Hi! It's after 11 so this probably won't get posted unless Tripod has changed its old wicked ways. Anyway, BGMs, or background music can make or break a game for me while other people can just jam a cd in a stereo and turn the tv down. I can't do that. Thankfully there are people out there who appreciate these well-composed pieces of work and have devoted a site to the recreation of them, Vgmusic. Most of these tracks can be found threre, albeit not in their original form, and adversely not as good, but the point is they're THERE. So if you haven't heard them, you friggin' should. And by the way, these are in no particular order, because I can think of no way to put them in order. They're all amazing.

10. "Phantoms" - Final Fantasy X

One of the three on my list not on Vgmusic.com, this little number is sheer elegance and grace. It's as if frost and ice were musical instruments, which is appropriate as it plays over a snow-covered valley. I fell in love with this track as soon as I heard it.

9. "Someday the Dream Will End" - Final Fantasy X

Quite a sad melody, this one. Especially if you know what it's about. Final Fantasy as a series is known for its incredible music, thanks to its composer, Nobuo Uematsu. They have concerts of this stuff in Japan! Why am I not there?!?

8. "People of the Far North" - Final Fantasy X

I love the violin and the cello. That's all this is, except for a smattering of tribal drums. They did a good rendition of this at Vgmusic, which in some cases surpasses the original.

7. Castle Theme - Legend of Dragoon

This track nearly reduces me to tears, it's that good. Vgmusic has a nice interpretation of it but nothing beats the original. I love the piano on this one. I can play most of it but i think some of it requires you to have like seven hands.

6. "Termina's Final Hours/Last End" - Legend of Zelda - Majora's Mask

You can download the real thing from Zeldapower music, and I think you all should. Anyway, this track is played when Link's only got a few hours to go before his whole world goes kerblooey. I'll tell ya, if my whole world was to go kerblooey in a few hours, this is what I'd want playing on the radio. It's gloomy but very very soothing.

5. "Not Tomorrow" - Silent Hill

This track right here made me want to give up keyboard and take up the guitar. I'd never known the guitar could be so dang pretty. Granted, the major instrument in this thing isn't the guitar, it's an oboe or something, but it's those first few notes that really get me.

4. "City of Flickering Destruction" - Legend of Mana

This track may have saved this dump of a game from eternal imprisonment in my cd tower. This one has a captivating harp. Gotta love the harp. Again, though, the dominant instrument is the oboe or clarinet. Maybe I'm in denial about my love of wind instruments.

3. Karon/Destroyed Town - Paladin's Quest

Very Very Very Very dark and moody choral piece. Too bad it's not on Vgmusic or I'd be listening to it right now. This track was the one that opened my eyes and ears to the world of BGMs. People go through a lot of trouble to compose music for these games, and it really really shows.

2 "Prepare to Meet Your Doom" - Dungeon Master

Similar to #3 in that it is dark, moody and choral. I could listen to this for hours on end, and I have. (Thank YOU, Snes9x!) Sadly, this is also not on Vgmusic so you can't hear the awesomeness unless you plod through the game. (and you'll need snes9x for that, it doesn't work on zsnes!) I did remake it myself using Fruity Loops but it didn't turn out that great.

1. "Garden of the Gods" - Chrono Cross

Another one with the chorus going for it, this one has a stellar reproduction at vgmusic. I think all this one has is a choral voice and a harp, but i could be mistaken. It's been a while since i've heard the real thing. It's real pretty regardless.

 

 

 

 

If you could do the Care Bear Stare in my Grade Primary class, you were COOL. Everyone had a favorite bear, mine was Bedtime bear, i think that was his name. And who couldn't love NoHeart? That guy just oozed charisma. I always rooted for him, but sadly, bears who could piss rainbows beat him every time.

 

With its Engrished name, you'd think this one was a japanese show, but I really don't think it was. Anyway, After hearing it from like several hundred classmates i had to give it a go, and it was pretty cool. It was basically a lot of robots and lots of people who had z's in their names. The hero guy's name was Ziv Zulander. Yeah.... anyway, one of the robots made my old hero list, Ninjzz. If you ever watched this show, you had to love him.

 

This was a cartoon i remember watching every friggin' day, hoping for a rerun of a certain episode that i loved. After reading several ducktales websites from start to finish, I've remembered just about every episode there ever was, including Home Sweet Homer, the best ducktales episode EVER. It was all Greek mythology. With ducks. In the city of Ithaquack. Don't make fun. On a side note, the ducktales game for nintendo ruled. and it had some of the bestest music ever.

 

I'd only ever seen two episodes of this, but i loved one of them SO MUCH that i'd watch it just about every day. I still have it on tape somewhere. The episode was called "Flight to Cloud Castle", which was about this vaguely elven gnome who enlisted the help of three ponies to rescue a princess from a floating castle, which was guarded by....an Undine and a Salamander.... hmm... COINCEDENCE, SQUARESOFT? I actually only remembered that recently, and was quite amused.

