HR:.

Diagnostic: Holiday Season 2007

2007-10-07T11:40:00.000-06:00

This is prompted by the fact I just saw a commercial for a christmas movie on tv.
At the beginning of October. WTF

The current trend is christmas marketting seems to be an 'expand the season' approach which is sure to cause some kind of malthusianesque business disaster or something at some point, when they start expecting people to push Black Friday up to mid september and... gasp, it doesn't work at all.
But this years current forerunner for Seasonal Lameness is:

Hollywood.
Advertising a highly seasonal movie TWO MONTHS before it is relevent, now that's brilliant. I don't even remember the name of it, all I remember is Santa, snow, elf horseshit and a lot of guys getting hit in the balls. Interest level = 0

F FOR EFFORT!

2007-09-27T10:24:00.000-06:00

http://www.omodern.com/

I don't care if you think it's ugly, its more interesting than the ugly shit-crap we made over here.
At least they have windows, and lights, and you know... patterns. Patterns that don't look like the interior of vintage coffins, or like total boring shit.

Retrofuturism Marches On

2007-09-13T13:17:00.000-06:00

Whatever happened to aluminum-and-neon postmodernism?

There are two things we need in the next 10 years, and if we don't accomplish them, then we have failed as America.
They are:

1. Get the hell back to the moon, damn it.

2. Aluminum and neon robot sex.

NSFW enforced

2007-04-12T09:31:00.000-06:00

According to this we should all be plastering little disclaimer icons all over anything we put on the interenet informing those who can't identify the obvious that something is 'civil content' or not.

That's great, next all we need is an Ayatohllah of the internet and then maybe we'll also take a hint from the PRC and start stealing people from their homes and chopping their balls off for saying "I disagree with the president".

Slippery fucking slope, Tim.

We already have a way of warning someone if something is offensive: ever heard the term NSFW?

now Andrew will probably tear this apart

2007-02-11T12:55:00.000-07:00

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48499816/

Summaries of Childrens' Books

2007-01-14T14:19:00.000-07:00

Here's something fun. Summaries of those books used to teach kids how to read in elementary school. The ones that are barely 10 pages in length with 16-point font. Looking back, their simplicity is simply astounding.

For example, the book that was either constantly checked out, or stolen from my elementary school's library:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

The english alphabet becomes animate and uses it's new found life to race to the top of some tree in correct sequence... I'll spoil the ending: THE TREE BREAKS, okay?

This next book got lost in some kid's desk for most of the year:
Round as a Pancake

Bunch of stuff happens to imply a circular shape. That's it.

I was in primary school in the early nineties, when SNES and dinosaurs were popular so we read:
Thunder

Bunch of kids hang out with some sauropod, some stuff happens. I don't remember if at the end they have a birthday party or if he DIES. Maybe both.

I should've called this video something more profound

2007-01-01T00:37:00.000-07:00

I haven't made a creative, art-purpose video since that dinky little RT93 commercial (which I was very proud of at the time) in December 2003.

(Actually: I haven't sucessfully made *any* kind of video since then until now.)

Well, I finished a music video last night, (December 30th).
It is for a song called "Put The Sugar In The House),
and it is composed of heavily edited and spliced-up flickery black-and-white public-domain footage from some newsreels on the moon-shot and revival of organisms as well as glitchy, heavily spliced up snippits from a beautiful, stunningly surreal Fritz Lang film, "Destiny".

The song consists of lyrics that my brother came up with being spoken by a speech synthesizer mixed in with some synth stuff. I'm not sure what genre it is.

So it's listed under the IDM genre on SoundClick of course!
(because when you're not sure where to put it... it's probably IDM)

I'm really excited about this, because this is not only the first video I've made in 3 years, it's also the first music video I've put together for a song that I made.
(I'm not counting that "No W" video I made in 2004, because it was all still icons and simple motion graphics, and didn't actually have any footage in it.)

December is far too normal

2006-12-06T23:32:00.000-07:00

There.

BAT - Blue, Angley, and 84 Stories

2006-12-01T17:11:00.000-07:00

Well, after searching for hours on STEX, I have come to the conclusion that if I am to actually make a downtown in SimCity4 entirely composed of blue, crystalline and angley towers, I will have to make these structures in BAT myself.

(And now my primitive and unskilled nightlighting method is revealed)

(Draft Quality Render)

(Also, draft quality render)

Up close, it seems my textures actually came out pretty okay.

Still here

2006-12-01T00:15:00.000-07:00

No, what I said in the last post this last summer didn't actually happen.
(I didn't try what I mentioned)

But I know everyone, no matter how much they claim otherwise, is secretly interested in what other people search for on google.

Well, I use google a lot, so mine is organized alphabetically. So here is a small snippet of it.

See, not as bad as you probably thought it would be.

Reverse Descartes: "I think therefore I'm not"

2006-08-06T22:21:00.000-06:00

Is it possible to think yourself out of existence?
Well, theoretically you can prove anything with argumentation, so perhaps it is.

Take a shit when you're sittin' on top o' the world

2006-07-26T19:46:00.000-06:00

You know what middle east? Go fuck yourself.
Completely. If you want to start the end of the world, you just go ahead and do that, just don't involve the rest of us. Because we don't want any of it.

Oh Shit

2006-07-22T23:20:00.000-06:00

Never, ever loan money to parents who are bad with money. Ever.
I loaned my mother $100 more now, and I just realized that this makes MY moving situation substantially tighter than before. I think I'm going to have to take it back now. Goddamn it.

Moving Soon

2006-07-14T21:20:00.000-06:00

Parents got back into town today, 2 hours early I might add... (WTF is up with that?)

I'm currently waiting for Andrew to finish whatever it is he is doing so Mike and I can get the freaking hell out of here. It is very awkward.

Had I that two hours, then I could have checked over everything and made sure things were in ideal order. And thus dissolved some of that awkwardness. SOME, not all, mind you.

I hate how my parents are after trips. They can get so strange.

16 days till apartment time.

A spoonful of awesome?

2006-06-29T16:03:00.000-06:00

Well, I just got about 25 MPG out of my typically 15 MPG car. It is old, makes noises, leaks oil and smells like sauerkraut. Normally, it uses so much gas because it has 175,000 miles on it and it was made in 1984. So as Mike would say: HAAAUUURRRAAAAYY!

I think I'm going to wait until Fabuloso chess finishes before sending Ze my super-awesome power-move (it involves flailing my arms around while spinning very fast)
Either that, or I might have Cam do his super-awesome power-move and send that in.
I just can't decide which one of us to embarass online.

Oh yeah, and the comic Diesel Sweeties finally brought up the sexy, sexy, sexy topic of dinosaur reproduction this last week.
Giggety x 3.

Remind Me

2006-06-21T21:55:00.000-06:00

This Royksopp video reminds me of why I need to increase my dose of adderall
HERE

Because I want to think like that again.

