Monday, November 17, 2008

you left enchanted by my intellect, or maybe you didn't

I might actually be posting some content ( gasp ) here at some point soon. I've been amassing tons of script notes, and your deity of choice willing, I might actually get some stuff on paper (keyboard?) soon. I think break will be a nice ass-cold creative period.

why are you so far away from me

I have found that one of the best things about life is a crush that comes at a completely inopportune time.

It's not logical, and nothing will come of it, but in the worst of times an innocent little crush can be a bright, shining reminder that life can still be capable of beauty, and possibly even a wake-up call that there are actually a whole bunch of wonderful girls out there in the world.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

find your own way home

My life is kind of like that feeling your frozen hands get when you get back inside a warm house - somewhere between frozen and on fire, warm yet burning.

Fuck Sony, BTW. They are officially fucking up Little Big Planet. First with no price drop for the system, then with a lack of marketing, and now they're deleting levels with any trace of copyrighted content (GoW, Sonic, Mario levels all gone), and even levels WITHOUT anything copyrighted, targeting specifically the most hearted levels in the game... wtf.

Monday, November 10, 2008

it doesn't take much to be somebody special

I was sitting here reading Happysad when a song from the Weezer album Pinkerton started playing on the stereo, and it got me thinking about something. There is a link in many of the things I love, stuff like Lost in Translation, The Office (UK, naturally), FLCL, etc. It isn't necessarily that they're all about some form of hopeless romance, but it's that they're true.

There are tons of sappy-ass romance things that get a knee-jerk repulsion out of me, most notably 99% of romantic comedies ever made, bhe great thing about that sort of "genre" or whatever, though, is that depending on personal experience, you can really tell when something is true. You can tell when the people who made it did so from their hearts, put everything out on the table, made something that was true to them in the hopes that somebody out there will also find it true to themselves, too.

i've got an electric guitar, i play these stupid songs, i write these stupid words, and i love every one, waiting there for me, yes i do, yes i do

Every once in a while, it occurs to me just how awesome it is that freaking Arnold is the governor of California. Doesn't that kick ass?

That's all.

lol

Edit: FIREFLY BLU-RAY TOMORROW BOOYAH

Oh, and the Blackhawks are now 7-3-3, fourth win in a row, second game where we destroyed the other team by 4 or more goals (6-2 over Colorado, 6-1 over Calgary). Next game is an original six matchup against Boston on Wednesday... hopefully we can keep our badass streak going.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

you're gonna go far, kid

Went to the Obama rally last night. The entire city felt electric, and the hour or so wait to get through numerous security checkpoints flew by fast (as did the several hour rally). It went on until maybe 12:30, and we got back to Lincoln Park by 1:15 or so. It was fun, awesome, exciting, historic, but that's all the jazz that you'll get from everybody else who was there. My take is more or less the same.

The one thing where I seem to differ from many people, though, is that I was deeply embarrassed and angry during a couple parts of the rally. They had CNN on a huge screen that everybody was watching, so we got to see McCain's concession speech. As expected, the bulk of the crowd at the rally consisted of people around my age, twenty-something college students. On the one hand, I'm incredibly proud that we came together and won this election, but I have some issues.

The first isn't something that was directly tied to the rally, but a lot of people my age are seemingly pro-Obama because a lot of people my age are seemingly pro-Obama. There is a defintie feeling I got from a hell of a lot of people that it was being treated as more a sporting event than an election in a very important time in our country's history. But that is something I've long accepted and gotten used to; at least they're cheering for the person I believe is the right one for the White House.

The thing that really got to me last night, though, was the hateful nature of this election. There aren't many bumper stickers around, not many shirts around (outside of college campuses), not much talk of it in public a lot of the time, because people are so angry and on-edge about it. People have this idea, both parties alike, that if the other guy wins, the country goes to shit. This notion is ridiculous in any case (I don't agree with the guy, but McCain would have been a definite improvement over Bush) but it bothers me that it's largely the people my age who take the anger and spite to extreme levels.

This could have been just the area of the crowd I was in - I certainly hope that is the case - but during McCain's speech, there were nothing but loud crass boos, people shouting "shut up," "move on," "you suck," incredibly sarcastic parroting or responses to every sentence he said, huge laughs when he slipped up saying something, and all of this got louder and more crass whenever he was saying anything about Obama, regardless of what was actually said.

Now, this was also the case at his rally, you could hear huge boos and crass remarks from that crowd, so maybe what I'm disappointed in isn't politics or one party in particular but instead the entirety of my age group, my generation. Nobody in the Chicago crowd was as loud and crass as them, nobody sounded as unintelligent as them when they made crude sarcastic remarks about McCain or red states, nobody was as embarassing to be around. The final thing that made me want to shoot somebody was the number of people with their god damn cell phones out texting when a preacher was at the podium before Obama came on, delivering a powerful prayer/blessing. I don't care if you're regligious or not, but people should have an ounce of respect.

I know that there are many many people my age who are respectful, intelligent, well-mannered, gracious in both victory and defeat, and I cherish every one of them, but nobody can deny that there are a whole helluva lot of us who are downright disrespectful. It's a big thing that so many of us stepped up and came together to get something done, but if the way many were acting at the rally is any indication, we still have quite a long way to go.

On an unrelated tech-help desk note... you wouldn't believe how many people mention that they have gotten viruses in the past and "had to get a new laptop." They didn't even try to fix it or to take it to Best Buy or something to get fixed - they just bought a new one. I can only assume their parents were the ones doing the purchasing. I wish I had that kind of money, to just buy a new laptop whenever IE crashes once or twice.