 

I don't really remember any episodes in particular of the turtles, but i know it was part of my daily routine. If i can remember the theme song, then i've watched it quite a bit. As is the case with everyone my age back then, my favorite turtle was Michelangelo, because, hey, he was a party dude. I always thought Shredder was cool until i realized the guy who did his voice was Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. Then he became not so cool.

 

I blame these two for my warped sense of humor today. I'd watch this every thursday, i think it was, and we'd all joke about it the next day at school. I had all the episodes on tape, but i sacrificed them for the simpsons. Still, though... "Our country reeks of trees, our yaks are reaaallly large, and they smell like rotting beef carcasses.." I heart you, Stimpy.

 

I loved Garfield. I wanted to have him as a pet because my cats were always so uppity and bitey. I wasn't too fond of the "and friends" part of the show, all those farm animals got on my nerves. Ten points to the first person who tells me what the rooster's name was. Anyway, Garfield, Odie, Nermal, who'd be absent for no apparent reason most of the time, and Jon all ruled. Now they're making a live action movie of Garfield.... *sigh*... i don't see how they can, Lorenzo Music isn't around anymore to do Garfield's voice. And the voice is key.

 

I'm guessing this was Japan's answer to the Ninja turtles. They fought bad guys and ate pizza. Well, they worked in a pizza shop. and were shot out of a huge revolver that stuck out of the roof whenever they had to fight those bad guys. The bad guys weren't all too evil looking, the main baddie was a rather effeminate rodent named the Big Cheese, along with his advisor Geriatric, who i think was some sort of hawk or something. The reason this ranks so high was that i absolutely adored Speedy Serviche, who was the leader of the good guys. HE WAS SO CUTE! But for some reason his girlfriend didn't think so, and she'd shoot rockets at him from her hair all the time. Yup, that's what they do in Japan.

 

Or She-Man, whichever's easier for you. I think I liked He-man more, because it had Skeletor instead of stupid Hordak. But He-man didn't have Lookee. or Looky or however it's spelled. They were basically the same cartoon, only one was geared towards boys and one towards girls. Sure, give the guys the awesome villain and leave the girls with a reject in some sort of fish mask thing. I dunno, i'd rather watch a buff cartoon guy than a half-naked cartoon girl combat evil. So yes, he-man was a smidge better.

 

Wow. I loved this show. they took characters from my favorite video games, put 'em all together and made it a show. I'd love to watch all these again, they all ruled. Better than the Link cartoon, better than the short-lived but great Super Mario World cartoon, and better than any other video-game-related cartoon out there to date. Although Simon Belmont didn't deserve to be portrayed as a bumbling, idiotic narcissist... but hey, i took what i could get. Now they churn out garbage like the Kirby cartoon, which is so wrong it's just not funny. I bet kabu doesn't even have an african accent. Grr.

 

 

 

It did have the freakiest ending ever, but it also had that annoying kid who saw dead people. I wanted to go back to the movies to see this one again, just so i could pay more attention to the "clues" that were no doubt there. But lotsa crap happened and i ended up at #2 on my least fave movies list. Never did watch it again, I forget why. Oh well. Like I said, this one's just a placeholder until i remember something better. Like spaceballs. Crap. Anyway, since i'm not about to type an extra paragraph, watch spaceballs. hilarious.

 

One of the two movies aimed at children that I still tolerate, the other one surprisingly high on my list. I hate kids' movies, I always have, even when i was a kid. This was about a group of kids who found a map to pirate treasure and go on a trip to find it. There were more pirate-y things in this movie than pirates of the caribbean had by far, and all the pirates themselves were dead, so that's saying a lot about POTC. Anyway, if you've done the Truffle Shuffle, you rule.

 

You either love or hate this movie, and I fall in the former category. I loved the cast, especially geoffrey rush and chris kattan as Steven Price and Watson Pritchett. Not for everyone, that's for sure, but i thought it had just the right blend of horror and humor. And if you're like me you view horror AS humor, and thus repeatedly joke about drowning in a tank of blood THE SIZE OF A BUICK! I just wish it had ended better. Watch for the weird scene of dr. vannacutt bouncing a basketball. insanely creepy.

 

I don't really like kevin costner, but this was a friggin' good movie. Y'know, I didn't realise it was like three hours long until the other day. I haven't watched it in a while, but I could rattle off a few lines for you if you like. My personal favorite is "But they got armor!" said by some random guy.  I downloaded a snippet of Michael Wincott's Guy of Guisborne saying "Might i have the pleasure of your name before I have you run through?" and stuck it as my "critical stop" noise. He's got the best voice in the business. Why the hell would anyone want to cut his heart out with a spoon? Anyway, watch this movie. Good stuff.

