It's almost five in the morning. I should have been asleep hours ago. For no particular reason, I find myself wide awake. Now, this wouldn't be a problem but for the fact that I work this afternoon and then have to be back at 9am on Saturday. Thus, I am not in a good position to be at all effective at work on Saturday. Part of my insomnia is stress, but thats always there to some degree, so I'm not really sure why I'm still up. I can't decide whether to just stay awake or to try and get some sleep.
Feeling disconnected from the world again lately. My world more or less consists of work and my apartment. I need to make more effort to keep in contact with the few friends I have and to just be out more in general. I wonder if the fact that my job is so heavy on interaction with people is part of the reason I don't do more to seek it out outside of work? That may just be an excuse though.
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So what is it if you do nothing over and over and expect any result at all?
Upright Citizens Brigade season two finally came out on DVD. Only 20 bucks too. Too bad I already watched all of it. Probably going to buy Shadow Warrior tomorrow. It's a Japanese TV series from the late 70's starring Sonny Chiba. It inspired Chiba's character in Kill Bill as well. Sounds like it should be good. It's got ninja anyway.
On the ninja topic, Empowered volume 2 came out a week or so ago. It's a great superhero/comedy comic by one of my all time favorite creators, Adam Warren. I wish I could find a suitably hilarious example to entice you all to seek it out, but I can't find anything online.
I was at work on Sunday and saw something interesting. Well, ridiculous really. Nevertheless, I'll share. A guy wandering through produce had on a shirt with a dragon riding a motorcycle. And not like a cartoony dragon. I'm talking D&D Sourcebook style dragon here. On a motorcycle. I just can't fathom the audience for such a shirt. Casting aside the facts that a dragon would have no need to ride a motorcycle (being that they can generally fly, this one had large wings at least) and that the motorcycle was pretty small compared to the dragon, making actually riding it impractical, it's just a stupid idea at it's core. Yes, it's possible to combine two "cool" things and increase the coolness exponentially, but if care isn't exercised you can just as easily fall into the territory of say, a skateboarding T-Rex. A territory in which the entire world is diminished by such an images existence. Well, that's hyperbole, but it's still a stupid idea for a shirt.
Need a copy of Photoshop for Windows. Anyone got the hookup?
London in about two weeks. Still haven't quite realized I'm going.
Weird fact: Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice. This was the one where all Japanese people are portrayed as misogynists and Sean Connery in a black wig and big fake eyebrows is supposed to be convincingly Japanese. Also, rocket cigarettes.
Think I might go to sleep now.
Feeling disconnected from the world again lately. My world more or less consists of work and my apartment. I need to make more effort to keep in contact with the few friends I have and to just be out more in general. I wonder if the fact that my job is so heavy on interaction with people is part of the reason I don't do more to seek it out outside of work? That may just be an excuse though.
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So what is it if you do nothing over and over and expect any result at all?
Upright Citizens Brigade season two finally came out on DVD. Only 20 bucks too. Too bad I already watched all of it. Probably going to buy Shadow Warrior tomorrow. It's a Japanese TV series from the late 70's starring Sonny Chiba. It inspired Chiba's character in Kill Bill as well. Sounds like it should be good. It's got ninja anyway.
On the ninja topic, Empowered volume 2 came out a week or so ago. It's a great superhero/comedy comic by one of my all time favorite creators, Adam Warren. I wish I could find a suitably hilarious example to entice you all to seek it out, but I can't find anything online.
I was at work on Sunday and saw something interesting. Well, ridiculous really. Nevertheless, I'll share. A guy wandering through produce had on a shirt with a dragon riding a motorcycle. And not like a cartoony dragon. I'm talking D&D Sourcebook style dragon here. On a motorcycle. I just can't fathom the audience for such a shirt. Casting aside the facts that a dragon would have no need to ride a motorcycle (being that they can generally fly, this one had large wings at least) and that the motorcycle was pretty small compared to the dragon, making actually riding it impractical, it's just a stupid idea at it's core. Yes, it's possible to combine two "cool" things and increase the coolness exponentially, but if care isn't exercised you can just as easily fall into the territory of say, a skateboarding T-Rex. A territory in which the entire world is diminished by such an images existence. Well, that's hyperbole, but it's still a stupid idea for a shirt.
Need a copy of Photoshop for Windows. Anyone got the hookup?
London in about two weeks. Still haven't quite realized I'm going.
Weird fact: Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice. This was the one where all Japanese people are portrayed as misogynists and Sean Connery in a black wig and big fake eyebrows is supposed to be convincingly Japanese. Also, rocket cigarettes.
Think I might go to sleep now.
