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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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2:35 am - Here, have a new Megadeth song
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Since I have nothing interesting to say other than burning my hand during July 4th celebrations (Blisters suck), Have the new Megadeth single "Head Crusher". Initial listening point to it being pretty good!
Also, Blazblue is a lot of fun and I can't wait to see what it looks like on an HDTV. The Internet likes to beat me up in it though. :(
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| Saturday, July 4th, 2009
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1:44 am - Voice Post
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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9:37 pm
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Back in Tennessee for "America! Fuck Yeah!" day. Extra long weekends are so sweet.
It has occurred to me that I have had about three weekends this year where I have not traveled across a state line. While I like driving (Especially when it involves me in the car signing "Painkiller" at high volumes), this is starting to takes its toll on my psyche. In other words, I think this cycle is officially starting to drive me mad.
Yeah, I think I need to stay put a weekend or two, because I'm starting to feel significant burnout in just about everything I do. Besides, people can come visit me for once dagnabbit. I mean, we have barbecue! And... Umm... Other BBQ Joints*. Yeah, this'll bring in reams of people to finally visit my apartment.
Doing some Channel Z filming tomorrow. Then, we blow up the sky in shiny colors.
* No, seriously. There's like two BBQ places within *walking distance* of my apartment and two others in town. You do *not* mess with people around here when it comes to barbecue. Also, vinegar versus mustard sauce debates.
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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12:44 pm - To Dad:
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Thank you for the inspiration
Thank you for the smiles
All the unconditional love
That carried me for miles
It carried me for miles
But most of all thank you for my life
These were the best of times
I'll miss these days
Your spirit lit my life each day
My heart is bleeding bad
But I'll be OK
Your spirit guides my life each day
current music: Dream Theater - The Best of Times
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| Saturday, June 20th, 2009
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6:31 pm
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From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) colley:
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
Kitchen - Oh come on. It's been like eight years now. ;p
Pretty much everytime I realize something that I should have realized months earlier, I yell in my head "Kitchen Area!". For example, I have two cabinets in between the kitchen and bedroom that I've not done anything with in the time I have lived there. Only now have I taken the initiative that indeed I can, in fact, *put stuff* in them.
Crowbars - I do like crowbars, as the nick implies. Incidentally, the affection for crowbars only came after the nickname, which I used as a bad Crow T. Robot pun-thing on the Sci-Fi Caption This! boards in middleschool. Regardless, crowbars are great. Of course they're nice to pry something open, but they're like a swiss army knife without the moving parts. Don't have a suitable way to bust down a wall? A crowbar works just as well. Need to bring down a slightly out of reach tree limb to get something that got stucked? Crowbar. Need a good melee weapon to fight off the zombie horde? Check the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. I keep mine in the car just in case. Mostly for general purpose stuff, but I do not rule out zombie uprisings. Yet.
Dan Hibiki - The man. I need to lose some weight to fit nicely into the costume again, that's for sure. Dan's probably my favorite character in Street Fighter not just for his hokeyness, but the reaction you get from people when you actually beat them with him. I don't really have much else to add here, other than it's extremely fun to meet other people at conventions dressed as him and do the picture taunt game (Where we take one pic with me taunting them and one pic "beating me up". People are especially prone to join in if you mention the later. I'm a beatupable guy! ... Wait.)
Comedy - Late night, on the day dad died, unable to sleep or do much of anything, I put in the DVD of "Blazing Saddles" I got for him several Christmas' ago. He watched very few movies (The last time I went to see a movie with him was "Pearl Harbor"; he didn't like going to the theaters very much.) but Blazing Saddles was his favorite. He could quote select scenes word for word. And even in the darkest of times, the movie still made me laugh. I can blame him with my obsession with Mel Brooks one summer, renting pretty much every movie I could find in the local video stores and watching them until morning. I can blame him for my silly high school skits, with lines he said I "got" from him to which I would go "No way" but really, I probably did. And mostly, he was the first person I went to with lines for something. If he laughed, then I knew it was good. Comedy has been a valuable thing for me in the worst of times. I only hope I can return the favor.