 

Never seen the original and i heard it was quite bad. but this one rocks. it's the ultimate zombie movie, complete with barricaded farmhouse and idiotic hicks. The ending was kinda a downer.. not bad, just kinda, "aw, no... don't do that..." but apparently it was changed dramatically from the ending to the first one, in which nobody survived. Somebody survives this one but not who I wanted to. Grr. If you thought 28 days later was good, you'll be knocked square on your arse if you watch this one. but then again if you thought 28 days later was good you MAY need a frontal lobotomy. MAY.

 

Laugh all you want, I'm surprised myself. Due largely to the fact that Little Russ Thompson is a cutie, I've watched this movie countless times. And i never get tired of it. It's one of my weird quirks I guess. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I've never seen the sequels or the series because they're just wrong. It's one of those rare movies that my entire family doesn't mind watching. we all have our preferences and this movie seems to work with everyone. so there. *blows raspberry*

 

Yup, they made a movie, yes, it bombed, yes, they had to compromise a lot to have it approved by Gramercy Pictures which therefore MADE it bomb. Mystery Science Theater was never meant to be universally accepted, they don't joke about widely-known things, therefore if you get a joke of theirs you'll think, "wow, that's good." Of course there's the standard movie riffing, which everyone can enjoy to a certain extent, but then there's the extra little things that only MSTies will understand, which cannot translate to a wide audience. Gramercy made them change a lot in this movie to make it more understandable, which is just not right. It's still hilarious, but since the only people who saw it in theaters for the three seconds it was there were fans of the show who didn't appreciate the changes, and it bombed. Way to go, Gramercy Pictures. MST3K can't be tampered with.

 

Rather than clutter up this list with these three movies I decided to put them in one clump. Now, really, only Fellowship is ranked this high, the other two slightly lower, with the two towers at about 5 or 6 and return of the king at about 9 or 10. It's not that i was losing interest, i just liked the first one boatloads more than 2 and 3. But 3 did have the singing pippin scene which i loved to death (he looked so pitiful... *sniff*) and the two towers had.. umm... hmm... two towers.... anyways, yeah, these three movies have effectively saved the fantasy film genre from complete extinction, so my hat is off to them. but i don't wear hats, so i guess that makes no sense.

 

While the choice of character names could have been better, there hasn't been a better heist movie than this. I wish they had've had someone better than marky mark as the 'head guy', so to speak, because I just don't see him as an actor. to me he'll always be that idiot with the bandana and no shirt on singing "good vibrations." Other than that, this movie's got it all. Pepsi signs, spiderman, cute little cars and 27 million dollars worth of gold. And a deleted scene where handsome rob gets shot. whoever decided to cut that from the movie, way to go. You rule.

 

I could watch this movie like 4 times in one day. Each time there's something new that i missed the last time, there's a new line to get stuck in my head. And I never get tired of the tune "golden brown" by the stranglers. Anyway, some people are put off by how strange this movie seems to be set up, but if you give it half a chance you'll love it. Chad actually had to force me to watch it the first time. i thought it was gonna be yet another brad pitt vehicle, but was pleasantly surprised. It's just like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but with more money to throw around. (which was another great movie, watch it RIGHT NOW.) Anyway, this shouldn't have been much of a surprise to any of you, huh?

 

By the way, if you've known me since the dawn of time you'll be surprised to notice the omission of Stargate, which i've seen - count 'em - 22 times. Just the thought of that movie makes me sick now. Sure, there were great things that came out of it, like our "Ra-style" games of checkers and chess, and the best movie quote of all time, "Mes joue joue joue." (translation: my cheeks cheeks cheeks) but UGH. i couldn't sit through it again. It doesn't help that i know it from start to finish. pretty much word for word.

 

 

 

I like zombie movies just as much as most girls like romantic comedies. I'm not like most girls. So I was excited about sitting down to watch this one. Rule #1 to aspiring zombie movie makers: zombies cannot run. they can only shamble along at a comical pace. Rule #2 to any filmmaker anywhere: do not have the apparent "hero" of the film turn down a pepsi when it is offered to him.  Rule #3: have at least one interesting character in your movie.  Rule #4: don't end your movie like that. (i won't spoil it as i'm sure you're all dying to see it) Anyway, I was really disappointed with this one. Speaking of disappointment...

 

Yeah, yeah, so it made like a kajillion dollars, but that doesn't mean it didn't suck. Oh, it does? Well then..... somebody's gotta hate it, right? Enter Sweetfarore! Now, even with the star power in this one, (star power meaning johnny depp, geoffrey rush and the zombie monkey) It just didn't do anything for me. Way to go disney and sissify zombie pirates.  And did i mention that this was trevor goddard's last movie? he coulda done something better, say another MK sequel or something. I MISS YOU, KANO! Actually I don't. The one good thing about this movie was the cameo appearance of Leene's Bell at the end. I swear they stole it from leene square.

