So I’m in to fortune telling–not as a manual to life in general (you won’t find me suing Miss Cleo!), but I just find it interesting. One day, I was trying to explain the I Ching to my roommate and he answered, “so you throw sticks at people.” He’s the type of person to brush things off like that, but that’s what makes us so compatible, really–anyway, I answered “Yeah, that’s it Mike. I throw sticks at people. If they remain conscious, it’s a good day. If they don’t, not so much.”
And that little story has absolutely nothing to do with this blog other than the fact that I find it amusing.
I always get stuck when it comes to how I should introduce new things, and how I should explain myself, my personality, my likes and dislikes and why I like and dislike them. It just seems pointless, so starting Critical Leisure, I decided–fuck it, I’m not doing it. I’m not going to think up some ridiculously witty introduction that makes me sound way bigger and way more interesting than I actually am. I’m going to let my words speak for me–to let my likes and dislikes speak for themselves. I’m going to jump in feet first.
You see, I have this horrible desire to control every little aspect of my life. I had a ‘real’ website, but the thing is, I loathe HTML. Some people count sheep–I bracket and back-slash. It’s BORING. I can’t take it, so now I’m blogging instead.
I’m just going to write about whatever comes to mind. I love art and literature –as an artist and writer they’d kick me out of the club if I didn’t–so I’ll probably do a lot of features. Speaking of that, why don’t I just jump right into it.
Right now, I’m playing Kingdom Hearts- Re: Chain of Memories
I never actually played the GameBoy version of this game due to my lack of, well, Gameboy, as it were, but I’m pretty well into the game and enjoying it so far. The card-based battle system is a bit of a nuisance.
When I first started playing it was kind of like playing Xenosaga II–I did a fight or two and thought ‘oooh, I don’t think I like this…’ Well, with Xenosaga II that feeling never did go away, ruining an otherwise perfectly tolerable game, but CoM you eventually get used to it.
I could do without having to reload cards even for a standard attack–rings a bit too much like Final Fantasy XII’s need to learn the skill of ‘how to wear a hat’–but it’s not THAT annoying and overall the game makes it worth it.
Riku battles suck, but that’s quintisentially Kingdom Hearts anyway. Overall, not my favorite Kingdom Hearts game, but still enjoying seeing where it’s going to go.
Artist Feature:
I love to hunt DeviantArt when I have the time (and for those of you who care I can be found there as Kou-Tan and KillingTrees), and there are just so many amazing artists at that site, but for starters I think I’ll feature the amazing, stupendous, stunning work of Shel-yang. I’m not sure when it was that I started stalking her work, but I’m pretty sure it started with a Fruits Basket fan art of Kyou and Tohru. I absolutely adore her watercolors and pretty much everything in her ‘Children of Paradise’ series, like this one:
by Shel-yang @ DeviantArt.com
Someday, maybe I’ll have a fraction of this kind of talent, but I kind of doubt it. haha.
Music
I’ve also fallen in love with Ellegarden all over again. It’s so hard to pick a favorite song, but if I give it some thought I really adore Bored of Everything.
Well, I think that’s more than sufficient for one night. If I don’t hit the sack –a stupid saying, I don’t even OWN a sack–I’ll never wake up in the morning. Wednesday, thou art the devil. Can’t it be the weekend already? There’s a saying about patience and grasshoppers that covers this feeling, isn’t there?
Until next time, my wish for you:
May you goof off more than you should, work only as much as you need to, and enjoy every minute of both.
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