...and a thief..." Easy, easy, and easy.

I've been mostly away from my computer for the last two days because I was hanigng out with a friend from 1st grade or something, who I see once a year. Our moms are good friends, so being chicks they juts talked the whole damn time and we just messed around, watched funny videos and sh!t, played a couple games, and used Garageband to make fukced up songs. Anyway, at about 1:00, one of us thought it would be a good idea to stand outside and piss of the patio (with people below us), I'm pretty sure it was his idea. There was a light on below us so we thought it would be funny for them just to be standing there and see piss streaming over their heads. My friend pu$$ied out and never did, and as I was about to, some guy next door went out on his patio and ate a sandwich for some reason, and a bunch of bikers went by, so no pln ever came to fruition :(, I kinda regret it, it might've been funny, but it seems like a pretty dumb idea to me :P.

I think I brained my electricute because some fukced up game at the arcade was broken and was shocking me, and I had the gneius idea to keep grabbing it so it would shock me. It was a little painful, but gives me an idea for a prank if I'm ever at the hotel I was just at again. Oh well, that whole arcade was rigged to be free. Pretty cool. There was free air hockey (I'm the air hockey king, haven't lost since I was 9 years old or something, I actually saved up for two years and bought an air hockey table that my mom later brkoe by piling stuff on it like an idiot), but someone stole the puck, so there were no a$$ whoopings.

Last night, I decided that it I should pile on a few extra songs to my guitar arsenal. I've had a small obssession with acoustic Nirvana songs recently, so I learned "About a Girl", "Something In the Way", and most of "Dumb". I want to learn "Pennyroyal Tea" and figure out a way to play "Serve the Servants" acostically, but I can't learn just Nirvana songs, so I'm learning "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead.

In case you haven't realized, I'm blogging because it's 12:30 and I don't want to sleep. You probably noticed that I have nothing to talk about. So instead of talking, I'm going to spend the next fifteen minutes thinking really hard about my fifteen favorite songs, and for once not make a half baked top songs list...give me 15 mintues...

...exactly...12 mintues later...not quite 15 but close enough. I made the list. Surprising from the start.

MY TOP 15 SONGS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE VERY OFTEN)

1. "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead

2. "Say Hello To Heaven" by Temple of the Dog

3. "Yellow Ledbetter" by Pearl Jam

4. "For Martha" by The Smashing Pumpkins

5. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead

This is probably a temporary favorite and will move off the list soon, but it is a fantastic song.

6. "Pennyroyal Tea" by Nirvana

7. "We Die Young" by Alice in Chains

8. "Outshined" by Soundgarden

9. "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

10. "Hey" by Pixies

11. "Surf Wax America" by Weezer

12. "Summer Babe" by Pavement

13. "Alive" by Pearl Jam

14. "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead

15. "Little Wing" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Yeah, this whole list will reassign itself in a few days, so don't think too much about it.

Oh and in case, Jacob, Shadow, or anyine else points out that there are two songs from "The Bends" and only one from "OK Computer", I have a statement to make.

The best from "The Bends" ("FPT") is slightly better than the best from "OK Computer" ("PA"), but the worst from "The Bends" ("High and Dry") is sh!t in comparison to the worst from "OK Computer" (...it doesn't have a worst...it has a bunch of amazing songs and a few good or okay songs, but no bad). That's why. "OK Computer" is more consistent to me.

Well, that's all for now.

...stealing bread from the mouths of decadence..." Off the best vocal album in history. Put two awesome singers together.

I got back from Junior Olympics last night. We had a pretty successful tournament. The first day, we were tired, and not at our tops, but I played really well and held us together. We got 3rd out of 4 teams in our pool, which was a pretty bad start. The next morning (after 6 hours of sleep), we got 1st in our pool of 3, which put us back in the running for a medal. Later that day,we had a pool of 4, with two extrmely difficult teams (SCVC 14QS, our club's taller team, and OCVC-14-1s, our rivals). We upset OCVC in 3 games, and had an incredibly close third game with anther team we'd never plyed (we won the first game, they won second, we won the third, which is usually to 15 win by 2, but ended up going to 22). We barely lost our other team, so we ended up with 2nd in our pool, which was enough to guarantee us a top 8 spot. The next day, we had the 2nd and 3rd seeds in the tournament, and a team that was seeded a little lower than us. We played like crap against the 2nd seed, who was Puerto Rican, but they were so good it wouldn't have made much difference. We played okay against the 3rd seed who we've played all year, 5 times, and beaten once. Our lats match, didn't make a difference if we won or lost, we would go to the same place. For this reason, our coach had me sit out due to a shoulder injury, so we ended up barely losing. I'm kinda pissed at myself because I would've been enough to nab a few extra points and win, but no big deal. We got 4th in that pool. On the last day, we were guaranteed at least 7th place, so once again, I sat out for the most part because my coach didn't want me to tear my shoulder and ruin my Summer. We barely lost to them, but finished 7th. Two of the teams above us were Puerto Rican, so we finished 5th in the United States. Out of 100s of teams in the country, that's damn good to me.

My shoulder injury came from excessive hitting. In a game, a hitter usually gets set (the "setter" puts the ball in the air for a hitter to spike) about 7, maybe 10 times a game. I got set an average of 18 times a game. I wasn't wussing out either, I was swinging hard. I hit .500 (half of my hits were kills, meaning they got us a point), which is a very high kill percentage. Our coach said that I got our team where we were in the regular season and without me we wouldn't have gotten close to 7th, which obviously made my a little giddy. The director/owner of our club was walking with the coach form Stanford (the high level college that has a great vb team), and brought him to see us, and the Stanford coach said "Who's that kid with long blonde hair? He's really good!" That made my day when I found out he said that.

At the end of JOs, everyone always trades jerseys with each other. I traded both my jerseys, backpack, old warm-up jacket, and sweatshirt. In returnI got a shirt from the club St. Louis High Performance (who we tied, and kind of befriended), but the kid who gave me it either lied or didn't notice that he had his jersey (probably didn't notice because he's really nice), and we caught him with his jersey later, so I got to keep his shirt and his coach made him give me the jersey back. I traded my white jersey for a jersey from Torrimar (the 2nd seed Puerto Rican team, really cool guys) from last year (the best player on their team, possibly in the tournament), traded jackets with him, gave my crappy sweatshirt for another Torrimar player's shorts (he took them off in front of everyone, nothing but boxers underneath, yes, I cleaned them before wearing :P), and traded backpacks with him. I traded my other jersey for a shirt-jersey from another Puerto Rican team, Naranjito in the other division, and that was it. Torrimar actually got ne jerseys this year, and I was disappointed that I couldn't get an old one, but one of them had his old jersey, so I was pretty excited. I really wanted the jersey from Torrimar that said "Sexy Boy" on the back, but maybe next year :lol:.

