You know what, I think I really am dead.
Now sod off!
7. jun. 2009
6. maj 2009
It's not dead.
Hello. I'm not dead, FYI.
I've chosen to continue my blog here. Ensidia recently made user blogs available, so I thought I'd continue to write here in order to get more feedback than I tend to here.
Stick around.
I've chosen to continue my blog here. Ensidia recently made user blogs available, so I thought I'd continue to write here in order to get more feedback than I tend to here.
Stick around.
31. mar. 2009
When stalkerinsticts take over.
Hi! Yet again in class, typing! It's the awesome. It really, really is. History has got to be the most slackery lesson ever. Really, they were designed to be writing blog in. Basically right, everyone has read like 5 pages at home in our book. We then show up to class, and the teacher starts writing notes on the blackboard, while talking about what we read at home (obviously she adds something to the mix to sort of spice it up, but it has limited effect on us in all honesty). Therefore, these lessons are absolutely perfect for blogging. I even look like I write notes, pro!
Now I have to admit, I haven't actually planned any content for this post. I know it's a bit unfair to make a post without having actual content, but after all, I guess that's what blogs are all about. The writing whatever pops into your mind, is the essential in the art of bloggage. No matter how subjective the blog might turn out, no one is ever going to judge. Which is awesome. Now obviously if I choose to write something completely insane, there is a good chance I would be banned. And if I indeed got banned, no one would be able to read my blog. Then what's the point? As mentioned earlier, blogs are all about the rea... argh I did it again. I got emotional. Actually, while writing that sentence something just came to me. I've got content now. Yippie!
But first, as always, I will, of course, introduce to you, the almighty awesome of win, section of "WTF am I listening to!?". But as the quick reader already has spotted, I'm not currently able to listen to anything louder than 0.01 db. As mentioned earlier, this is something I need to work on. I need to come up with a new concept, to keep the old idea alive. This I will consider and update about for a later time. I owe it to my religious wave of followers to be constructive and innovative in these modern days. After all, they are what keeps this blog going...
Insert major cough of sarcasm and salty tears here.
Soo, let's see what I've been listening to recently. Tool. A lot of Tool. This band rocks. End of story. If anyone disagrees with me, you can go die in a fire. It's progressive metal in its best shape. Simply put, it's genious. If you indeed have no idea who Tool is, my question has got to be: "wtfbbqlazor in ur hed r go WR0ONG m8 lulz?". I know it might seem a mighty bit vague at first, but after eating each word with a mighty stick of pork, I'm sure you will find it useful in some respect. Anyway here it is: Tool - Third Eye. It's 14 minutes long, though I'm sure you're gonna enjoy every second of it. As far as I know, they wrote it while being stoned back to the stoneage so to speak. The intro by Bill Hicks confirms this, at least that's how I understand it.
Yay content! Here's the thing that popped into my mind earlier on. I've begun reading a new book, yes indeed. Now normally, I only read books on summer vacation, yet I couldn't resist the temptation of reading this one. Like a week ago I watched a tour of Hayley Williams' house on Paramore's official website. On her wall she had with a friend written the last sentence from the book "The Giver". I got curious and googled it. Apparently, it describes an utopian dream world, where everyone has been ripped from feelings. They're not gone alltogether tough, they're stored in one soul, in The Giver. If you've ever seen the movie Equilibrium, it reminds me a great deal about that one. Christian Bale plays the main character in that one. Watch it if you haven't - it's quite decent. So I borrowed the book and began reading it yesterday. Very excited to say the least. So far it's been very good, and I hope to finish it within a short period of time.
When I'm done, I will make a review for your reading pleasure, so stick around.
Better stop here, need to do group work, Argh!
Stay tuned.
Now I have to admit, I haven't actually planned any content for this post. I know it's a bit unfair to make a post without having actual content, but after all, I guess that's what blogs are all about. The writing whatever pops into your mind, is the essential in the art of bloggage. No matter how subjective the blog might turn out, no one is ever going to judge. Which is awesome. Now obviously if I choose to write something completely insane, there is a good chance I would be banned. And if I indeed got banned, no one would be able to read my blog. Then what's the point? As mentioned earlier, blogs are all about the rea... argh I did it again. I got emotional. Actually, while writing that sentence something just came to me. I've got content now. Yippie!
But first, as always, I will, of course, introduce to you, the almighty awesome of win, section of "WTF am I listening to!?". But as the quick reader already has spotted, I'm not currently able to listen to anything louder than 0.01 db. As mentioned earlier, this is something I need to work on. I need to come up with a new concept, to keep the old idea alive. This I will consider and update about for a later time. I owe it to my religious wave of followers to be constructive and innovative in these modern days. After all, they are what keeps this blog going...
Insert major cough of sarcasm and salty tears here.
Soo, let's see what I've been listening to recently. Tool. A lot of Tool. This band rocks. End of story. If anyone disagrees with me, you can go die in a fire. It's progressive metal in its best shape. Simply put, it's genious. If you indeed have no idea who Tool is, my question has got to be: "wtfbbqlazor in ur hed r go WR0ONG m8 lulz?". I know it might seem a mighty bit vague at first, but after eating each word with a mighty stick of pork, I'm sure you will find it useful in some respect. Anyway here it is: Tool - Third Eye. It's 14 minutes long, though I'm sure you're gonna enjoy every second of it. As far as I know, they wrote it while being stoned back to the stoneage so to speak. The intro by Bill Hicks confirms this, at least that's how I understand it.
Yay content! Here's the thing that popped into my mind earlier on. I've begun reading a new book, yes indeed. Now normally, I only read books on summer vacation, yet I couldn't resist the temptation of reading this one. Like a week ago I watched a tour of Hayley Williams' house on Paramore's official website. On her wall she had with a friend written the last sentence from the book "The Giver". I got curious and googled it. Apparently, it describes an utopian dream world, where everyone has been ripped from feelings. They're not gone alltogether tough, they're stored in one soul, in The Giver. If you've ever seen the movie Equilibrium, it reminds me a great deal about that one. Christian Bale plays the main character in that one. Watch it if you haven't - it's quite decent. So I borrowed the book and began reading it yesterday. Very excited to say the least. So far it's been very good, and I hope to finish it within a short period of time.
When I'm done, I will make a review for your reading pleasure, so stick around.
Better stop here, need to do group work, Argh!
Stay tuned.
27. mar. 2009
The multi layered retrospective
Hello. I meant to update a few days ago, but yet again I've found myself slacking. I really meant to. Honestly. As usual, I thought I could be able to do my updating in class. Yet every time I thought "Alright I'll sit down next german lesson (for example) and write something", we were divided into some stupid groups and had to do actual work. Nothing more annoying. The optimal lessons are the ones where the teacher talks non stop for 90 minutes basically. Here, you can pretend to be writing notes from the blackboard, but in reality just sit and slack on msn or your blog as it turns out in my case. As a matter of fact, whole next week is gonna be one giant group work of doom. Therefore I'm destined to do my updates at home. Life is cruel I suppose.
Also, I've begun playing my shaman a lot more than I used to. The simple explanation happens to be one of the main points of this entire post, which is why I'm gonna save it for later.
First moving on to the wonderful section of "wtf am I listening to in this very moment". I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with the band Lostprophets. It's a mix of emo/rock/punk.. stuff. Actually, I quite like it. I believe the first song I ever heard by them was Last Train Home. Indeed a classic to me by now, yet I'm gonna throw another song by them out there. Since this post is gonna be, as the title cleverly suggests, sort of a retrospective and a sneak peak of the future, I thought why not add a song to the post, which is sorta nostalgic for me. So, here it is: Lostprophets - Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja. When Nihilum back in the day released their Ahn'Qiraj movie by Zombie Entertainment I believe it was, this song was included in the tracklist. Every time I listen to it, I think back to the days of AQ. The opening event, the race to C'Thun, and the surprise of Nihilum beating DnT. If I recall correctly, this was the first time Nihilum beat DnT for a world first. No one was expecting it really, but it was nice to have some competition for it. As you most likely know, Nihilum basically ruled WoW regarding world firsts up until Sunwell, where SK finally beat them. If you know me (As in really know me. Not a lot of my friends do), you will know how much of a fanboy I am. I follow the race for world firsts very closely. At least I used to. These days world firsts don't really exist in my honest opinion. With the introduction of the optional achievements and stuff, it has become very hard to decide when a world first is actually a world first. Also, since the content is so easily beaten, you never really have that "omg DnT didnt kill him monday. Nihilum might have a chance at him tuesday, but then suddenly Curse comes and takes him on wednesday evening". Now you just hear about it really, it's impossible to be a spectator to as it used to be. I find this very annoying, yet I don't think it's ever coming back.
Moving on to the main point of the post.
Right. So here's the real reason I've called this post what I have. Before we had the nostalgia thingy of world first, here's the second part. If you have read one of my previous posts (I don't recall which one it was), you will know I have been racing a friend to reach 80 on my hunter. I lost. Yeah, I'm disappointed too. The delicious, wonderful and indeed refreshing coke in the shape of .5 liters will never be in my possesion (I spelled that right?). This bothers me a great deal, yet I've got to accept the consequences of this. On march the 21st 2009, my friend hit 80. I was still at 73 at that time, yet had been slacking a bit the days before. Really, I guess he deserved it. He fought well. He really, really did. Despite a sudden knockback, he came back in the fight and broke the streak of levels I was in. Showing this much confidence, and determination in a such hectic and indeed stressful situation is something not a lot of people would be able to handle. My friend did, which I believe, is what gave him the win in the end. Well that and the fact that I was burned out. Have you ever tried to level 2 chars from 0-80 in one go basically? I can tell you, it is one of the biggest tasks I have ever tried to accomplish. At this point, I'm still 73. I've sorta burned out on it, and since my friend now is 80, I don't feel the big need to level him to 80. It's not like I'm gonna use it anyway. Hunter is probably the most boring class ever invented by man. That and the fact that I've only logged onto my rogue once since I hit 80, tells my there's no real point in getting the last few levels at this point. I may level him at some point. You never really know I suppose.
This brings me back to me playing a lot on my shaman. My main char, Coire of Arathor EU, is more or less optimized gear wise. Only a few upgrades to get before Ulduar, so I choose to just raid with her for now. Therefore, I've chosen to get some updates for my shaman. I had almost completely forgotten how much fun enhancement dps was. It is, by far, the most enjoyable area of DPS I've ever tried. I'm getting a lot of epics these days, and hope to be ready to enter stuff like Naxx 25 in a couple of weeks.
