^_^

So life is good.

I've lost some five pounds since I started my fitness regime, and I still have yet to completely transfer into the routine. I've definately cut back on Mountain Dew, and I'm eating a bit healthier as well. On that front I'm already really happy.

But even bigger news, even better news, is that I now (As of last Saturday) have a girlfriend! X3 She's pretty much amazing. So I'm really happy about that too. :)

And currently it's a three day weekend, there's plenty of good food to eat upstairs which I'm going to go check out after I post this, and I just got paid a couple of days ago! I'm going to get food, watch Kyle Cease, and then sleep, and then tomorrow I get to hang out with my girlfriend.

So yes, life kicks ass at the moment. =^_^=

P.S. Sorry I haven't been posting on NewGrounds as of late. I've been pretty busy with school and other things. I still luff you! :3

Well I've finally decided that it's about time to get into shape.

This isn't really the first time I've decided that. Around last March I started myself on a little exercise program that consisted of jogging/walking, crunches, side-bridges, and push-ups. I kept it up for about two months and lost around 15 pounds. Pretty good.

Sadly though, for some reason, I stopped. Luckily I haven't gained any weight since then (I've still been biking and walking almost every day, but I haven't been doing any of the other things).

Today I decided to go a little more extreme with it though. I will now do crunches and side-bridges on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays, and push ups and chin ups on tuesdays and thursdays. Also I will continue to bike/walk whenever possible.

In addition to this, however, I'm going to do the unthinkable.

I'm going to consume less Mountain Dew.

*The crowd gasps*

Yes, I said it. I'm going to attempt to stop drinking more than 64oz daily. I'm going to try and drink healthier things. Prefferably orange juice, which is probably my favorite non-carbonated drink. It makes sense too I suppose, seeing as how there is orange juice in Mountain Dew.

But I'm also going to try and drink water. Something I hate with a passion, but it is healthy.

And if all goes according to plan, I'll get far more into shape. Awsome. :3

In other news, I pre-ordered the limited edition version of Halo 3 today. Can't wait to get it. ^_^

Or whatever. Yay 10k posts. :3

I have it on good authority that I have made an epic and the best 10k evar.

So read it please, and comment: The Naked Cheese Man

:3

Mehh, I don't feel good.

In both a physical and mental way. Seeing as how I feel the need to vent, but can't really do that to my friends (I'll get to that), I figure a short - medium blog to the people of NewGrounds will suffice. I doubt anyone will read, or for that matter care, but that's not really the point. o.O

So yeah, it's weird how no matter what we all get sucked into the whole "soap opera of life" sort of thing. I guess even those who swear they'll avoid 'drama' at all costs get sucked in too, if they have friends anyway. For example, one of my best friends is cheating on his girlfriend with some other girl, and I know both the girls. This means that since I communicate with all three, someones going to end up pissed at me regardless of the fact that I have nothing to do with any of that. People are just stupid like that.

But the main problem is introduced when people aren't true to themselves. It seriously seems like everyone is either too absorbed in themselves to be concerned with me, or annoyed with me for some reason which they don't reveal because I guess it's just more fun to keep me in the dark about that type of stuff. It also doesn't help that a lot of the people I would talk to talk to other people I know, which means an irritating fast spread of any information I might give out.

Not that it really even matters that much. Hell, I don't even know which of my friends are 'stalking' this account and will read this anyway. And does it really even matter? I don't know anymore. Everyone is just being so fucking confusing that that's the problem.

I swear, every day everyone has a new perspective of themselves. Everyday something changes, and no one is able to be true to themselves, unless they're truley just this person who's trying to be different. Okay, not everyone, some people are still reliable, but on the whole it's getting annoying. Blah.

I'm not even sure if I'm being coherent anymore. O.o

And also I really have no right to be complaining about anything, which annoys me. It's another bar against me talking to anyone about anything, because I've tried doing that before and most people just talk about how my problems aren't really that bad, or how I shouldn't feel that way. And you know what?

...I fucking know that you assholes.

I have a great life damnit. But everyone has problems whether you like it or not. Apparently even though I'm going through a time where it seems like I have few people to rely on (I say seems because regardless everything will most likely and hopefully work itself out in time) I'm not allowed to! I'm not allowed to feel bad because apparently I have a great life. That's retarded, so just shut up.

