Seen some movies, making some others

I couple weekends ago, I visited my gal, Claire, and we had so much fun! We saw Terminator: Salvation, and even though Claire has not seen any of the first three movies, she still really liked it. I read some reviews about Salvation after seeing it, and a lot of people were very critical of the references to the other movies. I actually loved them! I would have loved them even if the character turned to the camera and said, "Eh? Didja catch that?!" Some of those are very enjoyable. Sure there were a few errors like Christian Bale killing a Terminator with bullets after we watched three movies of Arnie getting lit up by bullets that had little to no effect, but that can be explained. My brother and I agreed that those killed (destroyed?) in the beginning were not T-800s like Arnie was, so they were probably slightly easier to take down. We also decided that since everyone was using bullets, despite us seeing flashbacks (flash...forwards...?) of the future where they used lasers in the previous movies, that they had not yet been invented.

Rachel: So this movie takes place before the first movie?
Corey: Well, it's actually the before part of the after part of the first movie, which is shown in the beginning of the second movie.
Daniel: Yeah.

Claire, don't think I've forgotten about your need to watch Terminator 2: Judgement Day. :D

Also, a certain video contest has caught my attention, and looks to be hilariously awesome. Funny, a few days before hearing about the contest, I was thinking, Wouldn't it be funny to have a Rock Band Music Video? BAM. A few of the videos are really great, and some of them are......well, interesting to watch. I think it will be a lot of fun.

Right now, my friend and I have narrowed our song choice down to:

• The Kill by 30 Seconds to Mars
• Life is Beautiful by Sixx A.M.
• Welcome Home by Coheed & Cambria
• The Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother
• I Don't Care by Fall Out Boy

Yes, there is a FoB song in there, and it is least likely just because it is FoB. I couldn't deny that, from the list of songs, it would make for a better music video than a lot of them. I'm pretty excited to get started with that.

Mike and I also have plans for a music video of our most recent single, Yo Sista, and a few other shorts as well, so keep an eye on my youtube channel or subscribe like a true friend would.

Just the one.

Normally, when you first arrive at a new dorm room, it is completely empty, but someone left something this time, or maybe the housekeepers are just extra friendly. There was a single beer in one of my drawers. Just one. Who leaves one beer? Who clears out an entire closet, opens the drawers, sees their one beer (that they kept in a drawer?) and thinks...no...this one...this one stays.

...no, I'm not gonna drink it.

This chair makes me lose my stomach...

Hello all! I hope to revive this blog and post in it much more than I have been this semester. Once, maybe twice a month? I would like to think I'm interesting enough to have at least 3 a month.

For those of you who have not yet seen WACmen, please do so! It's our newest movie, and was our entry for the 24 Hour Video Challenge this year, and we won for the 3rd year in a row! :D



That was all too much fun to make. I loved it, and I think it came out great.

So I finished my junior year of college. o_O; I can't believe I'm going to be a senior in the fall. Why is it that 2 years of middle school felt like an eternity, yet the past 7 years of High School/College have blasted by?

So after a couple weeks at home, guess what? I'm back at school! I'm working in the Multimedia Production Center here for the summer. FINALLY! I've been hoping to work here for the summer since freshmen year, but they never provided housing, and I didn't want to spend a huge chunk of my doe paying for an apartment.

*Oh! Slow Cheetah just came on my iTunes... such a great song!*

So I was finally offered free housing on campus. I'm living in one of the newer dorms, Chester, and man, my room is enormous! I heard the singles here were pretty tiny, but hey, a double to myself is pretty damn big :D


Still haven't completely unpacked everything, and I'm not sure I'll keep that desk by the window since it blocks the closet, though I don't really care since I have a spare :p I definitely need some posters on these walls though.


I really like it! It's at least twice the size of my single on the Western Shore. I'm sure I'll miss it next year, but I'll deal haha.

This summer is going to be a good one, I know it! I've worked at a Cold Stone Creamery since I was a junior in high school, and it's about time for a change. I always worked from 4 in the afternoon until 1 in the morning at Cold Stone, so the next day I would wake up at 11 at the earliest, have a couple hours to myself in an empty house, then do it all over again. I barely ever saw my parents or my brother and sister because of our schedules, and I had a shift waiting for me the day I got back home from visiting Claire on the weekends. I haven't looked forward to a summer in years because they were so draining and repetitive. NOT THIS ONE!! And since I don't have to drive to work at get gas every couple of days like I used to, I can afford to go home or go to Claire's any weekend I want! Funny...I'm further away from home, yet I'll probably see everyone more often than I have in the past few summers.

