The "Recession"

Remember life before September 11, 2001? I do. It was back when the Constitution of the United States still meant something. Americans had rights... not anymore!

I do not care what anyone says, the job market has not gotten better. If anything, this whole "recession" has destroied the job marketplace forever. Employers have their pick of the litter; they do these personality tests that have nothing to do with the position you are applying for and if you "fail" you never get a call. Is that fair? Should I have to take a personality test to work at McDonald's? No. If you can fill out the application for McDonald's then you are qualified to work at McDonald's. What happens when you can't pass their stupid personality tests? Oh, you just don't get a job, why don't you just kill yourself and stop using all us good employed people's resources, you piece of shit.

It is not just the personality tests either that are unfair. Credit reports. O you have bad credit well than you must be untrustworthy. OR MAYBE YOU JUST DONT HAVE A GOOD ENOUGH JOB WHERE YOU CAN PAY YOUR BILLS!! But thats your fault too. It isnt an invasion of privacy to look at a canidate's credit report either because, you see, there is no such thing as privacy anymore. Thank the Patriot Act which in itself is unconstitutional, but got passed because..... The Bill of Rights is just too outdated

Affirmative Action. When affirmative action was put into law it was a slightly good idea, not its harmful. In the recent weeks, with all the racial tension, everyone has been talking about equality. Well how equal can we be when certain races gain employment over other races? So say an employer has two applicants, one white and one black. To meet their quota, they need to hire another minority, but the white applicant is better suited for the position, so what does the employer do? Hire the black applicant. Now, that might seem all fine and dandy, and I'm sure I'll be labeled a racist for this, but is that fair? No. Why not hire the best applicant for the position, that would be fair. Wouldn't you rather get a job based on your abilities, rather than your skin tone? Would you feel good about your new job if they told you that you were only hired because they needed another minority employee? I wouldn't. That's not equality. Affirmative action doesn't just work for jobs either. No its for public assistance; food stamps, public housing, cash assistance, etc. Now again this seems like a good thing, but it is racist in and of itself. Its basically saying that if you are a minority you need more help in life. If you are a minority we know that you can't do this on your own, but if you are white and can't get a job its your fault and you are just a failure at life. There must be something you have done that makes you a piece of shit, because you just are not as good as regular white people. No. Everyone has struggles, black, white, yellow, or purple, it doesn't matter what color you are, it is hard to get a job right now. But you know what demographic get the least amount of jobs? 18- 24yr old white males. Fucking disgusting. Its racist, its racist to ask your race on an employment application. My race has nothing to do with my ability to complete tasks efficiently.

College. The biggest scam of them all... Well you need a college degree to get a good job, so when you get out of high school go right to college straight into a massive amount of debt that you will spend your entire life paying back. And go to college for whatever you want to. Go for something that you love, like art. So you can waste not only your time and money but also your future, because let me tell you, you will never ever get a job as an artist no matter how good you are. Do you want to know why? Because a lot of people go to school for art, including affluent people who have contacts in the art world and will give them gallery space to show and sell their art. This isn't the 60s and this isn't the Village, you are not going to just walk into a gallery off the street and be like, "Hey, I'm really good. Look at my portfolio! Give me gallery space!" No the owner of the gallery would most likely laugh in your face and then call the police.

Art was just an example, look at the show Girls on HBO. Written and staring Lena Dunham. Unless you are blind you can see that this girl is fucking disgusting. She is frumpy and ugly and not fucking witty at all. The show is supposed to be a truthful example of what its like for 20-somethings living without their parents in New York City. Well, talk about realism. First of all a studio apartment in Manhattan is like $2000 a month. So I fail to see how these people are supposed to be living on their own. Its not really living on your own if mommy and daddy are paying your rent. Second, this horrible cow gets naked and fucks someone every episode. This is unrealistic because for someone to find that thing attractive, you would have to be so drunk you would have alcohol poisioning. So how does a completely unrealistic show get greenlighted for HBO? Lena Dunham's parents are besties with Judd Apatow and he executive produces Girls. Which brings me to the point that you can not get a job in this country without knowing someone.

