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Mar. 16th, 2008 @ 02:30 pm Beta invites
The first round of beta invites went out. Check your spam folder if you didn't get yours. If you still don't have it and think you should have gotten one, lemme know.
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Jul. 28th, 2007 @ 06:07 pm further reading meme (yoinked from [info]gomeza
Once the shock of reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the fifth time in a row wears off, some readers may be wondering what they can read next. So why not start a meme of suggestions? So here are the rules:

1. You must copy and paste the directions, rules, and the list so far into your blog and then add three (and only three) books to the list.

2. These three books must NOT already be on the list so far. They must be fantasy or science fictional in nature that those who enjoyed Harry Potter may also enjoy. You must provide your name and a link to your blog and/or website so that people may contact you to ask for more information about the books, if they want. They must be books that you have actually read yourself.

3. You cannot recommend a series; instead, recommend the first book in the series. Terry Pratchett's Discworld would NOT be considered a series; but Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time would. Use your best judgment about whether you're recommending a series or not.

4. You must label the books as either YA (young adult, suitable for the younger fans of Harry Potter) or A (adult, suitable for the not-so-younger fans of Harry Potter). Please be clear about this. It will be understood that anything labeled YA is also recommended for A.

5. If you are an author, you CANNOT recommend your own books. (You can however hound your friends into recommending your books.)

6. Providing a link to information about the books you are recommending is optional.

1) So You Want to Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane
2) Charmed Life, by Diana Wynne Jones
3) The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper (note from Gomez - this is actually the SECOND book in the series)
4) The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende (the book ... so much better)
5) Thomas the Rhymer, by Ellen Kushner
6) Below the Root, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
**My Recommendations**
7) The Onion Girl, by Charles de Lint
8) Holding Wonder, by Zenna Henderson
9) The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
***cnimbus recommends (all of mine are YA/A)***
10) The Unwilling Warlord by Lawrence Watt Evans
11) The First Book of Swords by Fred Saberhagen (first in an excellent series)
12) Everquest: The Blood Red Harp by Elaine Cunningham
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Jun. 8th, 2007 @ 08:43 pm Updated... for the LOLZ
Current Mood: amused
http://303dia.org/index.php/Goth

Sometimes, you just have to laugh.
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Aug. 4th, 2006 @ 05:21 pm New podcast reality series
http://www.clickcaster.com/americandrunks

Coming October 10th, 2006. Watch the trailer now!!
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Aug. 3rd, 2006 @ 03:37 pm Why not...
Your Birthdate: October 20

You are a virtual roller coaster of emotions, and most people enjoy the ride.
Your mood tends to set the tone of the room, and when you're happy, this is a good thing.
When you get in a dark mood, watch out - it's very hard to get you out of it.
It's sometimes hard for you to cheer up, and your gloom can be contagious.

Your strength: Your warm heart

Your weakness: Trouble controlling your emotions

Your power color: Black

Your power symbol: Musical note

Your power month: February
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Jul. 30th, 2006 @ 10:11 pm *sigh*
People never cease to amaze me with their stupidity. Don't tell me you love me to have one of your friends call me in between classes to tell me to stay away from you. What's next? We gonna duke it out behind the gym?

Oh well, better to know now than later I suppose.

Why can't I ever do anything right when it comes to women? :(
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Jul. 24th, 2006 @ 01:56 pm Yoinked and LOLZ
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Jul. 23rd, 2006 @ 02:58 am Ripped from Skwisgaar Skwigelf's MySpace
Dethklok: William Murderface, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Nathan Explosion, Pickles, & Toki Wartooth



Q: First, let's start with the persistent rumors that Dethklok has signed a contract with the devil. Can you finally put this to rest?

William Murderface: I'll put you to rest.

Toki Wartooth: The devil is dildoes.

Nathan Explosion: There is no such thing as the devil because there has to be a god in order for there to be a devil. And we all know there is no god. And if there were a GOD then he would have protected us from signing that deal with the devil. And now we're stuck with a deal with some guy who doesn't even exist.

Q: If Dethklok is the heaviest band in the world, and also the most popular band in the world, what does that say about the world?

William Murderface: I'd like to destroy world hunger by destroying the world.

Toki Wartooth: I love questions, and dats a good one.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: It means nothing because, heavy or not, the world is a black vortex of black Nothingness and I hate our audience.

Q: The band has both the world's fastest and second-fastest guitarists alive in it. Is that a bit of overkill?

William Murderface: I'll overkill you.

