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So much, yet so little, has been going on, and I've been meaning to post about them one or so at a time, but I guess that's not going to happen, so we're going with the abridged load.
1) Creative Stuff
Spent two weeks attempting to print the little sushi how-to booklet that I made. Between saving the project on a version of InDesign that's too new for the machines I printed on and certain computers not being hooked up to the right printer, it took way too long. BUT I finally managed to get on an admin computer at the lab and printed ten copies! Been trying all weekend to get over to a Kinkos to trim the edges. Next step will be putting it up on my etsy shop.
Working on another book of my sketches. I scanned every single sketch I have (I mean EVERY. SINGLE. SKETCH.) and threw out almost all of them after scanning. Working on getting them into sections (random sketches, comic book and character ideas, 3d project designs, Dr. Sketchy sketches, etc). It's taking forever. I have several hundred scans to go through (fitting as many sketches on the scan-bed as I could).
Bought new yarn for three knitting projects: my first hat, and first two pairs of socks! Have not gotten enough off my plate yet to start them, though.
2) Movies
Saw the Oscar-nominated animated shorts at The Little. Sanjay's Super Team needs to be a real tv show. Bear Story had me bawling my eyes out. The Bear character tells the story of his ruined happy life - being kidnapped by circus-folks and being split from his family.While he did escape the circus, he changes the ending in his story, so that he gets his family back. And it's heartbreaking. We Can't Live Without Cosmos is another heartbreaker. It hit me on a personal level, having lost the best friend I ever had. Many parallels. Aside from the next one, this was my favourite. World of Tomorrow took me from being a mere fan of Don Hertzfeldt to being his obedient servant. I saw this one early last month when it hit Netflix. I also backed the kickstarter, so soon, I'll have this bad boy, and most of his other films on BluRay! He came over here to Rochester a few times because we have the archive where he stores his films. It thrilled me just knowing he was here. I got to meet him a couple times. He's a great guy. Anyway, watch it! It's on Netflix right now! Prologue came with two warnings - one before showing some runner-up films, and one before the film itself. It contains nudity and violence. I don't know what it is about extreme violence in realistically drawn animations, but it was more disturbing (in only a few minutes) than any live action I've seen.
Not going to spoil much of Deadpool, but I just want to say a couple things. I knew it would be amazing because Ryan Reynolds made sure it would be amazing. You can't trust anyone more than a Deadpool superfan to help make a proper Deadpool movie. The opening credits alone are a dead giveaway of its supreme awesomeness. But the one thing... the ONLY thing I hoped for in the Deadpool movie was to include Wade Wilson's love for Bea Arthur. And they did it. Did you catch it?
3) Solitary
Spent a couple weekends ago locked into a real-life Fortress of Solitude, which is to say, my stresses built up so badly that I decided to blow off any plans I had (namely a birthday/football party hosted by two friends who I don't even know if I can consider friends anymore, which is a different post all together), and build a blanket-fort in my living room in front of the tv. I ate cereal, cookies, and drank lots of tea while playing video games (okay, just one - Batman Arkham Origins) the whole weekend. After a really difficult battle in the game, I took a break and marathoned iZombie season 2 (as much as I had available, anyway).
On Tuesday, the snowstorm knocked work off the map and I got the day off. I didn't leave the bed for about 95% of the day. The other 5% were spent on washroom trips and grabbing food from the kitchen. Felt great.
4) Social Situations 1
Valentine's Day was spent at my cousin's antique curiosity shop with my family for a surprise birthday party (my Aunt's 25th anniversary of being 25 years old). There was also a tender moment of a reunion between her and her youngest boy who hasn't been back from his home in Jersey for about 5 or so years. The moms in the room shed tears. I got it on video. I ate lots of comfort food and only a little bit of junk food. Then found a very old safe among the other treasures of the shop and spent the rest of the party trying to crack it. Party eventually got too loud for me to hear inside the safe anymore, so I gave up. Gonna keep trying, though.
My friend Ward came down from Oswego and we all went out on the town - me, Ward, Meagan, Scott, and a few guest appearances by Small Brendan, Mouse, and her husband, who left the four of us at various stages. We started with pre-dinner drinks, and dinner at Tap & Mallet, where Ward introduced me to the app Untapped after finding out I'd just been keeping beer notes in my generic notes app. After food arrived, Brendan got a text from a sex-bot and we decided to fuck with it. Scott handled all the screwy replies until I asked for a try. Everyone read my fucked up response and there were gags all around. Meagan said I need religion. She said I need Southern Jesus. I felt proud. After dinner, we headed over to Lux for booze and an art show.
Coincidentally, Lux opened up Jay Lincoln's Tarot art show while we were there, so I got to meet Jay, finally, and saw his entire tarot gallery on all the walls of the bar. So gorgeous. I saw a few friends in the paintings, including Nicholas Gurewitch, Brendan's parents, Andy the (now passed) accordion player, and Brian (as in, the best friend in question). I was hoping for a lighter with Brian's card printed on it, since he's a chain smoker. But no luck, so I got a lighter with Nick (The Moon) on it, and a print of Brian (Ace of Discs). I realized, a block from home that I forgot to close out my tab, and had to walk all the way back and all the way home again. Good thing it was nice out.
