Assassins

Assassins

Summary
-Robert Rath is an experienced professional hit man who just wants out of the game with no trouble. Miguel Bain is a hot headed young assassin who is bound and determined to do away with the older hitman. Rath must work with a computer hacker named Electra to stop the young Miguel Bain

Cast
-Sylvester Stallone: Robert Rath
-Antonio Banderas: Miguel Bain
-Julianne Moore: Electra
-Anatoli Davydov: Nicolai Tashlinkov

Did You Know?
-Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas reunited for Spy Kids 3, where they played reversed roles-Banderas as the good guy, Stallone as the bad guy. They also appeared together in The Expendables 3

Quotes

Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar

Birth name: Sam Roy Hagar
DOB: 10/13/1947
Where: Monterey, California
Nickname: Red Rocker
Height: 5'10''

Spouse
-Kari Hagar: 11/29/1995-present, 2 kids

-Betsy Berardi: 11/3/1968-1994 (divorced) (2 kids)

Trivia
-Member of the hard rock band Van Halen from 1985-1996, and in 2004
-Owns a cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico named Cabo Wabo. Also made tequila under the same name until the brand was sold to Campari/Skyy in 2007

-Used to be a boxer before becoming a musician
-Sammy Hagar's "Cabo Wabo Tequila" was a sponsor of English driver "Darren Manning"s #14 A.J. Foyt ABC racing INDY car. Sammy Hagar and Gene Simmons of Kiss are both fans of INDY racing and also sponsors

-Although the Van Halen fronted by Roth sold more album copies, the Van Halen music recorded with Hagar went on Billboard on all of the 4 albums he recorded with them

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Summary
-El Mariachi, a hitman, becomes involved in an international espionage case with a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general

Cast
-Antonion Banderas: El Mariachi
-Salma Hayek: Carolina
-Johnny Depp: Sands
-Mickey Rourke: Billy
-Eva Mendes: Ajedrez
-Danny Trejo: Cucuy
-Enrique Iglesias: Lorenzo
-Marco Leonardi: Fideo
-Cheech Marin: Belini
-Ruben Blades: Jorge FBI
-Willem Dafoe: Barillo
-Gerardo Vigil: Marquez
-Pedro Armendariz Jr. El Presidente

Did You Know?
-Salma Hayek's scenes were rescheduled because she was shooting the movie Frida at the time
-When El Mariachi opens his guitar case, some of Navaja's knives can be seen
-In many of the lines where he had to swear, Johnny Depp improvised his lines
-The man Barillo hires as a body double was an assistant. His looks closely mirror Willem Dafoe in real life as they did in the movie

Beverly Hills Chihuahhua

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Summary
-While her Aunt Viv is away, Rachel and Sam go on vacation to Mexico with her aunt's dog Chloe, a pampered Chihuahua, who finds herself lost and needing to get help from the local animals, including an ex-police dog named Delgado

Cast
-Piper Perabo: Rachel
-Jamie Lee Curtis: Aunt Viv
-Manolo Cardona: Sam Cortez
-Jose Maria Yazpik: Vasquez
-Maury Sterling: Rafferty
-Jesus Ochoa: Officer Ramirez
-Eugenion Derbez: Store owner
-Naomy Romo: Ranger
-Carmen Vera: Inn Keeper woman
-Alberto Reyes: Bellman
-Drew Barrymore: Chloe
-George Lopez: Papi
-Andy Garcia: Delgado
-Cheech Marin: Manuel
-Paul Rodriguez: Chico
-Placido Domingo: Monte
-Edward James Olmos: El Diablo
-Loretta Divine: Delta
-Michael Urie: Sebastian
-Luiz Guzman: Chucho

Did You Know?
-Papi, the Chihuahua voiced by George Lopez, was rescued from being put down by Lopez, who adopted him

Day 4:4 Memories You Can't Forget

4 Things I can't forget?

My first trip to Mexico
-This one made me nervous. I had never been outside the US before and when we were going, I was so excited. I can't wait for my next vacation outside the US, which will, hopefully, be to London!!

