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Main Junction: [Closed] Saturday Night Open Mic (26 April 08)
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this is what i look like on my way to work.
This week I:- went to a space museum - saw a cccp capsule, saw sputnik2, taught 5th graders about impact craters, saw some badass telescopes
- went to UCSF to visit my friend at work with Evan for take your kid to work day (my work is boring) - saw a bunch of NMR machines, played with liquid nitrogen, played with a $50K 3d imaging projector
- threw a birthday party for a 9yr old
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This week the ex is pissing me off to high heaven, we just recently broke things off and he's being really clingy, and I'm telling him to fuck off annnd it isn't working... Holy hell people are infuriating.
I have lots of work to do tomorrow... And i shall probably be putting them off until late tomorrow night. 3 papers, two short and one long due friday... excellentness, but it's mostly fun writing Media and Politics stuff. Two are for my teacher that I wrote a paper using Spider to show how modern media could change for the better. She was intrigued and started reading Transmet it was fun.
Filthiness is I am corrupting a nubile comic book nerd. YarHar!
I'm still in Montana and I don't want to go home for the summer because I don't want to deal with the dirty drama in Oklahoma.
I want to do the media watchdogging and try to change the bullshit 24 hour news stations to give me something useful...
I just finished my table top with tentacles one it, and well I need one more tiny tube of oil paint to do the last touch ups because my demon dachshund ate my two 4 oz tubes of oil paint and ruining my couch cushions.
Tonight it is time for video games and drinking exciting I shall return. Have a good night Whitechapel! I <3 lurking here
Oh and here is me from last night being drunk and playing board games...
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- CommentAuthorCatastrophe Jones
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008
I don't hate Leonard Cohen. My girlfriend tells lies. I keep her around 'cause she's hot.
As for me, my plans are many, and sekrit. But here I am:
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I'm pissing myself off this week. I ended up in a sales job that I fucking HATE. I don't have that thing that people have that can let them bullshit other people into buying shit they don't need.
However, I am a skeeball wizard and won enough tickets at it to get a cheap little wristband with a skull and crossbones on it. Fear my mighty skeeball arm.
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CommentAuthorsteveburnett
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008
Pic of me after my set last night at a house concert:
I played with my contact mic'd metal mask the Iron Muse last night as a first field test that seemed to go well. Playing again with the mask on Sunday.
What's next: Soundcheck for the first band at the show I'm playing tonight with my looped and processed improv tuba project Ouroboros (my partner is the tuba player, I'm the looping and processing half). -
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- CommentAuthorarghhhhhhh
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008
i'm trying to meet my own deadline of writing daily.
i have treatments to read for work, but...i don't really want to.
money concerns me.
quitting smoking sucks.
starting to use twitter has made me write shorter sentences. -
hunted for mushrooms today in the semi-wilds north of omaha. found none. there is talk that there will be no morel season this year, but had a wonderful morning tramping about in trees with no leaves in the sun and the breeze and scarves and gloves with a friend of mine who also needed to get out of town for a bit.
been waking up and getting out of bed and out of the house early most mornings this week. i have no fucking clue why, but i'm going with it for now.
tried to quit my job. failed. still not sure how that worked. still want to quit. developing plans to make that happen.
getting an invite to the only wedding i want to go to this year - gonna hafta get a dress! wee!
as for filthy - the litter box of pissed off kittens.
as for future - wondering about technology that would allow two women to produce a child. or two men. am poet, know nothing of genetics, but i really think it oughta be possible.
as for pissed off - stupid passive aggressive boss of can't focus for shit and doesn't listen to anything. really seriously quitting. even if she refuses to accept it. evil bitch poet will prevail.
plans for now include another glass of wine, movie with the folks and much happy time sleeping under the electric blanket because the weather isn't as psycho as in SD, but it sure hasn't taken its meds in a while.
who do i wanna be? me. 15 pounds more. different hair. nothing serious.
no pic this month. having strange face, not wanna share. will see about next week. -
- CommentAuthorJoshHechinger
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008 edited
Tell me what and who is pissing you off this week. Tell me your plans. Tell me something filthy, strange and wonderful. Tell me where you are. Tell me who and what you want to be. Tell me what you want to make. Tell me what's next.
