| I've caught the plague | ||||
| 09:47pm 03/12/2009 | ||||
I haven't done that weird shaky thing again, but I've felt like ass ever since then. I must have some kinda flu, cause it's not normal for me to be this sick for this long. I've missed a lot of work because of this thing. Not that I'm complaining about that. Anyway, I feel like talking about something else now. Last week, when I was hanging out with my dad on Thanksgiving, we were driving around, waiting for the movie to start. We happened to drive by Target and Best Buy, and there was like a whole bunch of people lined up in front of the door with tents and junk like that. This was around two or three in the afternoon. I just don't understand people. The only scenario where I can picture myself doing something like that would be a concert, and it would have to be a super awesome band like The Stooges or Led Zeppelin or something. Ya know, something fun. But these people were spending their Thanksgiving outside in the freezing cold and sleeping on the concrete so they could save a couple of bucks on Black Friday. I'm like, what the hell? Don't get me wrong, I like Christmas and everything, but it's turned into this weird ritual that we torture ourselves with. That kind of behavior just doesn't make sense to me. I know it's dumb that I talk about this stuff like a week after it happens, but oh well. |
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sick| A red ass beatdown of epic proportions | ||||
| 08:21pm 01/12/2009 | ||||
Then the next day, Mercedes called and invited me over, so I hung out with them for a while. Me and Rick played Tekken 6 basically the whole time I was there. Lol, he entered the room with this big Indian blanket over his head like he was some Jedi master or something. I used Paul, and he used Hwoarang like always. And it took me a while to get into the groove of things. He got like ten wins in a row on me right from the start. I finally broke his streak, and then things evened out more. After that, he experimented with some different characters, mostly Jack and the new characters. Haha, he kept saying Leo was like Michael Jackson. "Look, he's got the Michael Jackson glove. He dances more than he fights. He even sounds like Michael!" It was hilarious. Then, he went back using Hwoarang, and dude...I freaking dominated like I never dominated before. I don't know if he was trying too hard to find his old moves or it just took me that long to get going, but it was ridiculous. I went on a 25 victory win streak, then he beat me a couple of times, and I went on a 22 win streak. He practically had tears in his eyes at one point. And he went through his usual lines of course, that I hit him from across the street, that he was blocking all my moves, etc. But here's the funniest thing he said all night. Rick: Dude, Paul is not that fast! He's never been that fast! Jes: *laughs* What do you think he's getting faster? Rick: No! My guy's getting slower! Haha. He kept saying all of Hwoarang's moves have changed in this game, but I don't think they have. I beat the game with Hwoarang, and I went through his whole move list ahead of time. They all look the same to me. But then, Hwoarang isn't my character. Really, I think it was just the X Box's asshole controls throwing him off. But yeah, the final score was like 97 to 25. Yes, it was that bad. It was a red ass beatdown of epic proportions, that's the only way to describe it. I don't know if he'll even want to play Tekken with me again after that. But more likely, he'll get the game and obsess over it day and night just so he can beat me. Other than that, Ricky was really sick, he was asleep basically the whole time I was over there. It was weird not hearing from him all night. Mercedes watched me kick her dad's ass, Destiny was playing with friends, and Faith was, ya know, Faith. Faith: Let me pull one of your arm hairs out. Jes: No. They're in there for a reason. And Michelle was making some Indian cloth thing to use as a coaster. I'm a little worried about her, she's gonna have to have back surgery. I told her she needs to get a second opinion before she rushes into that, but she kinda acted like it's no big deal. I guess she'll be alright. *shrug* |
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dorky| Vaya con huevos! | ||||
| 01:04am 25/11/2009 | ||||
I've also been listening to Wolfmother's new album, Cosmic Egg. I don't know what the fuck a cosmic egg is, but this is a good album. I was kinda bummed when the original band broke up, but Andrew Stockdale was doing most of the songwriting apparently, so this has basically the same sound. It rocks pretty friggen hard. One thing that stood out to me was the lead playing. Andrew's really improved his soloing in the five years since the last one. I think their first album had better songs in general, but that's nitpicking. Especially since they're one of the only bands that still play this kind of music. And I got AFI's new record, which I thought was pretty...mediocre. I mean, it's better than December Underground, it's got a little more a rock n roll vibe. But none of the songs are as good as Miss Murder. Medicate's a good song, and maybe there's a couple others. Really, if it weren't for Davey's lyrics, I don't think I'd find it very interesting at all. I feel like AFI's career is on the downslope at this point. The odds of them going back to their earlier punky style are pretty astronomical, and their last couple of albums haven't been that great. I have to wonder how many good songs they have left in them. Hmmmmmmmmm that's all I feel like writing right now. |
