Sunday, March 28, 2004

In breaking with tradition...

Today’s OCRemix: “JENOVAD Trance” Final Fantasy 7 Remix by ffmusic dj. This remix, as the title suggests, is a trance variation of Jenova’s battle music, a la FF7. It’s a great techno song, but I can only reccommend if you are a trance fan. If not, then you probably wouldn’t like it. It is Jenova’s theme song, unmistakable, but it doesn’t really have the same horror-movie feel or much of a “fighting” element to it. It’s just been remixed as a techno. Good techno, but just that. I've been doing quite a few things differently over the past three or four days. Just one phase of beginning to obsess about school again. For one thing, I took a good hard look through my backpack to make absolutely sure I didn't forget anything for school. (You know, gets annoying after a little while when you realize you forgot something the night before you return.) Luckily for me, nothing. (But just you wait, I'll be back Monday realizing I did miss something. Damn school-related karma.) On the other hand, I am looking forward to returning to an argument with a friend of mine over Portugal and the Netherlands, but that’s another story for another time. Today, I took the longest walk ever with my dad. From our house in the suburbs to a video game store on the other side of town. Our original plan involved walking downtown for a bit and back (around 1 mile in each direction), but eventually, I got the incredible idea of trying to walk all the way across town to this video game store. T'was a four-plus mile deal, but it was fun. When we got there, we got change at the store, and phoned my mom to give us a ride back. I really should get out more, you know? My dad claimed it was a very unnerving experience for him, seeing exactly what our town looked like from the perspective of such an observer as one walking around aimlessly. He said that he saw all these small businesses downtown that he wasn't even aware of, and some of them open and then close shortly after he became aware of their existence. He has a point, as we saw all these businesses downtown dealing in things like artwork, pottery, cheaply made clothing, music items, and even tiny multi-national restaurants or cafes everywhere we look. In the suburb on the opposite side of town, we even saw a sign pointing to a nearby house, claiming that they make and sell their own jeans. I have to admit, my dad seemed way more surprised than me, as he talked to my mom about it almost all the way home, only, I wasn't too surprised, as I had seen the streets in the area, such small privately owned businesses in the "arts district" that seem to appear and disappear at random. That district is like prime real estate for small arts/hobbies businesses, and it's what makes my town cool to walk in, even if we have to bug the person with the car when we're done. My dad says that the town should own a server to keep track of all the businesses in the town, and use the Internet to effectively advertise within the town area. Heh, I think it would just be a better idea to get all the small business owners to get a myOtaku site. Well, I am also working on trying to wake up before noon each day. So far, it seems to be going all right, as, after today's walk, I should fall asleep pretty easily tonight. Oh, and between the last time I updated and today, I rented, completed, and returned Legend of Mana (or Seiken Dentetsu 4, just because it sounds so much more interesting for some particularly worthless reason.) It's a great game, and I think I'll buy it if I can find it at any game stores in the area, then, plan B is to convince my dad to let me order off the net (my dad does not trust the Net for ordering items.) If that doesn't pan out, plan C involves renting from the video store, saying I lost/broke the game, pay charges, keep game (that would probably be the easiest since I know they have it, but I just hate being dishonest.) Oh, as for the bad news, I still have not started writing yet. Ridiculous, really, as I should have loads of time on my hands, but I would rather just listen to Tool or play LoM or something of the like. How sad, to not have a work ethic, make me want to talk to my dad again... Speaking of Tool. I decided to use a new avatar (made, I believe, by Semjaza) for OB. Mr. Azazel has great taste in music. Huh, well, I think I'll kick back and fall asleep in a few minutes, maybe get a few lines of writing down before then, I dunno. It's a very dull time right about now. Oh, and, just so you know, we still have some snow up here. It's seriously scary, even for Canada. -Won-daa-shot (by the way, is anybody really bugged by the erroneous signature of my name that I use? It seems to look more and more annoying every time I look at it, so I might get rid of it.)

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