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We at the Matt's Cool and Interesting Blog of the New Millenium are having our first ever comment drive. If you leave loads of comments you might just win a **PLATINUM** membership to the Matt Fister fan club. That's right a FREE **PLATINUM** membership!! What does this mean for you? Unlimited access to Matt's Cool and Interesting Blog of the New Millenium, the eternal love and gratitude of Matt Fister, and the jealousy of all the :-(Normal:-( members of the Matt Fister fan club. Here's what you have to do. Leave TONs of comments all over the site. I don't even care what they are. Incoherent babble, insane rantings/ravings, advertisements/links to your own blog/webspace. Anything. I don't care who you are. Anyone. Random strangers, people who clicked on this link by mistake, I want to hear from you. We need your input and support. Please. Matt's Cool and Interesting Blog of the New Millenium may not last much longer without your help. Well, actually it probably will. But the poin remains. Leave a comment, save a life.

Thank you,
Matt Fister

Cultural Food Review: #1 Indian Food

Inspired by the review at http://ssa.web.cmu.edu/food.html and the article in the Tartan, I have decided to review the different foods here at CMU. To give this a slightly different, ahem, flavor, I'm going to rate an entire cultures food in one sitting at one of the sundry food providers here on campus. Will this be biased? Definately. Will this be cross-culturally unacceptable? Probably. Will I give an honest opinion of campus dining? Always. So here it goes...

Tonight, fueled by an increasing disgust for most of the same old foods and places we had been eating, we decided to try A Taste of India, an all you can eat buffet that we never tried before. My first impression was that this looks simply unwholesome. Very oily looking, almost stew like chicken substances. A salad without any available dressing in sight. Unknown fried objects. Ok, I'll try a little bit of each.

It all actually tasted pretty good. The salad was blah, but I expected that without dressing. The oily, stewish chicken bits were good. They had a good spicy flavor and tasted great if you could avert your gaze. The fried bits were actually potatoes and chicken, like the classic French (freedom?) fries and chicken (French cowardice? (Wow that's really good. Remember Matt Fister came up with that)) strips. They needed ketchup though.

Overall, I guess Indian food is pretty good, especially if you don't look at it. 7 Mahatma Gandhi's out of 10.

GTA1 is freeware.

Yeah, GTA1 is now freeware. It probably has been for a while, but I didn't know until now. [link=www.rockstargames.com/]Rockstar Games[/link] must have been feeling generous, or just extremely rich with their sales of the incredibly popular GTA3 and GTA3 Vice City. If you missed the beginning of the series, though, you really missed out. GTA1 and 2 were incredible games. Download GTA1 and check it out. You can get it at the Rockstar Games website, or some mirror site.

Bass drum

I don't know what to write today, so I'll talk about the Kiltie Band here at CMU. I'm going to play the bass drum in band. It's alright I guess. I played one once before, so I guess I'm qualified. I like they're band, they seem to have fun and lots of inside jokes. A tightly bound group. Plus they're are girls in the band. That's always good. I just wrote a circle in my head that should attach here, but I forget what it is. The bottom line of this is that the guys I'm with all the time here don't really have any girls that hang around them. Therefore, I need to revise my whole strategy for dating, etc. or find more friends. Oh well. I didn't lose something I had so that's good, I guess. I just wrote a boring paper for interpretation and argument so my mind is shattered. Good. Done now I think. So really this wasn't about a bass drum was it?

Poem 2: Concrete Dreams

Concrete Dreams

I look out the window
gaze at the horizon
the blue sky
the concrete moon

The window's outlook is greater than mine
gazing past my horizon
past my green staring eye
into my dreaming mind

My window is greater
than the horizon
when I stand looking through it
not when I sleep

I look out the window
gaze at the horizon
the blue stance
the concrete dream

//Matt Fister

It's been one of those days...

It's been one of those days. You know, the kind in which you realize something, but you can't or won't perceive it. Where you willfully or unwillingly deny something to the point where you aren't even aware of what it is. It exists beyond your understanding, floating, lurking, mocking you with its existence. It doesn't exists in Freud's subconscious but in a meta-awareness, a mirrored box, a blind perception. You're not even sure it does exist or is true. A day when you become the Robot, no longer thinking, feeling, but simply reacting. If (blog==done) {then mouse.click(create)};

Yeah, one of those days.

The Matt Fister Fan Club!

The fans have asked for it, and we at Matt's Cool and Interesting Blog of the New Millenium have provided. We are proud to announce the opening of the Matt Fister Fan Club!

Now, we bring to you, the Matt Fister Fan Club Membership Card. Print it out, carry it around with you. Who knows what doors it may open for you.

Random Musing (Maybe)

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Movie Review: The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is simply one of the best movies I've seen. It rocked. Andy Dufresne and Robert Freeman (slightly ironic) work very well together, and exude a very believable friendship. What can I say? The film works on so many levels. The best part of watching this movie, however, was realizing, three-quarters of the way through, that I had, in fact, seen this movie before. It really blew my mind, that I had been watching The Shawshank Redemption for about an hour and a half, and didn't realize I had seen it before. That's alright though, I still enjoyed it very much. Watch it if you haven't seen it before, and if you have, watch it again. 9 jailbreaks out of 10.

Today has been a good day.

I won a free 20oz. Coka-Cola product, got a free t-shirt, and perhaps, most importantly, it's Friday! Wooo!