New Comics Website

2006-06-15T13:23:00.000-06:00

I decided to put my comic on one of those comic hosting services, as those have a propensity toward, you know, making it easier to update.

So now my comic is here

And I will be updating twice a week now.

How I Discovered That My Mother Was A Furry (tm)

2006-06-13T14:35:00.000-06:00

Is a terrible title for a film.

She actually isn't. She's far too removed from internet/geek culture to even know what a Furry is.

HOWEVER along the same lines: every once in a while, parents can say something that makes you stop and say "What the fuck?"... Its times like this that I think it's a good thing that we were separated from eachother when I was in my early teens...
I mean, it really wasn't that bad, I laughed for a really long time about her describing how she can't sleep at night because of the... um... 'effects' of coming off of anti-depressents. I don't blame her either, because she just doesn't have anyone else to talk to about anything but me.
SO I told her to get herself a date.

Although, I'd rather not know about this. It's like walking in on your parents having sex.
SHUDDER

Damn it.

Craziness

2006-06-08T20:05:00.000-06:00

So I just escaped the depressing realm of my mother's house only to be greeted by Patti having a massive stress-bomb freak-out. So I went to Andrew's for a while, he was in Boulder, so I hung out with his parents and then a bunch of folks I saw in concert a few weeks ago, namely Chris Barry, Zivanai Masango, and Chris' sister whose name escapes me. It was awesome.
I hate how I get all weird around cool artsy people. I get all quiet and super-reserved and I hate it.

Stupid reservedness makes me sad.

666!

2006-06-06T00:00:00.000-06:00

Everybody!

Happy 666!

Now lets go offend Christian Fundamentalists!

Sanity

2006-06-05T08:13:00.000-06:00

Despite my mother being an incredibly morbid old lady, I've managed to find a way to limit the amount of her negativity I absorb. At the moment at least.
1. I spend about 50% of the week in Broomfield. I only go up for classes.
2. I watch Bobobo-bo-bobobo on YouTube every night.
3. I plan on playing the most offensive deathmetal I can find all day tomorrow. Even though I don't really like it that much.
4. I'm making a lamp out of a broken traffic light. It will be awesome.

Okay I guess that takes care of the next week

Bzzzzzzzzz

2006-05-16T20:37:00.000-06:00

I am a broken ballast.

Deploy the Anti Hick Missiles

2006-05-04T10:45:00.000-06:00

I was driving in downtown the other day when there was this white chevy truck that pulled on to the road in front of me with a confederate freaking flag on a pole tied to the back of it. I found this absolutely infuriating, since the confederate flag is more than just an obvious symbol of racism and intolerance... It is the symbol of an entire ideology of hate, ignorance and just about everything wrong with this country.

I wanted to burn it. I have a button in my car that doesn't do anything, and I sometimes like to pretend it is a missile launcher, I pressed it furiously.

Finals

2006-05-03T11:38:00.000-06:00

Have drained my creative energies at the time being...

All I can do is make 1970's-esque graphic design stuff... I can't even draw a coherent anything...

I do have a subject for another comic, I just lack the focussing power to do it:

So Here's a link to one of the sexiest Japanese school-girl mangas EVER MADE:
HERE

And yes, it kind-of involves some theropod themes.

It Draws Near

2006-04-27T10:23:00.000-06:00

Finals, that is.
And I really don't like philosophy class. Philosophy is fine, in fact, it's interesting. But the class is less so. The professor isn't as bad as the one I had for intro last year, who basically handed out assignments that had *nothing* to do with the readings or lectures not all that unlike the one in the comic. He did this just so he could write:
"YOU ARE WRONG, YOU WEAK, FEEBLE-MINDED, SUCKBREEDING SIMPLETON. I COULD CRUSH YOU IN THE MIGHTY TALONS OF MY BRAIN, BUT I WILL SPARE YOUR INSIGNIFICANT SOULS AND NOT OVERPOWER YOUR PRECAMBRIAN GANGLIA FROM WHICH YOU HAVE SUCRETED THIS FESTERING, PUTRID RESPONSE TO MY MOST SIMPLIFIED OF ASSIGNMENTS."

There are some who probably would write that on a paper too.

Someday... # 231

2006-04-25T11:24:00.000-06:00

Someday I will create a brand of conotraceptives, specifically condoms called "Pleasurescape"

But you all didn't need to hear that.

It Actually Bothered to Rain Last Night

2006-04-24T14:43:00.000-06:00

I don't remember having allergies like this EVER before. I hate you Colorado nature, you SUCK.
On an unrelated note: I want to get/make a keyboard WITH NO CAPS LOCK KEY, because it only gets in the way so it accidDENTALLy gets PRESSed in tHE MIDDLe of WHatevER yOu'RE TYPIng... It is utterly useless.

A Bit Burnt-Out on Future Theories Now

2006-04-23T18:47:00.001-06:00

I read via Warren Ellis THIS which I found depressing. Maybe it's because I've been trying to prove to some people that peak oil is real and deserves our attention on an anime forum. It's a good thing there is a chemical engineering major (or something like that) there to back me up. I hate arguing. At the same time, I've been in a heated argument about industrial design (with the same people) which I think I may have just lost. (stupid [thing from one sci-fi series] versus [thing from other scifi series] arguments. They bring out the worst.

It's National Pot Smoking Day

2006-04-20T10:13:00.000-06:00

As well as National Bomb/Weapon Threat Day, Hitler's Birthday, Anniversary of Columbine, National Cheat at Pokemon Day and National Satanism Awareness Day.

I think it's also National High-Five Day (No idea why)

Bastille day is funner though. Totally.

And this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while:
Peace Protest Tank Cosy

Baby Shit Bomb

2006-04-18T09:28:00.000-06:00

I think somebody attempted an act of olfactorial terrorism in the student center here and detonated a stink bomb. I'm leaving now.

One Year

2006-04-16T11:12:00.000-06:00

since I switched to blogger.

Mega Points to Anyone who gets this

2006-04-12T13:41:00.000-06:00

I know Derek will fully understand this:

(It makes sense if you've ever seen (or heard) the Japanese opening to Dragonball Z)

iNecessita Ajo!

2006-04-07T16:46:00.000-06:00

I feel ill, must be Broomfield poisoning.

Ha HA. I am using das INTARWEBEN

2006-04-05T20:31:00.000-06:00

The domain name: xanathan-gum is now mine.

I will begin my assault on the internet shortly.

The Internet Am N33T

2006-03-31T10:08:00.000-07:00

Recently of course.