Very successful year for me. I wanted a medal, but I didn't expect it, and I kicked a$$, and stuck out on the team (so I've been told), and I was extremely recognized by older team's coaches. And finishing 7th overall, and 5th in the United States, that's great. Our other team got a Bronze medal (tied for 3rd), and were co-champions of the U.S. (along with the 3rd seed team we played). Torrimar got Silver, and the Puerto rican club consisting of a lot of jerks, Pitirres got Gold. One of Torrimar's players hit a spike out to lose, layed down and cried. The kid with "Sexy Boy" on his jersey threw a fit, but they cooled down. I was rooting for the all the way, but they lost. At least none of them freaked out while we were trading :P.

I'm proud of the fact that the team that finished the season ranked one above in Southern California (they were 3rd, we were 4th) was knocked into 13th place, solely by our upset. The 5th ranked team got 9th place. Last year, the #1 ranked team got 9th, and our best team did the same as us, so we're in the ranks of the top teams.

That was actually my last tournament on a 7'4" net. Next year, we move up to 8'. Doesn't make a difference to me though, I practice on an 8' all the time, and hit just as hard.

Anyway, not too much else to talk about. JOs were all I did for the last week. Some cool stuff happened in Salt Lake City. We went to a Mayan themed restaurant that was almost like a more dark "Casa Bonita" (actual restaurant, but most people know it through South Park), with cliff divers, that actually performed a show, and pretty good food. It was really fun. I honed my card counting skills and whooped everyone in blackjack. Oh, and someone stole my iPod Touch. That, it'll turn up in Delta Airlines' lost & found. I got sand in my phon recently, so I may just buy the new iPhone when demand goes down.

Because of my shoulder, which hurts like hell sometimes, I have to go to a Physical Therapy session tomorrow so I can get it healthy in time for some training at a camp and a program to increase my vertical jump so there isn't a difference between 7'4" and 8'.

I'll have more things of your interest soon, but for once, a few people will have to comment on the volleyball section! Muahahahaha!!!

Oh, right, and Obama's kicking McCain's a$$ in General Election polls (average 6 point spread) and Electoral Vote counts (winning by 70 in proections currently,as Obama has made Virginia close and taken back Michigan in polls. Obama's been running a great General Election campaign, much better than McCain's so far. Not out of bias, but he's gaining more votes than John, taking states from him in polls, and showing a little more substance and a little less flare than usual. John McCain still sounds like a retard when he gives speeches, and did that stupid speech up agaist the "green screen" that Stephen Colbert's been making fun of. Hilarious.

...I adcise you wait until it's over..." This is actually my favorite song by this band. It knocks a song of the top ten from last blog.

First off, I want to tell everyone that I'm going to Junior Olympics, so I will most likely not blog for the next four or five days. I'm taking my computer, so I may be able to use the internet on the plane, but it'll most likely cost money at the hotel. I may be on, but probably not.

If anyone has any interest, you can track my results here:

advancedeventsystems.com

You click on Tournament Schedules/Results, Boys Junior Olympics, then 14 Open (not club). Our team is SCVC 14 Red (not 14 QS), and we are the second seed in the sixth pool. We're overall 5th in the nation, and seeded 7th in the tournament because of the two Puerto Rican teams. Our first pool will be easy, except for our last game, which is once again against that team we played from St. Louis two weeks ago. We barely lost to them in three games last time, so if we take it up just a notch and don't get behind in any games, we can win. The other two teams suck. One of them, my team played in the 1s division last year, and they got a combined total of 22 points over the two games, where we got 25 each time, winning. The other team, who's from Tampa Bay, Florida, barely beat the team we killed, who's from New York when they played them before. Aslong as we get at least 2nd place every day, we can get into the Gold Bracket. Once we're in that bracket, we just need to win one match to get a medal, and two more to win the tournament. We can do it!

I warmed up my skills today with a friend (there a few people there, and I'll explain that later). He set me a bunch of hits, which I killed when the sets were good. I served him until he got 20 perfect passes. He went 20 out of 40. Not bad for his first time. He served me to do the same thing, and I went a 20 for 20. I hope I pass like that at Junior Olympics.

Anyway, I obviously went to the beach today and played a little volleyball, but I also spent most of the time just hanging out with some people. And guess what? One of them was the girl I liked, who I discussed in other blogs.

I chatted with her and the other people a good bit, talked with just her a couple times, and even made her laugh a couple times. I'd say it's not a bad first step for me. Just keep doing the same thing and I've got a decent shot by next year. I need to make sure she's single before anything. I'd bet she's not (I'm not the only one who likes her), so I might just keep an ear open to hear for any break-ups or hook-ups. I think I'm starting off on the right foot.

That's all I really wanted to talk about, but I'll just come up with some pointless crap to make this an actual blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZGkRtr3Yxg&feature=rec-fres (little known fact: Frampton is my favorite '70s artist)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m47S8o6pdqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V949yf33Qo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8ZBgz7eWg

That'll be all for today.

...returning as if dream..." Beautiful song.

I'm proud of all of you and what you did on my last blog. My previous record of highest number of comments was 36. Now, within two days of the last blog being made, it has

95 comments!!!

Good job on helping. And I'm gonna be a greedy little b!tch and ask that five more comments be posted on it so it can break 100 comments!

I declare that the First Dee Blog Party!!! I'm planning one more big blog party for Wednesday or Thursday. However, last night, we oved the "party" to an AIM chatroom, and that worked a lot faster. I'm trying to get everyone here's AIM (if they have one) so we can have a huge chatroom for 1. faster conversations/arguments and 2. no fear of censorship!!! That, and it's a hell of a lot easier for me :lol:.

Anyhow, moving on, I went to the movie theaters tonight to see my most anticipated movie of the year. Many people are anticipating The Dark Knight, and some anticipated Iron Man, but the one movie that I anticipated the mostfor the rest of this year was...

