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life denied
2003-08-15 10:41:57
Things are getting more straightened out, but I still couldn't do any work last night. First the reinstall would not work, and then I was snared by the nefarious trap of football to just sit on the couch instead of go edit. Of course, editing wasn't a good idea last night, not only because of the instability of the electrical grid, but also because I was quite tired. I don't know how people can pull all-nighters and still work on videos; if I don't have energy, work just does not get done.
I'm hoping to have some time Saturday and Sunday, but that may be spent organizing my AWA Expo entries. Those need to be mailed NOW. I need more DVD cases & should have bought them last night, but I was busy wresting with a Windows reinstall and couldn't think. Anime Next will get #79 and #68 (still attempting to get this shown); #80 won't be done until MITAC's contest.
Both videos posted yesterday have a strong and healthy average of 1.00 stars. More AYA fans need to watch #50, so I can arrive firmly at the bottom of the star scale. I can't wait to murder another well-loved character for fun and profit.
I liked Explorer Woman Ray, unlike 90% of the losers at club, so tonight should be pretty cool. Hawaiian is turning into a fan favorite, so hopefully it will be back as well. To buy at the Kid this week: Argent Soma (preempted by Patlabor last time) or Moonlight Lady (the infamous Moon Without Face) if they have it. Can't wait to do a video from this hentai in *UNCENSORED* DVD quality; too much fun.
--Kai out
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i'm running in a wheel
2003-08-14 10:22:24
I decided that I didn't need a scene chart for this video after all, as the word pace is a lot slower than the last one I needed one for, so I didn't get anything done last night.
Meg and I went over to the beach to hang out and talk and such. I can't believe that we've only got a little less than two weeks left together. That sucks. And I've got a huge pile of forms, bills, and such to cut through tonight, plus reinstalling Windows on the family computer. I'm betting it was a diskspace issue that caused the crash; that drive was under like 95% utilization. I don't need this crap hogging my time. Maybe I'll be able to fit in some editing, probably not.
I put #20 and #50 ('heroes' and 'drowning pool') up on local this morning; I really need to put Hasshin! 3 together, get that out, and start putting up stuff like #58 before I go off this connection. All the con packs for the near future need to be sent out before I leave for Michigan, because I have no guarantee of having easy access to a post office there. I should also send Quu my forwarding address, but I can do that over email.
Ten things to do at once, 18-hour days....it's like I'm back at school already. I still need to get a job out there. Screw it all, I'm gonna spend $2000 on guns and finance my degree by robbing banks.
offtopic:
does it SURPRISE anyone that the two most-underrated videos under the new scale:
* both use that hit single from Evanexcresence?
* both were made in Windows Media Mangler?
* both are in Worthless Maggotty Video format?
There's a reason, and it has everything to do with the fact that most global op categories average around 8. "If you don't have anything nice to say..."
--Kai out
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they said it came from just one bomb
2003-08-13 10:21:40
Hung out with Meg and Zuger last night. Did no work. Loaded up the van with speakers and stuff for Jake to go back to school this morning. And my youngest brother has Lyme disease, so he was too sleepy and drugged-up to help. Fortunately I only have to stay at work as long as everyone else in the deepartment now, not wait around till Jake gets back from bolting RTP furnaces into place.
Meg's coming up today, and she told me to give her a reading list. I think I'm just going to hand her Cold Mountain and Plainsong, since I can't pass out my mom's Margaret Atwood novels without asking, and she's probably read those already anyways. She lent me the first Harry Potter book. I'll probably blitz through it tonight sometime; hopefully the localizations won't be too painful. Did the publisher really think that the fundies would get any MORE up in arms about the book if they referred to the Philosopher's Stone (from real Western occult traditions) as opposed to the 'sorcerer's stone' euphemism? They're still burning all they can get their hands on. Nitwits, both sides.
I should get the scene map done tonight before Meg shows up. Tomorrow I'll probably do some work while Touch movie 2 dupes, then break away from that to wacth my current tape of Cha Cha. Friday's my last day of club borrowing -- scary.
odd fact:
To the best of my knowledge, #79 has gotten no star score lower or higher than 3. Weird.
