Horribly, horribly hungover. Smell of kerosene. Drank a whole bottle of Southern Comfort last night, bar two or three drinks for friends. Drank some more in town. Came second in poker. Never threw up, but threw candy at people. Keep feeling like I made a drunken douche of myself last night on stage. Possibly came off wrong on certain people last night. Vaguely remember firebreathing. Need food and to find car. Awesome times.
In what seems to be my new quest of posting weird things instead of blogging about my own personal weird things…
Some rare photographs from a helicopter of an uncontacted Amazon tribe and the subsequent photos of them freaking and getting pissed off at the sight of a helicopter. Article and photos here.
A Man whole loves cars. Loves, loves cars…
The 57-year-old Washington state native first had sex with a car at age 15, and says he has never been sexually attracted to people, female or male. And he feels no need to change.
“I’m not sick and I don’t want to hurt anyone. Cars are just my preference,” he told British newspaper the Telegraph.
His current flame is a Volkswagen Beetle that’s he’s named Vanilla, and considering a typical woman’s reaction to Smith’s spreading himself around, she’s very low maintenance (not counting trips to the mechanic or pricey imported auto parts).
Full article here.
And finally a tripping fruit that alters your taste buds and temporarily changes the tastes of things.
CARRIE DASHOW dropped a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a “chocolate shake.”
Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!”
The miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum, is native to West Africa and has been known to Westerners since the 18th century. The cause of the reaction is a protein called miraculin, which binds with the taste buds and acts as a sweetness inducer when it comes in contact with acids, according to a scientist who has studied the fruit, Linda Bartoshuk at the University of Florida’s Center for Smell and Taste. Dr. Bartoshuk said she did not know of any dangers associated with eating miracle fruit.
I must get my hands on these sexy things. But not have sex with them like Car-lover-guy… well… maybe. Article here.
Tomorrow night is Circle Jerk and I shall be performing with 1 Fat Man by playing… I’m not even sure what. I do know I’ll be banging on various musical instruments, drinking a good few bottles of beer on stage and screaming through a megaphone ala Tom Waits style… sweet. But really, I have no idea what exactly is gonna happen, but I look forward to the apologies afterwards.
Have too many tabs open again, so… In other craziness in the world, a cat was aparently hit by a motorbike and then turned into a woman…
WHAT could be described as a fairy tale turned real on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as a cat allegedly turned into a middle-aged woman after being hit by a commercial motorcycle (Okada) on Aba/Port Harcourt Expressway.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that three cats were crossing the busy road when the okada ran over one of them which immediately turned into a woman. This strange occurrence quickly attracted people around who descended on the animals. One of them, it was learnt, was able to escape while the third one was beaten to death, still as a cat though.
Read the full crazy article here.
An awesome article on “The Street as Platform“, technology and it’s perceptions today… or something to effect, it’s a lot to take in, but a totally facinating read here.
And finally a news article on autistic people finding new freedoms using technology, the internet and Second Life. Very cool.
Found through the 48 forums, one part of me is thinking “holy crap that’s hardcore” and the other part of me is thinking, I wants that sexy HD adjustable fps camera.
Beware of slightly intense, but awesome head punching in slow mo.
Funny, I can’t think of anything to post tonight, either I’ve been working too hard recently and just can’t think straight anymore, or I’ve suddenly become so delusional that all the stuff I wanted to post about while this blog was down are just downright boring. I blame our robot overlords.
So I’ll just do a recap of our 48 activity…
This year we once again entered into and competed in the V 48 Hour Filmmaking Competition where we drew horror as our genre and from what I gathered from the screening is that people generally liked it and were both disguisted, horrified and laughing at the same time, which is great, cause that was exactly our intention with the short.
Initially, I hated it upon submittal and thought we’d done a poor effort, or, I should really correct myself as everyone involved were awesome above and beyond the call of awesome duty. But at that point, I felt I had done a poor effort and not spent enough time editing the film together and getting the pacing just right and all sorts of blah, blah, blah, that was capped off with having only 25 minutes to go and our first few go’s of capturing the film back to tape were resulting in no sound (and lots of cursing from me). We only just barely made it in with roughly four minutes to the deadline and at that point, we had not watched the film in whole and only seen it in bits and pieces as there just wasn’t enough time during editing to watch it right through. So it was actually the heats screening where I got to watch it as a whole (due to a new rule of not being allowed to watch it at all by anyone after submittal) and with the bonus of having a full audience there as well, where we got the satisfaction of an audience ‘getting it’, or about as close to getting it, as it’s quite a dipolar film in its shock horror and comedy.
