Grab the Blood Buckets

As you all know I love videogames very much and as you may also know the E3 convention was a little over a week ago. Although I didn't get to go, I was right on my couch watching all the recaps on Xbox LIVE. One of the things I am most excited about though is Gears of War 2. After playing most of Gears 1, I know what to expect from Epic Games. Cliff Bezinski of Epic Games stated during the announcement of Gears 2 last February "Gears 2 will be scarier, bloodier and more badass than Gears 1 so bring a bucket"


Because Gears 2 must top Gears 1, Epic Games is doing several things. They said they are working on Dom's AI when you are playing Story Mode alone because he was terrible in the first game. They also upped the textures of all surfaces which will give Gears 2 an amazing amount of detail. With the newer features on the Unreal 3 Engine they will be able to create better shadows and lighting, insert large numbers of intelligent enemies into gameplay, and create very destructible environments. The newest Gears 2 trailer "Rendezvous" was released during E3 and can be seen below.

Enough about Gears 2, a few days ago I sang for a school garage band program at Chaska River City Days. I sang the verses on "Rise Above This" by Seether and the chorus on "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles. My smartass friend Jeff added his own video annotations so don't mind those.

"Rise Above This"
"Can't Buy Me Love"

Well that about wraps it up for now. Peace.

P.S.-This will be my last blog post most likely before I'm ungrounded on August 11th.

Internet Friends

As many of you know, I am a complete Xbox LIVE junkie. Xbox LIVE is one of the most common ways I meet new friends over the internet, XBL is my only outlet for gaming and most of all XBL is what gets me in trobule on a weekly basis but out of all those things I love about XBL, meeting new people is what I love the most. Meeting people over XBL to me is a better idea than using random websites to find new people to talk to. On XBL you can hear who you're talking to which gives you a great idea of what the person you are talking to is like. Below are bios of my greatest friends on LIVE.

Trey (Anti-Scope): Trey is a friend I met on an online forum site called Halo Grid which is a site created by the well known machinima group Hollywood Halo. This is another place I've met my internet friends. So anyways, Trey is 17 years old and lives in Germany because of his Dad's job. We are currently brainstorming ideas for our upcoming machinima which we will call "Untitled" for the moment because we want it to be a secret until it's released. He's lived in Germany for two years now and he tells me quite a bit about what he calls the Schnitzel phase for women. He claims that younger women in Germany are cute but that they go inside and eat scnitzel until they are around 40 and come back outside. He cracks me up quite a bit with this.

Nachonewblit: Although I still don't know his real name he nearly kills me by bringing me to tears of laughter during each and every one of our gaming sessions on Halo 3. He often calls me Gip the Gypsy because of my gamertag Gip007. He often refers to himself in 3rd person as a cheesy god which would sound quite strange coming from anyone else but it's Nacho, so whatever. One time I asked Nacho if he had a cell phone and he said "No I don't but if I did the number would be 1-800-NACHO. I have no clue why I laughed so hard at this but I did. Pretty much everything he says is said in monotone which makes pretty much anything that he says hilarious. For now Nacho's true identity is a great secret but it will be revealed someday.

xTSFx Delta (Matt): Matt is love or hate for me. Sometimes I won't talk to him for a month out of pure annoyance and sometimesI just can't stop playing with him. Delta pushes my buttons like no other friend of mine. He is an extremely angsty kid who lives in Texas. Ithink he's part Mexican with a great love for God. I don't really know because he too shrouds himself in mystery but just like Nacho I just can't get enough.

Well that's the gist of my great live friends I'll talk about them more later when I have some extra time. Chao!

Hello

Hello everyone my name is Freddy. If you are here it is probably because you are either one of my friends from Xbox LIVE or someone I know in person. If you are anyone else then you probably must have stumbled across this blog, but no worries you may still enjoy it.
If you haven’t already I would like you to read my about page above. Although I’m a pretty nice guy I might say some nasty things on here sometimes. I’ll try to keep my words as necessary as possible although I can’t guarantee that I won’t break out in rants. After all this is my blog I should be able to say what the fuck I want. To start off, I have a pretty normal life. I have a good family, live in a nice neighborhood and have a few close friends. Many of my hobbies are pretty common. I like to write, sing, and I like graphic design and videogames. I’ve liked singing for quite some time now and my level of talent has been increasing as I’ve been getting older. I’m currently looking to be in a band but hopefully that will be done soon.

I like writing usually only during random times of my life. Through school I’ve realized that I’m not good with taking electives revolving around things I find fun. I know this makes no sense but it’s true. The things I like are artful but the problem is art can’t be forced, not with me at least. Here’s some examples. I’m on my way to tenth grade and I’ve been in choir since sixth grade, but near the end of this school year I realized I just didn’t want to sing during that period of my life. Now I’m singing again but it wore me out to sing things I just couldn’t force myself to like. I’m not saying I don’t want to be a great-sounding singer and that choir singers aren’t good. I’m just saying that I don’t believe that choir is necessarily what’s going to help me develop a good rocker voice like Bon Jovi or David Lee Roth.

As for art class, I used to love it in 7th and 8th grade when it consisted of a variety of different art but in 9th grade I took a drawing-only class and it bored me because I was given no room to explore what other art I liked which definitely wasn’t drawing. For writing I took a class called Writer’s Workshop for the last two quarters of my year. At first I was doing fine but I then stopped writing my journal entries (ironic isn’t it?) and all I did was dick around in class. I failed the first half of that semester because I refused to read a book and do a report but I immediately felt dumb about that when my dad made me read and report on a book which only took me around 4-5 1/2 hours altogether. *facepalm* The next quarter I got a B+ which was a much greater step up from an F. The reason I passed so greatly was because I did all my work, even during my vacation to Florida when I was gone and I got a perfect A on my last assignment which was a collection of poems which was around 15 pages, these are the links to the poems.


Writer’s Workshop Final Project Collection


Those poems reflected what I was feeling at the end of they year, good and bad. I do that so I don’t come off as fake. No one is always happy so their work should reflect that. Music in general is a good example of that. The main reason I couldn’t find any inspiration for so long was because nothing was going on. Life was just boring, no drama or excitement. That concludes why I don’t do well in electives. Graphic design is something I’ve liked for a few years now on and off quite a bit depending on my critics and my interest level. My projects usually consist of forum sigs, wallpapers, stencils, avatars and other things. I have a hard time with graphic design sometimes though because people are too fucking harsh with their critiques. Usually it’s the assholes with absolutely no skills themselves. I know I shouldn’t be affected but it’s hard sometimes not to take it to heart. I’m not a master of GFX but I am getting better and I have fun doing it and that’s what counts.


Lastly, I love videogames so much. I mainly love playing Halo 3 on my Xbox 360. Honestly, I suck at games but gaming is an experience that many should get. It is very cool to play videogames online with people all over the world with Xbox LIVE. Although there is a good handful of assholes on LIVE that consists of racists, rednecks, and complete scumbags, LIVE is still a great place to meet new people and up the fun of your gaming experiences. I know this is becoming very long but this is basically my intro and rarely will my posts ever be this long.


Well, that's it for right now.