The Patriots, The Media, Adalius Thomas

The coach of the New England Patriots Bill Belichick is never one to give too much information to the media about information on his players of the team as a whole. The players as well talk to the media almost like robots and say everything that Belichick would say. A lot of yes and no answers, no excuses, praise for the other team that we lose to, were preparing for the next game, so and so is questionable. If your a fan of the Patriots you have heard these things time and time again. Finally today I have found a human on the Patriots. Adalius Thomas lashed out against Bill Belichick to the media in the locker room yesterday saying: "Motivation is for kindergartners, I'm not a Kindergartner."

Well I'm pretty curious at how this ones going to be handled. As a fan of the Patriots myself I think Thomas was wrong here. He acts like he was the only one that was punished for being late to practice. There were three other Patriots that got sent home and we haven't heard a word from them yet. Personally, this is a perfect example of why Adalius Thomas has not fit well with the Patriots. He hasn't bought into Belichick's game plan on or off the field and I dont think he will be here much longer. I expect Belichick to comment on the matter soon, but only to say I will deal with this matter in house.

Brady BABY

So Big news today for all New Englanders. Tom Brady is now the father of his 2nd child, which just happens to be a boy. Now all we can hope that with the passing of time that the child loves football just like his father and Tom passes down all his football knowledge to him so we can have another Brady as our QB in 20 years or so.

No, no I'm just kidding around. In all honesty theres probably a good chance that he dosen't get into football. After all, if you try to follow in the footsteps of someone like Tom Brady that's a tough path to follow. His son is probably better off not playing football so he isn't constantly compared to his dad, but a I can dream can't I.

CLIMATE-GATE

Climate-GATE!!! Check out these videos below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yis2loKSLFY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upkO0j3fN9A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXBo20oztXk&feature=related

Has anyone heard about this Climate-Gate Story yet? The mainstream media seems to refuse to cover it as this video explains. The only news company that seems to be covering it is Fox News oddly enough. Who ever hasn't heard about this, basically there is A LOT of opposition towards the supposed Global warming. Apparently the story is that some hackers hacked and got emails between key scientists who have been studying global warming. Apparently these scientists have kept key information out of their reports about global warming, changed data around and thrown away key data away. People are saying that man made global warming is a scam. If not a scam it is being said that global warming has been far overblown. A lot of us may be sitting here thinking ya so what because we will never personally be affected by global warming even if it is true or not, but that's not true. We are all being affected here because there's a lot of tax money going towards this research. If these scientists are abusing their power and taking advantage of the people in order to make money, we are all being affected. Check out the videos they are all pretty interesting. Hopefully the media will start covering some of this soon because its a very important topic. Right now I'm sure a lot of people haven't heard about any of this.

Sex Sells

I thought I had seen it all when it came to sex sells until i picked up my newest Sports Illustrated magazine. In there was a add for PEAK antifreeze and coolant for automobiles. Danica Patrick, a woman Indy Car Driver is holding a bottle of this stuff and a headline reads: When you peak, you win. Could these company's get any more blatant when it comes to using sex to sell their products? I mean isn't there a way to see your products other than with sex. What does sex have to do with antifreeze and coolant? Absolutely nothing. I know this is probably a touchy subject but, I wish woman athletes wouldn't resort to this kind of advertising because they are using their bodies to make money. I feel like this is a big reason why woman's sports or woman in sports aren't taken as seriously as male sports or men in sports.

BR Football

Bridgewater-Raynem High School football plays Needham tonight at 7:45 pm at BR. This game is a huge game for BR. I will be working a shoot for BTV for this game and an earlier game between Cohasset and Holliston. These games are the semi-finals of the playoffs which means both winners will move onto the finals which takes place at Gillette Stadium. I'm really rooting for BR tonight because I have covered them all year and I would love to do a shoot at Gillette Stadium. I'm not sure how that is going to work out at Gillette if they win but I guess I will have to wait and see. If anyone is bored tonight go check out the game at BR, it should be a pretty good game they are a solid team. Gillette here I come!

Mario Theme songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZpD0btOZx8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf56jYDv2fc

I loved Mario as a young kid as I'm sure a lot of you did. I found these two videos on youtube videos of people doing their own versions of the Mario theme song. I love both of these videos. Both of these guys are really talented. You should defiantly check them out because they are pretty awesome.

Thanksgiving and the NFL

So the wonderful holiday of Thanksgiving is finally upon us. What a great holiday to sit and relax with family and eat a lot of great food. The other great thing about Thanksgiving is football of course. The games have been pretty interesting so far and there is still another one tonight to go.

