I’ve found that, according to this Gamecube game, the quickest way to restore sanity is by hacking the bodies of zombies once they fall on the ground.

This game parallels reality quite well.

is on its last legs, soon it will be defeated. I got up this morning, and have yet to take any medecine. perhaps I shall when I get home though, as it seems to have woken just a tad bit later than I.

Long live the Froyd. Death to the Cold.

i was with her when she went under.

Sadie was a good dog. what more needs be said?

cancer, spreading from her stomach to her chest region, bleeding some inside. in pain.

there is a unfathomable feeling of grief when the body stops moving. you can feel the body end, and stop responding. it hurts to feel that in a being that you hold dear. more than can ever be described.

done of the 15 page paper.

that, in mathematical terms, is One Third completed. 33%. 10 more pages!

Wheee!

I don’t know if I can get 15 pages. Maybe I’ll be able to get 12. We’ll see. On to the surface meaning of the tale.

The tale, by the way, is Faithful John.

one week the battle has raged…the weapons of defense are the infamous Ibuprofen, destroyer of headaches, muscle aches, and nausea…joining the fight is the indomintable Tyleonl Flu symptom incapicator.

The cold is growing resistant, and the lack of sleep during the last week and working nights has given it a foothold that normally would not have been available with many hours of sleep.

The battle continues, with the Kleenex medics(and sometimes the more rough, shirtsleeve medics) continue to mop up the casualties.

By looking at old tales, in their original form, we can see things that may have been unnoticed at first, by using newer techniques of literary analysis and theory. These tales, specifically fairy tales, must be looked at in their original, however, as the versions retold in movies and books in recent years have taken much of the meaning and important aspects from the tales. These newer versions lack details that are deemed repugnant, or much too violent, for today’s children, and I do not doubt that by removing the offensive material, we have altered the rich interpretations that can come of analyzing the orignal.

My aim is to take an original fairy tale, one that has not been corrupted by today’s childhood story tellers, and to interpret it using Freud’s theories of Totem and Taboo(Oedipus Complex), and Jung’s view concerning the 2 million year old man. Eric Neumann’s book concerning the tale of Psyche and Eros will also be lightly touched on, to provide some close parallels between the two tales, and the possible interpretations.

i. Intro
ii. Definitions of Fairy Tales and Mythology
iii. The paper
1. The tale
a. summary
b. explaination why this is close to mythology
c. surface interpretation of morals(etc.)
2. Totem and Taboo interp
a. Father figure
b. Son’s Rebelling to gain control of women
c. Guilt about murder, and subsequent wish to resurrect father figure.
d. Where the tale shows it’s ability to transcend Freud and guarantee a
happy ending.

3. Collective Unconcious and Archetypes
a. Wise Old Man/Father Figure/Trickster
b. Guiding the Personal Unconcious on the quest
c. Sometimes the Unknowable does things without reason
person has to trust it(per the prince)
d. Collective Unconcious, even in our attempt to silence it,
still can communicate, and is in fact, never out of touch.

4. Possible Relationship To Other(older) Myths
a. Psyche and Eros, looking into the unknown, and being stricken for it.
b. Sigurd hearing the knowledge from the birds
c. Sacrifice of the children to Isaac(?)

iv. Conclusion
v. Biography

So what? I know that these tales, or the originals at least, have rarely been looked at by popular culture in recent years, and that is a detriment. If looking at them through new lenses(ie. Phsychology, as I’ve done here, or others such as Lesbian Theory) can tell us more about ourselves and enrich the historical canon that much more, these tales should not be put to the wayside. These tales especially should not be bowdlerized, as that removes any possible reading other than the surface one, that tells us little about ourselves but what society expects of us.

and not in the temperature sense. I’ve been battling this cold for the last week…I’ve been buzzin’ on tylenol flu/cold pills(the same thing, in all acuality) for the last 5 days. Motrin intermittently as well. Mmmm…cocktail over the counter remedies.

Symptoms sometimes go away.

Cold does not.

It’s either it or me.

If…if I don’t make it out alive…let my cat run free in the Adirondacks…it’s her dearest wish…

Anime Popeye.

to relative freedom from work.

Yes, when I got off of work, I decided to(in this order)
Beat Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
Empty Dishwasher
Do remaining Dishes
Clean Coffee Machine
Clean Kitchen(counters, table, stove, sink, sweep floors)
Straighten living room.

And yes, I did acheive all of these things. Now i’m pooped. time for sleep.
*sigh* Only tonight left of work, and then some days off.
Stupid runny nose.

as an early b-day present, I got THE BEETHOVEN ACTION FIGURE!!!!

with bendable legs and ACTION PIANO STOOL!!!!

wow. I’ve seen some bad movies(battlefield earth), but none really come close to Alexander. Oliver Stone has really outdone himself this time.

Alexander was, apparently, very very gay. We’re not talking ‘greek era bisexual gay’, we’re talking ‘gay porno doesn’t like women gay’. That is the entire story of this movie….Alexander (heart) Hephaestion.

Now, perhaps, you people need some idea of why this movie sucked so very VERY badly, other than being a gay soft core porno flick(not that I’ve seen any, but if I took the time to imagine it…yep, Alexander is that)…

Take Alexander…one of the greatest Military minds ever, conquered pert damned near all of the known world, founds cities left and right, takes gold tribute, everything. Lots o’ battles, a complete and utter genius. How many battles in the movie? 2. Just two. One where he defeats darius, and another where he defeats the indian army with elephants. And do these even BEGIN to show how much of a tactical mastermind he was? No. They’re shown in blurry shots, fast cuts, and lots ofblood. The battles, together, probably took up 20 minutes of a 3 hour film.

Can you take over the world without battles? Apparently Oliver Stone thinks so. What a dumbass.

And let’s not get into his portrayal of Alexander’s parents, Phillip and Olympia. Phillip, nothing more than a drunk womanizing asshole, according to stone. Olympia, nothing more than a power hungry manipulative bitch. While he’s historically accurate about Olympia(in a flat, 2 dimensional way), he leaves off history when it comes to Phillip, again only showing one side of him. Phillip, in his own right, was the foundation of power that Alexander built on.

As for the dialogue….my God. There lack, in many languages of the world, adjectives that describe how really bad the script was. And the story telling? Told from Ptolemy’s view forty years down the road. Flashbacks, for an ENTIRE FILM, don’t work. Especially flashbacks within a flashback(yes, there was one of these). Did the screenwriter miss out that day when they covered flashbacks in writing class?

In essence, the film was utter bullshit, and between the music and the camera shots, felt like an amateurish high school senior’s representation of a historical figure.

Oliver Stone owes me $5.75

one and all.

Things I’m thankful for: Food, computers, work, my car, learning, books, friends, enemies, phone, email, the internet, the sweet sweet sound of silence.

Things I’m not thankful for: idiot coworkers.

A german Computer Scientist broke a world record when he computed the 13th root of a 100 digit number in 11.80 seconds.

Several football players then proceeded to break the world record by pummeling the man and taking his lunch money in only 4 seconds.

is a pretty good game. It is tough…sometimes irritatingly so, but not ever so much that I have to cheat at it. I’ve found out that the more you save, the less hassle you have in the game.

yet that is. I felt the same way about Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, but I ended up cheating at the end. That was a tough game. I think I’m going to dig that up when I’m done with JK2 just to play it again.

Today was a good day, overall.

Even with this damned runny nose, sore throat, and medication fuzz, it was a good day.