Great line: "Watching the actual State of the Union speech Tuesday night, it was tempting to propose a drinking game that would involve downing a shot every time President Bush said the word "evil". Very funny and scary. I guess China and a bunch of other countries are pissed at Bush for using the "E" word to describe countries. Well, so am I.
Found some cool stuff about manic depression on synthetic zero that I'd thought share with you all. Its from a article called "Manic depression and creatives" and it rings true to me, hell, just look at my last post.
But on a better note, I have some of the art pages up. That means I have the allmighty template done and all I have to do is edit peoples work and plug it in. I have one person there so far, look for two more by the end of the weekend. I took down the movies for now, they were just tests anyways. As soon as I finish one of them I'll repost it somewhere on the site. Now when the hell am I gonna get the "music" and "words" pages done? Hell if I know!? What do you think I'm in charge here or something? The damn monkeys got the whip, not me. Now it's off to the Vans Skatepark for some pool skating. BTW, Vans has the ugliest fucking goddamn site I have ever seen. Maybe they could fit ONE more ad on there somewhere, Eh? Sucks to see a company go multi-national.......
Just winding down after work with a beer. I love beer, it makes te pain go away. I really wanted to work on the "Art" section of this site, but after working for 8 hours and driving for 40 minutes on L.A. roads I don't want to do a damn thing but stare at something/ nothing in a daze and sip beer. I don't even feel like putting out the effort to play a computer game. Just blah. Maybe it's the cold weather or the lame shit I'm working on at work thats getting to me. Maybe I've overdosed on the computer. Oh yeah, my grandma has cancer. I guess that could mess with my head a little. Got that fog of depression around me. I really don't want to go into work tomorrow, maybe I'll claim sickness (hell, everyones sick anyways) and play hookie and mess with the site here. Could be something to do. Hell, I feel better allready. Yep, hookie it is.
I saw The Royal Tenenbaums last week and loved it. I really like that dry, dark style. Plus, all the symbolism in that movie is great. Margot has no ring finger, the gravestone about the battleship really being about him saving the family from itself. I'm a sucker for that kinda stuff. Plus, I rolled on the floor laughing when it showed Margot developing film in her bathroom. I used to do that as a kid, but I had no timer so I used a metronome and COUNTED the time. Maybe thats why I'm all fucked up now. Great movie though.
On the photo tip, Ihave not seen any photography worth a shit for awhile. Maybe seeing all this stock photo crap at work has damaged me. I know when I worked at a evidence lab in Chicago it fucked me up. So which do you think is worse for the soul dead bodies or corporate stock art. I wonder if anyone ever did a study to see what kind of effects viewing images all day can have on people. Its got to do something to you and its prolly not healthy. Oh well, fuck it. Beats setting tile or installing hardwood floors. Which I did and hated. I need another beer. Goodnight to you my happy little fish (it's nice having a captive audience).
Now this is fucking funny. I love it when someone gets away with this stuff. Hurry up and hit it before its taken down.
YYYEEEEAAARRGG!! Blah. Excuse me, I'm bored out of my friggin mind here. Doing the digital version of punching holes in sheet metal,"Clean dust, size, crop, save. Repeat". Curse Photoshop and it's demon like hold on my life. I am the new Blue Collar, I just get eye strain and carpel tunnel instead of grease under the fingernails and tinnitus. Someones got to unionize all of us poor computer chumps. But I have found THE ultra super cool White Stripes video on the web tonight thanks to my boring ass job and it's very cool T3 line and friendly sysadmin. So I'll share it with you all. The word "all" referring to a bored lab monkey and a dying fish. But I think the lab monkey just left the site when he saw that there was no porn, so that leaves a fish. Yes, a fish is my only audience. Oh well..... at least he won't email me about my bad spelling. But the White Stripes video is all done with legos. One of those things you see and think, "Why the bloody fuck didn't I think of that!?" Then you remember that your just a just a lab monkey with a very bored pet fish and well, what did you expect? Shakespere? It's been proven to take 10,000 monkeys and a typewriter to do that, but you are just one. So type on and on my sad little monkey.
My god I'm bored.
Also, everyone here is sick but me. A chorus of wet, phlem cracking coughs and drippy sniffling. I'm trying not to touch anything in the office. I see someone sneeze in their hand then go right back to pawing their mouse. Two minutes later, " Dan, my computers froze can you fix it?"."uhh........"
Very good weekend, lots of skateboarding was had. Hit two backyard pools and one skatepark, feeling very healthy and strong because of all the exercise. Plus, I just ate a bunch of sushi. Strange day at work, no-one is here. No-one. it rained here in LA and people freak and lock themselves indoors or drive their cars off the freeways at high speed. So I'm sitting here in this huge office all alone. I feel like I'm in a "Last man on Earth" kinda movie. Wisk I had my digicam, I'd try to capture the mood. Well, I guess I better get back to the old grind.......
Howdy, working on the music right now for the site and just having a flood of memories to deal with. Music is such a amazing medium to work in, I really wish I could do it more often. I'm digitizing stuff from 1994, a band called Electric Church I used to play in. A bunch of guys I loved with all my heart, and a band that had enough drama to make a feature film. But I tell you we made some great music together. Just so many memories come back to me. We were all unemployed and practiced at least three times a week, lived together and all that stuff. Ahhh, to be young again and not worry abut bills and rent and everything else that comes with age. I could go on and on. Do any of you out there have those kind of memories? Of almost magical moments where everyone is on the same page, when there was friends around who were, well, always around. As my friends say now, "Yeah Dan, write a poem about it will ya" steeped in sarcasm........ Hehe, change is the only constant in life I tell ya. It's about how each of us deals with the changes that shape us. OK, thats enough of that crap. Later....
