I always want to sit down and whip up a blog or something when I'm not at home and when I get home I'm always so tired or something and simply never do it. Be it laziness or whatever, it's irritating as it makes me feel unproductive. It's not just having a lack of motivation to create blogs, which aren't all that important, but the lack of motivation to write to begin with. I want to work on my stories but I can't seem to get over the hump of actually working on them. I try many things to inspire myself and it's not that I have an imagination block or anything, far from it, I'm constantly working things out in my head for the stories, it's just doing the work that seems to give me the trouble. Any suggestions to relieve this anybody? I'm all ears in that department. I would also like to discuss artistic directions of characters/things/places/etc. for the stories with any willing artists who happen to be reading this, just let me know if you're interested. Maybe just talking about it in general would motivate me.

Watched The Orphanage yesterday night. Very good movie, I don't have any beefs with it at all. It actually gave me the Freakout McNasties so I give it some degree of kudos just for that, as Silent Hill has really been the only thing to do that..unless I'm just becoming wimpier, which is indeed possible.

My grandpa passed away some number of weeks ago and I miss him. Him and I never really had much to talk about, but I really enjoyed his company as a child and respected him greatly. I got together with my grandma for a bit the other day and picked up some of his old belongings that I had wanted and she was more than willing to let me have. A very awesome portrait of him as a young man and he looks like he worked in a malt shop(Kick ass), his badges from when he was in the service, his American flag, the bible he was given by his parents when he was born(Now I just need bibles from both my biological grandmothers to complete my collection which I never really was shooting to complete to begin with), and a nice stack of movies from his office that I'm sure wouldn't be watched at all if I didn't pick them up. Most of which are Disney movies; Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Great Mouse Detective, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, Pocahontas, A Muppet Christmas Carol, and Goldfinger(Yes, I am aware which ones are Disney). In fact, I would go as far as to say that it was my grandpa who got me into being the big movie nut I am today. When I was but a shrimpling he had a massive collection of VHS tapes that I would literally watch all day and night. His collection was massive, but through out the years it started to get smaller and smaller until finally it was just down to a select few family movies for the much younger grandkids to partake in.

WHY I LOVE THE MOTHER SERIES-
As anyone who knows me knows, EarthBound is my favorite video game of all time. Ever. No exceptions. It will always be my favorite, nothing will ever be able to top it. Not even Mother 3(If I ever get to play that, good lord). EarthBound makes me happy. About as happy as watching Twice Upon A Time. Anyone who doesn't like EarthBound is a horrible human being and is most likely a closet pedophile or a rapist or something. When I played through EarthBound so many years ago, I thought it was the most fantastic adventure. I still do. Though the main characters rarely speak, if not at all, they're still some of my favorites ever and Ness will always be my childhood hero. The ideas and concepts in the Mother series are amazing and some of the best I've ever come across in my many years spelunking through video games and movies. The part I probably love the most, other than incredible villains and pop culture references(The Beatles 4 life), is the simple fact that it's a grown up's world seen through the eyes of children, and though it does have some dark elements, all in all it's simply just hilarity. A parody of the real world seen through the eyes of children, very intelligent reasonable children, which only makes it seem like more of a parody than it really is. Which only makes Giygas that much more horrifying(Ultimate evil embodied by Itoi's traumatic childhood experience of witnessing a rape scene in a movie. Beyond terrifying for the general style of the game's atmosphere). It's fantastic. The locations still excite my blood to this day when playing through. The art style is simple, but it so works. Itoi is a genius and one of my idols. He has created something so fantastic that it's actually sculpted a large part of my imagination. All that and Pokey is pretty radsauce. Boing!

I managed to really injure my leg yesterday at work....that's a blog entry all in itself there, so I'm going to cut this short to lay down.

Ciao.