A New Feature

Hello, again. Tonight, I have a new feature on my blog. Some of you may or may not find this a good thing. But, I am trying something new. I will add a section of my blog regularly (or not so regularly as the case calls for) called the Lighter Side. Now, the Lighter Side is when I mention on thing that is not wreathed in madness and despair. Here's a sample of the Lighter Side.

On the Lighter Side

Um...Taco Bell is still in business, to my knowledge. Ugh...haven't been outside in so long, it's hard to tell. I think they are...I hope. Well, if they are hypothetically still open, we can still drown our sorrows in buckets of chips filled to the brim with preservatives with a side of synthetic cheese-flavored liquid. Hehheh, I can see it now, some fat kid running out the door in fear that Taco Bell went bankrupt due to the swine flu contaminating the food, because of the immigration, get it? Eh, sounded funnier in my head. Anyways...um...look I'm still working on this. I'm doing this as a request, OK?! I'm not good with acting optimistic.

So, you People are Embrassed by my Point of View?

Well, then after a brief word with a viewer. It has come to my attention that some of you viewers consider me to be a bastard. Now, personally I couldn't care less about what the general public thinks of my point of view. Here's a little post about how I'm not UTTERLY corrupt.

I don't go around maiming people, OK? I just don't see the point in helping someone directly who hasn't helped you in a similar way. If someone is kind or helps me, I thank them and move on. If someone hinders or insults me, either I do a similar deed or I just walk away. Now, for the comedy of my previous blog. A viewer left a comment that was very deep and full of emotion, negative towards me. A parental figure, he claimed that I was "mean and spiteful". OK, that was just for dark humor. I don't see the harm in it. Besides the chances of that singer running into my blog is extremely minor or second to non-existent. Some of you may think that I was mocking the special Olympics, I am NOT! I was mocking the way that it was coordinated. Specifically the event coordination, I would never mock the mentally disabled. Did I mention anything negative about the athletes, no.

And if this singer did find my blog and if she did read this article, if she can't take criticism, she has no real purpose as a singer. A true singer would just be insulted for a while, send some hate mail and move on after a month at the most. Truth be told, I am writing for myself and if anyone gets insulted, well I'm not the most crazed, most evil bastard floating in the void of the Internet. If anyone is ashamed of me, very well. I cannot change that, nothing can. And if you viewers find my concepts upsetting, well you can just send me some hate mail and walk away (if it is really bigotry or is flawed, I'll post and exploit your flaws on multiple levels so please think carefully before you bombard me).

Was I mocking the Olympics, on a level, yes I was. I was mocking they way that it was poorly designed. But, I do not see any sin in pointing out how poorly organized it was, or if I gave a brutal review of a singer. My point is, there are many crueler people on this planet, why waste your ammo on me when you could be doing so to a child pornography site or a Neo-Nazi organization site. My point is, their is no sin in exorcising your 1st amendment rights and exploiting controversial concepts and material that others will most likely find offensive. As long as you have an intelligent cause and not just bigotry as a source. If you exploit flaws in an all too sensitive topic, well then people are bound to get upset. It was a risk that I knew and took. And for anyone offended, I sincerely apologize. I may be edited, yes. But censored, never.

If you people haven't figured out this by now, here is the truth about this blog: I am a homosexual. LOL, jk, jk...hehheh, sorry, I had to throw in something cyncial in their somewhere. Anyways, (ahem) I write for myself, just as JRR Tolkien did with the Lord of the Rings, this is my honset point of view. If you pepole have an issue with it, well you don't have to read it.

Nollaf's Tower Goes to the Special Olympics

Hello, little fools who are strange enough to read this blog without running out the door screaming (due to the philosophical concepts frequently mentioned throughout this blog that reflect in actually intelligent ideas). Yesterday, I volunteered. No, what...volunteered isn't the right word. I was press-ganged by my parents to "volunteer" at the Special Olympics. This year, it was held at the Aggie Stadium of UC Davis, practically at my doorstep. Normally on a Friday Night, I would lock the doors, get some European cheeses and crackers and play some World of Warcraft. But, my parents dragged me to this event. Their motives are unknown to me, but I think that they were trying to open up my heart (and making it 3x it's size, giving me the strength of TEN emos, plus 2). Yeah, I did the community service, but my heart is still as cold and hallow as it was that afternoon.

