Case For Chris

2009-12-30T16:08:00.001-07:00

Rule of Thirds

2007-12-25T20:27:00.001-07:00

My dad and grandpa.

Hentrich Family Doctrine

2007-12-25T20:17:00.000-07:00

An old, unfinished family tree I found in my grandfather's house. A photocopy, I wish I knew where the original would be.

Lighting

2007-12-14T10:16:00.000-07:00

Can be seen in use on ChrisHendricks.net

Statue, Close-Up

2007-12-14T10:12:00.001-07:00

The Moment He Felt The Bullet

2007-11-26T10:19:00.001-07:00

From a very old newspaper article from the new york times. June 19th, 1885.

Listen to Open, O Coloured World.

Grave Trio, Close Up

2007-11-26T09:11:00.001-07:00

Virginia Woolf

2007-11-19T11:26:00.000-07:00

Scenes From a Darkroom: The Cemetary

2007-11-19T10:32:00.000-07:00

The Collected Poems 1956-1998

2007-11-16T15:36:00.001-07:00

(The book cover for The Collected Poems 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert)

Lately, all I can think about is how concerned I am about what my epitaph will say.

Post-mortem relief needed. Please help.

IMAGERY LESSON NUMBER ONE: METALLURGY

2007-11-14T08:49:00.000-07:00

Vic. A. Rious. Ly.

2007-11-06T08:57:00.001-07:00

Living vicariously through false importance.

Log your words. You'll be glad you did.

Exceptions? Clearly, too many.

Thomorgy

2007-10-25T18:59:00.001-07:00

Children of Men

2007-01-31T13:46:00.000-07:00

I saw Children of Men this past weekend, and it is one of the best movies I've ever seen. So clearly it's not up for Best Picture. But really, it's so so good. I think I'm going to have to see Y Tu Mama Tambien now.

So, at school I was talking to Kelli and after her class that followed, someone said "Are you guys dating? I thought that kid was gay." Haha.

I'm looking at colleges. So far: NMU, BGSU, OU. I take the SAT in March.

Growing Up

2007-01-27T21:10:00.000-07:00

I saw a few people this weekend I haven't seen in a while. They go to another school district so we don't see each other often anyways. But it's just so weird how much people change during high school. It makes me really sad in some ways, because I miss "the old times" and how they'll never be the same.

I'm going through a weird phase... I don't really have any really close friends anymore. I went through my entire phone contacts list and only three people would I consider close. And none of them are available tonight, so I'm going to do some hardcore internet-ing. Because I never do that anymore, and I miss it.

But anyways...I just miss people. Even if they're still close by. Hmmm.

[edit] I also think I should mention that a long time ago (after seeing POTC 2) I asked myself if the compass thing was planned from the beginning, and I got the DVD with the Screenwriters commentary and they stated that it wasn't and that any scenes to say that it pointed directly to the Isla De Muertas and "Not North" were cut form the first one, and they thought up this new set of rules for the compass. [/edit]

The Grapes of Wrath

2007-01-27T09:27:00.000-07:00

I went to see the Grapes of Wrath last night at the Aronoff Center. Two of my friends were in it, and it was OK I guess. I also saw The Tempest at Mason High School on Thursday. That was really good.

But anywas last night after I got home at about 12, me and elizabeth drove all the way to Dayton to go to the only 24 hour starbucks around here. It was enjoyable. I don't see her too often so it was a nice time. We talked about socialism and hepatitus. It was a good talk.

Day #6310

2007-01-19T13:01:00.000-07:00

That's such an easy way to title blog posts, just use Chris Bucklow's 'How Many Days Have I Lived?' calculator and it will tell you what day you're. I could start counting down to cool numbers...like....7,000.

Anyways, my first idea was to label it Friday #___ and tell you how many fridays I have lived, but decided against it when I got bored adding them up.

I have no idea what I'm going to do tonight.

So yesterday I had to go get my mucus seal inspected, which I will include a picture of, and it turns out I have to have it removed. Yuck.

But anyways, I finished editing my film called Poker Hands today. I will post it on YouTube or something. I need to start a new film soon because now we're required to do one for a grade in Digital Media class. Any ideas?

I want to see Children of Men. I might go see it alone if knowone else wants to go.