As I'm writing this I was watching Chris Dotchery from American Idol playing at the halftime show of the Dallas and Oakland game. I'm not a big fan of that type of music, but he didn't do too bad of a job. This brings me to my point; the NFL has horrible music choices. They need to be a little more contemporary and have some more entertaining halftime shows. Over the past few years the music has been extremely mediocre. I blame it all on Janet Jackson and the stunt she pulled. Ever since then the music choices the NFL has chose has been pretty lame.

Patriots Place Showcase Live

So on Saturday night I went over to Patriots Place in Foxboro and recorded a concert at Showcase Live for BTV. It's the first time I have ever been to the revenue as well as the first time I really have taken a good look a the new Patriots Place. Let me start off by saying that Patriots Place is awesome! There's so much cool stuff around Gillette Stadium now, you could spend the whole day there. Showcase Live is just one of many spots to visit. It's got a great bar and its a awesome place to see some local bands. I would defiantly suggest for anyone to check it out. I want to go to the Patriots Hall of Fame one of these days and also I want to check out the Bass Pro Shop because I've heard some great things. Has anyone else checked out Patriots Place yet? Where have you been?

Belichick Bad Call?

So i'm sure a lot of you know about last weeks Patriots Colts game. Coach Bill Belichick went for it on 4th down at our own 30 yard line with a little over a minute left to try wrap up the game. The Patriots were up 6 points at the time and the Colts would have to score a TD to win. Of course as we know now, the Colts did score a TD to win the game with 13 seconds left. It was a tough loss for the Patriots who had been winning all game.

Anyways, what I want to touch on is the negative talk about Bill Belichick. All of the reporters and announcers have been saying that Bill and made the wrong call. Even Rodney Harrison a former Patriot said Bill made the worst coaching call of his career. I'm going to have to disagree. Bill made the call with confidence that he thought his offense could easily pick up the first down and then run the rest of the clock off. After all it was only 2 yards and offense had played well all day. He put the ball in one of the best QB in the leagues hands expecting it to work out, but it didn't of course. My hat goes off to him to have that kind of confidence in his QB and offense. It was a gutsy call, but I think if we punted it the Colts would of drove down the field easily anyway because our defense would of been very passive trying to prevent the big play. I think Bill is getting a lot of negative comments that he doesn't deserve. The call on the field was questionable as is. I honestly think Kevin Faulk got the first down. And if we had gotten the first down everyone would have been singing a different tune. So everyone should give Belichick a break, After all he's won us 3 Championships and given us something to do on Sundays for almost a Decade.

Avatar

James Cameron is going to coming out with a movie this coming summer. I have already started to see some previews for it. It looks pretty interesting. Looks kind of Star Wars esk, but I don't know how I feel about the amount of CGI in the film. It almost looks like they green screened the entire movie.

For all those who don't know who James Cameron is, he is the director of Alien series, The first two Terminators, and the Titanic. He's put up an impressive resume. Titanic is in the top three grossing films of all time and Terminator 2 is widely considered to be the best action movie of all time. So I guess you can't really question the guy too much abut this new movie selection because he knows what hes doing. I hope it's a good movie because I will probably go see it in theaters. What do you guys think? Have you see the previews yet? Anybody plan on seeing it?

The Droid, Iphones new rival?

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About a week ago Verizon Wireless released a phone called the Droid. Its a Motorola made phone with a Google operating system. I think if there's one company that could rival Apple it might be Google. My cousin just recently bought this phone and I played around with it because I was curious to see if it works as good as my iphone.

I was actually pleasantly surprised. The phone worked just as good as the iphone. Not only did it work just as good it actually did a few things better. This phone streams HD video off of Youtube! It looked just as good as high definition TV. I was really surprised. It also has a 5.0 megapixel camera which is outstanding, takes videos, and has removable memory. The iphone doesn't have any of this. I'll defiantly be looking for Apple to respond in a big way with their 4th generation iphone. If not, I now have an option if i choose to move back to Verizon once my contract is up. Check out the link above to see this awesome new phone!

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is here!

So the game of the year is finally here! I and probably about 300 others went to get the game at Gamestop at midnight. I played some levels from the campaign before going to bed at 2. My first impressions of the game are awesome. Its seems pretty hard, but i guess that's a good thing because it will provide a good challenge to beat the campaign.

I have no classes today so I pretty much have been playing the game all day. Today i basically have played the multi-player all day. Once again i'm very impressed. The game is pretty stunning. All the levels are pretty entertaining. My hat goes off to the Infinity Ward team, they have done a great job with the game. I'll be playing this one for a while. I cant wait for the next one. For all you video gamers out there what do you think so far? Like it, Love it, hate it?

