Days 13-15: San Francisco

I very much have enjoyed San Francisco, though for entirely different reasons. San Francisco was an awesome place to visit, with a lot of modern downtown stuff, corporate feeling areas, touristy stuff and still independent mom & pop places. Portland, on the other hand, is what Brooklyn wishes it could be if there weren't Manhattan corporate influences coming in. There's not a lot of touristy stuff, but it seems like a fantastic place to be.

Days 7-12: Mostly Los Angeles. Mostly.

I've been feeling lazy and didn't feel like writing despite the fact that LA was basically a trip to the Jersey Shore where you don't do anything but read all day. But somehow I survived.

The Definitive Timeline of Australians Getting Thrown Out at 3am

After going to Rainey Street with pretty much the only remaining parts of my Austin hostel crew last night and talking to them about the big hostel scandal of the three Australian girls getting thrown out on the street at 3am and escorted out by police, I think I can now piece together a definitive timeline of everything that happened.

Traveling Across the US: Days 4, 5 & 6: Austin

Austin, Texas is a very hot place. It takes maximum effort to walk about a quarter of a mile and not drop dead dying. I probably wouldn't feel safe going a mile without Gatorade or water or something like that.

Texas State Capitol

Traveling Across the US: Day 3: Chicago/Austin

Do you want to know how much of a genius I am? I scheduled a flight for 7am to save about $20 even though I wouldn't be able to check into my next hostel until 3pm. That 7am plane arrived in Austin from Chicago at 9am. So this was really a Hall of Fame terrible idea.

Traveling Across the US: Day 2: Chicago

The lesson of day number 2 of my excursion is that weather men are liars and shouldn't ever be listened to. I was going to go to the Cubs game at Wrigley Field that started at 1:20 yesterday, but it was supposed to thunderstorm for at least a good portion of the game. Not perfect baseball weather!

Traveling Across the US: Day 1: Chicago

So for the next 3 weeks, the purpose of this blog is gonna change to my travel journal through my three week trek via bus and plane from Columbus to Seattle via Chicago, Austin, LA, San Francisco and Portland. That's lotsa places for me to explore either for fun or to see if I want to apply for jobs in after I get my MBA.

 Look in my eyesssss, what do ya see?

5 things 7/23

1. i made a lego space needle
2. i didn't freak out when I got stuck up there w/ the legos
3. i don't have to go into work tomorrow
4. tracked down all the people for the 8/20 happy hr
5. we have a date for the follies auction!

5 things 7/21

1. convo w/ Ahern lasted over an hr!
2. First years love the game night
3. up in the air got amazing after I pushed through
4. gonna get to go to FNL fo free
5. applied for first post grad jobbies

5 things 7/20

1. got my own haircut for first time ever
2. went to a new place I was scared to go
3. got told I've done well at my internship & got a reference
4. didn't panic and figured out PNC pin
5. only 8 days till I blow this pop stand
6. haven't gotten upsest that only 2 people going to my thing

Last Night I Watched: Trainwreck

Trainwreck is the first Judd Apatow movie he's directed but not written the script. Probably not coincidentally, it's his best movie since 2007. Schumer's voice combined with Apatow's direction aren't perfect, but when one of the first lines of the main character is about a penis being so big that it's murdered people, you can be pretty sure a movie is going to be fantastic.

The official studio poster

This Week I've Watched: Evil Dead, Back To The Future & Ghostbusters

I haven't written in awhile, since I've been busy playing a lot of Civ 5 before getting frustrated after four hours that I'm awful at it, but I've slowly been watching movies again and, unlike last time I wrote, I actually picked ones I liked. Oh boy!

This Week I've Watched: Raging Bull & Best In Show

So these were two movies I expected to love and didn't. I had a good run of picking movies so far, aside from The Guest, but I guess all good things must come to an end.

