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Marlins and Mixxes.
by maxx
Sooooo Yesterday was my birthday. Ill tell you all about it! I woke up at 8am and David Chandler and his gal Julie were sleeping downstairs on my Aerobed®. AWESOME!!!! I went to work really tired cause i was up late talking to the friends. I fugured that they would let me out early number 1 because it was my birthday. number 2 its half day summers. But alas, I didn't get outta there til 7. Thats alright money is good. I ended up going home vowing to nap. I ran in to Maria of marquet on my way home. And made her come over and have a drink with me for my big day. We did. It was great. Carey called in the middle of all that. I was really excited to talk to her but she had to get off the phone really fast.. It's expensive to call from poland. I know it. But i was soooooo good to hear from her. I miss That Lady a whole bunch. After that I watched SAW and talked to people on the phone. No Nap sucky. Then ran out took a cab to go see David play at Tonic with eats tapes. It made me sweat and dance. Lots of great folks there. Jim, shel, crito, samuel, peter, anna. It was weird too. This year there were soo many people celebrating peoples birthdays on my birthday. I mean i met at leats 10 people last night with my birthday. Nyc is where we all meet up i guess. pretty strange. Then I left tonic at like 1230 i was fairly sloshed at this point and decided to go to the cake shop (my work). I went with samuel and anna i was a crazy rock show. everyone was going nuts. slam dancing. been awhile since ive seen that. black cat 2003. stay there for a few. got cupcakes and left. then we went back to my house had a drink listened to a record or 2. and they left. i was alone. so i called evryone at most of the bars that i know and had them hand out a free shot for me. and then i passed out. great birthday!!!! Just wish Carey was here for it. BTW thank you for the amazing gift!!!! Fly away. yessss.
Now in other news.,
I Have my mixxes and orginal tracks I made @ http://www.sweetpancake.com/maxxbass if you wanna check um out. DOWNLOAD FOR FREEEEEEEE.
A Marlin Attack Video , Don't worry nobody got to hurt.
But the best story of the day.
Blind Teen Amazes With Video-Game Skills
By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press WriterWed Jul 27, 5:25 PM ET
Brice Mellen is a whiz at video games such as "Mortal Kombat."
In that regard, the 17-year-old isn't much different from so many others his age.
Except for one thing: He's blind.
And as he easily dispatched foes who took him on recently at a Lincoln gaming center, the affable and smiling Mellen remained humble.
"I can't say that I'm a superpro," he said, working the controller like an extension of his body. "I can be beat."
Those bold enough to challenge him weren't so lucky. One by one, while playing "Soul Caliber 2," their video characters were decapitated, eviscerated and gutted without mercy by Mellen's on-screen alter ego.
"I'm getting bored," Mellen said in jest as he won game after game.
Blind since birth when his optic nerve didn't connect because of Leber's disease, Mellen honed his video game skills over the years through patient and not-so-patient playing, memorizing key joystick operations and moves in certain games, asking lots of questions and paying particular attention to audio cues. He worked his way up from games such as "Space Invaders" and "Asteroid," onto the modern combat games.
"I guess I don't know how I do it, really," Mellen said, as he continued playing while facing away from the screen. "It's beyond me."
Mellen knows this much: He started playing at home when he was about 7.
"He enjoyed trying to play, but he wasn't very good at first," said his father, Larry Mellen. "But he just kept on trying. ... He's broken a lot of controllers."
When the question of broken controllers comes up, Mellen flashes a smile and just shrugs.
"I used to have quite a temper," he said. "Me and controllers didn't get along very well."
Now they get along just fine.
While playing "Soul Caliber 2," Mellen worked his way through the introductory screens with ease, knowing exactly what to click to start the game he wanted.
He rarely asked for help. Once the game started he didn't need any help.
"How do I move?" an exasperated opponent, Ryan O'Banion, asked during a battle in which his character is frozen in place.
"You can't," Mellen answered before finishing him off.
"That's what happens. It's why I don't play him," O'Banion said after his blood-spattered character's corpse vanishes from the screen.
How Mellen became so good is a mystery to his father.
"He just sat there and he tried and tried until he got it right," Larry Mellen said. "He didn't ever complain to me or anyone about how hard it was."
Mellen hangs out any chance he gets at the DogTags Gaming Center in Lincoln, which opened last month. Every now and then someone will come in and think he can easily beat the blind kid.
That attitude doesn't faze Mellen.
"I'll challenge them, maybe. If I feel like a challenge," he said, displaying an infectious confidence. "I freak people out by playing facing backwards."
There's nothing he likes better than playing video games, Mellen said.
He will be a senior in high school next year. After graduation, he plans to take a year off because he wants a break from school.
When he does go to college, Mellen wants to study — what else? — video-game design.
Til next time.
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