Death at a Doorstep

I've been told to blog.
I have nothing to do right now, so maybe I should.

Doctor Who. Season 5 ends today. Some pretty cool people are coming over to watch it with me.

I've been reading a lot of comics lately. I mean more so than normal for me. I was never into the Legion of Superheros before. Their connection to Superman just turned me away from it. But I bought a book in Elmvale some time ago and ti really hooked me. And their new story arc has one of the Legionnaires made into a Green Lantern. So....orgasm.
Brightest Day has been depressing so far. It's just a series of vignettes, no real substance to it.
The Flash is good. Barry Allen is not my favourite Flash, but I'm enjoying the current story. Lots of time travel. Reminds me of The Doctor.

And I got the Beastiary for the Pathfinder setting. That's a really good book. Extremely useful. With that I'll be able to run some games at school next year. I've already mapped out a session for them once the players are a few levels in.

Made something from nothing.

Don't.

Yeah. I'm going to write something.

Feel amazed?
Maybe you should be.

This has a hostile voice to it. That's because I'm irritated. I've been trying not to be, but I am.
Stupid assembly, stupid people.

I'm thinking thoughts that I shouldn't, and it's just spiraling out of control.

To everyone: Thanks for your concern today. /sarcasm

DOCTOR WHO

DOCTOR WHO.

http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/62621I'm going to review it now.
Leave if you haven't seen it.
Or if you're not going to, stick around.



Article 1.
The new logo.It's interesting. An incorporation of the D and W (Obviously the initials of the show) skillfully arranged to form a Tardis.

I'm still in love with the 2005 reboot logo, as well as David Tennant, but we'll get to that later.
I'll admit, it's starting to grow on me.
I don't think it's likely to change anytime soon, so I'm sure I'll grow to like it.

Article 2.
The Music.Weeeelp. The theme music has changed. I'm on the fence again, what a surprise. It's keeping with the more rock-esque tune from season 4 of the reboot. But it's also slightly more... airy than the aforementioned theme. It's also a nice change, as it retains the basic amalgamation of the old and the new. It works well with the theme of this, but we'll talk about that in the next section.

The incidental and background music is fantastic (I don't care if Eccleston's gone, it's still my favourite word). It's creepy when it needs to be, uplifting when it can, and is able to keep your blood and adrenaline flowing.

Article 3.
The New Doctor.
Matt Smith. He's an interesting man. He's funny, which is great. Everyone has become used to David Tennant, with his wacky antics and his inane sayings. More than grow accustomed, we're grown to love them. Which is why I'm very glad that Matt Smith has kept this. BUT, he's also a little more like the Doctor's of old. Very steely, and determined. Here's one that I'm not on the fence about. He gets a pass. I think it'll be intriguing to see where he takes the character.

Article 4.
The Writing.
Spot on. There's a bit of things that get glossed over, but you don't notice them. It's paced quite well, and there is already a sense of foreboding over the whole series. Steven Moffat was my favourite writer from the last few seasons, so I'm very happy that he's been elevated to the position of Head Writer. I like that he managed to work in a quick history lesson of The Doctor (But not until the very end. And really, if you're not already familiar with it, it won't be of any help. It's more a way to show Steven Moffat's love of the character and all he's done.)
There's also a new little tool used. If any of you have seen the recent Sherlock Holmes film, with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, you'll remember the sequence wherein Sherlock takes the viewer through the next few seconds and maps out what he's going to do. It's something like that. I like it a lot, it's very clever.

Article 5.
The New Companion.
Karen Gillan is great. She's Scottish, so we get a better accent than the last Companion. And she's ginger, BUT, she's not Donna. Donna is basically the reason I hate gingers, so maybe this Scottish Lass can change my mind.
She's funny, spunky, and will bring an interesting dynamic to the Tardis.

So not that many spoilers in there actually. I'm amazed at my restraint. No matter. It was a fantastic episode, and will hopefully only get better. I'm looking forward to the new season, and will irritate everyone around me with reviews and constant discussion about The Doctor, even if you don't care.

Conversion Coalesence

Just a quick little poke to myself and all of those what read.

