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wow, it's amazing what booze does to an already beaten up brain. Maker's Mark bourbon takes a lot of sting out of bad luck at cards. You know that poker downswing? That $1200 worth of downswing. Considering I took $2300 out in the last couple of weeks to pay for life AND I still have several thousand more in the account, I really can't be arsed by a bit of bad luck, though. Variance can't kill me. The multitude of good players that infest the level can't kill me. I'm motherfuckin' Jason Vorhees up in this piece, bitches.
Got the beginnings of a new tattoo on Thursday. Note the symbol on the left shoulder of this beastie:
That is the Crux Terminatus aka Terminator Honours, Command edition. It's the insignia that the Adeptus Astartes wear that shows that they are qualified to don the Tactical Dreadnought "Terminator" powered armor. Added bonus is the fact that it looks fucking badass. Tatt is now emblazoned on the left side of my chest. The outline is done but the inside bits on the cross have yet to be finished. Crossbones are done, the cross part will be black outline with beveled inside to give it a 3D-effect. That's going down October 7.
Watched season premiers of Sons of Anarchy, Dollhouse, Flashforward, and powered through the 2 seasons of The Wire in the last couple of weeks. SoA is good. The last scene of of the premier was brutal but I'd expect nothing less from a show where a guy had his MC back tatt blowtorched off his skin. Dollhouse left me very WTF this week. Why is Ballard a client in the season premier? Don't they have paying customers waiting for Echo's services? The Topher/Whiskey stuff was fantastic. I wish Amy Acker would stick around more for the rest of the season, though. Disappointed that the show's ratings sucked but so long as DVD sales/online viewings/ratings are solid I think Fox may keep this show around. Flashforward was ok. The first ep reminded me quite a bit of the first ep of Lost what with all the fire and screaming and explosions. I'll be interested to see where they take this, although it's got Brannon Braga attached to it and the Star Trek nerd in me screams HERETIC! whenever I see his name. Believe the hype on The Wire. All the goodness of The Sopranos and Homicide: Life on the Streets (also created by David Simon) combined with great acting, great stories. Rich, complex. Easily the greatest show on TV, bar none.
Got all of my important files backed up and putting serious thought into reformatting this piece of shit computer to clean out all the accrued garbage from 12 months of porn sites and popup ads.
As for the show tonight, the girl that runs the Portland slam is a bit...eccentric. Not Toledo performance poetry eccentric, but still a bit off nonetheless. I was told I'm on the performer list but I figure at least a 10% chance I might not perform tonight due to "issues". We'll see. I'm going to take a nap, get all coffee'd up and get ready this afternoon. $500 for first place but whatev. I'm just happy to get up onstage and perform again. =)
Got the beginnings of a new tattoo on Thursday. Note the symbol on the left shoulder of this beastie:
That is the Crux Terminatus aka Terminator Honours, Command edition. It's the insignia that the Adeptus Astartes wear that shows that they are qualified to don the Tactical Dreadnought "Terminator" powered armor. Added bonus is the fact that it looks fucking badass. Tatt is now emblazoned on the left side of my chest. The outline is done but the inside bits on the cross have yet to be finished. Crossbones are done, the cross part will be black outline with beveled inside to give it a 3D-effect. That's going down October 7.
Watched season premiers of Sons of Anarchy, Dollhouse, Flashforward, and powered through the 2 seasons of The Wire in the last couple of weeks. SoA is good. The last scene of of the premier was brutal but I'd expect nothing less from a show where a guy had his MC back tatt blowtorched off his skin. Dollhouse left me very WTF this week. Why is Ballard a client in the season premier? Don't they have paying customers waiting for Echo's services? The Topher/Whiskey stuff was fantastic. I wish Amy Acker would stick around more for the rest of the season, though. Disappointed that the show's ratings sucked but so long as DVD sales/online viewings/ratings are solid I think Fox may keep this show around. Flashforward was ok. The first ep reminded me quite a bit of the first ep of Lost what with all the fire and screaming and explosions. I'll be interested to see where they take this, although it's got Brannon Braga attached to it and the Star Trek nerd in me screams HERETIC! whenever I see his name. Believe the hype on The Wire. All the goodness of The Sopranos and Homicide: Life on the Streets (also created by David Simon) combined with great acting, great stories. Rich, complex. Easily the greatest show on TV, bar none.
Got all of my important files backed up and putting serious thought into reformatting this piece of shit computer to clean out all the accrued garbage from 12 months of porn sites and popup ads.
As for the show tonight, the girl that runs the Portland slam is a bit...eccentric. Not Toledo performance poetry eccentric, but still a bit off nonetheless. I was told I'm on the performer list but I figure at least a 10% chance I might not perform tonight due to "issues". We'll see. I'm going to take a nap, get all coffee'd up and get ready this afternoon. $500 for first place but whatev. I'm just happy to get up onstage and perform again. =)