So I guess that's what I wanted to share for now. Grats to my friend, he shall be rewarded at some point. I promise lad. Blue Plz (wcradio.com) is coming up in 15 minutes, with the latest updates from all across the WoW community. I'm certainly gonna tune in to listen to the latest rant of TotalBiscuit, and so should you.
Have nothing planned for next post. Gotta hope something interesting pops up (Which these things sorta tend to.)
Smell ya later.
Also, I've begun playing my shaman a lot more than I used to. The simple explanation happens to be one of the main points of this entire post, which is why I'm gonna save it for later.
First moving on to the wonderful section of "wtf am I listening to in this very moment". I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with the band Lostprophets. It's a mix of emo/rock/punk.. stuff. Actually, I quite like it. I believe the first song I ever heard by them was Last Train Home. Indeed a classic to me by now, yet I'm gonna throw another song by them out there. Since this post is gonna be, as the title cleverly suggests, sort of a retrospective and a sneak peak of the future, I thought why not add a song to the post, which is sorta nostalgic for me. So, here it is: Lostprophets - Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja. When Nihilum back in the day released their Ahn'Qiraj movie by Zombie Entertainment I believe it was, this song was included in the tracklist. Every time I listen to it, I think back to the days of AQ. The opening event, the race to C'Thun, and the surprise of Nihilum beating DnT. If I recall correctly, this was the first time Nihilum beat DnT for a world first. No one was expecting it really, but it was nice to have some competition for it. As you most likely know, Nihilum basically ruled WoW regarding world firsts up until Sunwell, where SK finally beat them. If you know me (As in really know me. Not a lot of my friends do), you will know how much of a fanboy I am. I follow the race for world firsts very closely. At least I used to. These days world firsts don't really exist in my honest opinion. With the introduction of the optional achievements and stuff, it has become very hard to decide when a world first is actually a world first. Also, since the content is so easily beaten, you never really have that "omg DnT didnt kill him monday. Nihilum might have a chance at him tuesday, but then suddenly Curse comes and takes him on wednesday evening". Now you just hear about it really, it's impossible to be a spectator to as it used to be. I find this very annoying, yet I don't think it's ever coming back.
Moving on to the main point of the post.
Right. So here's the real reason I've called this post what I have. Before we had the nostalgia thingy of world first, here's the second part. If you have read one of my previous posts (I don't recall which one it was), you will know I have been racing a friend to reach 80 on my hunter. I lost. Yeah, I'm disappointed too. The delicious, wonderful and indeed refreshing coke in the shape of .5 liters will never be in my possesion (I spelled that right?). This bothers me a great deal, yet I've got to accept the consequences of this. On march the 21st 2009, my friend hit 80. I was still at 73 at that time, yet had been slacking a bit the days before. Really, I guess he deserved it. He fought well. He really, really did. Despite a sudden knockback, he came back in the fight and broke the streak of levels I was in. Showing this much confidence, and determination in a such hectic and indeed stressful situation is something not a lot of people would be able to handle. My friend did, which I believe, is what gave him the win in the end. Well that and the fact that I was burned out. Have you ever tried to level 2 chars from 0-80 in one go basically? I can tell you, it is one of the biggest tasks I have ever tried to accomplish. At this point, I'm still 73. I've sorta burned out on it, and since my friend now is 80, I don't feel the big need to level him to 80. It's not like I'm gonna use it anyway. Hunter is probably the most boring class ever invented by man. That and the fact that I've only logged onto my rogue once since I hit 80, tells my there's no real point in getting the last few levels at this point. I may level him at some point. You never really know I suppose.
This brings me back to me playing a lot on my shaman. My main char, Coire of Arathor EU, is more or less optimized gear wise. Only a few upgrades to get before Ulduar, so I choose to just raid with her for now. Therefore, I've chosen to get some updates for my shaman. I had almost completely forgotten how much fun enhancement dps was. It is, by far, the most enjoyable area of DPS I've ever tried. I'm getting a lot of epics these days, and hope to be ready to enter stuff like Naxx 25 in a couple of weeks.
So I guess that's what I wanted to share for now. Grats to my friend, he shall be rewarded at some point. I promise lad. Blue Plz (wcradio.com) is coming up in 15 minutes, with the latest updates from all across the WoW community. I'm certainly gonna tune in to listen to the latest rant of TotalBiscuit, and so should you.
Have nothing planned for next post. Gotta hope something interesting pops up (Which these things sorta tend to.)
Smell ya later.
22. mar. 2009
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Hello people of the intertubes. This post is gonna be something a little different, something a little random. Something a little awful.
Currently, I'm listening to Savin' Me by Nickelback. A good oldie. However, I'm gonna skip this section more or less today, and move on to something that's been bothering me.
I wasn't originally gonna post something already, but over the past say.. 3 hours, I've been incredibly bored. Obviously, everyone is bored once in a while. Usually though, I don't happen to find myself in that situation. And I'm not just talking slightly waiting for something etc bored, I'm talking really bored. Like, I'll log on to WoW, sit in Dalaran for 10 minutes, and I'll log out. I'll play 10 minutes of CoD, find myself being ganked or just not having all that much fun. So I'll log out, check my mail. Nothing there of course. I'll check Facebook. Nothing new happening. I'll go get something eat, eat it, and then find myself still being hungry, yet not hungry enough to actually get up and get some real food (I'm addicted to cookies and milk), so I'm never really satisfied. After that, I'll play 2 songs on GH. Again I'll find myself being bored, so I'll turn it off. I'll grab my guitar, play a few random chords, trying to improve on my bar chords, fail, and then put it down again. I'll check Mininova for new movies. Nothing there (If you have any movie suggestions, please feel free to share), I'll log on to WoW, stand in Dalaran 10 minutes, log out. I'll go get something to drink, but there's a good chance it's not gonna help my thirst cause I avoid water (It's boring, really). I'll check my mail and facebook again. You might've guessed, nothing interesting.
For next week, I've got 4 papers I need to write. I've already done 3 1/3 of these, yet cannot be bothered to finish the last one. It's for wednesday anyway, I should be okay. Just the thought of it makes me... bored. I got up at 9 today, made all my homework and stuff, thinking that I could spend the rest of the day relaxing. But instead I've walked right into this boredom wall of death and terror. I could go outside. But really, what would I do outside? Playing cowboys and indian isn't exactly my preferred activity. I could run. Admittedly, if I hadn't been playing football yesterday and had practice tomorrow, there's a good chance I would. But I'm not. Instead, I'm continuing to be bored. Eventually the clock'll make its way to 8 and my raid is gonna begin, but until then, I'm gonna remain bored. WoW doesn't even seem that tempting atm. Sure I could go farm some herbs, do a heroic or two, or level my hunter. Yet all these things, with the exception of heroics on my shaman, appeal incredibly boring to me at this point. No one in the guild really wants heroics, and I'm gonna end up bald if I contiune to pug my way forward.
The only thing that actually has kept my busy for more than 10 minutes today has been House. It it, by far, the best television show I've ever seen. It might not have the thrill and excitement the first seasons of Lost/Heroes had, but my God is it consistent. It never fails, and you can watch it over and over again. Perhaps that's one of the major advantages of it really. I don't think I'm gonna stop watching it till I know 20 secs after each episode begins exactly what is wrong with the patient, why they're sick and whatever happened between the team during the episode. I know it's asking a lot, but setting personal goals is the way to achieving stuff. It really, really is.
Anyway, I'm gonna stop it here and continue my routine of boredom. Writing on my blog was a way to get away from it, and it has kept my busy for let's see... 15 minutes! That's a new record for the day I believe. If I end up this way I might get somewhere with my life. No guarentees though.
/Bored
Currently, I'm listening to Savin' Me by Nickelback. A good oldie. However, I'm gonna skip this section more or less today, and move on to something that's been bothering me.
I wasn't originally gonna post something already, but over the past say.. 3 hours, I've been incredibly bored. Obviously, everyone is bored once in a while. Usually though, I don't happen to find myself in that situation. And I'm not just talking slightly waiting for something etc bored, I'm talking really bored. Like, I'll log on to WoW, sit in Dalaran for 10 minutes, and I'll log out. I'll play 10 minutes of CoD, find myself being ganked or just not having all that much fun. So I'll log out, check my mail. Nothing there of course. I'll check Facebook. Nothing new happening. I'll go get something eat, eat it, and then find myself still being hungry, yet not hungry enough to actually get up and get some real food (I'm addicted to cookies and milk), so I'm never really satisfied. After that, I'll play 2 songs on GH. Again I'll find myself being bored, so I'll turn it off. I'll grab my guitar, play a few random chords, trying to improve on my bar chords, fail, and then put it down again. I'll check Mininova for new movies. Nothing there (If you have any movie suggestions, please feel free to share), I'll log on to WoW, stand in Dalaran 10 minutes, log out. I'll go get something to drink, but there's a good chance it's not gonna help my thirst cause I avoid water (It's boring, really). I'll check my mail and facebook again. You might've guessed, nothing interesting.
For next week, I've got 4 papers I need to write. I've already done 3 1/3 of these, yet cannot be bothered to finish the last one. It's for wednesday anyway, I should be okay. Just the thought of it makes me... bored. I got up at 9 today, made all my homework and stuff, thinking that I could spend the rest of the day relaxing. But instead I've walked right into this boredom wall of death and terror. I could go outside. But really, what would I do outside? Playing cowboys and indian isn't exactly my preferred activity. I could run. Admittedly, if I hadn't been playing football yesterday and had practice tomorrow, there's a good chance I would. But I'm not. Instead, I'm continuing to be bored. Eventually the clock'll make its way to 8 and my raid is gonna begin, but until then, I'm gonna remain bored. WoW doesn't even seem that tempting atm. Sure I could go farm some herbs, do a heroic or two, or level my hunter. Yet all these things, with the exception of heroics on my shaman, appeal incredibly boring to me at this point. No one in the guild really wants heroics, and I'm gonna end up bald if I contiune to pug my way forward.
The only thing that actually has kept my busy for more than 10 minutes today has been House. It it, by far, the best television show I've ever seen. It might not have the thrill and excitement the first seasons of Lost/Heroes had, but my God is it consistent. It never fails, and you can watch it over and over again. Perhaps that's one of the major advantages of it really. I don't think I'm gonna stop watching it till I know 20 secs after each episode begins exactly what is wrong with the patient, why they're sick and whatever happened between the team during the episode. I know it's asking a lot, but setting personal goals is the way to achieving stuff. It really, really is.
