| Life is a test, but I confess, I like this mess I've made so far |
[Sep. 7th, 2006|10:37 pm] |
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| |  exhausted | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | Franz Ferdinand - Come on Home | ] |
Uhm. *plops down*
*kicks off shoes and puts down the stupid hat*
That was kind of draining. Granted it was my first day and I had no idea what I was doing part of the time. I'm good at pretending to be nice and personable when the only thing I wanted was for the clock the strike eight already, but I'm not as good at counting out money and doing split-second mental math when annoyed customers think I've shortchanged them and I get all flustered.
Right near the end of my shift Jessie came in and we talked and had dinner afterwards. It was really nice of her and it was good after talking to strangers all evening.
In addition to general cashier stuff, I also had to keep the salad bar stocked and clean. I will now, for the rest of my life, truly appreciate a tidy salad bar.
So here's hoping I get used to this. I probably will. Tomorrow's going to stink though - you know those people out on the corners of intersections dancing around holding signs, and you think 'How embarassing for them that they have to do that'?
That's what I'm doing for two hours tomorrow. Ohhh lord.
In other news, we had our first Journalism meeting today. Staut is, really, the best teacher ever. She's going to be the one I'll miss like crazy once I've left Glen Este. Ayyyyy. :(
There was a good turnout - almost 30 people. Who can say whether those people will stick with it, and whether those people can write, but they came to the meeting out of their own free will so at least they're interested.
Journalism is a club now, rather than a class. We're not getting any funding from the school at all (last year we struggled with money, but at least we had some student fees to start us off) and by cutting our numbers in half, Staut thinks we should put out a 4-page paper at first (last year all our issues were 12 pages).
It's going to be tough but I'm going to put as much into it as I can. People used to read The Torch, and it was important to the school. It caused controversy last year. It's important for us to keep putting it out, despite the obstacles.
Between the classes at UCC and my job now, I've dropped Choir. After 7 years, I hate to jump the boat, but it's for the best. The district doesn't care about music programs for people who don't want to specialise in it - that was evident enough when they gave us to a middle school choir teacher last year (we sounded terrible, by the way).
This year, they dumped us on a new middle school teacher, who has for the past few years been teaching elementary school choir.
The group is full of freshmen anyway, and I don't think I would be able to take it. All my friends that made choir bearable last year are either gone or dropping the class. So it wasn't that hard of a decision.
I feel like I should be totally overwhelmed right now. So much is happening, there's so much to do and I certainly don't have as much downtime as I'd like, nor as much time to talk to the people I want to. But, for the most part, I'm happy with the way things are going.
Granted everything is going to bite me in the butt eventually, be it at the end of this semester, or in a month or two, or in May during the AP tests. We'll see.
TIME FOR A SHOWER AND THEN SLEEP, DAMMIT!
~Joy
-PS: Oh by the way...you guys...I got a manga sequel to Labyrinth. Yes, that Labyrinth. With David Bowie.
Huh?
I haven't even opened it yet (the mail came not long before I left for work) but... yeah. It's strange. If there's anything worth writing about it I will be sure to let you know.
Labyrinth manga! Wha! |
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| I want to make the rules |
[Sep. 6th, 2006|08:06 am] |
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| V for Vendetta |
[Mar. 18th, 2006|06:29 pm] |
--is great.
If you're not familiar with the source work, it's fantastic.
If you are, it's still very very good. Certainly not perfect, but good. I shan't be embarassed to say I'm a fan of the book, like I was with Hitchhiker's..
The Wachowskis did put a bit of their own agenda into it, which I found annoying despite the fact that I support that agenda. But it wasn't complete dreck.
I was so terrified Valerie wouldn't make it in. Important as she was to the story she seemed like just the sort of thing that would end up being cut. I have had some bad experiences with book-to-movie adaptations.
Of course I'm probably much more liberal in my judgement right now, seeing how the storyline of Wicked was raped, chained to a wall, cut up into tiny pieces and still somehow managed a wonderful end product.
FIYERO IS NOT HAPPY-GO-LUCKY WTF.
That is all.
~Joy
(verbatum from my Myspace bulletin, because I'm fucking lazy) |
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[Mar. 10th, 2006|05:57 pm] |
Oh god this made me really really sad. GWEN STACY NO D=
http://spideyvalentine.ytmnd.com/
I should read Spiderman: Blue (where that's from). Jeph Loeb is amazing.
