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2/1 paper 1/2 exam, To Lord Rae:
2001-12-14 20:28:57
Good luck getting the miyazawa books. Kenji's Spring is an awesome and inspiring (not to mention a little trippy...) Anyhow, on the fansub I have of this movie (havne't bought the dvd yet, debating picking up the R2 instead) the liner notes for the books say that the USA edition of night on the galactic railroad is pretty hacked up. It's been a while since i watched the tape (and I don't really have time to dig for it now) or I'd offer to cap the note for you that has the ISBN, etc. so you could make sure you were getting a better edition...
There *IS* a movie of galactic railroad which is out from CPM (and I have a feeling that the sub work on it looks remarkably similar to the style used on the kenji's spring fansub for some odd reason +P) It's a bit compressed though, (well, very compressed) but it's similary in the art style to Kenji's Spring (Kawamori directed both of them.)
In the meantime, the strat theory final's finished and turned in. Had my conference with Bill about the final paper for English, I'm definately getting the idea that I dont' need to do a lot of work on it, just need to make sure that it gets done on time.
Went over ID's and such for the euro history exam, should be damn easy. This means I can spend time tomorrow organizing the english paper and cramming for my German final. I still have some small hopes of going to germany this summer, so I need to keep the grade up.
Tomorrow's also dubbing auditions for mac7. Here's to breaking many legs!! -
1.75/1.25 papers, 1/2 exams (to go)
2001-12-14 00:26:58
the most annoying thing of getting work done is needing a proofreader and having the person you regularly use stuck with a broken computer.
The strat theory final has been drafted and locks in at 16 pages. I'll proof it and edit it in the morning before trying to hack out *something* for my english paper conference at 3:30 (strat exam is due by 4 and i'll leave it off on the way.)
This brings me to a very important lesson that everyone here should learn: just because your partner in class is also an otaku and the only person you can talk to with a shred of intelligence, it does not mean that they will pull their weight on a project. case in point is my english partner who has done jack shit for our paper that's due tuesday. we've got our draft conference tomorrow and i've barely got 2 pages of stuff to bring with me (we needed 5...) I'm ready to just do this on my own but I don't have time to get an 8-12 pager done on my own in the timeframe provided anymore. it's my fault for slacking off, but that's the way it goes i guess. there's always extensions after all....
this weekend's gonna be jam packed of stuff to do. first there's dubbing auditions on saturday morning, which will be a lot of fun. i've kind of semi-named myself director on this, because a)this particular excursion in dubbing was my idea (yay macross 7!), and b)i know the characters best (only person in the group who's seen all 57 episodes.)
after that it's dinner at my sister's. on the metro train to and from said meal, it'll be time to go over my european history and german stuff so I can review for the exams that are on monday and tuesday. Get home, work on paper, crash.
Sunday is fooding. this is important, as I am running out of edible things in my apartment that are substantive enough to call a meal. i've got some soup starter and some pasta and some oatmeal, so i've got breakfast and dinner, but i'm out of jelly and i'm making good way into the hummus and cucumbers (and i'm on my last loaf of bread....) emergency rations should not be needed thankfully.
After fooding is the last TAS of the semester, a 5 hour marathon that I will more than embrace. During stuff I don't want to see it'll once again be study time. After TAS, more paper work.
Monday morning: Study for exam. Monday 4pm: euro exam. Monday 6pm: food. Monday nite: try and finish english paper and cram like hell for german.
Tuesday morning: email bill asking for extension (or do this friday during conference.) Tuesday afternoon: german final. Tuesday night: work my ass off on paper to email it in on time (with luck.)
Wednesday: say goodbye to the roommates for a month and work my ass off on getting katsu vid #2 together.
yeah, i'd say things are planned out ok.
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1 down 2 to go/1 down 2 to go
2001-12-13 14:54:57
first one's papers, second one's exams.
I think the MAS contest is interesting, personally. Short of the rm format bit (grah!!) it could be an interesting contest to see who can produce the best short work (<1 min or so). Doki Doki could even enter the MPEG edition of ambiguously gay duo and it'd fit the space requirement!
