| Tife and Limes: ON THE GREEN! |
[May. 9th, 2008|10:30 pm] |
-Today and yesterday I worked on some show called Scrubs. It's in a hospital and is a comedy or something. Apparently it is somewhat popular and a few of my friends might be familiar with it.
Seriously, I know of the show but haven't really watched it. I saw most of one episode at Gene's house where the black guy ate too much ice cream or steak or something. The only person I recognized was this old white guy who once played an angry Earth Alliance Captain when John Sheridan was trying to liberate Proxima 3 (/nerd). Anyway I think it'll be funny if in a year or so somebody messages that they saw me loitering around a Coffee Bucks in a blue shirt. I wasn't in that many shots, 80% of my time was leveling up my second character in Puzzle Quest. $16.25 an hour! I can't stop remarking about how ridiculous that is! Did I mention it's ridiculous? WELL IT IS!
-My birthday present to myself finally arrived. When I got wind of these in February and discovered their release date was on my birthday, my dumb ass got excited and preordered them on Amazon instead of at my local Gamestop. So I had to wait a week for shipping. *bonks own noggin*
The selection in SNK Classics is great. There are some noteworthy absences like Crossed Swords, Super Spy, NAM 1975, Ninja Commandos, etc. but hopefully there will be a Volume 2. I've actually been playing Neo Turf Masters the most. I played the holy hell out of the Neo Geo Pocket version (which I gushed about frequently during my NGPC frenzy of '05). The portable version is the same game only with SD characters. The arcade game is unfortunately missing the distance graph next to the map which was a substantial help AND the game is a bit harder overall but that's fine by me.
Unfortunately SNK Classics has this wack goals/medals system to unlocking bonus content. This and the Capcom Classics should've just had the extras available from the start. Some of these games are just simply NOT FUN enough to grind through on hard or insane difficulties. You even have to unlock World Heroes, which not being a difficult task (get 10 medals) was also completely unnecessary. Still, well worth the $15 for anyone who grew up with the 4-slot Neo cabs in their arcades.
Fatal Fury Battle Archives 2 is EXCELLENT. Real Bout Special and Real Bout 2 definitely deserve a bigger following, awesome characters and animation and presentation and and and. Their default button layouts are the only weird thing about it because they're all different (why??) but it doesn't matter since you can change them. Extras are a training mode and color edit. Also glad I can now map A+B, B+C, A+C, and A+B+C to the shoulder buttons for those bleedin' SDMs. GO TO HEABEN~! I hate Chonshu/rei.
-I finally caved and bought enough GI Joe 25th Anniversary Comic Packs to get the mail-in Doc. I bought 2 of the Crimson Guard/Scarface sets and kept those for my collection. I don't need the pilots because I'm not getting any planes (as cool as Wild Weasel looks), Tomax and Xamot are gay, Torch and Ripper were always idiots in my book, nobody needs a blue Destro, and Breaker's cool for having his gum but I still don't need him. That bunch will go straight to auction.
As I wrote before in my big-ass Joe list entry, Doc was my very first Joe. I wouldn't be doing the mail-in if he didn't have that significance. I rescued him off the floor of my pre-school when I was 4, and now I have to rescue him again! I must Rescue Doc! Damn you Hasbro! Also word is he's a pretty dope exclusive in his own right. Having to wait 6-8 weeks makes me feel young again. Remember Super Trooper? 8-10 weeks.
