My brain knows words
Working lots. Typical, yeah. I do like money though.
The Parent Weekend went well, a couple of minor annoyances but hey, that's family. Got to see Iron Man again, always a good thing. My parents get me to spend money, though; in three weeks or so I shall receive furniture!
The folks wanted to buy me a new dining room table and chairs, so I let them; I of course picked it out. Unfortunately I need other furniture besides that, and in shopping for tables I found two other pieces that my folks didn't pay for, a new dresser and a 'door chest' for my office/game room. I need a cabinet type of thing to put all my models and game stuff in, and this door chest is perfect. The dresser is of course a dresser; I'm tired of my old one and I needed one for the guest room anyway.
In the end I bought both, got a bit off the price and the delivery, and again spent almost as much as I'd priced a new computer at. Dammit.
However, I got a commission refund from my realtor, as those of us who work where I do are special. :D That's a nice chunk of change, and I need to go bug my old apartment people about my deposit, as I haven't heard yea or nay on that. So those two would help cover the furniture at least. Now all I need is time to visit my old apartment office. :p
The house continues to be awesome, especially since I seem to have completely fixed the AC. I still haven't wrapped my head around the fact that I own this house though; near as I can tell that's something that's going to take a while, as I've never owned a house before (at least that I'm aware of, who knows what mad house-buying sprees I've been on in my sleep or something). Maybe it'll come when I help dad tear out a wall to put in a pocket (or 'Star Trek') door for the laundry room. Now that I mention it, making it an automatic (on a switch thought, no motion sensors for me) door that made the Star Trek sound when it opens and closes would rule so much. Have to talk to dad about that.
The latest Futurama movie, Beast With a Billion Backs, came out yesterday. It had several great moments, but was a bit scattered and unfocused in general, and the ending felt very forced. Still worth it, though. It also had a preview for the next movie, Bender's Game, which looks to be one long DnD/LotR joke. It looks to be either hilariously good or hilariously bad.
Now for some odd tangents: damn my friends for making me think about things!
I have some very intelligent friends. They quite often say/post/email things that make me aware of various parts of the world that I wouldn't normally be aware of (honestly I think this may be because I really don't have a lot of time to 'take out my soul and look at it' as the saying goes; these days when I have free time I want to play a game or relax or whatever, not think about things. Anyway). As an example!
I found some new music yesterday, thanks to itunes (curse you Steve Jobs): a young singer named Katy Perry. Specifically her song I kissed a girl.
This isn't bad, but honestly, my enjoyment of the song and her as a singer is different than it would have been were I more ignorant. I really like this song, but the fact is her singing about kissing a girl and liking it annoys me specifically because she is going way out of her way in the lyrics to say "I'm totally not gay, though." I mean, look at these lyrics snippets:
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
No, I don't even know your name
It doesn't matter
You're my experimental game
Just human nature
It's not what, good girls do
Not how they should behave
I mean, come on!
I know a few women, online and off, that are fans of other women, and these lyrics make me sad for how unfair they are to my friends. It's just a typical "I'll kiss chicks to make guys hot" thing, and it irritates me. I dunno, it feels like it marginalizes my friends, and I don't like it when people do that.
Of course, yes, I think it's hot. Dammit, I am allowed to find that hot! I HAVE VARIED LIKES AND DISLIKES DON'T YOU JUDGE ME.
Especially because I really like the song, I really like her voice, and a lot of the other songs on the album are good too. Unfortunately she has another song that's a bit worse, 'Ur so gay.' Even so, the last line of that song makes me laugh:
No you don’t even like, no you don’t even like, no, no, no, no, no, no....PENIS
She's singing to a guy, most of the song is 'You’re so gay and you don’t even like boys.' I FIND IT FUNNY. I AM SOMETIMES JUVENILE.
Also, she's pretty cute. She reminds me of a less-surprised Zooey Deschanel.
(Seriously, she always looks surprised. Every time I see her in something I can't help but think someone has just run up to her and yelled: "HEY! Your name's ZOOEY! HAHAHAHAHA" and run away. Throws me all off.)
I've also been thinking about tattoos again, since a friend of mine came up with a phrase that would make an amazing tattoo. I wish I could steal it but it doesn't really apply to me (IMHO) and it does to her, so she has to get it if anyone is going to.
I've been considering my tattoo plans; I still want what I was thinking of, but I've also been thinking about other crazy ideas. I was wondering how one would do a full sleeve of abstract art, all bold solid colors. This thought came out of the realization that full sleeves are cool but they always seem to blend into just swatches of color at any kind of distance, and that in itself is pretty sweet. So I was thinking about how it could be done. Abstract art is hard to do well, I had no idea just how hard until I went to art school.
Then I was thinking about using tattoos to create a canvas for other tattoos; I've seen I think a Suicide Girl that has text tattoos over another text tattoo, and it looks AWESOME. I thought wouldn't it be cool to get a base tattoo color, or the full sleeve, and then in different color ink get the text on top of that. White ink looks sweet but it doesn't have a lot of contrast with white boy skin, you know.
I also thought about different placements and orientations, but I think at least for this first phrase I definitely want it somewhere I can see it and read it, so that limits placement a bit.
