Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Quick Update

[#] posted at 4:43 pm (GMT +1200)

What has been a relatively relaxed few days, if not week has suddenly turned into near madness. Just yesterday, was commited to filming a short film for the most of next week which I'm still not sure how that happened. Reconfirmed and had a sit down today over a music video to be filmed in a few weekends time. Did some quick redesigns for passes yesterday for the Masquerade Ball this weekend (actually, thats not as intense, but added with the other stuff all coming in one day, it still warrants mentioning) and other general stuff in my life that really needs to be dealt with, not withstanding my tax returns which need completing if I don't want to go to jail. Awesome.

Japanese Goblin Sharks are scary too.

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Shut Up and Deal

[#] posted at 4:37 pm (GMT +1200)

Been an interesting past few days. Got to catch up with friends, have drinks and move a piano out of my room and into a trailer where I played various tunes on it while being driven through the town with quite the few confused onlookers thinking "what the hell?" Have videos and photos of it, but I seem to have misplaced nearly every cable I've had need of.

But yeah, I've finally got rid of the piano in my room I bought on a whim by selling it off to a friend on a whim over a poker game. Awesome.

Also shifted around a bit of the arrangement in my room so along with the missing piano, there's a helluva lot of floorspace in my room. I'll be getting my carpenter Jesus hat on this week to build me some shelves for the DVDs which have continued to arrive in the mail (sweet) but keep draining my bank account (not sweet).

Many other stuff to blog about but I've been watching old Billy Wilder films and I'm all out of time and must go.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

An Email From a Friend, I'm Sure He Won't Mind...

[#] posted at 1:32 am (GMT +1200)

This is a story all about how my life got flip turned upside down. I'd
like to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how my i
ended up sitting on Khyber pass road with my car disabled typing this
on my phone because i have nothing better to do. Installer services
"Damn We're good" agreed to install a car alarm plus immobiliser today
at a cost of $450 and an hour of my time. He turned up late, we had to
drive somewhere else where i could have just met him anyway. I went to
work, waited the four hours expected. Waited two more. Called, was
told rudely that it would be done very soon. On pressing it turns out
the siren wasn't working and they run a mobile service without backup
equipment. He got assistance from another guy who also didn't have a
backup. He calls thirty mins later to say the installation failed,
they'll finish on friday ... Forget about my schedule. I turn up at 4
as agreed, he turns up half an hour late again. I politely ask Why My
Bumper Appears To Be Broken Now. He doesn't know anything about it.
Refuses to give me an invoice without me paying first until i get
really angry... He drives off, i drive to Khyber, wait at a red light
in rush hour traffic, and then the car cuts out. With no power, even
after diverting energy from shields, someone gives me enough room in
two lanes of traffic to back my car, rolling, down the hill until i
get enough momentum to get off the road... And unfortunately block the
guy with the camera ticketing people that drive up the bus lane,
making him unhappy. He was thankfully understanding. Alarm installs
take up to four hours normally i'm told. I've been sitting here an
hour, he got here fifteen minutes ago with a new alarm unit. That's my
reverse bel air, via gmail j2me app. More details to come.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Wheel of Fun!

[#] posted at 5:19 am (GMT +1200)

Have become a devout fan of Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show. At first was really wierded by it and couldn't get my head around what the hell was going on, but now I love what has been described as "a cross between Letterman, Pee-Wee Herman, Steve Irwin, Emeril, and a Japanese schoolgirl on meth". What's not to like?

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Don't Fuck With Vin Diesel eh?

[#] posted at 12:11 pm (GMT +1200)

This is like a viral marketing promo or something for Mathieu Kassovitz's new film Babylon AD. It has Vin Diesel in in. He's Vin Diesel.

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Chainsaw Maid is Friggin Sweet

[#] posted at 2:13 am (GMT +1200)

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Monday, August 18, 2008

You Don't Mess With the Hundred Acre Wood Gang

[#] posted at 11:21 am (GMT +1200)

While I've been busy, the internet seems to have been quiet. Well, except for Whinnie-the-Pooh still kicking arse and taking names. And wallets.
Japanese police have arrested a 20-year-old man who attacked and robbed two people after they stared at his Winnie-the-Pooh costume, officials have said.

