To live here is to live, there is no difference.

I have recently been watching "The Big Bang Theory". It is awesome. But thats not what I'm here to talk about this afternoon.

The show itself is a "Chuck Lorre" production. they do such sterling work as dharma and greg and two and a half men. I know, thrilling itsnt it? But after each show they have a vanity card. Normally this is just thier logo and a soundbite. For reference the "ssshhhh" in a movie theatre at the end of the simpsons or that damn tree in every Bruckheimer film ever.

Chuck Lorre productions have taken a different route. They use this space, filling the screen with text, to present us with a small portion of prose, advice, or simply an observation. It reads like a bizzare journal. It is at times self-referential or deeply personal and at other talks about how the company works or the logical reasoning for why HBO went down the toilet.

I shall now leave you with two short examples.

"I believe that in order to walk through grief, fear, loneliness, despair, confusion and anger without recourse to drugs, alcohol, over-eating, over-sexing, or the endless mind-numbing distractions provided by Western culture, one must become a spiritual warrior. I further believe that the pay-off for enduring suffering, for soberly embracing the inevitable bouts of emotional pain that life brings, is wisdom and serenity in the face of calamity. But make no mistake here, the path of the warrior is treacherous and cannot be walked alone. To survive, he must have brothers and sisters-in-arms to carry him when he buckles. When we lived and died in small tribes, this principle of mutually supporting one another through the trials of life was deeply woven into the fabric of the group mind. With the advent of towns and cities we were forced to live with the daily dilemma of being desperately alone and yet desperately needing one another. Which is why we are, by design, always seeking new tribes. With that in mind, I humbly offer a simple guideline to evaluate the efficacy of any tribe you might encounter on your path to becoming a spiritual warrior: if they ask for your money or access to your crotch, run away. If they ask for your money, smile unceasingly, never blink, and guarantee to make you a demi-god, running away will not suffice. Change your mailing address and briefly reconsider drugs, alcohol, food, sex and TV. "

"On a recent trip to Las Vegas I watched a grim, beer-bellied man row a gondola filled with tourists through the "canals of Venice." This was his job. At some point he had to have filled out an application and undergone an interview process to determine if he had the necessary skills to be a pretend gondolier eight hours a day, five days a week. As he glided past me I found myself imagining him walking into his house at the end of a long day, tossing his keys into the cheap ceramic bowl by the front door and sadly calling out to his wife, "I'm home." To which she would cheerfully respond, "How was work today, sweetie?" But instead of saying "fine," which was how he answered that question every other day, he paused and considered the days' events, and all the events that had led him to this point in his life. Then he crossed to the hall closet, took down a shoe box from the hat shelf, removed a small caliber pistol that he'd bought for home protection, and immediately blew his brains out all over the badly framed photograph of him rowing Barry Manilow. Waking from my brief reverie, I found myself suddenly filled with compassion and respect for this stranger of the inland sea. Compassion for his quiet desperation. And respect that he chose not to take his cheerful wife with him.

I don't know about you, but Vegas always does this to me. "



I love this company, not least for thier work on big bang theory, but also for these cards at the end of it.

[You can read all 254 vanity cards here http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php ]

Still jobless. This is not as shitty as it sounds but still reltively dire. ON the plus-side i'm still getting freebies from the store occasionally and the manager is trying to find a reason to fire the wanker that works there so i can have his job.

On the plus-side i get £95 every two weeks from JSA.

Other things that have changed.

1) i now weigh something in the region of 13 stone. This is both odd and hilarious.
2) i can walk for ages. i crash like fuck at the end, but i can do it.


RPG stuff. atm i am in a single irregular game. this game has me going to fleet. from where i am fleet may as well be in cunting china. from brightion to clapham junction then out to fleet i shit you not. The main reason i'm doing this rather than just bopping to Norwich for my weekly game is that the fare to fleet is $14. the one to norwich is £30-40 a shot.

I'm currently pure healbotting on a cleric. its prettty awesome.

