So back when I use to flaunt my photoshop "talent" on Facebook I use to take silly requests for friends. Like a simple photo of my two friends at a birthday drunk off these faces.
So my Buddies Antony (You've met him before in this previous entry here) and Jarrad are drunk and Antony requested I change 3 things about the photo, add googly eyes to his helmet, a rose and a can of solo.
Now it isn't a great shop effort because I was lazy and was doing a ton of requests at the time but I started playing around with it and this is what happened after I kept screwing around with it.
First I made a silly Solo like poster... Because Antony loves Solo.
Then I turned Jarrad into Emma Stone...
Then I ruined it with a silly internet meme inspired message...
Some days I often wonder if I am making good use of my free time. Then I remember I use to do this on Facebook so my Free time has always been poorly squandered on meaningless projects.
Now its no secret that I love Community, so when I saw that Dan Harmon the creator of Community had been on the Indoor Kids podcast (a podcast about Video Games which is something I also greatly enjoy) I was all over that like a rash. Now on his second visit to the podcast Dan Harmon brought up an excellent point about Paris Hilton.
Ali Baker (The Co-Host of the Podcast) said in an off cuff remark that if she was Paris Hilton she'd be spending all her free time learning how to play the Piano. But after quick deliberation in his head Harmon concluded that if he was Paris Hilton he'd be doing the exact same thing Paris Hilton was doing right now.
Think about it, if you were born an Heiress to a Multi-Million Dollar fortune what else would you do with your time besides go out and have a ton of casual anonymous sex and party like a demon? Exactly, she's doing what we'd all be doing. Living it up.
She got famous for blowing a dude in night vision. She somehow turned that into a reality television series, a handful of movie roles, a singing career, a perfume line and now she's known world wide. She's a household name which is remarkable considering what limited talents and skills she actually possesses. She's whoring herself out to the entertainment industry which isn't anything new by any stretch of the imagination.
Besides being one of these socialites that are just born into money and coasting on that, she's actually trying to make a name for herself. Emphasis on the word trying and you know what, God bless her too. Her attempts at acting are laughable, her music is horrible and her overall personality that she flaunts just make her an unlike-able spoilt brat. But is it even that much of a surprise that someone that had that kind of up bringing would be anything but a spoilt rich brat?
Paris Hilton is a Hero, She could've honestly just sat back and inherited her father's multi-million dollar fortune, living off an allowance and never having to work ever. She's already attained a reputation as a media personality and made a name for herself and now she lives off her own money that she made on her own. She models clothes and handbags and has released her own perfume, She's making fantastic business moves with her name and appeal. It's honestly amazing how she's able to make being a spoilt whore a profitable business venture.
Paris Hilton is showing other Heiress around the world up, She actually has drive and ambition to move away from her father's fortune and make her own. I find greatly admirable.
If I was born Paris Hilton and had the same kind of up bringing she had, I probably would've lived a life of seclusion locked up in my Beverly Hills Mansion coked out of my mind and having casual sex with underwear models too. I probably wouldn't have tried to make a name for myself though. So yeah... Good on her.
You Go Paris Hilton! You may not be the most talented Heiress in the World but you are the most driven and I can respect you for that if nothing else.
With Hollywood running out of ideas for movies these days they've been remaking and rebooting movie franchises left and right. In fact something like 27 major movie releases this year were sequels.
If that wasn't bad enough they've started what I hope isn't a trend of "re-imaging" old fairy tale stories. Two films of re-imagined fairy tales released this year were Red Riding Hood and Beastly, which of course were retelling of the Stories of Little Red Riding Hood and Beauty and the Beast.
Here are the Trailers for these abominations.
Now those movies... Sucked. I mean you could tell by the trailers that they weren't exactly cinematic masterpieces. Hell, Mary Kate Olsen looks like Kesha in that Beastly Trailer.
And this upcoming movie looks epic... But I don't really hold out much hope from pipping the trend of bad fairy tale remakes.
Alright, I don’t expect much from this but God damn this looks like a really good attempt at retelling Jack and the Beanstalk. I didn’t personally think I’d ever see a Jack and the Beanstalk movie with a decent Hollywood budget behind it in my life time.
Side note: That kid from About a Boy grew up and kind looks like Tom Cruise...
I can totally become that Awesome by the next nerd convention...
DAY 28:
I have reached a small hurdle in my plan of becoming the God of War.
I'm not putting on actually any muscle mass. I knew dieting was going to factor in from turning my naturally skinny with high metabolism body which if I remember correctly is called having a (I googled the following word)? body type. Yep, that's what my High School education got me, I remember that there are 3 different types of Body Types.... Impressed?
I still weight 74 kilograms after this past month of push-ups and cardio. Hmmmmmmm this seems like another first world problem to me. I'm doing this for entire selfish and nerdy reasons.
I just did 200 Push-ups on my Perfect Push-up and I feel good. I'll probably be on the thing on and off during the day. My muscles can rest when I sleep. I'm drinking enough water and vitamins to keep my body in tip top shape. I'm also cutting down on my sugar intake.
I wonder if this whole experiment will improve my quality of life...
I really should take pictures... But my camera phone is a piece of crap and I'm not buying a fucking digital camera just to cam whore. (21 Year Old Me would disagree... I should really get a digital camera and make more digital art)
Don't worry... He's all better now that he has the sympathy of millions of people on youtube. I'm sure there are many many other people out there like this dude so I guess he's the voice of the voiceless...
But I like to put meaning into things that didn't really have one in the first place.(Look at my Story of Poke'mon's "Villain"Gary Oak)
So at the moment I like to over analyse things and making up stories and theories that fit my own prejudices and views of the world and society in general.
So this is what I think of Pac Man…
Yeah this is happening…
Listen to me Bullshit about Pac Man!!!
Pac Man is your every day guy just like you and me.
And each single pellet represents a measurement of time; Let's say they're days. Now each day Pac Man is avoiding Ghosts all his "Life". So he's living his Life day by day avoiding those Ghosts. Now these Ghosts each represent a fear of Pac Man's life, whether it be insecurity, financial, health, rejection, etc. Just the 4 main fear's in his "Life".