I'm not ignoring the blog.

Just hella busy.

March Meekness

I neglect this blog.

But when you worked all day, you don't really have anything interesting to say.

I mean,
"Today I scrapped a bunch of A/C units."
"Today I went to the scrapyard."
"Today I sorted Copper."

None of that is interesting.

I'm still very angry at the BBC. They told us that Doctor Who was going to be run March 13th. It wasn't. I go check the internet, and Look! It's been delayed. It's now coming out April 3rd. In the UK. 2 WEEKS later here. Thank god for the internet.

Whatever, I just hope my cousin and Natty are done by then. That way I'll have someone to talk about the episode with.

NEW KICK-ASS TRAILER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfKPo6VZp4
Watch it.

Well.
Today is Worldwide D&D day.
Gary Gygax, co creator of the game, died 2 years ago on March 4th.
Today, even if you don't play, try to have a moment honouring the amazing thing that he helped create for the world.
Finally, I have my G2 test in exactly 11 days.
I hope I'm ready.

May the road go ever on an on, never stopping and never halting. 'Till we reach our final day...

Stephen Sits Strangely

Ok, that title was too easy.
It's been more than a week since I've written anything.
Then again, nothing interesting ever happen in my life.
EXCEPT PAIN.

I've been in pain since thursday. My back has just been KILLING me. And friday all day I was having stomach cramps and felt like I was going to throw up.
At least it's gone now. Hopefully for good.

Ok, week rundown.

Monday, Band. No saxophones. I was the only one.

Tuesday, Nothing. I dislike that we've temporarily changed D&D night to mondays, it confuses the rest of my week.

Wednesday, I stuck around for choir and packed up things for the Coffeehouse. This is when the pain started, out of the blue.

Thursday, I didn't leave the school. I got there at 7:50 and left at 22:30. Never Again. I spent too much time there. Coffeehouse was interesting. There were lots of problems with the lighting, with the sound, and the acts. But hey, it was a fun time. A lot of the acts had talent, it was just obscured by the bad soundboarding. Blah blah, bitching aside, it was an ok night.

Friday was yesterday, and it was interesting. I hurt the entire day, and felt like I was going to be sick. But I stuck through it. Steve and Nicole came over after school, and we played Vidjamagames. I still despise Sonic and Mario at the olympics, because Steve beats me at it. He's just lucky RE4 doesn't really have multiplayer.
But!
Then we went downstairs and hooked up the Sega Genesis.
And found out one of my controllers is busted.
CRAPCAKES.
But one still works, so hooray! I found out I still kick ass in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Gunstar Heros, and Sonic 3. But Spiderman-Maximum Carnage still rapes me. As well as Comix Zone. Games in the 90's were so much harder than they are now.
Seriously.
Beating those games was like having a second job.

I work tonight. But I'm going out to have a birthday dinner with a few guys as well. Not sure who really cares about that, but hey, it needs to be said.
I'm eating Cheerios.
And it's raining.

I've always liked the rain. It's calming. The sound of gentle rain on a rooftop is a really nice sound.

Oh ho! I remember now. I have a rant.

This is to members of my own gender. I don't think any of those read my thoughts here on this webpage, but I don't care.
You DO NOT touch girls when they don't show an interest. You DO NOT. EVER. Touch them when they are dating someone.
It's wrong. It's against many of the codes. It breaks some of the most cardinal rules of being Male. It makes you seem like a bag of sleaze. Scum, lower than low, etc.
I'm done now.

NEW SEASON OF DOCTOR WHO TONIGHT!
and I'm working...

But hopefully Natasha is coming over tomorrow and we can watch it.

I woke up today and my hair was like David Tennant's again...I wonder if that's a sign...

Journey through time, travel through space, do all you can to make the Universe right.

Alice Aligns Aloofness

Alice in Wonderland is a nice change of pace.

It's not your original Alice, she's grown up, less curious and more badass.
I was impressed.

I was very happy with the inclusion of Alan Rickman and Christopher Lee. The parts they played weren't huge, but they're voices are easily recognizable if you are fans of their work and it's a pleasant surprise to hear them act.

