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  • 2278 hits 2006-06-02 14:31:29 Sad news. My condolences go out again to poor Katie. Here's hoping you get some good news soon.

    In my own news, things are going slow. Job search is turning up empty. I'll probably keep trying, but it's disappointing. Also, some stupid comppany baytsp.com is now monitering the entire internet for people who share files via edonkey, p2p, bittorrent, irc, etc. I feel like the search for invididuals ip #s in server log files is a major invasion of privacy. Someone needs to virus them, bad.

    Also, I've been getting yelled at a lot by my mom, mostly cuz of that. And I have a weird discharge in my bellybutton. Tea tree oil did not, in fact, do anything other than make it itch a whole lot. Next, I'm going to try some anti-fungal cream. I want to go to my doctor, but stupid kaiser is being reluctant to call me back. I'd prefer some kind of anti-fungal pill, because I have had a strange smell under my nails for years.

    Other than that, I'm trying to work with csulb, but they suck. I was admitted as an art history major, but I plan to go into film. Need to get that fixed, hopefully they will let me. Otherwise, I'll have to apply to some different schools, maybe for '07. Gack! That reminds me of Gackt. His music is way better with his band, not with ayumi something-or-other singing silent night.  
  • 2257 hits 2006-05-29 02:01:01 saw x-men 3 today. Major SPOLIERS follow.

    Basically, I would compare it to evangelion, in terms of the ending. It starts with jean grey, presumed dead in #2, emerging from the lake, wearing the xmen uniform. I wanted so bad for the soundtrack to cut to "Back in black." Then she kills cyclops. Cut to xmen u, series of flashbacks, jean's unlimited superpowers unleashed by wolverine, semi-hot makeout scene, she runs away. Later, at her house (why at her house?) magneto & professor x talk to her. She dissolves professor x. I would have thought he could have stopped her with his MEGA-powers, but no. Wolverine enters the room, and seeing his face causes jean to stop. She runs off with magneto. Cut to funeral scene. Cut to mutant vaccine. Angel-boy (I didn't catch his actual name) is the son of the guy who made the vaccine. he decides no, dont wanna, then flies off to the academy, and becuz of him, storm decides to keep the skool open. Cut to church filled with thinly-veiled goth-stereotype mutants who hate the vaccine. Enter magneto, they all follow him. Cut to "leech" mutant boy whose power is to make other mutants normal. He's that creepy kid in that other movie, but bald. Rogue, seeing her boufriend ice-skate with shadowcat, decided to get the treatment. Bye rogue for the rest of the movie. Then we have mystique on a secure truck, magneto breaks her out, but a guard hits her with the vaccine Apparently, the vaccine causes whoever is hit with it to turn into a naked supermodel with perfect hair and eye makeup. Gratuitous nude shots. Magneto adondens her. Then, more crap. Then, magneto rips up golden gate bridge, moves it to alcartraz island, where the vaccine is produced, to kill the kid. Watch this scene. It is important not only because it is the last decent moment in the movie, and also because in one shot, it is daylight, and in the very next one, it is pitch black night. Now, no time could have passed, because magneto is about to have his minions attack in the 1st shot, and in the 2nd, they are charging off the bridge. Looks like someone ran out of footage/shot themselves into a corner. I suspect the director either cut out a huge chunk of a scene, or planned to have the sunset, the ran out of an effects budget ANIMATING THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE MOVE ACROSS SAN FRAN BAY. What follows is mutants, they get shot with anti-mutagen. Gay boy with boobs and bad gay fishnet outfit used sonic boom to destroy guns. the x-men arrive! They all have dramatic entrances that involve jumping. Wolverine gets to be special, becuz in this movie, IT'S ALL ABOUT WOLVERINE. He used him metal claws to make a shrill noise, oh & they also slow his fall down metal siding. His entrance takes significantly longer, and had multiple (!!!) angles. Wow. Then there's a fight scene, with beast shouting out the worst movie lines I've ever heard. Shadowcat & juggernaught RACE to leech, running thru walls. 1st kittie is ahead, then, wow, juggernaught is ahead. talk about a reversal of fortune. But! Surprise, kittie knew, somehow, that the room leech-boy is in is around a corner. she tries to walk thru walls with him, but he sayd her powers wont work around him. Enter juggernaught, who kittie taunts with a cry of "hey, dickhead!" He runs to the wall, but they move to the side, and due to leech's mutant-sucking power, hits the wall & falls unconcious. Cut to fight outside. Magneto is losing bad to the almighty x-men, but woah, jean gray, who has been standing to the side the entire time, starts to dissolve everyone and evrything. The ONLY ONE capable of stopping her is wolverine. I started to think that the way he would stop her would be with his sculpted physique and leather pants with the amazing ability not to dissolve, but no, it's because his super-healing is faster than jean's dissolve. The resut is a long scene of him struggling to walk towards her, while his skin & muscles are removed & re-formed via cgi. He tells her he loves her, she asks him to save her, he kills her with his metal claws. Aww! then a scene with kittie (I think that was her) at scott & jean's graves, then rogue comes back, no longer a mutant, and kisses her boyfriend. Then magneto, shot full of vaccine in the earlier fight scene, a regular old man in the park, playing chess alone, with just enuf power to wiggle the metal chess pieces when his fingers are less than an inch away. I am underwhelmed.

