The Diet Coke of Evil

I know I haven't been around much, but I just had to share this

10:15, Wed 12 Nov 2008 .. 4 comments .. Link


Musical Genius

06:49, Sun 12 Oct 2008 .. 8 comments .. Link
good god.

NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8GT...C8GTmX2G5w

Meme

08:33, Tue 16 Sep 2008 .. 6 comments .. Link
stolen from Cherry who stole it from Libertine who lives in the house that Jack built.

How old was the last person you kissed?
43. ummm... I think that would still be the girl I dated back in Italy. Wow, that sucks. Thanks for bringing it up.

Has someone ever told you they want to spend the rest of their life with you?
Yeah, twice. I'm still not sure why I broke up with the first girl. I could have seriously wound up married to my high school sweetheart. Whatever.


When was the last time you talked to your number 2 on your top?
Yesterday, actually. She's about the only one I talk to regularly.

Have you ever peed in the woods?
Yes.


Did you have plans today?
just work

Is it okay for guys to wear pink?
Sure, it's okay. I don't know if it's particularly advisable. Pink is a wishy-washy color. Let's be honest here. It's not even a color of its own. It's light red.

When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper?
I hunted around for appropriate stationery for a couple days, and then hand-wrote a letter to my ex girlfriend. She dumped me before I was actually able to send it. How bad does that suck?

Can you change the oil on a car?
I expect I could probably figure it out, yeah.

What is your usual bedtime?
depends what time I work the next day. Anytime between 10 or 11 pm and 2 am

Do you cry and throw a fit until you get your own way?
not since I was about 8, I'd guess

Does it take a lot for you to cry?
It doesn't take much for me to get misty, but I rarely actually have a full on cry. There are days I wish I could. Sometimes nothing cleans you out like a good ol' cry.

What is making you happy right now?
MY (mostly) CLEAN ROOM! yay. I spent all day yesterday organizing and cleaning. It was really bad.

Did you get a full 8 hours of sleep last night?
Just about. I actually woke up before the alarm went off.

Do you really care what other people think about you?
"I care about the opinions of people who have my respect. But I don't go out trying to GET their approval, either." well said, Cherry.

When was the last time you were told you were beautiful?
As far as I can remember it only ever happened once. I love this story:
I was at a concert my dad was performing in. A big band jazzy kind of deal with the Mike Sloan Big Band. Anyway, I was kind of off to the side in my long hair and my charlie brown t-shirt, and some baggy shorts. I may or may not have had a beard. I don't remember exactly how old I was at the time. Anyway, this lady, probably somewhere between 50 and 60, with close cropped white hair and wearing fucking BUCK SKINS, I shit you not, came up to me and said I was beautiful. It's still the best compliment I've ever recieved, partly due to the eccentric, and clearly artistic source.

What is bothering you right now?
The way everything has a downside. My room is finally clean, and I'm feeling a bit lifted out of depression from it, but now the floor is cold. I really need to buy me some throw rugs.

How have you felt today?
I've only been up for about a half an hour. My shower was nice, I suppose.

Who has your Myspace password besides you?
your mom.

When was the last time you talked to your number 1 on top friends?
it's been a while.

Have you ever cried and not known what for?
once or twice.

What are you wearing on your feet?
socks. I need to buy new socks. I have this opinion that brand new undergarments are one of the great unsung pleasures of the world.


Do you have any plans for today?
Just gonna go to work and kick ass there like I did at home yesterday.

Do you like your name?
Shit. I don't even know who I am anymore. Am i Iain? Am I Scott? As long is it isn't TOO derogatory, I'll answer to just about anything these days.

Do you like being in pictures?
I don't MIND it. I've never been all that interested in snapshots for some reason.

Are you happy at the moment?
I'm happier than I was earlier in the week. Is that good enough?

Last person who drove you somewhere?
I guess that would be my cousin Ed, but to be fair, we shared the driving responsiblities. (From San Jose down to San Diego, then up to Idaho, then back via the same route... about 4000 miles all tolled, including driving around up there for four days, seeing yellowstone, etc. etc.)

Are you a morning person or a night person?
Night person. No doubt.

Are you a forgiving person?
In order to hold a grudge you have to be able to remember it. I still hold a couple, but it's rare.

Who is the last person you talked to on the phone?
I guess that would be Nancy from work.

