I'm doing a some-what personal test, to see how many people (of my neofriends, ect) actually look at my blog.
So even if you dont give two craps, if you read this plase sign below.

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For those of you who don't watch fantastic movies, the title is in reference to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure which is about two most excellent rockers on on their quest to find historical figures by traveling through time so they can pass their history exam. This is followed by Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey where they have to defeat the Grim Reaper, escape Hell and save the world along with their two babes.



Now you're asking yourselves, why is this person going on about movies which are as old and older than him? My answer would be, I first watched these at a young age and several times consecutively. These two movies were rather influential and are musically themed, which leads me to my theme of this blog.

And no before you ask, it's not about the fact I'd go gay for the dark haired one. I wanted to blog about my musical influences and how my taste has developed over time. I don't use the term change suggests moving from Object A to Object B due to a change it's no longer Object A, when in fact it's merely a development of Object A.

Before I do start, however, let me say a few things. I wear black clothing a lot, I used to have a long emo hair style, I have an expensive guitar I often sleep with and you won't see me without my black iPod and black headphones. Now to an outsider, they'd get the impression my musical taste is rather narrow, but that's far from the truth.

My excellent adventure started like many do, with parents. My dad, despite our poor relationship, has been quite influential in my life. As a young child he would have me constantly listening to Hard Rock. In fact by the age of three I was already singing along to bands like Guns N Roses and Bon Jovi. My musical library was dictated by my home listening and I knew little else.



Around the age of 7-8 my primary school in England held a disco. I went with my best friend Lana who I'd always crushed on. I can't remember much, but I do remember that it was my first taste of pop music. Though a lot of modern pop majorly sucks, along with me wanting to say several swear words, pop in the 90's was fantastic. It was actually catchy, enjoyable and the lyrics weren't constantly about some ho sleeping around and getting her heart broken.



My next major milestone appeared along the road around the age of thirteen. I'm now in high school, I've long lost contact with my old friends and crush... oh, and I now live in Australia. I met my new best friend Alex, more well known as Zanda. He introduced me to Weird Al and the idea of parodies in the music world. At that age, comedy means a great deal as you strive to socialise and stay happy given the new major obstacles. I also looked into other artists such as Outkast and Black Eyed Peas... oh, and Eminem.



Next on the journey is the year 2007, when I turned sixteen. I received my iPod, I was over the moon. Curiously my long lost crush sent a letter this year pouring her heart out. I replied but I never received one in return. Anyway, I began looking for music to put on it. My dad bought me an album of Aerosmith, igniting my passion for rock again. I added in all those childhood bands and more. Notable names including Whitesnake, Oasis, Poison and Black Sabbath. I would sit there cheerfully, feeling rather hardcore at my anti political music. Little did I know that my next social group would change me forever.



I met my two new best friends a little before the receiving of the iPod and quite frankly, found my music to be too unexciting for their tastes. Trying to introduce me to their stuff they continued to fail until they found one genre, Power Metal in early 2008. I fell in love with it, my first and always will be favourite band being DragonForce which will always be the biggest factor in my musical tastes ever. They were followed by Pyramaze, but I found myself wanting faster and harder music.



Then they managed to get me into a Heavy Metal band called Trivium. Now my musical tastes were really put to the test. I found myself liking bands such as Bullet for my Valentine and I haven't looked back since.



My tastes progressively got heavier, leading me into more obscure genres such as Blackened Death Metal, Tech Death and Extreme Metal. This lead me to such bands as Cradle of Filth, Sylosis and Parkway Drive.





This isn't to say I forgot my home, Power Metal... just found it mixed with other genres. This means bands like underground Agathodaimon, which is a sort of fuse between Power Metal and Blackened Death Metal. Then more normal Power Metal like Altaria and Symphony X, along with unknown bands like Thunderstone.





Then most recently, I've just been looking into anything that tickles my fancy. This includes extremely obscure Equilibrium, which is Blackened Folk Metal. Or Biffy Clyro, back to rock again!





Anyway, to get to my point, my musical tastes have become a lot more diverse in the last ten years. Though I still listen to all of it. I like and appreciate a large variety of genres and bands. A sub point to this would be you don't need to chuck out the old to let in the new.