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mellow| That is not very Batman | ||||
| 11:49pm 17/11/2009 | ||||
Samurai 7 is an effing sweet anime. It's based on the old movie Seven Samurai, which I honestly don't remember much about. But it's got a great story, some interesting ideas, really awesome characters. Kyuzo is my favorite, he's uber badass. It's also got a cool atmosphere, kind of futuristic and primitive at the same time. Yeah, I'm still on this samurai kick. I must've been Japanese in a past life or something. I recently read that Ozzy fired Zakk Wylde from his band because he was making everything "sound like Black Label Society". I'm not sure how I feel about that. I mean, Zakk's obviously one of the most Batman guitarists around today, and sounding like BLS isn't such a bad thing. Then again, Ozzy's always had a talent for finding kickass guitarists. It'd be cool if he could find somebody new and inject some new life in his own music. Anyway, Zakk's still got BLS, so I guess I'm not too concerned either way. Everyone should read Guitar World's new interview with Tony Iommi and Eddie Van Halen. I read a lot of GW articles, but this one stood out to me. For one thing, it's Tony Iommi. Der. But they also talk about some interesting stuff, like how people love to complain about random bullshit and you can never please them no matter what you do. "For some reason people love to complain about everything. The internet has made it easy for people to do that. Shut the fuck up and get a life, or show me how good you can do it." - Eddie Van Halen It's true. You notice how all the best music today is being made by people in their fifties and sixties? That's cause people my age would rather bitch about new music than make it. It's like they've all accepted that all the best music was in the past and it'll never be that good again. Fuck that! Of course I love old-school rock as much as anyone. Of course the radio is 90 percent garbage. But I don't live in the seventies. I live right here, right now. I hope those old guys keep making music for as long as they got air in their lungs, but I also want something that speaks to my generation. And if other people won't make it, then I'll make it myself goddamn it. Okay, games that I have to play. BlazBlue: It's supposed to be the spiritual successor to the Guilty Gear games, which I love. Brutal Legend: This game looks very Batman. Also very metal. Plus, Ozzy's in it apparently. The Beatles Rock Band: It's the Beatles. Nuff said. Final Fantasy Dissidia: It's a Final Fantasy fighting game. Two great things that should go great together. Games I might wanna check out. Dragon Age: It looks cool. Uncharted 2: Ditto. Assassin's Creed 2: Also ditto. Wet: A hot chick that kicks ass. What more do I need? Halo: I still haven't played any Halo games! I have to find out what the big deal is. Long entry. This is what happens when I don't update for a while. |
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crazy| Why would a console game say insert coin? | ||||
| 11:27pm 03/11/2009 | ||||
I've pretty much spent the last week playing Tekken 6. That's an awesome game, dude. But again, the first thing I noticed were the crappy X Box controls. I don't know if it's just cause I'm used to the Playstation controller, or the X Box is just that bad. But it's especially stupid this time, cause Paul's power punch move has one of those rolling commands, and that's one of my main moves with him. I couldn't do it at first. He'd just jab or jump at them or some other stupid thing. It's easier now that I've had a week of practice, but I still fuck it up sometimes. I'll be pissed if Rick kicks my ass just cause of these controls. Otherwise, I've been loving it. The customization in Tekken 5 seems tiny compared to what's in this game. You can actually set it to where Batman words like "Pow!" and "Bam!" pop up when you hit somebody. That's officially the coolest thing ever. And scenario campaign is awesome, maybe the best side game Tekken's ever had. You get to fight through different areas Final Fight-style while playing through the game's story. Unfortunately, it's based around Lars Anderson(who has a goofy-ass haircut even by Tekken standards), but you can overlook that. The coolest part is this one scene where Heihachi actually catches a bullet in his teeth. That's insane, dude. Lol, and there's one stage in the game where you're surrounded by sheep, and you can knock them around while you're fighting. Greatest stage ever. I like the plot, too. It's cool that Jin's a bad guy this time. I never would've expected that. Really, there isn't any clear-cut good guy in this game. That's one of the things I like about Tekken, you never know what to expect from the story. |