WALL-E

In case you didn't, know, I'm a huge fan of Pixar movies. My very favorite pixar movie (was) is Ratatouille, the genius that came out last year. It was followed by Toy Story and Finding Nemo. I personally believe that Pixar has never made an average or below movie. All their movies have been Grade A quality. They continue that this year, with this charming twist on the ****c love story.

The story takes place in a semi-post-apocolyptic setting. The world has been overrun with trash after BnL (Buy 'n Large) became the world government and created consumerism. The citizens of Earth have "temporarily" been moved to a ship in space, where they have all been overly pampered and have become obese. But, if it's temporary, what happens to all the trash?

That's where WALL-E came in. WALL-E was built to compact trash into cubes and organize them to make Earth habital. Unlike the other robots of his kind, this WALL-E has developed a personailty, that he was partly taught about by watching "Hello Dolly!" often. He is very curious (he befriends a cockaroach out of curiosity in fact), and keeps all the interesting things he finds in his home. Most of all, he learns about love. Specifically, holding hands.

In an attempt to scan the life for any growing plants, the ship Axion, where all the humans are held, sends down EVE units to scan the world. WALL-E encounters one and falls in love with her. At first, she is very unemotional, doing only her job, destroing things in her way, but WALL-E follows her, and befriends her. He shelters her in his house when in danger. He shows her all his little trinkets, and shows her his treasured film.

When he shows her the plant he found, she scans it, and her system orders that she take it, and lock up. WALL-E, saddened by her shutting down continues to protect her and takes her places. A ship takes EVE back to Axion, and WALL-E sees it in the nick of time, and clings on.

They then go on a "mission" to deliver the plant to the captain of the ship so he can set course to return to Eath. And in the course, they find true love in each other.

Now, I have to make a claim. I have to this day, never cried because of a movie. Sometimes, I think about part of a movie later, and something relating it to my life makes me sad, but i have never cried solely because of a movie. Some have made me sad, but never made me cry. While watching this film, my eyes were this close to tearing from joy. WALL-E was adorable, and when he romances while watching the movie you can't help but love him. When he ifnds himself in true love, and EVE loves him back later, your eyes start to tremble a little, and you can feel the tears of joy coming on.

I'm not sure everyone understands what this means. I've seen romance movies with beautiful love stories in between two people. But never, has a romance brought me as close to tears of joy as a movie about romance between two robots. I'm telling you, these Pixar movies have an effect on me like no other. Ratatouille made me actually love a rat, even though all non-pet rats are scary. They make me believe toys can talk, they make me believe in family among fish, and most of all, Pixar makes me believe in true love, for everything. Yes, even robots. Without much speech, these two robots touch me more than any human in a live-action movie ever has.

This is truly a beautiful movie, and it has many laughs. The story is...dare I say it at the risk of being made fun of...yes...cute. Beautiful. Cute. Inspiring. Perfect. All from a story about robots, and how they find true love, in the course of restoring life on Earth.

Score: 100/100 (and by the way, I have never to this day given a movie anything beyond a 100 like I have with music albums and one video game)

This is my favorite movie of the year so far, and it knocks Iron Man down to #2. Sorry, "The Dark Knight", I also doubt you're gonna knock this down.

I really don't want to review CDs right now, so I've decided to instead, do something a little more unusual.

MY TOP TEN SONGS OF ALL TIME

1. "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead- I really hate to "steal" Elmis' favorite song, but I really can't help putting it here. The beautiful song overflowing with torment and emotion. Powerful (emotionally powerful, not as in the voice) vocals, with such simple chord progressions build to an energetic climax towards the end, and soften up again. Practically the perfect song. Utterly beautiful and flawless. If they play this liv on August 25th, my life will be complete.

2. "Say Hello To Heaven" by Temple of the Dog- I dubbed this my favorite not too long ago, and it had its rightful place. Chris Cornell gives one of the best vocal performances of all time to express feelings for his dead friend, and frontman of Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, and his emotions after his death. Stunningly beautiful instrumentals come from the current members of Pearl Jam playing with the legendary singer, forming a song of epic proportions.

3. "Alive" by Pearl Jam- I never like to point out one of the most well known songs by a band as my favorite, but come on. It was the first song I ever heard by Pearl Jam, so it has a sort of sentimental value. not just that, but it's torture filled story of Eddie Vedder's troubles involving his real father and step-father (never met his father, didn't know for a while after his father died) is deep and well told through song. And, the guitar solo? Geez, what more could I want? bluesy, at times very simple, occasionally throws in a quick riff, but mostly just very well composed improvisation. Excellent.

4. "For Martha" by The Smashing Pumpkins- This will definitely shock a person or two. "Mayonaise" has always been my favorite song by The Pumpkins, but I've discovered that nothing quite rivals the heart and soul that was poured into this song. For being such an arrogant a$$hole, Billy Corgan wrote one hell of a song dedicated to his mother. The depressing piano playing in the backgrund, Corgan singing, and a soft acoustic guitar occupy the song. Unless this combinion is done perfectly, songs always turn out boring. The soft song packs a punch of emotional power, and is by far Corgan's most heartfelt song. This might not be permanent, but this is my favorite Pumpkins song right now. For the second time on this list, a song Elmis turned me onto is here.

From now on, no explanations.

5. "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead (sorry, I didn't wanna put two Radiohead songs in the top five because Shadow's gonna yell at me, ugh, but I couldn't put any other songs above this)

6. "All Apologies" by Nirvana

7. "Outshined" by Soundgarden

8. "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains

9. "Hey" by The Pixies

10. "Summer Babe" by Pavement

This changes too often, but the top 4 or 5 will probably stay.

Now remember, after you comment on this blog, don't be afraid to go down to the last blog and get me up to 100 comments :P. Come on!

...you're a sweet little love maker..." Classic. You must know this or you shouldn't continue reading this blog.

Okay, I'll try to write about some controversial opinionated thing this blog in hopes of stirring up another blog battle. I owned Round 2, and i don't know who won Round 1, so i'll say it's a draw. So it's me-1 to hp-0. Also known as, grunge-1, metal-0 :P. Take that you bogan (much better word than metalhead).

