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Life, or something else?
17 years ago
Life goes on, that's always a fact. Nothing seems quite right lately anymore though.
In a matter of months, gas and food have went up almost 50%. Average Joe out there is really starting to feel the pain of it, so Eccentric Joe like myself, with more than your average set of day-to-day troubles, just trying to make it, REALLY feels it all. There's hope to get through it all still, but it's taken its toll for sure. Unable to keep up with friends, especially seeing some that didn't used to be a problem, but now is, thanks to the economy in general.
But that's not all. Maybe I just long for the 80s or 90s again or something, but it seems to be getting more difficult to find decent TV lately that isn't overplayed all to hell and back. Especially Cartoon Network / Adult Swim. I've always been an animation fan, and that hasn't changed... but I can hardly stand to watch /anything/ on regular CN anymore, it's all starting to turn into more stupid drivel like Spongebob instead of having some thought to it. Toonami has just about all but vanished, save for only 2 hours on Saturdays now, and half of that is just their own shows right now instead of anime. At least, admittedly, it's Samurai Jack, one great show they had that ended before it should have, yet another American show without any kind of proper finale, just left hanging... and then Ben 10 Alien Force, which admittedly isn't half bad. Who knows how long it will stay in that time slot though, as it's changed about 4 times in the last few months.
Then the Adult Swim portion, the weeknights keep showing the same stuff over and over again, to the point they've even gotten rid of the anime portion of weeknights altogether, so that I usually turn to something else to try to watch just so I don't go crazy from watching the same shows over and over again in rapid succession.
And yet, even while typing this, I've listened to more than half a dozen remixes of the Zeal music from Chrono Trigger... sort of counter-manning everything I mentioned about repetitiveness. I guess I'm just an oddball with odd tastes in general. Some things never change, the more things get different. I'm not quite sure what possessed me to write this tonight, but, hey, I'm sure many people have written much more for less reasons.
In a matter of months, gas and food have went up almost 50%. Average Joe out there is really starting to feel the pain of it, so Eccentric Joe like myself, with more than your average set of day-to-day troubles, just trying to make it, REALLY feels it all. There's hope to get through it all still, but it's taken its toll for sure. Unable to keep up with friends, especially seeing some that didn't used to be a problem, but now is, thanks to the economy in general.
But that's not all. Maybe I just long for the 80s or 90s again or something, but it seems to be getting more difficult to find decent TV lately that isn't overplayed all to hell and back. Especially Cartoon Network / Adult Swim. I've always been an animation fan, and that hasn't changed... but I can hardly stand to watch /anything/ on regular CN anymore, it's all starting to turn into more stupid drivel like Spongebob instead of having some thought to it. Toonami has just about all but vanished, save for only 2 hours on Saturdays now, and half of that is just their own shows right now instead of anime. At least, admittedly, it's Samurai Jack, one great show they had that ended before it should have, yet another American show without any kind of proper finale, just left hanging... and then Ben 10 Alien Force, which admittedly isn't half bad. Who knows how long it will stay in that time slot though, as it's changed about 4 times in the last few months.
Then the Adult Swim portion, the weeknights keep showing the same stuff over and over again, to the point they've even gotten rid of the anime portion of weeknights altogether, so that I usually turn to something else to try to watch just so I don't go crazy from watching the same shows over and over again in rapid succession.
And yet, even while typing this, I've listened to more than half a dozen remixes of the Zeal music from Chrono Trigger... sort of counter-manning everything I mentioned about repetitiveness. I guess I'm just an oddball with odd tastes in general. Some things never change, the more things get different. I'm not quite sure what possessed me to write this tonight, but, hey, I'm sure many people have written much more for less reasons.
