“Black” films bore me, if you know what I mean…
June 25th, 2009 6:53 by Jessica
I hope I’m not being offensive to anyone when I say this, but I’ve just had it with “black” films lately. You know, the typical ones that portray black people as loving bling, money, girls, and chicken. Some that come to the top of my head are “Johnson Family Vacation” and recently, “Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins.” They have the same plot, the same actors, the stupid family get together to do competitions, and the same fat people jokes. I personally think these people should take it upon them to look at what Will Smith is currently doing. I mean, I really love him as a comedy guy, used to love watching him when I was younger, but there is more to an acting career than doing the same crappy straight-to-video films that do nothing for one’s career. Stop trying to make films to rival Mrs. Doubtfire, Nutty Professor, and other classic films, it’s really not working for the audiences!
On another note, Adam Sandler has really done good to last as long as he has. He had some films that I didn’t really care for, like “Eight Crazy Nights” and “Mr. Deeds” (to be honest, never really watched it in full), but “Bedtime Stories” was really good. I really liked the fact that it was a family movie, unlike a lot of the other films he’s done. I think there’s a time where actors need to realize that the age group they represented back when they first started may not have the same attitude towards that kind of humor now that they’re older. “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” was absolutely hysterical though, couldn’t stop laughing throughout the whole thing.
Thank you Candice!
June 23rd, 2009 7:38 by Jessica
Thank you to Candice for the review of my blog at Muted Pain Reviews, I will hopefully make changes to my spelling errors and CSS soon. Sometimes I type too fast (having a whopping 500 WPM when I’m into it!) or I’m on my iPhone and I tend to type everything that comes into my mind. I’ve always tried to stick with coding for the new browsers, rather than the old.
Anyway, not a lot has been going on, did get my first hostee, Chantelle, on board! Am excited to see her site completed. Also got an e-mail from Christine about Blackberry Creek which I was excited to see I wasn’t the only one who misses that place so much. I’m in the process of getting a full fledged paid hosting site together, plus am finishing some other sites, I’ve been a busy girl!
The Dreams We Have As Children
June 13th, 2009 1:00 by Jessica
I’ve finally come to realize why I hated my childhood and never like to talk about it. When I was in Kindergarden, a girl came in the middle of the year and instantly became my best friend. She used to come over all the time and we’d have those days where we argued a lot, like normal friends do. We went everywhere and did everything together, those were probably the most happiest times of my life. The thing that broke us apart was the problems between our parents.
Her dad loved my mother, well when I say loved I mean that he liked flirting with her A LOT because he was divorced (his wife lived on the other end of our town). My dad soon found out about it and got really angry and said that I couldn’t be around my friend or her father anymore. There was one time I think he even yanked this guy’s hair the last time he saw him. I guessed the fact that we were in different grades by then helped a lot.
So we drifted apart, didn’t speak to each other for a couple of years. She was in my class in third grade but we didn’t communicate that much. It was sort of a passing thing where we’d just see each other and say hello. One day she saw me on the swings alone and came over to tell me the news, her mother had remarried and she was moving away. I remember sighing and saying “Oh.”
That’s the last memory I have of her and I haven’t seen her since.
I’m an Apple Developer now
June 10th, 2009 2:34 by Jessica
The magazine place I freelance for gave me permission to use their Apple Development account. I installed 3.0 on my iPhone this morning, it’s awesome!
To the people of India, Nigeria, and Vietnam, thank you very much!
June 9th, 2009 9:47 by Jessica
I just wanted to say thanks for being a bunch of idiots and committing identity theft on the internet just to make a couple of dollars, thanks for buying eBooks on how to get a valid US bank account and VCC to use to verify PayPal. Thanks for using that PayPal account to buy $100,000 worth of iTunes cards. Thanks for stealing people’s credit card information to use on your PayPal account to make these purchases.
Thanks to you, I can no longer make a purchase on iTunes using PayPal because they deem it “unsafe to process at the moment.” I tried my card EIGHT times yesterday, with $200 to begin with, and it took all the $1’s but it denied the orders. Guess what? I called PayPal and they said it had nothing to do with me! They blocked it because of you selfish little stupid idiots who don’t believe that actually working hard will get you anywhere in life.
Thanks to you, I have $200 worth of hard earned money that I can’t use on my favorite online store because YOU messed it up, yes YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU. You should be ashamed of yourself because it’s a serious matter that YOU caused, YOU should be ashamed of yourself. Get a life honestly, stop destroying what people have, you don’t have PayPal in your country for a reason and you need to get over that.
Thank you very much!
