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You say anarchy, I say government you say temporary, I say permanent You say disillusionment, I say wonder You say talented, I say neverhundred.

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Posted by NeverHundred - July 22nd, 2011


What I originally wrote:

Alright, I'm pretty dense, if you hadn't noticed. But help but shake the feeling like, you're trying to say something more than what you're saying. Or you want to see if I have any deeper feelings for you. And I'm not going to lie, I do feel a deep connection with you. But I'm not sure what that means. I don't know if it was ever really true love, in you know the sense of the word, as it was potential for something like that.

But I never thought you could possibly feel that way about me, and even though I may have never put the pieces together that you had been in a serious relationship with [omitted]... I think I at least suspected that he had something to offer that I somehow lacked. I subconsciously picked up that you were wowed by him I guess. I guess that means I'm not completely hopeless when it comes to my naivity.

It's just so complicated... it makes me confused. Maybe you feel the same way, maybe you're sending these signals because you're going through something tough, maybe you want something to fall back on. But no, you wouldn't do that. I'm seeing things that aren't there. You're a great friend, but I'm not [omitted], and don't even know him. And sure, he's not perfect, but at least he knows who he is, he has money doesn't he? Maybe he's moody, and has some addictions or something. And people probibly say you deserve better than him, or that he doesn't appreciate you. I might appreciate you, but I'm no dream guy, certianly not yours. And I shouldn't let myself think that.

You think of me as a friend, and I always liked you... and I guess there is some part of me that has grown to love you. Than there is the logical part that says it's not meant to be, too many complications and the cynical part that says you can't have those feelings for me. And of course the conventional part that says I should just be happy with what we have.

And now is not the best time for me to say any of this, though, I suppose if you were still in that relationship it would be worse. Yeah, I think I have been emotionally in love with you, and I still am. And if you don't want to deal with that, just tell me not to talk with you anymore and I respect that. I'm not really boyfriend material. But I'm pretty sure this [omitted] character is much better, well, at least he captured your heart...

What i ended up writing instead:

Feelings are confusing.

Sure I could have sent that first draft, she would have thought I was crazy, never talked to me agian. But it would have been for the best no matter the result, wouldn't it have been? clear away the tension, get all that anxiety, emotion and desperation that's on my mind cleared out of the way. But no, I couldn't do that... as always I'm stuck avoiding my problems. And so I must suffer. Or I could tell her, at this point in time, when she's obviously looking for a guy to fall back on. And than I'll still be anxious and worried that she doesn't feel the

same. So I suffer. Or she would just stop talking to me...

Would that solve the problem. Would I forget that I'm such an idiot about all this if I didn't talk with her anymore. Nah I'd still suffer. Life is suffering, the way of the eight fold path, yup... and I'm just going to end up reincarnating and dealing with all this shit in my next life. I should tell her how I feel. But the problem is, I don't trust my own emotions. I'm afraid the reasons I think I could fall in love with her, and I'm not really in love with her. I'm in love with the prospect of a relationship or something.

I think that love is a reaction to the fear of being alone. I thought I could live with being alone, but I actually think it's starting to wear on me. That's my best explanation for now. Or maybe I'm pessimistic and cynical because so many people in my life keep dying.

Alternative title: Blunderful.


Posted by NeverHundred - June 29th, 2011


This is Shadowplay, off it's original release Joy Divisions Unknown Pleasures.

They're a post punk band from the late seventies early eighties. I find the terrible sound quality to be a delight, and obviously as you can tell by my own music's terrible sound quality this band must be a huge influence on my own music. Neverhundred and Joy Division are practically the same band.

This is the cover that Franz Ferdinand created as a tribute to Joy Division.

Okay now, wait wait, I was wrong this is not Franz Ferdinand, it's The Killers, trying to sound like Franz Ferdinand creating a cover of Joy Divisions classic. For all those people who might think this is an improvement on the original, you completely missed the point of Joy Division, it wasn't the sound quality, not the musicianship, it wasn't even the music or lyrical composition. Joy Division was the Nirvana of their day, in fact Ian Curtis did nearly everything that Kurt Cobain did while Cobain was just realizing his balls had dropped. If Ian Curtis had waited 'til after the U.S. tour to commit suicide, he may have been as notorious as Cobain is today.

