Somewhere out there

Smoking Habits

I wouldn't exactly call myself a smoker but I do smoke. I am a 'social smoker' as some might say, someone who smokes when they're out with friends or when they're drinking. The same person who doesn't actually buy their own cigarettes and bums smokes off actual "real" smokers. Yes I'm that guy.

But I use to be a smoker...ish.

When I was growing up, Smoking looked cool and hip in the movies but I never really bought into that stuff. I was always a little concerned with the health issues associated with smoking. The shortness of breath, the coughing and weeing and the general promotion of poor health. Smoking just seemed like a quicker way to grave to me so I promised myself that I would never smoke. I guess back then I though Smoking was "Evil". Only bad guys smoked.


See... Only bad guys smoke

I was 17 when i had my first cigarette.

It was at my friend's high school graduation house party. Many things happened at that party that night but I'll save that for another blog entry.

Practically everyone from our year came to the party and as I wondered around the tiny front yard I found the surfer / athletic group of guys hanging out smoking. They were a cool bunch of guys and I remember Matt turning to me half drunk and offering me a drag... I had never smoked before so when I inhaled I tried to swallow the smoke like food.

It tasted awful, I immediately relinquished the cancer stick and excused myself from the conversation. I had broken a promise I had made to myself to never smoke and I instantly regretted it for some reason. I felt guilty like I had brought great shame to my family's name just for taking a drag of a cigarette. Cigarette's were evil after all right?

Either way I didn't like it and I wasn't planning on smoking again, ever. Then Schoolies rolled around and I being young and irresponsible, we bought a bunch of marijuana. Even though I hated smoking cigarettes the idea of smoking marijuana seemed morally fine to me. Sure it was illegal but at least it didn't fill your lungs with tar and cancer. Anyway, I learnt how to smoke properly.

I turned 18 and basically became an alcoholic for a few years. I would go out and get plastered but I didn't smoked until a pretty girl I knew offered me a cigarette. Now at the time I would've done anything to get people to like me so I caved to peer pressure (even though she didn't really pressure me into doing it) and smoked the cigarette to gain her approval. She instantly caught me out for "bum-puffing" aka not breathing the smoke in. So to appease her I smoked properly. The head spin was instantaneous. I had to sit down. The nicotine high kicked in ferociously and all my worries and anxieties seemed to melt away...

I had become okay with smoking cigarettes but I liked to think I could control the habit so I would always set limitations and make promises to myself. Promises like I would only smoke when I was out drinking and I would never buy a pack of cigarettes for myself. Two promises I broke only a few months later.

I have bought a few packs of cigarettes but I don't think I've never been able to finish a full 25 pack of cigarettes all by myself. The most I ever smoked in a day was around 5 to 6 cigarettes. But I would at least have 3 a day. In fact I would wake up and smoke a cigarette while I took my morning dump. It was always much easier to take a crap while smoking, everything was just looser and easier to... Uhhhhh.... I don't think anyone would be interested in hearing about my bowel movements. But I guess that does kinda prove that smoking helps you stay skinny.

At one stage I use to only smoke menthol cigarettes but no one respected anyone who smoked menthol cigarettes. I've actually had smokers turn down free cigarettes because they were menthols.

Then I noticed my health was slowly deteriorating. My chest would hurt at random times and my lungs felt impaired at times, like their was a foreign substance stuck in their restricting the movement of... I dunno.... air? cells? My chest just hurt in a weird way. So I stopped smoking, was a little hard to quit but what i went through is nothing compared to those people that get super hooked on the nicotine.

Quitting Smoking cold turkey is probably the hardest thing a person could do... If they smoked like 2 packs a day. a handful of cigarettes isn't much of a challenge in consideration. Kicking a nicotine addiction that heavy would require an insane amount of will power.

But now I am back to smoking in social situations... So I'm sure there is a chance I might take it all back up again. But until that day I will only smoke when drinking and when the pretty girl at the bar says, "I'm going outside for a smoke."

Just quietly it is a great way to meet girls, The old "If you lend me a cigarette I'll buy you a drink" line works like a charm when trying to break the ice with a girl.


More Proof that Rosie Huntington is Smoking Hot.... HAR HAR HAR

Save Community

Seriously NBC...?

Community isn't even on the Fall Schedule either?

WHEN THE HELL WILL COMMUNITY COME BACK DAMMIT!?!

Why? Why must you take this away from me?

