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Anyway, about me...
My name is Jack Ninivaggi AKA Wandering Pixel, and I'm here to rock your world! Or at least cause some sort of tremor.
I live over on the east coast in New Jersey. My favorite types of games are those that have great writing. I'm going to college right now and plan on majoring in either communications or literature. When I'm not playing games I'm either reading a book or comic, watching a movie or sleeping. I'm a huge fan of animation and my favorite thing to do is watch old animated films, I'm also a theater geek, and frequently make trips to New York to watch the latest musicals and plays on Broadway. one day I plan on making a living by writing, though I haven't yet decided what kind of writing I want to do. Anyway, this is my blog. Enjoy!
You can contact me at jackninivaggi@yahoo.com
I also have a Facebook you can check out here.
This is my interview, which was conducted by the oh so sexy LawofThermalDynamics.
My Idols:
Stanley Kubrick
Alan Moore
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philip K. Dick
Steven Spielberg
Hiro Miyazaki
Brad Bird
Here are some lists of my favorite things in no particular order.
Games:
1.) Half-Life 2
2.) Bioshock
3.) Spyro the Dragon
4.) Sonic CD
5.) Shadow of the Colossus
Movies:
1.) Blade Runner
2.) Ratatouille
3.) The Third Man
4.) Spirited Away
5.) Up
TV Shows:
1.) Lost
2.) Big Love
3.) Futurama
4.) Avatar: The Last Airbender
5.) Invader Zim
Anime:
1.) Neon Genesis Evangelion
2.) Cowboy Bebop
3.) Akira
4.) Anything by Miyazaki
5.) Or anything with cool robots
Musicians:
1.) John Lennon
2.) Bob Dylan
3.) John Hiatt
4.) Idina Menzel
5.) Utada Hikari
Books
1.) Harry Potter
2.) His Dark Materials
3.) The Great Gatsby
4.) Biographies
5.) World War Z
Graphic Novels
1.) Watchmen
2.) The Killing Joke
3.) The Long Halloween
4.) Ghost World
5.) From Hell
Comics
1.) Runaways
2.) Batman
3.) Hell Boy
4.) The Umbrella Academy
5.) X-Men
Musicals:
1.) Rent
2.) Wicked
3.) Little Shop of Horrors
4.) Avenue Q
5.) Sweeney Todd
Plays:
1.) Speed the Plow
2.) Hamlet
3.) A Streetcar Named Desire
4.) Our Town
5.) Macbeth
Magazines/Newspapers:
1.) The New Yorker
2.) EGM
3.) Entertainment Weekly
4.) Game Informer
5.) The New York Times
Articles from the front page:
I, the Author: Midnight Run
Nothing is Sacred: Getting into Character
Video Game Characters Solve the Oil Spill Crisis
Motivational Poster Series
Destructoid Editors
Destructoid Community Members
Wandering Pixel's Guide to Amazing Games
Warpath: Jurassic Park
Useless Lists
Things to Do While Waiting for Your PS3 Game to Install
State Sex Moves(NSFW)
Present Tools of Destruction, The Top Ten Guns of All Time
5 Reasons Why I Want To Buy A PS3, But...
5 Of The Most Annoying Dicks In Gaming
Anyway, about me...
My name is Jack Ninivaggi AKA Wandering Pixel, and I'm here to rock your world! Or at least cause some sort of tremor.
I live over on the east coast in New Jersey. My favorite types of games are those that have great writing. I'm going to college right now and plan on majoring in either communications or literature. When I'm not playing games I'm either reading a book or comic, watching a movie or sleeping. I'm a huge fan of animation and my favorite thing to do is watch old animated films, I'm also a theater geek, and frequently make trips to New York to watch the latest musicals and plays on Broadway. one day I plan on making a living by writing, though I haven't yet decided what kind of writing I want to do. Anyway, this is my blog. Enjoy!
You can contact me at jackninivaggi@yahoo.com
I also have a Facebook you can check out here.
