Television!

What is going on with television? What has my world come to? I mentioned this in my previous blog on Myspace. I hate what is on TV right now. Of course you have your consistents like The Office and Grey's Anatomy and Heroes and other newer shows like Pushing Daisies. But honestly, who allows so much crap on TV. Sharen watches this show called "The Bad Girls Club" where like 12 or 15 disgruntled ladies live together. They all have one common attribute, they are all psychotic! Then she watches "The Real Housewives of Orange County" and that is just another to allow these already narcissistic people be even more full of themselves. American Idol is another show that just bugs me. I watch it because it is one of the only things Sharen really enjoys that I can watch with her. We watch other shows like Law and Order and Medium together that are good but I can't watch those other shows. And there are other shows that I just can't believe exist. "Survivor" is one show that I can't believe is still on. But then again whatever is on CBS besides sports is worthless. Thanks to the writer's strike, there all of a sudden came up more reality shows because networks needed to have programming and they had the reality kick again. But hopefully these shows go away. They were starting to and now with the writers being back, maybe, just maybe they will go away. TMZ also got its own show. Why? They don't need their own show. TMZ is just one of those things that should never exist. I hate how the paparazzi is just out of control and seriously having PART, not blamed for, part in the celebrities going into rehab. And even there they are followed!

Of course there are good reality shows. I mean, have you seen Dirty Jobs. That dude gets down and dirty with the real jobs that are out there. That is a good show because it makes you grateful for what you have. Man vs. Wild, even though he does stay in hotels, Bear still eats and drinks random stuff to keep himself alive. And of course there is still The Office. I hope there TV executives get their heads on straight and go back to more shows that are better, wittier, and great. But for now, enjoy what was good with TV a while back!





And click this link and enjoy: http://www.bagofshoes.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1167064717&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&page=videos

Mexican History

Right now I am in my history class that is named Modern Latin America. We have been talking about the independence of most of the Latin American countries. We are about to start a movie called "Viva Zapata!" It is a 1950's film with the great Marlon Brando. I am excited to watch it. My only problem is that I have to write a paper about the movie and a book we had to read about Emiliano Zapata and well I haven't read the book. But I am sure that I will be alright. Also, before I continue, if you haven't see "The Godfather," I highly recommend it. It is on once in a while on A&E edited and still well done. You can record it and watch it bit by bit. Marlon Brando is awesome in that flick. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "Viva Zapata!" and he is a great actor. Anyway, the point I am trying make here is that one reason I was looking forward to this class was because I wanted to know more about Mexican history. But our teacher has concentrated more on Argentina and still will later when we talk about Eva Peron. But this little bit is pretty fun. I want to know where I came from.

I am proud of my parents. I am proud to be a Mexican. My parents have taught me how to live like a true Mexican. A person that is trying to keep growing and to establish myself as successful person. My mom once told me that I had a relative that was in Pancho Villa's army. In fact he was a higher up in his army. I am proud of that. I am very grateful to my parents for their guidance and their influence on me. I am proud that my wife has Mexican roots as well.

It's been even longer

I told Sharen yesterday that I needed to write a blog and I was wanting to write one everyday. And she mocked me saying that I should make more realistic goals like once every month or even once every two weeks, but that was if I was lucky! Anyway, I am going to try to put somethin in everyday this week and we will see how it goes. As you can tell, I put on a music player of some songs I like right now. If you don't like it, just hit pause, but I recommend that you don't. Anyway, a lot has gone on in the last little while. I am doing an internship at the office I work at on campus here at Boise State. I am helping to start the school to start international recruitment efforts. Up until now they have never actually gone out to recruitment internationally. So I am having fun and the things I am doing have a lot to do with what I am actually studying. And hopefully I will graduate in December. That will be the best thing so I can just get out of school!

Sharen and I are coming up on 2 years of being married and it has gone by so fast. I am happy that we have been married for that long and I can't wait for what is in store for the future. No kids yet. We are just enjoying each other and enjoying the time we have together. She has been so creative recently. Just click over to the right after you are done here and see her crafts. She impresses me everyday! I love her very much.

