Posts tagged sick
Cough Drops, Plastic Beach and The Guild. Oh my.
Jul 9th
As I sit writing this, there is a good chance I will hack up a lung only to quickly stuff it down my gullet. Some people have bad sneezes. I have bad coughs. Scratch that I have terrible coughs. They aren’t little wimpy things that could be confused as an exhale of air. They are full out, body heaving, rip up my throat kind of coughs. It is just as fun as it sounds. Unless it is a really small cold that is basically my cough default. Today I’m not even sure why I’m coughing. I have actually now come to the conclusion that my lungs hate me. You heard me right. Or read me right I suppose. For the past few weeks, I will randomly have two to three hours of coughing at least one day a week. I don’t have allergies so that’s out. I originally thought maybe keeping my window open for hours on end with a fan pumping in air may have just literally filled my lungs with pollen to the extent of needing to cough regardless of allergies. But proved that wrong today. Window hasn’t been open in more than a day… Damn my spiteful body parts.
Anyway onto slightly less painful and annoying topics, just recently Gorillaz, no relation to the site, released another music video to compliment their album Plastic Beach. Now I love Gorillaz, and from what I’ve heard I love this new album, but I have been too lazy to get up and actually go through the process of buying it. But this music video may just make me get off my lazy ass. I was amazed when I first saw this music video, not just for the video itself because Gorillaz videos are always great, but by the song. Not to sound too namby-pamby, but I love this song ALOT. I have listened to it for hours on end and I still love listening to it. So for your viewing pleasure here it is, though keep in mind the story isn’t going to make much sense unless you have seen the previous video Stylo, so if you want to totally understand it, go watch it now. We can wait.
Good right? Now I know there will be at least some of you out there who will not like this. Some of you will even be Gorillaz fans. Well, previous Gorillaz fans. While looking through comments on these videos it seems that a lot of people think Gorillaz has gotten worse. Now for those of you who don’t follow Gorillaz you can probably just skip to the next paragraph, for those of you who have, enjoy the following rant. People. You clearly you do not understand the concept of a virtual band. If you ever thought a band that interchanges members with every album was going to repackage and re-release the same sound in every album, you were mistaken. And even with that aside, Plastic Beach is a great album, at least from what I have heard. Yes it isn’t as dark, there isn’t as much bass and there isn’t as much rap. But those aren’t bad things. They are going in a new direction. And the new direction is great. If you can’t open your mind up to new music go back to your generic emo rock and stop ripping on bands with actually creativity. As John Stewart would say, Zing!
So next, The Guild. By the way these are basically mini reviews. I will probably do my full thoughts of Plastic Beach when I get it, and this is just a short thing about The Guild. So first off, if you have never played an MMO you will probably not like The Guild. And if even if you do like it, you probably won’t be able to fully understand some of lingo and jokes. As someone who had poured a lot of time into the oh so famous game World of Warcraft, I quite enjoyed the series. The classic stereotypes are taking a little far but it’s good to know that the woman who is writing the script actually plays WoW. Overall it is filled with awkward moments, and moments that will make you roll on the floor laughing, and if you are like me you won’t be able to stop watching them till you’re done. And just as a special treat here’s the first episode.
So that’s basically it for today my internet friends, and below is the usual fare. Enjoy your weekend everybody, best wishes from Frantic Gorilla!
My “Adventure” in Sacremento
Jun 17th
Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of posts by me, but it was because I had to go all the way to Sacramento to sit in a hotel all day and watch my little bro. This was not my choice and I was not compensated for it at all except for the delicious food that I had there. So on Monday I went down there with my mom and bro and didn’t do much but go for a quick swim in the pool because we got there at like 8:30. The hotel was actually very nice, considering the only reason we were there was because my mom didn’t have to pay for it because she had agreed to read grants for the state. The only reason I had to go was because my brother went. He dragged me all the way there for three nights so that on one day he could go to the Lego Store and buy one Lego. So the entire point of me being there was so he could spend one hour looking around in a store. I was there for FOUR DAYS so my brother could be in a store for an HOUR. THAT IS RETARDED.
However it wasn’t all bad because the room we were at did have wifi. So with the internet I was able to play Guild Wars for over 10 hours all together. This is a game that you play when you don’t have the money for WOW by the way. Also a little bit of news… I got my first sunburn of the summer! That is the official start of summer in my opinion. So I was able to spend some time outside swimming in a very nice pool and the weather was perfect. If it weren’t for the fact that I had internet and a pool, the last four days would have been very very boring.
Besides the internet and the pool, there were some other good parts of Sacramento. The place we were staying at happened to be very close to the river which had a pretty cool bike path next to it. The path was in this huge area called Discovery Park that was absolutely beautiful. However there was one part about this park and a lot of Sacramento that scared me and made me laugh. THERE ARE TROLLS IN THE PARK. I’m not kidding. These are the kind of people you would see in horror movies chasing people. And the problem is there aren’t enough people in the park to make you feel safe from being attacked by these people. Lucky for me I was on a bike and with people so I wasn’t too worried. As well as the trolls there were a lot of what I thought were gang members hanging in the park. They seemed alright but I wouldn’t want to have these guys walking behind me if you know what I’m saying.
The absolute best part about staying in a hotel is going out to eat for everything. All the food was absolutely amazing but my dad would not be happy about the level of calories. The first night I was there I went to the Cheese Cake Factory where I had a a huge cheeseburger with grilled onions and then a huge piece of carrot cake. The next day, I had French toast for breakfast, Jamba Juice for lunch, and a huge burrito from Chevy’s for dinner. And did I mention I was getting all of this for free? Well yeah, I was. So the day after that I had a bacon and egg sandwich, then a Subway sandwhich, then probably the best Chinese food I have ever had. There was spicy orange chicken, chicken chow mein, and one of my favorites, pork fried rice. It was absolutely the best. And finally today I had French toast again and a lot of junk food for lunch. Then right after I got home today I went to my favorite restaurant, The Russian River Brewery in downtown Santa Rosa. This place has the best pizza ever and right after that I had a double espresso from Starbucks. So in all besides having to watch my bro all week and not getting paid, the week was pretty good. I’l try to keep posting stuff as it comes up but until then see you everyone.
Oh one last thing, this is a very good song but weird video from one of my favorite bands.