December 31, 2003
splosion
I just downloaded a bunch of pictures and I wanted to share.
This is Willy, my cat. I believe that is Joel's cell phone on the bed next to him for a scale picture. Yeah, he is a big cat.
This is a tech-splosion that is my room from time to time depending on what electroni modd we are in at any given time. Crazy, huh?
This is my ring. It isn't a very good picture, but it is the most perfect ring I could ever get.
There is Joel reading comics.
This is Crazy A.K.A Englebert. He is nuts. Well, thats about it. hope you enjoy. Later.
2004...bring it.
Happy Birthday, Shannon!! I am so glad that you had a wonderful party. Summer and I were hoping it was going to turn out nice, and I think that it did. I had a good time anyway. I am so glad that you were happy, though.
Happy New Year to everyone as well. If you know me and want to go to some parties I know where a couple of them are at, give me a call.
Kristyn, I am so glad to hear about Bryan. I am glad his surgery went well. I am glad you are happy. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I like this Kristyn. I think this is how you are supposed to be and I wish you both the best.
I apparently am using my blog today to talk to people.
I found an interesting article on Yahoo news. Video game music is being recognized more and more everyday. Game developers are getting original musical score put on the games and marketing to a wider audience now. I think that is very, very cool. Joel has been a fan of video game music since the first Sonic game and it goes to Lunar and MegaMan and the list could go on and on. Video game music is quite cool now. Silent Hill # comes with a soundtrack that is actually pretty good. Joel had it in his CD player in his car for a long time. I guess i will leave you with that tid-bit of news. Not interesting, but hey, it's news to you. Later....and happy new year. I know I am glad this crappy year is over.
December 29, 2003
sparkley
So, saw Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King last weekend. It was quite well done. I am sure I will like the extended version of it better. The battle scenes in Two Towers were better in my opinion. It was still a beatiful movie and completed the trilogy quite nicely. I was pleased and I think Peter Jackson should be proud as well. I recieved the extended special edition of The Two Towers for Christmas and watched that all the way through finally. It was really cool. i have yet to be disappointed in the extended movies. The things that are put back into the movie are very relevant to the story and the DVD versions seem to flow smoother.
We also went this past weekend and saw Paycheck. It is a movie based on a Philip K. Dick story, so of course we had to see it. It was actually pretty good. John Woo directed it and did a good job.
Genuis, a site that I was a member of for about a week until someone needlessly insulted me on the site (both Joel and I resigned from the site because of that and Joel was a founding member of the site) shut down. If anyone is wanting a website, Adam, the owner and boyfriend of the person who insulted me, is looking for someone to take over.
New Year's Eve is approaching. It is my first with Joel, although I have wanted to kiss him at the stroke of midnight for the last 4 years running. This year I finally get to do it. i want it to be special and memorable. I don't know how I am going to do that. We are going to a couple of parties this year. I have to make an appearance at Shad's party, but something tells me it is going to be quite a different crowd this time. Perhaps not, perhaps I just never really noticed until now. If it is still going on, we will go from there to Sean's party which is the party I will be looking forward to the most. We haven't been able to get a hold of Sean lately though, but we will see. I am excited.
I have been running into people I knew in high school left and right lately. Well, I guess with the holidays it is to be expected. Joel and I are going to have dinner with a before mentioned person we knew in high school. Well, Joel has known her for all his life practically. I didn't really know her all that well, but she's cool.
I am at work right now and Have been since 8 this morning. I am damn tired if you want to know. Not too much longer. Just a couple of hours more.
I read this mini-series comic called Midnight Nation by J. Michael Straczynski. It was bad-ass. The story, although short, was awesome. In fact, the only bad thing about the comic is that is is so short. The art was equally as good. I am going to start reading another series by the same writer called Rising Star. I am getting into comic books lately. Very, very cool. I am also trying to catch up on The Sandman comics. I only have books one and two and I haven't read them in a very long time. I am taking another look and then i will probably venture out and get the rest of it to read.
Last week I watched an episode of Unscrewed with Martin Sargent on Tech TV and saw Wil Wheaton on it. He was talking about his website on the show. It sounded really cool, so I went there, and to my surprise it is an awesome blog-style website. It looks good and the writing on it is superb. It is pretty cool, especially if you were a fan of Star Trek or Wil himself and want to know what is going on in his life. I liked it. His website is ultimately what Joel and I want Nodal-Point to be on day.Well, on that note, I bid you good day.
December 22, 2003
gotta have faith, like George Michael
What is it about libraries and lots of food to make you fat? Bleh. More Christmas partying tonight as well with joel and the guys from his work. It should be interesting.
The preacher at church, yes, church, I go there occasionally with Joel, made the announcement of our upcoming wedding. A lot of the people there were surprised, although I don't know why, his mom should have told all of them by now.
Yeah, the church thing. I went to church on a regular basis when i was smaller, I would say I went to church regularly until I was about 6 or 7 then my dad, being the open minded liberal that he is, got pissed off at the church for some reason or another. I didn't go to church for a long while after that. I went to various churches on a sparadic basis with my friends: catholic, pentacostal, baptist. I attended catholic church on a regular basis for six months or so while i lived in Texas, and it renewed my faith in not going to church and how much organized religion sucked, so there is a 3 year period after that until now that i did not go to church. Joel and our friendship and our developing relationship talked to me about his church and how it was laid back and totally informal. I went to check it out and it is what church should be in my eyes. The congregation is friendly, the pastor, Kurt, is knowledgeable and humourous. He takes the good ideas from the bible and the christian church and implements them into his sermons and teachings, which is cool, because that is what i do. I think that we need a form of values to live by, ect.....I take the good ideas from all religions, and it just so happens that they are similar, and put them into my values and beliefs. God isn't the important part in religion, either. (gasp!) It is the faith that you have.
Alright, I'm out....later.
December 16, 2003
binary
Inspirational holiday season. Why is it inspirational you say? No, it isn't because Saddam was captured. (WhoopDee freekin Doo. It just means more death, destruction, and thoughts of world domination....I'm not sympathizing with Saddam. I am just saying that people need to pay attention in history class.) It isn't the music. Definitely not the music. The tree? presents? the endless bell ringing by volunteers of the largest army on earth? No. I don't know if I could pin point what exactly it is. The wind is blowing a little harder and a little cooler. People are more pleasant (attitudes should be like this all year round, not just for 2 weeks during December, sheesh.) Those stupid radio shack commercials are playing, people buy stupid reindeer antlers for their pets. You get the gist of it. Xmas (which is what i refer to Christmas as because it long ago stopped being Christmas and started being Xmas or Capitalist day if you would prefer) is just a crazy time of year. My mom starts singing and cooking like some crazed Betty Crocker, my dad constantly rearranges the ornaments on the tree mumbling something about it being a "monk thing" when we really all know it is just obsessive compulsive behavior. Carefully planning xmas dinner so that the family members you can stand will be there and the other ones you will have convienently fogotten to call. Keeping the crazed cats from ripping open every present under the tree which they have already eaten half of and climbed the other half leaving it looking like a sad shrubbery. Yeah, xmas is great.
People were surely not in the xmas spirit this afternoon when i went to the post office. Perhaps there is some sort of odd time warp there and it is some unhappy time, like August or September.
You know what? Video games.....
December 13, 2003
smoke rings
I am sure you have thought, "Hey, I would like to shoot my enemies with smoke rings and balls of air." Well, my friends, that future is now! Hurl harmless balls of air up to 20 feet at your family and friends. Yes! Now we can have the futuristic weapons to hurl air and smoke rings at our foes. Awesome.
December 10, 2003
a blog entry with a jam twist
Yes, now you can own a wand much like Harry Potter's. You may look strange waving it around and shouting things like stupefy, illegibilus or expelliarmus but at least you will look good. Oh the people i know who will probably consider buying one of those things. I know I want one.
Exams this week. I have finished all but one which I will be taking in an hour. So far so good. No major fuck-ups as of now. I don't know what I am going to do with myself when the exams are over. Probably not much. I see a lot of video games in my future. As well as reading. Yes, video games and reading and a few movies.....I'll come in again.....
Joel and I were watching television, like you do, and the commercial for Timeline came on and the tag line to get people to go and see this movie (i suppose) is that it is "Braveheart with a 21st century twist." What? Braveheart with a 21st century twist? What kind of description is that? Just because it is in medieval times and people have large swords means that it is a Mel Gibson movie? Joel came up with the description along the lines of "Braveheart is the Legend of King Arthur with a Scotish twist" to illustrate how similar these things are. Yeah. What a bunch of morons. Timeline is the next attempt by a washed out writer to make money in the movies. "It's like Jurassic Park, but without all of the dinosaurs." Yeah. uh huh. The same, but completely different. Man, if I could get paid that kind of money to write that kind of crap I wouldn't be a writer.
December 05, 2003
goddess, can you hear me now?
