Thanks to Garson and Shirley, I finally saw the Spider-Man 1 movie yesterday on DVD. I know it came out two years ago and was one of the biggest movies in cinema history, but it took me this long to finally see it. And the only reason I finally saw it was because all the Spider-Man 2 previews look so good that they make me wet my pants. I was really impressed with the movie, considering it's hard to bring comic book characters to life. That and Kirsten Dunst is really hot.

I heard that Spider-Man 3 is coming out in 2007, meaning I'll be able to watch Spider-Man 1 and 2 in a span of months, yet have to wait three more years to see the third one. That's really a long wait. But in the past, what I would do is wait until all the movies came out on dvd, then watch them in a single day. For example, I watched the first 4 Star Wars movies in just a few days. But people back in the past would have to wait years just to see the next one, and for those nerds, I mean Star Wars fans, that must be torture. I still have yet to see any Lord of the Rings movies, even though I have the second one on DVD (all you LOTR fans will probably come get me for admitting that).

I used to read and collect comic books as a kid, and Spider-Man was one of my favorites. But back in the days, there was only one good Spider-Man line (The Amazing Spider-Man). That was the original and best Spider-Man series. Then all of a sudden, all these weird spin-offs started showing up. You'd have the Spider-Man and Venom comics, Spider-Man vs. Batman comics. Heck, I bet by now there's a comic book about Spider-Man's cousin. The industry just got saturated with all these weird comic books to create new interest. I also loved the X-Men comics (Uncanny X-Men and X-Men were the best). Then all of a sudden, each character started getting their own comic book series or all the charatcers you thought were dead came back to have their own series because they never actually died, but had their twin die. It's kind of like Joey from Friends, where the original is great, but the spin-off is a load of crap.

I always wanted to be a comic book artist, that was my dream job. I even tried to make my own comicbooks about these weak characters I created, but the storyline and art was so poor. I moved on to trying to be a professional basketball player. When I realized I was too short, I moved on to baseball player, where I realized I never played any sort of organized baseball and couldn't hit a fastball. Finally I really wanted to be an actor, but knew I had no acting abilities and I was asian (that's a handicap). Throw in the fact I'm no Steven Seagal (who's a great looking guy with amazing talent as an actor) and it's easy to see Hollywood wasn't my thing.

I've also had other phases in my life. Early in freshman year in high school, I wanted to be a comedian because I liked making people laugh. But even though I saw laughter as great medicine, it didn't seem to help cure me when I wasn't happy. I had my musician phase, but in order to do that, you need to be able to sing/write/play an instrument well.

It's nice to dream though.