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    Hey Lewalew

    By Nuju Metru,

    Hey Lewalew;
     
    WORLD
    FREAKIN'
    SERIES.
     
    You said it wouldn't happen, but here we are.
     
    We have won.
     
    Giants have won.
     
    You were unexpectedly wrong. Logic was wrong. I respect your having clung to it for so long; "it" being reason and sanity, but the time has passed for that. It's time to jump aboard the insanity ship, and hope and pray and watch as my team, against all logical odds, will maybe even win it all. Join us, and be a believer...
     
    GO GIANTS!
     
    -Nuju Metru
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    Supreme Ownage

    By Nuju Metru,

    One full game.
     
    One walk.
     
    Two hits.
     
    14 strikeouts.
     
    Lincecum, I lurve you. :3 It was so awesome to have gone to this game! Tons of fun - front row bleacher seats. I even got a Rally Rag to show for it.
     
    -Nuju Metru
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    Well, here's the deal. Over the course of my creative life, I've thought up a number of ideas for fantastical things in fantastical worlds to write about, to draw. But none of them ever really carried through well - either because the idea burned itself out, got tiresome, wasn't supported by good enough characters, etc. (What a wasted 55 pages I wrote for that one idea... it died because none of my charries were strong enough to hold up the epic scale of the story. Dagnabbit.)
     
    But now, after delving into my boxes full of past, and looking at some art from my fantasy world of 3rd grade, I have gained new inspiration from the old. It was an almost-forgotten universe, product of a trio of imaginative young boys including myself, created over the course of the year through countless recess escapades, drawings. Dragons and dragon slayers, wizards, goblins, mysterious forces, great empires, epic warfare - Somehow, the remembered ideas fill me with the kind of imaginative drive I haven't felt for years.
     
    Then, the most brilliant thought struck me.
     
    What would happen if I combine this concept from my elementary school mind with all of the other failed attempts of my mind of today? What if I find a way to finally create a world that I can call my own by picking the best of my own work and somehow fusing it all?
     
    I started to jot down notes on a virtual notepad immediately. I'm excited. I feel like this might actually get somewhere, a prospect that thrills me unbelievably. But I can't do it alone. I'd really love your guys' help on some fronts. One of those is the naming front. This is a quasi-european, quasi-medieval (in some cases, almost a medieval steampunk) world, with creatures from dragons to centaurs to winged elves. So I'd like to hear any names you can think of for that kind of world, if you're willing to give them. If you contribute them and I use them, I need you to understand that you will not be credited for the name. I hope y'all don't mind that, but I've never been good with keeping track of that stuff.
     
    Here are some things I would love some name ideas for;
     
    - "Goblins" species name; guttural, easy to remember, savage-sounding, not based on a real word
    - Goblin Prince/warlord names
    - "Bird-folk" (winged elves) Species name; should be elegant, stoic, simple if possible, not based on a real word
    - The Bird-folk are divided into two parts - names for those parts (should have similar root, but be evidently different, hopefully sound similar to the species name)
    - Place names (mountains, rivers, lakes, forests: it's all good, considering my map isn't nearly concrete yet)
    - Dragon Species names
    - A name for a guild of Dragonslayers
    - Personal names for any goblins, humans (latin/romanesque names), bird-folk, centaurs, dragons, wizards, anything you can think of. Just first, just last, or both names work great.
    - City names for any of above species
    - Types of undead spirits
    - Magical concepts/places
     
    Don't at all feel obligated to do all or even any of these if you don't want to - I'm grateful to anything you guys can give me. Thank you so much for reading and suggesting!
     
    -Nuju Metru
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    L O S T Marathon

    By Nuju Metru,

    Well considering how awesome LOST is, I decided to watch the whole series over again, continuously, about two months ago. Just today, I finished up Season 5 in a 6-episodes-straight run. LOVE
     
    -Nuju Metru
  18. Nuju Metru
    Just deleted all those songs I hated from my iPod - and also bought the whole of Spring Awakening. Everyone says it's amazing, and from what I've heard, it's pretty awesome. Therefore, my music is now tidied up.
     
    On a separate note, life has been busy. But in a good way.
     
    -Nuju Metru
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    My Life Is Sequential

    By Nuju Metru,

    Wake up 7:10.
    Leave house 7:45.
    School 8:00.
    Lunch 11:20.
    Get out 3:25.
    (Insert rushed bike ride here)
    Bye Bye Birdie rehearsal 3:30.
    Rehearsal ends 6:00.
    (Insert rushed dinner *coughPEARLScough* here)
    A Cappella 1st rehearsal (at the same theater as BBB) 6:15.
    Rehearsal ends 7:45
    (Insert rushed bike ride #2 here)
    Glee Premiere 8:00
    (Insert HW afterwards)
     
    This is my day. LOVE
     
    -Nuju Metru
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    Pirate-o-meter

    By Nuju Metru,

    ^ Pirate
     
     

    ^ NOT Pirate.
     
