Reading Reddit, Viewing Vice, Loving Learning, Borderlands 2

With all the media (read: books, music,  internet, movies, tv) that I find my consuming on a daily basis I have decided to start keeping record of how my mind is interacting with all of these inputs. So now you the reader will be subjected to my run-on sentences and mindless mumblings in completely rough form.

Essentially I am now going to attempt to create a sorts of Input/Output documentation through this blog and let the public eye examine, destruct, construct, and consume my thoughts.

I first off gotta say... I love reddit... I'm not talking about the loads of pictures and hilarious memes it produces (although they are pretty cool) I'm talking about the ability to customize the certain subreddits... Yeah, if you haven't yet make an account, unsubscribe from r/aww and r/atheism, and you will find your internet world opening up with 'knowledge'.

So just from reddit I learned about 11 misunderstood pop songs, Romney is offensive, thepiratebay will have even less downtime, and Lance Armstrong is tired of facing doping allegations...

Romney also said the only way for illegal immigrant kids to gain the right of citizenship is to join the army.... 

Oddly enough I found myself not on reddit as much today simply because I didn't want to process the information! My behaviour in media consumption has already changed over the course of one day.

In the afternoon I swung on over to Vice.com to check out their latest articles... Apart from their various fashion articles, really strange how-to guides, and ecletic taste in music I find a lot of their journalism to be covering articles that matter to me (a white guy in his 20s who's life is mostly exposed to suburban culture)... They had this great video series that started on Monday entitled Fresh Off the Beat with Eddie Huang... The first episode was great. We're introduced to chef Eddie Huang who goes out to a ranch with a biker to hunt some rabbits. Through the video chef Eddie Huang learns about the disconnect of eating meat and slaughtering the animals and we get to observe hipsters shooting guns... Seriously check this video out... Please...

Did you watch this yet? 

In netflix-topia I watched the first 20 minutes of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1976) starring Clint 'Dirty Harry' Eastwood as Thunderbolt and Jeff Bridges as Lightfoot. It's the tale of a car thief Lightfoot picking up 'target for assassination' Reverend Thunderbolt along the side of a country road. As Thunderbolt and Lightfoot arrive into town and began to pick up women for sex I promptly fell asleep....

I'll have to watch it some other time... 

Nevertheless I found Jeff Bridges hilarious as a young, overzealous, and egotistical man being and being paired up with Eastwood's no-nonsense Reverend with a sordid past coming to light, the two had some great moments within the introduction to the movie. I recommend watching it if your into movies from the 70s as I am (Dirty Harry and The Godfather are from this decade) then I recommend giving it a view.


I'm also working my way through the second season of Arrested Development. I don't what I can say that hasn't already been said but I believe Tobias "I just blue myself" Funke seems to be getting better and better every single episode! Although I'm kinda missing the interactions between Michael Jr. and Maybe...

Anyway last but not least I got Borderlands 2 running on my Mac without bootcamp. The story starts out with you on a space planet "Pandora" and your trying to find the magical 'Vault' which has loads of treasure but as your riding on your way to gain employment for a mercenary named 'Handsome Jack' he blows up your train. After just surviving the explosion you are rescued by a 'claptrap' (think talking R2D2) and now you are required to kill monsters, bandits, and other mercenaries while accepting fetch quests from unlikely allies. You can better understand what I'm talking about via this dubstep soundtracked trailer for the game.





I play it because of the obsessive collecting of guns and shields. There are literally 400,000 shield combinations. I have this weird thing with games that feature collecting various items... Yep, MapleStory, Torchlight, Diablo, Borderlands, Fallout, Elder Scrolls... the list goes on. I like collecting things and maximizing my in game character's combat potential... If you give me a game with stats I'm happy as a duck in a pond.

Why finish the post with a duck? It's my blog... I do what I want.