LJ looks and feels like ass and I've moved on to greener pastures.



See you there!

I admit it, I LOLed.

All these protesters should probably find something more productive and less completely futile to do with their time. Like say, thinking up ways to prevent the American economy from going further down the shitter. Boy, these people sure are gonna have a lot more to be angry about when China takes over the planet, and Tibet probably won't be numero uno on the list.

A Blizzard employee/CGI artist was impressed with my portfolio and complimented me on it.


A.

BLIZZARD.

EMPLOYEE.



WHAT

IS

THIS

MADNESS

SPARTA

Although I REALLY do miss my Scrubs, Pushing Daisies, and 30Rock...the advent of the writers' strike actually brought about some positive changes. One being the syndication of Dexter, and the other being the subject of this post. Since most of my favorite shows haven't returned to the air I really don't have a set TV viewing schedule, but there is ONE time of day that I'll religiously tune into: 11:00 pm, weeknights on FOX 11. Why is that you ask?

Reruns of golden age episodes of The Simpsons.

Let me more clearly define "golden age". The Simpsons stopped being funny after season 8.

I don't care that people say season 9 was "the last great season", that is utter bullcaca. I seriously am completely baffled as to why hordes of Simpsons fans think "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is a classic episode, I could barely make through it without experiencing the bitter tang of bile in my mouth. "Crab juice"? Wow, now THAT is a hi-larious stand-alone punchline! It's crab, and it's juice! It's funny because it's disgusting and abnormal! Brilliant! =__=... Yea yea, the season does herald the introduction of Duffman, whatever, I honestly don't even like his character. His obnoxious and "in your face" attitude seems oddly familiar; I guess the Poochie model was ironically such a big hit they reincarnated him into a reoccuring character. One or two good gags, padded by inane, dumbed-down "humor" that is utterly, utterly stupid in the truest sense of the word, that pretty much sums up season 9 and all subsequent seasons. Apparently season 9 marked the exodus of many of the series' previous writers, and by god it SHOWS. Even though a couple of the episodes were penned by the seasoned veterans, I seriously hope they were either half-hearted "I'm about to leave anyway" throwaways or maybe a farewell "screw you" to the new show runner Mike Scully.

Seasons 2 through 8 will always be representative of The Simpsons as a series for me. (To a lesser extent season 1, but you've got to walk before you can run, right?) The humor was sharp at the right times, subtle at the right times, and always smart. The Simpsons had edgy satirical humor, brains to spare, AND tons of heart, a feat very rarely accomplished all in one show. All the characters had the perfect balance of personality; they were realistic enough to be relatable but with enough off-kilter quirks to make them humorous without jumping the shark. Homer is a paramount example: he was a loveable dullard, believably stupid but with suprising depth, compared to the completely boorish, sexist, one-dimensional running gag that he is now. It is an abomination what they turned him in to.

Why does this irk me so much? It's because The Simpsons was such a big part of my childhood. I grew up watching and loving this show, even when some my other friends were banned from watching it because of its "poor moral values" by parents who barely gave it a passing glance. If they had really WATCHED the show, they would have seen a sharp social commentary, played out by a family who, despite all their shortcomings, loved eachother unconditionally and promoted true familial love and loyalty. I believe The Simpsons truly was a pioneer of animation in the US, proving that cartoons can transcend the stigma of being purely "children's entertainment". To watch both the show and the characters be denigrated and devolved to such a shallow and moronic level is absolutely heartbreaking. At the risk of sounding way too melodramatic and/or elitist, I feel it's a spot on reflection of the decline of intellect that is so apparent in American pop culture.

After all that is said and done, I realize that the seasons I am talking about were aired from 1990 to 1997 =(

Back in my day, a movie ticket cost $3.25, gas cost $1.95 a gallon, Costco was known as Price Club, and The Simpsons was actually funny...

I just finished reading Watership Down and now I REALLY REALLY want to adopt a bunny. Like, BAD enough to warrant some serious cap locks, omgz. I've literally spent hours looking at the ones available for adoption, and I even picked out the one that I want. My mom said she'd actually be okay with it (surprising), but the whole art school situation is still up in the air right now. If I end up moving to SF, taking a live, skittery animal would be a bitch. Fuckin art school. I wonder how much taking care of a bunny would cost? Considering the fact that I just spent $35 nursing a sick $2.50 fish back to health, money would probably be a factor too...

BUT THE CUTE BUNNY IS SO CUTE D=

Oh yea, I finally joined a goddamn gym. Time to torture my fatass self on the treadmill =(

Mass Effect = the new, Western version of The Satanic Verses, apparently...



I really like when that vapid, mouth-breathing "expert" actually scoffed incredulously when she said that she hadn't actually played the game, as if that uncivilized heathen actually had the NERVE to ask her if she had touched that garbage. Because you don't actually need to read/play/experience/have ANY remote firsthand knowledge about filth to know that it's filth right? That's what hearsay and sensationalist rumors are for. Kudos to FOX for its unshakeable journalistic integrity and top-notch unbiased and investigative "debates".