There are plenty of writers more talented than Lena Dunham, but her family is rich and knows Judd Apatow so lets give her a show on HBO. Great. And thats how it is for everything. Even if you do everything right; pass their ridiculous tests, go to college and finish top in your class, you still will not get a job unless you know someone where you are applying and can get them to pull your application to give to the hiring manager. Pretty much the point is to be successful in America, you have to be a sociopath who will not let anything or anyone get in your way to the top. Sell shit that no one needs or wants, better yet sell them stuff they cant afford, so they default and you can reposess it.

Let's see what are some other reasons people can't get a job? Oh I know! Illegal immigrants. Let's just use the recent surge of unaccompanied minors who walked from Honduras to Texas and made it across the border. Now I feel bad about all the crime in Hondoras, but it kind of upsets me that I am an 26 yr old American citizen who has been trying to find gainful employment for the past 2 years unsuccessfully. Now, President Obama said that he was going to deport these people, but instead he granted 5,000,000 illegal immigrants government housing, cash assistance and food stamps. They came to this country illegally and now we are using tax payer dollars to support them? And we need an extra 5,000,000 unemployed people. They would get a job before I would and they don't even speak English!
The people from Honduras aren't as bad as the business owner illegals. If you have ever been to a bad neighborhood you will see stores owned by Asians (Chinese, Korean, and Indian mostly). What's illegal about that, you ask? Nothing except that these businesses don't  pay taxes, sell counterfieted goods, take money away from America and send it back to their homelands, will accept food stamps as cash, and live in their stores. We should feel sorry for them. Sure yeah we should feel sorry for them. They had money open up a store in this country and take money from hard working Americans and then not pay taxes on it. Up until Saturday I worked at a laundromat owned by a Korean immigrant. He never paid any employee who ever worked their legally. Now I know this is illegal but I needed to work and the companies I applied for employment with never would call. Food stamps wasn't enough for my family of three to survive on alone. My husband is out of work as well as he is part of that demographic that companies will just not hire. I had to work holidays for no extra money. I had to work 7 days a week sometimes. I would have to work from open to close. I could have just left and I planned on it once I got a real job. 2 years I have been applying to jobs and nothing. Its not like I have a bad resume or experience either. I have no criminal record and I have some college education. I have applied to every major corportation and nothing. Not one. I've had a few interviews but no offers. So now I start thinking what is wrong with me?

There is nothing wrong with me. I am intelligent and I am a hard worker. I actually have a work ethic unlike EVERY employed person nowadays. People who have a job look down on people like me. Its not right and its not fair. I can't even claim that I have worked for the laundromat because it wasn't a legal job. So now I look even worse to potential employers because I have been "out of work" for so long. Like thats my fault. Like I don't want to work. I WANT TO WORK. I WANT A JOB SO I CAN SUPPORT MY FAMILY.  I am not a junkie. I have never been incarcerated. I work efficently. I dont want the government to give me money I want someone; ANYONE to give me a job. I dont want to struggle. I dont want to have to choose between me eating and my daughter eating. I just want to work.....

Great Kid Games

I have twin nephews who are five years old. All four of us have the xbox live family plan. Its only $99.99 a year for four memberships; thats less then the price of one. With the family plan, the main subscriber has access of the other three accounts. They can give microsoft points as allowances, enable time restrictions, enable parental controls, and much more. So if you have multiple people in your household who play xbox, it may be the way to go. My nephews are pretty good at video games and like my husband they get bored really quickly and so I am the one to go out and find good games for them to play. Let me tell you, there arent many to choose from. Stratch that, there are a lot, but they already have most of them. I have begun to notice different things that determine wether they will play or hate the games I get.

LevelInfinity8's favorite game is Sonic's Ultimate Sega Collection. This one disk has all of the greatest Sega games you can think of. LevelInfinity8 loves old school platformers, he has had this game for over a year and he still plays it occasionally. I think he likes games that are so much older than he is because they are difficult, but most of them have infinite lives. Like he just got the Simpson's Arcade game from the marketplace, he can do a complete run through of the game in less with than an hour. That gives him a great sense of accomplishment. Another reason they like certain games is the colors. Kids love bright colors and bold lines.

