My site...

seems to be coming along. Check it out here.

The site will be up within a week or two (as in, up on a static IP) and then I will be ditching this blogger + YahooGeocities account stuff and I'll just simply host my own stuff...

That's it.

\Koltur

PHP-Nuke...

is going to be the next, latest, best, website that I will be using or whatever. I am setting it all up to work from my home-line from once I get the new PC (which apparently is currently shipping) so that, no longer will I have to pay some online service to host me, but instead, I will host it myself. Yay. Although, I may lose the "darknights.org" domain, I think I can figure a good name for a different domain (wouldn't that be nice? ... I'm thinking "sleepingevil.com" or "shadowytrio.com" or something of the like).

Either way, working on my *new* PHP/SQL enabled website that I will run on my *great* p3-800, 512 mb ram, 40gb HD. (Probably more then enough considering the amount of traffic my website generates... ((Not much))). :P

Anyhow.

Later,

\Koltur

Sirrah

is one of my favorite bands as you may have seen if you looked at my profile (which is unlikely) or my playlist (which is also unlikely) but I would like to just say a few words about Sirrah, as I re-affirmed my love for their music when taking a shower earlier today (I have one of their CDs in my player in the bathroom, yes.) so, I figured I would write a small commentary.

Sirrah is one of the greatest black/doom metal bands that I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. They are a combination of deep, dark, sonorous male vocals, deep, growling, male vocals and very beautiful, ethereal/seraphic female vocals and a powerful series of musical accompaniment. Sirrah is to this day, one of my favorite bands, being from Poland (apparently) they have only recorded two albums (to my knowledge) before suffering some sort of problems with their publishers and disbanding. These two albums were entitled "Acme" and "Did Tomorrow Come?". Acme is sort of a darker / gloomier album then Did Tomorrow Come? and contains much more of the style / genre of music that I particularily enjoy. Although I did like Did Tomorrow Come *nearly* as much as Acme, it did not contain the same ethereal yet powerful sound of the original album. One song makes the album however, a song entitled "Lash" that contains all the strength and power, plus the sort of ethereal, eerily dark and hypnotic sound.

Now, the question is, how did I hear of this European band? Well, That's quite a good question, because I imagine that most of you out there have probably never heard of them, nor of their music, nor of that particular type of music, it being sort of... dated at this point. It seems as if most of the way the music industry is going is one of a few ways. Pop (i.e. Brittney Spears and the like), So-called Rock / Metal (Blink 281, Lincoln Park, etc.) and Country Western (People who only wish they were as cool, or as good as Johnny Cash but all sound like they belong to the opposite gender.) Those three styles don't leave much for *REAL* metal, because it seems these days that the majority of real metal is coming from Europe and that makes it distinctly more difficult for your average american to hear any of it. Unless of course you know (by very faint & slight association) Don Decker of Anal Blast, yeah, that bastard used to have a store called Nightfall in S. Minneapolis which I occasionally frequented, but alas, it's no more from what I understand. And No, I didn't hear of Sirrah from that. In fact, I did hear Sirrah, one late night on a 'Local' radio station, KFAI (Fresh-Air Radios, whose programming changes hourly (for the most part)), and you can go to their website by clicking the green-eyed floating skull.

The Root of all Evil was playing one night, in the middle of a summer in like 1996 or something to that nature (I believe I still lived with my dad (gasp)) in my little jail cell-sized bed-room and I used to record (on saturday nights from 1am to 6:66am) the Root of all Evil radio show on crappy black memorex tapes in my crappy Emerson stereo system that I had sort of re-wired so that instead of it using its 2 original speakers, I had it hooked through something like 8 speakers that were nailed up along the walls and hanging from the rafters and so forth.

Either way, I still have that crappy black tape, which first introduced me to several bands like: Sirrah, Theatre of Tragedy, The Gathering, Tiamat, Opeth, Old Man's Child, Dimmu Borgir, Sundown, and so on and so forth.

I had heard of Bathory a long time ago, more like 1992 or so when I was in high school as a youngster, thanks to an EVIL Nederlander who roomed with my good high school pal. Thanks be to that.

Anyhow, now that i've paid my respects and tribulations to these bands, I would like to say one thing:

METAL

Thanks. Keep listening (And buying, not downloading mp3s you fags) to the METAL.

