starlight and sunflowers

It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
December 10: E Pluribus Wiggum again? I'm getting sick of this... missed it the day before because I had to replace my keyboard; don't think I missed much, fucking Fox Nation. I think the last time they played a classic-era episode was late June, aside from the usual halloween episode in Halloween... but not Thanksgiving for some reason. X-mas, probably. I hate Fox and everything they stand for. *stabs Basil Brush several times* This is for the Romany, you no-talent foxy orange arse-bandit!

December 11: I discovered a way to play Beyond Zork... sort of. Actually, I was really frustrated with it, since the minimap is screwy ascii art, and command-S does not make a save, it makes a transcript.

December 12: I think all this vintage gaming is giving me middle school related dreams.

Minxes are awesome, and if it were possible to syncrete a koala, a cat, and a piglet to get the most endearing qualities of each, that would be awesome, provided they don't end up with the loyalty of a cat with the cleanliness of a pig and the asshole personality of the koala.
I'd ask Fiona, but then I remember the conversation about twins and about how Fiona thinks she can make up whatever words she wants to, and I don't think I'm using this word properly anyway.

December 13: The Macintosh Garden has Obsidian. That's good. I can't get past the part where the game asks for disc 2 with two of three attempts at a solution (Solution the first: trick Obsidian into thinking a random .dmg file is OBSIDIAN2, solution the second: making a disc that's a copy of the first one, solution the third and unattempted: making a disc called OBSIDIAN2, changing the name of Obsidian Data 2 to Obsidian Data 3, because apparently it was compressed into one file to save space) failing. That's bad. This thing was made with toast. Blank stare. That's bad. Maybe, since Fallout 2 was also toast-related but worked fine. Probably cheaper to find a used copy of Obsidian anyway. However, I can read the files to my heart's content and discover the secrets of Facebook's sorting algorithm. That's good. Charismatic. Methylene. Studies in understanding time through motion analysis. Some things aren't proper. Letters that aren't I, a, or u and y if you're leet, are not proper words and thusly get sorted to the back.

Maybe someone will come here and find this and tell me the solution. Just check your socks for bugs first. That's how they get you.

December 14: Up until 1:30 in the morning listening to Prince Igor and being sort of giddy because I contacted a friend I haven't talked to in years. Then I couldn't sleep because I felt overheated. That's weird, I mean, it's cold out.

It kind of stopped, though.

Burning Question (King's Quest VI related): Why would something with a cow's head eat meat? Because they won't give him any pudding unless he does? It is kind of ridiculous to question the logic of a land of horrible puns and Polish people who lord over a faux-Arabic culture... probably because they saw the name Casimir somewhere and thought it was Arabic.

Current Mood: Floresca
Current Music: Aphex Twin - Nannou

Happy interstitial doldrums, everyone!
There is absolutely nothing redeeming about most of December. In January, the cold may be worse, but not having to hear the same 20 xmas songs everywhere is a nice touch. Winter may be the shortest season, but with time being gigantic when you're young or you have the flu or whatever, it doesn't feel like it.

I wrote 2269 words for nanowrimo, which is probably half as much as I wrote in October, would have been more but I've been feeling assy all month, maybe it's because I haven't eaten much, but (nov 30) I had some spicy Thai kettle chips and still feel assy. It's not the flu, probably. Just this same unplesant too moist feeling in my throat, on and off for the last month. Anyway, I'll post it on Deviantart, along with some artwork I made back in highschool when I find my digital camera. I have one! I've had one since June! I just never used it and right now I have no idea where it is.

Speaking of assy, Fox is assy and should be forced to have Tails, Basil Brush, and Renard as their mascots. I was expecting the thanksgiving episode of the Simpsons on either thanksgiving or the day after and a new cycle of 20 episodes for the year, what I got was Regarding Margie and some other overplayed episode.

Speaking of assy, there's an album called Inside The Head Of A Butterfly Dreaming Of Being A Giant Moth Destroying Tokyo. That's not assy, but the fact that it's ridiculously obscure despite not being from Asia is.

Burning Question: Map of the world in Dubai: a giant game of Risk, also, build a giant minaret on Switzerland's island? It doesn't have to be attached to anything, it just has to be a minaret of some sort.

Current Mood: Aristonectes
Current Music: Stereolab - Wow & Flutter

That's hack work, not great art!
dream (november 13, 2009): I was walking on a street near a river and this guy was walking on the water to show off his abilities to some ducks, but I think the river's depth is an illusion, like it's painted on, but he's actually standing on a box that moves with him so I don't question that.
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Somehow, the foreclosure episode seems like it's going to be the overplayed one of the year.

But then again (november 18), they played the fucking manatee episode for the billionth time. And to demonstrate how tired I am at around 11:30 PM, I almost put manticore episode.

Or maybe the bounty hunter episode would become the overplayed episode of the year. Went to bed and read Finch around 10 because I feel burnt out from yelling at blip for being assy. And I know it was blip (and Veoh as well and apparently a video on The Onion that has an advertizement) because the same page crashed Safari. I know Firefox is assy and crashes when you open a new window, crashes when you think about moving the mouse, and can generally react to your consciousness to make itself as assy as possible, but this is different. Fuck you, blip.tv. There's a way around that, but not with blip. Fucking bloated website design.

Restarting helped, though. That doesn't make blip any less terrible, just less crashy.
Day of Lavos dream
So, it's 1999 in the winter, but since I'm in Siberia so it might be July, and then I cross over from Kamchatka into either Alaska or Tierra del Fuego where there's this big military base where they're trying to summon Lavos to use against someone (I don't understand what, since it's in that transitional time between the communists as the big enemy and the Muslims as the big enemy), and that's a bad idea, so I need to stop this somehow. At this moment, I'm questioning whether 1999 was really like this, but not how I'd end up in Argentina from Russia, unless the Earth was a klein bottle, or maybe a torus where Antarctica didn't exist. So, I've determined that I need to get up to this satellite using an elevator, so I test it out by going to 70, but it takes me up 70 meters instead of to floor 70, so I need to look at a chart to figure out how to get to the satellite.

Frustrated by my inability to reach the satellite, I wake up to a bit of a sore throat, but I've accepted that as normal (every time I feel assy, I feel like it's another flu coming), and it wore off. Any day in late autumn where I can get away with wearing a t-shirt is a nice day.

Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters, who should be in a temple somewhere, preferably a hidden one
There's a 250 page book written in something that may be an interesting style (completely antiornate. cadenced, very precise measurements in the description, reads like a D&D campaign with Knuckles, describes colors with their hex values complete with transparency) in competent hands if from the perspective of robots (maybe Lem could pull it off if he wasn't dead) but not for 25 pages of that, let alone 250. Anyone who thinks that 250 pages of "Knuckles glides north 1500 feet above Lake Sakakawea at 800 mph following Highway 83. A small thunderstorm is somewhat visible to the south. The sky is 3/8 scattered with cirrus clouds and 1/8 scattered with altostratus clouds. The wind is 15 mph with gusts to 20 mph. A few small patches of snow in ditches, some with water, are visible but hard to see due to the speed. A 40-second pause in speech occurs while credits display on screen" is a good idea, even if it does have a full exposition of the general theory of nonlinear automata, has taken leave of their senses. Reminds me of Eng, except the worst thing I could say about this guy is that he thinks Bubsy Bobcat is a good game.

Um.. Fox is back in their normal endless loop of Marge gets a computer and Homer's mother dies and such. How assy. How very assy.

Burning Question: Wouldn't a manticore episode of the Simpsons be awesome?
Burning Question 2: So, what would happen if Marty McFly time traveled to the year 0000 in his DeLorean? Would it cease to exist, or would the computer fix it for him and send him to 1?
Burning Question 3: The Cyberiad: Should it be a Pixar film or one done with puppets?

Current Mood: Colisa
Current Music: The House of Love - Audience With The Mind

Deviations, Superfixations, and Aberrations of the Heart
Oh, so that's where they went. November 3 (December 49th of the 2nd phase of Spring, 01984) had the one where Bart switches places with that rich kid. A few days later, it's the crossword episode... but something's missing. Actually, something's always missing when they make the leap to syndication, even with the ridiculously bloated intro sequence (1), but they manage to excise it in such a way so that it slips away unnoticed until SNPP compiles their syndication cuts guide (2). However, they excised Homer's nightmare about the married couples and the potential children and the antique furniture, and that's not only a reasonably lengthy scene (see what I said about the bloated intro sequence) but it renders the subplot unresolved. The day before that, well, I have more pressing concerns.

Wondering if I somehow entered the world of Soldiers of Paradise. Get this, this fellow believes that musical instruments are forbidden, there's a joint conspiracy involving the Jews and the English aristocracy (Jewish conspiracies are one thing, but a grand cabal of Jewish conspiracy allied to people who don't even like them would be downright absurd in nightmare logic), black people should be grateful for slavery because they were living in sin on their own (and had musical instruments), America can completely isolate itself and not allow anyone in or out (if you're fortunate enough to be Jewish and fate smiles upon you, you'll be kicked out and I will support your endeavors in rallying Italy (3) and Romania (4) to war and convince Estonia (5) to ally with the new regime) and still expect to have a culture, execute all judges who he disagrees with, make Christianity a requirement to hold public office, put various cities under military juntas, enforce strict censorship laws and send anyone considered unwholesome to concentration camps (6), enforce a caste system based on ancestry where the lower castes are forbidden to be kind or use abstract words like 'love.'

The day after, FOX reverted to that one with Sideshow Bob faking his death, also, I feel kinda wonky but I'm hoping it's due to stress. Gassy. Moments seem like hours. Feeling like I want to purge something. I had some chili and sushi with not enough wasabi earlier and that helped. Hoping I had the swine flu last year when I had the shot but got sick anyway and am not getting it this year.

The next monday: Much less assy, and sort of wavering in and out of feelings of assyness. It's a nice day. I'd say this is the last perfect day, but with a day like this, it's a hard thing to judge. First perfect days are so much easier. I picked up a copy of The Cyberiad, though. Simpsons was the one with the bees and Mr. Burns owning a basketball team. If something was cut, it slipped by.

tuesday: It's probably stress. I don't know.

wednesday: Did I mention that they picked the perfect episode to show off high definition Simpsons? Interestingly, they've decided to revert back to the standard 3 act structure in syndication.

thursday: not assy. Oh, it was that episode where Chalmers tricks Bart, Nelson, Skinner, et al into not bringing down the test scores for the rest of the school with no noticeable syndication cuts, for those of you who care.

Musical Discoveries: Closedown, Medicine, The Telescopes

Also, South America is fucking awesome, unless you hate shoegaze and hummingbirds.

I'll be keeping a better eye on FOX and this time around. Ok, I'll try. Actually, I can't try, but I'll try to try.

(1) In the days of my youth, I remember a shortened intro for syndication. I also remember mentioning this in an earlier entry but can't be arsed to check.
(2) This usually happens about a decade afterwards.
(3) It's a well known fact that Italy has never lost a war.
(4) It's less well-known that Romania has done the same.
(5) Conversely, Estonia has never won a war. It's unknown if they are aware of that fact or just hate Russians enough to ally with someone who's mission statement is "kill everyone to make room for Germans."
(6) He actually used the word concentration camp too. Not even Ron Paul was this bad. Not even the illegitimate offspring of Carrie Prejean and Ron Paul would think that.

Burning Question: Do people really care what Carrie Prejean thinks about anything: noses, sunangels, same-sex marraige, Invisible Cities, or whether or not listing things in Scattergories that don't start with the letter on the dice is acceptable because undoubtly everything starts with that letter in one foreign language or another?

Because I don't. And there's this guy who reminds me of Dan Simmons who's the same way and people flock to him. I've had as many works published as this guy and they have more sunangels. ... that's weird, my edit window just went blank...

Current Mood: Heliangelus
Current Music: Closedown - Sunangel Summer

I'm Idaho!
Google Piss-off Point: When searching for something, say, chebzon, it assumes you meant chebzone, shows those results, and doesn't filter them out. It's even worse since I went through the semi-irregularly quest for someone armed with only a screen name (only occasionally fruitful) and a birthday (never fruitful, forums have something against allowing just anyone to view a profile) and it's really annoying when Google thinks you want Arabic numerals when you searched for some Roman numerals instead and it's doubly annoying when there's no way to filter them out.

So ends the most agonizingly slow October. It's been really nice, actually. It's downright balmy today. But the anticipation. Finch came out very recently and I have my copy, but I think girl.echo.suns.veils. was delayed again since Projekt now says 2010. Hopefully soon. I've been waiting almost two years for this. Yeah, it's really been that long since I started listening to LLC. .

I have a Simpsons rant again. I'm going to give credit to Fox for actually playing Halloween episodes around Halloween. But (make him stop! make him stop!). Treehouse of Horror I is played every year. I'm not complaining, it's a really good episode, I'm annoyed that they cut the Indian graveyard with Gandhi and Quoth the Raven: Eat My Shorts, but they've been doing that since before Livejournal even existed, and I swear they cut scenes in syndication even when they used a shortened intro, so there's no point in dwelling on it now. I don't have a toaster like Homer did. I do want to say this: The colors in that episode are off. It's a nice touch and genuinely creepy and I don't know why they've never done it again.
XV: Ugh. Did they really need Homer to rebigulate inside Mr. Burns? I repeat, ugh. For some reason, I was expecting the AI segment. That one felt soulless, probably because I really loved the movie and that segment lacked what made me love the movie.

Apple Cider! Anyway, remember that post on worst culinary disasters? Well, once I had the brilliant idea to put a bit of curry powder in it. It wasn't anywhere as good as I thought it would be.

Burning Question: Is Dr. Who related to Mrs. Who from A Wrinkle in Time? They're both immortals, aren't they?
Burning Question 2: What's the best costume you've ever seen someone wear?
Burning Question 3: So it lets you travel through time. How good is it at making toast?

Current Mood: Cucurbita
Current Music: Feathermerchants - Head to the Here and Now

Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZ4nAprSSE
No, that episode wasn't on. I don't even remember when it was on. The only reason I'm reminded of it was some stupid Mickey Mouse knockoff which is hopefully a satire of the Taliban or less hopefully but still better than the alternative, a Kahanist production. Apparently, they haven't fulfilled thier quota of Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play this year yet. I'm surprised they haven't played a bunch of episodes from the previous season, since that usually happens when the new season comes, but then again, I'm remembering previous instances where the new season didn't begin until November. I'm also surprised they weren't showing older episodes, since it's playoffs time.

By the way, you can stop asking what
Вфхуи ZоРиЕ m

СФИР et.
ЅЕqОНЖ

СНЕьzоn фt уmЕztоiх ©1959 zᴇm
is supposed to mean.
It's just Eastern European alphabet soup. In fact, that backwards P, the Z, the m, the i aren't even Cyrillic, except it does make sense as alphabet soup. I could find in twenty seconds of searching. Then I realized I could use a q. And then I found a kindred spirit who also almost used a paragraph symbol for the q. ¶. It doesn't do anything justice, it's just an annoyance in Word. Just imagine that paragraph symbol is in fact a backwards P you'd expect to find in something with gibberish and faux-cyrillic. S, however, is Cyrillic. It hasn't really been used since the 18th century.

Other things: Contrary to what I said, yesterday was a perfect autumn day. Today was less so and involved lack of sleep and messed up dreams, but did involve listening to Russian music.

Someone says: Word has caused more frustration and mental suffering than any other human invention.

That may be true, but it's not on a personal level. Firefox has produced the most frustration for me, now that it's become sentient, but that's because I haven't used Word in years. Not that the last time I used it wasn't filled with suffering, since I needed to print something that had equations. Mathematics and Word go together like souvlaki and those mushrooms you find going outside. I hope I don't have to explain that to you.

كلنا نعيش تحت سماء واحده
Advice from... somebody. Probably has something to do with that post-rock compilation.

Don't look into the Death Star or you will die.
Good advice from Castlevania. It made more sense in Japan, probably.

Burning Question: Did the translators of that know who Darth Vader is?

Current Mood: Notaeolidia
Current Music: Starblind - Slow as Smoke

lost autumn
I think I need the Konami Code to fix the broken weather machines on Souvlaki Space Station, upon being reminded that it's not November and I did not in fact fall into a coma for the last month. Which sucks, because it feels like November without the good. And by good, I mean Finch (for some reason, this sounds a bit like the missing link between Ambergris and Veniss) and Girl.Echo.Suns.Veils. assuming the powers that be don't keep pushing it back.

Autumn's supposed to be pleasant. Note the mood, this kind of weather would only be nice if Germany was invading. They're not.

Fun fact: I think this is the earliest Fox ever played a Halloween episode of the Simpsons. No, I don't mean in syndication because for syndication.
Another fun fact: There's a 1913 opera written in Liz Frazer speak with characters like Nero and Caligula in the Same Person, Traveller through All the Ages, Telephone Talker, The New Ones. It inspired Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team.

From a rant courtesy of Christina: Obama doesn't have some cheat code and can't just fix everything instantly.
Burning Question: What if Obama did have the Konami Code?

I'd fix the weather first. It's bad enough that it's cold as hell, and the Sports Utility Morons (tm) are using this to justify their continued degradation of the planet.

Current Mood: Bathocyroe
Current Music: lovesliescrushing - ckaif

don't lose sight of the good in this world
Norway (They're fucking kidding me. I checked Wikipedia and I'm sure I could handle Zagreb or Bucharest or Budapest, but that's the worst I could handle, damn it - Remember Hoth, right? That was filmed in southern Norway. That means there are parts of) was named the most desirable place to live, with Niger at the bottom. This tells me a few things.
1. People have heard of Niger. I'd go for the obvious when asked where I don't want to live.
2. More people would live in places like Somalia, Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, or Sri Lanka, which have been mired in war for quite some time, or autocracies like North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Brunei, as opposed to Niger, which merely suffers from a severe lack of arable land and being named after a racial slur.
3. Just a remark about Niger. Calvin says that if we keep destroying the world, at least we won't be fighting over it anymore. However, France took over Niger. Don't quote me on this (but Wikipedia says this is true, so HA)_ but I think Niger's main resource is uranium, which, in 1910, was pretty fucking useless.

Musical discoveries made recently: half-string, the pains of being pure at heart, orange, the moon seven times. Orange is truly a horrible name for a band when your album is self-titled. No wonder they haven't made anything else.

