Top ten reasons not to be a Belmont, and other things.
TOP TEN REASONS NOT TO BE A BELMONT (cross-posted to nice_save)
I just came up with this while being bored working on something else.
10. Gotta ask for leaves of absence from your regular job--reason: saving the world from the lord of the vampires.
9. Bondage jokes.
8. Your fate is to pull all-nighters. Oh, and Adrian gets to sleep, but you don't.
7. Vampire hunting training.
6. If strange things start happening--such as your girlfriend disappearing or another friend suddenly looking suspiciously sexy--you have to go do something about it.
5. Ah sh**, what a ****ing horrible night to have a ****ing curse.
4. Risk of being kidnapped on your eighteenth birthday.
3. Continued rumors that one of your ancestors had "relations" with a dhampir. And not like you actually have proof to the contrary, unfortunately, even though you're pretty damn sure that's not the case.
2. You have a family history of being allergic to submersion in water.
1. Rule of Simon: No one can be as cool as Simon.
Thanks to the song "Being a Belmont Sucks" for inspiring this.
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Among other things, I tried to find a synonym for "talk about"/"approach"/"discuss"--as in, say, an article about a given topic. Microsoft Word's thesaurus (for English U.S.) gives the following:
Looked up: talk about
Meanings: whine (v.)
Synonyms: whine, moan, complain, nag
Yep, that's the only meaning of "talk about" that it seems to know.
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Quote of the moment: "Men and women aren't from different planets; they merely wear different jeans."
(If you don't get this, think pun.)
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There's a problem common to Donna Lewis's "I Could Be the One" and Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles". They don't quite sing correctly.
Come to think of it, I think that the main reason that I don't really like punk rock, heavy metal, and rap too much is seriously because of the singing. The same could be said about some arias. I just don't seem to have a taste for that kind of vocal writing. In contrast, I appreciate plainchant and Rie fu (among other things, of course).
I thought about the above because I noticed that I've always liked the non-vocal portion of rap, and I also seem to have a taste for instrumental rock/metal. Hence, I thought, maybe it's just that I don't like the vocal part as much, and it seems to be true.
Come to think of it, though, the classic style of videogame music (think Mega Man, NES Castlevania, etc.) takes is highly derived from rock music--AND is instrumental.
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Crap, I have to go back and tag old journal entries from the past month or so.
I just came up with this while being bored working on something else.
10. Gotta ask for leaves of absence from your regular job--reason: saving the world from the lord of the vampires.
9. Bondage jokes.
8. Your fate is to pull all-nighters. Oh, and Adrian gets to sleep, but you don't.
7. Vampire hunting training.
6. If strange things start happening--such as your girlfriend disappearing or another friend suddenly looking suspiciously sexy--you have to go do something about it.
5. Ah sh**, what a ****ing horrible night to have a ****ing curse.
4. Risk of being kidnapped on your eighteenth birthday.
3. Continued rumors that one of your ancestors had "relations" with a dhampir. And not like you actually have proof to the contrary, unfortunately, even though you're pretty damn sure that's not the case.
2. You have a family history of being allergic to submersion in water.
1. Rule of Simon: No one can be as cool as Simon.
Thanks to the song "Being a Belmont Sucks" for inspiring this.
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Among other things, I tried to find a synonym for "talk about"/"approach"/"discuss"--as in, say, an article about a given topic. Microsoft Word's thesaurus (for English U.S.) gives the following:
Looked up: talk about
Meanings: whine (v.)
Synonyms: whine, moan, complain, nag
Yep, that's the only meaning of "talk about" that it seems to know.
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Quote of the moment: "Men and women aren't from different planets; they merely wear different jeans."
(If you don't get this, think pun.)
---
There's a problem common to Donna Lewis's "I Could Be the One" and Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles". They don't quite sing correctly.
Come to think of it, I think that the main reason that I don't really like punk rock, heavy metal, and rap too much is seriously because of the singing. The same could be said about some arias. I just don't seem to have a taste for that kind of vocal writing. In contrast, I appreciate plainchant and Rie fu (among other things, of course).
I thought about the above because I noticed that I've always liked the non-vocal portion of rap, and I also seem to have a taste for instrumental rock/metal. Hence, I thought, maybe it's just that I don't like the vocal part as much, and it seems to be true.
Come to think of it, though, the classic style of videogame music (think Mega Man, NES Castlevania, etc.) takes is highly derived from rock music--AND is instrumental.
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Crap, I have to go back and tag old journal entries from the past month or so.