Old I sit upon my throne,

a blind eye turned to you,

seeing those that I once knew,

but knowing not the truth.

I logged on to an old computer of mine, one that had this saved as a bookmark.

This computer is about on its last legs, and I feel nearly as old thinking back to when I came on here every day, everything is farmiliar, yet not so.

Employeed, still in college, rarely on messenger programs, almost 21, just suffered a traffic accident, fiscally doing poorly in a slow economy, wanting to buy a house, another new girlfriend so I'm settled down for a moment, and facing down the wrong end of 8 months of some oddball medical ailment. Life moves on, and rapidly. lol

I wish my old friends here a happy holiday season, as people have been telling me its not over yet. And for those of you whom have them, I have a facebook, and a myspace, and there are a couple of you whom I am loath to leave behind, the reason I logged on again. arandomamerican is my facebook username and it is also my myspace account thing, David...log on to f-ing myspace occasionally! loool

John1918, DaBoss, signing off until some far off day I randomly pop back again.

Wow it certainly has been a while. Thank my poor gaming skills for my reappearance. I got stuck and was looking up a game guide when I decided to stop in and see how everything's going around GS. It seems to be a pretty sad state of affairs. Even more departures and changes from what I can see.

More and more people are just cutting loose, and they just can't be replaced. I really think the golden age is over.

But just some quick updates on my life.

Started Year 11 at school this year, and man is it hard work. I've taken up 5 TEE subjects (HSC for anyone in the eastern states, and if you're not from australia, well, I don't know) Physics, Chemistry, Maths 3A, Maths Specialist and the compulsory English. I'm also doing a Contemporary Music course which is great

Gaming is virtually non-existant in my life now, I just don't have the time or the interest any more. Sigh.

Been writing A LOT, songs and poetry and whatnot, and getting some tracks recorded with my sitser.

Other than that, this year has been a tumultuous one for me. For a few years now, I have been struggling with depression, and things were going pretty badly for me. All of it came to a head in February this year when I was taking a night time walk with some friends. I tried to drown myself at the beach. Thankfully they got me to come back out of the water. Since then I've found help and am taking a course of medication. Had some couselling sessions but found it didn't really help much and gave up. Everything is so much better now though, I'm much much happier, and I'm okay with who I am. Life is beginning to make a lot more sense.

Now while I might not be staying here at Gamespot long, I would very much like to catch up with any old friends, so if you're around and want to chat, PM me. Or email me at hungryjacks_burgers@hotmail.com If any of you have msn you can also add me at this address

Or add me on myspace www.myspace.com/hungryjacks92

or Twitter http://twitter.com/jackhayesb

Well, that's all for now I guess...

Also, I realise I never did a farewell blog, so I guess this is it. To all of you still out there, goodnight and goodbye.

I saw the trailer to Mirrors when it was first released at the theaters, and thought to myself, "That movie looks horrible." So you're probably wondering why I watched it, and the answer is because I saw a TV commercial that the horror fan in me couldn't pass up (without spoiling too much it involves a girl and a jaw). I'm glad I did watch it because this movie was great.

Now, I don't mean great in the sense that it rivals Lord of the Rings or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I mean great in that it's a mystery/horror/thriller that is not meant to be taken too seriously; it made me jump a few times, but really kept me guessing until the end. I was literally on the edge of my seat for most of the second half. The kills were all very cool (see note), though the plot and the "fight" at the end was...uh...different. The ultimate ending didn't have much explanation, but I think it was pretty neat.

Note: I watched the unrated version, I don't know what's different about it but it's likely a few (violent) scenes were extended.

Pretty good day I had today. It was early release, so I got out at 12:00. Then I came home and found my CoD4 Limited Edition Swag Bag on my doorstep. It has two very nice posters on it, some stickers (WOO), two stich on badge thingys, a CoD4 hat, and a mission I can do to win a free CoD4 copy. Oh, and a cool water bottle. After that I decided to go to PetsMart and ended up getting a guinea pig. NO clue how that happened. Well yea, I have a tan guinea pig now...named Nuggets (lol). He's kinda freaked right now. Hiding in the corner on his cage. And he's fast. Everytime you go near him he freaks out, and it scares me. So yea.

I may be winning a CoD4 flashdrive soon. 1GB. Hopefully it will have bonus info on it if I win it.

Seriously

I`ll give more details later my net failed while i was writing this so i`m gonna make it real short this time

- it was broad daylight

- on a pretty big streete

- walking away from the mall

- they were two

- wider than me (where do they find this guys?)

- one of them had the ' my battery ran out, can you send a message for me?' line going

Hey peeps

Here I am again, back from GMM (Graspop Metal Meeting) i hope you didn't missed me to much well, i guess i'l write a bit over what i all did and saw on GMM

Graspop Metal Meeting

Day 1

Stood up at 7am (urlier then school T.T) to go the train station, my train was at 8:12am so i was there way to urly at the next station i had to get on another train and a friend whit who i was going to GMM was waiting for me there. We waited for the train and there were already some other metalheads waiting to. We got on the train and it was just filled whit people who were going to GMM too but now, at the last station were we had to get on another station we got out of the train and it was just filled whit people, that last train we had to take wasn't exectly big so it got totaly filled, some people couldn't get on so they had to wait for the next train the next thing was the bus to the festival field, lucky for us they had enough busses (around 10) so there was no prob here, a problem was that the stupid bus stopped right in front of the concert field but we had to go to the camping first wich was like 1,5km further and that wasn't exectly fun whit all those heavy bags when we finally arrived there it was another hour waiting in-line to get in T.T and then another walk of +- 0,5km to find a spot for our tents, now i'm gonna do a little skip of time to were we are on the concert field

We first bought our food and drink tickets, bought some food and went to the Marquee 1, one of the3 big tents (the 3 tents are Marquee 1 & 2 and the Metal Dome were begining bands played, i haven't seen anything in that last one) we first saw Sabaton, now these guys just sucked, sorry if there is someone here a fan of them but their music and their show sucked Then Static X played on the main stage, i didn't knew them so i didn't really care about them at first but they were pretty good, their music was good and their show great, the singer had all his hair straight up like that guy from Tekken, just hilarious and the base guitar player was this fat South American guy and he was fun too and then back to Marquee 1 for the best show of the day, Epica it's a gothic Metal group from Netherland and they just ruled, great music, awesome show my friend doesn't even listen to gothic metal and he thought they were the best that day too awesomeness XD then we wanted too see Papa Roach on the main stage but after the first song it already started raining like **** we ran off too Marquee 2 wich wasn't yet totaly filled. When the rain stopped Papa Roach's concert was over so we just waited an hour in front of the main stage for Within Temptation i'm a big fan of them so their music was great ofcourse the show however was a little soft at the bigining, but after the first 2 songs it got a lot better till awesomeness XD they also had these huge flame thingies, now we were at like 10-15m away from those things and when the flames came out you could feel the heat of it burning on your face, i just don't want to know how that feels if you're on the front row after the second best show of the day my friend wanted to see Celtic Frost, a black metal group, my friend loved them i think they were ok their music is a little to heavy for my taste and the contact whit the people wasn't good also so, anyway, then we went for some more food, we heard Aerosmith playing, pretty good music but it's old school metal and i don't really like that so we went to Marquee 1 were we waited for an half an hour for Blind Guardian, they started at 1:20pm, we went of after another half an hour bc we coundl't stay awake but we didn't really wanted to see them so that was no prob, so of to the camping searching for our tents, i'm gonna skip the stories about that couse the same thing happend every night, half asleep searching for your tent between thousand of tenst takes some time

Day 2

We slept for like 5 hours, stupid people yelling things all the time but that's how it goes, some french people nest to us who wouldn't shut-the-f*ck-up so at 10am we went for a little walk trough the camping and then of to the concert field, at 1:30pm we saw Lamb of God, they were great ofcourse, then Sirenia in Marquee 1, they're a bit like Epica but a little less good, still a great show though the Stone Sour on the main stage whit the singer of Slipknot, they were a little to soft for my personal taste so we went for some food, and we walk around a bit, went to the little shops and stuff and met whit some friends of my friends who were there for a day (mainly too see Dimmu Borgir) the next group we saw was Cannibal Corpse, now this is the heavy sh!t, but awesome to headbang on the pit was just freaky, there was a dude that came past us whit a little hole in his neck from a spike, he was all white and bleeding like hell but it came good whit him so don't worry, no dead people and then off to the mainstage again, waiting an hour in front of the main stage for Korn we met a dude from school whit his friends there, the show itself was just awesomeness XD headbagging, jumping, singing along, just awesome my personal best of that day AND of the hole weekend and then last but not least Dimmu Borgir, my friend is a huge fan of them so he already went to Marquee 1 were they played while Korn was still playing, they were pretty good but a bit the same as Celtic Frost, too heavy but headbanging like crazy XD earlier we also went for autographs of them, my friend got a flag signed and i this little card, pretty cool hu

and now i'm sick of writing so i'm gonna leave you guys whit some beautifull anime picies of Blood Opera and i'll write part 2 tomorrow

laterz

Bavoke