Forever Alone
I'm home alone for the week. The whole week. The longest I've previously been left alone is one night. It's weird.
At first I was very excited, and now I am less so. I am bored. I've been giving myself chores to pass the time. So does anyone know of any good movies? Books? Video games? ANYTHING?
Know what is really, really pathetic? I'm addicted to a Katy Perry music video. What the fuck. It's shallow and stupid and annoying and weird, and I've watched it three times today. THREE TIMES. I even watched all the stupid companion videos from the sidebar. The video is called "Last Friday Night", and it's okay if you judge/hate me for liking it.
What the fuck is this, night of a thousand moths? Just killed one of those fuckers with a roll of tape. Sometimes I'm a-scared of what a badass I can be. I mean, that little guy didn't even see it coming. Then, BAM. Scotch Long Lasting Storage, bitch.
In better news, I'm getting back in shape. Slowly but surely. I almost have my six pack back. That sounds impressive, but it is not. I'm naturally super skinny, so it's not that hard. What is hard is getting bigger. I've been working out for weeks, and I've gained maybe ten pounds. It takes forever, and I don't enjoy being this skinny.
Why so many people mistake skinny as the ideal for guys? It's totally not. My damn sister would always tell me I couldn't be unhappy with my body because I am thin. But it seems to me like there's more of a "market" for guys who are a little bigger. I mean, the technically overweight linebackers still date the cheerleaders, right? And in the gay community, there's the whole bear scene.
Look, I'm not complaining. I'm just theorizing. And right now, my theory is that most people care about muscle mass more than BMI.
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Oooh I can suggest stuff for you to do!
Books: Hunger Games series, Jodi Piccoult books (Like The Pact), John Green's books are ALL really really really freaking good... Auh I have more but I can't really see my bookshelf at the moment cause it's dark.
Movies, well, what genre do you like? :P Some good ones I like are mostly kiddie movies or musicals XD things with happy endings XD
Video games: Well okay I've been playing Portal 2 which is hella fun and addictive, the new Mortal Kombat game, you could go buy TES IV: Oblivion (Or, hell, get Morrowind, that game was fan-freaking-tastic), POKEMON BLACK/WHITE >:D and uhhuhuhh I don't know, those are just generic pics of mine. I don't know what genre you like there either :P
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That's redick!
Well...
This makes me very happy and very sad; I've read/played most of the ones you mentioned. I haven't gotten Mortal Kombat, Pokemon B/W or Portal 2 yet, as they are muy expensive, but I've wasted so many hours of my life on Morrowind/Oblivion.
Do you know of any older titles you liked? We seem to have similar taste...
Book wise:
The Hunger Game series was hella addicting. Although, reading the last book was like being beaten with an emotional sledgehammer.
John Green is the patron saint of nerds. I love him for it.
I haven't read the pact yet, but my friend already told me about them. I'm planning on borrowing them from her next fall.
Movie wise, I like most things. However, I gotta confess, I don't like older movies that much. I don't know why, but I've never watched a movie from before 1990 that I liked. Just, whatever your favorites are, I guess.
Haha OLDER GAMES OH YES I'm a retro gamer!
And I got Portal 2 off Amazon for like, thirty bucks. So yeah! Score!
I like The Adventures of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the Silent Hill 1-4 games, (2 and 3 are the best), Resident Evil 4 was pretty bomb, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Okami, FFVII, Fire Emblem: The Crystal Shards(? it's one of those FE games :P), CHRONO TRIGGER SLHKSHTS such a good game, umm, Twilight Princess I guess if you've never played it. That was a good game.
If you have an NES, I liked the original FF, Super Mario Bros. 3, Wizards and Warriors, the original Tetris, and Adventure Island...I think that's the name? Adventure Kid? shit. XD
There's probably more but my brain is like, herpderp.
I just read Plain Truth, which was about Amish people and pregnancy. Very weird, but informative. It kinda slaps you around with info and you realize how stupid you are about Amish people.
ON THAT NOTE,
Anything by Sherman Alexie. His writing is very crude and funny, but if you reallllly look underneath it, there's a ton of subtle but beautiful things to say. I had to read "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" for English this year and it was gorgeous.
shit okay it's late and I have to go to school XD I'll tell you movies tomorrow I guess :P
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That's redick!
YES
I've been meaning to check out Sherman Alexie since I saw Smoke Signals, but I just kept forgetting. This is an excellent idea, methinks.
Also, Fire Emblem and the Legend of Zelda games where the only games I played for the longest time. Love them so much. For now, I'll check out Okami, because everybody compares it to zelda.
