Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Organized Riot

Okay, have you ever not had plain computer paper, but had to print something off so you used lied paper instead? If not, I reccomend it sometime. The outcome looks kindof cool I think. Of course nothing is lined up exactly, but it works. =)

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Labedamenipotu and Spooksville

Okay, so when I go to practices for the musical we would be in the music room practicing the songs and up on a chalk board there was written "la be da me ni po tu", which is is a vocal warm-up of some kind. It is pronounced "lah bay dah may nee poe too", however I always said it "lah bee dah mee nee poe too". Ever since I saw it I had an inkering (is that even a word...?) that there was some message hidden within that "vocal warm-up". So today, in my sleep-deprived hyper-activity decided to break it down by progressively trying to say it quickly piece by piece. So it would be: "La" ... "Labe" (lah•bee) ... "Labeda" (lah•bee•dah) ... "Labedame" (lah•bee•dah•mee) --      ... and that is where the first message came to me. Labedame (lah•bee•dah•mee) was code for "labotomy". So the plot thickens...      So I continued my investigation starting with "ni": ... "nipotu" (nee•poe•too) ... "ni" ... "nipo" (nee•poe) --      ... and the second piece of the puzzle was put into place. "Nipo," I said to myself, and as perverted as this may be there was only one thing it could be... "nipple". *dramatic suspense music*      The next one was easy: "tu", French for "you". So when put all together I had "Labotomy nipple you". Now that did not make much sense, so I looked a bit further and found the secret.      Labedamenipotu is a code meant to be translated left to right, and then interpreted right to left.      "You nipple labotomy."      And, ladies and gentlemen, this was in a Catholic school. One of the most bizarre insults ever to be broken in code in a rather unlikely place.      I weep for the future.      A few posts ago I mentioned driving around my neighborhood with my friend Natalie, however, I forgot to speak of one of the most frightening experiences of my life.      We were driving around in my neighborhood in an area I was not all too familiar with, but I knew how to get to my house from where we were; it was just... different. No, given, this neighborhood is kind of old. None of the houses are all nice and pretty looking, but are more just under par; poor without being "slummy". Brick buildings, simple and small houses, random streets that do not cut through all the way, brick streets, dirt/gravel streets... the works.      So we had been driving around in this neighborhood for a while and were very aware and used to its look and feel, but nothing could have prepared us for what came next.      With a few aimless turns we found ourselves in a small, isosceles triangle-shaped cove type area where the houses were identical and look rather new. The road through there (which just followed the triangle back out of that area) was level and not even all that dirty looking, and even though we had Marilyn Manson playing it seemed as though all we could hear was the dead silence of that area.      Initially, my friend Natalie and I were just like, "Whoa, what is this place?" but then we just got this really dark and malevolent vibe.      It was like something you would expect in a classic horror movie. You would just be waiting for Jason or Michael Meyers to step out of one of the houses with a cold stare straight into your frightened heart, or even believe that you have fallen asleep and are in a dreamworld were Freddy is going to come out of the blue and take you in your sleep.      Needless to say, we were out of their pretty quick. I would say we were in there for all of about 10 seconds at most. Honstly, that is just 9.9 seconds too long for me.

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Ponder to the ninth...

If anyone besides Tori and Tony (whoa...) read this thing anymore.

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Sunday, September 14, 2003

Stuff

So today I woke up around two in the afternoon. So that is somewhere between eleven and twelve hours of sleep.      From there I got online, of course, and my friend Natalie instant messaged me asking if I wanted to go hang out with her and some other people. Being that I rarely ever get out, I accepted the offer.      We were supposed to leave at four, but did not get going until about six.      We went to Family Fun Center and played some arcade games and such. I played mostly old games like Asteroids and Bust-A-Move. Then my friend Natalie and I played the older Simpsons game until we beat it. After that I actually had my first encounter with Dance Dance Revolution. It was pretty funny. I only played a game or two. After that I did it the cheap way and stood behind my friends who were playing and followed along.      After that we went to get pizza. That was okay... I have a preference to not like being seated in places when with friends. I feel like I need to be doing something so I end up staring a lot. One of my friends kind of "yelled" at me for that and then I just kind of regressed, cowered, and kept to myself pretty much the rest of the night. I tend to do that every so often...      When we left there everybody decided they wanted to go home and so Natalie drove me home. We drove around for a while though because I did not feel like going home. It was okay. I started talking some more and such.      I still do not feel like being home...