Anyway, I'm gonna stop it here and continue my routine of boredom. Writing on my blog was a way to get away from it, and it has kept my busy for let's see... 15 minutes! That's a new record for the day I believe. If I end up this way I might get somewhere with my life. No guarentees though.
/Bored
17. mar. 2009
Observing the previously unobservable
Hi. Yet again I'm in class, typing. It's turning into a bit habit really, but this is the time I can be completely dedicated to the blog, and my thoughts. Admittedly, I ought to pay a bit more attention and possibly say something out loud. Indeed the teacher would probably like this. I will consider this for a later time. See, at home lately I've been levelling happily on my hunter, and playing quite a bit guitar (Both plastic and real). Therefore, I choose to do these things at home, and focus more on my blog in school. This might change at a later time.
Moving on the the holy subject of "Wtf am I listening to atm". Since I've been playing increasing amounts of guitar lately, I thought why not share a personal guitar favourite of mine. As you very well know, I can in fact not listen to it myself while writing (Which was sorta the main point of introducing the section), but I'm gonna throw one out there anyway. I know it in my head, yet I do know that this isn't enough in the long run. I will think about this and come up with a solution. Possibly in the next post, possibly in the one after. Anyway here it is: Andy McKee - Art of Motion. I hope you will enjoy it. This bloke is my hero when it comes to being awesome at guitar. A friend introduced me to him a couple of years back, and he has indeed made a lot of awesome music. Please feel free to check him out if you wish.
Moving on to content! Yes, yes we do have content! COOOOONTENT (I tried to do a TB impression there, prolly failed horribly). As I said in my last post, I'm gonna share with you "A day in my life". I went to Germany on sunday, and am gonna talk about that specific day. So here it is.
I got up at 10 AM. We had to leave at 11, so I had an hour to get ready, shower, eat, whatever. Yet instead of being concerned of all this rubbish, I played some CoD4. If you've never played CoD, I would advice you to check it out. I find it to be the best FPS ever to be released. Sure, CS was awesome, but when it comes to the newer FPS'es out there, this is a safe win. I played some Crossfire and Backlot if I remember correctly, and got a score around 30-20. Having positive score always makes you happy, and indeed it gave me a moral boost for the rest of the day. At 11 we were off. It's around 400 km's each way, so indeed it was quite a long trip. We reached Aabenraa (Lol that looks silly), and picked up my cousins and uncle. Being 3 persons on the backseat was slightly annoying, but I guess it was alright. We drove like 30 mins or so, and stopped to have lunch. Sandwich and water. Yummi! Drove another hour or so, and reached the arena (We were gonna watch a footbal match, did I even mention that? Hum). It's a 20 minute walk from the parking lot to the actual arena. I think we found our seats around 3 PM. Now, the match didn't start until 5, so we had 2 hours to do absolutely nothing. So we just kinda sat around and looked stupid. The match begun. Safe to say there were some quite devoted people there, yelling like hell etc. Guess that's how it's supposed to be. Hamburg won 2-0, quite a solid win I should say. So we left again, had something to eat (Jägerschnitzel, mhm), dropped off cousins/uncle and drove home. Think we were home around 10.30 PM. Played a tiny bit of CoD, logged on to WoW real quick, and then bed.
So that's a day in my life. Hope my friend's satisfied now. Boring/exciting? Judge for yourself. Next time I'm probably gonna go back to something movie/WoW'ish.
Laitah.
Moving on the the holy subject of "Wtf am I listening to atm". Since I've been playing increasing amounts of guitar lately, I thought why not share a personal guitar favourite of mine. As you very well know, I can in fact not listen to it myself while writing (Which was sorta the main point of introducing the section), but I'm gonna throw one out there anyway. I know it in my head, yet I do know that this isn't enough in the long run. I will think about this and come up with a solution. Possibly in the next post, possibly in the one after. Anyway here it is: Andy McKee - Art of Motion. I hope you will enjoy it. This bloke is my hero when it comes to being awesome at guitar. A friend introduced me to him a couple of years back, and he has indeed made a lot of awesome music. Please feel free to check him out if you wish.
Moving on to content! Yes, yes we do have content! COOOOONTENT (I tried to do a TB impression there, prolly failed horribly). As I said in my last post, I'm gonna share with you "A day in my life". I went to Germany on sunday, and am gonna talk about that specific day. So here it is.
I got up at 10 AM. We had to leave at 11, so I had an hour to get ready, shower, eat, whatever. Yet instead of being concerned of all this rubbish, I played some CoD4. If you've never played CoD, I would advice you to check it out. I find it to be the best FPS ever to be released. Sure, CS was awesome, but when it comes to the newer FPS'es out there, this is a safe win. I played some Crossfire and Backlot if I remember correctly, and got a score around 30-20. Having positive score always makes you happy, and indeed it gave me a moral boost for the rest of the day. At 11 we were off. It's around 400 km's each way, so indeed it was quite a long trip. We reached Aabenraa (Lol that looks silly), and picked up my cousins and uncle. Being 3 persons on the backseat was slightly annoying, but I guess it was alright. We drove like 30 mins or so, and stopped to have lunch. Sandwich and water. Yummi! Drove another hour or so, and reached the arena (We were gonna watch a footbal match, did I even mention that? Hum). It's a 20 minute walk from the parking lot to the actual arena. I think we found our seats around 3 PM. Now, the match didn't start until 5, so we had 2 hours to do absolutely nothing. So we just kinda sat around and looked stupid. The match begun. Safe to say there were some quite devoted people there, yelling like hell etc. Guess that's how it's supposed to be. Hamburg won 2-0, quite a solid win I should say. So we left again, had something to eat (Jägerschnitzel, mhm), dropped off cousins/uncle and drove home. Think we were home around 10.30 PM. Played a tiny bit of CoD, logged on to WoW real quick, and then bed.
So that's a day in my life. Hope my friend's satisfied now. Boring/exciting? Judge for yourself. Next time I'm probably gonna go back to something movie/WoW'ish.
Laitah.
12. mar. 2009
Being a vampire - the new black?
Hello world. Yet again I find myself typing in class. Main reason for this being that I've found the lessons to be increasingly boring. Actually, maybe it's just me who is becoming increasingly slackier. But between the occasional note taking, there is nothing to do really. Listening to the teacher rambling on about whatever is easily doable while typing, and thinking. Or is it now? Hey, wait. Back up, what's that last thing we were supposed to do? A paper you say? When? Yesterday? Oh..
A friend of mine has been bugging me about posting on the subject of "A day in my life". He thinks this would actually be interesting reading. I wouldn't be so sure, yet I'm planning on doing it anyway. Not in this post, though. I will be going to Germany on sunday with my father, uncle and cousins. Hopefully this will be a fun experience, which I will be able to talk about later. Who knows, there might even pop up a fun story, which I would be able to share with my great wave of addicted blog readers. Yeah..
For this entry, however, I'm gonna go ahead and post some more.. movie stuff! Yes that's right. Recently I downloaded the one and only Twilight. For a long time, I wasn't sure if I could be arsed with it, but I found myself bored and did it anway. More on this subject in a wee bit.
Moving on to the sacred section of "What am I listening to while typing". Being in class again, I'm gonna have to deal with the issue of not being able to listen to anything. No worries though. As always, I've got a fresh song in mind I listening to just about an hour ago. I can still imagine it in my head, or well, recall the rythm. As I've mentioned a few times, I really enjoy melodic death metal. To give you just a tiny slice of this, I'm gonna go ahead and give you this: In Flames - F(r)iend. I hope you will enjoy it, I sure know I do. Obviously, In Flames has made numerous of indeed awesome tracks, and recently I have found myself exploring the more trashy side of the band. Initially, you might find yourself shocked at the aggresive riffs and growly vocals, but don't worry. The more you listen to it, the more compelled you get. It is indeed awesome.
A couple of months ago, my sister and dad (I think it was), were talking about the hideous amount of hits The Beatles has made. I don't think I fired off a counter argument, but in my head I tried to imagine which bands I knew, who had produced more hits than those guys. I came up with Breaking Benjamin and In Flames. The amount of good music those to band in particular have produced is close to unimagineable. Just a short detour from the main point, but I thought it was relevent. Anyway please feel free to explore the band if you wish, you are most likely not going to regret it.
So main topic for the post, Twilight. I've heard loads of chatter about it, it was in commercials everywhere and I was getting very curious. So a few nights ago I finally downloaded it, and watched it. I didn't know much about it to begin with. Something about vampires, a romance affair and Muse and Paramore on the OST. If I have to be quite honest, the main reason I got around to it was because of Paramore. Love it, watching movies while listening to awesome music is a crazy match. However, when the movie was over and the credits started rolling, some random song started. Eventually it ended, and some other song played. Still no Paramore. I was getting desperate. The movie was long over, and credits just kept on rolling. So the next song ended and then, finally, Paramore began playing. It made my day. Actually, it probably did not. But there you go.
So anyway the plot of the movie real quick. You meet this girl who is, apparently, completely normal. She moves to a new city (Can't recall which), and tries to function in a new high school in a new place. She is very popular, which I found sorta odd. Usually in these types of movies, they are being bullied back to the stoneage, but then end up rocking the school in the end. Anyway she spots this guy one day and more or less instantly falls in love with him (At least that's what it looked like). The guy doesn't for some odd reason seem to like her. He's away from school a couple of days and our main character gets worried. Then some day he returns, saves the girl from a car accident, and melts her heart. She finds out that he is indeed a vampire, as his entire family is. Now as you all know (Assuming you haven't been living under a rock), vampires live on blood. According to this movie they don't sleep either. This I didn't know. You learn every day, eh? Howver, people in this family don't drink human blood. They stick to animals. But despite this, people are getting murdered all over the place. As you may have guessed, there is an evil rival family going on. And those guys like human blood. It ends up in a giant vampire catfight, the bad family loses and the god one conquers all. And, of course, the girl gets her loved one in the end as well.
So, recommend or not? IMDB has given it 6.1. Not a lot. And quite honestly, I'm gonna stick with that. The plot was boring, not original at all, acting was a bit meh. Only thing that pulls is up is the use of Muse and Paramore. Sorry. If you one night find yourself bored to tears, thinking that it's either watch a random movie or shoot yourself in the foot - you should watch it. If you don't happen to find yourself in that situation though, there's plenty of better movies out there these days.
Again a post belonging in the movie section. Quite a few of these by now. Next time, however, I'm gonna post the "A day in my life" thingy. It might turn out horrible, it might turn out alright. Time will show, as always.
