Adventure of A Jawa

Yet another month come and gone and for me they are not going bye fast enough.

26 movies watched during August. Most of the month was dominated by Lost and 24.

For me it seems like 24 is getting repetitive but I will still watch the last season I have. I might as well knock it out.

It’s been a while since I last posted. Not much to post about. I live a very un-exciting life.

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36 Movies/TV Shows watched this month. Knocked out a lot of movies I had in Queue to watch which helped to boost the numbers.

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It’s now July which means a Month and a half till football season. New England Patriots are looking very good this season. I can’t wait to watch them. Hope I can somehow get them over here. Need to look to see if NFL.com shows them like MLB.com does for baseball.

Boston Red Sox are doing well, but they still got a lot they can do to improve the second half of the season. Then make a solid push at the word series title.

I was negative 2 years old. Man was I young!

But also:

George Lucas’ first “Star Wars” movie opened in theaters.

30 years is a long time, been alive 28 of those, so I know first hand. Yet for some reason “Star Wars” is still as popular as ever.

What tells you a lot is: “without adjustment for inflation” 3 of the top Ten North American films of all time are Star Wars. As of May 21st, 2007. Of which #2 “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” was release in 1977. The only other film released around that time is E.T. Considering how much ticket prices have gone up over the 20-30 years that the rest of the movies fall into should tell u how many people watched them and how many repeated trips people made to watch them over n over. Just be-daffles me.

All six movies are currently in the top 25. Although the lower three keep dropping.

I managed to lose my copies of Star Wars and a bunch of other movies, so I won’t be doing a back to back to back to back to back to back showing anytime soon. Sadness confounds me… Soon enough I will replace them and make up for it. Some day will get my wife to sit down and watch them all back x 6 with me…

Days like today I wish SOE hadn’t FUBAR’D the Star Wars Galaxies MMO.

In the two MMO’s I have played to date since, WOW and LOTRO; neither have yet to capture me like SWG did. Still playing LOTRO so there is still some hope, but so far doesn’t look like it will be close.

Being a LONG time Star Wars fan it was just awesome to play in the world. The crafting system was rock on. The 37 combat/tech proficiencies truly created diversity. Not to mention the hard work and dedication to become a Jedi. Every now and then SOE offers a free 10 day trial to try to entice us back, so I log in and play, but it just never pulls me back in.

Maybe someday there will be another company that brings back all the great SWG things without SOE messing it up. But slim to none I am sure.

There are 10-20 MMO’s coming out in the next 1-2 years that could.

Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising – Stargate Worlds are too I am looking at.

Is what it took to hit the 100 movie mark.

74 Days is not bad; considering a lot of time was spent watching the Stargate SG-1 series – 9 Seasons worth. Each season is about 22 episodes long at about an hour apiece, so two episodes equal out to be about a movie. I have plans to watch more TV series so it might be another 74 plus days till 200…

The 100^th was “Earth: Final Conflict”. Been wanting to watch this series for a good many a years now. One day while watching Sci-Fi channel they showed an episode from this series, and it caught my attention. But it wasn’t being shown on TV anymore on any station nor where the DVD’s released yet. As of now season 3-5 are on DVD but not 1-2. Shows the oddness of the world we live in.

Something else new I learned recently is that Gene Roddenberry Died October 24, 1991 (age 70). I always thought he was alive. He is the mastermind behind Star Trek and all the follow series was based on it. Along with Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict. My first big interest in him was with Andromeda which was presented as Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, and then got into Star Trek and now Earth FC; but never in all the reading I did on the shows did I realize he was dead.

So far in the season and a half of Earth: Final Conflict that I have watched I must say it leaves things to be desired; yet it draws you in with so many hints n flashes of what might come; Yet things are seen/happen in one episode that never carry over into others. None the less, I will watch them all and see how it all turns out.

So glad I don’t have much of a life here in Korea

Took me a good while to get around to posting this, Almost two months after I started it, it is being posted.