Come on people, Save Community

Culture Shock

Earworm, noun
'an irritatingly catchy tune'


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So that was 2011 pop music pretty nicely summed up.

No argument here, that is definitely the state of modern pop music.

Today My 10 year old cousin asked

"Are Superheroes real"

Oh I remember being that young and idealistic, I also remember being much happier with the world too. He had just watched X-men and Spiderman and was fascinated with both the Wolverine and the Spiderman characters. He said if he had super powers he'd want to combine Wolverine and Spiderman's powers.

Then I told him that if I had super powers I'd want to be exactly like Superman. Because... He's fucking Superman. He's the Perfect Hero! He never loses... Ever. He's Superman and the life of Superman would be pretty fucking awesome. I don't care what the comics say, You're a Superior Being on a planet full of monkey people... Why isn't just crowned King of Earth?

Errrrrgh I got side tracked... Anyway, He'd really taken to the idea that these movies he had watched were accurate re enactments. Which is freaking adorable. I felt really bad that I had to burst his bubble and tell him that Superheroes don't exist. Felt like I was telling him that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny weren't real. I should've lied and said that they're real, kids need something to believe in.

Then he started to name some superheroes and asked if they were real just for reassurance. The conversation went something like this...

"How about Spiderman?"
"No...."
"And Batman?"
"No..... I think.... (insert long boring rant about how he doesn't actually have any Superpowers, rather he's Superpower is being a rich guy)"
"Superman?"
"Nope"
"Hulk Hogan?
"....What?"
"Hulk Hogam?
"....Yeah he's real""

He considers Hulk Hogan a Superhero! That's insane!

Well... He was in Rocky II

How can professional wrestlers mean that much to kids?

I was mad for a split second... Then I remembered my Wrestling Hero as a Kid. Diamond Dallas Page "DDP". I use to see him as a hero, the People's Champion of WCW. Always fighting in the name of Good against the wicked nWo, who were coincidently lead by Hulk Hogan at the time.

DDP had an amazing Smell's Like Teen Spirit ripoff entrance theme though.



After the stroll down memory lane I thought to myself, Hulk Hogan wasn't a true Professional Wrestler... Or "Wrassler" as some pretentious internet fans like to say ironically. He wasn't particularly skilled at Wrestling Hulk Hogan stood on a lot of talented people to be the top dog. He was an average Wrestler at best, Why should Hulk Hogan be revered as a Superhero?

Because Hulk Hogan wasn't just a Wrestler.... Hulk Hogan was a world famous personality. Hell Hulkamania was a lifestyle to some, he was millions of people's role modal, Hulk Hogan was Superman! Hulk Hogan always stood up for the Good Guy, He was always brave and strong in the face of adversity and he never gave up. Kinda like what John Cena is running with these days in current day WWE.

Plus he can make one hell of an Entrance.



God damn Jimi hendrix "Voodoo Child", That's a sweet damn song to come out to.

Writing this has inspired me to remake an old Pastamania joke banner I made for an internet forum graphics contest. Hope someone likes it.

I also remember watching this awful movie.... Good Lord was this ridiculous

We will all Fall....

Friday Night Lights... No show will have a better pilot episode than Friday Night Lights.

.........Huh?

That is the Greatest fucking Pizza commercial I have ever seen, If that product was actually real I'd buy it right now. Like... RIGHT NOW!

But this is honestly the best internet viral video I've seen in a while. This is Audio Visual magic. If (SOFA Communications) was pitching this in a online portfolio to a marketing team, They'd be given a fuck off Budget for the next Carltan Draught commercial, or whatever other beer company wants to win over the beer drinking public...

I honestly hope these dudes get sponsored or something after that performance.

Speaking of Beer Commercials, Here is a nice way to throw together a nice unofficial Beer Commercial... Which might have to be taken down if SOPA is passed.

It's like a Nerd Mardi Gras

Dragon Con... I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE POINT OF DRAGON CON IS, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING GIANT NERD PARTY!!!

I love Geeky Conventions, It honestly gives me an excuse to dress up like a fucking cartoon character. Hell if it was in my budget, I'd go as Batman! Preferably the one from the Video Games, Chris Nolan's Batman looks kinda stupid... Because frankly Christian Bale shouldn't be Batman, He plays an excellent Bruce Wayne but I wouldn't mind if they just swapped him out with I dunno... The Rock. Someone who looks good dressed as Batman, Christian Bale just doesn't have the Build. Video Game Batman looks like he'd punch your face off with ease... Because he's fucking Huge.