Stay tuned.
A friend of mine has been bugging me about posting on the subject of "A day in my life". He thinks this would actually be interesting reading. I wouldn't be so sure, yet I'm planning on doing it anyway. Not in this post, though. I will be going to Germany on sunday with my father, uncle and cousins. Hopefully this will be a fun experience, which I will be able to talk about later. Who knows, there might even pop up a fun story, which I would be able to share with my great wave of addicted blog readers. Yeah..
For this entry, however, I'm gonna go ahead and post some more.. movie stuff! Yes that's right. Recently I downloaded the one and only Twilight. For a long time, I wasn't sure if I could be arsed with it, but I found myself bored and did it anway. More on this subject in a wee bit.
Moving on to the sacred section of "What am I listening to while typing". Being in class again, I'm gonna have to deal with the issue of not being able to listen to anything. No worries though. As always, I've got a fresh song in mind I listening to just about an hour ago. I can still imagine it in my head, or well, recall the rythm. As I've mentioned a few times, I really enjoy melodic death metal. To give you just a tiny slice of this, I'm gonna go ahead and give you this: In Flames - F(r)iend. I hope you will enjoy it, I sure know I do. Obviously, In Flames has made numerous of indeed awesome tracks, and recently I have found myself exploring the more trashy side of the band. Initially, you might find yourself shocked at the aggresive riffs and growly vocals, but don't worry. The more you listen to it, the more compelled you get. It is indeed awesome.
A couple of months ago, my sister and dad (I think it was), were talking about the hideous amount of hits The Beatles has made. I don't think I fired off a counter argument, but in my head I tried to imagine which bands I knew, who had produced more hits than those guys. I came up with Breaking Benjamin and In Flames. The amount of good music those to band in particular have produced is close to unimagineable. Just a short detour from the main point, but I thought it was relevent. Anyway please feel free to explore the band if you wish, you are most likely not going to regret it.
So main topic for the post, Twilight. I've heard loads of chatter about it, it was in commercials everywhere and I was getting very curious. So a few nights ago I finally downloaded it, and watched it. I didn't know much about it to begin with. Something about vampires, a romance affair and Muse and Paramore on the OST. If I have to be quite honest, the main reason I got around to it was because of Paramore. Love it, watching movies while listening to awesome music is a crazy match. However, when the movie was over and the credits started rolling, some random song started. Eventually it ended, and some other song played. Still no Paramore. I was getting desperate. The movie was long over, and credits just kept on rolling. So the next song ended and then, finally, Paramore began playing. It made my day. Actually, it probably did not. But there you go.
So anyway the plot of the movie real quick. You meet this girl who is, apparently, completely normal. She moves to a new city (Can't recall which), and tries to function in a new high school in a new place. She is very popular, which I found sorta odd. Usually in these types of movies, they are being bullied back to the stoneage, but then end up rocking the school in the end. Anyway she spots this guy one day and more or less instantly falls in love with him (At least that's what it looked like). The guy doesn't for some odd reason seem to like her. He's away from school a couple of days and our main character gets worried. Then some day he returns, saves the girl from a car accident, and melts her heart. She finds out that he is indeed a vampire, as his entire family is. Now as you all know (Assuming you haven't been living under a rock), vampires live on blood. According to this movie they don't sleep either. This I didn't know. You learn every day, eh? Howver, people in this family don't drink human blood. They stick to animals. But despite this, people are getting murdered all over the place. As you may have guessed, there is an evil rival family going on. And those guys like human blood. It ends up in a giant vampire catfight, the bad family loses and the god one conquers all. And, of course, the girl gets her loved one in the end as well.
So, recommend or not? IMDB has given it 6.1. Not a lot. And quite honestly, I'm gonna stick with that. The plot was boring, not original at all, acting was a bit meh. Only thing that pulls is up is the use of Muse and Paramore. Sorry. If you one night find yourself bored to tears, thinking that it's either watch a random movie or shoot yourself in the foot - you should watch it. If you don't happen to find yourself in that situation though, there's plenty of better movies out there these days.
Again a post belonging in the movie section. Quite a few of these by now. Next time, however, I'm gonna post the "A day in my life" thingy. It might turn out horrible, it might turn out alright. Time will show, as always.
Stay tuned.
9. mar. 2009
Caring in a bucket - emptiness. Vicariously?
Yeah, I don't know what's with the title either. I was juggling some words and came up with this. A match of a Tool song and some funky geek humour. Awkward. I know.
Hello world. Yes indeed, I am already back again. As you all know (Figure that only includes me), I posted an entry this very afternoon. So why bother with another post already you ask, while staring into a mirror, thinking that life sucks and you should indeed get a haircut. See, while talking to a buddy of mine this evening, I realised something important in life. Life is indeed not something that you just dump something on, it is not a big truck, it is a matter of fact a giant series of tubes. And you know, everyone should leave something in life for the next generation to come. So I figured, I already started a blog and indeed have been writing quite a bit on it recently. If I keep up this pace, I will at some point have written enough to fill an entire book. How awesome would that be? "Based on a fictional story". That's what I would write on the outside (This is assuming the logic of The Matrix, which would make all life as we know it sorta fictional). So therefore, I might as well try to strive to update as often as I possibly can. Even though this might mean a slight drop of relevant content. I have to write whatever pops in to my mind, this is the only way to fill an entire book. Just keep writing. Keep... WRITING (Sorry for the inappropriate use of caps, but it just feels soooo good).
Yet again, as I have made it a tradition over the past couple of times, I will tell you exactly what is coming out of my headset right in this very moment (I could go ahead and make a sarcastic comment about that, but I will leave it there, so that you, Yes YOU, can fill it out in whatever way you fancy.) However, I happen to be breaking one of the basic rules here. I am this time going to link you 5 (FIVE) songs at the same time. The reason for this being that I want a bit more variety in the music I throw out there. See, if I only stick to one song per post, I'm gonna have to post a hecka lot of posts before I get around everything I like. Therefore I'm gonna go ahead and test this experiment. Now, I have absolutely no idea how this is gonna affect your take on the blog. You might hate me for this. You might go ahead and yell: "I HAS BUCKET", or something of similar variety. Indeed, if you happen to find yourself in this twisted paradox, please feel free to tell me, and I will have a look at the issue and maybe, just maybe, we can figure something out. After all, it is my blog, I'm the ultimate judge of everything that gets posted in here. Anyway here they are: Paramore - Five Songs Of Awesome
I even had to learn myself how to use the playlist feature of YouTube, never really used that before actually. But hey, better late than never! Hopefully it's gonna work.
As I said in my first post, I'm usually into more heavy stuff, but this band, I really, really dig. None of these five songs are on the popular Riot! album. They're a mix of some of their old stuff, and even a new song (I think, I'm actually just guessing. I was once told never to guess. Always know, yet House recently told me not to be afraid of being wrong. Hm, I'm sticking with House).
So moving on to some actual content of the post (Notice how the intro sections seem to take up more space every time. A fun fact indeed. I giggled in real life too. Good to know I'm not the only one. Ah well.)
I'm gonna go ahead and tell you about a bet I've got going with a friend of mine, that has sorta taken over my WoW career for the past 2 months or so. See, once upon a time, I happened to be logged on my rogue, levelling happily while talking on skype with this friend. I was in my early 50s, and he was in the 30s with his warrior. He thought I was levelling incredibly fast, so threw out a joke for fun. He suggested that I should level the rogue I was busy with at the time to 80, and after that get an additional char to 80 before he got his warrior to 80. I took up the challenge, and even though there's nothing serious in it (Conspiracy anyone?), I've dedicated my WoW time more or less entirely to this over the past 2 months. Currently, I'm at 66 with my secondary character and my friend is at 72. Some might say I'm close to catching up on him (Indeed he does), but I wouldn't be so sure. I've spend a lot of time on real life stuff/guitar/general slack lately, and my friend has showed incredible speed over the last week especially. I'm going into some tough times school wise, and my friend has got nothing but a few tests it seems. Whether or not I will be able to pull it off and win the 0,5 liters of coke we're betting on, I'm really not sure yet. Obviously, I'm gonna give you an update about this in a few weeks when we find the winner. Oh and one more thing I've been spending stupid amounts of time on lately happens to be my... blog. Argh, I'm shooting myself in the foot while writing and losing 0,5 liters of incredibly refreshing and indeed delicious coke. What's the matter with me? I'm gonna go back to levelling. Almost 67! I'm coming to get ya lad!!
Later folks.
Hello world. Yes indeed, I am already back again. As you all know (Figure that only includes me), I posted an entry this very afternoon. So why bother with another post already you ask, while staring into a mirror, thinking that life sucks and you should indeed get a haircut. See, while talking to a buddy of mine this evening, I realised something important in life. Life is indeed not something that you just dump something on, it is not a big truck, it is a matter of fact a giant series of tubes. And you know, everyone should leave something in life for the next generation to come. So I figured, I already started a blog and indeed have been writing quite a bit on it recently. If I keep up this pace, I will at some point have written enough to fill an entire book. How awesome would that be? "Based on a fictional story". That's what I would write on the outside (This is assuming the logic of The Matrix, which would make all life as we know it sorta fictional). So therefore, I might as well try to strive to update as often as I possibly can. Even though this might mean a slight drop of relevant content. I have to write whatever pops in to my mind, this is the only way to fill an entire book. Just keep writing. Keep... WRITING (Sorry for the inappropriate use of caps, but it just feels soooo good).
Yet again, as I have made it a tradition over the past couple of times, I will tell you exactly what is coming out of my headset right in this very moment (I could go ahead and make a sarcastic comment about that, but I will leave it there, so that you, Yes YOU, can fill it out in whatever way you fancy.) However, I happen to be breaking one of the basic rules here. I am this time going to link you 5 (FIVE) songs at the same time. The reason for this being that I want a bit more variety in the music I throw out there. See, if I only stick to one song per post, I'm gonna have to post a hecka lot of posts before I get around everything I like. Therefore I'm gonna go ahead and test this experiment. Now, I have absolutely no idea how this is gonna affect your take on the blog. You might hate me for this. You might go ahead and yell: "I HAS BUCKET", or something of similar variety. Indeed, if you happen to find yourself in this twisted paradox, please feel free to tell me, and I will have a look at the issue and maybe, just maybe, we can figure something out. After all, it is my blog, I'm the ultimate judge of everything that gets posted in here. Anyway here they are: Paramore - Five Songs Of Awesome
I even had to learn myself how to use the playlist feature of YouTube, never really used that before actually. But hey, better late than never! Hopefully it's gonna work.
