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| Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 | | 1:19 am |
Happy SOPA blackout day, everyone! I am so busy as of late and so many confusing things are going on in my life and that's all going to have to wait for later... I had a weird dream the other day that there was a concert/book sale going on at my old elementary school, and there was some board game designed by Brian Dewan. You had to design short films using only certain shots or something weird like that. I don't really remember much else about the dream, other than I was thinking that it seemed like a really complicated thing to make a board game out of. Anyway. Will post later when I am feeling more coherent. | | Sunday, December 25th, 2011 | | 3:43 pm |
| | Saturday, December 10th, 2011 | | 12:36 am |
Writer's Block: Starstruck
Does John Hodgman count? Or Jonathan Coulton (who, I still maintain, is the absolute nicest guy in the world)? Does shaking hands with every member of a band count as "meeting" them? (Ok, I sort of talked to Marty Beller after a show once and had a really awkward conversation with Dan Miller when I got him to sign the only setlist I've ever gotten...) There was that time I talked to Wyatt Cenac and that time I talked to David Rees about Ohio and then I ran into him in an elevator later and he actually remembered my name which I was not expecting. Yeah, I haven't really had too many brushes with fame or stardom. Elvis Costello walked really close to me once. That doesn't count either. Maybe Vince Giordano & his Nighthawks count, since they've been in so many movies and tv shows by now...
| | Friday, December 2nd, 2011 | | 2:40 pm |
Writer's Block: Are you afraid of the dark?
That I will never find a job that will allow me to actually move out of my mom's house and support myself. My current job is so incredibly depressing and stressful and I barely make any money at all off of it. Some days I feel like just quitting, but I keep hoping that I am at least proving something to potential employers by actually, you know, maintaining employment.
| | Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | | 7:52 pm |
Every Christmas Card I Write Has Been Stolen
Heyyy, so I decided to do cards again this year after skipping out on them last year because I was feeling pretty lousy in December...but I'm feeling better this December, so I want an excuse to mail people stuff. Comments are screened, hit me up with the following: 1. What name/address the card should be mailed to (this much is pretty obvious) 2. If you have a specific preference as to what holiday you want it made out to (I personally am a lifelong Christmas-hater, but will wish you a Merry Christmas if that's what you celebrate. Or Festivus or Saturnalia or anything, really. You'll just get a generic "Happy Holidays" otherwise. :P ) 3. This is the most important (well, except for the address)...WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DRAW ON YOUR CARD. I will draw whatever you desire, anything, anybody, any fandom, etc. with very few exceptions (i.e. I feel like porn on a holiday card is kind of, um, inappropriate). You can send me something if you want to too, I can just PM my address to you if you so desire. | | Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 | | 7:16 pm |
| | Monday, November 7th, 2011 | | 7:38 pm |
| | Friday, November 4th, 2011 | | 9:57 am |
Writer's Block: The last bite
An ungodly amount of raw salmon. Or (cooked) eel. Or PAD THAI. Man, it has been so long since I've had sushi, but I just can't justify spending so much money on food anymore. :( | | Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 | | 3:10 am |
Writer's Block: Movember is Men’s Health Awareness Month
MOVEMBER I don't have an actual answer to this question, I just had to answer it because MOVEMBER. Is that a typo, or am I completely missing something here? (I don't know if this is an answer, but John Flansburgh is the most adorable man in the world. I don't know who the most important man in my life is, but right now it's probably the guy who called in after my radio show and gave me free tickets to see Ray Davies. I am pretty excited about that.) | | Monday, October 31st, 2011 | | 11:25 pm |
Hi guys
So it's almost midnight and I am still super-disorganized regarding NaNoWriMo, but I am going to attempt it anyway... I keep noticing people unfriending me on Facebook, and now I'm noticing people unfriending me on LJ again too. Sorry? I realize that I should comment more on other people's posts, but I often feel like I don't really have anything insightful or constructive to say. It's not like I don't read them or don't care. I'M GONNA TRY TO BE A BETTER ONLINE FRIEND, YOU GUYS. Also I had a pretty fun Halloween. Had a pretty good radio show, hung out with some folks, wore my Marty Beller Mask, ate candy, drank Yuengling, slept, watched a bunch of That Mitchell and Webb Look and that Louis C.K. television show, and had a bunch of dorky conversations. (Oh, watched The Rutles too!) | | Saturday, October 29th, 2011 | | 6:45 pm |
Writer's Block: Musically inclined
EVERYTHING. FOR FOREVER. Nah, seriously though, I've taken piano lessons since age 8, started clarinet at 10, saxophone at 12, first picked up guitar at 14 or so but was really bad at it until the past year or so, have dabbled in trumpet (know the fingerings but don't play it enough to keep up any semblance of an embouchure), attempted flute once and was really bad at it (same for bassoon), borrowed a violin and an oboe at different points in time in my unsuccessful attempts to teach myself those instruments...uh, I have an banjo too, that I can sort of play (not as well as guitar). I think that's it, but I'm probably forgetting something... EDIT: I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING! I bought an accordion a couple months ago. | | Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 | | 4:08 am |
| | Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 | | 2:06 pm |
Writer's Block: Oodles of noodles
I'm a bad Italian because I actually don't really like spaghetti or pasta or anything like that. I am really into all sorts of Asian noodles though. I'm generally a big fan of anything with soba or udon. I have to be in the right mood for ramen (i.e. willing to eat SO MUCH SALT, however I'm usually up for salty stuff). Love the rice stick noodles too (like in pho). And I love Pad Thai with all of my heart and soul. Now that I think about it though, I'm not really a big fan of lo mein or most Chinese-type noodles though. I think that might just be because I have too much experience with crappy Americanized Chinese restaurants. | | Sunday, October 16th, 2011 | | 9:36 pm |
Writer's Block: What a wonderful word
I am strangely fond of the word "charlatan" for some reason, though I am not quite sure why. Also "loquatious". I used to keep lists of these things, but I don't know if I do anymore. | | Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 | | 12:55 pm |
I really, really want to write something and actually finish it. I think I might try and do that tonight, because job-hunting has just been really depressing so far. Then again, listening to The Smiths is always a really bad idea when you're feeling pretty down, so I guess I have myself to blame for this one. (Though to be fair, I've got "Barbarism Begins At Home" on repeat, and it is a total disco dance party of a song.) | | Saturday, September 24th, 2011 | | 1:21 am |
Writer's Block: “We built this city on rock and roll”
Y'know, I was just listening to that WBER interview where John Flansburgh claims that song is the worst song he's ever heard, and the first time he heard it, he had to pull over to the side of the road to listen to it because he couldn't believe how bad it was, and thought he'd never hear it again in his life. But to actually answer the question, my favorite lyricists, in chronological order, are W.S. Gilbert, Cole Porter, and Elvis Costello, and pretty much anything any of them write is always gold.
