#2 – Wednesday: Let’s Get Started

Yesterday was what is called a preview.  I wrote a really short post just to let you know that I was back and to (hopefully) make you want a little more.  If it didn’t work, then I guess you wouldn’t be here reading this right now would you?

So now that I’ve explained the finer points of psychology, let’s get started.  I’m kicking myself (not literally, that would be weird) right now because I’m probably going to be up for another hour, and I have to get up at six tomorrow for (gag) the first full day of high school.  And now, instead of last year’s thirty foot walks, I now have to walk about a mile between each class.  Small problem: I run a mile in seven minutes.  We only get five.  Result: I will probably have a couple detentions by the end of the semester, or I’ll magically gain some amazing powerwalking ability overnight.  Yeah… I’m going with Option A too…

It’s not all bad though, my AP Gov (that’s ‘government’ for those abbreviationally challenged) class has almost everyone I know in it.  Seriously, this is going to be an awesome class.  And it’s the only one I have all year, which makes it better.  Geometry looks kind of fun too, even though it’s math.  Spanish will probably be even more aggravating than last year.  As for Computer Art, I hope the walk is worth it.

SONG OF THE DAY: WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND LOVE / IRIDESCENT

Easily my favorite song from A Thousand Suns (though Catalyst, Waiting for the End, and Burning in the Skies come close), the first part is a prelude that takes the form of a Martin Luther King Jr. speech.  Then, after a minute or so, it fades away into Iridescent, which basically gave me a few new rules to live life by.  Enjoy, and see you tomorrow.

#1 – Tuesday: Welcome Back to Internet Junk

… … … … is this thing on?  It’s been a while.  In fact, it’s been one more day than I planned.  Hurricane Irene knocked out the electricity on my street from seven o’clock Saturday night to today at around five thirty in the afternoon.  I was actually a little disappointed last night… but I’m back now and everything is once again as it should be.  I, every night, write a blog that no one reads, and then post it on Facebook just to prove how geeky I really am on the inside.  It’s not like you wouldn’t know that already… but that’s just for the benefit of any newcomers who found this little corner of cyberspace by accident.  So, now that that’s out of the way, let’s get started.  August was an eventful month; ironically it was the month I took off.  In the next paragraph I’ll try and make up for that.

So, a few important things happened last (actually, still this) month.  I went to Mexico and (hopefully) rediscovered the non-awkward person I used to be.  Unfortunately, that was when I was five.  So if I start talking in monosyllabic sentences… there’s a reason.  I also started listening to Linkin Park, who will be appearing a lot on here (there, in the back row, don’t cringe.  I can see you.).  In the rest of the world a new zealot decided to run for President.  A dictator apparently turned to sand.  And there’s a new Lil Wayne album… which may or may not be the apocalypse coming early.  Welcome back people, to Internet Junk.

Friday: Until Next Time

Let me put this right out.  This will be my last post for the next month.  I’ve been ridiculously boring over the last few weeks (I had 241 hits in June, and in July I’ve had less than half that).  This is also becoming a drag every night, and even though this started as kind of a commitment exercise, I think it’s time for a break.  So for the month of August this will be the post at the top, dated July 29th, 2011.  I will be back however, on the first day of school, exactly a month from today.  Then I’ll hopefully have something better for you than the slop I’ve been throwing out for the last few weeks.

So, seeing as this is my last time for a while, I can still end it in style.  And it just so happens that I actually do have a few things to write about today.  First, let’s start with Summer Stage.  Rugrats was awesome, and thank you Anthony for persuading me to go.  I’m not sure if it was supposed to be a comedy or not, but it forced out some laughs I didn’t even know were there.  I don’t remember the show that well, but after a while some of it started to come back.  Love the acting.  Love the singing.  And Anthony, that dog costume was hilarious.  If they ever do another version of Underdog (not likely), you should definitely audition.

