Random Ramblings

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. ... At these times ... I use the Penseive. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form."
- Albus Dumbledore.

Never were truer words spoken... XD
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Let's see... Well, I'm slowly working through the Potter's...
rather, The Goblet of Fire...
I spent most of today pondering PVC furniture, shopping at Michael's for finger puppet supplies (and having mom get all distracted all over the place! XD ) and then going to Lowe's AND Home Depot and looking at things - Good news? Pipe is cheap, and I found boards PERFECT for both shelves and desktops. Bad news? Tee-shaped fititngs are $1.04 APIECE. And I need lots of them...
Did the math, and the bookcase will run me $70, the desk $30 something, and the shelf OVER the desk $10-15. Good prices on everything but the goddamned bookshelf. DX $26 of that is fittings ALONE, and another $30 for the shelves- 5 at $6 a pop... But hey, it'll work...

Wondering if I should figure out a chair, or if anything I make would be horrible to sit in for hours at a time, and I should just look in thrift stores...

Holding off on even thinking of the bed until later. My current bed will do me fine. I think I'm going to coerce the sister into helping me clean up in her room so I can move it...

God, it's scary to think of moving that thing.

On the other hand, I've almost totally gotten over my fear of cleaning. I've realized it RARELY is as bad as it looks, and if you just dig a little beneath the surface, it's actually quite easy to sort through... which is nice. Found my copy of "Fantastic Creatures and Where to Find Them" last night, and was well pleased...

And I can see my FLOOR again! OHMIGOD!
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And then there's this.

Beauty and the Beast Unit



"They're Beauty and the Beast. They weren't even soldiers to begin with, you know. More like victims of war. They suffered shell-shock on the battlefield. Post traumatic. It damaged their minds pretty much beyond repair. So the only way they could cope with the reality of battle was to become war machines themselves. The remnants of their human side are buried deep within. The beast... That's what you see on the outside."

Laughing Octupus
Screaming Mantis
Crying Wolf
Raging Raven


(for a bigger, better look ---> http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/235/926596_20070824_screen016.jpg )
(For CHOICE images of all the girls, here ---> http://www.gconsole.com/cgi-bin2/show.php?page=news&id=4671 )

WATCH THIS TRAILER: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23950.html

...
Holy SHIT I want to play this now...

Oh Metal Gear Solid, you NEVER cease to amuse me. Why can't I seem to fucking work up the nerve/time to play youuuuu???? XD

I found this thanks to Erin talking about how there's this lady in MGS4 who has dolls of Psycho Mantis and The Sorrow, and uses them to control people... and I was interested, and looked them up. SURPRISE! There's a unit of weird badass chicks in mechanical suits with mental issues. 8D

I'm sorry, but damn, this is sexy. XD

They're all so FUNNY too... I know they're probably not supposed to be, but you've got a "wolf" lumbering around sobbing, a "raven" screaming "RAEG!!!" all the time *my favorite* and octupus chick laughing maniacally. But screaming mantis seems so composed... and that bow was just... nice...

It's so... odd. MGS4 looks like a straight-up "shoot people in the desert" sort of thing, but then you get cow-bots and robot-soldiers and ninjas and vampires and... it boggles the mind. ^_^ In SUCH a good way... aw man...

And seeing this game in person, instead of on Youtube? in all its hi-def glory?

**8D**

Priceless...

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Also... That quote... I guess the girls struck a chord with me, because that quote up there would describe Ms. Mord to a tee. That's...almost EXACTLY her case... So hearing that after JUST finishing polishing up her bio... was bizarre, to say the least.

And the RP is GOING!!! XD Excited as all hell. Sorry I didn't get it sooner... I'll be sure to leave the window open and check when I can. I'm now signed in "Forever," lol. XD
HERE ---> http://shadowcouncilserver.proboards104.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=rp&thread=18&page=1 :3
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Also, fangirl squeals go off in my heart every time I remember I'm actually going to see MSI. XD I forget, then I remember, and then I'm so goddamned happy. XD

GUESS WHAT.

YOU GOT ME.

I'M FINALLY FINISHING HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE.

XD XD XD XD XD
I FAIL.

I got midway through that book, and for some reason, stopped. D8 Never picked it up since. But the new TRAILER omg omg omg omg...

You guys know I like villians. And backstories. And character development. And hence, therefore...


8DDDDDDDDDD

And OMG, just realized that sounds a tad like Sean - "I can make things move without touching them, I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me..." And I'm sorry, but the possibility of talking to snakes has always been uber-cool to me, dunno why... And incinerating dressers and flashes of what is to be???

HELLZ YES INTERESTING.

So I'm going to catch myself up. Surprisingly, all it took was a couple minutes to jog my memory - I was pretty far along - Rita Skeeter had just busted the news of Hagrid's half-giant-ism to the world - and so I was afraid. Pssh, no. So now I'm plowing along.

