: About Me

I was born in a cold, snowy wilderness, far from any modern...okay not really. I WAS born in Glasgow, Scotland however, which is about as close to a cold, snowy wilderness as I will ever get. My family moved to California when I was seven and here I am, a student at the University of California at Berkeley and an avid lover of history, the written word, and chocolate. I am excited about my life and my future and I hope my membership at helium will help me grow as a better writer and a better individual.

My passion is ...

Chocolate, mostly. Actually, anything with sugar in it works.

I know too much about ...

The Sims 2. It's almost embarassing.

My parents always told me ...

don't speak with your mouth full!

My childhood ambition ...

to be a ballerina. I wonder what happened...

Why I write ...

to make people laugh.

My first job ...

Sales Associate. It was awful.

My best moment ...

Winning the Nobel Peace Prize for An Inconvenient Truth. Oh wait, that was Al Gore, wasn't it?

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Happening (2008)

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There comes a time in every director's life when it is time to fold up the fancy chair with your name on it and stop making movies. For M. Night Shyamalan, that time was right after the release of his single hit The Sixth Sense. Had he stopped while he was ahead, Shyamalan might have spared us the drivel that he so fondly titled The Happening. Of all the pointless, ridiculous, and un-frightening movies ever made, The Happening is right up there with I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream. The film, set on the northeast coast of the United States, features Mark Wahlberg as quirky scienc...

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