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| It's that time of the year again, where I hardly update.
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| "New and Improved" actually makes sense nowSlow day. Not many footprints on my Xanga. Feels like it's only 10 in the morning or so, but it's actually 1:30 PM. That means I have to go to sleep soon, since I have to work tonight.
So, I'm typing this up on my new computer. Yeah, I got so sick of that piece of crap I bought last year after my old reliable computer died that I decided that I'd buy something new and fresh instead of upgrading that junker. Seriously, 512MB of RAM can't run three steps, let along trying to run Vista. And since I've become computer challenged since high school, I didn't feel like buggering around with it and downgrading it to XP or anything like that. Anyway, yeah, new computer. It's a Dell Inspiron 530, if anyone is interested. Mainly, I bought it for its 4GB of RAM. Yeah, talk about an upgrade. I need to put all of my music and stuff on it, but it works great. So clean and fresh and fast! I should name it. I was thinking "Yuki" since it's silver and white with blue LEDs. Plus, if I kill it and it freezes, the name will make sense. Yuki means snow, for any normal people reading this.
Speaking of music (and we were), I bought a Paramore CD yesterday while I was at the mall. I didn't realize it at the time, but it's a live CD. I don't really like listening to bands live unless I'm there, but it's Paramore...so I'm torn. They sound great live, but I want the studio tracks. I don't regret buying it. To balance out the thought of single man buying Paramore (I consider them girls music, I dunno), I bought a Nightwish album. I have never really listened to Nightwish before but now I totally regret it. How did I miss something so epic and awesome? Seriously. The first song is a 13 minute track called "The Poet and the Pendulum" and it is friggin' amazing. An entire orchestra backing a metal band. Not to mention the lyrics. It's like Apocolyptica with awesome vocals. It's worth buying the album for that song.
Speaking of buying albums, I didn't buy Silversun Pickups' new album, Swoon. Why? Well, I had every intention to. But when I got home from work, I looked it up on a website I frequent and downloaded it. Yeah, seriously, lock me up. SSPU won't get my $14, boo hoo. I support them in spirit. It's a good album as well. Panic Switch and Sort Of are my favorites on there.
I traded in X-Blades and Eternal Sonata yesterday while I was in town. I was shocked to get $30 for X-Blades (that game sucked) and $25 for Eternal Sonata (that game started to suck). So I used the credit to get Mirror's Edge and Lost Planet and I still have some credit left over. Mirror's Edge is incredibly frustrating but I'm still having fun with it. At one point, I called Faith a "Slanty-eyed bitch" when she failed to make a jump. I know, I'm horrible. Lost Planet has such a weird aiming system for a third-person shooter, but it's still kinda cool, despite the ridiculous "collect thermal energy or die" dynamic is has. I hate the very idea that I'm losing energy just by standing out in the snow. Not that I never have tons of energy, it's just a mental thing on my part. It's the same reason I always hasten to cure poison in an RPG, even when there's no threat. I just hate losing something if I can prevent it. And I can't.
I have my guitar beside me. I am going to kick myself in the ass and learn to play the thing, even if it's just practice chords. I really hate being bored and knowing I could be learning a skill or bettering myself in some way, so I'm going to try -- try -- and be resolute and learn something. First I need to tune the damn thing, though. It's awful.
Um...I'm tired of typing. Off to do more nothing!
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Let Go
By Avril Lavigne
HAHA! Yeah right, I wouldn't be caught dead listening to this crap
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...we've heard it all before.I hate Avril Lavigne.
It's not so much that I hate her it's just that...Okay, that's a lie, I do hate her. Or rather, what I know about her. I'm sure she's a great person...Okay, that's an assumption, no doubt she's just a big a loser as I perceive. I don't know how she ever got to be famous when she's a no-talent hack who sounds like a cow being hit by a train while talented musicians and singers struggle to find a career outside of cheap bar gigs. You know what it is? Her look. It has to be. And it's not even a good look. She just looks angry and...pink. No, that's not a typo for "punk" because she changed her look (which wasn't all that punk to begin with). She likes stupid little girly pink things now. Pink skulls. I dunno, she's fucking stupid! And she's brainwashing today's youth into dressing like her and that being a no-talent hack is totally acceptable, so long as you can smile like an angry bitch and shout into a microphone.
