I spent all day writing Muzak. at least it's the arts.

I know this is a little late, but it's Milton. He's slow. Sue me.

Or if you're God (which you sometimes act like it) you could damn me and cast me out of paradise, which he seems to be rather fond of doing. I don't know how many video games you've played, but there's this game mechanic that keeps reappearing. you start the game with all the power ups and for the first 10 minutes of the game, you're Superman! you can do whatever the hell you want! but then the final boss shows up and strips you of all you're powers and you spend the entire game trying to reclaim these power ups and make it back to the final boss, begrudgingly but with a sense of importance. God keeps pulling this shit, saying "look at how wonderful paradise is, but oh ho ho, you get to toil all your life! and you probably wont even make it back here!" There's a reason these kinds of video games don't become very popular.

For medieval history class, i also recently watched the movie Agora, about the conversion of the Roman Empire to Catholicism. I have to say, for all the "turn the other cheek" crap they spew, the Christians are pretty quick to kill anything that apposes them. this is pretty apparent through history, but this movie just illustrates that very well.

Alan Moore must have some man crush on Milton, because his character of Dr. Manhattan perfectly mimics Milton's God. They both are omnipotent can see all time at once, and know that their actions with have faulty consequences, but are both powerless to do anything about it. It's interesting that Milton gave God such faults, and he must have had balls of steel to do it in the 17th century.

Paradise Lost: The first installments

So I'm most of the way through the first book of the book by this point. it's hard to get through because the language is tough, but that's forgivable because of the time period and that style being all the rage. why i'm not forgiving Milton for however is, first the fact that he's trying so hard to be plato, and second the characters so far. I don't know why blind people think that they're instantly some channel of the gods, just because they have a birth defect. the same with Plato channeling the muse, Milton assuming he knows what happened before the universe existed, and that blind guy from "Oh Brother, Where art thou?" although i guess he represents Plato, but that's still more instances than necessary. and going along with that, why is everyone trying to be Plato and recreate the Odyssey? i mean the "Epic Poem" by Milton is even divided into books. try and be original and at least call it scriptures or something. and then the characters are the worst. first is Beelzebub, who spend the entire time kissing Satan's ass, which i guess fits his character, even if it's annoying. But Satan spends the entire time whining about how he was defeated by the omnipotent God. what the hell (ha pun) did he expect to happen? that God would just say "you know what guys? i'm not just gonna wish you out of existance or turn you all in to a piles of poop, i'll give you a fair fight." Satan is the whiny little girl, and it does make me dislike him, which was Milton's intention, but at the same time, it makes him seem very unbelievable, although all the self proclaimed "princes of darkness" always seem to have the same daddy issues. since i'm also supposed to relate this back to "modern media" in my life the closest i can come to at this point is princess celestia from "my little pony". basically her sister, luna, gets jealous/possessed by an evil spirit and made jealous, that celestia gets to rule the day, and she gets shafted with the night, revolts and banished to the moon where she mopes around for 1000 years. Moral of the story (like most bible stories): god- i mean celestia is a bitch that instead of actually doing anything to help her sister, just hides the problem, and luna makes some secret revenge plot that fails because SHE'S FIGHTING GOD.