Cottages and Saunas

So, I got bored and decided I would make a new post for all of my regular subscribers out there in the world of worlds. Actually, I'm not really bored, I am actually really tired, and I was lying there in bed about to fall asleep when I though to myself: "Hey, why don't you make a post in your blog?" I didn't know what I was going to post at that particular moment, and I didn't really know what I was going to post up until the point I started typing this little entry. Even so, I straightened my back and set my fingers upon the keys and just started a-typin'. And what you are reading is what I started to type.

I don't really have any pressing issues on my mind; I don't think I really ever do. Maybe it's because I don't really seem to care about anything. Maybe other people just tend to make a larger deal out of things than I do. I don't really know. Carlton calls me an existentialist. According to dictionary.com an existentialist is "a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable." I don't really know if that describes how I feel, but it partially does. I just don't really care what happens as long as I do what makes me happy. Obviously, to be happy I will need to have a good job, but also one that I enjoy. I am not totally sure lately if I am going to enjoy being a software engineer, but only time will tell. I really seem to find writing things much more enjoyable. Scratch that, I really seem to like creating a story much more enjoyable. The writing is sort of a chore to tell the story. I guess I'm just lazy. You be the judge.

Now that I've gone through some sort of philosophical rant about who-knows-what, I will tell you that I am doing fine in my classes. Physics IV isn't proving to be as hard as the last one was, however I just have to make sure I learn the material this time around. I always seem to either get stupid around the time of an exam, or maybe I just don't remember as many things as the other students because I took the other physics classes last year, and most of them took them this year. I get great grades on the homeworks, so I know the material. Software Engineering seems to be going rather smoothly, all As on the homeworks so far, and the midterm seemed to go okay. The same with Human-Computer Interaction, there is no doubt I will be getting an A in that course.

Damn, I come up with all these great stories that I want to see turned into movies, video games, or graphic novels. How do I do it? How do I get them made? I am almost positive that other people will find these things interesting. I create such awesome storylines and such awesome characters. If you read my zombie story (see the previous post) you might have caught the briefest glipse into one of the stories. "Brief," I tell you.

Lately, I have gotten a few new CDs that maybe some of my readers may enjoy hearing about. The first CD I will tell you about is the latest CD from the Brazillian metal band Angra, "Temple of Shadows." This CD has solidified Angra as one of my all-time favorite bands. Previously, I only had their album "Rebirth", which was absolutely amazing. This album took the next step. I recommend this CD to anyone who enjoys bands such as Blind Gaurdian or Symphony X. Another album I recently acquired is Sentenced's latest and last effort "The Funeral Album." Once again, this album is nothing short of amazing. Sentenced are definitely going out on a high note. If you liked "The Cold White Light," this album is sure to please. I have also recently discovered the thrill and brilliance of folk metal. If you want to find out what I am talking about, check out the bands Finntroll and Korpiklaani. I reccomend the latter over the first, mainly because their latest CD "Voice of Wilderness" is one of the most fun CDs I have heard since Edguy's "Hellfire Club" (also check out Edguy if you haven't already). Other CDs that have made their way into my possession as of late include Macabre's "Murder Metal" and "Minstrels," Mercenary's "11 Dreams," Finntroll's "Nattfodd" and "Visor om Slutet," Korpiklaani's "Spirit of the Forest," Hammerfall's "Crimson Thunder" and "Chapter V," Freedom Call's "Stairway to Fairyland," Sonata Arctica's "Reckoning Day, Reckoning Night," Trivium's "Ascendancy," Edguy's "Mandrake," and even the soundtrack to Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. You can hear songs from all of the albums if you simply tune into my radio show, The Incinerator, Tuesdays from 7-10 pm.

Before we get too far off the topic of Edguy, it would appear as though Edguy and Hammerfall are going to be doing a North American tour! Also, Rhapsody and Manowar are touring this summer also. They will be at the Palladium here in Worcester on June 18. The Edguy tour is in August, so hopefully they will be hitting up Massachusetts then.

Also, this summer is looking decent for some movies. Star Wars: Episode III, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I will definitely--no--defiantly be seeing. Oh, and Doom! I can't forget that one! Other promising movies include War of the Worlds and that's about it. Although, it's not looking as good as it previously did. Also, I can't stand Dakota Fanning.

Well, I hope you've enjoyed reading through my half-hour's worth of ramblings. I took you from nothing to infinity, and beyond. You seemed to have lucked out; this time I actually made some sense! Whadaya know. Well, until we meet again, adventurers. I will leave you with these parting words which I read on a website: "Vin Diesel is the only person to ever achive a negative ping."

PS. Sometimes I need a girlfriend.