In the last 48 hours:
1. Mike has made a brilliant and comicly pertinent modification to a Mac Hall comic. Awesome
2. I'm going to drop my math class, because of a really, really stupid-dumb mistake.
MANY BAD!
3. I'm starting to think I just got swindled something fierce on an order I placed last week.
4. I will be making that ZELDA+COMMUNISM=??? shirt AS SOON AS I find my iron-on media
5. I assure you: Andrew and Collette: I will have plenty of my own hangers to break, so you won't have to worry about any kind of massive hanger genocide
6. Overcompensating features a comic with Gynostryker (The natural enemy of sexism thursdays, I suppose). The name, I swear, sounds like something completely different. Seriously, change one letter, and it's the name of a (probably quite very attractive) theropod zoid.

I'm going down to Broomfield today to deliver something to parents, then I'm coming right back up on Saturday morning.

Are you ready for the drop shadow (?)

2006-03-29T20:23:00.000-07:00

"Will anyone ever really be ready?"

...
"Not enough babies; mine more babies"
For your baby-powered base.

D00d im in ur base, FEEDING UR CATS!!!1one

O.O

[to be incorporated into something intelligible at a later date by myself]

I DON'T KNOW

2006-03-29T20:04:00.001-07:00

The world needs:
PLUSH BESERK FURY!!!

I will make it.
(and re-learn how to sew JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE)

<.<
>.>
\ _ /

Awwwww... K

Broomfield

2006-03-26T21:39:00.000-07:00

Is going down.

Added to my list of things to do if and when I become a SUPER VILLAIN:

-DESTROY Broomfield completely:
-test doomsday device ON BROOMFIELD
-unleash horde of encephalophagic zombies ON BROOMFIELD
-calibrate and test destroyosaurus rex ON BROOMFIELD
-not enough kittens; mine more kittens IN BROOMFIELD!

Mike is right: the world DOES need more super heroes and super villains.
AND LESS Broomfield.

Because it's True

2006-03-24T09:39:00.000-07:00

As long as you can avoid stumbling across the GAY TENTACLE FURRY PORN, 4chan's /b/ can have some very funny stuff.

SP plus 5 to FIRE MAGE

2006-03-22T08:17:00.000-07:00

I still haven't bought staples yet.

BUT
I did make a really swell abstract painting yesterday, which has got to be the most I've accomplished on anything since two weeks ago.
Besides that, I've managed to not get anything done on anything else worthwhile.

I'm now in a point in Legacy in which I must find, kill and then re-construct one of my favorite lust objects at least twice over. When the battle is successful, it says in the textbox: "Hooray win yes" in poorly translated engrish, when my character is really crying inside with every single theropod-like enemy he must kill in randomized overworld battles. His only consolation is to discreetly make love with his own theropod-like instrument of destruction after every battle.

Zenebas Would Be Proud

2006-03-21T09:16:00.000-07:00

And then he'd probably throw me into the Deadborder Pit.

My shopping list includes:
- Staples
- A class book I've been needing to get since a month ago
- Stickers
- Mini-clamps
- Paints
- A Pteras (finally)

and an ISO50 poster.

Spring Break: Ruined

2006-03-15T16:17:00.000-07:00

It wasn't check fraud after all, it was my college not remembering that with addresses, EVERY SINGLE letter counts, even the 'B' after the apartment number which tells them which freaking box to put it in.
I also blame the post office here in Fort Collins, for taking an unusual amount of time in getting that single check to me.(on which the whole of my spring break plans relied upon the timely delivery of).
The annihilation of my spring break far excedes my capacity for forgiveness.
All my spring break may belong to them, but we'll see to whom some (if not all) their bases belong...
I'm in the process of filing a complaint.

I'll be sure to add both places to my:
"Things/places to destroy once I build my giant, mechanical Destroyosaurus Rex" list.

I Must be Going Crazy

2006-03-15T10:33:00.000-07:00

Because:

Self-Proliforating Dishwares + (Interstate 35 from Austin to Denton, Texas + Colorado's Front Range) * (random pieces of poorly translated GBA emulator game) - Continuity + Elliptical text-based dialogue (rpg style) * One of Matt's enormous rental cars = The dream I had last night.

Andrew said: "..." Like a million freaking times and everyone had only four expressions: Happy, Neutral, 'OMG!' and 'OH NOES!'

I blame the financial aid office for *destroying* my spring break and I will never forgive them for it.

Is it possible to die from boredom?

2006-03-13T13:07:00.000-07:00

I actually think it may be.
It's called atrophy of the brain.
... BRAAAAAIIN!!!!!

Speaking of brains:

Thanks to Warren Ellis the "how to **** a dolphin" website is the FIRST search result on Google when one types the phrase: "how to make sex with" as of 1:24 pm today.

I blame the weather.

Makes The Day Worthwhile

2006-03-09T10:54:00.000-07:00

There is a direct correlation between the average temperature, clearness of the sky, snow accumulation and my mood. As temperature drops, I want to move less. As snow accumulation increases, I don't want to go outside. As the overcast becomes more dense, the more I sleep. I hate winter, we've been pumping crap into our air for hundreds of years and *this* is supposed to be global warming?

This is the only thing I've seen today that makes it worthwhile.

I Have No Faith in DRM

2006-03-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

Aside from the whole fair-use and trust arguments:
As it is being implemented right now, the whole point of Digital Rights Management is lost in a tangled logical mess of legal pit-falls and industry-crushing bylaws. As it is right now, DRM serves only one purpose: To make the legal industry unreasonably wealthy at the expense of another legitimate, economy-driving industries that which a lot of people have stock and stake in.
This is not fair.

Thus far, DRM's implementation has been completely absurd. Sony's DRM is packed with mal-ware, and therefore: a dangerous and inferior product. Now Intel is saying "if you use our DRM, and it gets cracked, you have to pay our lawyers 8 million dollars"...
There's a selling point... Buy our product so you CAN BE LIABLE to pay a lot of money....

Companies that do this are supposed to go out of business, WHO THE HELL actually purchases these products?! HOW IS THIS SELLING AT ALL?

Are the record company's executives COMPLETELY INSANE?!

If DRM (as it is now) does manage to stop piracy, it will manage to make the electronics devices of the future *completely inoperable* and probably make the electronics industry (which employs millions of people, through manufacturing, R&D, marketting and retail) suffer tremendously in lost revenue. What a way to kick an economy in the balls...

Crazy Crush Fetishists

2006-03-07T09:52:00.000-07:00

Via Warren Ellis

About a woman in China who allegedly crushes little kittens' heads beneath her stilletto heels, possibly for erotic purposes. The Chinese seem to be quite a bit disgusted by this.

Seriously, whatever happened to imagination? Is it not possible to visualize this act in one's head rather than harming the actual animal to get off?
She says at the end: "It's about the experience, you wouldn't understand"...

I hate(d) my apartment management

2006-03-07T09:20:00.000-07:00

[EDIT]
I spoke with the manager between classes, and apparently, the threatening notice is just to get the owner of the vehicle into the office. It's an attention-grabbing mechanism.
Apparently, my car won't be towed... I just have to move it to the other side of the lot... Doesn't make much sense does it? Well it does: it's kind-of complex...