My job was simple, to usher the athletes to there seats. They had us get there an hour earlier with not a single job for us to do. So we sat their for an hour some pissed off mother (not mine, one of the athletes) was telling me how to usher them, fortunately I did put up with her infernal gibbering for too long. I donned my IPod and listened to some Final Fantasy VI Original Soundtrack...(sighs with solace) anyways, an hour later the opening torch ceremony began. I just pointed towards the general direction that they were supposed to go for about half an hour, once I was stationed.

However, one thing made it all worth while. You know how in ALL sporting events like this some scantally clad, amateur pop singer that NO ONE has ever heard of before comes up stage and sings our empire's, sorry I mean country's "national anthem". Now, she came over for a second song. It was some sort of sexual hype song, the choirs was "I coming up so you better get me started". Why would they sing that song? The selection of the musical score was not very well done either, a majority of the songs were orchestral version of rock songs with highly suggestive lyrics. Not to mention due to the background audio, the singer was almost instantly thrown off key. My mother and I laughed into the sunset, so that was fun.

After the torch was lit, I left. I was not moved as a person, it did not feel anything good in my heart, if anything it was humorous to mock the audio. Well, if anything I won karma points (if karma really exists, BIG if). The whole experience did not change me in any definition of the word, I remain the same evil, misanthropic ranter that I always have been.

Why Morals Do Not Exist

OK, after a conversation/arguments with my mother last night I have decided to blog about moral nihilism and how (unlike most forms of nihilism) it is somewhat practical. Moral nihilism is the belief that morals are just points of view and do not exist. In other words, moral absolutes do not exist. Now, I'm sure a bunch of crazy religious people are going to jump out of the shadows and bite my head off about how I'm wrong and how God's will is right. Well, then let's go over the ten commandments.

These are direct exscripts from the Exodus, so I don't want to hear any one whining about how I got these wrong, OK?!?

13 You shall not murder. (So if a homicidal maniac is chasing you with a chainsaw and you have a gun, you can't kill him?)

12 You shall not envy. (See #9)

14 You shall not commit adultery. (So you can't sleep with your dream guy when your husband is physically abusing you?)

15 You shall not steal. (So if you and your family is starving, you can't steal a 20 from a corrupt miser?)

16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (Even if he wronged you several times over again but you never told the authorities?)

17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. (But you can do it to your own ox or donkey, and if your neighbor is a horrible wife beater you and if she really likes you, you can't steal her? And what if the slave likes you? Besides covet means to desire or lust for and according to this God gave us free will so therefore we with our primal urges we subconsciously lust for sex constantly, thus damning us.)

6 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;

7 you shall have no other gods before me. (So, you gave us free will...but you expect us to obey you once we have found flaws in your commandments?)

8 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. (See comments above)

9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me, (So you love us, but you will damn us if we don't obey your every word?! Not to mention in #12 you said for us not to envy but you yourself envy so WHAT THE HELL?!? )

This is just one of many reasons why there are no moral absolutes.

Now, here's another reason why morals don't exist. Everyone has their own point of view. EVERYONE! Now every one who follows a religion has their own variations of it. Now the message that the church is trying to cross is basically this, "If you don't believe exactly what I believe than your going to hell." In that case that person would be the only one in heaven. Now, how dose that work? Hmm...sounds kinda boring to me. I can totally imagine myself in Moses's hypothetical place and pointing out all the flaws and he would just be stunned, "But..hmm...um...remind me why I gave you people free will again? Look just follow the commandments or I'll smite thee into oblivion."

Now as more good and evil. What is evil? The dictionary states it as, "profoundly immoral and malevolent." Like I said earlier, everyone has their own interpretations of good and evil. Look at the terrorists of the middle-east. They think that they are doing God's will and are therefore good. While we perceive them as evil because they murder countless people who do not agree with them. And look at the Spanish Inquisition, they thought that they were doing God's will also and believed that they were holy and pure, the pagans which they tortured thought otherwise. Even the Nazi's believed that they were purifying the human race by purging the Jewish cutler.

