no phone or internet for a week... ah crap...

As I am going to live in someone's else house for a week, no one is going to hear from me. The place I'm going to had their phone taken out by lightning a few days ago and the internet is dial-up from the phone company so I won't be up on Warren Ellis, Boing Boing, Comic Book Resources, imdb, and all the sites I check out on a regular basis.*

What will I be doing? I will be looking after animals and plants and will be reading a shitload of comics. Here's a taste of what I will get to and try to get to in these seven days... Vigilante (early 80's), Omega Men (90% of the whole series), Flash (Barry Allen, not Wally West), The New Guardians, Dead Again, Justice League America (Bits and pieces),V for Vendetta (Moore and Lloyd), Doom Patrol (Most of Grant Morrison's run), Automatic Kafka (Casey and Wood... slowly going through), and a bunch of other DC Comics from the 70's and 80's.

I would do other things but that would involve money, and I won't be getting that until after the job is done.

That's all I got... see your sites in a week.

*That's just a fraction of what I check out... later.

Coffee

The Rope Dolly Track...

My Dad wants to shoot a dolly track style shot of the house using "swing" rope for a documentary about the house he grew up in. I'm all for it but we're still in a preproduction phase. I also want to note that my father's has no filmmaking background whatsoever while I went to study film theory at an university known more for its Football, Medical, and Business schools rather than its arts programs. This is where hillbilly smarts and scholastic drop outs intuition work together*...


This is the "Device" where the camera sits for the shot...


Where the starting point is near the road...


and end close to this tractor


just so we take a dolly shot of the house...

Were there problems?
Yes.

What were they?
- Wind: it was a windy day
- Length of the swing rope dolly track: too long
- Ergonomics the device: meant for a right handed person, not a lefty like me
- Sound: all you heard was swing rope and wind
- Video camera battery: 1999 DV Camera + poor battery = had to run before battery died
- Lack of preproduction: failing to plan is planning to fail

Was there anything good out of the whole ordeal?
- It was a sunny day
- The camera still works after years of not being used
- I got some exercise.
- Father-Son quality time

Of all bad things that happened, did we learn anything?
- use less farm junk and use climber's equipment the next time around (thanks Risk Commander for that suggestion)
- cut the length of rope track in half or more
- storyboard everything
- improve the design of the device

Did we truly learn anything?
Not really.

*Hillbilly smarts is somewhat like MacGuyver smarts, but more injuries are involved... but you have to admit that MacGuyver wouldn't have made a flashlight from a carbulb from an 1982 Mercury Cougar, a battery from a small driving lawnmower, and a stand made from bits of a metal wire plant holder...

this that and the other thing...

yesterday, my dad got a step jack in the face and he's got sore teeth out of the deal... now my teeth feel sore because his teeth are sore... really dunno why... probably sympathy... added more pics on my flickr site mostly self portraits... not exciting but something is there... i decided the next time i get a vehicle, it has to have AC and be a standard transmission... i feel that i am part of the vehicle when it's a standard...

the next blog will tell the story of the swing rope dolly track...

gotta bug ya for my own enjoyment...

Okay, a few weekends ago I crashed at Johnny Sixteen's place and I slept in his roommate's room because she wasn't home at the time (my thinking was why sleep on a couch when there's a empty bed). Anyways, I wanted to get back at her on an action she pulled on me during Johnny Sixteen's birthday (long story short, I was the bitch), and I wanted to go psychological rather than physical. This is what I did: I made her bed, put a 3x5 card on the bed which I wrote that I tied all her bras and undies together but in reality didn't perform the action because I wanted to go psychological rather than physical.

Her reaction: no idea. Johnny hasn't seen her for roughly two weeks now, but he's not complaining because the place has gotten super mellow there. Anywho, I would like to hear how she would have reacted.

Yes, I know how evil I can be.

for no reason, a quiz...

Sometimes you do these things to prep for something else...

You scored as Romanticist. Romanticism encourages society to look backwards to find our solutions. Your rationale is that things were much better a few hundred years ago so we should thus look back to those times and replace them in our modern society. You believe in a simple life and that the complexities of the modern world have turned it upside down. Cultural Creative 69% Romanticist 69% Existentialist 69% Fundamentalist 50% Materialist 50% Idealist 50% Modernist 44% Postmodernist 44% What is Your World View? (updated) created with QuizFarm.com

I tell stories tomorrow....