Fort Collins has a law that says that anybody who has a vehicle with expired (even freshly expired) plates on their property will have to pay a fine if the vehicle is not removed in a certain amount of time. Regardless of who actually owns the vehicle.
The plates on my car did expire a few days ago: I was going to take it down south this weekend to do emissions and renewal. Apparently, this weekend is not soon enough for the all-pervasive police force up here in Soviet Fort Collinstan. They sent a warning letter to my apartement's managment that basically said:

Commrade Landlordsky,
We are concerned as to your compliance with the gloriously infallable laws we have set forth to keep questionable motor-carriges from tainting our beautiful homogenized community. The police have been watching your parking lot for some time, and our Frivolous Compliance Unit has noticed that the vehicle with the license plate ***-*** has just expired. This is an outrage, and I am personally offended by your lack of ability to brutally force your tennants into compliance. Even though the vehicle is obviously of low value, you ought to have it towed away and held for a ransom of four times the vehicle's blue-book value. This is merely a Recommendation (the Recommendation Enforcement Squad will be by in two weeks to determine if your response to this was satisfactory)

Signed, the Commisserat of Orderly Conduct (The Fort Collinstan Polizei)

That's not the letter they sent, of course.

Anyway, so now I have to park on the other side of the lot, and try to back the rear licence plate into a bush or something, since the FoCo police obviously have nothing better to do than threaten students with tight budgets and without the wherewithall to just up and drive down to Broomfield and register their car on a freaking whim.
Are there just not enough people smoking joints and stealing traffic-cones or something? Obviously, the Police in FoCo get far more budget than necessary to keep Fort Collins safe. To the point that I'm actually more scared of the police than of crime...

"Oh no! It's the police! We can't run or defend ourselves if they try to take our money or else they'll throw you in their car and take you away! ...Or if happen to be a minority: They might beat you the hell up!"

[Original Post:]

As they are attempting to conspire with a towing company to steal my shitacular car.
This morning I found a tow-notice on my vehicle saying "This Vehicle is Unlicenced or Inoperable: Please Tow it away within 24 hours". High winds blew it off the windshield by the time I got down to see what it was. But there was another one on a different car as well.

I swear, if they tow my car, I will sue the managment *AND* the towing company not for illegal towing (because it is technically legal to tow anyone at anytime for any reason no matter how subjective or frivolous) BUT RATHER: I will press charges for theft and try to get at least someone's license revoked or slapped with a heavy fine. If they have to break into my car to move it, I will sue them for invasion of property with the intent to steal, and vandalism.

No sympathy for greedy opportunists. NONE AT ALL.

The Power of 5 +1 has Fallen Into The Wrong Hands

2006-03-03T09:26:00.000-07:00

Well, I finally replaced those filthy-rusted disposable razors I bought way back in December of 2004 (and used all the way up until now) with that crazy example of hygenic-overkill: The five-bladed market-engineered Gillette Fusion. The commercial for it is stupid, the entire marketting behind it is stupid. I was sold exclusively, by the fact that it has more blades than the unsanitary implement of shavery that I was using prior. I saw it in the store and decided right there, "I want to glide five tiny razors across my acne-pitted and shave-deprived face!"
Maybe it was also the level of indirect sex appeal. I couldn't help but associate the name "Fusion" with the *obvious* sexual connotation as well as the obscure referrence to the fourth season of Zoids. That's two sexual referrences for me.

mmm... Blue, Orange, Chrome and pointy. Like shaving my face with a Gairyuki...

I Am Not a Cultural Reletivist

2006-03-02T10:10:00.000-07:00

Because I am a militant secular humanist and I think this (among countless other things) is dumb:
Saudi Arabia bans BoingBoing
Because Allah-forbid people from reading something remotely intelligent that isn't spoon-fed to them by a government which beleives that permanently disfiguring and mutilating the human body is proper punishment for petty theives.

Please, someone. Can we hurry up and *not* have to depend on this crazy nation for oil *SOON*?

--_-----+--====_-=---

2006-03-01T23:36:00.000-07:00

What's funny is how not difficult it was to find this.

Don't Stick That in There!

2006-03-01T22:19:00.000-07:00

Things I have Entered in the Search box on Warren Ellis' site:

-Nuclear-Powered Wanking Machine
-Floaty Disembodied Vagina S3x
-Tit Party
-"That's 9000 volts... RIGHT IN THE TESTICLES!"
-Rectal Drill
-Psychotic Back-Door Pulse Fu[king
-Zomborgy
-Military Fetish
-Man-Douche
-Oozing Smashed Testicles (From Derek)
-Palm-humping

Don't google these phrases. As I'm sure many of them actually *exist*.

An empty apartment.

2006-02-27T16:36:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm finally out of the Aggie Village apartment.
I'm sitting here at the table and the apartment is very empty. It is very cinematic.

Don't Click this Link!

2006-02-26T20:55:00.000-07:00

Seriously

I told you not to click it!

Now your feeble normal brains will suffer.

Laptop Stare Phenomena

2006-02-23T15:45:00.000-07:00

Is what happens when you have either something brightly colored on your screen, an unusual windows skin, or an unusual interface (like for FL) and people walking behind you stop, sometimes for minutes at a time, and stare at your computer.

Now, I already get looks for having the "Your Entire Family is made of Meat!" sticker as is...

Just in case

2006-02-19T19:41:00.000-07:00

In the unlikely event that nature is a sentient, anthropomorphic being capable of reading blogs, then I need to inform it of something:

1. When I receive my utility heating bill this month, I will expect a payment from you to cover the increase in cost as a result of your arctic bitch-fit this past week.
2. You owe me about $10 in gas expended to warm up my car.

I will accept verifyable check or cash. If payment is not received than I will appeal to God to revoke your winter weather privliges (permanently).
You will be responsible for all divine legal costs.

Have a nice f***ing day, nature. I know I haven't \_/

Lava lamp peace sign

2006-02-17T15:08:00.000-07:00

My lava lamp made this after the wax cooled.
Oddly fitting, for a lava lamp isn't it?

Grandiose Opulance

2006-02-14T19:17:00.000-07:00

Boing Boing had a post about the world's most expensive dessert, a sundae with the most expensive variations of everything you might normally find in a sundae, plus a bunch of more expensive food items, PLUS expensive non-food items that are edible, like 23Kt edible gold leaf.

I didn't even know you could EAT gold.

... a large part of me kinda hopes eating gold causes cancer.
Eating gold seems to be one of the most intentionally wasteful things one can ever do. I mean, this is something that is worth money. Money that could be invested, money that can feed a family of four for a month (this is gold, after all), money that could continue to circulate through the economy as it should. And somebody came up with the idea of *eating* it? basically inevitably disposing of it along with bodily waste?
(I know gold leaf is very thin and not much in the way of quantity of gold, but still: Really, it is pretty dumb)

It's things like this that always push me back over to the far left.