It really sucks trying to run this kind of thing on a 56k....I don't really like online contests in general tho...it's why I don't enter them. Part of entering a contest for me is seeing the crowd reaction to the video. The other part is the post-con depression when I find out I lost =)
Lessee other stuff on the MAS list....
I'm glad you guys want to keep it clean. I've done work all over the spectrum, but most of the time profanity and such is just useless.
AIM sending can be a bit of a pain, you may want to hang out on an IRC channel for a while (like oh, i dunno, #amvdotorg on DALnet) and let people DCC send to you, since AIM's limited in its file sending abilities (and DCC runs in the background a lot better.)
Putting time, etc. into vids is also a good thing. The only problem with keeping file sizes small is that unless you're willing to do a really short video and you choose to go with the RM edition is that you have to put 30x more effort into the concept and idea phase. It's a lot easier to slip a little bit on content when you've got something that's visually fairly gorgeous.
Work on the new video has kind of started. I've got source for it, and once finals are over I'm gonna spend the week before I start working again doing nothing but trying to hack out a version good enough to send to Katsucon as my secondary video.
And now back to writing about Clausewitz. Pity that I can't double this up for English. -
Scripture
2001-12-11 15:40:57
nope, it ain't the bible. As finals have for the most part officially began and I need to sort things out for my takehomes, etc. the scripture of my textbooks this semester shall begin to manifest themselves.
Shall we begin with my favorite? The way the professor taught this book was very much like it were the bible actually, but i like this book better (seriously..it's good stuff.)
"Three different intellectual activites may be contained in the critical approach.
First, the discovery and interpretation of equivocal facts. This is historical research proper, and has nothing in common with theory.
Second, the tracing of effects back ot their causes. This is critical analysis proper. It is essential for theory; for whatever in theory is to be defined, supported, or simply described by reference to experience can only be dealt with in this manner.
Third, the investigation and evalutation of means employed. This last is criticism proper, involving both praise and censure. Here theory serves history, or rather the lessons to be drawn from history."
--Carl von Clausewitz, Vom Krieg, Book Two Chapter Five.
"It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values. As soon as these appear one regards them as exceptions, which gives them a scientific status, and thus makes them into rules. Or again one may appel to genius, which is above all rules; which amounts to admitting that rules are not only made for idiots, but are idiotic in themselves."
--Carl von Clausewitz, Vom Krieg, Book Three Chapter Three.
"We are not interested in generals who win victories without bloodshed. The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Soon e or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms."
--Carl von Clausewitz, Vom Krieg, Book Four Chapter Eleven
As much as I have bitched about it, Clausewitz is really a fascinating read that I recommend to everyone. It teaches you a lot not only about war, but about yourself as well. Good stuff.
and here's my final quote to piss off dreddnot, who doesn't know shit (and if he truly wanted to he'd be smart enough to hunt me down at a con - oh well for him)
"I'm not being arrogant. It's just that after being barked at by so many ill-bred dogs, every now and then I take a kick at one, for the dog's own good."
--LoGH ep 11
yippie ki yay motherfucker! -
i hate my life
2001-12-11 00:24:46
it's a bitch when the past comes back to bite you in the ass as it does so frequently to me. *sigh* i really don't need this right now, and to top it off i now have a roommate i don't trust for shit.
the anime paper's done. title page, table of contents, 15 pages of text, 2 page bibliography. watch me fail for not fulfilling the professor's expectations.
i got a c on my german interview. i'm really getting worried, as much as i'd love to go overseas this summer it just seems like i can't get my shit together in my head to motivate myself to study hard and focus to get it done and it pisses the hell out of me.
my fucking english partner's asleep. he spent all day working on his astro lab and said he'd work on what i sent him for our paper when he got home. guess what, he's asleep and didn't do shit for it. i barely had time to hack out a page between finishing the anime paper and destressing.