I just discovered that I had a $15 iTunes gift card, which was a bittersweet discovery. It was sweet because I could buy any CD I wanted (I rarely buy from iTunes, but it is convenient and I got a gift card so I gotta use it). it was bitter because I had a $25 American Express card that I used to buy Radiohead: Live From the Basement the other day, which rocks, and was only $8 for 10 great quality videos, but I could've just used the gift card in the first place. However, this changed from bittersweet to sweet as sugar ten minutes ago, when I decided to buy a truly amazing album, and I know someone who's gonna be excited about this.

It is "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel. Ages ago (meaning about a year ago), Indie had a blog segment called "The Greatest Albums of All Time", and this was the first part. It sounded excellent, but at the time, I wasn't sure if I fully trusted the opinions of people on this site. Since then, I've decided that I've discovered more band on this site than anywhere else, so one more couldn't hurt.

What can I say about this album so far? Beautiful for one. Awe inspiring for another. Emotional. Amazing. Few albums I've ever heard can evoke emotions like this one. I've only listened to four songs so far, so I can't fully review it, but it's looking at upper 9s to a perfect 10 if it keeps up the beauty. Truly something anyone can appreciate. Thanks to Indie for the rave forever ago, thanks to Lockedge for reminding me of it in the form of an icon, and thanks to anybody else who has ever mentioned this album on this site. I still need to finish "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" and "Lost Dogs", so I'll have a reviewtastic* blog soon.

*Reviewtastic copyright 2008 Dee Corporations :P.

Today, I also ventured to Gamestop (originally target, but they didn't have what i wanted) to grab a new video game. Now that I was done with Ocarina of Time, I needed a new adventure game to entertain me. And it had to be REALLY god, or it wuld apear to suck in the wake of the awesomeness of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I did a little research on gamestop.com and Gamespot, and landed on this jewel.

I bought Okami. The remaking of the 2006 Playstation 2 ****c, which won IGN's game of the year award for 2006. I read that it was like Legend of Zelda, but instead of Link, you were a wolf, and on Okami's Gamespot page, it listed LOZ: OoT AND LOZ: Twilight Princess as similar games. So, naturally, being the Zelda freak I am, I needed it. Plus, it wasn't $50, it was $40, how could I resist?

First off, it has the most beautiful graphics ever. They are the opposite of realistic, but they look like someone brought a watercolor painting to life. It's pure art.

The combat (you fight monsters in a similar way to how you fought the main monsters in Twilight Princess, in that you magically are put in a dome with monsters and you have to kill them to get out), is perfectly executed, and is never overwhelmingly confusing or difficult, as the number of enemies is limited. It's delightfully fun, and the atacks you learn make you giddy when you pull them off in battle.

The main aspect of this game, is to restore the Cursed Zones in the world (basically, bring color and life back to them) by restoring the saplings. To do this, you must learn the brush Techniques. The main character, the wolf, named Amaterasu (I probably typed that wrong), is a God, who helped seal away, and dies doing it, the evil 8 headed beast Orochi. The monster comes back 100 years later, and so must Amaterasu in the form of the white wolf named Shiranui, to restore the world's livelihood. The wandering painter Issun joins her (the wolf is a girl) in a quest to recover the techniques of the celestial brush, which is a magical brush, with which you gain the power to restore wilted trees, draw lily pads to cross water, draw bridges, use a sword, make giant cherry bombs, and aid people when they need it. Truly a detailed story, a plot that would be worthy of a movie. You need to play it to experience it, but it's truly amazing. So far, one of my favorite games. it's like the wolf parts of Twillight princess, only much better than those, and better than that game (and it was a great game too). I'm hooked on it. I got frustrated with one part, where i had to draw a bomb to aid a man in a fireworks show (I know, it was weird), and embarassingly enough, my mom walked by and figured out what I needed to do. I actually figured I needed to do it, but I couldn't figure out how until she mentioned it. Oh well.

It's almost 1:00, but not too late. Why am I mentioning this? Cause you better appreciate what I'm about to do, cause I could be sleeping, but i'm gonna do this.

I just finished watching Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade, and with all four movies fresh in my mind, I'm gonna review them all.

Note: You may discuss and criticize y reviews and opinions of the movies if you wish, and i'll respon, but of you have ever said that Temple of Doom is the best Indy movie, or that Raiders of the Lost Ark is the worst (not just of all, of the riginals even), your opinions on Indy will immediately be ignored. That means hp's commetns on this will be ignored (for saying ToD is the best), which is also why I took him saying that Juno was a terrible movie with a grain of salt (because if you thought Temple was the best Indy, all your movie opinions are void to me), and Shadow has one more chance because he often posts while high or drunk, and if he actually thinks Raiders is the worst, ignored, if he doesn't, accepted.

By the way, I'll only ignore your opinions on indy, not my whole blog.

These will all be quick reviews, without any spoilers in case anyone hasn't seen them.

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ahh, the ****c one that started it all. Starts off strong, finishes strong. Clearly has the most thorough and original plot of any Indy movie. It had the best action, the best settings, and the single best Indy moment ever: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1cdYrBsWhtk. It has the ****c sharp Indy wit, with plenty of whip crackin', fedora carryin' action. The face melt at the end remains one of my favorite movie special effects ever.

Score: 100/100

Temple of Doom

I'm sorry to say, that this movie is saved from being only a step up from garbage by being and Indiana jones move. Sure, it has the most action of any of the films, but the action is repetitive, corny, and never makes sense. The plot was a jumble of collecting stones and making sacrafices that were all somehow linked in an unexplained way. The chick in this movie is incredibly annoying, in opposition to the gleefully sassy one in Raiders. The little Asian kid is the best part of the movie, and kept me laughing, and some scenes were suspenseful and almost captured some of the greatness of the first, but it lacks the Indy charm.

Score: 65/100

The Last Crusade

It seems that when it comes to least favorite indy film, it's always between Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade. I really can't see why it isn't between Temple of Doom and nothing. The Last Crusade is a great mix of action, a thought through story, and cleverly funny moments. It turns intense moments into a laugh moment in seconds. For example, Indy is holding his father's diary while walking through a crowd of nazis while disguised. He accidentally bumps into Adolf Hitler and Hitler takes the book as if he's going to examine it, yet he simply autographs it and hands it back. Also, when the Nazi comes on the blimp to get Indy and his father, Indy dresses up, asks for people's tickets, throws the Nazi out the window and say, "No ticket." Everyone rushes to get their ticket out :lol:. Beyond the laughs, there is a story that as opposed to Temple of Doom, makes perfect sense, and is actually heartwarming to see the reunion between Indy and his father. The major con in this film is the unoriginality of the basic idea. How many times has a movie been made about searching for the Holy Grail? Let's see... a lot of times!!! Hell, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, guess what they were searching for (and that's my favorite comedy ever). Still, one of the best Indy movies.

