Daniel Tharp :: Blog

I dunno, I’ve got dozens (hundreds?) of things I should be doing. Instead, I chose to make some mostly aesthetic changes to the blog. I know the majority of my readers are Facebookers: LOOK AT MY PRETTY BLOG. It’s pretty, etc. Thanks to Anthony at Antbag.com for the theme, though I may take some creative liberties with it. Added the Last.fm plugin because I know you care about that sort of thing.

I direct that comment to empty space because I’m pretty sure that’s the entirety of my audience.

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I’ve had about five seconds of a song stuck in my head for the past week. That sucks in itself but I only really had the general gist of the song, as opposed to anything useful in tracking it down, like…lyrics. Yeah, that’d be handy. Finally, I tried to track it down in my head on the drive home and actually did come up with one line, “I look at the cross.” Before you think this is something unlike me (ie, Christian) I’ll say that this is in the bridge of the song, and it’s whispered, I mean the bridge is downright sexy, but there’s distorted guitar throughout most of the song. Turns out that one snippet was enough because Googling it turned up, amidst the Christian refuse, one page that says…

I look at the cross
Then I look away
I give you the gun
Blow me away

That was exactly what it was, all coming back to me now. The song in question is Change (In The House Of Flies) by the Deftones. Way, way too sexy for a track that is essentially metal.

I should mention the reason behind the title of this post is because I changed my facebook profile to reflect the song, so it reads “Daniel looks at the cross, then I look away. I give you the gun…blow me away.” Apparently that’s scary or something. *shrug*

Hi Facebookers. I know you get this via the feed. Sup.

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So some of you did in fact notice that I’ve dropped off the face of the earth over the past few days. It’s cool guys, I’m back with an old love. That is to say, I’m playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion again. I remember playing it on my laptop and clocking about 160 hours on my toon on there, and it was one of the first games I bought for 360. I finally finished the main quest, and finished the Shivering Isles content two days later. My main character, who was a pure warrior, built as a dungeon crawler (look ma, no magic; yes, the game’s perfectly beatable without ever casting a spell) has about 70 hours on him at level 28, and I’m working two new characters, a more or less pure Atronach-signed mage (very difficult in the opening levels, not gonna lie) and an evil toon that was designed to level up quickly and I think I’ll eventually try and build him for endgame (level 30+) dungeons, and try to get enough gear for 101% damage reflection and 100% magic resistance (very possible to get both in one set of gear with a little luck), then stalk the world as an assassin.

Don’t worry about me, I’m fine.

Also got my own bottle of Terre d’Hermes yesterday, been wearing it for two days now in an attempt to really understand it. So far I still don’t, but it does smell better than what Hermes sent me in their little sample spray. Couldn’t tell you why.

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It would be best not to poke yourself in the damn eye. x_o

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