Thursday, September 4, 2008

As I Sit Here. . .

...I type in casual dress attire for my first and will be only cake testing for our wedding I Evan Garcia on May 15, 2009 will be marring the most wonderful woman in the world. She's the perfect match for me , Kristy Gar.... oh not yet Kristina Selecky aka. Kristy. But getting back to the present. Cake testing mmmmmm Who would have thought that wedding planning included such a tasty and delicious task. I cant wait till I indulge in all the luscious and decadent layers of the fluffy goodness and creamy frosting that cakes consist of.

Some thing tells me I have to tell you the real motivation behind this blog post.To tell you the truth I woke up today and said oh no I have assignment due tonight!!!. See, After a great class discussion about "covering" (Will explain later) on Tuesday my professor gave a writing assignment that consisted of just finding a topic to write about and just write doesn't matter if I get off topic just write. Its called Yarn writing as apposed to a conceit where your writing is more structured and focused. So I said this gives me a real good reason to just sit down on my Mac and blog. I didn't ask if I could do this because I thought of it on the way home from class that night. I hope he's fine with the medium that I have chosen in which to do my assignment.

Ok now back to the real topic. Oh hold up, I cant I must not stray from the task at hand. Which is pretty funny because I'm supposed to get off topic but I must control my self to stay on task which entails I not stay on task Uh!!! Just a little confusing I think. Well to change the subject (WOW, that was a real bad transition) to something much less important and exciting I will start giving my opinion on the computer animated Star Wars The Clone Wars Movie/T.V. Series. Back in June when Star Wars.com announced that to jump start the animated T.V. series they will combine the first four episodes and make a movie and release it in THEATERS!!! I was sooooo excited about it!!!. And August 15 has now come and passed I've seen it several times , so I believe I have some authority and can give a real good opinion about it. The first thing that I noticed about it was of course the animation style. Its like nothing ever put to screen. It took me forever to figure out where I have seen this look and finally on one of the producers blogs they said they were going for a Thunderbirds marinate puppet type of style. I said to my self HA!!That where I’ve seen it!!!! Remember that puppet show where they would fly in space and stuff it was pretty much startrek with puppets (noticed how i put startrek all in lower case hee heee). I remember as I child I was a bit creeped out by them I mean come one they had really big heads with even bigger bulging eyes that would never blink on a miniscule body. And this is where I start typing my way into obscurity after about an hours worth of typing. So cakes HERE I COME!!!!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

A blog ELEVATE, has

Hey guys
If you didn't know already know but Elevate has a cool blog. Check it out right now cuz there's a guest post by yours truly about the AWESOME time we had at Laser Quest this past Monday. I would head on over there if I were you.

-Evan

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Beatboxing fluteplayers and Inspector Gadeget... Who woulda thunk it?

Thought this was pretty unique. The ending is the best part me thinks.


Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Kids say the darnest things about Star Wars


Well, here I am on the third day of this terrible sickness with fever, body pains,throat swollen and this head and neck pain that makes me feel like they're gonna fall right off. It all started Monday morning I woke up and couldn't move. Long story short I ended up taking a FREEEEZZING COLD shower to bring down my temp. of 103 (Never want to do that again!!) I haven't been at work for 6 days missed Elevate (Not Cool) but the good thing is that it seems like I'm recovering. After A TON of sleep, watching episode 3 and Episode 4 back to back, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Blue Harvest (The Star Wars Family Guy episode). I think I have stored enough strength to surf the internet and blog.

When I went on I said to my self "I want to see something thats funny see if it can cheer me up". So out of the blue Homestar Runner came into my head. If you don't know this site, well you just have to check for your self, it's a collection of funny flash cartoons made by the Brothers Chaps(that's the only way I could describe it). Its been months since Ive been on this site. Well I saw one of the toons and MY GOODNESS I haven't laughed so hard in my life. My head felt like it was on fire but I didn't care I kept laughing and laughing and laughing. I showed it to my sis and she laughed but not as hard as I did. If You want to see it: homestarrunner.com (theres a link to the site in my COOL SITES list) under toons and the title is: Somber Vacation.

If You're wondering "What in the world does this have to do with Kids and Star Wars?" Then worry no more because I am about to tell you about my little discovery on the Star Wars Message Boards. I found this thread tittled "The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid" and I clicked on it thinking: "this should be good". Little did I know the amount of laughter that the post would trigger. I had to tell someone about this so I told some of them to Kristy (My Pelican) and she loved them. So here are some of the ones I found to be the most honest and funny. Keep in mind these are real stories!

