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Not Digital, Not Yet

Monday, September 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

On Saturday, Hayley and I saw the movie Get Smart.  I’m aware it’s been out for a while, but see I grew up on get smart, and watching the comercials, Steve Correl is no Max Smart.  so I saw it and tried to keep an open mind.

well I’ve got one word of advice for Hollywood, Don’t go Digital!

Get smart was filmed on a glorified sitcom high def camera and frankly, it looked it.

2 major problems I see, they shot it in 30 fps it looked like and than tried to down convert to 24 to try to keep high res frams, however, it looks cheesy!  especially the darks.

I’m not saying Digital isn’t inevitable, because I know, the whole world is going that way, it’s cheeper, easier, and in many cases harder to screw up.  but that’s just it, it’s easier to make movies now than ever before.  Being so easy we have absolute crap coming out of hollywood.  The good movies seem to come from Indy film makers (good for you).

So why am I ranting about digital (becaue is keep touching this issue than taking tangets)?  because digital is what us low end people use, becasue we can’t afford 32mm film, let alone the camera, we can’t afford to even develop said film.  However you can!  keep doing it.  Digital isn’t ready for the big screen, it still looks bad.

Unless this is a sign that hollywood uses digital on films that they just don’t care about, than by all means just let us know, we’ll avoid them!

It’s just frustrating to pay for a movie ticket and than get made for TV quality movies.

Please up the annie on this one please!

acoustic night

Friday, September 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

It’s a rare joy to play infront of a crowd.  There’s this excitment that comes with a crowd cheering for you as you play to your little hearts content.

Wed, Hayley Haws through a concert for her guitar students for a singles ward activity.  all in all, it was awesome and fun.

here are some pics.

Warranty?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | Rants | No Comments

So I had some car issues.  a few things had broken or come loose.  so I did what a good client should do and I called a head of time to set an appointment for me to drop off my car.  

so 9 am rolls around and It’s time for me to drop off my car.  I informed the dealership that i had class that night and needed it back.  He re-assured me that the car would be done in the early afternoon.  

Also, all the problems were covered under my warranty except an oil change.

well 3 rolls around and I decided to call up and ask how far along my car is.  the man on the other side tells me they haven’t even looked at it yet.  I reminded him that the appointment was at 9 am.  he said they were busy.  mind you there were 2 other cars there besides mine.  and mine was supposed to be the first one in. 

I show up at 4:30 and wind up having to wait till 6:30 till they’re done.  also, they decided some of my repairs were not covered under the warranty.  

this was the tire well.  they said that if it breaks loose they’ll cover it but if it grinds against my tire they won’t any more.  

wow, so $200 dollars later I leave the dealership only to find the tire well was not put on properly.  it’s missing screws and was folded, yes folded, at the base of the front.  

a phone call to them this morning reveled that i can set an appointment to bring it in some other time.

Superhero Taco Night

Monday, September 8th, 2008 | Just Me | 1 Comment

Well I’ve wanted to throw a themed party for a while now.  the only catch was that majority of my parties which are planned for 30-40 people wind up being; Adam, Jamie, and me watching a movie in my front yard.

So first things first, I decided to give people more notice.  No, not eveyone came, infact I think a little under half showed up, but we had blast.

RULES OF SUPERHERO TACO NIGHT.

Everyone had to dress up, EVERYONE!

and we ate tacos.  basically that’s it.

se habla English?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | Rants | No Comments

Now just so everyone knows,  I’m very much in favor of allowing imigrants from different countries into the U.S.  I think we’re a very blessed country and we should share our blessings with others. 

However I have 2 requirments.

1: no laws are broken in your passage from there to here.

2: You need to learn English. 

2.5 if you’re currently learning english don’t work in a place where I would have to trust you with my financial transactions.

I recently (about 5 min ago) had an experience that was frustrating and annoying.  I went to pay my school fees and found an asian woman behind the counter.

“hi I’d like to pay my school fees.”

“you pay your what?”

(mind you this is her only job is to take school fees)

“I need to pay for my classes!”

“oh ok.  what student number?”

“I have my ssn.”

“ok,  you tell me ssn”

(I did)

“ok you pay all?”

“no I’m set up for the payment plan.”

“ok you pay half now.”

“no I should only have to pay 1/4 of my payment.”

“yes yes, you pay half now.”

“no I’m already set up, it should only be this much.”

“yes yes, you pay half now.”

“is there someone else I could talk to?”

“I talk you.  you pay half now?”

“um, no, um,  what days do you work here?”

“I work wed, thru, firday.”

“so you don’t work here tuesday?”

“no, no, you pay half now?”

“no thank you.  I’ll be back tuesday.”