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[08 Jul 2007|07:12pm] |
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Well. It's been nearly a year since I last posted on here. I briefly contemplated purposefully waiting until it WAS actually exactly a year ago, just to say it was, but alas, I got impatient.
I found a quote in the Mirrormask Film Script book of Neil Gaiman's which perfectly suits me and Kyle's telephone discussions, although in Neil's case he was referring to Dave McKean:
"This is how we talk on the phone: we talk, and we talk and we talk until we're all talked out, and we're ready to get off the phone. Then the one who called remembers why he called in the first place and we talk about that."
It's nice to find a friend who is ridiculously similar to you, but it's more amusing to find a writer who's like that as well.
PS. My deviantart is http://aspectabund.deviantart.com . However, as I mentioned, I hardly ever finish anything, so it is looking a bit empty.
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| Cheesecake FEst 2006 |
[20 Aug 2006|10:29am] |
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An update. I know. I surprise myself sometimes.
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| POTC 2!!! |
[07 Jul 2006|02:55am] |
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Oh. My. God. That... was frickin' AWESOME!
It is currently three in the morning (for me at any rate) and I just came from watching Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest. It blew me away. The action scenes, the character evolution, the witty banter and absurd situations... all perfectly placed, creating a masterpiece. I entered the theatre praying that this movie would be at least as good as the first. I left with the tingly feeling that, for a moment at least, the world had stopped spinning, to commemorate the arrival of a new King.
There is so much I could say about this movie. I could tell you all my favourite parts, but I would end up telling you the whole movie, from the promising beginning to the stupefying end. All of the movie was my favourite part. My friends and I found ourselves re-enacting some of the incredible fight scenes while waiting for the credits to end. And the end of the credits is worth waiting for, if you enjoy a good laugh.
All I can truly say, without ruining anything for anyone, is...
Jack IS back.
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[02 Jul 2006|11:12pm] |
I died in the Dungeon of Sparrowofjack
I was killed in a crystalline alcove by Twirlynoodle the troll, whilst carrying...
the Armour of Reading, the Sceptre of Rock And/or Roll, the Armour of Fani, the Dagger of the Dark Tower, the Sword of Tim Burton, the Wand of Pirates Of the Caribbean and 16 gold pieces.
Score: 20
Explore the Dungeon of Sparrowofjack and try to beat this score, or enter your username to generate and explore your own dungeon...
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[02 Jul 2006|10:34pm] |
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Ah, 'tis summer. I will (probably) post more during the summer, for lack of anything better to do. Here's a Commander Vimes drawing, which I am quite pleased with, as he actually looks the way I picture him in my head. Yes, he looks a lot like a younger Clint Eastwood. That's just how I (and Paul Kidby, apparently) picture him.
Sammy Vimes
On an unrelated subject... PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST IS OUT THIS FRIDAY! Because I'm me, I'm going to the midnight showing Friday... morning? Friday morning, Thursday night-ish kinda thing.
To celebrate, I changed my icon. Hooray for Pirates, hooray!
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| Gah! Scanners! |
[23 May 2006|04:23pm] |
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I bet that you'd look good on the dance FLOOR! |
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My dumb, stupid, moronic, retarded, incompetant, um...
(runs out of adjectives, and deems the current amount to be insufficient. consults thesaurus.)
...unintelligent,foolish, dopey, dense, dimwitted, simpleminded, empty-headed, muddleheaded, imbecilic, duncelike, doltish, rattlebrained, brainless, witless, simple, slow-learning, weak-minded and cretinous SCANNER!
It is not working! And I want to scan! Now I must wait until tomorrow, whence I go to my grandparents, to scan! Grr!
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| One day more... |
[07 May 2006|04:22pm] |
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[13 Apr 2006|09:39pm] |
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Who am I? - Les Miserables (Jean Valjean) |
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[25 Feb 2006|03:44pm] |
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| At a loss for words... |
[15 Nov 2005|07:50pm] |
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Do you hear the people sing?... |
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My school is going to perform Les Misérables this year! (Does happy dance) It is SO weird, because I had started reading Les Mis LAST NIGHT and then they tell us TODAY that they're performing it! It is SUCH a good play! Squee!
Excuse me as I fangirl wildly.
