First thing's first. If you would actually like to see blog posts of some kind on a more frequent basis, I suggest you check my Tumblr instead of here, because as I've said before, I keep forgetting this blog exists. With Tumblr, I always have a tab open.

Anyway, so yeah. Been sick since Wednesday. Fun stuff. Saw the Cancer Bats last Saturday though. Black Moor, A Sight For Sewn Eyes (two local bands) and 3 Inches of Blood opened for them. There are pictures on my Tumblr somewhere, and also on my brand new Flickr account, so go check 'em out if you want.

That's about everything exciting that happened to me since the last time I posted here.

Next stop: Hollywood

Yeah so I said I would be putting the videos I did in Film class here, and I will keep that promise. I now present our first ever short film, The Following. It stars me and one of my friends, with another manning the camera. The only sound we used were songs that we thought fit the mood. I also love the camera work, and must remember to tell my friend how awesome he is. I'd also like to say that we thought of the idea like, ten minutes before we actually filmed, because our other idea could not be finished as some one ditched when we were supposed to finish. Oh well, I think this one is better. So without further delay, here is our first video, The Following.

I'm probably going to stop using titles soon

So, I guess today was a pretty average day. I had two tests, but I also had two hours of film and video class, so it evens out. But I have a headache now, so today currently sucks. Hope that it evens out again later on. Listening to a bunch of random Radiohead songs right now, so that's pretty cool. Might watch the Social Network tonight, because I have yet to watch it, but I kinda want to see how bad The Exorcist II is. Maybe I'll watch both  since I have pretty much nothing to do all day now.

Tumblr is like my new Facebook, as in, I thought I'd never use it. Now I'm on it a whole bunch. I don't even know why. Oh man my thoughts are all over the place today, probably because I'm tired as hell. I think I might even post the videos we make in class on here, and YouTube so that people on the internet can laugh at us along with our classmates. And us too, who am I kidding. We will probably make these videos bad on purpose. I guess that's all I got for now.

Sigh

I think the only way I'll remember this thing is if people comment on every post I friggin' make. Anyway, what's up. Well, I uh. I beat Amnesia: The Dark Descent last night. That's interesting, right? P.S. that game is scary as hell. Really should be working on a project that's due at the end of this week, but internet.

I guess if you guys (since I'm actually talking to people know, 5 followers, fuck yeah) actually want to see what I'm up to and remind me about this thing you can check out my Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, and Last.fm. That's probably the ten thousandth time I've linked those pages, but guess what I don't care.

 It's kinda hard to think of stuff to blog about when I do absolutely nothing all day, everyday. But I will try, just for you guys.

Hm

Still not very good at updating this thing. Oh well. So, today I was tired, and I am still tired now. My back also kinda hurts. Literally just finished listening to the album Tyrant by the mathcore band Down I Go. Pretty good, although I like their earlier album (This Is Disastercore) better. Also, listened to Reel Big Fish's Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album (half last night, half after school). They are pretty much one of my favourite bands.

Yeah, so I think everyone should read Homestuck. It's a webcomic in an adventure game format where the writer/artist/creator (Andrew Hussie) gets the fans to suggest what will happen next. It is both awesome and hella confusing. He also made Problem Sleuth, while not as awesome, is still pretty kick ass. I'm only kind of obsessed with it.

Okay, peace out

derp

 OK, so since some people like to read posts about people's lives and shit, I guess I'll try that. This may or may for sure be boring.

 Yeah, so I guess I'll introduce myself again, since I'm basically starting this blog over without deleting anything. I'm Matthew, I'm 16, I'm pretty much a nerd. Into video games, movies and very much into music. When not being boring, I like to hang out with my friends at odd hours of the night. Even then, I might still be boring, I dunno. I live in a small town in Nova Scotia (Canada). I like to introduce my friends to weird bands that they will eventually come to love. Hm. I guess that's mostly it about me. Might think of something else later. Maybe.

 Not much to write about today. Got back from work and had supper for my sisters 20-something birthday. I made a lasagna sandwich. Good times. Probably going to sit here listening to music and going on 4chan for the rest of the night, since that is what my internet life usually is: music, 4chan, Facebook.

Ok, I can't think of anything else to write here.

Oh shit son

Review:

If you have heard of The Antlers, chances are you know what Hospice is. If you don't, here it is. Hospice is a concept album that revolves around a man who works at a hospital (the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), and the woman who he meets, treats and falls in love with. Not only does the woman he meets have cancer, but she is also very emotionally damaged as well.

(Please bear in mind that this is mostly the meanings I get from the songs, not the actual ones)

The album starts off with, what else, a "Prologue". An instrumental track that automatically sets the somber mood of the rest of the album. As soon as you listen to it, you can feel the happiness just drift away. You can just tell the rest of the album will not be upbeat in the least. Next is "Kettering". The lyrics tell of the first meeting of the man and woman, and how he immediately warmed up to her, although the same can't really be said about her. He talks about how others say that the woman wasn't going to last very long, but he didn't listen, or care.

