Okay. I have made a decision that I am going to finish the edit on my [i]Lord of the Rings[/i] mix soon and be done with it. My enthusiasm for the project took a serious blow last year when the two Semajic files with the Livejournal entries I was preparing for the discs completely disappeared, negating all of my work on the program notes ( Read more... )

• Reconstructive Surgery, Automotive Style
  
  In searching through my recent entries, I was surprised to find that I made no notice of the dent in the Executor which was caused by a guy backing around a corner whilst I was at a stop sign. The damage did not effect the operation of the car overmuch (she had no trouble passing inspection last month), ( Read more... )

• I have taken The Executor in for an oil change and inspection. When I called the shop yesterday, they informed me that I could get a ride from there to Main Street this morning when their driver comes in at 7:00. Unfortunately, the driver didn't show up until 7:30, which made me somewhat late for work. Thankfully I had already called the office ( Read more... )

One of the scenes in The Early Mixes features a conversation in a car. The original intention was to try to mount the camera somewhere on the car in order to shoot it, but that created several problems, not least of which is that it is very difficult to keep something like that from wobbling. It was a night scene, however, so I determined that we ( Read more... )

Dan moved from Jackson Heights in Queens to Park Slope Brooklyn on Wednesday. Normally rain is the bane of a moving day, but it was so hot and muggy that the cool summer rain was actually quite refreshing. His new place is really nice, and I think that I'll be spending quite a bit of time in his neighborhood now ( Read more... )

ROAD WARRIOR DEPARTMENTWhy does it take so many people so long to merge or change lanes? There really is no reason for it to take anything more than a few seconds, that's what the steering wheel is for. And why change into the lane if you're not going to match its speed? If someone is letting you in, that doesn't mean they want to wait five ( Read more... )

I ran over a nail in The Executor yesterday. In taking off the flat tire to put the doughnut on, one of the studs came off with the lug. One shouldn't drive around much on a doughnut, nor with only three bolts in the wheel, and the combination was frankly terrifying. It's all been taken care of, thank goodness, but it was a long and wobbly ride ( Read more... )

( No, really, I am a meme whore )

This has been going around:

( High School Meme )

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the warming of the globe, there was an age undreamed of where shining countries lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. And unto this, Arnold, destined to bear the jeweled crown of California upon a troubled brow, tread the jeweled gubernatorial seats of the Earth under ( Read more... )