| Happy Happenin' Holidays! |
[Dec. 25th, 2007|11:45 pm] |
It's true, I'm rarely (if ever) on here any no more. But plenty of you are! So I'll use that simple fact to wish upon youse a Merry Xmas-Times!
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| Help me support my peeps and have a good time to boot |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|11:34 pm] |
No, for once I'm not talking about marshmallow peeps. For any of you out there across this great nation of ours (and there are some of you) who would like to see the band behind my greatest cinematic gems, The Stolen Minks are touring Canada! Here's a poster:
They put on a good time, and if you'd like to meet them you can even throw my name around. For once it might actually do some good.
(This is not a guarantee.) |
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| New. From Me. |
[May. 29th, 2007|01:01 am] |
Here's the sneak preview teaser trailer fun time video for my latest opus. Please Enjoy.
The Stolen Minks. Stop Talking. Coming Soon. |
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| Up to speed |
[May. 6th, 2007|12:34 am] |
Hey y'all, it's me again. Just figured on it bein' a good time to update, as I've been away for a whiles; I won't bore you with the details of why, you came here to hear about me, not things about me. Wait, what? Anyhow, I'm officially leaving the restaurant business. Unofficially, for good. And by "unofficially" I mean "hopefully". And by "good", I mean "ever". Why? Because I'm sick of it. How? Very precariously. But exciting.
You see, I've just begun principal animation on my second music video. Yes, that's just a fancy way of saying I've been scribbling and when they go by fast it kind of looks all right, but trust me: That's a good start. But the key element here is I'm getting paid for this one. Granted, not boatloads of dollars (hence the aforementioned precariousness), but enough to get me by for just a little while. And maybe also a grant. Which would be nice. Cross your fingers for me on that one. I won't, I'm not superstitious. So anyhow, I think this time I'm really gonna "Give 'er", and try to make a real go of this. I don't expect smooth sailing straight from the "get" "go", but I gotsta do what I gotsta do. And so far, it's great! Granted, I'm still a dishwasher for one more week, but I'm sure I'll feel way better immediately after, and any negative aspects won't show up for a while. So dammit, I'm gonna enjoy that while!
And while we're at it, if anyone has any kindly advice, or sage advice, or cruel, knife-like advice, all are welcome and hopefully useful. Oh, and if any of you out there have a few thousand dollars and want some animation, feel free to drop me a line.
In other news, my Mom just bought a new car. I hear it's "pretty nice". |
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| Ultra-famous |
[Apr. 1st, 2007|10:20 pm] |
. . . and now we've been shown on MuchLoud. I missed it, but still, that's pretty cool.
Just waitin' for the money to start pourin' in . . . |
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| . . . and new champeen! |
[Mar. 31st, 2007|01:25 am] |
Just to inform everyone: It has now been confrimed that I am great. The Coast's annual "Best of Music" poll this year found the music video I made for The Stolen Minks to be not only the best local video, but also a tied second runner up for best in Canada. And we got "Best YouTube Appearance" as well. Thereby I have finally achieved the admiration and free booze I've been craving. Also chicken wings and some cheese. It was a swell awards ceremony. Followed by Karaoke, provided you left early and came with me to Bearly's. Might I add, I was fantastic at Karaoke as well. So thank you to everyone who voted for us, and those of you who didn't, no sweat, we still won without you. And if you happened to miss the video, it's on YouTube, or my MySpace (Right Here).
PS - I'm great! |
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| This one's for a friend . . . |
[Mar. 25th, 2007|11:56 pm] |
I did it all for you, Damien! I mean, Alex.
You're a big girl!
Seriously, though, three of them rhyme. That's keen! |
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[Mar. 25th, 2007|11:44 pm] |
I know, I know, you miss me so much. Where am I been? What is am doing? Be sure, all is well. Here, I'm an old man, and I look like mostly old men.
Seriously, I can't stop making these damned things. I need help. |
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| More from me! But mostly elsewhere . . . |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|02:24 am] |
Can't get enough of Ben and Ben-related paraphernalia?
Then check out my spanking new blog! It's right here: The Second-to-Last Picture Show! That's a clever twist on the title of a movie I've never seen! Wow! I wanted it to be at http://bensucks.blogspot.com , but unfortunately that was already taken. Feel free to go check that one out anyhow, I'm sure it has it's merits.