OFMG OGMFYU!

2006-02-11T18:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=pianotunerofearthquakes

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes comes out in theatres FEBRUARY 17th. I'll be lucky to find a theatre in Colorado that will be playing it.

You're Going Down, Oh Mr. Bus driver sir!

2006-02-02T12:57:00.000-07:00

Route 7, the one I take to class everyday was late today
Very, very late.
It's a good thing I have a car now, because I would have been late for the math test I spent HOURS studying for. That would have been unpleasent.

I'm not pointing any fingers, but Mr. Transfort Driver sir, I am looking in your direction...

I gotta get back into film

2006-01-30T08:53:00.000-07:00

Because stuff like this is so cool:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/sf_short_film_alien_.html

Independant short film is where all the cool new ideas are at.

Music Yay

2006-01-28T20:52:00.000-07:00

Well, I went ahead and finally submitted some of my music to Warren Ellis.
Maybe my stuff will show up on the Apparat Programme. Probably not :p

Here's what to look for:
Dypole (RaveMix) and
Spacedrive

Yeah, they're both old, but I think my older stuff is better than a lot of my newer stuff. It's more authentic and less presety and sampley.
I should get back into doing space music.

BTW, the songs can be streamed here:
http://www.soundclick.com/drkrn
if you don't know already.

Resolved

2006-01-25T18:08:00.000-07:00

Well, that's done now. The whole problem is resolved and we're happy yay.
We're starting the moving this weekend, and it will be interesting no doubt.
Our new apartment is sweet and has huge windows that let it tons of light. I am satisfied.
I feel like I'm in high school again, Yippie!

I freaking hate drama like what was going on last week.

Moving Out

2006-01-21T11:33:00.000-07:00

My mother is the most anxious person in the world.
She allows it to resonate in her until she is unreasonable.

Perhaps I am introducing an awkward situation, but it would have been easier to inform her of my decision to move out had I not been quite so terrified of the way she would react to it.

I feel terrible about it, but I simply have no other choice.

---=----++

2006-01-19T15:21:00.000-07:00

NSFW kinda
The guy on the right is saying: "Is it a bit nippley in here?"

make chests wih face!

People Suck

2006-01-19T14:13:00.001-07:00

They do, especially the ones that spend days trying to get into your pants.
Only to find out that you're not actually wearing any!

...
bet that brought up distrubing mental images.

Globule of observational Wisdom #1

2006-01-16T12:17:00.000-07:00

Warren Ellis on electro music underground

I see I'm not the only one who didn't find Cloudead to be all that new of an idea.

The Year in Review

2006-01-03T01:06:00.000-07:00

The most notable thing about 2005, I think was the music. Or more accurately: the paradigm shift in music which had become inevitably obvious in this last year.
What kind of shift you ask? Let me just start off with this: If there is a state of mortality and removal from relevance greater than death, than MTV acheived it this last year.
2005 is the begining of something which should have happened a while ago: The implosion of mainstream music industry. Finally, it is starting to become apparent that the Repetoire morons in the big five are choosing artist which are having difficulty competing with the richly diverse and innovative indie garage bands which have become a repetoire onto themselves:
In 2005, for the first time that it was probably ever noticable to anyone, obscure labels like DFA and their strange new bands like LCD Soundsystem were pushing into the top 10 charts. Dethroning some uninspired duplicitous R&B moaner, Pretentiously beligerent (and melodiphobic) 'rap artist' or White Trash Neo-nazi pop-luddite 'country pop star' (or just 'pop star').
What is this saying? Well it means that people are tired of hearing the meaningless drivel of the rich, overpaid and elitist. There is a lot of real good music being made by real people, who are really talented, and it's starting to be noticed, despite the placebos and smokescreens a unprepared industry is putting up. In other words, I doubt there will be a single A&R (Artists and Repetoire) agent not having to beg or explain themselves at impending discharge from employment from the music execs smashing their heads into tables at the news that the only CD's left on overstock that won't even sell for 80% off are all from what was supposed to be last years' golden boy of rap, 50-cent.
"We gave him a movie deal!", they might say. Chances are instead of realizing that they totally suck at finding decent icons now-a-days, they'll probably just continue to blame sufferring CD sales on P2P (which is basically dead now), and ITunes not charging enough. Then waste a bunch more money on an artist that sounds just like everyone else, and that nobody with any amount of taste for that genre will really see anything worthwhile in. Therefore: not buying the CD. (and probably not downloading it either)

Maybe 2006 the big five will fire the morons who think that such short-selling crap can be sold only if even more money is thrown away on it through publicity which actually detracts from it's 'street cred' and therefore: longevity.

I think it will.
I say: "Who needs 'em?" anyway.

Predictions for 2006:

-Another Hurricane year, probably.
-MTV VMA awards will be full of awesome motion graphics... and nothing else worth broadcasting. Just more rich sluts and shit. Maybe a mention of something interesting, but merely just a product of the industry adopting a good repetoire (Like Franz Ferdinand)
-Hollywood movies will start to show the dismal profits of last year. They will cut something from the budgets that seems to already have been missing:
Hint: Not the actors, not the effects, not the catering and glamour...
Probably the directors and writers.
-Chevrolet will introduce yet another V6 SUV-car that gets less than 25 MPG, it will sell like muffins made of AIDS, Cancer and Polio putting the company into further debt.
-There will be at least one more song on Warren Ellis' Apparat Programme podcast having to do with necrophilia.
-Someone I've met online will probably engage in Intercontinental Necrobeastiality, then try to tell me all about it against much resistence.
-Someone appointed by Bush to a 'nothing' position will do something incredibly stupid/callous/moronic/selfish and then be publicly congratulated for a "job well done" just before political pressure forces the administration to dismiss the individual from his/her post.
-More people will die in Iraq from the exact same things they have been dying from ever since the war started.
-Broomfield will continue to suck
-I will find lust objects sexier than:
The Dinosaur Machines in Zoids
Dragons in movies
-Something will break on my car.
-My mom will ding/scrape/catashtophically collide with another car using my car. This will be difficult to explain to my parents.
-My mom will continue freaking out about money.
-I will gain 10 pounds and curse my parents for ever moving to Broomfield in the first place... then continue to make a connection between the two.
-At my next service job, I will appear to be humping a counter although I am actually dancing to some music that is playing either on a stereo at the place, or on the stereo of my mind.
-I will have met someone (either online or in meatspace) who actually *does* masteurbate in their own feces while crying.

Pleasnt aren't they... ...the predictions.

I look like a republican again

2005-12-30T12:19:00.000-07:00

Well, I do.
(Picture Eventually)

I was looking at my site and thought "Wow, I need to make this site look better. It is the buggiest CSS ever", and then I saw my header image and thought, "Holy shit, that red GenoBreaker never gets any less sexy... giggity"
So I'm probably going to update the CSS on here soon. Expect less brown, and more of a WarrenEllis style thing.