So he's basically trying to get enough pellets of days to level up.
So enough days dedicating to leveling up, so each level could represent a great life breakthrough like surviving an accident, winning an award, graduating, holding your son, etc. But he's going to need a way to conquer his fears if he wants to level up.
Now the POWER Pellets is when Pac Man is INVINICABLE and can devour his Demons. These Power Pellets represent a moment of Clarity and/or Strength in Pac Man's life. He is then able to momentarily conquer and defeat his Fears. One Power Pellet could represent strength like... Alcohol, Drugs, Sex, Battle, A Job, A Steady Girlfriend, Whatever, etc.
And each time he conquers a fear it only comes back later....
But to Pac Man occasionally Life gives you a lemon... or an orange... or a cherry... So it isn't all pain and struggle up to those few ultra awesome power pellet moments in your "Life".
Just make sure when you're in power pellet mode in the game of life Pac Man, you conquer more than just one ghost, be nice to get some breathing space away from those ghosts for a while.
There is a High Score at the end of "Life"
I'm still not sure if any of that made sense but... Here's more Scott Pilgrim bullshit
This is wonderfully brilliant in a disturbingly abstract and somehow familur sort of way...
This was supposedly nominated for an Academy Award in the field of Best Animated Short. I haven't seen the other nominations yet but this one seems pretty hard to beat. Supposedly Adventure Time's "Thank You" episode was in consideration for the Academy nomination to but failed to make it to the Final 10 nominations.
Have you ever watched something so moving it moved your soul?
Now normally I don't prattle on about Adventure Time. But this particular show is filling the animation void until Futurama, Archer or The Venture Bros. gets back on the air.
Now for the uninformed Adventure Time is show about Finn who is a hyper active eleven year old boy that is trainned in the art of sword fighting, punching kicking and whatever the next manlist kid fighting style you can think of that doesn't involve crying... and his magical dog Jake. Who is voiced by Futurama's Bender (John Di Maggio).
It's basically a kid's superhero show. Its on Cartoon Network so kids are definetly watching this.
Hell I justify that it's all in Finn's head. Some kids have wicked imaginations...
And sometimes the writers just take a boat load of drugs and write some of the most soul crushing episodes in existence.
Anyway... The latest episode I saw, Thank You was one of the most touching things I've seen a show do in a while. It god damn moved me.
Hopefully its still up when you see it!
And then... watching the Soul crushing episode.
Dear Lord did this episode have me all scared in a weird fucking way. The New Frontier is something I just can't watch a second time because there is no way I could enjoy it with out the twist.
But the idea of seeing a cosmic owl in your croak dream just scares the living beejesus out of me. Well the idea of a croak dream is fucking disturbing. A particular dream where you visualise your death.
Ohhhh wait.... I did have one of those......
I think I was 38 in mine... Pheeeeeeeeeeewwww.....
Hey remember when I was sort of bitching about drinking a whole bunch of gin but kinda gloating at the same time? Yeah!?
Cool...
Because I did it sort of way. Yeah... Apparently I was a complete asshole and I remember NONE OF IT!
Like stupid idiot dumb guy sort of stupid... Yeah it's that bad to just forget then only remember the non-stupid parts of the night. I honestly thought I was well behaved the entire evening. I hate how Alcohol can do that to me now, it never did that to me before... Or maybe my friends just tolerate my bullshit because he's always that much of an asshole.
I'm starting to heavily reconsider ever drinking alcohol again.
Some of the Highlights I was told was...
I was doing push-ups on the kitchen counter with my feet in the food then starting to fight people. WHO THE FUCK IS THAT GUY? THAT CAN'T BE ME!
Or is it?
I've apologised numerous times but I still feel immensely awful about reaching Super Asshole Mode...
One of the most memorible moments in the Scott Pilgrim comics is the first time Ramona takes Scott through the Subspace Highway.
Here's the original with... some hideous ugly disfiguration that I made using simple colouring and a stock space background...
This probably took a longer time because I have yet to find an efficently fast way of colouring besides select and fill methods with light touches up on the edges if you're trying to make light tones on skin like on the previous Scott Pilgrim blog entry about Lisa Miller: here
I use to have Dreams... Dreams of being a Poke'mon Champion
Maybe then he'll be Proud of me...
I had it all...
Then he took it all away from me...
I Hate You... Red...
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Anyway like most Stories this one starts off at the Beginning.
I got out of bed particularly early that morning; I wanted to get going on my Journey to be a Poke'mon Master. I had marched downstairs to find that my lovely sister had cooked me a tasty breakfast... I still miss May. She gave me a tight hug, fed me my "Breakfast of Champions" and tried to give me a Town Map before I left, how thoughtful of her, but even she should know by now how long I've wanted to be a Poke'mon Champion. I had studied for my life journey into the World of Poke'mon... How naive and headstrong I was at the time.
I was waiting in his stupid lab, waiting to finally receive a Poke'mon. My Grandfather promised that when I and Red were 13 we get Poke'mon of our very own. I looked around; none of Gramp’s interns seemed to care, meandering around with clipboards looking at data readings. What mindless drones, you don't study Poke'mon on a computer screen; you go out onto the field and study them. To only think I sometimes snuck into the Viridian Forrest on some nights just to watch the Beedrill fight.
Then he came barging in with Red's Hand clasp and tugging him uncomfortably along. Apparently the idiot left town without a Poke'mon to protect him. Red was always a little slow, always had to have things clearly explained to him before he did anything. No sense of initiative what so ever. I hate him...
Anyway... Gramps stammers about trying to remember my name then Red just coughs my name and he chirps right back up. Senile fool. He remembers Red but he forgets about me... I hate you, Red. Red smiles at me and gives me a genuine and warm smile. I hate him even more.
Why did he always remember you?
The Old man looks puzzled with my presence regardless. I remind him that me and the idiot / lost child he's clutching are both of age to receive Poke'mon. I swear he loves his Poke'mon research more than he loves me. He'll lose all his marbles one day and still know more about a Dewgong swimming in a tank then he would his own Grandson.
He doesn't even talk about Mum and Dad anymore around me...