Untitled

2007-01-17T13:16:00.000-07:00

I wish I didn't have the aggravating task of selecting a title for each post. It's so daunting! Because when I start to write I don't have an exact Idea of what I'm going to say, so I can't choose it beforehand, but even afterwards it's hard to label a single entry. Usually it's not that bad, but I always tihnk way to hard about it.

I started making a new template, then I quit.

Did I mention that I went to the Andy Warhol museum over christmas break? There are a fw photos of this in my Flickr. He's such a neat guy.

I think it's odd how we have commercialized sex over the years. It used to be so taboo but now it's everywhere. We use to sell things and make jokes. I don't have a problem with it, and I definitely don't tihnk it should be taboo but it's just such a weird subject for people to choose to commercialize. I guess because sex sells and whatnot but it's odd how different the attitude towards sex has changed since the early 1900s I guess.

Anyways, I'm starting a new shift at work tonight so I need to go get ready and then watch Mythbusters before I leave.

Trying to Be Interesting

2007-01-16T14:00:00.000-07:00

I read this post a while a go and thought how neat it was. It's a pretty good set of guidlines. So, I am going to force myself to update this blog every day, if possible. I may not always have anything good to write about, but maybe I can begin my journey of interesting-ness.

I started watching The Office. That show is so darned funny! Here are some funny office icons.

I should keep up Peggy's blog as well. I don't tihnk I've updated that in a year.

Oh! The post also says to take one picture a day, and with my new Digital Camera, I can now accomplish this.

I watch Mythbusters religiously now- Weekdays 4p.m. Discovery channel. Mhmm.

I really need a new blog template.

iPod Nano

2007-01-14T20:01:00.000-07:00

I finally made it to the Apple store today to get my new nano. My old one broke six months ago and I have been using CDs ever since. It was really miserable. But I showed them my broken one and got 10% off. I also decided to get the 4gb (silver) instead of the 8gb and buy the iHome system along with the saved money. The iHome system is pretty much bad ass.

Anyways, I haven't been on this computer in about 3 months so that's why I was doing the not updating thing.

I can't fucking wait to listen to my new podcasts. Fuck yeah.

The Decemberists Concert

2006-11-11T14:48:00.000-07:00

It was so good. I can't express how happy I was to finally be seeing that oh so wonderful band. They were so good live. They sounded just like they do on record.

Some highlights of the night:

Alasdair, who is a scottish guitar player/songwriter opened for the Decemberists. He was really good, and really relazing.
Collin was bashing Death Cab For Cutie (who will be playing at the same venue on the 13th) all night. I hear that he was kidding though.
We got to hear some of their greatest song, with the lack of The Mariner's Revenge song.
Collin took somone's cell phone from the crowd and sang to someone he found on their contacts list.
We got to have a battle of the audience during 16 Military Wives where we, the left side sang louder than the right side; "La dee da dee da dee diddy diddy da."

I bought the shirt with the picture above on it. It's a medium, and it's massive when I where it.

It was a really really good show. It was my first real indie rawk show as well. Miharu commented that he felt like he was being judged at these hipster events, on the level of how indie he was. Or something like that. But yeah, I agree. I felt psuedo-indie wearing my Chuck Taylor's. Oh well.

When we arrive, sons and daughters
We’ll make our homes on the water
We’ll build our walls of aluminum
We’ll fill our mouths with cinnamon
These currents pull us ‘cross the border
Steady your boats arms to shoulder
‘Til tides all pull our hull aground
Making this calm harbor now home
Take up your arms, sons and daughters
We will we arise from the bunkers
By land, by sea, by dirigible
We’ll leave our tracks untraceable
Hear all the bombs, they fade away
Hear all the bombs, they fade away

(We all sang the Hear all the bombs, they fade away. It was really neat.)

Politick

2006-10-27T20:52:00.000-07:00

Grounded from the computer. Blah blah blah.
Need new blog design. Blah blah blah.
Saw The Guardian. Blah. It sucked. Blah blah blah.
I'm nearly done reading Fight Club, and I've started reading Invisble Monsters, which is by the same author.... Blah blah blah.

When there are four dots in an ellipsis, does it mean the proceeding sentence begins with the ellipsis?

