| Bandwagon Train to the Stars. |
[Sep. 24th, 2009|01:05 pm] |
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HOLY GOD, IT'S AN ENTRY!
Anyway, you know what one of the scariest things ever is? Waking up at 6 AM and not seeing any sign of the sun rising through the window. O_o ...Have I ever mentioned my irrational fear of the sun not coming up? Which is more of a fear that the Earth stopped moving, which in turn is probably just a facet of a larger irrational fear of the universe breaking? :x I don't think I have, but it's been a thing of mine for a while. I think I understand how seasonal cycles used to strike enough terror in to people that they had to invent Christmas to cope with it all. Because it scares me, and I'm a modern person with a decent sense of astronomy. (Unlike this one person in a community I belong to, who once referred to stars as "big fiery evil looking planets. That was weeks or even months ago, and I still haven't forgiven them for it.)
Aside from that tangent, happy Fall, northern hemisphere people! ♥ Best season ever. Though, it's rather ironic that we had to turn the air conditioner on again pretty much as soon as the season began. DAMMIT SUMMER! Stop coming back! >:|
Oh, and remember how I was waxing squeeful about how OMG THERE ARE MOVIES AND I WANT TO SEE THEM!? Well, I did! And they were both tons of fun! Inglorious Basterds had that awesome black comedy thing going on, and that awesome Tarantino cleverness thing going on as well. :D And I couldn't stop saying "arrivederci" in a ridiculous Southern accent for several days after. XD I'd go on about it more, but I don't want to spoil anyone who hasn't seen it that might want to some time in the future.
9 was also wicked sweet. ♥ Just picture the lovechild of BLAME! and WALL-E. No, I'm totally serious! Really! To be specific, the early parts of WALL-E that take place on Earth, and add a little dash of Metropolis (the animated one) in there for good measure. And I thought the characters were endearing, and not just because they're little ragdolls. ^^ I know some people had some problems with it, mostly along the lines of "OH GOD NOT ANOTHER END OF THE WORLD MOVIE I'M SO BORED I COULD CLAW MY EYES OUT! D:" But hell with them, I loved it. And people will be making end of the world movies until the world ends for real, so it should be judged on what you can do with the concept than avoiding it altogether. And I think 9 was a very fun/interesting take on it. My only complaint is that it seemed a bit rushed at parts, but since it was a first full-length effort from someone who worked on, uh, short films, I think that can be forgiven. (And really, if your primary complaint with something is "NEEDS MOAR," that's a job well done!) So yeah. I know most of you here appreciate a good cartoon, and this is one of them, so maybe check it out sometime. ^^
In other news, there's a man next door fixing a hole in my aunt's roof that my father discovered the other day. And we're currently living in the furniture section of a Salvation Army. Actually, that's not quite true, but we did get even more great-grandma furniture. -_- And now the house has about twice as many furnishings as it can rightfully hold, and there are drawers shoved in random corners. And a disemboweled dresser on the back porch. (It's being replaced by one of the hand-me-downs.)
There's more pleasant news than that involving my aunt, though! Takkun and I showed Watchmen to her last week, in the interest of cheering her up when she was sulking about something or other. And she loved it! She was exclaiming excitedly through the whole thing and now wants to read the comic. I'm also sure that she said some hilarious things, but the only thing I can remember is "...I know he doesn't care much about social mores, but he could at least put on some clothes."
And from what I've heard, some of the people at the rock/pottery/bead/what-have-you joint have flown home for the winter! Though, I've yet to make contact with the owner and ask again. A task for this weekend, that is! But I did visit the shop last Friday. I now own an impressive cluster of quartz crystals, a meteorite, and an eerily perfect cute of pyrite.
Oh, and you know what happened to me for the first time ever? I had a caffeine buzz. :x Now, I ingest a lot of caffeine, but it usually just seems to bounce off me. Or I'll drink a lot of coffee and get kind of shaky/thirsty without feeling speedy/energetic. Or I'll be able to drag my carcass around to wherever I need to be for 36 hours instead of 30. (Which is probably why the very thought of Vault Zero makes me queasy to this day. It tastes like school. Particularly the horrible carpet there.)* Anyway the point is, I've never really felt what other people describe, at least not until last week. And I don't think I ever want to go through that again. X_X For one thing, it's utterly physically unpleasant. And it takes about half of an over-filled pot of coffee to do anything at all. And my caffeine buzz levels don't seem to run along a gradient, so it's not like I can adjust the effects, since it's that last refill that takes me from zero to Graham Specter crazy. If it made me productive, I wouldn't mind as much, but I spent the late night/early morning pacing even more furiously than usual, and also sweating, hyperventilating, and sorting through my cheap toy collection like a lunatic. Guhhhh. Not fun. (Ok, so going through my stuff was pretty fun, but I'd rather not be doing it on fast-forward.)
