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Sex, sleep, eat, drink, dream...
2001-10-29 11:10:06
W00t! Coderjoe, you da man.
I'll email Nate today and see what he thinks about restricted access DiVX files. It looks like I might end up doing indirect access through BBT, or do e-mail request only, that sort of thing.
Thanks! ^_^
Rar. Now I am sleepy. Must wait for coffee to kick innnnnzzzzz
For the record, I hate 1337speak, but "w00t" just conveys the right feeling... -
Africa, Mexico, Sicily, Tijuana - just bring us back two!
2001-10-29 10:02:06
Have you ever had an occasion where you'll be DONE with a music video and then two months later be HIT LIKE A TRUCK with the realization that you used the TOTALLY WRONG SONG for it, and there's another song that fits PERFECTLY?
So yeah, that's what happened to me Sunday night.
In my glorious two days of sleeping obscenely late and doing NOTHING, I spent some time farting around online (surprise) and reading bad fan fiction... I found a sort-of songfic that someone had written, set to the Indigo Girls' "Fare Thee Well". I about tore my hair out. "I have this freaking ALBUM! WHY did this not occur to me!?! AAAAAAH!!"
Since indigogirls.com won't let me link to the lyrics (stupid, stupid frame creatures), here they are:
fare thee well my bright star
i watched your taillights blaze into nothingness
but you were long gone before i ever got to you
before you blazed past this address
and now i think of having loved and having lost
you never know what it’s like to never love
who can say what’s better and my heart’s become the cost
a mere token of a brighter jewel sent from up above
fare thee well my bright star
the vanity of youth the color of your eyes
maybe if i’d fanned the blazing fire of your day to day
or if i’d been older i’d been wise
too thick the heat of those long summer evenings
for a cool evening i began to yearn
but you could only feel upon the things which feed a fire
waiting to see if i would burn
fare thee well my bright star
it was a brief brilliant miracle dive
that which i looked up to and i clung to for dear life
had to burn itself up just to make itself alive
i caught you then in your moment of glory
your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage
with a memory so clear it’s as if you’re still before me
my once in a lifetime star of an age
so fare thee well my bright star
last night the tongues of fire circled me around
this strange season of pain will come to pass
when the heating hands of autumn cool me down
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FUUUUUUUUUCK!! WHY DID I NOT USE THAT SONG?! FUUUUUUUUCK!!!
Well, maybe a wallpaper will come out of my FAILURE.
Anyway, watched "Mushroom Samba" last night on CN, and got to thinking about mushrooms. Not the psychedelic kind, the EATING kind. Brett and I went out for Chinese food on Saturday and I got this garlic pepper chicken thing that had these NASTY mushrooms in it that seem to plague all mediocre Chinese food. I don't know what the particular kind was, but they were on the big side, and dark brown, and all rubbery and chewy and nast... just bitter enough to not be completely flavorless. Ugh. I hate those things.
Now, mushrooms I could go for... it's all about some marinated grilled hunks of portobello mushroom on toasted panini, with pesto spread and a little shredded provolone... mmm, damn.
Or mushroom caps. Oven-baked button mushroom caps with creamcheese and paprika, or better yet, shredded crab. Mmmm.
It's a gorgeous morning in Austin. This was kind of a milestone today... when I walked out to my car I could see my breath fog in the air. That's how I know winter's really on its way.
Since we changed our clocks back, no more sunrise on the way to work. Now I see it from my bedroom window as I wake up. I like that much better.
Drew so much last night that my hand hurts this morning.
I have a feeling that this is going to be a good week. -
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all
2001-10-28 15:55:20
So I'm spending a gorgeous Sunday at home, sedentary and doing random crap on the computer. Allergies have made me their collectively pollenated bitch. (IT'S ANTHRAX!!)
I'm going to go get my jasmine tea out of the microwave...
...bleh
Brett's doing some DVD rips today, and we're meeting for pho downtown later this evening. Wish I could do the Sunday night Alias + Adult Swim + Beer + Sleepover thing, but I don't think he'd want to deal with allergy-ridden EK snoring and tossing in her sleep. Ah well.
I realized Saturday that I don't really have the editing bug full-on yet. I dicked around in Premiere a bit while Brett watched baseball... found some .avi files left over from the Bebop AMV Editing Orgy of this summer (okay, remind me never EVER to use the words "Bebop" and "orgy" in the same phrase... urrgh >_<) I plunked a few clips down to Ann Phillips' "I Can't Stand the Rain", but wasn't enthused or excited by it.
Brett's pretty psyched about our project, tho. He's better at music editing than I, so the sound should be great.
Spent last night remodelling the Bebop site so it didn't use any official art. I've been getting a lot of hits from Japan, and have had a few inquiries like, "gee, I guess overseas copyright laws are different...?" ^_^;; I apologized publicly in the J-forums I go to (you have NO IDEA how hard it is to get Amikai to spew out the correct kanji for "chigaimasu"... sheesh, and don't even get me started on apologetic words...) in broken Janglish as best I could.
Either way, the site's a lot lighter and I have a lot less HTML to edit when I update (plus I get to show off new art on the front page), but it's not as pretty as it was ;_; I weep for the lost lovely webdesign... took screencaps of the old look before blocking it.
You can see the new one at big-big-truck.com/bebop and the old one at big-big-truck.com/bebop/index2.html
Tried to install an Oekaki BBS on Big Big Truck today, but was foiled by my own TOTAL CGI INEPTITUDE.
In other news, Los Straitjackets' cover of "My Heart Will Go On" fucking rules. -
Every generation's got its own disease, I got mine
2001-10-26 18:12:39
Forgot to mention:
Concept illo sketch got approved. Dambusters of commissioned Painter art are go.
(Not really. I just wanted an excuse to make a Milk & Cheese referecnce.) -
This is Radio Orchid, listen and cry
2001-10-26 18:09:07
Well, sure enough, my video download is gone.
Or rather, it's gone for everyone except me, Brett, and Nate.
Got an email from Nate today. Apparently my videos pulled 3G of traffic on the meditac site over the past month - that's more than the med school and the uni together O_O
So, yeah, now End of the Day, Handsome Cowboys, and Failed Experiments are down.
While I'm pleased that Failed Experiments was so popular (I never thought I'd enjoy being in a room full of people all screaming "YOU SUCK!!"), End of the Day was the video I *really* put my heart into - parts of it were simultaneously thrilling and emotionally draining to edit down. I know there are numerous flaws in it, but ... I really liked how it fell together, especially on "I need someone to love".
I know my next batch of videos won't be nearly as well received as Failed Experiments. Well, screw it. I won't worry about trying to match or top it... I'm just going to have fun.
There's a band playing across the street that sounds just like Fury in the Slaughterhouse. Maybe I should go request "Won't Forget These Days". :B
Oh hey! It's 5:00!
Time to go to the gym, hit Zen for vegan takeout (love love the vegan takeout), and... BUM BUM BUM...
...go get started on my new video!
Or rather, OUR new video.
Brett and I are collaborating on this one.
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