Whitechapel - Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:13:00 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266390#Comment_266390 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266390#Comment_266390 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:46:44 -0700 warrenellis Saturday Night Open Mic.

Tell me about your week.

Tell me what you really want to do. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266391#Comment_266391 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266391#Comment_266391 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:54:11 -0700 lazarus corporation
My week was good. Last weekend were two Einsturzende Neubauten gigs in London - I stayed in London for both, and booked Monday off work so I could spend it idly wandering around London (visiting a bookbinding shop to pick up some bookcloth) before heading back to Brighton for a week of work.

What do I really want to do? I want to create a small, private, password-protected, enclave online. There would only be a handful of people allowed in. It would be a hidden space. Something that’s not found through Google, and not accessible unless you have been given access. This is just a concept that I've been toying with today. It may appeal to me more as a concept than as a reality. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266393#Comment_266393 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266393#Comment_266393 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:59:46 -0700 evelet
I want to be Cracker. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266394#Comment_266394 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266394#Comment_266394 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:00:20 -0700 Ninewhilenine83
What I reeeaaally want to is write music. Seriously, with time put into it and everything. Not just as an "if I can find time and space to do it." Living in a quiet area in a tiny room with my family is just not working out, but aforementioned news allows that to change in the near future. But christ knows I need a nice home studio setup (I have a cheap 7 year old laptop that's on it's last legs to work with) and then to acquire technical expertise, but the weird combination of the Social Network soundtrack and compiling Halloween music has seriously inspiring. ALso learneing how to draw and teaching myself how to write, properly, both lyrics and literature.

Enough moaning, life is good and looking to get better. Onwards! ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266395#Comment_266395 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266395#Comment_266395 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:07:09 -0700 SteadyUP The Pillow Project - for whom I am the primary videographer/technical designer. The show is about the nature of ideas and memories, and how they interrelate and interact with the real world. We're doing 22 nights altogether, so attendance has been all over the map. Tonight's looking to be pretty good, though.

What do I really want to do? Luckily, this. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266397#Comment_266397 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266397#Comment_266397 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:21:41 -0700 texture
Tell me about your week.

Today was really good fun. A friend has started a film course, so we borrowed a camera from his college over the weekend and shot a video for one of the songs for my next EP. Honestly enjoyed twatting about in front of the camera, haven't done any of that for a while, and we used some excellent locations (Edinburgh's a very pretty city).

It was a good end to a great week for me creatively - the spoken word group I'm in got booked to support an amazing writer, Steve Aylett, when he comes to do a reading next week in Edinburgh. It's a huge honour to be asked, and I'm really looking forward to hearing Mr Aylett read.

I've been writing reasonably prolifically too - this week I finished a second draft of a stage play, recorded two hip-hop track and wrote a third, and did some more work on a short novella. I've been meaning to post in the lifehacks thread about my exploits - I'm setting myself targets of time and word count, and upping them every few weeks. So far, so good. It's been very rewarding in terms of my general happiness - I like to be busy, and it turns out I like deadlines, calendars and timetables (who knew).

Tell me what you really want to do.

I really want to see my ex-girlfriend. She's coming back from New Zealand in two weeks, I haven't seen her in over a year. We were together for six years before we broke up, and I loved her so damn much. I've missed her like crazy. Am absolutely terrified about seeing her again, but also enormously excited. I'm going to see my best friend again. Just wish it was now and not in a week's time!

I really want to fly past Jupiter in a spacecraft. I want to see the weather patterns on a gas giant with my own eyes. I know that's a little ambitious, but I want to see that before I kick the bucket, really I do.

I really want to buy the next issue of Neonomicon, and go and see RED. But I can't because I'm broke til payday.

Thankfully, the unlikeliness of the last two happening is made up for by all the angsty semi-nude people in the SPIT thread... that's been keeping me amused for the past few days.

Big love to all of you Whitechapel. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266398#Comment_266398 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266398#Comment_266398 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:29:47 -0700 MarshallQuicksand
This week I got drunk and saw family as my course had a reading week, during which I've no classes to attend. I lazed around in the library and wrote segments of essays, took notes and had intermittent frenzies of panic over their deadline, finding a job and everything else that comes with university. I also began to suspect that this hangover may be perpetual.

What do I really want to do? I want to run the country, live forever and tell the girl I have a needlessly complicated relationship with how I really feel about her. We sat around and cooked and watched all the Jurassic Park films and drank a whole lot and went from place to place in Glasgow basically having an amazing time of everything, to the extent that I stayed with her for 3 days instead of 1. The likelihood of any of those three ambitions reaching fruition is equally bleak. I'll settle for intermittent sex and a pretty fucking ace quasi-relationship. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266399#Comment_266399 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266399#Comment_266399 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:34:17 -0700 Fan Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266400#Comment_266400 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266400#Comment_266400 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:41:50 -0700 D- Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266404#Comment_266404 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266404#Comment_266404 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:58:07 -0700 StefanJ
Busy but productive at work.

I finished the graphics and a rewrite of a Superhero RPG adventure which will be published by Monkey House Games. First stuff I've written for Villains and Vigilantes in 25 years! I'm starting work on another.

