| Tife and Limes: Look left, look right, glare. Arr. |
[Mar. 9th, 2008|04:48 pm] |
Jesus I didn't even know about daylight savings. Good thing I got up at eight.
I'm pretty sure Spring has hit two weeks early. It's been HOT around here, really windy, and my nose has been running all day for the past half a week. My allergies are having a bleedin' party. Still not proper sick and I missed that flu or cold or whatever that a lot of people had, so my streak maintains.
Well that was the easiest audition ever. It was basically a formality in my case because my teacher had already decided that under no circumstances was I NOT to be in her (engineering) routine for the Spring Dance Concert in May. Also we spent all of class yesterday learning the intermediate audition routine anyway. Today I arrived early and JUST missed Julia's audition but she nonetheless demanded that I be included at all costs. Kept on prodding me to agree to a lead role, mostly due to my stage presence, but I want to see what I'm up against during the first rehearsal next Sunday.
I don't even know if it can be considered much of an audition for anyone else either. Everyone who showed knew their left from their right and got in just for coming. Great turnout. The teach and I were kind of worried for a while there that we'd have a handful at best but suddenly all these (engineers) who hadn't (engineered) in ages came out of the woodwork and went nuts. This one girl Holly was unstoppable and kept (engineering) until the last person had left, she hadn't done it in so long. I know what it's like to get that great feeling of familiarity- putting on an old pair of shoes and finding they fit just as well as they used to. Rehearsals are going to be fun as hell. Also, hanging around two dozen female dancers all afternoon is good times.
The only difficult thing I can foresee is getting synchronization on the intermediate parts because it was an uncommon change to the usual rhythm of a broadway: shuf-fle-HEEL-heel-spank-HEEL-stab-heel-STAMP (and a one and a two and a three), as opposed to ye olde shuf-FLE-heel-HEEL-spank-HEEL-stab-HEEL. Sandy was giving me a hernia by how inconsistently she had it. Mainly when Emily came and stared at her she'd lose it.
I tried to do the advanced routine because I know I could get it with a half hour's practice easy, I'm just not adept enough to immediately grab it. It was like shuffle right ball change, maxi turn left, Irish right, five count riff left, shuffle cramp roll right, spank right heel left, seven count riff right (to the SIDE blegh), stamp left, hop right stamp left. There is NO PAUSE from the shuffle cramp roll up to the first stamp. Holly and I were picking it apart for a little bit and it's just that the seven count riff doesn't want to happen for two reasons: when riffing to the side, we both feel like doing a flap to start, and after the riff it feels right to do a broadway spank-heel-stab-heel instead of ending with a stamp. I am going to get this fucking thing, I tell you.
edit: Why the fuck is it that even with the powers of the internet at my disposal I cannot simply find a picture of Spongebob going "WHOO!" with his arms outstretched? There are a million "YAY!" type pictures. Son of a bitch. I'm sure he ran back and forth going "WHOO!" at some point, like an episode where he (mistakenly) got some kind of award or his license or something. Also, OH MY GOD IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US
edit edit: These are More Than Meets The D'AAAWWWWWWWWW |
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| Tife and Limes: A big pile of random shit |
[Mar. 1st, 2008|09:16 am] |
-Still having difficulty mashing an outline together. All three ideas are good, they're all concepts I want to execute at some point, but at the same time no single idea stands out from the rest. I don't have the right inspiration yet.
-New wallpaper up. Art gallery 2 will go up next, I'll probably wait longer than usual though because I'm essentially out of updates after that until the trailer can come out. Unless I figure out something else to slap together. Maybe a coloring contest? .....
-Announced at Toy Fair 2008: Full Auto Nerf Vulcan. I want one and I don't even have a use for it. There's a Nerf modding community that extends the range up to twice as far, also doing repaints & modular conversions and so on, particularly with the Longshot. I'd want an AC Adapter socket put in the Vulcan because it's going to require SIX D batteries. That is bleedin' expensive. I'd also get it painted up like a SAW. Then, well, I'd need to find someone to shoot at. *Looks blatantly at Sam*
-Check the description:
Man, I WISH my computer had a steering wheel and all those gauges and shit. That would be much more interesting. Imagine the size of the manual.
-My filthy, inconsiderate douchebag roommate of three years is finally moving out. I'll wait to expound on how terrible he is until he's finally hauled all his crap out of here. Still looking for a new roomie, need to find one by the 15th, but very few people want to move out to my end of the valley. Might have to go to craigslist. My rent is as low as it conceivably gets for a place this size and I have a great relationship with the landlord so I do not want to give it up yet. I don't mind living out here, basically on the edge of Canoga Park and Woodland Hills. You can basically find anything just by going two blocks south. Our kitchen just got a mold inspection and some of the drywall is getting replaced so it's a great time for someone new to come in. After that I can FINALLY take a mop to these floors and walls without fear of them getting ruined the next day by fucking hair and juice spills and beef stew and so on. Good riddance. |
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| Aboot time for a meme |
[Feb. 18th, 2008|12:00 am] |
-Remaining answers posted 2/20. 9 out of 15, not bad people. 60% success.