5 things 7/9

1. got that positive reply
2. got an interview next week
3. called peggy
4. RMEP liked mah email
5. SM helped on Portland

Last Weekend I Watched: United 93 and the USWNT

I didn't have anything to do on July 4th because Columbus generally celebrates Independence Day on July 3rd with Red, White and Boom, a giant mass of people apparently standing around and doing nothing. So on the 4th, I decided I'd be patriotic and watch a movie involving Americans taking down the terrorists: United 93.

                                       I didn't make this myself, it's the actual poster, studios

Last Night I Watched: Magic Mike

I think I must have heard some random people talking about Magic Mike XXL or something yesterday, but for whatever reason I decided to watch Magic Mike last night. I'd tried to watch it a couple of years ago but didn't get past the part where Olivia Munn was just standing around naked for some reason. But it turned out to be pretty good! Not fantastic or anything, but it was funny and charming and the first coming of age male stripper movie I've ever seen. So that's something.

Screenshot from the movie. Didn't steal this I promise

This Week I've Watched: Gone Girl, John Wick & A History of Violence

Keep in mind here that I'm just picking movies I should've watched in the past but haven't seen for any reason so that's how you end up with two recent movies and one from 10 years ago. Anyways, they were all really good! I just had nitpicks with all three, that were pretty much my only complaints so they seem worse than they are to me.

Last Night I Watched: Snowpiercer

Snowpiercer was a movie I got a copy of awhile ago, like before I started business school, and was originally supposed to be a part of last summer's bar exam film festival. But it got kept out for some reason and I kind of forgot about it. But for whatever reason, I pulled it out last night and decided to watch it and MY GOD what have I been missing.

Screenshot from the film. This is not mine, studios

5 things 6/29

1. talked to the girl in the elevator about her dog
2. snowpiercer. that is all.
3. got my amazon gift card finally
4. found out I'm probably getting residency
5. set record amt of time at work today

Last Night I Watched: The Guest

After listening to Real Good Show, @boring_as_heck's podcast, based on their recommendation, I decided to make the second movie of my personal summer film festival The Guest. It was certainly an interesting if conventional movie but ultimately, it just left me wondering when we get to the fireworks factory for the first three quarters of it.

5 things 6/28

1. Found a new podcast to listen to for tomorrow and running and stuff
2. did my first ever movie review
3. i keep saving NHL even after losing
4. found a good book to read hopefully
5. holy crap less than a month till I'm traveling!

Last Night I Watched: Frank

Last summer, one of the first movies I watched was The Spectacular Now, which left me a wreck halfway through to the degree I couldn't finish it in one night. If Frank's 2nd half had been its first, the same thing probably would've happened, albeit for different reasons. But Frank's 1st half was one of the top funniest things in a movie I've ever seen.

 This is way less creepy when you watch (screenshot from the film)

5 things 6/27

1. Found a ridiculously weird movie to watch and a way to pass time when I'm bored
2. MP replied
3. walked 4 miles even with calves hurting
4. got my article published finally
5. started reading

Introducing T-Bang's Summer 2015 Film Festival

So last summer while I was killing myself voluntarily studying for the NY bar, I was too poor to afford new video games or anything like that, so I decided I'd watch a new movie every night or every other night to at least have some kind of highlight at the end of my day. I think I ended up doing it pretty much every night for a month and dug up my final top 5 rankings from less than a week before the bar:

1) Spectacular Now 2) No Country for Old Men 3) Silver Linings Playbook 4) Rise of the Planet of the Apes 5)21 Jump St Lego Movie falls off

— Matt Torino (@mtorino75) July 23, 2014

I figured since I have exactly a month to go before I head to Chicago on July 28 to start my 3 week plus sojourn through the western United States, I'd try to do that again more since I'm bored as hell than because I need a highlight. Thursdays it probably won't happen but hey most nights is good enough. Or maybe during the day on those days who knows.

I'm still deciding on what I'm going to watch tonight. Probably something off HBO Go but who knows. I'll probably write a 500 word review of it on here tomorrow and if anyone randomly comes across this with any suggestions, holla at ya boy. 

NHL Mock Draft

Hey I decided to do an NHL Mock Draft for the top 10 picks because why not

 Eichel looks stoned

5 things 6/24

1. Figured Out I don't have to read that driving book
2. Pretty much confirmed I'll get paid before I leave
3. Called the church twice
4. Ran and walked today and went someplace new to work
5. Didn't get upset when criticized over work-just fixed it

The Civil War and School

I figured I'd write about the Confederate Flag. Except not to get myself yelled at or called an ignorant white person, which I'd assuredly be if I wrote about it in any other context than this one. 

I thought I'd write about the Civil War in the context that I was taught it in a Northeastern middle and high school. I've been thinking about how many people have their facts so wrong about the Civil War, its causes and its meanings. People thought the South just wanted nullification or states' rights (which they did, but what did they want to prevent from going away?) or something like that. And sure that's one thing, but like @DragonflyJonez said, and I'm paraphrasing, all those causes are one degree from slavery.

5 things 6/23

1. did a good thing getting all my stuff on email
2. Probably figured out a way to get my check before I go or slightly after
3. stayed under 2k calories when it looked bad
4. feeling better with allergy meds
5. only spent 1.50 out of my card

5 things 6/21

1. Got MP to friend me she liked talking to me so much
2. Went running even when I didn't want to at all
3. people liked my dad story
4. wrote about columbus without getting inflammatory I don't think
5. got thanked for coming to db's bday party

Thoughts on Columbus 1 Year In

I've been in Columbus for almost 11 months now but I don't think I got a real, honest impression of the city until school ended and I came back from New Jersey in the middle of May to start my job. With school in session at OSU, Columbus is a bustling city with a lot to do. Without it, it's a big suburb with one pretty nice street.

5 things 6/19

1. Didn't get upset when didn't get an answer
2. TW asked me to hang out tomorrow
3. MP still talking to me
4. found a good book to read at least so far-Watchmen
5. came up with a decent accounting plan till my trip-$50 a week

5 Things 6/17

1. I picked a good shirt today (the whalers hoodie) since some rando woman complimented it on da streetz
2. I called the place I wanted to nom on the phone and didn't put it off because I was nervous and hate phones
3. I bantered a little with the girl at the pharmacy
4. I probably got an engagement next week
5. People want to come to my happy hr event I championed

aux-I didn't get upset at the therapist today and made people laugh with my taco bell afternoon story

5 Things Nobody Will Get 6/16

1. I got dem digits
2. I correctly picked the Warriors winning the west and finals & got a crying jordan RT'd
3. I made one of the top SBCFB people laugh and started and interesting conversation about PJ Fleck
4. I kept a conversation going w/ PD and it wasn't weird
5. I handed in my social media report ahead of schedule
(aux). Went up to boss and wasn't afraid and told him I wanted to leave, got under 190 on the scale

The Witcher 3 and Growing Up

The first game I remember having morality choices be a central part of the gameplay experience was Knights of the Old Republic, which I played circa 2004. Prior to that, every game seemingly had a fairly linear structure with one defined outcome. You had no say in how your avatar acted or reacted; it was basically a movie with gameplay interspersed.

Hey I'm writing

Hey guys, since there isn't much hockey to write about since OSU isn't getting anyone drafted and I'm pretty bored after work, I figured I'd write stuff.

 If anyone finds this and wants to follow it for some reason, go right ahead but I'm basically using it as a journal till I travel. Then it's a travel journal for 3 weeks then who knows. So my mom will probably find it.

There's no theme and I'm not really even trying to work on writing. I just heard keeping a journal helps when you're bored or by yourself, so I figured I'd try and write about whatever comes to mind.

Sorry for not putting any effort into the site. I know jack about HTML outside of basics and think Mad Max was awesome so that's all I put