My quest for ascendancy has ended

I reckon everyone has had those moment in which they rented a bad movie on purpose and then watched it with a bunch of friends who all had a bit too much alcohol in their blood. In the end these movies were so bad that they actually became good, together with the influence of alcohol of course. Now this has evolved in a bit of a contest among my friends or at least I see it that way. Who can find the ultimate bad movie, the competition is tough as nails though. Picture a guy who likes every bad movie there is out there eg. Coneheads, Short Circuit 1,2 and the mario brothers movie. Then there is also another friend of mine who always rents the worst of the worst, I seriously haven't seen a single good movie whenever I went there for a decent movie night. The all time low was the visitor starring a worn out William Shatner a plothole the size of the sun, no actual story and actors/actresses who had moodswings that would even outshame the most biggest of dramaqueens out there. So how am I to compete with such an impressive force?

Luckily, lady fortune smiled at me this very month or better yet it was my brother who gave me the needed artillery to blast down the competition. A collection of some of the worst movies crafted; two on one disc and like twenty in total. He brought back home all of them and together with my friend who likes every bad movie we watched the first specimen. It was fucking bullseye, the movie was called 2001: A space travesty and is the uncrowned king of the bad movies. It had such a random storyline that it even outbest 'The visitor' and on top of that it starred Leslie Nielsen, whose acting skills hardly surpass that of a wooden tree, then there were the terrible jokes not even an infant could laugh about. In the fx department, the special effect studio was obviously on vacation while making this utter piece of shit. My friend? He sincerely detested the movie and wishes never to see any of the movies again that I had gotten through my brother.

They should invent a new label for this kind of movies, a warning of some sort that says: 'could cause severe brain damage, do not watch when not intoxicated'. I'm still curious whether the pile of movies has an even bigger gem though. I can't wait to find out.

When shit hits the fan

Epilogue~

Picture this: weeks you've waited for a band you desperately wanted to see at all cost. Everything goes on smoothly, some of your friends actually want to accompany you. Then one week before the concert you are lying in your bed getting all giddy inside, because you're going to witness something awesome in just a few days. Your mind shifts to school and in merely three seconds you realize that the day after the concert you've got to get up real early to make an exam, which happens to be the hardest subject of that period. Would you just quit on the concert? I doubt there will be many who would have done so and neither did I initially. Initially, as in before you tell your parents about the predicament at hand. It's funny how they said: 'It's your own choice, but we strongly advice against it.' I put the exam up against the concert and as I'm no fool realized quickly that it would be in my best interest to follow my parents advice. In this so called society there is little room for mistakes and I already got my second chance by going to a different school. I couldn't just see and let it all happen again, besides I'm not 16 anymore and I must have some certain amount of responsibility by now when it comes to planning my future. I didn't go and I still regret it sorely, especially since this all revolved around getting enough rest to be at my utter best at the day of my exam. Ironically I couldn't catch any sleep and was up from one o' clock till four.

At the infirmary of broken computers~

On the background something else happened when I was still dubbing the predicament described in the first paragraph: my PC reached it's all time low. A brief history would be at it's place, this computer I'm currently behind is three years old and has had it's fine share of tantrums, I like to see this PC as a mentally disabled with a short temper. In the summer it functions as a Turkish sauna and in the winter it's my bonfire, it even makes realistic sounds! Not to mention the amount of noise it produces as it needs to carry out a mouse click, it really would be better off grinding meal and baking me some bread or as the final stress test for anger management, all will fail guaranteed. My parents insisted on the fact that I don't need a new one to do my schoolwork and I was saving up for a new one myself because of that. I was all set, until the amount of money needed for my school books kinda exceeded my expectations. I was back at square one and the PC was really going down the drain real fast. But finally after months of perseverance my parents caved and agreed on buying a new one. There's just one catch, I need to pay every damn penny back to them. The PC should arrive next Saturday and I hope it's not as a deformed malfunctioning piece of scrap metal with loose wires, and fried hardware under the pretense of actually being a PC as I am behind now.

The miscellaneous rinky-dink ending~

I drink coffee as of now and am actually getting accustomed to the gross after-taste. The downside of it, is that my mother now obsessively asks me every day at eight O' clock if I would like some coffee. In other news my Avenged Sevenfold albums are in and I'm enjoying the enhanced experience of the sound coming from my stereo, it really adds that special something or it's just because I can lie down on my bed. Bol.com was nice enough to send me a free copy with 'Made in Holland' which rest me assured that no good music can come from our little country. Not as long as we have shit-hazed hissy-fits like Jan Smit & Ali B jumping around spilling their God forsaken talents.

In the wake of determination

I've been raving about four new albums since early August, as my closest friends must have noticed. Now that all albums have been officially released and illegally downloaded I can say I'm content with it. The very first album that came about was Smile Empty Soul's follow up to it's self-titled debut album. I had mixed feelings about this album, curious as how they evolved compared to their new album, which was nicked Anxiety. I feared that the dark brooding mood of the first album was brought to an excess. Thank God I was proven wrong and they actually matured. Maturing in the music industry is the most often used cliche and also the most corny one, but I couldn't be arsed to think of a synonym that sounds better. Back to the album, the track that stood out most to me was the very last song 'the end of the world' although the name hints at a very dark track, it is in fact the most sentimental song on the whole album. Yes, I purposely avoid using the word emotionally, since it has such a bad ring to it nowadays.

Second up was a big one, Trapt's Someone in Control. The first thing that I noticed when I was waiting in anticipation, is that the album was being produced by Don Gillmore. I bet that doesn't ring any bells with the lot of you, neither did it with me if it weren't for that small explanation that he had worked with Linkin Park before. That made me frown, don't get me wrong I like Linkin Park, but I don't exactly want to see Trapt head in the same direction. The product turned out to be enough of themself to be labeled as a Trapt product. The influence of the producer is definitely heard throughout the album, but it doesn't bother me as much. A pretty solid album all in all, yet the lack of diversity of the first album is missing. Which is the only negative point I have to say about it.

Then we headed of to the biggest cohonos in my music family after Apartment 26 had died of. The band mind you, not my love for their music. Thrice's Vheissu, that's vs if you want to pronounce it correctly and not wrong as I did at first. Trivial tidbits aside their album wasn't much as a surprise until a few weeks before release. They exclaimed that the album would head into a different direction then their previous works. Experimenting is also a big plus, however it's also a big question mark. Will that direction be the one you would adore to listen to? After listening the album a couple of times I can say that the direction they've taken with this album is the right one for me. I very much like every aspect of the album and a lot alike Apartment 26 it's Music for the Massive it has no real bad song I need to discredit in this critical music piece I'm writing. It's all good.

The final release was a little one, namely Story of the year - in the wake of determination. Out of habit I watched for their release date and would pick it of, from the intarweb harhar, once it would be 'published', *wink* *wink*. My expectations weren't that high and I had written it of as a minor side-band I would listen to occasionally. Yet as always when you least expect it they knock you down so hard, which is what I like the best. Yeah you guessed it right the album blew me of my socks, especially since my expectations weren't that high. The album is very sweet and much more then I had bargained for at the start. That's why the title of this blog-piece is dedicated to their album.

Feel free to tag along in my musical preference, if you have half a mind you won't regret it.

edit: note to self, never try to add the correct pronounciation for a word, blogger effs it up anyway.