Entries categorized as ‘Personal’
So last week I was wearing my sweatshirt while going on calls, and even inside during the day. Today I basically spent my entire day in doors working on club info calls, and was still annoyed by the sudden change in weather. First thing I did when I got home was changing into some gym shorts and taking off my shoes and socks.
What the hell? When did mother nature decide to suddenly change when we celebrate political holidays (Memorial day, Labor day)? I mean I love the summer weather, don’t get me wrong, but some gradual progression would be nice.
Oh and driving home into the thunderstorm that never happened was nice. It was like driving into the oblivion. Should have taken a moblog in retrospect 
Categories: Personal
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 · 1 Comment
So I recently re watched all of the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV show (minus the last two episodes, ill go back and suffer through that later) and movies. This show was always a mind bender, but I’m trying to finally wrap my mind around the show’s concepts and story. What I am finding is really great.
The story really makes a lot more sense when you read some of the wikipedia pages. Honestly I wouldn’t have gotten this stuff on my own. Not to mention they go into detail about the religious inspirations and “The Hedgehog’s Dilemma“.
But I have a problem with these new movies. Basically they are re-telling the story of the original TV show, with a brand new animation cut into movie sized chunks. And after watching the first one I have to say, No. The animation looks sweet, and the fights look even more badass, but the story is just cut and shown so fast, that I dont think it can make an sense unless you really watched the TV show. And by that I mean like I did, just sit down and really grind this thing out. Not to mention that they butchered one of my favorite angel battles (the giant pyramid). It kind of works as a supplement to the TV show, but again they are differing from the original story in some places, as well as adding new characters and angels (not in this movie, but according to wikipedia they plan to). How does that work?
I still don’t get how the second impact is named as such. How the hell is the moon the first impact? There was no egg or angel right? WTF? And do the ever explain what SEELE and NERV stand for? Seriously, for every question you get answered about this show, there are like 10 more that go unexplained.
Categories: Movies · Personal
As I am writing this, I am on the sidewalk with my back on Partridge Hall, live blogging this stupid bomb threat and living off of my cell phone for updates from my paper staff.
I know the police have to take these threats seriously, but this is just dumb. It’s either someone trying to get attention, or someone trying to get out of a final or a meeting. These things just inconvenience us all and waste the time and wear on the patience of law enforcement staff. They don’t want to play hall monitor to you and you don’t want to deal with it either.
Who ever is putting in these bogus threats I really hope you get caught and punished to the fullest extent. This is ridiculous.
Categories: Montclair State University · Personal
Saturday, April 19, 2008 · 2 Comments
Dear asshole in my peripheral vision,
Turn off your damn bluetooth headset. The blinking light is more annoying than if you were actually talking on it.
Dear bitch to my right,
Stop predicting plot twists and than bragging to your friends that you “told them so”. They can figure out the movie on their own.
Dear casual martial arts fan behind me.
Everyone knows about Drunken Master style. You aren’t anything special
Sincerly,
Matthew McCullough
Casual and Humble Movie Goer
Categories: Movies · Personal
So I’ve been receiving a lot of flack about my last entry. Unfortunately most of it is about the composition of the pictures, instead of the content. Yes they are over exposed. With all the excitement of the day, and everything, I forgot to take the ISO down from 1600. I can bring the shadows out in photoshop before they go into the paper, but yes, it was bad photography. I admit it, so you can all eat my shorts now. Hindsight is 20/20 folks.
The entry was merely my take on the whole situation. Yes it was excessive, but if they were really expecting something (and not just showing up for time and a half pay) they should have been guarding the 2 entrances that I was able to “infiltrate” successfully. Nobody will ever announce their attack on a school like this. VT was a complete surprise, and so was Columbine and everything else. I really think this was more of a show for the media, than an actual lockdown of campus.
I should have been a primary suspect, because I have a class in the room that the note was left in. So why wasn’t I searched, and why was I able to walk off of campus and back on again with no body stopping me? And the campus IDs don’t mean shit from a glance. They stopped putting the semester stickers on them a few years ago, so now you can’t even tell if the person is a valid student or not. My ID is the same one I first got 4 years ago, who is to say that I haven’t graduated already and was coming back to extract revenge?
Bottom line is, yes it was a lot of force and a lot of guns for a very uneventful day. But the administration knows the campus map just as well as us undergrads, and yet I was able to find big gaping holes in the “stepped up” security. It shouldn’t have happened.
Categories: Montclair State University · Personal