On a completely unrelated note:
I wonder if it legal to mail soiled undergarments...

(added to the list of things to do if I ever get diplomatic immunity)

Holy Hell!

2005-12-23T21:11:00.000-07:00

Well, I just got back from the hospital with my mom. She tripped on an uneven sidewalk and did a full-on face-plant, knocking out a tooth and loosening 2 others. She was able to recover the tooth and brought it home.
I was spacing out playing some game on the computer that would seem totally frivolous in a few minutes when my mother came in with her blood-stained hat at her mouth, in an attempt to stem the tide of blood seeming to gush from her mouth.
She was able to talk, and she immediately told me what had happened. I wasn't sure who to call yet, so I asked her if she had the tooth, remembering that for some reason (for some reason, couldn't exactly figure out why in the fog of the moment) one is supposed to put their tooth in something if it comes out. She had it, and so I put it in a cup of water to rinse it, then a cup of Milk (Not soymilk, but rather Goat's Milk) which I had read online is the substance you put ejected teeth in. So I had the tooth in the cup, but I couldn't figure out if this was a 911 emergency or just a "let's drive to the hospital" emergency. So she decided to call the police and let them decide. Good Call.
She told them everything and within 45 seconds of the initiation of the call, the Campus Police were at our door. They came in, asked what happened, then called some EMTs. Soon there was a fire truck (yes, a whole fire truck) in the parking lot and EMTs at our door. They took a look at her and then offered to give her (for just $500) an ambulance ride to the hospital.
She declined. I said that I could drive her there. So that's what we did.
The doctor put the tooth back in and sent in a financial counsulor, since my mother had only Veterans' insurance (which sucks beyond reason, and refuses to cover dental work). She signed her up for CICP (a state-run income-based medicare-like program to stem the problem of uninsured, low-income people not being able to pay $10,000 for an appendectomy and thus causing a whole chain of misery for both the hospital and the patient. By far, mostly for the patient) In the event that the VA (Veterans' Affairs) decides to not pay the bill, so that there won't be a problem. That all got straightened out, and I drove her home. Tomorrow morning, I will asess wether or not she is fit to drive up to Cheyenne (the nearest VA hospital). If she is, then I will be arriving in Broomfield tomorrow afternoon. If she is not, then I will be driving her up to Cheyenne, and I will be coming back down sometime next week.

First Post on new Laptop!

2005-12-21T20:03:00.000-07:00

Yay

DHS

2005-12-20T14:37:00.000-07:00

Terror threat level: DIRT-MUNCHING SUPER X-TREME!

MIA is awesome

2005-12-15T09:40:00.000-07:00

extremely so. It's like heavily electronic post-hip-hop.
And substantially less abstract than Cloudead.
Her site is kinda cool too

PayPal is teh fux0rs

2005-12-13T23:50:00.000-07:00

That's right. Paypal doesn't seem to care enough about it's business and consumer customers to actually bother reporting crippling outages especially during the holiday season. When merchants make most of their money.
I've been waiting 8 hours for their goddamn system to come back online so I can actually pay for something I won a bid for on Ebay (I have 24 hours to do so.) Most internet systems are only down for a matter of hours, but Paypal is quickly dropping in it's (from what I've read) already dismally unimpressive up-time. I hope they lose millions of dollars over this, because they aren't just frustrating me, but also causing thousands of merchants to lose valuable income.

Therefore:
PayPal, as a corporation, is an enemy to capitalism and the economy.
With these acts of "economic terrorism" by way of incompetance.
Fuck them.

Le K Mart

2005-12-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

I was dropping off photos at K-Mart when I came across this sexy fucker:

I was all like: Holy sweet Jesus tea! It's like somebody in the toy industry knows or something. So I'm going to go back in there and buy that incredibly generic, yet awesome and very arousing thing. Totally.

Awesome Unicycle

2005-12-10T13:45:00.000-07:00

I'm going to make one of these someday:

May Your Tacos be Made of Chair

2005-12-09T13:48:00.000-07:00

The title is completely irrelevant to anything, ignore it.

I wonder if it is legal to shove used toilet paper into an envelope and mail it.
Or what about used tissues? q-tips? What about used tampons?
Don't try it, as it may be interpreted as a biological weapon, and that would be very bad.

Filed that one away along with 'Mayonaise-filled car very-slowly crashes through Wal-Mart' in my "Things to do if I ever have diplomatic immunity" file.

New Apparat Programme today, can't wait to hear it.
and
Japanese battle-pencils. What will they come up with next?

Too Much

2005-11-24T14:19:00.000-07:00

Thanksgiving Prophesy:
Paris Hilton will die when she runs her H2 into an oncoming train in an attempt to get to her country pop concert while fucking 50 cent in the back (and not watching the road, or rail-road in this case)

And then explodes, destroying as much corporate property as physically possible.

I hate the TV.
It will surely undo everything ever accomplished by any social movement ever, rendering the population of America brain-slaves of not-so genius elite morons, whose entire programming base consists of such mathmatically mainstremaized material that it has nothing to do with anything anyone should ever care about as it features people just like them in completely irrelevant and didacticly uninteresting scenarios and oppressively uninspired music.

Oh wait, we're already there.

Maybe this is why so many people like older American pop-culture things right now. Because what's currently here SUCKS ASS.

Completely Unrelated:

Festive Thanksgiving Picture

Appetizing? Go try eat desicated pultry now, you tryptophan junkies!

Mystery Timer

2005-11-23T07:32:00.000-07:00

My parents in broomfield have this tendency to set timers, loud beepity ones to random times, and then forget what they are for. Much to my irritated confusion.
They did it again this morning, however, this time when I turned it off, I yelled "MYSTERY TIMER!" then set it for exactly 2 hours, 15 minutes and 34 seconds.

Deconstructionist Thanksgiving

2005-11-21T13:13:00.000-07:00

Because it is good to change things up once in a while.

Misfortune cookies

I was told by the misfortune cookie that:
You regard free speech
not as a right
but as a never-ending obligation

Warren Ellis' Podcast

2005-11-19T13:04:00.000-07:00

is freaking awesome.

Politics Time!

2005-11-09T17:38:00.000-07:00

Ok. Now we're finally starting to see that there is, in fact, still a fan for the tremendous amount of shit thats been devloping over the past 5 years to hit. And it has been a long-time coming.

First, oil execs had to go in front of congress and explain their little "record-setting profits and record-high oil prices" racket. Maybe they'll even be accused of the economic terrorism they have wrought upon this country in the wake of their "manufactured" oil shortage.

Oh, and also, about Iraq:
Chalibi = Complete blithering moron

What kind of president listens to some complete blithering moron who claims that removing Saddam will automaticly make oil cheap, so much that it pays for the war and everyone HAPPY, and a reduction in terrorism. All of which has been so very dead wrong it's *criminal*.

