Bandoo

Well, tomorrow is my birthday. That makes today my last day of being 14 ever. Oh well. I think I'll celebrate by staying up late tonight and watching one of the original Star Wars movies. Anyways I was wandering around along the shore today looking for shells and horseshoe crabs when I found a rather strange looking skull kinda thing. At least I think its a skull. I'm not completely sure. It has what appears to be a nasal cavity inside, and a piece that looks like a vertabrae at one end. No teeth, just a wierd little flat part sticking out, and no bottom jaw either. It looks to me like a bird, or perhaps a fish. It does smell rather fishy. I need to let it air out before I can examine it further.

Wise? Really? That seems kinda odd. And out-of-character. Alas, I have not seen the movie yet so I can't really say anything about it, but I'm looking forward to purchasing one of the Hasbro toy starfighters. Probably the V19 Torrent. Just looks so dang cool. I'm wondering, though, do they get any screentime in the movie? ~Bandoo~

10 days till my birthday!

So, the new Star Wars movie comes out in a few hours. Sigh. Warning: Senseless rant Ahead! I am an old school Star Wars fan, and am devoted to the original trilogy. So epic. So brilliant. Great characters and acting. The prequel trilogy, on the other hand, I despise. Well, maybe not despise, but I really dislike them. Just too much CGIing, bad dialougues between characters, poor acting, and Jar Jar Binks. Now along comes Clone Wars. It gets slipped in between episodes 2 and 3 again. In case you didn't know, there were already two seasons of a Clone Wars cartoon in that spot. Understndable at first, since there is a several year gap between movies 2 and 3. But taking a closer look at the time line reveals some problems. Clone Wars cartoon season one leads directly into season 2, which leads directly into Episode 3. In Cartoon Wars season 2, Anakin is granted the rank of Jedi Knight, and from that point onwards he is able to take an apprentice, like the one he has in CG Wars movie. Okay, but there's not enough time between then and episode3 for all the events of the CG movie to happen, along with the events of the new CGClone Wars TV series coming out in the fall. Next issue is the apprentice Anakin takes in the new movie. Where does she go in episode 3. I can't imagine she is fully trained in that short an amount of time, so why isn't she still with Anakin. And even if she was trained that quickly, how come she is never seen or even mentioned by anyone in episode 3. Thus, my theory is that she will have to die, or go off to a far away planet on a mission, or give Anakin severe amnesia about the whole thing. My third thing here isn't really a problem, just a wish. I hope that General Grevious is actually amazing in this movie. The first time we saw him in the cartoon clone wars series, he took on six Jedi at once. And won. Three were killed in battle, and the other three were severly wounded. If not for the arrival of reinforcements, they too would soon have died. In the second season, Grevious was shown kicking even more tail, this time by launching an attack on Coruscant itself. Killed two more Jedi, and kidnapped the Chancellor Palpetine. So now when Episode three came out, everyone was expecting Grevious to be awesome on the big screen as well. But I was disapointed. First, he was coughing the whole time like someone with a deadly illness, second he was quickly defeated by only one Jedi, when previously he had been seen knocking the stuffing out of six at once. Bah. I just hope he is better this time around. <>Rant Over<> Yeah, just had to get that out of my system. Ahhh... Anyways, my brother and I were going to see Clone Wars at the midnight premeire tonight, but at the last minute he remembered that he had plans already. I don't have any friends who would want to see it with me, so I may just go alone. I'm not really expecting anything amazing since it already looks to me from previews like it's aimed at little kids and new fans, but I intend to see it anyways, because I feel almost obligated to do so as a Star Wars fan. I can still try to go in with a tiny sliver of hope, hope that somehow it will turn out as good as the originals. But then there's also the possibility that it will just take my little piece of hope, and smash it to dust with a giant hammer. Sigh... Decisions, decisions. To go on opening night by myself, or to wait till after everyone else has seen it to go with my brother.