Also, I'm sure I'll still post here whenever absolutely necessary . . . |
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| Amazing. |
[Dec. 21st, 2006|07:44 am] |
I probably shouldn't go see this movie. I probably won't go see this movie. But damn if this ain't the funniest thing I've seen in twice a dog's age.
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| Speaking of using the postal mail system . . . |
[Dec. 10th, 2006|02:45 am] |
Have any of youse chaps ever utilized one a them "International Reply Coupons"? It's a thing you send with a letter or something to another country so that someone in that country can send something back to your country, or even any other country around, I suppose. It's actually a pain in the ass to use, but also, well, have a look . . .
 Yep, it's the postage of God Himself!
Or possibly Michelangelo, who knows? Anyhow, is this not the most pretentious, high-falutin', cockamamie image that could be applied? That's gold foil, people! No wonder this costs over thrice the value of the postage it's replacing, with none of the convenience a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope is supposed to provide. Am I pissed? Maybe. Yes. Quite a bit, actually. More than the situation would warrant, indeed. My point is, post offices are douches. |
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| For those of you far off from me |
[Dec. 10th, 2006|02:03 am] |
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The Xmas-time season encroaches on us all as we speak, and so I'd like to ship out carefully folded slips of stiff paper with words 'n' shit on 'em at most of you out there. However, I file poorly and lost every address available to me. So for those of you who I will not be seeing over the next few weeks, if ya wants a card, lemme know where you live, as specifically as possible. I make no promises, as I am lazy, disorganized, and none too bright, but I'm gunna try and get all y'all. If you don't want to post your address publicly here, just drop-a me a line at zyblonius@gmail.com. And a happy holiday on you, too. |
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| You pixelated pirates! |
[Dec. 2nd, 2006|02:07 am] |
And now, for no particular reason, I'm going to review three comic book themed video games I happened to be playing just the other day.
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
This ridiculously named game had a very pretty comic book adaptation. Unfortunately, it was also lousy, because one of the great laws of nature is that video game adaptations are always lousy. (The lone exception to this is Pac-Man, who had a delightful cartoon series in the 1980s, as well as a particularly engaging record album. If you can find a copy, you should really listen to it. You see, Pac-Man finds himself suffering from ennui and then befriends a trading rat, but meanwhile the ghosts are plotting - well, I won't ruin it for you.) Be that as it may, the game's menus feature artwork by Jae Lee. That's neat. You then fight each other as either Wolverine, Spider-Man, Elektra, or The Thing. Or one of the made-up characters from the game. I'd suggest against this, as those characters are all boring and dumb. There are a number of other characters you can use, only you can't. Apparently you have to beat the game first, or something stupid like that. That's stupid. But you get to wreck up Avengers' Mansion, so there's a trade-off there. Oh yeah, and each character can either be played in normal mode or creepy green mode. I don't know what that's all about. I particularly enjoyed throwing furniture and cars around. And really big boxes. Then I figured out how to use special powers and had a great time webbing people's feet up and throwing them around like a jerk. Finally, as Spider-Man, I made a move toward some dope named Johnny Ohm and apparently did something so very good that the game took over from us and showed a movie of me beating the holy living shit out of him and then I won or something. All in all, a ridiculous game that's actually kind of entertaining.
Rating: One thumb.
Justice League: Heroes
This time you're the Justice League. Or parts of it. Or something. I wasn't paying attention to that part. Zatanna's in it, so that's cool. I was Batman for a while. I punched and kicked a truck until it exploded, and then some robots killed me. But not before I was able to leap into the air and float down all cool using my trusty cape. Also, if I hid behind said cape their laser blasts were completely useless against me. Super man got hisself killed shortly afterwards, so Mirco and I switched places and I got to be Superman. Then I got to pick up cars and trucks and smash robots with them. Awesome! And then I got killed. Now come on. Batman I get, without his actual training and intelligence he's just a target, and I have neither of those things. But Superman's got a kajillion and twelve superpowers. Hell, at the beginning he smashes through a wall that's only seven feet high just because it's a more powerful thing to do than fly over top of it. There's no way he dies that easily in these circumstances. Lame.