Anyways, we had a Socratic Seminar in English today, which is really like a group debate. It was on Thoreau's views on government. Being the bamf I am I argued Libertarian like politics. It's what I really believe in. Self responsibility and social freedom and such.
Everyone thought I was advocating anarchy. Close. But not really.
It made me so mad. Goddammit. High School is so terrific. TERRIFIC MEANS BAD. Look it up.

I'm going to buy www.terrificmeansbad.com. Seriously. I'm tired of this BS. The English speaking world needs to get their Latin roots straight and forget this whole amelioration thing. It's truly a crisis.

Politick is a verb.

I hate bad design.

2006-09-20T12:33:00.000-07:00

I was in art class at school flipping through a home design magazine when I came across an ad for these.

I haven't wanted this bad since I collected pokemon cards. Well, not really. But damn! Look at those? Who wouldn't feel like Diddy when you drinkin' out of those? It's like grillz. Only not going to cause you to have to wash your mouth with armor all.

But anyways. My step-dad is going to have to have open heart surgery. I remember watching an old TV show, where this little jewish girl asked her grandma about death. (not because she was old, you jerk.) Her grandma told her about something she read, about a man who's heart stopped for 20 minutes. When he was asked what it felt like to be dead, he replied, "It felt like walking on a beach." Pff. I bet he was jewish too.

So, anyways. I plan on asking Gary if he dreams or anything while he is put under.

Here are some interesting articles on near death expiriences: http://www.near-death.com/.

I really do hate bad design. I'm in Digital Media Academy II at school, which is a great class. It takes up two periods, and it's all Mac. I love it. I plan on submitting some of my work from there to my deviantart account. But anyways, some of the work these other kids (who have never used photoshop) make is just so so bad. And it's even worse when they think it's great. Maybe I'll manage to upload some of it and make fun of them at their expense on my weblog.

High Class Dining

2006-09-16T12:01:00.000-07:00

See those grease stains seeping through the bag? That's no accident.
My arteries recoil as I approach this luxury meal.

I was talking to Sarah about not being able to find the Duet with Thom Yorke and Beck, and within a minute she had found it. Anyways, the site she used to search for it is amazing. http://hype.non-standard.net/

I have found a lot of other great covers, and hard to find stuff using it. It just searches music blogs, which I never knew there were so many. It's really cool.

Terrific

2006-09-15T16:27:00.000-07:00

So, if Horiffic and Horrible both connote negativity, why don't Terrible and Terrific?

I really need to know before I die. Maybe I will send it into the Word Nerds, a podcast on the english langauge. It's very informative.

Did you know that the word "eunuch" appears in nine of Shakespeare's plays?

On Media

2006-08-31T15:22:00.000-07:00

I'm taking Journalism I in school right now. I like it, it's a neat way to study the news and modern media. I've had a few thoughts on media lately:

iPods (or more specifically, Podcasts) shouldn't be used for news. You want news, turn on your TV, or find a news aggregator. Don't wait to download it on your computer.
I think Newspapers are going to be going out of the media/news scene shortly. Online RSS feeds and other aggregators are so convenient.
They should have individual RSS feeds for each article, or at least for articles (or more trivial ctergories than the usual: "US | WORLD | SPORTS | ENTERTAINMENT" ) that will continue to expand on the issue or topic.

I think I might switch to WordPress shortly. After I found out that you can upgrade to edit your own CSS I decided it is probably the best blog mangament system that I know of. I have chrishendricks.wordpress.com, but I think that I want something a bit different.

Neutral Milk Hotel!

Design & Art

2006-08-11T19:52:00.000-07:00

I love design and art so much.

+http://phirebrush.com
[quite nice, exceptional design and incredible submissions and displayed work]

+http://www.typecon.com/
[Oh, I wish I could go. Happening right now actually.]

+http://www.deviantart.com
[there are some really great artists on this site, they just updated too.]

On Podcasting

2006-07-23T12:44:00.000-07:00

So, I am not a part of two, possibly three, different podcasts. None of them have finished setting up yet, but it's interesting how so many people have podcasts.

This is the one with Shy: http://90percent.wordpress.com/

This is the one with Sarah: http://rape-the-customer.blogspot.com/

I might only be on Rape The Customer occasionally, I'm mostly doing their tech stuff.

Me and Sarah worked on recording last night, we talked about vegetarians, repulsive rap music, Paris Hilton, and other pretentious celebrities. It sounds like it will be a good show.