It's about the feeling, about conveying that desperate frustration and disillusionment with what society has become, what it was becoming back then. And The Killers failed to capture it in their cover, failed to realize that the grimy production and off key singing was a crucial element of the song.


Posted by NeverHundred - June 20th, 2011


working on the game concept, the rules and such. It will never kick ass, mainly because I'll never get around to finishing it. Moving on, I finished a song. Gave me a new concept. Two songs together, panned to different speakers. Same tempo and I'll try to make sure they sound better together but completely listenable on their own, and in a way different when listened to on their own.

But my laptop charger is off on it's own adventures for a little while, that is until I find it. And it took me weeks before I felt ready to upload that last song, so let's not hold our breath.


Posted by NeverHundred - June 18th, 2011


Okay I have a few ideas for an RPG setting.

Cowboy Noire
Chinchillas in Space
Time Travel Fueled by Distraction
Kawaii Apocolypse
Tetris: The Musical
Poland's got Talent


Posted by NeverHundred - June 14th, 2011


Well, not really. But I'm pretty sure they used similar basslines in these two songs. Ace of Base's Blooming Eighteen, a great little electro-ska diddy about coming to age and teenage angst, fantastic. And Tools Stinkfist, what an amazing track this one is, it's about... uh... something. Might be sodomy, or drug use, maybe sado-masochism, it's not exactly clear. But listin to the rhythm of the bass, doo-da-doo-doo. Huh, huh, pretty similar. Same bassline, same band, case closed.


Posted by NeverHundred - June 11th, 2011


every time I put on my wizard hat someone tries to lite it on fire.

That worked out pretty well. So in York, Last Laugh had been pestering the patrons of The Sour Apple Tavern. A native showed up and he survived there for a long time, he was Wulla-Mullung known for telling fortunes so Last Laugh gave him my own prophecy for him. He told him if he stayed in town long enough he would be killed. He responded by saying Last Laugh was a witch and that Last Laugh should be burned. Last Laugh played along, went out into the forest and he followed. I noted he said nothing about tying Last Laugh to any tree, he even mentioned that no one was there. So Last Laugh, showing a dislike to being burned alive decided he wasn't going to let that happen. He shot and killed Wulla-Mullung, and in doing so he had fulfilled the prophecy of Wulla-Mullung's death in York. I suppose it couldn't have gone off any smoother than that. Perhaps the other player had expected it, perhaps not... Last laugh is as much a hero as he is a villain, he's not known for consistency or sanity. This was by far the best kill ever down by this character, a build up, a back story, a history. It had it's reasons, and I managed to avoid breaking the rules of the tavern. It makes me feel clever and stylish.

Unfortunately I didn't earn the right to add the shirt that says, "I was burned at the stake and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" to my wardrobe. It's really a pity that.


Posted by NeverHundred - June 6th, 2011


It was a UU church, so it's no big loss really. They don't believe in god or anything... actually it's more like they do believe in anything. You can never guess the beliefs of a unitarian universalist. Some are really pagans, others are more like traditional Christians, this particular church was known for being predominantly Buddhist. I call it my church not because I've ever attended a church service there. When I lived in Massachusetts I used to attend the Duxbury Unitarian Church. Where I was pretty much taught that all religions are the same, or at least that's the lesson I got out of being brought up Unitarian. I only ever went to this particular church a few times when I was younger and recently my brother's funeral had been set there.

Anyway, churches come and go... and Brunswick is not lacking in them, I can think of about seven churches in that town, and it's not even a big place mind you. This has been the fifth building to burn down since the beginning of the year. A number of apartments and businesses have burned to the ground in that town. Brunswick, would you please stop catching on fire? It would be nice, and you'd make more friends if, you know... you weren't on fire and stuff. So stop doing that, and be a less combustible little town like Bath. I know you hate being compared to Bath all the time, but you brought this on yourself. And tuck that shirt in young town!


Posted by NeverHundred - June 2nd, 2011


I reread the note that she slipped into my computer bag while were shared what I thought was an awkward glance. Apparently she saw something more...

You're kind of cute, we should hang out and have a little fun. Come over tonight if you're interested.

