Ironscarf wrote:I get four to six hours of sleep a day when I'm working (I work graveyard). And 8 hours at night on my days off. I guess there's a problem with that sleep pattern…
Are you sleeping well at night Lonne? Could be a side effect of not getting enough decent sleep. I never get enough sleep and when I sit down to do the things I really want to do like playing a guitar or drawing, suddenly I'm passing out. I think it's just a case of feeling relaxed about something and you're gone.
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Ironscarf wrote:Many thanks. How did I know? Well, the way i compose each tune involves time-travel, a wild stoat, several twisty things that wobble about a bit and recite poetry, and mind-reading.
Gunwallace's Awfully Decent Fellows theme is perfect! How did he know what that comic sounds like inside my head?
Okay… so I watch this Weird Al video called "Tacky"…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
Then I read about it on the net. Now I consider all the outfits in the video to be mostly tacky, but apparently if you're in Europe you'd end up in fashion magazines… in a good way… X_X
I guess fashion sense is not always the same everywhere around the world despite the internet…
Yeah, fashion sense is not even the same in different parts of a country. I live in the Netherlands, where I can usually guess whether someone comes from the North, West, or South, by looking at their outfits. There is a lot of sweat pants and shiny things in the south of the Netherlands.
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I just dreamt that Terry Pratchett came to my brother's birthday party, wearing an Orange-Yellow wizard robe and a matching Wizzard hat. There was an opening on Terry's chest, in the robe, not his skin, and I knew that that was the place where he would be operated on soon. We talked for a bit, about his books as well as mine, and then I had to wake up because my uncle was starting to undress my aunt on the other side of the room, and I didn't really want to wait until he was naked himself.
I think Sir Terry Pratchett is going to die soon. Although I really hope he won't.
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Podcasts you should listen to:
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- Harmontown
- Welcome To Nightvale
- The Thrilling Adventure Hour
- Here Be Monsters
- Getting On With James Urbaniak
- The Truth
You're Welcome!
Gunwallace wrote:
Many thanks. How did I know? Well, the way i compose each tune involves time-travel, a wild stoat, several twisty things that wobble about a bit and recite poetry, and mind-reading.
I thought it must be something like that. You've created not just a theme tune, but the perfect sonic landscape for the characters to inhabit. A thousand thanks and please accept an ADA (Awfully Decent Award) for your outstanding work (this will probably be a real thing when I get round to it).
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Brrrr! It's cold. Time to get out the brandy and ginger wine.
Gunwallace's music is fantastic. It's like the icing on the cake for the Quackcasts. It's a privilage to be able to showcase it :D
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This is one of those times when I'm feelling extremely non-social. I don't want to interact with other people. I just want to be by myself in my home office and watch movies and anime on my big TV while I draw and sew for a couple of days or so.
And catch up on Archer, which I'm currently doing. I've rewatched the 1st and second seasons, starting on the 3rd now. Love that show.
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Happy Birthday Bravo1102! He's now… 32 years old!
I like coming up with abritrary ages for people.
BTW: all the theme tunes so far are now up at http://www.virtuallycomics.com/music.htm, where I think you can just right-click on them to download then should you desire to.
ozoneocean wrote: And catch up on Archer, which I'm currently doing. I've rewatched the 1st and second seasons, starting on the 3rd now. Love that show."That's how you get ants."
Archer is awesome. And so by association is Bob's Burgers, which crosses over once in Archer, and Archer's spirit crosses over in a Bob's Thanksgiving episode with some Absinthe transforming Bob somewhat.
And yet another Weird Al "Tacky" video. Why do I like this particular video so much? It's a single camera motion while he's singing… "LIVE". :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFlTfaQ6x0U
ozoneocean wrote:I wish I was 32 again. newlywed, still in the National Guard, pre-soft tissue injuries, capable of jumping tall buildings in a single bound, those were the days.
Happy Birthday Bravo1102! He's now… 32 years old!
I like coming up with abritrary ages for people.
As for me now? well Jethro Tull said it so well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlpjL8PB-eI
@Gunwallace- I will have to rewatch that Bob's Burger episode… I didn't notice that at the time! I'm still waiting to get up to that episode in Archer! :D
@Bravo- you are NOT that old! Ha! You DO like to play up the age thing. :)
I know how you feel though.
A while ago I went to a friend's get together at a bar, she's in academia, fine art. Anyway , I showed up in my fave Led Zeppelin T-shirt and there were a whole lot of young students there. Long story short, we started talking about music and I could not relate to those young guys in terms of the stuff there were into AT ALL!
I'm quite a lot older than I look, and I also don't keep up with any of the latest trends and haven't since I left uni so I was stuck talking about what was popular when I was still in school as well as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Who etc.
I was fricken grandad there! Besides which it was like talking to 5 year olds, they were so full of energy and positivity. :)
So I didn't hand around too long there. Being treated like a wise elder is annoying.
Okay. I fell asleep playing Tiny Tower Vegas on my smartphone (you build a tower with hotels, shops, and gambling). I was having fun playing one of the Blackjack games…
So I fall asleep and dream that this big tough guy breaks into my bedroom, picks me up, then violently throws me into the back of a van parked outside my house. I'm interrogated… the owner of a casino accuses me of "card counting". Try as I might no one would believe I wasn't. Another of their agents pulls up with a suitcase full of money from my house. They then let me go, telling me they're taking my winnings back due to them being illegally won.