My dad passing away
-This one really struck a cord with me. When my dad passed, it really affected me. I mean, being in the same hospital room one minute to see the heart monitor beeping and then the next hearing nothing and not seeing his chest rise to let us know he's still living, very scary! It's very eerie being in the same room, watching the life go out of the eyes of someone you love. I'll never understand why my dad acted the way he did sometimes, but I love him none the less

Graduating high school
-Never in my life was I ever so glad to get out of high school. My high school was nice, but the peopel I went with, didn't make it enjoyable. I was made fun of, because I was "different". What I mean by this is, I was not willing to bend over backwards and change who I was to fit in. I didn't listen to rap music because it was the "in" thing, I didn't dress like a whore like some of the girls did, and I didn't say things like "Yo, what up dog? How's my homie?", talking like some kind of black rap wannabe. Instead, I listened to people like The Beatles, Aerosmith. And after high school, started listening to the Stones.

My first job
-My first job was actually just a seasonal job. It was through a local staffing agency that gave me the job of Data Entry Clerk and Mail Room Clerk at the US Bank Lockbox near me. Man, there was a alot of security there. No MP3s, iPods, only CD players. You could only have 2 CDs at a time, no talking, just work. Not my idea of good social skills, but it did get me experience

Hi Everybody!! I'm Back from Vacation!

Hi everyone. I know it's been about a week since I posted last, but lately, I was on vacation with my family. As you may have read in some of my last posts, my family was planning to go to Mexico. Now, if I can figure out how to upload the photos I took, I can show you of the random stuff we did down there.

Anyway, we just got back into town last night around 6 or 7pm. We ended up having sandwiches from this local place called Penn Station for dinner while we all unpacked. The vacation was great. We took lots of photos, my sister made friends with a couple bartenders/waiters down there, named Alejandro and Yves. The second one, Yves, made her a little grasshopper out of palm leaves and grass. And as for me, never really talked to anyone. Heard alot of great and cool accents though. I did meet alot of interesting people. At the bar, I met a cute guy from Germany. He was blond and had a cute accent. I also seen and heard 2 English couples. They always sat at the same seats near us at the pool. It was an older English couple and a younger English couple. I almost laughed when I heard one of them say 'bloody'. Also, I seen a really cute scuba diving instructor named Sebastian. He was blond and had the sexiest accent ever: English, or Australian!! He was a hot, blond English or Australian scuba instructor. Either way, his accent was gorgeous!!!! And omg, he had the nicest smile!! I was melting already. Unfortunately, I didn't go scuba diving, fear of deep water, and not like 5-10 feet, I mean like ocean deep, deep water where sharks are.

We also tried alot of new drinks, mostly alcoholic. Hey, you gotta try new things. And I did. I tried chocolate mudslide, pina colada, something called a Caribbean Dream and a strawberry daiquiri. Yeah, I sound like some kind of alcoholic in the making, but believe me, I'm not. My sister, who is 19, was downing more drinks than me. Because something that not alot of people realize is that the legal drinking age in Mexico is 16. When she heard that, wow! She was doing shots, including a local one called the Bandera, which is Spanish for flag, It's served in a tall, skinny shooter glass and has red sangria, clear tequila and what I think may be green apple liqueur in it.

Any who, that was my first trip outside the US. I'm hoping for my next trip outside the US to be to either London, China, Japan, Australia

Just Two More Days...

I'll be in Mexico in almost 3 days time. I'm gonna tan, relax and read a book!

One More Week, Just One More Week Until...

I go on vacation

Yup, that's right! I'm going on vacation!!!! My first trip outside the US. I thought this day would never come. Well, maybe this is the start I need to visiting places outside the US! Well, I've already decided that my 2nd major trip outside the US is going to be to London. IDK what it is about this city that fascinates me so, but I just really wanna see it.

I'm going here! To Cancun, Mexico. And to make my trip better, the hotel my family was originally supposed to stay in is somehow under construction, so we got an upgrade- to jr. suites!! My sister went nuts for that, especially after finding out the room has a big screen TV, so she can watch cartoons in Spanish. And another thing, since me and my sis are in a room by ourselves, we get our own beds. Hehe, sweet! Whenever I've gone on family vacations before, me and my sis always had to share a bed, and believe me, that's not fun. She does what I call "spread eagling" , where she spreads out and takes up the bed. And before I know it, I have some part of her boyd on me, whether it be her arm across my throat or something. And also, since we already paid for the vacation, we don't need to pay for the upgrade. And, whew! That's good too, considering it's $1600 a person. Forget that! I'm glad we paid in advance! I'm going on a much needed vacation!! The first thing Im doing when I get down there is go and find some authentic Mexican food, try an authentic, Mexican-made taco, omg, it's gonna taste sooooooooooooooooooo good!!

