I'll make this movie when they're old enough to handle it

There is actually a story behind this. This is Yonina's game that we play whenever we take her outside to the backyard. She always plays "Space", which usually consists of her going to Jupitor or Mars on the glider and fighting the grill. (Aprapo this post)
I wanted to make a movie yesterday but I didn't know what to make. So Yonina suggested this, and we tried it, but the footage was mostly unusable, and we even stopped halfway through because we thought it was stupid, so we just wound up making this trailer and waiting until they could do a normal, serious movie. (Summer 2008)

ATTACKED!

This past Sunday I witnessed an incredible, horryifing (though probably not unprecedented) event unfold in the WITS lunchroom.
As we were all happily chewing our stale february 7th cocoa krispies and Islandberry crunches, I noticed that both of the doors on either side of the room were open. I figured it must have been because of the toaster, which had very suddenley started spewing smoke everywhere, like it occasionally does.
It was getting rather cold and I wasn't about to go all the way upstairs to get a sweatshirt, but I was also too lazy to get up and close the doors, especially since I knew if I tried a junior would tell me to leave it open and all that effort would have gone to waste anyway.
So I left the door open.
Suddenly, someone yells "SQUIRREL!!!!!!!"
Now my school is filled with kids who pride themselves in working out every other night and being incredibly strong, dignified, good looking people. However, the might of the WITS high school was clearly no match for the bushy-tailed invader that ran into that dining room that day.
Everyone immediatly jumped on top of chairs and started shreiking of course. Those people who weren't making fun of their classmates' shrieking like little girls were either screaming, watching the fun, or running to get cameras.
I was, of course, not on a chair. I was also of course, not shrieking.
So I watched as the confused squirrel ran up to the stained-glass windows trying to get out. It stayed at one for a little while, then jumped off and ran across the tables. Everyone was ducking for cover and clearing a path for it to run wherever it pleased.
Little was being done to get the squirrel out of the school. The Rosh Yeshiva did come in early on and instruct the students to close off all exits to the dining room so that it wouldn't escape into the dorms and be lost forever. It was clear that the Rabbi had seen this sort of thing in the past.

Well, I'm not entirly sure how this story ended, since I had to go to class only halfway through. I saw a tall junior trying to poke it with a long roll of plastic tablecloth. It eventually got stuck in the wall, and was somehow coaxed out of the building.
Security has been beefed up in order that nothing like this catastrophe should ever happen again. Well okay not really, but whatever...

wow i haven't posted in a long time well here you go im busy bye.

Fulaxin

Here it is, my 50 out of 50 project.

FULAXIN- COMING SOON

Basically we had an english assignment where we had to experiment with propaganda techniques in our own honest to goodness home made video. I figured this was my area of expertise, seeing as how I've already made two videos myself.
I'll try to get my ad up here soon.

welcome back

I'm going back to my Yeshiva in a couple minutes. It's not exactly a happy time. I've been home for an entire week of not school, and I am very suddenly going to be forced back into the annoying world of biology, geometry, history, gemara, chumash, and whatever. Not to mention I won't be home and will be eating alan food.
But there is a silver lining. I'll be back with my friends, I'll be waking up later (yes its true), and I'll have alot more free time to myself to just sit down and relax. You see, when I'm at home, I can always hear the clock ticking, and I know that every second is one that I'm not going to get back. But when I'm at school, I can just sit down, you know, only 2143 hours left.
Sometimes I feel like my real vacation is when I'm at school. At least physically.

Still working on that camera...

Well, I'm still trying to get a nice camera to have at school with me. It's kind of frustrating because I think about it alot more than I should and I always want to talk to people about what's buzzing around in my head; but mostly the comment I get when I bring it up goes something like "why would you want a camera?" or their personal favorite, "what would you do with a camera?" Well, here's your answer. For those of you who have asked me this in person, it's kind of hard for me to say it off hand because I just draw a bunch of blanks, but I think I can put it in writing.
So, #1 is because I want to be able to have something to remember my high school years by, and I've already missed my freshman year and half of my sophomore year. It would be cool to be able to show underclassmen pictures of my class when we were sophomores, when I'm like, a senior.
#2 is the possibility of making a movie at school. It's not terribly likely at this point, but it would be so funny if I ended up doing it.
#3 is that i want to be able to put pictures on my blog.
Ok I gotta go.