Toki Wartooth: No, it's "underlive." Ha ha.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: Not at all. As the fastest guitarist, I prefer to have someone a little worse at guitar in the band, like Toki. Because I think you would takes it for granted that I am the best. Like you get used to a room filled with the smell of roses until you go into a room with a rotting corpse smell - then you go back to the roses room and extra appreciates it a greats degrees better.

Q: Is it too loud, or am I too old?

William Murderface: I'm too fat.

Toki Wartooth: You gots hairs in your ears.

Pickles: It is loud. It's very loud. Before each show I have liquid concrete poured into my ears so that I don't cause permanent damage. You gotta protect your ears, anyone will tell you that. But what they don't tell you is that you should protect other parts of your body from loudness - for example, we now have to travel with a gastroenterologist.

Q: Nathan, you have a distinctive vocal style. What do you do to take care of your voice and still fill it with anger and hate?

William Murderface: I'm not Nathan.

Nathan Explosion: Two words: Potato chips and chocolate milk. I can go for days smoking and drinking and killing myself staying awake, but have a glass of chocolate milk and a handful of potato chips and I'm good to go.

Q: What's heavier - your music or your lyrics?

William Murderface: The lyrsmusicshut up!

Toki Wartooth: Oooh, good question, it's like a two-parter.

Pickles: We had them professionally weighed recently and the difference is fractional. But the lyrics actually were heavier. The one lyric that tipped the scales was "I have a hate horse torso whose face is a Corpse/ Lacerated innards and a ding dong doodily dorpse." Now that's heavy.

Q: What kind of gear do you use?

William Murderface: Krank amps and Gibson guitars.

Toki Wartooth: Gibson guitars and Krank amps, but Krank won't give us no hoodies.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: Gibson guitars. I stick with my Explorer and Toki usually plays a V, Krank amps- right now I'm using the KRANKENSTIEN, Line 6 pedals, Digidesign plug ins. We gots endorsement deals with alls of them. We can wrecks dem all- they just give us more.

Q: What are your influences - musical and otherwise?

William Murderface: Those awesome medical shows about really fat people and tumors.

Toki Wartooth: Depression and wind.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: My influences is my parent. I hates her beyond beliefs.

Nathan Explosion: I'd have to say I've influenced myself a lot. I listen to myself on records sometimes and think, "I could do that..."

Pickles: The sound of drums influences me. I say that I think because I am a drummer. And cymbals.

Q: What will it take for Dethklok to "sell out"?

William Murderface: We sell out every night, dildo.

Toki Wartooth: We sells out every night.

Nathan Explosion: Selling out is a point of view thing. I've redefined my word definitions of "selling out." I call it making things "more metal," and now it's impossible to sell out. We don't sell out at all. And we never will. I dare you to try. Seriously. Offer us any amount of money. And we'll take it. And we'll make it "MORE METAL."
Q: Death and mayhem seem to follow the band. Unlucky or cursed? Does it affect your music?

William Murderface: Lucky!

Toki Wartooth: Dat's life, deals with it.

Pickles: Death happens whether or not we are there. Though there does seem to be a little more when we are around. That's why we have the audience sign "Pain Waivers" to get into our show. It basically states that the audience is signing their life away should something horrible and "death-inducing" happen during one of our shows. And we can't be sued. Pretty smart!

Q: What is life on the road like for Dethklok? Do you prefer the seclusion of the studio to the adoration of thousands?

Toki Wartooth: Thousands?! You mean billions!

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: The way I looks at it is that you can't f**k studio gear. Well, you can. But it's better to be on the road and f**k things there - there are more options and shapes.

Q: What inspires Dethklok?

William Murderface: A flower with its brains blown out.

Toki Wartooth: Everything must die.

Nathan Explosion: For me, it's humor. The fact that we are rich and that we will die eventually. See, that's kind of funny to me.

Q: Any thought about solo projects? What does Dethklok do to relax?

William Murderface: My solo project is called Planet Piss. Like it or not, who gives a piss?

Toki Wartooth: I likes to answer questions and build models.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: We relax with alcohol and Drug Buckets. And everybody's working on solo stuff always. That's cool. I'm in a Harry Potter tribute band called "10 Points to Gryffyndor." Also, I'm in a nudist Civil War styled band called "Depantsification Proclamation."

Q: Is Dethklok's music art?

William Murderface: When it's painted on your face.

Toki Wartooth: We gots an album cover of a Mona Lisa with blood.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: Art is stupid. There is only food and death. So to answer your question: our music is both food and death.

Q: Much is made about Dethklok's penchant for pain and metal. But what about the groupies? Are there special ladies in the lives of Dethklok?

William Murderface: You mean like retarded?

