You know what's annoying? 001

You know what's annoying? Photobucket. I use it a lot when I make the videos for the overviews of the Warren Zevon albums. But it's hard to work with. You put in the subject of what you're looking for. Let's say it's "stupid." The first page comes up with 20 images out of 103,431. Right away, the very first page gives me 5 images that have the word "stupid" in the image...one of them is a repeat. 2 images have one or more cats. 1 has a rabbit with a 4-leaf clover on it's ear through bad photoshopping. One has the word "idiot" but not stupid. There is one image from Futurama in which they are listening to Bender (which may be stupid that they're listening to him but I don't recognize the exact episode). There is an image that looks like some guy from a T.V. screen who looks like he is stupid and 1 baby or toddler and the rest of people but none actually has anyone doing something stupid. The first stupid thing is on the 2nd page that is an animated image of a monkey trying to stick a fork into a socket. On the third page, I found a guy shooting a fire cracker out of his pants. It, too, was an animation. What I'm trying to get at is that something may get tagged as "stupid" as the photo loader was just being a jerk and saying that someone was stupid and it got placed under stupid. Also, I was trying to find an animated image of a tornado sirin blowing. (Warren Zevon has a line that is "everytime I hear the sirins blow") If I type in "Blow" in the search, I get this message:

Your search term probably relates to adult content. Photobucket DOES NOT host sexually explicit content.


Warning: If you are under 18 or live in an area where it is illegal for you to view explicit content try another search.

or...

Continue your Photobucket search here

However, if I were to look for images of a jerk, I don't find images of anyone necesarily being a jerk, but I do find animation charicters jerking-off every now and then. I must have a problem figuring out what is consider sexual words. Why is "blowing" any more sexual than "jerking-off?" Even if I were to put in "whistle blow," I get that message. Ugh! I guess I could have a blog update about trying to figure out why certain things are sexual and others aren't. But I'm trying to keep this a family friendly blog. I just want to say that everyone has a fetish.
There is an advantage to Photobucket over Google Image. There is a greater chance of finding an animated image. I love these and try to get at least 1 into the videos.

Mr. Bad Example

Here is the video overview of the Warren Zevon album Mr. Bad Example. I find this album to be one of the more complex in subject matter. But that's just me.

Writing Contest

James Nelson, who I know from the Roving Imp but is currently living in Germany, had a writing contest on his Facebook 1.5 weeks ago and I decided to enter it since there was no lost at entering...and I did go to KU for Creative Writing (even though my Bachelors is in English...but that's besides the point). The contest involved the following paragraph:

A man called Peter took an airplane to New York to visit his sister. When he arrived at the airport, an old man asked him a question. Peter gave a short reply and the man invited him for a drink. Peter accepted, and after he had the drink, caught the airplane to New York. When he got to his sister's apartment, his sister invited him into the living room. As he entered the room, he was surprised to see the same man.

The objective was to make this paragraph more interesting by adding non-defining relative clauses. This is non-needed information that goes in to help define a noun. For example, I could say that "during the month of June, the month that I turned 27, I was reading a lot of Harry Potter." The part that is "the month that I turned 27" is the non-defining relative clause because it's not important to the rest of the sentence...hince I put it in italics.
Anyway, this is how it looked when I added mine and submitted it:

A man called Peter, who was a werewolf, took an airplane, which was missing its black box, to New York, the city as well as the state, to visit his sister, who was appearing in Les Miserables on Broadway. When he arrived at the airport, the really dirty one and not the one that was well kept, an old man, who happened to be dressed in women’s underwear, asked him a question. Peter, who was easily offended by old men wearing women's underwear who tried to ask him questions, gave a short reply and the man, who was lonely and ashamed to have insulted Peter, invited him for a drink, which was Diet Coke due to a shortage of rum at the airport. Peter, who wasn't in a huge hurry since the show didn't start for a number of hours and the moon was only going to be a quarter full that night, accepted, and after he had the drink, which had a bit too much aspertain than he cared for, caught the airplane to New York, which was running late. When he got to his sister's apartment, which looked like a pig's pen with the exception of one small spot on the counter next to a bowl of bananas, his sister invited him into the living room, which looked like an F-5 tornado had ramshacked the place. As he entered the room, moving on tip-toe so as not to crush anything scattered on his sister's floor, he was surprised to see, and smell since he did have that wolf-like ability, the same man, who was still drinking his now flat Diet Coke.

