The continuing expose on Frumix

I just erased an entire entry because I believe I was too harsh and scathing on Frumix'x choice to buy an xbox. It doesn't matter what console you buy as long as you realize that all the best games are on other consoles. I will never be able to play Sly Cooper. Frumix will never be able to play Tekken 5. Smeagol will never be able to play Ninja Gaiden. That's the circle. The circle of life.

Speaking of Zelda, the new game is looking pretty cool. Frumix keeps asking me what the best RTS since starcraft is, but I've decided not to tell him. Because like they say in Swaziland, It's for me to know and you to find out.

So the point is that the Spiderman 2 videogame is a totally different experience on the consoles than on the PC. It's pretty cool on the consoles and I'd rent it. I mean, I'd eat it.

The new consoles

I made a decision many moons ago that I would not buy a console until the price went under 100 dollars. And whilst that only held up for one console purchase, I believe that the idea is solid. So whilst looking at the batch of new consoles that are going to appear Q1 2006, I've decided that I am not going to buy one until they are 100 dollars. I have done this because by the time the console is 100 dollars, you can buy games that are less than 20 and sometimes less than 10 dollars. And who wouldn't want to spend 9.99 instead of 54.99? Then again, I guess this means that all the GTA losers would have to wait to play the exact same game for a couple years. And all the Madden losers will have to wait to play an even more exactly the same game. But that's alright, because I'm neither. Actually, I still play NFL 2k2 and I'm lovin' it. Just like McDonalds.

I loathe many a thing. But I don't loathe pizza and hotdogs and Macaroni and Cheese with hotdogs and broccoli. Last night I watched Super Nanny. What a show that was. Those parents had a monster for a child and they couldn't even do anything about it. What a dumb kid. I wanted to swat his face. I can make kids cry just using my eyes.

I didn't watch the stupid grammys

Like I just said, I didn't watch the stupid grammys or the oscars or the tonys or the bonys. Award shows are for clowns. What a bunch of clowns. In other news, I remember alot of stuff. For instance, I remember this one Sunday where Frumix decided that he was going to be a secret agent. He hold me thus: "All I did was walk a different way and Mom didn't even notice me!" Oh yes, Frumix, I'm sure that's what it was. Frumix was always full of funny things. But then again, I am too. And when I say funny, I mean, magic. One time I threw some magic dust on our backyard screen door and walked straight through it. How do I know this actually happened? Because Frumix saw me do it, that's how.

But anyway, celebrities are so stupid. The most annoying celebrities are the ones that have children and then think they are such good parents despite hiring 1-3 nannies for them whilst they go out and continue boozing or tweeking. Such losers. They should have their kids taken and placed in homes that actually want to care for them. So celebrities are so stupid, that's the point. The point also is that nobody should become a "celebrity" because they produce a explicit sex video. I'm tired of Hollywood. I'm tired of paying people to entertain me. I'm not saying that I don't enjoy being entertained. But the past couple years, I've shifted my recreational time towards playing with babies and videogames whilst cutting back(out) tv and movies almost entirely. I watch movies, yes. But it's been around 4 new movies a year and perhaps 1 of those is at the theater. And it feels great.

Here's some other stuff that sucks

In my quest to list everything that sucks, here are some updated entries:

The Grammys
Self-worshipping celebrities
Cable TV with the exceptions of The Food Network and The Iron Chef Channel
Commercials starring people with the last name of Fogle
Our increasingly commoditized society
Most Reality and all Reality TV Rip-offs ie The Rebel Billionaire, SI show
UPN
The Studio that brought you There's Something about Mary
Nepotism
Movie hype
The one time where my friends and my brother were trying to lift up a manhole and it fell onto my right digits

If you have ever read this blox before, you'll know that there are many many other things that suck, but in the interest of time and money and time is money and your phone is dead by the way.

The Grammys are SO COOL!!!

