So I feel a ton better. I pretty much hate fast food now.
But I'm just waiting for my friend to get over here (in about an hour) and it's gonna be fun.
I'm drinking my 3rd cup of coffee today (mmm. Swiss Chocolate Almond :3)
And I just finished Page 25. Last night, I lettered up to Page 20.
Time to go pencil Page 26.
So everything is going good.
Also, Viewtiful Joe is a great game. Why I ever hated it before is beyond me.
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The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread
These last two days have been the absolute worst. And I just got done detoxing and vomiting wildly from my three day party in Vegas. These two days are still far worse than all the physical pain brought on by those three.
I think what I need to do is just lock myself indoors for a week. As every time I leave I encounter something that sends my rage meter up to at least and 8. First it was having to sit through my sister's graduation, which registered a 6 purely because of how boring it was. The promise of cake later made up for it, plus I have monopoly on my RAD AS HECK LG DARE so that was pretty good. I decide to go see Terminator Salvation. That was a mistake. Registered an 8 for me mostly thanks to Helena Carter. Now, when I hate someone I still try like mad to find something to like about them, it annoys me to only feel anger when I see someone I dont care for. Usually I admire the person's work while hating them as a human being. Carter is the exception. I hate her for who she is, and I hate her even more for her work.
So today comes along, and I finally get to go to this anime club (and contrary to how I may sound, I do enjoy anime. Just not a whole lot of it.) I've been wanting to attend for the longest time. They showed mostly CLAMP shows, making me realize that Code Geass is pretty much the only good thing to come from that studio. XXX Holic was alright, the characters look like sausages with grapes for heads, but CLAMP isnt known for their art (or maybe they are, but you'd have to be an idiot to think CLAMP's artwork is good). THe humor was great though, and I liked the story a lot, so I was mildly happy.
Then came something called Princess Princess. Yes, all I need is two and a half hours of crossdressing psudo-incest loli wank. So I clock another 8 on the rage-o-meter, mostly because I'm too much of a pussy to walk out in th emiddle of something. I keep thinking that it's an insulting act to just up and leave when something becomes dull.
But the thing that puts me at a 10 is hearing a god damn hip hop remake of You Spin Me Right Round.
What the fuuuuuuuck!?
In these last two days I just have had this miserable habit of walking into the middle of terrible terrible things. Terminator, Princess Princess, You Spin Me Right Round (When Your Goin' Down)… I'm not even approaching this with a sense of pessimism. I'm going out to have a good time and just enjoy myself and meet new people. But man all of these things are just genuinely bad.
even when i was homeless, people didnt think i was homeless….that sucks. but what i do get is people always think i'm much younger than my young 23. (even ozone has jabbed at it in the picture thread).
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today sucks. i woke up. the dog was freaking out, because he thought it was about to storm. he used to be an outside dog, and still freaks out whenever it storms, even tho it's been 3 years. it didnt storm tho, but now it might.
then i went to the gym and ran a practice PAST. everything was perfect until the pushups. i only did 40. my body would only let me do 40. i was pissed, cause if not for that, i would have passed. I did 2x20 meters underwater fine. i swam 500m<11:44 ( i swam an extra lap and didnt realize it till my buddy told me) then i ran the mile and a half in 10:43 (two seconds less than minimum, but still 10 seconds slower than my fastest time this year) then i did 7 chin ups. then only 40 pushups. my body gave out. then 60 sit ups in 2 min. and 45 flutter kicks in 2 min. all within 2-1/2 hours.
i'm so mad because i was expecting to fail the chin-ups. and bam…i got side swiped by the pushups. those bastards.
then i had lunch with my wife. which was really good. now i'm going to nap on the couch.
I went to the gym pretty late last night, at 10 actually. There was a guy in there who brought his own stereo and it was blasting this screamo music (he's on the treadclimber) It's funny since right as i stepped on the treadmill it changed song to this loud 'GRRRRROOOOAAAHHARRRR!!!! MOTHA FUCKA!!! *heavy guitar*" and he's like '…you want me to turn that down? x)'.