I just got back from watching The Social Network, which was great stuff.

And, fucking hell, just now learned that one of my few remaining uncles is in hospice care. Pneumonia. But, well, not bad news, really. Poor guy went from "getting forgetful" to full-blown Alzheimer's last summer. I hope he goes quickly and peacefully. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266405#Comment_266405 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266405#Comment_266405 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:59:02 -0700 trini_naenae Fairly decent. I went to the doctor and it was a good experience. Work was... eh. Aunt is being bringing up land drama again but at least my mom is standing up to her. Unfortunately, both my mom and I are having jaw pain issues (clenching teeth basically) as a result of the stress built up over the past year. Aunt drama isn't going to help. Did fun things with my mom yesterday. Got around to putting checks in the bank and realizing I'm still quite comfortably in the black (without the checks). Am really enjoying sitting in my bed and doing stuff on the netbook. So comfy! Really boring stuff like that.

What I really want to do:
Lately I've been in an R rated kind of mood. Well, except that I lack a boyfriend and live in an area where everyone knows everyone. Cuddling would be nice too. Eh, so it goes. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266406#Comment_266406 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266406#Comment_266406 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:59:05 -0700 Fauxhammer
Let me tell you what I really want to do, in the short term. I want to make the project me and Neil are working on knock people's socks off. I want people to read it, and love it. I want it to get big, and I want it to make everybody happy.

That's it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266408#Comment_266408 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266408#Comment_266408 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:09:10 -0700 chris g
Anyway, I visited the comic store and shot the shit with my clerk-friend there. Some actual goddamn conversation! It really helped me feel sane again. Some random guy even walked in and bought about $90 bucks worth of Phantom back issues or something. I was happy for my friend since it's a shit-tastic economy. And it always make me glad to see a comic shop make a juicy sale like that.
But yeah, it felt good to talk and joke and feel like a goddamn person. Everyone around me is usually two-faced and fucking timid and up their own ass as if only they're lame life matters, or like they're better somehow.
Tell me what you really want to do.
Just wanna hole up in my cave and watch wrestling, enjoy music and create comics all the time. With kitty by my side. And a big window with a view of the world as it screams and burns the fuck down ^__^ ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266410#Comment_266410 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266410#Comment_266410 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:15:16 -0700 JP Carpenter
What I really want to be doing...

I wish to be a billionaire intergalactic playboy and bon viveur. Right now, I'd be in a luxury penthouse by an emerald green alien ocean, reclining on a balcony in a sumptuous leather sofa while beautiful women bring me ludicrous cocktails, watching holographic reruns of the UK (Earth) 2010 revolution, especially the bit where the baying mob of pushed-too-far civil servants [edited for self-moderation purposes - just concerned that if current or future employers somehow stumble across me via teh google I always seem to be fantasising about the bloodthirsty demise of Conservatives] .

No... If I knew what I really wanted to do, I might be trying to actually do it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266412#Comment_266412 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266412#Comment_266412 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:20:12 -0700 icelandbob
Well what have i been up to this week. to be honest Fuck all. After the shenanigans of last weekends Iceland Airwaves festival (doing drinking games with Mount Kimbie and Ramadanman for example) and possibly stealing large amounts of beer from a bar, i'Ve experienced a massive comedown as i tried to get some form of normality back into my life.

This meant going back to work. Alas instead of it bringing normality back to my life it brought on another depressive episode and i had to leave work early yesterday. I managed to get into bed and slept for 16 hours.

Have started the lifetime bonding with my kitty, Stalin. Little thing is a bit of a clingy fucker, which has annoyed my wife a little bit ("is he on our bed AGAIN?"), but he is very cute and the local kids love him.

Tried to get back on the old hack journalism/writing again today but produced nothing but words badly strung together. will get back on it tomorrow...

And have done nothing else as i (and everyone else on this shitty Island) is broke....

As for what i really want? Hmmm i suppose it's for the people around me, my adopted countrymen, to start growing some balls and stop whinging about how awful it is that they are all getting screwed by politicians and big business, but do nothing abut it. It just all sounds so passive-aggressive as i know that they will not so much as say boo to a goose if they are pressed. When they do protest, it's so bloody polite and anemic that they ark the police to move aside when they throw soured milk at a building. Sigh...

And to be able to be independently wealthy enough to pay off all my wife's debts so i can tell my father in law to go fuck himself.

And to have a quantum computer augmentation procedure on my brain. and a large gun and a crate of booze

and to be a woman

Goodnight..... ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266413#Comment_266413 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266413#Comment_266413 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:21:10 -0700 joshbales
What I really want to do right now? Currently, I have the irresistible urge to re-watch BATMAN & ROBIN. Yeah, that's right: the really crappy one with Schwarzenegger and Clooney. I'm kind of hoping none of my friends will be up for it . . . but knowing the sort of people I associate with, within a few hours there will be a number of us sitting in front of the tee-vee, enjoying the wonderful one-liners of Mr. Freeze.