Also for those of you who havnt already heard of it. Read "Don't rest your head". this is a game thats been floating around in my subconious since i first heard about it a few years ago and i finally managed to secure print copies of it. Rules heavy horr nightmare wushu with actual progresssion wouldnt be far from the mark. i am besotten with it.

Now i just need to keep storing cash so trips to norwich arnt akin to buying a a zepplin made of diamond and i might even get a game of it.

This image best sums up my entire existance.

Thank-you for your patience.

So its been a while since posting and what-not, but i thought id quickly post an update.

I have officially moved down to crawley atm. It is pretty awesome here. Id did this primarily as i am at present living with Vicki and have a job. A job where i deal with computer games all day, then i come home and play them. Seriously. I was playing left 4 dead yesterday as the shop got it in and thus i could just take it home. Plus i have like 9 new t-shirts from that place. My job mainly involves admin and heavy. The admin is really fun as it is sitting there talking and joking, doing forms and what-not. The heavy is mainly lifting. this is less fun as it destroys my spine. I am not only losing weight atm, but am gaining shittons of muscle mass. its creepy. Considering my hours are 11-5 and i get paid 6.25 an hour (double over christmas), i get free clothing and occsionally games i think i have hit the jackpot.

I also have a new computer! My parents delightfully leant me the cash, but considering how much i earn atm paying them back wont be a problem. It has a graphics card the size of my fist. Also, to those that care i am totally level 75.

Left 4 Dead. I was about to review this and then i realised i dont need to. you are all already playing it. or on your way to buy it so you can play it. or on your way to buy a 360 or pc that can handle it and then play it. Seriously. its just Zombie. thats pretty fucking high praise. There are no set pieces, they just let them happen naturally. Last night Vicki and i ran co-op on the second campaign Death Toll. She is just remebering how FPS games work and getting used to the controller again after so long with a keyboard, so we just run through on normal. At the end, waiting for rescue we a holed up in a rickety old house. The horde arrives and ganks the shit out of Bill. Then a tank decides to roll up, slam up the side of the house and batter me off into the groups of the horde. Vicki valiantly unloads her shotgun into them alowing me to to escape. I then physically interpose myself between tank and said girlfriend killing my character outright while she flees to the newly arrived boat, limping and bleeding out. She gets the end of the jetty, bleeds out and gets dragged down by the horde. So we failed. And i fucking loved it. it was awesome.

Wall of left 4 dead text crits you for 4556. You die.

Also want this.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/10/15/love-video/

This is an mmo. This mmo was made by one man. The world the mmo takes place was not made by that man. That world is made by whoever is playing. oh my god yes.

erm, do want.

So i just watched a film that i was completely on the fence about. Tropic Thunder. i weighed it all up carefully. Pros: Black robert downey Cons:Ben stiller film directed by, and starring ben stiller.

It was made of fuckwin.

It is a good comedy, good war movie and a good action movie all in one.

Tom cruise is especially good in it. Though it took me till the end of the film to work out which character he was.

It seems that it is not a good 24 hours to be owned by me. So far i have dropped my phone onto the corner of my speaker, fucking the screen. Like literally. Saved everything off it though as i am lame and can still do all the button presses needed to set up connectivity without the need for visuals.

The screen is oddly pretty though. like dropping a coin onto a frozen oil-slick.

Also the afformentioned speaker is pretty much cunted as well. I have no idea how. Working fine even after being gently bumped by my phone, an hour later i touch the off button and shit all happens. I felt like bill cosby in ghost dad, only with a better plot. Now it simply makes odd popping stuttering sounds all to a low background humm. Much like bill Cosby again really. So yes, now a single person can hear what noises my computer emits as i am back to the stoneage of shitty headphones.

I await waht else i wil break with baited breath. Im hoping for a minor bus crash into an orphanage. no deaths but several million pounds worth of damage. well maybe one death. spice up the EDP a little bit eh?