She likes me? I mean, she's not that pretty or anything, a couple years older maybe, I'm like twenty three. She is more on the heavy side, not too much, not overweight, but enough that it's noticeable. She's got reddish hair, her cheeks are round and a bit fleshy her nose is a little long. her facial expression seems too calm, somewhat serious, as if she doesn't want to risk letting the slightest emotion show. But those pale eyes are a bit more lively. Maybe their will be some fun... a little excitement, some adventure for my dull and listless life. Probably not sex though, that would be ridiculous, but it if came to that I'll just let her lead. Hopefully it wont be too bad. Actually, I don't think there should be anything like that. I mean I'm a virgin, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I'll mess it up! She'll be left unsatisfied! No, no, their can't be anything like that... unless, maybe if she gives me directions and feedback so I get it right. But no, there is no need for that. Just having something to do for an evening is fine, we can find something fun and exciting that isn't in the same vain as physical interaction.
What do girls like to do anyway? Watch movies? i was never into movies. There are a few that I've liked but I'm not too impressed with them. Listening to music is fun, but not really something to do with company. I don't listen to dance music, and from what we've talked about neither does she.
I want to do something unexpected, I want to go on an adventure. I want to bring army men into a restaurant, each of us has men from a different army, blue and green, or tan and gray. we hide them around the table during the meal and if the waitress or waiter finds a few of the army men those are casualties. Loser pays the bill. But I'm pretty strapped for cash as it is...
Maybe get a box of chalk, roam the streets and draw hearts with random equations in them, or just walk around all night and talk. We could try to play D&D, but I don't think she wants any more company than me. Anyway, I kind of got bored of the whole RPGs thing five years ago. Stratego perhaps?
I'll just go over there, see what happens. It's a little early, but I'm going to walk there so I can meander. It's such a nice day, the trees are singing, the birds swaying in the wind... or something along those lines. The little clouds in the sky scurry about on a day as windy as this. But the sky is mostly clear, it's mid afternoon, but the sun continues to plummet down from the sky toward the horizon.
I'm at her door now. I hesitate, I knock a few times in a stuttering rhythm. No answer, I wait, I begin to knock again but before the second tap, the door swings open. "You're early" She blandly states. She stands in the door way.
"Oh, hello!" I say as cheerfully as I can, but my excitement is muted by anxiety and doubt. "I brought Stratego!" I lift my hands, and sure enough... it's this game, a combination of chess and guess who.
She looks at the box I have with disinterest, she doesn't show anything worse than that. Why doesn't she let me read her emotions.
She turns and starts heading into the house, I pause not sure if she still wants me to enter but than she shouts, "What are you standing outside like that for? The doors still open isn't it?" I try to use my musicians ear to pick out a hint of feeling in that cold distant voice, but it is in vain. I'm not really that good at reading emotions anyway, so it's probably best that she's holding back. I'd probably misinterpret whatever she showed.
I stumble into the house and shuffle across the floor into the living space. She's on the computer, scrolling through a page about the treatment and care of armadillos, "You like armadillos! Those little guys are pretty cool, and sort of cute in a weird way. i like them because they're like turtles of the desert. My spirit animal is the turtle. I like them."
She just closes the page and says, "Tortoises are the turtles of the desert."
"Well..." Not sure of what to say. "That is true, but um... armadillos dig holes and eat bugs." This isn't going well. "Do you have any chalk?"
"Nope." She says as she takes out a cigarette. "Do you smoke?" she asks.
"I don't. I don't really get the appeal of it." I say. "But I don't mind if you smoke, it doesn't bother me."
"What about pot?" she asks, "Do you smoke pot?"
I shrug, "Well, I've been known to..." I'm not sure I like were this is going. Last time I got high I threw up all across my friends bathroom, and the adjacent room. "Do you want to play stratego?" I ask, trying to hide the desperation in my voice.
"No, I do not." She says, she gives me a stare. I back off and sit in a large chair. It is a recliner, it is also broken.
She leaves for about a minute into what appears to be the kitchen. I consider leaving at this point myself, but I stay seated in the reclining chair that does not recline.
She reappears and tosses something at me, "It's a joint." She says.
"I see that." I say as I inspect the dried up plant matter that has been wrapped in a paper that it meant to burn slowly and easily. "I don't have a lighter or anything, i add as I look up at her. And than a light hits me right between the eyes. "Thanks." I say quietly and quickly.
She sits on a chair across from me and scoots it right up close to me.
I lit the joint, I inhale it gently. I pass it to her, she looks at me with a smirk. "Tough man." She says, for once I detect something in her voice. It's sarcasm.
She takes the joint, she inhales and while my toke only gave the end a brief glow, hers took out a fourth of the thing. She passed it back to me.