Indiana Jones766's favorite game is Ghostbuster's Sanctum of Slime it is really fun. He used to love Lego Indiana Jones, but his brother refuses to play it and he wont play it by himself. I do like the Lego series games for kids but they are kind of hard for them it to play by themselves. It seems like an adult is supposed to play with a kid, but parents can't always play.

My favorite kid's game is Toy Story3. It is perfect. It reads to them, gives hints to what to do next, there are a lot of different things to do besides just the story. There is a part called Woody's Roundup where you are the mayor of a old west mining town. The player places and decorates all the buildings in the town. The story is also great, it is challenging, but is not overly frustrating.

So really when buying games for kids look for multiplayer games, because they like playing with adults or just with each other, bright colors, and platformers or Disney games. The Lego series is good, but they will need help.

A few games you can learn something from

There are sooo many games that can teach us things. Here are just a few:

A great game from one of my favorite companies, Double Fine, comes Stacking. Double Fine is a small company of under 20 people who make amazing games for everyone, like Costume Quest, Brutal Legend and Once Upon A Monster. Stacking is a game about Russian Dolls set in the Grear Depression. You play as Charlie Blackmore, the smallest child in his family. Charlie's father is a chimney sweep and leaves you, your mother and your brothers and sisters to find work, promsing to return. Months pass by and Charlie's father hasn't returned. His mother has already sold most of the family's belongings for food. Now problems are getting worse, the baron has sent his men to collect the Blackmore's debt. Since they have nothing to give the baron's men, they take all of Charlie's siblings to work off the debt. Now it is up to the smallest Blackmore to save the family.

When you play Stacking, you get the feeling that this world you are playing in is created by a child, with a lot of Russian Dolls. The world is made of odds and ends that anyone could find around the house. It seems the child that created the world is living in the depression and is just trying to make sense of what is going on around him... okay enough psychoanalysis. Charlie is not just any Russian Doll, he is the smallest in the world. That gives him the power to jump into any doll in the world. Stacking is a puzzle game; there is no leveling up, but there are tons of things to collect and numerous ways to beat each puzzle.

After the grainy silent movie intro, you will meet a helpful hobo who becomes your friend. The hobo (I forget his name)  will keep all your collections in a secret hideout in the train station. He will also paint pictures of your adventures as you complete them. Its great once you beat the game to see how many special dolls you need to collect to get all the achievements in the game.

Final Word: I love this game, it is fun and cheap and you just may learn something about the great depression or at least get you to find out more about that time in history. Maybe some will realize its not too far from where the economy is now.

Once Upon A Monster is also from Double Fine it is one of the only games I have seen with an Early Childhood rating by the ESRB. It is a Kinect game for preschoolers and their families. Parents can play along with their children and because it is on Kinect you can jump in and out of the game whenever you want. All you have to do is stand in the range of the Kinect to jump in and to jump out, simply walk away or sit down. Preschoolers can do all of the games themselves if they listen to Elmo and Cookie Monster's instructions. Its a great game that teaches listening skills, colors, emotions, literacy, patterns, and generally how things work. Its great.

From Dust.
In the before time, before Minecraft was on Xbox, I thought From Dust was the ultimate game. It teaches all kinds of things. It teaches how the earth  was formed; lava flows turning into rivers, tsunamis, errosion, everything. Sixth and eighth grade would have been soo much easier. Geology was the worst, but now I realize how amazing how the earth grows or  can just be washed away.


The biggest problem with From Dust is how difficult it is to unlock sandbox mode, I couldnt beat it, but I'm no expert, but Itchy Pants is and he is my love. ;)

Tropico.
This series is amazing. I have played every Tropico game in existance now and I love them all. They all have their pros and cons. Tropico 5 is now available on consoles and PC. The 5th installment of the series is by far the best political simulator you can get. Basically you are the Mayflower that never landed in America. Instead you landed on a Caribbean Island. You are owned by the crown and until you get the approval of your people, you will be a govenor under the crown, but you are El Presidente! You alone will decide the fate of your people.

Will you be a democracy? Dictatorship? Communist? Will you have elections? Will you give free housing to everyone or let your people live in shacks? Its all up to you.

Sherlock Holmes.
This detective series was never supposed to be anything but an arcade game, but it was so good, even with its clunky controls, that they HAVE to make new stories. The first game was about uncovering who committed the crimes of Jack the Ripper and is historically accurate.