 

I was expecting a crapfest from this one but was slightly surprised. It was still bad, but the tolerable kinda bad. the only reason it ranks worse than those other two was because the movie itself was absolutely retarded. And because sean connery's in it. he gets on my nerves. nice to see that jason flemyng still has a job though. And if anyone wants to see a ridiculous looking and out of place Captain Nemo, this is the movie for you.

 

Having grown up with the video game, there was no doubt in my mind that this movie would be the best thing since sliced bread. Then they cast friggin' jean-claude van damme as guile and the ugliest man on earth as vega. In fact, none of the people cast except for raul julia and byron mann as M. Bison and Ryu were any good. Yes, Hollywood can ruin a perfectly good bunch of characters with movie magic. I'm dreading the movie version of Resident Evil 2, when they actually get into the game's story. Just stick martin henderson in there somewhere and i'll shut up.

 

No wonder why everyone is reluctant to make fantasy films. Because they all somehow end up like this. Starring some guy who looks like Chris Klein if he was like 12 years old and one of the wayans brothers, this bomb was a laugh at best. I don't even remember anything about it. Except the hero's horribly overacted and shaky shout of "MAGE!" and the "maze" he had to go through which consisted of two doors separated by a hallway. that's it. And the wayans guy's character was named "snails." anyway.

 

I hate cartoons. I avoid them. But i went with a bunch of people to go see this because it was the last time we were gonna all be together for a while, so i caved. This movie's one saving grace was that kevin mcdonald from the kids in the hall did voice work for some yellow alien thing. I don't remember this movie either, all i remember was that price chopper blew up or something that night, while we were at dairy queen. yay for us!

 

For those of you that don't know, I do NOT like robin williams. I've been told that his live comedy show dealies are hilarious, but i just can't see it. Perhaps if i actually watched something else with him in it besides this and hook i'd understand, but i hope to never have the opportunity. Anyway, yeah, this movie sucked. My parents love it, though, and now we have the dvd in the house. i generally stay a safe distance away from it at all times.

 

During the surge in movie watching in the mid-90's there was this piece of garbage. Looked good on the commercial, but the commercial failed to state that THE ENDING SUCKS SO DON'T WATCH IT. Seriously, the ending sucks. don't watch it. One of the hokiest endings i've ever seen. House on Haunted Hill had a kinda crummy ending too, but that was a good movie as a whole. This one stunk from the start.

 

Please, people, when going to the movies, make sure you're there in time. Make sure your ride isn't parked at china court while you're sitting at wendy's getting bitten by ketchup globs. If all else fails, sneak in some nyquil or something if you have to watch this. Or, even better, go with your friend who is smart and doesn't want to spend her money on this movie to the mall or something. Avoid at all costs.

 

Rob Schneider has been making the same movie for years.  Just like Adam Sandler. His newest carbon copy movie is the hot chick, which i vow to never watch ever. I didn't want to see this movie whatsoever, but went anyway because that's how dumb i am. One plus was the loud old people behind us who kept talking about the "indian in the closet". i can't think of another plus at the moment. If rob schneider is in a movie, just don't watch it. unless it's surf ninjas. heh heh. no, don't watch that either.

 

           In case you were wondering, the only ones i saw at home were #10, #8 and #6. All that money.... wasted... 

    

 

 

Before they came out with "Everything You Want", which apparently everyone wanted, there was this, which I saw repeatedly on the commercial for "Twisted Trax 2", the little bonus disc that came with Twisted Metal 4, which right now is lying neglected in my cd tower right below Final Fantasy 8 and right above Silent Hill 1, our broken copy.  Anyway, It was this song that made me want to buy their album, not the sickeningly popular "everything you want", and it remains to be my favorite song of theirs. And it doesn't hurt that matt scannell has one of the sexiest sounding voices out there.

 

Yeah, they're two songs and therefore this list should be my top thirteen, but considering they're mostly the same except for the words and music and stuff (if you've heard both of them you'd understand what I mean) I figured they could share a spot here. They're both slow, piano-driven songs and they're incredibly pretty. Moist isn't generally known for prettiness, but hey, this proves that they can do it.

 

Here we begin with the "Songs nobody has ever heard of" section. This was on the soundtrack for Mortal Kombat the movie, and sadly I lost it somewhere and have been without this song for like a year.  There's no words to this song, just a haunting voice doing some ad-libbing. There's a real ethereal quality to the whole thing, it's just a mixture of strings and twinkly things. It goes on for like 7 minutes, but it's worth it.

 

I'm sure you've all heard this. I could listen to this song for hours, and I have on several occasions.  While the Silent Hilliness was a major factor for me repeatedly listening to this song, it was also because this is a damn good song. Not a big fan of his other stuff, though... it's not bad, but not my thing.