Christian Bale is great... But Batman should honestly just be some huge guy.

Anyway, I decided from my last nerd convention where I went dressed as Justice from Afro Samurai in a mediocre but well thought out costume under $40 that for the next one I'll dress up as Kratos. The Next one seems to be Supernova.

I think half the fun of this year is that I'm going to make some of the God of War Blades using some paper mache. I'm really planning the crap out of this, hell if I can make a reasonable looking Medusa Head, I'll fucking do it.

God of War Update 4:
Sydney Supernova Convention: June 12
Day: 53

So after 53 days of watching my dieting (sorta) and working out constantly I have gotten myself into some magnificent shape due to this weird personal experiment which was brought along do to my insane narcissism. The fact that I can now clearly see every muscle in my upper body is amazing to me. My general health is superb, my skin, my mood, everything just seems great. Although keeping it at this state requires a lot of sacrifice, namely in sleep. I sleep a whole lot just so my body can recover more in between work outs.

By work outs I mean I lift weights when ever I get bored now. If I haven't got anything to do, I'll just put on a podcast and go do 100 Push-Ups on the Perfect Push Ups. Or I'll just do 200 standing bicep curls and tricep lifts. I am still not consuming enough protein to build more muscle mass. I'm sure I can manage to eat more protein without having to resort to using bulk building muscle mass powder. That just seems like cheating to me. I really need to study more on Nutrition. On a side note I still weight 74kgs but that's not really much of an issue anyway.

I just have to build a bigger chest and I'll be sweet, apparently Kratos was written to be 6'6 to 6'7 ft tall. Well I'm sure 6'1 is tall enough by most people's standards.

Now that I'm in this great shape I'm more planning the costume aspect of it all now... To think I was thinking of changing my mind to go with a more modest costume like Adam Jensen from Deus Ex Human Revolution was silly... Even though I have the sweet trench coat, sunglasses, facial hair, boots and lack of shame to paint on some robot arms, all that work to get into shape would've been for nothing.

Next God of War Update there will be pictures... Promise... Ehhhh...



Ignoring the dancing... That's a pretty Awesome Costume

Who actually needs real beauty?

Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Well it obviously works...

Sometimes real life is just not interesting enough.

Happy Birthday... Me

Another Scott Pilgrim colouring in piece, I really should get back into drawing my own comic so I can colour it in like this.

Still have a few Zelda Skyward Sword sketches. If I can get a few more together I might piece together a nice little comic arc for the 5 people that seem to mistakenly stubble onto my blog.

Hmmmm You'd think I'd feel something when I turned 23 yesterday... NOPE... Nothing, nothing at all was different, If anything I was just reminded that another Year has passed and I'm that much closer to death.

How depressing...

I could go back but...

Yeah... I think I'll stay off Facebook for a bit longer.

Augmented

Some lazy Photoshop layering here... I said I'd do some "art"

Deus Ex is fun as hell though, I'd definitely say it's a pretty damn good sequel to the original. Much much better than Invisible War. Sure the Boss fighting system is a little broken and favour the more Run and Gun play style and doesn't really reward a stealth game as much but it's still pretty damn fun.

Go back to your home on Whore island

Here is some really bad slut music... ENJOY!


Ummmm.... What? I'm not even sure if this was a serious attempt at music or just an elaborate joke.


This chick was 16 when she made this song... Yeah... That's pretty messed up


There is a clip for this, it's just disabled embedding so here it is... If you want to see this absurdity.

Goodbye 2011... Hello End of Days

Well 2011 has come and gone in a flurry of... Death, Protests, Natural Disasters and a ridiculous amount of Movie sequels. Many Important things happened like the fall of the Libyan Dictator Gaddafi, The Death of Kim Jong Il, The Seal 6 Capture of Osama Bin Laden, The Asian Earthquake and Tsunami, The Occupy Wall Street Campaign, The London Riots, The Death of Steve Jobs, The Charlie Sheen public Breakdown, A Royal Wedding, The Finale of the Harry Potter series (Film) and the release of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. (Skyrim is a big deal dammit!)

Now with this whole end of days for told by the Mayan Calendar, 2012 is really going to have to step it up to beat out 2011. I mean the Death of Osama Bin Laden is a pretty damn big historical Book mark if you ask me... And the whole situation surrounding his demise is shady at best. I mean come on, as if you expect us to believe that they actually found him and killed him immediately is just utter bullshit to me. Plus the idea that they honoured his religion and had a sea burial is just absurd to say the least. If anything his fucking body belongs in some kind of Museum.