You Might be Adam Fiske if...
You like:

Metal, movies, steak, music, Sonata Artica, writing stories, video games, Doom, Deus Ex, Star Wars, hilarity, subtle wit, suspense and drama, intrigue and action, adventure and romance, life and death, Blind Guardian, The Third Man, The Infinity Complex, getting feedback about Rock and Roll, The Incinerator (Tuesdays 7-10), writing music, zombies, Sequoia, Symphony X, Dead Alive, Evil Dead 2, Jeff Goldblum, Plot Device: The Man, The Myth, The Legend, computer science, looking good, looking good by wearing hats, being dashing, And Forever After, Bruce Campbell, complete badassery, water, steak, All That Remains, Edguy, Independence Day, movies that plain out rock, movies that make you think, watching movies that are absolutely fucking horrible, flannel, having more style than Jamaica's got mangos, The Beastie Boys, The Skull Tomb Boys, The Gravity Gang, The Gravity Gang Guardian, Edguy, Angra, Shadows Fall, Evil Dead, chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool and all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, DNC, quantum physics, thinking all too much, general levity, coming in three flavors like neopolitan ice cream, Bravo Johnson, Dimitri Malone, etc.

If you like upwards of about eight of those things, you might be my perfect match! How about that? Also, the three worst movies I have ever seen are the following: Dark Star, The Matrix Revolutions, Corpses are Forever

Sup Kids?
Cash Register here tellin' all y'all the funky breakin' news of the moment. Storm on the horizon, tonight is looking like a 5.OWNED on the Andy Richter scale. Am I right? In other news, Josh shaved his head. He has an angular face.

Your mom has an angular face.

Your mom is like a struct.... she ain't got no class!!

So, here I be at school gettin' by on five senses a day and I am just having a fresh time. I got no worries ('cept failing all my GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING CLASSES) and ain't 2 proud 2 beg. 2 kool 4 skool 4EVER. Scrumptious foods in the moments. What I mean by that is it is dinner time in t minus 8 minutes and counting. I may just continue to fill out this 'blog until that time as if it were some sort of survery. Nice alliteration, jackass.

Someday soon (BREAKDOWN!) I will be posting an awesome story about Zombies that I have been writing in my Creative Writing class (EN3217). I don't have a name for it yet (tentative title - Zombie Attack) but the chapters are as follows:

1. Rock and Roll
2. Relative Physics and Shotgun Blasts
3. The Introduction of a Third Person
4. "Allison, I'm Worried About Eddie"
5. Eddie's Last Internal Monologue
6. Beyond the Void

It's going to be sweet, fut bor now I have to do some major rewrites. I also just found out that I could have taken a freakin' sweet independent film class here at good ol' WPI. Way to inform your students, eh?

T minus 2 minutes and counting. (Power Metal Solo!)

So, in other other news, I should be working on my Social Implications of Automated Guided Vehicle Systems in Society paper, but as luck would have it, it is now time to EAT THE FOOD!

Songs that have played (in Winamp) while I made this post:
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
Unearth - This Lying World
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Angra - Waiting Silence
Elliot Smith - The Ballad of Big Nothing

I did better than I thought I would.

82 again...

Other people have title boxes, I make my own

So, here I sit playing my guitar. I was practicing sweeping. I'm not entirely too great at it yet, I can't really do the down-sweep. I'm pretty sloppy on the upsweep, but that's because I can't mute the other strings correctly. Speaking of guitars, the band recorded a 4 song EP over Christmas break. All the music is recorded, but because the guy recording us was pressed for time recording two other bands and his own, the vocals have not been recorded yet. Hopefully, they will be recorded sometime soon, so we can get the music out to our fans. Yes, that's right, the five of you are soon to have some great AFA music in your heads in maybe less than a month. If you're good. The EP is titled Twenty Minutes of White Noise and the tentative tracklisting is something like:

Fashionwhore
A Dozen Dead Roses
Heartache Revolution
When the Stars Disgraced the Sky

Yeah, they've got some pretty emo names. But anyway, the cd will be most likely entirely free on purevolume.com or myspace.com, unless you want to give us money and get a hardcopy yourself. But the cd cover will be online for you to download also, so you can just burn the songs onto a cd and then printout the cover, and then BAM, you have a cd.

There's a party in Goober's pants.

Speaking of Christmas Vacation, I'm sure you are all eagerly wondering exactly what I got for Christmas. And for those of you in the know, you'd know my birthday wasn't too long ago either. So maybe you are wondering what I got for that also. However, I won't tell you exactly what I got from each, I will just list four or five items, and you'll have to guess for which I recieved each. List: vacuum, Bosses from Hell calendar, FULLSCREEN Star Wars dvds (YEAH!!), some clothes, $100,000,000 gift certificates to Newbury Comics. If you guess correctly, you win a prize.

Now I am back in school. I have three BRAND NEW classes. They are called Creative Writing, Modern Physics, and Social Implications of Information Processing. Also, I have a radio show called The Incinerator which plays metal music every Tuesday at 8 pm - 10 pm. You can listen at http://radio.wpi.edu. It's pretty sweet. Although, last night's show had to be cancelled because they wouldn't let us into the studio. However, I sent a court letter to the director of the campus center and hopefully all will be resolved by next weekend, where we might play an extra long show because we are a show behind. So, stay tuned for that!

Speaking of Creative Writing, I should be doing that write now. I have to analyze three other students' poems and then write a poem reflecting on the review of the other three students' poems. Believe it or not.