Apple

I think Apple Inc. is literally the greatest thing since sliced bread. I have and iphone which i love and a older imac. I was just watching some videos of all the new MAC products that are coming out and the one that caught my eye is the magic mouse. It basically does everything an iphone can do. It looks pretty awesome and its completely customizable. I was thinking about getting one, but I may just wait and get a macbook instead.

So why is Apple so good? Apple is genius; there advertising campaign is simple yet flawless and their products are built to last. You don't know how many times i have dropped my phone since i got it and it still works completely fine. I have never seen such a complicated electronic work so good in my life. I just recently switched to a MAC computer this summer and I don't think I'm ever going back to windows again. I know there's a lot of people out there like me that are singing Apple's praises and there is also a lot of people out there that are so sick of people like me. But if your one of those people you should give Apple a try, you wont be disappointed.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

One week from today is the release of the HIGHLY ANTICIPATED Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. I have literally been waiting for this one to come out since the day I played the first one back in 2007. I'm pretty sure that Gamestop down the street is going to be opened at midnight Tuesday to see the game. I have heard that some of the stores have over 500 copies reserved for customers. I didn't reserve one because they make enough copies usually anyway.

Anyways, for all you video game fans you must be as pumped as I am. This game may have a chance to be the highest grossing video game of all time and or gross the most money in the first 24 hours ever by any video game. Right now Halo 3 holds the record, but i think this game has a solid crack at those records.

I'm counting down the days until i can get my hands on it and I can only hope that this one lives up to the lofty expectations.

The Stones

I honestly have never been a big fan of the Rolling Stones. I think that is mainly because of how they look and the fact that they are still playing. When I see these guys on stage performing still all that is running through my mind is, its time to hang it up boys.

I'm a huge fan of classic Rock and i love bands like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, etc. But for some reason I have never been a huge fan of the Rolling Stones. The great thing about those other bands is their music is still great even today. Their music seems almost timeless and its still very listenable today even though music has gone through many changes.

Anyways, my friend gave me the Rolling Stones greatest hits CD the other day and i have been listening to it. I have actually quite enjoyed the CD. I have heard most of the songs on the radio over the years and I have now decided that I haven't given the Rolling Stones the credit they deserved. They are a great band and I think I can now put aside my past feelings about them. Their music is also timeless and is very easy to listen to. I think they have got a lot of bad rep because they didn't go out on top like the other bands i mentioned before. They have continued to play together to this day and this is most certainly my reason for not really liking them before. So I just want to say, I'm sorry Rolling Stones and rock on! And everyone should defiantly check out their Greatest Hits CD called Forty Licks.

Transformers 2

My friend bought the 2nd Transformers the other day so i borrowed it from him last night and i watched a bit of it. I'm planning on watching the whole thing today or tomorrow. Anyways I want to talk a little bit about this franchise. Personally I wasn't that big of a fan of the first movie. I thought it was kind of corny. There were some good parts during the movie. The action and visual effects in the movie were absolutely fantastic, but I didn't really like the shia Labeouf character. He acted like hes never talked to a girl in his life and he was suppose to be a senior in high school. It all was a little bit unbelievable for me.
Moving onto the 2nd movie, I liked this movie a lot more than the first one. It had double the action and even better special effects. My only gripe with this movie which I also had with the first one was how at times the transformers were hard to distinguish. Like it was hard to tell who was who. I don't think Michael Bay did enough to make each individual transformer to stand out from each other because they all looked too glossy. I guess this is a very small part of the movie, but action scenes got confusing at times. Back to the acting, the 2nd movie was far less corny and was actually believable. This movie was one of the most visually impressive movies I have ever scene so props to Michael Bay. What did you guys think of these two movies?

Rear Window vs. Disturbia

Today in class i got to watch another Alfred Hitchcock movie. This one was called Rear Window. I'm sure many of you haven't seen it because it came out in 1954, but I'm sure a lot of you have seen the movie Disturbia. Although the makers of Disturbia say that its not a remake of Rear Window, it is extremely similar. I liked Disturbia it wasn't too bad, but I liked Hitchcock's version much better. Hitchcock's version has a better storyline and better characters. I felt like the ending was a little more lackluster in comparison to Disturbia, but i think it was because of the time and the technology. This has been the second Hitchcock movie i have quite enjoyed. I think we have one more to watch in class, but I think I will try to see a few more of his movies on my own time because he really is a great director. Hopefully I can find one I really love. Well that's it for now, lata.

Movies and Shows

My friends went to see that new movie out Paranormal activity and they said it was really scary. They want to go see it again so i may go with them this weekend. I'm a little skeptical though because I'm not a big scary movie guy. I hope that this one is good and is actually scary for once. The rest of the time i feel like I'm just grossed out rather than scared. Hopefully this movie may change my opinions a little bit about the scary movie genre.

