I hate to be dramatic

That's it! I've had it viewers. I have absolutely had it with being a liberal. Frankly I do not see any benefit in being this kind of person. I am sorry Dr. Rev. Sarah but I cant be someone I am not. It has been entirely too tiring for me to try an be a lefty. All of the constant bickering, trying to find a logical answer to everything just to show up someone who I'm "fundamentally" supposed to disagree with. It is impossible to ever win this politically correct game. And guess what? If I happened to change my view point, as every human should reserve the right to do, what should happen? Go on, guess. You'll never guess it? Do you want to know? Do you? Huh? Those same liberals who are supposed to be my friends, relatives and allies try to convince me that MY opinion is entirely wrong and that I should agree with them. I cannot take that any more. So you know what? I'm going to waffle. I would rather have no discernable oppinion of my own than be a person who is constantly picking a fight with those who do not agree with them. Because guess what you gun-control-pro-choice-libratarians chances are your neighbor who claims to  be "as liberal" as you, will probably not agree with you on every single subject. So have fun spinning your wheels trying to convince them.

I'm out.

New and Newer and then...

Ok so amazing gamer news. For fans of the Assassin's Creed video game we are all currently waiting for the new installment of the saga. Were interested to see where desmond is going to take the modern plot, as well as the unfolding of the Revolution's meaning towards the over all arc. But! This new announcement has been just released that Ubisoft, the maker ofthe game, has created a new branch of its company strictly designed to create films based on its own video games. The first game to be filmed is, you guessed it, Assassin's Creed. But this has even bigger implications. If Ubisoft is going to be making films from its original games does this finally mean that they are gearing up to make Splinter Cell? tclancy@twitter.com respond if you read this. Well, anyway this means that the script that was being passed around for the Clancy inspired game series will hopefully be picked up soon. If so I am totally stocked to go see it, even though the production wont begin for a while, and the voice actor is older than the original character was portrayed. Hey here is a tidbit for you geeks out there, you can hear Sam Fisher's voice in several movies including X-men: First Class, Justified and the TV series Burn Notice: episode 1. We hope, either they make a digital movie or the real thing. Im personally hoping for the latter. But speaking of games were moving on now.

Have any of you gamers out there played the original Borderlands. Yeah I know that game's end plot was a big middle finger to the player. And I know that the add on DLCs were just as bad. But in Borderlands 2 the mechanics have been changed. I know that I can't be the only one out here who has tried the game and found the destinct LACK of legendary items...or really any good weapons...disturbing and frustrating. And yet despite this kind of bull crap its totally mind sucking and eats away your days. Yes, I think video games are fun to do because you escape reality and can kill things without the actual physical danger. But who amongst us is still waiting for the 3D tech to catch up and become all star-trecky? I mean come on, I want to see a blue eyes destroy dark magician in real life holograming.

Here is the problem with that, folks: it has no application to the greater world. So because of the lack of marketability we wont see hologramming for a long, LONG time. Way to go Star Trek for getting our hopes up. Well...more on Borderlands later.

On July 21, 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course compiled and released its own list of the century’s top 100 novels, at the request of the Modern Library editorial board. These also comprise books that I have, and have yet to read. I have decided to one by one obtain each of these classics and read them for my own outrageous enjoyment. Fuck you dignity!

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
38. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
41. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
52. Howards End by E.M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
68. Light in August by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Laud!

Learning any second language can be difficult. And supposedly there is an easy way to learn to speak any language--by listening to spoken words 30 minutes a day. Or so the internet say. But there is not much to be said for learning to speak Latin. Mostly this is because few people would have use for speaking it. At some point though you're reading Ovid's smut and you say to yourself...screw it.

You might make sure though, that you got lots of brains to get ahead in life. But you're the sucker. You're being fed this line that languages and education will put you ahead of the curve. It wont. You're gonna die. Someone will stab you. Maybe not physically but some one WILL stab you. Its just how it is. So you make sure you can speak 12 languages...so you know you can say "Help" in 31 ways that nobody else speaks. Ill meet you in parkinglot with my knife.