I’m gonna have to face it, I’m addicted to food
June 8th, 2009 9:14 by Jessica
I was just looking through the pictures I had saved off my iPhone, I’ve taken more than 40 pictures of the food I’ve had in the last year! It’s amazing just how much I eat, even now I just finished having some spaghetti and a pizza with some bread. Some of it looks amazingly good, other times it’s a complete heart attack! I’m not a cook though, so it’s mostly my mum and dad’s cooking plus fast food.
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I’ve been learning how to make proper sandwiches though, not just ham and cheese, but a little more complex. I’m still learning how to cut them in half without destroying the whole thing, but I’m making some progress! I don’t have any pictures of those for that reason.
Music is my passion
June 7th, 2009 10:27 by Jessica
Music means a lot to me, it’s been something I’ve always been passionate about since I was little. When I was in school, I used to love learning about Mozart, Duke Ellington, and other historical figures in the business. It was cool because it wasn’t about just knowing boring pieces that you’d probably never hear again, I always hear “Ride of the Valkyries” in movies and I know where it’s from and the composer.
I used to like looking at the lyrics and sheet music that went with the songs we used to sing. We got to hear the CD with the kids first, then we got a chance to sing it as a group. Then, we got to read about the different instruments, hear interviews of famous people talking about their work, and watch various musicals. Choir was also good fun too, used to be a soprano, now can hardly sing that high.
They don’t teach it the same now though, now it’s more about being able to play an instrument and read the notes, boring stuff that isn’t that interesting to the kids. Half of the musicians out there can’t read a note, so why do people need to know this stuff? The only reason I know some notation is because I play piano. Are the band teachers in middle school wanting to go straight into concerts these days?
Getting a new cellphone next week!
June 6th, 2009 10:13 by Jessica
I’m currently on the GoPhone plan for my iPhone, it’s the $90 a month one, and yeah, it has unlimited everything. I can even call up my friends in the United Kingdom and send them text messages, so it’s a really cool thing. However, it’s not cool that I’m paying AT&T all my wages. My dad’s currently waiting on a credit check to go through, I get my own plan that I’ll have to help him pay for.
It’s amazing how my phone was around $500 to begin with though, now you can get an iPhone pretty cheap. I think people take Apple products for granted, especially the computers. I got given an iMac that’s from 1998 which came to me with OS 9.2, managed to upgrade to Panther with no problem, runs really well! I can’t wait to get the Power Mac that I might get this week, still looking out for a pink clamshell iBook though. I’m thinking that I could buy an old MacBook and take out everything and mod a super powerful iBook that I can carry around easily. My MacBook Pro is starting to give up on me.
Put Windows 7 on the Windows machine in the living room, it lags a bit, you’d think it wouldn’t being a fairly recent Pavilion. I’m thinking it needs an upgrade to 1-2GB. RAM is still pretty expensive though, at least for me. I need to start saving up for a new machine, I think it’d be a better investment to be honest.
I’m happy when I make someone else happy
June 6th, 2009 10:37 by Jessica
So I’ve been talking to this one guy I met off Omegle, and you know, it’s pretty hard to communicate with anyone on that site because it’s used mainly for practical jokes and insulting people in one go. He thought I was pretty cool though and we started talking on MSN which was nice! He says he doesn’t have any friends and so he likes having me for company. I don’t know, but there’s not many people you can really talk to that think that way. There’s a bunch of jerks on the internet and I’ve had my fair share of them. I’ve been using the internet for more than a decade now and it just seems to get worse and worse.
I remember when I was about nine, I got into this AOL Keyword called Blackberry Creek, and it was really really nice, better than the AOL Kids Only one. It was a place where you could post short stories, roleplay school/medieval/fantasty plots with other people, submit drawings and comics while getting feedback, just a place to hang out. Then the whole Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act thing came in effect when I was eleven and the lady who ran it had to shut it down. She had it on the internet for awhile, but it came to be too much for her to handle as all her moderators and helpers had better things to do.
There were spin-offs like Urban Bohemian that were teen related, so as you can tell, it wasn’t at all the same. deviantART came up shortly after, but still… It’s nothing like having a nice little community of artists who enjoy looking at other’s works and critiquing on their ability to gain the reader’s attention. We were just kids at the time and we wanted help to be better cartoonists. But alas, there is no more of that. Some of us have personal sites, some of us lost interest. I’d get back into it in a heartbeat if I could, I loved all the little messages I used to get all the time, it was just fun!
But you know what sucks? That stupid act didn’t help with anything at all, you still see the idiots who find the little kids on Facebook and MySpace all the time. Our hangout was ruined and nothing came out of it by doing so.