[12 Nov 2009|06:37am] sevataru 6 <3s| Comment

New Toe album next month! [11 Nov 2009|10:18pm] helpmesucks Comment

Plans! [11 Nov 2009|08:55pm] syntheticjesso [ mood | productive ] Friday, I am going to: - SLEEP. - Drive to a distributor to buy a case of Bawls - Do laundry - See The Boondock Saints II - Make tomato soup in my crockpot, thus getting over my fear of using my crockpot to cook while I am not home - Enjoy one of my last Fridays off and NOT think about how the December madness is coming soon Thursday, I am going to: - Work - Babysit Right now, I am going to: - Make some hot chocolate - Use Write Or Die to get some words written. Or die. Comment

[11 Nov 2009|09:37am] sevataru us healthcare what's our vote livejournal army? 2 <3s| Comment

One Life To Live/You Only Live Twice/Spin [11 Nov 2009|12:23am] flawlesscowboy Preface: I'm rusty. Let's just try to work through the kinks together, k? Thx for all the fish. Spinning Outside the glass, colors whirl in a cacophony of vivid blurs, their Rorschach-esque imagery captures my eyes, and my mind sparks for an instant. Time travel is possible and it is almost entirely silent. Unless, that is, if your mind adds an effect, because that's the only way any of us is getting to go back: in our memories. Suddenly, I'm in another car, my immediate world still, quiet, only the slight vibration of my tires as they skid across the surface of the wet asphalt is felt, but largely goes unnoticed. My hands are locked on the wheel, knuckles white, my eyes are narrowed, pupils constricted, small beads of sweat spring from my brow, my musculature is tensed. Everything awaits an impact, and ending, the inevitable conclusion, but for a moment more I am locked in a perpetual spin, the world outside an indecipherable mess, but all is calm and cool inside the car. I am certain I will soon either die or be mortally wounded with perhaps some bits of things where they ought not be, or poking from places they don't normally do so, and so my mind begins to rapidly catalogue all it can in these final moments. Around and around my car glides, it's grace belies the nature of it's chaos. Though she resembles a graceful figure skater, my car is more akin to a tornado, all spinning death and flying metal with the occasional bit of person thrown in. I reflect on that day, and how appropriate it is that I should be ensconced in chaos, that it would be my natural state, but perhaps I simply went looking for it one day and got caught up in the storm, never to come back down. I crest a hill going about 40, my passenger side leading the charge headlong (or as close as I was getting right now) into the breach, and then I see the form She takes. Death was thick that day, tall and leafy, dressed in the rough bark of a large tree, and though all is spinning madness around me I can clearly see the trunk of doom coming closer and closer. With a final spin 'round the wheel of entropy I look out the driver's side window and lock eyes with the terminus of my trip, my grip becomes unfathomably tighter on the wheel as the remaining functioning bits of grey matter give their all to not become just another statistic. At this point I'm bisecting the small road, the raindrops are still in the air, some illuminated by the yellowing beams of my headlights and I feel my heartbeat slow as time comes to an almost complete halt. My body is aflame with adrenaline, every fiber in my arms still fighting with the wheel, my back pushed as far back into the seat as I can get, and with a slow-motion jolt my wheels breach the curb and I'm officially doing my first perpendicular driving! Too bad I'm about to also do my first tree-assisted parking. Slow motion might be good for movies, but it's agony on the person having to live it, and at least in chaos we are never slowed down, only driven ever faster. Then, as if it were merely waiting for the most dramatic moment to make it's grand entrance good ol' gravity comes after me, and as my spinning continues I rotate in a nice tight circle just around the tree-that-would-be-Death and regain traction, my hyper-alert senses immediately bringing my car to a shuddering stop in the middle of the road, still not going in either direction. I would have probably remembered that day forever even if I hadn't almost died, I suppose it was only irony that I would find myself again back in the grip of chaos. She would be a tender lover if only she could slow down and pull it together, but then she'd be boring, and so I again am spinning, no control, adrenaline like electric chemicals in my blood, my heart racing, sweat forming again on my brow, and then... Well, you only live twice. Comment

