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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
  Humoring myself with MS Paint

Yes, where is that damn beef? I want to know?
It reminds me of those Burger King commercials that were oddly popular, with the old lady (is that where this sticker is from? eh?). Or was it Wendy's? Whatever, find me that beef.

Do it. Do it now.

Its Devestatin' Dave mashed with a sticker from X-Entertainment's Sticker Album. Someone asked Mollie if i'm a graphic arts major. No, in fact graphic arts majors don't suck at what they do. I am rather bad at this. Meaning, I took far too long working on this and it still looks like crap.
 
Sunday, March 27, 2005
  As seen on some guy's arm...

Yea, so, I got to see this kid putting clean dishes away at the dining commons and he had a really sad tattoo on his tricep (the picture is only an artist's rendition). Now I can't judge why this kid got this, however, its not exactly what you would call classy or even cool. Now, I do know that New Jersey is the ass end of just as many unecessary jokes as the Polish might recognize, but to endorse the town you're from in New Jersey on the back of your arm is a trifle lame and pitable especially in an outline of the state and a crappy star identifying from where in the state you are from, as if someone would be able to recognize exactly what town it was by its geographic location (its was about as big as the mock-up is).

I'm thinking that if you really want to "represent dawg", that you'd have better luck (and maybe some class) with getting a tattoo of maybe the name of the town or maybe some sort of cred that proves you came from that town or something. But honestly, Jersey isn't exactly what you would call "style".

Anyways, too bad some kid had this, I give it a 1 out of 10 for pity's sake.
 
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
  Bugger, Mate's in New Zealand
Recently: Rob Cooper, has and is currently gone to/in (respectively), New Zealand. He has also started a blog in which he puts his daily/best experiences into english about how he has infiltrated and is attempting to assume social norms through the process of acquiring the rudimentry language incontinuities that exist between American english and New Zealand english. He has also put forth the effort of solving the cultural differences by mating with their women which will, hopefully dissolve our boundaries so that in time, they will understand each other's cultures (OMG, its like my life story LOL!).
Well, anyways, I think Señor Cooper has inspired me to travel abroad and/or at least become a more natural human. I need to put the living in concrete boxes and consuming easy-to-cook food aside and start eating more earthy dishes. I should be a modest person, but have extravagant experiences and vibrant memories. Most certainly have I dug myself a grave into feeling like I should be more simple and spiteful of Earth and its continents, yet, I could change that with a little effort put into the travel and nomadics department.
I'm not saying that I want to become a friggin hippie or some sort of hippie scientologist, its just that I want to become more naturally human and feel like I can be as comfortable outside in hundreds of different situations as I am with being a 20 year old male in American life.

So, I hate waxing romantic on the subject of something that is completely and utterly idyllic that I sound like a philosophy class, however, I do like attempting to utilize my vocabulary and truncate the idiocy that I tend to sway towards which is how I think this sounds all philosophical.

Anyhoo, I've been recently thinking of things I want to do with myself and one thing has stuck. I want to do some archery. I have no idea why, I guess its the fact that I like archery and think it'd be damn cool to say that you have skills with a bow and arrow.

Also, I decided to start wearing my springtime lighter coat today when it was 40 degrees and snowing heavily.

CSI has the stupidest soundtracks to it. It feels like I'm watching a student film where the kid who made it is a giant music snob and decided that if the music is hip/obscure/difficult to listen to enough then it should make up for the shitty plot they crapped out. Putting this crap against better or worse visuals makes the film just look like its of no priority to the person who made it and that they only want to promote their awesomeness.

I've ranted too much.
 
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
  In their elegant black suits...
"There are four simple was for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike."

This is from "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaimen, the book i'm currently working on reading, and is most definatly my favorite part so far.

Also, I just finished reading the "Sandman" series he wrote. It was good enough to cause me to purposely stop reading because it was such a good story that I tried to prolong the time that it would take to finish it.

After "Neverwhere" is going to be "Blindness" by José Saramago. After that its the "Preacher" series by Garth Ennis, if I can get my hands on all of the issues.
 
  Transience

Another desktop. This time its another artist's image, from Deviant Art. I don't know who did it at the moment, but i'm too lazy to find it right now.

Good job, whoever you are.

 
Saturday, March 19, 2005
  Usurpemo
So, in spite of recent talks about the fact that updating blogs is something no one should anticipate to happen everyday, unless you're incredibly boring or depressed, this update ignores reality and submits its own. I'm going to be incredibly boring today since no one, and here's proof, wants to read a depressing blog.

-I was called "four eyes" for the first time in my life tonight, it was followed by "yea, go study". To be honest, while I should put this in the "ignore" category, I still don't react well to this kind of flack from strangers. Its probably because i've heard it all before in elementary/middle school.


-Today I finished a film called "Tampopo" (Japanese for Dandelion) which had to do with a like named woman who starts a ramen restaurant in Japan after her husband has died. There isn't much interesting to say about this film save the unnamed character in the white suit. He has nothing to do with the story but he sort of represents human nature's deep attachment to food. His scenes are intermittantly shown in the film and tend to show quite laughable but "sensual", if you want to call it that, nature of food.

Scene 1: Girl he's with dips her boob into whipped cream and then into his mouth. Squeezing a lemon on her boob and then sucking it off. Placing live shrimp into soy sauce onto her stomach and then placing a bowl overtop, the shrimp flip the fuck out and start flailing, girl laughs due to ticklish feeling.
Scene 2: Encounters women harvesting oysters, attempts to eat an oyster without cutting the creature from its shell and cuts his lip on the shell. For whatever reason the chick feels this is hot stuff, so she starts to lick his wound.
Scene 3: Guy and girl he's with start passing an egg yolk between their mouths, for like 4 minutes.
Scene 5: Someone is shooting the guy and with his dying breath, he tells the girl he's with about how in winter if you go hunting and kill a boar you should immediately take its intestines out, stuff them with yams and cook them over a fire. He asks her if this sounds good, and she says "yea, that sounds good, like a yam sausage" and then he dies.
Theres not much else to that, the movie was good and funny, too bad the director killed himself.

What else...?

-I want to start a section where I take pictures of people that look strikingly like people I know. The obvious problem is how to ask someone if I can take their picture because they look like someone I know then explain that I will then put them up on my website.
-I want Spagetti-O's, I have missed the opportunity to have them about 3 times this year.
-Sean is a kid in my hall and I have bet him $1,000,000 that he can't teach elementary school in Brooklyn for a year. Sucker.
-When I have all the proper materials for a silk screening project, I'm going to start making shirts about really shitty fashion or just big ass images. For example: Front:"Irritatingly large sunglasses and year-round scarves" Back:"You suck."
-Give me a goddamn internship.
-When time permits I will make a giant post about how my roomate is in fact America's dirtiest motherfucker.
-$13 bucks and i'll have a giant whiteboard to put in my apartment. All I need now is something to draw on it.
-I plan on listening to more hip-hop. Now on the playlist: Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Pharcyde, Q-Tip, and Talib Kweli. Occurances of Kid Koala and Invizibl Skratch Piklz would not be a rarity.

I'm drained of ideas. Goodnight.
 
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
  Assignment #1
It has taken a total of 24 hours working on this project for Intro to MIDI and Electronic Music. I'm totally allowing you to download it. Its a minute and a half song consiting of three parts and using square wave tones and clips from video games. Its pretty sloppy, but I don't mind.
 

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