What is Best in Life

So, I watched the usual random assortment of movies over my Christmas break. Looking back, I realized that 8 of them naturally fell into pairs, both thematically and in that one was an old standard and the other a movie I’d never seen. Now I know all of you are saying “but Isley, what was the BEST movie you saw over the Christmas break??”

Well, picking one movie as the best ended up being no easy task, so I thought I’d take each pair of movies and let the winner determine itself.

Thus I have organized a good-old-fashioned, frontier-style, no-holds-barred KUMITE. Each movie would battle it out in a single elimination tournament to determine once and for all what the best movie I saw over the Christmas break was!
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From the pages of Goth Blog comes the spinoff everyone has been clamoring for: JOCK Blog! That’s right, you will now periodically be subjected to the wacky adventures of everyone’s favorite jock older brother, Chet! But enough of my yappin, let’s get on with the Jock Blog!

(Warning, this is not for the weak stomached. I have culled knowledge gained from years of close contact with jocks in their natural habitat into what is actually a mostly hyperbole free post based on actual events. So yeah, jocks are filthy filthy people. You have been warned.) (more…)

I don’t like serial killers. I should be more specific I suppose, I’m sure plenty of serial killers are great people, what I mean is I don’t like reading books, watching movies or otherwise looking into anything related to serial killing. I just don’t have that natural human fascination with the morbid I guess (also not a horror fan). I think it is just that the human capacity for evil (not that I even believe that word has any real meaning) doesn’t astonish me much, so what I’m left with is just seeing a bunch of people die to prove the point that “man has it in him”. Well, duh, and ugh…that’s just a downer and nothing I want to be subjected to.

That said, I can’t remember ever seeing a better movie than No Country For Old Men in a movie theater (now of course I could name better movies, but none that I’ve seen as they were released). True, I went into it with pretty low expectations. The Coen Brothers have made some great movies, but their recent stuff has been pretty unremarkable. Plus, it was basically a serial killer movie (not exactly, but close enough), I hate that shit! So boy was I surprised when I actually walked out of the Hollywood Southwind 12 theater with the same feeling I have after watching something like His Girl Friday. All I could think was “now THAT was a movie!”
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The Tales of Center Valley saga continues here with GOTH Blog 2! Look no further if you are int he mood for something rather silly that is full of black nail polish, nerdy references, capes, teen drama and plenty of horrible poetry!

Previously in Goth Blog:

Goth Blog 1- Our hero Khaine introduces himself and his one true love Thorn.  Alas, but the goth-queen Thorn does not return his affection and his attempt to woo her with a public poetry reading in their english class goes disastrously awry.

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