    Now for the deeper analysis. I get the feeling the director was trying to make a major social commentary, and since race relations have been done to death recently (harry potter, the other x-men movies, possibly a romaro zombie flick or 2), he made subtle & not-so-subtle hints to the iraqi war. The video on the movie's news channel had magneto in a VERY similar pose, angles, and message as a certain bin laden. I suppose the "good" mutants-professor x's buddies- would be the americans with middle eastern origin, and the "bad" mutants-team magneto- would be the terrorists. Magneto even used makeshift car bombs at one point! Also, there is a sad, sad, sad scene with g.i.s trading in their metal weapons for plastic ones immune to magneto's powers. As a side note, I still wonder how the guns, equipped with hypodermic needles filled vaccine could have penetrated the skin without the needles being made of some kind of metal. I think the plastic guns may have been a nod to the troops being under-armed, or something like that. Whatever "deep" message the director was going for, he/she missed by a mile. Other than a standard "good guy win" message, nothing meaningful, new, or particularly interesting was said here.

    BTW, having seen Hugh Jackman sans prosthetic sideburns on punk'd, I must say, in addition to making him look "more irish", they hide his ugly face. There is nothing he did here that Viggo Mortenson couldn't have done better. Oh, well, at least there are plenty of close-ups throughout the movie of his tight ass in tight leather. And of him in a wife-beater & jeans. And.....wait, that's it. I guess Wolverine is too busy being rebellious to shop for more than 2 outfits. At least they didn't center the story around cyclops.

    *rant over* 
  • 2235 htis 2006-05-24 22:25:18 My day: hectic

    Got to bed late last nite. Woke up 9:11am. Stinky was in my chair where I put my contact lenses in each morning. I decided screw this, went back to bed, lay there until my re-set alarm went off at 9:51am. Got up 2nd time, started to get readt. My cell rings. It's ericka, complaining that shes been waiting 4 me to come study with her, shes read the whole book and shes bored. in no small part, its her fault i'm so tired, cuz she took so long to email me the quixxes for film class to study for the final. so I drive to skool miracoulously finding a parking place ON CAMPUS. I didnt even have to do 2 pass-thrus. So I go to the cafeteria, get coffee, call ericka, find her outside. After a long erocka monologue about her day yesterday, I get her quizzes with the answers that werent in the book. Then her friend comes, and the monologue re-starts itself.

    So ericka's friend leaves, and she wants to go inside the cafeteria again, shes hungry. So we study for a while. Brian comes up. Ericka implies he now has a girlfriend. I dont get it, but whatever. Brian leaves. Cram more. Freak out over potential massive # of ?s of final. Cram more. Realize I didnt have time to get my re-edit of my film project. Panic! Call christina, ask her what to do. She advises getting the idsc now, not waiintg.

