I'm so sorry I haven't posted in forever. To my two followers and to the visitors of this site, I'm going to be much more dedicated to this blog and post regularly. I haven't given up!
Like this little train...that maybe should have. On a side note this clown is freaky.
The reason I haven't posted until now is because I'm working a ton and totally mentally exhausted. I work all day and I get home and my mind is like smelly liquid brain diarrhea. I'm not going to post a picture for that. Even though I kind of want to.
Especially while you're eating. I don't want you vomiting at work.
I'm not making excuses though. It's my fault and it's my blog. It's like what a good friend once said to me what you put into your job you'll get paid out. I'm not here to bitch and complain. I'm here to blog. If I wanted to do that I'd have a Myspace page...
You read that right BeiberFan1996
As you can tell with my epic scale short attention span I'm going off on a tangent. I'm also surfing the web, watching TV and shopping online. So yeah, I'm a little distracted and it's two am. I'm making a promise now that I'll post here more than once a week. So I'll be seeing you. Except maybe just not at my job.
Please come again !
Also check out this awesomely distracting site. All about one of the very best cult indie actresses Zooey Deschanel.
Gothic dark lips are indisputably cool. There a cult fashion staple, seen on goth girls and guys and rock stars. To pull it off, you don't need much. Just lips and a "I'm too cool for you" frown. I like to add a little rock star vibes by wearing a rock t-shirt, and a spiked bracelet.
I know Clarissa didn't wear this but she should have. Photo edited by me.
I have an interest in fiction. The fiction I'm referring to is the supernatural. Take offense if you must, but there's no evidence of ghosts, demons, or anything so fantastical. I love anthropology; I've studied it for years. I've come to learn a lot from it and in this case I take an anthropologist's prospective in studying the occult. I think like a fantasy novel, it's something interesting and alluring; something so imaginative and creative, but not based in reality.
I love fashion blogs, Etsy, Rookie mag, and any ethnographic research on the different supernatural religions. I find myself on the internet a lot studying the subcultures of witches. The cult phenomenon of witches has to do with what people make of the supernatural. Some people are true believers, they follow a religion. Others it's a passing fancy. I find the people in the middle, the unsure, the most interesting. The people who have play seances and use Ouija boards but don't hold firm beliefs to it. I love the idea of a Ouija board because it isn't serious and con notates a free spirit view of the supernatural.
Using a Ouija board is a group activity and a fun one at that. Even though the findings aren't impartial they are enticing. Ouija boards have been proven to not work in the supernatural sense, but as a fantastical aspect of witchcraft they are endearing. It is a fantastical and amazing idea that there could be a board used to contact a deceased person or a being from a different reality. The idea can bring a person a feeling of comfort and fullness that there is indeed an existence after death. Besides the basic spirituality, there is a different cultural aspect to the practice, the idea of linear universe. A universe where many realities can exist at once. This idea pries at what it is to be human, what it is to be alive. But to cut through the philosophical concepts, the occult cult is accessible and easy to study. If you're interested, delve into a book, read an article on Rookie, buy a Ouija board, and display you're beliefs on your sleeve, because if nothing else aren't these ideas interesting enough to share?
Creating a Sim life is an engrossing experience. You're creating a new life without real world repercussions. If they die it was either bad probability, bad game play, due to a Sim's ignorance or cruel intent by the player because their Sim is far too depressed to do anything (I think anyone playing the Sims can relate.)
The best and the first tip of creating a family is if you're playing the game for the first time is DON'T CREATE YOUR REAL WORLD FAMILY. You might be eager to play things out in the Sims, but you'll most likely murder your family by mistake. Or completely ruin their lives (ie, making them lose their jobs, send their kids to military school, and worst of all start a house fire that destroys your family's property, which would inevitably ruin everything beyond repair).
Above: Guess someone's screwed...
The second best tip is to first create a small family or a single person. Creating a household of eight people will be overwhelming. Most likely, everyone will become extremely depressed and things will spiral out of control.
The third tip is too create a Sim that looks like a normal person, not a fictional character. You might be inclined to download a Darth Vader, Bobba Fett or James Bond but it won't be fun. Who really wants to see their hero pee themselves, burp or take out the garbage? The novelty will quickly wear off and you'll most likely lose respect of one of your most admired characters.
