Tuesday, April 20, 2004

That is all...


I love GIJOE's, though the refrigerator Perry was my favorite Joe. You had to send a way for him.


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Wednesday, April 14, 2004

My day stuff
Y'know, I never really post about my day or how I am feeling at the particular moment mostly because I'm sure that its not that interesting. Eight hours of my awake time is spent doing chemistry research (If they ask, thats what I'm doing now ;)). I don't think anyone wants to hear about that. Suprisingly enough though, in the Chemistry graduate student world there is a fair amount of drama and gossip going around. It is sort of like my own little sitcom, starting with the akward dufus guy who explodes a sep. funnel and gets chemicals all over himself and then has to use the emergency shower. Then there's the girl newly pregnant whom already has a baby and not to mention the alleged "drunken, mean husband". My lab has a huge drama queen who recently muscled out one of the undergrad researchers. She also was wearing sandals in the lab (really dumb idea for safety's sake) to show off her pedicure. I wasn't sure they did pedicures in Oregon, we're all very laid back and grungy.

Point being, I have a lot of stored up gossipy stuff that I only tell my fiancee really. I'm 99% sure nobody here knows about my OB blog (you can easily tell by my low ranking) so I'm safe from anyone reading this.

Hmmm, what else...Oh, when I was a kid I was sleeping over my friends house and had an 'accident' in my pants. I didn't know what to do and went into their bathroom, took off the poo filled underpants and tossed them behind the toilet. This is all very rational when you're a panicking 4 year old. What ended up happening was my friend got blamed for it by his parents (even though he didn't have any snoopy underpants) and scolded in front of me. Of course I was too scared and embarrassed to fess up to it. Anyway thats just a fun random pant-pooping story.

Later.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

today's info
I saw Modest Mouse this past saturday in Portland, and it was pretty cool. I've seen them twice before, and that was in Philadelphia and Toronto. Toronto was the best show, and Portland my least favorite. It was a great show, but there were so many people compared to the first two times. In Toronto or Philly there were maybe 100 people at the show, so you could get up front without being sandwiched inbetween a bunch of sweaty people. I like the smaller shows a whole lot better. MM isn't really a mosh-pit kind of show, and I don't really expect too many 13 year-olds either. That all changes in the northwest because they're huge here and played two sold out shows. Can't win all the time...

Oh, the other thing about the show was that there was a newborn baby there! Some young mother brought a kid that looked about a month old to the show!? It slept through the whole thing until the end, which is kinda weird if you've been around such young kids. Usually you have to feed or change them every few hours or so. It was kinda sad. Maybe the kid was deaf at birth? I doubt it though.

Oh, and almost equally crappy was the opening bands. The second band had a long name which I don't remember, but the first band, The Spheres are one to avoid (really boring). They had a crap singer too.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Good news for people who love bad news

Before I get into it, My Otaku ranking is 666! There couldn't be better news!

This is the cover art for the new album, signifying that Modest Mouse has come out with a new album. I picked it up this morning when the record store opened and am listening to it right now. I couldn't possible be more happy with it. Modest mouse fans tend to be big modest mouse fans, and I am no exception. Any fan will like this album, it's good for all the same reasons that they have been good for years. The only song I had heard beforehand was bury me with it, which I suffered through Carson Daly to see a month ago. The best news for me by far though is the two shows they're playing in Portland this weekend. I'm all over that shit on Saturday! The only worry is that they will only have kid-sized T-shirts which has been a weird trend for the last two times I saw them. Needless to say I have two unnecesarily tight mm shirts and one really cool red 'Buffalo' shirt I got off the net.


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Thursday, April 1, 2004

Me
Hey y'all! This is a picture of me from summer 2000 with my friends Beth (the girl) and Matt (in the Tuxedo shirt)


(I took out the picture, it was stretching out the page too much. I'll put it back if anyone wants)
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Monday, March 29, 2004

Picture (see below)

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Final Fantasy II


Hey I finished Final Fantasy, finally, and defeated Choas ending some weird time loop thing and somehow the four elements are involved. Ok, I don't really understand the ending and I wasn't paying that close attention to the final screen.

So on to Final Fantasy II, which is cool because I've never played it before and it never came out in the US for the NES. The graphics are updated from the original version to super nintendo quality, which is nice. The game itself is pretty similar to FF1, but there are no levels to gain by killing monsters. Your attack strength increases from attacking (go figure), and you gain endurance by getting damaged. As some attributes increase, others will decrease and your characters can sort of evolve into magic users or fighters depending on what you do with them in the game. One thing thats funny though is that one of the best ways to increse your hit points is to attack your own characters. Taking a quick swipe at your buddy during an easy battle almost guarantee's increased stats. I've always had fun doing this sort of thing in RPG's, but now it actually helps!