He wonders back out from the back room with a small trunk. He drops it on the Table in front of us. My First Poke'mon is in that case. Then he unclips it and there are 3 new shiny Poke'balls placed on the inner lining of the case. He releases all 3 in front of us, A Chamander, Bulbasaur and a Squirtle. Well... They are starter Poke'mon, Pretty standard starting Poke'mon, but there is a lot of Potential with these particular 3. Each Third Stage Evolution is a formidable foe in any battle. I look over at Red and let him Pick First, he picks the Chamander, I instantly pick Squirtle.
I smirk and ask Red if he wants to Battle. He agrees and we battle. I destroy him with ease. I picked Squirtle and use my high defense and water advantage over the Chamander fire type. Red is dumbfounded but accepting... I stand triumphantly with my hands on my hips as I belittle him.
It felt great beating him...
It felt better in front of the old Man.
I was almost brashly out the door when the old man hands us both a Poke'dex. The old man was making us go get some research data for him during our quest.
What an asshole...
I agreed... Just so I could keep tabs on Red's progress through my quest.
2011 hasn't been that bad a year for music, here are the stand out tracks...
I make mention of Selena Gomez, Justin bieber, Lady Gaga and Rhianna on a later date...
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Calvin Harris ft Kelis - Bounce
The epitome of a Good Night out, this was a great dance floor song.
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Gotye - Somebody that I use to know
Raw, Powerful and Emotional, Gotye's music stills evolves yet remains hauntingly beautiful through each of its evolutions. His latest album won every damn award in Australia for good reason. It's a Masterpiece.
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Architecture In Helsinki - Contact High
Quite simply one of the most infectious choruses I've ever heard. This song will dig into you Soul and skip around in your head for days.
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LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
I swear this song just took over at one stage, You couldn't leave the damn house without hearing this somewhere in the background. Whether it be the Car Radio, On Someone's iPod Headphones or people just humming it. This Song was EVERYWHERE!
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Bag Raiders - Sunlight
Just a Great Dance Tune from this talented Sydney Duo, I remember many nights just setting the dance floor ablaze to this song.
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Kanye West & Jay-Z ft La Roux - That's my Bitch
Kanye West, Jay-Z and La Roux, Sounds like a Black Hipster's Wet Dream.
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Miami Horror - Holidays
One of those Summer Driving Songs, You have this playing as loud as possible while you nod you head wearing your ridiculously designed sunglasses while taking dumb social network pictures.
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Metronomy - The Look
Minimalism in Music... This song is Truly Wonderful in a simple way. Also the Bass Player is Awesome as Shit, That dude looks like he gives such zero f*@$ at the moment.
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Childish Gambino - Freaks and Geeks
Donald Glover.... One of the most talented people on the Earth, He's taking over. In 5 Years he'll be either be a leading man in movies, a mega huge rap star or Dead.
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Cobra Starship (Ft Sabi)- You Make Me Feel
I dunno... It's just a fun song... Leave me Alone
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EXPECT THIS TO GET EDITED A LOT DURING THE NEXT MONTH
Touched up the Original Black and White Picture, added some colour and shading.... Turned out nicely. Wasn't very complicated but it looks great to me.
I can't imagine an internet without Wikiedpia. Its just everything you wanted to know and more is one simple search away. You can hit random article and you'll be taken to an article about some random historical figure, invention or country you would've never heard of and be given a detailed out line of what or where it is and its cultural and/or historical significance and anything else you didn't need to know.
Its a well of knowledge. Yet people look down upon wikipedia because its free to edit and anyone can edit it. WELL F#&* YOU! It's like a public encyclopedia written by everything and moderated by everyone. Its a modern marvel and should be supported. It has simplifed the way people acquire information and donating to such a thing just seem right to me.
Hell I'm going to donate to Wikipedia... So why don't you?
I watched it the other night, the infamous Wizard of Oz Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon sync up. Its quite amazing at times how these two seperate works sync up perfectly. Some of the tracks like Breathe, Time and Money sync up just too well to be a coincedence.
My favourite sync up moment has to either come from "Brain Damage" with the Scarecrow Dance or Speak to Me / Breathe with the Robot dance.
So it was my friend's 23rd birthday last night, he didn't really feel like gaving a big celebration. Just wanted a small get together at his house. I brought a bottle of Gin and 3 bottles of Ginger Ale to make my favourite mixed drink, A Gin with Ginger Ale.
I'm not sure what kind of fancy / manly name I should give that name. We settled with GG which is short for 'Good Game' in the online gaming community. That and Ginger Ale masks the taste of Gin quite well. Either way I got stupid amount of drunk as I just kept downing one glass after another. In the space of 2 to 3 hours I have consumed the entire Gin bottle and was out of my mind drunk. Not make a scene and fight everyone drunk. I was holding it all together pretty well all things considering. I do think I did throw up a few times, I can't remember but I do remember the ungodly Hang over I felt this morning.
GRANTED... It wasn't the worse Hang over I'm ever gotten but there really isn't a good way to drink a Bottle of Gin and not feel like garbage the next day. Even though it was a quiet get together and nothing much happened I still had a great time giving myself alcohol poisoning so I'll be sure to do it all again soon.
So I was informed by a lady of the night (An Escourt) that she charges $800 an hour for her services...
The idea of buying somebody's body for $800 just seems to... ridiculous to me.
How could you possibly get $800 worth of anything out of a woman in an hour? I MEAN WHAT COULD SHE POSSIBLY DO THAT IS WORTH $800... AN HOUR!?!
DOES SHE HAVE LIKE 3 TONGIES?!!
Anyway in other less important stories, WWE '12 came out, It's okay, it's not as good as past WWE Titles. I've literally played all of them and still think Here Comes the Pain is the best version but then again it is evolving in some nice directions. 2008 and 2006 were stand outs too, if only you could use the best parts of each game.
I'm going to have to revisit them all now but I really like this feature of making new stories.