Movie Log File

This will also be in my link section for future easy clicks.

The log explains itself. For some reason with IE7 it wants you to run ActiveX. Guess that is what i get for doing it in WORD. Someday I will be able to afford DreamWeaver.

Since joining the military; and working most of that time on night shift; I have watch tons n tons of movies. And me being the carious person that I be, I’ve always wondered how many. That lead to the log I decided to keep. Sadness I didn’t do it way back when, but all we have is the Now and the Future.

With me being stationed in Korea, there will be a lot of time to watch Movies/TV Shows. That is unless I decide to take up the habit of nightly drunkenness or club hopping. Which won’t happen.. So Movies/Video Games it is.

I am multi-talented and normally have a Movies/TV Show going while I play on my XBOX 360 or Lord of the Rings Online.

As you can see I got a good jump on it in March with 45. Having almost a week out processing combined with leave in New Hampshire and then California; Gave a lot of time to watch movies.

In other happy news; I got me some Diet Mountain Dew. Seems the commissary has gotten some in. I just hope it is a permanent thing and not a once in a blue moon. Will find out as time goes on.

I was walking back from the commissary with two 12 packs and I passed a guy who asked if they where on sale today. Seems I was the 3^rd or 4^th person to walk by with Diet Mountain Dew. I laughed and told him no, it’s just you can’t find it anywhere else and seems to be tough to keep in stock.

I just have not had much to type about, not that I ever did to begin with.

Guess it is my Anti-social way.

I have not spent much time on the net in the last year. Between getting married and getting VERY addicted to Star Wars: Galaxies (before Sony stuck there BEEP BEEEP BEEEP) and then suffering through World of Warcraft (Which I quit a month ago).
Still looking to play Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising and/or The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar (Both are new Massively multiplayer online game in Development) when they get released. But that will come down to how things work out in Korea. I am getting re-assigned there next spring and will have to see how much play time I would have.

It would be a tough choice between the two…

Rome Rising is “squad based” where you control minions who fight along side you. Making more challenging and just totally different then the other MMOG’s

Shadows of Angmar: is set during The Fellowship of the Ring after Frodo and company leave The Shire. Players will be able to meet the characters from Tolkien’s story, including some of the Fellowship. The four playable races will be Dwarves, Elves, Hobbits, and Men. LotRO is explicitly based on the books, not Peter Jackson’s cinematic adaptation.

Which makes me want to play this because one of the things I LOVED about SWG over WOW is that I knew the place, got to visit places/people/events I saw in the movies and I think this will have the same appeal…
I guess it will come down to which is released first.
Well, till next time… Let the Force Guide you!!

Responding to a post on Valerie’s site inspired me to post this�?

Despite critics trashing of the last three Star Wars Films, they rank high on the movie charts�

Taken from Yahoo…

And this cumulative gross doesn’t get updated as the price of movies goes up… BUT Despite that, all the Star Wars are in the top 25…

Like them or hate them, Love George Lucas or Hate him, you have to give him RESPECT.. And as any true Director would admit, if it wasn’t for George Lucas and his desire to create/invent CGI, no telling what hollywood would be like now..

I went to the movies this weekend with Ruthie. Silent Hill was the selected movie. I know it is based off the video game series; but I have never played them and don’t know too much about the story line behind them.

On the movie level alone it was a gross horror flick that had a good story line. If you don’t like guts/gore/creepy things then this is definitely not for you. If you can handle that and want a good/sad story then check this out. I would wait for it to go to dollar theaters or DVD. For the average person it�s not worth it to see it on the big screen. Don’t think it adds that much to it to make it worth it.

Other then that; it was a normal weekend. NASCAR, Red Sox, World of Warcraft, Exercising; so on.

It’s only my second week at working a Monday Friday Schedule. It is defiantly going to take some time getting use to. Feels like there is not as much free time as their use to be when I worked shift work.