Still Alive.

Not the song. God, do I ever hate that song now...I'm talking about Fish. Fish is still alive and kicking. He looks fairly healthy. He might even last more than a week by the looks of it.

I've been attempting homework for the past little bit and have been totally failing at trying to get three separate sets of data to appear on the same scatter plot in Microsoft Office Word 2010. Having no luck after a half hour or so of trying, I ditched it and hope to move on to something productive after blogging. But I have noticed one thing: my iTunes library lacks a good homework playlist. I have barely any good upbeat songs that help me "play the game" and do my homework like a good little conformist. Everything is either sad or depressing (or some form of techno/trance shit from Newgrounds) and it all induces high levels of what society would call "negative" or "pessimistic" thinking. It's uber duber annoying...I need a taste in happy music pronto.

Speaking of taste in music. I suggest you check out these five songs I really like by Yellowcard. Lights and Sounds, the first of their songs I came to like, is in Burnout Legends for PSP. It was a great game and the soundtrack was where I picked up on Billy Talent through their song Red Flag. I would go into the soundtrack menu just to hover over each song and listen to them each on repeat for hours on end. The next, Way Away, is a song that I have actually been listening to since grade 4, 3 years before I discovered Burnout Legends, via a burned YTV Big Fun Party Mix 6 CD. I had the CD ripped onto my shitty MP3 player and everything, but I never even knew the name of the band that played the song until recently. This CD is where I picked up on Simple Plan (I'm Just A Kid), Blink-182 (I Miss You), and a couple other bands that aren't as iconic to me. Next up were I think Breathing and Ocean Avenue. Ocean Avenue's album cover was everywhere, including in the Rock Band music store, so I decided to investigate on iTunes. Seconds after previewing it I made the purchase. Breathing popped up somewhere on YouTube I think...maybe more recently. I never actually noticed until I played the game again only a few months ago, but I also noticed it in Burnout 3 Takedown (see why Yellowcard is so special to me? So many favourite games...). The Takedown, the fifth song I know and definitely my favourite, actually appeared on Guitar Hero: Van Halen, shortly after I discovered that I liked the band Yellowcard and knew them from many different places in my timeline.

So yeah. They're a good band. Go click through to some of those linked songs if you've got a moment.

Back to homework now! Just thought I'd spam the blog with another large post since I had such a long unannounced hiatus. Seeya around!