So have you heard? Grammy viewability is at an all time low and the actual viewership was 2nd lowest all time ever. But the big question is why is anyone surprised and why does anyone care? Well here's why I care. The music industry sucks bad, that's why. Of all the pomp and bloat associated with stardom, no reward show is more saturated with it then the Grammys. Here's why according to me. The Grammys rewards pop artists. Pop artists cater to the mass public. The mass public loves the idea of the pop artist but doesn't care about the actual music content. So, the more exposure a pop artist gets, or the more "novel" the music appears to be, the more sway the artist has over the public thus bolstering album sales. It might not be that way, but the Grammy's rewards artists for doing nothing more than achieving a one-hit wonder status. Ooooh! Best new Artist! They're so unique! They'll change the music landscape! Next year, nobody is going to be listening to the same music. Nobody is going care that Green Day, after boozing and toking for 20 years has finally decided to voice a political opinion. Nobody is going to care thabout the Tsunami Relief All-Star Bozo-Fest. The point is, is that nobody cares.

Where is the love

Where is the love, where is the love that everyone is talking of. Oh wait, I have a joke. Why don't you bathe with Pokemon? Because they'll look at you. Hahahahaha. I was listening to the radio back in accounting just now and my favorite song of all time came over the magic airwaves into the magic radio.

This pain is just too real
I need to eat a meal
Quizno's a better deal
I have a pet eel

I held your face through all of these years
At night I wiped away all of your ears
My watch has like infinity gears
At night I drank all of your beers
You held my deers through all of these Sears

I love that song. It's so meaningful and so rhyming. Actually so much music these days is of a quality that hasn't been seen in music since the early 2000's. And by quality, I mean sucky quality. If you want to hear some good music, you should only listen to Smooth Jazz in the Morning. Listening to popular music is akin to watching Friends reruns. You keep seeing the same jokes come up, the same behavior nuances and the same situations. Watching Friends reruns is akin to eating chain restuarant food. No matter where you go, it tastes the same. The problem with most products that are marketed nationwide, be it media or food or almost anything is that they can't be too much of any one thing. That would ruin the mass appeal and thus bring about a loss to the precious shareholders. That's why fast food isn't too spicy, even if they market it as spicy. That's why sitcoms aren't too weird, even if they are about crazy people. And so on and so on. It all has to be everything to everybody. Videogames are getting that way too as they see more and more investors jump on board. Actually that last statement is just a guess. But it could happen. What happened to making something because you are absolutely passionate about making it? I'll tell you what happened. In the latter half of the past century, people started getting the idea that it wasn't good enough just to be comfortably rich. People started getting incredibly greedy. That trend continues today, which is why there are multibillion mergers between 2 hugely profitable companies. What's the point about making another 10 million dollars during a fiscal year? People are greedy, that's the point.

Disappointedments

Last night as I watched the Amazing Race, the team I wanted to win, didn't win. The team that won, the models, are abrasive bigots. So they might have won the 2 billion rubles, but all the world knows how stupid they are. So, good. They are stupid.

In other news, no one has commented on this blox for almost 1.5 weeks. That's kind of weird, dontcha think? I played a cool game yesterday that Frumix would really like but since Frumix doesn'x blog anymore, I can't tell him about it and how it's the best real time strategy since Starcraft. But oh well. Nobody cares I guess.

Yesterday, my boys were funny. I haven't seen them yet today because I'm gone before they wake up, but I'm sure they are still funny. So Starcraft is a pretty awesometastic game. It did however almost lead to the ruination of my engagement a long while back. My pals and my girlfriend had come home from church, and she invited me over for lunch. I said I was going to change into some non-church clothes and be right over. Well, my roomates were about to start a 5 v 3 starcraft game and I really wanted to play. So I did. My girl called to see what was taking so long and I said that I had started to play a computer game. She got off the phone and I watched her get into her car and drive off. I didn't have time to be upset though because my base was under attack by the Terrans!! Later that night when she got back from her sisters house, we talked and I apologized for not telling her sooner that I had a shift in plans. I thought about sueing Blizzard for making such a fine game, but it didn't seem like the strongest case.

So the moral of the story is if you are going to watch TV, don't because it'll just disappoint you in the end. ANTM is starting again soon too and I don't want to get caught into that one either. I do enjoy watching the Apprentice though despite my tryings to not watch it. But for what it's worth, Dallas is in Ft. Worth.

