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[Aug. 18th, 2006|02:34 am] |
Snakes on a Plane was better than I had hoped when I originally heard of it over a year ago. And that's saying something.
The moment it was over, I stood and removed Stephanie's lovely Snakes On A Plane Sold Out shirt, revealing the original Overcompensating shirt (which, by the way, Samuel L. Jackson was wearing in the music video at the end). It was worth every minute and every dollar. If you have not seen it, go fucking see it right fucking now.
"There's only one man in the world who could import this many illegal snakes. And he lives in the desert." |
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| This is why God invented alarm clocks |
[Mar. 29th, 2006|09:28 am] |
We! Got! An! Apartment!
Walker Ave is a bunch of cockteases. They didn't send us an email, so I actually got up early to call them and check - but the apartment is ours. Me and Alex and Emo in a triple (and I got the big room).
That is all. |
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[Mar. 10th, 2006|09:34 pm] |
I AM SCARED OF TEETH. RAH FRIGHTENING TEETH. OH NOES. ZOMG GOTTA PUT IN MY DENTURES NOW. |
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| I do not often update this. |
[Jun. 21st, 2005|12:23 am] |
But I am afraid I cannot keep my joy to myself. For, you see, the rumors have been validated. Our worst fears confirmed.
Facebook is a massive CIA-funded conspiracy.
"TheFaceBook already categorizes users on a scale from “Very Liberal” to “Very Conservative” allowing for easy government profiling. Additionally they can search for anyone who lists the wrong keywords, like “anarchist,” “protest” “New World Order,” or any other thought crime. And with the click of a button, they have your picture, address, and the names and information of all your friends."
Tomorrow: Proof that Livejournal is a front for masonic lodges. |
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[Aug. 28th, 2004|11:40 pm] |
Well, am officially settled in here in the 'BC. My room mate is excellently cool - he brought a 19" TV and a Gamecube, I brought in an asskicking stereo and a Playstation 2, so between the two of us we are SET. We turned one bed (his) against the wall, so it's surprisingly spacious now. And my bed is hell of comfortable when I've got it all made up properly - more comfortable than my bed at home, in fact. Oh yes, this rocks.
Also, I have my dual monitors rigged again, so life is complete and joyous once more. I feel like I have come home. I have found the promised land.
I need to, eventually, get rid of our trash and extra boxes, so on and so forth. Plus we need a stand for the TV, but that can definitely wait. I may bring in a sleeping bag to make our floor more comfortable.
But our room is definitely the coolest on the floor. We ended up with about 8 people squeezed in at one point, playing Super Smash Bros. Melee or listening to my righteous music. The awesomest part is, I can kinda just do whatever. If I wanna do some art, I can. If I wanna play games, I can. If I wanna watch mXc (Most eXtreme elimination Challenge) at 11 at night, it's cool. Everybody's happy.
Ahh, need to get books tomorrow. Will see how that goes.
Have I mentioned that I love this? |
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| Moving |
[Aug. 27th, 2004|04:36 pm] |
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Well, I'm at that last step of packing - turning off the comp, disassembling her, and putting my numerous peripherals in boxes. No computer for, oh, 15 hours. Not sure I'll survive. Next update will be from, er, farther north. Whoo Baltimore. |
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| Anarchy now |
[Aug. 9th, 2004|10:19 pm] |
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Rereading The Man Who Was Thursday. More to come. |
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| Torment |
[Jul. 31st, 2004|11:51 pm] |
"What can change the nature of a man?"
Been replaying Planescape: Torment. Arguably the best plot in any game I've ever played - that is, best in a literary sense, not a gaming or movie sense. Mafia has an awesome movie-style plot, Arcanum has an awesome game-style plot - but Planescape makes you think.
The premise: A man wakes up, covered in scars, in a morgue. He was taken for dead, and brought in by zombies. He soon learns, via a message tattood to his back, that he is immortal. Immense damage causes him to lose his memory. The game is laced with themes - a big one is reincarnation, and its effects on self-image. What if other people recognized you from your past lives? And you learned that each one was different - some good, some tremendously evil and manipulative? Where does your past end, and you begin?
It's magnificently well-done. Each incarnation you learn of is clearly you - but twisted slightly. The paranoid schizophrenic who leaves traps for you, the intellectual, the manipulative and charismatic murderer. But more than anything, the question of how the cycle can be broken is well-done. The game has no "good" endings. The best you can get is killing your own mortality, and getting sent to the equivalent to hell.
Thoughts I'm pondering:
Does the concept of immortality have any meaning? How do you know you can't die? Obviously, you don't know until it's too late - for all we know, I am immortal.
In a karmic-rebirth style system, what responsibility do you have for your past?
What can change the nature of a man? |
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| The Supremes |
[Jul. 25th, 2004|09:39 pm] |
So nobody seems to have commented on the passing of a bill in the House lately which would block federal courts from ruling on same-sex marriage cases, specifically those involved in the Marriage Protection Act. Hooray for Congress! Fortunately, I fully expect the Senate to shoot this down nice and fast.