Once again, people who write movies have no idea just how big space is. 500,000,000 miles away is somewhere around Saturn's orbital path, writers of Pandorum. Considering that the moon is 250,000 miles away (and made of bronze and at least twice as big as the palace) and the closest star that isn't the sun is around 10 trillion miles, that isn't much. It feels like the distance from here to November. Finch comes out, you know. I'm a wee bit annoyed that it's not being released in the summer, but that's nothing compared to this indignity of indignities: Harriet Klausner got an advance copy! &@&@^%#(*(@*(@*@(!!((^((&*(&*(@@@%@%^!@

girl.echo.suns.veils may or may not be coming out in the middle of November, somewhat increasing my giddiness.

Burning Question: Does anyone else think Independence Day should be remade to reflect the reality of the (in 1996) near future when Clinton is out of office and a Gulf War squadron leader is barely old enough to be president? Aliens would blow up Washington, New York, and LA, and Bush would be back home on his ranch and declare war on Saddam Hussein. Then the aliens would blow everything else up too and take over and force everyone to build a gun to blow up Uranus.
Burning Question 2: If you had a choice, where would you live? What's the last place in the world you'd live?

Current Mood: Ostrinia
Current Music: Orange - Sweet Briar

See John Galt. Galt, John, Galt!
I just read the greatest thing I'd read this week by some guy named Drastic: The thing I really like about the train bit, in retrospect, was the effort taken to detail multiple examples of how everyone aboard it deserved to choke to death on exhaust, including the kids who were already nasty little evil collectivists. Die, parasites, die! (Someone should write objectivist primers. See the engine of the world. Run, engine, run! See John Galt. Galt, John, Galt! See John stop the engine of the world! Stop, engine, stop! See the parasites cry. Cry, parasites, cry! John is giving a radio speech. Speech, John, speech! John is still speaking. Shut up, John, shut up!)

And it's sunday. That's not backlogs happening.

What space is not: Jumping the shark. It's a rite of passage, for fuck's sake. Every horror movie franchise must go into space at least once.
Rites of passage for horror movie franchises: Space. Romania. Virtual Reality. The Hood.

Although I did backlog this stuff, or would have backlogged it if my internet connection was working properly yesterdady. I think it would be cool to have hallucigenia instead of dinosaurs around, because if Jurassic Park has taught us anything, it's that the dinosaurs would eventually eat us and possibly figure out how to use AK-47s, while having a hallucigenia farm would be awesome.

If there's one benefit to the economy being in the shitter, it's the lack of American Stalker: With John Travolta and probably more exploding and killing and less Andrei Tarkovsky.

Burning Question: How long will it take for Hollywood to make the 'perfect date movie,' by which I mean a romantic comedy where something explodes every five seconds?
Or maybe they've already done it.

Burning Question 2: Would you take anyone who thinks We Built This City is a great song seriously, no matter how much he claims to know about music? Because I wouldn't.

Current Mood: Utetheisa
Current Music: The Durutti Column - Homage to Catalonia

summer passed away quietly
September 16: E Pluribus Wiggum, the most overplayed episode in the history of the Simpsons.

I said last year around this time that summer lasts just long enough for it to end when I begin to get sick of it. Except all of June and much of July were screwy, so it didn't exactly work the way it's supposed to.

Sorry, I have nothing to talk about, not even what my stripper name would be (did you know some of them are completely arbitrary? Put the same name in twice and see what happens), but I have been planning this for two weeks or so. Here's the instructions, for the three of you who read this and the one of you who knows where cornerorange went and what you did with her: Pick (anywhere from 1 to x, natural numbers are preferred, but if you associate half of a song or something with summer, be my guest) and list them, also, put snippets of lyrics if they have lyrics and if you know the lyrics to the ones under lyrics unknown, tell me what they are and I'll edit them.

Done in alphabetical order for five songs, after which I just sort of abandoned it

Cocteau Twins - Need-Fire
hold on, I won't forget

Flying Saucer Attack - In The Light of Time
i see the trees fall, but i remain

Radiohead - Airbag
..!!in an intastella burst i am back to save the universe!!

Revolver - Shakedown
just one more means I can drift away to safety

Ride - Vapour Trail
you are a vapour trail in a deep blue sky

Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station
closed doors bring open minds

The Sunflower Conspiracy - Belle Chase
it was nothing, never wear your heart on your sleeve

Lush - Breeze
hot summer's kiss cloudless bliss burns my tongue

Pale Saints - Featherframe
moving space is left to take your place of colours against the grain

Boards of Canada - Dandelion
a new contraption to capture a dandelion has been put together by the crew

The Flashbulb - If Trees Could Speak
if one day the trees could speak they'd say very mean things

The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Just For That Moment
hello hello hello

Eyeless in Gaza - Pearl and Pale
lights and flickers calling to me lithe like the curling vines

Splashdown - Presumed Lost
if they try to clip your wings, fly away, far away

Delerium - Flowers Become Screens
the pain is nothing that a downpour won't erase

The Starlight Conspiracy - Switching Lines
traffic lights will make you blind if you stare too long

The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies
why do we keep shrieking when we mean soft things?

Kayo Dot - A Pitcher of Summer
the wind turning drifting stars to madness

Lyrics unknown
On!Air!Library! - Faultered Ego
Eyeless in Gaza - Hunger Song
Ghost - Ballad of Summer Rounder
Amp - Sunflower
Luminous Orange - Garden of Stones
The Durutti Column - Twenty Trees
Aoineko - Violet
Dead Can Dance - The Arrival and the Reunion

instrumentals
Light - August Rain
Stars of the Lid - Gasfarming
Constance Demby - Lotus Opening
Future Sound of London - Max
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade
1700 Miles - Midnight 2000

Burning Question: Lyndon la Rouche compared Obama to Hitler. I don't get it; is Lyndon praising Obama's health care reform?

Current Mood: Diaethria
Current Music: Stars of the Lid - Piano Aquieu

Of Terrors and Wonders, a retrospective
I remember this day 8 years ago. No, this isn't a backlog. There was this clool art exhibit, part of what what got me writing a few months after - keeping a dream journal helped too. And "if this shit can be published, my work should be too" before realizing that some of the worst stuff that wasn't self-published is by people who were already established bestselling authors and could get away with a book where nothing happened or being a neo-conservative prick.

I think I'm losing my ability to distinguish between a bad Simpsons episode and an overplayed one. Tonight, not so bad (I think I missed it in August or something). Last night, that one about revenge AGAIN.

Here's my take on someone's take on the MTV awards fiasco (does anyone watch this? Does anyone give a shit about it aside from those people who want any flimsy excuse they can get their hands on to hate anyone who isn't a straight white southern protestant?): No, I don't care what happened. Viacom pulled the DMCA on the video and I don't give enough of a crap to Not liking country music isn't anti-white and country isn't the Real America, whatever the hell that means, dumbass. Last time I checked, country isn't popular at all in Romania, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Poland or Russia, (1) and last time I checked, they're "white" (you know I don't believe in race), but again, I'm not Pat Buchanan. Pat Buchanan doesn't care about Slavic people. Just ask him his thoughts on World War II (2) if you don't believe me.

(1) I've heard someone call Portuguese people Asian, but when you're home schooled and working under the assumption that -ese makes anyone Asian, like with Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese... Milanese...
(2) His ideal world is the British Empire, the Third Reich, and the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Pah, I'd rather live on Io and eat nothing but lutefisk. Assuming that does happen. If Britain couldn't afford to hold on to their empire even in victory, what makes anyone think Germany can?

Burning Question: Do you give a crap about the VMA fiasco?

Current Mood: Metamorpha
Current Music: Starblind - Slow as Smoke

Das ist kein Stern. Das ist eine Raumstation!
Brahms' German Requiem was a fitting way to end it. Not much to say about it. It's amazing, you could see the International Space Station there.

Steppers Heaven may or may not have been at Downtown Crossing, I don't know, I was getting something at Borders and some guy was playing guitar. If only I could remember what he called himself.

There was a vagrant sleeping on the train floor. Reminds me of the Past-o-rama exhibit, where Fry explains that telephone booths were used as bathrooms, Leela asks if a train is also a bathroom, and Fry says it's a mobile apartment with no rent.

Also, I got into Stars of the Lid. I know I've heard of them, probably from Tara or Chantel or Al or someone, most likely someone not on GFF. You know them and their horrendous tastes. I don't know. But they're good. And Amazon says that ...and their Refinement of the Decline has explicit lyrics. Excuse me? Yes, I know there's December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckfaces, but that's not a lyric and you don't even need a warning for that, since you can see it quite clearly and anyone who doesn't speak English won't know what explicit lyrics means.

Burning Question: If the Axis and Allies were to have a musical war, would Italy cause a dimensional collapse?

Current Mood: Morpho
Current Music: Slowdive - So Tired

Progress is a comfortable disease
I think that Bomb Man looks like an evil ninja turtle in Captain N.

Also, I'd rather have a giganterous space butterfly than gold. Nobody suspects the butterfly.

I hate dreams like this: I get my eye covered in tape and then somebody injects stuff into it.
Also, there was water in an earlier part but it wasn't semi-erotic or anything. I think I've made this remark or at least discussed it with Carla, but semi-erotic or more so dreams usually involve water.

Steppers Heaven was at Downtown Crossing again.

Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage - actually reflects sailors' unease of a too-calm sea. Halfway through, I was thinking "This doesn't sound that Mendelssohn" but then his style comes through. Mendelsson's one of those people with a style that could be noticed by anyone who's even touched a Mendelssohn recording.

Cassation in G major - Possibly by Leopold Mozart - I know I brought this up before, but here's what I think now: It's the combination of the highly cadenced and formalized Classical (1) style and the people relentlessly playing with noisemakers that make it.

The Swan from Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint Saens - don't remember much of this.

The Story of Frederick Law Olmsted - Thomas Oboe Lee, narrated (2) by Michael Dukakis

Prelude to The Afternoon of a Fawn - If this had a kazoo and a goose noisemaker, it would border on absurd. It did have a helicopter indadvertantly join in. It's Debussy. What's not to like?

Water Music - Handel.

Night on Bald Mountain - (ceea ce o noapte oribil de a avea un blestem) If you've seen Fantasia, you know this. It's worth hearing. It would be deep in the realm of absurd if there were noisemakers and kazoos and things in it. (soarelui dimineaţă a învins această noapte oribil) (3)

(1) Not the Romanticism that gets categorized under classical.
(2) I originally wrote nominated, which means I'm probably not going to be up for much longer
(3) It's what they speak in Castlevania, silly. Horridly google translator butchered Romanian.

"With all it's shame, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy." (4)
Brought to you by the letters Ч р и с т н а in that order (5). And by M L E V. There really ought to be one on the federal level. And perhaps even the world.

(4) I say this as this orange arse bandit sorry ass piece of shit brower is doing its best to make me think "It's a beautiful world. Everywhere except for Maryland. Maryland can bite my ass."
(5) Along with another и

Overdevelopment is causing ecological problems that could be solved if we weren't so selfish and demand space that we have no idea how to use, say, with lawns and golf courses. In the fucking desert. Please give me a watermelon to bash my face in to. And in China (I say this as someone who likes Chinese culture, and I mean Chinese culture and not this hollow post-Mao shell - moribund so called Asian values that have nothing at all Asian about them surrounding a void), their combination of rapid veneraforming and very-skewed-in-favor-of-males one child policy will kill them in a few generations. I'd say that ignorance is no excuse but I think we know perfectly well what we're doing is not sustainable.
Which begs the

Burning Question: At what point does what we're doing cease to be ignorance and become spite?

Current Mood: Brevioleria
Current Music: Ride - Leave Them All Behind

"An obscene phone call from Cthulhu"
best song description ever. Viginti Tres by Tool, I believe. Or maybe one of those fake-Tool albums that was released on file-sharing networks. I'm leaning towards the latter.

On Ted Kennedy's death. I don't know if it's hypocritical of me to go after people who were rejoicing about it, I mean, I was saddened by Jesse Helms dying for all the "wrong" reasons, but everyone knows I'd be one of the first to celebrate if David Duke were to fall down an open manhole and die.
WGBH did play Faure's requiem, and it fits. It's a peaceful death, unlike Verdi.

Two members of Steppers Heaven were playing at Downtown Crossing (have these people finally figured out my name isn't Doran and I don't live in California nor do I ever plan to? Probably, because I've had the need to bust out the Romanian translator. I mean, I could just randomly IM someone out of the green in Romanian, but what's the point?), there are some echoes of Vini Reilly, I think, maybe.

Sinfonia Concertante by Mozart's second movement has some echoes of the Requiem in it. It's pretty good stuff, but I'm of the opinion that Mozart is at his best when working with the human voice.

"Mexico has become a festering, infecting sore for the United States." - Dan Simmons, and yet another reason I'm glad I have no desire to read anything else by him. I feel dirty for saying this, but I liked Hyperion a lot. If you simply must read it, I suggest borrowing it from a library or getting it used so he doesn't make any money off of it and convince yourself it was written before his post-september-11 neo-conservative douchebag phase. Hollow Man was ok in that "hey, this would make a decent short story" if you skimmed over a lot of it. Ilium was utter bollocks and it's one of the few books I never bothered to finish. To Wagner's credit, he's been dead for 125 years.

Burning Question: What's your stance on listening to or reading or viewing works by people who's views you find repulsive?

Current Mood: Bononia
Current Music: Laika - Almost Sleeping

Flim Kingston: We must be hot, we don't need a big ad or even correct spelling
Yes, Flim Fest 2009 (4:00 to midnight, Road of Verdant Praise, Kingston, MA) was a Simpsons reference, not just a random coincidental typo, also a PJs reference that was probably stolen from the Simpsons, and they like misspelling random siht. also, there's a pink X on my hand and I smell like soap, must use the same thing they use to mark people as INSANE, also, I'm typing this up well after midnight with only my memory and various youtube videos to which I will just link (they'll do better than my summaries written under duress, a post-caffeine crash, and a lack of sleep even with an early morning shower to help me) to guide me. I'll do better than the last one in which I described three, one of which has the King of Hanover.

AAAANYWAY, I'm just going to list things when they pop into my head and I'm going to save this and redo it later. Ok? Oh yeah, Ethan, Laurie, Dana, and Craig were there, along with a bunch of people I don't know and a thing that spawned this conversation.

Ethan: What the hell is that?
Someone I don't know: It's a baby.
Ethan: I know that! I mean that thing he dropped.
Someone I don't know: It's from his favorite show.

Madeleine was not there. Probably liberating bicycles or something.

Craig exchanged his photographs for one of Aelita, not the Princess of Mars, but someone's coworker looking down, in fishnet stockings, boots, and a miniskirt. See one of the films.

I should prepare a manifesto. Firstly, there should be more trains. And more Megaman tributes. Also, we should ditch the concept of skin color and replace it with how you eat your tuna. Putting "tuna sushi" and "tuna ice cream" on the list means the Japanese are at both the top and the bottom, which can't happen with skin color unless you're two entities superimposed on one another, and there's a gray area with ethnicity.

As for the Flims, here you go, all my shoddily written descriptions and/or video links.

Internet rap, circa 1995. Very 90s.

A monkey who wishes he was a bunny. Not a girl bunny or anything, just a bunny.
Hector: A pug. A lot like my pug, actually.
Robot vs Banana: There's this guy who's a news reporter and he's covering a fight between a banana and a The banana won.

Red Rockets From Russia: "Why am I wearing tin foil?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv_fOaVJxL4

Papa Geppetto: http://www.hollywoodeasttv.com/video/papa-geppetto

Something with a cockatoo in a cage who makes noise until his owner lets him out, he discovers the world is a bigger cage. Sometimes people are in cages but usually they just make up their own.

Sarah: It was in Portuguese, you can tell by the curly thingus

How to avoid a speeding ticket: A guy gets pulled over, the cop says he was going over the speed limit, the guy says he was fleeing the zombies in the forest, in a car that he stole from a guy who stole the car, with a dead transvestite hooker.

The zombie kills him. Everything's better with zombies. You know it, I know it, and TVTropes knows it.

Animation of guys falling, one with a knife. His parachute fails.

Sleeze of the Galaxy: There's this guy who has two robots, one is the robot from Robot vs. Banana, one is the robot from Robot vs. Banana with CDs on his eyes named Funkatron, they catch him watching weird (unspecified) porn and extort (the X makes it cool, blackmail is an ugly word - bender bending rodriguez) him to getting better internet because it's THE FUTURE and they deserve better than AOL 4.0. I'm actually kinda proud of the description, even if I did call it Pervert of the Galaxy until I actually looked it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qOVkqD83Ss

The Worst Ways Ever to Die: Look it up! I guess. I know it's on Hollywood East's site.

Bad Apples: Someone eats an apple, is transported into a parallel universe where everything is a mirror image. Can't find.

Kendra Has OCD. http://www.vimeo.com/4848173

Fable: Some really gorgeous animation of an Inuit folktale. Or something.

Uncle Robbie's Last Will and Testament: http://www.hollywoodeasttv.com/video/uncle-robbies-last-will
I'm not going to spoil it.

Dr. "O." Just watch it. They put it together in a day. PS: I know Dr. O and I met the Killbrarian. Don't mess with her bike, Madeleine! She might carve you to bits with a card catalogue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9eFBi-EK58

Bookkeeper of the Universe: "Agent 35? That's me!"
... look it up yourself.

McShark: Actually, you could probably find most of them. I'll hopefully get a complete list within the next week and you can just look them up, ok. I'm fucking tired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kb6Yjgi7WI

http://www.hollywoodeasttv.com

So, what else have we learned? Regarding Margie is in fact not the default setting for "delayed episode"

Burning Question: What is the worst way ever to die?

Current Mood: Velamysta
Current Music: Dead Can Dance - Persephone (the gathering of flowers)

Blue skied an' clear
Wow, I rushed this one. I'll have to add new things. Like, I have a Stanislaw Lem book that I got in Boston! It's not the specific one I wanted but it's called The Futurological Congress and it looks good.

I'm reading The Dragons of Babel, despite feeling weird about not reading The Iron Dragon's Daughter, and I don't regret it, not at all.
Teach a man to fish and he'll only eat when the fish are biting.
Teach a man to scam and the suckers will always bite.
-Michael Swanwick
Best fucking quote ever. Also, where else could you read a book with the line "Galadriel! How long does it fucking take?!" Nowhere!

There's this too: "afraid of our own shadows and too blind to change." I attribute it to Christina but you know how things are (If I didn't tell you Michael Swanwick said it, you'd never know) it could very well be from a song or a poem or even the King of Hanover (read: guy in a cape and upsidedown Burger King crown).

I take back what I said about Muse fans. Electric Light Orchestra's fans (and the band itself) suck more. I do not and will never consider dooby-doo-doo to be proper lyrics if you're not Cab Calloway, The Spanish Inquistion, Strong Bad wearing a yellow turtleneck or Carmen Freaking Sandiego and think anyone who wants lyrics should listen to Slowdive, even if they don't think any good music has been produced since 1980. They're utterly fucking wrong, by the way.

Music of the Stars
Albert Schweitzer Portrait - I don't even know who that is. Pretty good, though.

Piano Concerto in G Major - It's overlong, but it's good. It's Ravel. What else?

Entry of the Gods into Valhalla - I'd like to take this moment to address all Wagnerites who dislike Mahler because his works are long (the spoken reason) and because he's a Jew (unspoken reason): Bite me.

This was surprisingly short, though.

Their way of thinking led to...
Mars, the Bringer of War: I like this a lot. The performance felt a bit detached somehow. I blame the acoustics.

Star Trek - I wish I could remember Bum Review's lyrics to this. Oh, there are actual lyrics, sung by Uhura, but I don't recommend listening to them.

Star Wars - Mostly from Episode VI (the opening, the death star goes kaboom, the awards ceremony (raaaaaaaaaawr at not getting a medal), and the end credits. No Imperial March, tooo bad. And

Speaking of Death Star, there's a hurricane somewhere in the Atlantic and it feels like an imminent threat. It's projected to miss and scrag Canada instead, but wish me luck anyway because I really don't like that cone of error and will only feel comfortable when. Cone? They're being silly. Hurricanes don't go into space. And wish Dave luck too. That's why I said death star.

If I disappear, that's where I am. Internetless and/or powerless.

Burning Question: Whatever gave these people the idea that Hitler believed in universal health care. Because that's not what I think of.

Unless you think those really were decontamination showers, anyway.

Get the hell out of my country, fascist wankers.

Current Mood: Cyrenia
Current Music: Slowdive - Melon Yellow

In much wisdom, there's much sorrow.
Pentru orice Canadienii: Cineva ar trebui să ardem ţara dumneavoastră la pământ.

August 8: Regarding Margie was scheduled and was preempted. Again. No, I don't think the office monkeys realize this. It's probably automated and coincidental. Or for all I know, it's the guide's default setting for episodes that aren't going to be aired.

August 10: I had a sore throat and I hope it's not a prelude to another flu.

August 11: Probably not.
I do have The Snow Queen and The Physiognomy and I started the Alchemy of Stone, it reminds me of AI.

August 12: I'm not feeling crappy, mostly.
Anyway, a night at the opera: Nice, except for the fact that it was misty and wet, but not rainy. Hmph. I'm not from the northwest, as everyone knows. Summers are supposed to be hot and dry, with the occasional thunderstorm, also, there should be a thorough dehitlerization just to make sure we're not turning into the northwest.

Overture from The Barber of Seville: I can't help but think of Bugs Bunny giving Elmer Fudd a haircut or whatever he is that he did.
Habanera and Flower Song from Carmen. You know this. There's a really creepy stop motion video on a Sydlexia article called "Sesame Street Ruined My Life" or something with an orange singing this.
Flower Duet from Lakme: I know this was on The Homer They Fall and I swear it's used when the ad for The Homer, the car built for Homer, is revealed. Back when Homer was actually likeable.
Nadir/Zurga Duet from The Pearl Fishers: Gorgeous.
Juliet's Waltz from Romeo and Juliet: Duh. Aaaaaaanyway, you know who Gounod is, even when you don't think you do.
La donna e mobile and Quartet from Rigoletto: Oh. Oh wow.
SHORT INTERMISSION because it was misty and craptacular. At least it didn't storm or rain.
Overture and D'Oreste D'Ajace from Idomeneo: Since she's angry, this is one of the few operas that would make sense in German. Even the Flower Duet would sound angry.
Hamlet's Drinking Song: I was expecting one of the rare English Romantic composers, but it was in French and apparently Ambroise Thomas is French. Spluh?
Una furtiva lagrima from L'elisir d'amore: The love potion is actually just really cheap burgundy.
Champaigne Aria frmo Don Giovanni: See a theme?
Champagne Ensemble from Die Fledermaus: An ode to liquor.
Tipsy Waltz: Results of being drunk.
Brindisi: Barney writes an opera.
Encores: I'm unfamiliar with two of them, one was the toreador music. Toreador, oh! Don't spit on the floor, please use the cuspidor, that's what it's for!

Border of August 12/13 - bloody fucking ads with sound in them. First they don't display properly, now this.

Burning Question: How can someone be famous if he doesn't even have a wikipedia page?

Current Mood: Chrysiridia
Current Music: The Angelic Process - How To Build A Time Machine

The world would be a better place with more Megaman tributes.
Aoineko (a band) thinks so. I was surprised to hear Aqua Man, but I guess it fits in with that summery breezy dreampop thing Aoineko has going for it. See, I think that Megaman was meant to sound in 8-bit. That might be because I haven't played much of Megaman 8 (@%(!(*!(*^(&@@@***@@! Wily Stage 1 and Frost Man! There is no swear word or conglomeration of swear words in English or any other language that can accurately sum up my feelings) and didn't play Megaman X2 or X3 until college. They're good games and all. I just couldn't run them on anything available for OS 8.6.
I couldn't get past Wily Stage 3 in Megaman 3 either. That's not because I suck (two years and it's still weird to not have the hunewearl constantly telling me how much I suck), it's because of some glitch with the emulator.

Also, Aoineko is amazing. Check out Violet and Tiny Pineapples. I normally have a great disdain for GFF and their collective musical tastes and this... is no exception. I think the person who recommended it is long gone anyway.

"Time was gigantic when we were kids."

So true. And it's a Durutti Column reference, like the Slowdive song Rutti.
Everything seems so too-short now (see Verso).

Someone listed everything he remembered from elementary school. I really don't remember much (December of the 15th phase of winter to March of the 17th phase, but I remember a lot of things from middle school.

The conductor jokingly said something about the rain gods smiling upon us. Nobody tried to make the gods cry by lighting smoky fires and get them angry, resulting in lightning and Mardu entites.
Francesca da Rimini by Tchaikovsky: It was good. Someone says Tchaikovsky rivals Mahler's works in desolation. If only I can remember it... I'd say more. Oh yeah, it's about the Inferno: one of the people in Hell, cheated on her husband and was killed for it.
Scheherezade by Rimsky-Korsakov: Quite good. Quite good indeed. Carla would like it.

