hey kid, i like your style

listening to: Ratatat - Mirando



love the song. video is a little crazy.

i was at the old house the other day grabbing a couple things, when i came across a gem from my past. it was a project titled "Poetry for the Video Gamer's Soul." it had some crappy video game related clip art on the cover, which had a plastic cover sheet.

This project consisted of poems i found about video games via internet, poems i wrote myself about video games, and essays covering the found/written pieces. unfortunately i cannot remember what grade this project came from. 8th at the highest, possibly 6th. between 6th and 8th grade. (btw, at my school we had recess through 8th grade, rockin')

holy crap. i just realized one of the poems i found online and included in my project has drug references. !!!! i had NO IDEA. i wonder what my teacher thought, they didn't write any notes about it..... oh lulz. check out these last 3 lines from a poem i discovered:

smoking herbals with sewer pipes
and herbals with sewer bongs
Luigi found the hard-to-find hidden warp zone

BAHAHAHAHAH! i could almost cry laughing about that. i was absolutely clueless. man, i stayed so young for so long back then. happy days as a kid.

ok, so here are some things i wrote. apparently i loved Zelda (the game, not the character) back then, as i do now. first, a limerick, at least i think it is.

There once was a boy named Link
Whose world was in a real kink
Near came the moon
It will crash soon
And then we were saved by Link

CHECK OUT THIS SWEET HAIKU:

The magical song
Brings rain to the driest land
It's the Song of Storms

this stuff is too good. here's a self-description poem:

Jarrod
Lover of video games,
Who feels video games are the future
Who needs a new game every month,
Who gives aid to those stuck in video games,
Who fears being grounded from video games, -(that's so true)
Who would like to see a video game in every household
Pyper

here is a character description poem i did about LinkL

Link
Strong, Brave,
Running, Jumping, Slashing.
He is our hero
The ONE

priceless. there's some more, if you want to see them sometime let me know and i'll show them to you. there's like two narratives in there as well, short. maybe i really did pick the right thing to go to college for, haha.

next time i stop by the house i'll have to look for the stories i used to write in like 5th grade. now that's the stuff. (hostess?)

next time i stop by the house i'll have to sort through everything and decide what i bring back home with me and what gets tossed. i hold on to too many things as it is, it'll probably be hard. plus the fact of knowing that soon i'll never be in that house again kinda sucks.

but lets not end this on a down note. i had too many lulz with my video game poems to feel bad right now.

and may i just say that i like the way your mind works?