    I drive home, and it was so hot without sunscreen that I keep the top up & crank the a/c. Arrive home, leave leopard platforms in the car. begin disc burn. Put pre-emptive bandaids on feet, put on sunscreen & mascara, find fishnet footsie socks. Grab disc & go.

    Parking is considerabley worse, but I find a spot on 2nd pass-thru of parking lot #3 attempted. No, that's wrong. I kept driving til I reached the place with 2-hour parrallel parking, freaking out that I was too close to the mmini-van, it would get blocked in & I would get towed. Run to class on hurting feet.

    Arrive in class. It's the room we're in on monday, but I slowly realize it's another class in there taking a final. I go to the room we go to on wednesdays, and it's my class, studying for the final. I try to review the lighting chapter quickly, but no one has notes or the test. (The book's definitions suck!) Try my best to review, talk to my partner a bit, turn in disc, move to front of room (I really didnt want to move). The teacher does a mini q&a. I'm nervous, so I file my nails to take the tension off.

    I start the final. Even tho it's mondo memorization, I fly thru the thingg. he even gives us 2 throwaway ?s. I think I missed 4 or 5 total, but the tfinal was 132 questions, so no biggie.

    I notice how nice iti s outside. I decide to go to the beach or something & also start working on my "summertime guilt" video.

    Drove home, car still okay. Cant remember...

    Hear mom. She needs to pick up her stupid boyfriends medical records, ask me to come. I dont kow why I said yes. We go to he place. I txt a couple people n my phone book about hanging out. 2 actually called me back. We get to the place. the doctor moved. We drive to his new office. It's the 1 with the bitchy receptonsists. I take pics with my digital camera. We go the pet store i nsearch of the good litter. I take p[ics of the chinchuilllas & guinea pigs, and a quick vid of the scorpion. 1st time I 've ever seen one outside its little log.

    The store's out fo the good litter. We go to the other pet sore. I see a board shop, decide to look for surf boards and a bathing suit. They have neither, just skate clothes. Check out the ross next door for suits, they have a crappy selection, mostly bikinis. I may be a size 3, but I'm no supermodel. No way Im showing my small, untoned stomach in public! Also, I dont look good in dark blue or yellow. So no luck.

    Oddly enuf, I left @ the exaact same time as my mom. Feet kiling me, I limed back to the car. I hasd changed sandals b4 leaving the 3rd time, but the bandaids had come off, and the raw skin fro mthe blister I peeled off was unhappy.

    We got in-n-out. I took a picture of a tree. My mom was getting progressively psychotic, wiith the excse she had sleep apnea and wasnt getting enuf oxygen to her brain. Whatever, I just needed to get away from her, so when she suggested I go to the chiropracoor, I didnt argue.

    In the chiro, I ate my in-n-out, trying to make as little mess as possible with no napkin. Threw away trsh in trash can, read magazines. Saw doctor. He talked for a while about how employers cant ask you about tattoos or health problems, but health and life insurance can access your medical records. Interesting. Not really, but he loves to talk. So he adjusted me. He walked me to the desk, suggested I come back in a week. I said how bout a month...it goes on like this with no real point.

    So I left, went home, cleaned out the old litter. It was very thick & heavy, so that it needed 2 bags. Refilled cat box. Washed hands. Sat down at computer. Found boombox, put in foo fighters. Discovered later that computer's sound had returned. That's good, sicne 60% of the stuff Id o relates to sound. Opened amv projects & idea files, checked pms, etc.

    Now it's relaxing time!!!

    Friday night I have plans to sneak out to he club, looking forward to that :D 
  • 2224 hits 2006-05-24 01:28:08 My day: woke up, made strawberry protein smoothie, picked out suitable interview outfit. Chose pink ruffly ribbed tank, blue dressy pants, pink flowery sandals. I dont have a lot of buisnessy clothes.

    Talked to handyman dan. He gave me a quote on my ceiling holes & said to fix all the ceiling & remove the water damage from the wall-unit a/c would take about 1 day. I also asked him about my outfit. He said if I was interviewing with a guy, I could get a job cuz I'm so cute. I agreed. So after he went outside to work, I put on mascara, foundation, and a buttload of sunscreen. next time less sunnscreen. Got mascara on top. Looked frantically for a clean suitable top to wear to an interview at a hawaiin resturant. Chose orange tank top with flower medallion embroardiary.

    Drove to long beach town center with the top down. Went to wal-mart parking lot, realizing I had forgotten the recipt of the bookcase I wanted to return. Drove to tgifridays. I had hoped to get in a quik interview, but they told me to come bak @ 2pm.

    went home, cleaned out recipt bag, found recipt, made iced tea to relieve the massive heat.

    Left the house again & went straight to islands. The manager kept looking at me weird, but did interview me, and I think it went well. He seemed to buy my references pretty well. Not that I made them up, but as I mentioned to him, I only did ever work for family.

    After than, I walked to tgif & filled out an app there. This guy kept talking to me the whole time, then the girl who told the manager said I would get a phone call if they were interested. That usually means no, so I wonder if the guy was suppoed to be some kind of test, like to see if I had a really chatty personality or something. I have a bad feeling about that....the guy said he worked 3 different places. I wonder if I could do that. If I get hired at 3 places, I'll ask the managers if they mind. I have a feeling they will.

    After that, drove to wal-mart, dragged super heavy bookcase out of my trunk & into a cart, stood in line forever with coffing ladies standing an inch away from me, finally got a refund (I did only use it in my student film, after all.) I also withdrew the money from the nearby atm that my mom needed. I'm afraid to check the balance in my college fund/checking account/the money I have to sustain me until I get a job. I really need a relaliable source of income, and fast.

    After that I drove home, and crashed on the couch. I think at that point I also called Ericka from film class about emailing me the old quizzes. She did, 6 hours later. In the meantime, I made flash cards & read the comics. Then came aswering email, watching inuyasha, reviewing a couple amvs, realizing I have no footage to make any more of my own, and hae to wait for my fpptage cutting up program to finish compressing a decent version of the 1st cut of my student film to get any more footage, till waiting. Listening to paul k & the weatherman. 
  • dream journal 2006-05-23 13:42:43 Been a while since I did one of these, and a while since I've had a really interesting dream.

    So it started with me watching chinese torture chamber story (actual movie). At first was just he bizarrro jungle sex scenes, then pan over to this fat couple. Ok, the oman's head was the size of a buick, then she opened her giant mouth. I think I want to draw that.

    Okay, later I was at this place. It was on a ---um---- building with a view of ships. It was covered in green bird poo. There were lotsa people there. Kiss was there, and people were worshipping them like gods. I think I pissed off one of them. I went into this cave with more people, then kiss flew off with bird wings.

    Later, there was a hurricane or something, and I was looking for my cats in a pet refuge place that looked a lot like a pet store. There were tons of cats, but not my Buster. There were also fish that looked like butterflies. I asked the pet store lady if I could have some butterfly fish, & she said yes. Also, it was winter & I wanted a caot. But before I could get the coat (actually this might have been the very begining of my dream), I left.

    I met the large brown one from Gorillaz, and he was late for his concert, so I rode him piggy-back to the concert, and he tried to get backstage, but the guy next to the sign with the arrow (it had words on it, that did NOT say backstage, but I forget what they said) said no, since I was there too, but then said yes because there wasnt time to argue. So we got backstage, and there's this huge pyrammid. I see the concert happening, and because gorillaz is a cartoon band, they cant really go onstage, so their images get projected, and they dance. But then time goes backwards to right after we get there & it didnt happen, and people are trying to make it happen. So then the pyrmid opens up, and I see my friend, with a shaved blue & super short mohawk, who looks suspicously like my friend V. So I try to open her eyes to show them to my new bandmate friend, and somehow end up pulling her shirt down. Then she gets embarrassed & turns around, but her boobs pop out of her back. Turns out they were fake, because she is a super-nerd cyborg, and a bunch of wire coils covered in blue plastic rip out of her skin. Then she needs new ones. Then The guy in the band puts the pyramid on his back like a turtle, only 90% is behind him, then he runs out the exit. Teh end. 
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