A great game for under $20

When the expansion for Tropico 4 didn't come out on March 27th, me, KiddVicious, and Itchy Pants had to Do something with the 1600 microsoft points that wers burning a hole in our proverbial pockets. We looked all over the marketplace for a good game that we could play together and found Fable 3. The game was priced in cash and we already the points so we didn't know if we would be able to buy it, but I guess the smart people at microsoft realized tht flaw and corrected it. So we got Fable 3. We usually would get a game like that straightaway; RPG, online multiplayer, awesome franchise ... but I believe there were a lot of good games that came out at the same time and you just can't get them all, well unless you have a serious gaming addiction, even worse than us.

In our sanctuary, we have a 63" 3D LED HDTV with 7.1 surround, an xbox360 with Kinect, and a ps3, then there is a 50" HDTV with a mac mini, a sony vaio, and another xbox 360. We got seperate xboxes so we didn't have to fight over one anymore. It has made our marriage  better :)

Fable 3 is great, we are married and have a son in the game. When you get married to another player you share in the profits of all properties you buy. Unfortunately, we've had a few glitches with being married. The unexplainable glitch happened when we were at a load screen and when the game came back on, we were divorced for neglect and our son was gone. I'm guessing you can only be married while playing together, but that is just an asumption. I'm more than likely wrong. Also, It is really easy to divorce your partner. You just have to be near them and press right bumper.

So instead of being greedy and getting an add on for I play so much I've ruined it for Itchy Pants, we got a game we can play together for five dollars more. They ar selling it at gamestop for $15 used and $35 new. I don't know why the Modern Times DLC didn't come out for Tropico on the 27th, but I am mad. They tease their fans so bad, but at least they deliever. They probably didn't finish it. Oh well, I'll be looking for it.

I hate California!!

Hello again no one. Me and Itchy Pants (xbox live) just got the wifi PSVita so maybe I will be doing some blogging again. :)

Right now I am pretty upset. One, I have almost beat Tropico 4, I am on the last campaign‚ I have 3 achievements left, and I just cannot beat this last level. I have tried, wasting probably 10 hours only to lose. It sucks... I will beat it though. Two, it is now past 1am on March 27th and my Modern Times expansion is still not out!!! I am dying I'm not even going to be able to play before bed now! Of course this is California's fault because new marketplace content doesn't come out until midnight on the west coast.

For those of you crazy people who have never played any of the Tropico games, it is amazing. Think Sim City but better and on a tropical paradise. Tropico 4, by Haemimont Games and Kalypso, was released at the end of 2011, after a few pushbacks and I have been adamently playing it since. I love it. The player chooses to play as any famous dictator, Ché Guevara, Juan Peron, Fidel Castro, or just make up your own. Then you choose 3 traits for your dictator, good or bad. There are a lot of different traits and they all can be leveled up to 5. Once you have your avatar, you are ready to rule. There are 20 campaign missions, a sandbox mode and God mode. Definately worth whatever they are selling it for.

I have 3 of the 4 available downloadable content packs for it from Xbox Live Marketplace. Each of the DLCs comes with a new building, avatar trait, mission and decorations. Up until now, the downloadable content was 400 microsoft points each. The new Modern Times DLC is 1200 points but is going to make Tropico into a whole new game as far as I'm concerned. The trailers promises 30 new buildings, 10 new edicts... I cannot wait any longer! I'm going to go check again. Ttfn, ta ta for now.

ps.. Just joking about the whole California thing, but seriously can't they just have it released at 12am in each time zone?? They are Microsoft for crying out loud.

Movie Monday:: Tucker and Dale Vs Evil

This movie is my new favorite horror comedy. Tucker and Dale Vs Evil is about two Rednecks from West Virginia who just purchased a vacation home in the woods. They go up to the cabin to fix it up and meet some college kids on their way up to go camping. The college kids have been watching way too many campy horror movies and automatically think that Tucker and Dale are some kind of evil killers. While running from these nice guys, they accidentally kill themselves one by one.

