I'd hit it.

I'm gonna be perfectly honest, I'm a Zack Snyder supporter.

It's odd to me how everyone had their dicks out for 300 when it was released, as well as the Watchmen.

Now, it's popular to hate this guy for whatever reason.

While both were good films, there was no way to live up to the hype and unrealistic expectations of comic book fanboys.

He also directed the Dawn of the Dead remake which is actually a pretty damn good take on THE best zombie film of all time, and that's saying something.

Some would have you believe he's worse than Michael Bay (style over substance) but I don't buy that at all. this guy sticks to source material while creating scenes that have a visual style that is pretty much unrivaled. Dude knows what he's about and runs with it, unlike Michael Bay who'd love to sell you a Transformers movie as an Oscar contender.

If nothing else, the films he directs are FUN and pleasing on the eyes and sometimes that's all I ask for. Seriously. I enjoy an epic emotional film probably more than anyone on the planet, but there's nothing wrong with watching some crazy shit and just saying "hey, that's awesome" every now and again.

And so, watch the new trailer for Sucker Punch and tell me it doesn't look FUN in a totally ridiculous way:



If you truly find nothing appealing about it, you're probably just insane or Roger Ebert.

Hot girls in ridiculously hot costumes, robots, swords, guns, robots with guns, dragons, nazis, hot girls in costumes with swords and guns fighting robots and nazis, COME ON!



Count me in for one, motherfuckers.

PS. Still throwing around the idea of a movie site/blog to place things such as this, but fuck, am I LAZY.

Windows movie maker sucks.

Short and sweet.

Ryan and I went fishing tonight, brought the GoPro to try out some time lapse.




Worked out pretty well considering we just stood it on a tackle box and pressed a button...that is until the battery ran out RIGHT before an awesome storm with creepy clouds started rolling in.

Could have been such a cool thing to watch.

Still, I think I'll be messing with this shit a lot more. Love the effect.

Oh, and this is hastly thrown together in Windows Movie maker and I never even noticed the captions enabled, so whatever. I don't care. It was a nice test.

Protip: in a few of the frames my penis is exposed.

STJ10 update: Drayton Valley.

Stopped for Gas and a stretch

This was a good ride. I always love cruising south down 770 and this time just carried on toward Drayton Valley. Stuck behind logging trucks in construction zones is not fun, but the few big curves and hills made up for it.

Upon entering the town it looked pretty much like a gas station and a few other places, but I carried on since I was curious and tried to get myself a bit lost. In the process I realized there were actually quite a few nice looking sights and it was much bigger than I thought.

I think I've been through a few times when I was younger, but that was years ago.

Not a bad place, I think I even spotted a movie theater. Sweet.

It also gave me a chance to try these bad boys out:

The TCX Airtech GORE-TEX touring boots

When I first got my license I wore some leather boots I bought to do the training course because they felt good and were much safer. Eventually, I started thinking they were too much of a hassle to put on (that, and lost them in the fire) so I'd been wearing my shoes ever since.

The other issue is that when riding a bike for any amount of time your feet (at least mine) get hot and it's not fun.

I read about these boots in Cycle World and how they are incredibly breathable yet still waterproof.

I can verify the breathable claim is 100% accurate, because holy shit, my feet stayed cool. They are very comfortable and hey, they make you look like a bit of a robot, so that's a plus in my book.

Oh yeah, and the safety factor. Anything that covers your ankle is probably gonna save your leg if you happen to take a tumble.

The only downside is that it just takes some getting used to since you have to position your feet a bit different to get at the shifter and that when not riding, and because of how high they cover, you end up walking like a Frankenstein creation unless you actively tell your mind "it's alright to walk normally, your ankles won't snap" but that's the way it is with any riding boot, I imagine.

Also the fact that they were a bitch to find in a size that fit. I ended up having to order online and get one size higher than I wanted, but I actually enjoy more wiggle room in my footwear than the average person, so whatever. Main thing is that they feel good while riding, and they sure as fuck do.

And that was my impromptu review.

Fish.

Fishing is fun.

Trevor, Ryan and I went on Saturday and had a good time, but it was pretty damn hot out and we didn't stay for all that long.

Ryan and I went today amongst the cloudy sky and it was much better. I prefer rain and clouds to hot ass sun, plus it makes for better fishing anyway.