"The Perfect Party. It's an illusive Idea. People are to be entertained from the moment they walk in to the moment they Leave. An Experiment. And I am a Scientist... Welcome to my Labratory"
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On a recent episode of Parks and Recreation, another excellent NBC Comedy sitcom. The Character Tom throws what he hopes is... The Perfect Party. Now if I was to throw a Perfect Party and Expenses wasn't an option. I'd...
Find an Abandoned Warehouse, like you see in all those Hipster commercials about Foriegn Spirits. (Apparently You can find and party in Abandoned Warehouses Everywhere. (Okay I don't know because I haven't gone looking). But one of those. Then... A sweet Fog machine, Some sweet fucking disco lights, Neon Dance Floor, Animated Disney Movies projected on all the Walls, alcohol, cigarettes, an assortment of party drugs, fireworks, strippers, tigers, a cage fight, a bikini mud jelly ladies wrestling match in a pool, a food fight and if there is time a quick game of Laser Tag.
Actually that's pretty tamed come to think of it...
If I could plan the perfect party it honestly would be the most ellaborate party and would require multiple days of planning and scheming, but my current "Perfect Party" seems suit able for a budget under I dunno $5,000 minus the Tiger.
An amazingly sublime and moving Radiohead track... Has nothing to do with this post.
As part of my Becoming the God of War Kratos fitness regreme I have going. I did the old House of Cards Workout routine last night.
For those that are unfamilur, the House of Cards workout is simple. You get a standard dack of cards and each suit you assign a simple wrkout like push-ups, sit-ups, etc. etc. So whatever card you draw is how many you do of the assigned workout. Last night I did this.
Hearts = Normal Push-Ups
Spades = Squats
Clubs = Leg Lift Crunches
Diamonds = Hindu Push-Ups (I think that's what they call that)
Had the Bastion Soundtrack blasting in the background while I worked out. I was already pretty exhausted after 15 minutes so I'm probably going to do this workout every other day. Tonight I'm using the Perfect Push-Up. I also need to go for a Run... like badly, I keep putting it off. Ugh need to get more motivated to run.
Two of my favourite artists are headlining the Australia Big Day Out Tour, Kanye West and Kasabian, amoung a handfull of other acts I'm really interested in seeing. Like Noel Gallagher post Oasis.
Kanye West makes Amazing Music. Beautifully crafted hip hop tracks that genre sample with amazing expertise. Tracks like Power and Rnaway are just Masterpieces of Rap and sampling. Man is a dreaking Genius... He's an Asshole... BUT HE'S A GENIUS!
Kasabian make awesome music. Just fucking awesome music. It just sounds good. Like I'm listening to some form of mystical hipster rock and roll that was the soulchild of making a modern version of the Beatles... But more Awesome.
IF I had to pick one song from 2011 that stood out for me it would either be one of these 3 songs.
Miami Horror "Holidays", Bag Raiders "Sunlight" or that infectous Party Anthem "Party Rock" by LMFAO. I swear that song was as bad as AIDS at one point, It was god damn everywhere. You could've leave youe house with out at least 4 people playing it loudly through their car stereo or hand phones or just fucking singing it out loud.
Either way, I really liked the clip for "Holidays"
And that'll be it for today with the blog...
I'm working on a Scott Pilgrim Wallpaper and I'm going to continue to work out for the sole selfish purpose of looking like the God of War to go to a con to show off like the big show off that I am... And to hopefully pick up a cute 17 year old nerdy chinese girlfriend.
Then drop her for a American Hipster Girl that plays mysterious and hard to get.
Although... There is a good chance I'll run into someone cosplaying as Ramona.
The Supernova convention in Feburary seems like the good deadline for me. I should really get around to taking a shirtless pictures of myself. (I know right, how rude of me). How am I suppose to catalogue my transformation without photo evidence?
The dialogue remixes they have of Scott Pilgim is what I would consider a form of high art. Music sampled over using dialogue lines from the movie is brilliant.
"Did you see a Future together with this girl?"
"like.... with Jetpacks"
Perfect
A cold distant and mysterious person... So alluring.
Meet Everyone... Also Hey
What? As if you don't love this movie as much as me...
Well I'm started at about 74kg. So no real notice to weight loss or gain yet.
So after about 4 days in, I'm still feeling a little stiff but my body does seem to be toning up a little more. At least I notice I'm getting a slightly bigger Chest anyway.
God I hope I'm like Chris Leben when I'm 30, Awesome
Day 4:
My Upper body is exhausted from Yesterday. I worked out like a possessed movie protagonist living in a montage all day yesterday. I lifted weights with my Friends. I went swimming; I did about 100 Push Ups at home on this Perfect Push-Up and did tricep Lifts on the couch while watching UFC PPVs which just motivated me into doing more Push Ups. It’s a self perpetuating cycle of Narcissism.
I've been drinking like 3 Litres of Water a Day and getting at least 8 hours of Sleep a day. The Dieting will probably be the hardest part of becoming Kratos. 3 Square Meals a Day seems hard to do when I'm so use to eating nothing. Yes this is such a first world problem; I'm having trouble eating readily available food because I'm not hungry. How dare I have that Problem!
Although I don't think my arms have quite 100% recovered I think I'll start off the day with 100 Perfect Push-Ups.... Spaced Out.... Over a 30 Minute Period.... While I watch more UFC PPVs.
Say what you will about UFC and Mixed Martial Arts, the whole idea of man testing himself against another man seems completely reasonable to have in society. We have contests of all kinds of "games" that have been engrained into our global society like football (soccer) but the art of fighting will always live on.
You can't tell me stuff like this isn't completely amazing?
Now I don't even watch NFL but I love the show the League, it's about a Fantasy Football Group that just finds new ways to screw with each other every week while trying to win the convented Shiva Bowl Trophy. It seems to be one of the top priorities in each of their lives... Except for Taco who is basically Homeless and played by my favourite internet comedian, Jon Lajoie.
While Fantasy Football and winning at all costs seems to be the driving plot of the show, it has its great moments in between the scheming and backstabbing. Its not for everyome but if you like Always Sunny, You'll like The League.