So, Lumos is this weekend, and it's horrific because it's so far away. Lumos is a Harry Potter conference for the harcore nerds. All the cool people are going. Ugh.

Sweet Dreams

2006-07-12T17:01:00.000-07:00

I cannot get enough of that song (Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics)! Well, actually, I can because any song played over and over again is annoying. Unless it's the Hurt cover by Nine Inch Nails. But anyways, I love it.

I signed up for a Drawing/Sketching class at the YMCA on monday (because I get free classes ofcourse) and was really stoked about it, but then they cancelled it. I was probably the only one who signed up. Psh. Well, after that I found two of my CoWorkers (Mark and Micheal) and they told me I should take Cardio Kickboxing with them. They had no idea how to do it, so I had no dignity to lose among them in the class, so I took it. Cardio Kickboxing may be the most intense action a human being can go through. ...Not really, but it's hardcore. I love being surrounded by middle aged soccer moms who can kick harder, higher, and longer then I can. It's slightly intimidating and demeaning that they are so much better at it than I.

The last few days at camp I have been filling in for camps who have less counselors or more kids. It's been terrible. I had to endure the rebellion of skateboarding camp. Every kid in that camp is an obnoxious, disrespectful punk. I may sound old, but it's miserable feeling demeaned and threatened by these twelve year olds. Ugh.

I want to switch to wordpress very badly. But I want to be able to make my own templates. I'm so very torn on this decision.

You Can't Spell Pirate Without Irate

2006-07-07T19:18:00.000-07:00

Not that I didn't love Pirates of the Carribean: dead Man's Chest. It was really good. I felt that the plot was a bit weak, but only because they wanted to change diections with the series. Which is understandable.
Some thoughts that contain spoilers: (highlight to read)
I really wonder if the whole compass thing was planned from the beggining. And why the hell was the monkey still cursed? I was pleased to see Mr. Rush return as well.

But anyways... I am quite ready for school to be back.

Oh, and I am really weirded out by the death of Kyle Reeves. He was a kid a year older than me who I had only met a few times. He was really funny, but he died while on vacation with his parents. I guess he was jumping off these cliffs into the river (or whatever body of water) and hit his head on a rock and drowned. It's really sad, but I always feel really weird when someone you only sortof knew died, like your never going to see their face again- but you never really had much emotion towards them.

Well, anyways... I pretty much live my sundays for MuggleCast now. I love that show. PotterCast is very cool as well. I'm liking this whole podcasting revolution. If thats what the kids these days are calling it.

The End Is Near

2006-07-01T08:41:00.000-07:00

So, after I got strep throat again I went to the doctors, got new medicine and was cured. But now, a week later my illness has come back for a third time. I am completely convinced that the end is near for me.

I quit my job at LaRosa's. I hated it so much.

materialism:
+I went to the mall yesterday and bought a Postal Service tee from Hot Topic.

Mr. Hirst

2006-06-18T20:09:00.000-07:00

Why is this so darn funny?

We're going to propose a raise for him to the school board.

[I have strep throat again.] [I hate my dishwashing job]

True Love Waits

2006-06-12T19:39:00.000-07:00

¶True Love Waits
by Radiohead
i'll drown my beliefs
to have you be in peace
i’ll dress like your niece
and wash your swollen feet
just don't leave
don't leave
i'm not living
i'm just killing time
your tiny hands
your crazy kitten smile
just don't leave
don't leave
and true love waits
in haunted attics
and true love lives
on lollipops and crisps
just don't leave
don't leave
just don't leave
don't leave
¶

Ew.

2006-06-05T07:57:00.000-07:00

I'm so very sick. I couldn't go into work today. For either job. I have strep throat. It could be from a multitude of things:
-One of the kids at camp gave it to me.
-My lack of sleep.
-A certain somone gave it to me when we went to the movies...

(Do three things count as a multitude?)

Anyways, I did go to the movies on thursday, but I didn't start feeling sick until saturday evening. We saw X-Men 3, which was a huge disappointment. But if you do go to see it, make sure you stay and watch after the credits. We were the only ones left in the theater and NOBODY else got to see the little clip they show you, which is very important. I was quite glad to see more of Colossus and ShadowCat though.