So, I haven't updated in a while. Remember when I used to document my entire day, every day? And everyone else did too. Those were strange times.
I went to Autobahn last Saturday night with Danielle and Jessie, and it was beyond amazing. Freezepop was there, obviously. For one reason or another DoBH couldn't make it. All the bands were really great, though. For the second year in a row, we left right before Joy Electric came on. Not that I mind at all (I was really tired after Freezepop), but I think it's funny that I still haven't heard any of their music.
Here's a meme, seemingly classier than a Livejournal quiz. I'd appreciate it if you did it, and I'll do it for anyone else if they post it. It's a good bit of introspection.
Johari Window
Nohari Window
Be honest - do the good, and the bad. It's interesting as fuck. |
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| CLUD! |
[Jan. 27th, 2006|06:04 pm] |
| [ | Spirits |
| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | 'Halloween' from Rent | ] |
Holy fuck it is hard to arrange stuff with 4 people, hahahah. Miscommunication, lack of communication, and schedule juggling abounds.
It'll all work out in the end though. So tonight I'll chill and work on some homework and finish up another volume of Sandman.
Today was another Gifted day. We went to East Fork Lake and did a whole bunch of not much. I didn't fall into the creek. I saw some raccoon tracks and met a tree. We made more microcosms. I was reading Season of Mists in between on bus rides, which put me in a rather pensive mood all day.
Stayed with Julian 15 minutes after we got back to school in the library. That was pleasant. Eventually they announced that we had gotten back from our field trip though, so we had to go to class.
I read Sandman on the way to choir, too. The basic outline of Season of Mists is that Dream recieves the key to Hell after Lucifer abdicates, and all these gods of various cultures are vying for a chance to rule hell, 'cos Dream has no desire to. Because of this, I got into a would-be theological discussion with the kid sitting next to me. He asked me if I believed in god, I said no, and he said "Oh; my brother doesn't either. It's okay though, I'm not offended or anything." Sadly after this the bus stopped and we were at Amelia; time for me to disembark.
It's been a good day, I think. I feel a bit rushed though.
~Joy's been getting out of things, lately. Out of updating her journal with complete entries, out of signing on to AIM. Hrm. |
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| She speaks! |
[Dec. 30th, 2005|10:57 pm] |
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| |  blah | ] |
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| | Blur - Girls & Boys | ] |
I'm often very frustrated when talking with people, because I take a passive role in conversation and never have anything to say. It's all, "yeah," "uh-huh," "Oh I know," and the like. Witness now, then, how chatty I become when a subject I know about comes around!
( Doug + I chat about A Clockwork Orange )
Godddd I'm bored. Sorry. No one's on to talk to (except Doug), I've read through the pile of comics I spent half my Christmas money on, and the next stack won't be here for a few days (<3theInternet, ahahahaha), and Paula's gone over to a friend's house.
My latest passion, linked for possibility of playing once I'm back in school:
http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-165.html
It's fun to experiment with. It's simple, but there's a lot to discover. It'd be no fun to tell you everything, but the way different things burn for instance.
~Joy will as her sig line mini-review one of the comics she bought:
If you enjoy gratuitous violence, lots of gratuitous violence, read Sin City - The Hard Goodbye (I can't vouch for other volumes or the movie, but can assume they're similar in this way). Yikes. Not that it bothers me too much, but there's lots of guns, fights, and dying people. And the ending sucks. The art is very iconic (strict black and white, no grey not many lines - mostly shading) but at times it's hard to interpret. It was okay but the action outweighed the plot. Probably appeals to testosterone junkies more than it appeals to me. |
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| Really? O RLY? |
[Dec. 29th, 2005|01:07 pm] |
giggleteeheeDreamteeheegiggle |
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| I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK. |
[Nov. 1st, 2005|11:10 pm] |
| [ | Spirits |
| |  awake | ] |
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| | Maroon 5 - Pure Imagination | ] |
Oh speaking of my darling girlfrkiend...She used such a cute synonym for fellatiing last night during one of our nightly romps...I can't remember what it was right now, I'd have to check my IM log.
And Ykari...Ah, nice girl. I'm afraid my darling Joyuna might get a tad mad if I made any overt advances towards her same-age rival though, so that'll have to stay where it is for now.
