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Important Late Night Ramblings (Daniel's Journal)
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Submitted by Daniel on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 03:37
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It's past 2:00 am here and I have passed into zombie stage, where i can't stop staring at the screen or clicking... or posting. I think it had something to do with the mountain dew i drank a couple hours ago. Maybe it's because I know that if i go to bed i'm just gonna have to get back up and go to work again. Maybe it's cause.... I wonder if anyone sent me a message on my facebook!
*goes and looks*
nope. no messages. I wonder if that's because it's 2:00 am and everyone's asleep, or if it's because nobody wants to talk to me! I better go send all my friends pieces of flair so they know i was thinking about them
*sends flair*
There, all my friends got flair, except Steph. :( She doesn't know what flair is. She wont switch to facebook. I used to fear facebook too, only stuck with Myspace, now i hate myspace but that's only because i can check facebook from my phone where as Myspace mobile is JUUUUUUUNK.
WHAT A WORTHLESS POST!
it's now 2:27. maybe i should go to sleep now. Kiddo's already konked out on the couch behind me. If i go to bed now I could watch some or the second time showings of Adult Swim. But it's just another family guy episode i'm sure.... Family guy....
Hey that reminds me! EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THIS VIDEO!
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR88nKyKj3U[/url]
OH yeah! You just got Rick Rolled HIZNATCHes! :P
ANd on that note, i'm gonna go to bed. Sure to have dreams of this crappy song and video... now i'm regreting putting it in the post.
oh well. it was worth it :)
It's 2:35 now
*gets out of chair*
*going to bed*
Comments:
Gross
Let's just hope the cat doesn't keep his trophies on top of your house either!!!
Ooo! You're right! *runs
Ooo! You're right! *runs to inspect the gutters*
I actually had something
I actually had something similar happen to me and my brother when we were younger. It all started one day long long ago............ (FLASHBACK)................. I walked into my brother's bedroom to see him looking out of his window. When I asked what he was looking at, he gave me a quick "sshhhh", and motioned for me to come there. When I got to the window he pointed out into our backyard. I followed the invisible line made by his finger and saw one of our cats, crouched and moving slowly towards the foot of the big tree in our backyard. But unfortunately we couldn't quite tell what it was that our cat was stalking. "Hey lets go to the den and see if we can get a better look" I whispered. So we ran out the room, down the hallway, got in trouble for running in the house, and into the den. Now from the new viewpoint we could see a lot better. Down at the foot of the tree, was a baby bird, that had apparently fallen from it's nest. The cat was much closer now and the baby bird was hopping around frantically. As I sat there and watched from the window, I thought it was really cool that I would get to see our cat attack something, but at the same time I felt sorry for the bird. So like all grown up kids should do, we went and told our mom what was happening. She told us that we should hurry outside and try to scare the cat away and save the bird. My brother and I pulled on our shoes and raced to the back door. We jumped off the back deck just in time to see our cat pulling its prize under the tool shed. Needless to say I was a little disappointed, because I didn't get to save the bird, but at the same time I didn't get to see it attack anything either. However later on in the day, I heard a loud commotion outside, and when I went to look I was shocked at what I saw. There were several birds in the trees around my house cawing and flapping violently. A few were swooping and diving. And there in the middle of our yard was the cat getting attacked by the birds. So in the end I got to see something get attacked after all.....................Ok the end. I'm not sure why but I wanted to try my hand (because I only have one) at writing a short story. All this is pretty much true too. I may have fudged on the details a little because it has been a long time since it happened. But its all true, even the end which I still think is weird. But I'm done because this is "Danial's Late Night Ramblings" and I am not Daniel nor is it night here. lol
Dang....just when I thought
Dang....just when I thought I smelled A SEQUEL!Or maybe thats roasting....Oh boy, I'd better go check it out.
OK Go
I've been blasting the Ok Go song "This Too Shall Pass" in my house tonight. This is my new favorite song for the moment. Plus the video makes me so happy :) if these guys came marching down my street I would freak out and HAVE to follow them. so that's all i got for now. What music videos put you in a good mood?
love
Loved that. It made me really happy. :)Also, how did they do the shot at the end? I thought it was a crane but it seemed too crazy high?
AWESOME!
Yeah, I pretty much adore this video. As a former band geek myself (high school AND college), it puts me in an awesome mood. Daniel, I hope this is on your CD this year (you know what I mean!)! If not, it will be on mine. :)I don't know how they did that last shot either. I used a super high crane in a commercial once, so I think it might be that. The cameraman could just step on to it backwards. But they make a lot of noise, so I'm not sure?So great. :)
it's on the cd :)
it's on the cd :)
I had such a messed up day
I had such a messed up day yesterday I ended up staying up till 4:00am painting the enterprise set. 4 in the morning! on a Monday! (tuesday technically, whatever) My brain is absolute mush now. who wants donuts? ... cool go get me some :) I'm craving them. Bring back some chocolate ones! I like those best.
Sorry - I only have
Sorry - I only have strawberry. and I've eaten to many strawberry donuts. Trust me.
eh!
eh!
eh?
eh?
like seeing a spider in the
like seeing a spider in the conrer of your eye!
I've been flying through
I've been flying through Star Trek production so much I haven't had time to think lately. I don't suspect to be free for a while either since the script we wrote is one of the more lengthy of our HISHE collection. Sometimes jokes just play too well off of each other I guess. But it's been fun to work on. I want to share what i've been working on but I CANT. ugh, I feel sort of trapped :) So... lets talk about something else. Valentines day? NO! Valentines Day SUX! um... TV shows? Parks and Recreation is the Bomb! I am seriously crushin on Aubrey Plaza....I'd so give her a Valentines Sux valentine. :) LOST is not really winning me over at this point. I keep waiting for the big awesome thing to kick off being that it's the last season and all, but it seems to have forgotten it's on a serious deadline. I haven't been really diving into many other shows lately. I need suggestions. preferably shows I can watch online. What else... um..... I scratched my face last night by walking into a branch outside and now I look like the evil alter ego version of myself with this red line on my cheek. All I need is a goatee... or an eyepatch. hmm... I'm not sure what my evil opposite name would be. Probably something like Brok or Shawnald. Is Shawnald even a name? it is now. That sounds like the name of a pretty wicked horrible person, right? Shawnald. Like you're about to give this hot girl a valentines day card, we'll call her Shmabrey, and just as your about to hand it over Shawnald walks up and pants' you and stomps on your pet goldfish and somehow everybody thinks it's hilarious leaving you without a girl or a goldfish. *shaking your fist* "SHAAAAWWWWWNAAAAAAALD!" Yep, that sounds pretty horrible. That's the kind of person I look like with a scratch across my face. Without the scratch however I'm completely nice and awesome :) not a goldfish stomping douche. WOW! OKAY, I NEED SLEEP APPARENTLY! my serious apologies if there is anyone nice out there named Shawnald. :)
they wrote the last episode
they wrote the last episode of LOST first lets call the smoke moster man "Shawnald"but anyway the LOST will Answer itself, its not like the generated all these questions and hen found the answer they thought of something that could happen and cause mystery and then they thought of a ton of questions it could answer, so it will all work out.
Oh no
No isaac, they are just making it up as they go.
well, actually
Given the basic plot to Lost, that is an actual possibility!
bliss we are opposites when
bliss we are opposites when it comes to this youve never seen an episode and ive never missed one, i know what im talking about.its like they put things into BTTF 2 that had to do with things that would happen in BTTF 3 like the clint eastwood shot theat biff was watching in the hot tub and the video abut mad dog tannon there were things from season one that you didnt really notice that actually had subtle meanings in season six things that you wouldn't go back and explain.spoilers belowThe smoke monster examined locke in the very beginning of the first season. and througout the series came in the form of Jacks dead father claiming he spoke for Jacob (but really being his adversary who was trying to use a loophole to kill Jacob) in jacobs cabin. lines of ash act as unpenetrable walls for the smoke monster or anydead persons form he takes. the he had a circle of ash around the cabin that had aa small opening, the ash would convince people that the smoke monster couldnt get in there, but he used the opening to get in(the opening was shown in season five but the significance of the ash was not shown until season six) throghout the series the smoke monster man used the form of jacks dead father toget Locke to the place he wanted, which involved Ben killing jacob and smoke monster man taking on the form of locke (who was dead) and convincing ben to kill jacob (loophoole!)and we didnt know that the smoke monster was the one taking jacks dads dead form or looceks dead form or jacobs adversary until season sixspoiler endalso before this my older brother had seen some video podcast of the writers of the show who said the wrote the last episode first.
i think
I think Bliss was being sarcastic
LOL I WAS being sarcastic.
LOL I WAS being sarcastic. Good to know though iSaac, Good to know.
oh... its hard to tell, the
oh... its hard to tell, the clicks fo your keyboard didn't sound sarcastic...
Six kinds of awesome.
I loved this post. You're kinda fun when you're tired. ;)
wow...
I love a good ramble, and I think you have mastered it, Cap!
Kubrick and Spielberg
I watched Clockwork Orange and A.I. today... I don't recommend this ever. I feel like I've been gone for 3 weeks and witnessed all sorts of dark, creepy, confusing, painful, mind bending, horrifying things all in front of many beautiful backgrounds... Don't ask me why i felt the urge to watch both of these painfully long movies in one day. Maybe to just compare what Kubrick was to what Spielberg thought he was... either way I'm exhausted now on so many levels. Clockwork Orange is so original for it's time, but it's also freakin disturbing so I don't care to watch it again. And A.I. just makes me angry because I feel it could have been amazing, but somewhere it decided to suck. If you compare the style and effects of A.I. to some current films it's actually really incredible, but sadly the movie turns weak and all that hard work goes in the trash. It really annoys me when old ILM effects look better than they do in more current Star Wars movies. I also find the style and effects of A.I. very interesting considering Minority Report came out right after that movie. Can you say practice movie? Well, I will take it since Minority Report in my opinion is amazing (minus the cliche' Indiana Jones style chase scenes)Anyway, my brain is absolute mush now. good times. yay film school.
"Gimme a Stan & Steve, on the rocks."
Yeah, that's a pretty bizarre cinematic cocktail. Kubrick by himself is plenty, but... Funny you should mention Minority Report - of those two films (AI and MR), I remember Minority Report really well, and A.I. not well at all. Clockwork Orange is in another category for me - more like how one remembers a nightmare - a really well-made nightmare, based on a critically acclaimed novel..."yay film school."Are you?
next marathon
Ok today I watched two much easier films The Thing, and Fantastic Mr. Fox, as well as seeing Kick Ass in theater yesterday. So I feel like my pallet has been cleansed from the Kubrick overload of the other day. Kick Ass was entertaining, but honestly it didn't rock me like I was hoping it would being that I love super hero stories. I didn't hate it. There were several great moments that even kind of gave me goose bumps, but something about the film didn't really captivate me and leave me cheering for more when it was over. I can't put my finger on it. I think I need to just go watch it again. (moving on, since this isn't the thread to debate that movie)Next was John Carpenters The Thing, which was $9.99 blue ray btw, I picked this one because 1. it was cheap and 2. I hadn't watched it in years and possibly never even saw it all the way through because I didn't remember most of this movie. If I had watched this all the way through before I'm sure I got bored because I was too young and back in those days I only wanted chase scenes and gun fights. I was really impressed how well made that movie is. The monster effects are super dated, but the cinematography is fantastic. You don't see the pacing of these movies very often anymore. It takes it's time telling the story and completely ropes you in. I loved it. I couldn't help but imagine how and when they decide it's time to re-make this movie how someone will eff it up because they will think a flaw in the old version was because you didn't see the monster enough or there wasn't enough "action" *sigh* ... remakes....The last is Fantastic Mr. Fox. Even better the second time. I briefly watched some special features on this one and saw the comparisons to the original artwork of the book vs the movie. That made me love this movie so much more. I had wondered what made them choose such stylistic looking animals and it totally made sense now. Also, I think the story just flows way better after you have a handle on what's going on. Such a good movie! Now that I've watched all these movies, I think Kubrick and Anderson are very similar when it comes to film making. Their cinematography and locations look very familiar to one another. They both love to have that wide angle, perpendicular framing technique. The stories are always incredibly unique and different than anything else out there. The only difference is Anderson movies make me feel happy inside when it's over, where as Kubrick films usually reverse that. I'm sure there are many people who would be upset that I even compare the two, but I do think visually they are very much alike.So that was my movie weekend. who knows what's next on the list. I do want to watch some more John Carpenter stuff now to see how things differ.
Daybreakers
I finally watched Daybreakers today, and I have a serious issue with the whole vampire genre now. I'm watching the movie, and I already have a problem with vampires continuing a society like humans, driving cars, having senators, having coffee shops, but whatever I'm willing to let that slide. I have discovered a different flaw that nobody has explained (or at least I haven't seen in a movie yet) about the vampire way of life that makes me toss the B.S. flag, so hear me out. Most vampires in movies are so suave and nicely dressed and so elegant, they look so perfect (next to being blood sucking monsters) but there's something wrong with this fact when VAMPIRES CAN'T BE SEEN IN A MIRROR! So my question is: How in the world do they groom themselves every day?! I mean every night!? Is it a tag team effort? Is there a vampire buddy system? "Ok, your hair look awesome and so do your clothes, now it's my turn." Is there really a vampire dress up hour???? or Is it a natural vampire instict to be able to stylize yourself without the use of a mirror? It has to be. Someone needs to make a movie where a vampire wakes up in their coffin with serious bed head and his/her vampire buddies go "hey get ready it's time to go eat people and then stand around looking awesome!" And then that vampire gets a brush or shakes their head around and then they just magically turn awesome. Because for real... they can't use mirrors!This is an important piece to the puzzle! WHO's fixing all that vampire hair!? :)
I don't know, they've made
I don't know, they've made enough changes as it is, By now I don't think it's even worth argueing.That would be like if they make the Avengers movie and take away all their super powers make them a weak alliance, and changed the names of each of them. Then complaining that Iron man is wearing a cape.
vampires as a whole?
cant we just move back to the old Dracula days?"BLEH!!!! I VANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD!!"ah well those days are behind us...
Thats a very good point
Thats a very good point Daniel, but I believe hollywood just ignores vampirology because no vampire in twilight would survive in the sunlight anyway.
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