Bring Me That Horizon

Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity.
--Unknown

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
--Lenny Bruce

So I'm heading to my favorite town on the East Coast this week, and gosh, am I thrilled. The last time I dropped in to visit my old roomie and enjoy catching some rays, swimming in the gulf (and hunting hermit crabs, avoiding jellies, and finding a wild sting ray YAY!!!) was Labor Day weekend '07. Wow. It's been too long. It's sad that this might be my last trip . It's definitely the last of my college career. I have ten weeks left of college. That's it. Count em. Ten. Weeeeeeiiiiiird. I've spent my entire life from the age of five trying to get to this place, and now I'm here and I have no clue what to do with my life. So many of my friends are looking into grad school--I don't really have the time or the money, sadly, but I'm not too beat up about it ... that is, until people look at me like I'm nuts. It's all good, though. Bizarre, exciting and kind of sad and scary all at once.

Speaking of "scary" and "bizarre," if you haven't already, watch Cloverfield. Hoooooooly crap! Loved it. It brought me back to my childhood love of the old "Godzilla" movies, but on a totally different level. Loved how it was told from the cilivians' perspectives instead of that omnicient POV that movies usually take (you know, you see everything and, at some point or another, learn everything). The fact that it had no music whatsoever just added to the realism of it. If you check out any fan sites, you find out all the little tricks, messages, and treats the creators hid in there, which makes it even more fun. I do wish that they'd explain a little more about the monster, somewhere, because I sure didn't get the impression that it was a confused, lost infant like the designers claim. Confused, eh, maybe ... lost ... in a way--I mean, I doubt it knew where/what Central Park or the Empire State Building were, but it sure as crap found them! Personally, I think it found a large, easy food source and then was shocked when said food source bit back (well, tried to) ... kind of like a chimp and a termite mound. But hey, the producers, designers, writers, and directors say otherwise, so .... who am I to talk? And, yes, mom I am talking about a fictional creature as if it really exists and New York has really been trampled -.^

It's funny reading old blog entries--Christmas two years ago, I claimed that FL had all of my closest friends who had "stuck with me through thick and thin." I can only say that about Matty, now. Weird how things and people change. Now, it's my friends at MC that I miss so much when I'm gone, people who showed me, believe it or not, what a healthy friendship is like where the work and involvement is 50/50 not 90/10. We may not agree on everything or have the same standards, but we accept and pursue one another as if that didn't matter. It's nice being accepted, really accepted, by people you're own age who are on, for the most part, the same page, and will have silly or deep conversations. I get to go hunting for that all over again once I move home. Change is good. It's not always easy, but it can usually be turned into a good thing one way or another ... at least in my experience ... I guess. We'll have to see.

Oh yes, and Dr. Potts, I looked up "analyzation"--you know, the word I used yesterday that you said wasn't real--Well ... it is. Booyah!

Hmmm ... random ... but in a google search for costumes, I think I just found a diamond in the rough. Maybe nobody's excited except my nerdy-self but hey, superheroes are always entertaining.

I wish I had something horribly profound to say, but I don't. I usually don't, honestly. I'm only twenty-one, and there's very little profound in the life of a young twenty-something. We think we are, but, more likely than not, we aren't. Oh the arrogance of youth. -.^

This is Pete, over and out.
You stay classy, San Diego