XD
So, damn. It's 10 already. Got home from choir at 4p, rested and checked in on the internet a little and then went out to dinner. Directly after, Paula and Dad and I went to the mall.
Looked, giggled, recounted quite loudly to Paula random events of Halloween and the anime con.
And somehow, got home, showered, and now it's 10 o'clock.
Cool things happened at the mall. We went into Spencer and found a Rocky Horrror trivia game! And I started freaking out about it and hardly even noticed that Trent was the cashier staring at me. I noticed him, gave a "hello" and continued to freak out.
Saw a Pope John Paul II action figure at KBToys. Amidst all the Barbie dolls.
Someone I did not recognise said "Hi Joy" to me in the bathroom. Um...
Went to Walden's, skimmed over the comic rack again. I'd done so before earlier last month so I wasn't expecting to find anything I wanted.
But I did! Yaaaay Infinite Crisis #1, a month late!
It's coolness, but I'm too used to reading whole stories compiled into one book. This is like an episode of a TV show (complete with commercials... gah ads) with a major cliffhanger.
After that we went to Borders and while Paula went looking for I-dunno-what, I hopped over to the graphic novel section to see if they had anything interesting. They had a $75 copy of Watchmen, so I guess that's interesting.
I spent the time flipping through the first volumes of Sandman and Y: The Last Man, which no other bookstore ever seems to have. I look forward to getting them eventually (I'm getting the first Y in December, dunno about Sandman). The big coffeetable-type book I got about Sandman not too long ago made me convince myself that Sandman was awesome, and you know what? I was right. So I'll need to get more of that.
All running around and no schoolwork makes for a lazy-ass Joy. My report card grade for Chem is a 77, after the curve. Meep.
And I've lots I could have done tonight. Which I didn't. Muh.
~Joy has Academic Team tomorrow! Rejoice! |
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| "She's just like me, except totally different." ~Paula, on Joy |
[Oct. 28th, 2005|07:12 pm] |
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| | Davut Guloglu - Katula Katula | ] |
VH1 is running another I Love the 80s series, this time in 3D. It's absolutely stunning to watch. The shark the show is jumping seems so real you can touch it.
If a late-night comedian hasn't made that joke yet, I'll be very surprised.
My mask came! I'm so happy.
( And here are my photos )
The first quarter has ended and I did turn in the majority of my missing work (except for Chemistry). I'm not going to have all As, but I shouldn't have anything worse than a C. In theory. I haven't seen my final Chemistry grade yet, but time shall tell.
Still have a jam-packed weekend! Tonight is my downtime, and then tomorrow night I'm going to a Halloween party of one of Paula's friends and then to RHPS (and Paula's coming along yay!) with Danielle and Doug. Sunday is the anime convention and Monday night is trick-or-treating. Belege!
Tonight I think I'm going to read some Identity Crisis. In a rare turn of events, Dad got to it first. Once he picked it up, he did not put it down and read through the whole thing in a night like I did with V for Vendetta. So I should think it's good. I'm 2 chapters in and it's interesting, but I'm not completely drawn in yet.
~Joy will do her work on time this next quarter. So she says. |
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| Halloweeeeeeeen pictahs |
[Oct. 24th, 2005|04:43 pm] |
My Saturday! Mi sábado! My Saturday was fun indeed.
I woke up sometime later than I was expecting; I don't really know when because I wake up and fall asleep again a number of times during the weekend.
We went to Cappell's, the costume and party shop, to find myself a hat. The exact hat for V is damn near impossible to find, but I'm pretty pleased with the hat I have. Plus I love wearing it. Hee.
All I'm left waiting for with my costume now, is the mask.
( Allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste )
Oh, and I happen to be wearing jeans and my RHPS shirt in those. They aren't part of the costume. ;)
...damn. Have to leave for Driving School already. Fucking after school schedule and all that. I have more pictures to upload, of the second part of my Saturday. Heh. :D
Later then. |
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| I HATE CORN |
[Oct. 23rd, 2005|10:55 pm] |
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| | Glass Prism - The Raven | ] |
I had a really awesome Saturday and a really busy today. I'll tell you about my today right now, and about my Saturday later when the weight of homework isn't crushing my breath from me.
I woke up a bit past noon to see Paula getting ready to go to this noodle place in Rookwood. I asked if I could go and she said yeah so I got ready and went too.
It was really delcious and stuff. And I got shoes too at a nearby store but I don't care about shoes so I left while Mom and Paula shopped at TJ Max.
So I spent like an hour and a half in Joseph Beth bookstore, for real. I looked around the entire store and then sat down with a big graphic novel. Identity Crisis.
I read through the first chapter and walked around some more and finally called Mom and met up with her and Paula again. Then we went back to Joseph Beth and she bought stuff for me =D! So I got:
Identity Crisis
Some neat parallel text Spanish short stories thing, with the Spanish on one page and the English on the page next to it
And hiding out on the Bargain books table was this really cool coffeetable type book about the Sandman series. I read through the entire thing starting from when we got in the car to go home and ending at 7p this evening (though to be fair most of it was pictures). It was interesting as hell and I really want to get some more Sandman books now.
Ohmygod it's going to suck to go back to school tomorrow.
~Joy has to do shit now okthanxbye |
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| Se necesita una poca de gracia |
[Oct. 20th, 2005|04:02 pm] |
Aww, lookie what I found! : )
http://ikso.net/kantaro/La_Bambo
Dancing to La Bamba is a tradition at some kongresoj, I've heard.
Fun fun ^^
In a very Esperanto mood. Also, I won an eBay auction for a V mask. I wondered in Chem if there were a chance of it not getting here in time for Halloween, and looked over at the periodic table thinking it was a calendar. *hits head*
Going to another Halloween store this afternoon to find a cloak and gloves. Then, to Driving School. Yech.
*falls asleep* |
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| Remember, remember... the 26th of March?! |
[Sep. 22nd, 2005|10:48 am] |
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| |  pissed off | ] |
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http://imdb.com/title/tt0434409/board/nest/26073838
Those BASTARDS! They pushed V for Vendetta all the way back to MARCH of 06... :((
God I was so hoping I could see it on Guy Fawkes day too. And the whole, I'm completely unable to wait and how the fuck can they push it back that far, sort of thing. I mean come on.
Bastards bastards. Of course the more I read about it the more pessimistic I get too. Everyone's always all "They're going to completely mess it up."
Ragfragafaafeoajof*grumble*
At least they've already shot it, and all. Watchmen is most likely in limbo for good, like Hitchhiker's was. Maybe it'll eventually get made, but not anytime soon. I don't have any figures off the top of my head but it was years and years and years (more than 10 I think) before HHG got made into a movie, after the rights were bought.
...I should check the status of the HDM movie. Lolz. |
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[Sep. 7th, 2005|04:28 am] |
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| | Aaron Carter - Through My Own Eyes | ] |
Fact of the morning: Aaron Carter did the Liberty's Kids theme song. o.x;;
Second fact: Superman = Bender = God
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/967/97400005137fs.jpg
PS: This song. Devo - Beautiful World. I've heard it, it was on some commercial some time. Anyone help me out? |
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[Sep. 4th, 2005|01:31 pm] |
http://nataliedee.com/090405/nintendogs.jpg
PS: You know what's funny? Saying "Aren't you gay?" in a Valleygirl-esque voice, loud enough to overpass the lawn mower from outside because the windows are open, but soft enough so that the parents in the other room aren't wondering wtf you're doing.
I'm recording a line for a flash movie on of the SD people is making. Fun fun.
PPS:
Wooo! |
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| Comic review; link of the day |
[Aug. 23rd, 2005|10:37 pm] |
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| | John Linnell - Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May? | ] |
I do believe this is the movie I have been waiting for all my life.
http://www.donlafontaineonline.com.nyud.net:8090/video/5men.mov
Voiceover artists! The trailer narrators, including the guy that does all the Disney promos as well as THE VOICE - that insanely deep voice from all the most popular trailers, which is instantly recognisable.
Someone needs to do a documentary on voiceover artists, if one hasn't been made already. These guys are insanely awesome but never do they get any recognition. Even cartoon voice actors get their names listed in the credits, but there are no credits for movie trailers.
Last night I finished Fables: Legends in Exile, yes-another-comic-I-promise-I'll-return-to-reading-real-books-eventually. The basic premise is that many years ago, all the characters of fairy tales were forced out of their "homelands" (this book is only the first in a series, so presumably there's more detail on it all later. It's not clear whether "the homelands" are somewhere in Europe, or a different universe entirely), and now they're all in a place called Fabletown in New York, working and living among normal people.