Why don't we just impeach Bush already? I mean, really. By now it should be as painfully obvious to anyone who even sees a shred of American news that this administration is *as* much of an obliviously corrupt and completely inaffectual one as us liberals have claimed.

I can't believe that they've never heard of edible pants

2005-11-02T21:39:00.000-07:00

I got the coolest bar of soap ever.
And I feel sick. Not like "omigod, i'm going to throw up" sick. and not "omigod my lungs are a throbbing fleshy lump of endless coughing and fluid pain" sick either.

I have a book review due in 7 days, I've just started the book. and I've been extremely productive in everything else for the last 5 days. I've even posted 3 buildings in a row, one every day since October 31st. I've gone through an entire case of Mtn Dew in 4 days.
I feel sick, but I think it's because I'm not used to "good", productive stress. The kind-of stressed I'm used to is "bad", world-wants-to-eat-my-soul-and-rape-me-in-the-face stressed.

I think I might just explode.

Halloween

2005-11-01T14:13:00.000-07:00

is overrated.

I didn't even dress up. But I did stay up until 5:00 in the morning.
You know what else is overrated? Cyber-sex.

No, that's not what I was doing until 5 in the morning. Get your minds out of the gutters you pervs.
I drank a lot of Mountain Dew and felt somewhat artisticly prolific.
I am going to love the obligatory drawing classes I hope I get next semester.

Yes

2005-10-30T15:49:00.000-07:00

I just read the hottest thing last night. I mean, it was really freaking hot.
Hotter than the sun, sort of hot.

I won't tell you what it is, but I will tell you it didn't involve breasts (or any other part of the human anatomy), it did involve heaping mountains of coal, leaking oil and email.

Bad Tamales

2005-10-27T17:04:00.000-06:00

I ate some bad tamales last weekend, and they made me really sick earlier this week.
Like, food poisoning kind-of sick.

bleh, why does this happen RIGHT AS A PHILOSOPHY PAPER IS DUE.

Yeah I haven't updated in a while

2005-10-17T14:48:00.000-06:00

I'm working in the kitchen at Ingersoll now as a "Kitchen Bitch". Which basically means I do whatever anybody tells me to do. It is exactly as I imagined it too.

I tried cutting my hair earlier this afternoon, the fact that my hair was now getting in my ears and looking dirtily long was bothering me. Unforetunately, I'm terrible at cutting my own hair because I can't see the back of my head, where the hair was in most need of trimming.

It ended badly, I tried to save it, but there was just no way to make it look normal.
So now I wear hats. I wear them forwards though, because if I turn them around, my ears look as big (but not as pointy) as Link's.
I feel like a slave to the cap.

I have to say, having hair this fuxored is downright unpleasent.

The George W. Bush Presidential Library

2005-10-02T16:28:00.000-06:00

Will most certainly not be in the deconstructivist style. Good lord, no. That would be just a bit too "academic" or "Insitutionalisticated" to represent the reign of Bush II.

I think the W presidential library must be built in nothing other than hard-core postmodernist, Greco-Romantic classical pastiche revival. And there is no other architect more qualified to do this job than Robert Venturi.

I am not kidding, I really, (really) hope he gets the bid, because it is just simply too poetic.

First, let's take a look at other presidential libraries:

The Harry S. Truman library

The William J. Clinton Library

The JFK Library

Now, generally these buildings are pretty tasteful and have a built to a good standard of elegance. But likewise, presidents typically practice a standard of eloquence when they address the nation they are in charge of. Therefore, the Bush II library should be representative of this connection.
Therefore, there is not a single architect on Earth that is more qualified for the job than Robert Venturi.

This is an artist's rendering from Venturi Scott Brown & Associates (VSBA) of what the future George W. Bush presidential library will look like:

Clearly, this structure will supposedly "grace" whatever stoic community it is built in with the light-hearted, yet inevitably vapid aesthetic. Such features as the ultra-prominent "postmodern clock" may force the observer to question the societal definition of "what is time..." The less prominent grand enterence, the quizzical "Door with Shutters" will cause the observer to engage in a fruitless elliptical inner dialogue: "What is a door... ...is anything real... ...and what of the Earth... ...in my pants... ...my pet dog, Fido died... ...once again, in my pants..."
Elliptical dialogue, is the philosophical engine of the Postmodern Movement. Asking questions which lead nowhere until finally you must accept that something, somewhere has to be true for anything to work.
Trully, the G.W. Bush presidential library will be a very postmodern experience for all (the very rich)

Is it too early for catharsis?

2005-09-29T16:25:00.000-06:00

Some very serious shit has gone down.

All I can do now is just try as hard as I possibly can to stay in school, that's all that matters now.
Pretty much everything else is gone, and I'm not talking about abstract things. These are very concrete problems.

There is a certain relief, but not a good releif that comes from knowing the impending doom is certain. Catharsis has a tendency to cause anger to be supressed, as it is the only way to keep it from interfering too much with everything else. I've lost almost everything I've purchased with summer work money in high school because of Art Institute, Now they are taking me to court for 3 times the amount. Hopefully, all they will do is garnish my wages until the amount is paid. From what I understand, that is all they can do.
I suppose I will be paying a "Looser Tax" for a while. I won't even begin to mention what this does to my already dismal (but was repairable) credit.

Hopefully now I can stop worrying about this and start focusing on a more pressing matter: paying for school.

That is why I'm not able to come to the theatre tomorrow for Andrew's thing. That is why I've become so randomly bitter as of late.
I'm sorry but things are just too much right now.

Your MOM is into Bright Green development

2005-09-26T14:47:00.000-06:00

Well, mine is anyway. And I had no idea either.

My mother wants to put a greenhouse in the storage shed space in front of our apartment. Problem is, it doesn't get much sun. I came up with the solution of using mirrors located on the border of our garden space (which does get sun year-round) and then suddenly it hit me.
This is a green house in an urban environment. On a small scale, this is like totally urban farming (on a very small scale). You know, the whole creating a growing enivironment in a high density residential location (like Aggie Village).
Indeed, She seems pretty set on doing this too. I just have to make sure she doesn't end up buying a $3000 pre-fab green-house and spending all of our eating/living/rent money.

It has a posse

2005-09-23T15:59:00.000-06:00

Andrew sent me this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/23/seattle_monorail_has.html

Clearly, this proves that everyone, and everything does in fact, have a posse.

So with that in mind:

indeed.

MAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT!

2005-09-22T13:39:00.000-06:00

eee!

Yarr

2005-09-19T13:09:00.000-06:00

Avast ye mateys! T'day be Talk Like a Pirate Day.
'Tis also the holiest day ye Pastafarians. Ay.

So eat spaghetti-a-plenty or else ye can go walk a plank! Ay!