Man. I keep gushing about Joes and I'm going to have to make a new tag. |
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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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| 2007: The Retrospective Year-In-Review (and a very retro New Year's PLUS bonus unrelated shit) |
[Jan. 1st, 2008|11:55 pm] |
Best Accomplishments of 2007:
-Finished shooting my FIRST FEATURE FILM GASP AUGH HOLY EFF
-Survived many an organizational crisis regarding the above
-Rediscovered interest in dance (tap specifically, plans to branch out later on)
-Maintained my damn chest, exercised even more effectively than in '06
-Holding down a job for a year and a half, an unprecedented personal feat
Music of the Year:
Ozomatli: Live at the Fillmore, Jurassic 5: Quality Control, Galactic: Ruckus
Books of the Year:
Yotsuba&! Vols. 1-5
Games of the Year:
Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection, Call of Duty 4, Virtua Fighter 5, Resistance: Fall of Man, Puzzle Quest, Contra 4
Movies of the Year:
Children of Men (late), The Royal Tenenbaums (SO late), Shaun of the Dead (sense a trend here), Hot Fuzz, Transformers (not a WORD, Oni)
2007 was the year of HARD ASS WORK. The hardest working year I have EVER had. And SELF-MOTIVATED at that! Amazing! Productivity milestones raining like hail. I took last year's FIRST REAL FEELING OF DRIVE to CONQUER AND SUCCEED and followed through on it like Daniel Craig charging through drywall in a chase scene. The biggest fanciest planniest of them all is still 90% done, and it is definitely going to set the tone for 2008 once it hits like the faggy art film that it was ALWAYS MEANT TO BE. TAKING OFF EVEN MORE! HOO-AH (pelvic thrust)
( New Year's getting of togethers, gay eateries on Sunset, former High Schoolers who have barely put on weight, plus some flippy shit I did a few days ago... what fun! ) |
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| American Idol and periodic glorifications of violence and hella procreating y'all |
[Apr. 25th, 2007|06:16 pm] |
Strangest thing.
I stopped at the Vallarta after work to buy some pasta and soda, and while I'm throwing it in the car I see this bright-eyed Japanese girl rapidly shuffling toward me. There are no Japanese people around here so I found it odd. She looked about eighteen, had an insane swath of freckles plastered horizontally aross her face, and was wearing a green cap that was too big and made her look five. In carefully enunciated English with a very heavy Japanese accent she asked if I wanted to make a contribution to a Christian suffuringu chiluduren fundo and presented me with a tri-lingual flyer and ID card of herself (Kumiko). I didn't quite know what to do initially, the girl was beaming with such high-on-Christ optimism that it was burning my face. I figured her scorching halo was worth some change so I gave her three bucks.
I told her I used to go to church- on the words "used to" her face turned down and she asked "What happened to you?" with the most sympathetic eyes as if I was a lost soul who had wrenched himself from God's omnipresent love and was steadily wavering into Satan's clutches on my chrome-rimmed sinner's rollerskates. I went on a somewhat lengthy speech about how the world was too large and culturally complex for any one religion to be unilaterally correct, blah blah most religions share good moral values but the scriptures/literature are differently interpreted given each individual's upbringing/atmosphere/bias/priorities blah blah most people's thoughts concerning religious application are confined to what issues affect them directly and don't consider global views blah blah I don't think God can be defined by mankind and nobody will have definitive proof while they're alive anyway etc. She seemed to understand where I was going and agreed with me on the contradictions that become apparent through varying interpretations. Afterward I said good luck with a hearty slap on the shoulder and she was back to being God's cheerleader and blanketed me with a few dozen Thank-You-And-God-Bless-Yous as I tried to get back into the car. She merrily went on her way with an older Japanese woman down the street.
That youthful optimism, boy. I remember that stuff. She didn't try to push or confront me on anything. The worst kind of religious person tries so hard to be right that they become blind and contradict the fundamental values that make up their dang religion. Making exceptions for violence, especially. Them primeval instincts sure are something.
I should've saved that picture of rival Buddhist monks in Cambodia beating each other up over disputed territory. Makes me wish I was there holding a sign that says "HELLO! 227 RULES OF DISCIPLINE! NIBBANA! REMEMBER?! HOLY CRAP!" (only in Khmer, however that translates)
edit: ( Adding Chris's High School meme because I can't not do it ) |
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| Post-Thanks shenanicas lka fas hsf gkl |
[Nov. 28th, 2006|07:20 pm] |
I gave my personal site a new frontpage with a picture I took at Thanksgiving. A footnote at the bottom was necessary.
Friday afternoon my sister and I met up with Tony because he wanted to take some pictures. Even though I KNEW he'd make me do something with goddamned FOOD (SERIOUSLY THOUGH MAN WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE FOOD AND NEON COLORS IN EVERYTHING) I went along with it for the sake of art or whatever.