What are your plans for tomorrow?
working again.

Do you know anyone that likes you?
no

Talk to your exes?
a little. Not as much as I'd like. I always manage to stay friendly with my exes, but they all kind of drift away eventually.

Have you ever dated someone older than you?
actuallly, no, I don't believe I have, unless you count stupid internet relationships when I was 18.

Have you ever been kissed in a basement?
I live and grew up in California. As a rule we don't have basements. Houses with basements in California have an annoying habit of falling into them during earthquakes.

Do you get distracted easily?
sometimes. Depends how committed I am to whatever task it is I'm to be distracted from.

Have you ever played Twister?
a few times.

Do you have trust issues?
I have abandonment issues, which is basically the same thing.

Do you have a friend of the opposite sex that you can talk to?
yeah. Nancy at work is pretty cool. It's a shame she's not 15 years younger and unmarried.

Have you ever changed clothes in a vehicle?
yep. I was in band. You change clothes pretty much anywhere.

Are you open with your feelings to people?
It depends on the person.

Do you have any bruises?
not that I'm aware of.

Are you looking for a boyfriend//girlfriend?
I would like to have a woman in my life right now, yeah. Whatever label you want to assign to that, I guess I can't stop you.

What was the last thing to make you laugh?
the movie Walk Hard. I watched while I was cleaning yesterday. I love Jack White's performance as Elvis.


Could you see yourself with someone forever?
I don't need that kind of pressure. Why don't we start with this week, and see where things go, hmm?

What is your birthstone?
Emerald. Does that mean something to someone?

Have you ever been to Hooters?
Yeah. It's mostly annoying. I like pretty girls, but I HATE manipulative girls and girls who use their looks to get things from men, and that's really what that place is all about. It was fun when I was in my early 20s, but I'm over it.

Do you know anyone who is having a baby?
not at the moment. I'm pretty sure they all had them already.

Have you ever been called heartless?
not that I'm aware.

When is the last time you did something you said you wouldn't do?
I took my current job for less money than I said I would.

Have you ever missed someone, and re-connected with them?
re-connecting never seems to work out for me. There's just always something missing. The last girl I reconnected with seemed to like me just fine. I asked her if there was any chance of moving beyond just friendship, and she said no, we were definitely just friends, and that was fine. We hung out together a few more times, and then she stopped returning my calls. I don't know why. That really kind of hurt, because we were really good friends in school. Whatever.

Do you curse a lot?
like a sailor who's dropped a brick on his foot. I'm working on it.

Do you think you have made a difference in anyone's life?
I hope so. I DO know that I taught a girl to read in Kindergarten, but I suppose she probably would have picked it up somewhere anyway, eventually.

What was the last thing you cried about?
I don't remember.

Do you tend to make relationships complicated?
I don't THINK so... but then they always seem to end up that way. I suppose it would be stupid to think that it's always the other person making it complicated.

What are the last spoken words you heard?
"Good Morning, Iain"

Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with?
don't remember

Who is the last person you talked on the phone with?
Nancy at work. Didn't we have this question already?

Are you going anywhere for next summer?
I don't know. Thinking about maybe making a trip down to Solvang with my cousin Ed and meeting my other cousins down there. They're pretty good kids, but they need somebody to straighten them out about a few things. Like not being so god damned selfish all the time.

I'm all in a tizzy...

08:12, Mon 11 Aug 2008 .. 3 comments .. Link
Dude. WTF?



I will kill you.

10:19, Sat 26 Jul 2008 .. 4 comments .. Link



fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you you shameless self serving philistine shitheads. Fuck you in the asshole with a sideways pineapple.

The Happening

09:37, Sat 21 Jun 2008 .. 7 comments .. Link
So, I was going to go see Get Smart tonight, but I woulda had to wait an hour and a half, so I opted to see The Happening instead.