Thanks for the advice!
Okami wasn't EXACTLY my type of game,
But it was beautiful and unique and fun nonetheless :)
And you're welcome <3 I hope I helped!
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That's redick!
what?
how can you be sad when you're home alone? you can do whatever you want. if I were left alone I would throw the biggest,sickest party ever. oh and Draco since you have Pokemon Black/White do you wanna give me some tips on how to beat Cynthia.
may the crests of light,love,hope,courage,and kindness shine brightly on a new day.
Haven't beaten her yet :P
But I just suggest training your team to the right levels, because she has a bitchin'-ass hard team to fight if you're more then five levels under them. And then make sure to have a balanced team?
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That's redick!
Uhh...
Partyin' aint really an option for me. In this state, at least.
Bring a boy over!
Bring a boy over!
Experience tells you...
...that this'll work? :)
Haha..
Will do. Kinda have to find one first though...
Recommendations:
Books: As Shelby already suggested, The Hunger Games is a must-read. Ummm...Let Me In is my favorite book of all time. It's a vampire book, but it's waayyyy different from most other vampire novels. 13 Reasons Why is a great story about a girl's suicide, I loved that one. Push is a short book that was made into the movie "Precious," and it had me crying. Lastly, I HIGHLY recommend The Book Thief. It's a story about a girl's life during the Holocaust. The writing style is soooo unique and beautiful. If you had to read just one of these, I would say read The Book Thief. It's a beautiful story.
As far as movies go, I would kinda need to know what genre you're into. Horror? Comedy? Action? If you're a superhero fan like I am, go see the new X Men First Class movie. It's AMAZING.
I can't really help with the video games, because I play the retro stuff, like Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64.
Agh...
Read the Book Thief last year. Amazing and I loved it, but obviously kinda depressing.
I will definitely have to check out Let Me In. Also, I was on the fence, but now I'll have to see X-Men First Class. I love me some superhero movies that deal with minority issues.
Books!
Patrick Rothfuss is a relatively new and very gifted storyteller. Here's his blog:
http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/
His first work is a masterful piece of science fiction: The Name of the Wind.
It is the first of a trilogy... but it can easily stand on its own.
The 2nd, The Wise Man's Fear, was released in March.
Awesome
Not generally into adult sci-fi books, but I trust the source. Plus, I have a library card, so books are practically free.
I'd not call this "adult"
It's very "tame" sci-fi! The main character, in fact, is a teenaged boy. No strange made-up words that defy comprehension!
You read his books for the great storytelling and his command of language.
The main complaint is that he's very slow to pass on his works... He's a perfectionist, and he refuses to compromise!
For guys it's about muscles;
For guys it's about muscles; for girls it's being skinny.
It drives girls crazy when you say you want to put on weight (I'm one of those ones who's trying to lose a few pounds, so yes, myself included. Eheh.) because most of them are trying to become thinner. For society as a whole, though, I think being skinny is definitely much more acceptable than being fat, even more so for women, so cut the sister some slack if she does it again, eh? ;)
It's super easy to eat loads and gain fat weight, but gaining muscle weight is obviously trickier than that. So... yes! Insert encouraging remark here!
Yeah...
No, I definitely get that a lot of girls are trying almost constantly to loose weight. It's an issue I've talked a LOT about with friends and family for as long I can remember.
However, the "you don't have a problem; you're skinny" attitude gets really old. My sister has been really great about this issue for the last few years, so I don't even know why I used her as an example
Heh, it's a generic girl
Heh, it's a generic girl comment. I've mentored and been in a total of five phys. ed classes at my school, and I've only met one girl who stated she wanted to gain weight, but the guys are talking about putting on weight all the time, though. Classic.
Suggestions
I've enjoyed the Dragon Age series. I Prefer the first Dragon Age for it's story, characters, and romances (which included f/f and m/m). They pleased the hopeless romantic in me. hah. The one thing I liked better in the sequel was the change in combat for the consoles.
I got Red Dead Redemption a couple months after it came out, and I'm still playing it. I loved the open world single player mode and also the online parts. I'm not really one for the vs. modes for games, except for the odd game of Modern Warfare 2, so it was nice to play along with people in certain modes.
They've all been out for sometime now, with exception to DA2, so you should be able to get them quite cheap in store if you're interested in any of them.
Personally, I buy the majority of my games used through online local classifieds (Kijiji, it's way more popular than Craigslist in my area for some reason). It saves me a ton and I can usually get new titles for $30 less than the stores within a couple of months of them being released.
"Sometimes it takes another to show us the truths we hide from ourselves."
-Leliana, Dragon Age