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Well I’m a real winner when it comes to keeping up with my Blog. I need to somehow hardwire myself to a computer more often so that my online life doesn’t suffer anymore. At any rate, it’s early in the morning and I’m being productive by writing of my day thus far. My day thus far: Woke up at eight and started a fire, had a few drinks and I got inspired, jumped in the stream with shoes and cantteens – the water… was bitter cold.

But seriously, Get Up Kids aside, I woke up at 9ish, had some breakfast, read some paper, watched a bit of Today and took a shower. Went to Meijer around 10ish, got gas, gatorade and tomato juice*.

*my entire family is ill with the Stomach Flu, which I contracted several days after Kayla did. Then my sister got it, then my dad got it… then my mom got it… then Heidi got it… then her sister got it… then her mom got it… the list goes on.

After aquiring the tomato SOUP, not juice you tired tired boy! Campbell’s I might add. Eric Barton, you are in trouble. Anyhow, where was I… oh yes, the soup, and so then I went to Heidi’s house and snuggled with her and buggled with her and did all sorts of silly things, then I had to go home, eat some nachos with cheese and sour cream (a real treat for my weak stomach, which hadn’t seen solid food for 4 days). After this I went and got my hair TRIMMED (boi ecky thurr shure wurr so much ‘m that hair that Oim almost furgotten a simpoile trimmin’ would look loik a har-cut)! That was molespeak, courtesy of the Brian Jacques Translater machine, it’s managed online by mice. Finally I returned home to change for work. After work I skipped into Grounds for Thought and found Josiah, Heidi, Mike and Sam and us minus Josiah played Hearts…. Mike won though the game never finished, but he was ahead by such luck for him and unluck for Sam. Then Heidi’s sister never came for her and so I took her back home. Now I am very sleepy. I have made my morning break of dawn deadline for wakefulness. No more shall I bask in the rays of night… I shall slumber in the cool of day.

Goodnight.

The light.

So bright

It’s trite.

Take flight.

In right.

Alight.

In spite.

Of fight.

Delight.

In Sprite.

The might.

Of Madeline Albright.

Well it’s been a little while now, slightly less than two days (by a margin of about 6 hours) ago I walked out of Showcase Cinemas Maumee having just taken in the most awesome spectacle of fantasy film making that is The Two Towers. I won’t say anything other than all of these crucial plot points and spoilers:

– The beginning is really freaking sweet… it picks up at a very nice point

– Gollum is the most real CGI character I have ever laid eyes on… and he is played to 100% perfection

– Treebeard is also incredible… being a living breathing tree I’m very pleased with how he turned out

– The story deviates from the book considerably in many places… but it holds true to the essence of the book and doesn’t leave out the most important stuff.

– The action in the movie is brilliant… wait until Helm’s Deep and the Spoiling of Isengard.

– The cliff-hanger ending is at once better, swifter and far far more agonizingly worse than Fellowship’s was. The reason? I’ll let you see it for yourself.

Of note is the fact that this film has it’s own voice. It doesn’t have the same tone as Fellowship did, and it holds its own, even while continuing the story set forth by the first film. See, TTT is even more ambitious, brave, and humongous than Fellowship was. Perhaps the voice of the book is lost somewhat in the rising tide of action and battles, but it is an admirable bunch of battles indeed, among the finest sequences ever made.

P.S. Don’t listen to Roger Ebert, he’ll tell you that everything in the movie is computer generated, which shows how much of a whiz he is… most of the effects are done with COMPOSITING, this means that many layers of miniature sets, real sets, actors and scenery are put together into an awesome shot. Only the huge armies, Treebeard and Gollum are strictly CGI creations…. well them AND a few other creatures you’ll be surprised and freaked out by when you see them.

Well, I’m off to bake some fudge… bye bye for now.

Oh yeah, check out Heidi’s Blog for some really interesting stories of her (and my) life.

– Joel

HEARTFELT

VERSE 1

An image of you

Sprang into view

Tears were in your eyes

Honey, look at me and smile

CHORUS

Heartfelt

Your love is so warm

You held my dreams

Cupped in your hands

Like water from a stream

VERSE 2

I’ll hold true to

I’ll only hold you

Tears are in your eyes

Or are those tears mine?

CHORUS

Heartfelt

Your embrace is warm

So hold fast to me

I’ll cover you from the storm

Like a blanket comforting and warm

Rain is pouring

Tears are falling

Into the ocean

Look at me and smile

Because we are warm

And somehow

I know

There is a shelter for us now

Above

Holding the torrents back

Holding us in his hands

So let’s take this blessing

Take his blessing and run

For the prize

For the prize

For the prize

© 2002 Only One © 2002 Golden Hottie Music SMI/BMG

Tonight is a date night for Heidi and I’m really excited. It almost didn’t work out because I am a fool and I try to plan multiple things all at once, but I’m very very happy that we’re on our first romantic night in a long while. BTW, you didn’t just read that. Actually, Heidi and I are launching a covert relationship that is all concealed in shadows. Anyone attempting to pursue leads into it will come up empty handed… or dead.

In other news of Joel’s life, it’s been a while, since I been hold my head up high -NO. It’s been a while since I updated here, and it’s about time that I posted some new stuff for all of you suckfaces out there to read. Well, a couple of nights ago Mike and I had an inspirational night in which we began to write a script, and wrote and recorded a song… all in ONE NIGHT! The song itself is called “I Live in a Garage”, and is a cross between They Might Be Giants and Reclinerland. I guess. Whatever, it’s just Mike and I playing around and having a good time and making a song that is sure to be a hit once it is finished and unleashed upon the public. We plan to have our first live performance of it on New Year’s Eve at Benji Robinsons’s house. Don’t miss it!

Anyhow, I’m getting stomach cramps sitting slouched here now… time to log off.

Joel

Back again. It’s been a long time since I’ve written here, I’m such a slouch. New things in my life have been killing me and making me more alive than ever before at the same time. I have no money, and I am not likely to have any money for a long long time, debts are once again mounting, and hope of saving anything for the future is very grim right now. On the upswing, I got to record with Mike last night, and that was pretty stinking cool. I’m looking forward to doing a lot more of that and many other things in the coming weeks before Christmas. Heidi and I have agreed to take time off from being a “couple” and seek to reestablish our individual lives before choosing to continue on together. There is a lot of stuff we each need to do independently , and we still love each other very very much, and plan to be together… but first our lives have got to be on track. So that kind of stinks, because I dearly love to spend my time with her, and we’ve had so much already together, she’s the most important human being on the planet to me. I’ve taken more time now to read and write. It’s going to be a good creative time I hope, also a productive time as I seek out new employment to supplement the lack of work Panera is giving to me. Well, that’s all for now, lyrics coming soon.

Drop me note or something.

Joel

Gawd my feet kill.

I just ran through the snow barefoot and let me tell you: DON’T DO IT. Your feet will become cold at first, then, after about 2 seconds of coldness, intense pain will engulf your feet and consume them for the next hour or so, until your blood thaws and starts to flow again.

Anyhow, I’m here updating my Blog. I just had the priviledge of getting to go and see The Ring. It was pretty scary, so I’m not gonna differ with all of those folks who’ve been telling me it’s pretty stinking scary. However, I would like to take issue with all of those “It’s the gaul-darned scariest movie ever created this side of Hell” people by saying, “For God’s sake people! It’s just a movie and while it is pretty scary, it’s not the be all end all of all horror. Jeez, stop hailing it as the freakiest movie ever”

There.