So, i just finished watching season 1 of Skins. I feel i can do a simple review through the medium of capslock and two words. FUCKING WOW.

That show is amazing. It looks, at first glance, much like a sort of english dawsons creek. Well, it sort of it. But it is awesomer. No, it is the awesomest. Essentially each episode is in chronological order, but focussed almost entirely around one character at a time. this makes from some really nice scenes. take this for example. In a previous episode character split up with character b who character c loves. in the following episode it focusses purely on character c giving us his perspective of everything thats going on. sometimes however it focusses on charcter Z and confuses everything in a wonderful way.

It is also pretty dark for what is essentially teen drama. There is almost constant drug use and the effects thereof (both sides, the awesomeness and hospitalisation). Everything is seen through a microscope and over analysed, which just fits perfectly with what they are trying to show in the series. Something that you or i may deem a minor problem becomes this great life changing event. This only goes on to make the life changing events utterly catastrophic.

Also i wont reveal what happens but the last 5 mins of season one is a fucking musical. it is fashioned from win and cat stevens. Seriously. I was whatching it and was trying to work out if it was concidence or if they had engineered an entire series to match up perfectly with the song. the entire thing is an art peice. it could be the fucking music video and people would pay to go see it.

[Edit] I have just started watching season 2. Maxxi's dad is bill bailey. He is a apparently an expert at dancing with a dog. Watch this show right fucking now.



T - 9 days and counting.

In the interests of science i picked up Alone in the Dark for the 360 today. I've only had a few hours to play it so far, but here is an initial review for those people on the fence about wether or not to buy it. If i ever compare it to another game assume that game is Assassin's Creed, the benchmark of a good game.

Grapics (I always start with this as its what your going to have to look at all the time)

They are, quite simply alarmingly pretty, except in a few notable situations. If there is alot happening on screen then things tend to get simplified. During explosions sometimes planks of wood and stuff are essentially just brown rectangles. Not a huge problem but stil...

The animation is sometimes a little odd, but overal everything is really nice. They tried to get an awful lot of different interactions going so when some things occur it looks a bit off.

Gameplay.

Moveing around, interacting with your environment and generally being in the game is really nice. Get in a fight and get walloped in the face and you will blood in your eyes. pressing the blink button (i shit you not) will clear this up pretty cquickly. It's just awesome the way they have made a blink button fun.  The inventory is genious but a little hard to use during combat. they have a quick setup system where combinations of items are hotkeyed, a necessity.

They have a driving section. This is both amazing and the worst part of the game so far. It is beutiful gripping and wonderful. It does however lose this on the 9th playthrough. there is an achievement for driving 10 miles. I got this during the first driving section as i had to do it so many times.clip a tiny bit of scenery? Redo the entire race. Random peice of architecture hit you? Restart the race.

Combat is nice and immersive. Vaugely reminicent of Farenheit in the way you do it through gestures. Humanz (yes, everything has a Z on the end apprently. Ratz, Humanz, everything. so very street) only die through fire. So you batter the crap out of someone with a pickaxe then have hunt around for a bit of wood to set on fire to burn them. quite lame.

Story

Pretty solid alone in the dark stuff. Forgotten horrors, mysterious NPCs etc. Oh yeah and you play a guy with amnesia.

Set peices.

This is what this mother-fucker is all about. This is why this game is a really really good buy. Even the intro, essentially an on rails section is wonderful. You wake up bleary eyed and so confused you dont know whats going on and your vision blurs. Blinking repeatedly pulls it back into focus. Seriously. blinking is tops.

Overall.

I am not that far into the game but already it is looking like a solid action/point and click game. Breaking into cars is great fun. Either you hunt around to find the keys some idiiot has left in his car or you hotwire it by pulling out the wires and using the joypad sticks to manipulate them.

At once beautiful and infuriating. Like i like my games.

Things i have done today.

