Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Metallica -Thorn Within
Well, I haven't updated my LJ in a while, so I thought I'd make a post of all my MySpace blog stuff (and a song I wrote) I've posted in the past, starting with the most recent:
God Bless,
-David
I wrote this at work since it was slow and I think I needed to put this down before the words left me. I’ve been wanting to write a “Worship” song for a while, but have never really been able to find the words. I didn’t want to write another “God is great, la la la” song. I wanted something that I and others like me could relate too, something that I think is missing from Worship music today. I really wish I could write music for it. I have a tune in my head, but I lack the knowledge and skills to put it to paper.
PS: On another note, those that are reading my “Mementos of the Brokenhearted” story on the Relient K Forums (all three of you.) I’m still working on revising Chapter VII. Its 11 pages so it will take me awhile. I haven’t had much time this week, nor will I the next. But I promise it will get done sometime. So hold tight, kay?
Also for those that haven’t begun reading it, I’d like to let you know that after I’m done with all the chapters, I will publish it through Café Press and have a paperback available to purchase off my site. At that time, I will remove all the chapters I have posted here, so if you want read it for free I’d advise you to do so within the next month.
Anyway, enjoy my song. I hope you find it meaningful.
- David Brain Jones
Vessel
[Verse 1]
Darkness consumes me,
Pain flows right through me,
How can I break free,
From this life?
Demons destroy me,
The world laughs right at me,
How can I break free,
From this life?
[Chorus]
Use me my God, show me your purpose,
I am your vessel, I know I’m not worthless.
Trembling I cry out to the Lord on High.
I pray that this feeling won’t die.
[Verse 2]
Your Spirit has filled me,
Your Grace overwhelmed me,
Jesus has saved me,
From this life.
God still loves me,
He never had left me.
Jesus has saved me,
From this life.
[Chorus]
Use me my God, show me your purpose,
I am your vessel, I know I’m not worthless.
Trembling I cry out to the Lord on High.
I pray that this feeling won’t die.
Use me my God, show me your purpose,
I am your vessel, I know I’m not worthless.
Trembling I cry out to the Lord on High.
I pray that this feeling won’t die.
I know that this feeling won’t die.
[Ending]
I am unworthy and still you died
Even if it was for one soul,
You still would have died.
Copyright 2006 David Brian Jones. All rights reserved.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Seattle, Kent, lack of sleep, and lots o' reveiws
Current mood: tired
Well, I feel tired. I stayed up all night Friday with the Jr. Highers from my church. We went to Seattle, then Kent, then back home to Olympia. We left 5:30 pm Friday and got back 9:00 am Saturday. Through this whole time I did not sleep a wink, nor did I have much chance too with all the activities and whatnot. Anyway, this is not LiveJournal, so I think I'll shut up now and get on with the reviews of the huge build up of anime and movies I've watched this week.
I'll start it off with the crap first.
Kicking and Screaming:
Rating: 1 star.
Yeah, I watched this with the Jr.High kids. Probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but when its past 5:00 in the morning and you still haven't got any sleep, it's actually pretty darn funny. So if for what ever reason you actually decide to watch this movie, make sure you're either sleep deprived or have recently hit yourself repeatedly in the head with a brick beforehand.
Yes, it's that bad. I don't think I can bear to speak of it further since I'm doing my best to forget the experience.
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie:
Rating: 2 stars.
Anime + a heavy French inspiration + a whole lot of drugs = Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie.
This kind of sucked, it basically just a whole big celebration of bisexuality with some sort of plot, (I'm still not sure if their was a plot, this movie was pretty whacked out, hence why I mentioned the drugs, the only way to explain this movies existence is drugs, probably acid) pushing that idea forward. I have not see the Utena TV series, so maybe it makes more sense to those who have, but after watching the movie, I really feel no urge to watch the show at all. It somehow reminded me of Olive Stones' "Alexander", not that any movie deserves to be compared to that atrocity. Utena had a lot of nice artistic imagery, though pretty devoid of all substance and meaning it was still kind of cool to watch. That's really the only thing that saved the film from complete disaster I think.
Vampire Hunter D:
Rating: 2 and half stars.
D is one of the coolest characters ever created, and there's no question about that, but the first Vampire Hunter D movie was kind of a let down. First off, the movie's art is not true to Yoshitaka Amano original artwork and designs for the characters. I'm a big fan of Amano and am bothered to see the movie stray so far from his work. (The following TV series fixed this thankfully.)
This is from 1985, so it's kind of corny, but still fun none the less. The vampire hunter, named simply "D" is just to cool. I'd advise any fan of anime to give this a watch. Maybe not that great compared to today's anime, but it's a classic and important part of history none the less.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind:
Rating: 4 stars
Everyone should watch this. Period. I don't care if you like anime or not, you have to see this. I don't think any word I could put to paper could described the beauty of this film.
