Your mom goes to college.

"The difference between us and a computer is that the computer is blindingly stupid but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second."
-Douglas Adams

Also, I'd like to note that anyone that hasn't seen "Lemony Snickets: A Series Ff Unfortunate Events," should do-so. It's a VERY pretty movie.

And before I go any further I have to write about Guitar Hero, one of the best goddamn games ever! Never before have I rocked out so hard in my living room while in my boxers, giving the metal sign to people out the window. It's a game that plays like Rez, Frequency, and various other "hit buttons with the beat" games. BUT IF COMES WITH A FREAKIN' GUITAR!!!!!! So you know, I assumed I'd be rockin' out to Pantera and Megadeath, but I was EXSTATIC to rock out to songs like "Take Me Out" (Franz Ferdinand), "Killer Queen" (Queen), and "Godzilla" (Blue Oyster Cult)....oh...and did I mention MOTHA' FUCKIN' IRON MAN.

So yeah....you just rock out with a "guitar" controller in hand, playing different color-coded frets to what's flying at you on the screen. On easy the game is a little too easy, but as you progressively play on harder modes you also play more notes, until you get to a point where you might as well just grab a real guitar and play the goddamn thing (and it gets bat-shit hard!). I guess the biggest difference between playing the game or just playing a guitar is that you don't have to be good at guitar to get it (guitar is definately still harder since it has STRINGS and makes real noise!), but you also get to rock out with a full-fledge band that's actually GOOD.
So....I dunno. Either shell out the money and play it, or just goddamn come visit me and we'll rock out in undies in front of the window, with a view of palm trees, and stick out our tongues and give the metal sign to passer-byers.

Um, there's not too much new to report on. I guess there just isn't much to be said when you spend the majority of your life in front of a computer trying to find a job worth having.

Speaking of which, I didn't get the ABC job. Which is interesting, because when I asked why they choose someone else, the response was:

While we do not give reasons that we passed on any particular candidate, I would say in this case it was simply timing. I think you were one of a few people who were amply qualified.

Call me crazy, but when you're "amply qualified" for a job...don't you usually get it? So...I guess I'll just keep bothering them until it's easier for them to just hire me. Feel my annoying wrath ABC Disney, for I WILL get free access to your Haunted Mansion and Space Mountain if it's the last thing I ever do...which...I kinda hope is...that'd be a fun way to go out...

I had a job interview with a company called Moviola. You may or may not have heard of them, they used to make linear editing machines back in the day. Now they just rent out really expensive HD cameras and teach editing classess (for example, to editors that already work at Paramount, these aren't basic editing classess).
It's be a sweet temporary gig. It'd pay pretty decent and all I would be responsible for is prepping camera's for renters. In the meantime I would have free access to the cameras if they weren't being rented, alont with the editing suites.
(I.E. Derek would be playing with $20,000 cameras)

Hopefully I'll hear back from them sometime soon, I don't know how much more job searching I can handle.
Ultimately I'd also like to work at Vivendi, Blizzard, Atari, or Midway. All of which are within 20 minutes of me.

What else is new...Brenna and I went to the beach the other night so I could put some glowing plankton in a jar. Yeah, they were even cooler than the last time we saw them, because this time the water was choppy, and they were EVERYWHERE. Seriously, ever wave had a glowing green tip on it, and when it crashed it would cause the water to all glow green....sooooo cool.
Now I have a jar of it in my kitchen...if you ever want to come see it.

There is a trailer for Poultrygeist finally! Now you can see what I was doing for the majority of the summer...I can't wait to see the whole thing.
http://international.tromamovies.com/stream-qt.php?t=poultrygeist_teaser-hi

Hmmm....so yeah. The other night I was watching Cops, which is nice because the majority of the episodes are from the early 90's, right around the time when Long Beach was a sess pool trashy domestic disputes and rampid cocaine dealing. So if you're ever watching Cops there's a good chance you'll get a brief history of the area I'm living in, which has cleaned up a SIGNIFICANT amount since then (big props to the Ghetto Birds).

After Cops I was watching America's Most Wanted, because sometimes there's just not enough John Walsh in my life (except for when he rambles on for an ungodly amount of time at my college graduation...). It was a FUCKED UP episode about a dude known as the "Collar Bomber." It's a new reason that I'm glad I got away from Buffalo, because the whole case took place in Erie, PA...pretty close-by. It's about a pizza delivery dude that went to a place, to, guess what! DELIVER A PIZZA! When he got there some dudes strapped a bomb to his neck and gave him a scavenger hunt-like list of things to do, which would ultimately lead him to keys that would get the collar bomb off his neck. One of the steps on the list was robbing a bank, which is ultimately where police stopped him. They called a bomb squad to come help him...they didn't come on time (which was shown in video on t.v.....wow....cause I needed to see that).
Here, read about it, it seems like it should be a movie:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/erie_collar_bomber/

Oh yeah, he's still on the loose too.

Here's something cheery, it's a flash animation that I think is pretty freakin' amazing.
http://burstofbeaden.com/aneyeforannai.html
(that link might not work anymore, so go here if it doesn't!)
http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1040

Hell, while I'm at it here's a neat flash site that you can make your own 3D Magic Eye's with! (you know those cool-ass posters we all had back in the day that you "look past" to see the hidden image! i can't see it.....i don't see anything....WHY CAN'T I SEE IT??.....OOoooooo!!! I see it! That's neat! WOw! It's like...3D!....... yeah, those things...)
http://www.flash-gear.com/stereo/

That's it folks....I'll let you know if anything else happens? In the mean-time talk to me on AIM. I'm starting to get a lonely sitting in this god-forsaken closet every day :(

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She keeps her Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can't decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice

(Chorus)
She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

Recommended at the price
Insatiable in appetite
Wanna try?

To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from China
Went down to Geisha Minor
Then again incidentally
If you're that way inclined

Perfume came naturally from Paris
For cars, she couldn't care less
Fastidious and precise

Chorus

Drop of a hat she's as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild
She's out to get you

Chorus

Recommended at the price
Insatiable in appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try

"Killer Queen" -Queen