I told myself I wasn't going to do it......but many of you subscribed to me here because of my rantability, and I think this is a throwback to my rantiest days...http://secretidentitycrisis.com/blog...blog/?p=13 09:42 - 8/8/2008 - comments {1}Jumping the ship, such as it is.Hey guys.Just wanted to let everyone who still hangs out at efx and is interested in my doings and happenings and stuffings (instead of potatoings? Honey, I love you!), that I've decided, like others among you, to check out of the efx2blogs hotel, and move whatever blogging there is for me to do to my website: http://secretidentitycrisis.com/blog I do intend to get back on the blog-wagon again soon, as well as doing more comic stuff and other stuff. I've also been dabbling a little into twitter, so if any of you fine folks tweet and twit and twat about, you can follow the minutia of my life as I choose to discuss it by going to http://twitter.com/secretidcrisis -It's been swell here, but the swelling's gone down. sic 07:13 - 6/1/2008 - comments {2}Snow-Day Catch-UpIt started about two hours ago, and will be continuing until probably Monday.Snow. Fuck. Typically, we start getting snow in late October, and usually I have had enough of the white shit by... say... January, so when it snows in April, May, or (yes it has happened) June, it's a real Debbie Downer, and I become filled with a complete sense of meh that gets hard to shake away. I am vitamin D-nied, I need some freaking sunshine. The saving grace is that the boss bailed out at noon, so we can have a pretty mellow afternoon before heading out into the blizzard for home. Let's move on to newsish crap: -We were offered a pretty big opportunity to buy a business, one that we've always wanted to start ourselves, and this offer has been occupying most of our time and brain-power. I would go into more detail, but I really don't think I can right now. There seem to be as many pros as there are cons to taking over this business, so it could either mean the making true of our dreams, or a path to personal and financial ruin. It's been difficult, to say the least, although recent developments have raised pretty emphatic red flags against going for it. We shall see. -A helpful distraction to all of this future planning unpleasantness has been the recent purchase of a modded-out x-box, courtesy of a friend of a friend (isn't that always the way) which contains a kick ass media center, and 500 gig hard drive filled with countless hours of entertainment in the form of emulated classic gaming and 'back-ups' of more current gaming. The media center is very cool, as it will connect to your home network, and play your itunes collection, or play movies remotely from another computer. I look forward to playing with it (and also the xbox) very much over this snowed-in cock-ass of a weekend. -I have finally ordered my Crow T Robot replica! Well, I have made the paypal payment, and when it clears, apparently next week sometime, it will be officially ordered. Pictures will be posted when the golden awesomness arrives. -My mom turned 60 yesterday, and I actually remembered this year! However, I guess she was out of the house all day, because she didn't answer the phone, and wasn't on msn. Speaking of moms on msn, does anyone else find it weird chatting with a parent online? It feels like they're using a technology that wasn't really meant for them, especially when the emoticons and annoying chatspeak that they've picked up from hours of playing on pogo start creeping into the conversation. It's similar to when my mom uses the word 'cool', it just doesn't sound right. Anyhow, we're hoping to get out to her place soon to do a little family celebration of her successful completion of the sixth decade. -I have an insane business trip to Toronto booked for next week which, including the travel time, will amount to about 24 hours from start to finish. I seriously hope I am able to get some sleep on the flights, or I will be fully zombified by the next day. -Speaking of zombies! My wife found a picture of a zombie related tattoo that has inspired an awesome idea for my next piece of ink. More on that as it develops. I think that's it for now. Wish me luck as I spend this snowy shitty weekend trying hard not to turn into Jack Torrence from The Shining. Fortunately it will be all play and no work, so that will better my odds. sic 01:45 - 4/18/2008 - comments {5}Bookish things.I had two hour-long flights yesterday, to a customer site and back again, so I decided I would finally start reading Irvine Welsh's latest book, a collection of short stories called 'If You Liked School, You'll Love Work'. It was a toss up between it and the recently published, unedited version of Kerouac's On The Road, subtitled 'The Original Scroll', but I figured Welsh would be better fare for sleep deprived airline travel.For those who don't know, Irvine Welsh is the man who wrote Trainspotting, and if you liked the movie as much as I did, then I highly recommend reading the book. It's not one of those things where the book was necessarily better than the movie, but the movie focuses on a select group of characters from the book, which was a smart way to make a decent film adaptation. So what I'm saying is, the book has more of the same, including a very gruesomely funny scene involving menstruation and tomato soup. But I've said too much already. So I'm reading his latest, and in the titular short story, there is a line, the kind of line he tosses in every so often, that I really dug. It's what his protagonist thinks after realizing that sleeping with this particular girl was probably a bad idea:
