Tuesday, November 4, 2008
NaNoWriMo
So this November kicks off the 10th annual National Novel Writers Month, where people from all over the world (Including my entire family) try to write a novel in the ballpark of 50'000. It's day four and I'm about 3400 words behind on my word count, but this year is going to be different then the last (cleared 25'000 words)!
My book this year is called "The Ninth House", a story about an old magical music club recently purchased by a former music producer who has no patience for mystery or bad music. Looking to share the best music available with people the way it was meant to be heard, live, Darcy Pertz finds himself involved with forces as old as sound itself.
Don't be mistaken, Darcy Pertz is not the main character by any means, he is a means to an end, the most recent owner of the real star of the story, the club itself!
Chapter 1 is done and will be posted post NaNoWriMo, specifically, whenever I have time after November ends (Likely in the new year).
Watch "Once"
Listen to "Jenny Lewis" new album "Acid Tongue"
Monday, September 8, 2008
J.J Abrams makes airplanes awesome!
You know who ruined airplanes for me (Besides aircanada removing life preservers to save on fuel costs)? Wes Craven, Wes Craven made airplanes lame and not fun to be on or even think about it the context of awesome. Second on the list of things that made airplanes less awesome is terrorism, and the belief that terrorism means hijacking a plane and crashing it into something... come to think of it airplanes ruined terrorism too, WAY TO GO YOU PREFERRED FORM OF SPEEDY INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL!
But all distasteful 9/11 jokes aside, J.J Abrams managed to take airplanes out of their slump and revisit airplanes ass-kickatude that has not been visited since... well, Airplane! Lost started out on an airplane and it was awesome, it split in half in the air and crashed and a guy got sucked into the engine and everything! In fact I couldn't get into the rest of the show because it had already topped itself in the first ten minutes of the first episode! I don't remember anything awesome happening with airplanes in Cloverfield, but J.J conceived a lot of the story when he went to Japan, a trip he took, that's right, on a flippin airplane!
So I'm picking up my order of comic books the other day and spot a prequel comic (1 of 6) for a new J.J Abrams show called Fringe. Digging on the LOST font on the first page I pick it up on a whim. Not having TV and generally avoiding anything that says "FOX" on the internet Fringe had completely slipped past me unnoticed. I picked up the pilot and it starts (everybody now) on an airplane!
Potential spoilers of retardly awesome stuff from the pilot begin after the video (I wont spoil the actual plot however):
Potential spoilers of retardly awesome stuff from the pilot begin here (I wont spoil the actual plot):
The opening scene on the airplane was awesome for the following reasons:
1: Everyone is speaking German.
2: Electrical storm
3: A guys skin starts to rot and go all zombie and he throws up on a stewardess
4: Then everyone starts going all zombie
5: The copilots jaw zombies off his face
6: Everyone dies, but the plane lands safely and on time in Boston
The rest of the show features a crazy arse scientist who makes LSD in the basement of Harvard with the purpose of mind linking humans in dreamscape, a cow named Gene, a see-through dude, and the headquarters of "Massive Dynamics" a multi trillion dollar mega corporation looking a lot like the Royal Ontario Museum... OH WAIT IT IS!
Spoilers End
Actually the show wasn't as incredible as I imagined it would be, the acting was OK, and the concept of the show (Fringe Science) could have been executed a little more awesomely, but all and in all it's a good start and I will continue to watch.
Well if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the airport and do jump kicks and scream out stuff like "Airplane YEAH!" a lot. Rejoice all, airplanes are cool again!
But all distasteful 9/11 jokes aside, J.J Abrams managed to take airplanes out of their slump and revisit airplanes ass-kickatude that has not been visited since... well, Airplane! Lost started out on an airplane and it was awesome, it split in half in the air and crashed and a guy got sucked into the engine and everything! In fact I couldn't get into the rest of the show because it had already topped itself in the first ten minutes of the first episode! I don't remember anything awesome happening with airplanes in Cloverfield, but J.J conceived a lot of the story when he went to Japan, a trip he took, that's right, on a flippin airplane!
So I'm picking up my order of comic books the other day and spot a prequel comic (1 of 6) for a new J.J Abrams show called Fringe. Digging on the LOST font on the first page I pick it up on a whim. Not having TV and generally avoiding anything that says "FOX" on the internet Fringe had completely slipped past me unnoticed. I picked up the pilot and it starts (everybody now) on an airplane!
Potential spoilers of retardly awesome stuff from the pilot begin after the video (I wont spoil the actual plot however):
Potential spoilers of retardly awesome stuff from the pilot begin here (I wont spoil the actual plot):
The opening scene on the airplane was awesome for the following reasons:
1: Everyone is speaking German.
2: Electrical storm
3: A guys skin starts to rot and go all zombie and he throws up on a stewardess
4: Then everyone starts going all zombie
5: The copilots jaw zombies off his face
6: Everyone dies, but the plane lands safely and on time in Boston
The rest of the show features a crazy arse scientist who makes LSD in the basement of Harvard with the purpose of mind linking humans in dreamscape, a cow named Gene, a see-through dude, and the headquarters of "Massive Dynamics" a multi trillion dollar mega corporation looking a lot like the Royal Ontario Museum... OH WAIT IT IS!
Spoilers End
Actually the show wasn't as incredible as I imagined it would be, the acting was OK, and the concept of the show (Fringe Science) could have been executed a little more awesomely, but all and in all it's a good start and I will continue to watch.
Well if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the airport and do jump kicks and scream out stuff like "Airplane YEAH!" a lot. Rejoice all, airplanes are cool again!