*I never actually tasted the school, and especially not the carpet, but after staring at that horrible mash-up of colors while drinking vault every day for god knows how many months, the association has become so strong that memory of the taste doesn't make me think "Vault," it makes me think "carpet." Sometimes it works in reverse, too. Like how certain shades of cobalt blue (like the color of certain bottles, but usually in contexts other than glass) taste like bitter carsickness. ...I have no idea. ._.
tl;dr, I think I prefer being drunk. But I got to do that, too! On the Friday before last! And I had fun and managed not to get sick or dizzy at all! And I did things that were hilarious in retrospect. Like some of the classics I do every single time I even get near alcohol, such as going on nihilistic tangents about quantum physics and trying to use the stairs only to find that I misplaced the bottom step. But I also...
-Insisted that I had to play Majora's Mask RIGHT NOW!
-Insisted that I had to listen to Hum RIGHT NOW! (And tried to find my CD case so I could do so, but failed.)
-Tried to show Takkun diagrams of leg amputation in an old surgical textbook. (His response was to look bored and slur something about how he knows what a stump looks like.)
-Launched in to a rousing but off-key rendition of Nerevar Rising. (And I think, but can't be sure, that my head was under a coffee table at the time.)
-Babbled happily about all of my character and plot ideas for upwards of half an hour.
-Got in to a deep discussion with Takkun about people's voices in the Watchmen movie, particularly how it seems like everyone just knew what Rorschach sounds like.
-Got in to a deep discussion with Takkun about life on other planets and how thinking the rules that apply to life on Earth would apply to it at all is just daft and science should know better.
-Possibly referenced that scene from American Psycho with the axe and the raincoat, but I can't really be sure because... I kind of talk about that a lot, for some godawful reason. Pinpointing a single time when I mentioned it is kind of hard, especially if I might have been intoxicated.
Anyway, I didn't play Majora's Mask RIGHT THEN, but I started up with it the next day! Which is a good thing, because I don't think I had enough properly firing brain cells to play it when I was rolling around under a table and DOO-DOO-DOOing Morrowind music to myself. XD Anyway, I almost forgot how much fun it was! And how... Weirdly nightmarish. :x But not like, "nightmarish," I mean actually similar to a dream or nightmare. It's awesome.
...I'll just point out that those paragraphs don't even pretend to go in chronological order. With that out of the way:
( Picture attack!!! )
Now, I know this entry was picture-heavy and verbose and kind of a ramble, so maybe you're too bored to pay attention by now, but THIS IS IMPORTANT! 8D Those of you who grew up in the 90s (or at least mid-80s onwards), do you remember seeing The Big Snit when you were younger? Neither did I, until I watched the video, but as soon as I did, it all came rushing back at me. And I was all like OMG THIS IS THAT CARTOON! Though it got buried during the last few years, I had a really strong memory of this thing. "You're always shaking your eyes!" and "CARROST" and... The whole thing, really. I'm glad that I could pull this one out of the "WTF, did I dream this!?" bin. So that got me thinking. Gen Yers, and later Gen-Xers, assorted pre-millennial types, etc., I call upon you!
SHOW ME WEIRD, HALF-REMEMBERED SHORT CARTOONS!
Or, if you can't find them (they are half-remembered and all), just tell me about them. and they don't even have to have been short, though shorts do lend themselves to this particular sort of half-dream pseudo-memory. But anyway, share with the group! For together, we can jog one another's memories and bring about peace of mind! 8D
Speaking of nostalgic cartoons, Takkun and I have taken it upon ourselves to finally finish Outlaw Star! Because we both caught bits and pieces of it in '01-'02-ish, and started it together a few years ago without finishing it. And... FUCK YEAH, AWESOME! I love this show, seriously. Things like this were the whole point of being in to anime for me. And it reminds me so much of back in the day, which is absolutely wonderful. Between this and Zelda... It's like I've found the fucking fountain of youth, I swear. (I think I'm the only person in the world who loved being 13. You're all shiny and young but old enough to have achieved the level of sapience that lets you do more things for yourself! Young and awkward > older, bitter, and STILL awkward.) Anyway, back to the point, the world needs more gritty space dramas. Though I don't think that kind of feel is possible with today's animation techniques. Cels just had the heart and soul that computers lack. I can't explain it.
Also, sorry for being sort of scarce around here. I'd really love to post more, but I'm lazy and sometimes I think I literally have no sense of time, so it kind of gets away from me. I've been busy lately, though, either out having fun or enjoying post-fun relaxation, so maybe I'll hit a lull. No, no, that's not good enough. I WILL ACTIVELY REMIND MYSELF TO POST. :| It may or may not work, but I want it to! XD
In closing... I'll just leave this here... >>;
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