Tuesday, May 2, 2006

  Hey everybody. How's it going?

I've got a Spanish test tomorrow, and I need to learn a bunch of complicated grammar rules because of it. >_<' Please send some prayer for me on that subject, if you could. =D

Yngwie Malmsteen will be coming to Charlotte on Thursday, and as far as I know, Josh is going (I'll call and check with him tonight or tomorrow). He'll be taking plenty of photos, so maybe I'll be able to showcase some of them once he's back. ^_^
Hooray for Yngwie Malmsteen! Feel that Rising Force! "A burning Inferno, it soars ever higher, leaving the demons behind!"



We're currently reading "Night" by Ellie Wiesel in English class (last book of the year). Anybody else here ever read it?
I read it back in 8th grade, but at the time I didn't really like it. But oddly enough, as I'm reading it now, I'm getting really engrossed! Odd, eh?

For those who don't know, "Night" is a sorrowful, dark novel about the Holocaust.
Perhaps my new-found liking for the book is due to my well-known recent obsession with WWII. I know it sounds weird when I say I'm "interested" in something as dark as the Holocaust, but it was an interesting time full of emotion and conflict between good & evil.
Another reason I may be enjoying it so much is that many of my ghosts in Ghost Hunter will be from the Holocaust. Many of the most powerful ghosts in my series will be those of Nazi Officers (a ghost's strength comes from their emotions, and Nazi Officers are pretty well-known for having plenty of hatred and cruelty).

I'll tell you one thing: Nazis did not f*** around. They're responsible for some pretty twisted sh**.
I'll move on to what was done to thousands upon thousands of innocent Jews later, but get a load of some of the things Hitler did to his own soldiers (keep in mind this is only stuff I've heard, so it may only be 90% accurate):
Hitler experimented with cutting-off some of his infantry’s' eye-lids in an attempt to make a soldier that never slept, but only fought. Naturally, it didn't work for obvious reasons.
A common Nazi Officer training exercise was that in basic training each soldier was given a puppy. They slept, ate and trained with the dog every day for several months as basic training progressed. Then, at the end of basic training, the soldiers were made to kill the dogs with which they had bonded with. As you could guess, this was designed to make the Officers emotionally tougher and less humane.

If that's the kind of stuff Hitler did to his own soldiers, you can imagine what kind of things were done to the innocent Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, cripples, scientists, artists and multitude of others held in his camps.
I'll be talking about that kind of stuff in future posts. Not only will it give you some background to some of the ghosts you'll see in Ghost Hunter, but it will also serve as a great source of historical & philosophical discussion where we can exchange opinions, facts and ideas.

"Presents New Art", by dutchie17:



I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting this here. These are only supposed to be used on deviantART, but I'm not "using" it, I'm just showcasing it as artwork (well-done artwork =) ).
Anyway, this is a cute little gif for someone proudly displaying a new deviation of theirs. I think this one was done with high enough quality to be a standard option for use on deviantART. What do you think?

Anyway, please check out yesterday's post if you haven't already, mainly because I did a fairly in-depth art-review I'd like people to see.

Thank you, and I'll see you tomorrow!
Please pray for me as I take my Spanish test! ^^

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