- Tickle me with horror 2002-05-20 23:41:47 The object of my dread (as addressed in today's previous entry) can be seen here: http://www.diesel.com/
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Let's play a game of light-hearted rejection and heavy innuendo.
2002-05-20 23:37:32
That line slinked into my brain just before I fell alseep.
It kinda reminds me of the new Diesel ads in the magazines which features a Teletubbie looking creature-thing, but a lot more sinister. It looks like the product of the unholy union between Teletubby Po and Peewee Herman. It's got a rictus of a smile that suggests waaay to many brain-rotting hours watching Barney. Or attending too many self help seminars.
Besides cavorting beside glamorous Diesel-clad models, it spouts lines like: "Pretend you heart is a balloon and give them to your friends. Or steal a police-car and turn on the siren so children can dance to its happy tune."
There is a whole series of them. Every month they jump out at me when I flip open the page of a new magazine.
The ads frighten me to death. And yet everytime I come across them in a mag, I HAVE to stop and read the blurb. Morbid fascination.
But seriously, the extent to which I am disturbed by this series of ads makes me want to study it and discover what is so *wrong*. And if I don't die of fright from my discovery, I will sell the formula to governments for use in psychological warfare. Or maybe I'll just use it on people to get what I want.
Ami: "Give me all your RAM chips! Or I will laugh with happiness while you are doused with the gasoline of my affections!"
I wonder if I am the only one in whom the ads induce a vague kind of horror.
I shall never again laugh at people who are afraid of clowns. -
T&K rave
2002-05-20 03:08:04
Slept at 7.30 am. Woke at 3.30 pm. But I'm happy as a lark... I have no deadlines to stress over, (except for a couple about a month away), my rats are such good company (except when they start wrestling in the tissue box in the middle of the night), and I had a really good sleep last night. Or rather, this morning. No earthworm-jinns.
The only minor negative emotion comes from losing an eBay bid early this morning. It was for the full run of Thieves & Kings comics by Mark Oak, and the starting bid was at US$9.99. I waited until the last 9 hours to place my bid, and I was the only one up till then so I assumed that nobody else wanted the series (because it IS quite obscure). So I went to sleep, thinking I'd be the new owner of the T&K series by this afternoon... but when I checked my email I got a notice from eBay saying I'd been outbid.
So the dastardly last minute bidder strikes again. But in a way I'm glad, because I really can't afford to splurge on anything right now. Yup, I am so poor now that I don't even have US$10 to spare. So why bid on the comics? Because they were SO CHEAP. I have been lusting for that series of comics for ages, and have plans to get the graphic novels from Amazon since forever, but they are just too expensive considering the cost of shipping to Australia or Singapore. With the comics being as heavy as they are, it'll probably double the listed price.
Anyway, T&K is quite fantastic... you can check it out here:
http://www.iboxpublishing.com
The character design looks quite inspired by Nausicaa (which is my favourite anime, so it scores REALLY high on my scoreboard). The story unravels not only through panels, but also through prose and page-sized images, which he usually employs to show the cityscape. Wonderful artistic detail. Swashbuckling adventure. Excellent story. And the hero bleeds every once in a while, just to show he isn't superhuman. It appeals to my morbid sense of sadism, so yay.
M'Oak's protagonists are children and act like it. There is a sense of childlike wonder and innocence in those pages, which is a welcome change from all those depressing, gritty, pessimistic stories out there. That's why I would spend on his comics even if I had to eat ramen for the next two weeks. -
2002-05-19 15:44:53
The entire Star Wars Ep IV in ASCII. I kid you not.
http://asciimation.co.nz/ -
If you don't put down roots you won't disturb the soil when you're pulled out.
2002-05-19 15:22:06
Yay, I've found my notebook! It was behind the bean bag. I don't know why I didn't see it earlier... maybe the magazines / candy wrappers / lecture notes / files / tennis rackets laid on top of it had to do with my being unable to find it.
Or maybe it went out for a jog and just came back.
Today's 5 hour nap was really weird. I had four dreams and I remembered all of them vividly even after waking up.
Dream one had me falling down a lift shaft. (Hm, I wonder if it's got anything to do with the time I was trapped in the lift for two hours?)
Dream two involved Kenshin drowning. (Nooooooo!)
Dream three had me sitting in the balcony at home, listening to Dr Spock lecture on music copyright.
Dream four was about a guy who looked just like Vash from Trigun, but he was an office worker who spent an inordinate amount of time at the xerox machine everytime he got his heart broken. This dream was the longest, because five earthworm-jinns decided to take pity on him and help him get the girl. Insanity ensues.
Yes, earthworm-jinns. You know like how Japanese and Chinese mythology has fox-jinns, or fox spirits that can take on human form? Well, Guy Who Looks Like Vash enjoyed the company of 5 nosy earthworm-jinns.
No, they weren't lissome and scantily clad. They looked like little anime kids, and one of them had a really snarky attitude. He looked like a goth wannabe. It was a chibi-goth-earthworm-jinn.
OK, this is getting too weird. I better stop before I incriminate myself with more insanity.
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