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

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

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

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!

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