your joy is my low

MAY I PRESENT TO YOU, THE ROCK BAND BANDS OF COMPLETE AND UTTER AWESOMENESS. As you can see, I favor a lot of the same poses in the pictures. I can't help it.

MY BAND, #1: THE VELVET ROOM (fandom: Persona)

L TO R: Chris (bass), Brad (guitar), Mark (vocals), Nate (drums)

MY BAND, #2: HUH RADIO (fandom: Silent Hill)

L TO R: James (bass), Alex (drums), Henry (vocals), Heather (guitar)

MY BAND, #3: KRIFF THIS (fandom: Star Wars)

L TO R: Tenel Ka (vocals), Kyp (drums), Jacen (guitar), Zekk (bass) - (KFJDKJSAJKALSJ JACEN'S LEOPARD PRINT JACKET <33333)

BAND I AM A PART OF, #1: Karate & Friendship (fandom: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia)

L TO R: Dee (drums - Valerie), Charlie (guitar/bass - Brian), Dennis (vocals - me), Mac (guitar/bass - Ashley)

BAND I AM A PART OF, #2: THE METALLICAR (with mah mama :D - fandom: Supernatural)

L TO R: Sam (drums/guitar, depending on my mood - me), Dean (vocals - Ma)

BAND I AM A PART OF, #3: GWABBIN' PEEEELLLLZZZZ (fandom: Left 4 Dead)

L TO R: SEXY BILL (guitar - Brian), Francis (bass - Valerie), Louis (vocals - me), Zoey (drums - Ashley) - (lol same characters we play in L4D)


This game is still way too much crack and YAY. Also, Ashley and I need to fix our Stephen King bands -- and I NEED TO MAKE A CAEDUS. AND HE NEEDS TO PLAY IN A BAND WITH JACEN IT WILL BE AMAZING. DUELING GUITARS AND SHIT. XD

I DON'T KNOW WHAT JACEN SOLO IS DOING IN THIS PICTURE BUT I LOVE IT. AND HE'S WEARING MAKEUP. Tenel Ka's face kills me too. And of course, the fact that Kyp and Zekk are SO INTO THEIR ROCK AND EFFING ROLL. XD

(I think Zekk is kicking Jacen in the back for being such a tool. I DIDN'T MEAN FOR IT TO HAPPEN THAT WAY, I SWEAR~)

I love how I cleaned my basement and my room and washed clothes and worked on some stuff a little bit and then went straight back to this website. I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.



(ALSO, HOW CUTE IS THE METALLICAR?)

SUP. The Verizon guy came yesterday! I think our internet might be working correctly! :O

I've actually started playing Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core again. I sort of stopped when my PSP got stashed under my bed and lost to me. But I found it and I have been playing. And Zack Fair is like a trillion times cooler than Cloud Strife -- plus, his voice is amazingly sexcellent.

And the real surprise here is that Aeris (sorry, I can't call her Aerith -- it just sounds so lame. I'm used to calling her Aeris and Aerith just makes it sound like everyone is talking with a lisp. FO REAL) isn't annoying the shit out of me. The other night I got to the part where Zack met her (fell through the roof! :D) and she's flightly and all completely not there like she is in FF7, but I guess it doesn't totally put me off as much cause, you know, she's not hitting on Cloud and pretending Cloud is Zack since THIS GAME ACTUALLY HAS ZACK IN IT AND SHE'S HITTING ON HIM INSTEAD. (Cloud/Tifa OTP 4 LYFE BEETCHES.)

I also love the fact that Zack was the one who bought her the bow she wears in her hair. SO CUTE. I WANT A BOYFRIEND LIKE ZACK FAIR HE IS SO DARLING. AND BOYFRIEND NEEDS A VOICE LIKE THAT. WORD.

(But man, Aeris' outfit is horrible. What's with the random flowers on the one arm of her tank top and the outdated plastic wedge 90's sandals? UGH. Girl's outfit in FF7 was SO MUCH BETTER, even if it was like a bottle of Pepto Bismol charfed all over her. AND HOW HOT AND SNAZZY IS ZACK FAIR?)

