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| 06:18am 24/07/2008 |
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| Sortie ciné anyone? |
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| 12:19pm 24/07/2008 |
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Wire in the blood sans Carol, c'est tout de même bizarre.
C'est pas pareil.
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Ce matin, un mail de Amazon me rappelle que c'est les 3eme demarques et me dit "allez voir Wall-E au cinema!"
C'est la premiére fois que Amazon m'injoncte d'aller voir un film tiens.
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Parlant de ciné, je propose une sortie ce weekend.
UGC des Halles.
Hulk, Hancock, Mad Money, Wanted, Voyage au coeur de la terre, Mes amis mes amours, Bon baisers de Bruges.
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| 02:02pm 23/07/2008 |
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hi pretty much i have like a week off with nothing better to do anyways if anyone wants some graphics done let me know
here is some of my old work of course goth theme |
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| 04:40am 24/07/2008 |
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if you believe in duality, press one
to vote for equal numbers, press one |
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| Collecting Stray Thoughts - 2008-07-23 |
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| 11:59pm 23/07/2008 |
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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
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| 09:28am 24/07/2008 |
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Arilyn asked that I notify our family and friends that we have had a blessed delivery in our British family. Our cat Eliza has safely given birth to 5 kittens today and we are very happy that mother and kittens are all doing so well. We have been expecting the birth for at least a week, and have been taking great care to ensure that she was confined in the evenings to Shevy's room where the box and blankets were ready. Of course she would decide to have them last night when we all forgot to put her up, and Brian came down at 0530 and heard plaintive squalls coming out of the hook room (larder where they used to hang the meat from hooks in the ceiling). Upon investigation he discovered that our little inexperienced mother had given birth to one in a box of kitchen implements that are too large for my stove, one was on the floor behind that box and another was across the room underneath a shelf. The floor in there is slate and the room is especially designed to stay cold, so that was about the worst place she could have chosen. Teenage mothers. So, Brian woke me up and we immediately went to work to warm the nearly frozen kittens, cut off the placenta from one of them, and to calm Eliza. I woke up the girls and they joined in the effort, with Shevaun immediately taking the kitten that was the coldest and giving it the 101 Dalmatians treatment, which worked admirably. I snipped the umbilical cord on the other and we reunited mother and babies in the box that was intended for the delivery in the first place. We then carted the lot downstairs and with Arilyn's assistance we deftly slipped a heating pad under the blanket in the box to give the babies some much needed warmth. As soon as I thought things were calming down, Eliza had another kitten, and Shevy and Arilyn were all atwitter with excitement. It being so early, as in before noon, Shevaun did not last much longer and took herself back to her bed. No sooner had Arilyn settled down with her bagel when we heard a loud meow and there in the box was yet another kitten! "Five, mommy, five!" I checked in to ensure that Eliza had everything under control and was glad to see that there was not much excitement, everything having been more or less reduced to routine at this point.
So, yes, five new kittens are on Trewollack Farm this morning.
Of course, the most interesting part of the entire process was the conversation that Arilyn and Shevy were having about how many different husbands Eliza must have had. |
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| the ultimate paranoid fantasy |
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| 04:23am 24/07/2008 |
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Russians experimented with telepathy in the 1950's. By hooking up a mother rabbit to eeg, ekg, and other biofeedback instruments, and keeping her babies on a submarine 500 kilometers away, with no radio contact, at non predetermined times, then killing her babies and watching her vital signs swing wildly.
Thus proving telepathy in higher mammals. Searching for organized harassment and mind control voices, one comes across much technology designed to do just that. The -Remote Viewing- program.
and of course, of course, yoga mystics, bearded hindus who will not answer any of your spiritual questions,
confuse you, and tell you nothing, because of their own greed for fame and attention.
If you sit with a person and look into each others eyes until everything dissolves away, soon they can see and hear each others' minds.
Oh how jealous the rest of the world gets, even family and friends, over a few moments of unfettered lucidity.
Oh how people will jump in and tell them, from all directions, that there is a better foundation than complete understanding and unconditional love. That's their game, and they don't know why they play.
There isn't any better foundation than unconditional love, and sometimes it's difficult to tell those with a lower thresh hold of pain -physical, psychic, emotional, spiritual- that they are wrong.
people always cut off pieces of their soul and check the mirror, to see how many pieces others are missing,
hoping no one notices, hoping that they are average.
In a vain attempt to hide their own faults, which they don't know or want how to fix, they label others
insane, or other labels and say to their mirror
'with a foot above these losers, I'm one step ahead of the game'
the reason there is no word for this sentiment, is because they control the language,
feeling that, knowing that that is how someone thinks, without being able to explain it to them
is, in their words 'feeling schizophrenic'
We didn't make all the problems in the world, but oh how much cover up, drugs, lies and
incomplete excuses they will make to completely take advantage of that, and ignore
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| 04:03am 24/07/2008 |
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If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. |
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| 11:26pm 23/07/2008 |
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| My "bucket list." |
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| 12:59am 24/07/2008 |
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OK, for starters, yes I saw the movie. No, I am not especially proud of this fact. To say that it could have been worse also rightly implies it could have been better, though to have been better it would of course have to be something that it was not. Categorically.
That's not what this post is about, so I'm not going to belabor that.
No, this post is about being so bored - existentially, even - that I'm considering staying up all night. Which doesn't even make sense, I realize, unless if you too can hit that point where suddenly you're so bored - uninspired would be an even better word - that you couldn't possibly sleep no matter how hard you tried. And my schedule is so fucked at this point, I figure why not?
Actually, this post isn't about that either. But it's closer to my point by a number of degrees.
To pass a little bit of the time, I've decided that I will share with you some of the things that I want to do before I die. There, that was the thesis.
Most people have these Hallmark hopes and dreams for this list. I don't know, something-something World Series (is that something you Win? I haven't watched a full game of a sport on TV since I was just post-gestation), see the (insert expected landmark here), etc. None of that for me. I could care less if I see Mount Rushmore before I die. If I won a trophy for a sport, the only thing I could think to do with the cup is drink out of it. ("Just pour the mocha in here, that's fine.")
No, the things I would like to experience before the "oh shit, I'm about to die" realization followed by an eternity of being the rest of the universe (and not me), are much more random. You may call them impractical. Most of them certainly not good ideas, and some of them may very well kill me or get me a disease in the process.
But who wants to be a healthy corpse?
This is in no particular order.
1. Have something that I create reviewed (ideally favorably though I'll take what I can get) in a location with massive distribution that does not have the words "occult" "conspiracy" or "counterculture" anywhere within the entirety of the publication / show.
2. Fear And Loathing, International. I would like to do this after I've knocked off a couple of the others, as it would most likely either end a) with my death or b) with a prison sentence that I'd want to kill myself to get out of. This mission unpossible: get together my most bizarre and unusual friends. If this means traveling hundreds or thousands of miles to gather them up, so be it. Acquire a copious amount of hallucinogens, and a veritable bevy of prostitutes, none of whom speak the same language as us or each other. Replacing sleep with chemicals, document the almost certain straight arrow shot to hell that ensues on the Internet. If necessary, add to this cocktail those drugs which provoke increased sexual urges, gambling, and sleep walking / driving / etc. Remove the word "no" and the thought "this is probably not a good idea" from our collective physical and mental vocabulary. Demand chaos, and expect nothing less.
3. This is an old one, and one of the less probable ones. (I'm not even sure if it's possible.) I have always- since I was a child- wanted a silverback gorilla in a pin-striped suit that I could train to teach solitaire and refer to as "my bouncer." Though back then he was my bodyguard. But I think bouncer is better. Seriously, you will never need violence when you have the threat of a grouchy silverback gorilla just a room away. (A grouchy silverback that almost certainly sucks at playing solitaire.) I'll grant this is something one "has" rather than "does"- just don't say that to the gorilla. He is no one's bitch.
4. Create something that I feel truly happy with- at least for a week- without that itching, burning, gnawing that I can do better. (Or was that caused by #2?) This feeling is probably to be enjoyed with a full-bodied wine or beer. Maybe some lambic. And a friend or two who can sit there quietly and bask in contentedness with you without asking you what you're going to do next.
5. Milk yaks with Jillian somewhere in Tibet, churn butter from the milk, and demonstrate that google was right, and it is both nutritious and delicious.
Actually, this one isn't very important. A better one might be: kidnap Jillian. Avoid the authorities.
6. Spend an entire week with at least two people that I find incredibly sexually appealing doing nothing but having sex, eating, massaging, imbibing uh... those things which may enhance or intensify the experience... and very occasionally, sleeping. Granted, I've done it before but it was definitely worth repeating. Activities such as swimming are also allowed, but anything not immediately related to the potentially gratifying experience of being physically present in a body (e.g. anything that glows on a screen) is right out. We simply don't enjoy the possibilities nearly enough.
7. Writing, co-producing, soundtrack production, etc for a feature length film or similarly "immersive" project. Though nice it's not the credits that I care about, it's the experience. I want to do something that intense with a team of people that are every bit as dedicated (obsessed) with the production as I am, and with the funds to actually fucking do it right.
8. Get to watch Christie come into her own and get healthy along the way.
9. Finally, possibly most important and least likely. Spend a month in a beautiful location with the people I care most about without any of us once thinking about a project, work, financial stress, or any element of success or failure- just living. This is obviously only truly possible after some of the others have already been fulfilled.