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Thursday, September 11, 2003

Mmm... classical.

Yes, yes. Piro does enjoy a bit of classical music. Especially Beethoven, I need to get some actual CD's or something.      Though, I find it odd that some classical has vocals. Like Beethoven's 9th. It just seems to throw off the mood at times. At least the early vocals in that one... they get better later on. I do not know... when I think of classical, I do not think of voices.      One piece I am curious as to what it is called and who it is by. If anyone has seen the movie A Clockwork Orange, it is what is playing when the main guy has sex with those two girls and it is all fast forwarded with the pace of the music.      Having classical on my playlist amuses me, because I can go from Beethoven's 5th symphony to Marilyn Manson, lol. They are both great, though.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2003

... Eehh...

Hrmm... I have not updated in a while, even though I really could have. Me = lazy. So I shall start with Sunday.      Sunday was my grade school's annual festival. I do not really go there to partipate in any activity anymore, I just hang out with people and entertain myself by walking around the white elephant sale and seeing what junk people are trying to sell for dirt cheap. I never buy anything, though. I am a bad boy and just take stuff, lol. I am just that cheap, and it all gets thrown away at the end of the day anyway. I took a couple tapes: Greenday, Dookie; Stone Temple Pilots, ???. The only one that works is Greenday, though. The STP one is all warped in sound. There was also this jester-y coin purse thing, I thought it was neat so I took it. It is black and white, so I found it appealing. Then I saw some zippers, a bundle of three of them. One was tan, one was red, and the other was black. I took the black one, and my friend took the red one. I tie it around my wrist, and it is neat.      Umm... I forget what happened yesterday, so we shall just go straight to today. Today was an okay day, but I am in such a bind with the newspaper. I have three stories due tomorrow, none of which I have started. So I am going to be interviewing people like a rabbit on crack tomorrow morning, writing out a general idea of the story until sixth period, and then get out of my study hall to type them up. I know that one of them is not going to get done because the people of whom I have to interview have a schedule that works against my own. I was going to try and call one of them tonight, but I fell asleep in my room. >.>      I have been falling asleep a lot lately at random times. Doing work for the newspaper keeps me up pretty late usually. The one bad thing about that class is that you can get an assignment at any time without a warning.      But yeah, I have been sleeping oddly. I have had a tendency to end up taking naps in the evening. Not voluntarily, but just because I fall asleep where ever I am. Also in school I have fallen asleep. I thought I was pretty awake today until I fell alseep in phsyics. That class is very boring, though, and the school is rather warm. So all one can really want to do is sleep. I slept through the bell, so one kid woke me up. Then in my study hall I slept some more after I finished some homework.      Then there is Newspaper. I was so ready for a Mountain Dew. That is the drink of the Newspaper staff, lol. We have a small refridgerator in there and keep it stocked with Dew. Fifty cents a can, and then we just use that money to buy more. Of course, today we had to be OUT of it. It was tragic. It is funny because even our adviser is like, "Okay screw everything else, where is the Dew??!". We go through that stuff so fast in that class. We bought six 24-packs of it last Thursday, and by today they are all gone.      Some other people have brought in Dr. Pepper, but the adviser officially banned that drink from the classroom today, lol. I am not sure why, someone was just talking about it and he mentioned that he could ban it in a joking manner. Obviously someone did not believe him so he then proclaimed that it can no longer be brought in the classroom. It will be interesting to see where this goes. This might make our adviser seem like a militant asshole, but he really is not, lol.      Anyway, I have a review to write... so I guess I should end this...      Oh!, and Multimedia has become so boring. We are still working with webpages and it is teaching me nothing new at all... *sigh*      The End.