Anyway, I'm going to play some Left 4 Dead or something. I can't wait to see Claire this weekend!!!! :D

Filler Episode

TL;DR: 3rd Place in What's Your WAC, ready for 24 Hour Challenge, did some schtuff, gonna do some schtuff.

This show needs a new episode. It's like when Dragonball Z was on and they weren't finished dubbing the next saga so they just showed the previous sagas again and again and again...but hey, I still watched them. That's why I know such an usual amount of information about Dragonball Z; because I've seen every episode a dozen times. So I'm assuming all of my readers are now very familiar with the previous episodes. Today's entry is just dedicated to updating, I don't really have much to rant about or make fun of.

On the last episode, our hero was battling for his prize in the What's Your WAC video competition and even had the support of Tom Fulp, the creator of Newgrounds, and easily one of the coolest people in the world. Tom put me on the front page of newgrounds and within a day, I had hundreds more votes than before. It was incredible how this internet community supported me and expressed so much concern for me despite most of them not knowing me. It didn't matter who I was, it was the fact that a newgrounder needed some support, and they jumped all over it. For that, I thank them. Tom Fulp is a badass leading his legion of thousands of newgrounds minions. And I can't forget all the amazing people of the VAC! They were all over that, and each of them were individually devoted to helping me out. Thank you!

Unfortunately, despite Newgrounds' best efforts, in the last few hours of voting, I was tied for first place, and I received a few hundred downvotes that I'm sure had been saved up for me by my competition. I highly doubt that suddenly there were two or three hundred people that signed on to youtube, saw my video, and hated it enough to give it a 1. Look at youtube - very few users actually rate movies. They express their like or dislike in the comments section much more than using the ratings system. Anyway, the downvotes actually knocked me from having a pretty good shot at 1st down to 3rd place. I figured as much would happen, and my boss even told me I was going to get 3rd before they announced the winners. Maybe to soften the blow? That tells me he didn't like the way things ended up, which is quite perplexing since he was the one running the competition. Ah well. The time is past. It's nice to have $250 to spend on equipment right? Doesn't matter that that's 32 times less than $8000 and the cheapest piece of equipment I want is about $3000. o_O;

Hopefully next week they are going to hold the 24 Hour Challenge. In previous years, my team and I made WAC Zombies and WAC Heroes, and we have big plans for this year, so if that challenge doesn't happen, I'm going on a rampage where I uppercut babies and punt small dogs and cats. Now I'll be honest, I don't want to have to do that.

This coming weekend Claire and I are going to my house for the weekend. I've been dating this chick for over 2 years and she's only been to my house...what, twice? I must fix this! We're probably going to go to the movies 8 or 9 times, eat a bunch of Quiznos - FO' FREE - and I have a little art project planned for us as well. :D It will be great to see Daniel and Rachel and the rents, and Claire can meet Daniel's dog, Rocky! He's a crazy hyper golden retriever. I just smiled a little thinking about how funny he is.

And now I shall leave you with some pictures of my last stand up at an open mic night, and some shout outs.



My favorite story to tell about this night was when I said:

"...That doesn't work with every situation. You don't always want to date a girl because she has something you've never seen on a girl before."

"What are you getting at?" << Amusing drunk woman.

"DICKS."



Shout out to Mike for an amazing thesis production of Some Girls. It was awesome, man. Great performance, amazing set, and it is clear that Brian really is a "fearless shit."

Another one out to Christina Izzo for winning the 60 seconds or less Challenge with The Box, my personal favorite of her shorts.

I don't understand people...

A recent comment left on one of my competitor's video...

This video sucks! I judge movies based on two key criteria: number of reasons Corey Holland think he's the shit and overall pretentious, jerkoff attitude. This piece of shit contained neither! All I got out of this was a couple of fun, goofy guys showing some cool things about Washington College. What bullshit! ...

If you share my taste in films and want to a see a real moviemaking masterpiece, check out the one Corey Holland made. It's FILLED with reasons Corey Holland think he's the shit and is simply bursting with condescension: my kind of movie! I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure these bitches don't win the prize money, because they're planning on giving it all to charity, and I think charity is totally gay. Fuck you guys. Corey Holland is great.