Then, kind of as a footnote, after the play my mom and sister dragged me around to Kohls to go shopping.  Still, I finally got a new iPod-to-stereo cable at RadioShack, and I can finally hear out of both my speakers.  Also, Borders is having their clearance sale, so I got Inception.  Finally I get to watch this damn movie (it better be as good as you all told me it was)!

Then, to round it out, my sister went to see Deathly Hallows Part II, (mediocre movie), and with her gone I watched History of the World, Part I.  Mel Brooks is awesome, and I’m not sure why I don’t watch more of his stuff.  I’m serious, even if you’re not a history geek like me, watching a fake Leonardo Da Vinci paint a fake Jesus with Brooks holding a pan behind his head like a halo is a lot funnier than it sounds.  And then there’s Rue de Merde in Paris, and if you don’t know what that last word means shame on you.  Here’s a hint: Google Translate.  Yeah.  Funny right.  Go watch the damn movie.

SONG OF THE DAY: BULLET

 

Now enjoy some Bon Jovi, it’s the last song I’ll be giving you for the next month.  Wow, I just realized that I’m actually going to miss this.  But I’ll be back on August 29th, so just wait until then.  I’ll bet some of you are even hoping that the 28th will last forever.

Adios.

-Chris

Thursday: Ignore this Post ↓

Because I have no idea what to talk about tonight besides a video game, and because I don’t feel like randomizing Wikipedia articles again… that video game it shall be.  So if you have any respect for me whatsoever DO NOT read past this point.  Or really if I know you… DO NOT read past this point.  On third thought, NO ONE read past this point.  There.  I think that solves the problem.

The game in question is actually eleven years old, won about fifty Game of the Year awards back then, and has graphics so old that my system can play it without lagging.  And I know the two people who read this (my aunt and Anthony, if both of them ignored my request) have no idea what the Latin pseudo-proverb meaning ‘God out of the Machine’ is… so I’ll tell you it’s called Deus Ex (FYI, the ‘machine’ part is left out).

The game itself was fun, kind of a combination shooter/RPG that gives you a couple decisions and, eventually, a silenced, completely accurate sniper rifle that can shoot 2700 feet.  But the really good part is the ending… or rather the three of them.  Yeah.  It gives you a choice at the end, which I’ll try to explain without too much backstory.

First choice is to completely wipe out the world’s technology (which coincidentally is the one I chose).  There’s a Chinese scientist named Tracer Tong who tells you how to do this, and influences this ending.  The world is in kind of a high-tech, plague-filled dystopia and apparently the best way to fix it is to wipe it out.  Or at least, that’s what I thought.

Second choice is giving power to the Illuminati (too much backstory, not going into it), and from what I’ve heard not many people choose that.  Maybe it’s just me, but I wouldn’t trust a cult with control of the world.

Third choice is merging with this big AI named Helios, and becoming a sort of nice-guy dictator with the brain of a computer and human awareness.  It sounds nice, but I didn’t feel like that.  Instead I decided to explode a couple nuclear reactors and plunge the world into a Dark Age.

Now that I’ve proven just how geeky I am and pretty much destroyed any shred of self-respect I had left… I’ll leave you with a song.

SONG OF THE DAY: HURRY

 

I don’t think this alleviates my geekiness in any way whatsoever, but it’s a good song.  So if you actually ignored my warning and went this far… this is all I can reward you with.  Goodnight!

Wednesday: Technically, it’s a Ferret

That, my friends, is the best line from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which you can see here in stunningly low quality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-5v3uTjY9E

Or you can just do what I did and buy it at Target for nine bucks.  Your choice.  So anyway, nothing big really happened today, so I don’t really have a subject for tonight at all.  So let’s try a stream of consciousness (warning, this might get either very boring, offensive, or both).