She might be okay if she didn't write her own music. And I'm not even sure she does. Her lyrics are mostly nursery rhyming crap. I mean, check out this great example of prose from her hit single "Happy Ending":
Let's talk this over
It's not like we're dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something You said?
Don't leave me hanging
In a city so dead
Held up so high
On such a breakable thread
Wow, she ran out of words that rhymed with "dead" so she used "dead" again! Simply genius. How about "head" you retard? Anything! Or red, like the blood from your slit wrists, you emo cutter! I bet she's really proud of that shit, too. No, wait...it gets better:
But they don't know me
Do they even know you?
All the things you hide from me
All the stuff that you do
Wow. Stuff. That's so deep. Granted, that is a radio edit, replacing "shit" with "stuff" but it still applies. Things and stuff is the same as crap and shit. Time to bust out the thesaurus and learn a few things, Avril, like a vocabulary. I mean, that's the same song. There's no excuse for that junk. Did she write that between stops on the tour bus? After a few drinks? And a hammer to the head?
And where would she be without her signature lyric of "Yeah, yeah, yeeeeeeaaah!"? She might have to sit down and write an actual song instead of filling the gaps between verses with random noise. The same kind of noise I made when I didn't know the lyrics singing a Rock Band song and I was drunk! And I still got a decent score. Take that one song of hers...I'm With You, I think it's called. This is her best song. Yeah, it sucks. I compare it to My Immortal by Evanescence, which is really, really unfair but it's the same...I dunno...kind of song, I guess. Slow and about as deep as Avril can get. Never in My Immortal does Amy Lee scream "YEAH!" into the mic. She puts a lot of emotion into the lyrics, which were obviously written with a lot of time and thought. You can hear that she means what she's singing, that it's sincere. I'm With You? Ha. Near the end, she sings half a verse and then just belts "yeah, yeah, yeah" until the band tries to drown her out. She makes up for it a bit when she finally calms down in the end and just sings normally. But she already killed the song when she began her career.
And she's got products to endorse now. Like that camera. I hate that commercial. "Where do I find inspiration?" The dumpster, apparently. It's certainly not in the pink sequined guitar you pretend to play. And that other one where she pulls a bunch of random pink crap out of a box and dances around with it. No. No one believes you're "playful." You're just an angry little girl who got lucky in life and landed on a record deal. Stop trying to fool the tweens, you're just a no-talent hack. Get off my radio and surrender your Canadian citizenship. Then kill yourself.
I feel bad for today's youth. When they grow up, they'll look back at the music they listened to and Avril Lavigne will be there. I have Matchbox 20. Had I been born a few years later and a few IQ points lower, I might have been sucked into this charade of "music." And the worst part about it? Her fans believe she is good. It's like a cult. Like...Christianity or something. It's ridiculous.
"Nocturne doesn't like me! Boo hoo!"
Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention how ugly she is.
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| Natural Born KiraSo, I have my Windows media player playing away on random songs. I just downloaded Kira's Laugh from Death Note...it's not a song, it's Light's actual laugh and him saying "That's right...I am Kira." Anyway, it's creepy. So I listen to 30 seconds of that and then the playlist shifts to Selenite by Rurutia. It's just not natural.
Anyway, happy Zombie Jesus day everyone. I'd link the C&H comic, but...meh. It's not a tradition.
My sister came home for Easter. It was nice to see her. Next time I see her is on my vacation, when I go to Anime North and spend too much money.
I got my profit sharing check the other day. Hurray for money I didn't really but kinda did earn. I'm thinking of buying a new computer since this one is total and utter shit. Fucking machine.
I'm bored.
This has been an update.
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| These Small HoursLast night, after waking up, I was lying down on the couch and playing Legend of Dragoon so I could catch up to where I was in my blog before I lost the save file. My back was kinda hurting, so I propped myself up nice and comfortably with pillows and had a blanket over my legs. It was quite cozy. While playing, I was totally distracted from my life and I forgot about all the dumb little things that have been plaguing me lately and I lost myself in old school gameplay and grainy graphics. Then, out of nowhere, my cat jumps up on the couch and lies down on my leg, something he never does. I petted his head and continued to play. For a while, we just sat like that and I couldn't help but smile.
It's perfect moments like that, no matter how brief, that can make me content for hours at a time. Thinking back on it now, I can almost forget how frustrating working last night was and I can still smile even though it's snowing out.
It's not so bad, after all.
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