This is what Jon Lajoie did before The League... He's pretty damn talented
Being a Narcisist I love to dress up in costumes... and which costume would be easily to pull off when you're a skinny disgustingly white male? None other than the God of War, Kratos. Yep, I'm banking on the lasting appeal of Spartan God of War to be an awesome costume choice... If I can pull off the ridiculously Muscled Up Body.
So Today I bought the Perfect Push-Up...
Day 1:
I hope to look like the God of War by the time the next Nerd Convention rolls around, I think the next one in Sydney is in Feburary. So that gives me ample time to go from looking like a Toned Manorexic Model into a Spartan / Gym Equipment Demo Model.
This is going to go Well...
I'll blog about my progress depending on how my fitness motivation lasts. I also need to acquire more weights and a digial camera.
Here is now a ridiculous Dragoncon Video that trys at adapting it into a weird hide and seek story. Either way. I need to go to that fucking nerd party.
You: I have strange and unqiue thoughts and ideas that can't be labelled
Facebook: Don't worry about that... You're no longer an Individual as fair as we're concerned.
When your actual presence brightens up a person's demeanor and mood its a real ego boost.
How people greet you is very important in social interactions. We're it be a wave, a smile, a polite hello or a Hug. It’s a good feeling when you are welcomed with kindness and warmth. Or if you're greeted with hostility and anger you can expect like a smirk or glare but most people try to avoid those kinds of social situations.
On the odd occasion your appearance can spark elation and joy, I experience that reaction so rarely but when it does happen it’s such a great feeling. It’s just nice to feel appreciated and welcomed, Its awesome to think that your single existence makes another person genuinely happy. It's a Wonderful Feeling being appreciated on that level.
Now I have a friend I see on the odd occasion, he has a pretty boring and routine life (Like most people in the World). But the other day when I walked into his House his mood completely swung. He was joyous, ecstatic and animated, he was genuinely happy to see me. I felt great! I think that is one of the definitions of "Love" is, which is a very sensitive word to just throw around but it does remind me of the behaviour you see in pet Dogs.
I love Dogs, way better than Cats. Dogs are loyal creatures and once you've earned their trust and love, they'll love you forever. No Matter What! They’ll always scamper up to you when you open your door as you return home. Greet you with a wide open mouth smile with their tongue hanging out and a erratically wagging tail that seems to be controlling it's whole hind quarters with its rhythmic swinging. Dogs are just happy to see you... Unconditional Love.
I don't know about you... But it's a pretty great feeling.
So I'm still a 22 year old Slacker finding his way in the World, I have few marketable skills and my friends are pretty much in the same sort of boat. Stuck in their Twenties as the rest of the World somehwat looks down upon us in a weird way because of how we squnader our youth on such trivial things like Social Networking sites... and other young people bullshit.
So I'm re-reading the Scott Pilgrim comic books for the Third Time and just got up to Volume 4 which is my favourite of the 6 Volume series. It has one of the most heartbreaking character reappearences in it. The forgotten character of Lisa Miller (who wasn't even in the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie). Lisa is Scott's first High School friend and got him interested in music in the first place. Scott remeets her after many years to find out she is a talented actress and of course she asks Scott the obvious question, "How come we never went out in High School?"
What persues is a mess of feelings and emotions that have boiled over since High School. It's just a really great volume about looking back at your Teenage years in your Twenties and asking "What If", which of course is something I do to this day and will probably do for quite a few years to come.
There is just something special about the Scott Pilgrim series, i don't know what it is or how it even manages to capture my imagination as it does but I just love re-reading the books. The most honest portrayal of a 20 something guy I've ever read and seen in comics and just in general.
It helps when I can think of my Lisa Miller like person in my life and wonder what could've been. (I'm pretty sure she's better off without me now come to think of it) Then again I also wonder if I'll ever be apart of a League of Evil Ex Boyfriends. (Which I would totally do)
Anyway before the Movie came out Adult Swim animated a Scott Pilgrim short based from a section from 'Volume 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World', it has the High School backstory involving Kim Pine and Lisa Miller and it's pretty great.
I love it, love it to pieces. Its all in Japanese and Subtitled and ripped onto the Internet every Friday and translated. I LOVE THE FAN BASE OF THIS GAME!
People go out of their way to help the English Speaking Community of Persona 4. Awesome. I'm hoping to have whatever console I need for the next Persona game. (I think it's a hand heild which sucks)
I played the crap out of Persona 4 on PS2. Here is some Digital distortion artwork, I didn't really do much to this picture, just boosted the overlay, sharpened the flowers and mosiaced the background.
Just because of the Rango Soundtrack and I guess some influence on the fact that I've been watching a lot of Good Westerns lately and playing Fallout New Vegas. What do they all have in common? A swagger inducing acoustic guitar driven theme that just screams wide open spaces and a rare sense of freedom. It just seems like music for travellers, wandering souls that travel from place to place in search of something. Whether it be something they lost or something they never had... They're looking for it.
Plus it would be nice to have a musical talent, who knows how useful that could be in the future.
She is the Indie Queen, Hipster Godess, Uber Talented Seductress, Zooey Deschanel!
Its literally unfair that someone that quirky and wonderful exists and is just paraded around in front of everyone like some unobtainable girlfriend. She Honestly is someone you want to just Date, the kind of girl that you just want to have as a Girlfriend.
You've seen her in that movie 500 Days of Summer where she played the title character. The Wonderful girl next door type of Woman, the one that just makes you feel free. She was the same Wonderful Girl in Yes Man that brought the cyical character that Jim Carey played out of his shell. She was also in the Happening... But that movie was a piece of shit.
If you actually watch 500 Days of Summer and somehow ignore all of Zooey's wonderful charm you quickly realise how much of a Cunt that woman was. But because it was played by Zooey Deschanel, you don't feel as cheated. Because she's Wonderful!... But seriously what her character did in that movie was such a bitch move.
Besides being a wonderful actress (Well mediocre at best) She's also in a Band called She & Him with the talented Musician M. Ward. Seriously how someone is so cute and talented exists and is 31 but could pass for any super indie nerd girl you might know if you're lucky.
Remember MySpace? Well I remember I use to be able to just put up little arty photos instead of a wall of text and I put those 5 "People" as my Heroes. Dear Lord that's embarassing, some of these selections anyway...
