Christian Bale Meltdown

Meltdowns are funny but this one takes the cake. By now all of you have probably have heard of Christian Bale's Meltdown on the Terminator 4 set when his Director of Photography distracts him in the middle of the scene. Well anyways, one of the things I miss about L.A. is the Kevin and Bean morning show. They are hilarious well anyways, they like to have fake interviews with people and one of those people happens to be Christian Bale. Check out the link below and have a good laugh at this impersonator. On a side note, Christian Bale actually did make his first public statement on the Kevin and Bean show to address this. I hope you enjoy it. 

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Left 4 Deej

Over Christmas we made a Horror film with our nieces and nephew. Nothing makes you feel the spirit of the season more than a nice horror film, check it out.

California vs Texas Beaches

While visiting California for Christmas we made a stop at the beach. Jimmy misses the California beaches and complains that Galveston is a lake not a beach. Then when we got back from California my family went to Galveston for a day. My conclusion, I think I have to agree with Jimmy on this one.  

First a picture from Galveston, aka the lake. 

And a picture from California, see those waves. 

Atama Tournament 2008

I finally completed the video of Jimmy's jiu jitsu tournament from the beginning of November. He ended up winning two matches and losing two, not bad for his first time. 

What is it?

1 canvas

20 magazines

2,000 strips of paper

1 modern art piece

I don't consider myself an artist, but check out my skills in cutting and glueing. Proof that everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarten. 

Over half way through  Jimmy told me I should have just put the magazines in a paper shredder to get it cut small.  My response, "Yes that would have worked, too bad you're just now telling me!" So next time I make one (which will be never) I'll use this idea. I cut out my magazine pieces with a x-acto knife and ruler. 

Halloween Pics

With the cousins


How do you think an Obama/Palin ticket would do?

Jiu Jitsu Advancement

As you all know I am pretty into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I love it! To progress in Jiu-Jitsu there are 5 belts in this order: White, Blue, Purple, Brown, and Black. If you train at a legit school then you know that it takes about 10 or more years to get a black belt, especially if it is from a good school. Good BJJ(Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) instructors don't just give these out like candy. At my school to progress in within the belt system they issue stripes. After three stripes, you get the next belt. Now I digress.

Currently, I am training under the great Vinicius "Draculino". He is considered one of the best instructors in the world and lucky for me he chose Houston as his home away from Brazil. Well, I have been training at his place for about 4 months and last thursday, he advanced and gave me all three stripes at once! I was extremely honored by this gesture and know now that the competition is going to get tough. I plan on competing in November at a BJJ tournament and see how I do. I added some pics and a video about Draculino's school in Brazil so you get an idea who he is and how awesome an instructor he is. I will keep you posted on tournament results with maybe a cool video.

Secret Loves

When you ask Jimmy and me about our favorite bands the names might not seem familar to the average radio listener...like Fleet Foxes, Black Kids, Band of Horses are some the ones that currently occupy our cd player. We like to listen to bands that don't even exist yet, but every
once in a while we fall from our indy music ladder.

Jimmy discovered Hanna Montana's brother formed a band and I catch him listening to the songs all the time. Check out Metro Station here. Her brother is the one with all the tatoos.

I, on the other hand, have been going around humming American Idol's David Archuleta's new song. Yes it's really good I promise :)

Do you have any bands you secretly like, I know Jamie was a big fan of Hanson Brothers for a long time!

Hurricane Ike!

We stayed through the hurricane, and taped up our windows and stuck the kid in the walk-in closet the night of the storm. We heard the wind all night and then it suddenly stopped, I thought the storm was over...no that was the eye, because it came back even stronger. We were hit with 60 mph wind and 90 mph gusts. Here are a couple pics of what I saw the next morning.

These are trees around my apartment, big trees like this came down everywhere, what a mess.

But after a day and half without power we called it quits and drove out to Austin to visit my sis and her new baby until the power came back. We got power on Wed., but my parents' hood is still without power. A power guy on the news this morning said, "The name says it all, take Kingwood...there is king-size wood on the powerlines!" I think he's saying my parents aren't getting power for awhile. 

Jimmy has had work cancelled all week, he thinks hurricanes are great now.  Yeah great if those trees didn't end up in your house.

Dress Up

Darren as Batman.

Darren with Mr. Potato Head glasses.

He's gonna LOVE me for this one...