    I be feelin' the desire to a-watch a certain trilogy of movies today! Arrr! Avast! Scurvy! Mainmast! Rudder! Cannon! Cutlass! MONKEY!
     
    -Captain Aaron "ARRR!-on" Beltbucklaneer
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    Review: The Town

    By Nuju Metru,

    Hearts of Gold in a World of Grit; Affleck’s “The Town”
     
    Grinning skull masks with hollow eyes and all-black clothing conceal the identities of four men as they surge out of a car and into a bank. Guns are held confidently in their hands as they quickly take control of the building. A practiced machine, this quartet robs the bank, leaving no traces of evidence, and fleeing before they can be caught – the men in skeletal visages are efficient, professional, systematic, riveting. Thus, the actions of protagonist Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) and his thief crew in the opening scene of The Town is a metaphor for the film itself; from start to finish, the movie engages in no superfluities that would detract from its plot or from the performances of the actors in propelling it forward. The end result is clean, engaging, fast, and thorough.
     
    The Town has surprising deftness and grace for an American action movie. Affleck wrote, directed, and starred in a film that can and does transition between the shadowy dirtiness and speed so common in violent cinema and the rest of reality, the world of normality. This is a contrast that is artfully executed and clearly defined – Affleck’s character is a man who lives in both worlds; his acting, if nothing else, is representative of the gap. One moment, he is savage, merciless, intimidating – the next, sympathetic, sincere, relatable. But, despite the sharp disparity of these sets of traits, Affleck manages to connect them within MacRay, forging a character who feels real and, unlike many personalities of recent movies, we actually end up caring about when he’s getting shot at.
     
    Supported by numerous talented actors (Among them Jon Hamm playing a wily FBI agent, Jeremy Renner a detestable, merciless member of the robber crew), the film’s plot does not have to rely upon excessive and unneeded fighting and violence to continue building. When there are action scenes, they are brutal, intense, exciting – cars smashing, guns firing, bullets ricocheting, wounds exploding in splashes of gore – and are captivated with quick, masterful shots. The camera angles, contrary to battle sequences of notable other films, don’t serve to confuse the viewer, which was a welcomed change.
     
    The film’s cinematography overall is well-done; its duller light and drained colors conveys a feel of depression, exaggerated mediocrity that is representative of how the urban jungle of Boston is perceived in the picture. But despite its greyer hues, The Town’s script is delectably colorful – and not only because of the profuse swearing. It performs a screenplay that doesn’t sound like one; no one-liners, no too-perfect grammar, no holds barred on what people would realistically say. It’s a comprehensive script, which constantly connects upon itself, and lends a unified feel to the movie. There are sparse but well-placed instances of dry wit that make audiences chuckle, sometimes even laugh in earnest, which do well to balance the more macabre moments.
     
    The tone of the story overall is gloomy – greed and a lusty desire to rise above their pathetic lives are the chief motivators for many of the characters. But not for all – MacRay (Affleck) finds a more pure impetus in Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall), the manager of a bank he robs who by a strange play of fate he develops a strong romantic bond with. Their relationship is a singular point of hope and joy in the movie, strongly juxtaposed against cops and robbers with no lives outside the endless cycles of dissatisfaction they have made for themselves. It is encouraging to know that even a man as dangerous as MacRay has a soul.
     
    After all, The Town, like many other movies, is at its heart a commentary upon human nature. In the world where mankind has crafted a society of violence and self-indulgence with zero fulfillments, all too often people do not ascend beyond their average selves – nor do they try to. But Affleck’s film reminds its audience that people can still find joy and love… it just takes one bank robbery, one coincidence, to discover it.
     
    (Written for my Journalism class at school - thought I might as well share my thoughts on the movie here, too.)
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    Hero Factory... Miracle?

    By Nuju Metru,

    It's the weirdest thing.
     
    I looked at my Hero Factory sets, sitting on the floor of my room.
     
    They're... cool.
     
    And, can't believe I'm saying this... I want to play with them.
     
    Not like pose play.
     
    Play play. Make all them swooshy noises when they fly and shoot at each other and do missions and voice Preston Stormer as he heroically takes on three nasty villains.
     
    I think I somehow have re-awoken my inner child.
     
    Wow.
     
    -Nuju Metru
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