--Kai out
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our last quest
2003-08-12 10:41:57
Before I talk about my irrelevant crap there are important issues that must be confronted.
If Tom has really quit for the reasons I suspect, then my considerable respect for him has to drop a tad. When life throws shit at you, you don't stand there and allow yourself to be spattered by turds. You throw back shitters. Porcelain toilets, Boondock Saints-style. I'm 100% serious. Off five-story buildings and onto the heads of the haters.
It is a crying shame that one of the most original and innovative creators to come onto the scene in recent years has been apparently driven out of the hobby by idiots who didn't understand his work. And it's not like it takes a whole lot of brain power to 'get' Fight!! or his Messenger/Eva trailer. We're talking people substantially below the Fred Durst Retard Cutoff, which some scientists are now saying is below that of some species of garden vegetables.
I know Tom's got a pile of other issues in his life, but from his prior posts, it seems that the fact that con audiences liked his work, but the tools on the Internet did not, was a constant thorn in his side. It's too bad that I didn't get the chance to tell him back at AniBo not to give a shit about what such people thought. He has more talent and originality in the end of his little finger than most of them have in their entire bodies. Hell, even *I* could probably make a better video than most of them.
....just not real fast. I didn't do any work last night (watched Puppet Master Sakon instead). This show is damn cool, but much like Kindaichi, they can't ever wrap up a mystery in a single ep. It's like watching a movie with breaks in the middle for OPs and EDs. Also like Kindaichi, they don't mess around on the gore. So far we have had the following deaths (in 8 episodes), now reformatted as Cannibal Corpse song titles:
* Decapitated By Piano Wire
* Thrown Down The Stairs
* Stabbed Behind The Curtain
* Fatally Shot
* Impaled By Shrapnel
* Gutted With A Cleaver
* Suicide Into The Ravine
* Crushed By A Statue
* Harpooned With A Katana
* Splattered Onto The Rocks
* Incinerated By A Gas Explosion
As you can see, if you're not a lead character and you wander into a Sakon ep, it's odds on that you ain't gettin' out alive, or even all in one piece. Must find some DVDs for this show or Kindaichi; the recent glut of death videos demands it.
In the meantime, though, I'll be trying to keep my girlfriend from going nuts about her housing situation (the university says they never got a request in from her, which, as she sent the form in twice, is bullshit), trying to get my finances in order to go to school (if I'm only going to be in for 18 months, I might not want to stop paying my current student loans, it's only $100/mo), and also working on the video as much as I can. I desperately want to show it to Meg before we both go off to school, and I'd like to get it to Anime Next before their deadline.
Tomorrow I'll be able to battle on it unrestrained, and while it's unlikely given that we have so little time together left, and how tired I'm feeling now, I might even be able to get the scene chart together tonight if Meg sends me home early. Like I said: not gonna happen.
--Kai out
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watch them feed
2003-08-11 11:04:47
I'm on schedule!
Ok, now that both people who read this pointless record semi-regularly are done wiping the beer they spat onto their monitors off the glass, I can go on. Kai, on schedule on a project? No fuckin' way!
I'm not really on schedule; I had planned to clip through at least one of the 20 mini-episodes yesterday, but that just didn't happen. I did do everything that I had gone on record as having planned for the weekend, though, which was just capture and separation. Tonight I'm going to do up a scene chart and clip three of the mini-eps (minimum) before I call Meg to see what we're doing the rest of this week.
Current video: C.W. McCall, "Lewis And Clark" to You're Under Arrest mini-specials. Progress check: 25%. Anticipated catalog number: #80. This song has a lot, superficially, in common with the next-to-last comedy video I did, #68. Mostly because there's a LOT of words comin' REAL FAST and very little in the way of interesting music. What I did to keep that video sort of focused was make a chart of what scenes I would need for what lines of the song. Normal people do this all the time, but it's such a pain and so unnecessary on most of the videos that I do that I usually ignore it. It helps with source gathering and reduces overhead required, but its main function is to remind me that I have to cover ALL THIS MATERIAL in the video, and that slacking on source collection, or not picking out certain really odd and necessary clips, will cause hellacious problems.
