Pops Concert and The Drive In

Blog No. 141: Pops Concert and The Drive In

My left kneecap still hurts from yesterday's "collision" with JT... XP

Anyway, I went to the Foothill High Pops Concert with Parkarr, which is basically a concert/potluck outside near a gazebo. We met up with Piper and Difuentez in the grass with those fancy, fold-up backyard chairs. 

We saw Taka, Abril, King, Susan Surrandon, and Home Skillet Biscuit, with others, performing in the first set, Taka and Abril on flute, King on trumpet, Susan Surrandon on trombone, and Home Skillet Biscuit on clarinet. It was pretty much the Foothill High portion of the ARC Concert Band meshed amongst the current students of Foothill. 

Although, when I saw Home Skillet perform, I did not recognize it was her until the set was over and she sat back down in the audience. It kinda made me sad because I would be the person to recognize her, seeing as I sat next to her during Concert Band. She's pretty cool. Her, Bianca, and I pretty much have our own little inside jokes and whatnot. Home Skillet had brought a bunch of post it notes one time, which we've used to write on peoples folders. XP

I met Taylor, Susan Surrandon's "Boyfriend" in the eyes of Susan Surrandon's mom... (Yeah, I'm not sure how that technically works out either. XD) Susan Surrandon introduced Taylor to me as the second-most-coolest-person-on-the-planet... Me being the first apparently. XP

Yowty was also up there after the first set, playing the ukulele part for the song a couple of guys performed, "I'm Yours" from Jason Mraz. Honestly, I welcome Jason Mraz songs as a refresher from the weird dance beats on the radio... Just not this song. I also used to like that Second Serenade song "Fall For You" but someone kinda ruined it for me... Stupid radio hits...

... But Yowty was pretty cool on the ukulele! XP

Then the beginning band played... And ended.

Then the bigger band played. It was funny because some of the composed songs from the alumni set were made by the same person who did the composed quartet songs for this band. All of which pretty much refered to video game music, like the pokemon center music for all the pokemon games. It was quite funny. XP

We kinda had to leave during the middle of the performance to try and get to the Drive-In on time.

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Difuentez was leading us in his car while Parkarr and I followed in the red car. Originally, Piper and I would have switched cars so that Piper could lead Parkarr in case we got lost. That didn't happen for some reason... Instead, we just had to follow close behind while I was on the phone with Piper in the car ahead. We almost lost them a couple of times, but we followed OK, partly because we told Difuentez to use his blinkers. XP

At the Drive-In, the person who took our cash had attended the Italian class with us, Krystal. Either it's a really small world or a really big school... I vote big school. XP

Piper and Difuentez had went to Winco prior to the Pops Concert to grab a bunch of junk food. All I'm saying is that she got my favorite chips, Doritos Nacho Cheese, and my prefered movie soda, Grape Crush soda. She also got like a pound of sour worms, which kinda changed from a solid to plasma phase in Difuentez's car, which made them THAT much more delicious. XD

There was a list of double feature movies. We voted for the Wolverine movie, with Fast and Furious following right after. We had the set up of the four backyard chairs in the middle of the two cars with speakers turned up to awesome. Piper had pulled out her two Mary Poppins' umbrellas to block the wind blowing fro behind us. :P

So here are some movie reviews:

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Movie Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

You know, for a movie about character development, this movie is kinda pointless...

We already know that Wolverine lost his memories awhile back in the other two movies. This movie is basically from the beginning of his mutant life, when he figures out he can push bones out of his body, to the point where he loses all of his memories, memories of his lover, of the adamantium in his body, and of how he got the name Wolverine. It also shows at what point in time the X-Men started, (when Cyclops, physically blind, is able to lead the horde of specially picked mutants out of the plant only by mental cues of the Professor), leaving it open ended for yet another possible Origins sequel. Foreshadowing? Possibly...

The beginning montage sequence really reminded me of that of Watchmen, in that it if pushes the fast forward button through some of the boring parts, highlighting only the important parts during some recognizeable time periods. This sequence mainly consisted of James Logan and his brother, Victor, later Sabertooth, battling in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, and Vietnam. It didn't really work in Watchmen on the count of it left the majority of non-Watchmen readers confused, but here it kinda fits with the storyline, seeing as there isn't any valubale information other than Logan and Victor were in those wars.

This movie would really explain why Logan is so withdrawn from people, why he has this grudge against everyone. If only he'd remember any of it, then this movie would be a successful character development story. Seeing as he doesn't remember any of it, it's kinda pointless.

Some of the lines and plot twists are kinda cliched. For example, the last line of the movie, after the credits, was totally predictable. I kinda figured that the lover, Kayla, had the power of persuasion when she had put her hand on the bridge guy in the beginning. I also kinda knew that Kayla didn't actually die, seeing as we've only seen Victor leaving a mark on the car hood then Kayla passed out, with no flesh wounds, in the forest a certain distance away. That part really shows Logan's weakness, his animalist instincts of revenge, but it makes no point seeing as he's invinceable. XP

Weapon XI was kinda cool, but with looking at some of the mutants his powers came from, you'd imagine that his battle with Logan and Victor would've been a lot more interesting. Resulting in yet another pointless rating...

Some Pros: A good storyline.

Some Cons: Utterly pointless.

My Rating: 2.5 Out of 5 Thumbs Up---> See it only if you're willing to come to grips on how pointless the movie is.

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Movie Review: Fast and Furious

Letty dies. Cars explode. Vin Diesel.

Rating: 0.5 Out of 5 Thumbs Up---> Watch ONLY for the reasons above.

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I went home with free Doritos and soda. XP