Yesterday was my last day at Nordstrom. I can't help but feel a little sad after working there for more than a year, even though I always thought this day would be marked with unbridled joy and much raucous celebration, but life is funny like that I guess? This job has lowered my faith in humanity a little bit more, but I can't help but feel a little down knowing that I'll probably never see some of my coworkers again =/

So now that I'm a free agent, I really better get my ass in gear about my future in art...

but there's plenty of time for that later, because tomorrow is the kickoff of FINE DINING 2008: EAST COAST EDITION! After busting my ass for a year and having next to NO social life (outside of Azeroth I mean), it's time to splurge, baby. Itinerary is as follows:

Jan 7th-9th: Arrive in Philly, land of cheesesteaks and the King of Prussia mall! Bask in the east coast balmy weather of 40-60 degree weather. Have Agnes drive us around in her mini cooper. See the Rocky steps!

10th-14th: New York City!! The Big Apple revisted! This time with a noticeably higher budget! Check into the beautiful Roosevelt Hotel. Watch The Little Mermaid on Broadway (yay! Plz don't strike again Broadway pplz, I want to see mermaids on heelys). Dinner at Gotham Bar and Grill, lunch at Jean Georges. Hit the sales on 5th Ave. Maybe some frrrozen hot chocolate if the mice and cockroaches haven't made a comeback. Get (hopefully not) rained on =(

15th-17th: Boston! Satisfy my urge to stuff my face with seafood! Fulfill my desperate craving for Ethiopian cuisine. Shopping on Newbury street with no sales tax =D Cupcakes!


Reservations and tickets are all booked and winter regalia is purchased, FINE DINING 2008!!!!


Also, I can't stop watching this...



She made a pact with the Devil or she is a Siren made flesh, there is NO OTHER LOGICAL EXPLANATION. How the hell do you have a voice like that at 17??? It doesn't even sound like its coming from her mouth! It's like she ate an angel and you're hearing its ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL, SOUL-RENDING cries for help when she opens her mouth. I'm so pissed I missed the chance to see her perform at San Manuel =(

I'm tired of being an LJ scrub. My English skills are rusty and writing actually takes a fair amount of effort now. I can feel my verbosity leaking out of brain =( How, then, will I sound arrogant and pretentious??? This is what Charlie must have felt like.

So here's a book meme. I'm smart, really =(


These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 30 September 2007). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion It's like the Bible, but with elves.
Life of Pi : a novel* LOVE
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey* I'm pretty sure anyone who's EVER attended any form of school has read this book
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre I know this is supposed to be a classic, but it felt like a 19th century trash novel
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad * Classics enthusiasts what what
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha Eeeeehhh...overhyped
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West Hated it hated it hated it
The Canterbury Tales*
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera Maaaaybe...wasn't too hot on 100 Years of Solitude, but Oprah says it's good?
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein A big screw you to Ms. McDonald; I hated you and this book
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula 10 million times better than Frankenstein, trufax
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984 Depressing
Angels & Demons This is the Dan Brown book right? Completely forgot what it was about.
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses This is some WEIRD SHIT right here
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray Not as scandalous as I had imagined it to be. Apparently debauchery wasn't what it is today
Mansfield Park
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune Don't remember anything about this book other than spice, blue eyes, and the cool suits that recycle body waste. Mmmm pee water
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved WEIRD
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye The epitome of boring coming-of-age stories
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down I'm really surprised I haven't read this already
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit I want to love you Tolkien, I really do...you just make it so HARD
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Bastard out of Carolina

So out of boredom, I was googling "chibimiji" when lo and behold, look what I've discovered:

My first picture used without my permission! Edit: link removed because apparently the url keeps changing as the guy uploads more pictures >__> It was my viera oekaki, in case anyone was dying to know.

At least they gave me credit. I'm sure this is some sort of landmark to becoming a semi-competent internetz artist. Hooray for me!

Also...

What possesses people to buy, or even make for that matter, olive suits??? I mean, OLIVE? REALLY? Besides being the color of dirty,ashen puke and/or diarrhea after a night of split pea soup and heavy mexican food, it matches well with NOTHING. Black too good looking and stylish for you? Navy too darn professional? Gray just not VOMIT-INDUCING enough? Then hey, by all means, wear a color that makes you look like you're 80 years old and coincidentally, the drabbest human being on earth. No sir, I do not wish to help you find a shirt and tie that matches that suit, because everything I would pick out would either make you look like your grandfather or ugly incarnate.

Now moss green, THAT is a respectable shade of green.

WIP, late night one hour quick draw (it's quick for ME okay?? See, it has color and EVERYTHING! SHUTUP!) that I may or may not finish. I need to work on my mens, they always come out looking funky.



P.S. Fran is totally a beard/fag hag if I've ever seen one.

P.P.S. Balthier is totally gay (not in a bad way, in the buttsex way).