This is my interview, which was conducted by the oh so sexy LawofThermalDynamics.
My Idols:
Stanley Kubrick
Alan Moore
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philip K. Dick
Steven Spielberg
Hiro Miyazaki
Brad Bird
Here are some lists of my favorite things in no particular order.
Games:
1.) Half-Life 2
2.) Bioshock
3.) Spyro the Dragon
4.) Sonic CD
5.) Shadow of the Colossus
Movies:
1.) Blade Runner
2.) Ratatouille
3.) The Third Man
4.) Spirited Away
5.) Up
TV Shows:
1.) Lost
2.) Big Love
3.) Futurama
4.) Avatar: The Last Airbender
5.) Invader Zim
Anime:
1.) Neon Genesis Evangelion
2.) Cowboy Bebop
3.) Akira
4.) Anything by Miyazaki
5.) Or anything with cool robots
Musicians:
1.) John Lennon
2.) Bob Dylan
3.) John Hiatt
4.) Idina Menzel
5.) Utada Hikari
Books
1.) Harry Potter
2.) His Dark Materials
3.) The Great Gatsby
4.) Biographies
5.) World War Z
Graphic Novels
1.) Watchmen
2.) The Killing Joke
3.) The Long Halloween
4.) Ghost World
5.) From Hell
Comics
1.) Runaways
2.) Batman
3.) Hell Boy
4.) The Umbrella Academy
5.) X-Men
Musicals:
1.) Rent
2.) Wicked
3.) Little Shop of Horrors
4.) Avenue Q
5.) Sweeney Todd
Plays:
1.) Speed the Plow
2.) Hamlet
3.) A Streetcar Named Desire
4.) Our Town
5.) Macbeth
Magazines/Newspapers:
1.) The New Yorker
2.) EGM
3.) Entertainment Weekly
4.) Game Informer
5.) The New York Times
Articles from the front page:
I, the Author: Midnight Run
Nothing is Sacred: Getting into Character
Video Game Characters Solve the Oil Spill Crisis
Motivational Poster Series
Destructoid Editors
Destructoid Community Members
Wandering Pixel's Guide to Amazing Games
Warpath: Jurassic Park
Useless Lists
Things to Do While Waiting for Your PS3 Game to Install
State Sex Moves(NSFW)
Present Tools of Destruction, The Top Ten Guns of All Time
5 Reasons Why I Want To Buy A PS3, But...
5 Of The Most Annoying Dicks In Gaming
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PSN:
Mii: I'm not memorizing another set of numbers
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Gamertag: Pixel Jack
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I don’t know why there is a sudden interest in vampires, but it’s starting to piss me off. Not because vampires aren’t cool, they’re awesome in the same way that the werewolf and zombies are cool, it’s because they are always portrayed as romantic. It’s because the current portrayal of vampires in popular culture is always these young, handsome, sensitive men. That’s bullshit. Vampires are not romantic, they’re blood sucking parasites. Would you f@#$ a tick attached to your forearm? No, you wouldn’t. So, why the hell would you f@#$ a vampire? They’re basically just man sized mosquitoes. Call me old fashion, but a pale faced, blood sucking, wolf keeping, fanged creature of the night doesn’t seem like a fun date. Yet movies and books like Twilight and Interview with a Vampire would have you believe differently. Don’t be fooled. These demons aren’t looking for romance, they’re looking for blood to satisfy their unquenched thirst, but don’t think they deserve your pity either. They have sacrificed their humanity to become immortal, and drain the blood of their victims to keep themselves looking young; sounds pretty selfish to me. One book that managed to get vampires right was I Am Legend. In the book, an incurable disease has turned everyone into vampires, with the exception of one man. The book portrayed the vampires as parasites searching aimlessly for their next meal. It’s one of my favorite books of all time and is sure to erase any doubts about the inhumanity of the vampire race that you might have had. Another great book is the granddaddy of vampire novels itself, Dracula. Although Dracula acts romantic, it is just a front for his more sinister motives. Also, he could turn into a bat. Why don’t more vampires turn into bats these days? 
