Filling of the Sausage is with this and that

Yeah yeah so what I have a soft spot for Webber musicals. If you don't know what I am talking about then just be satisfied that I shared an embarassing secret with you because you just caught an extrodinarly obscure reffrence. So there.

A few things. Saw Friday the 13th part 3. Ugh, just ugh. I have no idea how this series managed to get off the ground. See the thing is despite its massive campyness I enjoy watching part 6. 6 is a pretty damn fun movie when you get right down to it. 3 was just painful and I ended up ignorning most of it. I mean christ. Oh and the 3d gimicks make me want to go find the person who thought that was a good idea and strangle them. I also want to see a porn in 3d. I also want a good horror movie in 3d. While I am wishing for things, I'd like to pet a deer. Anyone up for a trip to the zoo?

I really don't want to deal with part 2, and it kinda drives me nuts because I do have better movies to watch. So why bother? It's because Friday the 13th isn't like any other horror series on the map. It is totally unique when you consider how it evolved and changed over time. Both the images of Michael Meyers and Freddy Kruger were more or less set in stone by end the ends of the first movies. Visually and themeatticlly they became fixed almost instantaeously. Dryly I could say it is because they got it right the first time but I don't think that is entirely it. There is something diffrent about Friday the 13th which caused the series to grow, change, and evolve into the matichine which it became. Take the hokey mask which wasn't introduced until the 3rd movie, and even then it was part of a throw-away plot element. This girl was assaulted by Jason years before and she was returning to crystal lake for the first time and being retarded she didn't realize the masked killer and her assailent were one and the same until he took the mask off. OOOOERS. Yet this mostly ignored side plot has become an institution, people don't think of Jason without his mask it just doesn't happen.

As the series goes on it becomes more interesting to me.

And my hands hurt so while I have much more to say I am cutting it here.

Where Babies Come From

Firday the 13th part 6

NOTES!:

Lets face it the movies while as a whole are interesting to me, individually they do not warrent a whole heck of a lot of atension. I really don't understand my own intrest with the series but here it goes anyway. Theres are going to be a series of notes which I hope will become...something awesome, someday. While looking at another writting project I realized my proximity to the actual friday the 13th like in real life. I'd like to pretend that it is a coincidence. It isn't but then again its a day devoted to luck and coincedes so maybe it is.

Jason's eyes are brown. In this movie his resureaction is coming about through lightning. Like ties to Frakenstien, and the sort of drama intrinsic in that.

Also not that there is an attempted death via fire, perhaps a crossreffrence with Freddy vs. Jason.

Heh clever a little James Bond reffrence thrown in there I like that sort of thing.

So why am I not starting with the first movie? Well the first disk didn't burn right that's why. Also, really, REALLY, it isn't like the chronology matters a whole lot. The motherducker just got rezzed via lighting.

MAN I miss rated R movies. People in movies just sound like idiots dancing atound swear words. In the real world people do say fucked up. Then again it is nice to have movies feel like movies sometimes which is what happens when everyone runs around doing thier very best not to swear even though they are very much in a "oh fuck situation"

HEY SASHA a charecter just made a reffrence to a horror movie in a horror movie and the understanding that no man in the middle of the night wearing a mask is friendly. She's going to die now because because she listened to her dumbshit boyfriend...what the hell are there people even doing here, they aren't even on a road. Whatever.

Camp Blood, what an awesome name. Oh and it explained what thouse people were doing camp counsilers.

Man movies before cell phones. God I hate cell phones. I wish I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I could go to walmart...I have sunkist I care about nothing.

I think these moviesd make less sense to me because I've never been to summer camp. But I've met people who have become camp counsilers. They would be much better off with Jason in my opinion.

OH HEY this is one of the one's I've seen before. It is actually the movie that started this whole project.

Oh oh paintballers. With the rediculouse conversation about a man's game. Linked with idea that it is almost always a woman that ends up killing him. Lots of women die first but you know how it is.

