I am exhausted. I stayed up until 4:30am finishing up my presentation (which went surprisingly well) and I have a throat ache. I'm looking forward to lots of sleep, soup and tea this weekend ( Read more... )

There's few things I love more, than finding books as [electronic resource] in my school catalogue ♥

...because I went ahead and signed up for festivids. Watch me get something impossible to vid and FAIL LIKE NO ONE HAS FAILED BEFORE ( Read more... )

I really wanna do festivids, but I don't think my skills are up to par with it. I don't want to disappoint my giftee, even if I have a request list that is crazy long (that Watchmen vid! Weeds! Tudors!). I'll try next year and keep hacking at my Dollhouse vid. I got my hands on Sony Vegas Pro so I'm excited--though I know I should wait to play with it until ( Read more... )

Icon is appropriate considering the crazy amount of incest in their songs. :D

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I so hope they play Monkey Gone to Heaven (my favorite), Hey, Subbacultcha, Into the White, Ed is Dead, Debaser, Dig for Fire, Caribou, Bone Machine, U-Mass (oh god, the lols), Gouge Away and Hangwire--those are my top Pixies songs ( Read more... )

Turns out our service provider sucks and keeps sucking. They took our net away because of some confusion with someone who wanted to upgrade (we never put the "order") and who knows when it will be back judging how much they've lied to us (that it would be up hours ago, that someone would come soon ( Read more... )

It seems that research reveals that apocalyptic stories changed dramatically 20 years ago. Interesting.

It's not the idea of Ending itself that has faded - that will be around until we are actually mopped off the face of the Earth. It's the actual moment of disaster, the blood and guts and fire, that has been losing ground in stories of the End. ( Read more... )

So I finally got the courage to mess with my layout and pop in a header, because I'm nothing if not a champion procrastinator. I'm not super pleased with it, but it'll do for now (I wish I could make the header shorter, but I'm afraid to mess with css). At least it gives some sense of personality. The above are paintings from the exhibit Taisho ( Read more... )

First off, I want to say hi to the new people I met through the lurker-rehab. Welcome and make yourselves at home. ^_ ( Read more... )

Apparently 2012 isn't the end of the worldThis reminds me of the silly Y2K thing, were my mother was one of the paranoiacs who started storing boxes and boxes of canned food in the pantry. She's not doing that this time though, but seriously, you would think there aren't more immediate worries ( Read more... )