Guess what?

Does anyone here know what cholent is?
How about jewstew?
I not-so-recently have begun cooking cholent at my school. The first few weren't so good, but now I make one of the best cholents in the school. I don't really sell it that much, but it's nice to be able to have cholent on chicken night and stuff like that.
On that note, I recently had to clean the entire cooking lab with my roommate. They were about to close it up and lock it forever, but I made a deal with the cooking-lab-keeper that if I cleaned it tonight, he would keep it open. They were going to close it because it was really really dirty. The guy told me he had to be able to lick the floor.
Boy have we got our work cut out for us.
Well, we did it, and it took up my entire evening. But I sure do feel accomplished; and I was able to make my cholent that night and avoid chicken night.

now what?

So now that I've finished my home movie making (i dare not go into the realm of plot and script with my younger siblings), it's time to take it to school. I've wanted to make a school movie ever since I saw l'Tovah's one, nad now that I know a little bit about movie making, I would like to give it a shot. But there are a few problems with this.
a) I don't have a camera.
b) I can't get myself to buy a camera because I don't actually have a specific plot or idea of what to make the movie about (though I have the perfect music!) and because I want to replace my newly confiscated mp3 player.
Also, if I spent my time on making a movie, it would distract me from doing the types of things that would get me viruses on the computers, and we would get our internet back. But that would also mean it would distract me from my schoolwork.
It's really annoying to want two things equally and being forced to buy one. But I really shouldn't complain, seeing as one of my friends lost his wallet and broke his mp3 player practically on the same day.
Well, I guess I'll let you know what happens.

Outtakes

Here they are. The movie just isn't quite as funny without this. You can hear yonina babbling throughout the entire movie.

New Movie

The Thrilling Sequel! Check it out.

Unreleased bloopers coming soon!!!

I'm Back

I have not posted a blog for a long time. It hasn't really been my fault, so I hope no one got too upset. I have been either busy or didn't have internet access or was fixing a virus or didn't have time, or just plain didn't feel like it, but that doesn't mean I haven't had anything to talk about. I have had alot of things to talk about. In fact, I'm not so sure how I'm going to get them all up here now. I think I'll just post the more important things:

You know that mp3 player I'd Boughtten a few posts ago. It's gone. Been confiscated by Rebbe Dog (foust gets it) Rabbi oripahS. And as far as I can tell, I ain't gettin' it back. How? I was listening to music on it with headphones. Now, my brother 30cal happens to be this Rabbi's student right now, and it seem he and the Rabbi have had debates about this rule before, with my brother gaining a small amount of ground here and there. So it's possible that if I can completely convince him that the rule is stupid, he'll give it back. You'll have to ask 30cal what that argument is. I don't really know myself.
Next, me got a virus. Oh, it was terrible. I was just trying to find a way to play Age of Empires 2 w/o the cd for Iguana, and suddenly this big scary message from Norton popped up. Oh it was scary. But it's all fixed by now so there's not much to talk about. It never happened. Except now all our internet privilages have been severely limited, which is understandable. But it all stinks, just the same.
And what else? I guess I forgot the rest.

Yummy Milk

Everyone loves milk. Okay, that's not true, but I like milk. But there are times when I do not like milk. I shall relate to you one of these times.
I was spending the Holy Sabbath at my complimentary Yeshiva. Usually these are quite enjoyable. However, there is one aspect that I do not quite enjoy, and that is the kiddush, or "little snack" that consitutes as our breakfast after prayers, or "Shacharit". Usually this consists of what we have all come to regard as "Alan Cake". It's chocolate, moist cake, served with milk. Although sometimes the cake is not chocolate. Sometimes it is banana, or very rarley, vanilla.
This past week it was neither. It was like, dainishes or something. But that was not the important part. It was being served with - get this - CHOCOLATE MILK! YUUUUUMMMM!!!!
Well not quite. We were all getting really excited, but luckily, before anyone drank any, someone said, " Hey, this stuff expired August 20th!!!". Then it was all thrown away, but not before the kitchen guy came over and said " don't worry that stuffs good a whole month after it expires." Then it was all thrown away. Mostly because it smelled bad though.
Now, why the HECK would they have milk that expired August 20th? School started on the 27th! When was it ordered?