I lift it to my lips, "Are you sure this is what you want to do. I mean i have nothing against getting high, but sitting around bored out of my skull is what it does to me. Why don't we go somewhere, maybe get a movie? Go to the park? the pool hall?"
"It's too dark out." She says as she snatches the joint from my hands. "Pfft, this is barely enough to get a Mormon high!" than she takes to long hits from the joint, holding it in her lungs, chuckling while she exhales. She gives me the roach, maybe I could get half a hit off it. I try, I don't like the idea of being more clear minded than she.
She's got her hand on my knee and I'm afraid I know where this night is going, I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of her. But she was right, with how little I smoked I wasn't really effected.
She's sitting on me now and I'm not sure what to make of this. She's kind of staring off into space and I'm wondering if I'm even slightly high right now.
"Have you ever been to the desert?" she asks. "There isn't much there is there."
I had never been to the desert, so I nodded, "Yup, not much at all."
"But there is plenty there." She said, "rocks are something, sand is something, there animals and birds too." she turns her head and looks at me. Pale eyes, are they happy or sad, is she as lonely as I am? "It's hidden beneath a lot of nothing, it just seems like a wasteland." Her face comes closer and I think she's going to kiss me. Instead she gets up, her hand grabs mine and she pulls me off the recline less chair.
She leads me through the always into another room with a bed. "I know why you came here." I think, because I'm alone and I have no one to talk to, to share the world with, to make discoveries with. "you want to fuck me." She says.
"Well, um..." I still do have a penis, so... yeah, maybe a little. "Well, I'm not sure I'm the best person for that kind of thing."
She crawls into the bed. She turns on her back, she's waiting for me. I meekly tip toe toward the bed. I sit down, my back to her, is this the best idea. I barely know her, I don't know how to go about this. "You'll show me what to do? If we're going to do this than I don't want to leave you unsatisfied."
She reaches out to me, I lye back, my head on her stomach, I reposition myself. She's take off her shirt and is reaching for the button on her jeans.
I try caressing her neck but she moves away. I try to remember the combinations that work in the newgrounds Let's Fuck games or whatever they're called. There has to be some foreplay involved. But every time I try to touch or play with her she moves away. Maybe she doesn't want to have sex, than why am I here?
"Just stick it in." She says. I don't get it but she repeats, "Just do it, stick it in."
"Are you sure you don't want any foreplay, or anything. A little stratego or something?" I ask. But she's sitting there, her bra is still on and she's pulling down her panties. She is a fairly stocky woman, has a bit of a gut, large breasts, and large thighs. Not really pornstar material. Her eyes are deep, they are her most attractive feature. They seem to always be hiding something, always promising more than her body language would suggest, something more meaningful at least.
She's got a bit of a gut, but her breasts are quite large and shapely. She has wide hips and thighs. Although not the sexiest looking body, it has a certain feminine mark that can provoke arouse. Despite my timid attitude, I'm ready for penetration. I move closer and I do as she asks. A few quick pumps, a few long pumps. I try to gauge her reaction she sort of shimmies and moves with the thrusts but she makes no sounds, her hands are at her sides, and her eyes are closed.
I feel like I'm about to ejaculate and realize I didn't bring a condom and so I pull out. I still come while doing this. "Uh, I kind of... uh... are you, are you aware that I just sprayed my sperm into your, uh body. That might bring something up a few months down the road." She rolls her eyes than her body toward the end of the bed. She reaches toward the night stand and picks something up and flings it at me. Birth control pills. "Okay."
"I don't want a baby and I'm not stupid." She says, she get's up and walks over to the bathroom. I feel kind of sick, why did I do that? I feel like a horrible person, she didn't even seem to enjoy it all that much.
I consider following her, maybe asking her a few questions. The door of the bathroom gives an unwelcoming slam. I never would have anyway, See me sitting there, my pants around my ankles, my dick is hanging out of the hole in my boxers. I'm still wearing my shirt, there was nothing sensual about that experience. I hear the sink running.
I get up, I pull up my pants, had toward the door. I give one look back toward the bathroom, I consider waiting for her, maybe there was something more to this than sex and drugs. Maybe she actually liked me. If not than what, why would she ask me here? What was the point? I'm confused and I feel light headed. I don't know what to say to her, I'm not even sure how I feel about her. i make my way through the house and I find the door that leads outside. I walk through, it's dark out and I'm alone again. I feel better, a little more relieved, for just a moment the oppression leaves. As I walk home I can enjoy the night, I can listen for the insects and look up at the stars. When i get home and go to bed I remember what happened, and the doubt and worry returns. And now I feel bad for leaving without talking to her, I feel bad for going there in the first place. And I feel pity not just for me, but for her. Maybe she wanted to be with someone just as I did, but just like me... she didn't know the right way to do it.