5) Social Situations 2
Brian visited me at work all week, but every time, I had to escort him into the hall and make plans to meet up after work, which we did and we had a nice time, for the most part. Things always got a little weird when we got to Java's. Friday, I had to tell him he couldn't visit me at work anymore. I felt bad, because he's been at his sweetest at work, but loud, which isn't great when I work in a library/computer lab and he starts talking about his conspiracy theories on Hitler. After work, he'd take me the long and snow-ridden ways to the cafe, while he talked about cops, his landlord and his social workers being after him. He said a lot of things that didn't make any sense, but some things made more sense than anything he'd ever said to me. On Thursday, we walked together and he said, in such a cryptic way, "Fawn, you know I have to go away for a while, right?" Soon, he said, in a few weeks, maybe. But he didn't say where. He told me he didn't know. When Charles saw him, he told him it was a secret. He told his other friends he wanted to go to Puerto Rico. I think deep in the labyrinth of his mind, he knows where he's going. It makes me feel selfish for wanting him to go there. So he can get better. So I can have my best friend back. Because the last time I saw him, on Friday, he was very angry at everyone around him. Except his friends... except me. I was the only one of the friends surrounding him that he took out his anger on - yelling to everyone that nobody is carrying their own weight, nobody's vibes are good, and staring at me with hatred in his eyes. At one point, he yelled at me to not touch his hands (as I'm sitting across the table with my hands to myself). I felt so angry, and so drained after only ten minutes of sitting there that I had to get up and leave.
This emotional strife, watching my best friend's sanity disappear day by day, has had me burned out all week. I've been so unproductive. I'm happy I got out of the house with other great friends this weekend. Got to spend some serious cash on binging and boozing it up with pals. I don't get that chance often at all.
6) Adventure Time
Been finally experiencing Adventure Time. Really fun and clever show. I'd seen season 1 when it was on Netflix, and have caught a couple of episodes on tv at parties. I never realized until I watched beyond season 1 that the Ice King isn't just a villain, he is a stark representation of someone with schizophrenia. I periodically see parallels between him and Brian, and the Simon Petrikov -to- Ice King origin stories and his history with Marceline, fuck shit fuck, those moments have me crying like a baby, especially with his wishes to be forgiven for whatever he says or does, because he won't remember. Ugh. Crying just thinking of it. Blargh.
Also, this show is just really clever. It's simple, which is just what I need to unwind from stresses of the day, but also really deep and dark, which sates my dark side. I like how "the right thing" isn't always the best thing, and things get messed up. I like the butt and fart jokes. I like the language, and the replacement of swears with math words and whatnot. Has anyone else noticed, though, that Princess Bubblegum is a fucking monster? She is weirdly obsessed with animal testing and playing God (or, 'Glob'), often with shitty results. I'm on, I think, season 5 right now.
7) And lastly
I bought a few new makeup items. Including pretty new lipstick!
1) Creative Stuff
Spent two weeks attempting to print the little sushi how-to booklet that I made. Between saving the project on a version of InDesign that's too new for the machines I printed on and certain computers not being hooked up to the right printer, it took way too long. BUT I finally managed to get on an admin computer at the lab and printed ten copies! Been trying all weekend to get over to a Kinkos to trim the edges. Next step will be putting it up on my etsy shop.
Working on another book of my sketches. I scanned every single sketch I have (I mean EVERY. SINGLE. SKETCH.) and threw out almost all of them after scanning. Working on getting them into sections (random sketches, comic book and character ideas, 3d project designs, Dr. Sketchy sketches, etc). It's taking forever. I have several hundred scans to go through (fitting as many sketches on the scan-bed as I could).
Bought new yarn for three knitting projects: my first hat, and first two pairs of socks! Have not gotten enough off my plate yet to start them, though.
2) Movies
Saw the Oscar-nominated animated shorts at The Little. Sanjay's Super Team needs to be a real tv show. Bear Story had me bawling my eyes out. The Bear character tells the story of his ruined happy life - being kidnapped by circus-folks and being split from his family.
Not going to spoil much of Deadpool, but I just want to say a couple things. I knew it would be amazing because Ryan Reynolds made sure it would be amazing. You can't trust anyone more than a Deadpool superfan to help make a proper Deadpool movie. The opening credits alone are a dead giveaway of its supreme awesomeness. But the one thing... the ONLY thing I hoped for in the Deadpool movie was to include Wade Wilson's love for Bea Arthur. And they did it. Did you catch it?
3) Solitary
Spent a couple weekends ago locked into a real-life Fortress of Solitude, which is to say, my stresses built up so badly that I decided to blow off any plans I had (namely a birthday/football party hosted by two friends who I don't even know if I can consider friends anymore, which is a different post all together), and build a blanket-fort in my living room in front of the tv. I ate cereal, cookies, and drank lots of tea while playing video games (okay, just one - Batman Arkham Origins) the whole weekend. After a really difficult battle in the game, I took a break and marathoned iZombie season 2 (as much as I had available, anyway).