The thing I’m most proud of “Sum of All Parts” (films title) is the music by the good Ben Woollen and apart from caring if we make it to the city finals (just to be on the DVD, fingers crossed), is that he gets some recognition or something for the totally awesome music he contributed to the film, which truly made the bastard work. But we’ll see as there’s still five days to go till the city finalists are announced and a further nine days after that till the actual finals. Time be a bitch.
Anyway, the best part about doing the 48, apart from having done it, is that my energy and enthusiasm levels have once again come back up and I’m back in the routine of doing things to get things done. Or at least I’d like to think that’s the case. It’s part of why I’ve fasttracked this site back up and I’m back to planning a whole bunch of projects to be done which will be announced in due time. It’s good to be busy again. Thanks Chuck Norris.
Oh, one video/song I love and remembered to post… Cup of Brown Joy by Elemental. I have no idea who he is, but this video is great.
Welcome back to the new and not so slightly improved website.
The last few months have been suckaballs boring without this site and blog to write to (which in itself is sad) and finally after waiting hands on foot for my web host to get their shit sorted and get my account up and running, I just went fuck it and went to another provider.
Whilst at it, I’ve gone for a slightly new site design, which to the dismay of some gets rid of the funky picture changing banner which I myself am not too sure on doing, so would love to hear from anyone what their thoughts on this new look is like for them.
Had a small debate with myself on whether to start this blog afresh or continue the old one which is thankfully stored on the blogger servers as well, but also links to a lot of files that aren’t on this new server and were deleted with the last one. But over time I’ll be sorting out those kinks as well, hopfully re-uploading them or just deleting posts here and there.
At this point in writing, the site is pretty much nothing but this blog and the frontpage, but I’ll be adding more and more to it as time goes by and with a whole bunch of stuff I’ve been meaning to put up since last year, along with bits and bobs of sweet Web2.0 oddities. Hooray.
So, enough of that boring shite, stay tuned and welcome back, feels great to be blogging again and a quick check the archives has me starting back up just a day before this site’s 2nd birthday. Happy birthday internet. I’ve missed you.
We’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties. Initially due to an outbreak of Arse Monkeys tampering with our servers and then the owner became ill with the Stupid Virus which he’s only just coming out of now.
I’ve been lazy with this site and since the last post have attended three weddings in one week, been working like a dog, living as a hermit to the world and at times, working on a feature length script with the remarkably talented Ross which I really like and am not so much working on it with him, but more like standing over his shoulder at times, throwing in the odd comment and idea to make it feel like I’m actually contributing something. But pretty excited about that and other stuff to be mention next time.
Got back yesterday from a few days off on the road helping out some friends filming and generally visiting the good people of other cities and drinking booze. Also shopped a little excessively and bought a digital camera, some CDs and DVDs and couple hundred worth of books.
But best story I got out of all of this is I almost died Saturday night/Sunday Morning.
Was driving along the motorway at the dead of night and had just changed the music when I noticed up ahead that there was a car that looked like it didn’t have its headlights on. Not too long after, I realised that that particular car was getting bigger and bigger and then the thought “oh shit, that car is on the wrong side of the motorway and heading straight for me” and we’re both at top speed.
Then it flicked its headlights on as I veered into the next lane to avoid it. Doing so I spun out several times in the middle of the road, the other car just zips on past and I come to a full stop in the middle of the motorway facing the opposite way and watch as the cars that were ‘behind me’ come to a full stop just short of hitting me.
So hazard lights, a wave of OK to the others and pushing my flooded car to the side of the road, I called the cops and though I couldn’t give a description, there was cop that had pulled over a speeder a couple of kilometers back and hopefully that douchebag was caught. I haven’t seen anything of this in the news, so hopefully no one was hurt because of it, but man, that was close and lucky whoever the hell it was didn’t switch lanes either.
It was a pretty narrow miss too. A couple of seconds off and would have been a pretty messy scene considering at least I was going top speed and it would have been head on. But hey, I had changed the music over to Lovage just beforehand, so at least I would have died to some damn fine music.