Overcome headache of death with interesting combination of painkillers.
From this i decided that what i really wanted was a blue slushie.
Found that there is only one place in Norwich to aquire a blue slushie. A proper one. the falvour must be "Blue" not blueberry.
Sat in the sun with this slushie listening to folk songs at a ribena festival.
Returned home on a hot bus.
Watched the film Wanted. It is so fucking badass. To give you some idea of just how badass imagine this. A man is struck rather hard in the face with a keyboard. The slow motion that follows shows the keys, blood and teeth spelling "Fuck you" as they spiral out of shot.

To quote "What the fuck have you done lately?"

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So im writing a cthulhu game. This is odd for one very major reason.

I dont write games.

Normally what happens is i get an idea. A base synopsis of a campaign that i then run games from. Allowing the players to write the game as they go. i just stick monsters in thier way and let them sort it out amongst themselves. this usually makes for a pretty cool game. So far i have around two pages of notes and actual adventures planned out. im actually a little scared of it all. but its pretty cool. im currently at 6 handouts and have a player with a statted character.its going to be awesome.

Also this leads me onto another important point. im going to be running cthulhu again. D&D may have been the birthplace of my RPG gaming, but Cthulhu is my spiritual home. its where i feel most comptant and able to write better stuff on the fly. im so excited about it. im really really looking forward to it. its going to be odd running games again. not just the occasional one off. the last couple ive run from books. this means that generally im not running to my full potential. im using someone elses ideas, not ones that im intimatly familiar with.

also, a quick note to the players since, apprently, it is never a nice story expect much sadness and horror. with some of the stuff im doing im activly seeking to unnerve players, rather than suimply presenting a horror story. i hope i can pull it off, i shall be trying new things. we shall have to wait and see.

156 miles.

17 days.

I am going insane. Literally.

So 72_97_108 Just did himself a big old book meme. I really don't want to get out bed. Therefore i do book meme. Soak it up.



1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, add an strikeout the books you read but didn't like.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and make them read.

Too extend the not getting upness i shall also excuses, tiny reviews and bouts of swaering after each books.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen I just do not like the Austins, or the brontes for that matter. I think this may be because i have man parts.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien I fucking hate the lord of the rings trilogy. It is a fantastic story, it is however shittily written.
3. Jane Eyre - I got like halfway through this as part of my A levels. Then we realised it was shit and switched books.
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Initiating brain shutdown. Booting to safe mode.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Generally speaking i hate books that write in accents. This book is why.
6. The Bible. never cover to cover but i have read quite a bit of it. research. know thy enemy.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Heathcliff, its me, oh cathy, ooh come home oh ho ho ho ho hooooo.
8. Nineteen eighty four - george Orwell. it was alright. i rpefer the things that came after though.
9. His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman Im sorry, i thought this was the 100 greatest books of all time. fuck you pullman, your ok but you dont deserve to be on this list. your getting a strike through for that.
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens. I can, at most, read a single chapter of dickens before i want to slap every character and yell "your name is stupid, and you should feel stupid". i am not allowed in certain libraries now.
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott. Honestly dont care about this book in any concievable way.
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy. big ditto.
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller. i cant rmember if i have read this or not. i certainly rember the cover. 5/10.
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare "This is very unfair. Thats a lot in one item." - Hal. The man speaks truths
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier. The author sounds like a call of cthulhu character. Chris approves..
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Fuck you Tolkien, fuck you in the eye.
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks. unless a war has lasers and bizzare aliens i am largely uninterested.
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger. Donnie Darko told me i should read this. Thus i shall never do so. i hate that film with the force of hadrons colliding
19. The time traveller's wife - Audrey Niffenegger. This womans name is clearly a racial slur.
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot. Just dont care enough.
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell. Scarlett O'Hara is one of the best names in literature.
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald When i get a haircut, i get it at Gatsby's.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens. The BBC drama version had Gillian Anderson in it. i watched the whole damn thing.
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy. Fuck you
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams This here is a crime. Hitch hikers getting on the list, but leaving the clearly superior Dirk Gently novels to wander in obscurity? Shame. SHAME.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh. Unless this is covereage of a Ork war i really dont care.
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The dramatisation was deathly dull. That is to say that adding drama didn’t help it. No no no.

