A shaky start at best

warning: I suck at html, so if my code looks like actual code instead of the hyperlinks and stuff that it’s supposed top be, don’t be surprised.

Well this is my first “real” blog, my previous blogging being in the form of myspace and occasionally facebook notes.  Ironically enough, I don’t have very much to say.  Here, read this while i think of something to say.

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So I was reading some guy’s list of the top ten worst geek films or some bs like that, when I noticed that he had the Johnny Depp/Tim Burton Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on the list. Now I thought that that movie was pretty horrendous but as I read through the comments on the list I saw several people saying that the more recent film was a much truer adaptation of Roald Dahl’s vision than the 1971 Gene Wilder film. As I looked back on my own memories of the book, I realized that I didn’t remember it at all. But it’s pretty irrelevant whether or not the newer movie was a better adaptation because as soon as I began to think about it I realized two things:

a) The only reason I hated the movie was because the Oompa Loompa songs were not as cool and because Johnny Depp seemed to be channeling a bit too much Michael Jackson into the role.

b) If someone remade the Thriller video starring the (1971) Oompa Loompas it would be the greatest thing ever.

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Well that’s all I got. If I still feel uninspired the next time I decide to blog I’ll just write one of those horribly generic “Introduce Myself” blogs. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

edit: the html worked! yay!

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