I really don't update this enough. But nothing really happens. xD
I've been spending my days hauled up in my basement playing Resident Evil 1, 4, Outbreak 1 and 2, Shadow Hearts, Final Fantasy XII, and Fatal Frame 3 when Claire comes over. We both kind of own that game together. xD Talk about eerie. "FEET, there's FEET under your closet."
Yes yes, summer should be full fo sun and such but...I'm getting used to the basement being empty now, my own little place for gaming and movies that I can enjoy warm tea and snacks in. xD My parents call it my 'bat cave.'
The biggest thing this summer is that I've enrolled in summer school to get the extra credits I need for Geometry to progress ot algebra II. MUCH easier and relaxed here. No stupid "80% of your grade" tests, all we do is get assignments, do them, and relax...In thsi time I've been playing card games with a group of people, and I've learned how to play:
Crazy 8s
Bullshit
Phase 10 (Special deck)
Skip-Bo (special deck)
Spoons
And we've also played the always good Texas Hold 'Em and 21. Plus Uno. xD I'm growing more fond of card games now than I have been before.
What else....we may be going on a vacation in a few days, dunno with our money situation. Gilroy Garlic Festival, Height/Ashbury, MAYBE Alcatraz, and REALLY MAYBE Monterey. I really want to go to that aquarium again...
My mom and I have got into the habit of going to the local library again. I've picked up some old books I love, and some new ones. One in particular, Labyrinth. It's a three out of five stars for me so far, msotly because nothign is explaine,d I had to read an online review to know WTF is going on. See, it's two stories at once, these two boys, the SAME boy, but parallel universe versions of each other, and they dream about one another. I thought it was just one boy, going through two different situations and pretending his dad was still alive. But it's an entirely different boy. I see the connections clear now, as other characters are paralleled as well. nce you know THAT, they book is quite interesting. I haven't finished it yet though.
I might as well speak my mind about Breathers too, the 'zom-rom-com' somebody recommended me. It was very interesting. Nothing I'd seen before, so definately originality points. Also points for an Oingo Boingo reference, and tasteful use of playboy pictures. ...Creatures like vampires, every author and director has their own rules and takes on them, some more shameful than others...>> But people vary on how they write them. Breathers is the same. Here, zombies are the dead that randomly come back to life(I theorized that it was jsut natural selection kicking in after death *Shrugs*) and they're...fully aware. They're not mindless brain eating corpses, they're dead, decomposing, but...concious. THAT threw me for a loop, I think it's so cool...
*Spoilers ahead* It follows the story of one in particular, and how he eventually campaigns for 'zombie rights'. Zombies are treated as any other minority group. People are judged for race, social class, sexuality, and now. Living status. xD The book takes a violent turn though, the back mae me think the zombie rights was the MAIN point. But it was Andy's life. Also interestign to note is zombies here don't regularly eat humans, they'd be detained in basically, a pound for zombies. They call humans 'Breathers', and if they do eat breather...they start t regenerate. Their bodily functions start to work again. This was a bit of a stretch for me, but I was open to it. Now Rita getting pregnant? BIG stretch for me, I first sneered and thought it would be something stupid, a plot convienience of impossibility for a typical American 'happy ending' (Breaking Dawn anybody?) HOWEVER. It wasn't really treated as such. It was never a main point, never something...described as perfect. This entire thing is subverted for a tragic ending too. She dies as well as Andy's best friend, and the remainder of the group get revenge for them, in a brutal badass display. And the ending is after the group is captured and then rescued by the twins, Zach and Luke, I beleive they stand ready to fight the crowd of police cars following. It's been awhile since I've read but...Last stands are always pretty cool in media. A brave last effort, courage.
There are defining moments in everyone's existance, some more monumental than others:
Neil Armstrong's first step for mankind.
Bobby Thompson's shot heard round the world.
Rosa Parks refusing to give up her sea on the bus.
Each of them found their moment and seized it, turned it into na act that embodied a quest. A triumph. A dream.
Sooner or later, everyone reaches that moment. For some it passes by unnoticed or unrealized. For others, it hits them while watching a black-and-white B horror film from 1968.
This is our moment. This is our time.
-Breathers, Chapter 43
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