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Yesterday, we went to see M:I 3, although we didn’t manage to hook up with Alex since he was working on something. Sorry buddy!

MI 3 follows our favourite Ethan Hunt, spy extraordinaire on the IMF (Impossible Mission Force) where he has retired from the mission life and is now an in-house trainer. Until something goes wrong and he’s brought back into duty.

Hey, let’s be honest. I can’t say we’ve never watched a spy film with this premise before. 😉

Anyhow, I was anticipating an excellent movie from the fact that JJ Abrams was helming it and…

I was not disappointed!

We all enjoyed the flick. Excellent action, excellent STORY, and the villain was one of those villains who you don’t want your kids to be around. They’re scary.

And for all the wackiness which is Tom Cruise, I will be the first to admit that he puts on a good film. I’ve never been disappointed and I wasn’t with this film either.

Go check it out for a solid showing of impossible missions, which, in the end, aren’t that impossible. Now why don’t they actually just show a bunch of missions whom no one can actually complete, hence, an impossible mission scenario?

In a world where we are what we buy (oh there comes my Theories of Communications class), here’s a little taste of things that have piqued my interest in the last while.

Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam: The new self-titled album is good. Pick it up.

Tool – 10,000 Days – Wow. The first Tool album where I can say that it’s not as good as the last one. Still a worthy buy, but meh. It feels like a watered down Lateralus (that’s their last album for people who are saying “Whaaa?”)
Grey’s Anatomy (TV Show): Mike got me into this show. I’m diggging it. I lost interest in ER a few years back so this is my replacement. Also, House is good also.

Alias: Oh man, Alias is getting good towards the series end. Watch it now!

BBQ Sausages: We’re not talking about Johnsonville here people…go to the butcher counter to buy your sausages from now on. It only cost me an extra $1.58. That’s what I will now refer to as “The Price of Happiness”.

On turning 30 years old: Alright, I cannot really review this topic, but a few of my friends are turning 30 this week and they are distressed. Being of 27 in age, I feel this is silly. But maybe in 3 years I’ll be eating my words when I start to lose my mental stability.

What can I say about turning 30? Well…I know that society seems to have put this magic number of 30 as the number in which ‘if you haven’t got it all together, you’re screwed’. Let’s go take a trip down the hall of greeting cards for a moment. Oh, there it is! If a greeting card has your age on it, you know it must be important somehow. I predict in 15 years, the greeting card industry will have covered off every number from 1 – 100.

What else can I say about turning 30? Well, I know that nowadays, my generation seems to put more emphasis on putting off responsibility in the form of settling down. More and more people stay in school longer and longer. Or they choose to travel a little more while they are young (aka before the age of 99 years of age where it’s nearly impossible to board the plane with your walker.)

I applaud this new extended way of living life. Yay! These are great times people!

So, I will agree that a generation ago, by 30 years old, you should have a mate by 20 years old, 7 kids by the age of 25 and were on the way to your retirement.

But we’re living in the new world here people. 30 is like being the old 23. Chances are, you’re going to live until you’re 80. That means that you still have more than enough time to do whatever it is you want to do.

And if you can’t even figure out what it is that you want to do, don’t worry about that either. No one ever said we all have to have it figured out. Heck, I don’t even know. Just because I own a house doesn’t mean anything. It means I have a place to sleep at night. That’s it, that’s all.

What’s my main message today? Whatever your age, go out and have a beer on a patio today. That’s what I’ve been trying to say all along.

Diving into ANOTHER George R.R. Martin novel was too much for my senses so I placed a bookmark in it and will leave it for an extended period of time. Although it bugs me that I haven’t finished it.

So what should I move onto after I get tired of a book? The ever faithful Star Wars series! However, I first read The End of Eternity which was a super good book. Thanks to Eric for recommending it.

Anyhow…let’s recap the whole Star Wars novel phenomenon – particularly The New Jedi Order series.

Star Wars novels (or the ones that came out in the past decade) are based after Return of the Jedi. So it’s just a continuation of the people you all love in various situations vs. the Empire (or what’s left of it) or random warlords that come around to wreak havoc.

So, someone had the brilliant idea to make this massive 25 book storyline that involved a new alien species that comes into attack our friends in the galaxy. A bunch of authors got in on this and contributed to the 25 book monstrosity.

Around the time this started (circa 2000), I finally gave up on the Star Wars novels because that was all I was reading. I moved onto other readings. Off and on, I’ve come back to Star Wars but have been hesistant to tackle The New Jedi Order. I had read Books 1 and 2 in the series and found them very boring.

So, what did I do? Well, I re-read book 1 which was still kind of boring but then skipped to Book 4.

Hero’s Trial is a great novel focussing in on our favourite nerf-herder Han Solo. It follows Han on a solo mission as well as a quest to find his soul after events that happened in Book 1 of the series (which are insanely rocking events). I’m sure if you really wanted to find out what happens, you can just google VECTOR PRIME. That’s the book’s name.

Anyhow, I enjoyed the book immensely and it did a really interesting job of bringing in characters that you don’t usually see – like Bossk the bounty hunter. I am hoping the rest of the series is more like this and I now have renewed strength in reading the entire series.

So, if you like a good Star Wars novel, take a look at Hero’s Trial for a good Han Solo story. The book stands alone well as you don’t really need to know what happened before other than the fact that there is a new enemy on the frontlines.