Jacked from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) onimaru
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
I skipped movies not in English, so none of these are subtitles/translations.
1. "Yes! An' there are two g's in bugger off!"
A: Local Hero (I knew nobody was getting this one)
2. "Hey he's reading the Queen... that's an in-joke, you know."
A: A Hard Day's Night
3. "Do all the interns get Glocks?"
A: The Life Aquatic (lianne_lin)
4. "You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be? No peace in our time."
A: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (elec_man)
5. "Two blokes and a fuck-load of cutlery!"
A: Hot Fuzz (_corruption_)
6. "Castration! Double castration!"
A: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (crhale)
7. "It's the damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?"
A: Alien (_corruption_)
8. "Sir, you can't let him in here. He'll see everything. He'll see the big board!"
A: Dr. Strangelove (goroh_)
9. "Squeaky, uh, squeak, squeaker, squeakin'."
A: The Emperor's New Groove (greeneo)
10. "Senator, just one more thing. Love your suit."
A: Silence of the Lambs
11. "I figure it's their fault for being on our land before we got here."
A: Maverick
12. "Or Horatius, or Orpheus... people so lofty they sound as if they shit marble!"
A: Amadeus (ravelez)
13. "I seem to have stabbed myself with the letter opener."
A: A Shot In The Dark
14. "You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind! Dead is dead!"
A: Young Frankenstein
15. "I've got better things to do tonight than die."
A: Transformers: The Movie (_corruption_) |
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| Tife and Limes: GOOOBAMA aw fuck |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|01:58 pm] |
-Funniest crossover segment of a late-night comedy show ever.
-Finally got the flip-flappin' ZG Gallery back up. Went on a productivity bender Tuesday and spent til like 3 a.m. today finishing it up. Still waiting on some pictures from people, hopefully to bolster it now that we've had a nice bunch of professional jobs.
-A ton of people I know are dropping from the flu right now. I got hit the hardest ever by the flu in February 2005 and haven't been sick since. IN YOUR FACE, FLU SEASON *punches and thrashes the air* I WILL SURVIVE
-Gym BLEW. NOBODY came. Alvaro and Naomi were there for like an hour and left early to go to a Capoeira show in Santa Monica. Only one person showed up for the adult class. Belgian was absent, 88 Kilo Man is injured, Farouk is still who knows where. It was so dead that gym closed early at eight, I was the only person doing anything while Coach listened to that old unfunny cunt complain about her mother.
 I've had enough dead-energy days at open gyms to just fucking power through it on sheer stubbornness. Nothing to do about it when the rest of the people don't even try and ultimately bail, freaking chumps. This is why NOTHING GETS DONE. 
edit: Happy Chinese New Year? Tonight? Is that right? Huh. |
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| Dashing through the sky, comes a fearful cry - EEEE BAYYYY (EEEE BAYYYY!) |
[Jan. 23rd, 2008|11:42 pm] |
All the worry over the weekend seems to have more or less wrapped up, very neat & unexpectedly considering the amount of mental anguish I went through. I do have a tendency to react pretty severely when a personal project is in risk of ANYTHING.
Such is such.
[21:04] Esco> man I hate bellybutton piercings
[21:05] Esco> woman looking all fine then BAM huge sparkly pile of fucking dangly crap hanging out of her navel
[21:06] p_d> HA
[21:06] p_d> i never thought of it like that
[21:06] Esco> hate 'em
[21:08] JustinH> they just don't look good
[21:08] p_d> my thing about them is they just get in the way
They do! Holy God they do!
DON'T GET ME STARTED ON MEANINGLESS LOWER BACK ETCHINGS EITHER
( Nostalgia bomb continued like a long stretch of napalm, i.e. extensive and unimportant rambling about GI Joes again ) |
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| "STREWTH! She's fulla STARS, mate! Wot a kick inna yarbles this is!" |
[Nov. 4th, 2007|10:00 pm] |
-Class rocked because I was acclaimed for my not screwing anything up. Glee. Not in this for the grade, though. I did get mildly irritated that we kept having to go over previous material, but them's the breaks. I was admittedly half-asleep for a good chunk of the class. Now that we're moving on to specific theories hopefully I can use some class time to work toward the final. Gonna be a blast.
