Sacre....blonde?!??

I'm not quite sure when exactly it happened, but somewhere in the course of the last two or three weeks, I think I can reasonably say that I lost the last of my marbles (They were black, of course. So very easy to lose in my generally colorless environment.) My spontaneous ideas have become rather detrimentally Mad Hatter-ish. The Scheme of the Week this time involved me bleaching my hair as a sort of melodramatic overcompensation for managing to rip out my eyebrow piercing on Thursday.

I'll spare you the long rant on that last bit. *sigh*

Thankfully, the hair turned out quite well. I look less the weather-worn midwesterner at the very least, but none of you really care about that. That's probably for the best.

And lookie, it's Monday. It's time for another Top Five list. This week it's my Top Five Reasons Why I Hate the Wii (the Yes, I Judge You Edition):

1.) No HD: Seriously, in this generation of digital media (on the whole, not just in regards to gaming) high definition is and should standard. The Wii is fantastic if you want to play it on your shoddy CRT, but plunk it down in someone's home theatre setup that sports an Xbox 360 or a PS3, and the difference will be painful.

2.) It's white: Okay, this is just a personal preference, and I know I could just buy a damn skin for it. Still, ew.

3.) Marketing: Nintendo, when did your demographic turn into tweens and the elderly? I don't care how great your Mario game is when all I can see are fat kids doing jumping jacks, and nursing home "Wii Sessions".

4.) Games: I'm a semi-hardcore gamer than enjoys the casual game or two. That said, I can only think of about five games that I'd want on the Wii, and they don't include a balance board. Nintendo has some incredible franchises, but they get lost amidst the mounds of make-a-quick-buck shovelware.

5.) Motion controls: I hate them. I feel ridiculous waving around a plastic stick. In all fairness, this no longer applies solely to the Wii. I'm equally as put off by the Playstation Move, and only slightly less so by Natal.

/hate

Run Away?

I saw the Runaways movie last night. It was better than I thought it would be, and Kristin Stewart did a far better job as Joan Jett than I would have ever thought possible (I'll spare you the Twilight rant).

I've but one deep-hitting take away from the movie: Don't be the sister.

Heh.

Penned Obsolescence

Look at me, a day late and a dollar short. Again.

Not much to share today. I've been overly thought-ridden this week, and the inner muse seems to be creaking into gear.Who knows? Maybe I'll be able to churn out some written material of the non-blog variety, if such a thing is even comprehensible anymore. I also the urge to have an antique typewriter and swathes of candles all over my desk. Heh.

I'll work on that last bit after my vacation, I think.

A belated (if not slightly underwhelming) top five list of: My Favorite Fonts (the, "How Times New Roman can suck it" edition)

1.) Verdana: It's just a nifty looking font to read, and it's the default setting at fanficiton.net.

2.) GFY OTEP: It's the font that the band Otep created. Since most of you don't know what that would look like, you can see it here. I just think it looks gnarly and badass, though I don't think I'll be using it for any cover letters anytime soon.

3.) Arial: Microsoft's answer to Helvetica, I think. If "zen" could be encompassed in a font, this would be it.

4.) AngryBlue: It's another one that you probably haven't heard of. I really wish my handwriting looked like the all CAPS version of this. (See it here.)

5.) Perpetua: It's cool like Papyrus, but without shadow of having been used in pretty much every tacky manner possible.

Don't think I was just grasping at straws for list ideas, by the way. Fonts happen to be something I'm oddly passionate about. I suppose as the literal written word becomes something of a novelty, and calligraphy spirals into ancient history, fonts remain as a reminder that the English language can have character beyond content. (Insert long drabble about art and it's various forms here. Include snobby glances and untenable jargon.)

Before I bid you all farewell, here's a Youtube video that I've had on replay for a good hour today. Don't ask me why, I know it's weird. O_o

Into the Sunset

Breezing over my assuredly unmissed absence from the blogging world this week, I have news! Or at very least, a bit of information to indulgently throw at an uncaring world, whatev.

After copious amounts of procrastinating and wheedling for the time off, I have finally secured my Great Escape (the week and a half edition) in May. I may have gotten a little out of hand with it, but details on that will follow when my apathetic face is properly restored.

Bwahahahahahahaa....

Red Sam

MY TAXES ARE DONE!!!!!

*epic sigh of relief*

With the exception of wrestling numbers, today was mostly one of those gloriously lazy, introspective days.....at least until a few hours ago (see below). Apparently, it's also Easter, unless half of my Facebook friends are trying to deceive me.

My big project of the day-aside from said number wrestling-was hauling in every dusty, over sized speaker I could find, and hooking them up to the sound system in a quest for Epic Sound. I succeeded, and probably managed to create one hell of a fire hazard in the process. Six foot tall Heil loudspeakers really weren't designed to be my iDoom's sound bitch, but hey, go big or go home, right?

And the comma police are so going to come for me....

(Ha. Their theme song could totally be, "Kharma Police". O_o)

Just for kicks, here are some pictures of what went into my little project:

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(overkill)

For what it's worth (the next half hour, it would seem), have a pleasant commercialized-for-the-candy-business Easter, everyone. :)