1 + 1=0

Greetings viewers for another day and another commentary on things. Today I was hanging out with some guys at CSULB and talking about relationships. And I found that what seems to have been true for others are a bunch of tropes. You'll find love when you stop looking. You have to make her feel comfortable. You have to be comfortable and happy with yourself. Otherwise its not going to happen.

And I thought to myself "shit. I guess Ill be alone for a longer time." I admit it viewers that I dont know anything about myself. I have a very small sense of humor. Im too serious about things. If something doesnt sound logical I will likely perceive it as wrong. I guess Im more black and white than I knew.

Maybe Im a 0111001001101111011000100110111101110100

Birthday Scramble

Hello viewers,
Youre friendly neighbor and unquestioned master of the universe here. You know I am tired of plans falling apart. Have you ever had this happen to you: it's your birthday soon. You have a few weeks to plan everything so you send out your feelers to see how many people would like to come. Everyone you know says sure why not. But the week of the party they all suddenly drop out?

That is what happened to me these past two weeks. It was my birthday ont he 14th, but everyone was suddenly busy. Not to worry for me though. I spend the day with a friend playing video games. Then I went out to lunch with my mother. Only she didnt know where to go. So we had a 15 minute discussion about how to pick a place. In my opinion viewer its not about the class of the place, but more having to do with how often you visit a location. For example, on my twenty-first birthday I went to the Orange Resteraunt on the Hill. Havent been there since. Expensive? Oh yeah. You have to RSVP a week in advance just to reserve a table. But I am planning to go there every ten years. Thats right folks Im starting a planned tradition. So forget the candles and dancing waitresses. So get ready Orange. Ill be seeing you in a few years.

Coffee and stuff

Ahhhh! Why do all my friends have to be busy on my birthday? Its Sunday for gosh sakes. Sigh, I suppose its all the best. Its supposed to rain for the next couple of days and beach rain sucks.

So I wonder if anyone has actually tried Cafe Via from Starbucks and done a side by side comparison? Im drinking it right now. Italian roast. Of course their viena coffee tastes like mud compared to actual vienese coffee. God I could kill for a capuccino from my friends in Murlo, Italy. Thats right Iina Im talking about yall.

Ah, anyway I loved italy two summers ago and I hope to come back some time, when I have the money. Right now Im just working on my school work and my book on the side. And Dating. What more could you want?

Post Hoc

So I have decided, loyal viewers, that celebrating anything remotely relating to a zombie apocalypse as fun would either result in my horrible death or end my life in a jail cell. Think about it people, you are reading a book or watching television and think "what would I do if I were Rick?" You know, that cop in "Walking Dead." You know that youre enjoying the story of the book or show. But the more you enjoy it the more you are detracting to the realness that could potentially be. I know for a fact that air force bases in the United States are actively training for triage during a zombie apocalypse.

Let me be clear with what I mean. If I allowed myself to be wrapped up in the fakeness of a zombie apocalypse story then, should the event actually occur, you and most others would not be prepared. And even if you were prepared? There is no garuntee that a head shot will kill a zombie. There's going to be a learning curve on how to survive. But rest assured, anyone with military experience will have a better survival rate because of their training.

The same could be said of course about realistic situations. Far too many people, men and women, often create an imaginary portrayal of how things should be. When this occurs a person will often miss what is right infront of them until something occurs to change things drastically. Love and the ideal are a perfect example of this.

Johnny just started dating, and hes been looking for that perfect mate which has a size 36 D breasts and a petite size waist, plays video games and enjoys the type of books that he enjoys...etc.  July is a girl whose really interested in Johnny but because she doesnt match his expectation he will never ask her out.

Or should they start dating some how, the problem of this discrepancy would come back to bite Johnny in the end. Because his neglect of July would make her feel disconnected and distrust him.