It made honorable mention! It, unfortunately, built up an expectation of werewolf carnage and the Diet Coke was left in question of what it actually meant. James said his favorite part was the use of the (apparently non-existant) word "ramshacked".

Anyway, that was my entry.

Facebook

I read on my friend Chris's blog that apparently they're making a FaceBook movie. So I went to YouTube to post these:

Facebook Infomercial:


Facebook Stalker...a parody to the song "Hero":

News!!!

Okay, well, I got this message twice in the last week from 2 different people using the name Jessica on Facebook. It's worded exactly the same. This is it:

hey, im Astarte and I was just browsing profiles and we found yours. we liked what we saw ;) you should add us on yahoo so we can all chat, the sn is Astarte.Paulus89@yahoo.com

oh and we're ignoring msgs from strangers so just say it's David from facebook if you do msg us :)

ps. if ur lucky i'll give u a link where u can see me and her get crazy on cam at this free site we just signed up on ;)

Now that I have posted this here, I have reported both messages as spam. I don't really like doing this because I'm never sure if it's an intaty that gave the name "Jessica Johnson" so that it could deliver spam, or if it's someone with that name who got hacked. The other person was named Jessica but with another name. That could have been coincidence.
Just for the record, deep down, I wish those messages were for real.

Anyway, on with the news!!!
First of all, tonight was Read Out Loud Wednesday (which got moved from Mondays so that Nifer could continue to read). My book was finally picked. We're reading The Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy! This is the first book in The Ultimate Hitchhicker's Guide.

Also, the results from the survey John took for the shows has come in. Unfortunately, Dimensional Rift is on it's last legs at the moment and John's going to be restructuring it including cast. But the good news is that I'm getting put into R. I. Spectacular! This is the main Roving Imp Theater house group...and one I've been trying to get into since about September 2008. I'm in it!

Survey 001

Okay, so not a whole lot happened today...I got my car's oil changed at Superior Chevrolet today. I've been reading a book called Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen since I finished reading the Harry Potter series. I've also been watching a lot of Futurama on DVD that I borrowed from Nifer who borrowed from Jenifer so I'll be returning them to Jenifer.
So for right now, I wanted to do something that I used to do all the time on MySpace but made me really angry all the time I ever did them but it would also be a hoot too. I wanted to see how it came out on blogger. This is a survey that I actually found on facebook. By the way, I'm not exactly active on myspace all that much anymore. But it is where I have all parts of my Matthew of the IHOP Restroom story. And I have a pretty awesome background. The only thing better would have been Star Trek. Anyway, here's the survey:

What color underwear/boxers wearing now?
I'm not. Why do you want to know? I am wearing a green robe though.

What are you listening to right now?
NUMB AS A STATUE by Warren Zevon

Whats your favorite number?
Infinity

What was the last thing you ate?
I had a 5 cheese and Garlic pizza by Red Barron. And I also had some S'mores Poptarts.

If you were a crayon what color would you be?
I would hope to be green.

How is the weather right now?
The sun should be rising soon.

Who was the last person you talked 2 on the phone?
I can't remember back that far.

The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Usually the eyes...sometimes the boobs...but usually the eyes.

Do you have a significant other?
No.

Siblings?
I've got 2 1/2 sisters. That does not make a whole sister.

Height?
5'10" or so. Put it this way, of the guys at the Roving Imp, I'm probably the shortest.

Hair color?
Brown

Eye Color?
Brown

Do you wear contacts?
No. This is based on the fact that I can put nothing near my eye. Literally. I'll will scream and you'd think I was being attack by this. By the way, I went literally scarey. I didn't make it out to be scarey and then show you a Twilight book or anything like that.

Favorite Holiday?
Halloween and Christmas.

Month?
I don't know. I feel passive agressive about it.

