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July 12th, 2009
06:04 pm - "I was a roadie for Metallica... 'Speed of Sound' tour... Buncha assholes..."
Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, answer these questions. Pass it on. You can't use the artist I used. Try not to repeat a song title. Repost as "My Life According to (ARTIST NAME)".
And if you can't tell from my Lebowski-esque subject line, the artist is Metallica
Are you a male or female? Enter Sandman
Describe yourself: The God That Failed
How do you feel? Trapped Under Ice
If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Where The Wild Things Are
Your favorite form of transportation: The Four Horsemen
Your best friend is: The Unforgiven
Your favorite color is: Blackened
What's the weather like? Ride the Lightning
Favorite time of day: Fade To Black
If your life was a tv show, what would it be called? Disposable Heroes
What is life to you? To Live is To Die
What are you looking for? The Hero of the Day
Have: The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Wouldn't mind: The Call of Ktulu
Your fear: The Thing That Should Not Be
What is the best advice you have to give? Carpe Diem Baby
If you could change your name, you would change it to: King Nothing
Thought for the Day: Nothing Else Matters
My motto: So What?
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/awake.gif) awake
Current Music: Faith No More - "Surprise! You're Dead!"
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July 4th, 2009
03:37 pm - I *will* find a way to have fun at this tedious job no matter what.
Previous posts I have worked at have been mostly relaxed and fun with lots of constructive ways to occupy my work time. This one where I'm at now is longish periods of mind-numbing boredom followed by longish periods of chaos and stress.
So when you have to drive a ridiculous little golf cart around a gigantic empty warehouse for two hours what can you do? You can do your impression of this:
Don't worry. I wasn't actually singing into the radio, only pretending to.
It made me feel a little bit better.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/exhausted.gif) exhausted
Current Music: See entry for details
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June 27th, 2009
07:52 pm - Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen
Went and saw it today. The general consensus is that it's more of the same from the first movie, both good and bad, only bigger, flashier, and louder. And they're right. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
( Now with SPOILERS. )
I like where they've taken this latest incarnation of the Transformers overall. They've proven that they can sustain what worked from the first film. Time will tell if that's all they can do or if they can actually improve upon it.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/happy.gif) satisfied
Current Music: Faith No More - "Woodpecker From Mars"
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June 26th, 2009
11:41 am - Writer's Block: RIP Michael Jackson
Smooth Criminal, I think mostly on account of that weird film that's tacked onto it where he turns into a giant Gundam robot and blows up Joe Pesci.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/hungry.gif) hungry
Current Music: In Flames - "Land of Confusion"
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10:17 am - Success!
After fifteen years of trying, this morning I finally succeeded in defining myself religiously.
I am a Christian who likes to do the religious equivalent of the Buffalo Bill "Silence of the Lambs" dance in front of the spiritual mirror in full pagan drag
Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: The Dreamside - "Spin Moon Magic"
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09:14 am - One of those "I'm ashamed to be a Christian moments."
Why women will suffer if gay people can marry.
I won't bother pointing out the folly of reasoning in this article. But probably the best part is where he quotes a Roman satirist as depicting actual married life in ancient Rome and how all the Roman gayness left married women unsatisfied. This is after he states up front that what the satirist has written is satire.
That's satire, folks. Humor. Because you know, it just isn't possible that just like we do today, people in ancient Rome of all persuasions found jokes about gayness funny. But no, as long as it agrees with your position it stops being comedy and starts being historical fact.
Come to think of it, there's plenty of satire out there these days about weird, bigoted Christians. But if you tried to tell him that this satire depicts the actual day-to-day norm I bet he'd get bent out of shape and defensive real quick.
I love it when religionists think they're being clever and smart and beating the enemy at their own game by appealing to unwieldly sociology and science that just doesn't fly.
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Celldweller - "The Last Firstborn"
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June 25th, 2009
05:26 pm - Writer's Block: All-Nighter
Why just last night, in fact. Training for a new, less well-paying, and overall less-enjoyable job. I'm with the same company, just downgraded to a lower position. I'm there to work on days but they're training me on overnights and mid shift. So essentially after two weeks of training I will be thrown into a shift on which I've had no training at all. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? Anyway, this explains my absence from LJ lately and I'm afraid I will be absent a few days longer. If something Need-to-Know happens it will probably be best to e-mail me.
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Corvus Corax - "Venus Vina Musica"
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June 17th, 2009
01:44 pm - Writer's Block: Conversion Rate
I have a fascination with lunar/fertility goddesses that's going to get me into trouble some day.