"Tonight, Hell freezes over!" ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266417#Comment_266417 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266417#Comment_266417 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:32:17 -0700 Brendan McGinley
I really want to dial the clock back a year and a half and make totally different moves, because I can't live in this new world. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266418#Comment_266418 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266418#Comment_266418 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:35:46 -0700 Greasemonkey
I really want a time machine so I can go back and not leave Australia three weeks before Dad died. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266419#Comment_266419 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266419#Comment_266419 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:38:05 -0700 JECole
Sorry to hear that, man. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266420#Comment_266420 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266420#Comment_266420 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:40:02 -0700 roadscum
I hope anyone not feeling fine and frisky soon does and all who are manage to make good use of it.
Tell me what you really want to do

If only i knew...sighs!

Currently, what i think i'd like to do is get better, as in recover from whatever it is that's making me feel quite so bloody ill. Knowing what's causing the host of annoying and debilitating little niggles would be a start. I have my own bizarre and unfeasible ideas which are worth nothing on their own and are received with at best polite scepticism and at worst downright ridicule by those i have voiced them to. Fortunately the physician i have recently been referred to is prepared to at least consider my delusional flights of fancy and is getting a couple of samples analysed for ova, cysts and anything else that shouldn't be there. Either they'll find something or they'll section me. Really i can't loose, if they find something they can try to do something about it, if they don't i get free bed and board and the chance to let the flat out and make a bit of money. Truly, life is good!

I also think i'd like to finish that short story i started writing a while ago and perhaps start on a few more, and there are some pictures i really should be doing something with. Oh and maybe just perhaps having a go at this blogging thing, all provided i can find enough time away from work to feel rested and awake enough for any kind of joined up thinking.

Ye gods i am a whiny old bastard, aren't i?

As for last week, no hitch hikers but did get offered a proper full time job. Didn't take it, having no need to chase the cheese or desire to get back on the treadmill after having purposefully stepped off it a while ago. Still, it's nice to be popular and good to have another fairly reliable source of work, though Mr Ellis knows where to look should he ever require the services of an experienced steering-wheel monkey (reasonable rates, time and a half after eight hours).

And now - crumbs, is that the time? Oh dear, well past my bedtime.

Goodnight all, sleep tight! ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266421#Comment_266421 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266421#Comment_266421 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:40:33 -0700 phill_sea
Yesterday I went to the bar with my lovely wife and some friends, to celebrate a birthday. Tonight it's processed chicken wings and cheap beer while I watch some poor schmuck get his face pounded in by Brock Lesnar.

I really want to move somewhere warmer, and be done with my bachelor's degree already. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266424#Comment_266424 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266424#Comment_266424 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:45:13 -0700 Agitpunkt
It's naked and rough and terrible and I am happy as hell with how it's working out.

The 9 to 5 university job was shit this week but the creativity of the weekend really made up for it.

This winter, oh yes, off-broadway will beg for this thing to stop.... ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266426#Comment_266426 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266426#Comment_266426 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:47:49 -0700 celan

We did something touristy today. Since we live in (a) Wine Country, I took the girlfriend to lunch at Coppola's winery, a mere 20 minutes north.
At the restaurant there, Rustic, I had my first ever pettole...which is like a salty Italian doughnut, if you've never had one. So basically, it was pure yum.

Since Halloween approaches, I thought I'd post the "Klimt costume" and "Muscle armor" from FFC's "Dracula":



Tell me what you really want to do.

I want a few years off just to think and read, read and think. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266429#Comment_266429 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266429#Comment_266429 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:27:01 -0700 Aurora Borealis Good, let's keep it that way. My feet would kill me. They'd literally tear themselves off from my body and strangle me to death with shoelaces while I was asleep.

My cut finger has healed nicely and I CAN DRAW AGAIN! So I've been celebrating this by filling page after page after page of quick random doodles, figure drawings, odd faces, dynamic action/foreshortening experiments, odd takes at simplifying anatomy etc. I should hit 30 pages of these doodles by tomorrow.Basically, getting back into shape after few weeks of art abstinency.

Happy times were had when I finally sold the first copy of my new book. Also, I am aware of making two more sales (although Ka-Blam hasn't registered them yet so I can only rely on the words of the people who told me they bought them) so that means 12 more to go to achieve the base goal of 15.

What I really want to do?
I want to find the time to DRAW SOME GODDAMN COMICS, that's what I want to do. I've been brainstorming new ideas like crazy. A book of robot drawings, a Go Nagai/Ghost Rider/Guyver inspired character, an improvised heroic fantasy/sword & sorcery story... That's just the last three days! (and I just noted one more short story concept as I was in the middle of writing this post). ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266432#Comment_266432 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266432#Comment_266432 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:42:58 -0700 JECole Tell me about your week.
My week was both frustrating and exciting. Frustrating because I've had to abandon almost 6k words of a novella I've been writing, then, I've had to go back and completely rewrite the plot for the said novella.
Exciting because, after watching Munich and halfway through watching the Carlos the jackal mini series I had a HUGE brainwave which led me to completely rethink the story I was trying to tell. Now I'm trying to articulate this insane idea and its changing as I commit it to paper. Almost as it's something organic.