 

I'm proud to say that this song is my first memory. Yup, some people remember events or people or whatever, well, for me, it's this. this song strikes a chord with me every time I hear it. I actually remember living in victoria while this song is playing. weird, huh? I know it sounds corny and whatnot, but it's true. Also, cinnaberry air fresheners, the ones shaped like trees, their smell reminds me of FF3. I'll stop before I get to Savage Garden's "To the moon and back" and what it reminds me of.

 

I'm sure you've all heard this one too, but you might not know it. There are two versions of this song, a good one and a really good one.  I can't seem to find the really good one anywhere except on the radio.  There really isn't all that much to say about this song, and I still haven't pinpointed the reason why I like it, i just do.

 

Wow. That's just it right there.

 

As with all underworld songs, this one makes no sense, but i love it. It makes headaches go away just by listening to it with headphones. Even big huge migraine-type ones. This is another slightly creepy-sounding tune like #10, but this one has more drums and actually has lyrics. What they mean is anyone's guess, i'm just happy that this isn't one of the several songs in which they mention coke. My favorite band.... prefers COKE! BLAH!

 

I'm still not sure whether or not Gigi is a guy or a girl, because one of his/her songs involves a voccoded but clearly female singer, perhaps this gigi just writes the music and lets people sing for him/her. i don't know. Anyways, this song popped up out of nowhere on one of those various artists cds, and sounds like an old-timey dance tune, what with medieval flute-type music and stuff. I managed to get my hot little hands on the CD single, i was surprised it even existed. Granted it was $1.99 (actually on sale for $1.49..) in a bargain bin at Bargain Giant..... but that's a plus side for liking unpopular music. it's cheaper than food.

 

Never thought I'd ever like the theme song from a video game to this extent, but... well, times have changed. You should hear some of the stuff they have for video games now.  It's a pity only a small audience will ever hear this song, considering this game isn't for everyone, and not everyone plays video games to begin with. This one's very different from the rest of the songs on my list in the fact that it's hard rock, which I like to a certain degree but usually i'm all for airy relaxing stuff and 80's tunes. But whoever played the guitar on this song belongs in the rock and roll hall of fame or something. Wow.

 

SImply because this is the most beautiful song ever made. If you listen to it for like 5 seconds you'll understand. I've never met anyone who has listened to this song and disliked it in any way. Guys who are all about heavy metal and manly songs probably won't like this, as it's very twinkly and feminine, but I'm willing to bet that everyone else can appreciate this song. I have the CD, and the next time I see any of you guys I'm gonna make you sit down and listen to it.

 

For years I've had the chorus stuck in my head. For years I've searched for it in record stores and on the web. In like five minutes Meag found it on eBay. The rest is history. I've told just about every living soul about this song, and they all say "nope, never heard of it." and then i play it for them, and then they say, "HEY! I remember this song!" You know it, but you just don't know that you know it. It's typical early 90's fare, which to some of you probably sounds horrible but it's really not. This, like the crowded house song up there somewhere on my list, also brings back memories, these of when i was like 6 when we used to go to the snack place in the k-mart mall. anybody remember that place? I do, thanks to the magic of the RADIO! Anyway, thanks for listening or reading or whatever to my list. I'll make more in the future! Bye bye!  

 

 

 

 

 

I hate this guy so much I don't even know the names of his songs. Rather than say, "you know that song that goes..." and then try to make an attempt on the lyrics, I'll say with certainty that all of his songs belong on my list.

 

Ok, first off, who knew the "Blue" guys had another song? Be glad you didn't know. Have you ever heard of the process of "name dropping", when a singer just mentions a famous name to make people listen to their song? (take madonna's "Vogue", for example. ) Well, these idiots decided it would be just as cool to name drop VIDEO GAMES. Their song consists of occasionally shouting "Playstation" and "Resident Evil" and "Tekken 3"! Can someone please tell me how these guys ever had a career to begin with?

 

I'll admit it, I liked Informer back in the day. Over ten years ago. I bought the tape. (yes, the tape! remember those?) I'm not ashamed to say that I know all the words. I am ashamed to say that I used to think he was hot, but that's another story. Anyways, this song is on here because i heard it EVERY DAMN DAY. CJLS had a very small selection of early morning tunes while i was getting ready for school. It didn't help that this song sucks dead donkey.

 

Why? Just... WHY? Somebody tell me why this song was a hit! Was it even about ketchup? And they sorta put themselves in a cage by calling themselves "Las Ketchup". They've got "one hit wonder" written all over them. I hope. I don't understand the appeal of the latin dance thing. WOW! they're talking in another language! now, if they were speaking in REAL latin, that'd be cool. I know of several real latin songs that kick arse, like enigma's "sadeness" and enya's "tempus vernum". But apparently latin as a language isn't IN. Sor-RY.