Posted by NeverHundred - May 30th, 2011


The steak cut isn't the best or the worst. It's got a bit of fat around the edges, in it's raw form it's red with white streaks of fat throughout. I already have the grill on.So I take that slab of meat, go out and through it over the flames. I close the lid, listen to a few great cooking tunes. I only cook that meat until it looks like it's done, but far from being what anyone else would eat. I don't fuck around with salt of pepper or any of that shit. Maybe I'll have some potatoes in foil cooking next to my cut. With some diced onion or whatever.
But it's eating time, and this steak is done to my preferences. It's practically raw, but it's hot enough. I give most of the fat to the dog because I don't need it.
But as I spear it with the fork and run that knife across I can't help but wonder about the cow that I'm eating. I'm not a goodie-two shoes vegetarian type, my thoughts are philosophical. That cow lead a pretty sweet life actually. Most of us dream of a life like that. And as far as compared to the wilds it would be a great improvement. In fact we as people have been trying to emulate the lives of our domestic animals for years. The West's most popular religion, Christianity makes to attempt to hide this. Referring to their followers as The Flock, their ministers as Shepards.
If we freed our domesticated animals into the wild and refused to care for them I bet the majority of them would die off. The have evolved to be taken care of, just like humans have evolved to live in the civilizations we have built. Not that it matters, we don't really need these animals anymore. In fact it would probably would be more energy efficient to let them go out on there own, let them fend for themselves or die.
But what about the domesticated human? Do we ever get to have the option to break out of our pens? Do we get to be free and wild? No, we will never get that choice. And if you went into someones home and took away their extremely rare cut of steak and then kicked them out of their house and said, "Go now, you're free!" they'd be very unhappy with you. I bet if Cows could talk and communicate they'd have the same reaction.
Sure they get eaten eventually, but they get a life that most people would probably envy. A life most people seem to strive for.

And than I realize that thinking about such things isn't really all that healthy. Because than my hunger for beef turns into a hunger for cannibalism.


Posted by NeverHundred - May 23rd, 2011


I was scared about the velocirapture coming after me this weekend. I didn't want to get eaten or anything like that. So I fought them off with my giant plastic shovel and... no, wait... none of that happened. Just like a real rapture!

Instead of doing anything cool for the end of days, I played me some D&D. It was fun, hanging out with some nerds. Joking about stuff, rolling dice, listening to all the crazy stories my friends have from their lives... and having nothing of value to share except the occasional witticism or clever/sarcastic remark. Well, I thought it was clever. Anyway for more details check this link. It's basically the DMs report of the game. It leaves out a lot. Like what about all the random things Ryuu was saying about, I forget, but it didn't make sense. There were so many drug references though. What were we doing before we started the case, probably drugs. But the other character Stanni, that guy was clearly rrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeaal fucked up on aaaaaaaaaaalot of drugs. My character seems to be the voice of reason. Although he ain't that pretty or all that quick. He's sensible though. And that was my high light of the week.

Here's an update of my list of books that I'm trying to get through.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Herzog by Saul Bellow
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Ulysses by James Joyce
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Tweak by Nic Sheff
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena
Stonehenge Gate by Jack Williamson
Delerium by Lauren Oliver
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
The Wish by Vladimir Nabokov
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Vain by Drew
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Nightfall by Isaac Asomov
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Two Journeys by Clemens P. Suter
The Colossus of New York Colson Whitehead
the Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Challenge Accepted:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Mission Completed:
Point Omega by Don Delillo
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke