I should be happy, but I'm not. Not at all.

There is an anime reboot of FullMetal Alchemist airing Japan. It began three weeks ago and if you go onto the Funimation website you can catch it with English subtitles. I am doing this right now.
FullMetal Alchemist is one of the best animes I've ever seen. The animation itself is topnotch, the story and concept is very original and compelling, and the characters are all realistic and relatively three dimensional.

I should be happy about a new FullMetal show. But I'm not. Why you ask?

Because we've already had a FullMetal Alchemist show! It had it's run, it was really cool, and we all loved it. We don't need a rehash of something we've already seen with the same characters doing nearly the exact same thing. I don't want something old remade, I want something new newly made.

This new show, as cool as it looks, and it does look really cool, is a clear example of something I've been complaining about for years. A faltering creativity in all forms of narrative media. We can't come up with new ideas so now as we're struggling we're simply getting to the point where we're remaking things we enjoyed before.
I liked FullMetal Alchemist the first time I saw it. I don't need to see it again.

I don't want something cool like FullMetal Alchemist, I want something as cool as FullMetal Alchemist.

Good times ahead!

Gentlemen! Behold! More Mute Math!

MUTEMATH - Spotlight

Lyrics too!

Ahhhhh aaaaahhh (2x)

You got a whole lot left to say now
You knocked all your wind out
You just tried too hard and you froze
I know I know

What do you say? (2x)

Just take the fall
You’re one of us
The spotlight is on

Ahhhhh aaaaahhh (2x)

Oh the spotlight is on

Ahhhhh aaaaahhh (2x)

You know the one thing you’re fighting to hold
Will be the one thing you’ve got to let go
And when you feel the wall cannot be burned
You’re gonna die to try what can’t be done
Gonna stay stay out but you don’t care
Now is there nothing like the inside of you anywhere

Oh just take the fall
You’re one of us
The spotlight is on

Ahhhhh aaaaahhh (2x)
Oh the spotlight is on
Ahhhhh aaaaahhh (2x)
Yeah it’s on

Because everyone would rather watch you fall (All and each other)
And we all are, yeah (All and each other)
And we all are, yeah (All and each other)
Just take a fall
You’re one of us

The spotlight is on!!
Ahhhhh aaaaahhh (2x)
Oh the spotlight is on!!
(Just take the fall)
Now you’re one of us
Now you’re, (oh) now you’re, (oh) now you’re, (oh) now you’re one of us
Now you’re, (oh) now you’re, (oh) now you’re one of us
Oh the spotlight is on
Ahhhhh aaaaahhh (2x)

Another Caravan Contest

We need something to do. Something stimulating that will get us thinking again and being our usual creative selves. We've been slacking in that department a lot recently. So, after thinking about what to do I realized that the last time we had some real fun around here was the Lord contest (Dorkout 07) from Dec. 07.
Rather than just have another strictly macho-fest I thought it'd be more interesting to use our brains and do something creative.
We're going to have a writer's competition. Here are the guidelines we have agreed to,

*Must be a new and original work. Cannot be something you wrote years ago and never showed anyone.
*Must be between 1,000 and 4,000 words. If you hit 4,100 you won't be disqualified, but try to keep it in the range please.
*Cannot be fan fiction of any sort. We're better than that.
*Must be a fiction piece. As interesting as some people can make hospital visits sound.....we've all heard them before.
*Contest will end 4/25 and all entries after will not be accepted.
*One entry per person.
*Winner will be picked up three judges, who will consist of whoever is more bored than we are.
*The prize the winner will get is....they will be the first to taste the new Snapple formula that the tv ads are bragging about. Or something else that the winner wants if they're not Snapple addicts like most of you are. I think it's a bit sad that's the only thing I could think up that you boys might want.

I'm hoping one of the judges we can get will be Nate's mom. She's been the editor of a city paper and has written whole novels that publishers say aren't bad, but not what they need. It'd be really exciting to have someone with that sort of experience as a judge. I don't know who else we can get. I'm looking into it.
To enter you will send me your story via email as an attachment then I'll post it on my new deviant art account. I'll post the link here and that will be that.
Look forward to reading everyone's! Good luck!

What's your mantra?

Web surfing last night I found a site all about television tropes. It's like wikipedia only with devices that writers use on tv, movies, and in other media.

I found a real funny one that you can check out here. It reminded me a lot of Nate and Rich's place with all those weird home made posters they put up.

If you wanted to create your own room full of crazy what would you write over and over on the walls?

I would write, "Oh god, help me with the ketchup."

Creepy stalkers are creepy, not romantic

Last night mom took Martina for the night. Shawn and I had everyone over and Kate decided she wanted a movie. Nate was late and we figured he was home sitting in front of his laptop or talking to Snowy so Kate left him a message to come over and pick up a movie. We didn't feel like watching anything in particular so she told him to just grab something.

He came over with Twilight. (For our play by play thoughts on the movie click on our Myspace page link below to the right and then go to the blog named, "Never send a masochist to do a hedonist's job.")

The main character, Bella, is a complete moron. It becomes fairly obvious fairly quickly that Edward, the teen vampire super hunk, is not quite right. Even when she realizes he's a vampire she should still think that some of the things he does are creepy, but she doesn't.

When people are arriving to school he'll stand by his car and just stare at her. He says things like, "I feel like I have to protect you." She goes out shopping with friends and when guys start harassing her he'll suddenly show up out of nowhere and save her and then as they're driving off say, "talk to me. It'll distract me from wanting to go back and rip their heads off!" She'll wake up in the night and see him standing in her room watching her sleep. And the real sketchy one. He says, "I don't think I have the strength to stay away from you." She replies, "then don't."

This is all before it's been made clear he's a vampire. Things only get weirder after the big reveal.

I haven't read the books, maybe me, Alice, or Kate can take a page from Nate's playbook and hate ourselves enough to do that. I can only imagine how weird the books are. It's a fantasy I know, but I can't imagine what kind of damage it does to teen girls minds. Having a stalker vampire, or any boy for that matter, telling you he doesn't have the strength to stay away from you is creepy. Not romantic.