My point is good and evil can be anything. It's all about the point of view, therefore there are no moral absolutes, for they cannot exist in this world that we live in. Even if the planet was taken over by an empire and there was no freedom of religion, people would still secretly worship their own deities and there would be terrorists. Therefore, there are no moral absolutes. Any questions.

Why Edward is a Disturbing Pedophile

OK, this one will be shorter, I promise. I just want you to understand that Edward is a sociopathic freaky bastard. Now, I know all you pathetic acolytes of this...Stephenie Meyer. I stated this earlier, but I HATEHATEHATEHATEHATE TWILIGHT!!! (pant, wheeze) ahem, anyways why these pathetic teenagers fall in love with this bastard. Why? Well, I'll tell you why. Stephenie Meyer made it so that, her version of love in this book is stupid and shallow. Now, she perfected Edward physically and that's all that she cared about on this male protagonist. Naturally teenagers in general are extremely shallow and search for looks when searching for a mate. Therefore, she mentally half-assed him and thus turned him into an overprotective monster.

I know, a bunch of Twilight fan girls are going to scream, "WHY?! Edward's HAWT, what you see is a perfect reflection on the interior, right?". Sorry, you idiots but Edward has many of qualities of an abusive boyfriend. For God's sake, the bastard watches Bella has she sleeps and drains the gas from her car to prevent her from hanging out with her friends because he claims, "That their 'dangerous". He also threatens to kill Bella in a forest shortly after the infamous sparkle scene. Also, Edward is over 100 years old and he's dating a 17 year old girl. Do the f-ing math, people. And because, he's "hawt" that apparently makes up for all the times that he mentally toys with her. Thanks, Stephenie Meyer, thanks alot for sending a whole generation of women back two hundred years. Why can't you teenagers read something good like...I don't know, Physics of Immortality, or Divine Comedy?!

Why Twilight is The WORST PIECE OF LITERATURE of the 21st Century

Twilight, the very first syllable of it sends over ten thousand fan girls in an insane blood lust over a fictional character. Seriously, this book is more overrated than a hardcore porno film. Now why dose this book suck so bad? Well first of all, the language used is mundane to say the least. There is no descriptive language to speak off, trust me. The only moments of remote depth are in describing the "prefect thighs" and eyes* of the male protagonist, Edward. Every five f-ing minutes the author goes into detail of how ungodly sexy this immortal is. I mean, JESUS CHRIST!!! At this point this is like soft core porno for pretentious emo girls who are too depressed to look up actual porn. Here's a snippet of the book's writing.

"About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him — and I didn't know how potent that part might be — that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him." ...ok, see what I mean, SEE?!?


This book has the same basic plot of Romeo and Juliet, you HATE these two characters, you want them to die a painful death...but unlike Romeo and Juliet they live. This book sends the worst message you can send to a teenage girl: love is stupid and shallow and based on looks and lust alone. Excuse me while I gibber in the corner and relish in absolute hatred for anyone stupid enough to follow THAT moral. Again, this book is unoriginal...filled to the brim with cliches. Possibly to the point of overflowing. I can see it now, little pissed off Louie-Ripoffs flowing off the edges of a bucket filled with bull crap from Twilight. (God, fan girls are going to be beating me to death with baseball bats tomorrow) Now, about the protagonists. All and all, this story is just about a whinny, useless, pathetic bitch and her possessive, abusive, and over all boring boyfriend. I HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE TWILIGHT!!! The character development is non-existent, the characters are just flatter than the 14th century image of the planet and is just AWFUL!!! There is nothing, utterly NOTHING original about this book, I think I made myself clear but I'll say it again...I HATE it.

Again with the writing style, it's so...plan and empty. But then again this is targeted towards the adolescent which has the IQ lower than that of a man with down syndrome with rabid weasels teleported into his skull by occult powers. It took the concepts of Anne Rice and disemboweled them into something that your average pathetic junior high school mindless fool could remotely contemplate without spontaneously combusting with the thought of something actually intelligent.