- i thought chewie came from the same planet as the ewoks, he was just a different version (like how there are housecats and lions sort of thing).

- (love this one)i didn't understand about the ep IV thing either, and when i asked my parents they told me that GL must have been on drugs or something because a lot of people did drugs during the time they were made, so for a long time i thought he just numbered them wrong because he was on drugs and forgot how to count, and i thought it was very sad.

- I thought that Vader grew back his head after getting it sliced off by Luke on Dagobah and pow he's alive on his super star destroyer talking to the bounty hunters

- I thought the Jawa's had a crush on Luke! There is that scene when Luke is walking over to the Jawa Sandcrawler to look at the line-up of droids. They show Luke walking, and the next scene is shows Jawas getting excited, screaming, and running away. It looks just like teenage girls watching a boy band. I still wonder about that one...

- thought the first Death Star run was a game, sort of like the Olympics. Some kind of contest. It was because of the medals at the end, with the award ceremony!

- "I thought stormtroopers were Vaders sons!!
Hes got alot of 'em!!! "


- (This one was popular) "Personally I always used to think that when Ben's sabre blade dissapeared in ANH i thout his battery had run out."

- like the guy that said "When I was a kid, before I saw the film I thought C3PO was a bad guy. He had glowing eyes you see."
(LOL LOL)

- When I was a kid, I remember seeing R2-D2 and C-3P0 in a commercial telling about how you shouldn't smoke. I didn't realize at the time that they were in Star Wars, so years (and years) later when I first saw Star Wars, I was like "OMG, It's those robots from the smoking comercial!!!"(LOL Pricless)

- (This one happened to me too!!) When I finally saw all three Star Wars movies, all of the Star Wars references on the cartoon "Muppet Babies" suddenly made sense!

- Dark Vader--I called him that for the longest time, until I got into a fight with a kid at school over it(HAHAHA!!)

- I remember thinking that Princess Leia selfishly doomed Alderaan by looking out the window at the planet and confirming the location of the rebels in a German accent. "Dat one, they're on dat one." (Instead of Dantooine get it? LOL)

- during Star Wars, where Luke is watching the hologram of Princess Leia. In the scene he says, "Old Ben lives out beyound the Dune Sea. He's kind of a strange old hermit.." I mis-heard it was, "Old Ben loves out beyond the Dune Sea. He's kind of a strange old kermit." For a long time, I wondered if Kermit the Frog was a Jedi. I was a very odd child.(Yes, he was)

- Also, I thought that Obi-Wan disappearing was a censorship thing because they weren't allowed to show him getting chopped in half!(guess that could have been true)

- I first saw the movies when I was 3 or so, and I had a terrible problem with the accents and figures of speech. When you think that Ben felt that "millions of oysters suddenly cried out in terror," or that Darth instructed Piett to "prepare the bowling party," well, it becomes clear that there was something else of interest beyond the dialogue. (LOLOLOLOL)

- when I saw the word 'rebels' in the opening crawl (in 1977), I thought that the movie was going to be about the United States Civil War. (WOW)

- me and my childhood friends came to the horrifying conclusion that obi wan was alive and had escaped in the nude. just a naked old man running through the death star ::shivers:: (funny but bad thought came flushing into my head!!!)

I do admit not seeing the movies and reading this must have felt like stepping into some weird confessions meeting. But nonetheless those were hilarious!!! as for me my only misconception was thinking Boba Fet's name was really Boba Fleet (the name of some fleet of starships). How about you guys? Those of you that have seen the movies probably have some funny stories you can tell. feel free to comment.

Wow I'm really feeling better laughter really is the best medicine!

Friday, June 13, 2008

A taste of what is to come....





Mute Math is that type of band that you just cant sum up in one word or even listen to and think you have them all figured out. They are so eclectic, ambient, rhythmic, lyric heavy at times, very
meloudious, and they rock your FACE OFF!!! with their live show. When the songs play in my random library shuffle I dont skip em instead I enjoy them like it was the first time I heard them. I have never grown tired of their debut cd. So its safe to say I am soooooooo crazy excited about their new album and from the looks of this vid it is going to be very well worth the wait!!!