Next thing i want to talk about, is South Park. I love this show. It's not for everyone i realize, but i think they do a great job at keeping up with the times and making shows on controversial topics that are happening now. The 13th season has been great so far. Last nights episode was about wresting and the WWE. I used to watch this show a lot as a kid so it brought back some funny memories. They basically just made fun of how its all an act and that most of the time they aren't even wrestling they are talking instead. Keep it up South Park you guys are doing a great job. Well that's it for today, lata.

A collection of thoughts...

Let me start off by saying that this Friday I'm going to be appearing on the news on BTV 9. I went over to BTV today after class to shoot it. It was my first time being on camera since my TV production class I believe Sophomore year. I wasn't worried at all until I go in their and the producer said we were going to be on in 5. I felt my heart beating pretty fast for the first 5 minutes, but I eventually calmed down and I felt a bit better as it went on. Its funny how quickly you that fear of being on camera or on stage creeps up on you. I think if I do it a few more times it will get better and after a while it probably would seem like second nature. I applaud all those who go on camera frequently because they make it look so easy, but its a lot harder than on would think.

Secondly, i was looking at different sports news stations' websites today. I would love to get a job with ESPN, NESN, or Comcast Sportsnet and I'm defiantly going to start applying soon. Even if it's only an internship or a PA job. Experience is experience even if it don't pay great. Who knows maybe they would like you enough to hire you full time. Hopefully my dreams will come true some day. It's crazy that I'm looking for real jobs already. Does anyone else feel like we just got here and were ready to leave already? Man time fly's. Well that' it for today, lata.

Notorious

I watched my first Alfred Hitchcock movie today in my English class. We watched "Notorious" as you can see be the title of this post. I'm not really sure why this movie was named that because it doesn't really seem like the perfect title for this movie. Anyways, i had heard how good Hitchcock movies were but I never really seen one until now. I did like the movie a lot. Hitchcock was defiantly an excellent director. You can tell that he planned out each and every shot and that everything in each shot is meant to be there for a reason. I though he did a great job of story telling not only with story telling by the actors and actresses, but also with the camera. For those of you who haven't seen this movie its a spy thriller. The main character Mr. Devlin is actually a predecessor to another guy many of you may know, Mr. James Bond. I love the James Bond films and this one defiantly had some resemblances of the Bond films. The only thing that was missing were guns and some hand combat. I think if those two things were involved I would of liked the movie that much more. I'm sure a lot of the reasons why this movie was the way it was is because of the time period. It was made in 1946 and World War II had just ended. The movie could of had less restrictions if it were made 10 years later or so. Regardless it was a pretty good movie and defiantly kept me entertained throughout. I only wish the ending was a little different, the bad guy got it a little worse than he did.

Cold and Flu Season

So it appears that I have a cold. I'm pretty sure I got it from my girl friend so at least I know the culprit. Anyways, I'm not a very sickly person but when I do get sick i hate it. As I'm sure we all do. The topic of this blog discussion is really about H1N1. I thought it was kind of funny how big of a deal that the media has made of this new flu. As far as I'm concerned it isn't any worse than the regular old flu. The people that should be worrying about it are small children, the elderly, and people with bad immune systems. But those same people should also should worry about the regular flu. I don't get why there's such a hoopla over this type of flu. Is it because it has a fancy name? I don't know maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about. Anyhow, today I was at the bottom of Dinardo waiting for my friend to come downstairs and I started reading this poster. It was describing all these symptoms and inferring maybe you have the flu if you are experiencing them. Any you know what, it scared me a little bit. I thought about it for a minute and worried that maybe I had the flu. Hopefully it just turns out to be a cold as i first assumed, but who knows. I just thought it was funny because i had spent all this time bashing the flu and being like ehhh whatever and now all of a sudden I found myself a bit scared. What I am trying to get at is, I don't think i would have even thought about it really if it wasn't for all the publicity about this H1N1. The media really had an affect on me.

How much does the media control us?

Both this class and my comm 311 class books seeming to bashing the media a lot. They both have talked a lot about the media controlling our lives in the sense that they are choosing the stories that we here about. Not only are they choosing the stories that we hear about they are writing them as well. Even thought we don't realize how much the media really controls our lives its a large influence.
I mean I guess I kind of buy into what they are saying. A lot of it makes sense. But at the same time i'm sitting there thinking this is ridiculous. Are people in the media really sitting there all the time thinking of ways to influence us how they think. Is our media that biased and ridiculous? I have heard some pretty crazy stuff about Rupert Murdoch, which makes me think that a lot of this stuff may be true. What do you guys think? Do you think the media controls our lives? How much do you think it really controls how we think and act?

Singing in the Rain...