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| Kickass Americans vs. Fatass Americans | ||||
| 02:55pm 20/10/2009 | ||||
Another thing I didn't realize is that Tekken 6 is coming out this month. Hell yeah, dude! I need to get my online gaming set up so I can finally show the world my amazing Tekken skills. I'm ready to kick somebody's ass. But ya know, I was looking at some of the new characters that are gonna be in this game, and one of them is a morbidly obese brawler dude. And boy, do I mean morbid. This is a trend I'm starting to notice. Are fat Americans becoming such a stereotype that they're becoming video game characters? Lets do a comparison. This is what Japan used to think a typical American looked like. ( Kickass Americans ) And this is apparently what we look like now. ( Fatass Americans ) At this point, I think it's time for America to go on a diet if for no other reason than to get cooler video game characters. On an almost similar topic, I wonder if Brutal Legend is as badass as it looks. |
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contemplative| GIBSON SG MOTHERFUCKER!!!!! | ||||
| 01:15am 15/10/2009 | ||||
I've been trying to get my dad to help pay for it, since it's so effing expensive, and he technically never got me anything for my birthday. But he's so slow about stuff like that. We were looking at the guitars yesterday, and he noticed there's a little scratch on it. Which I never would've noticed, and it's only visible if you hold it up to the light anyway. He tends to see everything through the eyes of a sports collector(a hobby that I'm convinced requires you to have OCD). He pays attention to details, and I'm more of a go-with-the-flow type of personality. So he was like, "Lets see if we can get them to order another one." Well, that would've taken two weeks, and I was like, "Screw that." I've waited too long to get this thing anyway, I wasn't going to wait another two weeks. I don't care if it has a scratch on it. If anything, the scratch gives it character. Now that I've got my guitar and my Orange amplifier, I'm gonna sell my Crate GLX(I'm never using a solid-state amp again), make a couple more paychecks, and buy a Macbook. Then hopefully, I can get to work on recording my music and putting it on the internet. I've been wanting the Macbook for over six months now, it's ridiculous that I haven't already gotten it. Also, with this new guitar, I'm renewing my commitment to learn everything I can about the instrument and make myself into the best rock n' roller I can be. No more being lazy or playing with the TV on. This guitar deserves my full attention. |
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| The Lone Samurai | ||||
| 01:18am 13/10/2009 | ||||
The other day, I watched this Thai martial arts movie called Chocolate. I have no idea why it's called that. Anyway, it was pretty cool. It's about this chick that's autistic or something that learns to fight by watching action movies. Nothing better than a hot chick that kicks ass. I found out later that it has the same director and the same fight choreographer as Ong Bak, which makes sense. It has kinda the same atmosphere(and Ong Bak is one of the movies she watches). But man, getting shot doesn't mean anything in this movie. One dude gets shot and acts like he's dying, the next scene is jumping around like he's freaking Jackie Chan. One thing I noticed is there's a couple of scenes where the characters speak English. And it seems like there was some other Thai movie I watched where they spoke English a little. That must be a popular second language over there. I know there was that one chick from Thailand I used to talk to. Not that she spoke it that well. Lol, she asked me, "Are you boring?" Anyway, I also just got done reading The Lone Samurai, the life story of the most famous swordsman in Japanese history, Musashi Miyamoto. I think this dude's really interesting. He killed a grown man in a duel when he was thirteen, fought other samurai while roaming Japan, wielded a wooden practice sword regardless of what crazy-ass weapon his opponent was using, had been in over sixty fights before he was thirty, and never lost one of them. His most famous duel was on a tiny island where he fought and killed his opponent with a makeshift sword he carved out of an oar. Then, he went on to become a painter and lived his last years as a hermit in a cave. His life was so outrageous, it almost sounds fictional. Reading this makes me feel like rereading The Book of Five Rings, his main manifesto on the martial arts. I read it a long time ago, but I don't remember much about it. I don't think it made sense to me at the time. And I'll probably read Eiji Yoshikawa's fictional novel about him, too. This book also mentioned Zen Buddhism a lot, so I figure I'll see what I can find out about that. I may as well since I apparently think I'm a follower of Daoism now. Man, there's a lot of crap I wanna read. Lol, I've been on a real samurai/ninja kick lately. |