For the record: this is the first SH video from DVD since #74, and the first with TV aspect ratio since #73. Those were made back in March and April. Scary. Of course, Project Haibane and sickness ate most of that time, but that souldn't be an excuse. Hopefully school will give me time to be more productive (didn't I say that about work as well? fuckit).
Con news: #70 screened in the morning and opposite the AMV panel at Otakon to no great fanfare. I missed the AWA Masters' deadline and now must remember to send this project to Expo. Quu is back and unless I get either tapes or a mailing date by the end of the week, I'm sending him my forwarding address so I can judge this contest instead of letting the tapes uselessly collect dust at my house. AAGH. Next deadline is AnimeNext. They will probably get #79 and #80. MITAC will get those two in different versions and #58.
I finally made a top list: 'Another Fine Reason' (SH052) and 'The Man From Gomu-Gomu' (SH060) are respectively #32 and #47 on the most-underrated list, and it's YOUR goddamned fault. Leave some ops, people, or eventually people might recognize my name around here........... (message brought to you by the Coalition to Keep Kai Off Lists)
The weekend was pretty cool (Hawaiian pizza again Friday), though I was prevented from picking up the current volume of Argent Soma by the release of some more Patlabor. The stress of this devil's choice carried over and forced me to buy rare CDs from Morbid Angel (_Entangled..._, _Heretic_ should be out shortly), Carcass (_Swansong_, and it IS better than _Heartwork_), Bathory (_Hammerheart_; I wanted _Blood Fire Death_, but they didn't have that one, probably because of the rightist back cover), and In Flames (the _Trigger_ EP; nothing technically rare). The new material on _Trigger_ is pretty decent, sort of like the punch of _Jester Race_-era with the melodics and structuring of more modern (though a lot of people would probably like that the other way around). The bonus material is ok for the most part, but the horrible synth version of "Moonshield" makes me want to kill my speakers. I can't stand that crap.
The party was pretty cool Sunday. I sorta botched my part in the ceremony, but I was kinda set up by some of the other leaders. I've been out for a little too long. Meg actually came up (to my joy and surprise) and didn't immediately leave when confronted with all the weirdoes. The cream stout was decent, but I'm going to have to drink it from an actual glass as opposed to the bottle to be sure. Some beers you drink in the container they come in, and some you have to separate out into something else. I also have to try out some of the Harpoon variations before my grandfather drinks them all; I'm shortly going to be moving to a land that may not ever have even heard of Sam Adams, let alone Harpoon, and will have no money while there to boot. Not willing to spend money on crappy low-end beers, I will for four months be drier than a Texas desert buried under alum.
After thing settled down and most people cleared out, we hung about in the basement (Meg, me, and my brothers) shooting pool, listening to Iron Maiden and Iced Earth, and yacking about Jake's book, which he is currently doing third-stage editing for before he sends it off to collect some rejection slips. I ought to point him at fictionpress so that he can pick the brains of people in the industry about how to attack this, but I keep forgetting. The setup of the world is (according to Meg) very similar to Terry Goodkind, so if he can iron it enough to avoid plagiarism charges (though he's never read any Goodkind), it might have a chance at publication.
I'm just hoping I can finish mine. School, work at school, and everything else I have to do just keep chopping into my time. I'm hoping to get some sleep tonight, but you can't take anything for granted.
offtopic: a quote gathered on Blabbermouth:
Why are YOU on the internet?
posted by: A Gruesome Discovery
8/10/2003 9:34:18 PM
Didn't you get the internet to find people uglier/stupider/fatter/more perverted than you and make fun of them? I SURE AS SHIT DID! After seeing photos of ham-beasts in Insane Clown Posse makeup, reading awful goth poetry by sissies in capes, finding bands of white gangsta kids who rap about ricing up their Honda Civics, and finding an entire culture of people who dress up like cartoon animals and fuck each other in the ass, I feel pretty goddamn good about myself- before the internet I thought I was kinda screwed up, but now that I can see the flabby white trash Partrige Family, I know that I'm just fine.
--Kai out
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