Vampires Vampires Vampires!

They SUCK!!

Blood that is. Lame jokes aside I have always been fascinated with the myth of the Vampire. Immortality through brutality. Did you know at one point in history is was almost common practice to stake the hearts of the recently dead for fear that they would come back as a vampire? This nighttime fear has grown into Hollywood and book gold. Now that you can't turn your head without seeing something associated with vampires I figure I talk about this latest fad and my two gloves of garlic on the issue.

So which are you team Jacob or team Edward? I like most book lovers fell in love with the series but then came the movies. Those god dam movies! They are horrible and don't get me wrong I am a huge Robert Pattinson fan. I loved How to Be and Goblet of Fire. It's not anyone associated with the movies fault except the executives who green lit the picture. These movies are horrible for one reason and one reason only and that is, THIS BOOK DOES NOT TRANSLATE AS A MOTION PICTURE! I know plenty of potential readers who were turned off because of the movies. I myself can't make it through the fourth book because now I keep picturing everything in the movie form.

TrueBlood is how you make that translation as a book but then again Alan Ball is a genius. I think thats all that really needs to be said. I am a huge fan and I love the fact that it's more correct towards the vampire myth and their legendary weaknesses.

This fad is that it always starts with books. Twilight, Suki Stackhouse novels and Anne Rice's books. The vampire fad seems to fade in and out and it all starts with the books. I wasn't around for the Anne Rice explosion but in the latest wake the one thing I can't stand is the saturation of the literary market with all these "Tween" vampire novels which just sell on the sexual tension that these young girls crave i.e. The Jonas Brothers. I love reading vampire titles but if there is some decent title I can't find underneath all these titles that publishers are throwing money at.

And if the publishers are reading this throw me an advance. I will write you a worthy vampire title maybe or maybe I'll just hype up the sex and make it a bestseller.

Until Next Time

Addicted to Pixels

Video games.

Unlike the internet, I never knew a time without. Some of my earliest memories were that with the 8-bit Nintendo on Zelda. I was fortuned enough to have a grandfather who love the new wave of technology that was coming out. All of the accessories the Nintendo had he got us.

The coolest thing about my grandfather was that he was a Zelda freak. He saved all the Nintendo Power magazines with the Zelda maps in it. I never been so afraid than to accidently save over my granddad's game. He always made it further than us but me and brothers still had a blast taking on Gannon.

As I grew up so did the video games I played. My first system that was just mine was the Sega Genesis. Sonic the Hedgehog helped me navigate my way through the troubled seas of elementary school life. It was followed by the 64 which blew my mind with two games that I completely indulge in and suck me in. Not since Zelda did I think that I would be able to assume the role of a character in a video game. These two games were Starfox and Golden Eye.

Then came the almighty Playstation and with it two of the best games ever Final Fantasy XII and Resident Evil. I never thought anything but a scary movie could invoke such terror in me but I was mistaked as me and my brother's friends sat in their basement in front of a big screen in the dark pissing our pants from the zombies attacking our antagonist in the game.

Playstation 2 was my second console that I owned and it was a good one. I bought it when Grand Theft Auto III came out and I never thought anyone could create such a vivid and unique feeling world as much as that did. One of the best experiences that I have still today is picking up the newest GTA game and playing the first mission. It's the feeling of being sunk into a brand new world with no knowledge of what's up the street or across the bridge and that what is so fun about it is finding out what's there.

Xbox brought me online multiplayer and instead of going out and partying me and my friends stayed in most the time and smoke weed and played Halo 2 online. It also brought me my first taste of RPG glory with Elder Scrolls , KOTOR and still my all time favorite Fable.

Several years later came the 360 and thats when my social life took a big hit. Just joking but only half heartily. Though it had its problems (I am on my third one, DAM IT !), I still believe that it changed everything it showed how games should look and play and with it brought my favorite games of all time. Which are Mass Effect 1 & 2 , GTA 4 , Red Dead , and Fable 2. Just the shear amount of quality of video games that are coming out now blow my mind and I feel truly blessed to be able to have hands and eyes so I can enjoy them.

I now have all the big three's gaming systems and no life.

But I wouldn't want it any other way. Gaming has truly saved me in dark times. When I had no friends and no one to go out with I would just make them in Sims. When I wanted to feel important I saved the world a thousand times over and when I want to just be myself and enjoy the people I love, I simply press the off button.

Or just pause.

Until next time,

I think I am growing up finally...

Then again maybe not.

It's been a few weeks maybe even longer since I posted but I have been busy writing two comics. Now they are being drawn, I have time to rant so here we go.

I was very proud of myself recently because I didn't take a drink of alcohol for a little over four weeks. This has got to be the longest I have went without drinking for so long since I was a loser in high school playing video games and smoking pot at home in my room while everybody was doing keg stands.

It wasn't as tough as I thought would be. Of course watching everyone get drunk and laugh at jokes that aren't as funny sober kind of sucked but I persevered through. The reason I quit drinking wasn't because I didn't think it was fun, don't get me wrong there is nothing more fun than a night out with the gang enjoying a nice rum and coke. I just can't stand the next day. I get very bad hangovers and it makes me lazy and depressed the next day. Obviously alcohol is a depressant so everyone should expect that but it seems to hit me way harder.

So my quest was off to go two months without a drink to see what it would be like to be thirteen again and try to enjoy weekends sober and I did. Then came this past friday night I decided to jump off the wagon with a box of wine and a night full of board games. It was a blast, played my favorite board game "Zombies!!!" but this morning was not fun. So today I pledge that I will be back on the wagon for another four weeks and maybe for good. I guess I could learn moderation. That may help with the extreme hangovers but I will try that in a month I suppose.

But also as I am growing up I am also still a kid at heart this was never more apparent than this weekend when for the last two weeks I have been planning to go back to Old Cowtown which is just my idea of heaven. I am a HUGE western buff so if this the only way I can relive that time I will be there. I really think I was born in the wrong century. I love the ideals of the Old West and if only Doc Brown was real and could get me back there.

My lovely girlfriend and I departed for Cowtown and we had a blast saw a gun fight, sipped on sarsaparilla and spent $80 at the gift shop. I am now the owner of a Billy the Kid cap gun and a nice cowboy hat. Now I won't go into details but I will let this picture sum up our trip.

Until next time,