However...there is one thing that I cannot forgive about this book...Edward goes out into sunlight! He's a vampire, and he sparkles. THE PASTY BASTARD SPARKLES!!! Stephenie Meyer, you are a moron and I HATE you. If you knew the first f-ing thing about vampires you would know that if they went outside in broad daylight, THEY WOULD COMBUST INTO FLAMES!!! Also, apparently vampires can reproduce via sexual intercourse now. Also, despite the fact that he is a near ageless entity, Edward is still a virgin. ....(twitch, twitch) must not kill...now for those of you who think otherwise about the cliche part, read below.

Example I: a new girl comes to school, she has no talents at all and is just an idiot. Example II: said girl falls in love with the hottest guy in school, GASP! Example III: Hottest guy falls in love with failure girl. Example IV: Hottest guy turns all evil and pissy (BUFFY RIP-OFF!!!) Example V: Vampire (the hottest guy) turns all emo and eats animals (and then Lestat follows him into the sewers and says, "All I have to do to find you Louie is follow the corpses of rats?") Example VI: Failure girl follows Vampire Sex-God and declares undying love for him but he basically turns into a teenage version of Angle from Buffy and pushes her away. Throw a few random events and you have Twilight! The only reason that this has so many cultist is the pathetic teenagers who drool over this book because of the sex scene in the second book.

Here's a remotely intelligent person's view on Twilight: What the hell is this garbage? It has no sense of plot or character development!

Here's an Edward Stalker's view on Twilight: OMG!!!EDWARDISSOOOHAWT!!!I dumped my boyfriend so I could be with Edward, CAUSE HE'S HAWT!!! Oh, and what's character development?

Other Edward Stalker: BACK OFF BITCH, HE'S MINE!!!

First Stalker: NO HE ISN'T!!! I READ HIS DESCRIPTION FIRST IN THE FIRST BOOK!!!

Other Edward Stalker: NNNEEEAGHHHH!!!!! (Lunges for the other girl's throat)

Gollum: And people says we have an unnatural attachment to an inanimate object...

This is a barely exaggerated conversation between two fan girls...sad isn't it? Oh and I added the Gollum part for good measure. All and all this book is nothing more than a poorly written mish-mash of Stephenie Meyer's sad and pathetic sexual fantasies. I swear to God, if Lestat is called "The Brat Prince"of the Vampire world, than Edward is their "Pathetic Emo Cash Cow of Sparkles".

* That will f-ing make the sun explode into a supernova engulfing the planet if he looks at it for too long, because they are that f-ing beautiful. Now, seriously...almost every other paragraph is just an extremely detailed description of his eyes...sometimes I think that he's like the a teenage version of Sauron, just this floating eyeball. Because that's all this book talks about, is how hot Edward is.

Good, Evil, Law, Chaos and all that s#!%

Hello horrific abominations, tis me Nollaf once more. Now...today I shall talk about ethics/morals to some degree. Well, what I am really talking about is the D&D Alignment Test. Yes, this test classifies you in one of the 9 categories of D&D Ethics and Morals. There is Lawful Good (like Superman, Aerith from FFVII and Abraham Lincoln), Neutral Good (like Frodo, Gandalf and Cloud from FFVII), Chaotic Good (like my Dad, Tifa Lockheart from FFVII and Captain Krik), Lawful Neutral ( Cops, me in my earlier years), True Neutral ( Spock, Batman and Canada), Chaotic Neutral (stupid people who act on instinct or animals...that and Switzerland), Lawful Evil ( awesome people like Darth Vader and Dr. Evil), Neutral Evil (Sauron, The Witch King) and Chaotic Evil (Sephiroth from FFVII, Voldemort, Cthulhu, Hastur any classic villain).

Guess which one I am? Yes, Nollaf is: Lawful Evil! Yes, a power hungry, evil, sadistic, dictator! I am the cool, bad-ass kind of evil like Maifa Bosses and Sith Lords! WOOT! Haha, and pepole say that I'm not evil...the little patheic fools >:) . For a deeper description of my alignment, read this.

A lawful evil [person] methodically takes what he wants within the limits of his code of conduct without regard for whom it hurts. He cares about tradition, loyalty, and order but not about freedom, dignity, or life. He plays by the rules but without mercy or compassion. He is comfortable in a hierarchy and would like to rule, but is willing to serve. He is loath to break promises, and is therefore very cautious about giving his word unless a bargain is clearly in his favour.