Masayuki Ishikawa was hanging out on a Tokyo street corner after midnight last month while wearing the cuddly costume, accompanied by two friends dressed as a mouse and a panther, when he took offence at being stared at, police said.
Fairly plain and simple article which makes one go, "heh... odd". Until I hit the last sentence...

Ishikawa and his friends beat up the two victims and stole US$160 from them, the spokesman said, adding the group had apparently donned the unusual garb because they had run out of clean clothes.
When I run out of clothes, I just re-wear them. On most days it may give more to a hobo look and smell, but I just know it'll be in fashion once that robot invasion is underway and we start living in a post-apocalyptic world battle with them. I'm so ahead of my time.

Full and slightly longer article here.

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Consumerism is Awesome

[#] posted at 4:14 am (GMT +1200)

So I'm back in Hamilton now. Friday was a day of still recouping and hanging with friends, especially Tanya's goodbye which was both emotional and a very drunken time for me. Which was great and completely what I needed given how intense the whole week has been.

So great I spent the next day recovering from my hangover with a friend trading and buying DVDs which totally goes back on my plans to spend nothing this month, but screw it, there were a ridiculous number of deals and specials going around and so I ended up buying about eight DVDs, two comic books and came home to find packages containing nine more DVDs and all have been re-arranged on a new shelf I also acquired in Auckland, but still provides not enough space for all my DVDs, so its back to finding and buying another shelf (which would make for a fifth) and hoping that by the time I do, I wouldn't have bought so much more stuff that it wont fit.

But yeah, totally failed on the whole not buying things, but screw it, I'm a consumer whore like that. Actually, come to think of it, there's still about five more DVD's coming in the mail... mega fail.

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Briefly...

[#] posted at 11:46 pm (GMT +1200)

Didn't end up sleeping last night and kept working. Managed to get at least an hour of sleep during the day. Finally finished this evening. Have just eaten. Having some beers right now. Need sleep. Proper post tomorrow.

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Glarg Ugh Wargh...

[#] posted at 1:42 am (GMT +1200)

It's two in the morning. Been working all day editing and re-editing and then scrapping everything and starting a completely new edit which up to now is almost finish, but wont be finalised until early tomorrow morning, which doesn't leave much room for recuts or anything. Oh and now I'm also an Astronaut to be onstage, which is at least something different and fun if only for a little bit.

But yeah, I'm still working and pretty tired and still have a six o'clock wake up to have in four hours. Hell, I'm not even blogging this from my own hotel room which I've yet to set foot in.

Fun times.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Not Over Till The Fat Lady Plays the Demo

[#] posted at 8:09 am (GMT +1200)

Awake. Have only slept a couple of hours after some intense late night packing and sorting. Just finishing off some emails and correspondence before packing the computer away for some fun travelling and more working. This is turning into one of the longest weeks I've had in a while and it's only Wednesday morning... morning... man.

I had other things to post, but I can't remember what exactly and I'm out of time.

So here's some lightsaber fighting squirrels in the park.


Sweeeet.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Ugh Ugh...

[#] posted at 4:26 pm (GMT +1200)

Currently existing as a very little sleep entity.

Just typing that sentence took a lot of backspace key hitting cause I keep mistyping and spellling things wrong. Along with that sentence.

Super tired and been editing for the last day or two in between working at video store, so haven't had time to rest or chill or hang out with anyone as I always hope to do, but never do.

Have to go to work in a moment, when I come home I'll still have to finish up some editing and capturing before packing and then a little sleeping, but then some driving to Auckland in the morning and then more working and editing and blaaaaah... I need a break.

I feel like this kid.

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Friday, August 08, 2008

Yawn

[#] posted at 5:58 am (GMT +1200)

Next week I'll be in Auckland prepping and working on a one day show along with some drinking here and there of course. Have also recently been offered quite a variety of indie film work as well around the place, but have been totally slack in getting back to anyone about it yet. As much as a I love it, it's hard to make time for no pay gigs, or at least all of them. We'll it goes in time. There's also the factor my correspondence for the last week with basically everyone from all aspects of my life is totally shit.