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| Glenn Beck. What the fuck? | ||||
| 02:35am 06/10/2009 | ||||
It seems like I hear about this guy everywhere lately. I'm constantly seeing his face on books and magazine covers or hearing his name on TV, and my gym is always playing his show in the locker room when I'm there. My question is why? Even if I was a conservative, I can't see what his appeal is. I think he's a mental case. I'm not saying that to make fun of him, I literally think he's fucked up in the head. I used to think Bill O'reilly was bad, but Bill at least seems capable of holding a real conversation. Possibly, I would even get along with him if we weren't talking about politics. But with Beck it's like, is there anything resembling a normal human being in there? Of course, I know the answer to my own question. He's popular because America loves big personalities, regardless of how ridiculous they are. I would think this guy's funny, but the fact that so many people seem to take him seriously is frightening. Blah, at this point, I'm convinced that liberals and conservatives only exist to fight each other. Maybe if we could get rid of this two party system, we could actually get something done. But realistically, I don't expect that to happen any time soon. |
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blah| What can I say? I'm a fan. | ||||
| 12:16am 02/10/2009 | ||||
This is Rainbow, which features Wata on vocals. Michio Kurihara plays a solo that kills the elderly and small children. |
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| Hellooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||||
| 12:08am 30/09/2009 | ||||
This last week, I read The Kouga Ninja Scrolls. It's the novel that the anime Basilisk is based on, and also Shinobi: Heart Under Blade. And I think it inspired the anime movie Ninja Scroll also. It's really awesome. It's got all these ninjas fighting each other, and they all have these crazy superpowers. The only thing I thought was stupid was the main guy character and the main girl character hardly interact at all. I hate that, when you have two characters that are supposed to be "in love", but they never actually talk to each other. That's dumb. Other than that, it was really good. The author apparently wrote a whole bunch of books like this, and I'd like to read them. Unfortunately, it looks like this is the only one that's been translated into English. Oh well. But yeah, I've officially changed my mind about the wandering samurai thing. Now I wanna be a ninja with magick powers when I grow up. And now for something completely random(what else do you expect from me?). Ya know, I used to be really proud of my generation. I would think, "Hey we're not the racist, homophobic douchebags that our fathers and grandfathers were." Which is mostly true. But now I've come to the conclusion that this whole generation is a bunch of assholes. They can't enjoy anything, they just complain about shit all the time. Music isn't as good as it used to be, TV isn't as good as it used to be, this band's a sellout, that celebrity isn't cool enough, blah blah blah. They think criticizing random junk makes them sound smart or something, when really it just makes them sound annoying. I'll admit that I have those tendencies myself sometimes, but I'm bored with that phase. It's too much of a pain in the ass to constantly analyze something, break it down, and try to find some excuse to not like it. I'd rather just enjoy things for what they are. Sure, I have my preferences like anyone else, but I'm not gonna act like my opinion is some great universal truth. And one question I have to ask is, if people think music is so bad right now, why don't they try making music that's good? Maybe if we could get over our own bullshit, we could create something that's interesting. This rant was brought to you by the number 7. |
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| SWINE FLU SWINE FLU MOTHERFUCKING SWINE FLU!!!!! | ||||
| 12:34am 23/09/2009 | ||||
I think of all the rock star people I admire, John Lennon's the one I relate to the most on a personal basis. I don't think I'll snort a line of ants or roll around in broken glass any time soon, but I could see myself doing some of the things he did. As I was reading about how he reacted to certain things, I thought, "Yep, I probably would've said or done the same thing." And of course, I relate to his philosophical ideas. Peace, love, freedom, all that groovy stuff. For some reason, it bothers me that he never lived during my lifetime. I wish he was still with us. Imagine the things he might've done if he'd lived. There's also one line in the book that really stood out to me. "You see, part of me is a monk and part of me is a performing flea." Which pretty well describes the biggest conflict in my own personality. On one hand, I'm extremely introverted. On the other, I'm a natural entertainer. Whenever I'm put in front of a group of people, I have to say or do something to grab their attention. Unfortunately, I haven't had that opportunity too much lately. Bah, ya know, I really want to start being creative again. I miss having an audience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uxwdp7P |
