Update!!

Update!!

Hey everyone,

I have a couple of announcements to make concerning the blog and what's going to be happening to it this year.

The first is that the Dwarf is unlikely to begin posting again any time soon. This is because she's very busy with work, school and so on. She also doesn't have a computer for the time being, so I'm not sure when she'll be able to post again, or if she will at all. If anything changes, I'll be sure to update.

The second is that due to personal problems, as well as my very busy schedule, it's unlikely that I will be posting this year, either. If I find the time, I will try to write some posts up, but I'm not sure I will be able to. I am keeping the blog up and I will be returning to posting, as often as possible, next year.

Thank you to everyone who has kept reading the blog, despite how turbulent the last few years have been. I wasn't expecting this year to be as busy or as stressful as it has been, so I apologize for not being able to keep up with posts, but I hope that in the future I will be able to post again. 

Until then, I bid you adieu.

~The Elf

Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots

Song of The Month!

Stressed Out

by Twenty One Pilots

I first heard of Twenty One Pilots last year, which is sad, really. I wish I'd known them earlier. They're music is amazing! They only have two members; Tyler Joseph, who is the lead vocals, pianist and songwriter (among other things - the dude is insanely talented!) and Josh Dun, who plays drums (and reminds me of Jon Bernthal). The band was formed in 2009 and currently have four albums out, one of which only came out in May this year.

This song is from their newest album, Blurryface. This is a brilliant song from a brilliant album, which I think everyone should check out. Anyway, if you wanna buy the album, you can buy it on iTunes here.

Sorry for so few posts this month again and hopefully the Dwarf will be able to post again some day soon.

~The Elf

Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday!

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Hey guys! Flashback Friday time, today I will be writing about Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. This here is a game and a half, an absolute classic! This game was the beginning of the Oddworld series. The original Abe's Oddysee came out in 1997 on the PS1 and PC, a series that sadly have not made many games lately. Their HD re-make of Abe's Oddysee - Abe's New and Tasty - came out late last year and truly does live up to the original game standards. It was kept mostly the same, but they added some new features, which make the game a little easier to play. One of these are a check point system. Although this may take away from the over all difficultly of the game itself, it makes the game more enjoyable to play and you're less likely to rage quit after dying over and over again on that one hard part you can't get past because you need to keep re-starting the entire level, which in my opinion makes the game a lot better.

In this game you play as Abe, a floor-waxer at RaptureFarms - a meat processing factory, which is losing money, because all their products are going extinct. This is where Abe's boss "Mullock the Gulkkon" comes up with the idea to turn Abe's fellow Mudokon slaves into tasty treats, in a last-ditch effort to save his dying company. Abe over hears this, and after receiving a vision  from "Big Face" (actual name, no joke), he goes on a mission to save the Mudokons and the other life forms on the world. After venturing through some rather hardcore levels, you eventually get to the boss level, where you finally get to fight Mullock.

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It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 

About:

This show is amazing. No joke.

It's Always Sunny follows a group of people that own a bar named paddy's. Each episode follow the Gang having good ideas, and some not so good ideas that lead them into trouble with many different -and strange- characters.

At the start of Season 2, Danny Devito began acting as Frank Reynolds, Dennis and Dee's father, which gave the show a sudden boost in ratings/viewers 

The show itself -Created by Rob McElhenney-

aired on FX on August 4th 2005, and has been running ever since. 

Cast

(obtained from Wikipedia)

• Rob McElhenney as Ronald "Mac" McDonald – Mac is a co-owner of Paddy's Pub. He is Charlie Kelly's childhood friend and Dennis' high school friend and later roommate. The son of a convicted felon, Mac is frequently trying to demonstrate his toughness and refers to himself as the "sheriff of Paddy's". He also often brags about his hand-to-hand combat skills, although he typically flees any type of physical confrontation.

• Glenn Howerton as Dennis Reynolds – Dennis is a co-owner of Paddy's Pub and is Deandra's twin brother. The most sociopathic of the characters, Dennis is abrasive, narcissistic, selfish, histrionic and vain. Much of his inflated ego is perpetuated by his Ivy League education at the University of Pennsylvania where he minored in Psychology.

• Kaitlin Olson as Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds – Sweet Dee is Dennis' twin sister, the main bartender at Paddy's Pub and the show's main female character. Sweet Dee dreams of becoming an actress although she lacks any apparent talent and occasionally suffers from debilitating stage fright. She wore a back brace in high school, leaving her with the nickname "the Aluminum Monster." She majored in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania but failed her classes. Dee lives in an apartment alone, although she had a cat at one point until it became trapped in her wall.

• Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly – Charlie was co-owner at Paddy's Pub, but traded all his stocks for "goods and services", half a sandwich, and other unnamed reasons. He is a childhood friend of Mac and later high school friend of Dennis and Dee. He is also Frank's roommate. Charlie does most of the dirty work (referred to as "Charlie Work") at the pub, is borderline illiterate, an alcoholic and substance abuser and is often seen huffing glue/paint. He suffers from deep psychological problems, and lives in squalor. An abortion survivor, Charlie has extreme anger issues and often screams to get his point across. He also has a severely unhealthy obsession with "The Waitress," who finds Charlie repulsive and shows no interest in him.

• Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds (Season 2–present) – Frank is the legal father of twins Dennis and Sweet Dee, and may be the biological father of his roommate Charlie. He used to be a successful businessman with a long history of illegal operations and dealings with sordid characters, but chose to abandon that life and redeem himself after leaving his money-grabbing, cheating wife. He now shares a tiny, filthy studio apartment with Charlie, where they share a pullout couch.

Anyone out there seen this brilliant T.V. show?

-The Dwarf

Don't Stop - Five Seconds of Summer

  Song of the Month!

Don't Stop
By Five Seconds of Summer

Best pop-rock I've listened to in a long, LONG while, and I love it a buttload. The lyric video is so good and so far I've watched it more than fifty times just because of it's design and I'm not even exaggerating. I love it because it's not a like the popular songs where it's all about sluts or drinking. It's about dancing, and seeing that one person you can't take your eyes off because they love what they're doing, and everyone else can't stop looking either.
There is no reason why you can't dance to this song, so listen and get the hell up guys! Live a little! Who else is totally caught up on Five Seconds of Summer?

-The Dwarf