1) Nothing and nobody.
2) Finish drawing two pages of a thing to send to my overworked secret editor, start writing the second issue of a bear-wrestling comic, work on a half-dozen other things. Take some pictures of a weird little alley so I can use it for a fight comic. Go see Iron Man? Maybe get some water-ice? I dunno.
3) Email I got from an artist: "Aztec Bear is going to be a fucking savage". When I get emails like this, it does not suck to be me.
4) In my room. I haven't really left the house since I got back from NYCC. Too many emails. Too much to write. Too expensive to drive anywhere. Too much effort to put pants on.
5) The Stan Lee of shonen comics. But apparently, Stan Lee is DOING shonen comics now? And is a samurai in them? Also, I'm probably lying about the first part?
6) Stir fried pork with mixed vegetables and scrambled eggs. Maybe throw in some walnuts, and ground potato stick powder for the eggs.
7) I'm no Baba Yanga, sir. I'm not even a Baba O'Riley.
EDIT - Right, picture:
Heya. -
I'd take a picture but my camera's out of batteries and I haven't the cash to get new ones.
Today I got fired from a job after only working 3 days there. Well, more like I walked while the supervisor did that thing they do where they want you to apologize for something. Call center work, outbound calls, for mindless surveys, is demeaning. Ever since I lost my job at the venue I've learned that I am incapable of working joe schmoe jobs. I can't handle the boredom that comes with it.
Boredom literally drives me insane.
I have no idea what I'm going to do.
Bad times.
Edited to add:
On the bright side, I have more time to finish up pages on my forthcoming webcomic. -
Tiamat has put up all of the tracks to their newest album Amanethes on their Myspace album. This is their first album in five years, since Prey. It is released on May 2nd, and I am grateful. At first listen it feels to be somewhat of a return to Wildhoney and Clouds. But there are still some of their more softer and experimental tracks that have have characterized their last four albums previous. Oddly, for being the metal-head that I am, my favorite track so far has been the softest one on the album, "Meliae." "Misantropolis" is another one I enjoy.
http://www.myspace.com/tiamat
In other news, I am shortly about to make my way to a friend's house for a going away party. A friend of ours is moving to Flordia. Oddly, rather than feeling particularly happy for her, or even sad, I just feel a little bit older and more weary. I've only been in Salt Lake City for just a little over 2 years, and already friends are leaving... I just feel the passage of time washing over me again.
Luckily, I am armed with a bottle of Jack Daniel's Whiskey and a six-pack of Squatter's "Captain Bastard's Oatmeal Stout". I suspect I'll shortly get over it, and get in the spirit of the party. There's supposed to be a... pinata?
Finally, Battlestar Galactica is the most superior thing television currently has to offer.
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This week I worked much overtime in the hopes of getting extra money to move. I have a 50/50 chance of living with my cousin in the city. She bought a remodeled home and I am trying to be one of the two roommates she's looking for.
I need a change of venue. I need to feel better about me and I think a fresh start is the ticket. I could be wrong, but I live way too close to my newly remarried ex-wife. That way lies madness.
Haven't had much time to write or do much of anything. I have my darlings this weekend and we had another wonderful day. Tomorrow I'll make the most of it with them until their mother comes to pick them up. They're asleep now and I find it a bit lonely.
As always I'd like to have one of those love affairs that transcend the norm and last for a lifetime but I honestly don't think it's ever going to be in the cards for me. Even the girls that are somewhat interested balk the minute they find out I'm divorced with two kids.
I'm such a hopeless fucking romantic is goddamn sickening.
Ah well. Thanks Warren for this and thanks for the stories. They are always good for the soul.
Perhaps I'll actually do some writing now.
