Fourth of July

Today was an interesting day, not because I did stuff really, just because it was.  In the morning I helped my dad paint the hallway.  My job was to tape everything, which is a very tedious task.  I'm a perfectionist so I kept retaping until it was perfect.  It was the perfect time to listen to Exit Tunes Kamikyoku wo Utattemita.  Some I could tell were vocaloids while others sounded really awesome.  Slow and fast songs mixed together; it was fun to listen to while doing tedious labor.

After watching a filler arc of Naruto and playing some Pokemon, I did was is required on a day like this: watch marathons!  I have a lot of channels I don't want to I started watching this show on the ID channel about bad marriages.  It told stories about one of the spouses doing something insane that ruined the marriage.  For example, one husband trafficked cocaine for the Mexican mafia.

I knew it was happening in my heart so I had to do it.  Sure enough, Syfy was having a Twilight Zone marathon.  This show is my all time favorite show.  This show is the first show to make me actually think.  It plays on the fears of the post-WWII generation: Cold War, communism, nuclear weapons, space, discrimination, class, society. It also utilizes the innate human fears like loneliness and ambition.  It takes those ideas and puts them in a science fiction show.  The show's intelligence is what drives it.  Many episodes involve a single character going about the plot, purely driven by the music and the person's acting.  The cool part about the show is the language is sounds, well the only way I can call it is Shakespearean.  Not in the sense of not understandable but in the sense of always high brow, dense with information, and utilizing a variety of literary techniques to make the point across.  I have seen every episode and I can praise this show forever.

After all that I went outside and saw the fireworks.  The weather was awesome.  Hot but with a breeze.  I hate the cold so much, so the heat was nice.  Also, the fresh air of outside was way better than the paint smell of my house.  From my balcony I can see the fireworks at Sherando Park so I pulled out a chair and started watching.  It was going well until I started to see flashes of light but no fireworks.  After a while the breeze started to pick up and I realized it was a storm.  The weather was too awesome for me to go outside so I sat there watching the fireworks in front of me and the lightning  to the right of me.  Amazing experience.