As I said in my first post, I'm usually into more heavy stuff, but this band, I really, really dig. None of these five songs are on the popular Riot! album. They're a mix of some of their old stuff, and even a new song (I think, I'm actually just guessing. I was once told never to guess. Always know, yet House recently told me not to be afraid of being wrong. Hm, I'm sticking with House).
So moving on to some actual content of the post (Notice how the intro sections seem to take up more space every time. A fun fact indeed. I giggled in real life too. Good to know I'm not the only one. Ah well.)
I'm gonna go ahead and tell you about a bet I've got going with a friend of mine, that has sorta taken over my WoW career for the past 2 months or so. See, once upon a time, I happened to be logged on my rogue, levelling happily while talking on skype with this friend. I was in my early 50s, and he was in the 30s with his warrior. He thought I was levelling incredibly fast, so threw out a joke for fun. He suggested that I should level the rogue I was busy with at the time to 80, and after that get an additional char to 80 before he got his warrior to 80. I took up the challenge, and even though there's nothing serious in it (Conspiracy anyone?), I've dedicated my WoW time more or less entirely to this over the past 2 months. Currently, I'm at 66 with my secondary character and my friend is at 72. Some might say I'm close to catching up on him (Indeed he does), but I wouldn't be so sure. I've spend a lot of time on real life stuff/guitar/general slack lately, and my friend has showed incredible speed over the last week especially. I'm going into some tough times school wise, and my friend has got nothing but a few tests it seems. Whether or not I will be able to pull it off and win the 0,5 liters of coke we're betting on, I'm really not sure yet. Obviously, I'm gonna give you an update about this in a few weeks when we find the winner. Oh and one more thing I've been spending stupid amounts of time on lately happens to be my... blog. Argh, I'm shooting myself in the foot while writing and losing 0,5 liters of incredibly refreshing and indeed delicious coke. What's the matter with me? I'm gonna go back to levelling. Almost 67! I'm coming to get ya lad!!
Later folks.
Paying attention while doing nothing at all
Hello again world. I'm back, this time while in the middle of a social studies class. Why this you might ask? See, that's not the way to go about it. It's all about the effort, about putting in what's needed to get where you wanna be. You're gonna face hurdles on your way to destiny, but you need to keep at it. This is the reason for slacking. Also, a classmate was curious as to when an update might arrive, and I thought why not give him something to make the day go by easier? After all, that's all that matters. Getting through the day without passing out and getting in a car accident. By reading this very update, my friend will lower his risk of all these things by at least 20%. I doubt he's ever gonna thank me for this. But it's alright, cause as long as I know in my heart that I saved his life, I don't need his acceptance.
Moving on to actual content. As always, I'm gonna tell you just what beautiful piece of music I'm listening to at this very moment. Now, being in class and all, there is no way on earth I'm gonna be able to put on music and continue my writing. No worries though. I've played with WoW on mute for the past 3 years, so why not try play Blogspot on mute as well? That's what I'm gonna try, and hopefully you will in fact be able to listen. Therefore, I'm gonna go ahead and propose Anberlin - Paperthin Hymn. Even though I may not be able to listen, I still know the song in my head having listened to it this morning. This is almost as good as having the actual song coming out of your speakers, so everything is good. The world remains sane.
Soo, I didn't actually consider the content of this next post before my friend asked me for an update. I thought this through real quick, and came up with an obvious choice of mine. Again, I'm gonna go ahead and post some movie stuff. Donnie Darko. Ever watched it? If you have the ability to sit on your arse right now and say: "No.", then I declare you Cold War. If indeed you have watched it and find yourself being all meh after it, don't worry. I was so too after the first couple of times I watched it. However, every time you watch it after that, it gets epicer every time (Not a word, but I want to write it anyway. Hah, no silly teacher to correct my mistakes!).
First, I'm gonna give you a walkthrough real quick about the movie.
Donnie Darko is a psychological thriller about a mentally troubled and confused young man, Donnie Darko. With Jake Gyllenhaal playing the main character, you couldn't possibly ask for more. It's a true masterpiece. Anyway, Donnie often sleepwalks, but one night, it gets just slightly weirder than usual. Donnie is contacted by the giant bunny rabbit (Frank), and is told to go outside his house. Here, Donnie meet Frank for the first time. While looking incredibly scary, Frank tells Donnie that the world is gonna end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds (Know that without looking it up. Geek knowledge ftw.) Donnie asks why, but Frank doesn't give him a straight answer. The morning after, Donnie wakes up on a golf course, and walks home quite confused (As always I suppose). Here, he finds out that his House (See what I did there?) has been hit by a jet engine, and if Donnie had indeed been home that night, he would have died.
But hey, life goes on, so Donnie lives his life as he normally would. He goes to school, and happens to meet a new girl in town, Gretchen, and they choose to go together (As Donnie calls it). Frank tells Donnie to flood his school one night, which he does. After all, he saved his life. Indeed quite a weird proposal, but who knows. Life goes on, and Donnie now really begins to really lose touch with reality, and eventully ends up burning a child molestors house. The film reaches it climax, Gretchen is hit by a car and Donnie dies 28 days after he first met with Frank. A jet engine falls in to his room, funny enough, and Donnie saves the world. There's a lot left out, but if you want the full experience, watch the movie.
It's bloody good.
That's the plot right there, I love it. Watch it. Plzzzzzz (See how annoying that is, don't ever type that way!)
Another major post of fail right there. The class is over, so therefore I need to close to post as well (Obviously). Hope you enjoy it, and please, keep the feedback coming!
Stay tuned.
Moving on to actual content. As always, I'm gonna tell you just what beautiful piece of music I'm listening to at this very moment. Now, being in class and all, there is no way on earth I'm gonna be able to put on music and continue my writing. No worries though. I've played with WoW on mute for the past 3 years, so why not try play Blogspot on mute as well? That's what I'm gonna try, and hopefully you will in fact be able to listen. Therefore, I'm gonna go ahead and propose Anberlin - Paperthin Hymn. Even though I may not be able to listen, I still know the song in my head having listened to it this morning. This is almost as good as having the actual song coming out of your speakers, so everything is good. The world remains sane.
Soo, I didn't actually consider the content of this next post before my friend asked me for an update. I thought this through real quick, and came up with an obvious choice of mine. Again, I'm gonna go ahead and post some movie stuff. Donnie Darko. Ever watched it? If you have the ability to sit on your arse right now and say: "No.", then I declare you Cold War. If indeed you have watched it and find yourself being all meh after it, don't worry. I was so too after the first couple of times I watched it. However, every time you watch it after that, it gets epicer every time (Not a word, but I want to write it anyway. Hah, no silly teacher to correct my mistakes!).
First, I'm gonna give you a walkthrough real quick about the movie.
Donnie Darko is a psychological thriller about a mentally troubled and confused young man, Donnie Darko. With Jake Gyllenhaal playing the main character, you couldn't possibly ask for more. It's a true masterpiece. Anyway, Donnie often sleepwalks, but one night, it gets just slightly weirder than usual. Donnie is contacted by the giant bunny rabbit (Frank), and is told to go outside his house. Here, Donnie meet Frank for the first time. While looking incredibly scary, Frank tells Donnie that the world is gonna end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds (Know that without looking it up. Geek knowledge ftw.) Donnie asks why, but Frank doesn't give him a straight answer. The morning after, Donnie wakes up on a golf course, and walks home quite confused (As always I suppose). Here, he finds out that his House (See what I did there?) has been hit by a jet engine, and if Donnie had indeed been home that night, he would have died.
But hey, life goes on, so Donnie lives his life as he normally would. He goes to school, and happens to meet a new girl in town, Gretchen, and they choose to go together (As Donnie calls it). Frank tells Donnie to flood his school one night, which he does. After all, he saved his life. Indeed quite a weird proposal, but who knows. Life goes on, and Donnie now really begins to really lose touch with reality, and eventully ends up burning a child molestors house. The film reaches it climax, Gretchen is hit by a car and Donnie dies 28 days after he first met with Frank. A jet engine falls in to his room, funny enough, and Donnie saves the world. There's a lot left out, but if you want the full experience, watch the movie.
It's bloody good.
That's the plot right there, I love it. Watch it. Plzzzzzz (See how annoying that is, don't ever type that way!)
Another major post of fail right there. The class is over, so therefore I need to close to post as well (Obviously). Hope you enjoy it, and please, keep the feedback coming!
Stay tuned.
6. mar. 2009
Discovering the awesome
I'm back. Been about a week since my last post (Not gonna check, but time flies by and I'm eager to write. Bear with me), and boy am I excited. Just came home from the movies a couple of minutes ago and am currently thrilled by the awesome that is "Mænd Der Hader Kvinder" ("The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" in english). I've got a lot of stuff that I wanna get out there, so I might as well get on with it eh. Oh and btw, this post I'm gonna dedicate ENTIRELY to the movies/books section. Actually, that's two sections. I guess you can consider it a hybrid post.
Before we get started, I promised last time that I would share with you exactly what I'm listening to at this very moment. Having seen this film of awesome, I thought should probably find music suiting the theme of it. I spend close to 10 minutes figuring this out (In cat years, long time), and I came up with this piece of win: In Flames - Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone. Please feel free to put it on repeat or whatever. It's probably gonna take a while. Having linked this awesome piece of art, I better give it a decription too. The movie is very dark. Very dark. Nuff' info right there. Listen to the song while imagining it, and you will know the message.
So that's the intro section to today's post. Now here's some actual content.
So as I mentioned, I just came home from the movies. The movie is based on a novel written by the one and only Stieg Larsson. There's 3 books in the series, and we know there's a 4th novel buried on Stieg's computer, that's never gonna be released. Sad fact indeed, but as far as I know, there's some personal drama involved that's probably never gonna be sorted. So that's it I guess. Anyway 3 books have been released in the Millenium series and I've obviously read all of em. It's funny actually. The first book came out in 06 as far as I know, and I read it shortly afterwards (My mother introduced me to it, and I ate it raw). I was absolutely amazed. By far the best book I've ever read (I'm serious. It is that good). So I found out there was a 2nd book too, which I read - and when the final book came out I read it 2 days after release or so. I'm like an addict when I find something I really, really dig. It's an obsession. I can spend 14 hours a day reading a book if I'm really into it. The only bad thing about this, would be that I often read too fast for my brain to actually follow, meaning I sometimes miss important information. I just wanna find out who that bad guy is, and honestly, who doesn't?