I guess when it all comes down to it it's a mix of being annoyed by unreliable people (My family mainly, and some of my friends [Which I try not to be too upset about because I do realize they probably have their problems too, and I'd like to help but sadly I can't]) and just being lonely in general.

So what brought all this on anyway? I'm not really sure myself... I woke up today at 6PM and watched TV until 11:30. At around 7 I heard the phone ring but I didn't answer it because no one ever calls for me. Now I feel fucking stupid because I should have at least checked it. Cause later I did go to check it and it was a friend who rarely calls me, so it meant she had been calling for a reason. She was on MSN, I got on, said hi, she replied with some random stuff I wouldn't have even expected her to say, and left. What was that stuff? It's not important. And it's stupid that it would even effect me at all, in the very least bit.

Regardless, I feel stupid, and the result was that I went for a walk at 11PM. I actually went about halfway to her house and I wasn't even sure why. I mean for one, it's not like it would have accomplished anything (If I had went there I wouldn't have even been able to see her or anything anyway), two, I hadn't expected to even go that way, I just kinda started walking and ended up on my way there, and three, it's not like there would be a reason. If you're all thinking (And by you all I mean perhaps the one random person who actually decided to read this far, but I'm assuming this will have zero readers, especially by this point) that she's my girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, or whatever, you'd be wrong. That's another weird thing about it.

Maybe that's also what it's about, because she is one of the people who keeps randomly changing. And at some points I feel like I'd want to be with her, but then at other points I don't, and at all points I know that it wouldn't work out anyway. And besides, she has never and will never want me in that way, which makes it all pointless.

Blahhh. I'm an idiot. I don't know what to do about it. And all I can do is wait. And somehow I feel like I fucked up. I don't know how. I fucked up when I didn't check the call. I fucked up when she was talking and left cause I didn't say anything. I fucked up by fooling myself so many times into these fucked up thoughts of hypothetical situations. And, well, I don't know anymore.

Well I guess I feel a bit better that I typed all that. o_o

Blahhhh. Good thing I have music and NewGrounds to keep me sane.

"Our instincts they were cringing, about how we lived our lives
It didn't seem we'd lived enough to even get to die
All these dis-distractions, so beautifully complex
Well I love life's surprises so much I don't want to know what's ahead"
-Modest Mouse (Education)

Random picture from walking:

Just thought I'd make a random short newspost. There's not much going on.

I'm basically just trying to enjoy the last days of summer. School starts on September 4th for me. So I've still got like a week or so. It makes me sad. Especially since I generally go to bed at 6-8AM, and during school I have to get up at 6AM. Ridiculous.

Oh well though, bitching about it wont get me anywhere.

In other news, I'll probably be seeing Big D And The Kids Table in November as part of their Steady Riot Tour, which will definately be exciting. :3

Also Bioshock is an amazing game. :)

And... I'm going to Valley Fair tomorrow (And amusement park) with some friends. Hooray!

Common Rider is an awsome band.

Annnd... That's all I really feel like typing at the moment. I'll just keep this one short. :)

God damnit. I got new glasses a couple of days ago... Or something (It's 6AM, I don't know how to gauge the exact number of days). Well not new glasses exactly, just new lenses. When I first put them on I was like "WOAH, everything looks kinda weird," but I figured it was normal because it's a new prescription (I haven't gotten new lenses in a year or so) and I'd just adjust to them after an hour or so.

Problem is it's been a couple of days and it's still weird. I adjusted a bit, but it's not adjusting completely.

I'm not even sure how to explain it. It's not like the vision is bad. If I close either eye it looks great! It's more like the lenses aren't working together, because it's irritating my eyes. :(

So I guess I'll have to go in and tell them about it later today.

Speaking of which, I really need to fucking sleep. It's 6:10AM and I need to get up around 2PM. So if I sleep soon I can get a good eight hours or so. Problem is my sleep schedule is fucked up and I don't want to sleep... Gahhh... Tonight has been really annoying. D:

Oh well. The rest of today should be fun. Going to see Moving To Pluto (A local band) at The Depot Cafe with a friend, and her friend who I haven't personally met yet, but talked to, ON THE INTERNETS, LULZ! So yeah. Should be fun. :3

Well I guess I'll go post on the BBS some more and see if I get tired. Eventually I'll just get so annoyed by the glasses I'll force myself to go and sleep. :o

Yesterday was AMAZING!