-Still working on that damned soundtrack. I scoured myspace and listened to approximately 3 songs each of 120+ bands this weekend and they all sucked. They were all under Funk or Funk/Jazz. About four of them were relatively funky. The rest of those falsely categorized motherfuckers wouldn't know something funky if it sauntered up to them in a white shirt and thumb-slapped them in the face. (p.s. Les is awesome too) Posting ads has thus far resulted in a gang of guitar-wielding morons claiming they can compose "ANY GENRE" and serve up demos of gilded SHIT.
-2001: A Space Odyssey was released on Blu-Ray. Goddamn hells of yes right matey.
( HD all in my face! ) |
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| Tife and Limes: Super Fettucine Action |
[Sep. 20th, 2007|11:18 pm] |
-I was planning to go to ye olde ghetto gym today but we got hella busy and I was at work until 6. I'd have to leave work at about 4:30 to not have the worst-time-ever in traffic. Barring a crisis, I will try again next Thursday!
-Summer is officially over tomorrow. Also RAIN of all things tomorrow, then back to the high 80's next week. Biz-R.
-Two days ago: Armless Man Delivers Fatal Head-Butt. The article is gold enough, but the best/worst thing about it are the reader comments. A completely terrible onslaught of PUNS. They covered almost every hand/arm/head pun there is. It's horriblarious. Most of them remind me of something my dad would say.
-Randomly springing core exercises on people in the chat is a thrill. Excerpt:
[20:11] Esco> I have a SPUR OF THE MO' ISOMETRIC AB CHALLENGE
[20:11] Antigone_Jones> HUH?
[20:11] Esco> I ARE CHALLENGE YOU TO ISO-AB EXERCIZZLE
[20:12] Esco> IS YE DOWN?
[20:12] Antigone_Jones> alright
[20:12] Esco> O-KAY
[20:12] Antigone_Jones> how do I do it?
[20:12] Esco> you know what a plank is
[20:12] Antigone_Jones> like a pirates plank?
(So instead we held our torsos straight over the edges of our beds for one minute intervals and went "ARR".)
-I was aware of Talk Like A Pirate Day on Wednesday but nobody I saw cared enough to do it. I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk like a pirate on TLAPD.
New acquisition.
( Some MP3 players what I have had ) |
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| Mostly Sunny, 108 degrees. |
[Sep. 2nd, 2007|05:15 pm] |
[16:30] Esco> jom when's your birthday again
[16:30] Antigone_Jones> the real one or the party?
[16:30] Esco> party
[16:30] Antigone_Jones> 13th
[16:30] Esco> that is soon!
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> damn, 26
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> I'm an old lady
[16:31] Esco> 26 is a good age
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> is it?
[16:31] Esco> I find the older I get the less I mind
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> I remember hating life when I was 24
[16:31] Esco> because you're smarter than you were with each year
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> thought I was missin' out on life
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> true
[16:31] Esco> I look back on my early twenties and I was just confused most of the time
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> it's a good way of thinking of things
[16:31] Esco> I feel better about my late twenties and early thirties
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> yeah, I was, too
[16:31] Antigone_Jones> still am
[16:32] Esco> not to mention I'm just getting more goddamn handsome with age
[16:32] Antigone_Jones> awwwww
[16:32] Esco> I am going to be one of them god damned lady killers when I'm 60
[16:32] Antigone_Jones> lookie you, hot stuff
[16:32] Antigone_Jones> lucky for us, asians age well
[16:32] Esco> making all the young married women second guess themselves
[16:32] Antigone_Jones> lol
[16:33] Esco> my old age is going to be fun
[16:33] Antigone_Jones> makin' them wish they met you instead, lol
[16:33] Esco> since I have ingrained in myself so hard to not deteriorate
[16:33] Antigone_Jones> you are the first person I've met who's looking forward to it
[16:33] Antigone_Jones> I mean, most of my 30 yr old friends feel like damaged goods already
[16:33] Esco> people ought to age gracefully
[16:33] Antigone_Jones> and wonder why they're still not married, etc.
[16:33] Esco> if you fight it off you just waste time and energy
[16:33] Esco> it's childish
[16:33] Antigone_Jones> true, I agree
[16:34] Esco> can't stop the music!
[16:34] Antigone_Jones> just gotta embrace it, no?