I rented this movie on Zune on Xbox360 and I had to watch it twice because I was laughing so hard the first time I watched it I didn't catch all the jokes until the second time around. I loved this movie because it is so refreshing. The premise of the movie has never really been done before; looking at it from the Rednecks' side. They probably do think people from the city are crazy. They left room for a sequel, I hope they make one. This movie is great for everyone; its funny, its not really gory, its got romance.... I'm going give something away if I keep going on about it, so just watch it already!!

The Greatest Game you've Never Heard of this Week!

Resonnance of Fate

XBOX360 and PS3

This is really a masterpiece from TriAce. Its an RPG but your team fights with guns instead of the traditional swords we are used to. The battle play is also a little different you chose a path for your character to run on and then you chose how charges you want your gun to be before you fire. You can unload one clip into an enemy or shoot as many times as you can before reaching the end of you path.

All the weapons in the game are completely customizable. As long as there is a spot for an attachment and room on the blue print, you can create it, no matter how impossible it would be for it to be real. Character weapons are handguns, machine guns, or grenades. All of the characters can duel wield, as long as you have the guns. The character levels up themselves through their weapon choice. Its kind of strange. Say one of your characters is level 7 handguns, level 8 machine guns and level 3 grenades. That characters level is 18, but if you give that characters grenades they are going to leevel up very quickly, because it is easier to level up lower levels (as we all know). All the character outfits in the game are also completely customizable. As time goes on you unlock new outfits to buy for your characters and they are all very stylish.

Best thing about this game is the game plus record. After you beat the game, it is not nearly over. You still have to unlock the rest of the map and take that elevator as low as it goes. This is an amazing game and shows how under rated Japanese games are to the American public. The graphics in this game are strickingly beautiful and there is a great steam punk element to it. I would love to talk about the story, but I would spoil it. The story is a great mystery and really makes you think about how people would survive when conditions on earth got to be unbearable. Really great RPG.

Game Spotlight: Indigo Prophecy

Indigo Prophecy PS2 and XBOX

Like the French guy says in the tutorial, this is not just a game it is an experience. The game play and controls are all predetremined. Its like you are following a movie, but it is done so well. You not only play as the killer, but you also play as the detective trying to catch him. You don't die by getting shot or something, you die because the stress becomes too much and you give up on life. This is a very deep game and everyone should play it.

The killer is Lucas, a seemingly ordinary man who works in a bank's IT department. One night while eating at a diner he is possesed by some sort of ancient demon and kills a man. From the moment you come back and realize what you have done you have the opportunity to try and cover up your crime as best you can. This will reduce your stress level for your character, which in this game is pretty much health. After you leave the restaurant you go back to your apartment and go to sleep. Thats when the game jumps to Carla, the dectective. You have to question all the witnesses and look for evidence. The game jumps back and forth like this the whole time. You are constantly finding out more about why this is happening to Lucas and the Ancient mystery that somehow involves them all.

This game is absolutely amazing and definitely one of my favorite games of all time. This game just maybe too deep for you I don't think you could handle it.

A New Direction

I have decided to take this blog in a new direction. Aside from watching a lot of unusual movies my husband and I love video games. He likes and is amazing at pretty much any game and he shows me all the great games to play. I have found that a lot of people who are reporting on video games are just talking about them because they are getting paid to do so. Some big game company pays G4 a whole lot of money and puts out a ton of advertisements and people buy it. What about all the other games that come out that are amazing and will keep us interested for hours and hours? Who is reporting on them? Well, me now.

I have a whole new schedule planned out for this blog. It will be like my own mini magazine for great games for real gamers. Monday, will be Movie Monday, where I will showcase a new interesting movie I have seen. Tuesday will be a game spotlight, featuring a game, old or new that you may not have heard of or played before, but is awesome. Wednesday will be special article day. I will choose different topics in video games to write about. Thursday is another game spotlight and Firday will be the Greatest Game You've Never Heard of This Week.

I'm really excited about this new blog and I'm glad that I'm able to combine my two loves into prose. I hope everyone has as much fun reading the blog as I am having putting it together. Thanx!

K8

Jackass 3D

Jackass 3D. The Dickhouse boys are back and this time in 3D. We watched this in simulated 3D because for some reason they didnt release it in real3D except for in theaters which is a real shame. I would have paid the extra dollar to see it in real3D, it would have been great. Everyone is here and hilarious. Old Characters are back and the disgusting things they do just get more and more raunchy.

