So, I saw The DaVinci code last night — my review?

Wait for the DVD.

It was boring, I actually fell asleep, which I’ve never done before. At least, not in a movie theater. Tom Hanks was wrong the part of Robert Langdon, I think Harrison Ford would have been much better and he already has experience doing an adventuresome professor type character.

The movie was pretty much true to the book, but it just lacked the passion of the book; was sterile and lackluster. It’s not even a -bad- movie, and if you haven’t read the book, it may be worth it, but the biggest let down is how close it is to the book while some how stripping it of any excitement.

So, as some of you may know, I purchased a metal sculpture on eBay (from Gensic Creative Metals) for $20 + shipping and handling. I got the base model, no extras like finish or color, because I was going to do that all on my own. The extras cost, well, extra and shipping was already going to be $40.

Here’s pictures of what I bought:

Well, that was almost a month ago. So, I emailed the guy and asked what was up, last night. He responded in a very timely manor and said he shipped it like two weeks ago, and gave me the insurance code from USPS. Well, I got an email this morning saying he just got it back, returned to sender and was wondering if I had did that because it was damaged. I said no, I never got it or returned it. He then send me a picture of how he received it back from USPS:

Anyways, he was very apologetic and offered to send me one WITH the metal finish right away. Now, I understand things do sometimes go wrong, and things do get trashed in the mail.. props to him for making it right.

Absolutely fantastic movie. The Terminal, while not coming out this year, is by far the best movie I’ve seen this year. Being Janurary 22nd, that probably doesn’t say much, however, trust me on this, it’s a must see movie. Unless you hate Tom Hanks in which case you probably wouldn’t like it. I could not find any glaring plot holes, and the charecters were sufficently developed. The whole movie had an excellent flow and it didn’t at all feel rushed. One of the best “Feel Good” movies I’ve ever seen, and Tom Hanks is at his best in this role. Rotten Tomatoes had some choice reviews, here’s one from the seattle times.

“The Terminal is quintessential Spielberg: perfectly cast, technically breathtaking, sentimental to the point of being one sugar cube away from gooey and extremely pleasurable to watch.”

Here’s the synopsis:

“The Terminal” tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal’s international transit lounge until the war at home is over.

As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon, who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase.

I’ve gotten horribly lax on posting updates, sorry y’all.

About the Banana Republic:
···NEVER go to the straight women at Banana Republic unless you personally know them, they are all (in my experience so far) bitches who don’t actualy want to help you. Make a beeline for the nearest gay sales associate. In 3 different Banana Republic locations (Downtown Portland, Streets of Tanasbourne, and Boise Idaho) I have had a horrible experience getting what I wanted, from the women working there. The worst offenders have been at the Streets of Tanasbourne and Boise, Idaho locations. At Streets of Tanasbourne, the female sales associate straight up lied to me about not having any more of the (1) shirt they had on display in the sale area. Upon requesting the same shirt in a different size from one of their gay sales associates, I was informed that they have TONS in back, in any size. Bitch just didn’t want to help me. She wasn’t doing anything else either. I can somewhat understand being busy, but she was just standing around. The Boise location, which I had ordered a wool top coat from (Due to all the portland/washington stores being out of stock) lied to me too. I called asking for a tracking number, she said she would look it up and give me a call back. Yup, never heard from her again. Once I received the jacket, I found that they had shipped the wrong size. When I called again, I got a gay sales associate. He found the right size, double checked the product code, and shipped it out the same day I called, plus he waived the shipping. All in all, it comes down to this. Banana Republic makes some great clothes, and they can have decent prices if you catch a good sale, but don’t bother talking to the women there, you may as well shop online and do it yourself.

About the woman I met:
···Her name is Serafina. I don’t know if anything will or won’t happen beyond whats already transpired (which I’m not going to say here :> ) but she did come over again after the first meeting, and has agreed to go snowboarding with me. I hope she doesn’t bail out cause she’s awsome. She’s about 5′03, @ 100lb, dark hair, intelligent (Yes, there is a distinct difference between being smart and being educated), educated (working on her Masters) and incredibly hot. I sometimes get retarded-male syndrome around her nuff-said

About the guy sleeping in the laundry room:
For any of you wondering who the hell was sleeping in my laundry room, it was Big John, one of the bouncers who works at The Crystal Ball Room and CC Slaughters.

About Christmas Presents
I got a 40GB iPod that I absolutely love. It has changed how I listen to music, and it has definately changed where I listen to music (ie: everywhere now). Danny also chipped in $80 towards the Banana Republic wool jacket I want

About my car
Well, still chasing down those gremlins. I has been working great, but recently starting stalling again. We think it’s the fuel pump relay, which is thankfully just a $10 part, that I can actually replace in about 30 seconds once I recieve it. Hopefully that will finally get rid of these stalling/not starting issues.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time. My g/f Rachel recommended that we see, and it’s definately up there on my list of movies now. It’s a bit older, being made in 1987, but definately worth a watch if you havn’t seen it yet. It stars Steve Martin and John Candy as a pair of unlikely travel mates who demonstrate that Murphys law is still alive and kicking. I highly recommended it, specialy if you’re kicking back with some buddies drinking a beer or 9.

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