Score: 93/100

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Come this May, millions of people lined up to see this long awaited sequel to the original trilogy. Was it worth it? In some ways, yes, in some ways, no. Yes, there was our favorite whip cracking hero, Indiana Jones, better yet, with the original Harrisson Ford. Yes, there was tons of action, with some of the best fight scenes of any Indy movie (due to increased technology over the years), and yes, the best girl from any Indy movie was back. However, no it didn't stay true to Indy's roots, and no, it's plot wasn't well organized, and made the least sense since Temple of Doom. Nonetheless, it was an enthralling movie, which kept you on the edge of your seat. The final discoveries that lead to the temple were exciting as any final Indy scene, but the momentum was completely destroyed by their being a UFO and an alien at the end. That is nnot fukcing Indy!!! Give me an ancient mummy at the very least. Or damn skeletons come to life! No damn aliens should be allowed to touh my Indy.

Still, I had low expectations, and for being the fourth movie, and being released years afer the originals, which is when movies suck most, it was damn good, and very exciting.

Score: 77/100

I obviously put the least effort into the first review, but the original Indy doesn't need much explaining, it's just that good.

Well that took a damn long time to type. Here's some videos as a reward for listening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V949yf33Qo&feature=rec-fresh (who saw that band coming first :P)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfhUvuSa61E (I finished the album, and it was perfect the whol way through)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RnTd4C1q4o (still my favorite Weezer song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVlJAi3Cso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0Ufk1ofJ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy5ngAiLKvc

As you can see, I mixed up my typical five band I play songs from for fun.

And here's a strange video invlving Ocarina of Time and Daft Punk. it's hilarious.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mw9JAS9ryXc

...to destroy my sweater..." I can't stop listening to this album. Well, I kinda can, but I love it.

I've atually got a lot of pointless sh!t to discuss today. Anyhow, today, I got yet another CD. My mom bought it for me because i agreed to tag along with her friend to the bookstore to help pick out some books. I got so bored (as was the plan), so I got a free CD as a reward. Heh heh. I picked out "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" by Pavement. As many people as there are saying "Listen to *insert band here*," I have to get more than one CD by the bands that I come across that I really like. The album is very good, and one of the best underground albums ever, but I believe that "Slanted and Enchanted" kicks its a$$.

I'll review after I've relistened and given it time to sink in completely.

Speaking of albums sinking in, i think "Weezer" and "Modern Life Is Rubbish" have been given enough listenings and time for a few reviews. Let's go!

First Review:

I used to hate Weezer. Now before, Al yells at me and comes at me with a broken beer bottle, I need to explain. Okay, now i'm obviously at least three years younger than anyone commenting on my blog, as you know. Right? So the only album Weezer have released since I started to really get into music (around 2003), was the God-awful "Make Believe" "Beverly Hills" was hideously overplayed, and it got on my nerves. I assumed that thi was a band i wouldn't want to touch.

But then, everyone on here starts telling me about how great "The Blue Album" and "Pinkerton" are, and I need to hear them. I landed on getting this album, and I believe that to be the first time I've ever chosen between two things, and the one I choose seems like the best.

Not exactly the easiest album to describe, "The Blue Album" opens up with the fun "My Name Is Jonas", which hooks you. A few tracks later comes the fun and dark "Buddy Holly", a clear standout. From the second you hear that song, the CD appears to be stuck in the CD player. It only gets better as the hit catchy song "The Sweater Song (Undone)" puts you in a trance, as "Surf Wax America's" soft picking at the beginning and hard rocking through most of the song rings through your brain, and "Say it Ain't So" morphs from the starting slow bluesy song to the rocker with crunchy guitars, and whiny vocals. The lyrics range form the aforementioned fun ("Surf Wax America") to very personal ("Say it Ain't So"), all very well written. The songwriting could't be much better, as they're all catchy and well composed. I can pretty clearly hear a lot of influence from The Pixies and a occassionally from Pavement, which is a good thing, as i love both those bands. The whole album is basically a fun-fest, and there's nothing wrong with that. Actually, quite contrarily, it's the best thing they could have done.

Good luck "Pinkerton." I don't know if you can win here. Time will tell.

Score:5/5

Standouts: "Surf Wax America", "Say it Ain't So", "The Sweater Song (Undone)", "Buddy Holly"

And for the record, I'd give about 25 or so albums a 5/5.

Moving on, to another good album.

"Modern Life Is Rubbish" by Blur

I got into Blur a few months ago when I got "Parklife" (another one of my few 5/5s, although it's around my fifteenth favorite), and it set the bar pretty high for this one. Well, it jumps and jumps and keeps getting close to the bar, but it doesn't quite touch the same heights as "Parklife" does.

It opens right up with a stand-out, "For Tomorrow". It's poppy chorus and catchy lyrics do a great job of getting ready for the rest of the album. The vocals with what sounds like kids pitching into the chorus rings out well in your ears, and the solo vocals from Damon are very fitting. The album stays pretty consistent throughout most of the album, keeping great songs coming up. "Colin Zeal" is one of the stand-outs, a nice poppy song. "Star Shaped" comes as the fifth track, which really sticks out among the others as one of the more catchy songs. "Chemical World", my favorite, sticks out as having the best guitar work on the whole album, with Graham Coxon delivering some nice blazing licks at the opening. Simple, but still awesome. From there on out, the best songs are "Sunday Sunday" and "Resigned." There are two hidden tracks listed as the 68th and 69th tracks (after an off-turning 50 blank tracks 4 seconds long each), and bother are fairly good. One sounds like "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", but I can't remember which is which.

I bought this kind of hoping for a fun album, but this was less of a pure fun sounding CD than "Parklife" it was still a very bright and optimistic sounding album, but it had a little more traditional rock sound and a little less happy at times. It's a very good album, and I'd bet Blur's second best, but "Parklife" still takes the cake.

Score: 4.5/10

BTW, Damon is the most British sounding singer I've ever heard, in a good way.

