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Walking
On The Moon
Warning: This column is completely
random, has no releveance to anything, and is susceptible to my complaining
or muttering. If you like that, we should become friends. Either that,
or I should be in hiding.
I'm a band geek at
heart, or at least at esophagus, and I've joined marching band for the
last three years, and this year was my third. It's finally rolled to a
close, with us taking first place at the first competition and third at
the big JMU competition. While watching the final perform yesterday, I
realized something.
I would hate
doing that another year.
I think three years
is the limit for anything that you're not willing to make a career out
of. I was drum major and all this year, but man, I'd go insane if I wasn't
a senior and had to stick around another year. I just can't take all of
that rampant immaturity. I'm not a nice person, all right?
I've discovered something as of late. Musicals are actually good, especially
this one. The Phantom of the Opera. I really like it, especially
the music. The theme, the love songs, you name it, it's all good, basically.
I've yet to find aspects of it that I don't like, and from what I've actually
viewed of the musical, it's pretty freaking good too. Check out the picture
to the right, it's of Michael Crawford, I believe, as the fabled and feared
Phantom. Now with a get-up like that, you have to be cool.
So ends another blatant
plug by yours truly. Go watch the musical and buy the soundtrack, it's
really quite worth it.
Speaking of good music,
I just bought a really good CD yesterday. The newest Nine Inch Nails album,
The
Fragile. I'd say "Go out and buy it!", but I said that about another
CD. So I'll say "This CD is worth every cent it costs, in my case $23.94."
One of the weirder things
about this album is that it's a two CD set, but it's not Discs 1 and 2,
it's Left and Right. That got my friends Brian and Dan, who are in their
own band, thinking about what they should name their two CD set, whenever
they put one out. Most of what they came up with I shouldn't write here,
but Inside & Outside, Right & Wrong, Alpha & Omega, and Hot
& Cold. Those weren't the best, though, believe me.
What else has happened...
I'm taking part in a round robin-type story with some other crazed writers
like myself in a horror story set to be completed on Halloween, I think.
It's really a lot of fun so far, and the deaths have been quite gory. makes
you wonder who you should be calling friend and who you shouldn't let be
around a rusty ice pick. Laersyn, Spade, and Dex are people I wouldn't
let around the rusty ice pick. For that matter, I doubt I'd let myself
be around the rusty ice pick. Especially if it's not me holding it.
Once it's finished,
I'll be sure to post a link to it on my page, probably on the front, but
in here too. Keep an eye out for it, and also check CFAN,
because everyone knows how periodically I update. Only when the stars are
aligned and when Jupiter is in harmony with Venus. Because if Jupiter and
Venus are in discord, all hell breaks loose.
I received the best
compliment in the entire world a few weeks ago, in that between-update
dead time. My web page was called "potentially the scariest thing on the
Web". Thanks, Margaret! I'll keep the status quo up for the rest of the
Internet.
And now, for the token
two computer games that have recently caught my interest. Now scoff and
point if you must ("Looky, Maw! That crazy kiddie likes them flashy computer
games! He must never date!"), but.... actually, don't scoff and point.
I like my self-esteem where it is.
But I've been playing Starcraft and Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
recently, and been lvoing the maybe five, six hours I spend combined on
them a week. Starcraft, as now even N64 users know, is a real-time strategy
game set in the future, with three different races to build up, train,
and throw into a bloody orgy of death. It's highly addictive, as my friends
warned me of.
Jason: Enjoying Starcraft,
Matt?
Me: Yeah, I installed
it and started playing last night.
James: Couldn't stop,
could ya?
Me: (sheepishly) I
had to be dragged from the computer.
Jason: Yeah, I played
it for hours my first time. You can't stop, it just sucks you in.
And Baldur's Gate:TotSC, is a role-playing game (those of you with Freudian
minds, wash your brain out with soap) set in the Forgotten Realms universe
with the AD&D 2nd edition engine, and takes you up and down the Sword
Coast, where you get to fight the God of Death, or something. Just inagine
walking around with tenth and eleventh-level fighters and mages and thieves
and clerics, okay? It's loads of fun and carnage.
You know, I've been
trying to think of good, respectable things to put on this page, and all
I've been able to come up with so far is angry rants and a column about
pro wrestling. Obviously, those aren't going to help me too much, so any
suggestions would be nice. Email me. Don't know what my address is? It's
plastered on the front page, how'd ya miss it?
I spent hours trying
to come up with a name for this cursed thing. I did searches on Yahoo for
rants, talked to fellow denizens of IRC, and ended up with what you see
at the top of the page. If you don't like it, well, you should've suggested
something earlier, now shouldn't you?
What else, what else...
Looks like this is going to be a short one. Season premiere, so to speak.
Well, just chill until the next episode.
-Smoot
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