And I can blame the mexicans for whatever the Hell I want! No, I'm kidding, but it's really not fair that they can come into the country illegally and demand rights. Let's say (Hypo-fucking-thetically) If an illegal immigrant comes into the country and rapes a woman, all he has to do is move to another city, and there will be no record of his existence. That's a problem.

And I'm not saying welfare is evil, America had just gotten out of hand with it. Section 8 housing should really not exist, housing people is taking it way to far, I tihnk that welfare should only exist to supply Insurance/Medicare, the disabled, and for people in pverty who need temporary funding to get back on their feet again. And that's all it's needed for, but now we have familes living on welfare and they have no jobs and that's all their children know, so their children start living on welfare once they get old enough. It's a vicious cycle. The government should not be responsible for paying your way through life.

Colleges are also too expensive these days, it makes it so hard for people who have the intelligence and oppurtunity to go, but not the money.

But if those things were to be corrected, capitalism would work best.

I still don't feel well.

Pulling My Weight [Capitalism]

2006-05-28T08:35:00.000-07:00

This past Thursday I started working at LaRosa's Pizza (a cincinnati pizza chain), as a dishwasher. It's really easy, but non-stop and smelly. On Tuesday I will start another job, as a camp counselor at the local YMCA. Now, as a 16 year old I have two jobs. They don't pay extremely well, but they were easy to get, and money is money, right? So why should I, and other taxpayers have to give their money away to the government only to be given to:

-Welfare
-Ridiculous Government Programs
-Illegal Immigrants

When it's that easy to find work? I mean, If you're out a job, Isn't it better to have a small paycheck than to just give up and settle on welfare? It pisses me off so much. The only people who should be eligable for any sort of government paycheck are the Physical and Mental disabled. I know that as a 16 year old I can work two jobs and make decent money. So why should anyone receive free money?
At least I know I'm pulling my own weight for society. Well, technically I'm only doing it for myself.

Yesterday, I bought a sketchbook at Barnes & Noble.

I also added a little script to my page, now my taglines are randomized. (Refresh the page to see) Currently I only have three.

And I Feel Fine...

2006-05-25T12:21:00.000-07:00

[I have no words for today.]

I Love My Shoes

2006-05-23T13:15:00.000-07:00

I ordered some chucks on Amazon.com. I'm quite proud of them.

You Really Shouldn't Be Using Internet Explorer

2006-05-20T06:30:00.000-07:00

I am currently at my aunt and uncle's home, my cousin Kieth is getting married this afternoon, maybe I will take pictures. So anyways, I was going through my routine internet updates and such, and they only have Internet Explorer, like most people. Now, I knew that my blog looked different in IE, but wow. It looks like crap. (Not that it's perfect in FF) So, please, save your souls by SWITCHING.

{http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/}

Freakin' Shallow

2006-05-15T12:28:00.000-07:00

I realized recently (There wasn't a specific, individual turning point) that I'm a very shallow and pretentious person. Well, judgmental more then pretentious. But I think that I'm kind of shallow when it comes to judging people. I appreciate looks over personality- how terrible is that? It's freakin' shallow.

Anyway. I watched Mean Girls last night. I've seen it before, and I think that (for a teen/girl movie) that it's really funny. I think it's a good representation of the stereotypes of high school. The band geeks really are sexually active.

The school year is nearly over. So obviously that means that all assigned work is void.

I bought some chucks today.

I got my debit card fixed, so I added money and my blog to IndieKarma. You should sign up. It's only a dollar. And by signing up, they give you a dollar to deposit to begin with.

The Hottest Thing Out Of Iceland

2006-05-10T16:57:00.000-07:00

Everybody gets to see Sigur Ros. Except for me. Goddammit! I was blog-browsin' today and I found a multitude of people (blurbomat)

who were talking about the Sigur Ros show. And not only that, but my Friend Bethany is up in Chicago right now seeing them for the third time on their tour.

Well, anyway. Bethany's mother also double as my Creative Writing teacher. And she was explaining how Bethany was up in Chicago with a friend. She referred to Sigur Ros as the 'Hottest Thing Out Of Iceland'. Very well put.

Today I acquired Hail To The Thief and The White Stripes discography. Hail To The Thief is amazing. It may replace Kid A as my favorite Radiohead album.

