Piggle Wiggle Influenza

I have no intention of discussing the swine flu since there is really nothing left for me to say about it. I just wanted to write that clever little title...been gone a while with a broken computer but now I'm back and I've brought my boredom with me. Not much new...saw "Dragonball Evolution" and let it take a big dump on my childhood (I suppose I had it coming for spending money to see that debacle). I'll post something about it soon, maybe not a review but a list of unforgivable mistakes the movie makers made (mistake number one: it's called "Dragon Ball" not "Dragonball"...get it right, guys). For now, I'll just post something I've wanted to post for a while: a video featuring a song from the game "Dragon Warrior Monsters 2" (known in Japan as "Dragon Quest") that plays when Prince Kameha and his cohort Warabou are encountered. This is kind of significant for me because anytime we would read an old English play in class and those comedic characters showed up, I would think of this song. Characters like Lancelet from "The Merchant of Venice" and Sir Politic Would-Be from "Volpone" should always be accompanied by this song. Just think of any of the characters described as "clowns" in a Shakespeare play and this song works for them:

"Monsters 2" is a great game, by the by. Kind of a knock-off of Pokemon, with the two different game packs ("Cobi's Journey" and Tara's Adventure"), but fun and unique in its own way. The first "Monsters" was just a single game and was fun, too. Not just for kids.

The Thrill of Victory...and the Agony of Defeat

My four-day weekend starts tomorrow so I'm looking forward to lounging and celebrating Easter with chocolate and num-num fancy dinner. I found that dreaded beetle crawling up the stairs, coming after me. What I love is how my cat was resting right next to it, like it was her Buddy (♪My Buddy, My Buddy, he's a creepy beetle and he wants to kill my owner! My Buddy and Me!♪). Hey, do your friggin' job and kill it! I ended up throwing shoes at it and maneuvering around it to reach the vacuum. I know how this sounds and what you're thinking about me and you're wrong. That thing was HUGE! I could just imagine that thing sitting in my closet and sharpening a knife on its boot, waiting for me to come back:
......no picture? Oh, okay. Well, you can picture it in your mind.
Well, so now the basement is safe. I was playing "Symphony of the Night" before I caught that thing, though, because no one is stopping me from playing with Alucard:

NOBODY! Except maybe those undead brutes in the Colosseum...they slashed up my poor vampire until he exploded into a cloud of blood. Sigh...I need to be more careful. So, that's the most recent saga of my life: bug huntin' and fightin' the undead. I think that looks like this:

That's how Spanky REALLY bug hunts...with a muthertruckin' sword.
On a side-note, I've been reading the play "Volpone" by Ben Jonson in class and I realized that British humor really hasn't changed that much over the years (the play is from 1606). It's a lot of banter that you really have to listen to to get. I'd provide an example from the play but you're better off just reading it yourself. Check out this poster I found for an old performance of it:

Just awesome.