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Saturday, September 6, 2003

Death to the Kids

As most of you may have noticed, the Dorky Otaku Kids are no more.      It has come to my attention that the collective has become inredibly whored and cheapened, and I no longer believe to support such an organization.      So all of who did join, you receive in return all of which you gave. Tony, your PB&J sandwich; Steampunk, your two milks; Tori ... I shall return a kiss to you, but not the kiss in which you gave me ^_~; ... and so on.      The only person of which gets nothing back would be Sara, for she never payed off her debt. She cheated the system. Three cheers and a "Hoorah!" to you.      May you all live long and fruitful lives and remember the times we had as something good. Regards,    PiroMunkie

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Arts, College, and Food

First things first, new MIDI file up top! It is now The Last Kiss, one of my favorite songs. It is also off of their album Black Sails in the Sunset. I really need to put a song from a different album up there, lol.      Anyway, today I woke up around 11:30 AM because my mom woke me up reminding my that my dad was picking my sister and I up at noon. When he did, we went over to a local art show that is just a bunch of artists setting up tents and selling their stuff. It was pretty cool. There was this one guy that I remembered seeing last year when I went. His stuff is really cool. He does hard edge paintings, and I am talking a really hard and fine edge. It is so amazing. Last year I thought he was a graphic designer and he did those things in the computer, but I got up close to them this year and saw the canvas texture. I was very impressed. I wish I had the money to buy one. That was not my favorite, though. My favorite was this one guy that had these abstract, almost tribal and childlike, colorful drawings. They were really neat. I really wish I could have bought one of them. They were so awesome. It looks like something I would like to do with thick crayon or maybe oil pastel.      After we finished there we stopped by Borders, a book and entertainment store, to pick up a book about how to get into the right college since I am very much clueless about how to go about doing this kind of thing. So we got The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College. from what I have looked at of it so far it seems pretty helpful. Mainly I have looked at their listings of good unconventional colleges, and good art and design colleges. Then from there I started to read it from the beginning. I was at my dad's house when I did this, and ended up falling asleep for about three hours, lol. I put the book down before I did this because I felt sleep coming on.      Eventually my dad woke me up around 5:00 PM and asked if I was ready to go eat, so I said, "Yeah." He then took us all to Tanner's Bar and Grill of which he told me about earlier. It is not far from that Lunker's place I mentioned quite a few posts back that had the chicken fingers that tasted like turkey. Tanner's had just recently opened here in Omaha, this was their first weekend being open, and my dad had checked it out previously. I must say it is a pretty good place. the food is good -- I had onion rings, cheese sticks, and a bacon cheeseburger and fries --, and the service was pretty good too. Near the end there was a long wait until the waitress came and checked on us again, but the place was beginning to fill up and she had mentioned earlier that they were short on staff today. I took note of the name and address of the place so maybe I could talk to my newspaper adviser about doing a review on it for the paper.      I called a guy for an interview for one of my stories earlier tonight, but he was not home and I was told that 10:00 AM tomorrow would be a better time to call him. So I guess I am going to have to set my alarm. -__-; I think that is all I have to say...

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While I waited I was wasting away...

I think I am beginning to slowly, slowly starve myself. I still do not have a lunch period during school, and I usually do not get around to eating breakfast. So the only meal I ever really eat anymore is dinner.      I was in Physics the other day and I looked down at my wrists and the looked a lot thinner than usual. o_O I doubt they would change dramatically in a short amount of time, but still. I think it might have just been the fact that the lab tables are black, and my skin is "white" so the contrast just made them seem thinner. It was just bizarre. I was at school working with the newspaper some more last night. I had to completely retype a column I wrote, revise an editorial I wrote, create a Top Ten list to go along with my column (just a fun little thing that helps fill space). I was also given an illustration to work on. I am kind of excited for that. I have yet to do an illustration, so this is my first. Other than that, not much is really going on...

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Friday, September 5, 2003

Blood and Pumpkins

Well, I guess I could start off my saying I feel like complete and utter crap right now. My allergies are all inflamed which makes it a little hard to breathe and whatnot. Bleh...      I was not quite so delirious today. I probably got the same amount of sleep as I did the night before last. I still have some homework I need to do... Actually I have not even started my homework, but with reason.      So let us see, what happened today. Before school, when I first arrived, I looked to find this one guy I kind of wanted to interview, but I could not find him. So then I just went and sat with my friend Allie and we ended up talking about AFI and tuff. ^__^ She kept comparing my hair to Davey's claiming that I had it long just because he did, which is not true because I was growing it out back when I figured he still had short hair. Like back in the days of The Art of Drowning, three years ago (well, maybe not entirely that long). She then spoke of when they were on the VMA's. Apparently Davey and Jade/Adam (cannot remember which they said) were singing praises to MTV, which makes me mad. She said that Hunter looked like he really did not want to be there, so I say good for him. I would not have shown up if I were them, but oh well...      Multimedia went a bit smoother today. Our normal teacher was not here so he gave us simple instructions on the board. I just did them and continued doing what I wanted to do.      In Applied Design I have begun making a design for a stamp. The teacher said it how to using geometric shapes, and a shape from nature. It did not take me long to come up with an idea. I saw on the front of a magazine a dragonfly pin. So I decided to do something like that. It is a dragonfly broken down into simple shapes dipping it tail thing down with a bit of a pond ripple coming out; like when they lay their eggs. It is pretty neat. I think I am going to try and draw it in Photoshop so I have have nice, clean edges.      for Newspaper I had to write an editorial. I finished it a little late, as I was still typing it up when class started, lol. But I got it done and handed some story ideas in. I could not get the twenty, but the Editor in Chief did not seem to have too much of a problem with that. I drew some editorial cartoons... I think I am going to have three going into the paper. I have to draw one tonight as a revision to one of my other ones. They have two ideas going, someone is doing the other. I wish I was doing the other idea, but oh well.      Musical practice was okay. Just learned another song was the only new thing that happened.      After practice I had my mom drive me back to school so I could work with the newspaper some more. That is where I finished up one of the cartoons I did. It turned out pretty good, I think. The best part, though, is that we had this pumpkin brought in and we hollowed it out and carved it to make a jack-o-lantern. Then we went out and bought some supplies to make fake blood and brought in a big knife. The knife was simply stabbed into the pumpking about half-in and half-out, and then we mixed the fake blood together and began pouring it onto the jack-o-lantern with a big spoon and just took random photos of it with what digital cameras we have. At the very end we just dumped the bowl of 'blood' onto the pumpkin while taking photos and such. It was really cool. Before that, we have this baby doll head that is already kind of deformed and poured some 'blood' on it and piked it up on an arrow overlooking the doorway. Our adviser also has this paper posted up on this cabinet and wrote "NO PAIN" with the blood on it, and a guy dipped the palm-side of his hand in it and slapped it on there. That was my idea, but he stole it... v_v; We bought some pizza earlier in the night for dinner, so that was good. I do not know... I do not think any other high school newspaper stuff has nearly as much fun as we do while still getting a lot of work done. ^__^      I think it was the pumpkins that made my allergies go wild, but it was worth it. I have three stories to do, though. Those on top of my post-poned one which is due Monday. I am not sure when these other ones are due.      But yeah, all that newspaper business is why I have not started my other work yet. I love the newspaper.It is such a good paper. If anyone here is involved with a high school newspaper and went to national competitions or whatever you probably know of us. We usually do really well, but last year we got placed really low. The system is literally going against us. When I was at the journalism seminar this summer someone who was involved with the nationals was there and actually told one of our staff members that the reason we placed so low is because they simply do not like us. They think we are too cocky and whatnot, but it is not like we have no reason to be. So regardless of how good the paper was, it placed merely on how our staff was viewed. It is the stupidest thing ever... *sigh*      I need more caffeine, I have work to do...

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