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Schizophrenia

This is a short film created by Daniel Johnson, Jake Buck and Matt Gudgel. Please enjoy and comment on it!

I’ve been editing video today on the PowerBook. Here’s some shots of the grand setup:

Pictures have been posted from the concert.

It seems like it’s about time for a post for this month. I think I’m going to rework the site in a major way soon. It appears to not be much of a functioning entity.

Anywho, I’m off to AniMix sometime next week. Not sure how soon I can go down there, depends on how many nights we have our rooms. Should be a blast though.

I’m seriously considering the purchase of a Palm Centro. I’d like a better PDA like device. My current one doesn’t have the battery life to live long off its tether to the wall. A hacked iTouch is a nice choice but it wouldn’t hold enough stuff to keep me entertained, causing me to carry my iPod as well, making it one too many items in the pockets. And an iTouch with enough disk space would cost way too much. I’ve found Centros on eBay NIB for as little as $200. A lot cheaper than the iTouch or getting out of my contract early to get an iPhone.

I’ve gotten back into playing the Diablo 2 mod Back to Hellfire. It takes all the great things about Diablo and Hellfire and merges them into Diablo 2. All new quests, creatures, weapons, character classes, items, and trasmutations (some from Diablo and Hellfire) make it a whole new (yet old) experience. The best bonus of all is the inventory, stash and “Horadric Cube” (now called the Alchemist’s Bag) are huge.

I watched all of Black Books last week. Great little show created by and staring Dylan Moran. The show focuses on Bernard’s (Moran) book shop in London. Insanity ensues when he hires an assistant that has a totally opposite personality. The neighboring shop owner is also Bernards only friend.

I started Dexter last night. It will be my next marathon show. I’ve only watched one episode but I rather enjoyed it. I can’t wait to see all the crazy stuff he gets into. What a wicked little character. He loves blood. He’s a vigilante. He hates people in general. But he interacts with them in a fake but socially perfect way. Everybody loves him. Except his boss of course. He’s just creeped out by Dexter. Should be a very entertaining series.

I’ve also been playing the crap out of StepMania. You know, that DDR game for your computer. Well I’m playing with my keyboard and I’ve gotten really good at Light difficulty, halfway ok at Standard, and there’s even one song I can beat on Heavy. I’m improving ever so slightly. I tried playing it with my Logitech Dual Action controller. Did ok but not as good since it is hard to thumb two buttons at once.

This is starting to ramble so I’m gonna post it now.

I have been watching degrassi and its pretty good for a Canada’s teen drama. Jay and Silent Bob are in 6 episodes and there great. Kevin plays him self in most of it and jay well jays just jay. By the way we are going to be moving back and i ready.

I’ve been officially selected to be on the volunteer staff at AniMix 2008! I’ll be working with Guest Relations, which was my first choice. I’ll be meeting and tending to these great guests and more: Tiffany Grant (Asuka in Evangelion), Jon St. John (Duke in Duke Nukem), and Monica Rial (FMP!, FMA, Negima!, Air Gear, and many others). I can’t wait! I’ll be heading down there on Thursday July 17th and coming back Sunday July 20th.

Click here for Pictures form A-Kon 2008.
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A-Kon 19 starts Friday. The plan is to leave around 7am Friday. We return late Sunday. Will have lots of updating to do after this weekend.

I got my self a new car yesterday. After selling off the ole Monte Carlo and procuring some other funds, I was able to nab a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix GT Coupe. It’s got almost all the options available at the time, Leather, Heated Seats, Sunroof, Etc. It came with a 3 year old Pioneer HU that I am not really fond of. I’ll get a new one some day. The factory speakers don’t sound too bad so far so we’ll wait and see about replacing them. I installed my 12″ Kicker Comp VR 400w RMS sub and Pioneer 380w RMS amp this evening. Blew a 100A fuse when my power cable got crushed by my door. I’ll have to find a new way to run that cable. I also have to finish putting the pieces back together for my side panels and such. And the car diagnostics display went out when I was putting the dash back on. The buttons still work and light up but the display is blank now. Might have to get a new one of those. Boo.

To keep from typing 1000 more words about it, I’ll leave you with this:

PS INDY 4 was decent. Cheesy but decent.

New shows have been added to the mix.

Kids in the Hall Live April 23rd

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster April 24th

Apocalyptica May 12th

The Birthday Massacre May 14th

The Reverend Horton Heat May 15th

Rilo Kiley June 15th (maybe)

Dethklok July 5th (gonna try to get tix on Friday when they go on sale)

Billy Bob Thornton July 24th

Also A-Kon 19 (Dallas) is coming up May 30th - June 1st. Come join me and ~16,000 other freaks if you wish.

Animix (Killeen) is possible in late July. I’ve requested to be a volunteer which will give me a free badge for the weekend and a free room. If accepted I’ll go but otherwise I don’t know if I’ll be able to go.

Animefest (Dallas) is at the end of August.

Onicon (Houston) is in late November this year instead of October.