I should do something with the humour in these movies. I should also touch on the fact that most people have only seen one Friday the 13th movie, along with cultural momentyum on the scale of superman/batman along with the horror movie crash, along with the horror movie revival, along with...space. I just wanted to see how long I could make that go, how disapointing. I should do Lepperchaun next. Or hellraiser which for two movies is actually good.

Ah alchoholic elderly humor!

Lots of cross visual irony. What overly violent cops. You know a lot of people kicked up a fuss with they changed the guns to walky talkies in ET but not me. That freaked me out as a kid. I mean he was clearly just a little boy running around and these cops are chasing after him with guns drawn. I knew full god damned well what guns drawn meant at that age and it really frightened me. I had already had an unhealthy distrust of adults as it was, cops running around with intent to kill some little kid really bothered me. DON'T argue with me gun out=intent to kill.

"No it was real just like on tv" quote for the ages ladies and gentalmen. Spoken by nacy the mcguffin. All children in this movie are essentially mcguffins.

Guy came to early=male inadiquacy=important!

One thing I like about Jason is his taste for horror. I mean the guy is, in this movie, dead, ressurected from fucking lightinging. He is super strong, and unless it is the end of the movie he is indestructable and yet he still takes the time to sneak around, be stealthy, and to kill people with finess, instead of just juggernauting at them pointlessly. No he took the time to sneak onto that camper and was all Solid Snake about it. Good job Jason.

Oh hey this movie takes place on friday the 13th wasn't sure about that.

One black girl down one to...oh wait one black person per movie my bad.

Yay Nancy our little prophet just woke up and saw jason.

I wanna learn how to do a bootlegger turn.

Nancy was also walking around with Jason's bloody machette she is now both everyman and the greek chorus. I will just throw post modern theory at it until you either believe me or unable to understand what I am talking about. It's like cheeze you just keep adding it until whatever you are eating tastes great.

God people in horror movies have shit peripheral vision
THis movie really really works well with what I want to do. It is very much the quinticential Jason movie that people think about when they thing Friday the 13th.

BUG MURDER!

Lots of insanity in the whole series. I can work with that extreamly easily. Reporcussions of battle.

That's right jason straight for Nacy!

And saved by the bell. Oh wait no they show her praying. Virgin mary to boot.

Man I can't think of camp crystal lake without thinking of that scene where Freddy jumps out of the water. That is so fucking cool.Yeah that's right fucking I AM RATED R. Cockslab!

I don't know why they bothered with the "is he dead thing" he got raied by lighting the shotgun isn't going to stop him... hell even Jason gives up on it after one shot.

Returning him to his original resing spot. There is something about that. Its like a kind of sacrifice in its own right. "What ere you going to be when you grew up, this movie is hilarouse".

God the main charecter bitch in this movie is stupid as fuck, she is running around screaming at the top of her lungs. I mean fuck. I can't beleive she gets to live she is by far the dumbest charecter.

If at first you don't suceed set something on fire.

Yeah see its the end of the movie so he looses his super strength.

And a man gets the kill in this movie. Wierd! Especially with all the chickzors power at the start...oh wait no she got him...with a boat propller. Good status quo maintained.

Oh and she gives crazy dude mouth to mouth and bringshim back to life YAY! I guess.

And the movies ended with terrible 80's music! Woo!

Made in 1986 3 mill budget 19 mill revenue.

Fuck.

Okay well that's how babies are made.

Cooking!

I'm cooking lunch and writting is fun. It also feels kinda like crack. So lets see what to write about.


Comics I've been reading.

Scalped. I don't care if you don't like comics get on line a buy copies of it. Not because I want everyone to read it but because I want it to last long enough so that it can reach its natural conclusion so I can read it. Scalped isn't really like anything I've ever read. The whole thing takes place on a native american reservation and it is an increadbly unique look into both crime, poverty, and a people wrestling to hold onto ancient customs. It is jaw dropping in quality, and one 6 issue story arc just covered the events of one night, told fragmentary style through the eyes of several of the charecters. I really want to go indepth with scalped but I am not even really sure how. There are so many ways to go about it that I am kinda mindboggled. It is a world compleatly divorced from my own and yet it is a reality that is right around the corrner. It is also so flipping well written that all I can do is just sort of fling around praise. Arrgh. It is something I would teach.

Thor. So people have been talking about how good the new thor book is. I didn't beleive them. Why? Well I always thought that Thor was a really stupid concept for a super hero. I really did. I mean to have the god of thunder running around calling people knave and throwing his hammer at them is sorta...dumb? He kinda filled the role of heavy artiliary, he'd show up, zap whatever the fuck and wander off. Mostly to asgard where things were his calliber. I dunno I might pick up one of the collections of older books, perhaps I've been unfair to him. I doubt it though. ANYWAY. So Thor is back. Apparently Ragnarok went down thanks to Loki, Thor and all the other gods died, but thor's human host brought him back...that was neat. I really liked that part. Then Thor rebuilt Asgaurd in the midwest, I really like that too. Although it was kinda random. So anyway thor goes and starts resurecting gods who all ended up in human hosts. While this happens some of them end up interacting with citizens of the small midwestern town that they are next to with hilariouse results. The whole series has this insanely charming feel to it. and it told the civil war to fuck off which made me happy. Oh which reminds me I want to do something on power and politics in a bit. Maybe after lunch which is ready now.

Scatter Shot

Oh man the things I want to write about have reached critical mass. Unfortunatly, the things I want to do have also reached critical mass so we have the unstoppable force versus the immovable object.

Heaven or Hell
Duel one let's ROCK

So a scatter shot, a sort of abstract of what is going on in my mind.

Activate!

Comics: Jesus what a month for comics. I mean holy shit. The way I break up my money now is that I spend 50 bucks on whatever comics I want, and I also have a list of discresionary comics which I will buy regardless of bugetar concerns. This month though? All Star Superman vol2, Batman RIP, DMZ Vol 6, Walking Dead Vol 9, and Simon Dark Vol 2 all come out. Most hit on the 17th, some hit on the 10th. Batman and Walking Dead are already in the mail the rest will be following shortly. I might be raising some eyebrows with the inclusion of superman in that list. However, it is the conclusion of the Grant Morrison run on that book and man. The first book I find to be simply breath taking. It is nothing short of mythic in size and stature. I love it so much. It is so big and so...warm is the only way I can think to describe it. It is like getting a metaphysical hug. I don't understand the way I feel about it. I do understand that I want it's conclusion.

BoOks: I've been reading Issac Asamov's foundation trilogy, slowly but surely. Man I like it. The best way to describe it is a collection of 6 novellas broken into two books themeaticly, and chonologically arragned to show how the development of empire. I really like it. It shows its age more than just a little bit at time, but instead of annoying me it just makes the book seem all the more allegorical. Not so much that it is a product of it's time, which it once was, but it is now a product for all times. Its one of those things that has this sort of keen grasp on human culture, society, and empire. And how understanding all these aspects can show us how to break the cycle of expansion, war, decadance, and downfall. They are an astounding piece of work. I'm 3/4th through the last one and I am dragging my feet now because I'm not sure what I want to read next.

Video Games!: Christ. I quit WOW because it was sucking up my soul and giving me SO little reward for time invested. Jesus. Now I am playing city of heros again and everything is amazing. God that game is so much better in so many ways. I've also started playing Ar Tonelico 2 which is increadble. I didn't have the money to pick up the first one when it came out and I regret that still to this day. Its sequal though is a mightly impressive game and I look fowards to playing some more of it relatively soon. There is ALOT to say about it but I also find the plot genuinely unpredicatable and it is interesting. It takes tropes which I have grown to understand, and become annoyed by in japanese cinema and it very specificly deconstructs them in a series of psychological excercises where you dive into the depths of their mind and rummage around. It's really neat at times and kind of silly when I think about how well done it is. It isn't perfect, I'll go with an 80% on this one, but when you consider the fact that it is deconstructing basic japanese tropes while telling a story at the same time...well done. Well done.

Oh yeah and persona 4 is out. I'm going to trade in all my psp games and buy it today. Pretty much as soon as I am done writting this. I don't really have the money for it but I figgure 6 or so psp games should be enough so that it is only 20 bucks or so. I NEED it. I also need to beat Persona 3. But I am lazy.