But I think the part of everything that got me more pumped?
The 3D trailer for Tron: Legacy. That movie is looking more and more insane every day.

I'm just sad that I don't live in the UK, since they had a 3D trailer for the new season of Doctor Who. I think I'm going to go look it up now.

Fools rush in where the lazy don't care.

Metalworks Melts Mere Manhatten

Well Hello there.

I'm bleedin' exhausted, for no apparent reason. But I shall power through.

I don't even remember what happened since I last posted something.

Today Metalworks Studios came to BR to give a seminar. Most of you know this, most of you were there. They brought Farichild with them, and I was honestly not that impressed. I thought they were exceptionally average. Very good, but just not...special. There's potential though.

And to be honest, I was rather disappointed with the seminar. They didn't really answer any questions, and nearly all the fan questions were for Brian Melo. There were other people there. They were all professionals. They had answers to questions you probably had.
Whatever.
Cole proposed to him though. That was fantastic.

Oh, and the all the other schools from the area came by, so it was a great opportunity to show them how amazing BR is. And a chance to show Mary's what a Tech Rep they lost.
BITCHES!
I digress.

I finished the 4th season of Doctor Who last night. Everyone said it was terrible, but I didn't have TOO many problems with it though. Sure, it had Donna, but it involved all the other companions as well! And I'm going to stop there because Natasha reads this and she hasn't seen it yet.

So bleh.
I was going to go see The Wolfman with Natasha tomorrow, but Steve's movie theater is stupid and stopped showing it. I'm going to throw things at him.

The walls grow ever longer, but the height never changes.

Curling Costs Canada

So we lost.
Great.
It was terrible. They can;t even say they played their best because the entire country has seen their best. And last night, that was not it. Oh well, nothing we can do about it now...EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WE KICKED NORWAYS ASS!! YEAH!

Anyway...
I'm gonna go backwards in time.

Today was a good day. Worked all day the the System Science Fair doing tech stuff, then got the Saxophone out to Lakeshore music to get it repaired. Still, THAT isn't going to happen until monday. I definitely won't have it ready for class, and will only have it for band if I'm VERY lucky. Moving along, Steve came by and we went out to the Whistling Walrus for dinner, and helped Uncle David Tabone (YEAH!) set up for his show. Reflexion is just...amazing. They are all masters at their instruments, and Tabone is an incredible showman. Hopefully they're still around when I finally decide to settle down and get married, because it'll be them doing that party.

Moving farther back, Natasha came over on friday and we did many nerdy things. Well...One nerdy thing. But we did it a few times.
I'm of course, talking about Doctor Who.
She hadn't seen the Specials that were released since the regular season ended back in 2008, so we watched those. We didn't get to The End of Time, but that's alright. She freaked out enough with Waters of Mars (One of the best episodes of television I've seen in a very long time) and I wasn't going to start End of Time Pt. 1 because the cliffhanger to that is just cruel. Then we watched the gold medal match for Women's Curling...and there shall be no more words said about that. I already talked about it at the top.

Thursday..was interesting. We're getting better. But setting up at the HCC was PHUN. I like that place, and their powered Eons. I wanted to steal one. But we didn't. The show went alright. Like I said..we're getting better.

Wednesday involved snow. I'm pretty sure Clara was high again. Or something. We need to stop putting those pills in her drinks.

Tuesday, I didn't go to the performance. I made the decision that I would actually go to a full day of school, and I did. Although I missed Brandon falling on his face. Which would have been HIlarious. Am I a terrible person?
Yes? I am?
COOL!

Monday Corbo and I set up for the Michaelangelo show. Which was fun. Not really. But hey, the work needs to be done by someone, right?

I'm backtracking too far I think. I might have already talked about this.

Oh well.

Hockey tonight? I have to admit, I don't care all that much. The Curling match was much more exciting.

In the city of darkness you're a brilliant star.

(PS, thought I'd forgotten about those eh?)

Tired Troglodytes Throw Tea Time To Temptation

I'm feeling down.
Don't know if anybody cares. But it's true.