On Tuesday, the snowstorm knocked work off the map and I got the day off. I didn't leave the bed for about 95% of the day. The other 5% were spent on washroom trips and grabbing food from the kitchen. Felt great.
4) Social Situations 1
Valentine's Day was spent at my cousin's antique curiosity shop with my family for a surprise birthday party (my Aunt's 25th anniversary of being 25 years old). There was also a tender moment of a reunion between her and her youngest boy who hasn't been back from his home in Jersey for about 5 or so years. The moms in the room shed tears. I got it on video. I ate lots of comfort food and only a little bit of junk food. Then found a very old safe among the other treasures of the shop and spent the rest of the party trying to crack it. Party eventually got too loud for me to hear inside the safe anymore, so I gave up. Gonna keep trying, though.
My friend Ward came down from Oswego and we all went out on the town - me, Ward, Meagan, Scott, and a few guest appearances by Small Brendan, Mouse, and her husband, who left the four of us at various stages. We started with pre-dinner drinks, and dinner at Tap & Mallet, where Ward introduced me to the app Untapped after finding out I'd just been keeping beer notes in my generic notes app. After food arrived, Brendan got a text from a sex-bot and we decided to fuck with it. Scott handled all the screwy replies until I asked for a try. Everyone read my fucked up response and there were gags all around. Meagan said I need religion. She said I need Southern Jesus. I felt proud. After dinner, we headed over to Lux for booze and an art show.
Coincidentally, Lux opened up Jay Lincoln's Tarot art show while we were there, so I got to meet Jay, finally, and saw his entire tarot gallery on all the walls of the bar. So gorgeous. I saw a few friends in the paintings, including Nicholas Gurewitch, Brendan's parents, Andy the (now passed) accordion player, and Brian (as in, the best friend in question). I was hoping for a lighter with Brian's card printed on it, since he's a chain smoker. But no luck, so I got a lighter with Nick (The Moon) on it, and a print of Brian (Ace of Discs). I realized, a block from home that I forgot to close out my tab, and had to walk all the way back and all the way home again. Good thing it was nice out.
5) Social Situations 2
Brian visited me at work all week, but every time, I had to escort him into the hall and make plans to meet up after work, which we did and we had a nice time, for the most part. Things always got a little weird when we got to Java's. Friday, I had to tell him he couldn't visit me at work anymore. I felt bad, because he's been at his sweetest at work, but loud, which isn't great when I work in a library/computer lab and he starts talking about his conspiracy theories on Hitler. After work, he'd take me the long and snow-ridden ways to the cafe, while he talked about cops, his landlord and his social workers being after him. He said a lot of things that didn't make any sense, but some things made more sense than anything he'd ever said to me. On Thursday, we walked together and he said, in such a cryptic way, "Fawn, you know I have to go away for a while, right?" Soon, he said, in a few weeks, maybe. But he didn't say where. He told me he didn't know. When Charles saw him, he told him it was a secret. He told his other friends he wanted to go to Puerto Rico. I think deep in the labyrinth of his mind, he knows where he's going. It makes me feel selfish for wanting him to go there. So he can get better. So I can have my best friend back. Because the last time I saw him, on Friday, he was very angry at everyone around him. Except his friends... except me. I was the only one of the friends surrounding him that he took out his anger on - yelling to everyone that nobody is carrying their own weight, nobody's vibes are good, and staring at me with hatred in his eyes. At one point, he yelled at me to not touch his hands (as I'm sitting across the table with my hands to myself). I felt so angry, and so drained after only ten minutes of sitting there that I had to get up and leave.
This emotional strife, watching my best friend's sanity disappear day by day, has had me burned out all week. I've been so unproductive. I'm happy I got out of the house with other great friends this weekend. Got to spend some serious cash on binging and boozing it up with pals. I don't get that chance often at all.
6) Adventure Time
Been finally experiencing Adventure Time. Really fun and clever show. I'd seen season 1 when it was on Netflix, and have caught a couple of episodes on tv at parties. I never realized until I watched beyond season 1 that the Ice King isn't just a villain, he is a stark representation of someone with schizophrenia. I periodically see parallels between him and Brian, and the Simon Petrikov -to- Ice King origin stories and his history with Marceline, fuck shit fuck, those moments have me crying like a baby, especially with his wishes to be forgiven for whatever he says or does, because he won't remember. Ugh. Crying just thinking of it. Blargh.
Also, this show is just really clever. It's simple, which is just what I need to unwind from stresses of the day, but also really deep and dark, which sates my dark side. I like how "the right thing" isn't always the best thing, and things get messed up. I like the butt and fart jokes. I like the language, and the replacement of swears with math words and whatnot. Has anyone else noticed, though, that Princess Bubblegum is a fucking monster? She is weirdly obsessed with animal testing and playing God (or, 'Glob'), often with shitty results. I'm on, I think, season 5 right now.
7) And lastly
I bought a few new makeup items. Including pretty new lipstick!
