I was upset...pretty, very upset...turns out that super-spifforific game I was talking about...likes to crash...at the same point...ALL the time. What gets me even more is that there is no help on the net about it, and it could quite possibly be my computer's fault...meaning...I can't blame anyone.=( Curses! I wrote the distributers and hope they can shed some light on it. Meanwhile, since I can't return it for my money back, I'll have to hang on and hope for the best.
Yesterday after class, I hooked up with the guys and we went to watch AI and Atlantis. *quasi-film review coming up...if you haven't seen these films, mebbe ye might want to skip it...could be spoilers. I'm not sure yet...cuz um...I'm about to write it=)*
AI...should've ended half an hour earlier. I did enjoy most it though...I kept thinking to myself, "I want a Teddy" and "I wanna be a Robo Gigalo when I grow up." heh...there were a lot of good things about the film, thats for sure. Thats what makes the last half hour so painful to watch. I should've been tipped off by the fact that when the aliens appeared, people actually started to get up and leave. I'm certain they were people who've already seen it, and wished it ended there. As the story became more and more far fetched, I began to shake my head in disbelief...but the pinacle of my dissappointment was when the alien sat David down for a "heart to heart" about recreating his mom through DNA...I admit it...I couldn't help it...I just busted out laughing(very quietly of course). Heartless? No, I don't think so...I just felt like Spielberg was trying to manipulate me into getting all sentimental with the most rediculous premise...That was the first time I've ever done anything like that...but oh gad...that was absolute crap man. *sigh* I would've highly reccommended it if it had ended earlier...but as is, I'd have to say, "Yeah dude, go see it...but when he jumps off the building into the water...OR...when he's underwater staring at the Blue Fairy...LEAVE...yeah, just get up and leave...no, I don't care if you like to read the ending credits, just leave man..."
Now on to Atlantis. Wow, this movie was dope=) I really enjoyed it. This one I highly reccommend...especially if you enjoy adventure movies in the vein of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or the Indiana Jones movies. A lot of "ooh's and ahh's". I enjoyed it so much, the kid who puked up a storm not more 4 seats down didn't bother me at all....the smell on the other hand, did a little.
So its the 4th of July...I'm supposed to head over to my friends' house for a bbq but we're all kinda laggin'....*sniff sniff* smells like the housemates are cookin' up something out there...I must investigate=X Talk to you later.
7/4/2001 06:19:09 PM
How do I take my name off of Yahoo/Google search queries?
7/4/2001 03:56:14 PM
Monday, July 02, 2001
"Oh man! They finally did it...wow...its down to 30 bux! Dope dope....man, I wanna get it...I've been waiting a long time for them to drop the price. I know I really shouldn't get it...I really shouldn't....tell me one good reason why I should...other than its supposedly the best adventure game in years....why...why should I? *listening.....* Yes...yes, that IS true...I HAVE been a good boy...whats that? I do? You really think so? You think I owe it to myself? Hmm....maybe I do. Oh but wait, it just wouldn't be prudent right now. I'm not the richest guy at the moment...and I've got other expenses I have to think about. Rent, utilities, bus fare, food....y'kno. Eh? Whats that you say? Well, yes...I suppose I could do that. I mean, I'm sure I could live on peanut butter sandwiches and canned meat for 2 weeks...thats brilliant! The money I save in those two weeks should be equivalent to what I'll pay for this game...yes? *listening....* Oh yes! You're absolutely right...given my major and future occupation...this can not only be considered "buying a game", but in depth RESEARCH as well! I asked you for one good reason before...you gave me three. You're a genius!"
How I rationalize callous spending is....scary.=)
BUT I HAVE A NEW GAME! Yay...and its a dope game from all accounts. I can't wait...its wierd. While anyone else would pop it into the computer as soon as they got home...not I. I like to savor the moment...I know it would be so easy to rip open the box and throw that sucker in the computer and start 'er up. But where would the build up be?=) No, I'm going to take it easy. Read the manual inside out..the back story. I'm going to finish up my portrait for tomorrow...then, and only then will I begin playing. And when I start playing, I'll shut off all the lights, and turn the sound waay up so I can hear every nuance...just to....get the full effect. Am I wierd? Nah.=P
7/2/2001 08:20:49 PM
Man, I REALLY should be asleep right now, but I just got through with "Arkham Asylum" by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dave McKean (for you Sandman people out there, the name should ring a bell). The book is definately dark...and I dig that. I've always been drawn to dark, moody art and stories...and Dave delivers in spades. The story to me, was the weakest link (damn, sorry...did I just say that? I've been watching that gameshow...if you ask me, the host definately needs to find a man..and get herself laid...ahem..pardon. She's just way too mean for it not to be induced by sexual frustration or something=). Its got some plot holes and things that I think are really uncharacteristic of the people in there. But yeah...thumbs up for "the look".=)
I've been just working on a portrait for a good part of today...a portrait from pictures I took of Susan while she was up here to visit. My assignment calls for a portrait of a person of the opposite sex, with the correct lighting...so I had to set that all up and snap a few pictures. Only one of the pictures turned out good enough to work from...
Around 7 or so, William messages me to come over...his gfriend was cookin' up some Vietnamese noodles. Dope=) So I changed, strapped on my backpack and walked the few blocks over to L and Will's pad. I just lounged and watched the boob tube for awhile with the guys while things were finishing up in the kitchen. I gotta say, its pretty cool to have someone cook for you every once in awhile=) (this is a note going out to all of you women out there...if you can cook...OOOooooh....you're keeper, man...foreally.=P Girls that can cook are becomming fewer and fewer).
While eating, we watched Malcom in the Middle...my first time seeing that show...and I was laughing more than once..heh. After that was the X-Files...I stopped watching it awhile back...it just got too wierd. Though the one on tonite was actually more back to the roots...a mystery about a man/bat thing thats been snacking on local townspeople. Scully's new partner is T2 man...heh. He's pretty cool...but I don't think they really have the chemistry that Scully and Moulder did. Finally, after X-Files was over, we were pretty hard pressed to find anything good on...and had to resort to watching....*gag*..The Weakest Link. Ugh...watching that woman rag on people like that not only makes me wanna smack some good natured sense into her...but also makes me feel sorry for her...the way that you feel sorry for the kid on the playground that has no friends because he/she is an a-hole, and doesn't know how to change it.
As for now...its 5am and I really gotta brush the pearly whites and get into bed. Why do I say "get into bed?" I have no bed...in fact, I sleep on the ground...but saying, "get onto the ground" just doesn't sound right. Nor comforting...so alas, I go...onto...errr...the bed.
