Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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10:51 pm - Immortality...
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"Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and he who would be a great soul in the future must be a great soul now." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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10:10 am - Incubus at The Hollywood Bowl
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Saw Incubus last night. My first California concert and also my first time seeing Incubus. How fitting that my first CA concert is what I think of as a California band. Fantastic performance. They do not disappoint!
But the most awesome part of the night was after the show, as the audience was leaving, they played Journey "Don't Stop Believin" over the speakers, and the entire crowd started singing along!! Everyone knew the words and there was this feeling of collective happiness amongst the crowd as we all sang about a small town girl living in a lonely world. Pure win. 10:10 AM
current mood: pleased current music: Incubus
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
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4:38 pm
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“Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.”
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
~Jedi Master Yoda
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
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10:07 pm - Whose your Vampire personality?
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Whose your Vampire personality? (images) created with QuizFarm.com |
| You scored as Blade Thats right you are the booty kicking you cross me and I will stomp a mudhole in your butt type. Sexy and a great fighter with mad fighting skills
Blade | | 75% | Marius | | 75% | Spike | | 67% | Angel | | 67% | Louis | | 58% | Armand | | 58% | Deacon Frost | | 50% | Dracula | | 50% | Akasha | | 42% | Lestat | | 33% |
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YOU KNOW IT BABY!!
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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9:06 am - Rule 150 of the Evil Overlord List
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"I will provide funding and research to develop tactical and strategic weapons covering a full range of needs so my choices are not limited to "hand to hand combat with swords" and "blow up the planet"."
current music: Poison - Nothin' But A Good Time
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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12:22 pm - oderint dum metuant
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oderint dum metuant: Let them hate so long as they fear. (A favorite saying of Caligula.)
current music: Life Burns - Apocalyptica
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
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7:20 pm - Stardust movie....my thoughts on it.
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I realize adaptations are just that...adapted, but I was disappointed with the change in the tone of the story. The book was ageless, with a level of storytelling that was neither just for children or for adults, but both. The movie seemed to suffer from Hollywood's ever constant habit of adding "CUTE" to the story to make it appealing to younger and less attentive audiences. As much as I love De Niro, his character was so far over the top it was nowhere near the book. And the cliche confrontation at the end was pure Hollywood as well. The very ending with them living happily ever after was an acceptable change, but overall I found the movie to be anything but a faithful adaptation of Gaiman's work. I guess Neil has to settle for certain comprises to see his work on the big screen, but I'm sorry to see it so.
current music: Massive Attack - Teardrop
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
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12:11 pm - Writer's Block: In The Money
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If you won $100 this afternoon, what would you do with it?
I would go get a haircut, get some groceries, and get dinner.
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
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11:58 am - Personal mantra!
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My rage knows no limits, my strength knows no bounds! The power of ultimate destruction lies within me! The power to wipe out an enemy, devastate an army, shatter entire civilizations or obliterate the world! I fear nothing! I can be stopped by no one! I am a law unto myself! I am supreme!
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
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4:55 pm - "Temet nosce"
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"Know thyself - and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe."
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
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12:22 pm
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"Consequences dictate our course of action, and it doesn't matter what's right. It's only wrong if you get caught."
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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9:12 pm - You're not engaged -- yet
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According to the Annual Review of Sociology, about 75 percent of cohabiting couples say they plan to marry their partners. Additionally, 55 percent of marriages today are preceded by cohabitation. But not every couple who live together are destined to walk down the aisle together. We interviewed a woman who assumed that moving in with her boyfriend was an engagement, but she never actually spoke to her boyfriend about it. When she found out he didn’t want to marry her, she was heartbroken. Like it or not, when you move in with your girlfriend, you're sending a message: "I'm ready to settle down." Unless you've made it clear that living together is not a formal engagement, she's likely to thikg there's a diamond ring in her immediate future.
current mood: Beware
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
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5:11 pm - "Murder May Boomerang"
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There was an old EC story - "Murder May Boomerang" it ran In "Crime Suspense Stories" #1 (and later, in #19) - in which an old man was beaten and left for dead by an escaped convict that had found him alone in an old hunting cabin. The old man's son finds him crammed in a closet in his hunting cabin, broken, bleeding and delirious. The father tells his son that the convict took his hunting clothes. The son gets upset and wants vengeance - he tells his dad that he'll get him, he'll get that killer! Soon the two are seated in the son's car and are tearing around in the driving rain searching for the man. The old man points to figure walking in the rain wearing hunting clothes - "Son! There! He's the one! He's the one!" and the son stepped on the accelerator and plowed into the man, killing him in an instant. It was over. And yet, when the two stopped in front of a sheriff's office and a man in hunting clothes stepped out, waving to the sheriff the old man repeated himself - "Son! There! He's the one! He's the one!" and the horror of it all sunk in - his dad was out of his mind! He didn't know who had beaten him - he only knew that the man wore hunting clothes. The story ended with the son and father still driving - the son in shock, afraid to stop.
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
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10:16 am - sleeping problems...
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This morning after another night of not sleeping well, I'm clumsy. I'm dropping things, I can't focus at all. Simple problems have me completely struggling. I couldn't even figure out a routine problem this morning. I haven't really gotten into a deep sleep all week, just superficial stage-1 sleep, and I'm deprived. I feel like hammered shit, literally. It's anxiety I guess, I don't know. I keep dozing in and out of consciousness sitting at my desk. At times I don't even realize my eyes are closed. It's bad.
http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/How+to/How+to+cope+with+sleep+problems.htm
current mood: exhausted
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
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4:33 pm - I'm sick.
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I feel like hammered shit. I've got chills, I have a fever, sore throat, runny nose, sinus pressure, headache, feeling rundown.
I'm also working a double shift today/tonight.
On the up side, I am dressed very well, black shirt, slacks, tie. I look like Grosse Point Blanke. When I become rich I'm going to hire a very very hot nurse to take care of me on sick days.
current mood: sick
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
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12:32 pm - Nightmare...
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I had a dream I was in bed under the sheets waiting for something, and a hooded skull figure slowly came over me and I could see it's face through the sheet, and I was terrified and couldn't move, and it started to reach for the sheet and my face. I don't often have nightmares but the one I did have last night was terrifying.
current music: Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (obvious)
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
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1:39 pm - Bowling scores
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Went bowling last night. My scores were 118, 99, 119. 143, 146, 143, 148 final score. Not bad. Anyone want to bowl?
current mood: accomplished
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Saturday, August 5th, 2006
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1:27 pm
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
-Neil Gaiman
current music: Nickelback - Far Away
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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1:27 pm - Name that quote...for all the states enjoying the recent heatwave.
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"No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air."
current mood: working
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
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7:23 pm
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<td align="center">You are 46% evil

You are not so evil. You are overall a nice person, although I wouldn’t want to get on your bad side. You have an extravagant imagination.
Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com</td>
current mood: evil
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