Shelly's Surprise 40th B-Day

I have 7 sisters and 3 sister-in-laws and when my oldest sister turned the big 4-0 everyone came to town to surprise her and celebrate. Here's a little video of our trip with our memories of why Shelly is the best! Sorry the video is so pixelated it's hard to upload a good quality one with your limited memory space on youtube.

Little Friends

Here are a couple of pictures of Darren with his little friends. 

Darren and Landon were born just two weeks apart, Jimmy would say these two are going to "get chicks"! They might have to lose the pacifiers first. 

Darren and Avery were born just one week apart. Look he's already "getting chicks", holding hands and all. 

The Team

Well it always fun to have my wife's family in town because I get to do fun things i.e make a cool new movie. So we were all playing around and we decided to shoot a short film. What do you think young boys are into these days? You got it guns, explosions, and fighting so here is my crack at making a short action sequence for the opening of our little film project. The Team. Enjoy!

Here's my latest video featuring Daddy Max, enjoy!

Video Contest

You can call us the new Joe Simpson because we're pawning our kid for cash. Happyslip.com is having a video contest where you have to download this song and make a video to it. The top five videos with the most votes win a new video camera. So this is how you can help.

1. You will probably need to get a youtube account and it's very simple

2. Watch our video here and leave a comment like, "Man jsanti3 video is the best, I will vote for him." 

3. Voting starts May 18th I'll update you on how to vote when it's all set up on Happy slip's webpage.

Jimmy's Nerdy Side

Okay, so Carol has handed off to me the next blog post. So I decided to blog about some of my nerdy things I am interested in doing or currently doing. I was always into sci-fi and fantasy. However, when I was younger, I heard about kids playing Dungeons and Dragons and was interested. I never got to play because if you did then boy...that would be the end of your junior high/high school career. Not playing just made my interest get bigger.

I am about 30 years old. I feel pretty secure about myself. I am married and really have my friends set. So what does that all mean? Well, I have finally decided to whip out the D&D and try it for the first time. Thankfully, I have cool brothers in law and a nephew who don't mind getting "sweaty" ( By sweaty I am referring to the guys who hang out at those obscure game stores and wear black trench coats, are fairly large, and sweat profusely....oh yeah and they tend to talk about the weirdest things like Dungeons and Dragons)

I know this is the nerdiest thing anyone can do but I also can say after the experience I have played Dungeons and Dragons. Be sure to see updates of my adventures as I create my level 1 barbarian and see how my bro-in laws decide to play their level 1 half elf ranger, cleric, and paladin. I plan on recording these adventures on tape so this is going to be pretty awesome! Maybe if we get into it, then all you guys will want to start playing right?

Practical Jokes

Yesterday I was enjoying a quiet Sunday evening at home when all the sudden I heard something hit our front door. I opened the door to discover some kids had egged my door! Jimmy and I just laughed at the situation and I remembered all the great practical jokes I played. Jimmy said we probably have it coming back to us. Here's some of the practical jokes I remember.

**Warning don't let your little ones read this they will only get their minds filled with some great ideas.**

* I tp'd my share of houses but I remember when breading became popular. You would pick up old bread from behind the grocery store and then spread the bread all over the front lawn of the person.

* We would drive around with shoe polish, stop next to random cars and leave some funny comment on their car window.

* We made a copy of a friends key and moved his car, he thought it was stolen...whoops. He then left live lobsters swimming in our bathtub as payback.

* We snuck into some friends' apartment when they were sleeping and tied a rope between the bedroom doors so they wouldn't be able to get out when they woke up. Too bad we didn't have good knot tying skills because they easily got out.

* My car got filled to the brim with shredded paper. It was the worst thing to clean, I still found bits of paper in my car a year after it happened.

I asked Jimmy if he played any pranks and he couldn't think of any. I don't know why I have a plethora of them.

Santiago's Visit

The Santiago's came to town to visit for the weekend and attend the baby blessing. Here are some pics. 

 

Just Chilling

I thought these pictures of DJ were pretty funny so I decided to post them. Enjoy!





(Thanks for the lil' board shorts Jamie.)

Stupid Human Tricks

I first discovered I could lift one eyebrow at a time in the 5th grade when I replied to a comment with this face and my classmate asked, "How did you do that?".

Jimmy has double-jointed thumbs, he knew there wasn't something right about his thumb popping out like that.

Some stupid human tricks are learned. I picked up the three loops with your tongue from my friend Holly.

Darren is an escape artist, and can escape his arms out of his swaddle in a minute flat!

Do you have any stupid tricks?