Thursday, December 23, 2004

Perfect Dark is the shiz
Today was a lot longer than I expected it to be, and I was basically busy doing stuff that I will outline later from 2:00 pm to 3:45 in the morning. That’s a long time to be occupied with crap. >.o It was fun, though; a good way to start my vacation.

Baron: Gah, homework ruined Christmas! Thanks a lot, teachers. :(
lea: To put you through as much pain and suffering as possible to make you wish you weren’t on break.
chie: Yeah, I know I was a lot different a year ago. Viewpoints and interests tend to mature over time.
Shin: Bah, relaxing? In high school, are you crazy?
mal: 15 hours is a very long time to be sleeping. :o
horsesrule: I’d rather be bored out of my skull looking for something to do as my body and mind waste away into nothingness, and stare at the wall as I begin to drool and have my dog biting my leg.. than do lots of homework.
Karmi: I fucking hate you, Karmi.

Well, my day started at around 12:30 when I woke up. Normal weekend-type day: turned on my computer, signed on AIM, and started wandering around the net and such. I talked to my friend Jimmy about bringing him over the math test that out teacher had handed out after he left to catch the bus to the career center, and decided to drop it off on my way to see a movie later. He was supposed to get it from someone else, but they decided not to show up for the last day before break, so he wanted me to scan it for him. I wanted to get some things back that I had lent him anyway, so it worked out for both of us, lol.

At 2:00 I left the house, met up with Jimmy for about five minutes, and got to the 2:30 showing of Meet the Fockers just in time. It was.. decent, I guess. I honestly liked the first one better, but that was such a great movie that it’s tough to beat, I think. You really have to see the Meet the Parents first, too, because the second one focuses largely on inside jokes from the original. And I suppose that was the movie’s downfall: it didn’t really have much solid footing of its own, and I didn’t find a lot of the jokes that funny sometimes. It was hilarious, though.. in this one scene, they had a cop from Reno 911 actually playing as a cop. XD!!! As soon as I saw him, I just had to laugh.

After the movie, I went practically next-door to the Wal-Mart for some last-minute family gifts. They give me $50 to spend every year on their own presents, but who am I to complain? lol I’m going to assume that they are not reading this right now, because if they don’t want to know what they got, then I suggest they leave. ^.~ For my dad, I got him two movies in the 2 for $11 bin deal thing, since apparently he wanted to see this movie “Dave”, and threw in another one because who buys just one in those things? For my mom, I got her Meet the Parents on DVD, because it’s an awesome movie, I’m pretty sure she liked it, and it will remind us all of how much the second one pales in comparison. And lastly, for my brother I got the extended edition of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Good stuff.

I finally made my way home at around 5:30, which meant only a half hour until.. anime club! At my house! :O It was a small gathering, not many people were going to show up, but I enjoy having company over every once in a while, lol. A total of 5 people (including myself) decided to show up, including Art, Tory, Zoe, and D. And yes.. I believe each of those names is a nickname. We started out by watching one of Art’s animes, called Dead Leaves, which is an extremely gory and graphic (and trippy) anime drawn in a slightly crazier animation than Fooly Cooly, stuffed into a 50 minute movie or so. I ordered pizza (does 3 large pizzas for $30 sound right to you?), but we ended up with a whole one left over by the end of the night and still more slices in the remaining boxes. But oh well, you know what that means – more snackin’ for days to come. 8)

After Dead Leaves, we watched a very serious, very sane anime which was on the complete other end of the spectrum from the last one, called Grave of the Fireflies. I really like this movie because of all of the emotion they use to capture you in. It takes place in Japan during WWII and shows how difficult life could get for some people, such as a young boy and his much younger sister. The movie shows their struggle to survive with the nation in despair, and the really sad part is how accurately they capture the atmosphere during those times. I think everyone else liked it, even though they tend to prefer watching off-the-wall type things and joke around about it the whole time. :p

My friend then put in this other anime.. which I can’t really recall right now, but it doesn’t matter since after the first episode it kinda froze, and it wasn’t really that great anyway. We actually spent a good amount of time after that watching South Park, but then we went back and had watched most of Voices of a Distant Star by the time the three girls left, and Art was just like, “Eh, we’ve seen this, let’s play some video games.” And we did. For the next five hours.

He had brought over some fighting games for us to play just in case we had time, namely two of the Guilty Gear games for the PS2, but those got old after less than an hour. :p I can’t play fighting games for long periods of time, because they all get rather repetitive and boring for me in the end, and doing the same sort of moves in a side-scrolling mission type thing didn’t help much, either. lol So we switched off to playing Double Dash, which was a lot of fun once we remembered the controls. After that, I had the brilliant idea of hooking up the 64 and breaking out the classics!

The first up on our list was Mario Tennis, in which we both took the liberty of bashing the dated graphics. :p We both wanted the new one for Christmas, too, and hadn’t played the original in so long that we needed to be reminded. And damn.. that is a fun ass game, especially playing doubles. I just love it to death, lol, almost as much as when I first bought it and raped it inside-out. The next one that we played was Super Smash Bros, and it wasn’t long before we realized how spoiled we had become from Melee (“We can’t put in our names? Only 10 characters?! WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE LEVELS?!?”). Anyone who thinks that Melee is basically the same game has some major issues. XD And yes, I have heard it said before.

The third and final game that we played easily took up most of our time, and as you can guess from the title of the post, that game was Perfect Dark. Once you really got back into the grove of things, developed bases, and learned the many ways how to use your weapons, it’s amazing how much fun you can have. It’s so addicting, too, lol. We were basically shooting up bots together for over an hour straight, it was fantastic.

Of course, by this time it was 3:45, and we both decided to call it quits for the night. Art helped me clean up and he went on his merry way, being nice and leaving me the extra pizza even though he paid $15 to accommodate for the money that we didn’t have. I owe him one, and he’s a really cool friend, heh. The guy is just so random and hilarious, it’s great. :p

I suppose that’s it for my day. Oh, I did see this one comment on Cassie’s xanga which brought me down for a second before I realized how much I cared (zilch): “On to more interesting news... Today I went to a very exclusive "anime club" where I was the only person invited. ^_^ It was so much fun... but the problem with that is I don't want to go to bed now. Heh. I'd rather not go into alot of details on here, but I'll gladly gossip on IM with the Idiots about it later. All I'll say is that it was at the house of the sweetest, cutest and most crush-worthy guy I've ever met.” Different anime club, obviously, but it would explain that her interests lie somewhere else, lol. I’m such a fucked up loser, how could a girl honestly ever fall for me?

Damn, 5:45 am! You know you’re on Christmas Break when..
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