I have a couple of things that I want to write about today. Let's hope I remember them all and can write them coherently. First off, last night I went to see Joel perform in Sounds of the Holidays. The show was ok, but two and a half hours later I was ready to not hear another Christmas song and go home to bed.
Last night I finished reading The Da Vinci Code. That book is really, really, really good. Inspiring and educational from the feministic point of view, too. Don't know what I am talking about? Well, read the book. It takes all the fun out of it if you know. But it takes a very, very cool view of Christianity mainly, but all religions truly. Definite props to Dan Brown. He researched like a mother fucker to get all that information. It was a good book. Not disappointing in any respect. There were a couple of times when the characters where so close to the truth only to have something get in their way, but I am used to stories like that, being an X-Files fan and all, so it didn't bother me too much. Just kind of aggrivating because you want to know. But that situation only came up once or twice. Nothing to bog down the reading. But, unlike The X-Files, the truth was found, so that was good. Getting there was all the fun anyway.
Another thing I wanted to write about is self esteem. What made me think of this was a trip to the doctor's office this morning for my dad and for me to get a flu shot. While I was waiting for my dad to get done I was reading the only thing that was around, Seventeen and Cosmo magazines. Everywhere there were ads about looking better, stories about how to get a guy or why doesn't the guy like me, or how to dress or how to look, how to lose weight, how to be better and prettier and sexier, what music to listen to... ect. I luckily, have never been faced with that problem. I never thought I should look like that person in the magazine or on television. I never thought I had to dress like my peers or lose weight because it is socially acceptable to be thin and pretty. (and I know what is is to be made fun of because you are fat/ugly. I was fat, very fat, in elemantary school. Elemantary school kids are ruthless and mean.) I have never been on a diet. Never really had an exercise regime. I have always been fine with myself. I know I am attractive, I know I am smart, I know I am good enough, I am the only one who has to be ok with me. Everyone else can fuck off if they don't like it. I don't have the ability to see how people can loath themselves perpetually. One thing it gets old, fast. No one wants to hear how much you hate yourself. Oh, starving artist. Sit around in your gloom and your depression and see how far you get in life. Ask Sylvia Plath....oh, wait....you can't. Now, you little depressed gals, I am not saying Sylvia was a horrible person. She was fucked up, a lot of other things happened in her life to cause her to stick her head in the oven. She was a great artist who had some paternal problems. But just because you are depressed and hate your daddy does not automatically make you a poet. I was depressed for a while and wrote some shitty poetry. I don't do that anymore. I called myself a writer because I can write. I can write in any genre and get by. I have been published in newspapers, newsletters, anthologies, ect, but I am not a poet. But i digress. My point is that people need to not think about what other people think. The first, and really only, person you need to feel comfortable about is yourself, and the rest will follow quite nicely.
December 04, 2003
Madeline Kahn
I am so tired. I don't want to be at work anymore. Well, I won't be anymore until Monday afternoon after I leave here tonight. But I have school stuff I need to finish tomorrow, which will be what all of tomorrow will be dedicated to. I have to go and see Joel sing tonight at the Biloxi Grand for a Christmas show. My mom and I are going with his parents. I will ride back with him. It is weird when I see shows with him and I don't get to see him at all prior to the show. The first time I will see him today will be on stage singing Christmas carols. I find i kinda funny and weird anyway.
School is almost over for this semester. Tuesday night I have an exam and Wednesday I have 2 and that is it. I am free of school woes after that for a while. Then I have to get my ass in gear for the wedding. I still have to do all the arranging. We did go and talk to his minister and set up the day to have the wedding at the church. That day wasn't a problem at all, luckily. I need to look through some ooks that i have and see what all is done at a wedding and reception and whether or not i want to do it. I just want it to be simple. Hell, t first i was all about the no wedding at all, but to really please everyone i wanted to have a ceremony. I think that was best anyway. Well, I am going to go, I have rambled enough. Later....
December 02, 2003
this is shite.
Video games, reading, studying, research reports, friends I haven't seen in a while, wedding plans, and taking care of things at my house have me pretty much booked up. I don't have much time to do anything extracurricular. After next Wednesday though my time will start to free up some. I will have loads of it, in fact. I will probably finish what little i have to do of xmas shopping, wrap presents, read, watch movies, and play video games. You know, normal stuff, in between trying to get things together for the wedding. Wow, this was a shitty entry. I don't have much to talk about, really. I have had my nose buried in one book or another for the last couple of weeks. Well, later....