Who Watches the Watchmen? [10 Nov 2009|11:26pm] flawlesscowboy I've been thinking a lot about law lately. This is not really unusual because I can almost always find an episode of "Law & Order" on, but in this case I'm actually talking about real laws. The title of this post, "Who Watches the Watchmen" succinctly sums up my question: who watches the law? Who is really the master here? Do we, as the creators of law and the enforcers thereof, truly control the law? Or have we perhaps pulled a Dr. Frankenstein on ourselves and breathed life into something without understanding the nature of the beast? Sometimes I feel like people assume that simply because something is law, that it is right, and despite my best mental spinning and convoluting I can't seem to escape one ineffable fact. However, to understand what my problem is we need to take one more step back, and look at what law is supposed to do, and that is to provide justice in the face of injustice and to represent all equally before it's unflinching might. Well, perhaps not quite so epic, but the law does exist so that we might have justice and equality for all people. Or so I thought. You see, it seems like we as people have attempted to "humanize" the law, to instill in it a sense of morals and values. This just blows my mind because the law is not a person to be reasoned with, justice is not your friend. Justice is like a force of nature, and when the clouds gather and the roar of the wind tears along the skin of the Earth there should be no stopping it. We do not control the elements of nature, and nor should we impose any sort of human characteristics into our laws. When you add yourself to the system of law you raise yourself above that of everyone else and then the whole concept of justice is skewed. If your morality guides my laws then who's laws are they really? What do you know of what I want or what I think is right and wrong? Simple questions are easy to answer, such as murder or rape, but what about gay marriage? Income taxes? Personal liberties? Abortion? Where does an individual draw the line between what is just and what is moral? And even if you found the line, who has the right to cross it? Who has the right to move it? I say that the Greeks had it right. AGAIN. The only person who should be king is the person who truly does not want it. The only person who should decide whether or not morally-ambiguous laws (those on which the presumption of justice served is truly morality in disguise) should even be allowed to exist is the one person who doesn't exist, and so, therefore, neither should laws which draw on mores and norms. Justice used to be blind, but then we gave her contacts. Too bad the prescription is wrong. I'm just so sick and tired of people soapboxing their views into law and then proclaiming the justice of our legal system and the fairness of our land. I think we got a little too full of ourselves, 'cause the fight sure as hell ain't won and justice is truly not being served. Americans do have it better than nearly anywhere else on this planet, but we have rested on our laurels for much too long, and suddenly the cracks in our foundation are widening, the minorities have grown, and will continue to grow, and the old ideologies are being pushed to the breaking points. Soon, I hope, morality will be abated from the law, and people may truly be free again. Because right now the law watches us, when really it should be we who watch the law, lest the rest of our creations run amuck on us. Comment

The Cinematic Orchestra - Reel Life (Evolution II) [10 Nov 2009|03:39am] helpmesucks 1 <3| Comment

[09 Nov 2009|02:31am] sevataru dexter s04 e07 OSHIT Comment

Things are awesome. [08 Nov 2009|01:26am] syntheticjesso So today I got the "Desktop Edition" of Write or Die, and wowwwwwwww talk about motivation. I did 5 10-minute sprints and wrote 2,632 words. 2,632 words in 50 minutes of writing. AND they are pretty good words, I think! I'm happy with them, anyways. I have yet to really resort to any blatant word padding like dream sequences or my character going to a random concert or visiting a museum. I'm very happy with the pacing of my story, and I'm happy with the quality of what I've written, keeping in mind that it is a "first draft" kind of thing. I'm very, very happy with how things are going this year. As of tonight, I'm at 13,840 total words. I was behind as of last night, so today I caught up and got a full day ahead. Tomorrow I want to do 5,000 words so that I can earn my "Rally" merit badge, because of course I bought the merit badge stickers from NaNoWriMo. It's kind of amazing how motivational a sticker can be. I love NaNoWriMo. I really do. I mean, it's fun enough to bang out a novel in a month, but add in the regional activities and all of the cool people you meet during the month, and it's really like a month-long party of awesomeness. And now, I'm going to do some planning. I'm feeling a little lost this year without having everything plotted in advance. I'm not sure if it's because I plotted everything so thoroughly last year, or if it's because I have a plot from my polls and I'm worrying about sticking to it, but the feeling is there. So I'm going to bang out a rough outline for the rest of the novel and see how that helps. There are some details I need to work out ahead of time, anyways, so I don't write myself into a corner. Have I mentioned that I'm really happy with how this novel is turning out? Because I am <3 Okay, off to work on this, and then to beeeeeeeeddddddddd. For sleeps. eta: Oh, and I know that I just got Write Or Die: Desktop Edition today, but I really want Liquid Story Binder, too. Apparently it's on sale for the month of November and oooooooo it looks so pretty. 4 <3s| Comment