Fun times

Also, I've had to rethink the way my main character speaks. His language. His articulation. He sounds modern. I want him to sound ancient.

Tell me what you really want to do.
WRITE BETTER and WRITE MORE. I've set myself a daily word minimum of 1000 words and I'm reading extensively out of my comfort zone. I'm forcing myself to encounter writers who works I've never read before. And I've have several revelations. Take for example Robert B Parker. Never read one of his books before. I was surprised how "surgical" and tight his prose was. The man gets in, paints a bare-bones picture of a scene, and allows you imagination to do the rest. Writing like that must take a HUGE amount of skill and an even larger set of balls.

Seriously. I just want to write better. That's it. Nothing else. Everything else is unimportant. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266433#Comment_266433 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266433#Comment_266433 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:52:08 -0700 trini_naenae
@Greasemonkey: Sorry to hear about your loss. I hope you will get chances to rest and take care of yourself (and get taken care of) during this hard time. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266435#Comment_266435 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266435#Comment_266435 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:59:44 -0700 Prof Structure
And then although the Labyrinth comic store had no copies of the Vertigo Resurrected issue, which was a downer, I did pick up a copy of Jackie-O Motherfucker's Liberation for $7 at BMV and to end the day, found myself in the midst of Toronto's Zombie Walk. The energy and effort these young people had put into dressing up and coating themselves with fake blood gives one hope for the future! (and kudos to the waitress zombie with the eyeballs soda).

What do I really want to do? Right now, crash to the tinkly sounds of Jackie-O. Later, find out what happens to the space marines in the Tanya Huff' book I'm reading. And after *that*, write my own. Ha! (it'll never happen ...) ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266436#Comment_266436 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266436#Comment_266436 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:04:06 -0700 Alastair
my cousin died yesterday, she was in an alcoholism indused coma for the last 6 months and technically brain dead so its for the best.
i'm on holiday as i prep for essentially 3 month straight work... gotta love christmas in retail eh?


what i really want to do? i want to get high in the short term. and in the long term

music. i want to make music, i want to play non-stop everyday. i want to live it again ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266439#Comment_266439 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266439#Comment_266439 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:51:39 -0700 kperkins What do I want, well to have my dad back. Also to not be tired all the fucking time. Hard to get ambition to do anything if you're just dragging around. And I have lots of ideas of things I want to get making. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266441#Comment_266441 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266441#Comment_266441 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:01:24 -0700 Prof Structure Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266442#Comment_266442 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266442#Comment_266442 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:03:00 -0700 keyofsilence
Failing that, I want to profit from being creative.

Best wishes to everyone as this is only a passing visit into Internetland. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266447#Comment_266447 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266447#Comment_266447 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:35:22 -0700 mybrainhurts
Today at work I had to fill out another anonymous staff survey, which I always enjoy as I can rant for ages and I get to do it on company time. There was the option of having your comments typed up and given anonymously back to your store manager, but I declined to take advantage of that as when you work at a supermarket and describe various elements of it as 'sisyphean', 'Stakhanovite', 'morally and intellectually void corporate shitspeak', 'a nexus of existential despair and rank liberal hypocrisy' and 'imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever', it's kind of easy to work out who wrote it. Hopefully it'll give some meaningless data entry drone somewhere a smile.

The bank sent me an urgent letter saying they've been trying to get in touch for months and telling me to call a particular number and ask for a particular person. Naturally, this number is dead.

Right now I'm conducting several long and arduous virus scans, which is fun. Tomorrow I'm gonna see Red and read a lot and write a bunch.

I really wanna get a job where I don't have to work evenings and weekends, where I get more than a few pence above minimum, where I hate every aspect of it. I'd settle for two out of three. Unfortunately, all the applications I've sent in to places have been futile and it looks like soon I'll be having to compete for jobs with an extra 450000 people the government doesn't want anymore. In the end, I want to be with my girl who is currently several thousand miles and several thousand dollars away. And I want to create shit right now. I want to play shows with my shitty little punk band and shout at people and tell dumb jokes between songs until they hate me. I want to finish this fucking story I'm writing which every time I get a handle on keeps throwing up new things I can do with it and messing me up. It's kind of exciting but also frustrating. I feel like I've gotta write this one before I can write any others.

That is all for the moment.

This is me right now:

]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266448#Comment_266448 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266448#Comment_266448 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:43:21 -0700 Seantaclaus Greasemonkey - My sincere condolences. I wish I knew of something to say that would make it easier for you...

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This week: Wasn't bad. Not great, but far better than it could have been.

What do I really want to do?

Long Term:

I want to rack up the base monies that I need in order to pick up a piece of land, and start building a sustainable complex on it. Something completely capable of being off the grid utility-wise, aside from internet, and cell coverage. The latter two could be killed with one stone if I were to build it within distance of something that's the equivalent of 4G. Building and experimenting with varied types of sustainable- and eco-tech. Start with a small, single-person/couple first building. Once that's built, start building a new, slightly larger one to move into, playing around with different technologies more. Move into the second building, find someone interested in renting the first building (or buying it outright). Repeat process.