Oh yea, back to the actual thing I'm talking about. The book is about an internationally accepted hacker only known as Wasp online (Lisbeth Salander). She gets to know a journalist called Michael Blomkvist. Together they're to solve an old family myth from a big and respected swedish company. So they start digging, and by god does the devil come out of his hiding spot. Everything that's been hiding under the surface for the past 50 years suddenly see the light of day. And promise me when I say, it is not kid's games they're playing. Before all this happened, Michael was working on a big case about a well known business man, who had been playing dirty games to make his current fortune. Michael knows all the stuff that's going on, but hasn't got the evidence to actually get the bloody idiot in jail. After the whole crime thing is solved, Lisbeth uses her brilliant hacker mind to get Michael the information he needs, which leads to the biggest case in swedish history (This is fiction, do not take any information in this blog seriously. You will be called a noob by your mom.) So the bad guy get's locked up, and Lisbeth also manages to transfer all of his money to her account. Heh. I like that.
So anyway that's the general plot of the story real short (SPOILER ALERT. Hm' kinda too late now. Sorry dude.) and they've now then made it into a movie.
Obviously, as you all know, trying to make a film over a really good book is like shooting yourself in the foot. Most of the time at least. You're gonna run in to a lot of problems, that especially the real hardcore fans of the book are gonna be pissed about (Generally that'd be me, but I'm actually quite happy with this one. Bah, fail.) The books usually cover anywhere from 300-1000 pages or whatever. Trying to squeeze this into 2,5 hours as it was in this case, is simply impossible. That's the limit that films have, and everybody knows this (IT'S NOT SODDING ROCKET SCIENCE PEOPLE.) But in this case, they really did an awesome job in trying.
There were a lot of very dark and violent, bizzare and completely terrible scenes in the book. I have to say, the director really caught these very well and managed to create just the right atmosphere. All the darkness you had from the book got in the film as well, which was of crucial importance for me to like it. Good job.
Back on track with the missing information. They focused a lot on the crime aspect of the story, which was cool. But still, I missed the Erika/Michael relationship described more, I missed general Millenium stuff, I missed Dragan Armanskij (Lol, I think I actually spelled it right) and I would've liked a bit more info on Lisbeth's life as a hacker. But as I said, you can't always get what you want (Quote of awesome from House MD, watch it damnit).
So will I watch it again when it's out on DVD? Probably. I'm not sure it's a movie I'd enjoy watching over and over and over like Donnie Darko or Fight Club, but it's definitely something that I need to own. Not just as a silly .avi file taking up space on my harddrive. I need it on my shelter, for bragging purposes.
As we drove home, my sister mentioned how she didn't even once stopped and thought "Hey this is actually a really good movie.", and how it was all too sick and stupid. Obviously, she's a teenager and is all very emo, but really. I totally disagree and honestly, it has got to be one (if not the) best movie I've seen in the past year or so (New movie that is, obviously I've watched Fight Club a dozen times over past year.)
So that's my final words on that topic for this time I think.
So should you either go read the books or watch the movie if you haven't already? If you still need me to answer that question to you at this point of the post, I'm gonna have to go /facepalm. Seriously. Get over it.
So that's another major post of fail. 30 minutes of typing whatever comes into your mind. God, I love this thing. Oh and please feel free to give me feedback on the blog or general stuff about my opinions. Already had a few people pointing out stuff to me. And that's all that matters right? The fans. Cough.. I only ought to care about myself. I'm getting all sentimental. This has gone too far. I better end it right here.
So stay tuned for next time. I have absolutely no idea what I'm gonna write about, but hopefully you'll enjoy reading whatever I fancy whining about at that specific time and date.
Stay tuned.
Before we get started, I promised last time that I would share with you exactly what I'm listening to at this very moment. Having seen this film of awesome, I thought should probably find music suiting the theme of it. I spend close to 10 minutes figuring this out (In cat years, long time), and I came up with this piece of win: In Flames - Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone. Please feel free to put it on repeat or whatever. It's probably gonna take a while. Having linked this awesome piece of art, I better give it a decription too. The movie is very dark. Very dark. Nuff' info right there. Listen to the song while imagining it, and you will know the message.
So that's the intro section to today's post. Now here's some actual content.
So as I mentioned, I just came home from the movies. The movie is based on a novel written by the one and only Stieg Larsson. There's 3 books in the series, and we know there's a 4th novel buried on Stieg's computer, that's never gonna be released. Sad fact indeed, but as far as I know, there's some personal drama involved that's probably never gonna be sorted. So that's it I guess. Anyway 3 books have been released in the Millenium series and I've obviously read all of em. It's funny actually. The first book came out in 06 as far as I know, and I read it shortly afterwards (My mother introduced me to it, and I ate it raw). I was absolutely amazed. By far the best book I've ever read (I'm serious. It is that good). So I found out there was a 2nd book too, which I read - and when the final book came out I read it 2 days after release or so. I'm like an addict when I find something I really, really dig. It's an obsession. I can spend 14 hours a day reading a book if I'm really into it. The only bad thing about this, would be that I often read too fast for my brain to actually follow, meaning I sometimes miss important information. I just wanna find out who that bad guy is, and honestly, who doesn't?
Oh yea, back to the actual thing I'm talking about. The book is about an internationally accepted hacker only known as Wasp online (Lisbeth Salander). She gets to know a journalist called Michael Blomkvist. Together they're to solve an old family myth from a big and respected swedish company. So they start digging, and by god does the devil come out of his hiding spot. Everything that's been hiding under the surface for the past 50 years suddenly see the light of day. And promise me when I say, it is not kid's games they're playing. Before all this happened, Michael was working on a big case about a well known business man, who had been playing dirty games to make his current fortune. Michael knows all the stuff that's going on, but hasn't got the evidence to actually get the bloody idiot in jail. After the whole crime thing is solved, Lisbeth uses her brilliant hacker mind to get Michael the information he needs, which leads to the biggest case in swedish history (This is fiction, do not take any information in this blog seriously. You will be called a noob by your mom.) So the bad guy get's locked up, and Lisbeth also manages to transfer all of his money to her account. Heh. I like that.
So anyway that's the general plot of the story real short (SPOILER ALERT. Hm' kinda too late now. Sorry dude.) and they've now then made it into a movie.
Obviously, as you all know, trying to make a film over a really good book is like shooting yourself in the foot. Most of the time at least. You're gonna run in to a lot of problems, that especially the real hardcore fans of the book are gonna be pissed about (Generally that'd be me, but I'm actually quite happy with this one. Bah, fail.) The books usually cover anywhere from 300-1000 pages or whatever. Trying to squeeze this into 2,5 hours as it was in this case, is simply impossible. That's the limit that films have, and everybody knows this (IT'S NOT SODDING ROCKET SCIENCE PEOPLE.) But in this case, they really did an awesome job in trying.
There were a lot of very dark and violent, bizzare and completely terrible scenes in the book. I have to say, the director really caught these very well and managed to create just the right atmosphere. All the darkness you had from the book got in the film as well, which was of crucial importance for me to like it. Good job.
Back on track with the missing information. They focused a lot on the crime aspect of the story, which was cool. But still, I missed the Erika/Michael relationship described more, I missed general Millenium stuff, I missed Dragan Armanskij (Lol, I think I actually spelled it right) and I would've liked a bit more info on Lisbeth's life as a hacker. But as I said, you can't always get what you want (Quote of awesome from House MD, watch it damnit).
So will I watch it again when it's out on DVD? Probably. I'm not sure it's a movie I'd enjoy watching over and over and over like Donnie Darko or Fight Club, but it's definitely something that I need to own. Not just as a silly .avi file taking up space on my harddrive. I need it on my shelter, for bragging purposes.
As we drove home, my sister mentioned how she didn't even once stopped and thought "Hey this is actually a really good movie.", and how it was all too sick and stupid. Obviously, she's a teenager and is all very emo, but really. I totally disagree and honestly, it has got to be one (if not the) best movie I've seen in the past year or so (New movie that is, obviously I've watched Fight Club a dozen times over past year.)
So that's my final words on that topic for this time I think.
So should you either go read the books or watch the movie if you haven't already? If you still need me to answer that question to you at this point of the post, I'm gonna have to go /facepalm. Seriously. Get over it.
So that's another major post of fail. 30 minutes of typing whatever comes into your mind. God, I love this thing. Oh and please feel free to give me feedback on the blog or general stuff about my opinions. Already had a few people pointing out stuff to me. And that's all that matters right? The fans. Cough.. I only ought to care about myself. I'm getting all sentimental. This has gone too far. I better end it right here.
So stay tuned for next time. I have absolutely no idea what I'm gonna write about, but hopefully you'll enjoy reading whatever I fancy whining about at that specific time and date.
Stay tuned.
3. mar. 2009
The art of standing in fire
Okay before I get started I'd like to state the fact real quick that I officially FAIL. I said in my last post that I thought my 2nd post would be posted AFTER the 1st one. Now obviously, this wasn't the way it played out. I ain't gonna question the design of this website, cause quite frankly, the guys who developed it are probably lightyears brighter than me. So now that's out of the question, let's get on with the actual post (This first section doesn't exist, no one is gonna believe you. I know where you li.. anyway).
Hello world. Been a few days since my last post, but I've already got more stuff to share with yer all. Basically, as I mentioned in my first post, I am a major WoW geek. I've played it for almost 4 years and would consider myself quite alright at the game by now. There's still plenty of people out there who could woop my arse any day, but I guess I'm somewhere just above average (That wasn't actually a rough estimate, it was actually very accurate).
Oh and also, something real quick before we get started, every time I've been writing stuff for my blog, I've been listening to something awesome on repeat. I guess I might make this a tradition and share with you all just what I'm listening to at this very moment. Now last time I was listening to some acoustic performances by Breaking Benjamin, yet this time, I've gone to the extreme of all things emo. I'm currenly listening to Attack by 30 Seconds To Mars.
Yes, it's that bad. I know. I wouldn't be proud either. I KNOW. Anyway it's quite an awesome track - for a lot of us it's connected with a lot of good ol' PvP memories. If you're one of those guys, please feel free to stand up at this very moment and yell: "THE CAKE IS A LIE" (See I managed to slip a quote of awesome in there, pro eh?). Back on track, please feel free to listen to this while reading my blog. From now on, I will start every post by mentioning what I'm listening to while writing. This way we can listen to the same thing and, in some twisted fashion, be mentally connected in a way only Neo has the ability to comprehend. Uhm, anyway. Consider that an update to the "section" thingy. Wow, that was a really big detour for something quite useless to the actual stuff I want to share.
