Yeah, screw you, I don't speak your stupid foreign tongues. You know why?
TONGUES DON'T TALK, GUNS DO.
I think I have more posts in the last three years about returning to blogging than I do with actual blog content. I don't really know. I would check, but I'd have to go back through the four or five different blogs I created and dig through the hidden posts (that never got posted) and the visible ones and... you know what? I'm just lazy, which is exemplified by both the fact that I keep start/stopping blogs with "I'm back!" blog posts AND the fact that I won't take the time to count how many times I've done this.
Enough.
I'm going to start blogging again because I'm starting to get annoyed with wanting to constantly post to facebook/g+ feeds, and I think twitter is fucking retarded. I honestly don't know anyone who uses it anymore, and I really can't see it lasting all that much longer since it's essentially an intentionally lobotomized form of communication. You take too much content out of discourse and eventually it becomes a miasma of meaninglessness that you glance at, recognize, filter, and ignore.
But yes, I have decided to try this shit out again. The most fun I ever had was my travel blog, because I wasn't expected to talk about myself all the time, but regale with tales of what my adventures were like in the wild wild east (Italia (don't get excited, guns still do the talking)).
I'm going to have to educate myself a little bit on page formatting, because what I want to blog about is my perceptual event/interest absorption - Translation: Shit I find that I think is cool. There's too much of it in a day to put into the feeds, so here it will go.
Note: Often, these posts will be comprised of things that I may have stuffed into the feeds and gone back to recursively archive on here. Please forgive unoriginal overlaps.
It's a blog that six of us are writing while going through the pop-TV-cheesy-workout that most everyone in the U.S. has seen an infomercial about.
The original group who started the project (Sheyanne, Matt, and Bess) all made a pact to turn from their college town hedonistic diets and drinking habits while using this ready made workout program to "punch fat in the face", and get themselves into shape. A few other friends have jumped in and out of participating, including myself, because I eventually got bored with eating chocolate covered raisins while the three of them were working out in my living room, and figured I could use a change in my regular workout routine.
For those who don't know me, I have been a somewhat constantly active exercise happy person for a long time now. What most people probably don't know is the reason I exercise or do activities like Capoeira or (insert martial art here) is because when I was younger I struggled with figuring out my Chronic Fatigue, and eventually settled on shit-tons of supplements and regular exercise.
Because I tore my achilles tendon for the second time 4 months ago, I haven't been exercising as much, and have been downward spiraling into drinking more, workout out less, and taking less care of my body. So my P90X experience is going to be about getting my energy levels back up, lowering my caffeine intake, and strengthening the muscles in my leg that have practically atrophied over the months I was wearing a restrictor boot on my left foot.
SHOWS!
Yesterday I checked out two shows, one new, one on its second season. Keep in mind, I live in a hole with no television and stolen internet, so I don't usually know what everyone else knows about what's popular right now.
Alphas premiered this week, and has been widely disregarded as ScyFi's (who let them change their name like that, anyway? It's trashy) ripoff of NBC's now deceased series, Heroes. I can honestly say this, Alphas doesn't lineup well when compared to Heroes. Aside from different approaches to the concept of "powers", Alphas pilot doesn't take you in nearly as well as Heroes did.
Honestly, I think if Alphas gets to be called a ripoff of anything, it's Warren Ellis' hit comic series Planetary. A special focus team that applies itself to anomalous situations that has a mysterious benefactor, a character with super human strength, and a character that can perceive and manipulate information flowing through surrounding technology via EM fields. Other characters overlap in how they apply, but I feel that there's enough evidence to say Alphas got some inspiration from Planetary.
Initial thoughts?
I liked it. It was a little cheesy, but there's some good character interactions that the show will be able to build on. What got my attention the most was Bill, the insensitive and overbearing fight/flight manipulator and Gary, the high-functioning Autistic technomancer, and their obvious very strong dislike for one another. Both character can be extremely immature and petty, for their own reasons, and bring a male childishness to this team of super-humans that will help the series to succeed (if it does).
Some of the characters were entrenched in stereotypes I'm tired of seeing in science fiction shows, the eccentric doctor, the dark and conflicted mysterious woman, the man in black, but having only seen what they can do with one episode, I'm willing to reserve judgment for a few weeks.
BOOKS
iO9 has two articles this week that are helping me plan out some new book purchases:
From the excerpt offered, I've gathered that this is a story about the social experience of bionics, from the point of view of a self-experimenting protagonist and his team. Seemingly dry, but deeply thoughtful, the narrative perspective of the writing puts me in mind of an early Phillip K. Dick novel.
MUSIC
This is a section that could get a little bloated, since music is basically most of what I spend my free time on. With that in mind, I'm going to keep this first entry contribution short.
A compatriot of mine, dear Brother Maynard of the Moorish Orthodox Church, has compiled this beautiful ego journey of a mix to the benefit of any of us who've discovered that in some of our darkest hours, a little music therapy can go a long way. With time on his side, he has compiled this mix of essential selections for a ravaged psyche over many years, and finally put it all into one mega groove that will steady your heart and tune up your soul. I would highly prescribe this for anyone who's finding their life a little more full of anxiety and shadow ninjas than they'd care for. Take with your choice relaxant and call me in the morning.
Fin
That's it for this, my first personal update on shit I think is cool. Stay tuned!