It was okay. Mark Walbergh doesn't play a school teacher very well... not that he plays much of anything very well. The exposition was clumsy... Mark Walbergh, as a schoolteacher, is interested in all kinds of things, and as a result has a wealth of knowledge that later turns out to be useful, which is fine, except that he injects that knowledge into conversations without much provocation, and it usually seems a bit disjointed. I didn't really feel like he had much chemistry with Zooey Deschanel, and the moments that should have had a fair amount of gravitas or emotional impact just kind of fell flat. The biggest problem that I have with this movie is that it's a great idea poorly executed. As a matter of fact, Alfred Hitchcock had roughly the same idea when he made "The Birds" and he did it much much better. It's no secret that Hitchcock is a strong influence on M Night Shyamalan, and I think this movie could have been a decent homage, except that it just seemed like he got lazy and relied a great deal on shock value, which seems beneath him, and utterly failed to live up to the mystery of The Birds, or even his own earlier movies by positing all kinds of "reasons" why the "Happening" may have occured. Sometimes, not knowing is scarier.
After "The Village" and "The Lady In The Water" I was really hoping to like this movie, because I think Shyamalan occupies a unique niche in the film-making world, specifically as a writer, tackling subjects that seem more likely to be found in a bit of short fiction, rather than a big budget feature length film.
A few positive points. John Leguizamo, beginning to show his age is very believable as a high school math teacher and turns in a very good performance, no pun intended. The characters in this film don't suffer from the chronic whisper-inducing illness that plagues the characters in his other films. Some of the camera work , as usual, is great, with some very striking and moody shots. And at times the dialogue is genuinely funny. Cough syrup comes to mind.
Over all, i didn't leave the theater feeling i'd been cheated, but I didn't leave wholly satisfied either. If you've already seen Kung Fu Panda and possibly Get Smart (which I haven't seen yet) I'd say it's worth a matinee viewing, otherwise, wait for the video.

Recent stuff...

10:41, Sat 17 May 2008 .. 10 comments .. Link
So, I went and saw Prince Caspian tonight. All in all it was okay. It was better than sitting in my hot ass house alone and sweating all night anyway. It suffered from the same things that made the first in the series mediocre, namely generic two dimensional characters with indistinct motives, and the certainty that an all powerful savior will arrive and make things all right in the end. I dunno, I suppose if you subscribe to Christianity that sort of thing probably makes perfect sense, but to me, it's just crappy storytelling.
Anyway, after the movie, I was walking home and, it being Saturday night, there was woman dressed to the nines walking in front of me, clearly on her way to or from a party. She stopped and waited for me to catch up and said "I'd rather you walk beside me than behind me," which I totally understand, but GOD do I hate it when people are just automatically afraid of me. This comes up all the time, as I have long legs and naturally walk fast, so I often pass people up from behind, and every time I do I have this anxious dialogue in my head. "Am I making this person uncomfortable? Are they afraid of me? What can I do to make them not afraid of me? Will anything I do just draw attention to myself and make them MORE afraid of me? Should I walk slower so that I don't pass them? Isn't that creepier? Should I walk faster?" and I always just sort of assumed that I was crazy and neurotic and it was all in my head, but now i've had it totally confirmed that people are intensely aware of my presence and are actively frightened of me, just because I'm a man. I don't know why that bothers me so much. I guess I just kind of wish back to a simpler time (which probably never existed) when we weren't all terrified of each other. I'm afraid of almost everybody I pass on the street, partly because of the image my family and friends have put in my head about the neighborhood I live in, though I've actually LIVED here for several months and never actually seen anything to be frightened about. I'm such a stupid fucking coward. I should just talk to people. It's not as though I have much to lose.

In other news, I've got a new job. I'm still at Michael's for another week, but then next Wednesday, I'll be starting at a new store called Photograph. They've got a location in San Francisco, and apparently it's done well enough for the owner, Fred, to open a second location in Los Gatos, which is reasonably near my neck of the woods. It's not quite the step up I was hoping for, as I initially applied for a management position, and I'm actually only going to be a sort of shift supervisor, but even though it's kind of step back position-wise, I'll actually be making a bit more money.
It's neither completely a good thing or completely a bad thing. In the positive column, I won't have to work for my current managers anymore who are respectively incompetent or apathetic, it's not a large retail outlet, it's specifically a frame shop so there's no worrying about any of that other retail crap I deal with at Michael's. It's a small business, which I like. Get to deal directly with the owner and all that... no corporate beuraucratic types, and you actually can have some input on the stores direction. It's also the kind of business that people come to because they have an interest in the business, whereas Michael's is the kind of business people come to because they need a job. Any job, and they'll do it only as well as they have to to not get fired. It is a dollar more an hour to start, and the owner has stressed to me that that's as a start, so I suppose all I have to do is be my neurotic "must do it right" self and I'll soon be making still more money and hopefully into a place with a kitchen and save even MORE money,and then in ten years maybe I can afford to start a business of my own. It's also in Los Gatos, which is a MUCH nicer area, and I think the change in scenery, even just working there, may have a positive effect on my outlook. Everything about where I live and work now is ugly. Ugly ugly. Fugly even.
On the down side... it's a frame shop, but it's a scaled back frame shop, specializing in photographs with a very limited selection. 3 colors of mats, 30 or so frame styles, and most everything pre-cut to standard photography sizes. We will do some custom work, but only within those limits, and we aren't going to do any of the cutting in store, which cuts WAY back on the creative aspects of the job, which is part of why I enjoy framing so much. but it does keep costs down, which means our prices are lower which hopefully means I won't have to brace myself before telling a customer the price for their job. It's also 20 minutes longer commute every day, at least until I can afford to move and then find a place closer that I can afford the rent on. There's no health benefits. So essentially just as I'm eligible for benefits through michael's, i'm giving them up to go make a little more money. I'll just have to not get sick.