\Koltur

A Honda is...

the type of car that I have just managed to lease. Yes, I managed to get a lease on a *Brand New* Honda Civic Coup(sp?) LX or something of that nature. I only managed to get it because of the help from my dad & his wife. Thanks all be to them. I'd never have managed it without them, but because of them, I now have a beautiful, brand new car with which my wife can now drive comfortably and unworriedly to work in. Ahh. *Deep Sigh of Relief*

I am very happy about the oppurtinity this is presenting me as far as gaining credit so that in the future, my credit will be bolstered by this enough to (hopefully anyhow) get a new car, credit cards and so on and so forth, so that in all eventuality I will be able to purchase some kind of awesome house. Sure, I know that it will take a few (several), years to obtain a house and so forth, but at last, I have managed to get on tne path by taking the first step. As I said, this path only opened up because my dad & his wife helped my wife and I out with this. I don't know exactly how to thank them, just as I didn't know exactly how to ask them for this sort of help... either way, I am totally appreciative of it, and I will make sure that I will do everything in my power to make sure that they do not, for one minute, rue the day that they helped me out with this. I will do anything to make sure that the responsibility they placed in my hands is well taken care of, so that they will never be affected in a harmful manner by their help.

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On to interesting news:

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Well, that's it, nothing new or important for me to report, so I will simply say this: I can't wait for Naruto #101, My new PC, and a few other cool things from happening, and I notice that although my vacation is nice and relaxing, it is starting to feel a bit long.. if only because I have been stuck at home for most of it, but now that we have the *BRAND NEW* car, I can drive the old one around and get out of the house a bit during the day.

Hallelujah.

Later

\Koltur

The Book of Exalted Deeds...

is an interesting D&D book about the "Heavenly" or "Celestial" variants or opposites that are listed in the Book of Vile Darkness. Now, I started reading the Book of Exalted deeds (on a whim) and started getting a bit interested in many of the moral and ethical situations and descriptions presented in the book and have been given much food for thought about using such things in our campaign (for when I DM).

I have a tendency to believe, given the current status of our campaign world that various "Saints" and the like would be great additions to the current flow of things. Currently, the majority of our characters are 'Evil Outsiders" which entails being Evil and an Outsider (Extraplanar -As per, Demons / Devils / Tieflings and the like) and these "Exalted", "Celestial" or "Angelic" beings would provide our group with an incredible challenge to defeat, if they were to attempt to do so rather then simply bargain their way out, but that all depends on the group now, doesn't it?! I have already set in motion a large group called "The Army of the Dawn" although I have not completely specified what this group or army rather, is composed of, other then a few base beings / NPCs.

Ultimately it is the goal of this Army to scourge across the face of the Mainland (Faerûn - Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting© -WotC) and quell the recent insurgence of EVIL that has descended down upon the world. In lieu of the vacuum left behind by Kirianshalee and her minions (who had previously taken over our campaign world by force) certain gods have risen to a level of power that they had previously not had, some of these gods being Gods of Light and Goodness, others of course being of Evil and Darkness... However, certain other events (that I have engineered) have occurred since then which lead me to believe that this Book of Exalted Deeds will give me a lot of help when dealing with these Armies of the Dawn and so forth.

Well, enough of that.

I watched Naruto #100, and I will say that as ever, it was a great and very touching episode featuring the majority of the episode focusing on Rock Lee & Maito Gai (Macho Guy, heh) although there were appearances by the others, Sakura, Naruto, Sasuke, Hatake Kakashi (Scarecrow, heh) and others. Mainly though it was about Lee struggling with his desire to go for the 'surgery' / 'healing' which could possibly kill him. I, Mr. Stoneface, not affected by much in the way of emotions, was strangely affected and nearly brought to tears considering the emotional levels that this episode played on. Hmms. Maybe I am becoming a pansy in my old age.

Anyhow, I have nothing much left to report.

Later

\Koltur

Futurama...

Now that I've slept and been awake for a good amount of time today, I figured I might post again today about the many things that I am doing while on my vacation. Or, maybe not so many. Today, so far, I went to the store to purchase a few things such as water, because yes, Eagan (Minnesota), Tap-water tastes like absolute *expletive deleted* so that instead, I hopped over to Wal-mart, yes, Wal-mart, to buy several large jugs of water at $0.58 each as well as a few other things that have little to no relative value. Orange Juice. Butter, etc. So, as my hot, beautiful wife was cooking breakfast, I called up one of my pals who normally doesn't have to work today, only to find that he too, was looking for something interesting to do. Well, we have not quite discovered what that is, as of yet, but I am currently waiting for his "reply" phone-call (I talked to him once already, said he had to do a few things before we do anything, he'll call) and in that mean-time, which has been about 2 hours, I have watched the last 4 episodes of Futurama Season 4. Woe is me. I wish there was more, but to my understanding, there are only 4 seasons of it.

I bet FOX is a bit pissed to note that Futurama has sold like wildfire (or at least it would seem that way) and that now that it no longer carries Futurama like it did, it is obviously not making the $$ like it did. Personally, I tend to think that Futurama totally beats the ass off the Simpsons whether it is because of the Sarcastic humor, puns or just plain because Bender, it still is one of my favorite animated series.

