[witch weight=duck weight?]
you see, I've just opened a window to do some research, for this post.

point is, though - I've got fark all to say.

anyone who hasn't visited My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable.... it's really, really good. if you dont like swearing, this is the kind of comic you really should be going to. I mean, if you dont want to make your own art, for whatever reason..... why should you? clipart does just as well.... to be bluntly, brutally honest; My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable is probably my favorite comic, ever, in the history of mankind. and every time I read it, I tend to bust out the swearwords in vast quantities for a short period of time.

funny, that.

:: how jedi are you? ::
excellent.

[coffee and.... hanggliders?!]
yesterday was fun. that is all I have to say about it, because nothing actually got done, apart from buying two victorian medical books - this'll allows me to scan in really bizarre pictures for art. you'll get to see them when I'm done. I'm not done yet.

in fact, apart from yesterday, nothing's happened. really. I guess I'll just get back to designing the zine.

[they dont sleep anymore on the beach]
ahhh.... excellent.

my birthday.

well, I was pretty astonished to find I'd accrued a wealth in excess of £90, although admittedly in excess only by 12p. still, I went out shopping - sadly, on my own, as lucy wasn't well enough to come with me - and, well got some stuff. got a Godspeed album, the one that smells like vomit, two games - both of which I've had my eye on for a long time - and two very old books.

the first book is "mechanical world year book 1948". I'm not even going to bother explaining what it's about. but I bought it because it has about fifty million distinctly lame advertisements for -actual example- "up-to-the-minute COMPRESSOR DESIGN". yes, capitalised. with a picture above it which looks very much like a... gigantic steampowered laptop?! anyway, the point is that it has some cool diagrams and tables which I can definetely pull out of my ass for artwork when I'm in a pickle.

number two would be a logbook that shouldn't exist - the legislation at the front says it should have been destroyed. in 1921. nice. its a boarding book, which was aboard the HMS "ceres" - on the other side, though, you got the man's notes on naval history. it's really interesting, but when you think that the man who scrawled it is probably now dead, it gets a bit scary......

fun.

[kelly watch the stars]
well. fancy meeting you here.

been playing a lot of Warzone 2100 recently. and reading House of Leaves. and writing more on my novella. and grafik-designing many pages of the zine. look at me, I'm cultured!

first, then, warzone. it's fun. but whoever decided to make a real time strategy game on a console should be shot. it's difficult to get the original, for the PC. while I admit the graphics are fuzzy, the sound effects are awful and the game itself is quite dated, I'll also say that the atmosphere is second to none, the music is compelling and there are several features which throw some spin into it. like the commanders, which I originally ignored and got my ass handed to me on a plate. and the ability to design your own units, apparently from over 200 different inventions. and the way units gain experience, which prevents you from simply making units and throwing them away at the enemy, for fear of losing the guy that's killed 86 of them already.

House of leaves. chris is lending it to me at the moment. so far - and I'm about 40 pages in at the moment - it is very, very good, and pretty goddamn creepy; though I'm told it gets a hell of a lot worse as it goes in. a random quirk is that when the author quotes something, you dont know if it's completely a real quote, or not. many are, many aren't. and a quick flip through the book reveals that later, as the reviewers said -"In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on." yet somehow, I'm looking forward to reading Translated Accounts more, having read a few pages of that. maybe I just have a fetish for military states.

the zine's progressing well. I'm amazed that I have squeezed 11 - yes, 11 pages - out of just two articles that I was given. while most of it is thankyou pages, beginnings of articles yet to be finalised, covers, and art pages, it still looks rather nice, if I may say so. well, others have, so why not? today I grafik-designed my way through an issue page, two review pages, and a thankyou page, so I'm pretty pleased with myself. still, we need a politically charged slogan. if anyone has ideas, feel free to mail.

I did watch a movie today; Arlington Road - which was both very good and very harrowing. it managed to get me into a thoroughly depressed mood - somehow feeling I'd been betrayed, even though I'm perfectly aware it was a film and that I am not one of the characters in it. actually, I'm almost getting upset writing about it. I guess I'm just sad like that.

woah. there's a new article to grafik. leprechaun to the rescue!


leprechaun IV: leprechaun in space!

What Type of Villain are You?
I'm a fucking ninja!
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[I think it signifies the fear of gloves]
well, fuck me with a broomstick. I'm updating!

yesterday was fucking great, for a start. even if I was exhausted afterwards. and even if *suggestive cough* someone kneed me in the mouth and pushed me off the bed... it still rocked. however, a word of advice to anyone considering sitting cross legged in the middle of the road - dont close your eyes. it helps.

zine. been doing quite a bit of work on it today; we've got a whole new front page, complete with new soviet-esque fonts, and I did some filler art for it, too. looks like it's coming along - but it usually helps if you have some writing, too. sledgehammers, I've found, dont work as well as they used to in removing writer's block.

golly, this is a beautiful song.

air seem to be my band of the day, as I've downloaded 7 of their songs, all of which were good. apart from the one I deleted because it was god-awful. it's kinda the music I've been looking for for a long while. hurrah for me.

in either case; I'm now going to go hit the keyboard in an artistic manner, giving the impression I'm doing something. I'm pretty much just playing wolfenstein, actually.

*dribble*

wow.
I guess I won.