Art Alexakis
Everclear, Holy shit did I love Everclear. They're my favourite Band of all Time and I'll never be able to see them in my stupid country. Back in 1992 when they were riding their global fame around the World and they had the Worst Crowd ever in Queensland where the Band almost broke up for good because they were such assholes. Anyway I loved their music, their sound and how they'd teach little life lessons in a cheery way.
They're like a bunch of happy German performance artists that teach children life's dark secrets.
Anyway Art was the Dude that wrote and sang the music so yeah, he was the one to look up to. A honest musician with great personal stories within his music. Honestly I probably would've meet my wife at an Everclear concert, lord knows I would've gone to every one by now if they had ever come back to Australia. Oh well... You've taken this away from my Queensland.... I hate you.
I guess that's why I loved that movie Loser from the 90s and why I feel in love with Mena Suvari... She was an Everclear Girl... and she was also Mena Suvari.
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Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins
Now these guys have Amazing Careers, they're two Web Comic Artists, well I think one writes it and the other one illustrates it. I'm not sure about the dynamic anymore I'm just jealous of what they accomplished. They run one of the biggest and most successful web comics on the internet and they based it on their own lives as gamers using characters that looks nothing like their real selfs.
That's Bloody Amazing to me how that works. Oh just for the record, their Webcomic is Penny Arcade if you didn't know... But you may aswell just leave for not recognising the characters alone.
It's Fucking Spiderman.... Spiderman is Fucking Awesome.
The normal everyday sort of teenager with normal kind of problems and the best thing, in the comics you grow alongside with him. He finished High School, went to College, Spiderman is Awesome.
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Gus Hansen
Holy shit was this guy an amazing Poker Player. Gus Hansen was a freak of fucking nature Poker Player. He played everything but he was UNREABLADE. Do you have any idea how awful it is trying to read Gus Hansen? Its near impossible to know what he could possibly have.
He's also one of those Poker Geniuses that knows the game inside out, all the math behind each an every kind of card match up. It's a very very psychological game and Gus Hansen is one of the Best.
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Tim Buckley
He made CAD and I honestly thought that comic was Awesome. In hindsight it wasn't a very smart or clever comic but one thing it was, was consistant and kept to it's update schudle of 4 comics a week. Tim just kept pushing out content and people loved it.
Saw a Girl I know post a strange status update, decided to enter it into my iTunes Music Bar for a joke and this Song comes up on the Results Page. Old Man River - "Thinking Of You"
Now I wonder who she was thinking of, but the idea seemed rather romantic at the time so I thought about the Women in my life I like. How rather sad I know....
Ahhh Whatever...
How ever small the acquintence that I have come across and thought, "She's a Great Girl"
This is for you...
As PhillyD would say, "Love Yo Faces!" :)
Side Note: Holy Shit do I love that film clip. That Alien girl is a knockout. She has Big Eyes you say... I personally see absolutely nothing wrong with her. That's a total babe if you ask me.
I'm very wary of Psychology majors, whenever someone tells me they studied the Human Mind for 4 years at University I look at them suspiciously. I judge them like they're judging me.
You can't fucking tell me they aren't constantly judging and making observations of people 24/7. I like to study people, I have awful eyesight. Like just dogshit eyesight. But I'm happy with what little Eyesight I have and I utilize it to the very best of my abilities. But whenever someone says they study Psychology I instantly just become very weary of what I do and say around them. I like to watch my social prey, the strangest thing is I have exceptional hearing because of my shitty eyesight, so whatever facial nuances I would miss I can gather from cross chatter, I pick up certain things people say.
Then again I just love talking, I just love attention. It's so strange I just love it when people listen to me. I hate the sound of my own voice, I think my voice is shit, I have an American Accent from watching too much cartoons as a Kid. I'm still on the fence on whether it’s a blessing or a curse to have an American Accent when you're Australian. People just assume you're from another Country because I don't actually look very American. Anyway, I'm an Attention Whore and a big Narcissist. I honestly think I'm Awesome and all my ideas are great, all my jokes are funny and you know other various self absorbed attributes. (I'm also dangerously self aware of myself though) I want to be liked by everyone.
I don't need you to tell me I'm not a normal person, but when someone just comes up to me and makes some outlandish statement like "You're an Only Child" to me because of my strange behavior and just flat out jump to conclusions and sticking by them, THAT PISSES ME OFF.
Literally some girl came up to me at a Party and I was having a blast, just being my typical loud attention whorish self and then she says to me, "You're an Only Child" and I laughed and told her I have some younger siblings and quite a few stepsiblings... She didn't believe me. She thought she had me all figured out and that worried me, what do these Psych majors think me...
Then I think to myself... FUCK THEM, THEY PROBABLY HAVE IT ALL WRONG.
But now I'm listening to Audio books and radio podcasts on the Human Psyche to ensure I don't stumble upon this problem again unprepared. I wonder what would happen if I cross analyze a Psych major during conversation as he did it to me…
That honestly sounds like Dividing by Zero in a Social Situation.
Against all common logic and trains of thought, I'm Straight. I've heard many different accusations and just down right confusion of people just asking me "what's my deal"... I always stay vague but for the moment I'm straight. I made my choice, I've tried both lifestyles and I like a lot from both but I tend to like Women just... Slightly more then Men when it comes to Sexual Encounters.
I mean I don't care what your preference is, that's the point of living in such a modern progressive Society where people are now more accepting of people's lifestyle choice. Don't get me wrong it'll be a fucking few thousand years until its okay to be Sexually Active with a Child... But time will get them in the end.
ANYWAY
My Example of the Perfect Woman would be YouTube user Cossybysweater. Seriously the Girl is Cute in a quite approachable way. Like she seems like a very everyday kind of Girl and she has little quirky songs about Awesome Chevy Chase Movies and Dungeons and Dragons. A TRUE NERD GIRL!
Oh my God, She's like the Small Time Sings in her Kitchen as a Hobby kind of Girl. That's so fucking adorable it hurts my mind. I want to just date her, Like take her out to nice dinner, have a nice nerdy conversation about comic book heroes or something then walk her home and pray I get a peck on the cheek at the end of the night. Just a Girl I'd go Steady with IMMEDIATELY. That's right I'd dive right into a Commitment because I already love her to pieces.