hilarity from somethingawful.com

07:25, Wed 7 May 2008 .. 4 comments .. Link
it's important when learning any language to begin by practicing with a few practical phrases

....while doing aerobics.



YES!!!!!

12:39, Mon 5 May 2008 .. 0 comments .. Link
Why didn't I think to search for this before????

http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twil...74886&cc=0

I used to watch a marathon of this show on TV 20 with my mom every year when I was a kid. I love this show.

Check out what I found while watching movie trailers...

06:24, Sun 4 May 2008 .. 5 comments .. Link
http://www.cosplaytrainwreck.com/

I can't WAIT until one of these people runs for public office.

this guy for example:


or this chap, who is made entirely of disquieting bulges:



okay, so a lot of this site is more mean spirited than really funny, but the ones that ARE funny are just fucking gems. This guy, I actually would not mock at all. This looks like a dude I would hang out with if I saw him at a comic convention.



Some of these people I can't even laugh at because even they are clearly not having a good time, and I just feel bad for them and think they should take responsibility for themselves and stop letting their idiot friends talk them into doing stupid things that they're not interested in. And then there's this guy. I have no difficulty whatsoever laughing at this guy. Here's a philosophical, or perhaps ethical question for you... if he's ACTUALLY retarded, is it less funny?



somehow, this is actually awesome:


A Belated Note About The Pope...

05:22, Sun 4 May 2008 .. 4 comments .. Link
If ol' Benedict XVI is, as he appears to be, a member of the walking dead, be it vampire, zombie, or ghoul, that would technically make him a papal people eater.

I just thought I would share that with you.

Why Religion is Dumb

07:34, Sat 26 Apr 2008 .. 10 comments .. Link
this is what happens when cousins marry and their offspring start a church. If their are any weird yokel zealots reading this, please know that I mean that in the nicest possible way. No offense, weirdos.



Project

07:33, Wed 23 Apr 2008 .. 1 comments .. Link
This is something i've been working on recently at work using an object one of my coworkers brought in to have made into a demo piece. I'm kind of proud of it, and thought some of you might like to see it. It's still a work in progress, as i can really only work on it when I have extra time, and since nobody at work seems to ever do any framing while I'm not there, that doesn't happen often. Anyway, the frame has been chosen for it, so as soon as I mount the object down, I'll order the parts and then finish up the assembly.







Things are looking up.

