FROM THE ASHES!
I feel sort of like a phoenix, writing a blog post after a lengthy period of dormancy. Back in the glory days of high school, when exciting things happened to me on a daily basis, I found it a whole heck of a lot easier to write about lots of stuff fairly regularly. These days I live in a state of constant boringdom (not to be confused with boredom), where nothing out of the ordinary happens to me. I pretty much live and sleep most of the time. That reminds me of the new Blogger, which requires a Google ID to login. This kind of caught me off guard a while ago, though at the time I did have a Google account (calvinocious@gmail.com, if you spam me I will track you down and force feed you marshmallows until you throw up), but even so I had an atrocious time actually logging in because of passwords and things like that. I have to say that the benefits of the new Blogger, such as "Labels for this post," vastly outweigh the pseudo-inconvenience of having to login with my stinking Google account. Google is like the evil internet empire. It's a dang good search engine, though. I admire Google, while at the same time sort of feeling like I want to stage a huge revolution against the tyranny and oppression that it lays so heavily upon us all. The trouble is, I don't know how to stage this sort of revolution.
In other news, the greatest and most mighty rock band on the face of life, My Chemical Romance, was defeated by food poisoning last week. This meant that they cancelled a bunch of shows, mine included. Spell checker is telling me "cancelled" is spelled improperly, and I'm telling you that spell checker is retarded, because that's a perfectly acceptable way to spell the word. It can also be spelled "canceled," but I don't like that spelling. I think it looks stupid, and I'm very liberal in my use of the letter L, so I always opt for that extra instance in the word "cancelled." Spell checker can suck an ole buck. Anyway, my show got cancelled, so I now have to wait for it to be rescheduled. In my opinion, to prevent this type of situation from happening in the future, they should probably just not eat while on tour.
I think I would like to take a trip to Six Flags over the summer. Technically, the Great Escape [and Splashwater Kingdom] (the latter only included as part of a clever "two parks in one" scam; despite what they say, it's still one park, it just happens to have water rides) is a Six Flags park, but I'm not talking about this park when I say Six Flags, because I've been there a bunch of times and it still isn't called Six Flags, so it doesn't count. It's been far too long since I've visited an "amusement park" (I think 9th grade was the last time, when my amusement-park-visiting career ended with a bang and lots of pyrotechnics), so I think fixing that is in order, since I don't really have anything else planned for the summer. I think perhaps I may be suffering from some kind of advanced roller coaster withdrawal or something, which might explain my recent weirdness. The funny thing is, I never used to like roller coasters, but then all of the sudden I did like them. Weird, huh? It was like I woke up one morning and turned into a roller coaster person. Anyone who doesn't like roller coasters is a weenie. Clever manipulation of gravity makes for some interesting experiences. Heck, now that I think about it, I haven't been on a real vacation in three years, since that time Woodard came camping with us and we were basically obnoxious for a week, half-heartedly chasing this attractive girl from the site right next to ours. We never actually found out said girl's name, but instead dubbed her "Cookie" because of a shirt she wore that said the same thing on the back. Those were the days.
I saw Spider-Man 3 on Friday, the very day it opened. I have mixed feelings about it. I ultimately concluded that it was a good movie, but not a good Spider-Man movie. Venom was basically wasted (no more so than Doc Ock I suppose, who should not have been killed off), the Sandman wasn't actually a villain so much as a desperate, petty criminal victimized by his circumstances who turned himself around in the end and became a non-villain. The Harry/Spider-Man tag team at the end was so completely unrealistic and clearly just one of those feel-good moments that artsy people love so much in movies, just like the part in the first movie where hordes of New Yorkers suddenly started chucking things at the Green Goblin from atop the bridge. Despite that, it was still a cool team-up; just completely out of character. All in all, I think artsy people doing super hero movies is a bad idea, because they get caught up in all these silly things like romance, inner struggle, and blurring the lines between super heroes and villains with this "well, we all do bad things from time to time, so it's not about beating the bad guy, it's about forgiving them and learning lessons about ourselves" junk. Super hero movies are about action, basic good vs. evil stories set in slightly unusual but generally realistic worlds that exist purely for entertainment. That's why Spider-Man needs to face the Sinister Six in the next movie, without having to deal with Mary Jane, college, Aunt May, lack of money, Ursula the Awkward and Mr. Dinkovich, Harry being a pain in the butt about his dead father, or any of that. There are plenty of action movies that simply exist as action movies. Why can't super hero movies be like this? At the end of the day, Spider-Man 3 failed as a super hero movie, but was pretty successful as an all-around general movie. It was well made and everything, it just missed the point.
We are now up to 20 home runs at Colonie Little League. I'm rather appalled by this high number, though more appalled at some of the names who have hit them. There are ten year olds hitting home runs. This just shouldn't happen. Pitching is a thing of the past, sadly. All-Stars is gonna be a total bummer this year.