So back on track, I play WoW and happen to be in a raiding guild. Currently, we have cleared everything in the game except Sartharion and company (3 drakes). Now I will admit, this significant encounter is VASTLY harder than everything else Blizzard has thrown at us with this expansion thus far, so I can understand that some people might find the initial phase of understanding this encounter a bit tricky. However, there's got to be limits to the madness.
First, I'll quickly run you through the encounter and the optional bits to it - for all you non WoW'ers out there (I'm being naive, I know.) Anyway the Sartharion encounter can be engaged while either having killed 1, 2, 3 or none of the minidwagons surrounding him in his giant room. Depending on how many you kill, the fight becomes progressively harder (3 = easy, None = Crazyassclosetoimpossible). As I said, we've done everything except 3 drakes. If you indeed choose to engage him with non alive, there's only gonna be a few adds to deal with, and you're gonna have to avoid a few fire waves of doom. You might be thinking "Wow that sounds really hard." It is NOT. Okay? Everyone who wipes with zero drakes alive should get slapped with a really big fish. Just tied up to a chair and slapped with it.. and again.
So you move on to one drake. Now, you're gonna have to kill one of the small drakes while tanking the big one. This is where the fun begins. Depending on which drakes you leave alive, you're gonna face differenct detours on your way to that shiny chest, each with their own unique sorta feel to it. Now mind you, while you do this, you're still gonna have to pay attention to the giant fire walls of doom. So you get that down (Honestly, it's quite easy). And you move on to 2 drakes. This is the same as the first fight, but as the name suggests, you now have 2 drakes alive. Same shit, slightly harder. No biggie. Eventually, you're gonna get it down and move on the real big fish. At this point, the fight has become a giant "DONT STAND IN BLUE STUFF, GET HIT BY FIRE OR SOMETHING SIMILAR, YOU WILL BE FLAMED" sorta adventure. while dealing with all of this, you now also have to push out A LOT of raid dps (I believe it's somewhere around 60k).
Yesterday evening, my guild and I had a whole evening trying to get this thing down. And we couldn't do it. People kept standing in shit they weren't supposed to and we simply didn't push out enough DPS to get the job done. It seems that our RL found out that we did something slightly wrong, but we still were quite far away from getting it. So we had around 20 goes and none of em seemed to get us anywhere near the kill. I don't mind this. I LOVE spending the entire night dying over and over and over. It's why I play this game basically. And I'm sure that, eventually, we will kill this son of a something awful. What I didn't like was the fact of people standing in shit they weren't supposed to. Just DON'T.
So anyway that's a big rant about my universe of pixels. One of the few things in life that can get me pissed (Sounds odd, hm?), but hopefully, we will nail this fight at some point. It's probably not gonna happen before Ulduar gets released, but whatever. I'd like the title.
So that's another major post there, I'm gonna end it here so you ain't gonna die (Wouldn't like that, not at all, nope). A quick recap: I introduced a new section - the "What am I listening to while writing" and I went a bit emo on the nature of the Sarth 3D encounter. Next time I'm gonna talk about a book I like. Be ready.
Hello world. Been a few days since my last post, but I've already got more stuff to share with yer all. Basically, as I mentioned in my first post, I am a major WoW geek. I've played it for almost 4 years and would consider myself quite alright at the game by now. There's still plenty of people out there who could woop my arse any day, but I guess I'm somewhere just above average (That wasn't actually a rough estimate, it was actually very accurate).
Oh and also, something real quick before we get started, every time I've been writing stuff for my blog, I've been listening to something awesome on repeat. I guess I might make this a tradition and share with you all just what I'm listening to at this very moment. Now last time I was listening to some acoustic performances by Breaking Benjamin, yet this time, I've gone to the extreme of all things emo. I'm currenly listening to Attack by 30 Seconds To Mars.
Yes, it's that bad. I know. I wouldn't be proud either. I KNOW. Anyway it's quite an awesome track - for a lot of us it's connected with a lot of good ol' PvP memories. If you're one of those guys, please feel free to stand up at this very moment and yell: "THE CAKE IS A LIE" (See I managed to slip a quote of awesome in there, pro eh?). Back on track, please feel free to listen to this while reading my blog. From now on, I will start every post by mentioning what I'm listening to while writing. This way we can listen to the same thing and, in some twisted fashion, be mentally connected in a way only Neo has the ability to comprehend. Uhm, anyway. Consider that an update to the "section" thingy. Wow, that was a really big detour for something quite useless to the actual stuff I want to share.
So back on track, I play WoW and happen to be in a raiding guild. Currently, we have cleared everything in the game except Sartharion and company (3 drakes). Now I will admit, this significant encounter is VASTLY harder than everything else Blizzard has thrown at us with this expansion thus far, so I can understand that some people might find the initial phase of understanding this encounter a bit tricky. However, there's got to be limits to the madness.
First, I'll quickly run you through the encounter and the optional bits to it - for all you non WoW'ers out there (I'm being naive, I know.) Anyway the Sartharion encounter can be engaged while either having killed 1, 2, 3 or none of the minidwagons surrounding him in his giant room. Depending on how many you kill, the fight becomes progressively harder (3 = easy, None = Crazyassclosetoimpossible). As I said, we've done everything except 3 drakes. If you indeed choose to engage him with non alive, there's only gonna be a few adds to deal with, and you're gonna have to avoid a few fire waves of doom. You might be thinking "Wow that sounds really hard." It is NOT. Okay? Everyone who wipes with zero drakes alive should get slapped with a really big fish. Just tied up to a chair and slapped with it.. and again.
So you move on to one drake. Now, you're gonna have to kill one of the small drakes while tanking the big one. This is where the fun begins. Depending on which drakes you leave alive, you're gonna face differenct detours on your way to that shiny chest, each with their own unique sorta feel to it. Now mind you, while you do this, you're still gonna have to pay attention to the giant fire walls of doom. So you get that down (Honestly, it's quite easy). And you move on to 2 drakes. This is the same as the first fight, but as the name suggests, you now have 2 drakes alive. Same shit, slightly harder. No biggie. Eventually, you're gonna get it down and move on the real big fish. At this point, the fight has become a giant "DONT STAND IN BLUE STUFF, GET HIT BY FIRE OR SOMETHING SIMILAR, YOU WILL BE FLAMED" sorta adventure. while dealing with all of this, you now also have to push out A LOT of raid dps (I believe it's somewhere around 60k).
Yesterday evening, my guild and I had a whole evening trying to get this thing down. And we couldn't do it. People kept standing in shit they weren't supposed to and we simply didn't push out enough DPS to get the job done. It seems that our RL found out that we did something slightly wrong, but we still were quite far away from getting it. So we had around 20 goes and none of em seemed to get us anywhere near the kill. I don't mind this. I LOVE spending the entire night dying over and over and over. It's why I play this game basically. And I'm sure that, eventually, we will kill this son of a something awful. What I didn't like was the fact of people standing in shit they weren't supposed to. Just DON'T.
So anyway that's a big rant about my universe of pixels. One of the few things in life that can get me pissed (Sounds odd, hm?), but hopefully, we will nail this fight at some point. It's probably not gonna happen before Ulduar gets released, but whatever. I'd like the title.
So that's another major post there, I'm gonna end it here so you ain't gonna die (Wouldn't like that, not at all, nope). A quick recap: I introduced a new section - the "What am I listening to while writing" and I went a bit emo on the nature of the Sarth 3D encounter. Next time I'm gonna talk about a book I like. Be ready.
27. feb. 2009
First update!
Oh hai. It's been a whole day since I posted my introductional post, and I'm already back again. There's a few reasons for this. First off, I want to see what it looks like when posting another entry. At first I thought it was gonna "overrule" the first post (That make sense?), but then I realised that'd be stupid. So to prove to myself that everything can be explained with logical sense, I'm posting something!
Also it's friday afternoon now. There's nothing on the schedule for the rest of the day, so I thought why not waste a little time writing about something that no one's ever gonna read or even care about! Actually, I do hope that someone is actually going to read this. Obviously, I'm gonna read it myself to check for spelling mistakes and that sorta stuff (Yes, I'm elitist that way). I know how annoying it can be to read something full of errors, so I r gonna avoid that (See what I did there?)
I don't know, sitting down once in a while and just write whatever comes into your mind can be extremely, fun? Organizing the inside of your brain is a tricky test.
Also, when I wrote my first post yesterday, I was listening to some awesome tracks by Breaking Benjamin, which really kept the blood flowing and the inputs just kept on coming. Now obviously, everything BB releases is up there in quality with cake and so on, but listening to these acoustic performances really is a thrilling and indeed a very satisfying experience. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm gonna rephrase. GOOGLE BREAKING BENJAMIN. No seriously. Do it.
Right, that's the introduction to the first post after the introductional post. Now here's the actual content!
Last time I mentioned Duncor, a wicked americanguy from wcradio.com. On his weekly show with Cadwallion, they always start out by talking about what they've been up to for the past week. Usually, there ain't a whole lot to report (Which is kinda the funny part), but sometimes they actually have something useful to say. I'm gonna try do the same thing.
A couple of days ago, I picked up the first season of Battlestar Galactica. This is a science fiction series, which takes place in a universe far, far away from here. Actually, I've only watched 1 episode so I have no idea about that, but it makes me look clever. Having watched Firefly a couple of weeks ago, I have to say this is a pretty equal experience. Firefly was a somewhat older series, where as this one is relatively new. This is quite easy to spot, which I like. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the nostalgic, but watching movies featuring modern technology is just WAY more exciting than some old shit put together in the 60's. Obviously this is not the way it works, I'm just making my point clear to everyone (Or no one as it probably is =[.)
So anyway back on track. Battlestar Galactica is an awkward experience. There's no real introduction to any of the characters or anything. You just get thrown out there and have to figure it all out by yourself. I hate doing this. Sure, it adds something to the experience that you've gotta be aware of what's going on, but I still get frustrated. I like SOME sort of introduction. Just not like.. whatever.
Also, through the whole first episode I didn't spot even ONE guy laughing, smiling or doing anything in that way. Actually there was this really weird chick who did, I think. But I'm also pretty sure she's one of the bad guys so screw her.
Ahem anyway it's looking pretty good thus far, but I seriously hope it's gonna lighten up in some way, otherwise I'm gonna give up on it pretty quickly I think. So far, I haven't had that feeling of exciment I had with House MD, The first season of Lost, Dexter, first season of Heroes etc yet. I don't know, we'll see. People say that the first episode of every series is pure introduction, but where's the fun in that. I want more. MOAR. More on this topic next time, unless I just forget about and let it fade away into the mist which, frankly speaking, is entirely possible.