Standouts: "Chemical World", "Sunday Sunday", "Star Shaped"

I haven't finished listening to all 30 songs on "Lost Dogs", and "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" came in a bonus package with 50 songs (I'll just review the original album), so I'll review them together later.

I have an urgent update something. No, it has nothing to do with a girl if any of you were wondering.

I've just beaten legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Wow. Best game ever, by far. My new favorite, which I'll play again and again. I liked it as a little kid, but I love it even more now. The final boss was of course Ganondorf. His first phase was extremely easy (the time I beat him, I didn't take any damage at all, literally). The second form proved difficult, not because he was strong, but because I kept running out of Magic ower, which I needed to shoot light arrows. I quit the fight, and went to find the Great fairy that doubled my Mp, and found the other one that doubled my defense. We had an epic (Copyright 2008 Shadow, can I put something like that as a header for my blog saying it's your word so I can use it). final battle, but I definitely won by a good amount, and delivered the striking final blow. After some awesome cutscenes and a beautiful final picture of Young Link and Zelda meeting after the whole ordeal, topped it off perfectly.

Review time:

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (AKA The Best Game Ever)

I don't feel like typing much more, so long story short: it was amazing, and beyond perfect. I've never experienced something so perfect, ever. The graphics were way ahead of their time (I honestly preferred the more cartoony and fake look to the dark and more realistic graphics of Twilight Princess, which I also loved), the controls were flawless, the levels were designed brilliantly, the ouzzles were challenging but not too difficult, the enemies were fun to fight, the weapons were ingenious (my favorite was the Biggoron Sword, which was hard to get, but twice as powerful as the Master Sword), and best of all: the game had my favorite bosses of all time. in my opinion, creating great video game bosses is hard (I've only played two other games with near perfect bosses, but they weren't perfect, Metroid Prime 3: a little too hard, I barely beat them, fought the final boss 15 times, and Super Mario Galaxy: way too easy). Ganon (the final form of Ganondorf, the one where he becomes a giant beast that wields two giant golden swords) is my favorite boss in history. Simply put, it was such a dramatic battle. The idea to beat him was simple, but to execute involved timing, quick reactions, and a hell of a lot of extra supplies.

I don't know how much more I can tell you. It was the best game I've ever played. My favorite temples were The Shadow temple (scary, well designed) and The Spirit Temple (I loved how you had to be a kid for half of it and an adult for the rest, and it had my second favorite boss(es) of the game). I loved the songs, especially "The Song of Time" and "The Prelude of Light". Nerdily enough, I know how to play a few songs on guitar, like Sheik does on the harp.

I love this game. If you never played it, you're mising something huge. If you have played it, play it again. If you can't beat it,then keep trying and occasionally use a walkthrough *cough*Jacob*cough*. Hell, i beat the game mostly without a guide, but if I got stuck on a part, I did use a guide once per temple usualy, except on the first two or three, and the last two ones (a few times, but I never used it for any bosses, unless to reassure my theory, which I did once and i was right).

I'm going overboard, I thought i didn't want to type a lot. Just buy it.

Score: 6/5 (I did say it was pretty much the most perfect thing ever, a 12/10)

After beating OOT, I popped in Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I still have my skills with those games. I needed to warm up in brawl (I first got 2nd, then 3rd, then 4th place against pretty good players), but once I had the feel for it again, nobody could stop me (I got 1st place the next time with +3, 3 kills no deaths, and the best anyone else had was 0, and the others had -1 and -2), I still own. I'll brawl and race a little more this weekend, maybe do a little team brawling with a fried tomorrow.

I love me my video games and music. If I divided my free itme into three time slots, it would be Volleyball, Music (including guitar), and video games. I have a bunch of other things, but I spend a crap load of time doing these things.

Now that I mention volleyball, we have Junior Olympics next weekend. I'm hoping we can take home a medal, but I've got four more years and four more JOs to go, so I've got plenty of time to take home the gold.

In mid-July i've got another week of volleyball, where I go to Pepperdine University (which is the College I'm planning on going to, it acepts at about my intelligence level, which is very smart but not scary smart, it has an amazing campus, is a very good schol, and has a legendary volleyball coach/team (the team is the Waves), who got 2nd in the country this year and has I believe the third most national titles). We play on an 8 foot net, where at 14 and under we play on 7'4". no matter, we play on 8' next year and it's what i usually practice on outside of club, and I still hit hard due to my hops (up to 33" running vert, 30" standing b!tch). We stay in the dorms for the week, and are trained by coaches and even the Pepperdine volleyball coach himself, mrv Dunphy (I know, weird name, but he's coached or 27 years and he's awesome). I hope I'll meet him briefly, be helpful for my future if I even impressed him.

In case you wanted a little more personal stuff, and not just a bunch of reviews and volleyball blab that none of you care about, be patient, I'll have some soon.

...if you go I will surely die..." Same as last time, as you all thoroughly embarrassed yourselves by not knowing it, or at least not saying what it was. Shame on all of you, unless i missed where someone said it, in which case, shame on all of you except them. Redeem yourself and guess it.

I bought the Macbook Air Superdrive so I could import some CDs to iTunes, download Office '08 for Mac (which rocks the outdated '03 version I've used on Windows). it was pricy, $100 pricy to be exact, but I surprisingly had plenty of money to get that and $50 worth of CDs, with tons to spare. I rarely ever have that much money. I guess birthday last month + graduation this month made for a lot of cash.

I also celebrated the beginning of Summer with a trip to F.Y.E., where I grabbed three new CDs. I don't want to give any full reviews yet, as I might overrate or underrate them, but so far, I've loved them all, especially the first one i'm gonna mention. Today, I bought,

"Weezer (The Blue Album)" by Weezer

Well, i was deciding between this and "Pinkerton" on the way to the store. As I said last blog I've been craving a fun album to listen to, so Idecided I would get this one, and grab "Pinkerton" later. Well, that was a dumb conversation I had with my brain because it turned out that this was the only one F.Y.E. had, so i bought it. I popped it in, and I absolutely loved it. It was mostly flawless, and is so far one of my favorite albums ever, easily top 20 material, maybe higher. I say this with a lot of CDs though, so I'll have to wait and see.