( Photography, Nintendo DS'n, superfied nerdery, collage dismantling ) |
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| Tife and Limes: "I can't get nur! *da da daaa daa da da* -can't get nur!" |
[Feb. 5th, 2006|09:08 pm] |
I've had a most productive day but the internet is MAD distracting so I'm gonna scrawl this real quick and be off.
Last couple of days it's been either a perfect spring or summer day. Eighty degrees ALL WEEK in the forecast. It's even 70 degrees right now at 9 p.m. Some winter. Summer's gonna fry us all.
The Fonz sent me some pics of the Hercules Library frame currently under construction. Talk about FINALLY. Good Jesus we've had a mound of dirt next to city hall with a sign saying "Hercules Library Coming Soon" for like a dozen years. Sucks for the kids in the gulag down Refugio that it's not any closer.
Bill sent me a Shirow calendar (which has some choice images I wanted larger versions of from Intron Depot 2, glee!) and Aragami and 2LDK. I'd seen Aragami before and wasn't impressed at all, but I didn't know then that it was part of the Duel Project - a wager between Kitamura and Tsutsumi to shoot a duel to the death film in 7 days. It was much better the second time when I kept that in mind. 2LDK was SHOCKINGLY brutal. It was an impressive effort especially when watching the documentary, one lead actress got a 102 degree fever one day and gave it to the OTHER lead the next day and they were sick as shit but carried on like professionals. In-SANE. That's the Japanese work ethic for you. I now have a substantial crush on Maho Nonami, she's kinda like Chisato Morishita and Gillian Chung slapped together and rocking that hot Japanese lip pout thing. Y HALO THAR MA'AM :3
Malandro sent a bunch of pictures from Brazil. He's been down there training close to a year now and he's so cut it looks like someone airbrushed his muscles on. Mestre says his Capoeira is rock solid. If I played him now he'd probably Arrastão or Tesoura me to the floor before I have time to blink.
Born to do it, this guy.
It's been a great movie week. Throwdown was an excellent movie and I watched it like thrice in a day. Highly motivating with hilarious characters (triads in particular). My favorite Johnnie To film to date. You gotta pay attention to it though, I almost missed a key point near the end because I looked away during an important line. It also has a great interview with To in the special features.
Andrew and I both hit this post-motivational slump at about the same time and that's what I'm working on right now to reverse. I wrote out some BOMB SHIT today and I am going to have PAGES done by tomorrow, dammit. ANDREW! WRITE, DAMN YOU! ROCK ON RAGS AND TRESSES!
I foolishly spent too much money on a BBQ Chicken Sandwich at Carl's Jr. the other day but DAMN if it wasn't delicious as hell. I swear they use different lettuce for that and the $1 chicken sandwiches, it was all crispy and tasty as opposed to having a consistency not unlike thick mucus. I remember when a combo with large fries used to cost like $4.50 and now it's like... EIGHT. The hell.
Apparently today was some big footyball game. I had to save these quotes about the halftime show for posterity:
Falconer: ...I'm pretty sure he doesn't know half of the lyrics to the song anymore. It just seems like he mumbles something not unlike gibberish two or three times per sentence. I swear, during the chorus it was something like "...and I *mbasgfh*, and I *adkfjbcv*, and I *pzqwjdn*... I can't get nur! I can't get nur!" |
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| TWO DOLLA! YOU BUY IT! |
[Jan. 26th, 2006|04:12 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | daily, food, school | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  bready | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Azumanga Daioh - Episode 22 | ] |
I'm getting rid of stuff and trying to raise some funds. Lots of cheap DVDs and books and games and stuff on eBay. YOU BUY IT! Three dozen auctions, ends in 5 days. Took me like two and a half hours to do all that listing.
I'm on the tail end of this blasted cold. I feel pretty good other than that I still have to cough up lung salsa every half hour or so and my head is a bit fuzzy. When I get sick I'm a pretty useless dude. I just want to get better as quick as possible so I stay asleep most of the time and eat like mad. The past week sure flew by faster since it was mostly a haze. I'm kinda pissed because I missed out on some work opportunities while I was sick, but there's not much I can do about that now. OH well. Less backward, more forward! Hup three and such!