After getting 2-3 of those up and running, make sure to setup some sort of mutually-shared ground source heat pump. Get some wind power going. Expand what would already be some degree of rain cisterns, working in conjunction with a 2-4 cycle water setup. Start gardening, preferably with an indoor option so as to be able to garden year round in some capacity.

Being in the heartland of the States, it's peppered with any number of abandoned missile silos. Even one of the lesser ones, not built for long-term in-silo command center housing, could still be converted into something pretty impressive. It could double as both a hub as well as a tornado shelter, as we get tornadoes throughout much of the year here.

As an aside, at one point I hypothesized to a friend that, in theory, if the climate control were correct, the top able to be transparently sealed via plexiglass cover or such, and the proper amount/type of ground soil able to be placed, that one could import a cacao tree, and start a micro-specialty chocolatier business. In turn, the tree itself would help with things like air quality within the spaces that it may share attachment to via whatever air circulation system that's in place

Anyhow, the point is, I'd like to be in something sustainable, preferably with others of like-minded interest, other creative types of some sort, and contributable skills of some capacity. A cohesive, working community, operating at a more efficient level, for the better benefit of everyone involved. I don't want to be subjected to the inevitable rolling brownouts and blackouts that can and will occur in larger cities (they already have them in St. Louis, 2-3 days without power in the heat of summer, or the cold of winter, is a nasty thing to endure). Housing that is built more efficiently, with better materials, and more diversity in it's appearance than some cookie-cutter community of starter houses or McMansions. Communal living of sorts, though I hesitate to use the words "commune" or "compound" out of negative connotations that may possibly come with those.

That, actually, was the extremely condensed version, as I've thought about that sort of thing a lot.

Short Term:

Tonight, or at least by the end of the weekend, I want to find what I need to in order to setup PayPal on my Wordpress site, so that I can take orders for specific types of art. The big stumbling block I have right now is trying to figure out how to get someone to agree to terms presented by making an order, to cover my ass for copyright purposes, to make sure that nothing being ordered in that capacity is being used for profit, or on anything that isn't a personal level. By the by, if someone can actually help with that past "here's a link", I'd be willing to barter out a piece of custom art for it (if someone wants more details, contact me privately via seantaclaus (at) gmail (dot) com).

I may think of more for this section later.

Thank you for your hospitality, Warren. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266451#Comment_266451 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266451#Comment_266451 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:14:59 -0700 Spiraltwist Tell me about your week.

Truly a week of ups and downs and everything in between.
Down: Did not get a call back on a job I applied for that I really, really wanted. (I was making out with the lab equipment in my head during the tour).

In between: We had to move into our new (but old) house (woohoo yay!) earlier then expected, which made the previous week crazy. We are all in, but there are boxes in various stages of being emptied. We'll be done about January, my guess.

Up: Inherited a cute cat from a friend, who is selling her house. Tom was an outside cat, who used to be inside, who is now inside again. He's still sequestered in the bathroom until Monday.

Down: Family drama spilling over into my life. I had to step back and away from it this time. I can't help the parties involved.

Up: Waking up in our own house. So. Awesome.

Tell me what you really want to do.
*laughs* There's no one thing I want to do, they are legion.

Here, Tom kitty picture (he thinks of you):
]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266457#Comment_266457 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266457#Comment_266457 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:01:42 -0700 Annie
Dealing with some strange, unbalanced feelings. Like something's been thrown out of alignment. Inexplicable nausea. Like, y'know, the guy in that one French book. What was it? Oh, yeah: Nausea. I think it's just because I haven't been taking care of myself. Should really fix that.

I just want to be working comfortably and not be thinking about food and whether or not I've seen sunlight this week and all the nonsense associated with corporeal whateverness. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266459#Comment_266459 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266459#Comment_266459 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:12:30 -0700 sseloske
The ad in my new to me book cracked me up:



Maybe that would be a fun idea for thread. Posting pictures of dated advertisements.

EDIT because I didn't include what I want.

I don't want anything. Obviously I have it all. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266462#Comment_266462 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266462#Comment_266462 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:31:47 -0700 reosarevok The Week

Most of the week has passed fixing wrong stuff in MusicBrainz and not leaving the house. Cause, you know, SOMEONE is WRONG on the Internet! Today I got myself out of the house, attended a music gig, got to talk to interesting nice Londoners, to talk to a couple of guys I hadn't seen in a year and to discover a bar that doesn't completely suck in my crappy hometown. Also, this week I had my first two meaningful conversations in Estonian, even if I needed the help of a dictionary and made lots of mistakes. It made me feel all nice and warm inside. I did not start studying for my university, which I am angry at because it doesn't allow me to take some more advanced subjects to try and finish my degree in 2 more years instead of 3. At least it is distance uni, which allows me to remain -kind of- sane.

And I am deliberately avoiding going to bed so I can watch the Formula 1 race at 8 AM, even though I still can't understand why I like F1 races.