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| Ooh, detailed draurings! |
[22 Oct 2005|09:18pm] |
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Hmm. Yeah. Kinda forgot that I do portrait stuff that can be posted here. So, since its been a while, here are a couple of portraits I did a while back. Sorry for the not-so-great quality. I don't have a scanner, so I had to take a photo of them.
CLICKIE!<-- A graphite drawing. This is, of course, Johnny Depp, quite a very versitile character actor, in my opinion. Not to mention EXTREMELY good looking, intelligent, and funny. Well, ok. Mention it.
CLICKIE!<-- A coloured pencil drawing. I have a confession to make about this. It, ah, isn't done. There's this extremely intimidating, humongous white spot on its chest, with only the tiniest tints of grey on it. If I ever get around to doing it, I believe I may cheat.
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[05 Oct 2005|08:21pm] |
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Paul Kidby rocks my socks. In a box. With a fox. Who has the chicken pox. I mooched my new pic off of him, but I DID colour it, so there was some effort involved. For those confused, Paul Kidby does the cover art and other stuff for Discworld. Go to his site, here: http://www.ie.lspace.org/art/kidby/
Is good, yah?
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| Good Omens |
[03 Oct 2005|01:18pm] |
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Ok, its been, like forever since I updated. But here's a couple pics I did and coloured. They are SO much better now, the colouring I mean. The actual drawing is a bit better too.
Crowley <--"Nothing about him looks particularly demonic, at least by classical standards. No horns, no wings... Crowley had dark hair and good cheekbones and he was wearing snakeskin shoes, or at least presumably he was wearing shoes, and he could do really weird things with his tongue. And, whenever he forgot himself, he had a tendency to hiss.
He also didn't blink much." p.6, Good Omens
Aziraphale <-- "Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions. That he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide. Two of these were wrong. Heaven is not in England, whatever certain poets may have thought, and angels are sexless unless they really want to make an effort. But he was intelligent." -p.147, Good Omens
For those confused, these two are from a VERY good book by a certain Mr. Terry Pratchett, called Good Omens. Its about the coming of the apocolypse and the antichrist, and basically how these two assist in screwing it up. Crowleys a demon, and Aziraphales an angel. Terry pairs up with Neil Gaiman on it, but all I know about Mr. Gaiman is that he has a bummer of a last name, so instead I shall sing Terry's praises. Sorry Neil, I'll sing your praises when I know more about you/
Terry Pratchett has this marvelous series by the name of Discworld, and if you haven't read any of it yet, I hereby order you to do so immediately! Go on! Shoo! To your nearest bookstore!
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[21 Sep 2005|04:39pm] |
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Not much to report. My parents are away on a vacation to Italy for their 25th, so I'm staying at my cousins. You know how your animals always get sick when you're on a trip? Well, one of MINE died. My favourite kitty. He got a blood clot, which paralyzed his back legs and so we had to put him down. It's ALWAYS me. I've got wuite the collectioni of creamation urns in my house now: My dog, Abby, and two cats, Avery and Butch, all of them in the past year or so. GAH!
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[05 Sep 2005|03:26pm] |
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I just got back from camping! And I have a story! Yay for stories! But it's long, so be ready!
Ok, my family and I went down south to the US of A instead of north to Algonquin, just for a bit of a change I suppose. We were meeting some relatives there too, Uncle Rob and Auntie Jo, Uncle Jamie and Auntie Sally and their kids, Andrew and Sarah. Now, Jamie and his group were going to be late, because he didn't get off work until 5 and it takes a few hours to get there, which was fine. But they didn't end up getting there until 10:00pm, because they got lost, and if you've even been to Allegany in New York, you can understand why. The time they got there is important, and you'll find out why in a moment.
Friday was my dad's birthday, so we brought down a cake for it. It caved in a bit on the ride down, but it still tasted fine, and that's all that counts. We weren't even sure whether Jamie and Sally would get there that day, because they were so late, so we had some cake and put it away. When they came at 10:00pm, we took it out again for them.
