Here comes the story of the hurricane
I feeeeeel like I'm letting obligations fall through a lot lately. Mostly I just don't want to deal with a lot of stuff I guess so I'm just not.
I think my phone's battery is going out. There were a couple days in a row where it only lasted a day and died in the middle of it on me. But I let it run down a couple days and stay off a night or two and haven't been leaving it plugged in while on full power anymore so maybe it'll fix itself? It seems fine now, it's made it two days without dying this time. I don't want to have to get a new phone, I really like this one. It's discontinued though :( I don't need a cameraphone with 80million things on it Nextel I just want something that calls people and lets me send/receive texts!
This sleep schedule is killing me though, serious. I don't know why but I wake up tired every day, even though I sleep from 12 to 8 which is plenty of time. I can't let myself fall back into sleeping at 2AM every night, even on my non-school-nights. It'll get habit forming way too fast.
And yet here I am at 12:20 not tired yet typing up an LJ entry instead of going to bed. I blame the nap I took earlier. THAT'S ANOTHER THING why do I let myself do this?
I'm finally starting to feel like I'm getting back in the swing of math at least. I keep making stupid mistakes though like copying signs down wrong (which with pre-calc can COMPLETELY CHANGE YOUR ANSWER to the point of not even performing the same functions on the problem in the first place). But other than that I'm actually feeling fairly confident in my math abilities again, it's all starting to make sense again now. Mostly I guess that's because I'm really good at rearranging equations and putting things in terms of y=x
Played Persona 3 most of the day actually :(b Full moon for September is tomorrow.
MAIKO WHY ARE YOU SO CUTE ;_____; Kenji will be maxed like...the...day after the full moon...yeah. OMG KENJI I FEEL SO SORRY FOR YOU AAA ;_____; And then I guess I should max Kazushi since he's at level 8. BUT IT WILL BE YUKO ON SATURDAY because I need to open the Tower link I HAVE NOTHING TO DO IN THE EVENINGS EXCEPT GO TO TARTARUS AND I AM LEVEL 41 ALREADY SO THIS IS MAYBE NOT THE BEST OF OPTIONS. Sun on Sundays (lol what) and uhhh idk I'll probably work on Chihori I've been ignoring her. Or the GORMET KING maybe idk.
Anyway.
JUNPEI ILU STILL YOU ARE MY HOMEBOY OKAY
... I keep getting ideas for stuff to draw but not following through with any of it. I think I need to start drawing by hand again because I kind of miss it. There's something that feels more...idk, but it's different from tablet drawing. It's kind of like how I write more when I'm writing by hand in a notebook than when I'm writing on the computer. It's easier to get into a zone while I'm drawing on paper. I should start doing that again, but I don't really have EASY access to a scanner. There's my gramma's but her computer only hooks up to dialup (NEVERMIND THERE IS A WIRELESS ROUTER IN THE SAME ROOM AS HER COMPUTER I don't think her eMac even HAS a wireless nic wtf) but I've used it before for it. It's just SLOW.
Also most of my art ideas are comics I think only I will find funny which is a little disappointing and probably a factor in me not sitting down to draw them. Sigh.
I still have to do a final pic for Zethos and work on an Illumina crest. I'm glad he's so patient about all this. Mostly because he's still tweaking my Zethos design so the final will be closer to being exactly what he wants.
I'm wondering which char he'll comission me for next...? I hope it's somebody closer to my normal comfort range of character designs. ZETHOS I KNOW YOU READ THIS I AM SORRY I DO NOT DRAW BEEFY OLD GUYS IN ARMOUR VERY WELL :(
Longpost is long.
Not really random actually because I really like this song.
The Hurricane [This video is missing the last verse though damn]
Bob Dylan
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops"
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that
In Paterson that's just the way things go
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates"
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men
Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world
Four months later, the ghettos are in flame
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?"
"Don't forget that you are white"
Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure"
Cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow
You'll be doin' society a favor
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim"
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
And though they could not produce the gun
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.