Apparently Demonstone the D&D game has gone GOLD so it will be out and available in the stores within a week or two and that will be something to occupy a bit of my time, although considering I will soon have that new PC [hopefully in less than a month (sheesh)] so I will continue in DOOM3 wear I left off due to choppiness and bad stuttering.

I did play several hours of Star Ocean and although I enjoy the graphics and sound and storyline (so far), I notice that the method of battling/fighting is a bit... different to me and I find that I do not exactly enjoy it's sort of "Random" way of doing it. I tend to prefer more of a "turn-based" sort of thing when in console RPGs (like FFVII) or any other number of CRPGs.

Ah well, I also have several books I need to delve through. Hmmm.

Few things on my slate to keep me busy for a couple weeks of off time.

Later!

\Koltur

Vacation ...

is a very nice place to be, whether you are taking a trip or just staying at home to enjoy life a little bit before you go back to work. I can say, in the 3 days since I started taking my vacation, although I've done little to nothing in all actuality, I've had a rather nice time doing it. Why? Well, because I don't actually *have* to do anything, I just do whatever it is that I want to at a particular moment.

Today, earlier, I went to see "Hero" with my friend Luke (visiting from California) and some girl whose name I don't really recall (she was 95% silent the entire time) I imagine she was either shy or just not the type of person who talks to strangers or something like that. So, those two, my wife and I all went out to the movie which was rather good in my opinion... and afterwards we went out to the bar and had a few drinks. A few turned into several until Luke and the girlie left and my wife and I sat there and drank more. Eventually we came home, drunk and playful and ended up passing out on the couch (me) and bed (my wife) respectively.

So, it is the middle of the night/morning or whatever and I have a slight hangover from the beers consumed but I am relatively happy about how the night went and I hope that everyone else had as nice of a time as I did. Ah well, nice to be on vacation.

Later

\Koltur

Absolute Hell

All I can say is that I am completely irritated with the way the things are going in relation to the car, car situation and so on and so forth.

1.) I am unable to get credit. Because I have no credit.
2.) I am unable to get a loan. Because I have no credit.
3.) My car, that I thought was fixed (by my friend & I) is once again making the same sort of ... things that it was doing before.
4.) I could need a new car but be unable to get one.

The feeling of being helpless with this bullshit coalescing around me is rather ... angering to me. I have plans to do a few things that can *hopefully* help to ease this situation a little bit, but this will by no means help the situation fast enough.

Maybe this weekend I'll ask my friend who has impeccable credit to co-sign for me, although I hate asking about this and I've asked other people (my parents) but it all may be for naught. Well, this guy has incredible credit and so on, could co-sign or whatever (or so it appears at the moment) and might actually do it. Saturday would be a good day to convince this guy to go out with us, co-sign for us, and do it all up right then and there, in one shot, for some cheap-ass, lame, Honda or whatever, with like a $1000/downpayment or something. That, or cancel our TCF Accoutns and put that $$ into our main account and bolster our account by almost $1500/+ ... not exactly sure on how much we got left in them.

Oh well. Bunches of *expletives deleted*.

Later

\Koltur

The USA is strange sometimes...

because, apparently, people make so many laws against such things as (see post above) prostituion, sexual harassment and the like, yet, people who make said laws seem to be the ones being involved in such things.

This seems to me to be one of those cases like with parents. As in, 'Do what I say, not what I do', as if they are holier then Thou, yet, not restricted by the laws that they say *You* are restricted by.

Funny how that works.

Either way, the woman who was doing that did some spread for playboy apparently and she's a hot young woman (not that good compared to my wife), but even so, I can see why she would do what she did. I mean, if you got something you can use to make it a bit nicer & easier to live, use it. I don't have many qualms about breaking the law myself although I do have qualms about being caught. I suppose that is what keeps me away from breaking the law for the most part.

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Anyway, past 2 days at work have been rather hard on my body in some ways, although I recover quickly enough to work hard again the next night. Heh. Good thing to be strong, eh?

I'm reading a book called "Forsaken House" now, a good Forgotten Realms novel that gives me some ideas of a few things to integrate into our ongoing campaign.

Our campaign last saturday was a hit. I had taken over DM'ing because my beautiful, hot young wife, is running out of creative inspiration to a point, and to "spice" things up for our group, make things interesting, make it *fun*, I took over and introduced several events. These events led the party into a lot of different things, all at the same time and have not yet been resolved, but have offered a lot of fun on the part of the group. Everybody had a good time. Great.

Well, I am waiting anxiously for that PC that will come via Fed Ex, or USPS, or whatever. Apparently it is not done being built yet, but it should be here either this week or next. I am very anxious. I can't wait to have that screamer. I want to play some Doom3 without lag. Sheesh. Amongst other games. Maybe I will replay Neverwinter Nights with all graphical settings turned to the max. Heh, not sure what I will do really, but I will have a kickass PC to do it on.

Going to finish this up by saying "I want Naruto #99!"

\Koltur