holy fuck. i bought a PSP because i really wanted to try the Wipeout games that came out on it and Twisted Metal. 3 days i've been playing Wipeout Pulse straight. it's fucking amazing. i never thought i'd be hooked on a RACING game like this. Sure, Wipeout XL was cool shit back in the day for playstation, but this. THIS! it's a whole new world. been working hard to unlock different skins and such and just now unlocked a concept skin for my favorite team in the game. i've made a collection of pictures so you can see what goes on and so forth. it's a fast and gorgeous game set in the future where anti-gravity isn't just science-fiction.

Wipeout

i don't know if any of you have any experience with the Wipeout series, but coming from someone that hates all sports and racing games, you have to at least try these games. the learning curve is steep, but once you get the hang of it you feel like you're really hot shit. Getting a grip on the speed of teh games and the strategy of getting the perfect racing line is actually fun. With Wipeout Pulse there's an online option so you can race people online. i get my ass handed to me a lot, but i still do it because i learn how to play better. All of the games are challenging, but utterly rewarding when you get that gold medal.

Exceeder (Special Mix)

Mason

Here's an amazing track (my favorite) from Wipeout Pulse. Wipeout games are also known for their fantastic array of electronic music. from techno, drum 'n bass, and trance. forgot to mention this was THE major draw for me. also Wipeout XL was the reason i started liking techno music way back when. The Wipeout XL disc actually doubles as the freaking soundtrack! just pop it in a CD player and you can play all the songs on it. pretty radical for the time when it released in the mid 90's. it also included advertising for Red Bull energy drinks.

"Improve your reaction time. RED BULL"

Tiger

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i don't know how i should feel right now.

someone is leaving my life and i don't like it at all. i don't know how i feel about this at all.

first off.

FUCK YOU ELECTRONIC ARTS.

there's a lot in that message. fuck EA for delaying the full Spore Creature Creator a day and a half later. Fuck EA for not letting me legitimately download the Full CC until almost 6 p.m. today (when it was supposed to be up at noon). Fuck EA for suspending my account for a whole week for uploading Throbber. Fuck them. just Fuck them.

thank you Alex for giving me the installer earlier so i could make some stuff before work. but... FUCK YOU EA!

now i won't be able to upload anything to the Sporepedia for a solid week because of a creature offending some people. who's to say it's a penis?! it's their perception. he just has a pink melon head. it's creativity you bastards. i can call just about everything in existence phallic. look at the lip of a classic glass soda bottle. not tell me where you put your mouth on that is NOT shaped like the head of a penis. come on!

okay okay okay. FUCK EA.

now.. here's some shit i've made in the past day or so:

Shremtail

This is an experiment with some plating that gave me an idea to do one of my favorite pokemon.

Donphan

and finally. my favorite and most recent creation. The Lorax from Dr. Seuss:

The Lorax

ain't that cute? i've been making a lot of creatures in the trial version of the spore creature creator. here are some more of my creations:

Unicorn's Profile

a flamingo-esque one.

and in honor of Throbber who recently got perma-banned on the Sporepedia, a little tribute to his greatness:

Look at the first post you ever wrote on Vox. What important developments or changes have occurred in your life since then?
Submitted by Alexandra.

1st post

almost two years have passed since i started posting on vox. a shitton has changed. i graduated high school. i started college. i started a novel i have yet to work on since last november. I learned to write more than a sentence for a post.. for the most part (on Vox). There's so much that i don't really feel like delving too much into details. i tried to keep track of most of them here on vox or livejournal or other places.

there are quite a few titles coming out this year and next i can't wait to get my hands on. some look intriguing and a handful look like sure-fire purchases for me. here's the list i accumulated from memory, i'm undoubtedly forgetting a couple, as there are a lot (which is exciting):

prototype - i cream myself dreaming about Hulk: Ultimate Destruction breeding with GTA4. this could be it.
Star Wars: force unleashed - mmmm Euphoria ragdoll engine, all up in my star wars.
soul calibur 4
street fighter 4 - <3 Chun Li
LOVE - i want this... NOW!
Dark Void - jetpacks and ragdolls...what more could i ask for?
We Love Golf - first time i've been interested in a golf game.we
ninja gaiden 2
Fallout 3 - best teaser i've seen in a long while.
Alone in the Dark - my palms sweat just watching this.
Dead Space
Unreal Tournament 3 - black hole weapon at the end makes me giddy.
Red Faction Guerilla
Resident Evil 5
Bionic Commando
Sonic Unleashed - please don't be shitty. please.
Fracture
spyborgs - looks promising, especially coming from Capcom
SPORE - I've been waiting way too long for this game.
Borderlands - 500,000 guns? yes please.