 

Is it just me or does it sound like he's in tremendous pain near the end of this song? He's not singing, the guy's SHRIEKING, "Don't turn out the LIIIIIIIGHTS!" For the love of Pete, people, do as he says. I'd hate to see what happens if the lights got turned off.

 

I think this is the only song on this list I refuse to listen to, flat out. If any of the others come on the radio I'll just tune them out or sleep through them or just talk loudly. The moment this song starts, the radio is shut off and perhaps thrown into a lake if it's a portable radio. There are worse songs out there, don't get me wrong. This one just gets on my NERVES. At first I thought it was the subject material, but now I realize it isn't, it's just a burning hatred of this song. I must have been born with it.

 

Any song that sounds like the lead singer's got the dry heaves during the chorus is just not good. I don't understand why everyone loved this song. It's one of the most annoying pieces of music ever created. well, to me anyway. not many people share my views.

 

Well, you knew he had to be here somewhere. It was just a matter of picking which song of his to put here. I never quite figured out why i hate him, I just do. Actually, and it's with shock that i say this, I actually like one of his songs, therefore ruining my whole "Randalls hate John Mellencamp" theory. Of course I didn't know it was him singing it until they said it was him... anyway, the song's called "emotional love", if you're interested. just avoid Pink Houses. please. it's for your own health and safety.

 

It's rare that I actually dislike a singer's voice - i may hate the song but i can understand how they made it into the business. Now THIS. This just blows my mind. Apparently her style of singing is "refreshing" and "a welcome change" and some such garbage. It IS? She sounds like an angry grandmother. I know she tries to hide it, but it's clear.

 

After possibly succeeding in getting I Try stuck in your head, here's an even bigger piece of crap. I'd like to say that there is not ONE rap song out there that i like, at least none that i've heard, but this one takes the cake. And the fact that he spells "here" with two R's... (he's like the opposite of george) i don't get that. is it supposed to be "cool"? Actually, i'll take back what i said about tolerating all songs on this list except for sugar jones. If this came on the radio I'd DEFINITELY throw said radio into a lake, even if it wasn't a portable one. So if you hear on the news sometime that a yarmouth girl threw a van into Lake Milo, you'll know.... the rest of the story.

 

 

 

 

George had a great idea. George said, "Let's go to the movies to see 'Gladiator' as a kind of a class trip!" George's class said "Yay!" Although two students didn't see the movie in question, I think they learned a lot more than the Gladiator watchers did. We learned that the Chimera Virus is deadly. And that TC can ride a motorcycle.

 

Did we do any work in that class? Well, did we? I honestly don't remember what I made in that class. was the "Home Sweet Home" thing Grade 9 or 8? Or was it the cruddy napkin holder? Or the birdhouse that I never finished? All I remember is playing table hockey with pieces of wood. The name of the class is "Industrial ARTS", I'm sure that table hockey is an art. But I guess not very industrial.

 

What WERE the Chinese doing? We'll never know. But from this sparked months of the George-Eric battle, which I must say was quite entertaining. Even when Mr. Knob had a reasonable question, George would still growl at him. Finally, a teacher that didn't appreciate a lot of participation. Why wasn't Mr. Litmus Paper in that class too?

 

Which one did you guys prefer? The window with a view of the donut or nanaimo bar central? I'm not exactly sure myself. Tech hall had traffic, the corner didn't. The corner was close to the Quarter Chucking Grounds, while the tech hall just had the occasional weirdo sliding down the little slope. Anyway, both of them were our little havens, except when we were driven out of tech hall by the rebel army. Tech Hall lost its sparkle after the computers were off limits to us anyway.

 

CLM 11 was one of the funniest classes I have ever been a part of. When we were given an assignment to "buy our own house," we decided to pull out all the stops and go crazy. we spent way too much money on leather furniture and a hugeass TV. And one ugly bed, for three people. Other than that, we were living the high life, what with cooking soup in a frying pan and walking around on a $100 bathroom rug. In the end, though, we lost points because we didn't have a bathroom MAT. But apparently everything else was fine. Yay for us.

 

5. WARNING: Poor Enunciation in Chem Lab Could Result in Explosive Laughter 

I remember this day vividly. I don't think I've ever cried in class except for this time here. Mandy and I had had way too much caffeine that day. The bombardment of Adamized atoms was just too much, and we were doubled over laughing instead of listening to critical information. I'm just surprised that nobody took notice, especially Mr. Propyne. We were very very loud.

 

I think it's a basic rule of life that when you're told to be quiet, you can't shut up. Or just prior to when you're told to be quiet someone throws a random word into a sentence that really shouldn't be there. The sentence? "what are we doing this weekend?" I'll leave the word to your imagination. For a better effect, throw a comma after "what". Well, i better get to number three before i... get... LATE...