Since it as directed By Hayao Miyazaki, I knew it was going to be good, but never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be THIS good. I never thought I'd ever be able to rank another movie with Miyazaki's other masterpiece "Princess Mononoke", but Nausicaa more then deserves to stand by its side.
I"ll say no more. Watch it now. To review it anymore would spoil some of its magnificent beauty.
Anime DVD Review:
D.N. Angel: Vol. 1.
I nearly killed myself several times while watching this, it"s pretty bad. It"s about a 14 year old that turns into an angel with super powers every time he feels the emotion of love.
Yeah, I know, kill me now. It's almost as crappy as "Cardcaptor: Sakura"
I did find Daisuke a pretty enjoyable hero, which is rare nowadays, but that's about the only good thing I have to say about it.
Rating 6/10
Blah, those reviews were kind of short, but I'm too tired to write anymore.
Good day to you all,
- David Brian Jones
Anime review: .hack//SIGN DVD Vol. 1
Current mood: My emotion is "other" :)
Lord of the Rings meets the Matrix. I think that would be the easiest way to sum up .hack//SIGN and the .hack (pronounced “dot hack”) franchise as a whole.
You know those MMORPG’s that everyone is playing nowadays? (MMORPG stands for “Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game”, it’s a mouthful I know, hence the acronym)
.hack takes the concept of MMORPG’s and throws it into the future, so instead of playing the game on a normal computer like today’s MMORPG’s are played, they are played hooked up Matrix style to something called a “Monitor.” A virtual reality device giving the gamer a realistic VR experience of the game, a fantasy world simply called the “The World.”
Well, you may be thinking that makes for a pretty dumb show, but wait, here’s where it gets good. Enter a guy named Tsukasa. (Have fun trying to pronounce that name, its harder then it looks.)
Tsukasa appears in “The World”, suffering from amnesia and is unable to logout an seems to able to FEEL PAIN, which is something that you shouldn’t be doing if you playing a VR video game meant for entertainment. He also seems to be able to inflect real pain on other normal players he meets in the world.
He soon realizes that he is not hooked up to monitor and has actually become part of the “The World.” What’s more disturbing he seems to have acquired powers to defy the very programmer code that makes up “The World.” The game’s system administrator is even unable to remove him from the game. Obviously something is VERY wrong here. Apparently there is more to “The World” then meets the eye. I’m not going to give anymore away for those that haven’t seem this surprising great show.
I admit I was skeptical about the concept before I saw it, but after watching the first volume of the DVD I was almost in tears when I realized there were no more episodes on the disc.
I think the shows greatest strength, as with most anime, is the characters, practically Tsukasa. He’s no Bruce Willis (may that man be smite by lighting) and simply the type of hero that you just can’t find in the American media, seriously before anime, I always liked bad guys the best in Movies and TV shows. Not that I’m psycho or anything, but it doesn’t take a genius to know that they are the most complicated and real characters, and that’s why I end up caring more about them. The villains are real people that can be found in the real world. The heroes, on the other hand, only exists in Hollywood. I mean in most America shows, the heroes are faceless unrealistic perfect “do-gooders” who demonstrate their “superior morals” be beating the crap out of everyone the come into contact with.
Of course people like Tsukasa don’t do around beating the “bad guys” up for no apparent reason other then they’re the “bad guys.” In fact, he himself could be considered the bad guy, even if it is rather unknowingly so. All Tsukasa “thinks” he wants is to be by himself and left alone, and that desire for isolation has led to him being used by forces he doesn’t fully understand. It’s pretty tragic, but feels real.
What makes it all the more heart breaking is that Tsukasa doesn’t really want to be alone at heart, he is human after all. This is demonstrated in a really moving scene when Tsukasa calls for a meeting with a girl named Mimiru, the girl he had first meet in The World, though due to his loner nature, he had totally pushed her away to the point that she is convinced he hates her. So when he calls for her, she sends her friend, Bear, in her place, wanting to avoid a fight.
As Bear opens the door to meat him, the camera cuts to Tsukasa face and you can just see the joy in him as he thinks Mimiru is coming to see him, a soon as he realizes otherwise though, you can just see the joy seep out of him as he reverts back to his normal depressed state. I don’t know how the captured that much emotion on an animated character, but I applaud them for it. It has to been seen to be truly understood.
I suppose a lot of people, particularly Americans males, will complain that “Tsukasa acts like a girl! He’s a wuss!” or other testosterone filled idiocy. Those are the people that went around calling smaller built kids that don’t play sports “gay” and beating them up in locker rooms in high school .They should be ignored, for bigots like them shouldn’t be allowed an opinion.
Well, they can go kill their brains cells on movies like “Die Hard.” I’ll be watching my .hack//SIGN.
Rating: 9/10
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