If only we could forget...

Don't you wish sometimes that we could just forget the experience of reading all those amazing books, reading those amazing comics, playing those amazing video games, and seeing the most amazing movies/TV shows. This thought occurs to me a lot, especially when i finish the thing. For example, when I finished the Hunger Games series, for a while I was in a sort of state of denial. After such a great experience reading the books, gasping at each twist, and excitedly reading each page, I just couldn't imagine that I'll never know any more about Katniss. In my mind, her life is stopped. There is no more to discover. This happens to me mostly with TV shows or books. For a day or two I just wander off, thinking about what could have happened, what SHOULD have happened and how I'll never, ever know. It's just a terrible feeling. For video games it hits me after a while. After playing The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros. etc. I thought "that was a great game." Not until years later do I realize that I'll never be able to unlearn the shortcuts, secrets and experience of those games. Zelda really hurts the most even though I hardly remember playing it. I didn't even play Ocarina of Time, I played Windwaker. I just know that even if I play Zelda again it wont be the same. It will never be the same, and nowadays things are different. There are hardly any more classics. Another one that IS very painful is Calvin and Hobbes. I have every book, every collection and have read probably every single strip (btw it's by far my favortie strip). Each time I pick one up I think "Ok, I haven't read this one in like 2 years so it will be fun, laughing again at the strips I've forgotten." Yet, it never happens. There's a tiny memory of each one that gets refreshed each time and I'm not sure will every go away. I guess it good that we remember how amazing these things were, but a fresh start would be fun to think about - if you'd be good at the games, if you'd have as much fun... (Imagine "It Feels Like the First Time" by Foreigner slowly getting lounder as you read this last sentence, and ending really loud as the lyrics start.) I just hope that in the future, say 20 years from now, when I'm living my own life, with my own family, I'll pick up the old, books, games, comics etc. and redo them. Experience the glorious moments of when I first read/played them, rejoice in the awesomeness that they once contained, and relive some of the most memorable things of my entire childhood!

P.S. Sorry if I didn't mention some of your favorite things that you cant forget.

more teen books

another, updated list of teen books, ranked the best i can...ADDED: pteen = kids 11-13, yteen = kids 13-15, teen = 15-17.

1. Hunger games (series) - yteen/teen

2. looking for alaska - teen

3. graceling (series) - yteen

4. secrets of nicholas flamel (series) - yteen

5. the giver - everyone

6. the wave - everyone

7. i am number 4 "(soon to be series) - yteen

8. the uglies (series) - yteens

9. percy jackson (series) - pteen

10. final 4 myseries (series) - pteen

SR2 vs GTA 4

i like SR2 more because although the graphics are inferior to GTA, is gameplay are and layout and the over all fun of it is superior.

Grinds my Gears

Here starts my blog of things that grind my gears, you know. Those things that just annoy you, get under your skin for some reason.

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I know this is a cliché, but to begin, I’m starting with the crying baby in a nice restaurant. Now, notice I said nice restaurant because if you go to a cheap diner then you can expect it. That’s what you get for going somewhere cheap. However, if you’re in a nice restaurant and there’s a baby crying nearby, it’s going to get annoying. Here I am, trying to enjoy a nice meal that, in this economy, I can’t do very often, and junior over there is screaming his head off. All anyone asks for is a nice quiet meal with whomever. If someone can afford to go out to a nice dinner can’t at least afford to hire a baby sitter the 3 f***ing hours?! I mean seriously, that’s something parents will have to sacrifice when they have a child.