Do you see the common theme here? Most require an inordinate amount of money. I need to get on that. (But the last one doesnt, you say. Bullshit, not having to think of such things is the most expensive of them all.)
One final thing, I'm not entirely kidding. This is probably why the universe doesn't want me to get famously wealthy. Because I would do these things. And if I don't get the opportunity to check at least some of them off the list I will return to this Earth a vengeful ghost. |
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www.citynews.ca/images/2006-08/aug0106-heatsun.jpg
The phrase Dog Days or "the dog days of summer", refers to the hottest, most sultry days of summer. They are a phenomenon of the northern hemisphere that usually falls between early July and early September but the actual dates vary greatly from region to region, depending on latitude and climate. Dog Days can also define a time period or event that is very hot or stagnant, or marked by dull lack of progress.
The term "Dog Days" was used by the Greeks (see, e.g., Aristotle's Physics, 199a2), as well as the ancient Romans (who called these days caniculares dies (days of the dogs)) after Sirius (the "Dog Star"), the brightest star in the heavens besides the Sun.
Popularly believed to be an evil time "when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid, causing to man burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies" - Brady’s Clavis Calendarium, 1813.
The Dog Days originally were the days when Sirius, the Dog Star, rose just before or at the same time as sunrise (heliacal rising), which is no longer true owing to precession of the equinoxes. The ancients sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the rage of Sirius, believing that that star was the cause of the hot, sultry weather.
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| 12:03am 24/07/2008 |
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Well, I joined that group and its affiliated forums months ago, although I've been and continue to be a questioning skeptic to the whole thing, but I guess I can say that it has evolved a bit ever since I first came across it while reading this (two-year old, but very "epic") thread at Neoseeker.com.
It has gained a rather large membership of folks (300, as of July 24); among the most common topics of discussion are personal faith, astral travel and dreams, especially those which concern the Digital World and Digimon. The group has also suffered from a number of raids and infiltrations from the members of various forums and imageboards.
Digiclipse and Metaphysics
I've asked on one of the affiliated forums about if the whole Digiclipse project is meant to have a digital nature or an astral/metaphysical nature, as the latter seems to be much more utilized and displayed during forum discussions; one of the replies are the following:
I really think it has to be a combination of both metaphysical as well as technological means, but I look at it this way.
Too many people want a physical way to the Digital World, to go on adventures and save the world with their digimon partners. When you think about something "digital," however, you think about numbers and binary and code and information and things that are not physical. At best, the only way to satisfy these people is with highly advanced virtual reality.
I don't have any answers about the digital world and the astral plane. In fact, I think "astral" is actually the wrong word for it. I see the digital world existing as another realm, alongside the countless other realms that exist out there, and just like you can project into one, you can project into another. This is because, as far as I know, these other realms exist on a higher frequency, in which matter is disregarded. Bodies are not necessary and actually hinder things there.
I get results when I do things metaphysically or through magickal means (or just magical, since I've gotten come complaints about the way I spell the word), and not just with digimon-related business. But concerning the digimon, it's enough for me. It's my preferred method. That doesn't mean I'm going to hinder those who prefer to work with technology, however....
....I don't think it's about finding answers, I think it's about experiencing new things and growing as a person because of them. So I can't tell you about the origins of the digital world, or how it functions in relation to the astral plane, or anything of the sort.
....I will tell you, though, that I do believe the internet to be its own "plane" just like we have physical, astral, and spiritual planes. I believe that there can be inhabitants of this plane, and those are the ones our minds perceive as "digimon" when we do metaphysical work with traveling to/communicating with this plane. Thus reality shifts. So this approach - the combination of metaphysics/magic(k) and a fetishized Internet (based upon a premise set forth by a Japanese anime) - is, IMO, rather unique for a new religious movement.
I wrote about it at the forum a few nights ago:
If the Digiclipse and related projects have both a metaphysical and a digital side that are meant to balance (if not cancel) each other out, I wonder if this is one of the few and first examples of "Internet-centric spirituality".
Other, previously-constituted spiritualities have used computers, software and the Internet as a means to simply communicate whatever's been written in old or recently-published paperbooks, but the adherents do not actively embrace the same outside of the realm of "tools of the trade". Furthermore, those who use the Internet as a means to set up a spiritual shop are derided by those of similarly-aligned but opposing faiths as being purveyors of twisted, misconstrued "Internet religion"; this occurs especially in the realm of neopagan and animistic spirituality, where words are thrown between "real practitioners" and "Internet gurus" who are accused of corrupting the faith or defrauding people of a particular ancestry whose long-dead ancestors practiced a similar belief system.
The Digiclipse project, IMO, may have come closer to crossing that chasm in that it gives a greater (canonical) credence to things of a digital, man-made-and-machine-processed nature. It's pretty hard, from a Google search, to come across a similar belief system that actively embraces computers and the Internet as being a means of communicating with astral and spiritual things (which are involved with the Internet) and beings rather than just tools of communication between believers who subscribe to a belief in those astral and spiritual things and beings (which aren't involved with the Internet).
Even those who are into UFOlogy and paranormal studies don't entirely embrace the Internet outside of the "tools of communication between subscribers" pigeonhole. For them, the Internet fails to communicate the experience of abductees and encounterees of paranormal queries.
However, that doesn't mean that the Digiclipse project fares that much better than the UFOlogists and paranormal scholarships; the Internet and its present facilities still don't effectively communicate the professed experiences of the Digiclipse members with others of a like mind, although that may (or may not) change with the ongoing advances in network computing and user interfacing.
The only difference that I see between the two is that computers, software and networks are much more involved as facilitators of the professed encounters of the Digiclipse members, and are more embraced as themes of the spirituality and metaphysics, than they are to the UFOlogists and paranormal scholars, and even far more computer-embracing in comparison to those who have a more traditional religious/animistic bent or bias.
But when the technology expands in capability, does the Digiclipse project expect that more things of a spiritual and metaphysical nature will increase in occurrence? Or will the occurrences expand in number and breadth because of the increased number of folks drawn into the Digiclipse project and related initiatives?
I remain an adamant skeptic, although I'll to admit that I'm acclimated more to the Digiclipse/RDB project's goals and beliefs than I am to Wicca, Christianity, or even UFOlogy. The Digiclipse and the furry fandom
Just to get it out of my system, I'll predict that, at some point in the future, this Internet-based spirituality will intersect with the furry fandom, or vice versa.
I say this because
- The Digimon franchise already enjoys utilization as a base of inspiration for the design of personal fursonas, not to mention the copious amount of furry art (often yiffy) utilizing such characters as Leomon, WereGarurumon, and Renamon.
- It is possible that the belief in the existence of Digimon and the Digital World can intersect with the furry fandom's deep philosophy/spirituality section - namely, the school that puts forth fursonas, fursuits and other personal furry/otherkin (re)conceptualizations as the true embodiment of "human" natures.
What could arise out of the latter supposition is something akin to the development of the Five Percenters group:
some of us are actually, or spiritually, Digimon in a physically-human embodiment, and must thus work towards the development (if it doesn't already exist) or maintenance/regaining (if it already does exist) of the Digital World, starting with the wearing of Digimon fursuits at conventions, Digimon avatars on virtual worlds, and Digimon-Digital World MUCKs on Telnet.
I honestly see that happening. And when that does happen, this sudden realization that we're spiritual Digimon in a human body, you can expect a slew of Digimon Otherkin taking part in discussions on the furry, Otherkin, Digimon and general anime forums on the Web.
Of course, how this group of Digimon Otherkin will deal with those who see themselves as Digimon Tamers (some of whom are on the mailing list, the forums, and on YouTube) is a completely separate matter altogether. |
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But I have no inspiration. I've asked for it before, but does anyone have any suggestions?
Things to write about, rants of mine they'd like converted to text, or just general advice to remove writer's block? Anything would be appreciated. |
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Your result for The Steampunk Style Test... The Explorer29% Elegant, 43% Technological, 20% Historical, 48% Adventurous and 47% Playful! 
You are the Explorer, the embodiment of steampunk’s adventuring spirit. For you, clothing should be rugged and reliable, and just as functional as it is attractive. You probably prefer khaki or leather, and your accessories are as likely to include weapons as technological gizmos. You probably wear boots and gloves, and maybe a pith helmet. Most of what you wear is functional, and if you happen to wear goggles people had better believe that you use them. In addition to Victorian exploration gear, your outfit probably includes little knickknacks from your various travels. Above all, you are a charming blend of rugged Victorian daring and exotic curiosity. Try our other Steampunk test here. Take The Steampunk Style Test at HelloQuizzy |
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Oh, wait, I see.
They foiled my cunning plan of not telling them about my abortive three semesters at Northwest Shoals (well, okay, I made a 3.9 one semester and withdrew for 2 semesters and had two FAs that last semester because the damn head of finacial aid wouldn't let me withdraw). Now I have to go get those transcripts sent to Wallace State and UAH (UAH seems a lot more friendly and inclined to want me to go there, so I'm really leaning toward them right now...)
By the ay, Wallace State NEVER answered the phone, but they sent me a nice letter.
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| 09:07pm 23/07/2008 |
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In celebration of our young ward, known as Mancub, departing back for home, I now announce that today is NO PANTS DAY!! So, air out those cottons like there isn't a teenager of the opposite sex in the house, and say..."Aaaahhh..." |
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