I have an exam in one hour that I'm not ready for. I still have to pack a bunch of shit. I have to be at the wedding practice by like 5.

brb hara kiri

My final team will be:








































My Special team will be:













































Why post them? I dunno. I guess I'm posting a stradegy guide on how to beat me. I tend to figure my team out half way into the game whereas most people wait until they beat the elite 4 before construction.

T Minus 4 days until I'm back in Genoa for good.

am sad :(

Dod gammit

I was in such a good mood on Sunday. Now I feel like shit again. I don't think I can ever be satisfied being alone. Hurrah depressed.

I caught a Gastly recently. I was happy. I'm catching Pokemon more than I am leveling or beating Gyms. Pokedex + 1. I haev a lot of work do tomorrow, so I'm procrastinating. Steve is playing Unreal. I wish life was just playing video games, that way I wouldn't have to worry about being alone.

This summer I plan on running every morning, eating a lot healthier, and getting things accomplished. I need a few things to make this work.

1st - I need an MP3 player. If I want to DJ well, I need to know my music inside and out. And to keep me sane while excersizing.

2nd - A laptop. With a large hard drive. Video card is not important, audio card is. I need a laptop to store music in for DJing, because I will be DJing off my laptop.

3rd - Job/Money. A given.

4th - Girlfriend. I have no faith that any girls will go out with me, but why not put it here. It's a goal I guess...

Ehh

Busy playing Pokemon. Tonight's the radio show 10 PM EST. www.wbgufm.com

Video Game music plus whatever I feel like. Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part 3.

More musical musings

After watching DJ PsysiX mix Psytrance on his Hercules MKII. It was muy cool. I've decided I want to get a Hercules MKII as well. I think I'm gonna spin Psytrance/Gabber/Chip music and I'll see what other crazy things I can mix in.

Psytrance


Gabber


Chip music


Also: Kaitlyn is going to be going to BG next year. x.x And she'll be in Japanese too. Shit sucks. ;_;

‭‮(Ω_Ω)Trying to waste time before reformating

ITT: Music

I lieks me mah music. I'm actually a bit elitist about music. But just a bit. I blame the radio station I DJ at. www.wbgufm.com

There's a saying at WBGU FM: Elitism is sexy. And it is. I haven't listened to regular radio or watched VH1/MTV by choice for months. I do not know what the world and society deems popular. Nor do I care. Regrettably I was tainted by all the rap on TV and the radio. I usually cannot stand Hip-Hop, even when I know that there is some good stuff out there. All of this "USA #1 boot in yer ass" country bullshit has also turned me away from that. Screaming. I'm not fond of it usually. I can stand it more than hip-hop and country, but not much. And pop is poop, so whatever.

I have a few genres that I particularly enjoy. Electronic music and indie rock. Also folk, blues, jazz, rock and classical. Electronic and indie are at the heart of my musical tastes. Some grinding digital music followed by some soothing acoustic is where it's at. The problem is the electronic crowd is very, uhh, selective? Indie crowd is generally just as pompous, but some indie has bits of digital goodness tucked in, so it's a bit easier.

I think it's the opposites that draw me to trying to combine them.

Some indie such as Anathallo is really folky, lyrically and instrumentally it's very "organic".
Anathallo - Hanasakajijii: Parts 4 and 1


Whereas electronic music, obviously, is electronic and digital. "Lifeless" or so some might think.


I think that might be where some of the common misconception lies. I think people judge electronic music by it's cover. Cold, lifeless, and uncaring. But that's not true. It carries all of the emotion of other types of music, it's just that some people use drugs to help bring them out. I don't however. I'm so enthralled by music as it is that I don't need any other brain alteration to enjoy it. Electronic music is actually more like classical music than anything else. Without lyrics, just listen to the raw music of it and try and pull the emotions out yourself.



Videos and more soon to come more of what?

Stage 5 of Kübler-Ross achieved

The five stages of grief. I guess I'm done. I hit acceptance. Stage 4 sucks. First time i've ever had to deal with the five stages. That is no fun.

In other news, I need to catch things. Like monsters. Shut up. :(


I had more pictures, but firefox stabbed itself in the face, and I'm too lazy to look for them again.
Pics included: Magi Nation, Dragon Quest Monsters, Azure Dreams, and Monster Rancher. Also add Jade Coocon and Dragon Seeds, they were fun too.