Chris Baty is my nemesis. [06 Nov 2009|02:47pm] syntheticjesso [ mood | dorky ] I shall defeat Chris Baty. (And yes, I've already written him into this year's novel. This year he is a professor.) Also, the DFW Region is at war with Fairfield County, CT. Here's the widget for that, if I did it right: (We're warring by average word count per person, since our region is so much bigger than theirs) 1 <3| Comment

[02 Nov 2009|10:36pm] sevataru fuck yeah nyzul retired 1 <3| Comment

[02 Nov 2009|01:43pm] sevataru 2 <3s| Comment

[02 Nov 2009|10:15am] sevataru Timbaland - Carry Out (Feat. Justin Timberlake) Pretty much a JT song over a Timbo beat. Off the new Shock Value II album. I fux wit it Comment

[02 Nov 2009|01:00am] helpmesucks lol jesus christ 2 <3s| Comment

Nano day 1 [01 Nov 2009|09:13pm] gharbad 2007 words out of 50,000. I should get that graphic again which shows progress as a bar. Oh well. I was planning this for some time, but then I got cold feet today. But with some help from my friends, I started. I hope it goes well. More info in coming weeks as it starts to take shape Comment

[31 Oct 2009|11:57pm] sevataru got another angel skin got medal1, and blitz ring got mnd+3 on warwolf paranormal activity was alright, 2 or 3 out of  5. watching saw6 right now, wtf at this gorefest i miss house. they taking this week off i assume? dexter season 4 is epic im loving it south park was funny this week FUK U DOLPHAN no ceilings by wayne is dope 50 is back grimey on before i self destruct not much else music wise sigel went at jay, that was pretty big lol halloween'd as a pirate but i looked like napoleon oh well he was equally cool pillage rape plunder etc Comment

Ready, set... [31 Oct 2009|06:43pm] syntheticjesso Okay. I have: - cleared off most of the games from my iPod Touch, except for the ones where I'd lose my gamesave if I did so. Those have been "hidden" on the last screen. The front screen is full of useful apps ONLY. Except for Pocket God, because I might need to kill off some pygmies. You know, for stress relief. - loaded up my Plumbob USB thumb drive with NaNo-related stuff- all my spreadsheets and randomizers and web badges, plus the install file for yWriter and some instrumental music, all ready to be shared with others at write-ins. - filled a pencil bag with useful things, including my word count calendar, stickers, printed randomizers, a balloon, a policeman, a pen, my lucky frog, and a Hipster PDA, aka a stack of index cards held together with a binder clip. - filled up my color-coded index cards with information about Lorelei, Norse gods, the world in which Lorelei lives, and the new names of the days of the week, since they are now named after Norse gods instead of the stupid Sun or planet Saturn. I even added a card that says "PDA WOOOOO!" to the front, to make it fancy. - cleared out my Alphasmart, to make room for the epic novel I shall be writing - had a small panic attack about having to write fifty thousand words in the next month HOLY COW - Compiled a Story So Far post to put together the results from all my polls so far, and posted Poll Number 7, in which all of you should go vote. - Added a Mono album and the instrumental versions of two Muse albums to my iPod, to be the EPIC SOUND TRACk to my EPIC NOVEL of AMAZING EPICNESS. With all of that done, I'm READY. Let's do this thing. 2 <3s| Comment

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