Also Dwarf Fortress is awesome. I want to post pictures of my current fortress and I might do that soon much to all of your bordom.

Theory: So there is a new Friday the 13th looming on the horizon. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited. I got this idea a while ago for an extended essay. Basicly I take Friday the 13th as a franchise of movies and treat them all as one singular text instead of 11 diffrent texts. When I do this I think all sorts of really wierd themes and ideas, along with this increadbly wierd morallity all comes to light. For my foundational theory I was going to use Rene Girrad's Violence of the Sacred and analyze the idea of revenge and the problems associated with it in terms of the movies. I am going to suggest that the leap Rene makes from religion to the justice system may be correct mechanically. Erm for all of you that don't know. Girrad claims that revenge violence is one of those things that society is constructed to prevent because it can rip apart communies at its core. Don't beleive me go look up blood feuds and stop argueing. He claims that a lot of religious cermimonies, including sacrfice help prevent this cycle of revenge violence. He then argues that the emergence of the justice system has taken on this role, I still think he is correct however, our justice system doen't moralize the masses. So instead of putting the burden soley on the justice system I am going to split it between the justice system and movies because I think I am right. Friday the 13th presents an utterly perfect example of how all this works for the first movie, second movie, and Freddy vs Jason. The rest of it makes things interesting.

They are all downloading now, it occures to me that I haven't seen half of them. Well that's about to change now innut?

Comics Again:
Look what I found-

Phonogram: Rue Britannia-

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Britannia is ten years dead. Phonomancer David Kohl hadn't spared his old patron a thought for almost as long... at which point his mind starts to unravel. Can he discover what's happened to the Mod-Goddess of Britpop while there's still something of himself left? Dark modern-fantasy in a world where music is magic, where a song can save your life or end it.


YEAH! It's in the mail along with some other extreamly rad books. That's the one I am most excited about though.

I'm also going to start collecting Y's the Last Man. I have no idea why I haven't done it already.

Sasha and I want to go to Azerbaijan she found and deserves all the credit for discovering how cool it is. I just fully agree with her.

Sasha found this which is just about the coolest thing ever

For thous of you who don't know Ceci n'est pas une pipe is one of my favorite paintings/ideas ever.

I want to do more calligraphy. AND THAT'S A WRAP!

Jesus.

UPDATE: YAY I turned in 6 psp games and found a used copy of persona 4 so I only ended up paying 4 bucks for it. I also pre-ordered the new Devil Summoner game:



It may or may not be soley for the plushie. Man I am a dork. AN AWESOME DORK!

Sick :-(

When we go we will leave behind no written records of our passing, no etches in the stone, no words to be passed down year after year until generations hence will have twisted them into some sort of hidiouse monstrocity through which they can commit murders in our name. No manifestos will follow in our wake, no art to stand forever on display static as things were not meant to be, as little men with smaller minds do their best to scilently preserve the emptyness of before for all eternity to see. No pictures though. It scorns the light.

Instead we will leave scribbles on the sidewalk, pastel assualts against the unending blackness of an uncaring road that leads to no where except where ever you are going. Light laughture, and sometimes love will be born from our couplings singing gaily into the wind which blows scattering the sounds we make. Dust and ashes.

Nothing left behind. Except the feeling that there will be something great, always around the next bend.

Sorry I am sick, and I am more than a little sad and that was up lifting to me.

Plan one Failed

Bars are simply not the right atmosphere. I suppose if I found the right bar it would work, but that would mean sampling a wide variety of bars trying to find somewhere that doesn't fail miserably at life. I just need somewhere comfortable to sit, and a table, and to be left alone. I can't even do that outside as cops feel the need to harass me instead of...oh I don't know patroling a ghetto or something. Fucking assholes, "What's in your briefcase?" Fucking assholes.

I did buy a printer though and so far it has been a BIG help yay!