Rubin Carter was falsely tried
The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell
That's the story of the Hurricane
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world
I think my phone's battery is going out. There were a couple days in a row where it only lasted a day and died in the middle of it on me. But I let it run down a couple days and stay off a night or two and haven't been leaving it plugged in while on full power anymore so maybe it'll fix itself? It seems fine now, it's made it two days without dying this time. I don't want to have to get a new phone, I really like this one. It's discontinued though :( I don't need a cameraphone with 80million things on it Nextel I just want something that calls people and lets me send/receive texts!
This sleep schedule is killing me though, serious. I don't know why but I wake up tired every day, even though I sleep from 12 to 8 which is plenty of time. I can't let myself fall back into sleeping at 2AM every night, even on my non-school-nights. It'll get habit forming way too fast.
And yet here I am at 12:20 not tired yet typing up an LJ entry instead of going to bed. I blame the nap I took earlier. THAT'S ANOTHER THING why do I let myself do this?
I'm finally starting to feel like I'm getting back in the swing of math at least. I keep making stupid mistakes though like copying signs down wrong (which with pre-calc can COMPLETELY CHANGE YOUR ANSWER to the point of not even performing the same functions on the problem in the first place). But other than that I'm actually feeling fairly confident in my math abilities again, it's all starting to make sense again now. Mostly I guess that's because I'm really good at rearranging equations and putting things in terms of y=x
Played Persona 3 most of the day actually :(b Full moon for September is tomorrow.
MAIKO WHY ARE YOU SO CUTE ;_____; Kenji will be maxed like...the...day after the full moon...yeah. OMG KENJI I FEEL SO SORRY FOR YOU AAA ;_____; And then I guess I should max Kazushi since he's at level 8. BUT IT WILL BE YUKO ON SATURDAY because I need to open the Tower link I HAVE NOTHING TO DO IN THE EVENINGS EXCEPT GO TO TARTARUS AND I AM LEVEL 41 ALREADY SO THIS IS MAYBE NOT THE BEST OF OPTIONS. Sun on Sundays (lol what) and uhhh idk I'll probably work on Chihori I've been ignoring her. Or the GORMET KING maybe idk.
Anyway.
JUNPEI ILU STILL YOU ARE MY HOMEBOY OKAY
... I keep getting ideas for stuff to draw but not following through with any of it. I think I need to start drawing by hand again because I kind of miss it. There's something that feels more...idk, but it's different from tablet drawing. It's kind of like how I write more when I'm writing by hand in a notebook than when I'm writing on the computer. It's easier to get into a zone while I'm drawing on paper. I should start doing that again, but I don't really have EASY access to a scanner. There's my gramma's but her computer only hooks up to dialup (NEVERMIND THERE IS A WIRELESS ROUTER IN THE SAME ROOM AS HER COMPUTER I don't think her eMac even HAS a wireless nic wtf) but I've used it before for it. It's just SLOW.
Also most of my art ideas are comics I think only I will find funny which is a little disappointing and probably a factor in me not sitting down to draw them. Sigh.
I still have to do a final pic for Zethos and work on an Illumina crest. I'm glad he's so patient about all this. Mostly because he's still tweaking my Zethos design so the final will be closer to being exactly what he wants.
I'm wondering which char he'll comission me for next...? I hope it's somebody closer to my normal comfort range of character designs. ZETHOS I KNOW YOU READ THIS I AM SORRY I DO NOT DRAW BEEFY OLD GUYS IN ARMOUR VERY WELL :(
Longpost is long.
Not really random actually because I really like this song.
The Hurricane [This video is missing the last verse though damn]
Bob Dylan
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops"
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that
In Paterson that's just the way things go
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates"
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men
Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world
Four months later, the ghettos are in flame
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?"
"Don't forget that you are white"
Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure"
Cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow
You'll be doin' society a favor
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim"
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
And though they could not produce the gun
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.
Rubin Carter was falsely tried
The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell
That's the story of the Hurricane
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world