...I like chocolate milk...

Here it is

Here is the video I've been working on.

You guys are gonna love this...

...Ok maybe not.

As the summer goes by, I decided that sitting in front of a computer doing effectivly nothing was not what I wanted to do with my last week here. But what else was there to do in Milwaukee? Plenty you might say, but I have trouble finding anything more exciting then going to the nearby overpriced coffee shop and buying a slurpee for $3.75.
But one day, I had an idea. I was sitting in front of the xbox, playing a complimantery Battlefront 2 when my older brother called down the stairs, "RAFIKI COME TAKE YONINA OUTSIDE". I groaned and slouched back into my complimentary leather chair. Video games have an effect on me that drains away all of my strength or desire to go outside. "Why me?" I thought pitifully to myself, but the calls kept coming as if he couldn't read my mind. After a while I had to go and do it. My 5 year old sister entheusiasticlly (?) told me on the way out "We can play space together on the glider!!" I was not too impressed with this suggestion, but I did it anyways. After a while, my sister inevitably got herself into a battle with her evil twin. And I noticed while she did the battle, she did it much in the same form as a video game we'd been playing together, Final Fantasy VII. Now I had just been watching google videos of people mocking the battle sequences in said game by acting it out themselves. So of course I had the idea to make one ourselves. I said to her "Hey! You want to make a movie of us doing a battle?"
"Yeah!"
"Okay, let's get Iguana!"(other sister)
And of course one thing led to another. But I figured doing all the filming, cutting, and special effects would keep me busy till the school year started. And it would make for a pretty funny video.
So we did it, and that's pretty much what I 've been doing for the last few days. It's almost finished. I'll put it up on YouTube and then here as soon as I figure out how to.

P.S. If you want to see what sort of thing I'm doing, go here.

I've Boughtten Something!!!

What is it? It's an Mp3 Player!

It's way better than foust's mp3 player, that's for sure.

Where the crap is my $15 mail in rebate!?

Back2School

How sad. As of today, it would seem I only have seventeen days left before I am banished back to my school for another year of Mr. - uh, my english teacher.
That's because there really is only seventeen days left. I swear these summer vacations get shorter every year.
I don't like to think to deeply about this kind of thing because it makes me feel very depressed. I spend the ENTIRE school year counting down the days until summer vacation, and all of summer vacation I'm thinking about how many days I have left until I have to go back to school. So it's really a neverending cycle that is going to continue until I get out of college. And that's a long way from now.
The truth is, I don't really mind school that much. Maybe it's because it gives me something to do, makes me feel like I'm doing something useful, I don't know. And being at my school is great. I love it. It's a ton of fun. There's a bunch of great guys there. So it's not really that I hate going to school, it's that I like being home. I like being with my younger siblings and playing with them and making jokes with them and reading them books, and they love it too. But during the school year, I can only see them at maximum 6 hours a week on sunday.(of course I probably shouldn't talk; out of towners are away from there families for months at a time!) I've discussed this before, and mostly what people say is that you get used to it. And I guess that's true. I was rarely homesick during say, the middle of last year. I mean I could still call them and everything. But whenever I came back from a vacation or a break, I was homesick for a week. That's what I hate. It's not even stuff like not sleeping in my own bed, or my own room, or having to share my room with a roommate ( at home I share my room with 2 brothers!). It's just not being with my family.
Oh well. That's life.

Top Ten

I was just told that there's a top ten bug going around the bloggosphere. So I decided to catch it because my brother told me to. But what should I do?Hmm... I think I'll do the first thing I think of...well, I'm in a hotel right now soooo....