Meanwhile, I am so ridiculously hooked on watching clips from NBC's To Catch A Predator at the moment. It's like my new crack. That and continuing a massive clean up of my computer. But man, these pedos...



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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Feed This End

[#] posted at 5:10 am (GMT +1200)

Sneaking suspicion I'm either getting sick or am being invaded and controlled by a cabal of baby-murdering gnomes from another dimension. Just like the media.

One of my new favourite web comic wondermark.

Awesome girl doing a funky dance to daft punk.

Some guy that is building his very own batman tumbler.

And a totally sweet optical illusion.

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Hrmmmm...

[#] posted at 2:05 am (GMT +1200)

It's like the internet made a comic just for me, about me.

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

I've Got to Get Better Sleeping Patterns

[#] posted at 6:12 am (GMT +1200)

On my never-ending quest to procrastinate actual work and things that need doing, I've been organising and freeing up my way too full hard-drives. Of course, I could have been writing or doing something productive while waiting for files to burn to discs, but meh... you get more internet stuff and I get to close some tabs.

One of the most random flash animations I've seen in a while called Michael Fantasy.

One of the most random series of photos on some guys blog post called Today is the Day.

That scene from The Shining redone with robots!

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Yam, The King of Crops

[#] posted at 1:26 am (GMT +1200)

So along with not smoking (two weeks now), I'm attempting to spend August on not buying things. Well, non-essential things. Last month turned out to be quite the spend spree for me with four to five trips back and forth from Auckland, the watching of many movies and buying of many many DVDs and books. Hell, I've still got about fifteen to twenty ordered from amazon and ebay shipped in from overseas (and overseas shipping sucks these days). So yeah, the rest of the month is dedicated to spending only on bills and food. And not junk food either seeing as I'm also trying this whole 'healthy thing' now. Something that would make "2007 Chris Tan" sick.

So that kinda leaves August with the cause to finish reading and watching all the books and DVDs I've bought and borrowed rather than stockpiling them like a cultural nuclear winter is on the horizon, which of course is bollocks as we all know the no-culture stupid virus already hit us during the mid 90s.

Oh and part of not buying 'non-essentials' includes the buying of alcohol. You'd think this would be something horribly drastic and a little bit of a stretch for me, but no. With how much I've stockpiled of that and reserved. Big no.

So yeah, that's about it. Here's a video/article on the blowing up of a WW2 bomb in London. Awesome.

And I'm late on this, but this is a super cool video series by this guy and his site Where The Hell is Matt? and it's smile inducingly great.

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Monday, August 04, 2008

Best Comic Ever

[#] posted at 3:00 am (GMT +1200)

Click for the larger version if too small to read.

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Saturday, August 02, 2008

Whoops...

[#] posted at 6:16 am (GMT +1200)

Posting to this blog is sometimes like showering and eating and sleeping for me, I keep forgetting when the last time was and when I should be doing the next one. Actually, add laundry, haircuts, bill payments, rent payments and the expiry dates on bought foods. Ah well.

Anyway, I've been busy obviously. The last of the film festival was great catching two out of three planned films plus the IMAX of Dark Knight, which was just as awesome on the second viewing and I could honestly go a third time and not care of the cost or anything else. It's that awesome.

But the crazy storm season of the last week is starting to go away, Dr. Ezy is having his birthday bash tonight, I'm coming up two weeks of not smoking (bar a couple I had last week while playing poker) and generally, everything is alright.

Oh, one suck incident is that I found out at the last minute and missed out on attending a Mark Kozelek (of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon) concert at the King's Arms in Auckland. First the Mountain Goats cancel and then God tricks me into setting up an awesome gig the first weekend I'm not in Auckland after being up a retarded monkey's nosepicking number of times. Thanks God. I'm gonna crank call you later.

Oh, but here's a video to cheer anyone up. Plus this, or this, or this, or this.



Kick-ass.

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