Need sleep, helps me write... one story is about "The Swing Rope Dolly Track" or the story with pictures... and the other story is about people I bug for fun...

To all the people that once worked in Fast Food...

Just go here and reflect...

Batman

heat..

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I had to work in over thirty degree celisus heat today... not fun... tomorrow I'm assisting Bobby Muppet on a PSA... in the morning... yeah.

note: the photo above has a story connected to it, but I won't have any time until Sunday night to say what it is, but I assure you it will be odd.

possible things to come..

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This is a shot of the house on other farm I work on... my Dad wants to do some type of documentary with the house, he wants a camera in motion, but I think still photographs would be more poignant.

another bizarre hobby...

the new thing I'm checking out are flags. In the event I move out of the place I'm at right now I'm going to need "curtains" and what says cheap and cool looking curtains than flags. At the moment I got Wales, England, and Falkland Islands right now with a mini flag on a stick of Nunavut. I'm looking for two more flags, either something from the Carribean, a british territory in the middle of nowhere, Greenland, or even US state flag that's a flag, not the state crest on a flag.

However, cheap flags are few and far between. I might have to look for flags in flea markets or town fairs as "Fair Season" is upon us. Tee Hee.

CDs for Cheap...

here are a couple of cds I've picked up in the past few weeks, and the most I paid for one cd was about $6.

- Pet Shop Boys Discography: the complete singles collection (1991)
- Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits
- CHRW Radio Sampler - This One's Worth Saving
- The Cranberries : No Need to Argue
- Living Colour: Vivid

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Torn...

Right now, I'm wondering if I should put The Zit Remedy Song on my iPod.

Ah Rejection...

Found this on the WFMU blogsite... Girl Talk... losers. It brings back memories, not necessarily from this game.

The farmwork makes me wacky...

at the moment, I feel like I don't function like everyone else. I can't concentrate on anything for no longer than maybe 15 to 20 minutes, so the only things I can accomplish that I want to accomplish are reading comics and reading articles from Wired magazine.

Cutting hay has become both calm and frustrating. Calm because I'm outside, I'm getting a bit of a breeze, and I'm getting fresh air. Frustrating because it take so long to cut a row and I can't speed things up to go faster because the haybine has to be at a set pace in order to cut properly. Right now, I want it to steadily rain an inch or two just so I can get a few days off. That and I really need to go to another city to check out vintage crapola. Finding Wham! on Vinyl a few days ago was cool, but it didn't feed the need for shopping for things no one else wants.

oh those impulses...

Today I went to the comic book shoppe I regularily hit, and I decided to hit the "sets bin", I've laying off the sets bin for a couple of months because I am still backlogged in comics I bought from last year but I'm getting off topic a bit, anyways, I saw the complete series of "V for Vendetta" for $25. The impulse urge pretty much went into overdrive at that point, which resulted in me not buying armpit deodorant, which I really should have bought because I'm out of it and it's very very sticky outside.

However, I won't start Moore and Lloyd's "V for Vendetta" until I finish reading Casey and Wood's "Automatic Kafka".

Okay...

Um,this painting, to me is unintentionally funny.

Because Smurfs Can't Drive...

The Advertising Slogan Generator is awesome. I've been using the words Smurf and Smurfs, because Smurf is a noun, verb, and adjective. "The Real Smell of Smurfs." and "Feel The Raw Naked Smurf Of The Road." are a couple of my favs...

Proud Owner of a Nunavut Flag...

yep... I also stopped in the Masonville area to score these...

It's like I robbed Ronald McDonald's defective footwear.

The flag I scored at The Fabulous Mr. Moy and The Magnificent Niffer's "Minty Manor Madness Yard Sale"... I also got a Ploughing Ruler, Beer Drinking Glasses, and a Video set from the Ontario Service Safety Alliance. That last one will have a review of it on The Tape Hunters site in the near future.

Well, the air conditioner is in...

I just help my mom putting the air conditioner in this morning as I wait for my dad to come back from the other farm for today's work to do list, but he says to me it sounds like the noise adults make in Peanuts cartoons. Since it rain this morning, it might be a bit for cutting hay.

I am really torn for garage sales for tomorrow... will I go E.O.A./N.O.D.* or Komoka. I've heard that The Fabulous Mr. Moy and The Magnificent Niffer are having a yard sale, and I know they could sell cool stuff, but the small town drive around you can find some insane deals for insane things. Really, I am torn... (E.O.A./N.O.D. = East of Adelaide/North of Dundas)