Ok, the blogger code is lame ass, but I was bored and looking for something to blog. Luckily today at work another office fucked us so I have all of 25 images to work on, usually I have about 120. So it's all about Unreal and surfing the net, yeehaw! Bring on the VC buck$! I'm stoked to see that LOTR won some AFI awards. Thinking about food? Last meals of Death Row inmates. How about some condiments with that meal. Yes, it's a condiment museum. Yes, they are proud of themselves.
Still like Bush? Really? Some shady stuff in the White House. Maybe I'll send him a big old bag of pretzles. And I had a flashback tonight. Yes folks, it's really MISSILE COMMAND!!!! I used to sit in front of a old Apple IIe in my high school newspaper/ yearbook class and play this for hours. If you get there soon you'll see that I have the high score. Just try to beat it Jim, just try.... Ahh, sweet memories....
Get your very own Blogger Code.Mine is
B1 d t k s-- u-- f+ i o+ x-- e l- c-- Found the link on a Blog Called Hivelogic.Good name.
Howdy all, this fucking Enron thing is off the hook. Dirty, dirty politics that make Whitewater look like Jaywalking ticket. Billions of dollars stolen.And yes, the pres is more then involved. Read up on it and tell your friends.
Anyways, on a stranger note, james has a ghost by the sounds of it. I lived in a apartment in Chicago for 4 years that was haunted. The girls who lived there before me moved out because of it. I guess a woman was raped and ""viciously" murdered ( I befriended my landlord and he filled me in on it all) in the back bedroom by the kitchen. I, of course, took the front bedroom. But I had a roomate go nuts and join a cult, plus all sorts of strange things would happen. We would wake up to find puddles of this thick clear liquid, not sticky, but sort of gooey in the kitchen and backroom. No explanations. No leaks in the ceiling, no food or stuff left out, for awhile I had no cats, so it wasn't a pet misshap. And one time we woke up to find the floor COVERED in maggots. Seriously. Thank god it only happened once. SO strange though. They were everywhere in the kitchen, and we kept a clean apartment, so it wasn't a garbage thing. We really freaked out that day. There was no way to explain it. No food left out, garbage was taken out like a day earlier. Not a trace of anything on the floor, but the maggots of course. Sprayed RAID like mad and had flies for two weeks of something. Oh yeah, it was the dead of winter too, so where would the flies have come from to lay the eggs? I'm a pretty logical kind of guy, but it made a believer out of me. I wonder what happened in jame's house? Hmm............
Wow, this image is stunning. The earth at night. And this is a really cool comic I found while surfing. I really like this guys style and the story/ theme hits home with a loser like myself. Plus, a cool photo site I got from james of consumptive all about abandoned factories. My Dad worked at a ice factory and I used to love exploring it as a kid. I can smell that old wood, metal, oil type smell looking at these images. Got poker night going on tonight and I helped my friend get his scanner working today so I have still not put any content into the site. God I suck........
This is just a test. my humblest apologies.......
This is one of the funnest things for ex-art students to do. http://www.playdamage.org/market-o-matic/ It's a automatic artist statement generator. Let me just forward that baby along and watch the grants start coming in. Not much else to share today so I'm gonna add more links
OK, some good news (and a chance to get a link to work). I guess after all the Star War fans threatened to kill Lucas for putting N'Sync in the new movie he pulled their part. Yeah! I gotta say I was pissed when I read they would be in it.
Ok, so I'm working on hacking the blog code to make it look like I want and adding links and such. Eeech. Tried working with Dreamweaver for the first time tonight and I hated it. Had a better time just hardcoding. Couldn't get a paragragh to align left for hell or high water, one flag in hardcode. Oh well, no short cuts for me. Looks like I should have the "about" page done for sure and I'm gonna begin editing art for the art page and ripping MP3's for the music page this weekend. So look for some form of progress soon. I hope.
Saw "Lord of the Rings" (twice) and its fucking great. Thought it was true to the book and all that stuff. I know people are bitching online about Balrog wings and Liv Tyler, but think about how BAD it could have gotten. I LIVE in Hollywood, I know.
I think thats about all for tonight info wise, I could ramble on about my new found insomnia if you want to hear about it? Hey, where are you going? come on back..... Hmmm. Maybe I have some more bourbon here......
Last test for the night, really, it is...
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Okedy dokey, I think that this might work. Let's see, I got my bourbon here....yep. Ummm. ok. I'll try it.
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[1/8/2002 3:09:36 AM | dan kopton]
[1/8/2002 3:02:02 AM | dan kopton]
Okedy dokey, I think that this might work. Let's see, I got my bourbon here....yep. Ummm. ok. I'll try it.
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[1/8/2002 3:02:02 AM | dan kopton]
Okedy dokey, I think that this might work. Let's see, I got my bourbon here....yep. Ummm. ok. I'll try it.
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yet another test....where to put the links. god I suck at html......
[1/8/2002 3:09:36 AM | dan kopton]
[1/8/2002 3:02:02 AM | dan kopton]
Okedy dokey, I think that this might work. Let's see, I got my bourbon here....yep. Ummm. ok. I'll try it.
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[1/8/2002 3:02:02 AM | dan kopton]
Okedy dokey, I think that this might work. Let's see, I got my bourbon here....yep. Ummm. ok. I'll try it.
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Okedy dokey, I think that this might work. Let's see, I got my bourbon here....yep. Ummm. ok. I'll try it.
well, so much for it being idiot proof.....