Three best songs: "Surf Wax America", "Undone", "Say it Ain't So"

"Modern Life Is Rubbish" by Blur

Another great album by Blur. I'm on a roll with getting good albums. Itdoes lack the funness that "Parklife" had, but succeeds in other ways. It has a modern Beatles ring to it, and as with "Parklife", it's catchy as hell. The chorus of "For Tomorrow" is poppy and hard to resist, so it lures you in for the rest of the album. Next on my Blurry list is "The Great Escape" or "Blur".

Three best songs: "Chemical World", "For Tomorrow", "Star Shaped" I was a little surprised to find that my favorites matched All Music Guide's favorites, but I guess they are the standouts)

And the unplanned one, that Shadow will be mad about, considering the hundreds of other bands I need to check out, but...

"Lost Dogs" by Pearl Jam

I'm not one to be seduced into buying things purely by bargains, but when I find a hard to find Rarities and B-Sides double disc album by one of my two favorite bands for only $20, I have to grab it. Even the stuff that never made the cut for Pearl Jam's albums rocks the casbah. It spans such a wide variety of PJ ****, and grabs some of their most famous B-Side tracks.

Three best songs: "Yellow Ledbetter" (no sh!t), "Last Kiss", "All Night"

Now that the music part is done for now, here's my five favorite quotes from cartoons.

5. "Oh geez! This box is moving fast!!!" Kyle's cousin, Kyle from South Park

4. "Samuel L. Jackson must be here somewhere! He's in everything. Look! There he is!" Chris Griffin from Family Guy

3. "To start, press any key. Where's the "any" key. I see esc (pronounced as esk), ctrl (cataral), and pg up (pig up). There doesn't seem to be any "any" key. Woo! All this computer hacking is making me thirsty, I think I'll order a tab (presses tab key)." Homer Simpson in The Simpsons

2. "Ah, ma'am, please, release that tight grip you have on my balls." Eric Cartman in South Park

AND MY FAVORITE QUOTE FROM ANY CARTOON EVER, AND MY FAVORITE TV QUOTE IS...

1. "It's like there's a party in my mouth, and everyone's throwing up." Fry from Futurama :lol::lol::lol::lol:

That's all for today. See ya.

DEE

...devil between us or whores in my head..." Waaaay too easy.

I'm temporarily moving past the problems described in the last blog, and putting in my mind where all other ideas go. I'll run into her at the beach someday, say hi, you know, get a little knowledge about her. Maybe ask her out during school if I feel comfortable. By the way, by during school, that means sometime late this year. Summer's busy for me, so I'll use it wisely.

Moving past that, I finished my four day volleyball tournament. We played a great tournament, and did...alright. We lost in the quarterfinals and tied for 5th place, out of about 50 teams. We played our rivals (OCVC 14-1s) in the quarterfinals. We barely lost the first game to them, and then played our hearts out andbeat them in the second game. Third game, I came out, got a kill (spiked, nobody touched it, we got a point), and then served two aces. We were up 3-0 in a race to 15, they called a timeout, and one of our players screwed up an easy dig, and everything went downhill from there. We lost the match 22-25, 25-21, and 10-15. Huge disappointment. Oh well, our ranking didn't change, we're still 4th out of almsot 50. We were pretty much the "little (literally) team that could". We were technically a B team, and we competed with the very top A teams, beating them a lot of times. in fact, we beat all of the top teams at least once except for our A team, who we beat in practice all the time, but lose to in tournaments. We've still got Junior Olympics in two weeks. Another four dayer, and we're gonna win it. Hands down, we'll be best in the nation if we play our best. Our best versus the current number one and two teams' best wouldn't even be a match up. Wen we play our best, we're unbeatable, by anybody. No matter how hard they spike it, we don't let it touch the floor, unless it's out of bounds. If we play our best, I can guarantee my team a medal. We barely lost to the number three team today, and what we do best wasn't even happening, which is passing and defense, which was bad for us today, which is still good, but not for us. We have two hitters, me and the other Outside (left side) hitter, so we need to do well in the back row to do our best.

Sorry for all the volleyball stuff that I doubt any of you will understand. I'll do something you can understand.

After four long days of hard work, I'm ready for a nice relaxing day off. I'm swinging by F.Y.E. tomorrow to grab three new albums. Two are definite (well, there are two, that I will get whichever one they have, and one other I'm sure they'll have), and one might be taken from any siggestions you give quickly, or whatever looks good. Here are the albums.

"Pinkerton" by Weezer

I've been hearing from quite a few people that this is their best. Although right now, I'm in the mood for a brighter more plain fun album, and this is a very dark album. Still, if it's as good as everyone says, it won't matter at all. I've listened to some demoes on itunes (something I rarely do, so I'm excited to get this album), and they all seemed great. "Tire of Sex" sounded a little weak, but a lot of the other songs rocked. I'll see about it.

Second Weezer option...

"Weezer" by Weezer

I'm leaning towards getting this one right now because a lot of people have talked about how great this one is too. Shadow said it was his favorite, All Music Guide gave it 5 stars and an AMG album pick (Pinkerton got 5 stars but not a pick), and I enjoyed the demoes just as much. On top of that, this album sounds more like "fun" music than "Pinkerton", something i'm in the mood for.

I'm up for either one, whatever is available. I never heard of Weezer until the atrocious "Make Believe" cam along, so I naturally got a bad picture of them. I pictured them as fitting in the same category as Green Day and the other bands up there, but I heard so much praise about their first two albums on this site, from trustworthy people, and reviews of their album were extremely high (two 5 stars, two 4.5 stars, one 4, and one 3 star, all from All Music Guide), so I had to check them out. Their early stuff i've listened ti has just sounded great, so I figured I needed something from them.

And speaking of plain fun music...

"Modern Life Is Rubbish" by Blur

From the second I began listening to "Parklife", I could tell that these guys were just a play fun, catchy music, and don't forget to kick a$$ type of band. They succeeded greatly at that. Pop in a tune, don't resist the urge to dance to some songs, and enjoy. That's what they are. I fell in love with "Parklife" after a couple of listens. I admit, after one listen, it was kind of a "what the fukc?"er, but it immediately grew on me, and I loved it. I decided that I needed to grab this album, considering I grabbed Elmis' favorite, and Shadow also suggested his favorite, but I never got it. It sounds like a great album, and I can't wait to pop it in.

Speaking of Blur, I learned "Song 2" in about...twenty seconds. Two basic riffs, get the basic strumming pattern done and get ready to rock. It's exceptionally fun to play...PARTY TIME!!!...EXCELLENT!!! (what very very very awkward movie did i just alude to? I saw that movie today, it was weeeeiiiird, but funny).