Playing this again makes me all YAY FINAL FANTASY once more. Luckily, the four that I played to death and love to death are on my VIDEO GAME HEIST list, therefore I will be powering through them here soon.

Speaking of games, started Silent Hill Homecoming again and I have been doing pretty damn good so far. Actually got a one hit kill on a Needler with the steel pipe to the head and it was awesome and it was something so stupid to be so proud of but I was SO PROUD. Them I saw Pyramid Head Bogeyman and I giggled and Alex Shepherd peed his pants. Then I met Wheeler, whom I love, again. Then Sewers (big eff on you three Needlers and a Siam D:). After that I smacked the shit out of Dr. Fitch's office and the descent then I beat that stupid bitch doll thing (WASTING ALL MY PISTOL AMMO IN THE PROCESS, THANK YOU) and now I have moved on! Past the cemetary! Past the house-- wait, no, I am in the Shepherd's House... it's... just... not their house.

(And omg, the scene where Alex and his mother are talking -- by the way, Alex's voice actor is damn great, A+ on that, you guys! -- and the... dude, the people... I almost peed my pants. THEY WERE JUST HOVERING THERE WAITING.)

Alright, and the whole Mayor Bartlett (Grand Hotel/Sepulcher), then Dr. Fitch (Hell Descent/Scarlet) thing has got me all paranoid. Cause Bartlett and Fitch are two of the SG founding families -- so wtf does this mean for the Holloways and the Shepherds? My stomach is not happy just thinking about it. :|

In other other game news, I think I might buy the Guitar Hero World Tour game since it works with Rock Band (only RB1 so far, no word on RB2 peripherals) instruments. Then I will have even more songs to scream into the microphone and drum like a tool on. Oh yeah, and play guitar. So cheers to GH for letting RB instruments work as well. Yay!

And I am not getting GH: World Tour only for "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)", "Freak on a Leash" and "Obstacle 1", I SWEAR. D:

P.S. Sam Winchester in the preview for Supernatural next week -- Dean picturing him with the YELLOW EYES (9 seconds in, WOO!)? HOT. YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE BESIDES HOT? DARTH CAEDUS.


(AND OH MAN, I THINK I'M THE ONLY ONE EXCITED FOR REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA. Sarah Brightman looks badass. :OOOOO)

OKAY, things you learn while playing Rock Band 2:

1.) Anyone can feel epic while singing "Carry On My Wayward Son" by Kansas. (I can't wait to play this song with my Mother Dearest -- we started a band called "The Metallicar" and it's Sammy and Dean, dude.)

2.) Ratt's "Round and Round" is kind of hard to sing.

3.) In "Spoonman" by Soundgarden, the lyrics near the end are "COME ON WHILE I GET OFF" -- I did not know this and promptly cracked up while singing them cause I'm 12 and the lyric took my mind to very dirty places it probably shouldn't be -- and the screen was showing Sven Hansen and Jacen Solo playing their bass and guitar respectively and singing, "COME ON WHILE I GET OFF~"

4.) "Give It Away" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers really sucks to play on anything -- but singing it is really, really fun. I also knew there were a couples lines in there about River Phoenix but I never knew where they were in the song cause I never knew wtf he was saying -- now I know: "there's a river born to be a giver, keep you warm won't let you shiver, his heart is never gonna wither" -- and how.


I love this game. I also love weekends.

RONNIE AND I FINISHED OBSCURE: THE AFTERMATH. LOLOLOLOL. OUR PREDICTIONS WERE RIGHT.

Although, we never ever saw Corey going out that way. AT ALL.

Also, we played Rock Band 2 for like a billion hours with see_aphy_be and it was awesome.

Ronnie and I made a band with Sven and Stan from O:TA in it. We were running around in the game earlier tonight and in the bloodied and body-covered halls of Delta Theta Gamma, Shannon and Stan found a dead DJ who was playing crap when all the insanity went down -- we clicked on it when it said look and it was like, "THIS WAS THE SOUNDTRACK FOR A MASSACRE~"

So what did we name this new band, later in the evening on Rock Band 2? Soundtrack for a Massacre, of course! And Sven and Stan are dressed like they are in the game. XD

So Ashley basically had to deal with Sven and Stan being tools while playing. And by Sven and Stan I mean me and Ronnie.

(I seriously love me some Sven, yo.)

Hur hur, I personally give a big SHOVE OFF WHATEVER to every single summer movie except this one.

I am so excited for this movie it's not even funny. Haven't seen Iron Man, haven't seen Indy, haven't seen Caspian. Wanted to, kind of, sure (Indy cause it's Indy and Caspian cause it's Ben Barnes, hay). Pretty sure I won't see Hulk or even Batman (OH NOES). But I hate movie theaters. I hate people. I especially get annoyed with children. But I will go see this movie opening weekend (and it will probably even be Sunday morning, at that) -- BECAUSE IT LOOKS AMAZING. And Pixar has NEVER LET DOWN BEFORE. And Wall E is the CUTEST EFFING THING EVER OHMYGAWD LOOK AT HIM.

I was in the drive-through line at McDonald's today and I saw a guy sitting on a curb waiting for a bus and scratching a lottery ticket. For some reason, as I sat there watching him, I had the craziest and most gigantic urge to want him to win. Like I just wanted to watch him jump up and start cheering cause he won a million bucks. And it's a Monday. So I don't know where this sudden bout of HUZZAH OTHER PEOPLE!!11 came from, but it felt good. I was sad for him when he shrugged and threw the ticket away. D:

Last Thursday I met Emily/lusa_thul at Subway since my work is right near her house and we sat around and blabbed about D*C and costumes and what we still have to get done. Then we figured out what date we could have our MORE-BLOOD-ON-THIS SESSION -- which will be a day we set aside for bloodying up her Hank Olson shirt and my Peter Mcvries shirt (more blood!) and wrecking the hell out of our Shmi and Padme zombie costumes. XD

Saturday I went to the COMPANY PICNIC!!1 -- it was actually really nice outside and I had fun. :O! Then Saturday night, Ronnie (OMG gruppe_sechs) and I played Rock Band with Ashley (OMG see_aphy_be) and her friend Ashley, LOL~ it was fun and the Ashley's were probably like RONNIE AND HEATHER ARE SUCH TOOLS cause after the song it would cut back to us talking over the headset about like... To Wong Foo and me quoting the "LITTLE LATIN BOY IN DRAG, WHY ARE YOU CRYING?" line. I love that line. LOVE IT.

Ronnie and I also played some multiplayer Grand Theft Auto IV with Ed/zekkxy, which was hilarious. Cause we amused ourselves by jumping out of helicopters and seeing how awesome my character model looked when hit with a car and then listening to our stupid taunts ("HEY QUE PASA????//") and then when we actually went and played a deathmatch with other people everyone was DOING AWESOME -- except me, of course. LOL. Although, I did get two kills and the "KILLED A ROCKSTAR EMPLOYEE" achievement. So HUZZAH! XD

AHAHAHAHAHA, VALERIE, IT'S OUR FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME. XD ...besides Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, naturally.

ALSO, JARED PADALECKI. I WISH I WAS THIS CAR BECAUSE THEN-- (you can finish this sentence, because I think you know where I'm going with it.) MUAHAHAHA I AM WRONG AND I AM SO SORRY FOR IT NO WAIT, I'M NOT. XD

So this weekend was pretty lazy, yet still pretty awesome. Because lazy = awesome.

Friday night consisted of Erin, Ronnie and Alex coming over to play Rock Band (Jeremy was sick D:) -- Erin sang most of the time, because the rest of us were like "OH HELL NO I AIN'T SINGING IN FRONT OF PEOPLE." I started on drums and Ronnie on bass and Alex on guitar. Alex was playing on expert and the rest of us were pussing out and playing on like easy/medium. Why? Because we could.

I ended up singing "Welcome Home" by Coheed and Cambria, Ronnie helped Erin out on vocals with "Ten Speed (of God's Blood and Burial)" and we made Alex sing "Wonderwall" by Oasis. So we all ended up singing at some point, which was fun. Although, Alex getting on drums and trying it on expert -- then bitching whenever one of us would save him with our overdrive and then pretty much failing "Dani California" for us = THANKS WTF.

