November 26, 2003
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Today I got to color a fat kid!
Yesterday I got to color one of the characters for KND. He’s a new extra appearing in a really good episode that won’t air here for at least a year. I got to pick out what colors he’ll be, as in his hair, skin, and the colors of his clothes.
Its pretty exciting, particularly because its not just any extra, it’s a kid who is screaming into the camera in his scene. Hooray! This is much more thrilling than the tiny prop I got to color last time.
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November 24, 2003
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Breaking Even
Many things have happened of late.
On Thursday, N. did very well at Dork Trivia night at sci-fi club. There were some questions I knew, but other people were much faster to raise their hands.
On Friday I got a temp job that was even worse than the last one. Last time, I was stuffing envelopes for some kind of photography agency. This time, I showed up at the site and they led me to a room full of straw and asked that I spin it all into gold by 5pm.
That's not exactly true. What happened was it turned out I was to work at this store selling men's dress shirts in the back room flipping shirts around so they faced every other direction - head to toe. But the room had those slidey-library-type shelves, so every time a salesman needed a shirt I'd have to get out of the way or the walls would slide together and crush me. And so I passed the day, flipping shirts and avoiding being crushed.
On Friday night there was a really great new episode of Kids Next Door on the air - it featured cheese ninjas and a cheese shogun. I highly recommend it.
On Saturday I went to Kari's party, despite there being no L train all weekend. We had to take the M and a shuttle bus. N. and his roommate insisted that there was no such thing as the M train, but I'd taken it before to get to a film shoot.
Kari's party was really great. There was a ton of food! We had cheese and wine and yakisoba and fried rice, and these little fishcake things that are hard to describe, and also lasagna. Plus, we drank lots of sake and eggnog and other drinks made in very classy containers.
This meant that N. and I missed our roommates’ party, where cheese and wine was also being served. We arrived home to find one guest still present. I mentioned how the party we went to instead had featured cute, single Asian girls, and Johan was promptly beat about the head by his guest.
On Sunday N. and I went to Jeremiah's Thanksgiving party, where we dined on all the really traditional foods like turkey and three kinds of stuffing, cranberry sauce (both fresh and canned), mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and creamed corn.
His pies were really something - phenomenal pumpkin, chocolate pudding pie, and apple pie. We also sipped some kind of rum & cider drink the whole time. It was great!
In other news…
The New York Times did this article about animation over the summer - it's quite good, and still somehow a free article.
The Anime Network is coming to RCN on December 1st. God help us all.
Also on Friday a weird thing happened. I walked ten blocks to get to an ATM that belonged to my bank to take out a $20 bill, as I was completely out of cash at the time. Then I walked back to the café near where I was working. Upon ordering my food, I realized the $20 must’ve flown out of my pocket. It was totally gone.
I was pretty upset about that, but not too upset, because I had found a $20 bill on the subway platform two weeks ago. I found twenty, I lost a twenty - I was breaking even with the universe.
But then, when I went back to the stock room of doom to flip some more shirts, the $20 bill reappeared inexplicably and landed at my feet. It must have been stuck to me somehow and finally dropped off just then. I was happy to have found it, but also somewhat worried… maybe I still owe the universe twenty bucks.
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November 20, 2003
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Knobs, Etc.
JerkCity in a rare Doctor Who crossover.
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November 19, 2003
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Kerry's Twisted Logic
A conversation:
Kerry: You and N. should have kids.
Erin: What?! Why?
Kerry: That way, your kids can play with my kids.
That's the worst reason to have kids I've ever heard! (OK, maybe not the worst, but perhaps in the top ten.)
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November 18, 2003
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Have you ever tasted adventure in your own bathtub?
Many things happened this weekend.
On Friday, I had that anime screening I was telling you about. It went pretty well. I showed the wrong episode of Eva by accident, but it wasn’t a bad episode or anything. I think it was the one after the one I said I was showing. Three random strangers showed up to my screening, one of whom actually talked to us (us = the people running the event).
On Saturday, Hal and N. and K&T and I went to the research library, which turned out not to be where I needed to go. I needed the science library. Nevertheless, I did read a book about Go and N. researched fire cults and later I checked out a book about pirates from the circulating library across the street.
Saturday night N. and I waited in the cold for a bus to NJ for an hour and 15 minutes.
The next day we waited in the cold at the paintball place for about four hours before we finally got to play. We only got in about 6 games, which was not as good as last time, when we played almost 12 different scenarios. We were also playing with a bunch of hosers. One guy had a face mask with little tusks and some gorilla fur, so he looked like an Uruk-Hai.
This morning the giant poster changed on one of the buildings near Astor Place. It is no longer a giant banner for Elf the movie, but instead it is a massive Return of the King banner. I am trying to figure out a way to steal it.
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November 13, 2003
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Windiest Day Ever
Today, it is incredibly windy. It was too warm last night so I left the bedroom window open (attention potential stalkers!) and a fan on. This morning, I awoke to the sound of things being blown around the room, and we're not talking paper, we're talking CD cases... and the apartment actually shook with particularly good blasts of wind.
On the way to work I was hit with a gust of wind so hard on Broadway that I was moved forward slightly - I had to adjust my footing not to fall over. That is some serious wind, folks!