I don't really know why.
Well. Clara does. Bully for her.

Anyway.
Corbo, Riley, Marco and I went up to Michaelangelo's today to set up for the choir show tomorrow. It should be all good to go. Lots of lifting and grunting. But it was actually a pretty easy job. I'm not planning on going to the actual show tomorrow, I should probably stop skipping so much school.

Castle is on. I like Nathan Fillion. He's funny. And a very good Action Hero....well. Bumbling Action Hero.

I should probably go to bed. I dunno. I'm a very confused person tonight.

Icelandic Incidentals Invigorate

Just a little note.

Anyone here ever heard of the band Sigur Ros?
You should.

They are an Icelandic folk band, who play many instrumentals. They are along the same vein as The Polyphonic Spree and The Arcade Fire. If you like calming music that takes you back to a simpler time in one of the most beautiful countries in this big bad world, give them a listen.

Denizens Deceased, Doctor Defends Domicile

Alliteration Power!

I are bored. And shirking the duty of homework.

I'm going to pose a little quandry to everyone. If you make plans with a friend to do something, it could be anything. My example is plans to tutor someone and then crash at their house after. But, your parents also make plans for you, that they tell you nothing of. Neither party tells the other until the 11th hour. Who is at fault?

I've just been told that instead of staying over at my friend Stephan's house tomorrow, I am to return to mine own home because, SURPRISE, my stepfather wants my help doing work on HIS property the next morning. No, Can you help me or Do you have plans. No, that would be polite. Instead, I get "You need to be at the house for 8 am on Saturday, because we need to clean up the property." Never mind that he was stupid enough to rent the fucking house to the shitty tenants that never paid and left their shit all over the place. No no. I Need to help. Never mind that I'm apparently an adult now and can make my own plans, no. I am EIGHT in the eyes of my parents, not eighteen. I have been viewed as a child my entire life, and I don't see that stopping. So I'm almost ready to quit. I'm THIS close to just walking out. Packing up my stuff and leaving.


Let's try and think of better topics.

We finally played D&D again last night after a three week hiatus. It was entertaining. As always. Kev and I got most of the technical prep work we needed done for the Pathfinder game as well.
I'm hungry.
I have a migraine.
Uhhh...
I'm starting to learn Flute? I suppose that's interesting.

Well I suppose I should be off, I need to do a few things for Media Studies, a few things for Religion...
And I'd really like to watch another episode of Doctor Who. I'm THIS close to finishing it, I just haven't had the time. I'm also getting all of the specials that have been released since the series ended, so I can be fully prepared for the next edition.
(Starting March 13th!)

We scurry through the maze to find out the reward is nothing.

It's September 19th in my head EVERY DAY

Yarrrrrrrrrr!

I be challenged to write a blog entirely in pirate, and I be acceptin' said challenge!

So, yar, It be my birthday. I am now 18 yars old, and can buy tickets for the lottarrrry. Grog for all!
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I'm not sure what ye landlubbers be thinkin. You all be knowing that I was in the World Of Disney this week. I bought mesself an eyepatch, just incase any of you scurvy dogs be thinking of taking an eye. I was having a wunnerful time down south, sailing seas and riding rides. 'Tis been many a year since I was there last (Seriously, I was three. What the fuck? You don't remember Disneyworld when you're three.) and I enjoyed it lots. My cousin, Greatbeard, came with me, and we stormed many a ship, mostly those travelling to the Mountain in Space. There was not many rides that we did nay pillage.

Yar!

I be done with Disney now, The border crossing was terrible, I had half a mind to walk instead of sailing.
Canada has won it's first Gold Medal on home soil. While it's not as interesting as if it had been on sea, I suppose it'll do.

Argh! I had nearly forgot!
La Nouba, the Cirque Du Soleil found in the treasure filled world of Disney, is a fantastical voyage through acrobatics. I was very impressed.

Oh wow. This stuff on Alex Bilodeau and his brother is really heartwarming. Just taking a moment to let everyone know that.

Well we're done 'ere for today crew. Not get back to work! I have a new motto for this ship, and we'll be putting it into use starting yestarrday!


