A Self-Proclaimed Dreamer

      Merry Christmas, everyone! I'm Jonathan, and today I'll be touching on an extremely important topic from my childhood, Christmas TV specials. As a kid, there was nothing that I liked more than December, not just because of Christmas, but also my birthday. People always asked if I hated having my birthday a week before Christmas because it would always be overshadowed, but I never thought of it that way. It's the only birthday I've ever had, and it certainly seems fine to me. Christmas has always been an incredibly special time for me, even if I'm not completely capable of telling you why that is. There's something just so warm and sentimental about spending the season with family, relaxing, and waking up on Christmas morning at 5 A.M. and rushing down the stairs. My parents were never too fond of that time, so my brother and I would watch the Christmas specials on Nickelodeon that would typically start really early that morning while we waited for them to ...

     Hey there, friends! I'm Jonathan, and today is my birthday. As such, I'm going to deviate from my schedule a little bit with this week's post as well as next week's, as that will be Christmas, but after that you can expect the same content from me as you normally would. I'm just going to talk candidly about my experiences here from this past year, and some of my overall inspiration for what I've been putting together on this blog, as well as some future aspirations. It's really weird for me to talk about myself in the same detail that I talk about theme parks or video games, so this will probably be a shorter post than most are, but I'll do my best!      I'm going to be real here, 2020 has been a really off year for everyone. So many cancelled plans, so many friends missed, so many times that we've all said, "I can't wait until we're able to see each other in person again." Truly, it's been a bad year for so many people...

      Welcome back to my mini series on the Magic Kingdom, friends! For those of you that missed my first post about it, you can look back at the post from two weeks ago. In that post I gave a brief overview of the park as a whole, and then went more into detail about Fantasyland, one of the themed lands that comprise the park. For a quick recap, Adventureland has pirates and jungles, Frontierland has cowboys and yeehaw, Liberty Square has Presidents and spooks, Fantasyland has magic, and Main Street USA has shops and good old fashioned Americana. What about Tomorrowland? Why, dear friends, that's what we'll be talking about today!                                      Space Mountain, the busiest attraction in Tomorrowland     Tomorrowland has always been considered the strangest idea of the themed lands, as the idea is constant progress. The issue with this area is tha...

    Kingdom Hearts has always been a series to focus on the story, even when that story is confusing to say the least. Kingdom Hearts 3 took a definite step in a simpler direction, with the main plot resolution of that game taking place in the final hours, and this most recent game, Melody of Memory , takes that a step further as the only new plot here takes place in the last 10-20 minutes of this 10 hour or so game. I don't mean this in a bad way, it's clear that this game is a celebration of Kingdom Hearts as a whole series, and the sound track leads to some nostalgic and fun times. This title really plays nothing like the rest of the franchise other than a few rhythm based mini-games, but that is certainly not a bad thing. Music of Memory      I truly went into this game expecting a whole lot of exposition dumped on me as soon as I booted it up, but instead it just took me into a rhythm level of "Simple and Clean," the theme song of the original Kingdom He...