Let me first start off by saying that i hate musicals. I was forced to see "The Sound of Music" back in the fourth grade and i hated it. So, i went into my class yesterday and the teacher announces we will be watching the 1952 musical "Singing in the Rain". I was so thrilled with the idea of seeing this musical that i hit my forehead on the desk. So the movie starts with a music part and I already couldn't stand it. But about halfway through the movie I found myself actually quite entertained. It actually had quite a good storyline. All of the dancing and music scenes were actually pretty funny. They actually danced more than they sang maybe that was part of the reason I didn't mind it. As well as a good story, this movie actually did a great job at explaining the evolution of the movie studio. The movies they were shooting at the beggining of the movie were soundless unless music was added so all the actors and actresses really overly expressed everything in order for their points to get across to the audience. In the movie the head of Monumental Studios shows everyone that works for him about the new thing that is hitting the cinema, talkies. These talkies allowed audio to be recorded for the first time so that a movie would be more like a stage performance. At the time everyone in the movie business as this movie depicts thought this idea of talkies would blow over and not ever become anything. I thought this was really funny because as we all know today this is where all movies headed and never looked back. The movie also showed how the studio struggled with some of its first productions with this new technology because they had a hard time picking up the audio from the actors and actresses unless were talking directly into the big mics hidden throughout the set. It was also hard for the actors and actresses to get used to not over acting like they always used to because they now could be heard. The last thing that this movie really shed some light on to me was how the studio system pay worked. Everyone who worked to make movies was just on a salary for however many years. Sometimes they worked a lot and other times they were out of work, but either way they always got paid. Today this has been abolished and of course people are only paid when they are at work and actors and actresses are only paid when they are making a movie. So not only was this musical pretty funny and had a good story it really opened my eyes on the evolution of the movie studio. Well that's it for today, i'm out.

Saw VI

Has anyone seen the trailer for Saw VI? I seen it for the first time the other day and I was absolutely appalled. How are they still getting people to go see these movies? And another thing, the guy died in the 3rd movie how has he been in four and five and now six? The first two were pretty entertaining movies. They actually had a good story line. I myself stopped watching after the third one, It was so disturbing that I didn't want to watch another one. Now there's going to be a sixth one? Stop making the same movie over and over!
Scary movies these days are just terrible all they care about is making money. They are never in it for making a good movie. All the scares are usually cheap scares and or gruesome killings. What has happened to this genre? I remember when they made good scary movies that were actually scary and kept you on the edge of you seat. This genre is terrible these days, I wonder if the movies will ever get any better. Well that's it for today, I'm going to keep it short. Lata

Dunkins internship

I woke up really early today unfortunately and couldn't fall back asleep. So i went and got a coffee from Dunkins that way I actually wake up. Let me first say, hot coffee is the only way to go. You get a ice coffee and all it is, is ice. I bet you get less coffee than a small if you order a ice. Anyways that's far from the point of this post. When i got back to my room i decided to check my email. Of course I had the daily ten emails about nothing. I saw one about internship with Joel Litvin, and I just figured it was Joel reminding me about the meeting we have today about my BTV internship. But it was actually a forward message about and internship for this spring. The internship would be with a real advertising company and its actually headed by the lady who coined the slogan "America Runs on Dunkin". I honestly forgot what her name is but I guess its not really that important for this post. I thought it was pretty funny that i got this email today sense I literally just got Dunkins. So, im sitting their reading this drinking my coffee and i get to the part that talks about pay for the internship. And of course it says Not paid! Well there goes my interest. My BTV internship isn't paid either, but its also no further than my classes. I and i'm sure many others, would not be able to afford to work at a unpaid internship if it was something you would have to travel back and forth to. I have to pay for a car, insurance, a phone bill. It don't sound like much but it ads up if you don't really have a job. It sounded like a good oppertunity so for all those who can afford to work at a unpaid internship I would strongly suggest it. A internship is a pretty valuable thing; you actually get some true hands on experience with something rather than just reading about it in a book or hearing about it in class. Well anyways I just thought I would talk a little about that. I will leave you with, does America really run on Dunkin? I personally think it should be New England or maybe the east coast. I feel like the rest of the country has their own coffee. Especially the west coast because they have Starbucks. Regardless, it is a pretty good marketing slogan even if its not true or cant be proven. It has a nice ring to it. And I'm... out.

DAISY

I'm a big Brand New fan. For all those who don't know them they are a punk/emo/alternative band. I loved Their last CD, "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me". They just released their 5th studio album, Daisy, on September 22nd. When you first pick up the CD and listen to it, it may take some time to get used to. It defiantly took me a few listens before I really liked the songs. It's very different than what they have come out with in the past, with some experimental guitar parts and strange voice parts. For all those who are fans of Brand New if you try to listen to this CD with a open ear you will like this CD a lot. Like I said, it took some getting used to but I opened up to it and really like the CD a lot. Its very different and that's why its so good. None of their CD's sound very similar besides maybe their first two. Brand New is defiantly experimenting with some new very cool things. Overall i would give this album a 9 out of 10. I cant wait to see what they come out with next.