There comes a time in everyone's life...

When they need to answer for themselves, Where do whales go to die? I've struggled with that question for many moons, since I was 12, which makes it several thousand moons by now, I'm sure. Another question that I've stuggled with is, Why did Disney make The Cat from Outer Space. That's such a terrible movie. Mr. Boogedy however, is filled with chills and thrills and is much scarier than The Ring.

Something that should not be answered though, is that Barbara Walters is so stupid. I watched a clip from an interview with her and Usher the Talented Pop Hip Sensation, who doesn't profess to write his own music. Barbara was trying to get him to have sex with her. It was patheticly grosstastic. She's so dumb and I hate The View, unless its in Hi-Def.

Speaking of Hi-Def, my desire to purchase a big screen TV continues to plummet. I don't really care about things anymore. I want to hoarde the money. The Horde. I'd rather travel for real than watch the Travel Channel, despite that it's usually pretty cool. I would rather upgrade my computers to demi-god status than plop down in front of a big screen TV to watch Return to Me. I *might* still like a projector, but it's only for videogames. Watching a movie on a big tv isn't a draw anymore. I'd rather have the money. Where's the money?

The worlds greatest injustice

I believe that the biggest injustice comes in the form of 2 crazy kids named Bill and Ted. They made 2 movies together, directed several others and then all of a sudden, one became cooler than the other. What happened to Bill? After a part in Lost Boys, where'd he go? Actually I heard that he's going to be in the next Matrix movie quintology called Bill and Ted's Excellent Matrix. That will probably be a really sweetbees movie about time travel and time trax and enterprise and stuff.

So today I feel good because it's friday and because next week I might start my new job. Also, if I get a confirmation about starting my new job but don't actually start for at least a week, we're going to Hawaii. Maybe. Or Bermuda. London is also an option, but for later in the year, maybe during the summer months.

I'm going to go back to school too because this firm I'm working for is going to pay for it. So I'm going to get a BFA and then an MFA then a DDS and finally an XBX.

I am not in love with Tad Hamilton

There seems to be a small confusitization regarding my relationship with Tad Hamilton. I'm not in love with Tad Hamilton. In other news, I'd say that I'm more in love with my wife than anyone else. In yet other news, Frumix has tried to beat Fable and tell me that he wasn't going to beat Fable, which makes you, Frumix, a cheating murderer and the worst liar in history according a national survey, beating out Atilla the Hun.

I think this is my last day at this place I'm temping, which sucks, but at the same, doesn't sucks because of the job that I finally got. And while it isn't a game job, I'm not even looking at game jobs anymore, so there.

At this point in the program, we would like to thank Rob and Amber Lynn for their support and continued cash donations.

I'm also going to try and break into stuffing envelopes for cash. I've tried before, but it's like a huge wall that cannot be broken except by those with wall breaking skills. I want to stuff envelopes for 2 dollars an envelope. That'd be so sweet. Is it a scam, you ask? Of course not. How could so many real people lie about 1 specific thing? I've seen the customer testimonials, you know. Christine H. Morrow is a real person, I'm sure of it. As is Ron Theilind.

I have a joke: Actually, it's more a punchline where you have to think of the joke, but it's super funny: The calculator said, "But Daddy, he's eating my peanuts!"

I'm really tired and not wanting to work on my last day at work, but this might not be my actual last day, that's the trick of it all. I'm waiting for a phone call or email or something around lunchtime today. You'll see!

Welcome to our new friend

We here at TGB would like to offer our welcome to Amber Lynn as a new benefactor to the website. We would like to thank you in advance for your generous cash donations. We here at the TGB don't profess to have invented blogs, but only to have DE-vented blogs. Thank you again for your generous cash donations. Remember, when life gets you down.