Now you must know, Allegany State Park is home to black bears. They have about thirty of them, and the park is 100 square miles. Black bears are supposed to need 10 square miles each in territory, but you don't need much in the way of math skills to realize that, at least for bears that have a nice supply of human food nearby, this is incorrect. They can be 4-7 feet from nose to tail, and 2-3 feet high, at the withers, or bum-rump for those who have no idea what whithers are. They have very shaggy fur, and are very cute (in my opinon), but have sharp teeth and claws, and weigh around 500 pounds, so it is not suggested that you pet them.
So we bear-proofed our stuff, keeping our coolers and food in the trailer, which then gets locked, or in the cabin if it didn't fit in the trailer (many people were opposed to the latter, my self included. I mean, why the heck do we want to lure the bears into our cabins?)
Back to my story. We were all circled around the campfire, as one is wont to do when camping, and I was sitting on the picnic table bench, but with my back to the table itself, so that I could face the fire, as well as see everybody. The cake was on the table behind me, but no one was really paying much attention to it. My mom looks up, perhaps to say something to me, when:
"What's that behind you?" she asks, frowning. "Something's moving."
My brother takes in the situation in a glance "Bear," he says.
I quickly turn around, and see the plastic bag with the cake in it being pulled by a 4-7 foot long, 2-3 foot high shaggy boulder with very white and very many teeth. I concluded that the best idea would be to do what everyone else was doing, and flee in the opposite direction, shouting things like, "GOOD GOD! THAT'S A FREAKING BEAR!" This bear was probably around six feet long, and maybe 450-500 pounds, so I'm assuming it was a male.
On Sunday night, last night, it came again, except this time, I was on the cabin porch watching The Incredibles on Andrew's portable DVD player. Sally was the one who was snuck up on this time, but she didn't get the added advantage of having a picnic table between her and the bear.
I cannot believe how quiet black bears are. It's a good thing they aren't as vicious as people make them sound, otherwise I'd probably have been mauled. As a matter of fact, it pretty much ignored us, was not at all frightened by loud noises or fire, and really only cared about eating our food. Good thing we hid all the rest of our food!
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[24 Aug 2005|07:10pm] |
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Hile, readers! (taps forehead with fist)I JUST finished the Dark Tower series, not 30 minutes ago. Hoo boy, there aren't many series out there that leave a lasting impression on you... but this is definitely one of them, say thankya, sai King!
For all those that have no idea what I'm talking about, Stephen King has this absolutely amazing series called the Dark Tower. It's about the last gunslinger, Roland, and his quest for the Dark Tower, this fabled tower held up by beams that stretch across all the worlds, all the universes. But the Crimson King is determined to destroy this tower, which will result in total destruction of all the worlds (haha, no pressure). So Roland has to pull people from other whens, other wheres, (New York, for the most part), to train 'em up as gunslingers and make his way to the Dark Tower. A GREAT series, and even when it's done... it isn't. Not really. You have to read it to get it.
But be warned, this IS a Stephen King book. This means a few things:
1) It's for either mature teens or adults, and if you are neither of these things, don't bother. It's not a betime story (well, for me it was), although it isn't scary or gory like his other books, just REALLY intense.
2) They're very, VERY long, especially the last few. I mean, you could break your foot with one of them, should you be unlucky enough to drop one on the aforementioned foot.
3) Thoughout all of Stephen King's other books, he has proven merciless with his main characters. The same rule applies here. And secondary characters? Don't even get me started. In other words, be prepared for people to die.
I mean, come ON, it's a GUNSLINGER book. What do they do? Sling guns aroudn and blow people's heads off. Not every chapter, that would be ridiculous, but I believe there's at least one, good, shootout in each book. But they aren't overly dramatized, and, even if you're mainly a Harry Potter fan, such as myself, you'll find yourself DYING to read another shooting scene, because of how well they're written. You'd be surprised at how deep these books are, and how attached to get to them.
So, if it do ya, sohs and sais, read this series! But to all those who sould happen to read this, regardless of whether you read the series or not, long days and pleasant nights!
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| Help! |
[23 Aug 2005|04:20pm] |
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Ok, this is like, two seconds after that last post, but after viewing it, something that has been bugging me for a while resurfaced in my memory, so I'd better say it before I forget again.
Ok, you know that blank box I have at the top of my page? How do I:
a) get rid of it
b) put something in it
I've searched through the editing pages, but I can't figure it out. Help me!
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