Blogging

2006-05-07T07:05:00.000-07:00

I really like the Neutral Milk Hotel muzak. I want In The Aeroplane over the Sea.

I want a domain. All the cool kids have domains. I would then most likely switch over to wordpress, because I spent yesterday trying to figure out if there was a way to catergorize my posts using Blogger, and there isn't any way that I could find. But anyways. I think this template is finished, at least for a while. I'll probably tweak things hear and there.

I'm teaching myself to play the piano. Kind of. I printed out sheet music of The Scientist, labeled the notes and pressed the keys on the piano that are also labeled. But I'm getting better.

Indie Karma

2006-05-06T09:58:00.000-07:00

I was reading Kottke.org yesterday, and his latest post was about IndieKarma.
A pay system for bloggers and independent media places on the web. It works like this:

Sign up. Log in, and visit blogs.. If a blog is a part of IndieKarma, then a penny is deposited from your account into theirs. So you pay the blogger a penny every time you check their blog. And you can put it on yours too, so if people with IndieKarma read your blog, you get a penny!

I can't put it on my blog yet because I'm having some credit card problems, and my PayPal isn't working.

But, it's a neat idea, eh?

New Template

2006-05-05T13:58:00.000-07:00

New Template.

Simple. Not finished.

I'm going for the cool, intellectual, blogger blog look.

Anyways, I'm doing lights for the school musical, damn yankees. It's pretty good.

I love The Cranberries.

Holy Jesus!

2006-04-25T12:16:00.000-07:00

Apparently I have multiple readers now, last post I had a total of two comments from TWO different people. And Woody referenced something during conversation saying he had read it.

Well anyways, the previous movie reference was from Chasing Amy, where they black gay guy wears a pin that reads The Black Man is God. And the grammatical error was quite simple! You're never aloud to use a colon after a verb. There is another error in the previous sentence. Find it bitches.

I really enjoyed the Y3 CD, but I know of no references to the man you speak of. I don't have the case as of I ruthlessly burnt the CD.

I don't know what to do with my life. I would prefer not to stay in Ohio, and me and Briana want to do things after graduating. She wants to live in Oklahoma before we travel the globe because it is cheap to live there. Maybe college will be cheap there too. Although we would be out of state.

Oh, and fight the power!

The Black Man Is God

2006-04-20T15:20:00.000-07:00

I want a pin that reads: The Black Man Is God.

There's a movie reference and a grammatical error. Can you find both?

Disgruntled Blogger

2006-03-07T15:09:00.000-07:00

I've been listening to Enigma again lately. I still like it, just not as much as I used to. I realize that all of his songs are pretty much the same. In the last year I have started listening to more music than any other year. Actually, I wasn't really into music until the past year. So all of my favorite bands (except for Coldplay and The Red Hot Chili Peppers) have only been in my favorites list for about a year.

I downloaded the Blogger For Word plugin. So I'm blogging in word right now. It's kinda neat I suppose. I doubt I will keep using this instead of the regular Blogger way, but it's kinda nifty. So if you have windows and word, try it:

http://buzz.blogger.com/bloggerforword.html

I really want to make a new template. I've been working on some ideas for a new one during school, whenever I get a chance, but I can't come up with anything that I like. I was so proud of this one after I made it. That lasted for about a week. It doesn't matter how cool it is, I always have to improve. That's probably a good thing though. I wish I had some more interesting things to blog about.

I really need a new template.

Hating

2006-03-03T19:04:00.000-07:00

When I was thirteen I told myself i would give up "hating" people. And I did. I didn't hate anyone for a long time. I remeber a specific time at camp when I was so angry at this girl that made fun of me, and one day after her and her friends made fun of me I was crying and a kid came up and said:

Kid: "I bet you hate her, huh?"
Me: "No. I don't hate anyone."

I can't do that anymore. I hate so many people, I wish I could be less hating.

I started working on a zine. It's called "Any Other Name". I plan to distro it to Sweet Candy Distro.

I have another cool link: http://www.feedreader.com/ it's a nice RSS feed reader. I have never used one before, and I think it is quite swell.

Last.fm

2006-02-25T11:35:00.000-07:00

Another great music site (maybe better than Pandora) is Last.fm. It's pretty neat, they give you a little instller to install to record all the music you play on your computer. I use iTunes, so whatever song I play on iTunes is recorded and placed on my personal page: http://last.fm/user/christianrivera.