In New York you also get that lovely wind effect where bits of dirt get blown into your eyes and garbage careens around dangerously.
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November 12, 2003
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My own personal anime screening!
Just as I was leaving NYU, some of my friends there started up a club for animation students. They called it SAL, the Student Animation League, and so far they've had many event and guest speakers and screenings at whatnot.
The president, Zoya, expressed interest long ago in having several anime nights, with anime screenings. I offered a lot of suggestions, and ended up getting my own special event screening anime for all to see. My program includes the following:
Cowboy Bebop episode 5 -¯Ballad of Fallen Angels˜
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 16
Read or Die OAV episode 1 (of 3)
Ping Pong Club episode 1
His and Her Circumstances episode 1
Dragon Half episode 1 (of 2)
I made these choices based on DVDs that I own, and I wanted to show a wide variety of styles and genres (thus, Ping Pong club). The episodes of Cowboy Bebop and Eva I chose are episodes that I think really stand out from the rest of the series.
I emailed this information out to a bunch of anime listservs in the city, and the president of Columbia's anime club forwarded it, saying "they're showing some mildly interesting stuff..."
Mildy interesting!?? I'm not exactly showing a Miyazaki retrospective here, but short of showing real old classics like Battleship Yamato, I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a better list. I realize I'm not showing much (one could argue any,) shonen, but it's hard to appreciate shonen without sitting through a fight tournement of a dozen episodes - including Hikaru No Go.
Anyway, if anyone reading this want to go email me for directions. The screening is this Friday at 7:00.
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November 10, 2003
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What have I been up to lately?
On Friday I had a fake interview for a fake job at Cartoon Pizza. This is thanks to a one MP, who, gave me the internship on KND. C.P. may have some freelance work for me to do on a children’s book they are working on, as well as a show based on the books that they are pitching to Noggin.
However, there may be no job, or work there at all, so I am not getting my hopes up.
That said, the C.P. offices are located within the Seaseme Workshop headquarters, so the offices themselves were really neat. The lobby had a life-sized Oscar the Grouch in it, and some other muppets, and pictures of muppets, and big, colorful furniture and a ridiculous carpet. Back among the cubicles things were a little more normal, but the color scheme was still great, as the wallpaper had giant stripes which I cannot do justice to here. There was a little sign outside one office door labeling it “Global Thingy Headquarters” (it really said “thingy!”).
The conference room we sat in for the interview had butcher-paper that could be rolled out over the table for brainstorming sessions, and each chair had a little idea-lightbulb drawn on the back.
Oh, how I’d love to work there!
ISO was a big data corporation, so everything about it was boring and sterile. The C.P. offices were the exact opposite, as the whole place screamed something about creativity and fun.
It was super-nice of MP to recommend me, and I hope that someday I can work there. They have my resume and reel, anyway.
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November 05, 2003
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So Pretty it Hurts
Adan, go immediately to this website and watch the trailer there:
http://www.samuraichamploo.com/
Then change your pants, because you will have shit yourself.
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November 04, 2003
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On Friday, several things conspired against me:
- The water went out in our building. There was a water main break somewhere, so we had no water at all.
- Due to a subway fire, the subway stop nearest to our apartment was closed ALL WEEKEND LONG (more on this later).
- As I walked two skeevy blocks to the next nearest subway station, a crazy man who was already mumbling and crazy decided to shout at me because I’m white, and apparently I look like a hippy, and, he told me I should “go back to the Village,” which is where I was going, because I work there. At that moment I wished nothing more than to still live in the Village, and I vaguely wondered how the man knew I had once lived there.
- When I got to work, the screening was cancelled, so there was no free food.
- There were four Halloween parties I wanted to go to: Abigail’s, Zoya’s, Eugene’s, and Tori’s. Because Tori’s party also included a slumber party and a Call of Cthulhu game, I picked that one. This was the wrong choice, since it negated all other parties by being in New Jersey – Abigail’s was in Brooklyn somewhere, Eugene’s deep in Queens, and Zoya’s didn’t start until 10pm. (It also negated the sci-fi club party on Saturday.)
- I assumed we were playing D&D on Sunday because of Adan’s new work schedule. This turned out to be incorrect. So I had to cancel out of D&D.
- I lugged all my crap to work for the overnight stay at Tori’s, so I wouldn’t have to go back home in case the subway was still broke. But N. forgot his CoC character sheet, so we went home anyway.
- The subway was still broke. N. and I waited for a bus that never came. This step also involved some fighting and finally taking a cab.
- When we got to the apartment, N. couldn’t find the character sheet, because it was actually in New Jersey. (At this point I laid on the floor of the apartment face-down for a while.)
- Meanwhile, the Employeress called and asked if I could work on Saturday – event number one millionth Tori’s party negated.
- Finally, just when the game of CoC on Saturday was getting really good, we had to leave to catch a bus so my roommate could catch a plane the next day.
- I played too long and we missed the bus, which was early, and had to wait a full hour for the next bus.
Some good things did happen, like I got to eat a some free candy and nice Halloween cookies. I also got to see the end of the TV show Neverwhere on DVD.
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My brother as the Fed-Ex Pope
His birthday is this Sunday.
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