My friend also called last night and asked if i wanted to come hang out, which i guess means sitting on the couch with him in a room full of guys while drinking beer and smoking pot, but it was Chuck night ~:o I do appreciate him trying to get me out of the house though, he's like 'well don't party too hard!" aha. Maybe the day will come when i bolt out the door at the chance to sit on couches and drink beer and smoke pot. (probably not)
I have found out today that I can legally watch the new FMA series on youtube. It seems Panini is experimenting with offering stuff for free (I guess to rack up the interest in dvd editions?) and Poland happens to be on the list of coutries. Pretty high quality for youtube (even in standard definition, my comp's a bit too weak for proper HD) and I get Polish subtitles. Seen three eps so far, four more available. I like it so far. It's different enough to keep you interested even if you saw the previous series and at the same time they kept the original voice cast, which is good.
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Wrote 20 pages yesterday (finished rewriting the previously scripted bits) and ten pages today (so far, I'll try to do couple more). I was scared of that shift a little, but it seems it's going pretty smoothly. Got a fairly strong scene out of it I think. Total pagecount, 88 pages.
I also wrote down a very compressed list of events.. and there's no way I can fit everything in 300 pages. Five hundred are more realistic.
It's been fun to see the differences in my approach to scripting back then and now. I was missing so many opportunities, putting reveals on right instead on left side pages and making weird thought shortcuts that wouldn't make sense to anyone by me. On the other hand I think the characters were already pretty strong back then and certain bits of dialogue survived the rewrite. I'm quite happy now that I didn't finish the script back then as the new version should be much better. I can't wait to see how better I get in the next five years (that is, I hope I do keep on improving, don't want to get stuck where I am).
Visually, this was going to be my "draw ten pages a day" project, but I'm starting to think that the story is too good for that. So I'll bump it down to "five pages minimum" to make sure everything looks better.
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Still sick, but I'm feeling much better today. My nose stopped oozing so badly (and I can actually breathe through it today), my eyes stopped watering and I'm not getting dizzy the moment I get up. All good. Hoping for better :D
I'm not familiar with hydraulic oil, but I know that dish detergent will get any other kind of oil/grease out of hair. (Not trying to turn this into a Lisa Simpson gum in hair thing…)
Thanks, that actually helped it a bit after a couple washings with it. Now my hair is still just kind of slick like if I had used pomade and hair grease or something like that. But way better than the oily mess it was before.
Memorial day weekend is pure hell in the rental business. I'm remembering why I was so happy to quit the job last summer. This is the weekend of a major US shopping/home improvement ( We're also a hardware store. ) holiday along with the graduations of all the local high schools. I woke up and went to work at 6 this morning and didn't leave until 7 pm. If I have to lift another one of those roto-tillers I'm afraid my arms might just fall off Sponge Bob-style.
it saddens me that Ninja wedding still brings in more pageviews, than my other three comics combined. granted it has about 10 times the size of archives. but you know, what can you do about it? i feel bad that i'm even raking in page views at all. it hasnt updated in a year. i haven't even tried to attempt at bringing the story together, or even to a close. my motivation just simply lies else where. but how long before that motivation is gone?
Mega-rant:
The past few days I've been physically exhausted and mentally drained from spending every waking hour with my extended family. I would kill for an hour of uninterupted alone time. And the Internet on my laptop. And being able to work on my comic and the 20 others things I'm supposed to be doing.
My stomach's messed up, I can't sleep because my brain's decided to remind me of every shitty thing I've ever done, while simultaneously encouraging me to keep doing those shitty things at every opportunity. And then there's the part about how I haven't had a damn beer all day.
And my cousin wants me to spend all day tomorrow helping him with his homemade forge. Yay, manual labor. God I hope of pours rain tomorrow. It's not that I don't like blacksmithing, or that I mind teaching him how to do it. But he's seriously got like, a prehistoric set-up. It's a fire pit and a leaf blower, for f**k's sake!
ClampI hate how they draw males… They look like fashion sketches with anime heads. TEENY heads on extremely skinny tall bodies with shoulders so wide they'd have to go through doorways sideways.
