| DEATH |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|11:06 pm] |
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| Faith Versus Science |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|02:19 pm] |
I absolutely HATE the faith versus science beef.
Many people know that I am an atheistic agnostic. I don't know if there is a better term for it, but that's what I'll call it. To me, it means I don't believe there is a god, I don't consider there to be good evidence that there is one, and furthermore, I don't believe that there is a good reason, in spite of any amount or lack of hard evidence, that I should think so.
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| MJ |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|03:49 pm] |
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It would be one of the least surprising supernatural things to happen if he came back as a zombie and started dancing to thriller. Tell me you wouldn't start dancing with him. |
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| Updates |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|05:46 pm] |
I want to just start school and start studying and occasionally, when time allows, be able to relax, unwind, and do things with friends, make new friends.
Right now, I feel pulled in so many directions. I have to worry about my unemployment not being cut off, I have to keep doing a job search three times a week, even though getting a job right now would totally throw things off as far as timing things that I have to get ready for school, so I have to pray that I don't actually get one. I have to write a letter for this worker retraining program and submit an application. I have to get my portfolio ready (which is really what I want to be working on, and what is really most important), I have to move, I do have some good leads, but I don't have a new place 100% lined up.
I am pretty sure my student loan should go through just fine, but that's still not solidified.
Then of course, there's always the feeling that somehow, even though I'm pretty sure I have everything covered, there is something that I somehow don't know about that is vital in getting everything done for school.
So I sit around with this dual feeling of anxiety and boredom. Complaining doesn't make it better, and I know it hardly makes me attractive.
Well, anyway, back to writing this letter. |
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| News of the world. |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|12:43 pm] |
The world being me.
Construction.
Construction will change my life, it seems.
For months, now, they've been tearing up the entire block across the street from us, and soon construction will begin. Around the clock, non-stop. This has caused my room mate Aaron to decide to take an opportunity that came available to him to move out.
Upon that, Alan decided he wants to move out too. The alternatives would be that he and I would absorb the rent that Aaron would not be paying...to live in a house that will be amidst a pounding din for two years. No thanks.
Alan and I needed to get separate digs anyway. We have lived pleasantly (for the most part) as exes and friends for about a year, but well...that could only last so long anyway.
So I can either stay here and fish for new room mates, or find a place of my own as well.
I need to decide very soon.
I also need to get my portfolio put together and submitted for the graphic design program at Seattle Central. I am a bit daunted, as I don't have much put together that I feel good about turning in, and it's almost entirely ink drawings. I need to diversify a bit.
I have until August to sort of teach myself how to properly use other medium well enough to make a composition or two that will look good in a portfolio...as a painting, a photograph, etc.
Hopefully, I will be accepted, and I will get the Worker Retraining program grant, which is essentially my current unemployment benefit, except I will not be required to continue looking for work in order to claim it, and I can possibly collect it for up to two years, rather than until my benefit runs out.
So, I have a lot to do.
That's pretty much where I am right now.
My goodness!
If I don't get accepted to the program, my options are:
a. find a different school to go to (the best alternate I can find to get into a graphic design program is Shoreline College, which is too far away, and I don't want to move that far or commute that far)
b. just start taking classes for a transferrable AA degree, and then either re-try next year for the AAS program (the AAS program only transfers 100% towards a BS degree at a select few schools), which would mean that I'd be taking classes that don't really have much to do with the AAS program, and I'd sort of just be taking them to either fill up time, or abandon the AAS degree, and go or an AA program that would get me into a 4-year school for a BA.
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c. give up and start looking for a full-time job again.
I think b is my best option. I don't want it to have to be, though. I want to get into this program, train hard and heavy for two years, and be job-ready at the end.
So much to do...so little time, so many sudden things...it's a bit dizzying, but also exciting! |
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| Catch 22 |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|12:22 pm] |
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I don't know why the movie Catch 22 was so heavily panned by critics. I think it was a pretty good film, I just watched it again today. The last time I saw it, I was probably like 12 years old. I watched it with my dad and my brother. It was kind of surprising that my dad didn't turn it off and make me leave the room as its rife with full frontal nudity. |
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| The curious case of benjamin button. |
[May. 9th, 2009|06:50 pm] |
Long, kind of listless, but still heart-tugging and decent.
A few things about it though,
There seems to be an awful long stage of Brad Pitt being very young (just growing taller) and looking very, very old. Then there's a short period during which he looks like a man 65-70, but looking rather handsome, if not a bit rugged and disheveled. Then he suddenly looks ambiguously like an extremely handsome 50 for a long time, then he looks like the real Brad Pitt (hot and 45) for an even longer time.
Then they pull one late trick in the movie where they make him look 20 years old.
His transition from being elderly to middle aged to in his later prime years were a bit drawn out, and some of it they could have done a few more things to make him look a little older. The gray went out of his hair awfully fast, and his deep wrinkles and liver spots seemed to disappear rather quickly and give way to him looking perhaps a bit fleshy, but still pretty tight for somebody who's supposed to look somewhere in his fifties or late 40's.
