31 May 2004

HONK

Not much to say right now, I'll update tomorrow, after "work."




Current mood: Sore
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23 May 2004

We are the Cartoon Heroes, woooaaah

Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, almost. DDR Extreme is definitely the best mix of DDR (in the arcade, at least), and now it's coming to the PS2, presumably a direct port of the machine version. The EyeToy compatibility does nothing for me, I've not been impressed by the gimmick yet. Playing DDR is tough enough, I don't need to mess around and 'wipe' leaves off the screen or whatever. Good thing it's not required.

Today I hate the following:
The squirrels
My dry, heaving cough
My near-empty stomach
My near-empty wallet

Time to go to Pacific Mall. Need to start my Stephen Chow collection.


Current mood: complacent
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For external use only - avoid contact with eyes

Just a quick update, 2 new things, kind of. My game collection and my movie collection. I thought they'd be kind of nifty to show. I'm tempted to make a page for just my Wants/Needs. Might be a good idea, since I forget a lot of stuff that I want.

Oh yeah, I managed to throw away $155 towards anime today. Stupid 'sale'.


Current mood: coughing, but not blood - yet.
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22 May 2004

Pastilles de zinc

Buncha news bits:

Apparently Sega's jumping into the handheld industry again, with 'Prometheus,' "the videogame equivalent of an iPod." I'd like to call bullshit on this one, and the picture that they have is so obviously Photoshopped that it's silly, but I've seen the coming of Infinium Labs' storied Phantom, which in its own right is far sillier. As far as specs go on the Prometheus, the bit that worries me is the lack of backlight. I'm pretty sure Sega's technology has surpassed that of the Game Gear's in the past 10 years, so it shouldn't be a huge issue. They could take a few looks at the GBA SP and borrow from there, even though the SP's backlight is not perfect. I'm still waiting on official confirmation. Doubt it's real...but you never know.

At the end of August The Toronto Comic Con, Canada's biggest celebration of dorkdom, goes down. I'm more interested in CNAnime, which, sadly, is tacked on to the same event. You get Trekkies, anime fans, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac angsty teens, and comic dorks in one huge building. Fantastic. We can all sit around, read comics with tongs, banter about "Man, do you think the Millenium Falcon would get better mileage on Tattooine or Hoth?," and hate ourselves and pretend we're Lenore. Anyhow, I'm excited. Especially for certain guests. Yoshitoshi ABe (I didn't stress the Shift key, he spells his name "ABe." Weirdo, I know.) and Yasuyuki Ueda, aside from being the only ones there that I care about, are two of my favourite artists/anime folk. They've done Lain, NieA_7, and my favourite by ABe, Haibane Renmei.

Long enough for now, I'm heading down to AnimeXtreme


Current mood: Sickly
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Prose before hos

Quick notice:

Do NOT see Troy.

Unless you like movies that are made in this fashion:

-Take The Iliad
-Throw it in a paper shredder
-Get a mule to shit on the shreds
-burn the shreds
-take the shreds, put them in a film canister
-add CG
-ship off to theatres

Arrgh. Way to take a classic and totally screw it up, Wolfgang. Go to the old age home, fiend.



Current mood: hateful

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21 May 2004

Well I get up at seven, yeah, and I go to work at nine

I've finally gotten the desire to post again. Hopefully my writer's block is gone now, as I really want to write things beyond this blog, and I've not been able to recently.

Let's go through a list of new, fantastic, and amazing things going on in my life:

The Cottage Party

Three days of drunken buffoonery went down at Kevin's cottage. Much alcohol was consumed. Full of YUBC madness. I'll try to start from the beginning.

Day 1: Left about 3 hours after I wanted to, which is sadly typical of me. I maintain that the journey is what matters, not the destination, so while the others were complaining about my tardiness, I was enjoying my ride. Plus, I was driving, and the others got a free ride, so the "no bitching" rule was in effect. Turns out Kev was late too, and we somehow managed to find him on the way there, so we had a great big convoy going up towards Coboconk. We arrived, and in a surprising turn of events, I went to the bathroom and threw up. Hadn't even drank yet. Bizarre, no? I figured the best medicine was beer, so I downed a can of Lone Star and continued with my night. We were having ourselves a good old fashioned ruckus when the real party kicked in around 1 when the 2nd wave of guests arrived, including Donna. Then we drank more, and I forget the rest of the night.