 

It really should have been "why do you TWO smile so much?", but maybe Carol's hiding something from us. Anyway, I could go on and on with a blurb about accounting class, but you've all heard it before. There's enough moments in this class alone that would fill like 80 top ten lists. So instead of boring you to death, I'll jump to the next one.

 

From mosquito magnets came a report from the mandala mountains on why mosquitos are attracted to buff hikers. And from that came the weirdest thing I have ever been a part of. But I'm glad all the same. Weird things make the world go round. Weird things and gravity. And possibly buff hikers.

 

 

 

Last but not least........

 

I don't think I need to explain this. While not exactly much to do with school, it DID kick ass back then. And it served as a springboard for a cute little Carol prank. All is forgiven now, including the refusal to buy a can of pepsi and The Mummy.  Stay tuned for the next ten sometime, k?

 

 

 

He's had several different titles in several different worlds. And he's the only guy that can pass for any of them, I'm sure. And he can be a bird and a plane all at the same time.

 

Some people are faster than speeding bullets. some are stronger than locomotives. Some can even leap tall buildings in a single bound. While it is possible that Ol' Lucky could leap tall buildings, he tends to stand on top of them and never move. He prefers pyramids, but is known to also stand on... wait, no, just pyramids.

 

In the land of Moonbroke, Lucky is known far and wide for his raging anger. He's done a lot of bad stuff and gets away with it because he's ignorant. And the king. that helps.

 

When Lucky died at the end of SoM, he became the pioneer for tragic heroism. Countless other games have involved the lovable yet useless supporting character getting possessed by the major villain since then. I guess before then video games didn't have the guts to kill off a "good guy".

 

Okay. Next time you play Secret of Mana, take a look at this guy. Just LOOK at him. He definitely stuck some sort of dead animal on his head. like a bear or something. Several bears.

 

Ah, yes.. the "potty mouth." Dyluck has the current swearing record, which is five times in two words. He's very inventive when it comes to making "compound curses."

 

I love the name "Dyluck." I LOVE IT TO DEATH! It's just such a cool name. Apparently some woman in Manitoba thought so too, because there's a fat ugly guy named "Dyluck" that lives there. perhaps "Dyluck" is not a squaresoft original?

 

Dyluck bought his pants from MC Hammer. That's the only explanation. It's not like they're standard issue for the Pandoran Army, none of the others are wearing parachute pants. Just the crazy Major.

 

Dyluck is, simply put, very very dumb. Both the SoM Major and Moonbroke's king have the same IQ. Which I think would be somewhere in the area of 1. How someone like him rose to the rank of major is a mystery to me.

 

Dyluck has been my hero since I was 8. I don't know how it began, I don't know WHY it wasn't Sergo, I don't remember anything. But since then nobody has made such an impact on my psyche. He wasn't even all that cool. (Mark your calendars, I said Dyluck wasn't cool. And I'll never say it again.) But something about that lil' dude just really got to me.

 

 

 

10. Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, Courier or SQUAT!

Tripod has its own little library of fonts. None of which i like. I miss my Knights Templar and ACME Secret Agent fonts... *sniff*

 

9. Spazzy Spacing

Wanna paste something into the textbox from wordpad? Have fun! Usually the big problems are with song lyrics copied from other sites, but even my sergo saga is spaced crazily. all those gaps shouldn't be there, and i can't fix them.

 

8. No "Wood.bg" (pronounced "Wood-b'guh") (classic CRS 12 joke)

All the backgrounds they give you to choose from suck royal auughbowls. Enough said.

 

7. Name that Link!

If you have a link to another page in your site, you can't give the link a clever name. like "here", which i would kill for. It has to be the name of the corresponding page.

 

6. BMP JPG GIF ARG ARG ARG

My computer is a relic from an age long past. All I can save my images from paint as are bmps. while not exactly a tripod problem, i still blame them.

 

5. Land of the PSHOOs

Pop-up ads hate me. sometimes when my computer decides to take a little break and just sit back and listen to me yell, it refuses to load up the ads and thus freezes my progress, making it impossible to publish my site. or even click "done". OUCHERS.

 

4. Stupid hidden link button

While not stupid OR hidden, the link button would have been SO helpful had I found it when i needed it. I blame tripod for not making it huge so i could see it.

 

3. Lack of Lavaliciousness

Tripod is at the moment shutting out The Molten Angels for no apparent reason. I guess it just wants to be a jerk to someone new for a change. Why can't we all get along?

 

2. Orlando Bloom the 502 Proxy Error

As mentioned in my "Other Junk" page, I've figured out who's behind the proxy error, It's none other than Legolas, everyone's favorite elf. Except mine. He must have found out that I'm not like the rest of the female population of the world and decided to make me pay for my dislike of him. He does have a cool name for a guy that plays an elf, though..