a lot of games. that's a lot of monies. :C

i'm finally getting my act together.

jump suits

the other day i decided to blow off an interview for a telemarketing company to scrounge through thrift stores looking for another pair of jeans. i came up empty handed, but i did do something pretty productive in terms of my writing. i stopped by the post office and bought a few books of stamps and stopped by Staples and picked up some envelopes; both the large manila and regularly rectangular white ones. so, basically i'm ready to start mailing off submissions to magazines and such.

i still have over half of them to bookmark on my internet browser, but after that i'll be ready to scan them for which places are accepting submissions over the summer and begin creating my spreadsheet. Blah blah blah. pretty much, that's about it.

in about a month one of my best friends is moving to Virginia and i'm bummed about it. She knows i don't want her to go, but i'll slash her tires if i have to... of the airplane even.

I also went apartment hunting with my friend Brandon the other day. We looked at a pretty shitty one and as we walked to the 2 bedroom apartment i was looking at the current residents and thinking:
 You're going to steal shit from my car
 You're going to slash my tires
You're going to rape me while i'm trying to do my laundry
among other things. Brandon also noted that the barbecue doubled as an ash tray. more browsing is in order, in my opinion. I've also concurred that almost any job that gave me 40 hours would do, no matter the pay, it'd just be scraping by if it was minimum wage though. also, the job has to be enjoyable, especially if i'm going to log 40 hours a week into it.

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The Mountain Goats

I've been binging on the Mountain Goats pretty badly recently, but it's not that bad of a thing, considering i just nabbed 50+ live sets of his and the few i listened to already were pretty great. though, the fact that they are on my Zune, taking up 5 gigs, is a problem. i might have to remove them because i don't feel like listening to live tmg every 3 songs when i shuffle everything. it's a personal preference. I also acquired two songs that didn't make it onto All Hail West Texas, which if you knew me would know it's my all time favorite album. One of the two songs has actually crept its way into my heart as a favorite track by tmg. i know, cool, right?

Since it's been so long since i've actually posted  here i feel i had to do this awfully extended post; also have to throw a probing nod to Andrew for bringing to my attention that i've neglected this place. i just feel it's changed in a bad way since it went public. it lost a closeness. i am very fond of closeness, when it comes to music, communities, and just about anything really. if i can't feel like i'm connecting on a personal level with the source, i feel it's gotten too big to really give a shit about. perhaps i'm too picky, but i want to have the sense that i have some sort of influence on the things i choose to enjoy.

i've also been buying books, which partly started its roots with me acting on it because i got pulled over and given a bogus ticket and feeling helpless; i felt the need to blow some cash. Here's a taste of some of the books i've ordered, a couple i've started reading or have recently finished:

The Triggering Town is a great book about poetic philosophy and i highly recommend it for anyone interested in writing good poetry. seriously. it was actually the required text for my poetry class, so it has support from educators.
Some Nights No Cars At All is a book of poems by my creative writing teacher and is utterly fantastic.
Master of Reality is a book written by John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats and is fascinating. i don't want to spoil anything if you're interested in reading it. if you liked Perks of Being a Wallflower, give it a shot.

i know, i know, Amazon city all up in those links, but hey, it's a good site.

The liars lie
In beds and heads
With wives back home
On opposite ends of their crewmen
Men in cold,
Wives with warm western winds

The lying crew in creaking cots
Fourteen strong and two weak
Too weak to work the deck
To steer the captain

Sheet mist and cold clouds
Spray paint the frozen ocean
Splintering ice slices descend stories
Sloshing waves tilt the squeaking boat

Waves turn to wanes
Crewmen write letters
Expressing warm sentiments
That summer is warm south
“With beaches and beauties”

Antarctica is a ways away
With long metal tubes they hope
To collect icy pillars, slender,
Glistening, and centuries old,
Like family traditions
Setting sail to see the sea
To know history, told by Time,
The massive preserved whale

“Frozen in a white wall,”
The men tell tales,
Lies laden with lace,
About their mansions back home
Beautiful maidens they swept away
The two sick cooing behind, wheezing
Out elongated clouds that stutter
Through the dancing songs
The rest tell each other – keeping them
Going for just a while longer