Over my downtime I wrote a lot of emails and got back in contact with a few people I haven't talked to in forever, most notably some folks from high school. Left Ken Yee and Ryan Ko some notes, compared Sabrina to a benevolent space laser, got a message back from Bill Tam (who actually really wasn't around when Matt and I went by his house so I could give him a Jushin Liger t-shirt), and hollered at a few other folks. So at least there was a bit of a silver lining over the past couple days.
Today it was actually pretty bleeding nice outside and I was feeling well enough so I went on a healthy jaunt and bought a ton of groceries. My head's pinging a bit so I'm probably gonna knock out right after I finish this entry.
TOTALLY worth the walk. Damn. I tell you.
Man I just had a crazy idea. I've still got a full bottle of sesame oil, I'm gonna try lightly frying some pitas in it and see how that turns out. Or maybe I could get some roast beef action going on and figure out a marinade.
Mm. There's just something totally comforting about a giant stack of bread. Love it.
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That stack of pitas looks like a Like-Like. MY SHIELD! NUUUUUUUUUUU |
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| It was the best of times, it was the... BLURST of times?! |
[Dec. 19th, 2005|09:33 pm] |
The Virtua Fighter review broke 6,000 views. Pretty neat. The Senior Editor at Insert Credit invited me to join the staff a few days ago too. I threw the VF review together in a few hours on a whim and this happens. Ho ho ho! EyeToy: Kinetic is definitely the next thing I'm going to write about, gotta buy it after Christmas. It's been a good winter.
Can you believe Christmas is in less than six days? Weird. I haven't felt excited about Christmas itself in eons. I just like going home for a while, being with the family and sitting by the fire.
Mom and I on Sunday.
Spent the weekend with best-mom-in-the-world in North Hollywood. Lots of epic Scrabble and good eats. Ciabatta is the best bread in the world, and I'd probably choke to death on it under the right circumstances. Found out my sarcastic Uncle Leon is quite skilled at Literati but pretty terrible at Yahoo Graffiti ("It's DIGNITY!").
At one point she busted out some pastels and a pad, so I drew a picture of an alligator drinking coffee (with a cardinal listening to an iPod and a pug jogging outside):
I have no idea why, I just had a vision of an alligator wearing a fedora and a dress shirt. That picture in the corner is supposed to be dogs playing poker.
( And now for an EPIC High School meme that Chris did a few days ago. ) |
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| Friend-Filled Freakday |
[Dec. 13th, 2005|08:46 pm] |
Monday Liana rolled on over from the O.C. with her homegirl Anne to my pad, then we rode down to Brian's in Santa Monica. Surprisingly I haven't seen Liana and Brian since December 2004. With that coincidence, Liana and I decided this would be an annual event at the very least.
We had Ethiopian food (in Little Ethiopia), first time for me. You order several kinds of meats and vegetables and they serve it all on one giant plate over a big piece of spongy pancake bread. You get a basket of this bread and tear off corners to pick up food. You can also roll up the bread layer underneath the food and eat it like that. It was very tasty and I'm glad I tried it, but it's really pricey (like 12 bucks for a mound of chicken). Not something you can eat often but it was a great experience.
Liana and our plate, Brian and I having an intellectual debate.
Afterward we hit the Arsenal which was a nice place to chill and we talked about matters of titillating scandal for a few hours. Just like old times. (No topics which are appropriate to reproduce here.)
Today ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) paranoiddroid finally came down from Palmdale. DYLE and pd met up at my place at around noon and we spent the day eating pizza and playing Tekken 5 (with a little Street Fighter on the end). MAN. HTL REP-RE-SENT. It was like a mini-convention of HATERS from HATERSVILLE. We would rag on until we were in fucking TEARS dude. Too many great moments to list. (HAGGAR THREW THE ELEPHANT!!! WHY DID HE DO THAT?!) (OH SHIT GET OUT THE WAY, IT'S SPIDER-MAN) HAAA hahahahahaha.