So I hope you enjoyed the excellent adventure, the memories and the videos. No doubt I will blog about certain bands in the future but for now, I urge you all to go out there and try to expand your own musical tastes. You'll be so much better for it I promise.

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It seems that I can't go very long without running into some poor soul who carries the burden of saving the human race from the Internet Explorer web browser. Oftentimes, said person's strategy is to cast IE users* as degenerates, hoping that his intimidation tactics will scare them into using some other BETTER browser, which usually happens to start with "M" and rhyme with "Showvilla Mirelocks." I hope I'm wrong, but I'd be willing to bet that most of these folks don't have anything constructive to say on why using IE makes you an imbecile.

My advice? Go with what you're happy with. If you like Internet Explorer, why go through the hassle of learning a new browser? Same thing goes for Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Chrome, or even Lynx! If you are going to switch browsers, do it for tangible reasons that are actually worth your learning a new environment, not because your friend down the street thinks your browser is the devil.

tl;dr - Pushing your browser preferences onto other people almost always makes you look like a giant tool.

* Note that this post is about users, not web site developers who have to deal with the idiosyncrasies of the IE family. :)

Nothing like yet another unnecessary feature on neoseeker. I seriously expect to see a neoseeker video player in the near future, along with whatever other gimmicky, overused, and unnecessary addition that red pulls out of his ass.

Don't get me wrong; I love neoseeker, but I would much rather see less diversifying and some useful updates. Currently what comes to mind is a real search function and post history. Both of these were chopped off because they used up too much space, but if neo can be a blogging site and an image host why can't it include some actual improvements, as opposed to a maelstrom of odds and ends tacked on.

Yes, I know there are fallacies in what I say, and yes, I know that neoseeker is made of win anyways.

Here is a relevant rodent for your viewing pleasure:


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Peterborough have completed a few "giantkillings" in their time. Unfortunately I've not seen the very best ones, reaching the quarter finals of the League Cup in a run that included Wimbledon, Newcastle and Liverpool before eventually being knocked out by Middlesborough in the early 90's was before my time. The only time we beat a Premiership side in the FA Cup against Arsenal in the 60's was waaaay before my time but I'm sure the day was brilliant.

I've seen some great cup upsets though. Last year we knocked Colchester United out of the FA Cup by beating them 3-1 at their ground. At the time they were in the Championship and we were in League 2, although we are now in the same league and we are ahead of them. Our chants of "we'll be playing you next year" certainly rang true. The year before we knocked Championship Ipswich out of Carling Cup and ran Everton very close in the next round before Tim Cahill scored a late winner for the Toffees.

By far my best cup experience with Posh would be one we didn't even end up winning. In 2002 we played Newcastle United in the fourth round of the FA Cup in a year were they were flying high in 4th in the Premiership with Alan Shearer leading the way. We were desperate for the tie to go ahead despite the awful weather so the pitch was covered and treated almost non-stop before the game to make sure it went ahead. Unfortunately we started in entirely the wrong way. We weren't having an impact and by half time we were 2-0 down and should have been dead and buried. But we fought back against the odds, an Andy O'Brien own goal and a wonderful long range effort from David Farrell put us back on even terms until the 84th minute when we were cruely undone. The referee awarded one of the softest penalties I've ever seen after Alan Shearer fell over, he converted it and they scored again right after the restart to put it beyond doubt. It was our game of the season though and something everyone there will never forget.

It was that cup spirit we were hoping to take into todays game against a team who knocked us out of two cup competitions last year without even breaking a sweat. The situations were a little changed this year. Last year we were both flying high in our respective leagues and both got promoted. This time we were flying high again in our new league while WBA were in a relegation battle in theirs, although they had a recent upturn in form. Over 4,000 Posh supporters had made the trip to The Hawthorns, so many in fact that we had relocated their season ticket holders out of their normal seats so that we could all be fit in safely.

Any worries I had of us not being a match for them this year were dispelled pretty much straight away. As soon as the whistle went we were on the attack. In the first 20 minutes we hit the post and tested their defense with some great runs and crosses. It wasn't all our way though. The game was real end to end stuff, for every time we went forward, they came straight back at us. We had Gaby Zakuani back in defense today though, he hasn't lost a game for us yet, and it showed today. We were able to clean up almost every attack. But for the few that did get through, their strikers only found Joe Lewis in top form with some outstanding saves. For a game with so much attacking it was surprising to reach half time with the score at 0-0.