| | Thursday, September 8th, 2011 | | 1:55 pm |
On fanart of historical figures
So uh, my mom drew SCRATCHBOARD ART OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH when she was in high school for art class. Could you even get away with that nowadays, or would they send you to a guidance counselor or something and start thinking that you had assassinistic designs on authority figures? (She thought JWB was good-looking, but obviously didn't support killing presidents or anything.) She drew a bunch of stuff actually, and it was good, but disappointing at the same time. She just copied photographs and album covers and the like; she didn't actually draw anything by herself, without a reference. I might not be the greatest artist out there, but at least I haven't copied anything since I was 11 or so. | | Sunday, September 4th, 2011 | | 8:30 pm |
Writer's Block: It happened one night
Oh hey, "It Happened One Night" was just on TCM a couple hours ago. Wonder if that was coincidental or not. Anyway... Best thing that's happened to me? I have no idea. Any individual thing that's happened to me generally has a couple upsides and then a lot more negative points. I can point to a couple days that are filed away in my head as "best night ever" though... 1. July 2003--Touching a bass saxophone. I was 14 and completely spellbound.It would be overstatement to say that it changed my life, but it certainly made me much happier than anything else had up to that point in my life. 2. November 2007--Seeing They Might Be Giants for the first time at my college, including getting a setlist, getting Dan Miller to autograph it, and getting to shake hands with every member of the band. It was incredibly dorky, and the show was on the shorter side. The setlist was also not as good as the second time I saw the band. But that's not the point. The point is it was the first rock show I ever went to, I got to stand in the front row, and the good vibes were neverending. 3. July 2011--Seeing Elvis Costello in Columbus. Sorry, this was such a seriously amazingly fun concert. I'M NOT GOING TO STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. ( Don't start me taaaaalking, I could talk all niiiiiiight) Bonus best thing ever: EVERY SECOND I HAVE SPENT IN NEW YORK CITY. I am so in love with that city in the way only a sad, lonely Midwesterner can be. The sense of social isolation other folks seem to feel in NYC doesn't seem to affect me, possibly because I'm already pretty damn alone 99% of the time where I currently live. At least there's stuff to see/do in New York, so you aren't as aware of how few friends you have. | | Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 | | 3:39 pm |
Ain't Gonna Wri No Mo', No, Mo'
So I can't remember if I discussed this already or not, but I discovered my 2010 and 2009 attempts at NaNoWriMo on my laptop recently. I didn't make it past 500 words in either of them. Writing is an arduous process anyway, but when you've got school and a chronic procrastination problem complicating things, it becomes just about impossible. I figure I'm going to give it another go this year though. This is the first November since I was 2 that I won't be in school. Two fucking decades. I feel like I'll have no idea how to measure time anymore. I was going to bring the laptop to Michigan so I could work more on writing both my NYC recap and a couple of fics I'm working on (one for tmbg_challenge, one just for fun), but I wound up thinking it would take up too much space in my suitcase, and space is definitely at a premium when you're travelling in a van with 6 other people and their luggage. I wanted to bring a guitar, but that felt too intensely selfish of me, so I left it at home. Being out in the woods gave me an insane amount of inspiration though, and it killed me that I was getting all these great song ideas spontaneously popping into my head when I had no instrument to transcribe them with. (Not even a tape recorder or anything to sing into!) Every time I go to Michigan I always wind up writing a ton of songs in my head and then completely losing them by the time I get home. It's frustrating. Maybe the trees are good for the creative process, idk. (Or maybe there are latent psychoactive properties in the chemicals that are probably polluting the riverwater...) | | Sunday, July 31st, 2011 | | 9:59 pm |
I'm back from New York City and I want to post about all the exciting stuff I did, but Livejournal is such an unholy mess right now that it's hard for me to even post anything at all. Needless to say, I had a tremendous time. While most of my time at home has been marked by crippling depression, I was literally happy the entire time I was in New York. Yeah, I was concerned a couple times (can I walk from Chinatown to Chelsea? Can I get to LaGuardia on time? Will I be forced to see They Might Be Giants during a thunderstorm?), but everything worked out fine. Also, I gotta say, getting to come back to the city by myself was GREAT. I have some videos; they're linked from the page for the 7-29-2011 show on tmbw.net. I have some photos too; I'm currently looking for a good place to put them up that isn't facebook, so that everybody can see them. I took the little Join Us static sticker Flans handed me and stuck it on a window of my car. :) (LJ, clean up your act, I want to post shit.) Current Mood:  giddy |
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