Welly well, today I'm gonna reformat the ol' PC and go try and get a haircut appointment. This feels short, so I'll post something else later. I think I'm addicted to posting blogs. :(


LATER:
So i've decided something. 80% of the people who blog are married women and/or Christian. No a-fence to them, but come on! My doing blogs should raise the entire coolness level of blogs in general a few points. I've yet to find many random people that are intereasting at all. And a lot of these people keep using meem incorrectly. <_>

I'm really getting pumped for DJing. Remembering when we ment Bleep, I can't wait till next year I can set up my rig outside of the Union and blast some DnB/Gabber/Psytrance/Chip music. I really want to try mixing some indie and rock into the electronic stuff. I think the auditory pumping of the electronic part will be enough to keep the rock part up to tempo(of course I'll be adjusting the BPM) and the rock parts will show the electronic crowd that there is some kicking non-electronic music out there.
Slam->Aerodynamic->Thunderstruck?

I think I'm hungry...

And as the sun slowly rose over the Disc...

I have recently been thinking about Discworld.

Most people don't know what it is and us Discworld have pity on them.
"If you started watching Star Trek halfway through the series you probably wondered why one guy had pointy ears. But since you liked what you saw, you probably let the question ride for now and just got on with enjoying the show.

Discworld is like that. There are mini-series within the series (the "witches" books, the "City Watch" books, the "Death" books --) and there are one or two big story arcs, but generally the books are written to be accessible at any point to anyone with a nodding acquaintanceship with the fantasy genre. Or even with real life. Admittedly, real life does not contain many librarians who are a full-grown male orangutan, and Death in real life does not ride a white horse called Binky, but Discworld readers now consider that this is real life's loss.

The world travels through space on the backs of four elephants that stand on the back of a giant turtle. Don't worry about it. People don't talk about it, any more than we say, "wow, we're standing a few thousand miles above a ball of molten iron!" Besides, it seldom has anything to do with the plots, which mostly concern real people trying to get by in a fantasy world. There are wizards, witches, trolls, dwarfs, zombies, werewolves, vampires . . . but Discworld starts where classic heroic fantasy stops, and none of those people is doing business as usual. A lot of them have moved into the big city and are trying to turn an honest dollar, just like everyone else.

The biggest city is Ankh-Morkpork. It's a real melting pot -- that is, it bubbles all the time and strange things float to the surface. This is a big city reminiscent of planet Earth, where we think we've locked all the monsters outside, and then turned around and found they're right in here, with us.

Discworld stories aren't parodies, according to Pratchett. They're "resonances." The people of Ankh-Morpork go to war with those towel-headed villains in neighbouring Klatch, and pretty soon characters are acting so pigheadedly that you might think they were real. Vampires who wish to be accepted in human society join the League of Temperance (you can suck, but you mustn't impale.) Witches tend to be good (they'll give you what you need) and fairy godmothers tend to be bad (they'll give you what they think you ought to want). A continent-wide system of semaphore towers is changing society...

Everything you see reminds you of home, but it's turned around and back to front so that you see it in a different light.

Oh...and it's funnier.

Terry Pratchett himself sums it up best:

"The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths, found wherever men and turtles are gathered together; the four elephants were an indo-European sophistication. The idea has been lying in the lumber room of legend for centuries. All I had to do was grab it and run away before the alarms went off."

"There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs."

"Enjoy."

He's also been known to describe it in The Discworld Companion as "like a geological pizza but without the anchovies.""

Terry Pratchett Books

Map:

But tonight, on this small planet, we're going to rock civilisation...

Since yesterday and now all today I've been in a good mood. On Saturday at Animarathon I got to DJ live for the second time, and although I had to play some ultra-lame synthy-techpop by request and there were only 10/700 people actually in the room, the feeling of blasting music over the room while people are party hard dance party really got me excited. Reuben and I talked about it afterwards and we decided that next year we'd have a better plan of action. All we had really was Steve's laptop with winamp and barely any playlist ready , but everything turned out good. He showed me a kick ass USB mixer called the Hercules DJ Console MKII



It's very much kick ass. I'm talking with What the Bleep right now about it. I'd need to get a laptop however, but I guess I'll just have to deal with it. :o

Once I get my computer back in working order I'll have to put in my new Sound card and continue my learning process for my MIDI controller:

Ever since I found out the software it came with was a POS Lite version, I pulled away from using it, then my computer pooped it's face out, so now I'm stuck till I fix whatever's wrong.

The following song has been stuck in my head all day, enjoy.

Am I weird?

I like mushrooms. Not the mind altering kind. Not the edible kind either. Also, not just mushrooms, but fungus. Not like body fungus either. I mean like Plants, Animals, Fungus type. I don't know why. I find them very interesting. Like some alien species. Most people even think of mushrooms as plants, which just makes them seem more mysterious. Now I will procede to bombard this post with a shit ton of fungus pics:




I just found the page to the artist/co-artist, Mike Holmberg, of the above pictures. The following pictures will be some of his art.



I'm in a better mood now. Except fucking blogger shit poo is gay about these images.