As we wind through the shadows the darkness creeps in...

The Neccessity of Games

Well I have had a busy weekend.

The rehearsathon was...interesting.
Learning 5 new songs in one night (Note, we learned half of these songs...and gave upon many of them. Don't expect wonders from us in Nashville) is an accomplishment. I wish we had actually done it. But the Tenor Saxophone section worked hard, I'm very proud of them. We won't let everyone else down.

I refuse to comment on the choir. Maybe I'm just too professional.

And HEY!, My mom and stepdad are married now. It was a nice short ceremony, at the Discovery Center on the Bay. There were lots of people that I hadn't seen for many years, and it was nice to catchup.
There's not much more to say on that.

And ok.
Seriously.
Am I the only male that couldn't give two shits about the Superbowl?
I just don't care. It's boring.

Whatever.

I'm heading out to Disney World tomorrow night, so if you have anything you need to tell me, get it done tomorrow!

Hanging on the wall, watching Life pass me by...

Update

Grandpa's doing better.

Not complete health better.

But better enough that I'll be at the rehearsal tonight.

Whatever religion you have, Pray.

Here's the deal.

The school has a rehearsathon tomorrow. I'm not going. Instead I'm going up to Midland Hospital, where my grandpa is currently lying in the ICU. He's more stable now, but is not improving.

I don't know if the 6 people reading this are religious, or even if they care. Even just good intentions will hopefully set the universe right.
Please.

Open Your Mind....

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html

I've been watching lots of these videos. They are all really interesting and enlightening. I suggest you go look around the website, see if you can find some themes you're interested in, and watch a few.

No updates besides marks. With an 87% average, I think I'm pretty solid. Now, to next semester...not even going to mention it.

I'm getting bored of the internet.

To those of you involved in my Pathfinder project, we have all our theoretical work done. We just need to get everything on paper, and we should be good.

Darkness encloses and Light surrounds, but in each case, you'll never be found..

The Time of Many Lives

Do I have a bit of a creative writing flair? I believe I do.

I spent the last few days making some important decisions. One of these involves, Surprise!, Pathfinder. My cousin and I have just begun a project that will take up a lot of time, and a lot of paper. I'm a bit loathe to talk about it until it's a sure deal though.

Now, if you're reading this, you know who Natasha is and you visit her blog regularly. Therefore, you know how I spent my Monday night. I'm not going to elaborate on that when she has already written.

Lost season premiere in less than an hour. I'm bursting with excitement.

I'm ready to go back to school and see how well I did on those exams. History should be fun. And Math will be even better.

I don't know why I'm even writing right now. I'm only half paying attention while watching the Lost Recap.

Oh!
If anyone cares about American Politics. Obama visited the GOP dinner on friday. He gave an amazing talk about the economy, and put some of the Republicans DOWN with his responses. He also gave a talk in Nashua, New Hampshire today, where he gave another impressive talk about the current state of affairs. I was quite impressed.

Now, I'm going to focus on the television for a bit. I may get back to everyone. I may wait until tomorrow.

But in the end, we walk into the night...

PS, I'm going to try to end things with a witty comment or a one liner. We'll see how that works out for me.

The Management

As I sit here listening to music, I've come to this realization.

I fucking LOVE MGMT.

Their lyrics are witty and intelligent, and always have multiple layers of meaning. And their music is just fantastic. It always manages to be different, and very technical. I like it a lot.

If you don't listen to them, I encourage you to check out Time to Pretend, Weekend Wars, Electric Feel and Kids off their album Oracular Spectacular. Amazing tracks that deserve to be listened to.

New Semester

While everyone else is talking about exams being over, I'm going to strive to be different.

Next semester , I have the easiest semester I've ad since grade 10 second semester. Not much can beat that year, grade 10 music, grade 10 guitar, grade 10 science and grade 10 keyboarding. I think my average was 93? Anyway.

I have Gr11 Music, Gr10 Construction, Gr11 Media Studies and Gr11 religion.

I win at school.

