From September through March, on the Audioshocker, I hosted an animation podcast alongside Nick (Audioshocker owner) and Justique (his amazing lady) called ANIMATIC ATTACK. It began with discussing a show we all fell for, The Legend of Korra (season 2), as well as an animated feature film (we even had a contest to win an advanced copy of Miyazaki's From Up on Poppy Hill. It also included a lot of incest. We coincidentally discussed incest in just about every episode (sometimes the actual subject, sometimes in passing).

Though this is my first time hosting a podcast, it's not my first time on the Audioshocker in general. I have guested on a few episodes of A Podcast With Ross and Nick, which later became A Podcast with Kaylie and Nick (on which I've also guested). Ross and Nick discussed episodes of the original X-Men animation, along with some random film, and Kaylie and Nick discussed episodes of ALF, as well as random films (most notably, though, the films of David DeCoteau, who makes porn and children's movies and awful stuff in between, all set in the same exact house. ALL of them).

Aside from Korra, we also watched From Up on Poppy Hill, La Leyenda de la Llorona, ParaNorman, Persepolis, Heman & Shera: the Secret of the Sword, and Jack et La Mécanique du Coeur. Other series watched were Welcome to the NKH, Koi Kaze, HammerMan, and The Critic (a surprising amount of incest in some of these).

What we do when we discuss shows and films is watch them a day or so beforehand, and take screencaps, which we share on our Tumblr accounts. I loved taking screencaps of Legend of Korra! Especially in the spirit world, the Wan episodes, and of Verrick and Eska!

I want to share my favourites, but I also want to share the links to the rest of the screencaps, because it's gonna be SO hard to just pick a few.



( here we go! )

But alas, the Audioshocker is being put to rest, and so every podcast hosted will have their last hurrah by this weekend. Personally, I'm hoping for a couple of reunion episodes down the road.

You cannot kill self-made gods.

First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALAN RICKMAN. May the fangirls lay off for a little while ;)

Next, people need to stop calling me today (and tomorrow)*. I have to read Starship Troopers by Monday and am only almost halfway through.
*(but txts are okay)*

Also, people from the past have been popping up over the weekend.

Someone I knew from artconspiracy.com IM'd me, and we talked for a good long time (a conversation that was perhaps the most intelligent and entertaining one I'd had in a long time).

Also, Arick... freaking, Zabrina's ex, Arick, sent me a message on MySpace about my skull masks (he has that SFX book, too). I sent him a reply, then realized who he was, and sent him a second reply asking how he was doing, and that I hadn't seen him in nearly ten years. Then MySpace fucked up and I closed the browser, not really caring whether that second message got to him or not.

And lastly, Sean! Oh Sean, Sean, Sean. I finally found Sean via IM. We talked briefly about not much. How he's doing, what he's doing, and when the last time he went out was. Then I invited him out to Java's cafe (Friday). Charles and I go there sometimes to work on stuff for school, and I spread some bunny fliers and posters around (damn, though. I ran out of fliers last night and didn't even THINK to make more when I had the chance today).
So anyway, Sean came in. He hadn't changed much. I hadn't either. It'd been several years since I last saw him. I maybe saw him once, soon after Zabrina left. I missed him, even though he infuriated me sometimes... he didn't this time. We had a nice chat. He told me about what he does and told me some funny stories about previous jobs. It was really nice. And then it was time to go.

I did get a picture, though, and it will be up just as soon as I finish this book.

Crap. I have Japanese and French homework, too. It never ends!

Bad:
Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He's only 59.
2007... be fucking over already! This is the worst year in history.


Education:
Katakana is extremely difficult for me to learn. I tried the flash cards (link in a previous entry) but was sucking like my second date depends on it and gave up for the day (I was stalling from homework, anyway). It sucks that I can't read katakana because there's so much of it on Myspace Japan. I mean, I am certainly good at guessing my way around, and am learning some new kanji and am recognizing a few kana, but it's a pain.

I ended up with a 40 question test in Anatomy to make up, a 70 question Pharm test that I stayed up all night finishing, and my final for Pharm, a take-home, thankfully, and due Tuesday, is 150 questions. Plus, I need to do 4 majour projects, as they count for 40% of my grade (but I think I mentioned this already).


Movies:
Hellboy II is coming. I suck for not having seen the first movie yet. I need to see it soon.
Stardust is coming to DVD soon. I'm excited. I really loved it, though it was a tad different from the book.
I finally saw Sin City. Charles bought it on a whim from CompUSA and we had it for weeks before finally sitting down to watch it. Charles, naturally, fell asleep near the end. I loved the movie very much.
Somehow, I managed to get Madagascar sent to me from Columbia House, and I don't know why. However, since it was sent to Mr. F Valentine, I feel no guilt in ripping them off by ordering a tonne of other DVDs which I hope will be here soon.