I love it. I would say that Kerouac and Welsh are my two favourite writers, and I sort of obsess about the two of them alternatively. This is probably because I read the bulk of their work during what has cheaply been buzzworded the 'Quarterlife Crisis' part of my life, the early to mid twenties, when it seems like a lot of people are trying to reconcile their youth, and figure out the inevitability of adulthood. I think the best advice I could give to anyone in that part of their life, would be to spend a summer working in some remote, beautiful area, away from the distractions of modern life, and spend the free time you have during that summer reading as many of the books that you've always wanted to but never got around to reading, and if I could humbly recommend a couple of books worth reading during that time, I would say 'Maribou Stork Nightmares' by Welsh, and probably 'On the Road' by Kerouac, though honestly I found just about every one of Jack's autobiographical series of books to be pretty amazing. Speaking of bookish things... As I was deplaning last night, a whirlwind day of travel and playing the technician equivalent of beat the clock with a room full of old and poorly maintained machinery, I was thinking about how much I travel, and how I could almost write a book of travel advice, and while I was waiting by the baggage carousel for luggage that seemed have been shipped separately on the backs of drunken three-legged donkeys based on its delay, I found myself turning that train of thought into an interesting concept for a work of fiction, whether a book or movie script. Then today, as I've thought about it further, I'm thinking it might be an interesting concept for a fiction blog. I will have to let this idea ferment and cement a little more, but I think it could turn into something pretty cool. One last book related thing. I recently downloaded some audiobooks, for road traveling, to offer an alternative to music, and found them to be a great idea. One of the downloads I.. erm... found... was a collection of Phillip K Dick audiobooks. Never read his stuff before, and I'm really finding it pretty amazing for the most part. Kinda fucked up in places too, but not really in a bad way. I can't get over how much shit he more or less predicted about the future that has in some roundabout way come to fruition in the age we live in now. -Speaking of the future, I have to go pick up the wife so we can continue to discuss possibilities for ours. More on that soon, probably. sic 05:35 - 4/9/2008 - comments {8}The Movie Quote MemeAn interesting meme game I heavy-handedly borrowed from xgxhThe Rules: * Pick 15 of your favorite movies. * Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie. * Post them on your blog for everyone to guess. * Fill in the film title once it’s been guessed. These are your rules: * Leave your guesses in the comments. * No Googling or using IMDB search functions. Don’t cheat! * Know-it-alls, limit your guesses to three movies. Save some for others! I think most of these are easy, but I threw a few challenging ones in too. Good luck! 1: "We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"?" 2: "In a thousand years, there will be no men and women, just wankers, and that's fine by me. " Trainspotting, guessed correctly by Ben. Movies are her heroine. 3: "No, I'm not okay alright? I'm losin' my mind a little bit. Gettin' chased by my car right now, gotta go!" Transformers, guessed correctly by Sarai and then by Ben. Not to be confused with Tranny Farmers, which is a movie where the characters are truly more than meets the eye. 4: "How could I have gone from the king of rock'n'roll to this? An old guy in a restroom in East Texas with a *growth* on his pecker." Bubba Ho-Tep, guessed correctly by Birdsnest and Sarai, who get extra awesome Bruce Campbell points for knowing it. 5: "What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited. " 6: "Have you ever watched the Mickey mouse club? Well you know what today is? It's Wednesday, anything can happen day." 7: "It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why." 8: "There's two ways to look at it: Billy wants the models and limousines, while I'm happy with hookers and taxicabs." 9: "Dude, jerking off on my mom is one thing. But banging your grandmother and her roommates? That's like... legendary." 10: "Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo." 11: "Another Great Conjunction coming up! Anything could happen! Whole WORLD might burn up!" The Dark Crystal, guessed correctly by Sarai (and I thought this was a tricky one. Extra sexy Skeksis points for Sarai. MmmmMMMmmm.) 12: "Shit... You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize." Reservoir Dogs, Guessed correctly by Birdsnest. No ear-cutting torture for Bidsnest. 13: "He must have thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?" True Romance, another Tarantino film guessed correctly by Birdsnest, who may or may not taste like a peach, but gets points regardless. 14: "Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breast that I would try to touch her between her legs. It was like trying to borrow a dollar, getting turned down, and asking for 50 grand instead." High Fidelity, guessed correctly by someone who ironically knows nothing about music or movies or movies about music, Ben. Extra Sonic Fuckin Death Monkey points for Ben. 15: "I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one." Ben gets this one too, which is the classic Casablanca. Ben gets extra points, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... -Movie geeks are go! sic 05:32 - 4/2/2008 - comments {11}
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