So that's about it for now. I guess this post belonged more in the "movie" sorta section than anything really. See, organizing stuff really helps you.. organize!
Stay tuned.
Also it's friday afternoon now. There's nothing on the schedule for the rest of the day, so I thought why not waste a little time writing about something that no one's ever gonna read or even care about! Actually, I do hope that someone is actually going to read this. Obviously, I'm gonna read it myself to check for spelling mistakes and that sorta stuff (Yes, I'm elitist that way). I know how annoying it can be to read something full of errors, so I r gonna avoid that (See what I did there?)
I don't know, sitting down once in a while and just write whatever comes into your mind can be extremely, fun? Organizing the inside of your brain is a tricky test.
Also, when I wrote my first post yesterday, I was listening to some awesome tracks by Breaking Benjamin, which really kept the blood flowing and the inputs just kept on coming. Now obviously, everything BB releases is up there in quality with cake and so on, but listening to these acoustic performances really is a thrilling and indeed a very satisfying experience. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm gonna rephrase. GOOGLE BREAKING BENJAMIN. No seriously. Do it.
Right, that's the introduction to the first post after the introductional post. Now here's the actual content!
Last time I mentioned Duncor, a wicked americanguy from wcradio.com. On his weekly show with Cadwallion, they always start out by talking about what they've been up to for the past week. Usually, there ain't a whole lot to report (Which is kinda the funny part), but sometimes they actually have something useful to say. I'm gonna try do the same thing.
A couple of days ago, I picked up the first season of Battlestar Galactica. This is a science fiction series, which takes place in a universe far, far away from here. Actually, I've only watched 1 episode so I have no idea about that, but it makes me look clever. Having watched Firefly a couple of weeks ago, I have to say this is a pretty equal experience. Firefly was a somewhat older series, where as this one is relatively new. This is quite easy to spot, which I like. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the nostalgic, but watching movies featuring modern technology is just WAY more exciting than some old shit put together in the 60's. Obviously this is not the way it works, I'm just making my point clear to everyone (Or no one as it probably is =[.)
So anyway back on track. Battlestar Galactica is an awkward experience. There's no real introduction to any of the characters or anything. You just get thrown out there and have to figure it all out by yourself. I hate doing this. Sure, it adds something to the experience that you've gotta be aware of what's going on, but I still get frustrated. I like SOME sort of introduction. Just not like.. whatever.
Also, through the whole first episode I didn't spot even ONE guy laughing, smiling or doing anything in that way. Actually there was this really weird chick who did, I think. But I'm also pretty sure she's one of the bad guys so screw her.
Ahem anyway it's looking pretty good thus far, but I seriously hope it's gonna lighten up in some way, otherwise I'm gonna give up on it pretty quickly I think. So far, I haven't had that feeling of exciment I had with House MD, The first season of Lost, Dexter, first season of Heroes etc yet. I don't know, we'll see. People say that the first episode of every series is pure introduction, but where's the fun in that. I want more. MOAR. More on this topic next time, unless I just forget about and let it fade away into the mist which, frankly speaking, is entirely possible.
So that's about it for now. I guess this post belonged more in the "movie" sorta section than anything really. See, organizing stuff really helps you.. organize!
Stay tuned.
26. feb. 2009
Introducing the element of all things random.
Hello people of the world. This afternoon while sitting around, I thought of the opportunity of starting a blog. See, many things pop into my head from time to time and I thought I might visualize these in virtual pixels. Inspired by the one and only Duncor (wcradio.com), I took the jump.
Now, for all of you Wow Things Considered listeners out there (There's gotta be some!), you know that Duncor has indeed tried to start a blog many times, but failed horribly due to whatever reason. Keeping this in mind, I'm not gonna promise to keep it updated every week, that ain't gonna happen. Instead, I will post whenever I feel like it, and has something constructive to share (cough). Consider it an emo corner. God am I the only one who misses Slanik?
Oh yeah and I'm keeping it english. It's more fun to read, write and think in than any other language I've stumbled across. Also, it's a nice way to practice it I suppose, since honestly, I haven't been talking a whole lot of english recently. Our ventrilo section seems pretty dead, so I thought this would be a nice way to get some somewhat decent practice.
Right so whenever I blog here, I'm gonna introduce some "sections". Remember it's all one big emo-corner, but to keep the whine somewhat organized, I thought this would a nice way to do so. Also bear in mind that this ain't my idea. It's all inspired by wcradio.com - an awesome radio station indeed. If you've never listened to any of the shows, please feel free to do so!
I've been a regular listener over the past, what.. 3 years? It's a station of pure win and awesome. Though you probably wanna want to be in to World of Warcraft in order to enjoy it to the fullest.
So back to the previously mentioned sections! I haven't planned a whole lot, but I'm gonna try to attach everyhing to this:
- Music. I listen to A LOT of music, I'm usually into melodic death metal or general heavy rock, though I lately have turned to the more "happy" side. I know, I'm not sure what's gotten into me either. Anyway, that's one section. http://www.last.fm/user/Applesnow
- Movies/series. I'm a big fan of movies/series and try to keep updated on most of the new stuff. Has to be said though, I also enjoy old classics. Over the last couple of months, I've been spending a lot of time watching series such as House MD, Firefly and so on. There's a fair bit to be said here, so I guess that's gonna be a regular section as well.
- World of Warcraft. YES I AM A GEEK. I admitted it, alright? I've been playing WoW for almost 4 years now and continue to do so. I am part of a big raiding guild, and have been so for a long time. I guess this section might get a bit, if not majorly, geeky. There is nothing to do about that. I once tried to write a paper about WoW so that "normal" people would understand just parts of it. It was a straight pain in the arse. So anyway, there's a lot to be said here, and I'm gonna keep updating about everything I do, whenever something interesting pops up. A solid section right there I should say.
- Other hobbies/stuff. Obviously I have a life outside of my roo... wait. Hm. Anyway, occasionally I do other stuff in life too, whenever I feel like it. Maybe. At some point(tm). This is more like a "whatever doesn't fit in any other category goes here sorta section". You never know what might pop up right?
So I guess for now that's the sections I'm keeping it in. If something awesome pops up, I might expand it even further. No guarentees though.
So that's the general introduction to the fuzz. So wait, who am I? If you're reading this, my best guess would be that you've been stalking me on Facebook, which eventually would've let you to this very site! If that actually be the case, you probably know very well who I am. Anyway, my name is Morten. I'm 17. Live with my family and a lazy cat. I spend too much time playing computer and whenever I'm not, I play the occasional football. Admittedly, I'm not all that interesting in sharing stuff about my personal life. If that's the reason you're reading this, STOP READING ALREADY KK?
Last word in this major introductional post of fail (Confirm/deny?) is gonna be a favourite quote of mine: "So, I heard you like MUDKIPZ?!". If you have no clue what that means, my guess would be that you're never gonna find out. Oh wait, they invented that new modern Google thingy. Oh well...
Now, for all of you Wow Things Considered listeners out there (There's gotta be some!), you know that Duncor has indeed tried to start a blog many times, but failed horribly due to whatever reason. Keeping this in mind, I'm not gonna promise to keep it updated every week, that ain't gonna happen. Instead, I will post whenever I feel like it, and has something constructive to share (cough). Consider it an emo corner. God am I the only one who misses Slanik?
Oh yeah and I'm keeping it english. It's more fun to read, write and think in than any other language I've stumbled across. Also, it's a nice way to practice it I suppose, since honestly, I haven't been talking a whole lot of english recently. Our ventrilo section seems pretty dead, so I thought this would be a nice way to get some somewhat decent practice.
Right so whenever I blog here, I'm gonna introduce some "sections". Remember it's all one big emo-corner, but to keep the whine somewhat organized, I thought this would a nice way to do so. Also bear in mind that this ain't my idea. It's all inspired by wcradio.com - an awesome radio station indeed. If you've never listened to any of the shows, please feel free to do so!
I've been a regular listener over the past, what.. 3 years? It's a station of pure win and awesome. Though you probably wanna want to be in to World of Warcraft in order to enjoy it to the fullest.
So back to the previously mentioned sections! I haven't planned a whole lot, but I'm gonna try to attach everyhing to this:
- Music. I listen to A LOT of music, I'm usually into melodic death metal or general heavy rock, though I lately have turned to the more "happy" side. I know, I'm not sure what's gotten into me either. Anyway, that's one section. http://www.last.fm/user/Applesnow
- Movies/series. I'm a big fan of movies/series and try to keep updated on most of the new stuff. Has to be said though, I also enjoy old classics. Over the last couple of months, I've been spending a lot of time watching series such as House MD, Firefly and so on. There's a fair bit to be said here, so I guess that's gonna be a regular section as well.
- World of Warcraft. YES I AM A GEEK. I admitted it, alright? I've been playing WoW for almost 4 years now and continue to do so. I am part of a big raiding guild, and have been so for a long time. I guess this section might get a bit, if not majorly, geeky. There is nothing to do about that. I once tried to write a paper about WoW so that "normal" people would understand just parts of it. It was a straight pain in the arse. So anyway, there's a lot to be said here, and I'm gonna keep updating about everything I do, whenever something interesting pops up. A solid section right there I should say.
- Other hobbies/stuff. Obviously I have a life outside of my roo... wait. Hm. Anyway, occasionally I do other stuff in life too, whenever I feel like it. Maybe. At some point(tm). This is more like a "whatever doesn't fit in any other category goes here sorta section". You never know what might pop up right?
So I guess for now that's the sections I'm keeping it in. If something awesome pops up, I might expand it even further. No guarentees though.
So that's the general introduction to the fuzz. So wait, who am I? If you're reading this, my best guess would be that you've been stalking me on Facebook, which eventually would've let you to this very site! If that actually be the case, you probably know very well who I am. Anyway, my name is Morten. I'm 17. Live with my family and a lazy cat. I spend too much time playing computer and whenever I'm not, I play the occasional football. Admittedly, I'm not all that interesting in sharing stuff about my personal life. If that's the reason you're reading this, STOP READING ALREADY KK?
Last word in this major introductional post of fail (Confirm/deny?) is gonna be a favourite quote of mine: "So, I heard you like MUDKIPZ?!". If you have no clue what that means, my guess would be that you're never gonna find out. Oh wait, they invented that new modern Google thingy. Oh well...
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