The second half started exactly how the first did, both teams with more end to end attacking. George Boyd shot a little bit past the post with a close chance. West Brom had a spell of pressure and it ended with giant centre back Olsson putting the ball in the back of the net from the corner. This would either make or break us, would we put our heads down or fight back? We did it the right way. We came forward time and time again, somehow finding space when we thought we'd done it. The linesman however disagreed and disallowed it. We still had to equalise and there wasn't that much time to do it. Eventually McLean and Mackail-Smith did what they do best, linking up and putting the ball just past Scott Carson to equalise, sending the Posh fans wild. 3 minutes of time were added on and we almost scored again but it didn't matter that we hadn't, a draw away at Premiership team means a home replay and a better shot at victory. I'm delighted!

Next Match Attending

Posh v MK Dons
6/1/09 7.45pm
London Road

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Well, seeing as I like to keep in touch with different stuff and whatnot and I feel the need to review random things, I decided to make a blog, which I shall update every now and then when something interesting happens. Hope you enjoy.

The image says "yukkuri shitteitte ne!" which is loosely translated to "TAKE IT EASY". I'm really fond of the meme as it seems to apply to the way I like to reflect upon life. Besides, the yukkuri are pretty freaking hilarious.

So yeah apparently "!"s at the end of URL link markup mess up the code. It took me a bit to get the above link right until Andy (Vermillion) pointed it out for me.

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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
So leveling has definitely slowed down once my 200% EXP ran out. ;-; I'm only at about 60% into level 67. I've completely most of the quests in Nagrand at the moment, and I'm really only trying to complete the Group quests, especially the ones needed for Nessi's line. Once I finish those ones, I'll venture off to Blade's Edge Mountains and be able to easily hit 68, and possibly 69, or at least 75% into it.

Once I hit 69 though, I think I'm going to take a little break from questing a do a bit of BGs. I haven't done PvP in forever, and I think I should try my hand at it with my Lock since I'm probably going to frequent the Arena at 80. I'm not very good with Raids, which is why I probably won't do many. The whole time constraint and whatnot is a little too much for me. Well that, and the fact that I've never raided with my Lock, and I wouldn't know what to do at all.

One good thing happened though, yesterday. I finally got my Dreadsteed! ^-^ That's really sad on my part, I think, considering I'm 67. But oh well, I quit playing before BC came out, and once it did I went from 43 to 63, then quit, so I didn't have any time to gain money and whatnot. But finally, after questing a lot and selling a hell of a lot of stuff on the AH, I got enough to buy it. I didn't want to do the quest chain, because no one goes to Scholo anymore.

So yeah, hopefully this weekend I'll hit 68, and possibly 69.

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Haha, I finally got to posting a blog entry. I've been meaning to do it for a while now but I've been such a lazy ass. :L
Anyway, I really don't have anything interesting to say. My birthday's coming up soon. :3

Also, *bleep* it. I can't seem to put up a picture. ;45;

edt: Haha, woo~ Pedobear is up!

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So, I keep hearing all of these great things about windows vista's security features? Sounds pretty cool and all, but I don't look into it much. Apparently, it is the ultimate defense in securing your computer or something like that. Unfortunately, you don't exactly like it as much whenever it is turned against you.

My older half-brother has been staying with us every couple of nights, camping out on the couch. Last night, he supposedly looked at, well, dirty images while everyone else was asleep. He made the rookie mistake of not deleting the cookies, history, etc. that showed that he was on there and so my mom noticed them the next morning (he had even stupidly bookmarked one of the sites).

To prevent this, my mom thought she'd do a blanket ban of 99% of the internet on every user. How did she do this you say? By utilizing Windows Vista's amazing security! She first took everyone off of administrator status except her user. Next, she password protected her user (I tried about twenty different possibilities before realizing that it was probably case sensitive, and I cba to try their possibilities). Then, she put the parental controls on every other user to the highest possible setting, which includes the internet.

I didn't realize anything had been tampered with until this morning, when google searches kept coming up with "Windows Parental Control has blocked this website". I started to try even simple things, like food. I typed in "Apple", it worked. I typed in "Cheese", and to my surprise, it didn't work! Is there some vulgar site that comes up when you google cheese, but not apple?