Day 2: Went to Tim Horton's for breakfast, because I think we missed breakfast with the Asian Invasion. Afterwards...I'm not so sure. We had lunch sometime. Myself and...I believe it was Jason...went out in the paddleboat chasing Kev. Halfway across the lake and we decide to turn back. Paddleboat = more tiring than DDR. So we're returning to the cottage and suddenly it becomes Juno Beach on June 6th, 1944. The other folks at the party were throwing rocks at us. Came down on us like mortars and torpedoes. Sucked. Drank more later. Fell asleep.

Day 3: This is getting irritating to write, so let's just say I went home after an awesome breakfast cooked by Donna et al.

Oh yeah, here're some pictures.

I HAVE A JOB

The unemployed wonder finally has a job. Working for THE MAN, no less. Find the irony in this: I'm working for the Ministry of Transportation, which refuses to give me my full driver's license. HURRAH.

It's a 9-5, $10/hour deal, I'm not complaining.

I'm sick!

Trivial, but yeah. Sore throat, head full of foam and phlegm. That somewhat explains my inability to type coherently today.

I'm off.

Oh yeah, before I go, this may or may not be the greatest thing ever.


Current mood: Sick, surly.

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09 May 2004

Abuse to the blog

I figure it's time I toss one of these in, it's like Jhonen Vasquez's Fillerbunny, but not. Beware, there's really shitty grammar in the questions.