1.)Vices- Very strange opening song with a lady singing and playing piano to open. Gets heavy with some pretty cool guitar.
2.)Bed- A good song that defiantly sounds like their style. Good bass line and good lyrics.
3.)At the Bottom- The single released a couple months ago. Good catchy song. Defiantly something you can sing along to.
4.)Gasoline- One of my favorite songs on the CD. Good lyrics and some good screaming parts. I love the breakdown in this song and the bass line. Not to mention the creepy outro to the song.
You Stole- Slow song with awesome guitar parts.
5.)Be Gone- Very strange song; more like a break in the music. Experimental guitar with broken words.
6.)Sink- Very catchy song. Sounds like classic Brand New.
7.)Bought a Bride- Another catchy song. Sounds the most like old school Brand New. Awesome guitar solo. Some great lyrics.
8.)Daisy- A slow song with some strange but cool instrumentals. Great lyrics. Pretty catchy song as well.
9.)In a Jar- Another one of my favorites. Good Bass line. Great lyrics. Starts out slow and hits hard with some very interesting instrumentals.
10.)Noro- My favorite song on the album. Starts out slow, but gets heavy at the end and has a awesome guitar solo. Finishes with lady playing the piano and singing like the first song.
11.)At the Bottom(Live in Studio)- I like this version better than the other version. Its acoustic and there's no screaming. So the song feels a bit different but in a good way.

Entourage

I don't watch much TV at all. For the most part the only time i watch TV is on Sunday to watch football. I love football and i don't miss a Patriots game. With the upcoming hockey season and the Red Sox eventual playoff birth i will probably be watchin a little more TV. I will say I am hooked to a couple TV shows. One being South Park and the other being Entourage. I have watched Entourage religiously for the past couple years now and I think the show is hilarious. I just wanted to talk a little bit about the show and why I like it and maybe some people can respond back with why they enjoy the show.
Entourage for one is the ultimate guy show. Four guys from Queens New York move out to L.A. and basically live the life which we all wish we could be living. This is probably the main reason we all enjoy the show. How much fun would it be to move to L.A. and have no cares in the world. Secondly from day one this show has done a great job with characterization. Every character is a little bit different and brings something different to each and every episode. The characters feel like real people that have know each other for a long period of time they way they joke around with one another. Being a guy, i defiantly enjoy the interactions of the four friends when their together. It reminds me a lot of me and my friends. For all those who do watch the show you will understand what I am about to say. In the first few seasons their usually was some sort of problem every episode that was resolved or figured out by the end of the episode. But now the episodes have changed a bit and the story lines are more on going through the episodes. I think i liked the old way better, but i still enjoy the show a lot.
Last Sundays episode was very good which made me thing i should write a post on the show and why I liked it so much. So for all those who are going to respond, did you like the old seasons better of the new ones? Whats you favorite episode? I think i have overall enjoyed the old seasons better and I think my favorite episode might be the Vegas one or the few that have Gary Busey in them.

The Maltese Falcon...

In my Monday film class we watched another old movie. This one actually came out right before Casablanca. It came out in 1941 and its again another Humphrey Bogart movie. This movie was directed by John Huston. This one was called The Maltese Falcon.
I want to tell you a little what I thought about the movie. Its considered to be one of the first Film Noir movies. Film Noir tends to touch on unease with society; it has lots of odd camera angles, shadows, and low key lighting. A lot of camera angles tend to be looking up on the people in the action of the movie. Which is odd and presents the question who's eyes are we seeing all the action from? Could it be a small child or even a pet? There was also a lot of over the shoulder shots and a ton of closeups. This movie relied heavily on the actors and actresses expressions. Once i again, i really enjoyed the movie. These older movies are quite good because the actors and actresses have been very talented. Today's movie stars for the most part don't seem to have as much talent because there's so many things that can be done with movies to make the actors and actresses look better. For instance, a action movie can have a lot of great action scenes but maybe not great acting and it would still be considered a good film.
Anyways back to the Maltese Falcon. The movie was very complicated and at times it was a bit hard to follow. The movie is a murder mystery. Miles Archer a private detective and a Englishman Mr. Thursby who Archer was following are both found dead. Its up to Archer's partner Sam Spade to find out who were the killers. There are many players in the movie and all the while there's a whole other story about these players trying to find a golden falcon which is supposedly worth a lot of money. Throughout the movie the cops have Sam pinned as suspect, but in the end Sam is the one not the cops who figures out both murders. The movie ends as Sam tells the cops everything that happened. For a while I thought Sam might have been involved in the murders. It was kind of confusing, but regardless it kept my attention through the whole movie. Once again i would totally suggest this movie to anyone. I'm beginning to like Humphrey Bogart a lot as an actor. He is very talented, I hope we watch another one of his movies sometime in the Semester. Well I'm off for now.