This week is the beginning of one of the most important events in the world! The NCAA tournament is going to start on Thursday and Boise State made it this year! They will be playing on Friday at around 7:30 PM. I am pretty pumped. But this is what is great about sports. This tournament is one of my favorite things that happens all year because it is awesome! Just watch for a second and some of the greatest miracles happen. Just look at this clip from last year with the greatest college basketball announcer, Gus Johnson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWdjhRaVQ74

I just hope he is in Birmingham to call the Boise State game when we upset Louisville. But I think there will be more on the tournament later this week.

Just some quick links for everyone to hit up. Remember most of these are not because of me and my findings. Most of them are from other people. But here we go:

Here is a great video site that just opened up to the general public: http://www.hulu.com
The Office is on here for free which is the main reason to look at it. Also, Arrested Development. The most underrated show of all time! Again, I think there will be more of this later. But for now enjoy this.



Go to the website, and sit on front of your computer and watch every episode free even with those annoying 15 second commercials, it is well worth it. You will not stop laughing.

This is awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cryGyND4jw4
The same clip done over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b89CnP0Iq30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Y5sTchMYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEIQKaqunYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSl0LVrnwXE


Anyway, there isn't that many. But waste your time watching Arrested Development. Seriously, this funniest show I have seen besides The Office.

Well hopefully you will see a blog from me tomorrow! Catch ya'll later.

It's been a while!

What is going on everyone?! I am happy to report finally. It has been more than a minute since I have last created a little blog entry. A lot has happened, so let's get right into it.

First, Thanksgiving has just passed and I had a great Thanksgiving. I ate at both my parents house and my in-laws house. Both meals were exceptional. I am very greatful that I could live in this time and in this era of history. Many things are going on and well, I am happy to live in them. I have the best wife in the world and I am living a life that I want. I am just grateful for everything that I have. But with the end of Thanksgiving comes the beginnning of Christmas. Yesterday, when Sharen and I got home from the derrty South, we started a little project that Sharen thought of. While doing it, I had the best realization since Thanksgiving. It was time for Christmas Vacation. Whoever you are, you can't ignore the best Christmas movie ever!! Then I started realizing that one of the reasons Christmas is the best holiday is because of the movies. Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Home Alone, The Grinch, etc. etc. etc. This is the best time for movies. I love it. Here is just a clip of Christmas Vacation to get you in the mood!



Also, Christmas came early with the indictment of Barry Bonds! Finally some good news from his little fiasco. I know that it was a long time, but it did happen so that is all that is important. Hopefully he will be in the same "Pound me in the @$$ Federal Prison" that Michael Vick will be in! We can only hope that the government will not screw this up! But the Feds usually win about 90% of their cases. Go United States Government!

Boise State lost to Hawaii last Friday and well, let's just say that I am not very happy that it happened. But since it did, and if they make it to BCS game, they will only be embarrassed when they lose! Anyway, football this year has been rather interesting. A possible matchup of Missouri-West Virginia for the National Championship is weird. Also, the Patriots coming out of nowhere to be undefeated is crazy. I expected them to be good, but not undefeated. Anyway, whatever works for them.

I have no other things really quick. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

No carts?!

My wife and I were in Wal-mart the other day and something very odd and very weird happened. The biggest grocery chain in the United States at the store in Boise on Overland had run out of carts!! There were people wanting grocery carts to push around and there were none! They were all outside because they had called a meeting for all employees in the back of the store. This meant that the people that were hired to take the carts from the cart rack outside inside were gone! Sharen and I saw this and she recommended that we take some carts in. So we did! It was cool. I was happy that no one saw us and that we just did it because we wanted to.

As of right now, the Cleveland Indians are defeating the New York Yankees 4-0 in game 4 of their Division Series. Let us hope and pray that they Yankees don't come back. The baseball playoffs have been pretty good this time around. I am not rooting for anyone but I am just excited for good baseball.

In fantasy football, I am 4-1 and on my way to having a good season. Thanks to mistakes by my opponent this week, I won! Hey, sometimes you win easily, sometimes you have to get lucky.

Here are just some quick links! Remember, if you go to them, plan on wasting your time.

If you haven't seen Paris Hilton get grilled by David Letterman, here's your chance!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSxHYK_wfs

Want to see what were the top 5 songs from up to 60 years ago?: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_index.jsp

Oklahoma-Texas rivalry shown very gruesomely here! PLEASE READ AT OWN DISCRETION!! http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/09/11/oklahoma.texas.fight.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

Dwight Schurte, not being Dwight. Actually his name is Rainn Wilson!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yXRyAmWp3pM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GGz7qzxBfkw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4tWOmAnZAMA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RuyUYFRz0as
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HgK6aJQeg-Y

That will waste your time. That is all for now. Later!

I'm back!

Well, it has been more than a minute that the one or two people who even like to take a look at my blog. Anyway, I have been really busy with work and school and life in general. But I had a second so now I hope to try to keep something going on. Anyway, I have had a lot on my mind I have been wanting to put it on the blog so I could remember them, but I keep forgetting. So, right now, my wife and I just got Dish Network and we are very happy. He got HD programming and it is awesome. I finally have ESPN HD and I am enjoying it. The good thing about all of this is that I can record all of my shows and watch them all later.

Speaking about shows, if you did not catch the season premiere of The Office, you should be ashamed of yourselves. The Office is not only the funniest, most entertaining show on television, it also doubles as what television should try to copy. Seriously, there are hardly more good shows out there and The Office is one of the only ones left. You need to watch it.

As far as sports goes, I am just giddy with football being in full force. Boise State did lose to Washington, but that's ok. It's hard to be undefeated every year. The 49ers and the Bucs are doing very well in the early part of the season. But again it's earl. I am 2-1 in my fantasy league. I just beat my old roommate Brett in a heart pounding finale. Baseball is about to wind down and I couldn't be more excited. It seemed that this year's baseball wasn't just as good. But we will see how the playoffs go. Also, Marc Ecko, the clothes designer, did justice, the public, and the world a favor by buying the record breaking homerun of Barry Bonds for 750K. He let the people vote on what was going to happen to the ball and they voted it to be sent to Cooperstown with an astrisk! YEAH! Finally, someone rich doing something worth while.

Another reason why I wanted to do this is because I wanted to post a lot of links. I have seen and looked at some good stuff recently and I want to share.

Bill Simmon's Sports Guy's World-http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index
He is the funniest sports writer right now. His link page is where I am getting the majority of my links on here.

For those that love Siskel and Ebert and who love movie reviews, they posted over 5000 of their movie reviews. AWESOME!! http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/balcony.html

Kevin Garnett got traded to Boston this year and the house he had in Minnesota is now on the market, if you can afford this, please give me a call!! http://www.edinarealty.com/Listing/ListingDetail.aspx?Listing=25274699&Image=1&edit

CLASSIC WILL FERRELL!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=OLoixmPgzVE

I like wrestling, but his guy just looks weird! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXtHmH8-4jE

Well, this is all for now. I am happy to say that I am done! LATER!!

A LOT OF STUFF ON MY MIND!

Alright, it has been a minute since I last wrote a blog. But Sharen has been going crazy on hers and I figured that today would be a good day to get started on a blog and hopefully finish it by the end of the day. There has been a alot going on and I have a lot on my mind. So if you are going to read this, remember, you have been warned. So here we go!

First off, I wish I was as creative as my wife. She has done amazing things to her myspace and her blog. But now she got hold of Adobe Photoshop and has done some crazy things to pictures. She is so artistic and so creative. She put a project playlist on her blog as well so you can enjoy smoothing tunes as you read it. I would do it on mine, but I don't think most of you would enjoy what I would put on there, unless I put some all time classics? HMM??? Anyway, she is so good at this stuff that I feel inferior to her creativity. I am only a computer geek sometimes but when she gets to making pages and doing all this other jazz, WOW! She is impressive.