12:24, Tue 1 Apr 2008 .. 2 comments .. Link
I actually had a pretty decent weekend. Things at work have been kind of rough for a couple of weeks. In short, we weren't any busier than usual, but we have had an inordinate number of very large and/or complex jobs that put us WAY behind (behind MY standard, not the stores. We were still okay by the store's standard). Anyway, this weekend I got EVERYTHING done. 100% caught up. Which made me feel like a total hero. Today I just came in, did the couple of frames that arrived and spent a good part of the day trying to figure out what to do with myself, because I forgot all the things I was planning to do before I got too busy just keeping us afloat to think about improving things.
I ended up working on a project I'm doing for Tim and the store. It's pretty cool. It's an egyptian motif-ed hawk carving. I'm doing a WAY over the top design for it because I figure it's for display in the store, we oughtta show off a little right? Besides, it's fun to try outlandish shit once in a while. This is a creative job. It's SUPPOSED to be fun, right? Anyway, I got the first part of that done. I'll take pictures and post them when it's done. But I was happy that I got to work on something beyond just trying to beat a deadline.
Finally, my manager, who usually doesn't have two meaningful words to say to me, and I mostly figure he assumes I'm a slacker and an idiot, because he has no idea what really goes on in our shop, actually came up to ME and suggested in pretty strong terms that I'm probably going to get a shop of my own sometime in the near future. His emphasis was on how I need to start learning the management side of the frame shop (parts of which I'm doing already) because there are going to be opportunities for advancement soon. He said that several times... that there were going to be vacancies soon. Later on in the evening, he mentioned a new store being opened up across town, and made a point of telling me that the framing department is right up front. I get the impression that I might be getting put in for that position which would be AWESOME. On the one hand, it would suck, because I'll lose my team, and I have a really good team right now, and with the way Michael's hires people who KNOWS what I might get if I have to start from scratch, but still, it's my own department, and you can bet it's more money, which I kind of need these days. So that will probably mean moving out of the ghetto. Or at least into a one-bedroom apartment in the ghetto, instead of sharing a house with six strangers, and maybe I'll even get a kitchen, so I can actually keep stuff in a fridge and make things at home and not have to eat out every damn day, because it's getting expensive, and if I had more money, and didn't have to walk a couple miles every day, I'd be getting fat.

more from that Re: Your Brains guy

02:47, Thu 13 Mar 2008 .. 0 comments .. Link




I didn't realize he wrote the ending song to Portal too. But now that I do know, it makes perfect sense.

more from that Re: Your Brains guy

02:47, Thu 13 Mar 2008 .. 5 comments .. Link




I didn't realize he wrote the ending song to Portal too. But now that I do know, it makes perfect sense.

it probably seemed like a good idea at the time...

11:30, Tue 11 Mar 2008 .. 6 comments .. Link
"Alright, so Thriller was a huge hit, and we've made millions and millions of american dollars in the superfluously-zippered-red-leather-jacket market alone. How are we going to follow this up? Do we have any other songs on deck that would be appropriate for an overly elaborate music video mascarading as a horror-film homage/vignette?"

"Not really boss."

"Nothing here boss."

"I've got a Debbie Gibson tune, it's kind of frightening."

"Ah, fuck it. These are all terrible ideas. Just get me some working class mook who doesn't know any better. They don't care what kind of ridiculous crap we put together as long as they get a paycheck and some fun gigs. It's too bad Jimmy Buffet isn't making music videos. Alright, that's sorted. How about budget?"

"I've got 20 bucks."

"Great, run down to the dollar store and buy a shitload of crappy out of season halloween makeup and shit. The really cheap kind from China, with all the lead in it. And get some, like, thousand watt flood lights while you're at it."

"Will do, Boss."



I actually really like Huey Lewis, and this song, but man, what a dumb video. Despite myself, I can't help liking the hunchback.

Wow

08:31, Tue 12 Feb 2008 .. 5 comments .. Link
So, my first response to this was the usual "What an idiot" "Goes to show what our public school system is worth" blah blah blah, but after thinking about it more, I dunno, I kinda like this guy. He found a way to get from A to B without taking the exact same path as everybody else, and that's always been something I admire. Who gives a shit if he could read, as long as he could TEACH. We just take it for granted that the one is a prerequisite of the other, but apparently not so.

I will note that the article doesn't say whether or not he was a GOOD teacher.

http://www.10news.com/news/15274005/...etail.html

That DOES Sound Reasonable...

10:22, Wed 30 Jan 2008 .. 2 comments .. Link


Waterlollies

09:13, Sat 17 Nov 2007 .. 2 comments .. Link
The new Brackenwood video, long in production, is finally out. Go check it out, it's pretty great.

Waterlollies


For those of you who don't know, Brackenwood is a series of flash movies by former Disney effects animator Adam Phillips. They are really well done, and I recommend you watch the entire series.

The Auld Sage sings "Life is for Living" by Coldplay. This one isn't part of the storyline, just a one off Adam Phillips did for some kind of practice or something. Still pretty cool.

Bingbong of Brackenwood

Bitey of Brackenwood

Prowlies at the River

Little Foot pt. I

Little Foot pt. II The Yuyu

Waterlollies

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