My brother and I went over to our aunt's house today to do some yardwork for her. Mostly weeding, but whatever. The weather was so nice I didn't mind. Not too hot, not too cold, a little breeze, and partially cloudy. Perfect. Plus, we made $25 each for about 3.5 hours of work. More money for my Force Unleashed fund. Yay! Oh, and we also ripped trees out of the ground by their roots with our bare hands. ... .... ..... Fine, they were tiny little saplings, but it was still pretty tough when the tree part was a few inches tall, but the roots reached down a foot and a half. Quite a few times I would be pulling on a tree with all my might, when its roots would suddenly let go and I was sent flying backwards. Ow. ~Contrary to this entry's title, we did not encounter any gnomes. Sorry to decieve you, but I couldn't think of a better title.~

Hmmmm.... not really, but the torch lighting part was pretty crazy. ~Bandoo~

I like Gorast quite a bit. She's unique, has a non-cookie-cutter build, and cool pieces. PLus, she's green and black! (I like green, so that's always bonus points in my eye). Only downside is that there aren't that many pieces and the build, while unique, is not very exciting. And that grey torso. Couldn't they have just made it black instead? ~Bandoo~

Yeah, I've never been too good at keeping proportions. Thanks for the pointers, though, I'll try to work on making the head the right size next time. o--V--o I I (Look, I made a tiny person!) ~Bandoo~

Awesome! Someone else thought it too! I'm not alone! ... Sorry for the overreactiveness, I just don't get too many comments in here usually.

Rocks? When did I mention rocks? And by "what is wrong with you" are you referring to the fact that I have crazy wierd dreams, the fact that I hallucinate inside these dreams, the fact that I spend my waking moments pondering about said hallucinations inside these dreams, or the fact that I blame all of this on bad Chinese food? ~Bandoo~

I watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics last night, and it was stunnning. The artistic portion was amazing in its complexity and perfect choreography. My favorite part was the field of pillars that went up and down which represented the movable printing blocks. I sat wondering how they were making them move up until the last moment when the lids opened and people popped out! It also mesmerized me because it reminded me of the Akilini field in the Coliseum as seen in Legends of Metru Nui. Also cool was the giant sphere that rose out of the ground and had people running around along its lines of lattitude. At this point the little voice in my head was screaming "Codrex!". Yes, I know that I'm nuts when I must relate everything I see to Bionicle in some way. But it doesn't bother me, because I'd rather be a little bit strange and stand out from the crowd than put a Krana on my face and join the collective hive mind. I just did it again, didn't I. ><

Oh, about that review I said I was going to do...Well, first I was too busy, then I didn't feel like doing it, and then I just stopped caring. Because there's already several other reviews out there, plus we should hopefully be seeing the "official" front page reviews soon. And it's not like anyone was really waiting for my personal opinion anyways. But if you were, here's a simple, mini guide as to whether or not you should buy her: 1. Do you like the color green? 2. How about black? 3. Do you like four-armed mutants who feed on light? 4. Are you a collector/completist? 5. Are you a Mocer looking for green and black pieces? 6. Do you have 13 extra dollars to spend? If you answered yes to more than one of the above questions, then you should buy Gorast. There you have it. Happy now? On a completely unrelated note, I'm going away for the rest of this week, and I'll be back on Friday. While I'm gone, enjoy these random doodles I did yesterday: Kongu Jala A poorly drawn Ga-Matoran A side doodle of a matoran swinging on some vines Onepu Matoro holding...something... Jala prepared for battle A Le-Matoran playing the flute. My personal favorite out of the bunch. Makuta A random Av-Matoran. Who's standing sideways... My interpretation of a shadow leech Av-Matoran + Shadow Leech That's all I've got for now. I know they're not that good, I did most of them rather quickly. And with a pen to boot. >< But whatever. I hope you like them. Leave questions, comments, criticism, and cookies and I',, reply when I get back. See ya!

Today is a good day for me. First of all, I finished one of my summer homework assignments yesterday. And the even better part is that I can get extra credit by mailing it in to him before August 10. Yippee! Secondly, I got Gorast today! I went to K-mart first, hoping to get her for the reduced price like in the recent news article. But the shelves were still full of Phantoka. At last I found some Mistika on the very top shelf, behind some Star Wars sets. But they only had Gali and Bitil. Blargh. So instead I went to Toys R Us and found her quite easily there. But for that one, single canister set, the price came to price of $14.11, with tax. Oh, well. Now I'm going to go play with her some more, but expect a review up tonight.

I'm back from summer camp! We got home about 8:30 last night after a four hour drive. Luckily I was able to sleep through most of it. Most of last night and this morning was spent catching up on the latest news and stuff from my family. Camp is fun and all, but its always nice to come home and sleep in your own bed instead of on a cot in a leaky, drafty tent. And good, home-cooked meals. Yummm...

Thanks for the advice, I'll be sure to try it once I get back from camp. I've always been a procrastinator, and I have to push myself to not wait until the night before the assignment is due to do it. P.S.- You're a mom? I'm sorry if that sounded rude at all, it just sort of surprised me that there would be a mom on BZP. Sorry.