28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck. No idea what this is about beyond violent wine.
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll  Quite simply one of the greatest books ever written. I have several god damn old copies of this. I want to get one of them rendered down and pumped into my veins.
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Synopsis. The X-men (badger = beast, ratty = gambit etc) must defend the Xavier institute (toad hall) from the weasels (morlocks)
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy. Hal, finish the god damn illuminates trilogy. It should really be on this list.
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens. Dickens talks about a bizarre looking magician who can hide monuments for 1000 pages? Nahhh im alright ta.
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis. The werewolf guy with his blue fire scared the shit outta me when I were a nipper.
34. Emma - Jane Austen. Blaah blah blah blah
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen. This list should really be one book per author. Austin is hogging it atm.
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Well yes. I have read this. I feel I may have already mentioned this.
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini. Where hal cannot make kites fly I cannot use kites at all. They scare the crap out of me. I cant use umbreallas of hold helium ballons either. I get panic attacks. I am fundamentally wrong.
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres. Tried to watch the film. All I could of think of was “Im going to take his face….OFF!”
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden. The film had the ninja woman from crouching tiger, but no actual ninja action. Why? You don’t get Jackie chan unless you give him a ladder and tell him to kick the shit out of some mooks.
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Christopher robin’s ether dreams.
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell S’alright. I guess.
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown To put this into film terms. Citizen kane is “good film” but a bad movie. That is it is complete, powerful well shot etc. but it doesn’t have you on the edge of your seat, excited. Dan brown books are the inverse. They are much akin to finding excrement on your shoelaces when putting on your boots. However the guilty secret is, you quite enjoy shitty shoelaces. My analogies have gotten out of hand.
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez And so begins the section of this list where I have not even heard of the books.
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving. meh
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins. Isnt this on the stage?
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery. Green gables sounds like a colloquial name for a genital infection.
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. That right there is a solid title for book.
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood. This woman did oryx and crake… she cannot be all bad.
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding Much parodied in the modern media. With good reason. Its not a good book.
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan. I shall now summarise every ian mcewan book ever. “Please think that I am grimdark and/or edgy. Please. Signed, Ian McEwan”
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel. I totally have this book somewhere. I think its got a tiger on a lilo on the cover.
52. Dune - Frank Herbert The Spice must flow!
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons. I first read the author as being “Steel gibbons” what a let down
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Fuck you Austin. Fuck you
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth For what purpose might I ask?
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Heres a hint dude, you cant see the wind. Or was that your point? Deep/
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens. Dickens. wanker
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley. Did you know they left Jules verne off of this list? Somebody must pay in blood.
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon. Blah blah. Dull as fuck
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Deal witht the cholera first, then we’ll talk.
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck I like Lenny
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov. Jeremy irons is awesome. He is not in the book. Therefore the book is not awesome.
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt. Of what?
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold I don’t care about the book now. Hal mentioned Dead inside. Do it. DO IT DO IT

65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas I love this book. Perhaps not enough for an underline as its not something Id read agauin, but I watch the film every Christmas

66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac His name sounds funny.
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Very well amusing title, you win this time.
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding. It is not for us menfolk. Its not for half the women folk for that matter. Only Heat readers should read this.
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie. Cool title, cool author name. I might find a synopisis

70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville Infinitly quotable, but sadly not actually good.

