"i overheard that you were unhappy too, misleading trust into a relationship that makes no sense, over and out connecticut..."

this will be the last post i write until i'm settled in up north in wisconsin. i'm cutting the cable modem to help save seventy bucks a month that could be better used to put into savings...

since i'm trying to ween myself off of the internet and games like a junkie kicking smack, i've ventured into a field i had long since missed from my childhood. something i loved immensely, and looked forward to doing at any time of the day... reading.

since december 21st of '07, up until now, i have read through four books, and i couldn't have been prouder of myself.

the past four days i've come home from work, i go to letting my dog out, checking the mail, showering, fixing and eating a bologna sandwich with a handful of frito corn chips, and flopping onto my springy mattress to read joe pantoliano's, "who's sorry now?"

i finished it moments ago, and did two things throughout the book. laughed out loud, something i very rarely do when reading, and cried. the book is funny and sad, and even though i didn't grow up as an italian-american in hoboken, i still found similarities to my muddy irish-german, mixed heritage upbringing in the upper peninsula.

reading has also become my escape from my normal life which wasn't normal in it's own right.

work has been very rough this past week, with certain people leaning on me, and certain people just getting on my nerves. i have been zero social with anyone in the household, and it's not that i'm trying to be a prick, i think, i just feel the urge to be by myself, and get lost through words in a book, until it's time for me to go home to my mom and dad.

this will be the last you hear from me until i'm back at home, freezing my beanbag off.

on borrowed time.

i've come to have this comfort in my mind, even though my life feels very accelerated; and i've also learned that some of the best things in life, are from the late seventies.

above said being a man by the name of terry reid, a musician who i learned of oddly enough from rob zombie's, "devil's rejects," soundtrack.

he had two or three tracks on the album that were just insane, and when i went to search him out, i had found that the man was made underrated by most of my peers, and only had three known albums in his resume. two being from the late seventies and one from the mid-nineties.

"seed of memory," is the one of the three i'd recommend the most to anyone who wants to hear an album that's part groove, part classic rock, and part background ambiance for a sam kieth comic. it's nothing short of spectacular.

the realtor came by and we talked about the house, getting it on the market as soon as we could, and comics. the man brought his hardcover, "elektra: assassin," autographed by frank miller himself! that was pretty cool.

i saw two movies worth seeing this weekend.

"juno," which was humorous, and, "the orphanage," which was magnificent.

i only went to see, "the orphanage," because guillermo del toro presented it, and lately, aside from, "blade 2," i've been a pretty big fan of his, and as i said, i'm glad i went, because it was magnificent. all spanish with english subtitles, but worth a viewing. i think i may own that one.

started futzing with, "saint's row," again. i need a new game to conquer. i want, "the godfather."

and finally, the last bit of self-involved news comes in the form of me being glad i didn't use my christmas gift card to target, because, "family guy presents blue harvest," the star wars special, is coming out on dvd this tuesday in a giant collector's edition with cards, poster, shirt, 3-D glasses and more. bonus!

i can't wait to get to wisconsin.

man i can't wait to see this...

the trailer for the new george romero zombie flick, "diary of the dead."

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i'm never playing, "DEAD RISING," again.

the following, taken from wikipedia...

"Dead Rising has an unusual save system: only one game-in-progress can be saved per memory device per Xbox 360 profile. In these cases, Dead Rising allows players to save their current level and status and restart the game from the beginning as a more powerful player. The system is a deliberate game mechanic, borrowed from one of Capcom's RPGs Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter; the two games share some development team members.[11]

Though the unusual saves are largely unpopular with gamers and likely caused Dead Rising to be scored lower on game ratings, Keiji Inafune said, in an interview with Electronic Gaming Monthly, that, the saves were intentionally designed so that players would feel that there were some consequences for their actions and would be forced to make quick, tactical decisions."

in a related story, twenty seven year old gamer, douglas burke, who had to replay through twice because of said save function, was quoted as saying:

"fuck, 'dead rising,' and fuck the japanese... i quit." [end quote.]

so, i broke the news on livejournal, for those of you who read this, and i doubt there are many because i never hear otherwise in the comments section, i, douglas burke, am moving to wisconsin just as soon as my house here sells.

i'm pretty scared in the sense of having to take the time to pack everything and get the house sold, but the outcome outweighs that fear for the most part.

but, i have good reasons for moving. family, and let's face it, everything tastes better up north.

it will be good to only be an hour or two driving distance from caddy dan. i miss that guy.

the prospect of having an apartment is exciting too. it'll be a first for me. up until now, i've only ever lived with my folks, and in this house i bought.

i can't wait to get back to green bay more than anything. the comicbook stores and used game/dvd places... it'll be nice to get to a familiar place once held in high regard of my childhood.

the beer's better up north too. :)

"THROUGH THE STRUGGLES YOU'VE ENDURED..."