I just love to watch and see if Bam Margera will cry; he is so corny. His parents April and Phil, I guess getting tired of not being part of the gang, are in the entire movie this time. They are funny and all, but like why are they there? There is no reason other then he is a child, which I think is true. I just love all the other guys though, Johnny Knoxville is always great and he usually does the craziest stuff, but he looks like he is getting old in this one. He doesn't laugh as much as he used to after getting hurt. Steve-O, Wee Man, I forget everybody else's names but they are all great too. This movie is hilarious and would be enjoied by anyone who is immature and likes to see grown men put themselves in danger for no obvious reason. :-D!

Due Date

Due Date. Robert Downing Jr and Zach Galifinakus in a strange serious of events end up having to travel from Atlanta to Los Angeles in 3 days for Peter's (Downing) wife's scheduled c-section. Zach Galifinakus is really a good actor and I think this movie shows how he will not be type casted. His character is a sad, lonely man just looking for someone to spend time with for a little bit. His father has just died and he is in mouring, plus he is naturally really weird. He is carrying with him a dog, Sunny and his father's ashes and he is going to Hollywood (as he calls Los Angeles) to become an actor. So really the reason the movie is funny is because Ethan Tremblay (Galifinakus) is a crazy pot head in mourning.

Robert Downing, Jr is the straight man. He plays an architect who was just traveling on business bumps into Ethan Tremblay and switches bags with him and its all downhill for him from here. He has no wallet; no ID, no credit cards, no cash and Ethan has a rental car and offers him a ride. He reluctantly takes the offer, having no other choice. Through their many ups and downs they somehow make it through and arrive just in time of course. But thats all I'm giving away about this one (Its too new).

I loved this movie, I'm glad we bought it, its one of those movies you can watch over and over again. Both actors are great and its like a 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' for our generation. Bottom line, its a must see.

The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle

The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, seen on Zune on Xbox LIVE. Its hard to say in few sentances what this film is about, but basically cookies. The movie begins with a man in his early 20s reading the bible by a body of water. The man sees a bottle floating along near him and jumps in the water to retrieve the bottle. He has to break the bottle to get the message out, and hurts his hand. The message reads, F*** You, and this sets the scene for this man's unfortunate life.



The man is unemployed and can only find a job working as a janitor in an office building.Every day the man is seen he seems to be following a different religion, Judism, Muslim, Catholic, Hindu, Atheist, etc. The office building in which he works is a consumer research firm for baked goods, specifically self warming cookies. Some of his coworkers like to eat the cookies they throw in the trash. One of the researchers sees this and sees a golden oppurtunity for a controlled research group. She purposely throws out the cookies, knowing the janitors will eat them. Hopefully she didn't know the cookies make the men who eat them pregnant with what they imagine to be a blue whale.



While pregnant, the men experiment many of the same symptoms women do when they are pregnant. Including mood swings, vivid dreams, hormone changes, and so on, Eventually, the religiously confused young man confronts the researcher who admits they had no idea this would happen, but he and all the other men who ate the cookies would 'give birth' to a semialive worm like creature that will die very soon after being born.



That's all I'm going to reveal from the film; lets take a deeper look into The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle. The young man's religious confusion, I believe is a symbol of the general confusion and hopelessness of the generation just getting out of college. Because of the economy, there are no jobs for anyone, much less unexperienced college students. He is trying to find himself and answers anywhere he can, and so turns to the world religions or lack thereof in some instances. What's more each of the religions the man follows coordinates with what will happen that day. For example, on the day he figures every thing out and gives birth to Little Dizzle he is atheist. Its almost as if the film is his religious journey and then end of the movie is his enlightenment.



Little Dizzle, even though he is not alive, is very important symolically through the film. What science defines as alive is something which can metabolism , is made of cells which contain DNA, and can reproduce. By those qualifications, Little Dizzle is not alive, but he is alive through these men who are carrying him. He incites in these men an understanding for what their female counterparts have to go through during childbirth. He also makes the men think about their own life and in what direction they are headed toward. Although he is not scientifically alive, Little Dizzle exists in the hearts of the men he touched and as long as they remember him he will never die.