Top Ten Things I Like About Being In A Hotel

10) They Have Nice Carpets
9) They Look Really Nice On The Outside
8) They're Usually Close To A Place Where I Can Buy Stuff (like the mall of america)
7) They Have Not Wireless High Low Speed Internet
6) They Have Crappy TV's (unless they have good TV's in which case swap this with #3)
5) They Have Nice Desks
4) They Have Pools
3) They Have Jacuzzies In The Rooms (If they don't substitute "They Have Jacuzzies In The Pools")
2) They Have Room Service
and number one is...
THEY HAVE CONITINETAL, COMPLIMANTARY BREAKFAST!! Where everythings kosher except everything except the cereal.

freaked

...just a little.
Remember my last post when I told you about my recent obsession with old games? Well it would appear the old stupidity that is called my brain has struck again. I got bored of diablo and doom and decided I wanted to play something else on my computer. But what else was there? I thought for a long time, and my thoughts turned to my "childhood horror", Laura Bow. The game, which is a mystery horror/murder/survival kind-of-a-thing, (released in 1993) was just the thing for my worthless computer. However, it's no longer sold by it's manufactuer (sierra) and I had to break my back and nearly kill myself to find it online. I spent two whole nights google searching hundreds of terms related to the game until I was able to download it. (I'm not even going to mention how many french versions i got by mistake)
But I got it (eventually). I was so happy. I transferred it to my computer and started playing it immediatly. Not five minutes in did I run into a bug that rendered the game non-playable. That afternoon, I fixed it (more or less) and I could finally play Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra.
It was around this time I began to really think about why I had been so afraid of it before. You see, me and my siblings watched my mother play it when I was around 9 (I think), and to put things frankly, it's a pretty freaky game. Despite the pathetic graphics (which don't make a difference during the scary bits anyways) the game, which is about a series of murders occuring at a museum at night with you locked in, has it's ways of being way creepy. It would be difficult to explain it. Here's pretty much the way it works. Whenever you find a murder, you walk into the room, and you'll hear psyco music (while viewing a picture of your character screaming) in a few seconds or so, you'll get a view of the victim's body (in close up graphics; it's basically a paint drawing, but very well done.) at which point you can serach the body for clues as to who-done-it, while way-too-creepy music plays in the background (I may upload some of the music). These pictures are FREAKY! Well, at least, some of them are. There are about 7 or 8 of them, and about 2 or 3 of them seriously disturbed me. They don't just get shot. They get stuffed porcupine needles through their entire torso, they get plastered, and they get bitten by cobras. The whole time you search their stone dead body for clues, they just sit there with their eyes and mouthes wide open, staring at you. I would put some screenshots of the scary ones up, but then, I've almost got it out of my head now, and it would be a shame to look at those pictures all over again.
The game was just as I remembered it. Maybe I thought it wouldn't scare me as much now, and I don't think it has. Back then, I didn't even look at the pictures because my brothers told me they were too scary. Now I actually look at them, and they freak me out. The game has majorly disturbed me in contrast to how I was this morning.
But I guess the joke's on me. After all, I'M the one who spent a total of way too much time looking for this thing online. Now I creeped my self to death with it (if that's possible.) I think I'll go crawl up in a corner and suffer the irony alone, with that DAMN CREEPY MUSIC STILL STUCK IN MY HEAD!



This link shows you one of the less scary murders.
http://kalliope42.com/Main/pages/ziggy.html

...the best of the 80's and 90's

Recently, I have realized that I have been playing alot of oldies games. Like you know, games from the ninties, like doom, duke nukem, and amazon trail, and dark forces, and klik n play (you probably don't know what that is) ect. This is kind of creepy, since none of these games seemed any fun to me at the time. In fact I recall thinking that I would never play them myself because I was afraid I would die. The reason I suddenly got hooked on these types of games, and their bad all-keyboard soundtracks is probably because I got an 8 year old computer from one of my old rabbeim last year (he said it didn't work and i fixed it) and now that I actually own my very own computer, even though it doesn't have enough memory to install windows 98, i want to be able to use it to it's full pontential. Unfortunatly, since it's not connected to our home network (no printing) and I can't even install microsoft office to begin with, the capabilities of this computer add up to playing Outnumbered, or Spellbound. In fact, I have recently been tearing the house apart looking for a specific game, Treasure Mountain, (completley educational) supposedly for my 5 year old sister. But of course, I know the truth that a) I really liked that game as a kid, and b) that it's about as good as gaming gets on that computer. But suprise suprise, the disc appears to have vanished off the face of the earth, along with the drivers for the only video card that will ever work in that computer.