What I Want

I would love to move for a while to the beautiful city of Tartu, Estonia, practise the language -thus getting over my barrier that makes me unable to get a third language at a decent level- and maybe even find a job. The fact that my mom has cancer will make me postpone that, at least until February if not more, so I guess I'll just try to get some more money saved til then, learn some more Estonian and maybe find some new nice people over here -my old friends are almost all abroad or at least 3 hours away.

I would also love to have a job that allowed me to bring some nice artists to play here without having to think if it will make me lose 100€, just being able to say "yeah, fuck it, I can afford that". Sadly, in a country where unemployment has gone over 20%, the chances seem slim, so I guess I'll just keep studying. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266463#Comment_266463 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266463#Comment_266463 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:26:41 -0700 Casey Moore
What I am is yet again working as an Office PA. My title should be Production Secretary and I should be making about 200 dollars more a week.

Someone said to me the other day they always here my name around production circles and I am always working. I had no response to that. I don't understand not working if this is something that you love (and for me film and tv production is something that I love to do). Plus, I have a family to take care of. I don't have time to take off work and sit around hoping for the perfect job and whining that I have know money.

Tonight I am typing up a story which has poured out into my notebook over the last three weeks. Usually my stories come in bits and pieces. Whole scenes. This has been one continuous stream.

My Saturday night:

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It is hot in here. Our A/C is out. I am out of bourbon. And there is still a lot of typing to do. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266464#Comment_266464 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266464#Comment_266464 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:33:11 -0700 stsparky
Tonight I discussed collecting a new friend's old comic and do some retouch/reedit to help him self publish in order to raise capital to do new work.

I think I am going to be a publisher. Or something.

I'll have pictures up soon. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266466#Comment_266466 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266466#Comment_266466 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:46:18 -0700 LokiZero the company I work for, and the majority of them seem pretty sharp. Eight newbs will double our current support staff, so we're all looking forward to having them there to take some of the load off. In the last year I've somehow managed to go from a lowly entry level support rep to a trainer/team lead/assistant manager. I'm finally doing what I've always wanted to do professionally, and it all just kind of happened out of nowhere. It's not glamorous, but man is it nice to have a little respect and acknowledgement for once.

Creatively, I'm in a rut. I have no drive to write or draw, and it depresses me. The RPG I've been working on with a friend for almost 2 years now has kind of stalled, and I don't know how to get the magic back. Fortunately it's about zombies, so I'm hoping AMC's The Walking Dead will inspire me to get back in to it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266467#Comment_266467 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266467#Comment_266467 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:58:56 -0700 MagicSword!
I'm working, and kinda have a hunch that my chosen sector of the market is (fingers crossed) a relatively safe one to inhabit at the moment. Plus I got to spend a lot of time this week dressing up adorable toddlers in Halloween costumes much to big for them and try to keep them from falling over their capes.

Today I think I'm gonna go buy some pumpkins and try and organise a pumpkin-carving party. Genuine orange pumpkins are not easy to come by here, I hope they're not all twisted and malformed. Oh, actually that would be good too!

I'm on a good new music finding kick at the moment, but am also seriously into POP! So, I don't know that I can share that much. Let's just say that hideous cover aside I'm super-looking forward to Kanye West's new record.

I feel, strangely, as though studying more Japanese is helping me communicate and understand my surroundings better. Who knew! Of course, most of what I read is just the ads on the subway, but it's nice to be able to follow - "I get a bad stomachache while I'm working that sticks around even after I go home, what should I do?" "Ah, that sounds like a stress-related problem, luckily we have just the thing..."

I'm trying to bring my focus back to making some music, and every now and then I get a little closer to finishing something, but for some reason I feel pretty fine not rushing anything at the moment. Nice to see you Whitechapel. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266472#Comment_266472 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266472#Comment_266472 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:00:57 -0700 megrar
what i want to do: visit a doctor. i haven't seen one in eight years. optometrist. dentist. gynecologist. the people in my family die in their fifties of maladies that are easy to treat provided they're caught early. i plan to live for hundreds of years off borrowed organs and cyborg parts, but at this rate, poverty is going to kill me before i can see what's available.

we do have cyborg parts now, right? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266475#Comment_266475 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266475#Comment_266475 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:45:19 -0700 m3t4lfi3nd Although IBS had me a bit sad
Work picked up from being dead
Gave me a chance to use my head
Spent too much time with the new Fallout
TIme for some reading before bed, peace out ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266477#Comment_266477 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266477#Comment_266477 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:57:42 -0700 izenmania
Thing one went pretty well for a first time. Coriander chicken curry. I don't think I had it at high enough heat for a chunk of it, because it didn't cook down enough and ended up way too soupy, but it was still pretty dang tasty.

Pulled off thing two thanks pretty much entirely to a day full of tea with an ungodly amount of honey in it.

Now I have combined hot water and lemon juice and bourbon and cloves in a mug and I am drinking them, while listening to Jonathan Coulton. Because I can.

Next week I fly to Sunny Wisconsin to meet the grandparents of the missus, then to House on the Rock for the 10th Anniversary of American Gods, with a bunch of friends from the Gaiman board.

