The insomnia is starting to get back to me. I don't much complain about it like other people do though. Then again, I don't suffer the most extremes of it again. I don't stay up three days in a row for example, and I know some people that can't help but do so. That's gotta suck. Instead, I just lose the motivation to go to sleep and stay up reading or writing or listening to music. With a healthy mix of Cartoon Network of course.

Oh, speaking of, has anyone else taken the initiative and checked out Adventure Time? Given the fact that it was originally made for a 12 year audience, I can see why many people wouldn't be inclined to give it the time of day. But it's a truly great cartoon. It's hilarious, thought provoking, and just downright bad-ass. I love the attitude of the characters and their reactions to their unusual stimuli. It's got adult humor. Kind of like our generation of Ren and Stimpy, but not nearly as dirty. Just clever.

That said, I recently saw that one of the episodes of Adventure Time was Emmy-nominated. So I'm not the only one that thinks this fucking awesome cartoon show should be critically acclaimed! My girlfriend likes it a lot, and so do her younger nieces and nephew, so it really reaches across the age borders. I just gotta get some adults on it, and it'll be all gravy.

There's this song called Tree of Life by Debaser that I'm just in love with. I've listened to it something like five times a day for at least the past three or so days. That's a pretty good record for me, especially considering that I like to keep the music moving, always taking in new stuff and making sure that the new generation is on point with their music making skills. If the song doesn't get you bumping, then your neck is broken. Put plain and simply.

I was watching Catch Me If You Can the other day with Cynthia. The movie was a lot better than I remember it to be, and really well thought out. I mean, I always enjoyed it but just gained a new appreciation for it. I didn't realize how long DiCaprio's character was when he get caught. Totally forgot the fact that he pleaded to get tried as a minor. That means he did all of that in just one or two years lol. What a crazy life to have.

I'm almost done reading my Lovecraft collection of short stories as well. When I first started reading the collection, I didn't find much of Lovecraft's writing impressive and neither did I find his plots particularly captivating. It took me a while to realize, though, that this is mostly because the surplus of horror that our technological age has allowed me to access kind of ruined the suspense. Every time that someone is biting someone else I automatically think zombie, so when that's kind of the big surprise, it doesn't do much for me.

But as I got deeper and deeper into the stories, I could see what draws so many people to him. He's a master of suspense. He's also an amazing writer, capable of giving particularly vivid descriptions without losing you in purple writing. I like it a lot. Cthulu's a champ.

So, thanks largely in part to my girlfriend's influence and the availability of the videos, I started re-watching Avatar. I don't know if it's because I somehow missed the first episode, a possibility which even now I think is highly unlikely, or because I just can't remember it too well, or simply because the creators are that fucking sneaky but . . . there was a lot of seeding in the first episode that I didn't notice the first time around.

Either way, it was all as beautifully done and artfully executed as I can remember. Even though I had made this realization halfway through the saga, starting the series over really emphasizes the differences in their power. There was very little that Katara could actually do near the on-set of her adventure, while in the middle of it all, she was outright wilin' out.

That said, I recommend a re-watch to any that enjoyed it before and a fresh watch for anyone that hasn't seen it yet. If you have any reservations about it . . . don't.

Other than that, my fourth of July was rather uneventful. Or uneventful as far as the standard goes, anyway. Didn't fire off a single firework. I did, however, get to spend most of Friday and all of Saturday and most of Sunday with my girlfriend, a rare event given the distance between us and her work schedule.

Though unsurprised by the new lack of cartoons in this week's Animation Domination, I still found it uncouth and undoubtedly boring. Tedious, if you would, that I would have to spend that block of my time unstirred into amusement by fresh cartoons.

The new Adventure Time, where the Ice King gets married, is also equally hilarious. And, if you strip away the bright colors and rampant motion that comes from being a child's cartoon, it's actually quite haunting. Very scary to think of the implications and apply it to a realistic scenario. Still, it comes very heavily recommended by yours truly.

I was going to watch the Last Airbender movie last night but I ended up not watching it. Not exactly breaking news, I know, but I just wanted to make sure you were updated in the dizzying heights and plummeting lows of my life. And the stuff in-between if I have anything to say about it.

Oh, I want to share a movie recommendation. Oldboy. A Korean film that came out in 2003. It's a part of the Vengeance Trilogy. If you've managed to hear about the trilogy without knowing what Oldboy is, I commend you for astounding powers of negligence once unheard of. The basic gist of it is that a man gets kidnapped and put away for 15 years and, when released, has 5 days to find his captor.

The jail they keep him in mimics a room. Couch and tv, calendar, slightly discomforting color arrangements like a cheap motel, and a shower. There is one large metal door that separates him from the outside world, and they give him food through a metal slot that opens at the bottom. The same exact dish three times a day, every day, for fifteen years.

It is very ill. Very bracing and awesome.

While we're on the subject of foreign films, I'd also like to put Amelie, Let The Right One In, The Science of Sleep, and City of Lost Children up for consideration. If you like Ron Perlman, btw, definitely check out City of Lost Children. It's one of his earlier films and dude's parleying in French.

Oh as a side note. For anyone that's curious about the level bump in your profiles with the Experience mod, the point values for posts were adjusted like two or three days ago. I think that the point values are there to stay, and soon we'll be getting a Shop mod that will make it all the more pimp. So keep your eyes peeled for that!

On the 30th of June

Alright, so check it. I really messed myself up. I stayed up until like 6 AM in the morning, and at the end of it I was tripping balls like I was hyper and playing word-racer with Damon. The first game was cutting it pretty close, especially because I usually slaughter dudes like . . . it's just really bad. Ask Roger, he's felt the sting of the word-blade. Cynthia too.

So I mean, I'm usually a beast at it and Damon's over here crowding my nook and shit. So we played against and I have to say that the score was a little more comfortable the second time around. I reminded the foolish mortal that Mt. Olympus is not a place for him and his ilk. He slunk back to the shadows from whence he slunk and I sipped on my various cups of ambrosia.

Alright, so then I wake up at its noon so I've only slept like six hours. Usually that’s not that bad. Usually I can groove on that for a good while but I haven't been sleeping that well the past couple of days. My insomniac periods are the bane of my existence. They fuck with my circadian rhythms so hard, but they're so useful for hitting hot peaks of voluminous learning.

So then today I'm just chilling, cause that's how I be doing it. A friend of mine came over from Queen's and I showed him some rather hilarious Grind Time rap battles. Then he left and around 6 PM a friend of mine, named Keith, drove me over to a mutual friend's, Lorenzo, apartment. There we spent some time talking about atomic particle arrangements, energy frequencies and vibration states. And about the origin of thought as well.

We also chilled and did a little rap cipher, first to some beats and then acapella. It lasted for a while so I don't know if I should say "little" cipher, but we aren't professionals. We were having fun and coming up with some pretty dope spits, as they say.

I showed Keith some of the rap battles too because apparently I have to rep Grind Time to death. I appreciate their lyricism. So much more innovative and refreshing when compared to Smack rappers and shit. Rediscovered my love for Tonedeff as well. I was showing Keith who I thought had one of the best technically perfect styles. Like just flawless technique, and it had me bumping immediately.

I think I am going to refer to my earlier post and listen to some of the movingest classical music again. Barber of Seville gets me feeling like a mad scientist, just creating life and shit.