DYLE stuck to Nina and Bryan with some Anna (to keep himself honest) plus some Hwoarang. PD was the Yoshimitsu, Bruce, and Heihachi show. He wasn't bad either, he had some really good shit going despite not having a PS2. I finally got my King to a VERY annoying level and otherwise used a little Feng and Wang plus my unstoppable Eddy. We had a lot of VERY close matches, like the heart-pounding expletive-hurling white-knuckled kind. We stuck to that one game for like six hours. Quality competition.
Prototype of the album cover.
(Feat. DYLE's freestyling record debut: "Blanka's stage got some phat beats")
Too fun & funny a day, one for the record books. Oh yeah we had a tournament and I murdered everybody with Eddy. Rather DYLE abstained from playing me any longer after I beasted him twice in the finals. Heh heh heh. HATEFUL!
DYLE (Anna/Hwoarang/Nina) vs PD (Bruce/Heihachi/Heihachi)
DYLE (Anna/Bryan/Nina) vs Esco (Feng/Law/Eddy)
PD (Bruce/Bruce/Bruce) vs DYLE (Nina/Bryan/Bryan)
Final: Esco (Eddy/Eddy) vs DYLE (Nina/Nina) |
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| Weekend Part 2: It was the best of times. |
[Nov. 15th, 2005|11:58 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | school, videogames | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  optimistic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Prince Live at the Aladdin - Strollin' | ] |
It's my dad's birthday. He's one of those guys who doesn't really need anything other than more time to be awesome, so I got him some jazz to play in the midst of whatever awesome thing he's doing.
The Fonz swung by Friday and we partied like the old times, binging on games, soda, crackers & salami & monterey jack. Yes, we did go outside a couple times- I showed him the neighborhood Friday afternoon and we stopped by the Green Ginger for an hour, Saturday we hit the Game Dude and Norm's. The other 80% of the time was pure down-home game marathoning (we knew our priorities).
Cardfighter's Clash in the morning, in the evening, while eating ghetto ramen w/ chicken
Games played: Puyo Pop (epic), Cardfighter's Clash (more epic), Puzzle Link 2, Final Fight, Mercs, Forgotten Worlds, Killzone, Ore-No Ryouri, Jet Moto, Literati, Transformers Armada, Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, and Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. WHY ARE THERE ONLY SO MANY HOURS IN A DAY T_T
Having a Cube ol' time.
Alas, like the greatest of times, it was over before we knew it and the Fonz was on his way. But not before we failed miserably at Jet Moto, defeated Tidal Wave, won our 3rd Capcom World coins, and escaped the Death Star II before it blew up (twice). Come Thanksgiving, IT'S ON AGAIN. *adds Geese and Wild Iori to deck*
P.S. Just to add to my own cryptic notes, I made a call today and it looks like things might just get a LOT more interesting next year. As always, any number of things could go wrong at any time, but HERE'S HOPING. |
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| Tife and Limes: Red Leader, this is Gold Leader. Seung Gwa Chei Faat! |
[Nov. 9th, 2005|06:35 pm] |
I went nuts with that Gaia av maker and expanded the initial seven into twenty-one. See the last entry. I'm burned out on it now, but I really like how Christie turned out.
I had forgotten how great Blood Sugar Sex Magik is. I haven't played it in a long time because my copy is ancient and scratched to hell- but my dvd player was able to go through the whole disc without skipping. This album is one of the iconic high school albums (like Mellon Collie, Dookie, and Odelay) that bring back all sorts of good times. I love how The Greeting Song goes right into My Lovely Man as if a continuous track. Give It Away and Suck My Kiss are timeless jams (the latter being associated with many HOT HOT summer moments).
This week:
-The Fonz is potentially coming down this weekend to party like it's 1998 :D
-DYLE's in Northridge all week and may swing by for a routine ass-whupping in T5 :)
-Super-secret awesome shirts are coming in Friday, you fellows in the know will see a glorious picture on this LJ when they arrive. :]
-My friend from Japan is supposedly in town this week but he hasn't called so he might be too busy to visit before he leaves again :(
-FedEx is SLOW. Stupid sodding slow-ass FedEx *kicks FedEx in its slow-ass teeth* >:(
I dug up several versions of Fu Hok Seung Ying (see previous), two from the late 70's (Lam Chun Fai/Chiu Chi Ling) and some instructional VCD versions from a few years ago. I had read someplace that there was a modern standardized Wushu version that was adapted closer to Northern Changquan and therefore contradicted the traditional version's principles, although it was made unpopular by the introduction of the standardized Nanquan form in the late 80's. The modern version of the form I have is different in composition in many places and a strong Wushu influence is very apparent. The original version is 108 movements, the modern is considerably less and when performed at approximately the same pace can be 30-40 seconds shorter. Some moves are blended together to such a degree that individual blocks or parries are omitted completely. I noted different stance shifts about four times, tiger claw grabs became strikes or blocks, tiger palms became fists, fists were upward instead of sideways, isometric extensions were all in a Wushu style elbow-up/down way, one whole section was turned BACKWARDS, leopard strikes became rounded strikes instead of straight. Watching the traditional versions next to a modern depiction, the fundamentals are there but at times can seem like a different form altogether.
I recall when I was doing Shaolin training, our Si Heng would periodically note differences in what we were practicing with alternate versions at certain points. Some abbreviated sections I remember specifically, for instance in the older versions there's a section of eleven cross-stepping tiger claws that is shortened to five straight linear tiger claws. Perhaps they were shortened for the sake of popularizing the form or making it more accessible. I'm studying the traditional 108-move version which I prefer and is closer to what I remember. I have to wonder how many variations of famous forms are floating around- it's very easy to change an application or omit a movement, like translating a book and losing/altering context. Funny how that works.
I tried to find my old school online. They had a bare-bones website one or two years ago, but it appears to be completely gone. All mentions of my school are the outdated address in Pinole which they moved out of in '98 or '99 and relocated to Hercules or Rodeo. Or maybe they aren't even there anymore. If I go back up for Thanksgiving I'm going to see if they're still around. |
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| Sky was all purple there were people running everywhere |
[Nov. 3rd, 2005|06:00 am] |
My best friend The Fonz and I have this thing where we DON'T buy each other stuff. Works like this:
Me: "For saving me from certain destruction, I did NOT buy you all three volumes of Farscape Season One: Starburst Edition."
Fonz: "I see. I will not be expecting any packages in the mail then."
A few days later...
Fonz: "I got the package that you didn't send. Thanks. I mean, darn."
The Fonz certainly HAS saved me from certain destruction (twice this year) and I felt I had inadequately thanked him. I decided to not buy him something. I asked what his current handheld was, and to my great surprise he hasn't owned one since the ORIGINAL Game Brick. I was shocked, nay, shocked AND appalled. This guy's a packrat with die-cast robots and 16-bit consoles coming out of his ears, and he didn't even have a GBA.
So I didn't buy him the Neo Geo Pocket pictured below.
Bias? What bias? I decided to not include Sonic Pocket (The Fonz had all Sonics, and I just suck at it) & Cardfighter's Clash Capcom to build a deck against my SNK-heavies. I got lucky with the strap at the bottom of the picture, those are very hard to find and I managed to snag an orange one and a blue one from a guy on the N-G.com boards. I wanted a black one, but I had to take what I could find.
The Fonz and I can usually only get together every Christmas. For those hallowed meetings we get buckets of junk food and Sprite, and have our annual Jet Moto falling-off-Nightmare competition (a 9-year tradition stemming from buying this game on a whim during Senior Cut Day) & Ore-No Ryouri cook-off plus a few additional games. This year it'll be Killzone and Cardfighter's Clash. edit- Holy God I found a review of the cooking game. I only have the demo so we're restricted to making soup and beer. Look at all the stuff we've missed out on!! The Fonz found an ISO of the full game but couldn't get it to work. ;_;
In other NGPC-related news, I'd like to welcome nanohana into the Party Like It's 1999 society. HAY RANI (raises roof or some such)
I picked up an uber-cheap link cable and a Nyko Worm Light. The light is better than the picture shows, it works quite well in pitch darkness. It has it's own rechargable battery attached that snaps into the NGPC's battery case and came with an AC Adaptor for the NGPC. There are two other lights, a Light Magnifier and MadCow Sun Light. From what I've heard about the others, the Worm Light is the best of the bunch.
