Saturday, December 25, 2004

Madness.

Comment Commentary

Syk, if you ever do that again, and I mean EVER, I will personally hunt you down and slit your throat.

*decides not to comment on any of that*

Syk- Yes, I am too critical. Shame.

Shin- I could have gone into a lot more, but if it were any longer it would have been compressed even more, making it look like garbage.

Almost on the level of your Excel Saga banner, Shin. :P

Mal- So much useless stuff, too.

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Pittsburgh has been interesting thus far.. Albeit a bit dull. At my grandmother's house, where we are staying, there's no internet, so I've been pretty much listening to my iPod and reading 1984. Before Christmas we spent more time in the mall than at home (or so it seems). There are two malls here- South Hills Village and Century III. South Hills is nicely kept, with DDR (slippery crappy pads), but Century III has so many stores it's heaven. They actually had a store dedicated to comic books. I haven't seen one in forever.. I even found I Feel Sick and Filler Bunny #1 (Vasquez, woot), which I quickly bought.

The store owners were cool. They were nothing like Comic Book Guy (Biggest. Biatch. Ever), and they knew what I was talking about without ridiculing it. I didn't even give Filler Bunny a thought until they brought it up.

And it's hilarious. Much more than I Feel Sick. IFS, a two-book continuation of the Johnny universe, was more angst and less humor, which isn't a bad thing, but I didn't identify with dear old Devi as much. The art was really cool (it's the only color Jhonen comic, spare Everything Can Be Beaten, which doesn't count), which makes up for a lot of the faults.

Um.. What else?

Hm, I can't quite seem to remember.

This happens when you have such horrible memory, you know.

Oh, right, Christmas.

As far as the Christmas giftage went, I got KOTOR and the Riddick game (Both on PC, and I can't play them here because there are no decent computers), the final volume of FLCL, and Elephant by The White Stripes. There was other stuff, but nothing much worth noting (my brother got a DS, which I've been playing more than him). Considering the events of my birthday, I should consider myself freaking lucky.

Speaking of the iPod, there's this ugly scratch down the middle of the screen. I don't know where it came from, but I'm horrified to look at the thing now.

We also saw two movies. As my mom and grandmother were doing their shopping-and-decorating thang, my dad, brother and I got sent out of the house twice. The first time we saw A Series of Unfortunate Events, which was overall quite pleasant (as pleasant as it can be), on the whole. The ending was atrocious, as a fan of the books, but if I hadn't read the novels I would have totally loved it.

They rearranged the happenings a bit. The Marvelous Marriage dealie was at the end, which I can't blame them for. It created a bigger climax than The Wide Window could have. However, the ending got me royally ticked. The whole "Aww, Olaf got what was coming to him" thing made me stab my seat with my cell phone, and the twinge of optimism at the end made me blow my brains out with the Time Crisis light gun they had in the lobby.

So to speak.

We saw National Treasure yesterday, and the whole ordeal was laughable. On the way home we all formulated where the other national treasure was, and it was something like this.

"If you look on the third seat of the fifth row of this very theater, you will find a piece of gum stretched out so that it somewhat resembles an arrow. If you follow that arrow you will be led to the food court. The compass in the middle is painted onto the tile, and if you look directly to the north of it you shall find.. PANDA EXPRESS. Between the Kung Pao Chicken and Orange Chicken platters is an engraving that says 'Look to the grave of all dignity.'

SO WE WENT TO ARBY'S. There we found a note telling us to look at Suncoast's neon sign when the clock hits 2. BUT THEN WE REMEMBERED THAT IT WAS ON DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME AND THAT SUNCOAST USED TO BE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MALL BY VICTORIA'S SECRET. But then we kind of got tired and went home."

You kind of have to see the movie to get it. 'Twas quite stupid.

I'm at my aunt and uncle's house right now, listening to my six-year-old cousin playing Sonic Adventure 2.

I will fucking kill Amochao or whatever his name is. And every other voice actor in that game. I don't remember it being so shitty.

I remember playing the game in Toys R Us all those years ago, going "omfg this is so cool," and buying a Dreamcast just for it. I bought Crazy Taxi, too, and that was about it for that console.

How stupid I was.

My uber-cool 20-something year old cousin isn't here, though her games are. She has Grand Theft Auto, which I am unable to play (Curse.. Uh.. Everyone), and it's just sitting there, taunting me.

It's Vice City, not San Andreas, but I could deal. I think.

I sent Karmi her magical card the second I could, and I hope it gets to her on time. Stupid postal service might crap out.. But I sent it on the twenty-second.

Aw, did somebody else want a card?

WELL TOO BAD. YOU DIDN'T ASK.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go catch up on my webcomics. Merry Christmas, and pleasant other-holidays, everyone.

Closing Statement: Super Mario 64 DS is so totally amazerful, and the minigames rock, and it doesn't even feel like the old game at all, and I've fallen back in love with handheld games. I picked up Metroid: Zero Mission, and it's nice. The end.
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