[16:34] Esco> exactly
[16:34] Esco> dub turning 24 all "OH GOD I'M SO OVER THE HILL"
[16:34] Esco> SHUT the FUCK UP dub
[16:34] Antigone_Jones> that's why I like giving huge bdays :)
[16:34] Esco> goddamn kid
[16:34] Esco> I swear
[16:34] Antigone_Jones> hahaha,
[16:34] Esco> I'd kick that kid off the monkey bars
[16:34] Esco> all vindictive like
[16:34] Antigone_Jones> I remember I felt the same way back then because I didn't know what to do with my life or my career
[16:34] Antigone_Jones> I still don't but I feel less scared
[16:35] Antigone_Jones> I still am, but I know I'm gonna be okay
[16:35] Esco> well it's not like life gets any less confusing, you just learn to deal with it better
[16:35] Antigone_Jones> true
[16:35] Antigone_Jones> or I just get wiser
[16:35] Esco> I think I'll go look for a present today
[16:35] Antigone_Jones> who's?
[16:35] Antigone_Jones> mine?
[16:35] Esco> a present er um uh for a uh
[16:35] Antigone_Jones> :D
[16:35] Esco> uh um uh er
[16:36] Antigone_Jones> :D
[16:36] Esco> the president! yes, the president. of... albania.
[16:36] Antigone_Jones> say it!
[16:36] Esco> my pen pal from way back
[16:36] Esco> good ol'
[16:36] * Esco searches wikipedia
[16:36] Antigone_Jones> :((((
[16:36] Esco> Bamir Topi
[16:36] Esco> yep, old Bamir and I used to roll back in the day
[16:36] Antigone_Jones> shuttup!
[16:36] Esco> I think he could use a board game or something
[16:36] Antigone_Jones> you don't know one albanian to save your fuckin' life!
[16:37] * Esco eats his vanilla wafers and looks innocent |
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| Wanted: Rad brunette w/ great personal hygiene whom I can go down on incessantly I MEAN ER UM UH |
[Aug. 31st, 2007|11:55 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | Squirrel Nut Zippers - Meant To Be | ] |
-I am laughing SO HARD at this cartoon right now. What a classic. Holy shit did I need a laugh. TA HAVE, SEE?
-Bernie Mac on PBS, talking about love (and Bill Cosby). Good story.
-Heat was straight PUNISHING today. Even with the A/C on you could feel how bad it was. I currently have no plans this weekend other than to goddamn get some drawing done finally for fuck's sake argh. The idea of going out and sitting in traffic on the hottest weekend of the year is an absolute hell-no-brainer. "Hey kids, it's labor day weekend! Let's go out!" "Fuck you, dad."
-My soccer coach co-worker from last entry decided on a skull with a ponytail. Sounds hilarious, particularly envisioning the reactions of the other team's parents.
-Gym tomorrow is heat stroke waiting to happen. I will stay home and GTG to victory! One-handed this and one-legged that! Emptying the condensation reservoir on Ted Amcor every twenty minutes! Sweaty thighs sticking together! Too much information!
-Tekken DR Online is more bullshit than fun right now. SD Tekken got me a little too optimistic. Almost twisted the controller into two pieces after about a dozen matches. It's just a see-saw of both parties getting completely robbed. Trying to adjust tactics for the lag would plain ruin my normal play. Hopefully it'll get better over time.
-I am 0 for 3 on the Take-Girl-And-Tear-Up-Disneyland front. However, I get much attention from women in their mid to late thirties that dress like teenagers. But NAY, no pity! Nothing to do but keep on looking. *Taunt x3*
-Class starts next week! I am excited about new stomping grounds on Saturdays. I hope I have an inspired teacher. Don't really know what to expect in terms of a syllabus with this kind of class. If I like it, you'll see what it be.
My mom mailed me a mousepad.
It is awesome. |
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| My phone got HELLA dropped and it was like |
[Aug. 24th, 2007|01:32 am] |
But there was no damage other than some scruffage on the corner, thus no headbutt-shaped vengeance was distributed.
Yeah so maybe I just wanted to post that picture of Osaka. August has not been a very bloggable month. September is looking pretty nice. Friday already? Gym Saturday! WHOO! Holy GOD I want some scrambled eggs and potatoes. Hella butter.
( Blizu Rizay, Fire-Breathing Turtle, Grand Prix, Ozowhoring )
Curiosity Pseudo-meme: List your console & handheld history and your first game/favorite game on each.
-Nintendo: Gyromite/Contra
-Atari Lynx: Rampage/Zarlor Mercenary
-Playstation: Tekken/Tekken 3
-Playstation 2: Metal Gear Solid 2/Tekken 5
-Xbox: Halo/DOAXVB
-Gamecube: Star Wars Rogue Leader/Rogue Leader
-Neo Geo Pocket Color: Puzzle Bobble Mini/Card Fighter's Clash
-Nintendo DS: Metroid Prime Hunters/Mario Kart
-Playstation 3: Call of Duty 3/Virtua Fighter 5 |
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| Fancy Muh-fuckin' Plans |
[Jul. 7th, 2007|01:46 am] |
SO ANYWAY.