After that... November, I guess. More music, more cooking, more whatever. Same old. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266480#Comment_266480 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266480#Comment_266480 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:24:54 -0700 cdthomas
I could have seen plays, but didn't want to take time away from the essays I assigned myself for my independent study. Could have seen RED; ditto. And I could have finished all the essays I have left to write, except I've done all the reading, and, apparently, thinking. And if I finish the essays, I have two small plays to write... which scare the hell out of me.

What I want? To use the small group of people I finally found who'd read my work, and give them something good to read... which I'm terrified I can't do. I don't want to waste their time; I don't fight back when few people stay around to read, and I allow my work to take a backseat by the shiny object of practicing fights.

I don't demand equal standing as a person who might not take or give a good stage punch, but at least can write good ones into a script. I don't know why I'm letting go of the rope, when I wove the damn thing myself. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266482#Comment_266482 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266482#Comment_266482 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:51:33 -0700 Yskaya
*Booyah! Upped the scary interwubs-person ratio by 10 promille.**

**To whom it may concern: if you haven't done maths with promilles, you haven't properly poisoned your liver yet. ;)

@Greasemonkey: My and Ed's sincere condolences for your loss.
If you're considering painting your father's portrait, don't put it off too long.
Six years later, I had to ask other people for more details about my Grandfather than I would've liked.
It helped lessen my grief, to catch the good memories in paint.
Take care. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266483#Comment_266483 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266483#Comment_266483 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:56:30 -0700 joe.distort
WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO is go back about 20 years to when opening a comic/record store with a couple of pinball machines and maybe a sandwich kitchen or some shit was actually a viable start up plan. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266484#Comment_266484 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266484#Comment_266484 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:16:24 -0700 ReverendJoe
Been hitting the gym hard while I was off and am still eating well. I've dropped about 50 pounds and I'm starting to feel less of a fat lump.

I had to get a new ID as my old one has expired and found that you have to show a birth certificate now to prove that you're a citizen. I'd lost mine, so I had to go down to city hall to get a new one. My ma lied about my father's name when I was born (he was a bit of a thug) and though I was aware of her making something up, I couldn't remember the name she'd used. I tried to be clever and just leave the section with the father's name blank, but they asked for it, so I stood there for a minute and then said "I dunno". This got me the "Oh, you poor dear bastard child, you don't know who your father is" look from the lady behind the counter and the lady next to me in line.

What do I want to do? I'm not sure anymore. There used to be a time when I knew exactly what I wanted, then that faded into knowing what I didn't want, but these days it's not that easy to pin it down. The first thing that came to mind when I read the question was "Out". ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266485#Comment_266485 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266485#Comment_266485 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:25:57 -0700 dot_xom
What I want to do this week is the same thing I always want to do: Make it through the week alive and maybe take some photos too. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266488#Comment_266488 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266488#Comment_266488 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:55:19 -0700 roadscum Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266489#Comment_266489 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266489#Comment_266489 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:57:47 -0700 glukkake
-Illustrated one of Kim Boekbinder's songs, "Rainbows and Unicorns" for her Chapter 3 release. View/listen here: http://music.kimboekbinder.com/track/rainbows-and-unicorns-3
-Worked too much and slept too little
-Worked at the all nude VIP Dr. Sketchy's in the most magical apartment in Williamsburg
-Burned my apartment with a bleachy fire due to finding a bedbug
-Agreed to take on way too much work this week

Apparently, in 10 days, I will be in London for the first time ever. Pray that when I do my NYC jaywalking, I remember to look the right way before crossing. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266492#Comment_266492 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266492#Comment_266492 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:26:39 -0700 Casey Cook
Good week. New work schedule is okay, and makes for some extra time at home in the evenings with the wife. Got the promotion I was bucking for, which was cool. Off now for the next two days, which will be spent in as non-productive manner as possible, playing the new Fallout game and Batman: Arkham Asylum, which I will be getting on sale from Steam when I get home in a few hours (curse you Steam for taking all my money). Got a check today for some copywriting work I did a few months ago, and another copy job from the same client, which makes me feel less bad about spending so much $$ on games.

What I'd rather be doing-

Surprisingly, nothing. I should rather want to be on tour with a band, playing my guitar loudly in front of people, but I decided I'd be taking this year off from music and I find that I am enjoying it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266496#Comment_266496 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266496#Comment_266496 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:07:12 -0700 Alan Tyson
What do I want: a bit of strange. Haven't had much since college ended, and I rather miss it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266497#Comment_266497 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266497#Comment_266497 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:16:42 -0700 razrangel
I've been techy all week with people. Aggravated at class, i've gotten snippy and occasionally show-y off-y. I can't cultivate any patience (a hard nosed assessment is they don't deserve it, but I demand it of myself) and have been losing my temper. Also got cross with family for little things. Individuals don't live up to the standards I set for them and I let them have it when they fail. As if they deserved such a thing. I don't know what's with me but I've been a jerk recently.

Friday, at least, I managed to make myself exercise. I'm so miserably out of shape I'm still paying for it. But instead of anything related to the exercise movements, my right arm has been locked up and spasming for more than a day. It's from gripping the exercise machine so tightly. I also did weights and stretched but without having exercized in so long the muscles have refused to calm down. The only thing for it (since it's just soreness, no tears or anything) is to try, try again. To get my body again used to my demands.