Friday, August 1, 2008
Ghiberate the blames!
Ok so maybe Dr Horrible was just getting to me and I needed to post something, or maybe I was bored....
DING!
P.S
The mars volta did not pay me to put this on my site, I did it for the for free!
DING!
P.S
The mars volta did not pay me to put this on my site, I did it for the for free!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
My love for Natalie Portman and the things she does
I love Portman, I voted for her in the upcoming election for queen of foreverness, and this is the campaign video I will use.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Heavy Metal and the church
So I'm just walkin along the interweb 'do da do da do' mindin my beez when this hit me... no it wham bam-boozled me... No, it blew up my face with tyranosaurus rage!
I heard the Papa Pope listens to it on his i-pod.
I heard the Papa Pope listens to it on his i-pod.
Watch me Watch Men.... I mean
Ok, I know that this is rape, that the creator of Watchmen Allen Moore does not consent, and like all the movies based on his work, will likely stick closer to Hollywood traditions rather then the actual Graphic Novels Cannon. But holy arse this looks good!
View in HD here
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Thursday
Listening to: Cancer Bats
Question: What in the name of Sega Genesis!?
So I bought "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury a couple days ago at BMV for $6. I read "The Homecoming" illustrated by Dave McKean and wondered why I hadn't read RB before, especially since a lot of my favorite authors cite him as being a major inspiration to their work. As I was reading "The Earth Men" chapter I realised that this was the same book my buddy Vahon was reading on one of his trips to Toronto. I'm only half way through it but it's already one of my favorite books!
Speaking of Chronicles, avoid "The Mutant Chronicles" AT ALL COST. Let me break it down for you...
The earth is divided into 3 or 4 mega corporations who are constantly warring because that's what you do in the future, have wars. A giant rock crashes into earth bent on turning all humans into mutants (I'm not kidding, that's exactly what they say in the movie). Not cool mutants like in Xmen who can do cool useful things. No, these are bald bad ass single clawed mutants with bad skin! The mutants single purpose (Besides slicing people in the face) is making more mutants by dragging them to a pit where they land on a metal plate that shaves their heads and injects the mutant gene into their arm HOLY CRAPS! The movie was shot much like Sky Captain or Immortal Ad Vitem, and it looks good, but everything is rushed and none of the story elements are developed or make any sense at all, so it kinda falls on it's.... claw. I'm pretty sure the movie was directed by an eight year old boy who was like "Oh man it would be sooo cool if these mutant claw monsters were running around killing everyone and like some cool guys and a hot Asian chick have to kill them with swords and it's the future and it looks like the 1940s *aaachoo* oh I just squirted milk out of my nose!"
In other news, I'm building a Steampunk outfit. I'm going for an Aviator look, so old army kinda look and feel with goggles and leather bald hat. For dressings I'm looking for metals, wings, maybe even a gas mask if I can find one. So far, I got the coat! The coat cost me $11, and it's amazing, thing will probably last till I'm 40. The entire outfit is going to cost something like $70 I guesstimate. Mind you if I get boots for it to it could easily double in price. As for the goggles I have found a couple tutorials online on making your own, so that's probably the route I'll take. I'm planning on attending Fan Expo like this, not entering any contests, just doing it for fun. Once this outfit is complete I'll start working on my "Pirate Gentleman" Steampunk suit. I'll post a step by step for both outfits once there done.
Question: What in the name of Sega Genesis!?
So I bought "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury a couple days ago at BMV for $6. I read "The Homecoming" illustrated by Dave McKean and wondered why I hadn't read RB before, especially since a lot of my favorite authors cite him as being a major inspiration to their work. As I was reading "The Earth Men" chapter I realised that this was the same book my buddy Vahon was reading on one of his trips to Toronto. I'm only half way through it but it's already one of my favorite books!
Speaking of Chronicles, avoid "The Mutant Chronicles" AT ALL COST. Let me break it down for you...
The earth is divided into 3 or 4 mega corporations who are constantly warring because that's what you do in the future, have wars. A giant rock crashes into earth bent on turning all humans into mutants (I'm not kidding, that's exactly what they say in the movie). Not cool mutants like in Xmen who can do cool useful things. No, these are bald bad ass single clawed mutants with bad skin! The mutants single purpose (Besides slicing people in the face) is making more mutants by dragging them to a pit where they land on a metal plate that shaves their heads and injects the mutant gene into their arm HOLY CRAPS! The movie was shot much like Sky Captain or Immortal Ad Vitem, and it looks good, but everything is rushed and none of the story elements are developed or make any sense at all, so it kinda falls on it's.... claw. I'm pretty sure the movie was directed by an eight year old boy who was like "Oh man it would be sooo cool if these mutant claw monsters were running around killing everyone and like some cool guys and a hot Asian chick have to kill them with swords and it's the future and it looks like the 1940s *aaachoo* oh I just squirted milk out of my nose!"
In other news, I'm building a Steampunk outfit. I'm going for an Aviator look, so old army kinda look and feel with goggles and leather bald hat. For dressings I'm looking for metals, wings, maybe even a gas mask if I can find one. So far, I got the coat! The coat cost me $11, and it's amazing, thing will probably last till I'm 40. The entire outfit is going to cost something like $70 I guesstimate. Mind you if I get boots for it to it could easily double in price. As for the goggles I have found a couple tutorials online on making your own, so that's probably the route I'll take. I'm planning on attending Fan Expo like this, not entering any contests, just doing it for fun. Once this outfit is complete I'll start working on my "Pirate Gentleman" Steampunk suit. I'll post a step by step for both outfits once there done.
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