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| Yo mama's got the swine flu, bitch! | ||||
| 12:05am 11/09/2009 | ||||
I don't know why, but I really like this Beatles: Rock Band commercial. I generally don't like commercials as a rule, but this one appeals to me for some reason. I really wanna get that game, but seeing as I have more than one retardedly expensive thing to buy in the near future, I guess it'll have to wait for now. Here's a random bit of trivia. John was obsessed with the number nine. He thought he was "haunted by nines", because the number kept showing up at odd points in his life. This game was released yesterday, 9-9-09. I have to wonder, did the developers know about that and do it on purpose, or is John still being haunted by the number nine? It's a little weird. That is all! |
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| Jes has the swine flu | ||||
| 02:06am 07/09/2009 | ||||
I watched Samurai Reincarnation this week, the movie that apparently inspired the Samurai Shodown games. First I have to say, this movie has to be watched with subtitles. The dubbing pretty much turns it into a comedy. But other than that, it was freaking great. It's got a cool plot, and it's always fun watching samurais beat each other up. Jubei(played by Sonny Chiba) always has this look on his face like he's about to cry, but still can't help looking extremely badass. Chuck Norris wishes he could be as badass as Sonny Chiba. There's actually a scene in the movie where this legendary swordmaker makes Chiba's character a magick sword to kill demons with, and he says, "If you encounter God, God will be cut." In Kill Bill, Sonny Chiba plays a swordmaker and repeats the same line. I thought that was kinda cool. I also got another Boris album, Rainbow. It's a collaboration with Japanese guitarist, Michio Kurihara. This one's not so much straight-ahead rocking out. It's more mellow, laid-back psychadelia. I wouldn't say like it as much as I do the other records I've listened to. They overdo it with the weirdness sometimes, and the guitar solos are noisy even by their standards(practically unlistenable in my truck, but my truck has crappy speakers). But it's still really good. It really shows off their more melodic tendencies. And the coolest thing is it has Wata singing the title song. I have to wonder why they don't have her sing more often. She's got a really cool singing voice, kinda sweet and dangerous at the same time. Tired of hearing me talk about this band yet? Too bad. I seriously doubt it's the last time I'll mention them. |
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groggy| Zhuangzi | ||||
| 03:34am 31/08/2009 | ||||
I'm trying to organize my thoughts right now in order to record what I feel has been a life-changing experience. I mentioned before in this blog how I'd been reading Bruce Lee's philosophical ideas and the Dao De Jing. Reading those made me eager to read more Daoist texts(I'm going to spell it "Dao" from now on just cause it's easier for me to pronounce). This is how big of a dork I am that I can get excited about reading Chinese philosophy. Anyway, I did some research and ended up reading Zhuangzi, a Daoist text named after the dude that supposedly wrote it. Zhuangzi is mostly a collection of stories and fables that all inevitably lead to some sort of Daoist wisdom. I'll admit that it runs a little long, and it tends to repeat itself a lot. But overlooking those minor flaws, I found it incredibly inspirational. In fact, after reading this, I would say I relate to Daoism more than any other system of thought I've ever studied. It's almost like everything else has been preparing me for this. Part of why it appeals to me so much is because a lot of its ideas are things I've believed since I was very young anyway. But reading it makes it feel real, and it's so liberating. I don't have to control anything, don't have to control myself, don't have to make myself into something, don't have to strive for anything I don't already have. All I have to do is relax and let nature take its course. I'm a part of something that's much bigger than I am. Trying to interfere with that something is the equivalent of digging my own grave. And while I don't think I could ever actually call myself a Daoist for the same reasons I hate all other labels, I feel that these ideas have become a big part of who I am. If there is such a thing as an afterlife, I hope I can thank Zhuangzi personally for the wisdom he left behind. Question: What do you want out of life? Answer: Whatever life decides to give me. http://www.daoisopen.com/ZhuangziTransl |
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| HORSE!!! MOTHERFUCKING HORSE!!! | ||||
| 03:01am 25/08/2009 | ||||
