Happy New Years!

Tonight is officially the last night of '05, a time we look back on what the year has beheld. OR get drunk. Actually tonight is the most dangerous night to drive because of all of the drunk drivers, or "buzzed drivers" as the term is this year. So if anyone is out driving, be careful and safe! I remember on New Years Eve 2000 I was in Gatlinburg and a drunk driver ran into an electricity pole, causing the power to go out all the way down the strip. That was interesting... I'll be staying in tonight to watch the ball drop from my favorite place in the world: New York! I cannot wait to get back up there, hopefully this summer. A friend of mine is moving to Queens in February and has invited me to stay with her if I want to come up. I may just take her up on this offer.

So I leave for Orlando this Friday, and I've been randomly packing for it since Wednesday. I still need to take care of some stuff with ETSU, that crap hole, and then I'm off. I really need this break, and I'm so happy that I'll be working at Disney for five months. This will be the longest time and furthest distance I've ever been from my parents. I'm actually looking forward to that too. If there's one thing I did learn from my one semester at ETSU it's that I'm a very independant person. And going to a school that's 30 minutes away, although did allow for my independance, was still too close to home. I look forward to meeting new people with different outlooks in Orlando, not the hickville dispositions everyone has around here. A new surrounding. That's what I need and what I'll be getting! And I will bet that I won't ever want to come back here. I hope I get into UMd for fall '06 so I won't have to.

On a side note: I recently got the song Photograph by Nickleback and I have one question: WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE NICKLEBACK!? I had heard the song before on some commercial, but just realized how bad it is. The singer sounds like he's trying to releive hisself but is constipated - no joke. That's what he sounds like through the whole song. Now when I listen to it I laugh because of this. Nobody sings like this! NOBODY! He's just a washed up star trying to sound uber rocker. It doesn't work. And I have to delete that song from my iPod soon...

So everyong be careful tonight, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The Producers

One of the greatest films of the year opened this weekend. It was the musical version of Mel Brooks' The Producers. Contrary to all of the negative reviews that this movie has recieved, the film is extremely likeable and very, VERY fun. It makes me sad to think that todays critics don't have the ability or mind to appreciate something good. Of course you have to go into this movie with a certain mindset to understand it anyway, especially if you're critiquing it. But what the closed minded reviewers didn't take into account was how much the audience still loves slap stick comedy. Slap stick hasn't been seen on screen for quite some time now, but The Producers has changed this. Slap stick is trademark of a Mel Brooks film, and, judging by the audience reactions I've seen, is still in high demand. I've seen this movie twice already, and both times I saw it the audience laughed OUT LOUD and hard consistently throughout the film. It has been a long, long time since I've seen an audience react so well to a movie. This is a good thing. And the movie itself is wonderful! With todays crappy stage to screen musicals (i.e. The Phantom of the Opera, Rent) I am happy to see something worthwhile come along. The Producers obviously had clear direction and made sense all the time, which highly depends on the style in which it is made. So I commend both Stroman and Brooks on this. Very wonderful. As for Broderick and Lane, I felt that their performances were always top notch and never did I get the feeling that they were in autopilot from having done the roles so many times, as reviewers have said. One must understand that both Lane and Broderick were creating their own versions of their characters while keeping in mind the originals from Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. And one other actor to be mentioned would be Gary Beach who was utterly AMAZING! The whole cast was amazing and perfectly cast. So anyone who has anything bad to say about this movie obviously doesn't know what they're talking about and will be proven wrong when it does well at the box office. So that's all I have to say about that.

Anyway, my holidays have been great and I'm looking forward to leaving in January for Disneyworld. Expect many posts from my experiences there! But I must be off for now, so until next time! GO SEE THE PRODUCERS: THE MOVIE MUSICAL!