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camelsandpenguins

I'm your gardener...

About Me

'I Had a Hippopotamus'
I had a hippopotamus; I kept him in a shed And fed him upon vitamins and vegetable bread. I made him my companion on many cheery walks, And had his portrait done by a celebrity in chalks.
His charming eccentricities were known on every side. The creature's popularity was wonderfully wide. He frolicked with the Rector in a dozen friendly tussles, Who could not but remark on his hippopotamuscles.
If he should be affected by depression or the dumps By hippopotameasles or hippopotamumps I never knew a particle of peace 'till it was plain He was hippopotamasticating properly again.
I had a hippopotamus, I loved him as a friend But beautiful relationships are bound to end. Time takes, alas! our joys from us and robs us of our blisses. My hippopotamus turned out to be a hippopotamissus.
My housekeeper regarded him with jaundice in her eye. She did not want a colony of hippopotami. She borrowed a machine gun from her soldier-nephew, Percy And showed my hippopotamus no hippopotamercy.
My house now lacks the glamour that the charming creature gave. The garage where I kept him is as silent as a grave. No longer he displays among the motor-tires and spanners His hippopotamastery of hippopotamanners.
No longer now he gambols in the orchard in the Spring; No longer do I lead him through the village on a string; No longer in the mornings does the neighborhood rejoice To his hippopotamusically-modulated voice.
I had a hippopotamus, but nothing upon the earth Is constant in its happiness or lasting in its mirth. No life that's joyful can be strong enough to smother My sorrow for what might have been a hippopotamother.
-- Patrick Barrington

My Interests

OK... so, I think I've now become officially addicted to Guitar Hero. I have to be up for a friend's birthday party in about 5 hours, yet here I am, trying to squeeze as much out of Jordan as I can. I've beaten everything else, and this stupid song will be the death of me. Other than that, I'm a huge music fan. Especially if it's something obscure with stuff mixed together that shouldn't be together. I love animation. Cartoons rock! They're pretty much all that I watch on TV. Comics are cool, too. Although I mainly do that because comics tend to appreciate in value and hopefully my collection will be worth quite a bit someday (not that I'd ever sell them of course). I'm an ex-wrestler so I still stay up-to-date with how my school's doing around the state. I've gone to see a few matches, too. I like other stuff, too. Just ask me.

I'd like to meet:

People who can give me tips on how to beat Jordan, because nothing else seems to be that much of a problem. Someone that would like to attend concerts with me. It's always more fun with more people. The concerts I plan on attending are on my calendar. Let me know if you'd like to go to one of them...

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Music:

36 Crazyfists, 40 Below Summer, A Perfect Circle, Al Green, Ali Akbar Khan, All That Remains, The Alter Boys, American Head Charge, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Apex Theory, As Cities Burn, As I Lay Dying, Atreyu, August Burns Red, Avenged Sevenfold (minus that new travesty they call music), Bad Acid Trip, Bad Religion, Barry White, The Bangles, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Beloved, Benny Goodman, Beyond The Embrace, Billy Holliday, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Blood Brothers, Bob Marley, Boston, Boy Hits Car, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Bullet For My Valentine, Butaan/Propaan, Cephalic Carnage, The Chariot, Coheed & Cambria (minus the crappy vocal stylings of one Claudio Sanchez), Cold, The Commodores, Darkest Hour, Days In December, Deftones (minus the vocal stylings of one Chino Moreno), The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dog Fashion Disco, The Dresden Dolls, Duran Duran, The Eagles, Earth Wind & Fire, Edwin McCain, Electric Wizard, Eric Clapton, Evergreen Terrace, Every Time I Die, Fall of Troy, Fear Factory, The Future Sound of London, Green Day, He Is Legend, Horse the Band, I-Surface, Ill Nino, In Flames, Incubus, Into the Moat, The Isley Brothers, Jack Off Jill, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Buffett, Know One To Blame, Korn, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Les Claypool, Limp Bizkit (Three Dollar Bill Ya'll is still great music), Los Lonely Boys, Lostprophets, Marilyn Manson, The Mars Volta, Mindless Self Indulgence, Minus One, Mr. Mister, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, Modeste Mussorgsky, Nathan Kizerian, Necrophagist, Nine Inch Nails, Norma Jean, The Number 12 Looks Like You, The Offspring, Orgy, Perfection Is A Myth, Poison the Well, Powerman 5000, Prodigy, Psychostick, Psyopus, PT Grimm, Puffy AmiYumi, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Ravi Shankar, The Red Chord, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Richard Marx, The Righteous Brothers, Santana, Scarling, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Slipknot, Smokey Robinson, Sonic Youth, Static-X, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Sunn 0))), The Super 8-bit Brothers, Symphony X, System of a Down, Taproot, Tenacious D, Thrice, Tool, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Tub Ring, Type O Negative, Uncle Fucker, The Used, ZZ TopYou could say I love me some music. I got to concerts a lot, let me know if you'd like to attend any of them and I'll probably give you a ride or even pay for your ticket. I'm nice that way.

Movies:

Not a huge movie watcher, but I do love horror flicks (especially the crappy old ones), anything with Jay and Silent Bob, and Wallace and Gromit.

Television:

TEEN TITANS!!! (my current obsession), Invader Zim, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, The Venture Brothers, Cowboy BeBop, Fairly Oddparents, ChalkZone (even if the singing does get on my nerves), Justice League Unlimited, Batman: The Animated Series, The Simpsons, Iron Chef, Sportscenter, Wolf's Rain, InuYasha, Ed, Edd, & Eddy, Hi! Hi! Puffy AmiYumi, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, etc...

Books:

Comics, horror books, ghost stories, anything paranormal, etc...

Heroes:

The greys... and the Score Heroes. And anyone who can even beat Jordan, you have my respect because 58% haunts my dreams.

My Blog

Tagged (Thanks a lot Dan!)

Basically, this is my punishment for getting tagged (how sloppy of me).  If I tag you, blog 10 interesting/random/weird things about yourself and then tag someone else.  It's stupid, but it ...
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:42:00 PST

H.I.M.

Doesn't it seem like they were created just so that there could be an all-female cover group of this band called H.E.R.?  I hope that's the way it is.
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:24:00 PST

I'm slightly sick right now...

And as I sit here, not in class that ended eight minutes ago, but just sitting on my laptop not doing anything in particular, I've noticed the "sick smell."I don't know if it's just me, or if it happe...
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:03:00 PST

Poor Pluto

Stop picking on Pluto.  Assholes.
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:40:00 PST

Accident Bulletin, in Blog Form...

Yep, so, on the way to nowhere in particular tonight my truck was struck by some maniac who decided to not stop at a stop sign.  He was going quite fast, too.  All of this didn't bode well f...
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Sun, 07 May 2006 12:43:00 PST

The reason I'm doing well and not doing well in school...

I just wrote a book response essay on a book I haven't read.  I will still get above a C on it.  Imagine if I applied myself.  I'd probably kick all my classes asses.But I don't... so I...
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Fri, 05 May 2006 12:18:00 PST

24 Hour Matt

24 Hour Matt is now in effect... catch it while it lasts!Matt
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:38:00 PST

Hello everyone...

As you already knew, I don't blog. So, if you want to read the stupid things I have to say, join the group devoted to my awesomeness (which I didn't create by the way). Of course, most of you are al...
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:22:00 PST

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Posted by camelsandpenguins on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Welcome to Me...

Wow... I finally decided to do something with this space that is mine. Updated everything, so that's pretty cool I guess. Currently listening to Dog Fashion Disco- Love Song for a Witch. I may post...
Posted by camelsandpenguins on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST