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| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 |
bodybag_pilgrim
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7:13p |
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fdsf
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10:24a |
Bleh.
And yarr, low groovy levels persist today. > Current Mood: 0.07 groovy |
kurozukin_a
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11:28p |
picture meme
1) Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
2) NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
3) They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
4) You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.I have WAY too many pictures on my hard drive. I don't know how accurately these express my ~*inner essence*~ but I guess they'll do? ( Very large images, 1 NSFW, and 1 LOLcat ) |
lurkerwithout
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6:11a |
Gaming Offer
So the former roommate has offered to get me into his bi-weekly Thursday gaming group. And it is a good offer. But I'm tempted to turn him down for a couple of reasons. 1. They play a 3.x D&D game. I play in one online and I've played in them in the past, but I really just do not LIKE the system... 2. The group drinks while playing. While I'm not someone who demands people cut out table chatter and joking and just game, I do appreciate if people stay sober enough to concentrate on it. Plus the years of working the Scottsdale hotel in the middle of a club district have left with me with a distaste for drunks... But neither of those is a total deal-breaker, they're just annoyances. And I would REALLY like a gaming group and a way to get out of the house to see other people socially... Current Mood:  unsure |
bodybag_pilgrim
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2:04p |
The Internet has recently alerted me to the fact that there are multiple porn stars named after this woman:  Proof, I feel, that my generation has truly arrived. I wonder who the breakout porn name for the current kids will be? |
attercap
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7:01a |
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aberranteyes
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7:43a |
Happy birthday, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) calamityjon and terrycat! Current Mood:  chummyCurrent Music: Haircut 100, "Love Plus One" |
ta_creator
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3:31a |
Progress...
Panel three's sketch finished, panel four's construction laid in. Going to bed. --LG Current Mood:  moody |
alias_sqbr
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5:41p |
DEBS and Skim
Movie (4): D.E.B.S This is not a high quality movie I would recommend unreservedly. It's B-grade and patchy and enjoyable if and only if you like the premise: silly super-villain/spy lesbian romance-action-comedy. I did like the premise (I'm a sucker for every aspect of it except action(*). There should be more movies with this premise! Good ones!), so I enjoyed the movie. It was also interesting after watching Chuck (another silly spy romance/comedy with Jordana Brewster) Watching the special features it's cool seeing how the director originally wrote the story as a comic as a break from learning to be a screenwriter and only later got the inspiration and chance to make it into a film. (*)The supervillain tries to seduce the heroine by asking her about her thesis. It's like it was written for me! Only not very well. Graphic novel (22): SkimThis is one of those books which just lets the characters lives play out rather than forcing them into a narrative arc. I must admit I prefer my stories a bit more story-ish but it's very good for what it is, the understated story of a disaffected girl dealing with life and death and love and..stuff. It was nice seeing a realistic portrayal of a dumpy East Asian goth, since I and all my highschool friends tended to be at least one of those things and did not see ourselves reflected in mainstream fiction :) The art is very expressive and flowing. Overall I'm not doing it justice, check out the link above to see the first few pages. Current Mood:  cheerful |
alias_sqbr
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5:12p |
Delicious easy no fat vegetables, plus turkey
Slice 2 potatoes into 5mm slices. Cut the top off a bulb of garlic (but do not otherwise peel it) Pack together, evenly and tightly spaced, on a paper-lined baking tray with a few mushrooms. Sprinkle with lots of salt. Put into a cold oven, put the heat up to 180C and bake for 45 mins. It might be nicer if you sprayed the paper and then the top of the vegetables with oil, but I didn't (this might let you get away with not using paper, too). The mushroom and garlic juice mixed with the potatoes to make them Very Tasty. I haven't tried the garlic yet, I intend to freeze it and chuck it into other recipes. Less successful or simple but still nice turkey and spinach: Fry up some onion, celery and carrot. Mix with stock, wine, thyme, onion powder, tinned apricots and soy sauce, simmer until reduced. Put a small turkey roll in a small dish, pack with spinach. Sprinkle with lots of salt and pepper, pour over the sauce, and cover. Bake at 180C for an hour, at least if you haven't preheated the oven. You'll end up with a sauce which would probably make nice gravy (I intend to cook it with the leftover turkey tomorrow) And yes, I was eating vegetables and typing up this entry during the 15 minute time difference *is now eating turkey* Current Mood:  content |
shaenon
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12:14a |
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aesmael
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12:33p |
Delayed reaction
Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there. (04:12:04) celestialjayde: "I find it interesting that when people are friendly to me I expect it to be a some form of entrapment or manipulation. Was going to say 'not sure why' except there are precedents... it just has not been a consistent feature of my past so I feel a bit unjustified in feeling so."