Sadly I hear she already has a Boyfriend... And lives on the other side of the World so I have to look for Women a little closer to home. Unless I move to America and turn my life into a sad 90s romantic comedy which most likely ends up in a even worse position from where he started from.
Its taken my time away from me, This fucking facebook socialising shit.
I honestly had a really good time and I would've thrown it away by wording a narrow status update and then later deleting it. But I have a 24 Hour ban on Facebook and I'm thinking to myself. Do I need Facebook? I have a Google Android, I'll be a Google guy if I can blog and shit. Actually its probably good I just use this Blog for now. Fuck Google+ too, blogging is basically writing diarrhoea or some kind of lame ass equivalent of real "Structured" writing is.
Anyway just giving you a Facebook Update, I'm probably going to go out in the most offensive way possible in my little Secret Internet Group, Because I just want to tell them that I got banned from Facebook, not left like a bitch, I literally offended someone so much that they just kicked me out of Facebook.
To me... That's Awesome, ANYWAY LOOK AT THIS FUCKING HEARTWARMING VIDEO!!!
Holy Fuck that is Heart-warming, but its heartbreaking to think that he only reintroduced himself to him ape friend after 10 years and then just left him again. Honestly I'd fucking move out to the Jungle to live with that Fucking Ape or maybe even try and move him to England...
Alright here's something else that will break your resolve if you felt unmoved by that video.
Yeah.... You were moved, don't you fucking lie to me you weren't moved.
With the Current TF2 Halloween (Scare-o-ween) Update, I have no time to do anything productive, but here is something I can share from my Day with you while I run off to chase Digital Hats and Glory.
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Observing People in Public: Entry 1
Was on the Bus looking like a Typical Douchbag Hipster when a Mother and her 7 year old Daughter came on the Bus. Parenting remains a complete fucking mystery to me so I was going to ask her what it was like...
Then I noticed the Woman across the aisle just starring at the Mother and Daughter and I saw this just sad and sorrowful expression on her face, she was about to publicly breakdown from the mere sight of a Mother and Daughter smiling and being happy. I guess either she'll never have children... or worse, she lost one.
I decided to say nothing and go back listening to Kanye West.
Now its no surprise that I love Community, one of my all-time favourite shows. Its Breakfast Club like premise of a Group of Misfits that form an unlikely friendship at Community College is greatly complimented with its exceptionally talented ensemble cast. Very few shows have ever had so many rich, diverse and well rounded characters, Today I'll write about my current favourite.
Britta Perry has to be the most interesting member of the Group. She's a completely wayward and broken person. The show Wildcard as Abed put it. She's more aware of the World outside the study group and seems to be the only one interested in it, even though the character itself is one that is quite unlikeable. She's socially insecure and awkward and will do anything to feel "Cool and Hip"... Which really makes her such a sad character to begin with.
She champions causes that no one else cares for and that just further alienates her from the group. That's all they seem to have mostly for Britta, she cares too much about stuff no one else cares for and she's outcasted for it.
Other than that she's playing Troy's love interest, which is what is helping establish Troy as more of a leading character and rival to Jeff's leadership. Troy and Britta's little shipper moments are really building Troy's character into a more grown up adult. So she's playing a crucial role in Troy's character development too.
But besides being the self righteous hippie do goer and Troy's love interest they are obviously setting up the character reveal of her being sexually molested as a Child. Which is why her Psych test evaluation seemed rather interesting... you know, about the Penises.
In Britta's above NBC character Bio she reveals some very personal secrets about a man in a Dinosaur Costume on her Eleventh Birthday which of course is brought back up in the Season 1 Finale with her Psych visits with Professor Duncan. Then during the Season 2 Halloween Special she was dressed as a Dinsaur.
That will probably be the most critical character reveal of the season and how that is handled will pretty much make or break Britta's overall character involvement in the show.
Here are the draft Synopsis and Treatments for a 10 Minute Short Film Script I'm working on for my Creative Writing class, hopefully I get to make this film because it honestly has some really exciting ideas in it. (Even though I'm borrowing heavily from Good Omens)
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Synopsis
Good and Evil are just sides to Crowley and Gabrielle. Bored by the eternal grind of being immortal angels on differing sides of the War they set up a Wager. Who can convert the Soul of an unsuspecting human first?
Treatment
Act 1:
Crowley and Gabrielle sit at an All Night Café discussing various aspects of being immortal angels, what they’ve seen happen over the course of history while also ripping into each other about how silly their side is.
The Café Waitress listening in on their conversation notes how different they are compared to the other customers. Crowley enlightens her that they are both Angels, Crowley himself is a Demon (A Fallen Angel) whilst Gabrielle is just got into the Human Realm as a Guardian Angel, right now she’s trying to get her wings and has yet to do enough good deeds. Crowley on the other hand chooses to be here because he finds Hell tedious and boring. Ignoring them she walks away unaffected.
Crowley instigates a Wager between the Two considering that he’s already got wind that the Apocalypse is near and they haven’t really got anything better to do. He spots a random walking across the Street and they agree to see how can secure the soul to their side first.
Act 2:
Crowley tempts the Soul using the various Sins to his disposal, Lust, Envy, Pride, Wraith, Gluttony, Sloth and Greed. Gabrielle still new to Human Manipulation rellies Heavy on imparting the Soul with Wisdom, insight, virtue, patience, compassion , understanding and faith. Considering Man is more inclined to Sin Crowley easily wins various interactions with the Soul.
This all plays out with the traditional Angel and Demon on the Shoulder except they’ll just stand next to the Soul and he’ll just continue on unaffected assume that they’re his actual moral conscious.
Act 3:
Just as Crowley is about to secure the Soul Gabrielle whispers something into the Soul’s ear at the last second and they completely switch sides to Good. Crowley amazed asks Gabrielle what she said to convince them otherwise… She reveals she just massaged the truth about Heaven.