Okay, this is going to sound extremely dorky, especially since I just ranted about this same thing like last week or something, but I have to get this off my chest. Last night I was playing Samurai Shodown 6 from that anthology collection I was talking about. You already know where I'm going with this. I played through the game pretty quick and made it to the last boss, Gaoh, this Oda Nobunaga-looking dude that uses a spear. Now compared to most bosses, Gaoh isn't that tough. Sure, he's strong and fast and an asshole in general, but nothing I can't handle. The thing that makes him RIDICULOUS is this one move he has where he gets on this demon horse thing and plows right into you. It's just like that psycho crusher move Bison had in Street Fighter Alpha 3. It covers the entire screen, and he always does it right when you're in the middle of a jump. It does an assload of damage, but the worst thing is it breaks your sword. You have to wait several seconds to get a new one, and it totally messes up the flow of the fight. And just for added humiliation, half the time the knocks you down, he jumps on top of you and sodomizes you with his spear, like, "Yeah, who's the boss of this game, bitch?! That's right, I am!" The sad thing is, he really isn't that hard aside from that one move. I was winning rounds on a pretty consistent basis. But then he gets on that douchebag horse, and it destroys the whole fight. I know I would've beaten him eventually, but I just got bored with fighting him after a while. I was like, "Screw this, screw you, and screw your punkass horse." I swear from now on, anytime I see a horse I'm just gonna want to punch it in the face. I might have to rethink the whole wandering samurai thing. Lol, it's hilarious how this is such a common theme in this blog. Most people bitch about ex-girlfriends, I bitch about video game bosses. Hey, you can call me a nerd, but someone has to save the world from all these cheating bosses. GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT SON AN ASSHOLE HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EXCLAMATION MARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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enraged| The greatest song you've never heard | ||||
| 01:52pm 23/08/2009 | ||||
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rockin| Yeah, Paul! | ||||
| 02:56am 21/08/2009 | ||||
But here's the coolest thing. Our seats were about the twelfth row at the side of the stage where he enters and exits. As he was leaving the stage before his last encore(he did like three), I was holding up a peace sign and yelled, "Yeah, Paul!" really loud. And he turned around, looked directly at me, pointed at me, and gave me a peace sign back. How ridiculously cool is that? I was like, "Dude, Paul McCartney just made me the fifth Beatle!" Along with his stuff, he also played Something while the screen behind him showed pictures of George Harrison, and he segued A Day in the Life into Give Peace a Chance. He also played a few songs from Band on the Run and Electric Arguments. Lol, he even played the main riff to Foxy Lady at one point. When he played Live and Let Die, there was this enormous explosion of pyro that went POP! and scared everyone in the crowd shitless. During the "Na na na" portion of Hey Jude, he got down from his piano and was directing the crowd in this huge sing along. Naturally, he ended the whole thing with The End, with him and his two guitarists rocking out and trading lead guitar licks, and finished it with a giant blast of confetti. It was such a good show. I would normally take this time to list everything he played, but damn, he just played so much, and I don't feel like typing all that. Suffice to say, he probably played your favorite Beatles song. These last few days have been pretty cool even besides the concert. While we were in Tulsa, we went by the Rainbow, the hugest CD shop I know of, and I got three CDs. Zoot Allures-Frank Zappa, the Shut Up N' Play Yer Guitar series-Frank Zappa, and Rust Never Sleeps-Neil Young, all of which are awesome. We also went by this guitar center to see if they had any Gibson SGs. Well, not only did they have like ten, they had a couple that were as low as 700 dollars! I had no idea that Gibsons came that cheap. It was a total mindfuck. I sat down and played several of them, and the time just flew by. We spent like three hours in that place without even realizing it. And now I know which specific model I want. The Gibson SG Classic with the P90 pickups for a thousand dollars. I'm conflicted though. Buying this would mean I have to put off getting the Macbook AGAIN. But like I said, I've never seen SGs that cheap, and I don't know if I ever will again. And plus, I've wanted an SG forever now. I better get that thing while I can. I'm tempted to just drive up there myself with some money in my pocket and grab it now. I want that fucking guitar, dude. I also watched Woodstock while I was staying with my dad. Lots of really great music. I really feel like I should've grown up in the sixties. It seems like a beautiful time to me, and I think I might've actually fit in pretty well. Even though a lot of it was based on drugs, it seems like they were really fighting for something back then. I know a lot of bad stuff happened too, but hell, at least it was interesting. Oh, and I also bought an Orange amplifier off of ebay, the Tiny Terror Combo model. I've been wanting an