Randomness - You know the bacon out of a box you can buy unrefridgerated in grocery stores? One of the prime advantages noone is looking at of the stuff is the fact that it's technically pocketable. At anytime someone is hungry, you could strike a pose and whip out pocket bacon to the delight of friends and families, cook it within minutes and be declared a hero (At least before they eat it. I've never tried it the box bacon and I can't imagine it being very tasty, much less so after being in your pocket all day.)
Also, pocket bacon sounds *really*, *really* wrong.
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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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1:00 am
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Short Update, in order of happenings:
- Testament is fucking awesome live (They played just about every song I wanted to hear live and some extra surprisings-- "Alone in the Dark", especially.)
- Mom's surgery went great and she's recovering now (She'll be out of the hopsital Thursday.)
- Probably going to spend some time offline for next few days in an attempt to relax more. If one needs me, I can be reached by other methods.
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| Friday, May 29th, 2009
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12:18 am
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Fun Fact Time!
RIPtheSYSTEM Comic Count (As was written, not as drawn)
Part 1 - Written as 21 comics initially.
Part 2 - Written as 42 comics.
Part 3 (Writing completed as of a couple of weeks ago) - 63 comics.
I think I just accidentally invented Fibonacci Sequence Comic-ing.
(No, the next part is not going to be 105 comics. Hell no.)
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| Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
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11:26 pm - Concerts talks.
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So, I'm going to go see Kreator + Exodus with pyro138 in Asheville on Friday (Alongside Warbringer and a couple of other bands.) Pretty pumped about the show, as can be exepcted. The entire thrash scene as of late has been nothing but quality releases as is, so I'm curious to see if it is the same live (Warbringer's and Kreator's recent efforts especially are good listens. I'm not even sure how Warbringer found time to write an album, considering that they seem to be touring everytime I see a metal show. Maybe they don't sleep. Maybe they aren't *human at all*.)
Okay, I don't have much else to add to that. I just thought it was awesome. Mostly, it's an excuse to link to the Kreator's "Violent Revolution" video. Great song, but the video... Uhh, I'm not sure what's going on. I think they're trying to imply gorillas will kill your band and sell them to local markets for meat. Which makes it sound like there's a a lot of symbolism going on in it, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
Dream Theater also comes with Pain of Salvation in late July. Yessssss.
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| Sunday, May 10th, 2009
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7:37 pm
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Just going to give an echo here and say the new Star Trek? Absolutely friggin awesome. Not just as in "Yay Star Trek!" (But new Star Trek is always appreciated) but as in "Yay Holy Crap That Was Good When Can We See It Again?"
So, yeah. Just in case you were waiting for the Crowbar Opinion Extravaganza to teeter you over the edge of seeing in or not, there you go.
(Also, just for reference: My favorite movies this year thus far, in order? Star Trek, Watchmen and Coraline.)
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| Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
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1:19 pm
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Deadpool Movie confirmed!
Seeing as Deadpool was one of the things to get me back into comics again in high school, consider me pumped. Especially if it's done right. The right script will be key. But right now, at this moment? I like the idea.
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| Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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9:50 pm
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There's something inherently funny about the promo for pirate-metal band Alestorm's new album ("Black Sails at Midnight") having the lead singer shout "YARR! Remember, Piracy is a crime!" before the first verse of each song.
Nonetheless, it's *very* good stuff, this album. "Keelhauled" in particular is already stuck in my head. I will not mind spending the money for a real copy of it when it finally comes out (Along with wherever I find a copy of the new Candlemass and the new Heaven and Hell CD. Also, new Stratovarius, new Warbringer, new Amorphis and new Devin Townsend. All within the next two months. Score.)
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| Friday, April 24th, 2009
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12:01 pm
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So, I made something to determine whether a number is happy or not.
Unless you watched a certain awesome Doctor Who episode ("42") or know everything in silly mathematics ever, a Happy Number is one that, taking each digit that makes up the number and multiplying it by itself and then adding them together, eventually equals to 1 if done enough times. This sounds really confusing, so again I point to the wikipedia page for an example. It doesn't really do anything (Though it is kind of funny that 404 turns out to be happy) and It's easier to just show it.
Yes, I was that bored. Also, CSS3's border-radius is dead sexy.
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| Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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2:17 pm
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| Sunday, April 19th, 2009
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4:24 pm
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More weekends need to consist of hanging out with friends, relaxing and having a good time. And especially not having to worry about anything in the world for the moment.