Toki Wartooth: I don't wears no penchant.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: I have no recollection of most of the women that I've slept with except for the paternity suits, which are null simply because they must sign a "fatherhood waiver," before a screw.
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Jul. 18th, 2006 @ 03:19 pm 303 locals?
So who all local to 303 isn't going to DC14?
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Jul. 17th, 2006 @ 02:12 pm You will obey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C4FqTfFma8&search=metalocalypse
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Jul. 15th, 2006 @ 07:57 pm Odd
Transformation takes time, but when it is complete, you can feel it. I'm not sure what stage I have entered, but I know something is new. Let's see if I can not fuck it up.
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Jul. 15th, 2006 @ 05:17 pm Heh
If You Ruled the Land . . . by wackyweasel
Your first name:
How you gained your rule:
Your title is:Your Great Grand High Awesomeness
Your symbol is:the fox, because you're foxy!
You rule from:an ice palace - cold, but so, well, cool!
At your side is:your standard-bearer, who doubles as a meat shield
Your enforcers, troops, and guards are all:archers with mad skillz
Your most popular law is:Jell-O is a vegetable
Your least popular law is:Banning of the quote marks hand gesture
Your worst enemy is:no longer with us. Foul play? Who, you?
Your popularity rating is:: 85%
Your chance of being overthrown is:: 14%
Quiz created with MemeGen!
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Jul. 12th, 2006 @ 02:38 pm Plug-ola
Tomorrow night at the Oriental Theater:

Midnight Delight w/ Burlesque Troupe: "Ooh La La"

Thursday, July 13 2006, 10:00pm - 11:59pm

9:00PM $5 Buy Tickets at Virtuous.com

Sid Pink and Arkady host this festive evening of entertainment, Burlesque and Live Music woth the lovely ladies of "Ooh La La" and live music from the Love Drunks.

http://www.theorientaltheater.com/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=219&year=2006&month=07&day=13&Itemid=47
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Jul. 10th, 2006 @ 01:08 pm Meh
QuizGalaxy!
'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com
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Jun. 19th, 2006 @ 05:05 pm Promotion
Current Mood: accomplished
While I'm not really posting here anymore (some of you know where the new blog is) I will post to promote this show:

http://www.clickcaster.com/lll

The Ladies Libation League podcast.. first episode is up. Funny shit.
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Jun. 17th, 2006 @ 06:21 pm .........
Current Mood: apathetic
Only moron and genius
Would fight a losing battle
Against the super ego
When giving in is so damn comforting

And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat, live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo, built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?
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Jun. 13th, 2006 @ 12:01 pm heh
Once I did bad, that I heard ever
Twice I did good, that I heard never.
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Jun. 13th, 2006 @ 01:14 am Closed
Current Mood: blank
Too much nonsense.

Closed for business.

I am not who you think I am. I am not a good person. I am not in control anymore. I am not worth the time honestly. I am not a good friend. I am not even a friend at all sometimes. I am not someone you should pay attention to. I am not something to lose sleep over.

I am no longer complete. I was, and now I am not. Yes I lost it. Honestly, I'm not sure if I want it back. It only brings sadness and fills me with hate.

Anyway, you should move along. Nothing to see here.

Hell, if I were you I would stop talking to me all together.
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May. 1st, 2006 @ 08:16 pm Friends List Clean Up, Round Two.
Current Mood: nauseated
If you were recently removed, it is because of one of the following:

1) You no longer post or comment

2) You are one of them and you are either working against me or I can't trust you

3) I was told to walk away from you, you are a ghost now

4) I don't want you caught up in the impending shit storm

5) You are feeding them information

Sorry, no one is escaping the culling this time. Also, just FYI for you locals, you will be seeing me out less because I don't want to be around when it all goes down.

If you truly feel I have removed you by accident or unjustly, contact me through the usual channels.
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Feb. 7th, 2006 @ 12:18 pm Friends list clean out phase one
I just removed several people from my friends list. The critera were simple:

"LJ only friends"
* have I seen a post from you in the past 6 months?
* do you have me friended?
* have you replied to any of my posts in the last 6 months?
If one or more are no, you were culled.

"Local 'friends'"
* Have I seen you at all in the last 3 months?
* Have I asked you to hang out or do something and you refused/failed to appear?
* Have you invited me somewhere and I refused/failed to appear?
* Do you still feel like we are friends?
* Do I still feel like we are friends?
If no to one or more, you were culled.

I'll be doing this again in March. No one reads my LJ much anyway, so most of you won't even notice.

If you feel you should not have been (or should not be in the future) cut, comment here.
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