The Blackangel

No Dracula character could ever come anywhere near Bela Lugosi. He IS Dracula. No one else deserves the right to put on the cape.

Some that I haven’t seen is The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Back To The Future, and Casablanca to name just a few.

You would lose your mind if you only stared at the road. I look all around when I’m driving and I’ve never had a problem.

Their most iconic (and best IMO) song is Livin’ On A Prayer. Another of my favorites is Blood On Blood off New Jersey.

I take a melatonin every night and I also have a prescription for Ambien. It’s kinda hit and miss with them. I take the melatonin every night, and an Ambien if I’ve gone several days without an real sleep. When I was younger, I had insomnia worse than you can imagine. I would often go for up to two full weeks without real sleep. I would just get micro sleeps. Ten minutes here, seventeen minute there. Then it would suddenly end, and I would literally sleep without waking up even once for 36-40 hours.

The Raven is a poem, not a book. The Masque Of Red Death is a short story. The only actual novel he wrote is The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Everything else was short stories and poems. I can only think of one exception, as it was a small novella. That would obviously be The Fall Of The House Of Usher. As for my personal favorite poem (aside from The Raven) is easily The Bells. Like the vast majority of his works, it’s about the descent into madness. My favorite short story is, again, an easy choice. It’s The Cask Of Amontillado. Easily one of his best.

I started initially with an electric, but since I’m teaching myself now, I’m going with an acoustic. That reason being that I only have a tiny little amp, and it’s actually a bass amp, not a guitar amp. So acoustic is what I’m practicing for now. I do want to learn how to make my guitar squeal like a pig, and scream like a banshee.

Not including NKOTB (whom I ADORE) I was a big fan of Bon Jovi and Warrant. But there was still bands like Poison, Cinderella, Whitesnake, White Lion, Mötley Crüe, Ratt, GnR, Def Leppard, Skid Row, Kix, Slaughter, Extreme, L.A. Guns, and SOOOOOOO many more.

My all time favorite is The Libertine. In my opinion, it’s his greatest performance of his career. It’s sad that it’s such an unknown and underrated film. It also starred Samantha Morton and John Malkovich. But that didn’t help it be known.

I would say the PS1 has the best library. The system was new and experimental. No one knew if it was going to be a success or a failure. So they went a different direction than where Nintendo went. They came out with so many different and unique titles, and even managed to snag a couple games that had been exclusively released on Nintendo. Final Fantasy and Castlevania for example. Nintendo lost their shit and pitched a huge fit, but Sony didn’t care. They had the titles and released the most popular and successful game to date in the Final Fantasy franchise, which was FF7. Personally I hated FF7, but loved FF8 which was a pretty significant flop. So much of 8 is extremely cryptic. One of the reasons it flopped was because the majority of people couldn’t figure out how to get out of Caraway’s mansion at the end of disc 1. There’s a painting in the room that Square Enix thought would lead you to finding your way out, but no one got anything out of that. After angry reviews, SE had to release the answer to the room.

Twilight Princess was, graphically speaking, the most beautiful one. I despised the cartoon that was pushed on us for Game Cube. That Wind Waker bullshit was so sickening that I couldn’t stand seeing someone play it. It’s only slightly better than those fucking flashback monstrosities.

Johnny Depp is a god. He’s the greatest actor of all time. No one can compare.

80’s hair metal. It was about rebellion and was the absolute best music in history.

Pavel Datsyuk. There’s a reason he was called “The Magician”.

I don’t care what the book is. If it had been written by Poe, it would be leagues better.

On the left side I already have a tear drop, and on the right side I have Zell’s tattoo. So I already have my face tattooed.

Not long ago. I’ve always wanted to be able to play guitar, but life got in the way.

I eat venison and Bison as often as I can. I love them both. There's a place here that makes the absolute best venison summer sausage in the world.

One look at the human race, and they’ll all say “I ain’t going there. Them things is crazy.”

Violence.

No red meat or white meat, huh? I know a lot of people who feel the same. I still eat both. I’m a sucker for a big greasy cheeseburger.

I’m currently teaching myself guitar, but it’s going a bit slow.

So do men and women who work out every day and play on local sport leagues, but they’re not paid millions for it.

It doesn’t end with soccer. And it doesn’t end with the athletes either. Donald Sterling was the owner of the LA Clippers, but was forced to sell the team and given a lifetime ban from any dealings with the NBA for racist comments. His told his mistress V. Stiviano (born María Vanessa Perez, also known as Monica Gallegos, Vanessa Perez, and Maria Valdez) who herself is part African-American: “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people," and, "You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want," but "the little I ask you is ... not to bring them to my games." Sterling's comments affected the NBA, a league with predominantly black players. On April 26, the team held a meeting to discuss the incident. Both coaches and players expressed anger toward the comments, and they briefly raised the possibility of boycotting Game 4 of their series against the Golden State Warriors on April 27 before deciding against it. Instead, players protested Sterling's remarks by wearing their shirts inside-out in order "to obscure any team logo" during their pre-game huddle. On April 28, players of the Miami Heat wore their uniform tops inside-out to show solidarity with the Clippers. LeBron James commented on the situation, "There's no room for Donald Sterling in the NBA." The owner of the Miami Heat, Micky Arison, also called the allegations "appalling, offensive and very sad". Current and former NBA players Kevin Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan also condemned Sterling's remarks. The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) cancelled its plans for the following month to award Sterling for a second time with its lifetime achievement award. President Barack Obama characterized the recording of Sterling as "incredibly offensive racist statements". Chumash Casino, the Clippers' most visible sponsor during the prior four seasons, ended its relationship with the team, as did sponsors CarMax, Virgin America, and others. On April 29, 2014, UCLA announced that it was rejecting a $3 million gift from Sterling. I remember all of this shit hitting the fan. The majority of the country, with the exception of those worthless white supremacists, was sickened by it. The piece of shit only got a fraction of what he deserved. But at least he got some form of punishment, which in this country is rare for people with money and power.

I think it’s pretty obvious now that I lost this one.