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Kreator - "Dying Race Apocalypse"
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June 16th, 2009
09:52 pm - Like the 15 minute book meme only with characters
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen fictional characters that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Comment if you want to know more information.
1) Optimus Prime - Transformers universe
2) Jenner - The Secret of NIMH (Robert C. O'Brien, Don Bluth)
3) Darth Vader - Star Wars (George Lucas)
4) Aslan - The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
5) Phaedra no Delauney - Kushiel's Dart (Jacqueline Carey)
6) Meg Murray - A Wrinkle in Time (Madelein L'Engle)
7) Randal Flagg - The Stand (Stephen King)
8) Frank Hoenikker - Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
9) Hida Kisada - Legend of the Five Rings (John Wick)
10) Lucy Westenra - Dracula (Brahm Stoker)
11) Pinhead - Hellraiser (Clive Barker)
12) Kissoon - The Great and Secret Show (Clive Barker)
13) Inigo Montoya - The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
14) The Djinn - Wishmaster films
15) Tetsuo - Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/cranky.gif) stressed
Current Music: Queen - "Princes of the Universe"
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June 12th, 2009
06:58 pm - Writer's Block: Teen Time Machine
I would have gone to high school just a few years earlier than I did so that I could have fully enjoyed metal's heyday of popularity instead of being the weird holdout who still liked it while all the other kids were getting into that weak-ass alternative crap.
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Blind Guardian - "Under the Ice"
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June 10th, 2009
11:46 pm - Writer's Block: Last Meal
General Tso's chicken as spicy as you can make it accompanied by a desert tray of Fig Newton cookies. Followed by two Macdonald's quarter pounders with cheese and a bowl of baked beans. And then a prune smoothie to wash it down.
That's right. My executioners are going to get a post-mortem bowel release they'll never forget.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/mischievous.gif) mischievous
Current Music: Iron Maiden - "Brave New World"
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01:06 am - Yet another book meme
Instructions: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Viriconium Nights by M. John Harrison
Rats and Gargoyles by Mary K. Gentle
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Fallen by Tim Lebbon
The Stand by Stephen King
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle
The Castle by Franz Kafka
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Shriekback - Nemesis
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June 3rd, 2009
09:03 pm - Nothing witty, just a really good day.
Due to a schedule change to accommodate an employee's wedding, I wound up having today off. In this day the following happened:
-Got my wife's car licensed and sales taxes paid.
-Finished reading a very good book. (Fallen by Tim Lebbon. If you like dark fantasy check it out.)
-In World of Warcraft completed Blackrock Depths, (one of the largest dungeons in the game.) And got not one but TWO epic items. (Items so rare you could run the dungeon dozens of times and never see one; two is almost unheard of.)
I've had a great deal of stress in my life lately and it's great to finally have a day of just non-stop awesome. Never take such days for granted. If you can get one, appreciate the hell out of it!
Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: Eisbrecher - "Kann Denn Liebe Sünde Sein?"
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June 1st, 2009
12:52 pm - Writer's Block: Rabbit Rabbit!
Well gee, I already saw Sasha Baron Cohen wrap his asshole around Eminem's face so what else is there?
Oh, yeah... I'm trying to land a publishing contract. Would really love to see that happen.
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Drumcorps - "Pig Destroyer Destroyer"
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09:25 am - Dr. Tiller - expanded from a comment I left on someone else's journal.
It's hard for me not to talk about the murder of abortion provider George Tiller. He operated out of the part of Kansas where I grew up. Indeed, it came as quite a surprise to me a few years ago when I started to learn that our local abortion doctor was in fact famous all over the country. I've driven by his clinic, seen the protestors outside. In the late 80's and early 90's he was easily our most talked-about and notorious local celebrity.
I've gone from one extreme to the other about abortion over the years and I've done so more than once. This makes me have to face that all over again. What I've come to is that I can't condone what Dr. Tiller did for a living. It was wrong. I think he profiteered on people who were in misery and despair, and although I'm reluctant to speculate on such things, I think he probably has a lot to answer for in the next world.
But I don't feel good about what happened. His murder just feels like a sad, wretched inevitability that has not made the world a better place. Nobody has "won" and nothing has changed.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/sad.gif) sad
Current Music: Cradle of Filth - "The Death of Love"
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May 29th, 2009
05:00 pm - Writer's Block: Venting
Arriving late to work this morning to find a trainee waiting for me that I wasn't planning on having. That annoyed me. I don't like training people at the best of times.