In this case, tcat came down, in which much fun was had. Rifftrax were watched, we saved the innocents, played video games, places were explored and... we ended up watching and riffing Dragonball: Evolution (Which is almost legendary in its poorness.) So, all in all, a good weekend.
I also finally beat FF3 DS. The last dungeon's boss can eat approximately three-and-a-half piles of dicks.
Yes, and-a-half.
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| Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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1:03 am
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(I meant to post this way earlier in the week, but forgot to do so. It has since stayed in Livejournal's Draft Dimension, never truly alive or dead. Also, everything else as of late has been totally boring.)
Protip: When filming, it is likely best to avoid locations that have that have yappity dogs, nearby motor sounds and all-encompassing briar bushes. Especially 80 ft worth of Briar bush. It was thornghost, tcat, Homp (Who's too cool to get an LJ) and I out there. None of us realized what the hell of what we were facing. Homp got the worst of it, and had worn shorts and a t-shirt. We thought maybe we should have went to another location, but only after traversing the path once. This is why we can't have nice things.
But film we did and explore as well (There was an old, small graveyard beyond it, supposedly from the Civil War. Sadly, only the rusted, mangled fence remains and I did not have my digital camera with me. Pity.) and all was good. Also, shakes and burgers were had and movies were watched afterwards, so I call the whole thing a success.
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| Thursday, April 9th, 2009
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4:35 pm
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Feeling a bit better today. Thanks, guys. No, really! It seems really silly, but I ended up getting stuck in one of those "Crap, what the hell am I even doing?" moods. I think I've just had so much worry from all directions that I had nowhere to go but burnout.
Fortunately, through the persistence of interactive explosions through video games, pizza (Hey, it's been a while since I had some) and some actual productivity (ended up starting and completing a quick prototype to an old idea, enough to convince me maybe I should have a go at it,) I seem to be a little better than I was. I still feel a bit tired and want to take things as easy as I possible can, but at least we're getting somewhere.
Also, I have a bunch of Scott Pilgrim volumes being delivered to my apartment as we speak, so that'll keep me busy for... Okay, probably a night with how fast I tore through the first volume. Color me entertained.
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| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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2:28 pm
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This may seem fairly self-indulgent, but if someone would like to tell me how awesome I am right now, I'd really appreciate it. Because I am not having a very awesome day (, Week, month) and I feel that the majority of things I have attempted to write/do/work on in recent times end up being pure crap. I keep trying to break out of the feelings of worthlessness. I really do! But it's getting harder and harder these days.
Of course, if one wanted to tell me how much I suck, that's okay too. I'll take what I can get.
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| Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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12:32 am - "You're Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!"
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Alternate Subject Line: "Johnny's my favorite customer too!"
For those confused by the cinematic masterpiece "The Room" playing on Adult Swim for April Fool's Day (Or so I hear. I can't actually turn anything on to confirm this)... consult this scene for reference in your next film essay:
Timing! Apparently, it's optional in movieland!
A couple of years ago, during a New Year's Eve party, we ended up watching The Room. We got stuck on this scene, unable to control our laughter (In the sort of "You had to be there" sense.) It eventually got so bad that we deemed ourselves unable to continue watching the film until we could sit through the scene straight faced. There's about 10+ of us there, mind. It was about 45 minutes before we were able to continue.
pyro138's DVD player, to this day, still has not recovered from this incident.
Someday, I may satiate the need to show up at one of the midnight showings out west. Just to be there.
(Yes, I actually embedded a youtube vid. Gasp! If anything need embedded, it's the Flower Shop scene.)
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| Monday, March 30th, 2009
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11:28 am - I hate you, mind.
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Why did I just crossover Windows 7 and Macross 7 on accident?
Now why is "Planet Dance" joining in the fun?
o/~ NO MORE WASTIN' RAM--
Ow. Okay, okay. Enough of that. Back to work.
(I also remember very little of Macross 7 now, so go ahead make up your own pun. ;p)
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12:24 am
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Well, imperialnova, I have Animal Crossing: City Folk now. I hope you're happy. :P
Anyway, the Friend Code of Doom is 1075-6731-1243, if anyone wants to dare cross my turf with theirs! Of course, it's not good without getting yours first though.
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