Updates

So, I’ve been a little busy. Working towards things, getting nothings done, chillen wit friends, and pros-crastin-atin...

So, um... where to start. Weird stuff and interesting stuff. About two weeks ago, while at the Beaverton Transit Mall, I met this really (cute) interesting chick. We talked for quite a while, but all I got was her name. That’s cause I’m an idiot.

Um, this last Monday I was coming home from chillen with Hook and Carey, first, there’s this guy with like a hundred blue lights all over his bike, and he’s riding all over the transit center and through the mall area, but not doing anything. Some clearly retarded person (they had a mental illness) started following me and was trying to talk to me about the fancy light guy on the bike. I finally ditched him by leaving the transit center. So I’m headed through the mall complex to the Shell gas station (they’ve got a bathroom and I know the chick that works there). As I’m walking some drunk guy about twenty feet away starts trying to sing to me (the song had something to do with the president and a donkey, but mostly was too muffled to understand), so I walked away but by now "I’m like what in the hell?" Who let all the crazy people out? Then I see a limo in the parking lot. Mind you, it’s about 11:15pm, not a single store here is open. Hell no I didn’t want to know what was going on with that. So I get to the Shell, and there’s like twelve people in there, and the computer is making some horrible noise. First thing out of Laura’s mouth was, "Do you have a phone I could borrow?" So I hand Laura my phone and after 35 minutes of yelling, a little tears, and a lot of user name and password prompts that all consisted entirely of the number 9, they got it working. So then I said goodbye, walked back, caught the bus and went home. But that was one weird night.

Movie reviews, first and fore most. Bloobrayne 2, don’t waste your time, energy, money, or thought. It’s given that straight to DVD movies aren’t typically good and this is one that sets bad into whole new ballpark. Doomsday, is some funny shit, and a great plot. Characters, could have been a little less routine. Effects were sort of old school, and that was cool. All and all I liked it a lot and would see it again.

VD, I need to reformat my computer so I can reinstall Avid so I can finish the videos from the 8th last month. I’m also going to redownload the videos from the 1st this month using a new program that gets the better quality off my MiniDV tapes. Then I’ll make large versions of the video.

I found out I’m better off leaving my camcorder in full screen mode, apparently instead of adding unseen video to the left and the right to make it wide screen, instead my camcorder cuts from the top and the bottom, making less picture, as well as reducing the quality.

I’ve been at it again. Playing Fallout for no reason, just killing things and getting pissed off when the guy fouls up and he shouldn’t have. I think I played a total of 8 hours yesterday. I need to stop, really... maybe next week.

Anyways, I need to finish my Taxes, do ma laundry, and work on web pages. Maybe later all write, but I don’t know if I’ll take the time. I mean, have the time, have it... I mean, Fallout.

Thunderdog, blast you stop eating that! I just printed those Tax forms...

what is happening?

First, I'll start with the stupid things. Movie reviews! The Covenant, eh, it was crap really. I mean, some decent parts and pieces, but all in all it wasn't worth much. Be Kind Rewind, the funniest part of the whole movie was when the film fucked up. It started rolling down and everything became glazed, that was awesome. Other than that, maybe a cult following of film-makers, but nothing all that great.

So August, what about a job? Well, I finally got the time to get to Best Buy and they simply said that they wanted to, but their budget just wouldn't allow it. That's understandable, it is. But why did I have to go there to find out, and why must it be that way? Beh-gah!

Dana and Hook and I were supposed to chill Sunday, but that didn't happen. I called her and told her I was on my way out the door, she said alright call me when you get to the Lloyd Center. I thought she was going to wait, she thought I was close to town and headed there. I stopped and got a new cell phone, she called me with WTF? So we made new plans. Now I have one phone to replace all other phones (god I'm starting my own phone civilization). The number you can reach me at is 5039148199. I do still have my old tracfone. I'm not sure what I want to do with that.

Well, instead of turning around and going home I continued into town and chilled with Hook, Carey, and Billy. They were all playing the new Smash Bros Brawl at Carey's house. That game is epic! It has more tricks than a barrel full of monkeys! It's crazy!

