From my iPhone GRE App:

abase (v)
to humiliate or disgrace

Used in a Sentence: The elementary school teacher abased her students by drawing attention to their physical flaws.

The pundits are freaking right about those teachers.

Regards,
Joe Creason

Two Seconds of God Hating Fags to end with some 911 Truthers.

I attempted to interview the WBC again at the Oscars. It didn't work out so well and all of a sudden I rain into some 911 Truthers.





Regards,
Joe Creason

Movies I have.

I've decided to catalog every movie or TV Series that I own. This will be in the similar vein as the bands I've seen post.


Hot Fuzz
Iron Monkey
Seven Samurai
The Protector
Generation Kill
Saving Private Ryan
Indiana Jones 1, 2, 3 and 4
Made
Avatar: The Last Airbender Seasons 1, 2 and 3
Clerks: The [entire] Animated Series
American Graffiti
The Big Lebowski
Das Boot
Chinatown
GoodFellas
The Thin Red Line
The Dollars Trilogy
Zulu
Brick
Arrested Development Season 1
Three Kings
Tae Guk Gi
Jaws
Spirited Away
This is Spinaltap
Seven Years in Tibet
Rumble in the Bronx
The Corruptor
The Prestige
Munich
Black Hawk Down
Gunga Din
Match Point
Bullshit! Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

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Adventures of Tintin the Complete Series
Akira
Assembly
Band of Brothers
Children of Men
Cold Mountain
Harry Potter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
How To Train Your Dragon
Infernal Affairs 1(?)
Kick-Ass
The Dark Knight
True Grit
We Were Soldiers
The Last of the Mohicans
Paris je t'aime
Peter Pan
The Wild Bunch
The Patriot
Rope
Baraka
Cross of Iron
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Friends of God
Kumonosu (Throne of Blood)
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Lawrence of Arabia
Mulan
Outsourced
Steamboy
The Room
12 Monkeys
300
Adaptation
Alexander
Andersonville
Babe Pig in the City
Bambi
Batman Begins
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Deadwood Seasons 1, 2 and 3
Dexter Season 5ish
Dunkirk
Face Off
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Funny People
Gangs of New York
Gettysburg
Ghost Dog The Way of the Samurai
Gladiator
Gods and Generals
Great Mouse Detective
Hard Boiled
Hard Candy
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kill Bill
Kung Fu Hustle
Kung Fu Panda
Leon The Professional
Lethal Weapon 1, 2, 3 and 4
The Two Towers
Missing Pieces
Rome Season 1 and 2
Scott Pilgrim VS The World
Sherlock Holmes
Sleepy Hollow
Star Wars "The Phantom Edit" and 4, 5 and 6 unaltered
Stripes
The Daily Show from the year 2003 and part of 2004
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Hangover
The Kung Fu Kid (2010 Karate Kid remake)
The Lookout
The Lost Battalion
The Lovely Bones
The Prisoner Complete Series
The Wire Complete Series
The Wrestler
The Legend of Drunken Master
The Lion King
Toy Story 3
Twin Peaks Complete Series
Unleashed
Peter Pan (animated)
Wild At Heart
Zodiac
The Triplets of Bellville
Le Samourai
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Commando
Speed Racer
Kinsey
Heavenly Creatures
The Frighteners
Ransom

I'll clean all this up later.



Regards,
Joe Creason

"Due to its profuse amounts of profanity, the movie has become extremely popular in Quebec"

According to the Wikipedia article on one of the greatest sports movies of all time:
Slap Shot

veriPhone

The Verizon iPhone came out today and I have been bitching about getting one since August. I'm kind of bummed that I didn't go and sit in a long line like an idiot in order to possibly get one.

Nothing exciting has happened. I went to my first metal show and it was pretty much what I expected. Girls at punx shows are wayyyyy cuter.

February 15th Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are debating a couple of Rabbis, neither of which are Rabbi Boteach who is a total jerkface imo. I want to go and get Hitch to sign a copy of my favorite book of his The Missionary Position. I'm hoping to get him to write, "Stay classy" or something.

Finally I sent in one grad application and I'm revising a paper I wrote in 2009 that I need to send as a sample of my writing. I've sent in my transcripts and all that is needed on my part is pretty much covered. I basically have to make sure that the three professors that I asked for letters of rec send in the letters in time. I contacted them a few days ago and not one has responded. This totally blows and I am frustrated about this because February 15th is also when my CSUN app and letters of rec are due and that is next Tuesday. I cannot wait until all this is done and I can just play Zelda in peace.

Regards,
Joe Creason

About that...

I never update and making short pithy posts or posts where I simply post a funny image/video/link I usually just end up posting as Facebook status updates. But I'll try harder I swears.

I am STILL applying to grad schools (CSULB and CSUN) and once I finish that I'll get back to posting my field journal entries. For now I've just been sleeping in late, playing Zelda and trying to get rid of my apartment in Westwood. The latter has been so freaking annoying, but in the ways that are too trivial to reiterate in a blog entry and doing so will just make me more annoyed.

Finally, I updated my bands I've seen live list. Everyone who obviously thinks I have great taste in music should check it out/memorize it.

Regards,
Joe Creason

Post Undergrad!