Downloadable in quicktime format over heyah
I was going to start the mailing list today but I think I'll let the new teaser sit around the internet for a Saturday or so.
My fourth of July was just working on YSO website graphics for seven hours straight. With a pizza. It was pretty nice. Didn't get as hot as predicted, just hovered around 96-98 at most. I got enough graphics done to last me another month or so of updates.
UGH. The fact that it's taken this long for the main-character color thing to sink in despite the website being extremely blatant about it just makes me SAD. It only took SEVEN MONTHS! Seriously goddamn and asfghkas;fjafj;a a; aeo;kf[eafa'kfa'l (fucking bludgeons the internet about the head and neck with a blistered coelacanth)
Also, damn kids need to stop asking me if it's free. Are you kidding? The hell kind of world you think we live in? Priviledged lazy-ass kids with their wikipedia and their iPhones I swear we used to have to WALK places to find shit out back in my day
Also, dub plugged me at 4thletter! What a guy. |
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| Tife and Limes: "Giant squid dead ahead, captain!" "Prepare repellent charge!" *KSHZG-KZGH-KRSSH* |
[Jun. 19th, 2007|07:52 pm] |
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| | Jurassic 5 - World of Entertainment (Woe Is Me) | ] |
-I just bought $85 in groceries. Four pounds of fettucine, four pounds of rotini, three pounds of chicken, four jars of marinara, meatballs, hella hot dogs, hella buns, vitamins & calcium, three gallons of water, a 24 pack of Pepsi, soy sauce, two Snickers and two bags of Skittles. And I somehow managed to walk all that shit from my car to the front door. Man, it feels GREAT to just fuckin' buy food. Back in the day it was a hassle because I had to worry about partitioning out the funds for the month, but now I take immense joy in cramming my pantry with stuff. The satisfaction that comes with being self-sustaining. Whoo! Food is awesome. The MOST awesome. I'm going to make some fettucine right now! Goddamn!
-How is it that I, the biggest earthly fan of the oldest-school Disneyland Submarine Voyage, completely WHOOSH on the premiere of the all-new Finding Nemo Submarine Ride?! ARGH! I must've been too busy GTG-ing and buying food. This site is based on the Disney World sub ride, the 20,000 Leagues themed one which I didn't grow up with but is still amazing to look at. Pictures of the deconstruction and all kinds of wild shit. HELLA video ridethroughs of the various sub attractions which makes me want to see what the Japanese ride is all about because you can't tell what the freak is going on in black and white. What I can't believe is that Disneyland doesn't have an official video recording of the original Submarine Voyage. Even in the best fan recordings it's too dark to see half the ride.
Edit: Man looking at some of the Nemo ride footage, the animation parts seem kinda wack (albeit necessary). I want my giant real-ass mechanical squid wrassling a giant real-ass mechanical shark. OLD SCHOOL! Man, I wish Atlantis hadn't failed at the box office. A sub ride in that theme with a giant freaking Leviathan encounter would've been beyond incredible. Colossi in the water and everything. ;_;
-Speaking of GTG-ing, something that Andrew and I are becoming increasingly awesome at (despite Andrew's precarious balance issues), I started doing one-handed dive bombers. Remember those? One-handers are actually not much more difficult than one-hand/one-leg pushups, except once I get a few dive bombers done I start making this wheezing sound while pushing down/up on the way back from all the pressure building up in my face. Still, they're great. I feel powerful. Like I could kick a rhino, then get swiftly gored to pieces by said rhino. Powerful!
(I'm not saying what GTG means because it's a pretty terrible acronym, Andrew and I use it as a joke as much as a reference.)
-Fact: Quality Control is superior to Power In Numbers.
-Fact: I've been meaning to do a short review of Masked Rider: The First for weeks now but I have yet to slap it together. Already took pictures and everything.
-Fact: I have hella work to do tonight for tomorrow's YSO update, even just on some relatively simple shit. Frames don't code themselves!
-Fact: This is one of those times I'll remember what else I was going to blog about the next afternoon after everyone's already read/skipped this entry |
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| Tife and Limes: A Very Belgian Saturday. |
[May. 26th, 2007|11:52 pm] |
QUICKEST Saturday EVER. Holy gosh! It was two, then it was five, then it was NINE?
Absolutely HILARIOUS Fancy Plans today. I tell ya. Best thing in the world to come home with more ethnically diverse pictures to add to the site. Andrew and I capped the day by watching Seoul Raiders. We would've watched Silver Hawk but he gave it away. Also, first day that Andrew's ever done a one-legged squat (aka Pistol squat). It was the most robust "YEESSSSSS!" I've ever heard come out of the guy. Now he has to get it on the other leg, lol. There was plenty of befuddlement and "BALANCE, YOU FUCK!" until I found the right bit of advice in Pavel's book. GREASE THE GROOVE Y'ALL (ugh). Andrew is well on his way to becoming The Pistol King. I, however, am the gottdamned Pistol Emperor (does gratuitous isometric cossack pistol squats).