Events:
Today (going on as we speak, actually) is Nicholas Gurewich's book signing for his Dark Horse hardcover collection of PBF comics called The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and other stories.
Tomorrow (Friday) is his publishing party / gallery opening at Boulder Coffee Co on the corner of Alexander and S. Clinton. You'll find me there. I think it starts at 8, but Charles and I will be there earlier for a good place to sit.
Saturday is Brendan's Vertex birthday party where I'll also be.
And if I remember correctly, Cindy and PJ will be at Vertex on the 20th.
Oh yeah, and Christmas, Rhuss's birthday, and New Year's Eve are somewhere in there, too.

Lastly, please notice that I am using my mood icon thingies for the first time in, like, a year.

Happy Birthday Paul!

To celebrate Paul's first late birthday, I'm going to Jay's Diner, to where many of our friends will join. It is also Brendan and Erica's 4 year anniversary, as well as my birthday tomorrow.

In other news, I have walking pneumonia. I've been suffering chills mostly, and fevers at night. My constant cough has been totally dry. I've been nauseous but not in pain, except for headaches brought on by the coughing. I get dizzy when I go outside in the sun, which sucks, because the sun has always been so good to me. This morning, I started hacking up shit. Mom wanted me to stay home, but I FEEL fine! Other than the nausea and headaches, I don't hurt like I would if I had a cold or flu, and my throat doesn't hurt unless I cough too much, which, the cough is becoming less frequent. I cough about once every 5 minutes now, when it was once every 30 seconds or minute or so.

That's about it. I'm hungry (for the first time in days).

I forgot to announce last time:

WELCOME BACK TO LIFE blackdaisies!! She has finally recovered and is back home. The the thought that she didn't go through anything at all, yet was on the brink of death, is a strange concept. She fell asleep, and woke up weeks later feeling fine. My card to her was returned in the mail, but I'll still send it to her.

My letter to vashsbitch was also returned to me. I haven't gotten a letter from Thom yet. And I have yet to write my letter to Chuck Palahniuk. Not to mention I haven't even started trying to write a novel for National Novel Writing Month. Lots of writing needs to be done. And it's so fucking cold in the computer room. I want my laptop fixed!

I tried to see happymachines yesterday, but failed because I showed up after he'd left to go see a picture. Next time I go to Rochester, it will be to see you.

I dreamed I had sex with one of my best friends. This is bad. I thought it really happened when I woke up. I'm glad it didn't. I think.

Jason fed me yesterday :) Mmmmm taco bell. And I borrowed Excel Saga 2 and Fritz the Cat. Anyway, I spent the night. The zim marathon was cool. We all hit the hay early (except Jason who stayed up til 4 playing some online game). I also let Noel borrow a stack of books from my library. She was excited about Choke after I told her a bit about it. And she let me borrow a book called Bodily Fluids.

Oh also: gaffeizil's latest song is awesome and pretty.

lots of pics up here and some up here

Oh, and then there's the drier. Upon close examination of it, I've come to the conclusion that it's a piece of crap. Because the door couldn't hold my fat ass and it snapped. hahahahahaha!!!
is she wearing undies? the world may never know

I'M GOING TO MISS YOU GUYS!!!

ugh.... that's an awful quality photo

Sam made me tell mum about it.
I went to the funeral. I hung out on the outside of the room and the people that wanted to see me come did. But I didn't talk to anyone and I left at the first sign that it was over.

Spiderman 2 is playing at the theater down the road. I'm pissing myself in excitement!

I'm suppose to go to Rochester to hang out with Beanie and Sam. Beanie's in Greece. My car won't make that and I fucking HATE Greece more than anything. Hopefully she'll be able to get a ride out, otherwise, my car's going to suffer!

John Kerry is a Douche Bag but I'm Voting for Him Anyway (dot com)

and

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
the new HP book's official title announcement.

I recently got off the line with Chris Seaver. I'm going out to meet him and his woman tonight. I'm damn excited. The role he wrote me into sounds fucking fun. TeenApe aborts my baby and proceeds to violate me and I'm loving every minute of it. We take a family portrait real quick before he drop-kicks it. Talk about 'kickables.'



Anyway, insecuritytape, the original meaning of this post is to say that I remembered about ten minutes after I got off the phone with you that I won't be online tonight and might not be coming home for a few days (or a couple, hopefully). I need to do a bit of traveling out to the city and spend the night or something. Drink applejuice. <3

And I guess I'll be getting a ride to mayhem613's party tomorrow. Hmm...

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