Saturday, I pretty much sat around and watched tv and played some Rock Band. Then Saturday night Alex and I both realized we were bored and decided to watch a cheesy, horrible movie. We discussed what movie would fit that awesome genre until he asked "OMG HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE WIZARD?" I hadn't. He had it on VHS and he brought it over. Let me tell you about this movie.

The Wizard is from 1989 and it is basically a big advertisement for Universal Studios and Nintendo:

The Wizard, also known as Joy Stick Heroes, is a 1989 movie starring Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, and Jenny Lewis. The film follows three runaway children as they travel to California so the youngest, who has a condition that makes him emotionally withdrawn, can compete in the Nintendo World Video Game Championships. The movie was North America's introduction to one of the best selling video games of all time, Super Mario Bros. 3.

Seriously, I'm not lying. It's like OMG LOOK YOU JUST PAID MONEY TO SIT IN A THEATER AND YOU GOT A PEEK AT SUPER MARIO BROTHERS 3 O SHIT! I probably would've done it, what am I saying? D:

Anyways, after that awesome awesome work of art was over we ended up watching some of the episodes he hadn't seen of the third season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia -- namely, the one where Charlie almost marries a 12-year-old Korean girl, the one where Dennis and Dee's mom dies, the one where the McPoyle's hold them all hostage at Paddy's and the one where -- oh hell, THE ALUMINUM MONSTER VS. FATTY MAGOO. Which is an amazing episode, if only for the part where Dennis busts into Fatty Magoo's office at the end in his dress and makeup and lots of uber-fake boobage. "WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE? *flourish*" (This was after we watched a couple episodes the night before with Erin and Ronnie like "SWEET DEE'S DATING A RETARDED PERSON" and "FRANK SETS SWEET DEE ON FIRE"~ XD)

And then after those it was like 2am. But The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was on tv. Those can't be passed up. So we watched a couple of those before he went home. Oh Will Smith, how we love thee.

Sunday was great cause my mom and I basically laid around and watched Cops all day on G4. People are so stupid. "OMG THIS WEED IN MY PANTS. UH, THESE ARE MY FRIEND'S PANTS AND I BORROWED THEM. I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS IN THERE." Dur dur dur dur dur dur durrrrrr. But I love Cops. It's like one of those shows that you watch and another episode comes on afterwards and you're like, "OKAY JUST ONE MORE." And then after that it comes on yet again and it's like, "...OKAY JUST ONE MORE THIS TIME." Because it is awesome mindless entertainment. I love watching people makes asses out of themselves while trying to get out of the fact that they broke the law. "DUR I DIDN'T DO IT, I SWEAR!!1" TOOLBOXES.

And now it is Monday. D: Luckily Monday is almost Tuesday, and by that I mean I AM HOME FROM WORK FOR THE DAY. :D

MUAHAHAHA~ And now they're all showing up on my ROCK BAND WEBSITE PROFILE SHIT. LOL Kyp's hometown is Paris. XD And I've totally been wasting all their cash monies on clothing. They all look poor. D:

I still want to make Mark from Persona (not sure what instrument) and then have a band called "The Wild Bunny" led by Sander Cohen, cause it would be awesome. XD

... and is it bad that I'm kind of in love with Paula Abdul's new song? :o

(LOLOLOL RANDOM NOTE. I REMEMBER WHEN WINDOWS LOOKED LIKE THIS. THAT IS WHAT I PLAYED MYST ON. XDDDD)

Hahaha, I find this hilarious: Women in the Video Game industry. "Oh hay! There needs to be more bitches in the industry! We're starting scholarships and shit! And the characters in our games will be strong females but not overly-sexualized like Lara Croft blah blah!"

