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As I sit here, in a wrestling gym (had to go to little brothers basketball practice with him, because he “has” to play sports and no one else will take him), and without Internet, I have figured out that my life would be nothing without the Internet. I get my news, information, social contact, etc. all through the Internet and almost nothing else. Yes, I can contact friends without it and I am not stuck in my house all the damn time, but then again, most of my social contact comes through the Internet, because I have a fear of talking to people that I don’t know well in public.

Like, if it is someone I have been friends with for a while (a year or more), I have no trouble talking to them or joking around them, and most of the time, I can shoot the shit or joke around with any dude. But, for some reason I can not bring my self to talk to any female in public unless I have none them for the longest time. And sometimes not even then.

I got some kind of social anxiety, I know it but the doctor says I don’t, but can doctors really be believed? I have other type of mental incapability in the history of forever, but nothing that I can legally excuse myself with. But, whatever, I have worked with it, because MSN, Yahoo, and, even though I hate to say it because it annoys the living piss out of me, MySpace is basically my whole social networks, if you will.

In that, I can get rid of any shyness I have, any social annoyance that have, any problems with anything, and just introduce myself. But, the common complaint coming from people is, “Why don’t you just introduce yourself in public?” Because I can’t. Whenever I met anyone for the first time, I get nervous, start stuttering, and I will always, without fail, do something completely and utterly retarded/and completely stupid.

But, then again, I guess that is what is expected from me is to be stupid and funny, and in no way acting mature, attractive, or anything of the sort. I am Jake Ball, I am excepted to be a loud mouth prick, who is funny all the time, and most people don’t even wanna be around that dude. So, it is automatically dictated that if I come in one day and my head is down, and not wanting to talk to anyone, it is automatically assumed that I am sad, or depressed, or want to shoot the school up. Maybe it is because for one day in my life, I don’t want to be that person, I want to be quiet Jake Ball.

But, that is the end of this nonsensical rant of mine, now please go about your life.

Wow, how long has it been since I updated this thing with something meaningful? Besides the stupid little news article I post to make it look like I was active, it has been about 3 months. Damn, long enough,we need a new post. The fans of ‘insert blog title here’ are growing restless, so I am back for now.

Ugh, what do I have to talk about? Nothing, just sitting around, working my ass off at K-Mart and going to school daily to see if I can make something out of myself. Other than that, well I ain’t got time for anything else.

But, one thing I did make time for was to go see the Friday the 13th movie. I love the Friday the 13th series, the Halloween series, the Nightmare Before Elm Street series. There’s no doubt that generally, as far as the term “good movies” are concerned, most of the entries in these three films aren’t.

This movie, compared to the Friday the 13th series, is solid. It’s an excellent reimaging of Parts 1, 2, and 3. Ranking the movies (with Freddy vs. Jason) I see it like this.

1. Jason Lives (Part 6)
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Freddy vs. Jason (I’m actually surprised at the the hatred toward this one)
5. Part 1
6. Friday the 13th 2009
7. Final Chapter
8. Jason Takes Manhattan (Part
9. New Blood (Part 7)
10. Jason Goes to Hell (Part 9)
11. Jason X (surprised at the amount of love this one has gotten in the media)
12. A New Beginning (Part 5)

I do think this can be the Batman Begins to the Dark Knight. It was a solid setup movie, and now that the premise has been set and the background is all there, they could spin the sequel whichever way they feel like it would work. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they could make some Tommy Jarvis stuff work. I think the potential is there for a very good sequel. It’s good to see Jason taken so seriously again.

But, most people tell me they hated the camera work in the movie and that the camera worked sucked. This isn’t true. At all. There are lots of times during the movie when you’re like…what the fuck were you guys thinking, but it’s not during the deaths…like…ever.

As for the horror movie discussion: horror movies, in general, have taken a turn for predictable with the staggering number of established conventions. I knew the dog was coming, but it still sort of got me. Yes, I know there are ways to still make movies scary, but you come to be able to predict where a lot of the scares are.

I know you guys hate this argument, but scary isn’t ever what slasher films have been about. They’re about the stalk and the not quite irrational fear that there just may be a boogeyman out there coming to get you. The “horror” of a slasher film is the slasher, not the things that creep and go bump in the night. At least for me, anyway. I’m taking a Horror Film Genre class in college right now. ’s been pretty cool so far.

I enjoyed the movie for what it was. There were some really, REALLY funny parts (and I mean parts that were supposed to be funny). We got some pretty nice boobs. We got some pretty good kills.

If there was a major gripe I have with the movie, it’d be that every good possible scare moment or even decent kill is SPOILED BY THE FUCKING THEATRICAL TRAILER FOR THE FUCKING MOVIE.

The Last House on the Left remake looks like it’s going to suffer the same exact fate. Still good, though.

I’ve seen much worse. Shit

Friday the 13th (this one):The Dark Knight::My Bloody Valentine 3D:Spider-Man 3 or (insert shittastic superhero film here)

But, that was all I could send out tonight. I just got off a couple hours of work and I am extremely tired. So, this is my last note:

If you went in expecting a legitimately scary film, or Saw/Hostel levels of gore, then I have no idea where you got your ideas about the Friday the 13th franchise.

While there have been moments in the films where you can say “Holy shit, that kill was awesome”, it’s never really been about the gore.

My advice to new viewers, or people who’ve seen some of the old films but never really became big fans… go through and watch them all. I can almost guarantee that by the time you get to the remake, you’ll love it… or you’ll hate the whole series.