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I don't know who else is excited for this upcoming movie "Avatar" but I have high hopes. James Cameron is the director. Some of his other works are The Terminator, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies & Titanic. So as you can see he's no stranger to quality movies. The budget for this movie is insane. Different sources have the number somewhere around $250M-$300M. I hope it's worth it!

Favorite TV Shows

I don't really watch that much TV like I used to but some shows still catch my attention. What are some of your favorite shows?












Honorable Mention - South Park, The Boondocks, The Colbert Report, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, Naruto Shippuden, Law and Order: Criminal Intent & Special Victims Unit

Lupe Fiasco - Lasers

Forget Jay-Z's Blueprint 3, this is MY highly most anticipated album of the year. Lasers by Lupe Fiasco. Lasers being an acronym for "Love Always Shines Everytime Remember 2 Smile" There's not much info out there on it but there is a single floating around online called "Shining Down" featuring Matthew Santos; the same singer he collaborated with on his "Superstar" single. Anyways this is a viral video released by Lupe on his Youtube Blog. Check it out:

Kanye West - Two Words

This is one of my favorite songs from Kanye West. It was track 18 on "The College Dropout" and featured Mos Def and Freeway. I still consider that album to be his best to date. This song just gets me to so worked up. I'm surprised this video was never released on TV. I guess it didn't have enough mainstream appeal. To those who haven't seen/heard it yet, Enjoy:

The Apocalypse is Here

I never thought this day would come in my lifetime but Armageddon is upon us. The Walt Disney Company is Acquiring Marvel Entertainment. The first thing that comes to mind is Why? Life can't truly be this cruel. Marvel is one of the few companies I still had faith in and now it seems all hope is gone. The true impact of this deal has still yet to be seen but if it's anything similar to the rest of Disney's portfolio, it won't be good. Disney has a history of making things family friendly. Something that most of Marvel's characters are definitely not. Anyways, hopefully I'm just being pessimistic and things aren't as bad as they seem. Time will tell.

The Tipping Point

So lately, I've been reading a lot of material on one of my passions: sociology and human behavior. It's gotten me to analyze certain things more than I normally do. As a result, I finally had the motivation to finish reading a behavioral science book I started last year called "The Tipping Point" by author Malcolm Gladwell. Sometimes, I really wonder if Engineering was the right career path for me. Honestly, I feel I could read and talk about issues of psychology for longer than most people I know can bear.

Anyways, I've been re-evaluating my interactions with certain people in my life and really looking at how they've influenced me; both positively and negatively. It's really true what they say, you are a product of your environment. The people you choose to surround yourself with have a bigger influence on your subconscious than most realize. Their traits begin to rub off on you. Somewhere along the way, I've picked up a couple of their bad habits which I really need to address. Unfortunately, the only way for me to really do this successfully, in my opinion, is to limit my interaction with those I feel hurt more than help my personality. Sounds easy enough until I realized a few of these people ended up being some of the best and worst influences on me.

How can I really cut someone off who falls in this category? Is it fair to me? Is it fair to them? In the end, I came to realize the way this decision could be made, would be based on how reliable these people have been to me. Those dependables, as I decided to call them, would remain in my life in the same or greater roles than they play now. However, those I feel who have not been there for me when I needed them, willingly or not, will find themselves being shut out of many aspects of my life, maybe even all. Whether this is the right choice to make or not will only be answered in time.

Slaughterhouse - The One

For as long as I can remember, I've always been a fan of Rap/Rock crossover music. I recently came across the video for a track called "The One" by the group Slaughterhouse and I love it. It's got a guitar beat, mellow chorus and rap lyrics that you can bob your head to. Anyways check it out and leave some feedback

Eye Candy

So apparently Kanye West and Amber Rose were out and about in Miami recently and the Paparazzi snapped some pictures. I must say Amber is quite the eyeful. She makes being a bald headed chick look good.

Here are some of the SFW pictures:

Reflection Eternal

It's funny how man is a creature of habit. When all was going well with me, I abandoned my blog but now it seems, when things have fallen apart, I go back to that which I am most familiar with.

So I haven't vented in a while but I got some things I need to get off my chest.

Point blank: It's over.

Already you say? Yea, unfortunately. What I was hoping for with her apparently was not meant to be. This feeling is kind of strange because above anything else, the emotion which lingers the most is disappointment. Not only in the situation overall but also in myself. I was starting to be able to feel again but the returning taste of failure just continues to leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

For someone as analytical as I am, how could I let this happen......again?

I'm really beginning to second guess my judgment. Maybe, my perception of people is not as keen as I once believed it to be. I'm left in this confused state of mind.

Why do people always try to extend this offering of friendship after they tell you they no longer want to be with you romantically. Who would want that? The friendship path is not a route I would want to go down again after seeing all the other possibilities. I really couldn't deal with it. After a person realizes they want something, settling for less can only have one outcome, disappointment. So why even bother?

Anyways, that's pretty much all I had to get off my mind.