I fucking HATE Seoul Raiders.
-A good deal of my friends have seen Pirates 3 and they all are far more excited for me than I am. Myspace messages with congrats all over the place. OH the stories I could tell of how terrible this industry is. And probably will! I'll leave my epic story until after I've seen the movie.
-I AM FINALLY WATCHING FARSCAPE IN ITS ENTIRETY. THIS IS THE BEST SHOW THAT HAS EVER BEEN. And after that, the commentaries! This is going to take a while. A mere four seasons is a CRIME.
-16-Ton Monty Python DVD Megaset $35.00 until May 30th. $1 SHIPPING until June 12th. It even comes with Live at the Hollywood Bowl! Jump on it!
-The latest PS3 firmware update is the best so far. I used to have problems with the picture skipping out and blinking when I changed discs so I'd have to cycle through the inputs back to HDMI, but it's seamless now (I knew the error wasn't with my beautiful Westinghouse). The DVD upscaling is a mostly marginal improvement but it does help. Particularly with shitty transfers, sharper and clearer crap is better than plain old crap.
HEY CHECK THIS OUT MAN IT'S NUTS!
ALMOST LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY! This is especially wild because every full time job I've ever had before never lasted much longer than two months. I just needed time and three years of ups and downs and a Fancy Plannery goal.
HEY DAD! I GREW A WORK ETHIC! MILESTONE! :DDD
Jesus Christ the year is almost half over? What? WHAT?? WHERE DID IT G |
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| The most experimental moves, the rawest beats. |
[Apr. 19th, 2007|10:45 pm] |
ALLER-ZHEES THIS WEEK LIKE WHOA. Every morning it's nose-blowing symphonic suite in F major. 80% possibility of violent sneezing (highly dramatized because sneezing ought to be a full-body experience: I HATE WEAK SNEEZES. SNEEZE LIKE A CANNON, NOT A WET CAT DAMMIT) and 20% chance of itching eyes. Decongestants and antihistamines just make my eyeballs crack and tingle. My allergies really haven't been very bad compared to previous years, so it's manageable.
HEHHH-CHUSH! *SNRRRRK*
Fun. Had the whole Osaka sneezing in front of Kagura scene going on in my head every morning. Osaka cracks me up.
Why is it that all the fake myspace girl profiles have some line about "playing xbox". Nobody points that shit out. Unless xbox is supposed to be a new sexual euphemism. I got a message from a fake account which said "hey I was checking out the music on your page". I don't HAVE any fucking music on my page. But you know, "go here download free ringtonez lol haha bye k ^-^" OH TECHNOLOGY WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT
On the pro side, my friend Liza from Theater class Junior & Senior year found me the other day on myspace. Crazy what happens to people. Single mother living in San Diego now but she is driven like a bullet train. Had lots of encouragement for me. It's been nine years since PV! Kerry turned thirty yesterday! Both of our short-term memories are increasingly fucked! Wild! The fun never stops!
I got started on a minor drawing project today. Totally Steve's doing in setting it off in the current direction. I was actually hoping to start it yesterday and finish it today, but time has just evaporated. Abs, push-ups, dinner, haircut, shower, 9:50??? Shit. There goes my Thursday.
Making plans, making plans. This weekend is rainy and otherwise unpleasant, so I gots some good-timey group gaming to do. Wootles. Weekend after however is back into gear. It is completely strange having to rewire my priorities now- every week was stressing out over the next fight scene and calling the same people in the hopes they'd be free, otherwise finding an alternate scene to shoot. I've been so used to that pattern since... good god, last September(!) that I still get the same kind of concerns every weekend. Only it's down to a handful of scenes and no fights left. "OH LAWD I have to call... call... wait. Huh. We did that. Nevermind."
Odd. Progress! :D
OH YEAH I totally was right bat time/right bat channel to score a one-of-a-kinder on an Achewood garage sale. The current Dude Has Got No Mercy shirt is in a brown I'd never wear, and I nabbed it in heather grey/navy. DAMN the text is big. I think the phrase goes well with my completely saint-like nature.
Damn straight.
OH er I mean *drives bus of nuns on medical mission to Peru* |
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| Tife and Limes: "Rechts! Ich sehe einen weißen flaumigen Kopf! Wartezeit, was?" |
[Apr. 5th, 2007|10:42 pm] |
Faces of Baby Seal
This is what I was doing every day the week one of my bosses was away. He would prefer me not drawing things like amphibians in board shorts on our whiteboard what with clients walking in all the time. My other boss doesn't give a shit whether or not I draw anything.
