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Work work
2004-01-12 22:57:51
I tried sitting down recently and working out the kinks of my first and only AMV thus far. It's far from my original ideas and intent, which is frustrating. There comes a part though where I just need to put it off, and maybe come back at a much later time. I really, really thought it was an interesting idea and certain scenes looked good in my amateur eyes. It really is not good enough for release though. It'd be different if it were on my own bandwith, but it wouldn't be. I don't have my own bandwith available, so I'd have to put it on the carrot. I know it's supposed to be some sort of AMV utopia, but if I don't think it is good enough to put up there for free, I just feel uncomfortable doing so.
Well, this brings me to my next project. I'm taking winter classes right now, and getting drunk every night at the house with my friends has already run its course. It is way too cold to venture to a party or a bar, plus there is like a third of the kids here. No parties to go to anyway. So since I'm indoors at my computer enough, I'd like to start on my next video.
I tried to accomplish too much on the last video. Probably not too much in the eyes of many of the other editors out there, but I'm just not ready for a project like that yet. I want to try a much simplier premise, but the more I flesh out my current idea, I'm starting to feel that isn't the case. Anyway, I don't want to to give away too many of the artistic ideas behind , but it's shaping up to be Spirited Away to My Bloody Valentine's "Sometimes." It's really a beautiful song, and one of my favorites of all time, I seriously have my doubts I can do it justice, but I'm gonna try anyway. The challenge is really the most fun of it. I really would like to put something together I'd be happy to send to a con. I don't care if people like it or not, I kind of just want to see something I worked on in a room on a nice big screen. I have no bullshit feelings that this is a work of art in the making or anything, but after seeing so many videos at cons over the past few years, I'd like to see one of my own there as well.
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OOHHHH GODDD super long neko con report
2002-11-12 11:04:17
nekocon...did we even go?
I think we spent a grand total of about 11 minutes at the con itself.
Friday night Nick Corbo (Stealthvisions) picked my ass up and we hit the road. This is the second time in about 2 months I've been in the car for a road trip of sorts with Nick, and it's really something that is a lot of fun. I've actually known him for only about a year, but it feels like I've known him longer, probably because one of my best friends from home went to school with Nick and always talked about him. Our road trips never feel as long as they actually are. Time always flys admist the ciggarettes, rocking out, and the general bullshit that we joke about.
We made it to Hsien's in about an hour since Nick drives like a wild beast. I still stand by my statement that 150 mph in the shoulder is the only way to go. :P
We threw our shit into Hsien's car, and nick, hsien, and jeremy (super sapien) took off to go pick up Andy at his job. This was the first time I met jeremy, and I must say he is one cool cat. After we got Andy's ass, and it is a sexy one at that, we picked up some wendy's and started the drive to Nekocon.
The drive definetly felt like high school. Ashing ciggs out the window, blasting Guns N' Roses, and just generally fucking around. It was so much fucking fun. I personally hate driving because I get so bored, but if I'm not behind the wheel, I love long road trips. I really am starting to feel like these car rides to con's are becoming the best part. The trip down had too many funny situations to write. As we got really close, around some creepy town called witchduck, I threw on a mix cd that created some of the funniest moments of the night. Singing along to the megaman 2 song by the mini-bosses was hysterical. Just a bunch of dorks crammed into a car doo-dooing along. Then of course they ripped apart the Murder City Devil's song. :( That sucked delux. Give that song a shot you bitches! It's really freaking good.
We finally get to the hotel at 11:35. We were supposed to be there at 11:30 but freaking Corbo screwed up the directions :) As soon as we get there we run into Nate. This was the first time I met Nate too, and like Jeremy, I thought he was a really awesome kid. Very funny dude who smokes like a chimney. Since that's all I really look for in people, we got along really well.
So now the 6 of us got settled in and immediatly started to drink. Hsien threw in a copy of Punch Drunk Love, and I really liked what I saw...but I couldn't really see anything. The video was too grainy to really appreciate it. But from what I got from the parts I saw, I know I'm going to love this movie.
We made some punch, drank alot and then walked past a bunch of thug-life kids to the con. I think we we're in the dance for like 5 minutes total, but we had fan girl's all over our pieces. They were definetly into our little dance moves. After that we kinda just wandered aimlessly, got considerably more trashed, and played a lot of GTA.