Then I wake up… and deleted the game from my smartphone. No way I'm ever gonna play any casino based video games ever again…
ozoneocean wrote:It ain't the years, it's the mileage. And while not as old as Ian Anderson I do remember when Jethro Tull was played on popular music radio. AM music radio when FM was still in its infancy too! Such a brief moment that was.
@Bravo- you are NOT that old! Ha! You DO like to play up the age thing. :)
I know how you feel though.
…. Long story short, we started talking about music and I could not relate to those young guys in terms of the stuff there were into AT ALL!I listen to just enough popular music to know what they're talking about. And my wife listens to it all the time and she is older than I am. But she was under a rock during the days of The Who, Pink Floyd and Zeppelin so she doesn't relate to them! Irony.
…I've gotten used to it, but then I have been treated like the wise elder since I was in high school. It's that whole Silent Bob trope. Don't say much and everyone acts like it's some incredible revelation when you do say something. I always lived by "It is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to say something and remove all doubt." Now of course being so much older I've come to understand that it's fun to be thought a fool because it doens't matter what anyone thinks. I know I'm a fool and I'm having fun going on and on.
So I didn't hang around too long there. Being treated like a wise elder is annoying.
I do most of mine online these days. Thanks to St. Tim Berners-Lee I no longer have to join the hordes of despair on Oxford Street two days before christmas, looking for that last elusive pair of taupe gloves. Only problem now is having to pay for it all year. Surely my ship must come in soon?!
But it's all worth it to see those rosy cheeked laughing faces on christmas morning - enjoying liquid breakfast in the greyhound pub. And the kids have a great time opening their presents too.
We should have some festive ghost stories. I love a creaky old chiller at christmas.
Hey Oz, is it actually colder there right now? I thought there was that whole southern/northern hemisphere thing going on. Where your winter is in the middle of my summer, kind of thing. Is your christmas tree just like… a cactus? Does your Jesus-stable just have a wombat and a platypus?
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How do the people that live in places without winter get older? How do you know that another year is dying, without seeing the days grow colder and shorter? I love winter, because it is the contrast that makes me feel alive. And summer makes me feel dead.
I don't know any festive ghost stories, appart from the Dickens one… I could make one up. That seems like a very northern hemisphere thing :)
@Kroatz-
It's slowly getting warmer here. There have been a lot of days around 24C (about 75F), which is light jacket weather, or shirt sleaves if you're out and about rather than sitting in an office with the airconditioning on no matter what the temperature is outside T_T
It should get hotter soon though. Real summer seems to start later and later here.
My Xmas tree is two peices of painted silver plywood: each side is cut into half a pine tree shape and joined together with hinges in the middle and then stood up half folded…
Think of a Xmas tree shape cut out of paper, then creased down the centre so you can fold it a little so it can stand on its own. My own silly design. It stores flat the rest of the year when I'm not using it.
I don't really like nativity scenes that much/
Summer really happens at the begining of the next year here. The year slowley fades out in light warmth, and then just around Christmas and new year it ramps right up to give us a preview of the nightmare oven hell heat we can expect in Janurary and Febuary.
The year is reboad as a firey pheonix :D
ozoneocean wrote:A say, are you implying that we are inlined towards foolish fantasies of a supernatural bent? Well that's true I suppose! At christmas any ghost story will do though - it doesn't have to have a festive theme, just some highly unlikely ghostly premise.
I don't know any festive ghost stories, appart from the Dickens one… I could make one up. That seems like a very northern hemisphere thing :)
I could go against the grain and tell a true story, of the only time I was gripped with fear at the imminent appearance of a hideous, nameless entity! I might even be able to find some pictures - not of the entity, but of the haunted house in question. Actually it wasn't really a house so much as a 1930's converted factory/warehouse building, but there was definitely an entity! Or something a bit dodgy at the very least.
ozoneocean wrote:Actually some of the coolest festive ghost stories I know are from Hawai'i and Polynesian culture. Hardly Northern Hemisphere :-)
I don't know any festive ghost stories, appart from the Dickens one… I could make one up. That seems like a very northern hemisphere thing :)
Doing Chirstmaas shopping with Pele in your backseat.
bravo1102 wrote:Yeah…. I have this tendency to think that all married men are married to goddessess… ;)
ozoneocean wrote:
I don't know any festive ghost stories, appart from the Dickens one… I could make one up. That seems like a very northern hemisphere thing :)
Actually some of the coolest festive ghost stories I know are from Hawai'i and Polynesian culture. Hardly Northern Hemisphere :-)
Doing Chirstmaas shopping with Pele in your backseat.
ozoneocean wrote:Only geographically. Culturally and mentally it's far south.
Hawaii is in the nothern hemisphere still…
Hahaha, when I first read the Pele thing I thought you meant the soccer player! I only just got it now :D
As if Brazil acts "Southern Hemisphere" They're all Northern Hemisphere except it's warm at Christmas. Rather than hemispheres maybe we should be thinking tropical versus temperate regardles of what the calendar says? Since when is October the 10th month? Really! Octo- is EIGHT!
I'm glad I decided not to go the whole graphic design route. My older sister asked me to do the invitations for her wedding, with little hand-drawn images of her and her fiance. I don't mind, except that she seems to want it to be kind of a pinteresty Zooey Deschanels type thing and that's not really my style. I sent her a picture of something I was working on earlier and she was like "That's great! Except can you do it more [insert something completely different]?" I don't feel like I'm a good enough artist to switch up my style at will like that, so I'm already feeling a little frustrated with it. And of course it's for a wedding, so it can't just be *good enough*
Edit: Took some serious inspiration from kawaiidaigakusei on face shape and it's going better now. My sister better freakin like it though.
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