Oh yeah, I went to see Relient K last night at Northern Lights, and also ended up seeing Sherwood and Mae (because they played first). Analysis: it was a good show, but the music was so loud I couldn't hear it. Next time I think I'll find a spot much much farther from the stage. However, I do seriously need to go to another show, because I noticed that live music, even live music that I don't necessarily care for, is really energizing and exciting.
Well, since I'm a pirate, I have lots of pirate related things to do right now, including maybe some pseudo-studying for my IEA final exam tomorrow morn at 8 o'clock in the morn. That's an absurd hour for a final exam, but once I'm done with it, I'll be done with it. That's all I have to say about that. I'm gonna miss the SGS once summer starts. It's a magical place.
The End
In other news, the greatest and most mighty rock band on the face of life, My Chemical Romance, was defeated by food poisoning last week. This meant that they cancelled a bunch of shows, mine included. Spell checker is telling me "cancelled" is spelled improperly, and I'm telling you that spell checker is retarded, because that's a perfectly acceptable way to spell the word. It can also be spelled "canceled," but I don't like that spelling. I think it looks stupid, and I'm very liberal in my use of the letter L, so I always opt for that extra instance in the word "cancelled." Spell checker can suck an ole buck. Anyway, my show got cancelled, so I now have to wait for it to be rescheduled. In my opinion, to prevent this type of situation from happening in the future, they should probably just not eat while on tour.
I think I would like to take a trip to Six Flags over the summer. Technically, the Great Escape [and Splashwater Kingdom] (the latter only included as part of a clever "two parks in one" scam; despite what they say, it's still one park, it just happens to have water rides) is a Six Flags park, but I'm not talking about this park when I say Six Flags, because I've been there a bunch of times and it still isn't called Six Flags, so it doesn't count. It's been far too long since I've visited an "amusement park" (I think 9th grade was the last time, when my amusement-park-visiting career ended with a bang and lots of pyrotechnics), so I think fixing that is in order, since I don't really have anything else planned for the summer. I think perhaps I may be suffering from some kind of advanced roller coaster withdrawal or something, which might explain my recent weirdness. The funny thing is, I never used to like roller coasters, but then all of the sudden I did like them. Weird, huh? It was like I woke up one morning and turned into a roller coaster person. Anyone who doesn't like roller coasters is a weenie. Clever manipulation of gravity makes for some interesting experiences. Heck, now that I think about it, I haven't been on a real vacation in three years, since that time Woodard came camping with us and we were basically obnoxious for a week, half-heartedly chasing this attractive girl from the site right next to ours. We never actually found out said girl's name, but instead dubbed her "Cookie" because of a shirt she wore that said the same thing on the back. Those were the days.
I saw Spider-Man 3 on Friday, the very day it opened. I have mixed feelings about it. I ultimately concluded that it was a good movie, but not a good Spider-Man movie. Venom was basically wasted (no more so than Doc Ock I suppose, who should not have been killed off), the Sandman wasn't actually a villain so much as a desperate, petty criminal victimized by his circumstances who turned himself around in the end and became a non-villain. The Harry/Spider-Man tag team at the end was so completely unrealistic and clearly just one of those feel-good moments that artsy people love so much in movies, just like the part in the first movie where hordes of New Yorkers suddenly started chucking things at the Green Goblin from atop the bridge. Despite that, it was still a cool team-up; just completely out of character. All in all, I think artsy people doing super hero movies is a bad idea, because they get caught up in all these silly things like romance, inner struggle, and blurring the lines between super heroes and villains with this "well, we all do bad things from time to time, so it's not about beating the bad guy, it's about forgiving them and learning lessons about ourselves" junk. Super hero movies are about action, basic good vs. evil stories set in slightly unusual but generally realistic worlds that exist purely for entertainment. That's why Spider-Man needs to face the Sinister Six in the next movie, without having to deal with Mary Jane, college, Aunt May, lack of money, Ursula the Awkward and Mr. Dinkovich, Harry being a pain in the butt about his dead father, or any of that. There are plenty of action movies that simply exist as action movies. Why can't super hero movies be like this? At the end of the day, Spider-Man 3 failed as a super hero movie, but was pretty successful as an all-around general movie. It was well made and everything, it just missed the point.
We are now up to 20 home runs at Colonie Little League. I'm rather appalled by this high number, though more appalled at some of the names who have hit them. There are ten year olds hitting home runs. This just shouldn't happen. Pitching is a thing of the past, sadly. All-Stars is gonna be a total bummer this year.
Oh yeah, I went to see Relient K last night at Northern Lights, and also ended up seeing Sherwood and Mae (because they played first). Analysis: it was a good show, but the music was so loud I couldn't hear it. Next time I think I'll find a spot much much farther from the stage. However, I do seriously need to go to another show, because I noticed that live music, even live music that I don't necessarily care for, is really energizing and exciting.
Well, since I'm a pirate, I have lots of pirate related things to do right now, including maybe some pseudo-studying for my IEA final exam tomorrow morn at 8 o'clock in the morn. That's an absurd hour for a final exam, but once I'm done with it, I'll be done with it. That's all I have to say about that. I'm gonna miss the SGS once summer starts. It's a magical place.
The End
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