 

and #1...

 

1. BACKSPACE GO POOF!

Okay, yes, i hate the proxy error, yes, i hate everything else i listed here, but this.... THIS is just... AAAARRRRGGGHH! If Tripod lets me on, I expect to be able to post things. I'm not a perfect typist, so the backspace button is my best friend. but it is also my worst foe. for some unexplainable reason, sometimes when i hit backspace, JUST BACKSPACE, it flings me to the "edit page' screen, erasing all the hard work i had just done. It's already done it twice here today, once as i was just finishing my "more sergo saga goodness" page and once here after i finished my "name that link" entry. and it would have done it a second ago had i not stopped to take a drink of milk. my cursor just disappears for NO REASON!! i have to click back in the window to continue typing. ARG!

 

 

 

10. "Now, I'm not talking about kids in China.."

UGH. Why do people make jokes like this? It might be a little funny the first time to some people, but after REPEATING IT SEVERAL HUNDRED TIMES it just makes you want to leave Sociology and not come back. It's the non-grossly-weird equivalent of a Freud lecture.

 

9. "No, not a river in Egypt..."

These George-brand jokes are just a barrel of laughs. I'm sure we can all make one... here! here's one! he sat in DECEIT! HAR HAR! i wonder when people will learn that these jokes are only acceptable if heard from 4-year olds.

 

8. "Okay, let's say you're doing an essay on.... hmm.. let's say... capital punishment."

When George is concerned, what other subject is there? Did anyone ever ask him what his stance was on the subject of capital punishment? something tells me no, because we'd probably still be sitting in English class listening to him.

 

7. "Take... Dulce Decorum Est, for example."

Dulce Decorum Est, in case you have forgotten (how could you, when he kept using it as his example FOR EVERYTHING?) was that poem with the dead guys that were all icky. I won't go into detail. George liked to though.

 

6. "In the 'Moo-zay-um' in town, there's..."

I'm sure there is. But here in Yarmouth we have no moozayums. Sounds like something to do with cows.

 

5. "Down in Cali-phone-ya..."

Never has the omission of an "r" been so annoying. It drives me up the walls, it does. see, if you left out the 'r' in "drive', you'd get 'dive', which you can't do up walls. USE YOUR R'S!!

 

4. "We've all heard of "Mitsu-beechie," that's a Japanese car company."

There is no possible WAY "mitsubishi" can be pronounced that way. He says we've all heard of it, but apparently he hasn't heard it right. I'm suprised Evan the car nut never chewed him out for this one.

 

3. "Yeah, all those places like Cambodia and Thighland.."

THIGHLAND. Thai food, but Thighland. Yes, this one no longer exists, hopefully... Mandy finally corrected him one day after he finally said, "is it thighland or thailand?" and there was much rejoicing.

 

2. "Yeah, you guys can go set up your venture at the mall if you like.."

Yes. Yes we can. That's why i ended up going door to door like a charity case begging people to buy my crappily crafted jars. It was OUR responsibility, you know....

 

and #1..... drumroll, please...

 

1. "If your job's that important to you, then you should quit school."

Words of wisdom for the ages. It's like the ultimate contradiction. And this guy's a TEACHER! What a world we live in.

 

 

 

 

10. Making prank calls to Sigmund Freud!

Or anyone else, for that matter. I just have to include ol' Freudy in every one of my lists.

 

9. Crumble it up and sprinkle it over tomato soup!

Just make sure to take off the horns first. otherwise you may suffer internal bleeding.

 

8. Bribe me with it!

I'd gladly trade a millenium star for a bowser phone. It's just... there's just something about that little horned cracker, i wanna have a huge collection of them.

 

7. PHONE PLANS!

With a bowser phone, you'll finally find out which Math 11 phone plan was the best.

 

6. Call Blargg!

I'm sure every bowser phone has blarggy's number programmed into it from the start, i mean, blargg is bowser's most powerful and most trusted henchman. shifty eyes and grumbly noises make a good henchman.

 

5. The Obvious! Call Bowser!

You could teach him not to be stupid when it comes to final boss fights in Paper Mario! Or you could remind him that he keeps getting beaten up by a FAT PLUMBER!

 

4. Emergency first aid!

You can use the cracker as a splint for your finger that you broke while trying to eat a pizza!

 

3. Sabotage the cheating computer!

Drop bowser a line to make mario, who just made it past the big snowball dealie, walk backwards so he's forced to do it all over again!

 

2. Get MORE bowser phones!

Bowser sometimes gives away bowser phones for no apparent reason! keep calling him until he gets fed up and HAS to give you some!

 

And #1.....

 

1. Order Bowser Trousers!

I'm sure if they exist, you'd be able to get them by calling bowser. or if they don't exist, you can suggest them to make some. with the cute name, i'm sure Nintendo will adopt the idea with open arms.