BTV and the Newspaper

This past weekend was kind of a relaxed weekend for me at BTV because my boss was gone for a week so i didn't work on the football game on Saturday. Instead I met with Sam Baumgarten for that cross country event as I explained in a earlier blog post. Friday I met with Sam and I did a short little interview with him on camera to explain the cross country program he runs every weekend and Saturday morning i went over to the even and shot some footage of the kids running the in the trails. It was pretty easy I didn't do anything too crazy. I'm sure when its all put together they will put clips of the event in with interview. It will be on air this week on BTV so it will be interesting to see how it comes out. I think i got some pretty good stuff so it should be good.
I was over at BTV today and I set up the studio for a musical act. It was two acoustic guitarists and one singer. They were pretty good. My boss Jeff showed me how to switch back and forth between the cameras during the production so that was cool. I think I'm getting a hang of things each and every day I'm there.
As i was over at BTV my buddy texted me and asked me to write an article for the newspaper for this week. I was pretty pumped because its about the Bruins and I'm a big hockey fan. This will be my first article for the paper. I jumped on a little late, I wish i had done it all these years while I was at school because it would look great on a resume. Well I'm off to do some other homework. Talk to you soon.

NHL 10

So Tuesday was the official release of NHL 10. I was extremely pumped to go pick it up because for a few years now its been one of my favorite games. For all those who are hockey fans you should defiantly give this game a try. For all those who are interested in getting this game i wan to give you a quick review.
There are a couple new modes, but I haven't really got around to checking them out yet, but so far it has been a big hit in my room. The animations have been revamped and are better than last years. There haven't been many stupid goals like in last years game. The passing this year has been tweaked and its quite a bit harder than the past years. You need to hold down the trigger for harder passes and there's a lot more aiming involved. It may be a little bit harder but in the end it actually is quite helpful once you get the hang of it because its much easier to pass the puck around in the offensive zone.
A key addition to this years game which the game producers really made a big deal about was the fighting and physical aspect of hockey. In this years game you have the opportunity to drop the gloves a lot more than you ever had in the past. It's a pretty good fighting mechanic and who ever actually wins the fight gains energy for their team. So, their is an actual point to fighting. You can also choose not to fight if someone picks a fight with you. The checking this year has been tweaked also. Their are not as many ridiculous checks now where guys go flying which i think is good. But, i think they may have went a little too soft. For an example Zedeno Chara cant seem to knock anyone over. The guy is a monster he should able to knock people over rather than them just bouncing off of him.
The last thing i will says is the game feels quite a bit slower that last years. You can easily fix this my adjusting the game speed up. The only thing i wish they would add is the ability of star players to stand out a bit more than the other players. Overall i think they did a great job with the game.It is a bit improved for last years. Next year i will look for them to focus a bit more on the game play rather than the game modes. Still its a very good game and a great multilayer game for you and your buddies to enjoy for a long time.

My First Lone Assignment

My Boss over at BTV is gone for the week filming at the Big E. So, he set me up from my first lone camera shoot and interview with Sam Baumgarten, Professor and chair of The Department of Movement Arts, Health Promotion, and Leisure Studies. I honestly don't know too much about this event that I'm going to be filming but i guess ill find out when i meet with Sam.
But anyways this Saturday there is a Kids Cross Country race from 9:00-10:00 A.M. This should be a easy first assignment hopefully. Its only a hour long and I'm pretty much open to what ever he's looking for so i think it should go well. I'm actually meeting with him Friday to do a short interview so hopefully after that i will have some more insight about what this actual event is all about.
Jeff put me in contact with Sam a few days ago and we have been emailing back and forth about times and meeting places. I think this assignment has been pretty helpful so far because I'm doing things on my own and figuring out how to be responsible and manage my time and not just goof off. That's all i pretty much know for now. Hopefully the two shoots go well and Sam likes what i shoot for him. My first news story; I'm pretty pumped! I will probably write later how the two shoots end up going. I'm out for now, Later.

Casablanca...