Check out more at: http://www.youtube.com/user/mutemath
And of course I have to post the video that, to me, put them on the map

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

umm... OK

Well its been over a month since my last post. Ive been pretty crazy busy and tired. To be honest ive had down time where I've spent on the computer but i just couldn't push myself to actually blog. oh and theres been stuff to blog about!:

  • I now have a wonderful girl friend! I love spending time with her, my lil pelican lol

  • I want to congratulate her parents, Maria and Bob Selecky on 29 years of marriage. and thank them for allowing Kristy and i to spend time with them at the Hotel on Sunday.
  • I just found out that StarWars holograms are now real!!! don't believe me? watch this:


  • I can't get these two songs out of my head!!!



  • More congrats go out to Mauricio and Steph and Phill and his wonderful wife on their marriages.
  • I'm so stinking excited that Elevate is growing!! I still remember the days where it was still resident62 and it was just 10 of us in the lobby. June 2 Bowling!!
  • Got indy fixed (my jeep) but gunna have to sell it. Cant even tell you how bummed out i am :( Just too much of a hassle,it is LOL
  • Excited that on the Grey's Anotomys season finale there were two Star Wars references!!! and a Jon Foreman song!!! and the references weren't like some small nod to the movies but it was more like one of the characters explained Han Solos complete journey from the cantina on tatooine to his marriage to Leah and the births of his twins. As for the Jon Foreman song, it s was one of my favorites: "Learning how to Die" it played over the turning point of the episode!! Its from his Winter EP, which is third in is solo effort.
  • Im starving and all i have to eat right now are doritos
  • I just remembered i haven't done my Wii Fit in 2 days!!
  • Ive been working on my Anakin/ Star Wars video. I want to make a video to show Anakins fall to the dark side because i don't think it was really done well in the prequels and thats why most people don't like and understand episodes 1-3
  • So far the summer movies have been off the charts AWESOME!!!! Except for Indy 4 (WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!?) Looking forward to the hulk and The Dark Nightoh yeah and WALL E. I'll be post my reviews later.
  • Can't wait for AUGUST 15!!


  • Im crazy ready for the Demon Hunter show in orlando. They dont tour much so when they do they put on an insane show!!! Also thinking about going to star wars weekends. Any one up for it?

I did it. YAY!!! off to do laundry, help mom cook,and then spend some time with my lil pelican. Cant promise when the next post will be but it shouldn't be too long lol

Thursday, April 24, 2008

My trip down Memory Lane via "The Paper"

So when I heard that mtv was doing a show at my former high school, Cypress Bay, i couldn't believe it. This really puts Weston on the map!

Memories of my time spent there came rushing back like the release of the bulls from the gates in Spain. First of all I was amazed at how new the school still looked. I was a sophomore in the inaugural year and still remember the smell of the fresh paint that filled the air of the halls. Ahh the smells. For about a second they showed "The Stairs". Man that stairway stank!!!! there were so many times where i caught people smoking in there lol

Then realized that my senior year i had a graphics arts class in that very room with those exact macs. I sat back by the window i loved looking out and watching what went on in the library.and the teacher had two different colored eyes, one grey one blue, my cinematography teacher was deaf in one ear, Crazy go nuts!!! I never took year book though. The show , especially the b-roll, reminded me that that school has some really good lines. I remember getitng very similar shots to those on the show for the Friday Show.

Ahh T.V. Production. Never will i forget the stuff that went on during my time in that course. We were a very crazy bunch of kids. And yet dispite everything we somehow came out with a show with stories and host and all every friday. I remember my first segment was a piece focusing on the first home game between us and western. Here's a shout out to Mrs. Z (not stocklosa lol) she was the best!! I did my reflection paper! lol I have some of the stuff i did in that class so i might post em so you can see and laugh!! "Good evening" LOL

It was really cool seeing my school, principal and the best security guard Larry he was in a war forgot which one but he was in the hebrew army at the time!!He was shot in the neck and to survive the doctors had to take muscles and flesh from is leg so he could have movement in his neck. Man can't contain all these mems!!! and I just realzed no one reading this even went to cypress, my bad





Over all its a good show it captures the drama of high school and i can't shake that terrible feeling of: "I should say some thing" while some one is being made fun of behind their back that just crazy. I'll be watching


sorry for the huge brain fart lol (my definition that is)