Tomb Raider

This blog, although several other interesting things happened this week, may be entirely about the movie Tomb Raider 2: Pandora's Box

We are about halfway through the movie right now, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the world is saved from impending doom.

It's almost like a James Bond movie for women. It has the british accents, the cunning bad guy, motorcycle chases, rock music, disposable bad guys, really awesome but not so necessary explosions, the stereotypical helper agents that get kilt off, the rekindled love story between some old friend and the main character... yea, you get the picture. The thing is though, I can't realistically see Angelina Jolie doing fight scenes like she does - it's like she's too slow or uncoordinated or something, she doens't seem to have the killer instinct in any area except for the facial expressions. Then again, if I were a man fighting someone as smokin' hot as Angelina Jolie, I would probably let her win too.

But yeah, James Bond for women - I'm not a huge fan of Bond, and I think it's good that they have a woman doin' it now. I woulnd't be surprised if Lifetime started airing it.
Not a Lifetime time diss or anything - it's a great channel - didn't they come up with unsolved mysteries or oprah or somethin like that?

Oh - I'm no longer going to Bolivia. They're having a revolution down there, and there's people running around the capitol building holding sticks of dynamite, and the president just resigned for the second time. First of all, how do you resign twice? Maybe it was April fool's day when he resigned the first time. Who knows.

But anyway, there's political turmoil which, starting as political turmoil often means ending in violent turmoil so we found another country to go to. Ecuador. It's on the Equator. Imagine that.

It should be pretty good - I read a book by kurt vonnegut about ecuador called Galapagos. Or rather, I started a book by kurt vonnegut and finished the better part of it before something distracted me from it. Galapogos was a good book, he always writes well, and loves to include irony.

Galapagos is one of the places (an island) Charles Darwin visited during the Beagle's Voyage, while he was thinkin bout that whole evolution deal. And for whatever reason (didn't finish the book) these people got stranded on Galapogos and the rest of the world sort of died (i skipped that part), and one of the people on the cruise ship that was stranded there had a furry baby that was seal-like (must be evolution at work) and hardly a sentient being, and then humanity sort of "evolved" into a furry swimming seal race after that.

hmm so this blog definitely isn't just about tomb raider. Ya know, i wrote somethin down in my notebook during driving class this week that would be good for my blog. I can't seem to find my notebook now, so it'll have to wait for awhile.

Driving class, by the way was downright painful at times. We watched movies from late eighties/early nineties... and you know you can't expect them to be cool, mainly because of the weird crap that was in style back then. There was one video in particular that was especially cheesy even for instructional videos. It involved this white guy who had a butt cut (hair parted to both sides fyi) the person drinks the orange stuff and gives a smile that could make a man's hair curl. and had the facial expressions that were straight out of one of those south beach diet commercials where a person drinks the orange stuff and then smiles one of those smiles that makes me gag.

I can't write right now 'cause my lil brother is botherin me so I will resume after a few Nirvana songs

[Intermission]

Okay, i think I'm okay now. anyway, the guy with the butt cut and this other black guy and an asian girl and a white girl (it must be fair to all minorities, and I'm assuming one of them was jewish) all do this music video thing where they sing about buckling up. And about No-Zones. They even lip sync-d (how do you spell that?), and were just incredibly off. It was like Milli Vanilli all over again... except not.

Also during the driving class, we learned that if you see a person walking that has a white cane with a red tip, you have to stop for them 'cause they're probably blind. I'm assuming that if they are just carrying a cane that is neither white or has a red tip, you're free to run them over. Funny world we live in.

That's all for tonite, i think i'm going to go watch forrest gump.