Rating: Two thumbs out.
Superman Returns: The Video Game, Not The Movie.
Flying should not be this hard. Look, there's a fire right there, just turn. No, toward it. Yeah, I can see it, but you need to face it. Jesus Christ, Superman, it's right goddamn there! What the holy Hell's the matter with you???? Still, I got to use heat vision, super-speed and freezing breath to save Metropolis from a swarm of meteorites, and it only took me two tries. Then it asked me to save, so I wandered off.
Rating: Most of a thumb. |
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| Hey, it's me again! |
[Nov. 27th, 2006|08:30 am] |
I know, you all miss me lots and wish I was here to tell you everything all the time, but alas, it simply isn't so. However, I am trying to do more with my other blog, "Good Book Readin'; mainly make it live up less to it's name and be full of thing that make me laugh rather than any attempt at thoughtful, insightful reviews. So if this panel of an issue of Batman makes you a tad chuckly, go have a lookin' see.
In conclusion, here are some photos of me dressed as people who are not me.
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| And what of the monster truck shows? |
[Oct. 6th, 2006|08:57 pm] |
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Well, it seems all the voting we did way back there was just a silly waste of time, because here it is, all of a sudden the whole "Sunday Shopping" deal's a go. Just like that. And it's certainly made a lot of people exuberant. Which is fine, I guess. You wanted it, you got it. I do have to take exception to the phraseology you're using, though. We did already have Sunday shopping. Plenty of stores have been open downtown for years. You could go buy comic books, books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, candy bars, pharmaceuticals, and once Pete's Frootique [sic] opened it's doors you even had some grocery options. Apparently, that wasn't quite enough. Okay, so maybe it wasn't fair to the bigger stores that all the rest could be open and not them, but I'm pretty sure you weren't upset at unfairness towards big business. And I'll admit my hypocrisy right now: I do support a lot of large-scale corporations. I eat at McDonalds, I buy Heinz catsup, I've owned a Nike sneaker or two. Plus, I actually don't mind the grocery stores being open. So my moral ground ain't really so high. I suppose I'm just disappointed so many people really need to be able to go hang out at the mall without any bothersome flea markets cluttering it up or stop by Wal-Mart for a carton of milk, two discount DVDs, and the new edition of Mousetrap on a Sunday just for their lives to finally be complete and full and happy and wonderful. It's really been bothering you that much, that in order to find something to do you're relegated to the measly purgatory of parks, restaurants, small businesses, movie theatres, brewery-based cold beer stores, bars, clubs, the waterfront, or possibly a drive in the countryside for an entire day out of each and every week? Well, folks, it looks like wishes really do come true. Have a blast. |
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| Also, a little nostalgia. |
[Oct. 1st, 2006|08:56 pm] |
Ah, me . . . the days of yore, so long ago when LiveJournal was all personality test results willy-nilly and ballyhooed comparisons between each and the other. What a load of rubbish. Still, I did the Carl Jung thing just now. I am one a these.
Your Type is
INFP
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 38 25 56
Yep, means balls-all to me, too. 'Swhy I investigated further. ( Here's what I was able to learn about myself. ) |
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| Famous and fortunate |
[Oct. 1st, 2006|08:07 pm] |
Here's a picture from "popular" movie Simon Birch.
See anything interesting? Let's take a closer look . . .
See, the blue circle there is for title character Simon Birch, unfortunately hidden because of his small size. Next to him is all-round affable sort Oliver Platt (red). In my portlier days I often thought he'd be good to play me in a movie. To his immediate left we have the lovely Ashley Judd, delicately encircled in pink. Little known fact: she is wearing bright blue spandex leggings in this shot. Ol' green circle there is the dinosaur lad himself, Kid from Jurassic Park. The yellow arrow is used to represent the masterful David Strathairn, known for his portrayals of Edward R. Murrow, that douchey guy on the Sopranos, and a drunk. In Dolores Claiborne; I didn't mean to imply the man is a drunk. Where was I? Oh yes, I was in the orange starburst! Yep, that's right, yours truly, me! In a "major" "Hollywood" motion picture! Isn't that exciting? ( Here, let's get a better look at that fresh-faced young thespian . . . ) |
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