-I wish NPR would stop doing stories on YouTube like it's still some goddamned new and crazy thing. Or at LEAST stop pronouncing it like it's a mysterious fucking entity they've never heard of before. "...and the footage was also posted to the Online Video-Sharing Site YEW-TEWBE." "Tell us more about YEW-TEWBE, Robert!" "Sure, that's a great topic. Hi. I'm Robert Siegel, and I sound like a damn baby."
Seriously though, I love NPR. I just hate Sandra Tsing-Loh's annoying-as-the-nine-hells radio voice. Her overenthusiastic delivery makes me want to coat my eardrums with spackle. AirTalk with Larry Mantle is where it's at. Said where it's at I said where it's at.
-Yesterday I got a random-ass call from some modeling & talent agency. I've been getting one about every other month since late last year. They're always from some new agency that needs to build a database of people- they only sometimes tell you that and try to make themselves sound better while insisting you come in for an interview. Most of the time they can't figure out where they got my name from in the first place. "We were told you have a great model look." "Oh really? By whom?" "Uh... that was what we were told. That. You have a good look. For commercials and music videos and print. Yes." And boy do I ever want to go back to some stuffy agency in the middle of the no-parking city and submit a headshot and a resume and spend however much money on fees and taking even more photos for their online database. Fuck alla THAT shit. I left that complete nonsense behind me in 2004.
-I like phones that sound like goddamned phones when they ring. Having to hear someone's favorite song violently flare up instead is terrible. Also good GOD phones are LOUD these days, you can hear that mess from fifty yards away now! I am obviously outdated and belong in a resting home for perpetually annoyed old citizens!
-I missed going to sleep on time a few days this week because I finally discovered how Kaillera works. Steve absolutely destroyed my sense of self with Ryo/Yuri/Joe/Shingo, but Rectal has been fun (when we aren't constantly desyncing or falling to 1fps). Rectal usually uses Iori/Mature/Vice or Kyo/Beni/Goro and allows me more chances to move. I was never particularly good at '98 but I'm getting that good ol' mediocrity back (Ralf/Leona/Heidern, Kim/King/USA SPORTS TEAM WHOO). Fun times: Extra Mode, Brian, dash, qcf+C.
Today: Rice, abs, haircut, optimism.
Cuz Jom did it and I bit. Post a comment with the word "survey" or "pickles" and...
1: I'll respond with something random about you.
2: I'll challenge you to try something.
3: I'll pick a colour that I associate with you.
4: I'll tell you something I like about you.
5: I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6: I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7: I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8: If I do this for you, you must post this in your journal.
edit: I see that dub totally remembered to do his |
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| I now know what Calvin's dad meant. |
[Mar. 13th, 2007|08:30 pm] |
One monumental award-winningly terrible weekend later, things aren't so bad. Friday kicked off a two and a half day streak of not being able to contact the people I needed to and/or people not calling me back. Didn't get a damn thing done and was SUPER depressed. My mind became a concrete bunker and the whole world was shitty and terrible. The worst part was trying to do/find things I wanted/needed to, even little stuff, and it all failing horribly.
Monday, some people called back. Others are being vague or haven't, but what the hey. It helped a great deal that I got my new check card and I updated all my internet-related bills in time, which was a huge relief. Things will pick up. No way you were convincing me of that on Saturday though.
I bought two pairs of Vans today :DDD Vans are awesome. I love 'em. How many times have I said that, I wonder.
The Viacom/Youtube story is interesting to me because of all the news stories I've been reading, the feedback from teens/young adults is mostly complaining about the practices of wealthy bullying corporations and rationalizing how entertainment should be freely available one way or another. There's also a predominant view that nobody is really getting hurt, but it usually sounds like ignorance or denial over copyrights and commercial property. Older adults with some exceptions generally side with Viacom because they understand the laws and the argument behind the case, even if they personally think YouTube shouldn't be punished and a compromise is best. I side with Viacom, intellectual property rights should be backed up as much as any other interest in tangible property. If a creator worked hard to get it out there, they deserve to have it available as intended. I could care less about television and I don't use YouTube very often but as an artist I'd be pissed as hell if someone chopped up Fancy Plans and put it up there.
I can't kid myself because I know for damn sure that if things stay the same it's going to eventually get put up on YouTube. Someone's going to chop the whole movie up into parts or just make a montage of all the fight scenes. If we spend a good chunk of our time hunting it down and reporting it, there's nothing stopping another account from replacing it right away, then endless cycle. I want it to be seen as it was intended to be seen- not butchered and compressed with a trail of comments by douches that can't even spell their favorite incomprehensible run-on racist epithet barrage o' the week. You put your heart and soul into something, it shouldn't get kicked around the place like a 50-cent Indonesian bootleg.