That was pleasant

2005-09-14T13:35:00.000-06:00

Last night I saw an awesome movie with Andrew at Durell. It was called "Crash", it's about L.A. and Racism.

Indeed.

I have uploaded another song, this one actually has substantial bass (as far as I can tell). More so than the last three. So indeed.
It's got a German title because a lot of Industrial songs have them, but I can't pronounce German very well, so all the lyrics are in English (and have nothing to do with the title):
"Dein Gott ist die Vororte" (which translates to 'Your God is the Suburbs')
availible here

Have an Ever-Vigilant Freedom Day!

2005-09-11T12:42:00.000-06:00

I hope you all are having as Vigilant of a Freedom Day as I am having.
My Freedom Day has been so freaking vigilant, it's insane.
In fact, it's been downright offensive.

Not to belittle the actual event, BTW. Mostly to belittle the US response and the approval-blitz made by Bush shortly after the event.

And the mergen

2005-09-09T10:32:00.000-06:00

So things and stuff.

AND THE YAY!

I'm going down to Broomfield this Sunday to pick up my posters and stuff and see Cam and eat eggrolls and steal food and PET CATS!

that is because Sunday is Cat Day (not really, everyone knows that is April 3rd.) or something like it. And then I'll have something descent to put on my ceiling.

Remember: Talk like a pirate day is September 19th!

AND my mom doesn't get the "applied theology" joke from the Mac Hall I printed up and stuck on my door BECAUSE SHE CAN'T READ TEXT THAT SMALL!

and how!

MATT UPDATE:
Matt called me to say that he was on his way down to NOLA earlier this week, which means he is down there RIGHT NOW.

Printer eeee! and Apartment

2005-09-07T15:39:00.000-06:00

Apparently my printer is not out of ink.
So now I can cover every square inch of my door with internet comics and every square inch of my ceiling with photos of Oscar Neimeyer buildings and Soviet architecture.

Oh, and now I can cheaply print up all of the movie posters I would normally buy if I actually had a positive income.

My mother's taste in decoration is...
uneducated at best. I fear that she will hang up a bunch of stocky mass-produced pictures of generic, uninspired scenery. Not good scenery, but the kind of dull scenery that causes me to get motion sickness by psychological association. I think there is quite enough earthtone in that apartment anyway (considering two walls have wood panelling, and another has brick.)

I'm now in an unspoken race with her to put something descent in the space above where the couch will go.
I've told her (countless times) that I would purchase a nice, very colorful tapestry as soon as I had the money. Foretuneately, she doesn't have much money right now either so nothing has happened yet. I never would have imagined that our differing tastes would have come into conflict like this.

Just to give you an idea of how different our tastes are:
If I had the money, I would shop for furnature at IKEA.
She would shop for furnature at Cabellas.

Now, while music has, for the most part, not been much of an issue yet, All of the conflict around it has been during the evening hours.
Specifically when it comes to one particular genre: Industrial.
I don't know what my mom has against industrial, but she seems to absolutely loathe it.
I discovered this when she would not leave me alone while I was listening to Remission (The weekly industrial show on 1190).
She kept freaking out about "That's too loud. I can hear it in the kitchen", so I turn down the bass.
Then she'd say "I can still hear it. The people here have families and will complain", so I turn OFF the bass.
Then she'd say "It's after quiet hours, so you shouldn't be doing this. What are we going to do about this? You can't play music this late."

By the way, we have not yet receieved a noise complaint, nor do any of our neighbors have kids. In fact, the nieghbors diagonal to us are probably louder on average.

So nothing is perfect, and I knew that to begin with.

I think she's just getting down from the whole Murphy thing, Right now, she seems to think that laundry on the floor for more than 2 hours is a health hazard, Cabella's catalogue stock paintings are art and that the neighbors have their ears glued to the walls.

The Dismal Failure of the Right

2005-09-02T15:50:00.000-06:00

That's right.
If there is anything that is proof of the simple, outright ineffectiveness of this administration's policy of under-funding the interior and spending our resources on totally useless crusades in the middle east, it is New Orleans.
According to DailyKOS, just 20 million dollars would have been enough to raise the levies enough that they could have significantly reduced the impact of the flooding in New Orleans.
There really isn't any scapegoat for the administration to put this on, everyone knows that it was funding at the federal level that just wasn't there when they needed it to protect the city.

What good is "fighting terrorism" abroad if we can't even maintain our infrastructure at home?

There just isn't any way around it: The government is less effective when guided by a philosophy that neglects internal issues, such as the Bush administration has.
There are a lot of things that need fixing in this country, and New Orleans and other civil engineering-preventative maintainence projects are just two of them.
We need to actually get a handle on our economy again, and that means kicking Big Oil in the balls until it builds new refineries and actually takes the initiative to repair the old ones. It doesn't get to just let them dry-rot and bump up prices arbitrarily. When gas is expensive, that makes everything expensive, and business suffers.
We need to get our money into education again for obvoius reasons.
We need to get the hell out of Iraq.
We need to address the trade defeceit, not excuse it away.
We need to manage corporate welfare with more attention payed towards economic impact:
IE: Companies that contribute positively to their local economies are eligible, companies that export or depreciate local economies are automatically disqualified and are not eleigible to recieve tax-payer money. It just makes sense.

It would also help if our president didn't look so stoned out all the time, and could actually address the nation without sounding quite so oblivious.

TV News May be Stupid

2005-09-01T11:12:00.000-06:00

It really is.
Just like Andrew elaborated earlier.

The TV news really doesn't have a lot of information to report. They make it seem like they do by repeating the same things over and over with different reporters at different sections of "cosmetically altered" wreckage (Fox news is particularly bad about this sometimes)
CNN has done a terrible job of conveying the enormity of 80% of a major US city becoming uninhabitable. At least, until this morning. Yesterday they sort-of forgot the minor detail that those busses carrying people out of the city were specifically intended to carry people from the hotels to other locations. Which still leaves thousands of people stuck. Aside from that, they just recently started covering the whole riot/looting thing.

Only as of this morning did CNN even start to explain the dismal situation for the lower-income residents, who are said to make up the vast majority of casualities. And as things progress, are predicted to make up the remainder of casualities as a result of the squallorous condition of the city.

Anyway, I think I probably have some disconnected family down there, but my mother only knows of people in Texas. She doesn't know of any direct relatives that live in Louisianna

Another New Song

2005-08-31T11:49:00.000-06:00

NOTICE:
I just got a call from Matt, it looks like he's going to be down south, as his unit has been deployed for the relief efforts.

Just when I thought I had exhausted my ideas for August, I manage to put another song together.

This one has the breathy lyrics and the new artificial guitar.
availible for stream here
(Titled: "The Investment Was Me")

Oh, and I have a job now doing network stuff for the University.
Huzzah!

And now that I have teh f4st0rz internets:

:D Now I'm getting the second and third Seasons!
(Never released to the US)

eeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!