Current Mood: stressed
Current Music: Eurythmics - "Here Comes the Rain Again"
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May 22nd, 2009
10:58 am - Soldier in shorts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090522/lf_nm_life/us_afghanistan_gates_pink
I'll be honest, I wouldn't want to be the Taliban who had to report back to his superiors that he was unable to take a position manned by a guy in pink boxer shorts.
Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Shriekback - "Nemesis"
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09:41 am - Answers to movie meme
Here are the ones that nobody guessed:
1) Akira
6) The Secret of NIMH
10) Casablanca
12) Back to the Future
15) Hellraiser
17) Signs
18) Labyrinth
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/busy.gif) busy
Current Music: Iron Maiden - "Run to the Hills"
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09:10 am - Writer's Block: There Can Be Only One
Reading the answers to this, I'm surprised at the amount of wishful thinking I'm seeing. But let's be completely honest with each other. If the alternatives to monogamy worked better than monogamy we'd see them in practice a lot more, and they'd have a higher success rate. Not that the success rate of monogamy is necessarily anything to crow about, but I've seen many monogamous relationships that have lasted and not a single polyamorous one that has. But I admit my sample pool for polyamorous relationships is small, (again we just don't see it nearly as often.) And while I know there are polyamorous relationships that last, I have yet to see one that has. I think a big part of the problem is that for every person whom polyamory works for, there are ten more who wish that it worked for them, but it really doesn't and never will.
I believe we tend toward monogamy for a reason. I don't believe it's something that culture simply forces on us.* People argue that we have a biological drive to copulate with as many people as possible, and that clearly we're supposed to because other primates do it, etc. But is everything other primates do were a good idea for us there'd be a lot more poo flying through the air in our daily lives.
*I know there are cultures where monogamy is not the norm. I don't know enough about them or their circumstances to bring them into the discussion though.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/confused.gif) contemplative
Current Music: Metallica - "Enter Sandman"
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May 20th, 2009
09:19 am - Meme... haven't done one in a while.
1. Go to IMDB.com and look up 25 of your favorite movies.
2. Post four official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for each.
3. Have your friends guess the movies! No Googling!
1) Dysptopian, Ultraviolence, Human Experiment, Breasts
2) Crime Gone Awry, Homosexual Rape, Torture, Father Son Relationship Pulp Fiction guessed by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) donkeyjon
3) Talking to Self, Curse, Crossbow, Priest Ladyhawke guessed by donkeyjon
4) Cyberpunk, Skull Crushing, Fugitive, Eyeball Blade Runner guessed by darkpriestss
5) Devil, Seduction, Decapitation, Unicorn Legend guessed by donkeyjon
6) Farm, Wizard, Heroine, Based on a Novel
Nonlinear timeline, Nebula, Vivisection, Multiple Time Frames The Fountain guessed by donkeyjon
8) Cryogenics, Mother Figure, Warrior Woman, Space Colony Aliens guessed by nightshade_7976
9) Space Colony, Female Warrior, Eaten Alive, Megacorporation Serenity guessed by lordhellebore
10) Nazi, Drunk Scene, Macguffin, North Africa
11) Place Name in Title, Wheelchair, Person Lifted in Air, Green Eyes Big Trouble in Little China guessed by donkeyjon
12) Time Travel, Unwanted Kiss, Bully, Racial Slur
13) Midget, God, Surrealism, Treasure Time Bandits guessed by donkeyjon
14) Anarchy, Shot Through the Mouth, Penis, Subliminal Message Fight Club guessed by donkeyjon
15) Occult, Sadomasochism, Cheating Wife, Chained to Wall
16) Twist in the End, Nazi, Macguffin, Hero Raiders of the Lost Ark guessed by lordhellebore
17) Finger Cut Off, Apocalypse, Alien, One Word Title
18) Wish Fulfillment, Worm, Transformation, Crotch Shot
19) Incest, Undead, Industrial Music, Cat The Crow guessed by tempested_bird
20) Title Spoke By Character, Adopted Daughter, Revenge, Motherly Instinct Silent Hill guessed by tempested_bird
21) Writer's Block, Cabin Fever, Ghost, Possessed Human The Shining guessed by lordhellebore
22) Hell, Insanity, Space Travel, Mad Scientist The Black Hole guessed by tanarii
23) Vampire, Seduction, Monster as Victim, Reincarnation Bram Stoker's Dracula guessed by lucretiasheart
24) Hanged Man, Redemption, Jewish, Profiteering Schindler's List guessed by nightshade_7976
25) Nuclear War, Psychiatrist, Villain Played by Lead Actor, Waitress The Terminator guessed by tempested_bird
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/complacent.gif) complacent
Current Music: Yoko Kanno - "Rise"
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