Saturday afternoon was a disaster. After a ton of waiting, we ate some Denny's and it did a horrible number on me and nate. Poor bathroom, no one will ever be able to go in there again. That whole day was basically me feeling sick from the "Fabulous French Toast" At least I got to play a little more GTA.
Saturday night was basically the same as Friday with just a tad more drama. Got really messed up, snuck into the dance and then fucked up the dance. We single handly ruined the rave circle and spoiled the nights for the shirtless dudes and glow stick mongers. Yeah sorry about that. After that we met the infamous "revolution man" or "crazy shiny faced guy" There was definetly something wrong with this dude. He was just blabbering incoherently, and mumbling revolution under his breath while walking around with a case of beer. Kid told us to check out a party in room 426, where we found out they had "90$ worth of alcohol, and they didn't want to get busted." Since we each had more than that on our person, we didn't even check it out.
We then went up to meet Brad DeMoss at party that had a lot of old dudes with cheap booze. While Brad was really cool, these guys were major elitist dick pigs toward us. All of the voice actors that were at the party were really cool, and really friendly towards us, especially this one chick Monica who Nate knew from AWA. But the staff, and whoever else those other cats were just acted like tools. They only wanted people they knew there, and wanted 20 bucks from each of us. Super lame. Not friendly at all. Someone said they thought they were all industry dudes. I heard they weren't but even if they were, I guess that means industry parties are too cool for the general population. Whatever. I thought the whole point of a party was to chill with your friends, and meet some new ones. If it wasn't for parties like that, I wouldn't have met Corbo, Andy, Hsien, Nate, Jeremy, or all the other cool kids that I've met at cons. Not only that, but they were checking ID's and watching a movie. It was just a weird situation entirely. No one was talking to each other, no one seemed to be having fun. Definetly had a antagnistic vibe to it. Then they kicked out just about everyone. Corbo looked pissed. Whenever we go to a con, and he throws a party, or the infamous Corbo bash, he never charges anyone, and never says no to people who want to come by. Hell, at Otakon, these random dudes from another hotel saw the party from their window, and we let them in, and we drank with them.
So we got away from there and ate some pizza on the street, and I forgot to pay James from Duke. I'll hit you up next time buddy, don't worry. Anyway, while we're outside some dude from the party we got tossed from shows up and starts acting all friendly. hehe, Drunk Corbo was not about that at all, since this was the kid that actually closed the door on us. Honestly, the kid wasn't that bad, and was fairly entertaining, just a bit homophobic, called everyone of our crew gay at one point of another. He then said I had molly ringwald 16 candles style. That too was gay. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Sunday we got up, and headed home. Nothing really of note, but another fun car ride was had.
Post con, I somehow put together a presentation for monday morning at 2am, and it actually went extremly well.
And if anyone is still reading this, Lewis Black tonight...woo! -
Onion gum makes your mouth taste like onions.
2002-11-08 15:09:48
This week, well wasn't half bad. In fact, it was smoother than your mom after a bikini wax :P
My exams and quizzes weren't nearly as bad as I thought they were going to be. I actually feel confident in saying that I probably did well on all of them. A few A's would be nice, but I'm not going to cry too much over a couple of B's here and there.
My paper is a different story all together. It is far too complicated to even begin explaining in this journal. I can barely verbalize my ideas, let alone sum them up in a journal coherently. We had to take a poem from a list of about 10, and close read them, but we had to analyze the work with these philosphies and idealogies that we studied in class. The main ones we have been discussing are Derrida, Barthes, Althusser, Saussure, and a few others. I won't even begin to explain their thoughts and ideas, I'm just not smart enough to do so. Anyway, I was the only one in class to pick the poem Onion Gum, which is a poem that stands alone in the oddness category. "Bunion gum taste like bunions, bunion gum taste like feet, union gum taste like Lincoln, Union gum makes you head south."
hehe, now imagine reading 60+ lines of things like that, or my personal favorite "Redhot gum makes yr mouth taste like pepper, redhot gum makes your mouth taste lk love, SNAKE, SERPENT, "HARMLESS""
yes, those arent typos, it is written that way.
