Dear Esther – Beautiful Sorrow

Dear Esther. I have found myself to be as featureless as this ocean, as shallow and unoccupied as this bay, a listless wreck without identification. My rocks are these bones and a careful fence to keep the precipice at bay. Shot through me caves, my forehead a mount, this aerial will transmit into me so. All over exposed, the nervous system, where Donnelly’s boots and yours and mine still trample. I will carry a torch for you; I will leave it at the foot of my headstone. You will need it for the tunnels that carry me under.

By the first note I am reduced to tears. How did you capture my sorrow and paint it into a picture, a marvel, anxiety and resolve at the same time? This solitude pierces my mind, this sound is deafening.

I can feel the wind on my skin and smell the ocean water. The cold of winter embracing my being the sand beneath my feet. The sunset seeing right through me and rocks pointing and poking at my hurt. Dear Esther is my deepest sadness.

Journey Ending Credits Music by Austin Wintory

I've come across possibly the most beautiful music I have ever heard. The music of Journey is something experienced in extraordinary ways. To say that it affects a person is a gross understatement. This music has completely overwhelmed by entire being, it has touched me so deeply and unraveled everything that I am.

I'd like to share this and hope that others are as incredibly moved by it as I am.

Notch, Valve and Bethesda to face off for charity

Go gief your monnnies!

Join the developers of Minecraft, Team Fortress 2 and Skyrim, as well as other gaming personalities in a brutal Team Fortress 2 shootout, as they show off their skills for charity.

Celebrities are lining up to throw down for charity. Three lucky gamers who donate to Child’s Play Charity will have the chance to compete with the likes of Notch, Robin Walker and others, later this spring.

TF2 Mix-up has brought together some of the most exciting people in the gaming world for a Team Fortress 2 show match. The teams will consist of game developers, such as Robin Walker and Corey Peters (Valve), Nathan Purkeypile and Philip Nelson (Bethesda), and Markus ‘Notch’ Persson (Mojang), as well as online personalities like Yogscast, Veronica Belmont, Freddie Wong, and CaptainSparklez. TF2 Mix-up is asking the public to donate to the charity event, at tf2mixup.com, where three randomly selected donors will win a place in the match as well as signed merchandise from Valve and Bethesda .

Diablo III Release Date Confirmed! It's about time!

Happy days! Had to share this ^_^

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Diablo® III, the next chapter in its critically acclaimed action role-playing game series, will be unleashed from the Burning Hells on May 15.
Starting that day, gamers with a thirst for fast-paced action and adventure will be able to purchase Diablo III at retailers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. In addition, gamers in the regions above as well as in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil will be able to buy Diablo III digitally via Blizzard's Battle.net® website.

Players in the listed Latin American countries and in Russia will be able to purchase Diablo III at local retail locations starting June 7. Digital availability for the Russian version of the game will also begin June 7. In addition to the English version, Diablo III will be fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.
Blizzard also kicked off global digital presales for Diablo III today. Would-be wizards, witch doctors, demon hunters, barbarians, and monks throughout the world should head to http://www.blizzard.com/games/d3/ now to reserve their digital copies.

Desire

I once had a conversation with some one about desire and was asked what I thought it was. I wrote this little paragraph and when I look at it now, it seems so strange. Like some one else wrote it ...

Anyway, I kept it and would like to share it :)

"Desire"

The want of something. Thoughts and feelings compelling your physical body to pursue it. Tangible or otherwise.  A drive, a lure, a longing and unavoidable voice that will not be silenced until it is met.

A strong desire inhabits the body, the mind and every fabric of your existence.

It has the power to reap havoc or birth success. To twist perception and obscure reason.

To drive you mad or preserve your sanity. Desire sets into motion a process of thinking and problem solving. Desire pushes the mind to formulate strategy as to obtain the desired.

Desire is good and bad and the limbo in between. Desire can be fueled or watered down.

The Funeral

I had the unfortunate obligation last week to attend a funeral. I’ve never met the man before or the family, so I might come across as little insensitive BUT I feel like I’ve turned around an experience for the better. The trip has taught me to set sights on the more enlightning things in life and shift focus from the morbidity of death.