This reluctance comes partly from his nature and partly because he depends on order to protect himself from those who oppose him on moral grounds. Some lawful evil villains have particular taboos, such as not killing in cold blood (but having underlings do it) or not letting children come to harm (if it can be helped). They feel these personal morals put them above unprincipled villains.

Video Game Soundtrack Review: Shadow of the Colossus

Well, I've been searching through my old video game library and I found an old classic. No doubt all you Ico fans will recognize this title, Shadow of the Colossus. Yes, this unconventional action/adventure game has I really good musical score. It's mellow at times, with gentle cellos echoing with a haunting choir and a single flute swaying in the mist of the final battle (Demise of the Ritual~ Battle with the Colossus) . This score is almost as epic as the Lord of the Rings, possably more so. However, the good music only plays when you do battle with one of the sixteen earthly walking mountains throughout the game. I give this music a 5/5.

Here are some samples

Slience~ Battle with the Colossus

Grotesque Figures~ Battle withe the Colossus

A Despair Filled Farwell~ Battle with the Colossus

The Opened Way ~ Battle with the Colossus

Out of the Inferno and Heading to Purgatory (Divine Comedy Refernce)

Hello again, filthy humans now...what to talk about today. Ah yes, well then...Nollaf here is out of that HORRIBLE Holmes Jr High School. Feh...those humans, so happy and perky. But at the same time so full of spiteful malice and hatred for all that if different than them. So, whats the word...hollow, cold and unfeeling. It's almost like they pretend to have emotion and are so oblivious to everything around them it's strange. These "peers" of mine, wreathed in oblivion were nothing more than persistent little flies nipping and buzzing around my limbs, a minor annoyance but an annoyance never the less. Oh course I am referring to these adolescents that I had to put up with for 3 long and painful years. I must admit, the staff was very kind to me (particularly my English teacher this year). Now Nollaf no longer has to put up with the plague/scourge of the human race: teenagers. Well, ok I still have three more long years ahead. But I am going to a different school, an advanced program for those with similar minds to my own. And no I'm NOT referring to an asylum.

It's called Davicni High School, a small school which centers around technology and power point persenations. This will be must better than the Junior high school. However the main thing that bugged me about them is that they are so rapped up in their own filthy ignorance and pathetic social lives. They no nothing about the real world, as do I. Though I may not be a man of the world, I'm not exactly naive here. I do my research, unlike these fools. Of late, I have been hearing tales of how "good" these teens are and how noble they are. They win these...presidential awards. Such amusing fiction, quite contrary to popular belief (which is just about as reliable as Wikipedia), I know what these fools do after school, I know their involvement in narcotics, I know what they did last summer. Ok, I was joking on that last one, heheh. But come on, this is just a popularity contest with the teachers nothing more. Anyways, due to my strange and nihilism-filled outlook on life my peers mock me. In the case of 8th grade, I was often times physically harmed due to my difference.

They are so idiotic and hateful, of course due to my lack of muscle tone I am unable to fight back. That's when I alert the staff, I have no other options. And after a brief scolding, they say that "their sorry", please...they aren't sorry for their crime. Their sorry because they did it to my face. Then of course as with all teens, they go through a breakup or some other petty downhill slide in their life, soon their friends and lackeys whine about it and so on and so forth. They get so loud and sometimes I wonder why don't I just get myself a pair of earplugs. Well, that's my rant for these week.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring vs A Walk to Remeber

Greetings my gentle viewers, Nollaf is back to review more movies, but this time in a different manner. After a bit of an argument in 6th Period over wither to watch the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings or A Walk to Remember, I have decided the prove to those fools that the Lord of the Rings is twice the novel and film that a Walk to Remember will ever be. Well, shall I begin? Starting with Protagonists and Antagonists.

Protagonists

LOTR: Frodo Baggins, a young hobbit who is the nephew of Bilbo Baggins. He is a frailly quite lad who inherits a magical ring (which turns out to be link between the reincarnation of the Dark Lord, Sauron) which holds terrible power and must cast it into the depths of a volcano on the other side of the continent, Mount Doom.

