a copy of Spider Man 2. Not all the games are out yet, but I did get the Darkstalkers game. It also came with a sample disk with music. All I can say is, I'll be very busy this weekend. Lol.

Nosey neighbors.

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:07:50 GMT

There's a lady who lives across the street from me and she's really getting on our nerves. She's the neighborhood busy body. She has to know about what everyone's doing. She knows what time everyone leaves to go to work and she'll be outside pretending to do something just so she can talk to someone. For example, this morning I was leaving to go to class and she was standing out in her front yard just staring up at her trees. She wasn't doing anything else. She was just standing there. Also, she's always waiting outside for us when we get home. Its getting really annoying. The woman really needs to get a life.

If you don't like a community, don't fucking join!

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:07:00 GMT

Yesterday, I was looking at different communities and I came across this one for rock music. Anyway, when I clicked on it, I read this post that just totally pissed me off! This girl who didn't even like rock at all joined. She only joined for the soul purpose of putting everyone else in the community down. She called them freaks and said they should "listen to proper music." She then goes on to make other comments about the way they dress and so on and so forth. I don't understand people like that. I don't know why they think they can tell everyone else what to do or what not to do.

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:24:56 GMT

Grrrrr! The guy you fight at the end of Tekken 5 keeps kicking my ass! The worst part is, sometimes I'll beat him the first round. Then I spend the other two rounds as a punching bag. *sniff* Oh well. Anyway, I'm glad I got it. That game kicks ass!

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:43:31 GMT

I'm not sure what I should do. I'm writing a fanfic for the anime Nightwalker. Its turning out pretty good and I've gotten good reviews for it. I'm suffering writers block again. Oh well, nothing that can be done about it I guess. Anyway, there's this other fic I wrote for Mortal Kombat. This isn't my best work. The chapters are too short and there's not enough dialog involving the main character. I'm thinking about deleting it and rewriting the whole damn thing. Maybe I should just trash it and start on something else. I just don't know. If you wanta read my fics go to http://www.fanfiction.net/~nitara If you do read them, please leave a review. Be honest, but no flaming.

Flames!

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:57:05 GMT

On one of the message boards I go to, there are two users who I can't stand! They don't care about anyone else's opinions except their own. They have repeatedly insulted other users. I'm amazed that those two haven't been banned yet. Everyone is aloud to have their own opinions, but that doesn't mean you can disrespect someone else because they don't share the same views as you.

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:46:19 GMT

Hi guys! I'm new here, but this place looked pretty cool, so I thought I'd give this journal thing a shot. I'm eighteen years old and I live in Florida. I love going to amusement parks. My favorite roller coaster ever is the Incredible Hulk at Islands of Adventure. The faster the better! I also like playing video games and writing fan fiction.