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens I like Fagin. He seems to have it sussed. Well, until the end bits anyway.
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker One of my first gaming tags was Harker for a reason.
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet Die. Die in a fire. I hate this book
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson  Sometimes you anger me Bryson, but this time you manage to appease me. Mainly as I could correct you.
75. Ulysses - James Joyce Fuck win! Can I underline twice? Joyce is and always will be one of my favourite authors.
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath. 10 things I hate about taught me this is an angry feminist book. Thus I shall never read it. 10 things I hate about you is essentially gospel.
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome “I loved the film, but never managed to read the book.” – Hal Quoted for truth
78. Germinal - Emile Zola. Is this book even real?
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Author clearly a powerful mage.
80. Possession - AS Byatt Thackeray has been at this oe.
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Fuck o dickens. No one likes ou
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell Hal’s description that Mary described it as "metafictive recursion" excites me recursively.
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker Unless this simply describe the colour purple then it is a liar.
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro. Eh?
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert. Either of these could be the author. Both are awesome character names.
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Isnt Rohinton outside of surrey?
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White. Meh.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom And its sequel “The Five People You Meet In Heaven, you owe them all money, it is a little awkward”

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Love me some holmes action.

90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad im slightly ashamed at how many of these I havnt even heard of. This one sounds awesome though.
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery you cant be a greatest book of all time if no one has ever heard of you
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks My father reads ian banks. Thus I do not.
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams Fuck you concrete. Fuck you bat shit insane one eyed rabbit. Fuck you Disney movie based on the book. Fuck you all. Each and every one of you made me cry as a child.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole. A union of retards. Hah. I can do it too mr toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute Nope. Isn’t this a song?
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas hot musketeer action. Do want

98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare This is still the best this fella ever wrote.
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl The book is ok. However it spawned the film. Which spawned my overring need to be Gene Wilde.

100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Nay. Just no

 

 

Clocking in at around 35. Though many of these just shouldnt be on here. like 2 entries for the lion the witch and the wardrobe. thats just cheating.

1 August. Mark it in your god damned diaries people. the greatest television show ever created, with pretty much the origional cast.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443701/

Todd, i dont care what it takes, you have to make sure they do an early screening of this.one in which i am sitting there trying not to cry tears of awesome.

Gillian anderson is till on my list. seriosuly. look at her. also do not ever watch straightheads. egad. amazing film but certain sections of it were clearly not for my eyes.

 So i got fed up with not having a good 4th ed D&D character sheet. This sucked. So i went and did my own version. Its a reworking of one made way back when for 3rd ed when it was released, so this thing has some history.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2APB6JFZ

The above megupload link will get you a-downloadin' it as soon as you fancy. any suggestions for alterations/improvments/corrections would be greatly appreciated as ive probably missed something.

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fo shizzle. in the hood.

got tagged by wayjay so i guess ill do it now. and he did three books and so shall i.

"To participate, you grab any book, go to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and blog it. Then tag five people."

"Requirement: You must be weilding a crossbow, a light blade, or a sling

Not particularly literary this one. since i am currently in bed minus a large quantity of clothes i am doing three books in arms reach. this is from the 4th ed PHB, its a rogue lvl 13 power called called "Tornado strike".

"Robert Graves even goes as far as to contend that all true poems are written in the 'fifth dimension'; but one need not go so far as that, to see that poetry arises out of a certain inner stillnes and unity"

Thats actually from a book you gave me wayjay, one i still take with me pretty much everywhere. its "The occult" by Colin wilson. it is a fantastic book.

"He sat slouched in the cameoflage jacket with Velcro closures, steeped happily in disaster"

I fucking love post-modern books. This is from an absolutely wonderful one. it's white noise by Don De Lillo. if you havnt read it already i really reccomend it.

Also why in neuromancer always downstairs when i need it?

mm tagging ok. since i have no idea how to do them as links youll just get names. Pinnku, novander, Cryptogryphon, 72_97_108 and hannah_hinda. if someone can tell me how to do the little name links ill gladly edit them in. also grant i totally left you out so mary could tag you. check me out, forward thinking.

I am currently listening to train - drops of jupiter unfeasably loud. i am talking to my girlfriend and cant wipe the fucking grin off my face.

That is all i wish to say.