And then you click on the thing under the image in the article that says MORE PHOTOS and you go to #7 (which is a screenshot of a game that has a bunch of chicks on the developing team) and you tell me if a "strong, female lead" that's "NOT OVERLY-SEXUALIZED" in an "ESPIONAGE-THEMED FIRST PERSON SHOOTER" would WEAR THAT...? What happens when you GET SHOT IN THE STOMACH OR THE CHEST? YES, CHICKS IN THE INDUSTRY ARE CHANGING IT SO MUCH OMG!!!!!11

... puh-lease. I can't roll my eyes back into my head far enough. D:

P.S. ROFL COSPLAY PHOTO ESSAY ON TIME MAGAZINE. :O I dig the Trinity Blood costumes and the AMARANT CORAL(!!!!!!!!!). A++ with the Amarant wig. XD And I love how some of them like aren't in a costume at all. Really.

P.S.S. IF YOU GUYS AREN'T WATCHING REAPER, YOU SHOULD BE. HERE IS A CHEAT SHEET FOR YOU. XD There are repeats on in Supernatural's timeslot now, with new ones starting on the 13th of March! (SOCK & BEN <3 -- poor Ben is always the victim of sliming/maiming/molesting!) I totally want to wear a Work Bench apron to D*C or something. Heeeee~

Okay dudes, so I have three characters on Rock band so far. Tenna, who is the lol personalized-"me"-character and is a vocalist (my goth red vest thing is ten billion kinds of clothing-sex), Tenel Ka -- obviously the TENEL KA, who has to sing because she only has one arm (too bad I can't customize it that far) and then Caedus, who is Jacen Solo -- but Jacen wasn't a cool enough rocker name, therefore he is Caedus. He's a guitarist. I need to take pictures of these punks. XD

Solo touring last night was pretty funny. For some reason my whole band was full of doofy guys and I was like, "I'M TOTALLY DATING THAT ONE!" (silly Jared-Padalecki-haired guitarist with big sunglasses and a kind of bitchy attitude) but the bassist was always pointing at me and stage humping me and stuff (he was a long-haired rocker dude with a big leather vest on and fun boots) so I was like, "LOL OKAY YOU AND I CAN DATE INSTEAD! BEING IN A BAND IS SO COOL." The drummer was this bleach-blonde douche with a little patch of hair on his chin under his lips. It couldn't even qualify as a soul patch so he was the "LOL STUPID ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE A TOOL IN ALL THE PHOTOSHOOTS."

This game is already eating my brain. D: I feel like I'm 12 when I play it -- as you can see from the above paragraph.

I need to find other EU fans on teh Rock Band Xbox Live cause how classic would it be to have an EU rock band? Like, "The Nerf Tongues" or "Acklay Peen" or "Sex On The Moisture Farm" -- or something equally as dirty, featuring Jacen Solo Caedus on guitar, Kyp Durron Suncrusher on drums, Zekk Lost One on bass and Ben Skywalker Chosen Jr. on vocals, HI. They all need emo-rocker-goth names. And Ben Skywalker singing "BUT I'M A CREEP. I'M A WEEEEIRDDOOOOOO. WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HEEEEERE? I DON'T BELONG HERE." = YES.

(Hahahahahaha, the past Dark Side adventures with EVERY BAND MEMBER BUT BEN would CORRUPT HIM.)

Maybe I could go on band tour with myself as Tenel Ka on vocals and Caedus on guitar. LOL NOT COORDINATED ENOUGH.

Although, a lot of these songs I know by heart cause I grew up hearing them ("Vasoline", "I Think I'm Paranoid", "Black Hole Sun", "Celebrity Skin", "In Bloom", "Cherub Rock", "Creep", "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Orange Crush", "Epic", "Enter Sandman") so maybe I can focus on guitar on those and just kind of sing along like I would hearing them in car. XDDDD

"Sabotage" killed my throat last night. lols on the white rapper girl. D: And oh my crap, repeating "IT'S -- IT'S -- WHAT IS IT?" on "Epic" made me drink like half a bottle of water afterwards.

Aaaaand the best part is that I can only sing by myself. Mom came downstairs and I was like, "HAHA HERE'S THE MIC, MA. I'LL TAKE THE GUITAR NOW." -_________- I fail.

P.S. Fuwa, the mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, are the absolute CUTEST THINGS EVER HOLY CRAP. EEEEEE HUANHUAN AND JINGJING. <3

P.S.S. How cute are Heidi Klum and Seal? I love them so much. Also, I will always love Will and Jada. SO ADORABLE.