Not being paid for a whole month really filled me in on how shitty I still am with money. I’ve withdrawn over $200.00 from savings that I swore not to touch just to pay for gas, new clothes and food. Lately I find myself scavenging off the few pennies I have right before my next paycheck – Granted I still do put 3/5ths of it into my savings.
Gurt’s birthday came and went and the only gift I could get him was shitty headwear for Hat Simulator 2. He’s always been a difficult person to get gifts for. It’s October now which means one of my favorite holidays is right around the corner, Halloween. Halloween is awesome not just for the excessive amounts of candy but it’s the only day where I can dress up like a freak and not be called some lame ass sub-par cosplayer. That being said I’ve gone far with my costume since last year which was just me in Garrett’s Trench coat with my first gas mask and some motorcycle gloves, the ensemble itself is pretty lame and shameful at the same time. I’ve prepared a sneak peek for what I’ve done so far in the following image.
It’s been awhile since I’ve written in this things and I really need to start writing more in it. So much can happen in such a short amount of time and if I neglect updating I’ll risk just giving up the journal entirely. So let’s do this thing!
July came by which meant a lot of things – First and foremost my job. I got a sweet deal working for Eagle Software doing simple tasks and grunt work. Lifting heavy boxes, restocking fridges, cataloguing images that do not need to be catalogued, recycling old hardware, going to places Chase doesn’t want to go. It was great really, I was being paid tremendously well at $15.00 an hour in addition to getting out of the house and being active. All the glories of working was the second greatest gift I was given for my birthday which by the way takes place in July. I received many things but greatest of which was my new computer that Chase offered to go, “Half way” on. I quote “Half way” because were I to amount the monetary value and work my eldest brother put into my new computer it would go beyond “half way” into “full way and three quarters.” Really, when it comes to gifts Chase makes Santa Claus look like a fucking chump.
Following my birthday came Grace’s birthday. She’s never owned a PC before and has fallen victim to the coffee sipping, pseudo-intellectual prattling that comes with a MAC enthusiastic douche bag father. Needless to say, she was very surprised and grateful for the gift. Now I just need to trick her into playing Hat Simulator 2 and the cycle will be complete.
In watching the journal entries of my brothers, I’ve noticed that the length of their entries far surpass mine. This is often because they’re willing to blog about things that they do as opposed to things that they’ve done. I tried to think of the reasons why I don’t blog about the things I do and I came to the conclusion the majority of the things I currently DO are kept mostly secret from my brothers because I am completely and utterly ashamed of myself while doing them. So by confidence in knowing that no one reads this shit I shall say what I’m currently busying myself with and what better way to do so than by posting a shameful picture?
Yep. In the boredom that came with coming home each evening I subscribed for WoW. Again. Funny thing, the reactivation only occurred about a week and a half ago and already that Death Knight is in a guild coalition ran ICC 25 man raid without flaw or drama all while remaining without a guild and on a server that’s often mocked due to its role play popularity. Speaking of role play, it remains most common on Moon Guard, you can’t turn a corner in Dalaran or Stormwind without seeing some kind of character interaction (and none of the adult kind either!) So what temporary joy role play brings to me is welcome often. The game itself feels like Blizzard just couldn’t be bothered with introducing content that isn’t sped through within hours of being published so to reward their player base for their patience prior to the next expansion (which will be released in God knows when) they’ve made all current content profoundly more simple. I recall a time where Remy would speak of his guild and how they struggled to face this one Deathbringer boss, how their attempts were heartfelt and countless without fruition until a week or so later. So on my first night with these nice people, after breezing through the not-so-challenging but certainly enjoyable boss fights prior to this DeathBringer I thought to myself, “Uh oh, here’s the guy that’s supposed to be really tough!” Of course, my concerns were replaced with amusement about three minutes later after the DeathBringer had been presented with his own demise and my Death Knight was wielding a new sword. Cataclysm gets closer and closer and with it the thought of playing with my brothers – It took some time and shameful admittance that each time we aspire to play together it usually falls apart due to my blunderings. While I cannot clearly remember each of my oblivious fuck ups I can recall enough to acknowledge the blame falling onto my lap. At this point though I think I’m willing to admit that neither of my brothers are interested in playing the game currently and should they consider playing the expansion it most likely will be for a quick five levels, a flying mount ride through the world followed by a deactivation of their accounts. Oh well, lately I try to convince myself that if I’m having fun with what I’m doing it can’t be that big of a waste of time. Though each time I repeat this sentence in my head I consider those guys you hear about on the news who spend two years worth of time playing an online video game. And on that note I feel like rolling another warrior now.
