Sunday, May 8, 2005

WOW.
I just downloaded a stick figure animator called Pivot, and I haven't had this much fun in ages. I'm making a fight scene right now. ^_^
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More cryptic messages...
I learned a very important lesson last night, and one that I will carry with me to my grave:

Before all things, consider pie.
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Friday, May 6, 2005

Apparently, Fate has something against my online habits.
It seems like every time I want to make a decent-sized post on either here or OB, something goes wrong and it's all lost. So I'll just wrap up what I was going to post about in one phrase:

Flaming chocolate hovercraft wars.
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Monday, May 2, 2005

I needs to catch up in the What Are You Reading thread.
I've finished the entire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (five-book trilogy, rather) and A Clockwork Orange since I last posted there.

This morning I picked up The Sound and the Fury at the school library, but returned it promptly and prematurely as soon as school got out. I had to really force myself to read it in the first place, since I'm not too keen on all those Southern Great Depression books.

And really, that's one of the reasons I hated To Kill a Mockingbird. Every damn character in there was a narrow-minded redneck moron except for Atticus and possibly Jem. No, I don't care if that was the point or not. It was teeth-grindingly annoying and aggravating, and if you can't come anywhere near enjoying a book because of things like this, then I see very little point in reading it. In fact, probably the only other conceivable reason to read a book would be to learn something from it and refine your intellect.

Say what you will, To Kill a Mockingbird did a damn sorry job at this. It had one message/theme throughout the entire book, and a stupefyingly simple one at that: injustice. Don't do harm to those who do none to you. The book was crammed full of this, using the same exact scenario over and over and over until I wanted to pull out some white-out and a pen and finish the dang thing myself.

But returning to the matter at hand, that was one of the main reasons I so hastily returned The Sound and the Fury. Another was the off-the-walls narration of it, leading me to believe that Faulkner must've been on a seriously heavy LSD trip when he wrote it. One scene will, without warning or hesitation, simply change into an entirely different one (set in a different time in the chain of events, in a different setting, with different characters), yet somehow still sound similar enough that you won't have realized that it's changed until halfway through.

Despite all this, though, I still have a mild curiosity for the book, and I hope to pick it back up when I feel up to it and like I can appreciate it more.

In its place I got Farenheight 451, a part of my long list of books to pick up or movies to see or bands to listen to, etc., and have only read several pages so far. But I. Love. It.

This Ray Bradburry chap seems to have tremendous writing skills, and not only does the book look to be provoking, but it's downright beautiful. Here's just one excerpt I've come across so far:

"He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work-- torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?"

Happy times, happy times.
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Sunday, May 1, 2005

Oh yeah.
I forgot to mention, I just hit 2000 visits. Far out.
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Mmkay.
Now that I have some measure of time, I can tell you about the place we checked out and are possibly moving to.


Name: Hays, Kansas

Location/Surroundings: Nowhere/wheat fields

Population: 20,000

University: Fort Hays University. 800 kids on meal plans. Very clean, spiffy cafeteria and student union. Decent people. Pool tables.

High School: Hays High School. 1,000 students. Nice, big school. Great Debate & Forensics team. TV studio. Tons of art programs. Fucking laptops issued to all students. (Even if they are iBooks.) Nice kids, not a lot of white trash to be seen.

Dominoe's and TCBY: Yes

Movie theater that shows more than two movies at a time: Yes

Real estate: Sucks ass

Overall rating:

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Thursday, April 28, 2005

Into the Sunset
Well, we're about to head on out to look at a town we might be moving to. I'm in quite a bit of a rush, so I can't really say anything more than that right now. Hope I'm able to post about it soon, seeing as I've had about zero time on the computer as of late.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Screw it =P
The music and the tables I was trying to put in were both going all funky. So I killed them.
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Monday, April 25, 2005

Not done yet.
Yes, I know it's taken several days now, but I've had no time on the computer.








(and yes, you do give a damn.)
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Heh. XD
I've got the greatest idea in the world for my next theme.
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