Haiku

first moon
a  flower lies
cut at the bud

first moon
the haunting shadow
grasps the streetlight

early summer
the windmill's' shadow
disturbs the birds

summer morning
the Black Witch
lands on the crops

tranquil night
on my finger
lands the Black Witch

Haiku Guy

Truthfully, Haiku Guy was pretty good. It was a lot like a book I read previously this year, Portrait Of An Artist, As An Old Man by Joseph Heller. In both books, the main character is striving to become great writers. Except in the case of Haiku Guy, the writer cannot write well at the beginning, but he generally starts to be able to write haiku. In the latter book, the writer can already write. He mainly tries to go and create one final, brilliant book before he dies. I relatively enjoyed the characters in Haiku Guy. It was interesting how Master Cup-Of-Tea was never straight-forward with his lessons, but instead he hid them within haiku. As for Kuro, he was probably my least favorite character. He was always talking about death and despair, and how nothing that anyone did actually mattered. He was such a gloomy person, and I don't exactly like reading about gloomy characters like that in books. I didn't really care much for the way that the writer of the book made it so Buck-Teeth was in the current era, though. It just seemed rather pointless, and I think that could have been removed. The part with the friends of the author going into Buck-Teeth's era should remain, though. Throughout the book his friend's played a rather major role in Buck-Teeth's development, and to remove them would be to remove an important aspect of the book. But the way he kept on talking of how they were people there from future eras, and how they were not of Buck-Teeth's time seemed to ruin it somewhat. It just seemed rather pointless to talk about how Buck-Teeth could never get the girl because she's from the 21st century.

Overall, I would recommend this to a friend. It was rather interesting of a concept, with the main character being a person who wants to write. While at a couple of moments it may have been dull, it redeemed itself with the next section or two before falling into another dull area, for however brief it did. It was a good read and it kept me interested, except for those previously mentioned moments of dullness.

RSA Animate

Yes, what I do when I can get on the computer is searching videos like this. I find them off of a website called wimp.com sometimes, and then i post them onto facebook or link someone to them. What are they? They're someone making speeches at least ten times more interesting and comprehensible. Sometimes people don't really pay attention to the speech, and they will sit for a long period of time and not understand what was just stated. But the people who make these videos make the speeches actually interesting to watch. They go to a white board and draw the images, then speed them up to go along with the speech. It must take an amazingly long time and it must be very challenging to do. I've watched several of these, and each of them have managed to hold my interest. They are, for me at least, one of the best things you can find via youtube. Most people probably don't share this view with me, because I am one of those people who spend my time reading books, some of which are political books. I also take joy in learning about things that have to do with politics or any interesting fact I can find about life. Therefore, I often find myself watching these videos. I hope you enjoy them as well.

Right Wing Donald Duck

My sister showed me this a long while ago, and I find it to be just amazing. I don't completely understand my urge to watch this, or even why I enjoy it so much. It probably has something to do with the fact that it makes fun of Glenn Beck. If you know who Glenn Beck is, it's just a great video. If you don't know who Glenn Beck is, then it's not as interesting as it could be. In short, let's just say that he's a really intense guy that makes people pay money for advice, and when he does he just tells them that they're being too lazy and they need a job. I'm posting this so that other people can see this, laugh at Glenn Beck, and then maybe, just maybe, become more interested in learning about politics and possibly even get more interested in learning about people like this. Also, so that I can state this: Glenn Beck is, in fact, a complete idiot.

History Of The Soviet Union

History Of The Soviet Union to the theme of Tetris. It's awesome.

A Rant

I've recently come to see that I am no longer entitled to hold my own opinion. I can't state that, no, I do not like the Harry Potter series without people trying to change my views, and having them also state how wrong I am. I cannot state that I dislike Linkin Park without people getting angry (even though most of the times that I say it to Jack and Evan I'm aiming to get them angry). I can't stand out in the open and talk of how I do not support the communists, democrats, republicans, or whatever someone's political preferences may be. I can't state that I enjoy ska more than Lady Gaga, Kanye West, or whatever the hell the current fad is. I say that because no matter what the fad is, it is probably bad, as I've seen according to the music that people have come to like. I don't understand it. Why am I one of the people not entitled to opinions? Why do people have the strive to make it seem that they are right and that the other person is always wrong? Why can't people just let others watch, read, and listen to what they want? This is one of the reason I'm misanthropic. We've come to a point where we want to force our beliefs on everybody else. We want everyone to be just like us. We can now be almost completely compared to earlier peoples, who forced you to convert to their religion or they would kill you. We are becoming like the people in the Salem witch trials, who burnt people because they feared their ideas were different. Soon we'll be like the "blond beast." It should be easy to see the reference to the person in that one, and it should also be easy enough to see where I'm going with this. Human nature sucks, because we have the want to control everything. There can't be anything that goes against our ideas, or anything that seems even slightly alien to us. We can't accept anything. What is the world coming to?

Ten Questions

1) What is your favorite book and why is it your favorite?
2) If there is any purpose to life other than living and dying, what is it?
3) What are your political views? Why?
4) If you were in court for something that you did do that held a penalty of seven years in prison and you knew you could get out of the penalty by lying, would you lie? Why or why not?
5) What is your favorite genre of music? What three bands are your favorites of that genre?
6) What major would you like to pursue in college and why?
7) What do you think would be an interesting way to die?
8) Do you believe the world is headed for ruin? Why or why not?
9) Does the world seem to have a sense of banality throughout history? Explain.
10) If put in a position of power, do you believe you would lose control and become corrupted? Why or why not?