Burning Question: Do overlong non-fiction book titles bother anyone else? Especially when they're in the format of ('witty' phrase: how ___ __ __ _ __ _ ____ __ __ __ __ __ ___ _____ _______ _________ _______ _____ __ ______ ______ ____ _______ _____________ ___ ____ __ ____ _______ ____ ____ ___ ________ ______ ______ __ _ _____ __ ______ ___ ___)
Burning Question 2: There is no such thing as a benevolent empire. Agree or disagree?

Current Mood: Heliconius
Current Music: The Durutti Column - Agnus Dei

Late Night Thoughts While Listening To Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto
Second encounter with a nonwhite since April: A male swallowtail.
Third encounter: A black butterfly with orange and eyespots. It wasn't a buckeye, I can tell. Whatever it is, I can't find it. It's late. Gleesh. I wrote that last night, not this night. Two days before, since it's 12:02.

I dreamt of a Sigur Ros song.

Wednesday: Oh, it was worth walking 7 km (incude an excursion to get a sandwich and a key lime tart). What I learned from this experience is that people in the Virgin Islands hang fishing wire to stop birds (I think Jordan Hall had it as support) and that if you have to pee while walking 7 km, you sort of forget about it.
Bernstein - Overture

Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto - He has a recognizable style. He's also really good, despite Rizzo The Rat (I'd ask you to buy something for someone but you don't know her name if I don't know her name, unless you do, and you probably don't) and Ayn Rand liking him. See the burning question.
Improvization: The pianist said she could play anything she recognized from the audience singing. Someone seated behind me burst out with just about the crappiest version of The Hills Are Alive.

New World Symphony - You know something, go check Pluvia, even if it doesn't have my thoughts on this. This for some reason felt shorter, as if they were playing in such a way to make Speedy Gonzales look like Regular Gonzales. Or maybe I'm thinking of a certain other Bohemian.

Preamble: In Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis, there's one island that has three people remaining after an attack by monsters. One of them is Karl Marx. One a pacificistic poor man who lives in a hut after building a fort named after his dead wife to protect the three of them from monsters and was forced out by the third man because he felt he owed him about a million gold pieces (including his wife's jewels - you can give the third man the jewels but you probably can't give him the ten million; it would go over the item limit). One is a formerly powerful man who won't let go of his power. Upon coming to the island, your goal is to move the second man into the fort without killing the third man; only stripping him of his power.

The island is called McTeague, for the literary minded amongst you.

On this island, Sergei Rachmaninov's Prelude in F-sharp minor, Opus 23, no. 1 plays.
Burning Question: Was this done to cheese the Ayn Rand Institute?

Current Mood: Lamprosia
Current Music: Ride - Chrome Waves

Starlight and Sunflowers
Ok? It decieded to fudge the advertizement up and move it to the wrong side? Weird. And this bloody Ford ad is getting in the way of the text box. I remember a conversation with Emily, Chantel, Tara, and Corey, um... that's not his name. Or maybe it is. From now on, your name is Corey. Anyway, it was about being so oversaturated with advertizing, product placement in movies, et cedera that we just tune it out. Maybe they're on to something and have to make ads more annoying.

Actually, this entry is more about mayflies than sunflowers. There aren't any sunflowers yet. Or nonwhite butterflies. Or hurricanes. There's a connection there, you know.

Musings: Michigan is offering incentives for filmmakers. If we can get out of the Vancouver bland future and Vancouver passing off as everything (like Rome in the Lizzy McGuire movie - ?!) and back into the zombie apocalypse future, they could film stuff in Detroit. Or they could just go to Plymouth.
Carla's brother caught a firefly in a jar.
I think I saw a mayfly a few days ago, and it's dead now. They don't hurt you until you think about them. They spend one day as an adult. They mate. They lay their eggs. They die. Lights mess up their instincts or something so they sometimes lay eggs where they land on the ground instead of water.
There are two kinds of longing I'm experiencing: One is that I have everything there is out there of The Sunflower Conspiracy. The other is "holy shit, there are lovesliescrushing songs I don't have!"
A musical discovery on July 17: Swimpoolact. They're from Seville.

Concert:
A cello concerto by Haydn - She moves her hand a suprising amount. It's something you have to see to realize how hard that is to play.
Brahms symphony number 1: The first thing I think of when I hear Brahms is dark. Maybe that's due to the Ballades.
Hungarian Dances 6 and 5. Those aren't as dark, not surprisingly.

Found on the Moorcock board
1. One film that changed your life
2. One film you have watched more than once - The Empire Strikes Back
3. One film you would want on a desert island - I don't know! What the hell would I do with a film on a desert island? Play with the stuff inside the casette? Use a DVD to shine sunlight on a boat?
4. One film that made you laugh - The American Astronaut
5. One film that made you cry - When The Wind Blows
6. One film you wish had been made - Lord of Light. A pity that if it does get made, it would have that whole big budget overrely on special effects thing going for it.
7. One film you wish had never been made - This one's hard. Even atrocious films can be laughed at, you know. So I did some thinking. And, I haven't seen this, but from what I've heard: Riverworld. The books deserve better.
8. The last film you saw - The American Astronaut
9. One film you have been meaning to see - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Oh, right. Apple-S doesn't save, it just autosaves whenever it feels like it. But only when I'm typing. If I leave it open for twenty minutes in the hopes that it would save, it wouldn't. La.

Burning Question: What band has the worst fans? The best? I say Muse and Sigur Ros respectively. The nicest Muse fan I've ever met (and I think she's the only Muse fan I've met in person) STOLE A BICYCLE. That doesn't quite make you as bad as Encephalon, and she's pretty cool otherwise, but she's still a bike thief.
Burning Question 2: In Doug, is skin color additive or subtractive? The number of green and purple people suggest that it's subtractive. However, I've never seen the offspring of a yellow and a blue person. Also, that third grade notion of subtracting red and blue to get purple is like subtracting 7/16 from 33/40 and getting 1/2, and you can try it with paint if you don't believe me.

However, the presence of white people suggest additive.

Current Mood: Macroglossum
Current Music: swimpoolact - Ceniza

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