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| Tagged by Crhale |
[Oct. 16th, 2005|06:36 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | internet, school | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | ROCK! | ] |
| [ | music |
| | AC/DC - High Voltage (Live) | ] |
Chris's entry what tagged my ass. Look around you, choose five things nearby, list them and comment on them: what is it, how it ended up nearby, and why you need it.
Choose five people who have enough crazy junk in their homes to do the same thing in their journals, and write their names below. (pics optional, yet encouraged)
mshapiro, tiramisue, lianne_lin, wetsprocket, williameva and whoever else wants to do it :D
( I'm a sucker for picture-related memes, even though you guys know how I LOATHE taking pictures of stuff. ) |
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| Tife and Limes: Jiggy Frogman Cheeseburger Adderley |
[Sep. 25th, 2005|09:56 pm] |
My legs and hips (particularly my flexors: the psoas and iliacus) have been feeling like raw hamburger the past two days so I guess I overdid the workout a little. I like doing standing kips a lot (from a standing position, jumping backward onto your hands and folding your body on the ground, then springing back up to your feet- aka Law's d+3+4, otherwise called a frogman) because it's a full-body exercise that requires a lot of coordination. I try to do them with as little prep (arm-swing/leg bend) as possible and try to land standing up, not crouching. Even doing it repeatedly, I can freak out a bit from time to time and just land in a headstand.
I bought a Sourdough Bacon Cheeseburger yesterday. The bread is far superior to the Sourdough Jack but overall it wasn't worth what I paid and was quite underwhelming. I've been steering away from fast food for the past few months. When you're poor the value menu can be an excellent way to get dinner for $3, but I've become much less interested for some reason. I'm also trying to cut down on soda (HA HA right) and see how long I last. Man, every time I go to the Vallarta and see three 12-packs of orange soda for $10, IT'S SO HARD TO RESIST
As irrelevant as it was, I miss Crystal Pepsi. I say this at least twice a year. That glistening crap was DELICIOUS. One of the few good points of the middle school years.
meetjamesensor and I had a conversation a few days ago about jazz after he read my entry about Bebel Gilberto. He's big on Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, João Gilberto, Stan Getz, John Coltrane. THIS MAKES BOING TEN TIMES COOLER THAN THE REST OF YOU UNCULTURED HEATHENS despite his entries embellishing his own gas. I still think he should change his nick to Cognoscenti. Eh? EHH?
I was late in the game to Winamp TV (like Blitz) and now I'm watching streams pretty regularly. I need a good news/Star Trek/Daily Show/Conan stream if anyone can hook me up. The majority of streams I find are full, but I've been able to watch Daria almost all the time I access it. I enjoyed Daria in high school but didn't watch it that regularly. I've seen almost the whole run now and I love it, it really got more interesting as it went on DARIA'S GOT A BOYFRIEND WHAT. It's expertly cynical and smartly written with the exception of the musical episode which was TERRIBLE. Jane Lane (hey look Emma Peel) is the kind of sharp & witty artist girl I go for- not like I've run into any single ones EVER ;_;
Hot Aunt Amy. I may have found my personal equivalent to Rad McAwesome's Thriftie
Hot adult Daria from Write Where It Hurts, who isn't much different from Amy (intelligent & classy brunettes what)
Besides being entertaining, the music really brings me back. White Zombie's Thunder Kiss '65, Garbage, Wyclef, Rammstein, Lauryn Hill, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fatboy Slim, Beastie Boys, all the good shit that was hot in high school.
I can't believe people used to say 'jiggy'. JIGGY. What a stupid goddamn word. That's a slap-in-the-mouth offense these days. I also hate it when people compulsively use "you know" when they're talking, since most of the time they're droning on about shit you can't relate to at ALL:
"Yeah you know I mean if I had gotten her pregnant you know then I you know would've missed the bus to the methadone clinic you know"
"NO, I DON'T KNOW! JESUS ON A MAUVE POGO-STICK CHRIST, SHUT UP!"
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shower need like whoa
still needs a hug
