House of Leaves

Hey guys, back again. Haven't been around much due to the fact that I've never found the time to update, and I've just been plain procrastinating. Also, there's not much to write about. But considering I just got my hands on a copy of House of Leaves, I guess now I have something to write about.

First, a funny story from the life of UZUKI.

About a week before my birthday, my mom went into town, and I told her to pick up a copy of the book for me with my gift card. So she called in the store, asked if they had any copies, and then got them to reserve one. Mom went in, bought the book, and then the clerk who had talked to her on the phone said that not 2 minutes later, somebody else had called and reserved the book as well.

Turns out it was my buddy Daulton ordering the book for me for my birthday present. I found out at my party, when I told both Joel D. and Daulton that I had gotten the book. Daulton looked pissed, and I immediately knew that he had bought the book for me. So I had two copies of House of Leaves! I ended up taking the first copy, the one I bought, back, and I kept the copy Daulton bought for me. Still, I was totally expecting that at the same time. I had a feeling someone was going to get the book for me, because they knew how much I wanted it. Also, when mom told me about that person who called in 2 minutes after she did, I was pretty sure it was one of my friends, mostly because we're probably the only ones on PEI who read and love that book.

Okay, so first of all, House of Leaves is compiled by Mr. Mark Z. Danielewski, and it is truly fictional. However, it is a good read, and it messes with your head in ways you cannot believe. It really has nothing to do with Slender Man either, but there are bits and pieces that make you think of Slendy (ex. the House of Leaves is a house with rooms that never stay in the same spot, aka, the house in marble hornets that Jay excavated, and Alex's house in everymanHYBRID and the creature that causes their house to shape-shift itself).

Let me first start off by saying, this is not for you. The very first sentence in the book is just that. There are a large amount of codes, stories, diary entries, and just plain weird shit in this book. It costs a good 25 bucks at your nearby book store, but sometimes I feel it wasn't worth 25 bucks. Don't get me wrong, the book is awesome, but there are pages in the book where there's literally nothing. One of the pages is almost completely blank, and the only thing on it is: -a-. I put a note inside that said, "Way to save trees, douchebags. So totally not worth the 25 bucks." But then again, Slendy needs his twenty dollars, so I guess this money goes towards his spending money. Maybe now I'm protected. . .?

Haha, I wish.

As for me, I'm currently living in a different location, but not because of Slendy, but just because of family issues. The only thing is that with this house, there is a tree right outside my room that looks like Slendy, in a very weird way. I found it a long time ago, and drew it in my sketchbook. If I can get the drawing on this site along with a photograph, I'll put it up to show you guys. It's really just funny to look at.

Anyone watch the new Marble Hornets video? It's getting hard to follow sometimes, just because I forget if he's actually doing this, or if he's just watching tapes (and when I say he, I mean Jay). Obviously this is a look at the tapes that were in the hotel (which included the video of Masky getting hog-tied and hit with a rock). The last real video that's current and following Jay is a few entries back, when he gets attacked by Masky in the hotel room after getting the tapes. Any entries after that are just clips from the tapes that he found.

Has Masky gained a little weight? He looks a bit. . . chubbier in the video where he attacks Jay. . .

No matter, moving on.

Right now, listening to Mello's theme, from Death Note. I'm thinking about M right now, and wishing the best for him, because apparently he's still alive. I've been looking through the most recent comments on M's last blog post, and people are starting to look for him, with no luck at all.

Anybody down in Chicago mind checking there for me? I would check if I could, but I can't, so I won't. Sounds heartless, but I'm stuck up here in Canada.

That's all for today guys. Talk to you later, and peace be with you.

-UZUKI