JOURNAL: iserlohn

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  • She stuck a carrot up my..... 2003-03-30 23:25:55 Untitled #3 v2 (Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro - PM Dawn - Die Without You) is now up on the carrot for your downloading pleasure. If the numbers look good I'll post more and send in money. I am a leech.

    Past few days have been mostly quiet. Been doing my reading, watching some anime, and reading scans of Ghost Rider v2. Wow, the last 20 issues were bad. Received and watched Berserk 5, and am caught up on GaoGaiGar.

    Otherwise...been feeling really shitty. Having your plans for the future pulled out from under you can royally fuck with your head. I don't want to go back to class tomorrow, I don't want to edit, I don't want to read, I don't want to do anything but sleep right now...sleep the world away. I think I'm scaring people IRL right now, probably not a good idea. Sadly, most of what's keeping me going right now is the thought of finishing my editing projects and the fact that there's going to be performances of Hedwig in DC at the end of April/beginning of May. Taking life one event and one porject at a time.

    Sow how are the projects coming? Most of the audio work for the trailer is done (still getting the finer points of ACID and the sounds down), and I've repositioned the clips to the sped up audio for the competing video (which is down to 4 minutes exactly). In honor of seeing Urinetown, I've decided to codename the projects Officer Lockstock (competing video) and Officer Barrel (trailer). These will be how they are referred to in future entries.

    For example, I need to go back and do even more footage digging on Officer Lockstock. It's down to about 3 or 4 gaps that just NEED new footage, and they shouldn't be difficult to track down, it's just making the effort to get to them and with homework coming back into play as well as the usual Monday madness, I'm not going to get to it for a while. I also need to figure out what to do on the instrumental bridge and the very beginning. As it stands the video is fun but forgettable. I need to change this.

    I am also sick of Officer Barrel's audio and am looking forward to not having to focus on it for a bit. I swear, recording engineers must know their clients' albums way better than the bands do. In the meantime, most of the edits seem natural, and people who know the original source audio will get to play the "which line of dialogue did I change" game. That is if anyone actually sees this. I wish Matt would hurry up and post the deadline so I could either 1)back out now or 2)figure out what I'm doing or 3)ask for an extension to be able to do so. I know that whatever I send will get played in the fan art room, but I want this at MAT3K. Then again, it's Otakon and I've never gotten anywhere there, why should this year be any different.

    I need to stop whining. BTW, I'm writing this sober. For some reason I feel the need to reaffirm this to people, perhaps because some people only post (worthy things or otherwise) while drunk. I don't drink and write, it's a bad idea.

    In the meantime, I have class at 11 and things to photocopy and mail out...like $55 worth of rebate forms and my taxes, so I should get to bed so that I can wake up and deal with them. I so don't want to go to class tomorrow night, though, enough to consider ditching if I didn't need the information and it would look bad with how shittily I did on my take-home.

    "What do the simple folk do? They sit around and wonder what us royal folk would do..." 
  • Back in DC... 2003-03-27 19:06:05 Don't want to think too much about the disappointment of the last 30 hours or so. To sum it up quickly:
    -Did not get to see Hairspray
    -Urinetown was disappointing
    -Midterm that I stressed so much about got thrashed by the professor
    -I did not get accepted to any of the graduate schools I applied to.

    Life sucks right now. 
  • In Which the Author Sleeps A Lot... 2003-03-25 20:45:53 I've already taken two naps today and will probably be going to bed in just a couple hours. There's something about running around nonstop that makes me really want to crash all the time.

    So, we got up this morning, and mother wasn't feeling so great...something she at last night didn't agree with her or something was up, but she thought she could make it through the natural history museum anyways. Well....she couldn't. I got to see about half the Einstein exhibit before she had to run to the bathroom and apparently threw up (she had been sitting down almost the whole time since we got there and didn't seem really up for walking). She thought she felt OK afterwards and we headed to the butterfly exhibit, where she sat down and told me to go ahead. The exhibit itself was awesome, listening to her huff and puff like someone doing lamaz while complaining that the cab home wasn't fast enough...was not.

    Got back to the apartment (ma's, not mine) by noon. I had something to eat, made ma some tea, told her to go to bed (which she did) and went to do some shopping both for her and me in Manhattan. First stop was the legendary B&H Photo, somewhere I really don't feel the need to really buy from anymore...it's not that that it was a BAD experience, but the people didn't really inspire me to want to buy from THEM, since they were charging retail on what I was looking for and a websearch of J&R showed it for $100 less. Some guy behind me in the bag check line also commented about how he couldn't find a sales rep to talk to him even though he was buying something in the four digit range. Guess they really don't want your business at the B&M.