Dogtooth

Dogtooth, Greek with English subtitles. Seen on Zune on Xbox Live. This film is about a family who have been extremely isolated by their parents. No one in the family have names, but there is Father, Mother, Eldest, Boy, and Youngest. No one comes off the property except for the Father and no one comes on to the property except Christina, the young woman the Father pays to have sex weekly with his son. These teenagers are so sheltered they have different meanings for words that their parents just make up. They have to listen to homemade tapes of vocabulary words. They receive stickers for good behavior and the child with the most stickers at the end of the day gets to pick an activity in the evening for the family to partake in. The boy picked videos, homemade videos of themselves playing in the yard. They believe they have a brother on the other side of the fence who they feed and talk to. The father told them their bodies are not strong enough to leave the house until the dogtooth falls out; which is never.
One day Christina gets fed up with unfulfilling sex and cons the Eldest girl to perform oral sex in exchange for a headband. The next week, video tapes of “Rocky” and “Jaws” is what the eldest is bribed with. From now on she calls herself Bruce. She explains she believes a name is to the youngest sister, who now also wants a name. The parents have made the teens believe that airplanes fall out of the sky as toy airplanes. The eldest gets to the airplane first and claims it. The next day the brother is seen playing with the airplane. The eldest sees this and confronts him. He fights her so she goes to the kitchen and cuts him with a butcher's knife. She takes the airplane and throws it over the fence. The father gets the toy for the boy, but since they believe they cannot walk on the pavement unless you are in the car, he has to get into the car and drive about a foot and pick up the car. Eventually the parents figure out what is going on and find the video tapes. The father tapes one of the VHS' to his hand and hits the eldest in the head. Bruce goes to the bathroom with a five pound weight and hits herself until she knocks out the dogtooth. She then hides in the trunk of the car and is not found.
There is more that happens in the film if you can believe it, but I just wanted to summarize as best I could without confusing the timeline of events. I thought this movie was sick and crazy, but new. I have never seen anything like it before and it really keeps you wondering. What were these parents thinking? How was this going to work when their dogtooth never falls out? Would this be considered child endangerment? The film is trying to show how much of an influence parents are on their kids and. I guess, how any one can have children, even crazy psycho people. The mother didn't even go outside the grounds. Its crazy, a horror movie in my eyes.

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

"The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" is a documentary about a family of self proclaimed hillbillies in Boone County, West Virginia. This family has not left Boone County, ever. The father, was shot in the face as he was starting to become famous for tap dancing. The mother raised at least 23 of her own children, natural and adopted, but the number of kids may be more around 34. Many of the children have died over the years including an accidental suicide, two shootings and a car wreck.

Bertie Mae, the mother, is 84 years old and at the start of the film the family gathers to celebrate. The documentary focuses on four of the children and their children. All this family does is drugs, have babies, and get arrested. The only ones that don't do drugs are Bertie Mae and the ones who are too young. They do anything and everything they can; pain killers, anxiety pills, cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana. 

The documentary crew follows the Whites around for a year and just see what happen. I personally thought the movie was a sad example of a family of criminals. None of them work, they all do drugs and steal and sell drugs and bad things happen to them. The only one of them who works is the one who didn't stay in Boone County and he is still a pot head. It makes me wonder about drugs and the theory about addictiveness in personality. There are two explanations for this, one they grew up around drugs and thought the behavior was normal and just followed suit or that doing drugs is just inherent in some people. The film was disturbing because I couldn't believe people like this actually existed. It was like something out of a Rob Zombie movie. It just made me never want to visit West Virginia. :)

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I have decided to write a blog about the movies that my husband Sean and I watch every night. I like to write and I've seen enough movies that I think its about time for me to be a critic, but theres more that I want to do with this blog than to just critique. I am going to delve deeper into the film and what the real message may be. My idea is that maybe I can get people to think outside of the box and see things in a different light. The movies that will be included in this blog will come from different decades and really depends what we are in the mood for. :)

As much as I wanted to publish a blog for today, as I finished typing a blog about "The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle" SOMEHOW it got erased. So now I'm disheartened and will start tomorrow.