Vacation!!!!!

I'm going here in September. I'm sort of looking forward to it, then again, not so much. They say it's too dangerous to travel outside the resorts, so naturally, while my sister is of legal drinking age in Mexico, aka 16, I'll have to walk her back to our room that we'll be sharing. Me and her are in one room and my mom and stepdad are in another.

First things first, I've gotta stock up on books, lmao!!

Christmas Around the World

 I thought this would make an interesting blog. Since Christmas is right around the corner, I decided to see if and how Christmas is celebrated in different parts of the world, out of curiosity.

Australia: they celebrate Christmas outside because of the warm weather, they don't have snow, and their Christmases are alot like ours, they decorate with tinsel, and out up trees, only it might be palm trees instead of evergreen trees or whatever tree people usually decorate around here. And here, Christams mass is huge! Everyone goes to Christmas mass here, no choice about the matter like here. Alot of people go to Bondi Beach, one of the bigger beaches in Sydney and enjoy the caroling there. And the day after Christmas, they have something called Boxing Day, which started when employees would box gifts and give them to someone. On this day, they all watch people play a game called Cricket, which is like a British version of baseball, and they also watch the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in Sydney Harbor.

Italy: Here it lasts 3 weeks, starting 8 days before Christmas called Noventa and ending on the Feast of Epiphany, and if it wasn't painfully obvious, alot of people here are Catholic, so that is why Christmas is such a big deal here, and here they don't worry about the greed of Christmas like over here, they celebrate for the true meaning, the birth of Christ! And you know the tradition of setting up the Nativity Scene? That actually started in Italy, and poor kids would dress up as shepherds and go door to door singing carols, like here. And like all traditions, Italy has their own version of 'Santa'. Here 'Santa' is a woman called La Befana, and she is often shown as a fairy queen, a crone or an ugly witch on a broomstick, she flies around looking for the Christ Child and leaves presents at every house in case he's there. She slides down chimneys, fills socks with goodies for the good kids, and charcoal for the bad ones, so La Befana here is Santa's Italian cousin. Buon Natale(Merry Christmas in Italian)

Mexico: Ayos Mio! It's huge here. Christmas here begins on December 12, with the birthday of the Virgin of Guadalupe and ends January 6. Kids wake up to find gifts under a tree and figures of the 3 Kings as well. And here where kids get gifts on December 25, in Mexico kids get gifts on January 6, the Epiphany. They also have the setting of the Nativity Scene, it's very big here. On Christmas Eve, small children dress as shepherds and go to the big Nativity Scene in the middle of town and they sing Ave Maria among real shepherds and to lull the child who plays Jesus to sleep, they sing El Rorro(Babe in Arms). Everyone goes to Midnight Mass and after that, go home to eat traditional Mexican food, tamales, burritos, etc. Feliz Navidad(Merry Christmas in Spanish)

China: Yeah, they celebrate it here too!: The people of China decorate their houses with twinkling lights, trees which they call trees of light decorated with paper lanterns, paper chains and paper flowers, they hang up stockings with the hopes that Dun Che Lao Ren(Santa's Chinese cousin) will fill them with presents.
愉快的圣诞节(Merry Christmas in simplified Chinese)

Japan: Yeah, they celebrate it here too!: Like in the US, Christmas in Japan is on the 25th of December, only about 1% of the people here are Christian, the major religions here are Buddhism and Shintoism, and Santa's Japanese cousin takes care of the little kids in Japan, his name is Hotei-Osho, who is a Buddhist monk who leaves presents in the houses for kids, and is said to have eyes in the back of his head. And in Japanese, Merry Christmas is Meri Kurisumasu.

England: Here it's celebrated on the 25th of December, like all other places. Christmas trees here are a big thing, decorating it has been around since the 1850s, it's considered bad luck to have the decorations up after January 6, the Epiphany.The tradition of stockings was actually started here, Santa's British cousin is said to wear a long red or green robe, the stockings are usually pillowcases hanging at th end of beds and he fills them up with goodies on Christmas Eve and on the afternoon of Christmas Day, that's when these little kids open their gifts. And here it's practically required to attend Midnight Mass or mass on Christmas Day.
And that is just some of the places that Christmas is celebrated in, I really didn't expect to hear that China and Japan celebrates this holiday. England I'm not suprised, alot of the traditions we celebrate on Christmas come from here.