Alternate Ending:
She’s was a Demon in disguise and promised to sleep with the Soul, she only took the wager because she wanted to be Satan’s favourite Demon and backstabbing another Demon was considered a great act of Evil.
Sunday 9th of October 2011 5:37pm
Location: Antony's Car, T2 Highway Balgowlah
We sat there, silently watching the horizon. The Sun blazing over the cracked asphalt of the Highway. Enjoying the afternoon drive we leisurely chatted and joked as the day winded down. But then there it was, just this lumbering monster of inconsiderateness. A fucking tourist bus in the middle lane. What was it doing in the middle lane on the Highway and Why was it only going 60kms? The Bus lane was right there on the left, EMPTY and there this thing was, like a giant stupid monolith of evil, just inconsiderately taking up previous road space and doing 20kms slower then the Speed Limit.
"What the fuck is this Shit?" The Road Warrior exclaimed, the fury was evident in his voice. His eyes bulged with fury and his lip curled in frustration. The Bus Lane was made for Buses and there this Tourist Bus was, in the middle lane going 65km on a Highway. He was livid with this injustice... "THE MIDDLE LANE IS FOR CARS ONLY DAMMIT!" he Screamed.
He let out a sigh of disgruntlement, "I'm not taking this Bullshit" he muttered and abruptly turned into the Bus Lane. He revved the engine and drove past the offending vehicle in question, doing 90 in the process and thus speeding but it didn't matter to him, not even slightly. what he was doing was Justified, To him this Bus was breaking the Law of the Road by being an inconsiderate Dick.
As soon as he overtook the Bus he turned back into the Middle Lane in front of it and dropped his speed down to 50km. He sat there content with himself as he just starred at the Bus through his rear view mirror. "How do you like that? Hmmmm?"
There I was with the Road Warrior, sitting in a small car in front of a Bus drastically dropping speed in hopes that this would teach the Driver a lesson. We could've been crushed in the process but He sat there in Defiance as he stared a hole into the Bus via the rear view mirror. Who was going to crack first?
Then its left indicator flickered on and the Bus finally took the hint (or just got annoyed and changed lanes) thus changing into the Bus Lane... The Lane the Bus should've been in the entire time! He had won, he had reclaimed the Middle lane for its rightful users and had defeated the Bus in Road Battle. Road Warrior Antony then drove away having done a Good Deed. He had made the T2 Highway a better place for that moment and I was proud of my friend.
Antony is a normal man like you and I but what he did that afternoon was a superhuman act of benevolence. He could've overtaken the Bus and just driven on but he didn't, he made sure that it would go into the rightful lane and he did it. Antony Moved an entire fucking Bus by being Brave. He demonstrated true moral courage that day... something most people never do in their entire lives.
The Best thing is... We were listening to the Foo Fighters Greatest Hits and the song that came on after he made the Bus change lanes was "My Hero"
You honestly can't write something better than that. But if you ask Antony he would've preferred if 'Kiss from a Rose' by Seal had come on instead.
Kiss from a Rose bridges Generational and Cultural Gaps, I had my uncle walk into the Room when I had Kiss from a Rose was on and he stopped and said "Hey that's a Good Song Boy!" (He's Old and Fijian so he calls any young kid Boy)
John Hughes is a film making Legend, there is an entire generation of people that grew up watching his movies. Not the fact that they watched his films when they were younger I mean they actually grew up and learned important life lessons from his films. That's absolutely incredible that the man had that much of an impact on so many lives. People he would never meet were touched and affected by his work and that just further inspires me to pursue this lofty career choice of being a film maker.
That's what Genius looks like Ladies, Glasses and a Mullet
What this rambling blog entry will be about my experience of watching a double feature of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Breakfast Club last night in a swanky cinema in Mosmon called the Orpheum that runs with the interior themed motif of a 1930 movie theatre. It's rather charming in a sort of rustic yesteryear of film attending crowd way, like I should've gone to watch the film in a trench coat and wearing a bowler hat.
So Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Breakfast Club, Two absolute classic John Hughes movies that have such high critical acclaim and cultural influence that it has been ingrained in modern pop culture. Just so we're clear on this, I had not seen either movie before last night, I grew up watching 90s movies when I was a kid, I swear the only 2 80s movies I saw in the 90s were probably just The Karate Kid and RoboCop.... Actually wait, I do have faint memories of Ghostbusters, I don't know which one though. I watched a handful of 80s movies when I was a teenager but I had stayed away from all John Hughes films. (Which is sadness me in retrospect now)
Anyway Ferris Bueller's Day off was the first to kick off, mainly due to the fact that the double feature was based around the fact that it was the 25th Anniversary of the release of the Movie.
I loved it, I wasn't expecting something THAT good. I mean I've seen good movies before but to get instantly floored by Matthew Brodrick's charisma playing Ferris Bueller was Amazing. (Where did all that Talent Go?) There were so many stand out scenes in the Movie, the Art Museum visit, The Skyscraper Scene, The Parade, the Pool Scene, Cameron's Final Freak Out over the Car... It was a sublime movie.
I had read before hand on CRACKED that if you watch the movie with the idea that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination it becomes like this coming of age Fight Club like movie... and it completely makes sense. Just look at this scene where Cameron is arguing with himself about picking Ferris Up.
I honestly love this movie now, I feel a strong kinship with Cameron. The kind of sad loneliness he feels all the time and what Ferris means to him. The kind of friend that will drag you out kicking and screaming just to have fun. The friend that will grab you buy the collar and make you experience life. I just felt sad watching Cameron and frankly Alan Ruck deserves more credit for what he did with the Character because I honestly felt for him. Especially when he was beating in the front of his father's car asking it "Who do you love? Me or the Car?"
It was also interesting to see Charlie Sheen's role in the movie as the Drifter in the Police station brought in on were drugs convictions. Even I can't overstate the delicious irony of it all.
Just quickly, here is a re-cut trailer of the movie to make it seem like a indie movie rather than a 80s Teen Comedy. The great thing it works so well with the idea that Ferris is trying to save Cameron from himself.
.....Save Ferris Cameron
(Watch this Space for More Later - Breakfast Club)