So, you may ask, what can I do about this naive epidemic? Personally, I think you should dress up as a vampire, break into the rooms of teenagers, and try to bite them. But that might get you arrested. What you can do is purchase every Ann Rice book at your local bookstore and make a bonfire. But that might cost too much. Why don’t you just send an angry letter to your senator. I’m sure he’ll listen, being a vampire himself.
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
The best two modern vampire novels are Vampire Tapestry and Salem's Lot because they both get why the things are SCARY.
Dracula rules.
Then again, Bella Lugosi and Christopher Lee didn't sparkle, either.
/ whatever, screw Twilight
// Watch Monster Squad instead
/// Give me the amulet, you bitch
a) humans who aren't really dead, just have a virus, but are still hungry for flesh for some reason
b) run fast for no reason
c) used as comedic effect
It's bad enough those hipster douche bags go around trying to be all cool at those zombie pub crawl things or whatever. This generation has single handedly ruined classic movie monsters.
David Wellington's vampire series was pretty good only because it was more about the cop chasing them and her being a lesbian. ;] Well not more but that helped.
There was another one I read where vampires kept humans alive from the zombie apocolypse so that they could go on living. That was kinda mehh. Sorta shit.
All this vampire movie/tv show stuff these days is fluff. It's coping out on what people really want. Zombies. They are trying to jump on the next train and I don't really see it going anywhere. Sure vampires are easier to write for and personify but zombies speak more for the human condition and our fear as a species of impending death.
Joss Whedon made vampires not serious anymore,
Stephenie Meyer made vampires not cool anymore.
Let the Right One In is the best book/movie about a vampire that I've seen.
The popularity of Twilight left me hating the world, but this book reminded me what vampires are supposed to be like.
I also need to read I Am Legend one of these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olDWd-CnxO8&feature=PlayList&p=6F050792BF4BC105&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11
Either you've seen this, or you're psychic.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/
However, I would agree with you; it's a far cry from romantic, as Twilight would have you believe. I believe the trend has been towards "humanizing" them, per say, generally continuing down the road that Anne Rice built with Lestat and her other vampiric characters. That's alright in that the conflict between their supernatural, predatory self and their past as a mortal can make for interesting character development. But Twilight just became absurd. I read them all at the behest of my girlfriend, and they are absolute, utter tripe and nonsense.
So yeah, vampires can still be sexy. But stop making them teenage heartthrobs.
Well played, sir.
This current fascination (the third worth mentioning) with vampires reads a lot like the former two is a lot of ways, in that it seems to reflect largely an area of sexual expansion or revolution in our generation. Except unlike the two before this (including the first public fascination you so fondly mention) this isn't about binging on cocaine or AIDs, it's about gay men.
Twilight, the Vampire Diaries, True Blood -- they're about girls wanting to have sex with gay men. Vampire fiction today for women today is the equivalent of lesbian porn for men.
And it's not that big of a deal.
It might be a big deal because on the one hand you have young girls looking to vampires (dangerous being who are completely sensitive and empathetic to their needs) to teach about romantic relationships, on the other hand you have young boys looking to porn to teach about sexual relationships. In another generation worlds are about to collide. I can't really pass judgement on either side though, both are setting themselves up for disappointment.
I am right with you on this. From Twilight, to the crap-tastic looking Vampire's Assistant, Vampire Diaries, and Tru Blood vampires are getting a glam makeover that makes them desirable beings.
F THAT
Vampires are blood sucking twisted monsters that you need to kill! Get a G'damn wooden stake, a whip and a cutting device and get to f'ing work!
All of the evil f'ing
Wolfmans got NARDS!?
check out the movie 'near dark'
the novels 'already dead' and 'of saints and sinners' are fun
about to start 'the strain' from guillermo del toro and chuck hogan
hearing good things about it
but... im pretty much a fan of anything with vampires