The Eye

Hey there. We caught this movie not too long ago and wanted to do a post, but never got to it. First off, if you haven't seen the film, stop reading because there will be spoilers.

The story for the film seems awfully familiar to me. Someone gets a new body part and either that body part takes control, gives off the memory of it's previous owner, or just screws with the person. In this case, Jessica Alba's character is a blind violin player. Pretty damn good one, it seems. lol Anyways, she decides to get a new pair of eyes cause she figures that music "must look beautiful". I thought that was the best line in the film. We all (us seeing folks) associate music as a sound. Music sounds beautiful, but I doubt any one of us ever said, that music looks beautiful.

Anyways, after she gets her eyes she notices shadows moving around. Once she starts telling people about them, they don't believe her. Even her doc is telling her that her brain is having issues taking in all the visuals for the first time. Well, it turns out that she can now see what I like to call, the death escorts. Some shadowy figures that take souls to the after life. Now, these things are hideous. My first impression of these things was that they are taking everyone to hell or god must of run out of angels because EVERYONE that is close to death has one of these things hanging around.

Turns out that Jessica's new eyes belonged to a "bruja" and after meeting the bruja's mom, she realizes that her eyes are showing her what the bruja saw. Which was pretty much death. The bruja wasn't a bad woman, it's just that the town that she lived in was superstitious and since she saw death, she knew who was dying and when she tried to save everyone in a factory, they shooed her away. Turns out the people believed she brought death and the girl hung herself in despair.



On her way home, she encounters a road block with many cars lined up. She then realizes that all the "visions" shes been having led her here to save all these people. Those death escorts start hanging around everyone and Jessica and her doc busts their asses off to get everyone out of their cars and away from this truck with a huge gas tank. Predictably, the tank explodes and everyone is safe... Except for Jessica's eyes, which glass flew in and cut them up.

I had a problem with this part of the movie. The movie is based on cellular memory. The fact that on rare occasions, a transplanted body part "remembers" it's previous owner and instills those memories into the new owner. If Jessica's eyes were giving her the bruja's memories, there is no way in hell that she would have been able to "see" this coming since the bruja never witnessed it. There was absolutely no mentioning of the bruja being able to see the future or anything like that. The bruja was only able to see the death escorts and if the person was already dead, the soul. So the fact that she had visions of this night did not fit in to the story of the bruja.

The movie ends with Jessica playing the violin in front of an audience, now blinded once again.

The movie was not great, but it wasn't bad either. Surprisingly, it was good. Jessica's made some flops of late and I don't recall if this one is considered one of them, but don't take my word for it. It's definitely one to rent. Later!

The Hunt is On

Hey there friends. I've joined the hunt!! Our good friends at Treasure Hunt Thursday has brought a grad hunt for us bloggers to journey through the blogsphere to search for clues. If you are interested in joining, check em out!!

Now.. Here is my first clue!









I am just a domestic engineer
Who knows a lot but never sneers

High Speed Internet, a Laptop, and Gas! Oh My!

Hey there. We are all living in an online world. There is no doubting it. Banking, games, fun, research, everything is done online in this day and age. So why be boggled down by slow dial up speed? Charter Communications has a deal for you. Not only are they offering a great deal on high speed internet, thier current promotion, the Charter Laptop-a-Day Giveaway , cannot be beat! Charter Communications is giving out a laptop a day for the month of September with the first winner being announced on September 1st. You'll automaitcally be in the drawing to receive a laptop once you've used the link above to order their service. A chance for a free $600 computer is not a bad deal. Especially with the specifications of the laptop. For complete rules and conditions of the giveaway, click here.

New HP Compaq Presario C770US Notebook
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor
15.4" WXGA Screen
2GB RAM -160GB hard drive
DVD Burner
Built in Wi-Fi and Ethernet
Plus a NEOtec Laptop Backpack!

But wait, it gets better. Not only are you in the running for a free laptop, once you've completed your order, you'll be sent a $100 Shell gas card. With gas prices this high, you know you can use an easy $100 gas card. This deal is only available for online orders so please use the links provided to get this great deal.

And for us parents, it couldn't come at a better time. Back to school time is upon us and you know what that means. Online research, projects, and reports for our kids. They will not be able to thank us enough for the speed and reliability of high speed internet. As a kid, high speed internet was a luxury that my family could not afford and I spent many hours in front of a dial up powered internet. Frustrated out of mind and not getting much work done. Now, we can get Charter High-Speed® Internet for only $19.99/mo for 6 months. For most of our kids, they can pay that with their allowance.

Check it out friends. The best deal is here. Charter Laptop-a-Day Giveaway

I"ve Got to Get Me One of These

Hey there. Man, I need one of those!! lol An ocarina. How bad ass is that?!?!?! I didn't even know these things existed. I love Ocarina of Time. I think that it's one of the better Legend of Zelda games that was ever created. Hyrule is beautiful, the characters are memorable, and the music spoke for itself. Bolero of Fire is hands down my favorite song in the game. It's the song the dude is playing above. If I can get my hands on one of these, I'd so learn how to play this song first. As for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the game was truly revolutionary for it's time. I need to pull out the 64 and handle this game again. Bring me back to simpler times; where I played out my life as Link, adventuring amongst the Gorgons and Zora, obtaining master swords and it's many incarnations, and spent half of my day chasing Gannondorf. lol Later!

The Perfect Web Host

Hey there friends. As some of you know, I'm on a mission to find a web host for my (future) domain. I'm looking for something that's reliable and affordable and I've pretty much just spent my time on Google reading up on which one does what and what users believe is better. During my quest, I stumbled upon Web Host Rating . Really now... If I just knew of this first, it would have saved me plenty of time. Right on their home page, you'll find a listing for whatever type of web host you need, plus a 5-star rating system that ranks the hosts. You have multiple domains? Click on the link on the left and a list of web hosts that can service your needs will come to light. On a budget, like me? They got a listing for that too. Check it out and save yourself some time. I think I'm just that much closer to deciding on where I'm going to reside. Especially after reading their article on "Cheap Hosting" Good stuff, this is. A great article on what you should look for when a company offers you cheap hosting. Check it out. Later.

Entrecard Issues

Hey there. I've had a few issues with logging into Entrecard. It's been extremely frustrating since I'm trying to recipricate the blog views that I receive from friends. It has been this way since Thursday. Entrecard Support told me that it's a "select" group of people that are experiencing the problem, it just so happens that I was in that group. Not even resetting the password worked. I was able to log in today, but I hope that was the last of that issue. Later