The first book is a murder mystery: Jack (costar to the Beanstalk) finds the apartment of his girlfriend, Rose Red, torn to pieces and covered in blood. Detective Bigby Wolf takes the case, and along with Rose's sister Snow White aims to solve the mystery.
As would be expected, the book is bursting with fairytale allusions, but also references to more modern stories - The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, even Narnia ("Then the kingdom of the Great Lion fell, and again we did nothing, because we always found the old lion to be a bit too pompous and holier-than-thou for our tastes.").
The series is often compared to Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I haven't seen the movie - please don't ruin my memories. It was a good book), but it's a different set of characters and a different mood entirely. I'd rather compare it to The 10th Kingdom, a miniseries from some years ago that I absolutely loved (and own on DVD, and really should consider rewatching). This is probably why the fact that the Big Bad Wolf took human form didn't strike me as odd, as it has some people. Sadly Bigby isn't as hot as Wolf was in T10K ^^;;
So yes, it was worth the $10 that wasn't really my money but my mom gave me to buy food with. And if I come across more of the series, I'll probably buy them and I'd definitely check them out from the library. The end.
~Joy didn't run into anything when she went driving today. Thank the FSM/IPU/diety of your choice. |
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[Aug. 16th, 2005|02:02 am] |
A-ha!
Teh wow, Lu!
April Fool: Not much is known about her, but she might be a follower of the Joker's style. She was first seen in the Gulag. Her appearance was based off of Columbia from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Goblin King: Not much is known about him, as he was first seen in the Gulag. His look is based off of Nosferatu and Riff Raff from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
(Wikipedia)
So I finished reading Kingdom Come sometime in the early hours of yesterday morning - as soon as I finished it, I closed my eyes and woke up later in the afternoon. My impression through reading the book was that it was pretty mediocre - but since then I've let it ruminate and I'm reading annotations and it's revealing a lot more of the story to me. Why it didn't jump out at me the first time through is a combination of a) lots of Biblical references I didn't get, b) lots of comicbook references I didn't get, and c) becoming jaded by all the books I've read lately that are supposed to be the best of the best, many with the same general theme - I couldn't appreciate this as one of the best because all the ones I've read previously are supposed to be the best as well.
There is an excrutiating amount of details I completely passed by on my first read-though. I have a habit of just whizzing through the dialogue and hardly glancing at the pictures; this is generally a bad plan during most of the book and completely missing the point of the book during action sequences.
ROFL. Wikipedia is fun.
Lobo: He has aged badly, becoming similar in appearance to Homer Simpson.
So, the art is gorgeous - every panel is a watercolor painting. I can't begin to fathom the amount of work put into the pictures. It's all practically photorealistic too - Superman, Wonderwoman, Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen are living, breathing characters. And I STILL think the speech baloons clash with the art terribly.
The universe of Kingdom Come says To Hell with Continuity and Logic, which is a Very Good Thing(tm). It allows for some interesting and awesome things: Such as Sherlock Holmes, The Question, Rorschach and The Shadow (y'know... The Shadow knows! That Shadow.) to meet together in a bar. It's one panel and it's completely in the background of the story, but it's things like these that make a series cool.
...I think I was spurred to write up this whole entry just 'cos Rorschach made a cameo. Because I want to tell that to the world. Also THE WONDER TWINS.
THE MOTHERFUCKING WONDER TWINS ARE IN KINGDOM COME.
And I never, ever would have known were it not for these annotations. D=
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/kc2.html
PS: And the Village People. I don't know how; I don't know why; but the Village People are superheroes in this book.
PPS: Scanned.
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[Aug. 12th, 2005|02:48 pm] |
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| | Andreas Alfredsson - Vs tema | ] |
This is... er... a colorful metaphor.
Alan Moore has been thoroughly exploited by DC and Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers/DC wants to make standard comic book movies like Marvel makes. But they suck at it. They probably know this. So they have hack writers write hack screenplays using the rights Moore's work, pay Joel Silver to masturbate vigorously and loudly for a few months, and then gamble that somewhere in the midst of this circlejerk there emerges a film that might see some profit.
The attitude seems bleak towards the V for Vendetta film. D=
In lighter news, I have makeup on. It's weird and stuff. |
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