I thought the other side would work because it is quiet two nights a weeks and that should be enough. However, it is DEAD. Two nights a week and sitting in an empty bar isn't any better than sitting at home. *sigh* this sucks. I have such a hard time writting here at home for a variety of reasons, but it is looking like I am just going to have to start breaking through all of that and doing it anyway. The problem is that I stagnate inside my own head, I need other people to prevent that from happening.

Man heaven forbid that you have alternative lifestyle needs. Oh well. I am just frusterated. But I seem to be writting alright now don't I? I am. So I guess I should stop complaining and take advantage of this situation.

Moral Quandary

It isn't often that I have moral quandaries. Gernerally my morals are pretty easy to live by, and live up to. Gay marriage, activate, right to choose ho!, don't fuck with people, easy! They go on and on. It isn't so much that I am taking the path of least resistence, but the fact is that I am white, male, and poor. It is really easy to uphold ideas of gay marriage because they don't affect me directly. In fact the real moral test would be in opposing it and trying to convince my gay friends that they are sick and need help. But no I just accept them for who they are and wander off. Easy!

I should be more active. I should write to my congressmen and senators. Specificly my senators because I think congress is a waste of time. I should write directly to president aides instead of the president himself, that seems like it makes more sense in the long run. I should be better educated on civics, and whatnot but these are all things I will either do or won't.

None the less I have a moral quandery. The real problem behind this quandary is that at the end of the day it is ultimatly useless. While I can delude myself into thinking I am changing something I am not and it really is soley and issue of abstract morals.

It is the comics books. Or rather more specifically the purchase of said comic books.

Two issues. Thrift. Supporting Local Buisnesses.

Heaven or hell duel one lets rock!

Thrift first. Lefts face it ladies and gentalmen at the moment I am poor! I survive on 12,000 dollars a year meaning I make around 1000 a month. Of course I don't really want for anything. I have a snazzy computer, food, a tv, and a comic book buying habit, and even a lil money in the bank. Things are alright. Now my views on thrift are diffrent. I don't save money for the sake of saving money. I just don't have that urge within me. In fact I loath to spend the time required to do that. So lets just move on past that little idea. Throw your traditional idea of thrift out and come with me.

I woke 40 hours a week. That sucks. Of course when you factor in getting ready for work, driving to work, driving home from work, and getting de-worked, it works out to being much longer than that. It still sucks. But it is nessiary. I sleep 7 hours a night on average. I'd get that down a little lower but I have a variety of sleep disorders which makes that hard, and migrians for when I fuck it up so I'd rather avoid thouse. Oddly enough I sleep better with someone, isn't that ironically funny? Lets move on though. The point is that I don't have a whole lot of time to myself. Not enough to get everything I want done, especially after we factor in everything I need to get done.


Money. Money is the condensed representation of my time spent at work. It is the time I would of spent doing other things distilled down into something less than it was origianlly worth and handed to me. To be honest there are times where I've wanted to say, "keep your 40 bucks I am going home" but that isn't how jobs work. They keep you there even when there is nothing for you to do, and they expect you to produce something even if it is nothing. It isn't just the job I have either, lots of jobs just sort of have useless busy work to keep its employees moving in case they are actually needed for something. Money. My material compensation isn't nearly enough but it is all I have. So when I spend it I make DAMN sure I get the most out of it as humanaly possible. Each month I make certain that I download at least 100 dollars worth of stuff to counter balanace the fact that I have to pay for internet acess in the first place. I did that in 16 hours when I downloaded rome seasons 1&2.

When I play video games I try to squeeze a dollar an hour out of them when I play them. So I just spend less on action games and more on RPGs and it generally works out for me.

I use my money in such a way so that I get as much as possible out of as little as possible. The use I have squeezed out of this computer has made it pay for itself several dozen times over.

On this score I am brutally effective at just about everything I do except...comic books.

Support you local businesses:

I beleive in supporting my locak buisnesses. I really do. It is nice, when you hand over your money, to be handing over to a person, usually the person you are seeing right there in front of you. After awhile they know your face, ask how you are doing, and make orders suited to you. Comic book stores are especailly dependent on this modle. 90% of its user base comes from repeat customers, and so it behooves them to cater to these people. To that end comic book stores are more than just stores. They are community centers. They provide places for people to play the games they just boughts, and encourage people to go forth and hang out at the store, using their recently purchased toys on their tables free of charge for the most part. Even a shoestring operation will have tables for people to play. Its just expected. Every time I buy a comic book from the interwebs I am not buying a coimic book from them and that sucks.