tomorrow i start work on sumida's final. i'm getting chills just thinking about it, because i really need a good grade in this class. i've finished reading whatever there is of clausewitz for me to read through, and it's time to take out the sheet music and play the real waltz. in theory i know all of this stuff, and it all makes sense. it's just an issue of writing it all out. if i tune out enough from d-mode, the undermind will start flowing with solutions and i will be able to write for ages, or at least i can hope.
the brilliant green just came on my winamp playlist. i love this group. they can trigger all sorts of cool emotions and even the not-so-cool one. i may have to interrupt the shuffle soon to get a song that i want to hear in.
katsucon'll let people have 2 vids. tim, if you're reading this, can you get me some shots of bukimi? i need stuff after summer special 2000 (i've got raws of all of it up until then)...doing a koge-donbo art vid.
i feel very alone right now. i feel that way more than i'd really like to admit. everyone seems to be away on AIM or not paying attention to irc or whatever, even overseas. i rarely talk on the german channel, just out of fear of sounding like a 3 year old if nothing else, so i only say a couple minor things a day. i have no confidence in my abilities as a german speaker.
let's sing a song, hello another way....
my portable cd player is dying. it just can't handle the treatment i bestow upon it anymore, which is pretty brutal - the weather's turning cold so it goes in my jacket pocket. it then proceeds to get jostled a lot. more often than not, it's going past where the anti-skip can handle it. either that or the headphone connection's going. or the new headphones i just bought. i don't think it's my cd's anymore, as i've reburned a couple of them and i still have problems.
it's odd, i'm doing a cute anime/bouncy song video and i'm in this insanely negative mood, like i was when i made the pm dawn video. then again my grandfather was in the hospital when i made that, which was part of the reason i was so out of it. or was it after he died? i'm ashamed to say that i can't remember anymore. i really am worthless.
with this words, you will be mine....
i wonder why i don't make any of these private. perhaps it's to show people that there really is a person here behind the rude forum posts, the emails cursing people out, and the endless stream of negative reviews that flow from my keyboard. i really do hate myself. how sad is that? i should write a novel. "call me shinji...."
i need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance....
i love this song. REM is capable of hitting every emotion. somewhere, between the albums and the bootlegs they can make you feel every emotion out there. i wish i'd had a chance to sing this song in music class. kimi ni todoke was a cool final choice, but i could've gotten so much more power in this. unfortunately monster doesn't have printed sheet =(
it's odd, too. i was in music class today, we had our final exam (which i blew off studying for and realized i shouldn't have within a minute of when he handed the exams out - but i think i still did ok on it.) after the exam i saw someone else from the class and we started talking. it was weird - i didn't like her very much and actually cursed her out once because she was making cracks about my first performance. still, we had a brief semi-friendly chat, and parted.
the fool might be my middle name...
i talked to an old friend tonight. she's the only person from high school that i keep any sort of contact with. i hadn't really talked to her since summer, and i found out she's gotten way religious on me, which is really uncomfortable - i consider myself to be a practicing atheist who is far too ingrained with "thank god" or "goddamn" as part of my vocabulary to be able to get the words out of my system. there's another one in there that i can't remember too. it's just odd talking to someone who's so overcome with her faith. ironically she has a fascination with slash fic.
it's tempting to thrown on a pair of jeans and a fleece and just go walking for a while. oddly enough, this is the highest crime area in the county, so it may not be such a good idea.
If someone would like to buy me the DVD with the videos from REM's monster album on it I'd be appreciative. it'd be very useful for a project. actually all of REM's videos are really good. sadly the dvd's are only about 30 minutes each so they're not very good deals, but the content's great.
I kind of want a weapon. shotgun would be good (the pumping sound scares the fuck out of people) or a blade (which visually scares the fuck out of people.) for some reason, being armed just makes people feel better. gotta love the second ammendment, eh?
I wonder about myself sometimes. Then I realize what a bad idea it is.
i've driven you all crazy enough by now. like anyone'll read this anyways.
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