    I did learn something on the way to B&H, though: If I want to keep the rio volt playing while walking around, I need to make sure I've got some books or something in there to balance out the weight in the bag and absorb some of the shock or else the player goes haywire, esp. with the discs out of the new burner. Fortunately the normally $7 B&H catalog was free in the actual store and served as a nice ballast. Now I only got mild skips and pauses instead of wondering if the batteries died (which they did briefly after leaving the store...thank goodness I carry around fully charged sets). Picked up some pedialyte for the parent (recommended by one of her friends) and came back to leave it off, check if we were going to the speech still tonight, and got sent off on more errands.

    This time it was to pick up a prescription and a few other things, but it was also near a Wiz that was going under. The whole store was on sale, but nothing really good was left, except for a big set of Memento special edition sets which I didn't buy because of the whole don't-buy-before-seeing thing. Wish they'd had a copy of Lola, would have bought it on the spot. Stopped off at Duane Reade on the way home, left a message for Gambitt to get in touch about meeting up (we didn't), tried to do some reading, and dozed.

    Woke up, had something resembling dinner, watched Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, was amazed at how my skills in both shows has fallen, and did a little more reading before putting on some Richard Cheese to listen to (was in a lounging mood)...and fell asleep.

    Online now, will try and do at least enough more reading to finish this section of Franco-Prussian War, and then shower, shave, and most likely go to sleep for the night. Tomorrow is visiting uptown and HAIRSPRAY! w00h00!!!!

    Overall, things are going OK here, being in college park would have let me do a lot more with my videos (losing a week right now is a bad thing), but so it goes. Maybe I'll try to get home a bit earlier on Thursdaz to get some editing in...and some extra downloading.

    Oh, and New York needs a German bookstore. It has none. 
  • long day over 2003-03-24 22:21:39 tired, don't feel like writing a lot down so this is the very brief rundown of today

    momaqns - matisse/picasso exhibit, good stuff, moma has van goh's Starry Night...that alone made going worth it. I love that painting.
    lunch at jim brady's
    attempted to go to the museum at the federal reserve, but it requires reservations a week in advance.
    tour at the UN - well conducted, informative, very cool.
    read for a bit, took a nap for about 90 min.
    dinner at rosa mexicano - they make guacamole at your table for you, yum!
    came back and read. taking care of online stuff right now, then going to bed soon. tomorrow is another long day. 
  • Good News - Bad News 2003-03-23 22:00:17 I made it safely to New York, didn't forget to pack anything, and the train ride went smoothly and frighteningly quickly - as in I read 80 pages from a book and had a couple sandwiches and spent a few minutes here and there talking with the person next to me and that's it - nothing else major going on on the train. Freaky just how long it takes me to read through stuff nowadays, and what's worse is that I need to put in about 60-80 pages / day at the current rate in order to get the book finished by class on monday.

    I'm currently writing things up on my mother's laptop and it really shows just how much I've gotten used to my keyboard at home...going back to the american one (especially a funky off-sized one for a laptop) is really a pain....as is being on dialup.

    In other good news, I saw Forbidden Broadway tonight. Great show, lots of laughs, met some guy who's a semi-retired actor from london and we talked during the intermisison about the ny theatre scene, etc. We saw FB mostly because the majority of shows are dark on sunday night - makes monday off last longer. No show tomorrow, Tuesday is the dinner, and Wednesday should be Hairspray.

    Also found out there's some majorly renouned microbrewry in the area, so that may be where dinner wednesday is. Even if there's nothing really on the menu for me, I can always get a nice brew before the show.

    Now for the bad news, I got rejected from George Washington for grad school - as in that was my backup safety "I should definately be able to get in here" school. Yes, this scares me for the future, especially since the parental unit is dead-set against me spending the year studying in Austria for a variety of reasons, mostly of the kind Penn & Teller would love to debunk. So where am I right now in terms of my future? Nowhere, really. Wish I knew, but i don't. Guess I'll have to figure it out...

    And my RioVolt really does NOT like the CD I burned with the buffer underrun protection turned on that I did at turbospeed...I can live through Friday without it, through.

    Anyhow, time to post and check Something Positive before I log off. New post tomorrow or soon. 
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