...if you can't tell. That's sarcasm. T_T I found this to be very insulting and I can't believe someone would be so flat out mean. I ignore silly comments like "this sucks" or whatever, but to write something so detailed and to personally attack me by name... ouch.

I should just stop making films. It always makes me seem like a pretentious jerk. I'm not, though. I strive to do the best I can on my projects and I have high standards FOR MYSELF. I don't consider myself that good, so every time I make a film, I try to make it better than my previous ones.

I can't stand people. I try to keep an optimistic view on every part of my life and that has really done a lot for me, yet I still have to be treated like I'm an asshole? Why does someone else think I don't have the right to be in this competition just because I'm competing with someone they support? I'm tired of people saying that my video makes me look full of myself! It's "What's your WAC?!" I did it! My WAC is all about acting, improv, performance, and videos! Back. OFF! Geez... would it have been better if at one point I said, "I auditioned, but wasn't cast, in such plays as According to Goldman, This is Our Youth, and Fat Pig." Should I have gone over a few bad grades I've had in school? Cover my failures or something? I'm sorry that my approach makes a student look like he's succeeding and enjoying his school, and I am!

...I can't wait for this weekend.

Help me Win $8000!!!

I need help!! I'm entering a huge video competition and the grand prize is $8000 worth of equipment! Winning this will give me the ability to do freelance video work, something I'd love to do, and I'd even be able to get started setting up a home studio. It's a chance of a lifetime! I need your help!

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A sad, sleepy little person

Well, I have neglected this blog for long enough, haven't I? Considered this is an "animated series," I'm going to give you all a fun fact that it takes about 9 months to make an entire episode of Family Guy start to finish. 9 months! It takes Trey Parker and Matt Stone 2 weeks to make a new South Park! So... not so bad waiting a month for another episode of me, huh? ...whatever.

So today. Today. Ah, today was not a great morning. I had a meeting with my professor this morning around 9:15. I would have been able to meet in the afternoon, but that's when my playwriting class is. I'm leading the discussion on Friday in class and we have to meet with him before hand to go over our plans. I completely forgot about the article I was supposed to read for our meeting - a 20 page essay about bringing people into war - so I read it quite late last night before I went to bed. I must have read the first paragraph 6 times... I still don't know what it meant! It was so dry. Yes, I understand you're smart, but if you want to inform someone else about this stuff, please make it easier to understand!

So I woke up at 8:30 this morning, extremely tired, and when I went to put my contacts in, they weren't in the case. Well, where else would I put them? I put them in 2 places and that's in the case or in my--DAMMIT! I slept with my contacts in! I brushed my teeth and got ready for bed before reading the article, but left my contacts in to read it. Thinking my bedtime preparation was complete, I went to sleep. I'm wearing a brand new pair too, so I hope I haven't worn them out already...while sleeping. So I was ready to go to my meeting, my eyes even more red than usual, looking like I'm high as a kite, and I head to the library. I print out the article to bring to the meeting and head to William Smith.

Ok? There's a class in our classroom, so my professor must be in his office...which is...where? I wasted a few minutes going downstairs, looking to see if my professor's office was listed, then I decided to just go to the library and find out for sure. I found his office to be in Goldstein, headed over there only to find that he had already left to teach his next class. He was teaching a 9:30 class after our meeting at 9:15. So...we were going to meet for about 5 minutes? So I walked from Goldstein back to Howard, and said to myself, "I am a sad, sleepy little person right now."

Less than an hour later, I headed back to William Smith for class and suddenly remembered that I don't have playwriting today. We're meeting individually with TM, so I can, in fact, meet with Kelty this afternoon. I went to Kelty after class, ready to apologize for missing our meeting, which apparently had about a 5-8 minute time frame, and he greated me with "Hey, Corey, we're going to meet later today, right?" Are you unaware that we were going to meet this morning? Whatever. 3's good? 3's good. I'll see you at 3.

On the bright side, I did laugh out loud at this email exchange I had with TM, my playwriting professor.

Me:

I'm pretty sure I'm meeting with you at 3, but really,
I'm not sure. I'm quite skeptical of my tricky memory.
Can you confirm my meeting time with you tomorrow
afternoon? Sorry, but thanks!

-Corey Holland

TM:

You're meeting with me at 4:00. If you show up at 3:00
I won't talk to you.

TM