TIME STARTED: 2:37 pm
FULL NAME: Dan somethingorother
BIRTHDAY: June 9th, 1984
STAR SIGN: Gemini
AGE: 19
WHAT R U LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?:`"Moonlight Drive" by the Doors
LAST THING U SAID: "No, piss off"
WHAT IS SITTIN NEXT TO U RIGHT NOW?: Nemu
LAST THING U ATE?: A muffin of some kind, not sure. There were raisins.
WHO DO U WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF UR LIFE WITH?: If it ends up being with myself, at least it's someone I like.
WHERE DO U WANT TO GO ON UR HONEYMOON?: Hell if I know
FIRST DAUGHTERS NAME? Rinoa or Arwen
FIRST SONS NAME? Not sure
MAKES U HAPPY?: The displeasure of others
HOW MANY BUDDIES ON UR LIST?: 83
WHAT DO U LIKE TO DO?: Lots of crap, many involving gaming, computers, and being a nuisance.
WHAT DID YOU DO YESTERDAY? Came home, went to Ikea, then saw Van Helsing, then hit the pub.
WHO DID YOU LAST PHONE?: Kev, I think.
HEIGHT?: 5'8" I believe
WORST THING ABOUT OPPOSITE SEX?: Daft and judgmental come to mind.
IF U COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT UR SELF WHAT WOULD IT BE? Nothing, if I did I'd bring myself to the level of the MTV-generation.
SIBLINGS: 1
YOU EVER HATED ANY PERSON IN YOUR FAMILY?: Currently loathing an uncle
FAVORITE...
VEGETABLE: Peppers
CANDY: Coffee Crisp
M&MS?: Green ones
DRINK?: Non-alc: Tangerine Wavelength Fruitopia, coffee, coffee, sprite, coffee. Alc: Gin, JD, Alexander Keith's, Rickard's Red, etc.
MOVIES: Clerks, Mallrats, Almost Famous, Dazed and Confused, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, etc. for Quentin. Also, Jackie Chan's library of films is awesome. Then there're anime, HK cinema, and the like that I haven't mentioned.
TV SHOW: Ninja Turtles, Chappelle's show, Street Cents, Jeopardy!, Real World (guilty fucking pleasure)
JEWELLERY: I've got 2 pieces of bling
NUMBERS: 7, 13...yeah, original, eh?
MONTH?: August, at night.
NIGHT OR DAY?: night
SCARY OR HAPPY MOVIES?: Happy. I'm a sissyshit.
FAV SAYING?: "Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate fuckers," and "don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining."
CAREER: Writer, journalist, traveller, vagabond, recluse, pirate
UNIVERSITY: Been there, done that.
HAVE YOU EVER LOVED SOMEBODY SO MUCH IT MADE YOU CRY? I dropped half a bottle of JD once, almost cried, but it didn't break.
DRANK ALCOHOL? More than I should
TAKEN DRUGS? Define drugs.
BROKEN THE LAW? Sure?
CHEATED ON TEST?: Heh, I love my watch.
SKINNY DIPPED?: Nope. Hate swimming.
PLAYED STRIP POKER: Nope.
PLAYED TRUTH OR DARE: In 3rd grade I probably did.
FLASHED SOMEONE?: No
MOONED SOMEONE: no
BEEN IN A PHYSICAL FIGHT?: You could say that
RODE IN A POLICE CAR?: Nope
BEEN ON A PLANE? Yeah
COME CLOSE TO DYING?: Yeah
BEEN IN A SAUNA?: see above
BEEN IN A HOT TUB?: yeah
SWAM IN THE OCEAN? Yeah, it sucked.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING...
SCARS? Remember kids, it's down the road, not across the street.
ABORTION?: Pro-choice.
COUNTRY MUSIC? Some is great, I have to say. I dig Irish tunes moreso though.
CLASSICAL? Been raised on it.
OPERAS? Les Miserables.
AMUSMENT PARKS: Biggest waste of fucking money.
WHAT IS............
THE MOST ANNOYING PERSON YOU KNOW? Depends on the day
FAV. LUCK CHARM: Pass.
WORST SONG U EVER HEARD? Alexisonfire's entire career.
DO U SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL: Everyone did at one point
MOST PRIZED POSSESSION? My game collection
GOOD ACTOR/ACTRESS? Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Uma Thurman, Sam Jackson, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Audrey Hepburn.....etc.
GOOD DANCER? MJ, Kevin
STORYTELLER: A.A. Milne
HAVE YOU EVER HAD...
CHICKEN POX: Yeah
COLD: yeah
STITCHES? yeah
BLOODY NOSE? nope
CANCER? No
SURGERY: yeah
HOSPITALISED? yeah
DO YOU......
ENJOY PARKS? Sure
WOULD YOU.....
EAT A LIVE HAMSTER FOR A MILLION DOLLARS? If treated properly, given vaccinations, all that, maybe.
GO TO A HANSON CONCERT IF YOU HAD A FREE TICKET?: With a can of chloroform, definitely.
GET ANYTHING PIERCED OTHER THAN YOUR EARS? Nope
KILL SOMEONE YOU DIDN'T KNOW FOR 15 BILLION DOLLAR? Potentially.
IF YOU WERE STUCK ON AN ISLAND, WHICH PERSON WOULD YOU WANT
WITH YOU?: I can't think of anyone that wouldn't irritate me to the point of going Jack/Piggy on them.
WHAT THREE THINGS WOULD YOU TAKE TO AN ISLAND WITH YOU?
Music, generator, box of game collection/systems
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE MOTTO? Do what you want, everyone else can take their preconceptions on life and shove it.
IF YOU WERE IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE AND IT WOULD HURT THEM IF
THEY FOUND OUT, WOULD YOU TELL THEM? Stupid, stupid, stupid question.
DO U WANT PEOPLE TO REPLY? No.
WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES? Berger, Zoso.....uh...yeah.
TIME FINISHED: 3:03



Current mood: feeling like I've been robbed of time.

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06 May 2004

ADVENTURES

OMG NEW SPECTACLES:



Yay me.

Back later, possibly.


Current mood: Hungry, bespectacled.

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05 May 2004

Forget about your silly whim, it doesn't fit the plan

Sorry it's been so long since I've last posted, been quite busy recently. Somehow, a person without school or job manages to be busy. Somewhere else, the employed weep.

Been one of those days, nothing's going right. Yet somewhere in this insanity I find some solace. I realized that I'm free, if only for a while. I've got no school to attend, no one to answer to, no deadlines, nothing. Granted, I've got no job, but I'm trying. I can't really explain what happened, but somehow everything's fallen together today. I understand that life is all about doing what needs to be done, as dumb as that sounds. Like I said, I can't rightly describe it. Meh.

There are so many options open for me right now, and it's hard to believe that these are available to me. What I'm talking about aren't just jobs, they aren't just trips, they're experiences.

well my friends came and got me since i did that last paragraph and we went to the bar and now it's time for sleep. So adieu.


Current mood: not terribly inebriated

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