Brad Pitt is exceptionally well preserved. Sure, he's only 45, but still...he's a damn good looking 45. But he's not playing Brad Pitt, he's playing Benjamin Button. Your average 45 year old usually looks something closer to what the "28 but looks 56" Benjamin Button does.
Did anybody else feel like he went from being a freaking ancient Toddler/Adolescent to DILF rather quickly, and didn't he stay a DILF for an awful, awful long time? The Benjamin Button in the late 1940's is supposed to be around 30, but looks in his late/mid 50's, and he looks like the hottest 55 year old you've ever seen.
Other than that, though, the makeup, the CGI and everything were all very impressive.
I'd start talking about anachronisms, but I'd go on forever. Nothing that historically inaccurate really happened, just a few things seemed slightly out of place for their era at times.
Over-hyped movie, definitely, but still good. |
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| Episode One |
[Apr. 11th, 2009|03:17 pm] |
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Phantom Menace is so intensely bad. |
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| Twilight |
[Mar. 30th, 2009|10:43 pm] |
This is just silly.
For some reason, every time I see Robert Pattinson, I can't help but think of Caberet...oh, chum. |
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| myface |
[Mar. 28th, 2009|08:41 pm] |
I like that I did this.
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| Spiderman 3 |
[Mar. 14th, 2009|06:08 pm] |
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Whether you thought the first two were really good or pretty stupid, the third one is absolutely absurd in comparison. That is my opinion. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|11:22 pm] |
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As much as Jim Cramer is a complicit jackass, it's painful to watch John Stewart totally lambaste him on television. |
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| Weird |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|12:53 am] |
I was reading boing boing tonight before I went to bed, and I saw this post about the demolition of some houses right across the street from me. Weird to see something like that end up on something like Boing Boing.
There's a video clip that is mostly just a photo montage with "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel playing.
I don't get the whole thing about people overlaying pictures and video with sappy music. Youtube is flooded with it.
Anyway, I took this picture of the torn down houses. I am mostly indifferent to the whole thing other than that the demo crews seem to start pretty early, but not any earlier than when I normally get up anyway.
I also am not sure that I need such a clear view of Broadway all the time. Soon, they'll tear down the Jack in the Box (the famous one that killed people some 15, 20 years ago) and all the storefront buildings on broadway, and we will have a fully naked view of broadway. I don't think I like that.
Something about a heap of rubble that is sort of aesthetically pleasing, though.
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| OH MY GOD |
[Mar. 8th, 2009|10:34 am] |
I found this via BoingBoing, and it made me almost poo myself in my bed.
It's like a summit of Illustrative Giants. I'm not familiar with all five of them, but Robert Crumb, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine are all here. Pretty much my three favorite illustrators alive today, and the cool thing is that the picture was taken by Bill Watterson, and just out of frame is Charles Burns, who is holding the ashes of Al Hirschfeld. Okay, so that's a lie. |
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| Rhinestone |
[Mar. 7th, 2009|11:28 pm] |
This movie sucks so hard, it makes a sound like a vacuum compartment the size of jupiter had a hole the size of a tennis ball broken in the side of it.
But it's fun to watch, and with a bowl of chili accompanied with the malty aftertaste of a Rainier, well, I've had worse Saturday nights. |
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| I watched a movie |
[Mar. 4th, 2009|08:29 pm] |
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It was called How to be a Gross, Pretentious Fuckwad. |
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| The great exBEERiment |
[Feb. 28th, 2009|12:57 pm] |
I've been thinking for a while, and I think I even posted about it a while ago, of doing a blind taste test of beers.
I would mainly stick to lagers, at least for the first run, and not go too deep into the microbrew category.
The reason for staying away from microbrews is because even in a town like Seattle where there are microbrews 'a plenty, not a lot of the same ones are going to be consistently available.
But when it comes to large brand name lagers and such, even hoity-toity bars and grocery stores have at least one or two common ones.
The other reason is that most microbrews are heavy and/or rich flavored ales, and they stick out like a sore thumb when you compare them to something like budweiser. You almost don't compare the two.
Look behind the jump to see the list of the beers I'm considering for the taste test:
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| EFFUUUUCK (Top Chef. Not fuck top Chef, but FUUUCK! about Top Chef) |
[Feb. 25th, 2009|10:45 pm] |
I was watching the finale of Top Chef with Alan and our friend Michael, and I'm sitting here just googling around around the internets, and I went on the wikipedia site for Top Chef, just cos...ya know...and I accidentally found out who won before the episode was over.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKCCKCKKKCCK
So, I was surprised that it was Josea. Carla was the dark horse, and I actually thought she would win, but she made a few too many mistakes.
Steffan, who probably actually is the best chef, was too big of a dick to win, and it wasn't just because you didn't like his attitude, it's because his attitude fucked up his cooking.
I think that other people got cut who might have won if they'd have been on the final challange.
Whatever. |
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