Streetlight Manifesto and Reel Big Fish concert. Also Against All Authority and Less Than Jake, but I don't really listen to them much.

It was so awsome. I love concerts so much. I'd go into detail but there's no real need.

Haha I crowd surfed too. And got a Streetlight Manifesto shirt. Hah! :D

Totally amazing. :3

And taking pictures all the way.

It's storming out now.

Sadly I could not capture a shot of the lightning, though I did witness some amazing strikes of it. Lightning that litterally lasted for three to five seconds and seemed to blink on and off...

"The weather changed for the worse,
It came down on us like it had been rehearsed..."

So I woke up at 7PM today, and I've basically watched TV and played Crackdown all day, and just got on the comp. Oh, I also went to Walmart for food and apparently there's a new Mountain Dew. O.O

I'm having some right now, and it's pretty good, but I'll still stick with the original. The new one is apparently cherry Mountain Dew, which tastes kind of like what I'd imagine regular Mountain Dew with cherry koolaid poured in. O.o

But besides all that I just don't feel good for some reason. Don't know why, I just seem to be randomly sad for no apparent reason. :(

But I wont go on about it, because for one, I don't really know what to say about it, and two, no one really cares about my temporary emoness. Hah. :P

So that's about it for now. Hopefully I'll feel happier tomorrow and such. ^_^"

So it's been awhile, kind of, and I figured I'd make a quick news post.

So yes, it's been what, a little more than a week since I've been 17? And what have I learned...

Well apparently when you turn 17 you suddenly realize how to make an at least decent video. I swear, right on my birthday I actually figured out a ton of stuff about editting videos, and have submitted somewhere around three to YouTube ever since, which didn't get a ton of hate mail, and some actually gathered intelectual responses. I'm also working on another video featuring the song "Let's Get Fucked Up" by (the?) Smut Peddlars, and the actual content shall be a surprise. :P

For those of you who have seen my videos on YouTube, particularly the cleaning ones, I must say that... Well, I don't think I'm ever going to release more. I procrastinate horribly, and at this point the whole premise seems irrelevant. Why? Well it happened awhile ago, and I've moved my room downstairs, and it's just... I don't know, it's not exciting to watch either. Plus the only remotely interesting thing would have to be the small talking pieces, and I basically covered all of them thus far.

Anyways, I'm kind of jumping around, but here's the videos I spoke of (Might as well talk about them a bit):

It's My Birthday!

This is, as you can tell from the title, just a video blog (Or "vlog," if you will) about my birthday. Not terribly exciting, but I figured out while making this that cutting and such makes it a lot easier to actually stand to watch the video, which I probably already knew, but I was just too lazy to do so before.

Time To Realize Time Is Fake

This is just a rant about time being fake, as it is a man-made concept. Even though I do refference George Carlin in the video, and I agree with what he has said about the same idea, I did NOT get the idea from him. I have thought about this before. Then I say his HBO special "Again!" (At least I believe that is the special where he talks about time) where he talked about time and said a lot of the things I'd like to get across. That made the ranting a bit difficult too, because I didn't want to accidentally "rip him off."

Also in this video and the previous for some reason the sound got screwed up, and I have no clue why. If anyone knows why this might have happened (It only happens sometimes when I upload the videos), please tell me. I use Windows Movie Maker, and when I play the video in WMM the sound is fine. It only screws up when I save it to my computer (And I do choose "Best Quality").

The Internet Is Here To Stay

Just another rant, this time about the internet. I don't think I exactly conveyed what I wanted to, but I mainly got my point across. I've talked about the internet and it's amazing effects on the world before, but what drove me to make this video is that I was watching Attack Of The Show and they were talking about some guy who said the internet was evil, and should be shut down.

Not to mention everyone else who shares these ideals, mainly parents who can't seem to restrain their kid from a computer, so they blame the internet instead of blaming themself.