Speaking of Music, I still haven't learnt these songs my mom wants me to. I should probably get on that. I mean, their wedding is next saturday. The day AFTER the rehearse-a-thon. Greeeeeeeaaaaaaaaatttttttttt. I'mma be SO tired.

On a lighter note....

Nothing!

Because I can't think of anything at the moment.
And I'm a bit loath to talk about Pathfinder some more, or Doctor Who (Even though Natasha watches and I finally have someone else to talk to about The Doctor and his Tardis. Which will be useful when the next series starts.) since I get the feeling that the three people reading this blog have heard enough.

I mean. If you don't PLAY roleplaying games, you don't want to hear about them non-stop. Am I right?

Maybe I should start discussing other nerdy things?

Hmm....

Well My cousin and I finished watching the fifth season of Lost yesterday. That season finale.....Screw You JJ Abrams. Seriously. I'm just glad that I watched this with only a few days to go until the final season. If I had had to wait months...I may have shot myself. In the foot. I'm not suicidal. But that was just intense.

That reminds me of a joke.
Ask me to tell it to you some time.

Here's a question, is it really babysitting if you're not looking after a baby?
I just hope my brother doesn't poop his pants again. Because I am NOT cleaning that.

Early

I hate waking up early.
I hate waking up early to go write a French exam.
I hate waking up early to go write a French exam that I don't technically have to write.

It's stupid. and Tiring. I'm going to go make myself some tea and hopefully be less tired.

Ps, If anyone wants to buy me the Pathfinder Beastiary, or their GM screen, or any of their other fine and wonderful products for my birthday, I'll love you forever.
PPs, My birthday is soon, holy crap.

Time to get LOST

Is that title clever?
Seriously. I'm asking.


I've spent the last few days aggressively not studying for any of my exams, and instead watching the fifth season of Lost with my cousin. I'm getting repeatedly mindfucked. That storyline is ridiculous. It's a great show, and it's good to see it come to an end and find the end to the myriad of confusing plots and other things that have happened throughout the show's 5 year run. I'm glad I'm watching the fifth season now, when the sixth season is slotted to start next tuesday. But waiting a week each time is going to be impossible with the cliffhangers that they give.

Speaking of, that's going to SERIOUSLY interfere with Game Night.

And there I continue! Since I bought Pathfinder yesterday (And am not going to stop talking about it for a while) I decided that I'm going to try to run a game during the summer. So then, if anyone wants to join this game, let me know. I'll do my best to explain the rules to you before the game starts, and my cousin (Kevin Geloso) will be around to help me out and help the players out. I'm hoping to get at least 3 or 4 more people to come out to this.

I'm still refusing to talk about exams. They are boring, and the only people reading this already know about them.




Going to go watch more Doctor Who now. If you haven't been watching the last few series of Doctor Who, you really should. David Tennant gave a riveting performance as The Doctor, and I have high hopes for Matt Smith, who is starting his reign as everyone's favourite Time Lord march....eleventh I believe? Oh well.
Watch it!

Well Hello There

Not sure if anyone will actually read this.
After all,
We're not in France anymore.

So I've basically created this at the behest of Clara. And her incessant nagging. (I'm using big words. I like that.)
Still.

I don't really have anything to say here. Everybody else is bitching about their exams.
( Wanna know a secret? They're easier here at BR than they were at St. Marys....)
I want to break the mold and do something different.


Hmm.....


OHHHH!

My cousin just gave me a link to download the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. I plan on buying it tomorrow, so it's not like it's really stealing...
But anyway.

For anyone that knows what Advanced Dungeons and Dragons is. Or cares. My friends and I have been running a game for a while now, in the 3.5 edition released by Wizards of the Coast. Last year Wizards released the 4th edition of the game...but I'm not even going to mention that pile of garbage. Pathfinder is essentially an *upgrade* to 3.5, fixing some things that didn't work as well as they could and changing some rules that were never used. It was released by Paizo Publishing a few months ago, and has been getting great reviews by everyone that missed 3.5. I'm really looking forward to getting that book, and not studying math, tomorrow.

I'm done for today. Let's see if I keep a better schedule here than I did in France.