"dead rising."

this fucking game. a 360 game.

when it first came out, i was overjoyed to play a next-gen zombie game. capcom made it. and what else did they make??? resident. fucking. evil.

so, of course, i was optimistic. what i remember however, was hating the game.

that was almost a year and a half ago. i opted for a second chance, since i've honed into my gamer skills a little better. how did it fare up.

great actually. the only problem... a shitty save system. and because the save system is so shitty, the two and a half hours i played straight through, and the five storyline cases i completed... were lost when i inadvertently died. all that progress, lost. start from scratch.

i've never screamed to the point where i saw my own saliva spit onto the screen, to reflect anger displayed in high def.

and to top it all off... i report for jury duty tomorrow morning.

someone is selling this for $1,999 on ebay...



can anyone buy this for me? it's fucking solo in carbonite for crying out loud! there's not many things i would ravenously covet on this earth, but a life size replica of han solo frozen in carbonite is something i would smack a kid in the face for.

i caught myself the, "30 days of night," screener dvd, and saw it finally.

i've never read the comics, although that's not to say i'm not a steve niles fan, i am, i just never found the comics to look all that appealing, but, now after watching the film, i kinda wanna read them.

it reminded me of, "the thing," with vampires. it actually wasn't that bad.

i'm re-watching, "heroes," season one, seeing as how i got it for christmas, and i'm falling in love with it all over again. though i'm not too big on the 73 minute un-aired, tim kring cut pilot, that is included in the set. it's very different, and very... boring?

started playing, "splinter cell: double agent," again, and got sucked into it massively. i completely disregarded my, "halo 3," matches in slayer, and just got lost in sam fisher-land...

i really want to re-play, "the godfather."

this is the last day of my vacation. work tomorrow. i guess i miss work in a sick way. i've literally left the house four times in two weeks. it has been nice just vegging out, playing games, reading books i've had for years finally, and watching a massive amount of dvds... married with children, heroes, twin peaks, the office, etc...

if this is any indication as to how a retirement can be spent, then i'm ready now.

new card.

nor hell hath fury.

ADDENDUM: as of 1:05 p.m. today, january 2, 2008, i beat, "halo 3," on heroic. the ending was a let down for me. my bungie profile is online now as well so you can view my halo service record if you're bored. brokencopy at bungie.
END OF ADDENDUM.

to my amazement two days ago, i woke up with a soreness in my right ear, once again, for the first time in two months.

then, yesterday, it got worst, and let's just say, i'm glad i kept the ear drops i got from the last time, because once again, i have swimmer's ear, and for the life of me, i don't know why. all i know, is that it feels like someone is piercing my eardrums with nails. it hurts that bad.

this morning was a nice surprise to find that, unbeknown to me, the low for the day was to be twenty nine degrees with a high of fifty six. followed in the week to weather back in the hot area. i hate florida.

when i spoke to my mother yesterday, i basically told her that in november, i plan on coming up for a week, and while i'm there, i'm going to look in green bay for work and a cheap apartment. i will be moving back up north in 2009. that's my goal.

i'm tired of paying the ridiculous cost that it be to live here, and really, aside from my roommates, there's nothing here for me. i don't really talk to anyone anymore, and i'm just not happy.

green bay is a big city, that i more or less grew up around and loved, and it has a massive amount of comicbook stores, and great comedy clubs, so, it's only logical i move back home. i can say this with absolute certainty, once i move up, i will never come back here again.

i finally played through the trouble spots i had in, "halo 3," and made it to the end of the cortana mission. now that's left is to finish that last bit, and then chapter nine, and i will have beaten the game. it's a lot harder on heroic than i thought.

finally watched the final season, three, of, "arrested development." it was hysterical as usual, but i'm still sour on how it ended as a hole.

"alien vs. predator: requiem," was better than the first, but not all that great. you really can't make a versus movie with aliens or predators when you think about it, because no one will really win, because they're both two races of aliens that thrive throughout the galaxy.

and finally... why does it take my dog twenty minutes to sniff out a place to shit? i'll never understand how a dog has a standard for shitting on a golden ticket spot.