Re: Pages Of YouTube

Okay, in all honesty I shouldn't really include this one. It's a one second response to a video where they asked people to describe YouTube in one word. I chose the word "communication," which to me not only applies to YouTube, but the entire internet. Be it YouTube, NewGrounds, MySpace, or any other site that has some sort of community (Forums are a great example), communication is a common thread of the internet.

You're Not Special

This is my most recent video that I took on my new camera while taking a walk, I played around with the effects while editting. Anyways, it's basically about how there's a shortage of unique thought. I really screwed up while ranting though, because what I said isn't completely true.

In general, there's really no unique thought. I mean there's probably specific thoughts that are unique, but the general notion of them is not. There are exceptions to what I said, and even in the comments for that video I stated that I could have said some things better. For the most part though, I do stand by what I say in the video, but I am ready to acknowledge that I probably got a few points wrong.

So enough with the videos, it's time to move onto a new subject!

As some of you already know, I was recently arrested. All the details can be found here: Link.

NewGrounds...

I am a liar. :(

Okay okay, let me straighten some things out. I did get arrested, and it was for bullshit reasons, but in that topic I don't know why, but I failed to tell the entire truth. I'd like to come clean right now, and I am sorry for deceiving you.

1) The "assault" that took place in the car was minor and insignifigant. I hit him LIGHTLY with one of those little toy plastic things... It was a dinosaur head on a plastic stick, you know where you pull the handle and the mouth opens and closes. I don't know what they're called. I tried to Google a picture of one, but I don't know what to search for. Basically though, it's not heavy, it's a light toy, and I didn't even hit him with it really. I mean we were in a car, it's not like I had room to even swing. I basically tapped him with a bit of force.

2) It did leave a mark. A SMALL mark. And actually I'm not even sure that it was from me, because where I hit him wasn't even near where the mark was. It wasn't a bug bite, but he WAS scratching it (for whatever reason), and continued to squeeze and scratch at it, causing it to "bleed" himself, and it did appear like a bug bite.

3) My brother isn't retarded, but he does have PDD. This wasn't a lie so much as something I forgot to throw into the story. Let me say this though: This should not be an excuse for him to defy all the rules, and it's certainly no excuse for my mom to call the police on me. He has PDD, but he isn't fucking completely stupid. He knows when to shut up, he knows how to shut up. However somehow my mom thinks that she needs to treat him special, which in turn turns him into a complete dick.

Everything else in the story is completely true, and I still feel that the entire incident was complete bullshit.

What's weird about the whole experience is that it's pretty much completely behind me now. I mean even I'm surprised at my level of apathy towards this entire situation. It's staggering that it made absolutely no impacy whatsoever on me, and even now feels like something that didn't even happen to some extent. Like a dream. Not that I'm trying to force it out of my mind, it just feels that way. Strange.

Anyways, moving onto different subjects!

Today I watched the new episode of Who Wants To Be A Superhero?, which I think is an interesting show. Kind of weird how he eliminated two people this time around. And I keep finding myself comparing the new heroes to last seasons.

Too bad Mr. Mitzvah (Or however it was spelled) got eliminated, he was a pretty cool dude. Though I will admit I'm kind of happy Ms. Limelight got kicked off. No matter what she said, she seemed a bit hypocritical, and I was especially surprised last week when she couldn't even name a power (You'd think that would be a part of the initial interview...).

I really don't want Parthenon (Or whatever) to win. Why? Just because of the way he acts. Same with Hygena (sp?), just because a superhero that's mainly based upon cleaning is, well in my opinion, stupid and kind of foolish.

The heroes I'm rooting for are Hyper-Strike, The Defuser, and Basura. Gah, I'm probably butchering these names.

And now getting to music. Yesterday I downloaded the album Get Warmer by Bomb The Music Industry! from www.quoteunquoterecords.com, legally I might add. And you should do the same, because it's a great album.

Okay okay, so that's just my opinion. Personally I think BTMI! is a great band, and Goodbye Cool World is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. That's why I was excited for the new album, which proved to be just as good, if not better. It seems to combine elements from Goodbye Cool World and their oldest album, Album Minus Band. All in all it makes for a great listen, and very catchy songs which have interesting and realistic lyrics.

Well, that's about it, I'll just finish off with the cover of Get Warmer. :3