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Ummmm......yeah.......what he said
2002-01-19 14:01:50
Wow, what a depressing journal entry. I guess some sleep was all I needed, since I'm more prone to getting like that when I haven't had a lot of sleep. You know how it goes. Anyhow, I started seriously capturing for and experimenting with a new video, which involves the movie X. The song is about 6 minutes, 45 seconds long, but I don't want to cut it down. Once (if) I finish it, with all the little timing things and cuts that I want to do in it, it should be pretty cool. I'll keep everyone informed, which is to say that anyone is interested, which is probably wrong. But to hell with it, I don't care. This video is for me, dammit. MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That's right! Screw you all! I.....uh....well.....um.....never mind. Sorry about that.
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So lonely inside, so busy out there/ And all you wanted was somebody who cares
2002-01-19 02:38:04
Doesn't it suck how being with people and having fun can be depressing, but the alternative (being alone) is more depressing? Yeah, that is about how tonight was getting. It's not too bad now, but earlier kinda sucked. I'm constantly hanging out with Meredith, my good but long since and hopelessly taken friend, which is a bit of a downer. I would just stay around the suite, but she's always here, and I don't want to avoid her, since she is really fun to be around. However, I could be meeting new people and solving some of the problems causing this funk if I were to go out and meet new people, but I really don't like doing that. I usually prefer to keep to myself, or at least the people that I know. I can be outgoing when I feel like it, but I usually don't. It's some of that shyness that I used to have when I was little that keeps creeping back in and seizing me at the wrong times. That, and to top it off, our other friend Ashley brings over her new boyfriend, who is about 26, with her being 19, so that's good. I always hate having to entertain a friend's new significant other, but at least he turned out to be a pretty nice guy. I know she wants to have him meet my friends and myself, but so many times anymore, it is like people are coming to see a carnival attraction. Come see "Meredith and Her Nerds" this Sunday at the county fair!! Come one, come all!! And I don't even really feel like I fit in completely. I'm the oddball of the group, since I am not really into math, science, or computers. Granted, I would like to say that I know more than the average user, but I have no grasp of C++ or any of that other programming shit. I use my computer to download anime, listen to music, play games, and make videos. That's about the extent of it. I am defined as a nerd in this case by being intelligent (so they say), a good student, and really into anime (and in case anyone is wondering, the person doing the defining is Meredith herself, who knows jack shit about anime). So, I always have to explain to people when they ask me a technical question that I will have to defer to my fellow nerds, since I am mainly around for variety and comic relief. That, and so much of the time anymore, I'm just "one of the nerds", instead of Jared. I like being part of a group, but I also like being an individual. Being the oddball does have it's perks, but the things that come to us are people needing help with something, and it's usually something that I don't know about or can't help with. I really hate thinking, since this is the kind of shit it leads to. Long rants about stupid shit. God dammit, this sucks.
Oh yeah, and by the way, that fucking job that I worked over Christmas still has not paid me. I have to go back and fill out another application, since there is some employee number that they need from me and that I don't have. Apparently, the ex-store manager's incompetence led to this number being lost, so I have to get a new one, which means I will be going home tomorrow to dick around with that. Shit, and to think that I was in a rather good mood earlier in the day. Hell, two hours ago, I was just fine, but now, nothing. I think I will go take out my frustrations on Max Payne, and blow away some fictional polygonal characters with heavy weaponry. Fun. - Uteral Eruption? Sounds either extremely disgusting, or like a damn good band name 2002-01-16 02:48:14 That or Toaster Bungee Explosion sound like viable band names. Or how about Sonic Death Monkey (from High Fidelity)? Well, anyway, just wanted to make a quick note. I considered doing a video for "Chop Suey!" by System of a Down. I think it has a good mix of heavy pounding rock, and kinda pretty softer harmony parts. That is, until I found out that at least 50 OTHER PEOPLE THOUGHT OF IT BEFORE ME. Lord, and only about half of them had working download links. I downloaded a bunch of them (or at least the ones I could get to work), and spent a while watching them. There were some stinkers, and a few good ones. Three to be precise. I forget who they were by, but that song using Cowboy Bebop, Dragonball Z, and Fatal Fury (the best of the three). The CB one was alright, and it was one of the better one's of this song that I had seen, but it wasn't one of the best CB videos I had seen. Those would be either Kwasek's "Yesterday" and "Only in Dreams" videos, and EK's "End of the Day". The DBZ one (which was one of many, but it was the only one I could get to download) was moderate, with the source coming from parts of DBZ that I had never seen before. But the Fatal Fury one seemed to me to best capture the feeling of the song on the whole, with the rather abrupt changes, lots of action, and some drama to boot. Well, I've got an early class, so I need to move the whole two feet from the computer to my bed and try to get some sleep. College would be so perfect, if it weren't for those damn classes.
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The highway shimmered like incense on the head of a Buddhist monk.........CONCIERGE!!!
2002-01-15 21:30:36
Well, not much has changed, except that I am constantly kicking myself the last couple of days. I want to do a video using X, and I have a tape of it that I want to use as source. However, I loaned said tape to my friend Dave on Sunday, because he said he would watch it that night and give it back to me in Japanese class the next day. Unfortunately for me, he fell asleep and didn't finish watching it, and I didn't want to deprive him of seeing the end of the movie. I know, I shouldn't have loaned it out in the first place, but whatever, that's enough out of you. Otherwise, not much has changed around here. Blah.
Oh, and if anyone can name the song that these lyrics came from, I would have to commend you and send you a cookie or something, since no one has heard of this band from Canada (small hint). Ok, now leave me be, the squirrels beckon me away. - DAMMIT, NOT AGAIN!! 2002-01-14 00:33:23 Shit, it happened again. I hit the button, it asks me if I want to download "home.php", and when I try it again, it does the same thing. Then, when I check my journal again, I HAVE TWO FRIGGIN' ENTRIES OF THE SAME DAMN THING!! Technology can be so damn annoying.
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