Now the problem:

I have recently, for other reasons, joined Books-a-million book club. I'm mathematically challanged and I didn't really thing 10% off would amount to all that much. And it isn't really, it comes to be the same price I'd get when would order it from amazon. Then I realized I can use $10 off coupons which they send me weekly in the mail. Combined with free shipping and we have a winner. I bought 5 comic books, for over $20 less than TBS. Ouch. just ouch.

So who wins? Not TBS that is for damn sure.

See here is the thing. Support your local buisnesses that is a movement I can get behind. Something I can help out with, and feel good about myself while doing it. The problem is that... well my local buisnesses don't support me. We aren't talking just the extra money. Hell I would pay extra to shop at TBS but I can't use that store's services. Why? Well they close at 8. I get out of work at 8:30. So what am I supposed to do? They stay open late on friday, but friday is magic night and trying to get magic unrealted things done on friday is stupid. Trust me I tried. I can't sneak in before work because they open at 12 when I am supposed to be there. Oh and I can't participate in fridaynight magic night because, yeah it starts before I get off work.

I'm not the only person in my situation. There are lots of us. To give the comics thing a rest for awhile. Recently, as in september my glasses suffered an acident at work, I don't know what got on them but it was bad. Anyway I needed new ones. So I figgured I'd go to a local opticians. I found an independently owned glasses place, got a couple of names tried to schedual visits. Didn't work out.

My days off being tuesday and wensday, you think this shit would be easy. BUT NO the earlyest either doctor could see me would be two weeks from then. And I couldn't wait that long. I need my damn glasses. So I walked into Eyeglass world and got seen within an hour. This story is repeated over and over again by me with diffrent small buisnsesses as I end up walking out of their doors and into the all embracing arms of the corporate owned goliath. I don't want to, but damnit I needed my fucking eyes examined. NOW. One was on vacation, and the other was just busy. So they loose.

This is the end of the day. Small buisness owners need to wake their asses up and realize that the 9 to 5 work day has been extinct for a long time, along with housewives and whatever the fuck else. I'm not willing to bend over backwards to spend money and why should I be. Half the damn city shuts down at 5, the rest at 8 and yet all sorts of corporatly owned stores are still doing a brisk buisness, and the small buisness owner is at home bemoning the corporate devil over dinner while I am at the corporate devil's store buying my own dinner. The entire small buisnsses model is supposed to be about convience when they make themselves anything but. Then they wonder why their stores are failing.

So yeah. Its what you get.

I could order online from smaller stores but even that in of itself is dicey. I don't trust the interwebs that much. So I am stuck between a rock and a warm soft convient place that makes my life easyer. Why choose the rock? Oh yeah because it is owned by someone I like. Sorry though kids I don't like you that much. Especially when I work a job where I get back far less than what I put in...at least before I make my own adjustments :-)

What's shakin

So this hasn't been updated in awhile has it? Nope. Well that is because I've started GMing exalted. Well okay I've only run one session so far but I am really excited about it and the second session is coming up sunday and there on into many months from now.

The downside being, my lunch time is now taken up by exalted. All exalted all the time. Lunch time is where 99% of all blog entires are birthed from. So this presents a multitude of problems for me. So I've decided to attack this problem utilizing a two pronged approch.

One is to buy a printer. I now have the super power to type anywhere. Time to put that to work. If I buy a printer I'll be able to type my rpg notes and print them, I type MUCH faster than I write.

Two is to set aside a writting night. I'd do it tonight but it is new year's day and the place I have chosen might be a lil crazy.

Hopefully between the two of them it will work out.

I was going to write a lot more but I suddenly got tired. It is 3:15 and I am a notoriouse insomniac so I'll take being tired when I can get it.

Be back in a bit.