So I'm in this film class this semester to finish up my writing/speaking intensive classes. We all know how hard it is to find one of these classes right? Last semester I took a art history class thinking it was fulfilling my last credit for writing/speaking intensive but of course not. So now I'm in this class, which i guess isn't that bad because i love movies. But i have never really had to critique a movie very thoroughly so i hope its not too bad. Were going to be watching a lot of older movies which a lot of people consider classics. Which fine by me because black and white or older style movies don't really turn me off. I know some people dislike them and would prefer a new movie but these movies are considered classics for a reason so maybe you should give them a chance. Anyways, we watched our first full movie yesterday in class.
The first movie we watched was Casablanca. It's a pretty old movie. It was shot in 1941 in i guess a little over a week and it appeared on the big screen in 1942. So for all us history buffs, it came out during World War II. I think its crazy that a movie that is considered a classic came out during this time and was a big hit. I thought the whole world would be too rapped up in the fighting to give a hoot about it. The director of the movie is Michael Curtiz and it stars Humphrey Bogart. I have heard of both men but I'm honestly not too familiar with them. I actually thought about watching this movie a couple times on my own, but i never did. So i watched the movie and i really liked it. It defiantly should be considered a classic film. The director did a really great job with all the shots and the way he told the story through each scene. The black and white didn't bother me at all either. And even though it was in black and white i think the movie has a lasting appeal even to today. I think the reason why this movie is considered a classic is because after watching it, it didn't seem out dated and old fashion. It could have been made this past year and people would of really loved it. So i really liked the movie, everyone should see it if they get the chance. I know i didn't really say much about it, but it has a little something for everyone in it. Well that's it for today, see Casablanca!

BTV

So I don't know if i really introduced myself yet. My name is Kurt Mitchell. I am a senior at BSC. School has gone by so fast so for all you underclassmen, enjoy it while it lasts.
So i was trying to think of something to write about today that related back to Media and then all of a sudden it popped in my head. I forgot all about my internship. This semester i have an internship over at BTV. For all of you who don't know what BTV is its Bridgewater's local access channel, channel 9. Last weekend i got my first chance to get my hands dirty. I worked at the Bears football game on Saturday. I was on one of the three cameras that we were using for the broadcast. The Day before i went to the stadium and set up the tripods for the cameras and all the audio and video wires that way it was all set up before the game and we weren't tripping over people. I didn't really know how to do much but i think i learned pretty fast i got the hang of quite a few things. I can pretty much set up and take down the cameras on my own and learned some of the ins and outs of a live broadcast. It was a great learning experience and i think its only going to get better as the semester goes on. For all those interested in watching the games live they are on the local access station and on bscbeasrs.com as live broadcasts. Or you could just make a trip down to the field. I will probably keep you posted through the semester on how my internship is going for those who may be interested in doing an internship there at some point. Plus it gives me something else to write about as well. Well I'm signing out. Talk to you soon.

District 9

First of all i just want to say that i love movies and try to see a lot of them. I just recently saw District 9 this past weekend. And i must say, i was very impressed. The trailer for this movie just made it look great and it actually lived up to it.
So this movie was really good and i want to tell you why you should go see it. For one, i heard this movie didn't have a huge budget and knowing that and seeing the movie i was pretty impressed what they came up with for CGI for this movie. Things looked pretty good. The alien ship also reminded me of Independence Day also another great alien flick. Secondly, this movie was written and directed very well. The movie had no noticeable faces but that didn't seem to matter because it was just a good movie regardless if there was a well know cast or not. They filmed the movie almost as if it was documentary so i thought that was pretty interesting. And that actual story of the movie wasn't anything i thought it would be. This is why the movie was so good. It was just a story of the humans fighting off the big bad aliens, it had a lot of depth. The film also made you feel for the aliens which i thought was great because of how ugly they were. Ya I'm sorry that might of been a little mean but they really were quite unattractive. The camera angles and shots were all really good. There were a lot of shots done by hand without a tripod which made you feel like you were right there in the action. Last But not least this movie had a pretty solid ending and maybe a hint that their might be a sequel. Overall good job Peter Jackson, again. If your looking for a sci-fi thriller with a good story line and some great action, this is a movie for you. Maybe you wont go see it because you don't like sci-fi movies but i think you should go anyway because this ones a lot different.

Random Thoughts...

Its crazy to think at how much the world has changed in such little time. We are in a age of information with all kinds of new technology all around us. The internet has made it possible for us to have information at our finger tips at any point in the day. Most cell phones these days even have some sort of an internet browser for when a computer is not near by. No longer is TV and the the newspaper the number one technology for information from the media. And as I was saying before, this is all fairly new technology for the most part. The internet didn't really come into play until 1996; that was only 13 years ago. Things have changed pretty fast and at any point in the day we can go on the internet and be informed what is happening on in the world.
I don't really have any plans for this blog; No one central theme. I will say pretty much what comes to mind and what i am interested in. Hopefully i can keep people interested and reading.

This is my first post. I don't really know what to write about because this is my first week of classes, but this blog will eventually have some useful information.