Where The Wild Things Are MOVIE
- March 26th, 2009 at 10:05 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
BEST. THING. EVER.
When this movie comes out, I have a feeling I will just sit in the theater for days, watching it over and over and over again. Seriously, I have waited since I was 2 years old to see this as a movie.
I just heard about this last week when I found this poster somewhere on the wild and glorious Internets, which brought me much joy:
Click to see in all its glorious huge epicness
According to the appropriately named WhereTheWildThingsAre.com, it’s coming out on October 16 of this year, which means this project has been kept a secret from me for quite some time. That gives me just enough time to find a Wild Things costume just like Max has in the poster, so I can wear it to the midnight release party 
I totally have the best monster face
Question for the comments: Are you going see this movie? Otherwise, what’s your alibi for not going see it (ex: you are deathly allergic to all movies containing monsters and big fluffy suits )?
Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: movies
On My Way To LA Again!
- March 19th, 2009 at 6:58 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
I had such a fun time at the Twilight movie premiere back in November that I couldn’t resist flying back for the DVD release party! I will be at Borders Westwood in LA, California, on March 20 for the midnight release party. It’ll almost be like a mini reunion of all the cool promoters and fansite people I met last year, and I’ll be sure to bring back loads of photos and video from the trip!
I’ll also be Twittering any big happenings as fast as I can get them up (yes, technically I know it is called Tweeting, but the word Tweeting sounds slightly ridiculous*).
*as if informing the world via less-than-140-character updates about your life isn’t ridiculous enough.
By the way, there’s a short preview of a new song I’m working on in that video up there. Tell me what you think!
Posted in My Music, Twilight, Videos
Tags: movies, Twilight
Good Uses For Math And Its Notebooks
- October 20th, 2008 at 10:38 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
As many of you know, I harbor a deep loathing towards all things mathematical — excluding such things as addition when it comes to paychecks — and have never been good at it past algebra II. I simply do not comprehend how a writer will ever use these things except perhaps under the following circumstances:
1. Your editor has published fifteen books by you and knows three of them are western space odysseys. However, he needs to figure up how many are not western space odysseys. Whatever shall we do? Answer: 3 + X = 15
2. You have sold fifteen million copies of five books about depressed spiders. You receive 10% of each book ($10 each for pity’s sake). Calculate if you dare. Answer: 15,000,000(10)(.10)=Royalty
3. The only people who read your latest tome was your grandmother and Great-Aunt Toots. If your publishers printed 800,000 copies at $8.95 per printing, how much does the entire corporation hate you? Answer: loads.
4. You are a bad writer and earn two nickels. You are forced to become a mathematician and learn math. Answer: instead, become an orc.
These are but a few examples in which, yes, I do admit, I will require math.
It is thus that I am nearly convinced to switching to an English major next year instead of my current business major (one of many reasons — I’m not simply running from the horrors created by numbers). I understand that yes, Archimedes, Lazare Carnot, and Konrad Zuse may have been wonderful thinkers. But I simply have no use for functions that take 15 minutes to do and an entire whiteboard to explain one problem.
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If my constant ranting isn’t proof enough, these photographs should convince you what I am actually made for. These are of my real math notebooks that I use in class, highlighted so you can see what I am really doing on the page. Observe:
It appears in the previous one that I attempted to start on one of those awful number problems from Mordor, but then suddenly had a new idea and got distracted with plotting it out.
In this example, I got even less done. In fact, all I was able to do was print the subject and lesson number of whatever was being taught that day. I did, however, solve a big plot snag that was causing me headache.
This page has almost equal parts math and Other Things, a rare occurrence. I was in class and suddenly remembered that John Green was coming near my city and I wanted to go see him.
Speaking of seeing people, I will be at the Twilight film premiere on November 17th in LA. Speaking of November 17th, I will be participating in a panel with multiple other sites and some of the Twilight cast on November 16th if you want to come out and say hi. Speaking of saying hi, browse my calendar page so you know where I am and can stalk me all the easier.
Posted in College, Writing
Tags: Calendar, Events, Math, movies, Notebooks, Twilight
War Of The Worlds
- February 19th, 2008 at 1:17 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
Aliens and guns and Tom Cruise, oh my!
THE GOOD
Steven Speilberg of course has tons of special effects, like buildings being smashed through, windows blowing out in stores, and even the super-scene where the alien Tripod crashes straight through the cathedral, sending bricks and stained glass windows everywhere.
I finally found out why people think Dakota Fanning can act, because she could in this film. It was a great role for her because she did hers more realistically than anyone else and I usually can’t stand her.
THE BAD
They never explained how some electronic devices worked when the aliens had shut the city down. I noticed right off that though cell phones were killed instantly, there was a guy with a video camera in the streets watching the aliens- taping right away.
Dakota could have really done without that last, final, shrill scream 2 minutes from the end of the movie. The last thirty or so shrieks were quite enough, thank you very much.
THE REST
Aliens who have been hiding war machines under our feet and now arrive to power them up so they can eat our insides and then use our blood to fertilize plants on the earth is not your usual movie. Luckily, we don’t see the extraction process, but we do get a glimpse of the blood-covered fields from the spray the aliens made over the landscape. Yech.
Anyhow, good film if you want to see a bunch of special effects, which is why I got it.
WAR OF THE WORLDS – PG-13 – TOM CRUISE, DAKOTA FANNING – WATCH TRAILER
Posted in Reviews
Tags: Dakota Fanning, movies, Tom Cruise