Maybe the day will come when i bolt out the door at the chance to sit on couches and drink beer and smoke pot. (probably not)Depressing isn't it?
BlacksmithingThat's so amazingly awesome :)
Thanks, that actually helped it a bit after a couple washings with it.You're welcome love :)
I have 2 weeks holiday, hooray! Man I need it. I actually have things to do this holiday too, although I didn't appreciate the London train ticket being 60 quid, when last year it was 35. I thought kicking Virgin trains out was supposed to make things cheaper. >:[
Anyway as part of my celebration for having a holiday, I am gonna make a loaf of multi grain seed bread in my breadmaker and then EAT IT (over a couple days). Normally I'm supposed to eat as little bread as possible. I will make up for my bread transgression with lots of fish and vegetables.
Liam, I am the editor-in-chief of a big city daily in Vancouver. The paper is called The Province and you can see it at theprovince.com … do you want to be our european correspondent … a funny notion in itself for a paper as parochial as ours … i was thinking we could set up a blog and you could file once a week on what the hell is going on in europe … witty words witty drawings …we'll make you a star on this side of the world … of course we will pay tooUmmmmmm SCORE! Unless this is some kind of joke.
also:
This is getting a bit weary.
This is share thread? Well I'd like to share the fact I need one more player for DD mafia.
(though more are welcome!)
Want to know why you should play?
Other then the fact its a lot of fun and a good way to get people to read your comic?
How about this image….
I think that says it all…
Ugh. The dog I'm, um, fostering was barking at a tree yesterday. She likes squirrels, but to appease her, I looked up the tree, and it was a groundhog. It looks like a little bear, clinging for dear life to the tree.
It was still up there today, and my dad and I are worried about it. Mom told us to call the fire department. *Rolls eyes* It's too high up to throw things at. We tried using the hose.
Now we have a soaking wet groundhog stuck in a tree.
I feel so bad for the poor thing, but I don't know what to do. My neighbors are just amused (not by the barking, though) because they hate that groundhog.
My brother got hit on by a creepy lesbian internet paedophile, he thought it was hilarious.It's probably some kid in reality. Wouldn't it be funny if it WAS a kid and the guy you paid was a ped?
Edit: he just said that he's seriously considering meeting up with her and paying an old man to go in his place.
Holy reversal batman! O_O
It's too thin to climb but too tall to even throw things at it. And I'm not sure it would help. I don't know if it can climb down. Groundhogs really aren't good climbers…
Animal control and everything won't be open until Tuesday (after the holiday). I've been considering resorting to calling my neighbor over with his BB gun. He has shot this groundhog before because it was in his garden. It seems really mean to do that, but I think it wouldn't get too hurt if it fell, and I hate to think it's up there dehydrated and stuck.
I was thinking that at least with water on it, maybe that could help offset dehydration. So, that makes me feel a little better about spraying it. We tied the dog up away from the tree, but it hasn't helped.
So my nose is swollen right now, it's allergy season and all but it's just weird to feel it like this *poke poke* The swellings already going down though *picks nose*
I'm not sure if it's just me or what but the internet is boring as hell lately. There's less posting on forums i go to and most of the webcomics i liked don't seem to be updating often or very appealing. I can't tell if my taste is changing or they're just less appealing.
Also i've become pretty cautious of people asking for manga style only in collab forums. Seems like their story is either very mature in a way and would have better luck relying on american/other style art, or really really really cliche.
I'm not sure if it's just me or what but the internet is boring as hell lately. There's less posting on forums i go to and most of the webcomics i liked don't seem to be updating often or very appealing. I can't tell if my taste is changing or they're just less appealing.
No, it's not just you. The internet has been pretty dull lately. I went looking for new comic and they were either boring, dead, on hiatus, or updating at glacial pace. I've even considered going . . . outside! Ugh.
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One of my brother's friends is doing GCSE Geography and didn't know that Britain is in Europe. How the hell do you not know that, especially when you bloody live here?
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