WARNING! Another seizure-inducing post!*

WARNING! Another seizure-inducing post!*

Man, I really wish there was something going on right now. As it is, I've been working quite a bit lately--including tomorrow when I'll have to wake up early to take a gentleman I dislike to the dentist before going to the office to do mindless prep work before the Western starts shooting next week--doing background and PA work. Whatever. It pays the bills, but that's important because I'm gearing up to pay off the rest of my debt. After the debt's paid off I plan to immediately put myself back into it when I shop for and buy a new computer. My guy's been a trooper, Frankenstein-ed together from parts that range from three years old to around seven. He's been coughing quite a bit lately, even after disc refragmentations, program deletions, registry cleanups, scan discs, etc., and crashing sometimes several times a day. You're a good man, Charlie Brown, but now you're going to die.

No worries, though. He's an organ donor. Some of his parts will go to less fortunate computers (namely Jessie's) whose systems are in much worse shape than mine. While my guy has been comfortable running with its gig of RAM for the past several years, Jessie's system has been running Win XP with only 64 megs and several programs loading at startup, including antivirus software. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I've literally double-clicked the web browser, left the room, made a meal, then come back just as the browser finally settled into a working mode. Not surprising considering the minimum RAM specification for Win XP is 128 megs, though 64 is supported so Microsoft can take the money of those that enjoy their meals at the computer.

In other news that is not, strictly speaking, news: visit The GPod Podcast website for free access to some great stuff in the public domain. For example, I'm currently downloading Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by avant-garde filmmaker (and one of my favorites) Maya Deren. Igonore all the skull & bones and the color scheme that ranges from black to lighter black. The website dedicates itself to the occult and other "fringe" interests, but looking through that guise, one discovers some great, free resources (like previous entries' audio such as H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and The Dancing Wu Li Masters [which, incidentally, is much fonder of its own words than it has a right to be]). I'm currently enjoying part one of a series called "What We Still Don't Know" that I found on the site. Explore, and enjoy.

And wish me luck for tomorrow.

Watching:

"Neverwhere"

Incident at Loch Ness

Strings

"What We Still Don't Know"

The Player

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Wizard of Oz

Listening to:

The Dancing Wu Li Masters

Reading:

The Island of the Day Before

Red Razors (Finished.)

Marvels (Finished.)

Animal Man (Finished.)

Animal Man: Origin of the Species (Finished.)

Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina (Finished.)

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^*Probably not true.

As if there was any doubt.

As if there was any doubt.

I'd like to point out that the Cardinals are the number one team in the MLB. (Numbah wan kee-lah! Any Branded to Kill fans out there? No? Just me and Nick? That's okay.) I'm just saying the Cards rule.

Watching:

March of the Penguins (Really nothing special. Really.)

Visitor Q

Gozu

"Neverwhere" (Has anyone seen this BBC mini-series? It's actually quite awful. I bought the bootleg several years ago at some hole-in-the-wall comic convention on one early Sunday afternoon, and I recently rediscovered them amidst the things under my bed. It's primarily a sleep aid. Imagine a second-rate novel turned into a third-rate [even fourth-rate] BBC production. It's really, really bad... Recommended only to masochists and insomniacs, even with the great-looking titles designed by Dave McKean.)

Incident at Loch Ness

Strings

Listening to:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu

The Dancing Wu Li Masters

Reading:

American Gods (Finished.)

The Island of the Day Before

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