After 2 years, still a regret

Have you ever done something or seen something that even after it's been over 2 years, you still think about it and wish you hadn't seen it? I do. For starters, there was that Punky Brewster cartoon. The live action show was sweetbees, but for the cartoon, they introduced a flying squirrel/bear/rabbit creature with the personality of JarJar Binks. Idiocy. Then there was a show called David the Gnome, but we all know about that show. (Now we shall all dance the David the Gnome Dance!) Then of course, well, just let me get to the heart of the matters here, because it's the heart that matters most. The one movie that I absolutely cannot post-justify myself having seen is Catch me if you can. Everytime I look at money I think of this rubbish movie and it's rubbish main character. Ok everybody, lets celebrate the life of a criminal womanizer. I loathe this movie and has contributed to Tom Hanks downward spiral as an actor. I really dislike that movie and wish I could have my 2 hours back.

It still happens everytime

I just wanted to remind everyone that Frumix is the weirdest. In other news, it was requested to me that portions of the ongoing blog that is The Green Bottle, be supplemented with the original blog, and in fact the first blog ever made, called Summer of Monkeys 2.0. So, that's what I'll doo. Except that I can't get to www.freewebs.com here at work. It just doesn't open, so I'll have to do it later. In other news, I'm so tired and I can't think about working because of that very fact. In other news, I think I'm going to buy an Xbox so I can play Fable in all of the spare time that I have. I haven't even played Animal Crossing in many moons. I wonder if anyone of my town is even still there?

I heard that someone went snowboarding on last weekend. But that person wasn't me. And therein lies the problem. I can't even go though because I don't have any gear and gear is important when you're boarding or carving some harsh powder. It's also important to go with someone other than who you are related out of marriage.

It happens everytime

I was just listening to Smeagol's favorite song called Dreamstreet by the "boyband" Dreamstreet. I love it when bands use their name as a title track. Like when Paula Abdul sang that song called Paula Abdul. Anyway, where was I, It happens everytime when I see you, it happens everytime when I think of you, it happens everytime, ooh it's magic when we meet, everytime on Dreamstreet.

Smeagol emailed me those lyrics and asked me to post them. Smeagol told me she didn't even have to look them up on the internet because it's all memorized. Oh Smeagol, you and your boybands. But it's ok, we all have our little weird things. Smeagol, for instance, enjoys freezing salsa into "salsa pops" and dipping them into a grape juice/creamed corn mixture. Frumix has to sit on the toilet backwards because it's more comfortable. So, don't worry...what about me? Well, to sleep, I hook belts together and tie my legs to the bedside standing lamp. So, the point is that Frumix is the weirdest.

A handful of people on a leaky boat are gonna save the world

In my quest to bring quality games to the masses, I've decided that since I can't find a project that I want to work on, I'm just going to develope my own game. I won't give too much of it away, except that it will be based on the Doom 3 engine due to it's superior lighting model. But thats all I can say at this point. I know that it will probably take me over 4 years to do it and somewhere in there I'm going to have to learn c++ so it could take significantly longer. We'll see.

In other news, it's almost impossible for one person to complete a full game, which is why I would like to do it. I do have a working title-Jetpack 2: The Hunger.

Well, you know what they say: TV always wins the souls of men. I started watching a new show last night called SuperNanny. It's a good show about Nanny-ing. Subsequently, all 3 of my siblings look very much like Jo Frost aka Supernanny. But it is mainly my eldest brother who really wins for looking the most like Supernanny.

So in this episode, the family was a good family. The mom cared about her kids, but she just liked to dress trampy or tarty as they say in Hmong. I'm sure many of you are wondering why the lack of blox'x this week, so here's my answer. I remember one night when I lived with my parents. We were watching X-Files. Well, I was at least in the room, it was the episode called "The Killer Flukes from Outer Space". So the flukes would somehow get inside either by eating one of them directly or as a garnish or side dish and then they would come out through your mouth, but kill you in the process. Well I went to bed dreaming of killer flukes and bee people. In the dead of night, I chance to use the bathroom and lo and behold, there was a fluke, a killer fluke, right on the bathroom floor. Having watched X-Files, I knew how to deal with killer flukes. I rushed back to my room to retrieve the one thing that flukes feared most: a left-handed hockey stick. I slashed and bashed, sawed and clod at the fearsome fluke. Convinced that I ended its reign of terror, I retired to my boudoiure. That morning I rushed to the bathroom to ensure of the death of the mighty fluke, but it was gone. In it's place was a fluke shaped leaf.