I can't remember ever having a semester that lasted so F***ING LONG. FIVE F***ING MONTHS. All I can do is swear right now. At least it's over for the next few months. God, the agony that was Spring '09.

I've already started to get caught up on extracurriculars. Just yesterday I wrapped up Chapter 11 of Wedlocked and posted it; now that I don't have anymore finals to study for I can focus on finishing some kiribans, fanvids, fics, and maybe even website construction. I'm gonna start out slow since I don't want to kill myself at the beginning of my summer break, and I definitely plan to spend a lot of time AFK and taking it easy. I think I almost burned myself out this time around.

Adobe Premiere CS3 is upsetting my karma. It keeps crashing and I have to go through all these gyrations to prevent it from locking up every time I try to render and save a project, and since I've been making movies, I've probably wasted about 18 hours total just fucking waiting on this program to do its thing. I'm not getting stuff done because I can't run any other programs or else Premiere crashes. I've got three Ghost Rider fanfics I'm working on and I've got a deadline for one of them, and every 30 minutes I spend sitting around and twiddling my thumbs while Premiere renders and then promptly crashes, losing everything and leaving me back at square effin' one, is 30 minutes I could have spent being productive. I really hope Premiere CS4 won't pull this shit. If it does, me and my zombie posse are going to rally a mob and storm the Adobe Systems fortress with pitchforks and torches, and have us a good ol' lynching.

And trying to upload a 850 MB file to YouTube is destroying my sanity (and patience). It's not my fault; these fucking codecs...

I apologize for my ranting. I had to file the quarterly taxes and wage and withholding reports today at work, so I'm not in the best of moods. Luckily I got to loosen up a little by going for a scooter ride this afternoon. It was cold. My fingers were so numb you could have dropped a sledge hammer on them and I'd have been deadpan.

Was feeling nostalgic tonight and finally got my cuckoo clock mounted, hung and operating. I bought it in Rothenburg ob der Tauber last summer, and I was sick of it just sitting in a box. I wanna see those euros put to good use.

Guess I'm gonna go fuck with Premiere some more. This is war.

Another Ghost Rider/Judas Priest music video. This one is much better than my first, but that goes without saying. And it took me half as long. Best viewed in high quality.

If I never hear Turbo Lover or Hell Patrol for the next year...I'll be happy.

SO I HERD U LIEK FANVIDS?? LOL

Be sure to click "watch in high quality" just below the screen.

Happy October, suckers! It's 2 in the morning, I've got work and school tomorrow, and I'm up making Judas Priest music videos in Adobe Premiere. Fail never felt so great!

Also. I'm going to draw a fanartoon of Lewis Black bellowing, "I'M THE GREATEST FUCKER HERE! AND YOU SNIVELING SHITS WOULD DIE WITHOUT ME, AH HAHAHAA!" It's begging to be illustrated.

I made a @#%! *^$+&#! ninety-eight on my last algebra exam. I am not the shit--I am the whole %! *^$+&#! SEWAGE SYSTEM.

Today for kicks I decided to spend my whole day driving around and standing in line. Welcome to the Department of Motor Vehicles, sucker. Take a number and SIT DOWN. So the Athens DMV was closed today. Computer problems, just for the day. So that means if I had chosen any of the other 364 days out of the year, I could have had my license renewed in no time. But that was too easy, so I drove another 40 miles to another DMV, smiled for the camera this time so I don't look like a criminal, and got my shiny new license. Want some trivia? Too bad: as I was getting my photo taken I tried to think of something funny (so that when I smiled it wouldn't look menacing) so I thought of this:

"Nice lens you got there, Bill. That a Canon?"
Tsk. "Shut up."

Needless to say it worked.

I'll be 25 next Tuesday. With my good looks holding out on me I can still pull off 20. Haaaaar. Oh man. It is going to suck when I reach middle age.

Got a few things knocked off my epic TO DO list, the main one being my shiny new minimalist domain layout. Givvit a looksee. I spent a lot of time cleaning up my HTML, making sure everything's nice and neat. Back in the old days I had scripts and code and all kinds of shit thrown in there hodge-podge. It's like having a human being that looks normal on the outside, but inside he's got three lungs and his liver's where his heart should be, and he's got two extra digestive tracts, and only one of them is connected to an actual orifice.

Wow. That was pretty creative. I'll have to use that in a story sometime.

Speaking of stories, that's one thing that's still on my list. Yeah. And the new Metalocalypse episodes are proving to be pretty good. I feel kind of left out not being able to play in the fandom until I get my other things finished up first. I tell ya, nobody knows how to ruin fun for me like myself. Oh yeah, and I won't be able to go to the Dethklok concert in Atlanta this July 2nd since my concert buddy is way the hell out in San Fran, and I've got school anyway and...it's in Atlanta, and I hate that goddamn place with a passion. Lewis Black sums it up quite nicely.

Dave Gahan Check this guy out. He's got some good tunes. This one is particularly my favorite. Brings back those Marilyn Manson-esque dark raunchy 6/8 rhythms from the late 90s.

I'm working on a giant Dethklok-related art meme. When I get finished you're gonna shit your guts out.

Speaking of Dethklok, I came across this video on the web of Brendon Small doing stand-up. Naturally he sang a song. Sounded like Pickles at age 75 with Alzheimer's. See how many Dethklok references you can spot: Captain Moustache

I've been ill off and on this past week. Had a serious anemic attack on Thursday. I slept from 11:00 am until 5:30 pm. After a 5 hour night's sleep. I'm on the mend now I think. Unfortuately my sleep cycle is shot to hell (see time stamp of this post). 

Going to try to study for finals this weekend. Yeah right.