Sister has the next two books - I got her book 6, actually - that's the one we have hardcover. I FOUND IT, sitting GLORIOUSLY atop a bookshelf at the Goodwill. THE GOODWILL. I was happier than happy...

Neither of us have finished the series... Em stopped reading in book 5, since apparently Harry was acting like this:

And it was annoying her. But I'D read it to get to all this good shit...

Of course, wouldn't you be cranky and pubescent if you were surrounded by goblins and sh*t all the time? :o
We all have our days.


Holy fuck, wait, this is the trailer for the Half Blood Prince??? D8 (well, that does make sense now, with the cover...)

BUT HOT DAMN.

SO MUCH TO READ NOW.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS BOOK FIVE.

WHEN DID THAT MOVIE COME OUT???

Wahahahahahahahahahahah... damn.

Oh yeah, that:


I fail at life.
Though watching that I was like "AGHSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERDON'TSHOWMEEE..." Oh wells..

MAN I need to read these books. I need to read these books NOW.

What self-respecting person HASN'T read all the Harry Potter books? That is the question...


Also, am working on Mord's character, reading WoW lore too...

Oh yeah, and all this went up today. *Is rather proud* http://seira-chan33.deviantart.com/gallery/#9-Levels-OC-Contest

And I might be making a variation of Devi's bed from "I Feel Sick" using PVC pipe.
Like so:

Thank you TaliaTheHedgehog on Photobucket......
It's possible. :D Of course, there will be some changes to be made, since I'm pretty sure a bed on spikes is structurally unsound. I'm just bound and determined...
Try looking up "I Feel Sick" in photobucket. You alternately get photos of sickly looking people and images from the comic. XD
I'm also making a desk and a bookshelf - figured those out Wednesday at Erins. :3

And MSI finger puppets... XD

I'm hoping to finish them before the show, and give them to the band afterwards, since I hear they talk to the fans... :3 <---- hopeful

Of course, I got up at almost 1 today, after coloring until 5 AM last night, and didn't do jack shit except figure out exactly what that bed looked like/drew it, did dishes, scanned and colored some more, and put up that contest stuff. And then the lady offered an extension until Sunday.

Rage.

I also figured out that my hair is now long enough to almost decently hold pigtails. [sometimes the front strands come out. >[ ] I am so happy my hair isn't in or on my face, though. I was starting to eat hair.
I think I may shave my head. Might solve the hair picking problem. Might also turn it into a scalp picking problem again though. :/

I think I just might take that animation class, since I know I'd be kicking myself if I didn't. And I'd get to work in 3D (puppets, etc.) some, which would keep me sane, at least I think so. Asking the teacher if it's Kosher, since I'm in CA, not KI...


Ugh, brainfreeze.

I didn't do much today. Cleaned the hamster cage, washed dishes, ate, watched Project Runway.

I got up at 10, and dad was STILL bitching at me. Which makes me want to crawl further into my bed and hide because I always feel like that when people are mad at me. I thought I was making an improvement, but apparently he disagrees. And fuck, I'll get up late tomorrow too, judging by the hour, and fuckfuckfuck.

But, however, I had a good idea... and I'm working on it...
I'm thinking of getting a new bed, since a) I need a new mattress and b) I want one of those loft beds so I can have a deskcave and maximize roomspace. I need to look at the unfinished furniture mart, because that way, hopefully I can save some money, and get a blank canvas to work with.

Of course, I have no idea how I'm going to pay for it. Hopefully mom will be generous?

But I say canvas, because I thought I could paint it. I got the idea thanks to Jhonen Vasquez's nifty flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/scolex/ where I found this. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scolex/2611992668/in/set-72157605795144584/

That's fucking PAINTED ON A DESK. (click for more on the left there.) So that gave me the idea to do something. Thing is, what?

Well, I figured out an aesthetic I really like. It's a mixture of all this shit:
( but it's AWESOME shit. )

So, I think it's a black/gray/dingy, spindly, complex, flowy aesthetic, kinda nervous, I guess in a way. Gothic, maybe. I dunno. It's weeeeeird. And I don't know what to do with it.

An idea I had was taking the edges, and making a border that looked like thin strips of wood with screws in it, and then have the space between be a sort of trompe-l'oeil thing, where it looked like a bunch of circuitry or vines or some such craziness.

I tested it out, and one method I thought of using was crosshatching. (which would require about a hundred fine point sharpies and patience of steel) I did a screw that looked amazing, but other designs that were just meh. I like the neurotic quality it lends, though.

I think the problem is, I totally fail at drawing decorative designs. Which SUCKS because I want to draw them. Fuck. So that means I'll study the stuff I found tonight, I suppose.

I'm thinking of making it an ongoing project, though, since I do NOT have the patience to sit there and do it in one go. So I'll set up the bed and draw on it gradually. Should be interesting.

ARRGH why do I come up with such complex ideas all the time?! XD Oh well. I want shit like this in my room, though.

Oh yeah, I took down this mobile I had in my room for probably a decade today. It.. really made the room feel more spacious...