The heat today is unbearable. I'm stuck inside mostly, with nothing to do. I'd love to go in the pool but its freezing cold. Like jump in and race out in ten seconds cold. Blah. And of course with being stuck inside comes my mom's unstoppable nagging for me to do my summer homework assignments. Its not that bad I guess, I'm almost done with one subject. It would help if my computer would stop randomly dieing though. I think the heat in my room is starting to get to it too. Anyways I'm going away for summer camp next week, in case anybody wants to know. We're leaving Sunday morning so maybe I should start packing soon... Nah, maybe tomorrow.

A tragedy struck my bedroom today. I had three Toa Mata laid out, in pieces on my desk. I was in the process of filming a stop-motion movie where they would combine into a kaita. All of a sudden, my desk lamp decided to jump off the shelf above and land right in the pile of pieces, scattering them across the floor. I desperately scrambled to grab all of them in time, but I wasn't fast enough. One piece managed to get away, and now I have no clue where it is. The piece was one of tiny two-length O/+ connectos from Lewa Mata's left hand. After I gave up searching my room for it, I figured I could just grab a replacement from this tub thing I had in the closet. But of course the tub only has pieces from 03 and 04, the years that they started making that piece only in tan and blue. Time for plan C. I remembered having an extra one of those pieces in Kopaka Mata's canister, which was of course, at the very bottom of my closet. After a while of digging, I opened the canister to find that it was completely empty. Now I was getting annoyed, and I started to just open up whatever canisters/boxes I could find, hoping to find the piece in the extra parts that usually come with some sets. But again, to no avail. Only black, blue, and tan ones, not a single extra grey. After spending half my morning looking for this piece, my mom suggested calling Lego for a replacement part, but I'm not sure if they'll have it in the right color, since it hasn't been made in several years. Now, I know I'm probably over-reacting over just a single tiny piece, but Lewa is one of my oldest sets, and also my favorite. I like to keep my old sets on display, and it bugs me if something is missing on them. Also I feel somewhat guilty for being so careless with the pieces in the first place. For now I have given up searching for the piece in my room, since if it isn't so far under something that it will never be seen again, one of my cats has probably taken it instead. <sigh...>

That means "I don't want" in spanish, right? So what is it that you don't want, may I ask?

I had a really weird dream last night. It started out with me on a space mission to Mars with four others in a little spaceship. I'm not sure how, but two of the others mysteriously dissapeared one by one, kind of like a horror movie. Then we were on a small moon of some kind, with a beautiful forest on it. I was mesmerized by it all, the trees, the grass, the flowers, the birds... There was just one little problem though, I was the only one who could see it. My teammates were yelling at me to stop staring at an empty rock, but I kept telling them that it was really there, and they didn't believe me. They had to literally drag me back to the spaceship, and figured that I was probably going insane and hallucinating from being in space for so many months. As we left I heard a voice saying that I had found my hidden element, plant life. So we went to some different places that I can't remember, but at the end I returned to the invisible meadow, and I told the others to go on and finish the mission without me, that I wanted to stay here forever... and then I woke up. Yeah, one of the strangest dreams I've had in a while. Maybe this is what happens when you eat bad wonton soup late at night. Tha PLant Life element thing has had me pondering all day,l... but whatever, I mean, it's just a dream anyway.

Yesterday was July 4th, a day of food, flags, fireworks, and fun. So last night my brother and I had our traditional lighting of the bottle rockets. Man, those things are fun. Too bad we only had about a dozen. What I wouldn't give to get my hands on a couple crates of those... Also in our possession was a homemade potato launcher. Yes, you read that right, a potato launcher. Basically a couple pieces of plastic pipe with an igniter duck-taped to it and a potato shoved down the barrel. Able to launch a medium sized potato about 50 feet. Only thing is, it didn't work. For some reason the aerosol in the igntion chamber wouldn't ignite, so the potato remained lodged in the tube. Only after we took the potato out did it finally go off in a burst of flame that narrowly missed my leg. So, potato cannon prototype one: Total Failure We hope to try and make a better one for next year, possibly a pnuematic one if we can.

Because I'm a nerd and am not into sports very much, plus I'm not athletic in any way. (Not fat, though, just weak and low on stamina). It's also the class I get the worst grade in, since I usually fail the physical fitness test.

Wow, two comments already! Thanks a lot! I just moved those content blocks over, you're right it did make it too cramped in here. And sorry for using your line, I really didn't know. ~Bandoo~