Orange amp cause that's what Wata from Boris uses. It's an awesome little amplifier dude, nice and loud. I've nicknamed it "Soda". I just got sick of that Crate GLX that I've been using for the past few years. It's too damn noisy. I tried everything I could to make that thing sound good, and I just couldn't do it. In fact, I may sell it and see if I can get some money off of it. And finally, I mentioned to my dad that I was wanting to move closer to Tulsa while we were on our trip. Lol, typical of him, he's already got a plan to make it happen. He said we'll probably wait till spring to start looking for a place, which is perfectly okay with me. I don't expect to be living in Tulsa tomorrow or anything, it's enough for me to know I'm working towards that next stage in my life. Damn dude, looks like I'm finally starting to get my shit together. Fricken took me long enough. |
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| 03:33am 16/08/2009 | ||||
Anyway. I bought this Japanese movie called Shinobi: Heart Under Blade the other day, and it was pretty cool. It's kinda like Romeo and Juliet, but it has ninjas, so it's like a thousand times more entertaining. Cause ya know, I always thought Romeo and Juliet would be better with ninjas(everything is). It's based on the same novel as the anime Basilisk(which is also awesome), so it's basically the same story, just told in a different way. It's got a good plot and lots of groovy, ninja magick stuff going on. The craziest thing though is I can't remember if I've seen it before. Cause certain scenes looked extremely familiar, but other stuff I don't remember at all. I'm not sure if I remember that stuff from previews I've seen for it or what. I mean, I'm the guy that remembers every retarded detail of his life, but I can't for the life of me remember if I've seen this movie or not. I've always assumed I'm gonna become senile at a young age, but it's not supposed to be this soon, dammit. Okay, so there's this old guy at my work that runs one of those sample stands that's like right next to me. This old dude is like the nosiest person I've ever met. I can't blink without him making some weird comment about it. "Ya runnin' any sales today, Jes? Boy, you sure worked that cart fast. Uh oh, Jes is puttin' his coat on, he must goin' somewhere cold." It's just constant all day. Don't get me me wrong, I don't mind people being friendly with me, but geeze, there's a limit. But what makes it even weirder is he's always staring at me. Everytime I turn around, he's sitting there like ^_^. Imagine at your job, having to work all day with some creepy old guy smiling at you the whole time. Drives me crazy, dude. So in a couple of days, I'll be going to that Paul McCartney concert. I'm looking forward to it. I hope he plays a lot of Beatles songs. Lol, this is a retardo entry even by my standards. I had to invent a new word for how retardo it is. |
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| I got beat up by a drag queen | ||||
| 02:18am 05/08/2009 | ||||
Like many bosses, he's constantly teleporting around the stage. He blocks every friggen thing you throw at him. He can kill you in like three hits, and he's got this one move where he punches you in the balls like thirty times. Between the blocking and the teleporting, it's almost impossible to hit the guy. And as if all that isn't enough, he's freaking laughing at you the whole time you're fighting him. It's like the developers said, "Okay, it's not bad enough that we've created the most retarded, unbeatable boss ever, lets have him laugh at the player the entire time they're getting their ass kicked." I fought this guy for over an hour, and it was so bad, I was actually trying to win by timeout. And ya know what finally ended up happening? I got so pissed off, I had to stop playing. Fifteen years later, and Amakusa is still absolutely fucking ridiculous. I get that game makers want to have a challenging, super-badass boss, but they make these dudes so they're practically invincible. SNK's so bad about it there's actually a name for it, SNK Boss Syndrome. I think that's a sign they should tone it down. AMAKUSA NOTWITHSTANDING they are really kickass games. I think my favorite character is Genjuro, cause he's like the badass antihero. He's a killer for hire, and his profile says his hobbies are taking drugs and visiting brothels and shit like that. Dude's a freaking rockstar. And he wants to kill the main hero character, which is always cool. I'm actually surprised he's not a more popular character. Playing these games makes me wish I was a traveling samurai. That's the life for me. :D Another cool thing is I'm getting to play a lot of games that I never played before. I remember playing Samurai Shodown 3 just one time in the arcades, and I never played the SS games that came after it. I'm glad SNK's making all these anthology collections. There's a lot of really awesome fighting games being rereleased. That was my favorite period of time as far as video games go. Games today just don't have the same personality in my opinion. |
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