So far in the story there is a Black Knight who is taking over cities and destroyed the main characters home-town. You join the resistance to help take him down. My characters are still pretty weak, but I 've got some good hours of my life to waste. The plan is to play through the final fantasy games in order 1-6. I'll skip 3 because it was a gameboy game. (I'm using the Japanese numbering because the american games go from 1,2,3,7)


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Thursday, March 25, 2004

A moment alone
Its weird, I think I've spent most of my post-puberty life trying my damndest not to feel alone. Now I've picked out wedding rings and live with my fiancee in Oregon. I leave for school after she goes to work and thus, she gets home before me. What it amounts to is that I almost never have any time alone at home. I kind of miss it. It scares me a little that it does. I don't really think its a big deal, but its nice to be able to relax and do whatever without having to worry about the significant other being happy/entertained.

Sometimes All I want to do is sit on my ass and play videogames for 6 hours or something, but then I'm catatonic AND taking up the television (not very fun for Rachael). I usually just wait til 10 or 11 to start playing and she falls asleep because she has to get up much earlier. Its not really a bad situation, but today she's spending the night at her Brother's place. Her family is up there and I didn't really feel like going. Now I have the night to myself!! I'm going to fight the temptation to eat potato chips for dinner and watch porn all night :)

I guess I'm not 100% alone, i do have my cat. Maybe I'll stay up til 4am and finish Final Fantasy. I know the last dungeon is a real pain in the butt, but it will be satisfying to finish. I've been playing Ikaruga for GCN too, but not too much because the Nintendo is set through the VCR and I have to tape Witch Hunter Robin because I fell behind on it. Its a really great show, the best new show CN has had in a while. I'm looking forward to Gundam:seed too, its got a lot of hype.


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Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Comics


Lately I've been spending a mad amount of my money on comic books. One of the coolest, which I don't even own is Grendel. Grendel was sort of a mobster/assasin with a pitchfork/spear weapon. The first series of comics was him, and his rival was basically a wolfman (actually the good guy). The second series a woman became grendel, and so forth. Basically a new story would involve new Grendels an they were pretty much all cool.

After I started actually buying comics, the first was Blade of the Immortal.


This is by far the best manga ever to come out of Japan (from what I've read). I've got a lot of Manga now, including; GTO, Ranma1/2, Love Hina, Initial D, FLCL, Iron wok Jan, Samurai deeper Kyo, s-CRY-ed and the full runs of Shonen Jump USA. Blade is a god amongst these other comics, GTO is my second favorite.

American comics you can't forget about either. Batman is fun but not revolutionary. Some of the lesser known stuff is fantastic, Powers and 100 Bullets being the best non-Marvel/DC besides whats been mentioned previously.



Powers is a superhero comic, but its about a former superhero who lost his powers and now is a cop. He works in the superpowers/crimes division, and you sort of see into the world of Superhero's as people, and some of the depraved things they do. There's also a lot of characters who get killed, and the whole thing is good because its written so well. I really like the drawing style too, its slightly similar to Batman the animated series.



100 bullets also works because of great writing. Its realistic, no superpowers. It follows agent Graves, who gives people a gun with 100 untraceable bullets. They can do whatever they want with it, often use it to seek revenge on someone. Its not always clear why he gives people the gun, but sometimes you can see graves' agenda. The writer and artist of this series recently did a run on Batman which was exceptional. The best Batman comics I've read in a long time.
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Monday, March 22, 2004

Mad


Wah, wah picked out me wedding band (titanium?). Has anyone ever heard of a titanium band? Seems like all the big Jewelry stores have them for some reason. I thought about getting a stainless steel one, but I'm excited by early transition metals (what can I say).

I've been playing the reworked Final Fantasy I from FF:origins. Its fun to play the original game again, and the Playstation version adds some graphical improvements. I would have had to shell out ten or fifteen to but it for my nintendo, plus this version comes with FF2, which was Japan only. I've sunk maybe 10 hours into FF1 so far, and its really repetetive. I remember it that way, but its tolerable. I really liked Final Fantasy II for the SNES, I got the reworked Playstation version of that coming to me off ebay. I'm praying they didn't change the dialogue too much, there's a line where someone gets called a "spoony Bard" which has crazy nostalgia value.



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