Well, it's that time of year, campers! Yep. My school's open house event thingy. Heh, I said thingy. I'm funny.

Well, it was actually pretty cool. Some of the highlights were chalk drawings on the ground for people to look at as they walked (I would have done one, but I'm not in art this year...next year, though! :P), they had a video screening, and "Activities and more in Mount Olympus". Basically, that last part means that the latin class organizes events and activities and stuff for open house with a toga theme to it.

"Toga! Toga! Toga!"
Seriously, why is that funny? I never got that joke...

(WARNING! IF YOU DON'T LIKE GUITAR HERO, SKIP THIS PART)
The highlight of these activities: GUITAR HERO III. And to be honest, I was kind of expecting this on a whim. I even brought my own guitar hero controller in case they only had one. Didn't actually bring it WITH me though, just left it in the car.

I waited in line for about 3 songs, then I got to play. And let me tell you, it was just about as epic as epic could get. They gave me the controller that had stupid little stickers on the frets, which would make it almost impossible to slide my fingers on the buttons. I tried to switch guitars, but he said he didn't want to. And I thought: "Alright then, all the more glorious will my victory be! Muhahaha!!"

Well, I picked Raining Blood, on expert pro face-off. A song I was extremely familiar with. And back to the epic thing I meantioned earlier, when I was playing...there was a sunset in the background...the wind was in my hair...a guy behind me was trying to sabotage me...and lastly, he was actually pretty good. We were about tied, right up until Mosh 1 (if you don't get guitar hero-speak, this is a hard part in the song), then my score just skyrocketed over his. I beat him, with me at 170K, and him at 100K. He seemed pretty pissed though, probably cause he didn't know the path for it...

Also, since it was windy, I was doing HORRIBLE. I mean, my hand was moving about 1/3rd as fast as it could have been...so yeah. Also no warm-up. The guy trying to sabotage me, he was pushing my elbow, going "Hey Mikael! Don't mess up! Don't mess up!", eventually, I turned around, mid-song, and feinted a kick, and that got rid of him. There were a few people behind me too. About 5.
(OKAY, GUITAR HERO IS OVER NOW)

Alright then...the film screening...ugh...
Well, let's just say...it gave me a prespective on how...barren the valley is. I mean, I was watching the videos in the theater area with about 50-something people in the audience, and--I'm sorry--but for the most part, they were god-awful. Really bad. When I mean bad, it has the majority of the following descriptions:

1. Heavy metal in weird places (transition texts)
2. Ridiculously long (anywhere from 10-20 minutes)
3. Stretching good ideas to death, until they are unstretchable (hey! "Mad TV" anybody?)
4. No sense of pacing ("okay, you're skateboarding. WE GET IT ALREADY!!")
5. No plot ("Olololol!!1 lets just skateboard everywhere and put some heavy metal in the background music!)
6. Plot made no sense (self-explanatory)
7. No tripod ("seriously? I mean...seriously?!")
8. Really bad acting (thankfully, though, there wasn't too much of this)

So if your movie matches at least a few of those, it most likely sucks. The only ones I liked were my cartoon I showed (Nowheresville: Showcase), my friend's cartoon, and some other video that actually had something of a plot. Of yeah, and on a side note, only 2 cartoons were shown (mine and his).

And to make this even more depressing, most of the people who submitted something were seniors and juniors...I'm just a sophmore (however that word is spelled)!

This really reminds me why I named my series "Nowheresville". Where I live, there is nothing. I know a lot of people say that...but I mean, come on. Want to go shop at a mall? YOU CAN'T. The only redeeming things about where I live is...let's see... Fast food, a movie theater, some grocery stores, a Rite Aid, a bank, and a flagpole. Nearly everything else is farms, vineyards, and fields. There IS a town, but it is more of a tourist trap. It is made to look like a mock-up of Denmark, and there's nothing there except for a HELL of a lot of antique stores, multiple hotels, some clog shops, and a flagpole. It's like Disneyland with everything fun taken out of it. But that's enough of my ranting...

Seriously though, if I didn't have a real city on my mom's side of life, I would probably wither and die, like a flower. And for that, I'm thankful.

(Man, this is the most time I've ever spent making a news post)

As far as my first episode goes, I've got the entire script done, and I'm getting my final voices from people on friday. Who cares? EVERYBODY!!