Definitely in need of an update.  Been getting a little sucked into other shenanigans going on, but now I can finally sit down and write.  It’s nice, really nice.  Being back here, gathering my thoughts and everything.  It’s relaxing, like a good moment spent in a hammock during a warm peaceful day where there are no obtrusive branches hanging above said hammock, totally removing the likelihood of having birds relieve themselves of their doody while you relieve yourself of your duty during said relaxing moment in the hammock.

That’s disgusting.  So anyway… here’s what I’m thinkin’.

Last night I saw a baby lizard on my bedroom walls.  Haven’t seen it since.  It probably found a way out.  That or it might have found a way into the stomach of one of my cats or my dog.  Not sure if they have the appetite for a baby lizard, but one thing’s for certain… they’d probably just play with it, chase it, and, before ya know it, all that funny stuff from cartoons would ensue.  It’d be like Itchy and Scratchy, only with a lizard escaping domestic pets instead of blood-filled antics from a cat and mouse that, in all honesty, should be locked up and kept away from society.

Wait, that would mean no Itchy & Scratchy toons.  Screw that, I want my Itchy & Scratchy cartoons.  We’d have to look for something to fill the void.  Happy Tree Friends might do perfectly.  Yea, we’ll go with that.  It’s actually been a while since I last watched that.  Those things blew my mind when I first stumbled upon ’em in high school.  Literally, it was during high school.  I started watching The Happy Tree Friends in the computer lab and ya know something, my teacher didn’t mind.  Well, then again he probably didn’t know I was watching them on the computers.  He’ll know now, though :3

Hmm, been using that emote a lot lately.  There’s something funny about it, it looks so sly and cheeky.  I look at it and think, “Yeah… yea it could use more.”  But once I start thinking about how it could use a little something else, I realize that its charm would be lost.  Which is evidence that sometimes the simple things we enjoy can be ruined when fleshed out and, instead, should be kept simple.  Ya hear that, movie studios?  Hint hint… do not add anything to a movie when ya re-release it.  We just want simple stuff, nothing more nothing less.

Well, okay so there is the thing that too much simplicity would make for a boring life.  And that’s true, we do need substance at times.  In many ways, substance is what drives us.  Life may seem simple on the surface, but when you take it apart and really open yourself up to what’s underneath, you find that there is a lot more than what seems.  And that’s where the quest for satisfaction comes in.  Some things need more than simplicity to satisfy our need for satisfaction.

Ironically, there’s still a hint of simplicity in the best stuff that’s out there.  They do say that there’s “deceptive simplicity,” and it’s true.  So maybe there is more to all the current thoughts on my mind.  That “something more” might seem like it’s out of reach, almost like there are mental boundaries.  Boundaries, however, might be illusions when it comes to thinking.  I like to think that life is full of illusions.  So whatever seems out of reach may in fact be within your reach.  You might already have it.  All that would remain once you grab it, is understanding it.  And once you can put it into words, you may be onto something.

So what’s in my reach?  I like to think that entertainment is in my grip.  Entertainment of any kind, really.  I used to think of TV and multimedia as my life when I was a kid.  And that’s not to say I was nothing but a couch potato or comic book fanatic.  On the contrary, I used what I would watch and read as a motivator for telling my own stories.  I used to be that kid who would re-enact The Cable Guy with my power ranger figures, and pretend that me and a couple then-classmates were the characters, getting into the crazy Broderick & Carrey antics that graced the cinema worldwide.

I was a strange kid.  Might’ve been a bit of an oddball, but I like to think I am past that.  And while I have no more desires to recreate box-office bombs with toys, I like to think I am ready for the next stage.  It’s time to move forward with long-time desires and truly create.  Soar into the realms where only imagination rules and we live.  Re-enter familiar territory and evolve with the purpose of entering that zone where there are no boundaries.  Enter it and thrive, growing and giving life to the intangible to make it tangible.  The realms where we are the masters of illusions become real, and the power to move forward becomes the new life.  We live and continue to create both the simple and complex, never without limitations, and forever immortalizing ourselves in our own worlds and understanding.  This… is the new home.

Although it would be fun to recreate Battlefield Earth with cardboard puppets.

:3