What up with you folk?
The Parent Weekend went well, a couple of minor annoyances but hey, that's family. Got to see Iron Man again, always a good thing. My parents get me to spend money, though; in three weeks or so I shall receive furniture!
The folks wanted to buy me a new dining room table and chairs, so I let them; I of course picked it out. Unfortunately I need other furniture besides that, and in shopping for tables I found two other pieces that my folks didn't pay for, a new dresser and a 'door chest' for my office/game room. I need a cabinet type of thing to put all my models and game stuff in, and this door chest is perfect. The dresser is of course a dresser; I'm tired of my old one and I needed one for the guest room anyway.
In the end I bought both, got a bit off the price and the delivery, and again spent almost as much as I'd priced a new computer at. Dammit.
However, I got a commission refund from my realtor, as those of us who work where I do are special. :D That's a nice chunk of change, and I need to go bug my old apartment people about my deposit, as I haven't heard yea or nay on that. So those two would help cover the furniture at least. Now all I need is time to visit my old apartment office. :p
The house continues to be awesome, especially since I seem to have completely fixed the AC. I still haven't wrapped my head around the fact that I own this house though; near as I can tell that's something that's going to take a while, as I've never owned a house before (at least that I'm aware of, who knows what mad house-buying sprees I've been on in my sleep or something). Maybe it'll come when I help dad tear out a wall to put in a pocket (or 'Star Trek') door for the laundry room. Now that I mention it, making it an automatic (on a switch thought, no motion sensors for me) door that made the Star Trek sound when it opens and closes would rule so much. Have to talk to dad about that.
The latest Futurama movie, Beast With a Billion Backs, came out yesterday. It had several great moments, but was a bit scattered and unfocused in general, and the ending felt very forced. Still worth it, though. It also had a preview for the next movie, Bender's Game, which looks to be one long DnD/LotR joke. It looks to be either hilariously good or hilariously bad.
Now for some odd tangents: damn my friends for making me think about things!
I have some very intelligent friends. They quite often say/post/email things that make me aware of various parts of the world that I wouldn't normally be aware of (honestly I think this may be because I really don't have a lot of time to 'take out my soul and look at it' as the saying goes; these days when I have free time I want to play a game or relax or whatever, not think about things. Anyway). As an example!
I found some new music yesterday, thanks to itunes (curse you Steve Jobs): a young singer named Katy Perry. Specifically her song I kissed a girl.
This isn't bad, but honestly, my enjoyment of the song and her as a singer is different than it would have been were I more ignorant. I really like this song, but the fact is her singing about kissing a girl and liking it annoys me specifically because she is going way out of her way in the lyrics to say "I'm totally not gay, though." I mean, look at these lyrics snippets:
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
No, I don't even know your name
It doesn't matter
You're my experimental game
Just human nature
It's not what, good girls do
Not how they should behave
I mean, come on!
I know a few women, online and off, that are fans of other women, and these lyrics make me sad for how unfair they are to my friends. It's just a typical "I'll kiss chicks to make guys hot" thing, and it irritates me. I dunno, it feels like it marginalizes my friends, and I don't like it when people do that.
Of course, yes, I think it's hot. Dammit, I am allowed to find that hot! I HAVE VARIED LIKES AND DISLIKES DON'T YOU JUDGE ME.
Especially because I really like the song, I really like her voice, and a lot of the other songs on the album are good too. Unfortunately she has another song that's a bit worse, 'Ur so gay.' Even so, the last line of that song makes me laugh:
No you don’t even like, no you don’t even like, no, no, no, no, no, no....PENIS
She's singing to a guy, most of the song is 'You’re so gay and you don’t even like boys.' I FIND IT FUNNY. I AM SOMETIMES JUVENILE.
Also, she's pretty cute. She reminds me of a less-surprised Zooey Deschanel.
(Seriously, she always looks surprised. Every time I see her in something I can't help but think someone has just run up to her and yelled: "HEY! Your name's ZOOEY! HAHAHAHAHA" and run away. Throws me all off.)
I've also been thinking about tattoos again, since a friend of mine came up with a phrase that would make an amazing tattoo. I wish I could steal it but it doesn't really apply to me (IMHO) and it does to her, so she has to get it if anyone is going to.
I've been considering my tattoo plans; I still want what I was thinking of, but I've also been thinking about other crazy ideas. I was wondering how one would do a full sleeve of abstract art, all bold solid colors. This thought came out of the realization that full sleeves are cool but they always seem to blend into just swatches of color at any kind of distance, and that in itself is pretty sweet. So I was thinking about how it could be done. Abstract art is hard to do well, I had no idea just how hard until I went to art school.
Then I was thinking about using tattoos to create a canvas for other tattoos; I've seen I think a Suicide Girl that has text tattoos over another text tattoo, and it looks AWESOME. I thought wouldn't it be cool to get a base tattoo color, or the full sleeve, and then in different color ink get the text on top of that. White ink looks sweet but it doesn't have a lot of contrast with white boy skin, you know.
I also thought about different placements and orientations, but I think at least for this first phrase I definitely want it somewhere I can see it and read it, so that limits placement a bit.
What up with you folk?