Well so far I have done NOTHING but play video games and eaten crap since I graduated and dammit does it feel fantastic. I haven't updated in awhile and I figured I should be more on top of a blog I made to discuss my academic exploits especially since I will not be in academia for a little bit.

I will make the ultimate Majora's Mask Walkthrough...so awesome that you'll want to watch it for it's glory alone.

I also got my camera and camera misc in my hands once more so I'll try to take more photos and stuff.

Finally, my favoritest video on the internet atm:



Regards,
Joe Creason

Grad Schools

I applied to get my MA in anthropology (Muggle Studies) at the following schools:

CSUN
CSULB
CSULA
SFS

Officially I am half-way applied to all those schools, I applied to them on CSUmentor and finished that crap and now I gotta:
A) Get letters of recommendation which is becoming kinda annoying
B) Write a statement of purpose/submit a sample of my writing
C) Do the GRE and score well because I messed up at UCLA and have a crappy GPA.

So to say I am half-way done is kinda optimistic but whatever...I have until freaking Feb. and March to do all that stuff so yeah TAKE THAT!

Goal for Winter Break: sleep and read and FINALLY finish the Majora's Mask Walkthrough I have strive to perfect.

Regards,Joe Creason

Just for you, Dave

The new Karate Kid movie was actually pretty good. I wish they stuck with the title Kung Fu Kid instead though...I doubt that someone wouldn't have seen it unless it had some association with the original movie...I mean, A Fistful of Dollars was still freaking badass and awesome, they didn't need to name it Yojimbo! (Yes I know that was a long time ago when they made those movies.)

Still trying to get into grad schools, need to write my statement of purpose.


Regards,
Joe Creason

AIM Screen names...A trip down memory lane

During the high school portion of my identity crisis/classic adolescent attempt to define myself I kept changing screen names...a lot. The following is a list of screen names that I used to use:

battyxtom - When it was cool to be into hardcore* and put x's in your name. I don't recall why I made this name, might have been a character I
made up for a comic book.

BPRD Capt - Reference to Hellboy.

c0deless - I think this is still connected to my cellphone and is always online.

Capt Lightner - Another character I made up, I later met a person irl with the last name Lightner. He was nothing like the character I made up.

cliffthesnail - Joke name, when I was a kid I used to have pet snails and would name them Clifford.

cup0joseph - I still kinda like this name.

derluftaffe - "Der Luft Affe" a drawing of a flying ape I made in my German class in high school. My German is non-existent and I took 4 years of it.

ejactulati0n boy - Joke name I made with these old friends I had...some sort of awkward teen super hero I would hope?

gcsmellsbad - Oh boy, when I was punx and was making fun of Good Charlotte!

Ink Jet Kid - Ooooooooold name I made, I liked the sound of "ink jet"

JOE meets World - I used this one for awhile and even wanna kinda use it again...maybe.

mart1nihenry - Another WWII character I made up named after I think a British nickname for the lee-enfield rifle...though I don't think he used one.

mynejtc - Oldest screen name** ever...I think "Myne" was a Dragon Ball Z character I made up.

mysnisscene - Back in the day when it was punx to make fun of "scenesters". Now it is more proper to make fun of hipsters and I consider scenester to no longer be a pejorative...linguistic evolution!

pencilscars - Deep...I am glad I moved on from whatever life stage I was in when I made this screen name.

pocketsander - This is a quote said by Dale Gribble on King of the Hill. It still sounds kind of cool and like a weird euphemism for masturbation...
Here is a video from the scene:


Pro Nazi Hunter - Another WWII referenced name, my profile said, "I'm on to you Nazi..."

SAR castic Mint - My friend Corey had a dream where he was sitting in an airplane and saw a compass on the ground at his feet. He then somehow summoned the compass and it floated up to his hands...this was the dream. Based on this dream he changed his screen name to "TheFlyingCompass" and the "SAR castic Mint" is the first name I could come up with copying that name.

shoppin4acrew - A joke-hardcore band (or they could just be considered really posi) named Good Clean Fun song making fun of all the stereotypical things associated with Straight Edge crews...

Shrub Gnome - Don't remember the origin of this name...

thats soOo ska - At a family Christmas thing my cousin Ben commented on a See's Candies bag and said, "That's so ska". I was also pretty into ska at that point...pickitup pickitup pickitup.

xPEL1CANx - Me copying the LiveJournal name of someone who posted photos of hardcore shows (which in retrospect weren't anything special). His name was "xsheepx" and looking back on it now, he really didn't listen to all too great hardcore either. He was from the UK so maybe the UK just has lame hardcore bands?

yomommaisacomma - Probably the dumbest screen name ever.

I liked compiling this list because it gave me a chance to stroll down memory lane. Usually when I think about my past-self I actually get sorta down but this was a more positive-feeling-inducing entry.



*This is a kind of music that is pretty much punk but if anything, faster and with more bursts of gang vocals sprinkled throughout their songs. I guess it is more proper to call it "hardcore punk" but there are so many sub-genres within it that it seems kind of--too much, to have a sub-genre with different sub-genres. It is kind of annoying telling people that I listen to hardcore music because (a)they either make really bad jokes about how serious or pissed off a band can sound like or be about a topic (b)the only hardcore bands people are super crappy Christian bands.

**And I know I have even more screen names. The oldest one had "papercut" in the name.