Jon's Loft

There is a lot of hype related to this movie. It surpassed 300 Million+ in 10 days. On Superherohype.com, alot are eager for this film to take down Titanic at 600 Million+. Here is what I wrote on the boards of a this thread today. The Dark Knight Reaches a Record $314.2M in 10 Days!

"I love the film, but I am not going to hold my breath on it beating Titanic's numbers. I hope at minimum it beats Spider-Man at 404 million+, I would love for it to get 460 million+ and become number 2 all time passing Star Wars. I would be ecstatic to have it be the second movie to earn 500 million+. But I think Titanic's numbers are a far reach. Especially with the higher ticket prices today, and no other film getting close. Though at this time. If any film is going to do it. This would be that film. I saw it 4 times so far. Hope to see it maybe a few more times before I wait to buy it on DVD and have to wait hopefully no more than 3 years for my Nolan directed Batman fix. "

Needless to say, I love this film. I only had a few issues with it, that might not even be issues. If you have not seen it yet, what is wrong with you? I have not written a review on any films lately. And I really am not writing one for this movie. I think with all the other reviews out there, as well as all the buzz surrounding it, nothing on this blog will persuade anyone on the fence from seeing this movie. I will just say, go see it and you will not be disappointed.

I will try and get back on the horse with writing on this blog, life just has a way of making one more busy at times than you thought you might be.

JZ

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December 02

My Answer to the BCS Championship Game

Note, as conferance championships are determined and the rankings are finallized, I am going to update this post.

Well thanks to the OSU - Michigan game, and West Virginia - Cincinnati playing later tonight. I have been thinking of the BCS Bowl Games and how it compares to a playoff system in college football. I think I have been in favor of a playoff system in the past, but I think the bowl system work. It just needs fine tuning. Here is my thoughts on the subject. There are 11 Division I-A conferances in college football. Based off of a quick glance at ESPN, there are the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Mid American, Mountain west, Pacific 10, SEC, Sun Belt, and WAC Conferances. So lets have a 6 bowl game system which features the conferance champion of each conferance plus either the highest rated independent school, or if they all suck, the highest ranked non champion.

The BCS National Championship game would feature the two highest ranked conferance champions. Ideally they should be ranked as #1 and #2. I mean, if you don't win your conferance, how should you expect to be in the national chapionship game? Also, take out the human polls. Base the rankings on the computer scores. Last year I was pumped for a OSU/Michigan rematch in the national championship game. But how messed up would it be to reconize OSU as the Big Ten Champion and Michigan as the National Champion? That type of thing would just make the conferance championship somewhat meaningless. The rest of the bowl games should feature the rest of the conferance champions either based on thier rank, or just by a lottery process. So this would add 1 more BCS bowl.

Now in the case of conferances like the Big Ten who can have co-champions. Either they get a conferance championship game, have tie breaking proceedures based on heads up play, or the BCS will reconize the highest ranked "co champion" as the BCS reconized champion for that conferance.

Here are the current list of conferance champions (CPU rank, Current BCS rank):
ACC - Virginia Tech (#1, #3)
Big 12 - Oklahoma (#6, #4)
Big East - West Virginia (#10, #9)
Big Ten - Ohio State University (#3, #1)
Conference USA - UCF (Unranked)
Mid American - Miami (Unranked)
Mountain west - Brigam Young (#19, #17)
Pacific 10 - Could not find
SEC - LSU (#2, #2)
Sun Belt - Florida Atlantic (Unranked) (Florida Atlantic won the conference's automatic bowl bid through a tiebreaker by virtue of its head-to-head victory against Troy.)
WAC - Hawaii (#12, #10)
Independent OR Highest Ranked Non Conferance Champion - Missouri (#4, #6)

And based on the CPU rank, here would be your money game.
BCS Championship Game: Virginia Tech vs LSU

The other 10 teams would play in other bowl games.

What do you think?

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November 05

Meh

So I thought I would say hello once again to my blog. I have been extreamly busy recently. Here are a few short blurps if you are intrested.

Been looking for a house or new apartment.

Movies have been so-so lately. The only movies I would write a review about are "300", "The Bourne Ultimatium" and "Transformers". See those if you havenn't already.

I watched the Bills beat up on the Bengals yesterday. Lynch made a fantastic run during the game.

That's all for now. Later!

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September 04

My Fiance

Jessica is my fiance. She is simply amazing & I want to tell everyone about it - I want to scream it from the roof-tops. Party

I honestly don't know how I got so lucky finding a girl as intelligent, talented, and gorgeous as she is. And did I mention that I basically robbed the cradle with this one? She's only 22 & she's in the hottest sorority on campus...and you know that Kentucky girls are the best.

Although she is extremely high maintenance (she requires manicures and pedicures on alternating weekends) and quite fussy at times (I should never deprive her of her Saturday "me nights"), I know that she is worth the extra effort. Even though she burns home-cooked meals and refuses to take lessons, it doesn't matter. One day she will be a highly paid doctor of anesthesiology and she can pay someone else to slave away in that unkown territory we know as the kitchen.

I love her! That's my Story and I'm sticking to it!

-JZ

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March 22

300 Review

This review is a few weeks due. I really want to tell you how great the movie is and you should go see it. I will expand on this when I can.

But the short take is... go see it. You will be glad you did.

I am trying to get back on the blogging horse.

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January 22

Inconvenient Truth

The only inconvenient truth in this story is that they will need to UPS in snow shovels to Arizona.

Read the story here.

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January 19

Cancel

Good read on cancelling memberships online. Click Here to read the article.

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January 10

House votes to increase the minimum wage.

Great, so over the next two years minimum wage is going to increase by $2.10. That's fantastic news for those who keep their jobs. The others that the companies can't afford to pay will be screwed as they have to hit the unemployment lines. Walmart won't be hit as much as the small family owned companies.

The unemployment rate will go up, and the media will blame Bush as we get closer to 2008. Hope you all enjoy the new congress you voted in who while voting for this won't see much of the blame. You got to love the media.

December 27

President Gerald Ford starts his new life....

Fox News - Click Here

Can't say much about him as I did not follow him as much as other Presidents. I do know he pardoned Nixon. But he was a President non the less and should be remembered as he will be. God speed sir.

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December 18