So of that’s technically a ferret, what is it actually?  Is there a difference between what’s technical and what’s actual, or are they both the same and do people just think they sound more believable when they say ‘technical?’  I mean really, what is the point with technicalities anyway.  The only place where technicalities actually matter are in court… which really is false in itself.  If you have a jury, and someone has evidence that can’t be shown because of a technicality, do you really think those 12 people are going to completely ignore that piece of possible damning evidence?  Sometimes people act like other people are machines, saying ‘technically’ this and ‘technically’ that.  Well technically, technically has no bearing on the actual world.  Well technically, that gunshot didn’t kill him.  The fall from the roof did.  Well yeah, no duh.  You’re still going to prison for murder my friend.  Technically I didn’t take your yogurt from the fridge, my hand did.  That’s funny, because right now there’s a nice big glob of yogurt making its way down your shirt.  I don’t think your hand put it there.  Technically, it’s a ferret.  Really, because last time I looked that was a blond kid in a cloak.

Ok.  I’m done.  That was kind of weird, just typing whatever comes to mind.  I don’t know how I got from ferrets to yogurt and back to ferrets, while passing juries along the way.  I’m sorry if that was boring, but it shouldn’t have been offensive (unless you’re either a criminal or a glob of yogurt), and I think it’s time for the song.

SONG OF THE DAY: HOTEL CALIFORNIA

 

This is one of the classics, and I think is on some lists as one of the greatest classic rock songs of all time.  I like it.  I don’t see why you shouldn’t, unless you’re Anthony and listen to a band that’s really just a bunch of high-voiced geeky guys with too much time on their hands.

Tuesday: Identity Rehashed

You’ll remember about a month or two ago, if you were reading this back then, that I read The Bourne Identity.  Since then I’ve been looking for the movie and I finally managed to find it on a channel that we have.  Now, normally when a movie is nothing like the book, and you like the book, the movie becomes pretty unenjoyable.  This was the exception to that rule.  There shouldn’t even be that text that says ‘based on the novel by Robert Ludlum’, because really the only thing the same is the name of the central character.  Everything else is completely new.  The story is completely different.  And I actually loved it almost as much as the book.  I mean, that was one of the deepest and best action movies I’ve seen in a long time.  The new story worked almost better than the old one, and the new version of Jason Bourne is almost as good as the actual one.  All in all, great movie.

Now that I’ve bored you to death with a review on a nine year old movie… I really don’t have much else to say.  It’s summer.  This is a free week.  That means I sleep to twelve-thirty, eat snacks for the day, watch a movie, read a book, and play video games.  Nothing really interesting happens on these days… which doesn’t exactly make me want school to start again but makes me think that once it comes I won’t be waiting for summer to return.

SONG OF THE DAY: COME SAIL AWAY

 

I saw this song on some websites list of ‘Top Rock Songs that Secretly Suck’, and that is so far from the truth.  Sure, I have no idea what it means.  But pretty everyone knows the song, and can sing the chorus with varying degrees of success.  And now goodnight.  See you tomorrow, which will, guaranteed, be another boring, boring day.

Monday: Late Night Again

No song tonight, really because I just want to get this over with so that I can do the stuff I want to do tonight.  That stuff?  Start writing a new book (Blur the Lines is not done, I’m still going to work on it from time to time, but I’m taking a break), and finish reviewing random movies and video games on Metacritic.  Yeah.  I’m a geek, I know, but it’s still fun to write no matter what it is I’m writing.

Now for what happened today.  I woke up at about twelve-thirty in the afternoon to the news that my uncle and his girlfriend now have a baby girl.  Luciana Lombardo, welcome to the family.

Then, tonight I volunteered at Primos Library for their Games of the World night, most of which had some element of checkers in it.  My game was kind of an African version of checkers, called Yoté.  Which, because of its age, makes checkers an American version of Yoté.  It was a fun night, basically me and Hope hanging out and teaching little kids how to play games we didn’t know how to play.  By the end my mouth was aching from laughing so hard, and hey it looks good for college doesn’t it?

SONG OF THE DAY: PAPERBACK WRITER

 

This is, in my opinion, the greatest Beatles song ever and for some reason is overshadowed by all of their other, more popular songs.  The tune is intoxicating and every time I, for some reason, find myself singing along.  Now that’s all for tonight, I have things to do other than writing an arrogant blog that one person in the entire world reads.