Well, but I feel myself unjustified in pretty much all areas.
(04:13:16) Pazi: Mrrr.
(04:13:20) Pazi: Have noticed that.
(04:13:55) celestialjayde: That I feel unjustified?
(04:15:10) Pazi: *nod(
(04:15:28) Pazi: Seem to presume that your thoughts/feelings are lacking in validation, not to be trusted much
(04:16:13) celestialjayde: Aye. Don't have so many experiences after all.
(04:16:35) celestialjayde: Was saying to mantic_angel not long ago, don't see myself in just about anyone's narrative.
(04:17:41) celestialjayde: So I don't feel I can claim anything to myself or speak up as among any group because I look at the stories of those people and I don't see myself there. Sometimes a little bit if I stretch.
(04:20:04) Pazi: *nodding*
(04:25:04) celestialjayde: That and reading your latest comment here - http://pazi-ashfeather.livejournal.com/229661.html - reminds me of intending to write something about revisiting most recent psychologist for seeking help late last year, and the focus on post-happening analysis from when she assured my family of me being knowing what I am doing that-
*takes breath*
The focus being on acknowledging that I was too soon immediately after in trying to express to my mother why it hurt me to presume autism made me incompetent unless certified otherwise by a professional, and not on the bit where I broke under pressure to lie and claim wrongdoing on my part during the argument just to get my mother to stop hurting and pushing at me and let me be alone.
(04:26:30) celestialjayde: Because the more I think about that, the angrier I am that her focus was on teaching me I misjudged a social moment to express my pain and not on the bit where the response to this was me being beaten down into a broken apologetic wreck.
(04:27:23) celestialjayde: And I do specifically use 'broken' here in the sense of 'people under torture can eventually be pressured to capitulate to anything simply to make the pain go away'.
(04:28:30) Pazi: *noddly*
(04:30:02) celestialjayde: I worry that linking to torture is too strong a term to apply here. Don't know how else to describe a situation where I knowingly betrayed my own principles in order to make it stop hurting. Current Mood:  angry |
frustratedpilot
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2:29a |
I'm Wishing On A Scar To Follow Where You Are
Sagittarius Horoscope for week of July 16, 2009
Don't leave me hanging, Sagittarius. What happens next? How could you even imagine you've wrapped the whole thing up? According to my analysis, you've got at least one more riddle to solve, one more gift to negotiate, one more scar to wish upon. (Yes, that says "scar," not "star.") To stop pushing for more adventure at this pregnant moment would be a crime against nature and a whole chapter short of a bestseller. Get out there and bring this story home. I actually had been thinking about going back over Chillin' Out. Is it culturally okay for fictitious versions of yourself to roam overseas and cause trouble now? Was it ever so? |
scarfman
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1:09a |
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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 |
memnus
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9:58p |
Wafoom
Because lorimt reminded me that she'd taken these: Fire spinning pictures! Camera-phone quality, novice skill level, but still shiny. ( Cut for peekchures (two) )I think I need more mad skills and an accomplished photographer with a useful camera (I may be looking at you, gdarklighter) before I have any more of these. click Current Mood: accomplished |
| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 |
frustratedpilot
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12:49a |
End of the Streak
Yesterday was the first day in a long time that I failed to post a Livejournal entry. Kind of busy today. Knoxville Scale Modelers, running around Knoxville with Aleks, and so on. As a postscript to the entry about Gatchaman toys: ( Is This A Trailer? Looks Like One )While at the HobbyTown, they had the '80s Muzak on and I heard Devo's "Peek A Boo" for the first time since it was a hit. I wanted to have the Vending Machine of Awesome present it, but 1) Warner Music is being a snoid about the studio version 2) the studio video isn't exactly "safe for work". Nothing wrong with the song tho'. I want Jeffster to perform it sometime on Chuck's coming season because it practically screams "Intersect"! |
drjon
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2:49p |
The APC hates Australian Authors