I'm on the final temple of Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. I just have to beat the Spirit Temple, and then go to Ganon's Castle, whoop his a$$, and i'm done with the best game ever. It's so fun. Easily my favorite game ever.

Once I finish OOT, I'm gonna divide my gaming time among Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and even return to Super Mario Galaxy to get the last 30 or so stars.

I'm beginning the countdown until the Radiohead concert. I made a countdown clock for it.

Countdown To Radiohead Concert!!!

See ya all around.

...couldn't look ypu in the eye..." I know, too easy, not their best song, but I have a reason for this lyric being here.

School is finally done. I got Friday off for a volleyball tournament which goes Friday through Monday. We're undefeated so far, and judging by our pool tomorrow I'm guessing we still will be
through at least tomorrow. I think our overall record will be 10-1 at least, maybe 11-1, and maybe 12-0 if we play our best. So far, we're 12-0.

I had graduation on Wednesday, which was pretty cool. I got an Honr Roll medal, some Award "from the president" for getting above a 3.5 every trimester since 7th grade and scoring 85% or higher on standardized testing. I got my diploma, and then we had a dance. I normally actually dance with some people, no matter how bad the music is. If I can get dancing with a hot chick, why not? However, it was roasting hot in there, very few people were dancing, and i was exhausted, so I just ate food, hung around, and watched as someone nearly passed out from inhaling helium from balloons. Me an a friend tried to give him more so he would faint, but he yelled in a sueaky helium voice (which he had for an hour), "NOOOOO!!!" and ran away. So close. his eyes were dialated too.

Instead of the usual boring crap i pur in blogs, I figured I'd throw in a little personal matters/problems, as well as a puul an "Al" and use songs to help describe things.

First off, here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gms3U-u5FLA

The message of the song is pretty clear, and tons of people go through things like this. And you know what? For the first time ever, I relate to this song more than anything.

First off, in the song, it's clear that the person who's point of view is sung from, is in love, but feels that the person they love is too good for them. This feels true for me right now, and has for the past few days.

Over my years, I've had small crushes and "liked" girls before, but I never truly felt like I had fallen in love with a girl before. That changed the day after graduation. This girl, who's clearly been the best looking girl in the school forever, just struck me during graduation. I had always thought she was hot/cute, but never really appreciated it before. The second I got home, I looked up her picture in the yearbook, looked for a minute, then shut it. I did the same thing half an hour later. Then twice the next day. I don't find anyone else in the grade as attractive as before in comparison. The only problem: she's too perfect for almost everybody. What do I mean? Well, she's a really really cute and hot blonde for starters. And everyone knows that the stereotype for blonde girls is that they're idiot right? Not her. She was one of only 5 people in the whole cla$$ to have had a 4.0 every trimester since 6h grade. Practically a genius. She's pretty nice and has a lt of friends. She's not a b!tchy skank like all the other hot girls in our grade. See what I'm getting at? I feel like I would have no shot at her. I'm hopin some things in high school will help, like begin an athlete, being a musician, also being smart, but I'm not sure. I'm also not very good at asking girls out (embarassing fact, at 14, never have, too nervous), and that would have been with girls who I just kinda liked and thought they were good looking. I'll be damned if I can ever work up courage to ask out a girl who I'm in love with more than i have ever been with anybody. I know at this age you're pretty much supposed to just like girls, and not really fall too much in love, but damn I'm overwhelmed. I probably won't ask her out until at least Sophormore year if at all. I'll see how things work.

You have no idea how much I just got off my chest in that paragraph.

And now a song, that describes end of the year feelings, easily.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H5h-ZN9GgHw. They creep me out, but that song is amusing and fitting.

Obviously, this about the end of the school year. Although I had trouble with Algebra, which I passed every trimester by a good margin (B, C+, B, the minimum to pass was a C-), I had a great year at school. Unusually school. i hate school, but I actually had some fun this year...sometimes.

On Thursday, we had out trip to Disneyland. And I must say, I was excited, and i had an even better time than I expected from previous trips. We only got on four rides, Pirates of the Carribean, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Space Mountain (more exciting than I remembered), and Splash Mountain (my favorite ride). We spent a good amount of time at an arcade, where I whooped my friend's in air hockey 7-2 (I'm practically pro at air hockey, considering I saved up and bought a table once, sold it last year), and whooped my other friend's ass in Mario Kart which I later whooped the computer in (I'm also pro at Mario Kart, I win every time). I've only seen a Mario Kart acrcade cabinet once before, and i was joyed to see another one. The rides were just great fun. We had a ten minute wait for Pirates, used a fast pass for Space Mountain which knocked a 45 min. wait to 5 min., had a 20 minute wait for Big Thunder Mountain, and waited an entire hour for Splash Mountain, which was worth it, as I love that ride. Disneyland is definitely the most plain fun park ever, while Magic Mountain is by far the best in terms of thrills. Both my favorite amusement parks.

In music news, I'm grabbing "Pinkerton" by Weezer next week, which seems to rock, even if it is credited as emo. I've come to agree with Shadow that "emo music" doesn't really exist, it's just a fashion fad. I call emo a genre as a way to recognize the bands that are called emo. Anyways, back to my point, that I've listened to demoes, and I have a feeling i'll love it.

That's all for today.

...to meet your eye..." Elmis is the only who will surely get this.

As I said, I played a Father's Day volleyball tournament wih my dad. We won three games, and lost one. All in all, it was really fun.

I've got a Math final tomorrow, and I'm praying I do well. I got a C+ on our last test. Why? My teacher's a b!tch. I forgot a "let x statement" (a statement in a word problem that says what the variables will represent), and I lost 8 out of 12 points for it. What the fukc? Oh well. I've got an 85%, and that's good enough to get me into Geometry 1/2 next year, and I'll finally be allowed to use a calculator, as if I don't already for everything.

I found a backing track for "Alive" by Pearl Jam, with rhythym, bass, and drums, so I can just play along to it. I'll post a recording.

I don't have any homework tonight, so I'm thinking of playing Ocarina of Time, recording a little, and screwing around here. Eventually, I'll have to study for my final. I'm past anything difficult in school, bar the final, so I've got a fun rest of the week.

I'm bored, Ocarina of time time!!! See ya.