Today was largely good. Just very long and now I'm bloody tired. On little sleep I got up first thing this morning and headed toward a friend's moving away yard sale (*sniffle* she's moving to New Mexico) and on the way stopped at an IHOP to order to pumpkin pancake breakfasts to go. I hung out with my friend and her boyfriend while they sold and chatted and went slightly daft all the things they have to get done still. I got a suntan. I forgot the sunblock. I left the yardsale with a bag full of books, the first Harry Potter movie, a tiny traveling magnetic chess set and warm fuzzies and cold sadness at seeing and saying bye to my friend. Then I meet another friend because I had skipped is birthday dinner this week. To make it up to him I offered to take him on a shopping spree at a comic book store and then drinks. I honestly can't remember the last time I set foot in a comic book store - quite possibly a year or more. it's a torment to be surrounded by such wonderful material and being flat broke. But now I have some cash reserves from the last job and decided to blow them on my friend. Naturally I couldn't resist getting something for myself and picked up a couple of the David Mack Kabuki books. They are just made of brilliance and gorgeousity and I've been just about drooling over them for three years. My friend "helpfully" showed me a slew of other books I would just love to pick up. Then it was off to nice bar that was somewhat, well nice - almost but not quite fancy. Candles on tables, but no fuss at my ripped jeans. and then I really drooled at the long, long line up of scotches. i decided just to have one, not knowing what they would charge for the good stuff. (I remember one fancy place trying to charge $18 for a single of Macallen...I want to say...21 when mixed drinks go for $7-10 and beers around $4 at normal places.) I went with the Talisker. The good barman gave me an extra healthy sized single with a little splash on top. I think he approved. Oh it was good. Mighty good. Damn good. All the best ways the smell of a sweaty sock and a used Bandaid can be wafting into my sinuses. }:> In the end I think it came to $12, so I totally approve of the place. Of course, that's not all I got, there was also dinner and my friend's drinks... So it was a rather good day. Just um... expensive.

As for what I'd rather be doing: I would rather be driven by the impulse and need to write than the need to sleep. I would rather be studying theatrical forms to establish my own dramaturgical forays into new ground. I would rather be studying arcane disciplines as well as accepted philosophies. I would rather be learning Japanese. I would rather be (confidently) putting together a demo CD and (confidently) pushing my way into the voiceover world. I would rather be earning name recognition in the entertainment industry (especially animation) for translation work. I would rather be adding projects to my portfolio of plays I've directed and/or been the dramaturg for. I'd rather be working in the theatre pretty much anywhere I could sit around and think about forms and stories and themes and get paid. I'd rather be reading my books. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266498#Comment_266498 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266498#Comment_266498 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:20:05 -0700 razrangel
Take care of yourself, man. And don't hold back from asking for help of friends. They're aching to help. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266499#Comment_266499 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266499#Comment_266499 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:25:45 -0700 snafu
I just want to find a place where I can do my job and send my kids to good schools. Is that so much to ask? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266503#Comment_266503 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266503#Comment_266503 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:13:51 -0700 Rachæl Tyrell golf course as a backyard (and i mean as a backyard - there's no FENCE around the golf course - that's how wonderfully small-town it is here), and the lake just four houses away, and the kind of sylvanian quiet night that sounds of nothing but crunchy leaves, crickets, and a lonely dog bark as it echos accross the lake valley in the distance. GOD I love it here. I think I've seen as many deer as I've seen cars in motion.

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Yesterday, as I watched the full moon peek above the trees, taking photographs furiously, a fox scampered by.

Really, my hometown is like Twin Peaks meets Real Housewives from New Jersey. I went to the local bar tonight. The building was constructed in 1927. It's in the same sort of rustic log cabin / Viennese village style that typifies Lake Mohawk. A guy who had a crush on my in the 7th grade was one of the bartenders. A really impressive band was playing, aaaaand I got "picked up" by a fellow who, (according to the general age of his facebook friends) is probably 8-10 years younger than me. This seems to keep happening to me. Younger men.

I had a conversation with an old and very very drunken man (with an indeterminate european accent of some sort) about how fabulous the full moon had been. I then watched him teeter and wobble his way from outside the bar to the boardwalk across the street where he'd tethered his boat, and then drunkenly drove himself home across the water.

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I had a boat license when I was 14. It was wonderful to be able to drive myself to the center of town. GOD I love this place.

I am silly when naked.

silly.


I plan to get the fuck out of my current situation, and move on to something... better. To write and draw. To be awesome. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266506#Comment_266506 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266506#Comment_266506 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:47:48 -0700 Alastair awesome ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266513#Comment_266513 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266513#Comment_266513 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:06:42 -0700 Prof Structure Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266514#Comment_266514 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266514#Comment_266514 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:07:23 -0700 kperkins Saturday Night Open Mic (23oct10) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266516#Comment_266516 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9086&Focus=266516#Comment_266516 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:29:17 -0700 Greasemonkey