Speaking of Sharen, she wanted me to go with her to the downtown market that goes on every Saturday in downtown Boise. I had never gone and she went with her parents. Well, we went and as always, I was looking for free samples of food and looking at the displays while Sharen was looking at people to see if she knew anybody. Well, next thing I know Sharen taps me and says, "Isn't that.." and then I said, "That's Val Kilmer!" Not only was he a famous Hollywood actor, he was a Batman! Yes, the greatest series of movies ever!! Although he could not live up to Michael Keaton as Batman, he did a good job in Batman Forever.

So if you take a look at Sharen's blog you can see pictures of him eating some meat. He has a house here in Boise and it is pretty big. That was pretty cool to finally see a Batman. Now I need to meet Joker. (Jack Nicholson, not Heath Ledger)

One of my passions is sports. How can anyone get tired of them? Well, I started to this summer. Everything had started well. The Yankees were doing horribly. Michael Vick is never going to play football again! The 49ers have a lot of promise. Kevin Durrant and Greg Oden are going to be a great rivalry in the Northwest. The Braves were back in contention to win their division. It started off so wonderfully. And then it all came down to a final death this past week. When Barry Bonds hit his 755* home run, the summer of 2007 officially became the darkest and ugliest summers for sports fans! Tom Donaghy fixing basketball games for the mob and Michael Vick's situation (although I hate what he did, I am kind of happy he did it so when he gets put in jail maybe the inmates will treat him like he did the dogs! Can't we hope?) and cheating again in the Tour de France. Not only that you have Pacman Jones hitting strippers across the face and suspended for the year going on with wrestling. This has just been an ugly summer. I hate Barry Bonds and I hate everything he represents. And it's not even the record. It's the fact that kids are taking steroids because they think it is the only way to become better instead of just doing it naturally. Do you want an extra step? Eat some freaking spinach! Popeye did!


But lucky for all of us, football is coming around. I am excited. I am getting Madden on Tuesday for our Wii and I love how they are making it family friendly to where my wife can play with me! I am excited! The college football season is going to be fun but I think in the end it may be dull because of the fact that USC will win the National Championship against Michigan. That is how it is going to go down! Seriously that is what is going to happen! Let's not kid ourselves! Also, there is a rumor going around that Oregon wants Boise State to change the home game that BSU has against them in 2009 to where they can play in.....CHINA! Yes, CHINA! Why? Who knows, but that would be pretty cool if that went down. It's a long shot, but who knows, that is why college football is awesome!

Alright, enough sports for now, when the season starts there will more to talk about. I will even include my stuff on fantasy football. I LOVE FOOTBALL! Anyway, this summer has been a great time for movies! Pirates of the Carribean, Spider-Man, Shrek (which I haven't seen yet), TRANSFORMERS!!, and the list goes on. But last weekend I went to watch The Bourne Ultimatum and man it was DOPE! I loved it. The action was awesome and the story was awesome. It maybe #2 on my list of the summer movies, right under Transformers because nothing could outdo that. But then Sharen asked me to take her to Hairspray. Yes, I know it is a musical, which I hate. I don't know, musicals just don't do it for me. Anyway, I wasn't that excited to go but Sharen wanted to go so we went. It wasn't my favorite movie but I didn't hate it! Before I went in, I would have never watched it, but now I am sort of glad I did. It's kind of hard to explain but anyway, it wasn't bad but it wasn't great. But the reason why I bring this up is because it does do a good job in bringing up the race issue from back in the 60's. And I just wanted to say thanks to those couragous individuals like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez and others who helped with equality of race. They have all helped me out because now I can go to school with no one bugging me or hastling me. But I was telling Sharen last night, we have problems now and some people think that it was better back in the olden days. But they had their problems too. Ritchie Valens wasn't Ritchie Valens. He was Richard Valenzuela. Why the name change? Because his record company wanted to hide his hispanic heritage. But he brought "La Bamba" and Spanish was cool. Thanks to all of them. I appreciate it and I am very grateful.

I think that was all. I am just looking forward to Tuesday so I can enjoy Madden. I am pumped about it! I am even taking the day off of work. I am pulling a Madden Holiday. So I think that is when my next blog will come. Also, maybe some links with that. So hopefully I will have a more entertaining blog. See ya'll later!