ZombielandEver have a dream and get the itch to write a book. No? Well I'm special. That happened to me.

The thing is though, the dream just inspired it, and it's not really based on the dream at all. Well a little bit. I can summarize my dream because it seems short in hindsight. Didn't even have me in it.

Apparently zombies are roaming around a town, and a guy is surviving in this town. A section of this town is safe because magic is warding off the zombies. After running from some zombies, guy enters safe section of the town. Guy enters a theater where it is announced that the government has saved the city from the zombies. The end.

It just got me thinking about a book and I decided to flush out a story and very few elements from the dream are going to make it into the book. For instance, there will not be any magic in the book. Unless you cound zombies as magic. Anyways, I have no idea if I will actually write this thing, but I can't stop thinking about it so I jotted some notes down and some character ideas. We'll see what happens.

From the music side of things, I've been listening to the new Three Days Grace CD, Life Starts Now. It's not that new. It was released last September, I think. I just picked it up a few weeks ago, and am really liking it. It still sounds like Three Days Grace, but the lyrics have a lighter mood to them. I really like it.

After listening to that a few times, I got an itch to listen to some Blindside, so I did and am remember why I like Blindside so much. They come out with a new CD this year, as well as Linkin Park. Exciting. Have to say, Linkin Park is my favorite band, while Blindside takes a close second.

I have not gotten John Reuben's new CD because my brother is suppose to be getting it for me for a Christmas present... 2009's Chirstmas, by the way. I would place John Reuben as third favorite.

I'm getting interested in the band The Letter Black. I should be giving you links to everything but I'm kinda lazy today. They have a MySpace page if you care to listen to some of their music. The Letter Black releases their new debut CD Haning by a Thread March 30, so I may have to pick that up. End music section.

Video games. I've skipped out of a couple of games already. The Bayonetta demo was fun, but didn't feel like a 60 dollar game... but maybe I'm being stupid. It's fun combat, for sure, but the atmosphere gives out too much of a Japanese action game vibe. That's what it is. I don't know. Just didn't seem like my type of game.

MAG was released as well, but I'm not much of an online shooter type of person. I tried to get into online play with Uncharted 2, but that left a bad taste in my mouth after my entire team left the match, 3 minutes into my first game online. I finished out the 20 minute match... well it was 17 minutes because the other team got 50 kills. I got 18, I think, which isn't bad considering they had a full team, and I was a lone newbie. MAG sounds like it has a lot better community, but I'll have to see. I might pick it up still.

Army of Two is getting bad reviews, which is too bad. I thought they were going to improve on the original game, but apparently they didn't. I might check it out at a discount price or maybe rent it for a weekend fun time with a couple of friends.

Dantes Inferno reviews are in. About average, which isn't bad. It's just God of War 3 is right around the corner, and I want to play through the other God of War games again to get a refresh on the story and to get into the combat again. I'm a God of War fanboy so I'm kinda clensing my palate, which doesn't makes sense at all. I'm saving money, I suppose.

I gave you a review of some sort on Darksiders, and I liked it. You will like it more if you buy it at a discounted price, probably. It was a good game to be sure, and I thought it was worth 60 bucks, but others say that it's not worth 60 bucks. I think you will give it a better shot if you paid 40 bucks for it. In fact I heard that you can find it discounted already. It didn't do well from a sales standpoint, however a sequel has been confirmed. So that's good news to me. I've got nothing else to add here.

On a Borderlands note, we did it. My friend and I beat the three 20 round stages of Mad Moxxi. Many attempts were made, but we finally did it. First we got our weapon proficiencies up to level 50 with a few of our weapons. I upgraded my Sniper, combat rifle, and shotgun proficency. This was a couple of hours of grinding through the last couple of levels of the game with level 51 enemies. You level up at a decent speed. Again, that is geared at a specific kind of player. No reward for a good 20 hours spent on that, but it was pretty fun. Except when you die. All that positive energy drains away fairly fast when you die a few times. I mean three times. If we died three times, we quit. Just no hope left.

Anywho, Gearbox announced the new DLC called The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. New weapons, new level cap, new enemies, new areas. W00t! Other than that, not a lot of information is given on it, yet. I'm patiently waiting for it and I want them to take their time because I don't want a rushed DLC that sounds awesome.

I used to follow a web flash animation called Secret of Mana Theater. It was funny. It started in 2002 with flash 5, and is based on the game Secret of Mana. It uses sprited from the game I should say. The site only hosts 50 of the episodes, which is not very many, because he made 250 episodes. They were basic, but funny. They are more like animated comics because there is no audio. Well there is some audio in the later episodes, but no voice work, so everything is said with speech bubbles. You can find a torrent with all the episodes here [link removed]. If you don't know how to download torrent, google it. Sorry to sound harsh, but I just don't want to explain it. The game is fun to play as well, so if you can find yourself a copy of Secret of Mana for the SNES, I suggest you play it.

I'm done.

Bye.