Pounding The Keyboard

  "We’re caught in a trap I can’t walk out Because I love you too much, baby Why can’t you see What you’re doing to me When you don’t believe a word I say?"        It was only last night that I learned that my favorite Elvis Presley song, “Suspicious Minds,” is just a cover. The original was sung by Mark James, who also wrote the song. He released it in 1968 while Elvis released his cover in 1969, which quickly went to number one, with critics hailing it as one of Elvis’ best works. Rolling Stone ranked it 91 st in their 2003 list of best songs of all time. Needless to say, Elvis’ version is miles better than Mark’s.      Elvis performed “Suspicious Minds” in his 1969 Las Vegas concert, showing him still in top form, and I probably have watched that video 1,485 times on You Tube. It's perfection: Elvis, the drums, the bassline, and the background singers.      Here are other famous covers that are considered bett...

       Whenever the second floor of our house is without humans, a cat, owned by the neighbors, would sneak through our windows and stroll inside our house like it owns it. The amusing visits started almost a year ago. Sometimes, I would see it lounging in front of the TV, like it’s waiting for its favorite show to air, and sometimes, it would stay near the cage of our lovebirds. I don’t know its plan, it’s probably wicked, like wanting to eat them. Anyway, it skedaddles out the windows whenever it sees us coming.      Then a few nights ago, around two in the morning, I opened the door of my room to pee, and saw this said cat, it’s white, by the way, sitting outside my room. As soon as it sensed me, it glanced at me and stared at me sternly, looking straight into my eyes, like it was summoning my soul, to where, I didn’t know, maybe, it was trying to control my mind. “Hand me the birds, hand me the birds and a sachet of ketchup…” I thought I heard a ...

       “Is there a perfect day to die?”      That is a tough question, so, I asked Microsoft Pilot, and it told me that it was sorry that I was feeling this way, and that I wasn’t alone and that there were people who really loved me and cared for me that would love to help me. It then gave me some hotline to suicide prevention sites. Lol. I was just trying to write a blog entry.      Anyway, some people would say that maybe, the perfect day to die would be when you’re celebrating your 150 th birthday, as it is sort of awesome to be born and to die at the same date. And also, you’re already 150 years old, so it’s probably more than okay to die already. Lol. Christmas is also the perfect day to die, as it’s the day Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior was born. Maybe, Jesus would be in saving mode that day and save your soul. The eve of New Year’s Day, at the time when people are exploding firecrackers to shoo away all the evil and bad s...

       So, the first thought that came to my mind after finishing the Monster: The Ed Gein Story on Netflix was: "What the fu*k did I just watch?” Lol. I liked Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer story (the lead actor here was great) from the same creators, and I like serial killers, er, okay, I have to rephrase it, I like documentaries and movies about serial killers (and infamous criminals, in general), but this, this series about Ed Gein, it took so much artistic liberties, it’s a fictionalized account of Ed Gein’s life. You see, Ed Gein (who became infamous and notorious in the 50s) was a murderer and a body snatcher. He killed a few women and he dug graves of random middle-aged women (he had a fixation with his deceased mother), took their corpses home, dismembered them, skinned them, and made masks from their faces and lampshades and chairs and bowls and leggings and whatnot from their skins and bones. Horrific, right? But the series didn’t focus on his life and his ...

       A few days ago, I saw this Facebook post about the Eiffel Tower, claiming that the popular tourist spot in Paris would be demolished next year, citing maintenance costs, public complaints, and structural fatigue as the reasons. It turned out that the post was just satirical. What a relief because I was still planning on visiting the tower, I just don’t know how. Lol. That night, probably because of the said satirical post, I dreamt of going to the Eiffel Tower, with a twist, with the twist being the Eiffel Tower was just located in a plaza just a few hundred meters from our house.      And then this morning, my sister told me that she’s been trying to get a visa to visit Europe this year. She would actually visit her daughter who’s currently based and working as an engineer in a country in Europe, and who has a nice apartment there. And I was reminded that this daughter, my niece, who is like a daughter to me because she practically grew up wi...

       I was watching season 2 of Peacemaker (starring John Cena), which explores metahumans (individuals with superpowers) and I remembered reading a Stephen Hawking interview where he said that in the near future, genes would be edited and enhanced, allowing super humans to be created. I’d like to have invisibility power, so people I owe money to wouldn’t be able to see me. Scary, because what if these super humans had criminal mindsets. Mr. Hawking also warned that Earth might be destroyed by an asteroid, just like what happened to the dinosaurs. And unlike in the movies, even super humans will be no match for an asteroid.      Conversations between officials and supporters of US President Donald Trump were leaked and it showed how they loved and adored Hitler and his gas chambers and how they fantasized torturing, raping and killing their political opponents. They called black people as monkeys and expressed their desire to bring back slavery. S...