AWTR: Landon Carter, a son of a rich family, although Sparks described him as a "typical teenage boy". Landon is the name of Sparks' third son. Hegbert did not like Landon for how the latter's grandfather's wealth was accumulated and has deemed him, in the words of Sparks, a "sort of aimless" lad. Eventually, Hegbert let Landon out with Jamie for he saw positive changes in his attitude.

Winner: Frodo Baggins (LOTR)

Antagonists

LOTR: Sauron, the dark lord of the wastelands of Mordor who commands thousands of horrific aberrations called orcs and lurks at his hellish citadel of Bara'Dur. His physical body was destroyed in ages past but his will was so powerful that it allowed him to continue to exist as an incorporeal flaming, all seeing eye atop of his tower of madness and utter evil. Tolkien made him to represent evil as whole, simple evil, and at it's core a single minded vision and intolerance to all difference or racism is you will.


AWTR: Revered Sullivan, a highly religious reverend who refuses to allow the two lovers to be together. He is also the father of the female protagonist, Jammie.

Winner: Sauron (LOTR)

Primary Female Protangists

LOTR: Eowyn, a sheildmaiden of the kingdom of Rohan, located in the eastern plains of Middle Earth next to the Misty Mountains. She has an iron will and is good with a sword, she even utterly destroyed one of Sauron's lead lieutenants, The Lord of the Nazgul.

AWTR: Jammie Sullivian, the daughter of the Beaufort church minister Hegbert Sullivan. Jamie, whose name was taken from Sparks' editor, Jamie Raab,has leukemia; however, the novel presents her fate ambiguously that had Sparks receive frequently asked questions from readers if she did live or die.

Winner: Eowyn (LOTR)

Mentor-Like Figures

LOTR: Gandalf, an elderly wizard with powers over the elements. He took on a Balrog single handily in the Mines of Moria.

AWTR: ...someone, anyone?

Winner: Gandalf (LOTR)

Main Soundtack Piece

LOTR: May it Be, a soothing medloy with an elven chorus composed and preformed by Enya. Come on, it's Enya for God's Sake!

AWTR: It's Gonna Be Love, sung by Mandy Moore...this song= awful, the insturmental ascepts of it are so god damn bad, just the lyrics are so awful, I hate it!

Winner: May it Be (LOTR)

Opening Sequences

LOTR: With the narration of Galaderial (Queen of the Wood Elevs of Lothlorien), this scene descirbes the origins of the One-Ring, The Wraiths and the Downfall of Sauron with an epic choir and a kick-ass fight scene between orcs and humans/elves.

AWTR: A stupid teenage bastard jumps off a bridge, and gets injured just so that he can be one of the cool kids...wow...-_-'

Winner: "One Ring to Rule Them All" (LOTR)

Ending Sequences

LOTR: One of the protagonists get shot repeatedly in the chest with arrows and dies while Frodo stands on the riverbank miles away crying over the death of Gandalf, while his faithful companion Sam races after him while Frodo grabs a boat, crying to complete the quest alone out of fear that his companions will be tourterd and killed by the orcs ahead. After the two hobbits hug it out. Aragorn, one of the lead protagonists fends off the orcs attacking his comrades but is too late. After he kills the head orc, Boromir (the one being shot) passes away claiming that theit fellowship was futile and that Sauron will return and destroy all life. Aragon kisses his brow and vows to aid Frodo still, after Boromir passes away he runs after Frodo to find that he has left. With the fellowship divided, the movie ends...

AWTR: Landon continues to fulfill various wishes on Jamie's list, such as building her a telescope so she can see a comet. Her father who at first didn't approve of him helps out. After Jamie sees the comet through the telescope, Landon proposes marriage with Jamie accepting. Through this process, Landon and Jamie learn more about the nature of love. The movie ends with Jamie's death, but only after the couple are married in the same chapel as was Jamie's deceased mother, the event that topped Jamie's wish list. Landon himself becomes a better person through Jamie's memory, achieving the goals that he set out to do, like she did.

Winner: The Breaking of the Fellowship (LOTR), Come on it made me cry...

I don't think I need to go on...