Generally speaking, it's amazing just how fucking pissy and childish people can get when they can't get something for free anymore. Nobody's entitled to SHIT for free, honestly. "I can't get it now, but I WANT it! I've wanted it forever! I DESERVE to get it! Also, my life sucks! Give me shit!" Our whole culture of instant gratification is damaging. Everyone's in a hurry and needs what they want immediately. Convenience! NOW! ARGH! TURN GREEN STUPID LIGHT I'M IMPORTANT AND HAVE TO GET TO WHERE I'M GOING! Fucking A, people should slow the fuck down and put themselves outside of their impulses once in a damn while. All that rushing and deserving this & that and whatnot will get you to the grave a whole lot faster.
Somewhat related thought: Most of the people I know were teenagers when we witnessed the birth of the world wide web. I can't imagine what a kid with the internet nowadays must think. In school you actually had to go to a library to look something up without google or wikipedia?? Insanity! 24kbps? Are you shitting me?
Man, that was a crazy time.
It's getting late. Push-ups. Pasta.
This morning I had an incredibly vivid dream. It seemed to last a few days even though I was asleep for only twenty minutes since I had gone back to bed after my first alarm went off. ( Wow hella text, man. What is up. ) |
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| Shiver with flavor |
[Feb. 28th, 2007|10:50 pm] |
-Minor update to Yeah Sure Okay. I'm really parsing these out since we've still got a ways to go. Progress though, she is unhindered like a galloping beaver with spurs.
-Work has been SPEEDING by, yet it's been a fairly slow month business-wise. At the same time the end of February pounced upon me suddenly- although it feels overall like a very slow month. I dun get.
-There are a lot of things I want to draw, but when I have spare time I'm motivated to do other things instead. Dangit.
-My Myspace has been inaccessible (unexpected error!) for two days. Weird. I don't mind though. The last person that tried to friend me was a 39-year old in Texas whose profile picture was a bad fantasy painting of a valkyrie.
-WHY DOES EL BLAZE HAVE LIKE SIX DAMN BACK KICKS HOLY SHIT
-I need to do something about getting some mashed potatoes and hellllla butter all up ins. This weekend I will make it a point to eat at IHOP for the first time in literally goddamn forever. |
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| LAUNCH PARTY Y'ALL wut wut |
[Feb. 21st, 2007|12:20 am] |
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P.S. YeahSureOkay.com, tell your friends
Also on Myspace :| |
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| They could've picked a much better Wolfmother song. |
[Dec. 30th, 2006|10:24 pm] |
I got a Crayola Color Explosion pad in my Christmas stocking (Santa still exists and shops at the same places my dad and sister do. Hmm). It's 12 sheets with a rainbow pattern underneath a black layer. The markers included use a light liquid solution that reveals the rainbow underneath, the black doesn't scratch off. It's really fun as long as you don't accidentally get it wet. Here are a bunch.
A Caricature
Jungle (Optimus) Boogie
Jungle Optimus vs Snake Eyes
Cat in the Hat on LSD
Alien on a Minibike
After five days of it, I'm seriously burned out on Guitar Hero 2 for a while. The multiplayer is VASTLY superior but I just find myself wishing the co-op worked with the songs from GH1. 64 songs in GH2 and I plain cannot TOLERATE a mess of them. About a third are just too freaking long and bland, I lose interest in the middle of playing them. Suicidal Tendencies and Lamb of God need to get the FUCK OUT OF THE GAME. Additionally, the gap between Medium and Hard is too great. At least half of the songs on Medium I KNEW could be more challenging- then getting into Hard breaks your hands on everything. The curve in GH1 was much smoother.
I was greatly disappointed by a lot of the singers this time around. Killing In The Name is particularly lame- I can only enjoy it by swearing loudly over the censored words.
Negativity aside, a lot of the bonus tracks are pretty good. The Buckethead song is a must-play every time. Blah blah Freezepop blah blah Trogdor etc etc tired of GH2 probably buy a white wireless controller eventually but dang that's too steep right now
This thing is cool: Death By Caffeine
241.37 cans of Sunkist Orange Soda + Me = Death.
Today I bought $260 in furniture... on the damn INTERNET, because I couldn't find what I wanted in the stores that were supposed to be carrying them while driving all over the city today. Rrgh. Still, can't wait to slap wood planks together with allen wrenches next week. That's always fun.
PARTY TIME TOMORROW WHOO oh new year's is never that exciting but there will be at least five hours of TEKKEN DR. YEEEE-HESSS. Glory be. |
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