The Australian Productivity Commission has released its report on " Restrictions on the Parallel Importation of Books". (It's important to note that the current restrictions only apply to commercial importation. Australian readers are currently free to buy books from overseas if they wish.) The APC has decided, under heavy pressure from Kmart, Target and Borders, that Territorial Rights should cease--which means that local authors will no longer be entitled to sell the exclusive local publication rights to their works to local publishers. This means that large chains will be able to import commercial quantities of books from overseas publishers, bypassing the rights negotiated to local publishers by Australian Authors ( ED: and, indeed, overseas authors--see below). It also means that many local publishers, which have relied on the ability to negotiate the right to locally sell particular works from Australian Authors, will no longer be able to rely upon that contract. I suspect that this will result in many smaller (and perhaps larger) local publishers going to the wall. ( ED: this is also due in large part to many larger publishers being financially dependent upon sales from obtaining the local publication rights to works from top-selling overseas authors, btw--which is the real target of this assassination mission. The damage I'm talking about will all be a side-effect of the main aim of this recommendation--$15 Harry Potter books filling the shelves at Kmart.) As many, many Australian Authors have little or no chance of overseas publication, this will probably result in a substantially reduced number of Australian Authors being able to make any form of living in the market. Many smaller and independent bookstores will also not be able to gain the same kind of discounts which the larger chains can negotiate, putting even greater strain on a sector which has already seen a massive downturn and massive closures recently. With reduced demand, Printeries, too, will be impacted. Many will close. Disclosure: I am a small publisher, in a niche market. My field is relatively immune to impact from all of this, but if local printeries start closing, this will negatively impact my ability to print books locally, and I will have to go off-shore. Why are they doing this? They claim that it is to reduce costs to readers. This claim is disputed. The APC must hate Australian Authors a great deal. Who profits? The big chains. That's all. |
| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 |
fdsf
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9:25p |
xoxo
Was in the area, so I dropped by Xoxolat on Sunday. Nom nom nom. Current Mood: 0.08 groovy |
| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 |
peterchayward
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12:16p |
Peter writes about writing. Write, right?
I'm writing again! I don't feel quite real unless I'm doing some writing. I feel like I'm just drifting through life, not leaving my mark on anyone/anything. Even when I'm filming, editing, nothing makes me feel like me like writing does. And not just general writing - it has to be script-writing. I can't keep up a blog, I can't finish a novel, reviews don't do it for me, I enjoy short story writing from time to time, but I don't really connect with it...unless I'm writing a script, I don't quite know who I am. I don't know what purpose I'm serving in life at any given time. Part of it, I suppose, is that it's what I feel I'm best at. I'm an okay improviser (though I'm still green), I quite enjoy directing (I'd say that's probably my second-favourite skill.) I'm in a play at the moment, and have discovered that theatre is simply not for me. Give me a script to write though, a project to work towards, and it all feels right. For those playing along at home: I am currently living in Canberra, Australia's capital city, and coldest place in the world. I moved away from Brisbane because I was busy all the time without really accomplishing anything. Since I've been down here I've done quite well at my job (I'm on lunch at the moment), I've made an oodle-ful of friends, I've done some filming, done a lot of impro, I'm (as mentioned) in a play (playing Rabbit in a stage adaptation of Winnie-the-Pooh) and I've been working on a bit of stand-up comedy with a mate. As you can see, I suck at not being busy. The plan is, and has always been, to move down to Melbourne at the end of the year. Melbourne is where I want to end up; Canberra was a useful tool in "getting me out of Brisbane" (harder than you'd think) but while it's a lovely place and I could happily live here for a few more years, I'm itching to get to Melbourne. On Sunday night, lying in bed trying to sleep, it occurred to me that if I left Canberra without a job lined up in Melbourne, there would be no real urgency in getting there. I could go up to Brisbane and stay with my beloved cousin Gavin for a week or two, catch up with all of my Brisbanian friends. And then it occurred to me that if I were staying with Gavin for a week or two, we could do some filming! I love filming with Gavin; he's a magnificent actor, and filming with him is one of my very favourite things to do. And then it occurred to me that if I were staying with Gavin and wanted to do some filming, and there was no real urgency to leave, we could film something substantial. Last year, Gavin and I were writing sketches, and for a while now, I've had the idea of stretching these sketches out into a series of ten-minute YouTube shows. The show is called Living with Peter, and it's about a heightened version of Gavin and myself living together, working on a sketch show for YouTube. (it's a bit recursive. I'm working on that.) There was no way I'd be able to drift off to sleep with all these thoughts buzzing around my head, so I whipped up an email, sent it to Gavin, and had a pleasant slumber while waiting for his response. When I woke up, I discovered an email letting me know that he thought it was a good idea as well, and so we informally "locked it in". Since then, between working and rehearsing for this play, I hadn't had much of a chance to work on the show until last night, when I put all the ideas that had been bubbling around in my head onto "paper". I've got arcs forming, story ideas popping around, character relationships building...it's bliss. I could write about writing for the rest of my life (and probably shall), and I'll do an update more specifically about what the show is about in the next couple of weeks (probably here; possibly over at picturesnwords) but I just thought I'd let people know that I'm writing again! I'm writing again! I'm suddenly myself once more! I always forget how much I love writing when I'm not doing it. I've not been unhappy for the last few months; in fact, I believe that coming to Canberra was the best possible move that I could have made, and have been having a hoot watching DVDs and meeting new people. But I've been vaguely aware that something has been missing, and trying to work out how to get back into writing. It's like when you're dreaming - you're vaguely aware that you're dreaming, but it's not until you're awake that you know you're awake. This new-found enthusiasm and energy will most likely result in LJ entries once again flowing from my fingers and clogging up your friends pages. (I'm not making any promises, but inspiration tends to overflow when I'm script-writing, and LJ makes a handy tab-to.) I've got to get back to work: tonight I've got a rehearsal, then tomorrow I've got two performance and then a friend is coming around to record some vocal stuff for an unrelated project, then Friday I've got another two performances, then on Saturday I've got a performance and then a friend coming around, and then Sunday I'm going to the gym...but Sunday night, Sunday night I'll have another chance to record the ideas that are bubbling around my head again! Hoorah! Writing makes me happy. What makes you feel like you? (painting, LJing, sex, work, arranging matches...we all have our thing. What's yours?) Current Mood: so goodCurrent Music: the clicking of the security box next to my desk |
alias_sqbr
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10:10a |
3 dead apples
So first, a month or two ago, I broke Cam's laptop (I spilled water on it in just the right way so that it looked like none had gotten into it but it was actually totally screwed). I felt REALLY bad about it, and thus reacted as I do to feeling really bad about something eg by talking and thinking about it as little as possible. Cam got himself a new cheap small Eee PC laptop and an iPhone (he needed a new phone anyway) And then Cam lost his iPhone. Which (unlike the laptop) was covered by insurance but he's still waiting on the replacement. And just now? MY laptop has broken. It's been slowly dying for a while but it's gone from "a bit flakey" to "refusing to start for hours on end" so during a brief up-time I transfered across any files I wanted to keep and am now on my desktop machine in a rather unstable position on two chairs (Kira is not impressed. When I'm on the couch she gets a lap! My icon is no longer accurate :( ) ARGH. And of course with me not working any more our finances are WAY tighter than they were, so we can't just go out and buy a new one. Current plan is to buy a large-screen windows laptop (Cam sometimes gets sick of the teeny screen and processing on his Eee, and if I look at a small screen for more than about a minute I get a headache) and share it. But not for a while :( Oh, and I had insomnia last night so feel all wierd AND a pigeon crapped on my bedsocks. Which I had been watching dryig on the line for a day or two with cold toesies. Luckily I manged to find two clean ones even if they don't match. Anyway, as previously mentioned, I don't actually want to talk or think about it, I just needed to vent. Supportive comments will probably make me feel worse rather than better because I am odd like that, but if you really want to say something cheering give me a link to something happyfying. To start you off: Dude watching with the Brontes. Current Mood:  blah |
| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 |
dreamshade
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8:57p |
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onezumi
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9:12p |
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| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 |
drjon
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11:06a |
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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 |
lurkerwithout
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5:18p |
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erinlin
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7:51p |
Adventures In Daycare
TINY CHILD: (points at wildlife calendar) Is that a lion? ME: Yep, that's a lion. TINY CHILD: What does the lion eat? ME: Well, lions eat antelope and zebras and.... TINY CHILD: (looks at me with big, innocent, trusting eyes) ME: .... hot dogs. Lions eat hot dogs. Do you like hot dogs? TINY CHILD: I like hot dogs! ME: Good! Now go play with the trucks. Current Mood:  vaguely guilty |
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