Being a little frustrated at how dumb some of the stuff it was blocking was, I began searching for hacks and bypasses. Well, similar to searching those things on a school computer, those were blocked too. I walked over to the television and picked up a PS3 controller. I began searching on the PS3 for bypasses and hacks. I found a couple in command prompt and using the "control userpasswords2" secret, but they only work if you are also an administrator. I found a ton for windows XP and earlier operating systems, but none that worked for windows vista without downloading programs, which I can't because first of all it is blocked, and second of all because I was unfamiliar with the programs and the sites they were on.

In short, Windows Vista's Security, combined with my mom's rage blanket ban of almost all of the internet (most of neo isn't blocked, but game/movie/book profiles and their tabs won't load), has really made me dislike Vista. Any questions? :)

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Please keep in mind at all times we live in a boundless time continuum and as such, there are no years, and so no new years. Happy belated winter solstice!!!

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A very Happy New Year to all Neoseeker visitors, members and guests alike! It seems cliché to say that 2009 is going to be an exciting year for the site, but that's only because every year that passes seems to outdo the one before it. From new features such as blogs and galleries to multiple neoforum releases and GameGrep changes, 2008 saw a flood of great updates to the network. 2009 looks to carry on that trend and hopefully will end up delivering even more.

This year is especially notable for the fact that it will see the 10th birthday of Neoseeker and neoforums. You never know, we may even get to see a very special commemoration to mark it in true Neoseeker style!

Here's to another unstoppable year!

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Happy New Year everyone. Wow, I can't believe it's 2009! Time goes by real fast. It's like I can remember New Year 2008 as if it was just yesterday.

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So, I got my wisdom teeth cut out of my head yesterday at 9am. What a great way to bring in the new year. And to top it all off I have a really sore throat. Swallowing it just the best thing ever. I feel like such an old person when I'm eating. All I can have is stuff like apple sauce, pudding, jello, and ice cream. And I also take a pill or two every once in a while when it starting to really hurt.

So, just basically a great way to bring in the new year. :)

P.S. - Chipmunk pictures coming soon.

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It's been quite a while since my last blog post and I'm sorry for that.
Recently I've full of things to do these holidays. I celebrated my birthday on the 20th, as well as Christmas with the family but 5 days later. But most recently I re-rented the game "Shadow of the Colossus" and have found myself absolutely hooked. Again.
The scenery, the music, the graphic designs, the majestic gameplay all work well together to make this more than a game, but rather a work of art.
Even though it is a few years old, it is somewhat a rather inspiring game.
From which, I have decided to take upon myself the creation of a novel, somewhat similar to the events of the game, but different. I'm hoping I'll manage to keep up with it and make something of it at least.

Well, to top the celebration list, I managed to russle up these items for my Birthday and Christmas.

Blank DVDs
Dexter: An Omnibus (A quite good book)
A bucket of M&Ms
A huge CD Case to put all my CD's
A new PS2 to replace the ol' broken one
A big TV for the room
Deodorant
Shirts and pants

That's basically what I can remember. I've enjoyed all of it so far.
My brother and I also decided to buy an old Xbox, and I am currently awaiting Fable from eBay. Looks to be a treat.

Well, I wish everyone a happy holidays and a safe new year. :)

I've been pretty resolute about keeping private matters off this blog. People can use them for what they want, but I'm a pretty introverted person and prefer to keep all the unpleasantness of my personal life locked inside my own Pandora's Box. Though I suppose it is safe to say I'm not feeling too awesome -- stupid holidays.

On another note, I'm also not too fond of these friggin' things:


I can't speak for everyone, but I'm not blind, damnit! I don't need massive panels telling me (in CAPS) how to post and edit my own blog. Doesn't help that the colors totally clash with how I've customised mine. BLAAAAGH JUST IN CASE YOU'RE A (insert R-word for 'mentally challenged'), CLICK HERE FOR BLOG OPTIONS!!!!1 I'm still playing Mass Effect. I need some more Microsoft Points. Almost done with Aspho Fields, which makes me sad. I'm totally hot for Baird.

Happy New Year, guys.

Edit I really am amused by how often people take my bitching seriously. I'm not being sarcastic, and I know I can be quite... off. If you can't tell when I'm being facetious (almost always), don't feel bad. You're not alone.


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