Anyway, I said the poem was somewhat of a Saussurian word analogy excercise applying his theorums on semiotic linguistics and the "sign, signifier, signified" ideas to the poem with the gum being the metaphorical medium that these signs are created through...yada yada yada the action of chewing...yada yada yada. It was a really complicated paper, and it was extremly difficult to write, but I actually enjoyed it. I know my professor really liked my ideas, but whether I was able to write about it well enough is a different story. We can re write anything, so when I get this back, I'll probably just have to touch it up. At least I know that he is not looking for a completly polished and perfect paper. We are only undergrads, we're not expected to understand this stuff completly. It's more of a learning experience than your typical bullshit till you get an A paper.
As for my presentation, it has been moved back till monday, which is a half blessing, half damning. On one hand, it allowed me to work more on the paper I just mentioned, and gave me much needed extra time to study for my exams. However, I'm going to be at Nekocon all weekend getting soused up with Corbo, Andy, Hsien, Nate and Jeremy. Nate and Jeremy I haven't met yet, so that should be fun. I'm definetly down with meeting new kids. Should be an awesome time. But by the time I get home sunday, I'll have just a couple hours to pull this presentation out of my ass. Eh well, like I've said before, sacrifices must be made in the name of fun.
Nekocon is going to be my first "small con" so im pretty pumped about that. Otakon and Katsucon were godamn big. Almost too big in a sense, I had a rad time at Otakon anyway...katsu huffed dong. I also have been to Anime USA last year, but it didn't feel small because 90% of the people there, I already knew. This time, small group, small con. Should be a really cool time.
Actually, I doubt we are even going to take part in any con activities. Bar tonight, Bar tomorrow. I don't know where the con fits into that. You won't ever hear me complain about having a few drinks with my friends though. :) -
I've got a pocketful of priests with no church to burn
2002-11-04 18:31:27
Rarg.
This week is going to be uber-aggravating. Weds-till next weds. I'll have to make an in class presentation, two gigantic exams, a midterm paper, 2 quizzes, and a project to hand in. Add on to that the fact that we are changing up our radio station's scheduale...or actually telling the staff that we are planning to change it starting in a month. This wouldn't be a problem at normal colleges, but here, it is since our radio station is comprised of many, many community members. How do 50(+) year old dj's react when you cut down the only thing that keeps their lives interesting (classical music blocks, folk music blocks) from 3 hours to 2 hours...after they have been playing for 3 hours for the past 20 or so years? They don't act all that friendly. More like giant evil bear after you kicked it in the nuts...and are wearing a steak helmet. Imagine you have a cute grandpa whose into Brahms. Now imagine you taking this record away from cute grandpa. Now imagine him calling you a "fucking fascist." That was the least of the insults two years ago. God it isn't going to be pretty. People almost came to blows at the mere mention of this my freshman year. As scary as it is, it'll at least be exciting. All of us director cats are going to take shots before this meeting, we'll definetly need it.
Speaking of the radio station, my show went well today, much better than normal actually. The music rocked as usual, and it was pretty funny, but the best part was how many calls I got. I usually get a decent amount, but like this was a huuuge amount, maybe twice than normal. It's nice to know people appreciate your show enough to call in to make requests, to bullshit about a song or band, or to just make fun of my mom.
Even though all this grueling stuff is going on this week, it doesn't feel all that bad, or that I'm under extreme pressure yet. Maybe I'm just in way too good of a mood, or I'm just tricking myself into waiting till the last minute. At least I get the day off tomorrow for the elections...and that means I'm going out tonight. First stop, east end bar, then to parties galore. I'm really hoping I run into this girl I've been talking to lately. She definetly has a thing for me, and she seems like a lot of fun, but I have to think out a few things first before I make a move or any cliche bullshit like that. Or I'll just have to much to drink and make out with her without thinking at all. Not like that's never happened before..no, never...dude, I swear. -
...Wrapped in Plastic...
2002-10-31 17:48:52
Test Aced. Costume all set to go. Plenty of things to do tonight...but first
THE TWIN PEAKS PILOT IS ON TONIGHT!
This is absolutly fantastic. Things just can't get any better than this. Seriously, everyone should be watching Bravo tonight 8-10. It'll probably be somewhat cut for time because Bravo has commercials, but this pilot just might be one of the greatest works ever to hit the airwaves.
I do have a quiz tomorrow. Some things must be sacrificed in the name of fun.
JOURNAL: moooooo (Mike )
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