We got there and it turned kinda ugly quickly, but we fished anyway until the rain was just annoying and we were pretty soaked.

We made the trek back to the car to wait it out for a bit, but upon loading the shit back into the hatch I had place my keys in it because I had so much shit in my pockets that I was trying to organize, but got kinda confused and I closed it (I think to grab the shit that was sitting on the roof still) and then it locked. So we stood around in the fucking rain until my mother brought us my spare key.

What is retarded is that it's impossible to lock your keys in it normally, since you need said key to lock it in the first place, you always have them on you, but for whatever reason as soon as you close the damn hatch it locks everything up automatically, which is silly.

It's possible it had something to do with the fact that Ryan was being annoying and trying to open the door handles at the same time, I don't know.

Anyway, it was less annoying and more funny and amusing, standing in the rain.

We then went to Wabamun to get snacks and wait it out a bit more and then got back to it until just after 9.

We didn't catch anything but got plenty of bites, so whatever. it's still fun just hanging out and being goofs.

Been doing a bit of reading about other smaller stocked ponds/lakes that might have good shore fishing, so maybe a small trip is in order one of these days. One day I think we might actually catch something.

STJ10 update: WESTLOCK

I've been to Westlock many times. Always as a kid. We passed through it on the way to our little family summer vacation thing.

I decided to go back just because.

Felt a lot more epic than I thought it would. Partly because it's one lane in either direction and I got stuck behind these big ass trucks who do 95 (which is fine) and then when you get the right moment to pass them, they SPEED UP (which is not fine) and I am not exaggerating, I was behind one doing 95, so I backed off, took a look and then went to pass and by the time I was in front of the dude I was doing 156 because I HAD to, or ram headfirst into the vehicle coming toward me in the other lane.

That happened twice. Fucking idiots. What's the point?

I was going to stop in at the CANADIAN TRACTOR MUSEUM but it looked closed down/quarantined and I didn't stop to find out why.

Instead I stopped at Sobeys and bought a Gartorade from a ridiculously cute girl and then sat in the parking lot and drank it before I headed back out into a storm.

I think this was my first time riding in a real downpour. It wasn't so bad. Kind of exciting actually. The wind that comes with storms is the shitty part.

Also my speedometer stopped working on the way back, so I had to pull over and fix it in the rain. The cable had come loose, which I don't understand since it screws in tighter than fuck. Maybe someone in Westlock sabotaged me.

Or maybe it was loose-ish all along and finally came undone. Kind of annoying but easy enough to fix and all seems well.

I planned on taking my time on the return trip and stopping at a bunch of the smaller towns just a little out of the way, but it was shitty out so I just hauled ass instead.

Good ride though.

Vroom

Ever since I got a bike (and long before that, really) I've always thought about recording footage just for the hell of it.

So a little while ago I ordered a GoPro HD hero camera to mess around with.

It's a compact, pretty rugged feeling camera capable of shooting 1080P widescreen video, which sort of blows my mind everytime I hold it in my hands.

I got a package that came with a shitload of mounts. You can put them all together and make filming in pretty much any sort of angle possible. I've got a handlebar mount on the way, which will make it easier to get straight forward footage.

But today I thought it'd be cool to try something different and used the suction cup mount ON THE MIRROR and it looked like this:




the results?

Watchable but pretty shakey at times. Mostly cause the mirrors are actually pretty "loose" and vibrate more than they should, but still kinda cool looking, I thought. I guess the effect would be cooler on some real twisty roads, but all I did was go for a five minute burn.

The audio was also shit, mainly because I left it in the waterproof housing (shown above) and didn't put it in the regular one, so instead of listening to the annoying sounds, I added the first song that popped up.

Also, I used windows movie maker and pretty much lost all the video quality in the process, which is okay because my internet has been shit lately and there's no way I could upload 500 megs of movie right now. So, really that video doesn't do the camera and justice whatsoever.

Anyway, I'll be messing around with it some more and seeing how I can put it to use and shall upload a higher quality version of something, just as soon as I get some speeds that ARE BETTER THAN FUCKING DIALUP.

D out.

Holy fuck.

As I said to SCJ this is the movie that is hopefully going to save this summer of crappy films.



I've watched this like 15 times now. Can't fucking wait.