So, chilled with Dana and Hook yesterday, that was tight. We had some fun. Dana apparently needs a job more than I do. That's bad. We went and saw Be Kind Rewind. Then I decided that I should go and Dana was leaving too, so we all parted and went home. Fast forward with me now past all the other stops. Okay so there I was at the Beaverton transit center and there's this beautiful girl waiting for the same bus as me. I thought she looked kind of young but still, she was very pretty. Anyways, after waiting too long for the bus to come we all start to get on, and suddenly she's like, "you look familiar to me but I don't know where from!" Well, after babbling on about nothing for the entire bus ride I finally decided to get her name (honestly at the time I had no idea where I'd ever seen her, but I knew I had seen her before). Now, I'm sitting here, thinking about when I might see her again, and I remember where I've seen her. It was nothing really, just another chance meeting on the Max from less than a month or two ago. But yeah, now I want to see her again.

So tonight, tonight I'm going to chill with Hook, Carey, and Billy again. This time we're getting Carey drunk so someone else might win (first day on the game and his kill ratio is at +90%). Next movie I'm going to watch is Bloodrayne 2, not that it looks good, but it's rated R and I haven't seen it.

So I'm off, See ya!

Cheese is food. (blogging)

So….. I've been watching kids!! Yay!!!!!! NOT!

It's great because I won't need to pay as much rent, but it's crappy because I've been house imprisoned in a way for almost three days. The good news is however, it is over. So tomorrow I'm going to hang with Dana and Hook. Anyone else who wants to come should call me.

I've wanted to watch so many movies lately that I've decided to just start renting a movie a night from the redbox. So far all I've seen was Breach, it was eh. Tonight I'm going to watch The Covenant. I figure it's not going to be all that good. But at least I'll have seen it.

I've been playing with my new (old) camera. It's a Pentax P3, 35mm piece of old junk. But it is a good learning tool. I've been looking into getting a few different lenses for it. I took a roll of 36 test shots. Just trying to pick up how to focus, what different apertures do, how they affect the shot when changed along with the ISO speed. It's cool.

I created the coolest effect the other day while making the Von Doom pages "Fan Photos" page. It looks like a collage of photos in a snake form or something. The cool part is because it's made with HTML if you resize the width of the window (or maybe you have a small screen), then the photos just squish closer until centered as two columns.

So yeah, that's a short update on me.
August

VD, Semi-Pro, and the Chipmunks too!

Updates! So, Semi-pro... it's funny, but why doesn't Ferrel get a new personality? WTF? It's not that funny anymore. Loud jerk is so 3 months ago... But it was fun hangin with Hook all night. Carey and Billy were there too. It was all very cool, anyone who could've come should've come.

My interview with Best Buy on Wednesday went well, and I'm quite happy about that. They said to check back in about a week if I haven't heard from them yet. Which in plain English means come back in by Tuesday so we can schedule you for a second interview. I so want this job, talking tech to people all day and being in a place where it's my job to know a lot about computers would be tight!

Von Doom put on an awesome show on Saturday night. It's a shame they didn't win the battle of the bands. But I seriously wasn't expecting them to, I mean, I hoped they would, but I figured ST would crush them. Looks like I was wrong on that account. Instead ST had 0 votes, none, which was the funniest thing like in months. I could've died it was so funny. Instead, this band I'd never heard before, except on myspace, won by default. What's worse is they're apparently retarded. Their treble could have killed me (and I'm not exaggerating that), and the chicks mic was too low.

Alvin and the chipmunks... ha ha ha ha ha... I went and saw that for free yesterday. It was eh, okay. They stayed with much of the original ideas and characteristics. But it wasn't anything special.

Looking forward to VD on the 9th at the Satyricon. This time I think Billy's going to make sure everyone has their equipment tuned before they start. I plan on taking a few shoots with my new camera (Pentex P3, it's actually old). As well as getting a few videos with my new camcorder, which I must say I'm greatly pleased with the audio quality it produced. Tom, who I invited to the battle, also got some great footage of the show. He hasn't finished getting it all in finished form, but what he's produced thus far is awesome. I invited him the both the 9th show and the show on the 27th at the Hawthorne. Hopefully he can make it.

I also might be going to see Angels & Airwaves on Friday with Laura, depending on whether I'm needed to watch kids. That should be fun if it happens, if not, oh well.