And P.S., I would especially recommend to not create a cartoon character. Homer Simpson or Jack Skellington will most likely creep you out eventually. And might scare you enough to not play for ages if they die horrific deaths.
Create-A-Sim is an awesome thing. I should have most likely started with this but I needed to get those warnings out. In Create-A-Sim you can create anything from a grungy Granny, a sexy dame, a handsome dream-man, a total loser and beyond. Outfits are important because that is what you'll wear all the time. You can change it up once your in game by going to a dresser or armorer. But that can be tedious and take time away from your limited Sim hours.
Above: This Sim is just oozing sexy pixels
There are some incredible limitations though. You really can't create someone obese or stick thing. In general, the Sims will be a standard size. You can change the body type through Boolprop modding but it's a risky thing. You must know what you're doing because if you don't you can damage the game beyond repair. For example, the game may never run again or it could create infinite glitches.
The best advice I have is to create a Sim or Sim family that you'll enjoy playing. If you're not a family man, don't create kids. Because Sim children will ALWAYS be children. If you're a loner and like that lifestyle, playing a married couple might grow tiresome. You might find that children and marriage will be the best fit, and if so play away. And don't forget there is plenty of room in the neighborhood.
So enjoy yourself and take risks, because really wouldn't a Sim do the same?
I have a certain obsession with all old things "Sim", not the new and unimproved Sims.
I hate "Sims 3", for four reasons 1) it's mainstream and not interesting to me, I am a cult follower after all 2) I got the shit scared out of me when I was playing the game at two in the morning, on a Sims binge, when my Sim went invisible but quickly came back and was hollow 3) You have so many awesome places you can go in the Sims 3 like the stadium, science lab, art school and you can't even go inside. 4) I can't have more than one Sims family at a time. I want them to be under my control, not walking around town engaging in Simly things without discretion.
I love the Sims 2 and even more so, the Sims 1, or quite specifically The Sims.
I know the content is outdated, and the graphics are Nintendo 64 quality at best, but there is something so pleasing about the original bizarre almost reality.
When I first played the Sims 1 I was about eleven or twelve years old. I bought it because it looked cool. I didn't know Sims could die. So it came as a surprise when Mr. Newbie died. He died tragically in a cooking accident with the grill. He first set most of the house on fire then himself, all by his own stupidity.
This untimely death deterred me from playing the game a while, but not forever. When I reached middle school I started playing, all the time. That was with no expansion packs though. When I finally realized there were expansion packs I lived my weekends with the Sims.
My experience of living through the Sims vicariously is not a solitary experience. To be a true cult follower you must think like a Sim; be a Sim. If you were a Sim wouldn't you like to get to career track level ten, become a celebrity, max out your physical skills, have a hundred townie friends? Being a Sim you have unlimited possibilities. You can change your career from astronaut one day to roadie the next. You can go on a vacation without any vacation time. You can do impossible human things like meet the grim reaper, become a witch with magic, have a robot maid and be brought back from the dead. You'll never grow old. Your kids will always be kids. You will never encounter a day of bad weather.
With the game The Sims you are a God and a single being at once. Some things may not be fixable or logical, but it's a reality and experience that is delightfully satisfying as well as truly cult worthy.
Hello Wurld, and all Star Trek fans (except the 2009 J.J. Shit and Enterprise Series Fans...YOU might as well leave now)!
My name is Melissa, and I am a cult follower. By "cult follower" I don't mean I'll be drinking spiced up kool-aid and waiting for a comet to remove me from my Earth body, I mean I follow Pop-Culture cults. Redundant huh? For the record I'm an atheist, and I don't take part in cult religions either. Me, I seek out trends, strange ideas, cult populations with an enthusiasm for all that is weird. I might as well call myself a weird cult follower. But then again, what cult isn't weird?
My greatest cult interests are Star Trek, little known musicians such as Assemblage 23, art house films including my favorite director Jan Svankmajer's "Dimensions of Dialogue", indie films like Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Run Lola Run, old school Nintendo 64 video games and their glitches, internet subculture, and fashion trends.
Here, I'd like to showcase the best of the bizarre and beautiful there is to offer. I'd like to expose you to the vast cults of the internet and beyond. I'd like to expand your brain with the strange and deranged and make you understand, a bit more, what the world has to offer.
So as a parting gift I'll let you ponder upon one of the best Svankmajer shorts, known as "Punch and Judy". Live long and prosper. And don't forget to be strange...
