Battle Of The Directors

So me and my friend Danny came up with a little game we like to call..."Battle Of The Directors!"

Here is how it works:
1) two favorite directors
2) top five movies from each
3) Average of rotten tomatoes reviews

--ROUND 1--

Tarantino (Damien) VS. Cameron (Danny)

Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill Vol.1
Kill Bill Vol.2
Jackie Brown
TOTAL:
89%
Aliens
Titanic
Terminator 2
The Abyss
Point Break
TOTAL:
85%

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Tarantino For The Win!

California Pictures will be up soon!

Get Away

Some friends and I have been planning a trip to L.A for next weekend. If all goes well we should be leaving the 20th, and returning the 23rd.

It will be a good opportunity to get out of all these familiar surroundings and explore something new.

I also got a new camera I'm hoping will capture some good memories.

check it out:

Life Soundtrack Vol.3

It has been a while since my last update so i feel I need to get this out before the opportunity slips my mind.

It seems that the same emotions that drive musicians to write their music.
Also drives us, their audience, to connect and listen to it.

these two emotions are love and sorrow.

Now these two emotions are some that have not been as firmly present as they were in the past few months so i have not passionately connected with any particular songs lately.

But two songs that have captured my attention are:

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NBK-"Lost in Love"
Kanye West-"Stronger"

Life Soundtrack Vol.2

Well guys it's pretty close to my birthday and I have three songs to add to my "Life Soundtrack".

These are songs that have flooded my ears for the past week and really mean something to me.

Most of you have heard them, but dig deep into your library and pull them back out. if you're feeling anything like I have lately. You will enjoy them just as much.

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"As Lovers Go"-Dashboard Confessional
"Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too."-Say Anything
"If I ain't got you baby"-Alicia Keys

Understanding My Life: Life Soundtrack Vol.1

bout Every week or so I seem to find a song(s) that I listen to over and over again.

Not for the simple fact of liking the melody, or anything of that matter.

but the song(s) seems to fit my life and the way i feel at that moment.

Obsessively listening to these songs usually lasts no longer than a few weeks.

Yet the song seems so important to me, Telling the story of my life as it's happening now-- in a nutshell.

So i decided to start a time line and post what song that is for me as they come. Hopefully it could help you understand a little more of who I am.

Or if nothing else just provide you with some good music.

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Plain White T's - "Hey There Delilah"

Urge Overkill-"girl, you'll be a women soon"

download them or check them out on my profile (myspace). I promise they're good.

300: Give them nothing! But take from them everything!

"His roar was long and loud."

I anxiously awaited this film with the highest of expectations. Maybe too high of expectations- so high I started to worry myself. Other films i awaited with similar expectations seemed to let me down.

They would be good films, but after the ending credits started rolling I would be left hoping for more.

I read countless read reviews from critics who were blown away one after another. I couldn't help but think another masterpiece graphic novel , in the likes of Sin City, turned blockbuster from the mind of Frank Miller.

With no question this movie more than met my expectations, as a matter of fact, it blew me away! If you're into action, war, or just epically good films this one is also one to see. As a matter of fact. See this one and Black Snake Moan the same night...it could change your life.

The creative film I've been dying to see all year.

I don't even know what to say about this film. It's southern roots story line, and 70's style of film makes it stand out from the crowd.It Almost felt like a Pulp Fiction-esque tale similar to that of stories told by Quentin Tarantino.

Very subtlety it grabs your attention from the very beginning and drags you through the lives of two very different characters. The clash between the two personalities, and the music sequences with Samuel L. Jackson make this movie a favorite in my books. Its one of the few movies I've seen that get an applause even after the fanboy filled Friday opening.

The most amazing thing i've seen in a while.

This is the has to be the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. I wish i could get my hands on that laser pen.

We need a REAL Scarface re-make.

Yes Pacino played a memorable roll in the 80's rendition of Scarface. He sure did seem to make a mark on every single A and B-List Celebrity on Mtv's Cribs, but Pacino did absolutely NO justice to the original character of Tony Camante played by Paul Muni.

The film Scarface: The Shame of a Nation should be remade to replace the sorry 80's remake not worthy of holding the same title. This would be A perfect project, after Grindhouse, for Roderiguez & Tarantino to team up on. Roderiguez's amazing scenes of creative gunplay and violence teamed up with amazing writing styles and insane mind of Tarantino could make the darkest, most breathtaking old 30's rendition a film success.

The 80's rendition was a huge fictitious character living a life of nothing but fantasy, but The 1932 Scarface was based off of real live events and the real character of Al Capone during his bootlegging reign of the early thirties prohibition. If only this project could actually happen...Who would play Tony?

The true Gangster "Tony Camante"

A common nostalgia.

I have a thing for commercials.

Commercials seem to bring out the best in me. Either the companies have hired excellent advertising firms with a knack for drawing emotions from their viewers. Or I just have a weakness for them.

This morning before leaving for school I happened to look up from my bowl of cereal and see a very well shot commercial. It involved a slow-motion image of a young boy catching a frog. He continued to play with it, and hold it as if it were his tiny frog friend.

It brought back memories for me. Memories of a worry free childhood. When the world felt so vast; When there was so much to explore and discover. These feeling are ones, that are for the most part, lacking in my life as an adult. There may be a few moments when i am astonished by something new i learned or discovered, but it doesn't hold the same value or feeling it once did as a child, and it most certainty doesn't happen as often.

Today the world seems so much smaller. As if all the dreams and desires we had as children become thoughts of improbable ideas. I know everything thats necessary for me get by today, and i sometimes think that's all i need.

Maybe this is why lately my mind has been calling-for something new.

I want to get in touch with my culture and learn Spanish.
I want to take up Spanish guitar.
I want to better myself as a painter.
I want to better my skills as a Graphic Designer.
I want my ideas to be heard and hopefully influence others.
I want to change the world.
I want to be remembered.
overall: I want to better myself as a person.

What is true Genius?

There are amazingly genius people in this world. ground breaking revolutionary ideas flow from the minds of these people, but then there are those people that THINK they are genius, yet they lack the very one component that makes a genius stand out from the highly intelligent.

True genius is the ability to think and execute brilliant and original ideas.

Experts and the pseudo-genius are limited to the teachings embedded in their brains. Yes, they might know a vast amount of information on a certain subject, but their minds are confined to a box set before them through teachings. A monkey can store information and later use it in everyday life. Only a genius can change a world that already seems to be reaching it's limit.