It’s 9:15AM, and I have Eleanor Rigby stuck in my head, and it’s the only thing keeping me going.
I got 1 (one) hour of sleep last night. One as in singular, solitary, alone. It burns my eyes to keep them this wide. The fruits of my insomnia are a mere project. I wish more had come of it. I’ve spent my time unwisely. Scripting, cleaning, coding, so tired.
Nonsense I will write if nothing else comes to mind. I am tickled with this and intend to abuse it in the future. Who knows what for. I got the Beatles discography, and have been enjoying it. I really think I would have loved to live in that time era. I know I’m a bit of a technology whore, but I would have enjoyed it nonetheless.
I wish I had some extra cash for all the crap that keeps cropping up. Meh.
…I don’t know why I opened this window. I’d best stop this before I go off the deep end.
Tricia arrived safe and sound Saturday evening when her flight landed a few minutes earlier than scheduled. I picked her up from the airport as soon as she landed, and we went to Taco Mac for burgers and beers and slept soundly that night.
Giving a slight synopsis here, the weekend was pretty pleasant, what with visiting Augusta for my grandmother’s birthday, but there was a slight hiccup with my car that delayed our return Monday and cost quite a few bills to fix. =/ Such is life.
Last night was pretty… awful. After a relatively okay day, I got home to work on a paper that never seemed to end. Then I got the news that an old friend from TaeKwonDo, Conor Waters, a man who was a mere 7 years older than myself and whom I sparred with consistently back in the day, had… somehow passed away. It struck me pretty solidly – I had only spoken with him last about mid-summer when I ran into him at his job at the PeachMac Store in Augusta, and only Monday afternoon did I run across his business card in my wallet and I said “I should give that guy a call and see if we can play on Xbox Live”. I wish I had called, now. I’ll never get to do that. It’s a sobering, depressing thought. RIP, Conor, you’ll be sorely missed.
It could be that or because I am running off of 4 hours sleep (hardly enough), but I just feel strange and awful. I do not want anything to do with my next classes at all. I want to go home, sleep, play some Animal Crossing, and I don’t want to go to the Phi Kap meeting later tonight. Yuck.
Speaking of Animal Crossing, if anyone appreciates a very dark yet comedic satire based on Animal Crossing, you need to read The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing. This is a dark, chilling tale. I. Love. It.
I don’t have much more to say right now. I feel pretty listless. Perhaps I’ll have more later. I’m looking forward to listening to some Beatles later and following the news of Apple’s “It’s Only Rock and Roll” Media Event today. Anyway, toodles.
And here’s the post where I just media whore myself out, because I have many videos and thoughts and happiness to share. ;D
Let’s see. I suggest if you want an idea of what the eff I’m enjoying, go subscribe to my favorites on YouTube.
First off – I wanted to share that Amazon is celebrating one million followers to their Amazon MP3 Twitter account by giving away $1.29 for use towards any MP3 in the Amazon MP3 store. I just downloaded Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” for free because I couldn’t bring myself to spend money on it otherwise. XD Good song, though. To get it, just follow this link: http://snurl.com/firstmil, and there’s instructions on Amazon to redeem the value for the MP3.
Along the same lines, I am really, really enjoying the music video (and the song of course, too) for Lady GaGa’s “LoveGame”, which is just a catchy song. I don’t get it, man. Just… watch it here and tell me what you think. o.o Another great song, though completely different, is Owl City’s “Fireflies”, which you need to watch now. I would embed this one specifically but embedding is disabled for this video. Blah.
Now for funny crap. I enjoyed this video of the cast from Spongebob Squarepants dubbing over scenes from classic films:
Watching Half Life: Full Life Consequences NEVER gets old for me. This is the sequel, which is better than the first, hence why I’m embedding it, but you can find the first here to watch and make sense (as much as you can, at least) of this nonsense. :P
William Shatner “singing”. I wish I could go to Dragon*Con this weekend and meet him, but alas. Check it:
And, finally, “Inappropriate Soundtracks” is a fantastic series on YouTube, posted by the user “Boonehams“, and these videos are created under the premise of taking a scene from a film, an identifiable scene, and replacing the music with something that is ironic or amusing, yet wholly inappropriate. XD For instance, The Matrix: (also, here is a link to all of these on YouTube – don’t forget to check out the Banned Edition which has links outside of YouTube for ones that were removed from YouTube)
Okay, enough YouTubes for nows.
I’m looking entirely forward to some new video games coming out, but mostly for Brutal Legend and Grand Theft Auto 4′s latest expansion pack, The Ballad of Gay Tony. Mostly the GTA, but I cannot deny the fun of a hack n’ slash starring Jack Black. :P I’ve been playing so much of GTA’s last expansion, The Lost and Damned, to the point where I have 100% completion and a ton of weapons and vehicle to create carnage and mayhem. Worth it. :D
And then there are Blu-rays coming out! How I Met Your Mother Season 4 on blu-ray (a first for the series), Wizard of Oz (!!!), Snatch, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Transformers 2, Monsters Inc, UP, Star Trek, Fight Club…. I’m going to go so broke. :(
…I think that’s enough media whoring for now. Toodles!
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