Kisses Whitechapel.
You can be my one and only. But only for tonight.
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CommentAuthorSpiraltwist
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008
@JoshHechinger
Good evening, Josh.
@SJD
Yes, that way lies madness. I hope you are one of the her new roomies. -
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Just got back from Old Chicago, drunk as fuck. They do this beer tour now, and it's... it's just great.
Also, my cats are finally with us in Colorado, and they're sniffing around the new place. Just wasn't the same without them.
The reason I'm drunk (as if I needed one) is because after a week in a new city, I've gotten a job doing tech support for Lockheed Martin, making more money than I have previously. So, even in a new state, I remain the luckiest boy in the world.
Also, after two weeks with a cold that turned into a sinus infection, I get to have maritals with my wife tonight. So, I've got that going for me, which is nice. :D -
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CommentAuthorbrittanica
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008
so far the only picture of myself without my glasses that i can tolerate. still doesn't look like me, though.
went to a record signing thursday. met elvis costello... in that, i told him how to spell my name, forgot everything else, and my boyfriend remembered to shake his hand. now waiting for the moment i can actually fucking listen to momofuku.
i've been depressed all week and i don't even know why. i'm starting to feel better, since i had a chance to spend the day with the boyfriend. he's just now getting over some sinus bullshit, and he can go more than a few minutes without coughing his lungs up. makes it easier to, you know, have a conversation.
i really wish i had friends to hang out with, but i deal. that's what the internet's for, right? -
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- CommentAuthorJoshHechinger
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008
@spiral
Heya, good evening to you, too. -
- CommentAuthorDaniel Andrlik
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008
Monday I have to do a demo for a piece of software that isn't ready for it. I don't have the guts to tell my boss that it would be easier to burn everything and start recoding the whole thing from scratch, so I have to hack together a miracle this weekend.
I need a new job, and I'm terrified of what's happening to the economy.
On the other hand, something finally shifted in my head and I'm suddenly feeling more free as a writer than I have in years. -
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CommentAuthorjrblackwell
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008
Jennifer Rodgers and I got together tonight for a work day. She colored in comics, I wrote stories - it was all very productive.
Then, come night, we went into my new studio space and took some photos. It was fantastic!
Me!
Jennifer Rodgers!
It was a good night. -
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CommentAuthorKibblesmith
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2008 edited
Before Picture (shave/haircut):
Way past deadline on a video commission:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJtCGtrJ6o
Had to explain to same clients that I can't digitally rotoscope a vlog every day in under an hour, nor can I in that same hour supply them with the "Polar Express-style" motion capture that they half-requested, suspecting in an astounding act of understatement that it might be "a little pricey."
Breaking now to change the water in my turtle's tank (Red-Eared Slider; Cyrus), then pulling an all-nighter to finish the above, packing and leaving for the Bay Area for 3 Weeks.
(see some of you there, see some of you after). -
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In the past week a photographer I greatly admire was shocked that a shot he loved was taken by me AND that he had no idea it was a composite till I told him; a random blogger called our line fetish couture; we received our largest order ever.
What do I want to make? Next year's spring line already. Fucking schedules. What am I making? Men's underwear with foul words on the behind. Apparently, there's a gaping hole (pardon the phrase) in the gay market just begging to be plugged (again, pardon). Honestly, I've been told these will be a big deal. I'm fucking hoping. (Really, I think hot men wearing my SKULLFUCKER underwear is brilliant.)
Tonight I'm going to meet for the first time in meatspace someone I've known for years online.
Tomorrow we get interviewed on a podcast dealy.
My brain is never off anymore.
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Last night I went out of my way to terrify all of my friends at a party.
One of my friends decided I deserved a real life lolcaption.
Note to the rest of the universe. Candy posing pouches pinch in uncomfortable places, a lot.
I fear now that this picture is circulating the Internet, I shall never again be allowed closer than 5 feet away from a real woman. But it is done. And now I have shared the brain-melting horror.
