By Dante Spado Last week in my Branding of Me class, my professor had us take an enneagram personality test, which made me recall when my AP Psychology teacher had us take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test in high school. I’m not totally sure how the two tests compare or if one is more accurate than the other or if they measure different things. Personally, I like the Myers-Briggs test more and found the…
By Dante Spado My favorite band is Electric Light Orchestra, or as they’re more commonly known, ELO. Growing up, I was raised on Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen and other classic rock bands, like Aerosmith. ELO was never on my radar until I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (fitting that my favorite band would come out of a movie I saw), which featured the song “Mr. Blue Sky” in its opening sequence. I was…
By Dante Spado I’ll admit it. I jumped the gun. When my professor told us to start writing a blog and I decided to write mine about movies, I just dove in headfirst and wrote about Rogue One without even introducing myself. How rude. Let’s start over. My name is Dante Spado, and I like movies. I always have, and I probably always will. As a kid, I watched movies constantly. My parents always tell…
By Dante Spado Initially, I was a little skeptical of WandaVision. I’m a huge Marvel fan, dating back to when I had a huge bin of superhero action figures as a kid. I’d use my imagination and make up all sorts of scenarios that my action figures were in. I’d have them team up to fight bad guys, fight each other or even do my own crossovers, like having the Green Goblin fight Wolverine. Never…
By Dante Spado Over winter break, my girlfriend (a Star Wars novice) and I decided to watch all nine Star Wars movies (of course we started with the Originals. Is that even up for debate?). Having been a huge Star Wars fan all my life, it was nice to go back and watch everything in quick succession. It brought back a lot of nostalgia and good feelings of course, but the whole time I was…