Track number three, "Sylvia", is telling of the poet Sylvia Plath and her fashion of suicide."Sylvia, get your head out of the oven" is a pretty powerful line, although taken out of context, or the song at least, it doesn't do as much as it should. The lines about Sylvia screaming and fighting is also, I think, about the woman fighting with the man, as we see such things happening later on in the album. When I first listened to this album, I really didn't know what this song had to with the rest, but I guess you really need to look into these things before they make complete and total sense. "Atrophy" is a quiet song compared to "Sylvia", and much, much sadder. It tells of how the woman is essentially taking control of the man. She treats him badly, when all he's trying to do is help her get better. In the final lines of the second verse, he even tells of how he'd "take all those bullets inside you and put them inside of my self", just showing how much he loves this woman, despite all of her abuse. She's always in pain, and he just wants to help her, but can't.

Onto "Bear". This is the last of the happy songs, so to say. Everything goes downhill from here. For the characters in the story, I mean. The "happy" couple learns that they are pregnant. Isn't that great? They think so, so the celebrate and everything is fine. But then, the realization. They are fine with taking care of a child, "finding food for him to eat", and all that good stuff. Thing is, they don't know what will happen to them personally if they have this kid. They decide abortion would be best. Except it isn't. They are now "bigger strangers than [they've] ever been before", and what happens next is only going to worsen things. "Thirteen" is mostly instrumental with two short verses near the end. This time it is from the woman's point of view (vocals by Sharon Van Etten), and she is only asking if the man can help her and "stop this all from happening".

"Two" is one of my favorite tracks on this album. Stating out with a doctor telling the man that there is nothing else he could do to help the woman he had fallen in love with, it moves on to the man going into the woman's room and listening to her tell of a dream she had had. A dream that seems like it had actually happened to her in the past. We go back to him, and he tells us about how they moved in together, and she had continued with the abuse. He didn't even mind the abuse, and he would do to try and help her. The 'Two" in the song is the the man and the woman. "Two people believing that I'm the one to blame", meaning the two of them blaming the one. "Two different voices coming out of your mouth", meaning the two sides of the woman. "Shiva" is the first of the trilogy of horribly sad songs at the end of this album. The man is now broken and depressed. The woman whom he had loved and taken care of for more than a year had died, and he doesn't feel like he can do anything else for the hospital, or himself.

"Wake". "Wake" is a total punch to the gut. The man has lost his job. He stays alone in his home, in the dark. He doesn't even want to associate with other people. He wallows around in his house, in his sadness, and doesn't bother even trying to make things better. All the time he spends though, the sadness disappears when he realizes that he didn't kill the woman. He knew she wouldn't last long, and so did she. It's not his fault. He did the best he could. "Don't ever let anyone tell you you deserve that." Here we go. This is it. "Epilogue". The grand finale. This song is a nightmare. Literally, though. It's the man's nightmare in which he is in bed with the woman, whom he tries to wake, to no avail. He soon is transported to the morgue of the hospital, and workers start to bury the two of them together. He tries to save her, like he did when she was alive, but again, this does not work. He wakes up, and realizes that she hasn't been there for a good while, now. She regularly"visits" him, either as a ghost or in his dreams, but regardless of what she is now, he doesn't seem to enjoy it as much as the real thing.

So that's the story of the album. I really hope you were listening to it as you read. Or at least listen to it later on. This is an album that I think everyone in the world should listen to. It's pure emotion is one of the main reasons I love it so much.

Individual track ratings:

Prologue: 9/10

Kettering: 9/10

Sylvia: 8.5/10

Atrophy: 9/10

Bear: 10/10

Thirteen: 8/10

Two: 10/10

Shiva: 10/10

Wake: 9.5/10

Epilogue: 10/10

The album as a whole, it just completely kills your happy mood that you had before starting. In a good way. My favorite by The Antlers, though "In The Attic of the Universe" comes in a very close second. I give it a 10/10, no question about it. Regardless of the almost non-existent down times it has, it still works together very well and does not disappoint. Bam.

CH-CH-CHANGES

Oh wow everything is different. Awesome, cool. Yeah so, everything that you read before about me making movies, and writing reviews. Yeah, you can forget all that. I haven't talked about making a movie with anybody in forever. I may or may not write more reviews. Actually, I think I have a review of The Antlers' Hospice I could post here from my equally as used LiveJournal.
So, if you want to check out my other shit, here it is (again, probably):
Last.fm
YouTube
Twitter
LiveJournal
Tumblr
Xbox GT: Evrac (usually only on to play Rock Band, or Fable II, but you message me, I'll play whatever)
Steam ID: Mattastrophe (have no games and a shitty computer at the moment)

Holy shit I have a blog

Yeah, completely forgot this existed until today. Thanks to "Furree Katt" who posted to let me remember. Yeah, ok cool. I may update this shit up. Probably gonna change some stuff, but yeah. I really don't know what I'd use it for, cause I do have a Twitter for all my random thoughts and stuff. I dunno, maybe if any of my one reader has some suggestions...?

Well then

Yeah, I know nobody reads this. But hey, it's fun to go back and look at the stupid things I've said to the internet. So, for all the people who don't read this: I am actually going to post stuff now. Awesome, cool. Probably not very often though. I like to have a life sometimes. Gonna watch the new Clash of the Titans, may do a short review. Maybe.
Oh and guess what. Anything I've said I'd do before, yeah, none of that is gonna happen. Especially anything having to do with making any kind of movie. Oh, well, not like anybody was looking forward to it, right? So yeah.

tl;dr - Might actually update this, might not.

EDIT: Again, no one will care, but I'm pretty sure Chris cares less about any blog than I do, so he's out of the picture for now.
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