Full text of the bill (is crazy short) is available here. God bless the internet.
Is there anybody with more knowledge of the role and limitations of the Supreme Court who can comment on the constitutionality of this? |
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| Left open bracket Body Right close bracket |
[Jul. 22nd, 2004|08:25 pm] |
I have decided, after much vacillation, waffling, and uncertainty, that I shall divide my three (3) online journal things into three different kinds of topics. Xanga will be fore stupidity, daily boring updates, and mindless link propogation. HuSi will be for writing and questions about London. And this LJ will be for (relatively) serious, poignant or otherwise crafty entries.
First things first - books I've read this summer which YOU ALL NEED TO READ. (Yes, all six of you who have friended me. <3) Note that I refuse to include author names - but I will link to Amazon.
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Post-apocalyptic-nuclear-war monks amazing writing. One of my all-time favoritest books. If I ever (harhar) write a screenplay, it will be of this. I confess a weakness for books, games and movies that take place after nuclear war - this is the best book in that genre, hands down. Hilarious, but seriously insightful as well. For the love of all things sacred, read this.
The Sparrow - Sci fi (more along the lines of Card or Asimov than, say, Gibson) Jeusits theology aliens = success! Twenty thanks to Anna B, who mailed this too me on the day she left town.
Foucault's Pendulum - (The DaVinci Code - bad writing) * real research ^ awesome. Amazing book, but only if you like conspiracies (especially the Knights Templar and cabalism), and assloads of history. Encyclopedic in scope. Yay for Umberto Eco. It's an intensely quotable, thoughtful, and gorgeous book, not so much in the prose itself as in the careful organization of it. Symbols abound, and I need to read it again to fully enjoy the foreshadowing. If you thought The DaVinci Code was OK but poorly written (or awful) and want to see how real conspiracy theories are created, read this.
The Templars - History of the Knights Templar, borrowed from grandfather's library. Excellent summary of the history of conflict between Jews, Christians and Muslims, not to mention the Crusades in general.
Books which are currently in my Stack o' Books:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (seagulls!), Invariances (politics and free will!), The Rule of Four (college dudes solve mystery!), [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a href"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395709857/qid>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] I have decided, after much vacillation, waffling, and uncertainty, that I shall divide my three (3) online journal things into three different kinds of topics. Xanga will be fore stupidity, daily boring updates, and mindless link propogation. HuSi will be for writing and questions about London. And this LJ will be for (relatively) serious, poignant or otherwise crafty entries. First things first - books I've read this summer which YOU ALL NEED TO READ. (Yes, all six of you who have friended me. <3) Note that I refuse to include author names - but I will link to Amazon. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553379267/qid=1090540201/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-5881763-7807103">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a> - Post-apocalyptic-nuclear-war monks amazing writing. One of my all-time favoritest books. If I ever (harhar) write a screenplay, it will be of this. I confess a weakness for books, games and movies that take place after nuclear war - this is the best book in that genre, hands down. Hilarious, but seriously insightful as well. For the love of all things sacred, read this. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449912558/qid=1090539844/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-5881763-7807103">The Sparrow</a> - Sci fi (more along the lines of Card or Asimov than, say, Gibson) Jeusits theology aliens = success! Twenty thanks to Anna B, who mailed this too me on the day she left town. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345368754/qid=1090540054/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-5881763-7807103?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Foucault's Pendulum</a> - (The DaVinci Code - bad writing) * real research ^ awesome. Amazing book, but only if you like conspiracies (especially the Knights Templar and cabalism), and assloads of history. Encyclopedic in scope. Yay for Umberto Eco. It's an intensely quotable, thoughtful, and gorgeous book, not so much in the prose itself as in the careful organization of it. Symbols abound, and I need to read it again to fully enjoy the foreshadowing. If you thought The DaVinci Code was OK but poorly written (or awful) and want to see how real conspiracy theories are created, read this. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306810719/qid=1090540103/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/104-5881763-7807103">The Templars</a> - History of the Knights Templar, borrowed from grandfather's library. Excellent summary of the history of conflict between Jews, Christians and Muslims, not to mention the Crusades in general. Books which are currently in my Stack o' Books: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380012863/qid=1090540528/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-5881763-7807103">Jonathan Livingston Seagull</a> (seagulls!), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674012453/qid=1090540672/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/104-5881763-7807103?v=glance&s=books">Invariances</a> (politics and free will!), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385337116/qid=1090542157/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-5881763-7807103">The Rule of Four</a> (college dudes solve mystery!), <a href"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395709857/qid=1090542234/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5881763-7807103?v=glance&s=books">The Missing Moment</a> (philosophy and science's limitations!). By the way - every tuesday, wednesday and thursday from 8:30 till 9:30 or 10, I'm sitting by the fountain in downtown Silver Spring reading. Join me sometime! |
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