Anyway....

Here's to 2011





This is what I'm looking forward to in 2012:

The Dark Knight Rises:


Christopher Nolan is a genius, his films are amazing and he's somehow made Batman the hottest and most talked about Movie Franchise on the planet. He made Batman movies cool again! I seriously thought that was a lost cause after what Joel Schumacher did to the franchise. How will it stack up to the Dark Knight? Which of course thanks to Heath Ledger who gave the performance of a lifetime in a role that literally killed him, a lot of expectation is left on the third movie to close out this epic ride.

The Last Guardian:


Now if you haven't played ICO or Shadow of the Colossus then you probably won't get the massive nerd boners people are popping over the Third Game from Team ICO called The Last Guardian. Shadow of the Colossus is considered by most one of the most devastatingly beautiful video games of all time. This game was announced 3 Years ago at E3 and is supposedly getting a late 2012 release. I honestly can't wait to play this game.

Community Returning:



I love Community, If you're a nerd you should love it too... I hope it returns sooner rather than later. I do want to see the Evil Universe vs. Prime Universe in this year's Paintball Finale. Yeah, I'm calling that for the Season and maybe even series finale.

Venture Bros Returning:



From the Ladle to the Gravy was a nice little Rockumentary they made to ease the long wait in between Season 4 and 5. Jacket is a sweet song too.

I'd definetly say it's the coolest show that has ever been on the Cartoon Network Adult Swim block, Venture Bros is just Awesome. I grew up watching a lot of Hanna Barbera cartoons and the whole little universe based around mocking those Cartoons is just delightfully wonderful and nostalgic to me. The Season 4 finale was superb and I can admit that I got a little choked up with General Treadster's ending.

The United States Presidential Election:
He whole shitstorm leading up to the Election will be a glorious mud slinging campaign furled by resentment and lies. It'll be Great to watch. Even though the outcome of the election wouldn't really affect me in any way, I do hold out hope that Obama gets re-elected. The Dude is really fucking cool.



(I don't care if fake, it's still awesome)

The Next Google Thing:
I honestly wonder what is up Google's sleeve this year. They released their Android phone systems last year, I'm expecting either a digital music distribution service and player to rival iTunes or even a OS (Operating System).... Most likely the Music one, but Google is doing their hardest to take over the damn World.



Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnan:


A Loser leaves Town Match... Oh Wow... Although to be fair even though Anderson Silva is considered the Best Pound for Pound fighter in the World. Chael Sonnen was the closest person that has come to beat Silva in Years in their last match. Silva was in some serious trouble the entire time until he slipped on a Triangle Choke and stole in the victory, had it gone to the score cards Sonnen would've come out on top. But I guess you got to give credit to Silva for pulling out that victory in the last round.

This should be a very interesting rematch to say the least.

That'll do for now.

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Well.... That's just Awesome

Yeah alright, Gliding is a pretty sweet form of dancing.


This CPR video should he shown in all schools. Just change the emergency Number to fit the region and everything will be Golden.


So... What did you do in 2011? watch this dude's super Awesome World Trip and feel bad about the fact that you didn't even leave the Country last year.


This video is Gordan Ramsey yelling and swearing at People for 42 minutes. That's all that needs to be said.

Let's see other ganes... Just for now

Now I can admit I have played way too much Team Fortress 2 in my lifetime, something like 2,000+ hours of that game has been logged and I'm still only mediocre at the game. I blame my mediocrity on my dinosaur of a computer. Hell even now whilst I'm blogging the computer fan is howling like a freight train just trying to process this blog entry (and a steam update).

Anyway, now that the Team Fortress 2 Australian Christmas Update has come and gone, all the new weapons, hats, maps and achievements have been implemented and seen I don't really have much need to play at the moment. Besides a lingering sense of pride that I should really improve my Sniping Skills or get those final Class achievements like the Scottish Play. (Seriously, that's a fucking dumb achievement, melee kill someone in mid-air, that's an achievement server level achievement)

Anyway in the mean time I'll be playing Braid, The Bindings of Isaac, Deus Ex Human Revolution and trying to finish off The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword. So expect my next entry to be about one of those games and a nice piece of digital art to go along with it.

Now I'm off to see the latest Tin Tin movie... in 3D, Apparently it's worth seeing in 3D, so I'll just be the judge of that thank you very much.