Let’s move onto what happened today shall we? Today my boss told me that the company has been making cuts left and right due to economic crisis which is something I was already aware of. Deep down, I knew I couldn’t stay working for Eagle for much longer on a daily basis and that I’d have to return home and eagerly wait for the next time anyone needed me in the office for work. Again, it was great working there, I got to spend most of my day browsing the internet, fetching this and that and most importantly; talking to my brothers. My brothers moving out as certainly influenced the atmosphere of home life, Mom is quick to bother me about things and while my usual defense of Don’t Give a Fuck/Pretend You Didn’t Hear Her has usually worked in the past, her wine-fueled meddling has been relentlessly as of late. Typically she’ll come home from her drunken gal pals house in the regular tipsy manner and make accusations of how I haven’t fed her cats because they’re looking at her. Naturally I respond aggressively and she gives her usual “I’m the parent” rebuttal. I think the most annoying shit she’s pulled lately was when she called me into the kitchen, setting down her big-gulp wine class to explain how money is “tight” and that my car has the most expensive insurance only to send me back to my room after I offer to pay rent or help with car payments. I’ll never figure out what she was trying to accomplish with that, she knows I have a savings and maybe she doesn’t realize that the car I drive was pushed onto me and that any money it demands that I’m aware of only relates to its absurdly expensive gas bill which I have been paying lately. Really her behavior lately has been pretty awful I’m getting sick of it but I know I’ll have to deal with it more as Brent leaves for college again. Anyway, the result of my boss meeting with me was my debriefing from daily work. For now, I will only be entering the office and working when I am asked to do so while being paid $10.00 – A five dollar pay cut. It’s all good though, I was being paid more than Chase was considering the bills he has to go through. My biggest grievance was that I wouldn’t be going into work each weekday and being filled with the sense of self-importance.
For good or bad and what may result of the things mentioned in this blog post, I’ll manage finely and hope that when Dad is finally released that all will be well and better.
Last Saturday night (Midnight to be precise) I was subjected to a movie called “The Human Centipede.” To start, I was supposed to see it the previous Saturday but the tickets sold out but this actually turned out to be a good thing because I was introduced to a person I knew from the internet community I sometimes visit called Fighting Amphibians. The fellow goes by FauxAaron and for those who paid attention to the weirdness that was last years San Diego Comicon, he was responsible for This. Unfortunately, Aaron hasn’t seen a dime of the money that soon followed from his public act of hilarity. So it was a nice night that Saturday and the following Saturday an even more pleasant night, Aaron is an aspiring comedian and never fails to pull a nice joke out at every opportunity (even when the opportunity may not seem so appropriate)
Human Centipede. To sum it up; it’s a horror film about an insane doctor that sews three people together – lips to anus – to form a human centipede. For those of you who aren’t familiar with horror movies, Human Centipede falls under the category of “Bad End.” Both figuratively and literally, the film does not supply a positive ending whatsoever, but this doesn’t rob it of its interesting qualities. First and foremost, the theater we went to was a small establishment that films these kinds of cheap independent films that usually just become those “so bad they’re good” cinema. Apparently though, the theater itself is frequented by several popular directors and screen writers one of which I saw being Quentin Tarantino. Now, I was going into this expecting a comedy but did, in fact, receive a horror film. The movie starts with the two bratty American tourist bimbos, who while touring Amsterdam get lost in the woods and abducted by this wacko doctor, so far the movie is more along the lines of a cheap thriller film. It isn’t until the next captured person, a hot-blooded Japanese tourist whose actor was actually there at the theater (and went onto answer questions after the movie in front of a news crew broadcasting to Japan.) that the severity is truly established. The doctor has them tied to medical beds as he explains the procedure he is about to perform, while applying anesthesia to the Japanese tourist and one of the girls, the other girl breaks free from her binds and tries to escape. The doctor himself lacks any real firearms besides a rifle that shoots a tranquilizer dart but this doesn’t stop him from possessing a creepy attitude. Chasing her through his house, she eventually falls into his indoor pool and apparently fools the doctor into believing that she drowns to which he humorously utters, “scheisse” and leaves the room defeated. Getting out of the pool, the woman falls victim to what many young people do in horror films, stupidity. Thinking it wise to retrieve her friend from the bed while half drowned and bleeding, she rushes down and somehow carries her friend (while abandoning the Japanese guy) up a spiral stair case and into the doctor’s room, breaking a glass door with a lamp to weakly drag her friend through the glass and to freedom. Sadly she gets shot by the tranquilizer dart and the next thing the audience is shown is the “operative” scene which only consisted of two cuts by a scalpel and the escapees teeth being pulled out as punishment for trying to flee. Skip the finale – “Bad End” films like this almost always fade to black as an ending, but this one seems to twist the dagger by subjecting the audience to the middle girls groans of pain and helplessness as she’s stuck to the two now dead parts of the centipede while she is almost forced to look into a mirror from her vantage point into what she has become.
So yeah, it was an interesting movie. I wouldn’t say I hated it but I didn’t necessarily find it appealing, bad end stories don’t sit well with my painfully impressionable.