Have you ever cried for no reason?
No. I've usually had a good reason for it. It was usally sad.

What was the last movie you watched?
I can't remember what the last movie was that I watched all the way through in one sitting. I think, however, that it was Bowling For Columbine.

Favorite Day of the Year?
That's another one I feel on the fence about.

Are you too shy to ask someone out?
Ahh, so you've noticed.

Hugs or Kisses?
I prefer Reese's myself. Oh, you're not talking about candy, you're talking about acutally hugging or kissing? Well in that case, yes.

Chocolate or Vanilla?
Vanilla. Beyond hot chocolate...or what's inside the chocolate (like peanut butter or mint)...or white chocolate, I've never really been a fan of chocolate.

Do you want your friends to respond to this?
Well sure, if they read this.

Who is least likely to respond?
Well, I don't have that many friends who read this...or at least that I know of. I only know of 3 or 4 at most.

What book are you reading?
I'm currently in the process of reading Basket Case.

Favorite movies?
Forrest Gump, Armageddon, Stardust, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: First Contact. Those are tops.

Butter, Plain or Salted popcorn?
I don't (can't) eat popcorn.

Dogs or cats?
I'll be honest. I'm a dog person...based on the fact that some in my family have been allergic to cats...maybe even including me.

Favorite flower?
I don't know anything about flowers! The living ones that grow.

Have you ever loved someone?
Unfortunately.

Who would you like to see right now?
I'd tell you. But then I'd have to make you wish you were dead. I wouldn't hurt you or anything. I'd just make you sit there and tell me that you wish you were dead...but don't give me the whole wink-wink look afterwards. Then it would just look like a lie.

Are you still friends with people from kindergarten?
Not really...only through facebook.

Have you ever fired a gun?
Yes. I had to. I was at cub scout camp.

Do you like to travel by plane?
I've only ridden on a plane twice...going and coming back.

Right-handed or Left-handed?
Right

How many pillows do you sleep with?
2

Are you missing someone?
What kind of question is that?

Do you have a Tattoo?
No.


Well, that could have ended up funner than how it did.

Update..."Finally"

I've finally gotten around to reading blog updates. I haven't gotten to them in about a week. Even though I updated with my latest Warren Zevon album overview video, I haven't had much of a chance to read these blog updates. I appologise to my friends who update and actually care that I read their blogs. To everyone else, well, I read them. Know that and have it on your subconcsious or something.
I finished off the month of June reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and finished it this last Tuesday morning...as in 4:30 in the morning.
Speaking of finishing books, we finished On A Pale Horse at the Roving Imp Wednesday night and so this coming Wednesday, we'll start a new book.
Thursday was rehearsal for Coma and Dimensional Rift. The rehearsal turned out alot better than the show did Saturday night, unfortunately. That's Dimensional Rift. Coma won't be until this coming weekend. There were only 4 of us in D.R. and that was myself, John, Nifer, and Patrick. I unfortunately wasn't have a very good improv run on Saturday. Not in class and as it turns out, not in the show either. Before the show, I tried to do some warm up scenes with Patrick but we kept stoping ourselves anywhere from 2-5 lines in calling ourselves out on plot, past, future planning, stuff, ect. Maybe this wasn't a good idea because for the show itself, the show was lacking energy and was low emotion.
Also, I didn't like the fact that afterwards, my grandma asked me if I had trouble thinking of things to say...the answer is no, I have trouble thinking too much and not reacting emotionally.
Anyway, to end this entry on a happy note, I am now setting up PowerPoints for the Roving Imp so we can show them before shows. Also, I went to see the StitchTactics show last Friday. It ended with a rigged game of "Day In The Life." It was rigged because the a guy convinced the group to call his girlfriend up on stage and do a day in her life that lead to that night and they playing hide and seek that lead to her spinning around with her eyes closed while her boyfriend went up and proposed to her...getting in position while she had her eyes closed and spinning around. Anyway, I thought that would be a happy note to end on.

Warren Zevon's Preludes

This is Warren Zevon's Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings. This album I bought at Best Buy so I was able to "Workin' Man's Pay," "Frozen Notes," and "Some Kind Of Rider."