At Dare2Share they attempted to convert all of the un-christian teenagers there to christians. I think there should be a conference to convert all liberals to conservatives. That would piss some people off. I'm gonna do it.

Hoy En La Vida De Chris

2006-02-21T13:04:00.000-07:00

I'm starting to get restless with this templates. Which is okay I guess becuase the whole reason i have this blog is to use my skills of graphic/web design.

I think it's pathetic that I have never ever learned about historical events past WWII in any history class in school. EVER. It kinda sounds like they are trying to hide the past. Although that is very doubtful. But it's still weird. I never would have known about the Munich attack in the seventies if it hadn't been for that movie. I love history, and I was upset that I had never knew about it.
Every other year we have american history. then on the off years, we have world history. Every year in american history we learn about the american revolution, and the civil war. We ALWAYS start there. Why can't we pick up where we left off? I like world history much more, becuase Europe is more fascinating.

I explained the political spectrum to a girl inmy history class named Bethany. She's really cool, and she was really interested in it. I'm in her mom's writing class with her too, and I think it's kinda neat, becuase I had her mom for English last year.
It turns out that I'm kinda bad at explaining how the political spectrum works. I tried to describe it in different degrees, and how it isn't like a straight line. But I gave up and drew her the political line. I first learned about the basic line last year in my freshman year.

Munich

2006-02-16T14:35:00.000-07:00

This was such a great movie, it is my favorite Spielberg movie, although I haven't seen all of his movies.

It picks up right as the Munich Massacre in 1972, which I had never heard about until this movie. (I have more to say about that in a moment) It was a great plot, and the movie itself was great. One of my recent favorites by far. I chose the picture of the lampshade becuase it's one of the most intense scenes. I think that after the last part of the movie, it starts to go downhill.
But overall, it is a fantastic movie that anyone would like.

Pandora

2006-02-10T14:58:00.000-07:00

>>www.Pandora.com<<

That is a fantastic site. You put in your favorite musical artist and it makes you a continuing playlist so that you can find new music and enjoy similar tastes. It's oh-so luxorious.

I'm going to Amanda's party tonight. Should be pretty swell.

I made this new layout today. It took a while, and I still cant get the bottom border to work, so I took it off until I can figure it out.

Journaling and Milk

2006-01-24T16:20:00.000-07:00

I have never really journaled in my life, and this week I have started writing during class in my journal. I just kind of write what ever is on my mind and such. It helps me organize my thoughts I guess.

Socialism is much better than communism.

But anyways, I have to write an interview on Greg for Creative Writing class, and we just asked each other a list of quesitons that Briana made up yesterdya in geometry class. So all I have is a bunch of random facts about him. But I'm sure I'll work through it.

Me, Chris, Briana and Greg (the four poeple who sit at our lunch table) are going to collectively drink a gallon of milk. We did the math and it will take 16 cartons of milk. Last year greg drank six in one sitting, so I imagine we can do it. It will cost 6.40, and I want to see the look on the lunch lady's face when we bring up all 16 cartons.

Clue practices are going well, although increasingly more stressful. Midsummer Night's Dream practices are boring and repetative.

Well, good night. And thank you for reading my fascinating blog.

NC-17?

2006-01-16T14:15:00.000-07:00

My friend Ava just introduced me to Neon Blonde. A band which myspace classifies as Soul / Thrash / Folk music. I like it. It's kinda goofy, loud, obnoxious, jazzy, rock, smooth. It's very versital.
http://www.myspace.com/neonblondebats

Me and Chris went to go see Brokeback Mountain on Saturday, but it was sold out. Too bad it is only playing in two theaters in cincinnati. I was to young to get into Jesus is Magical. What is the diffference between R and NC-17? What's a years difference?

And for your information there is a grammar format for 1337 and h4x0r: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337. Everyone should read up on this.

The Light of The World

I decided that I'm going to start posting some of my art on here too.

coldplay

2006-01-14T10:11:00.000-07:00

Top Five Reasons Coldplay is one of the most brilliant bands ever:

1. They've won bucket loads of grammies
2. They write and perform music that is very pleasing
3. They made the best album of all times: A Rush Of Blood to The Head
4. They are all attractive
5. They're British