1/26/12 | 12:59 pm ☎ 34.12399, -118.25569 ♬ Welcome home (sanitarium)-METALLICA
Birds
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slavezombieThis another fav eating place that leaves the skins on their fries. I didn't know that even though I've eaten here before.
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1/25/12 | 05:00 pm mood Indifferent ♬ Airborne toxic event - All for a woman
Here's something to look forward to until february
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slavezombieBut try to figure out ahead of time what Kill list will be about, and that might raise a problem. Apparently, it leaves the audience wondering about it for days after they've seen it trying to put the pieces together. That is my kind of movie! Don't worry about coming across too academically intellectual. If it goes over my head, that's my problem. What I need is stimulation because this persona I seem to have grown into just doesn't allow for very much socializing and fun with friends. Sad, I know, but I'm very optimistic that all this solitude will result in one day producing a full length movie. A dream? Perhaps, but it gets me thru the day.
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1/23/12 | 01:37 pm
I digress (whatever that means) to overcome the limitations SOPA can instill
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So that's where the hidden talent is working. Since watching the short lived TV series from the UK called pulling, I have been looking for new shows with one of the regular characters, Juliet Cowan. Unfortunately she works primarily in TV, for the UK, so the only entertaining shows and sitcoms I'm stuck watching is the crap that gets broadcast in the states. One of the showsI have been trying to finda stream sure for is phoneshop, butI admit I've only been interested in the episodes that Juliet is in which aren't many. Season 2 episode 1 is what I'm interested in, but so far I've only managed to finda decent copy of the last half of that episode.
These links don't work very well, but it's where I managed to copy ( clips of the scenes containing Juliet Cowan. ) It's probably important to note that the links below are sluggish result in pop-ups galore. Don't fall for sites promising to stream the episode after you've taken their survey. That's a waste of time.
_http://www.megavideo.com/?v=0Z03LT4
_http://www.videozer.com/video/ASEh
_http://www.videobb.com/watch_video.p
_http://www.vidxden.com/zb4o0wwnmmbg/Ph
_http://www.divxstage.eu/video/clfr0emk
_http://www.movshare.net/video/jmdwu71j
_http://www.videoweed.es/file/61ps7ibfb
_http://www.novamov.com/video/xuxvf74p7
_ http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q
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1/23/12 | 01:23 pm ☎ 34.0944,-118.2278 ♬ Lisa Hannigan-KCRW Morning becomes eclectic
here is a status report shot on Mildred
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slavezombieIt may seem as though Mildred is trying to get out of her cage, but in reality what she us doing a calisthenics.
I think this particular exercise is called monkey bars, which is fun and dangerous as she falls to the bottom when the edge of the tank is reached. The fun part is the rush from being airborne.
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1/22/12 | 11:39 pm ☎ 34.07991, -118.25853
Good news about vanillasite
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slavezombieThere is a problem with the vanity linking the URL to my Localhost but I can still access the bliki by entering 127.0.0.1
Also, I have to put all the backed up files where they should be so that everything looks the way I had left them before the computer went into a coma. The CSS files, the old entries, the user accounts and passwords. I guess I have my hands full for the next several Weeks.
I'm just glad I didn't have to miss the games this weekend. None of the teams I thought would win won. I noticed this losing streak last week when the saints lost to the 49ers in such a peculiar way. I have concluded that I just don't have a favorite team that's going to the superbowl this year. But I was fortunate enough to see the team I dislike the most lose, back when the cowboys were still in a wildcard. Anyway, I enjoy the game and watching grown men kick and holler when they are celebrating a touchdown is still more entertaining than baseball or anything else. Whoever wins wins. Where is New England, anyway?
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1/21/12 | 11:49 am ☎ lapl
Reading
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slavezombieSigh. I love my job. Although I got stuck working a Saturday this week, today doesn't seem so busy. It's nice and quiet. A perfect day for reading a book. I'm reading how to create memorable voices and fictional conversations that crackle with wit, tension and nuance. The short title is writing dialog. I kinda wish some of the screenwriting meetups out there could function as a reading club for these how to books. Reading how-to books can be slow for me, especially if the contain exercises.
Do you know how long it takes me to finish the exercises? If I only had a deadline.
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1/18/12 | 11:16 pm ☎ California, Los Angeles, Lemoyne St, 1431
I feel like a drinking binge is brewing
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slavezombiewriting from the heart is something I've never had a knack for. Thank goodness I'm not bitten by the poetry bug too often. But the way it feels is far different from reading a good poem. Writing about deeply felt emotions is one thing. When you're done, somebody says "isn't that supposed to rhyme?" Even if those words come from the writer himself, it's plain to see that good poetry should rhyme one way or another. That's where the drinking starts.
So I distance myself from that kind of torture now. I just don't have the concentration to do it, nor the kidneys and liver to tolerate such a life style. And as a result, a lot of pent up emotions never find their way onto paper, the way I would prefer things to be; and I realize comparing heavy metal, especially the thrash metal I've become partial to, with ballads is wrong in so many ways. That's not me out there body slamming in the pit. I enjoy watching bands play their songs because I can see how hard writing music must be and, as far as thrash metal goes, twice as hard when it's misunderstood by the masses. Watching slam dancers enjoy a live concert by throwing themselves every which way is awesome.
Some people seem very uptight about hard rock. One moment they criticize heavy metal for it's evil connotations, violent suggestions, etc., and the next moment they go out to see a movie with the same kind of evil, violence and profanity.
I thought I should take a moment to describe my favorite music. Loud, obnoxious, killer in my face songs that describe conviction, mistakes and regret. My life in a nutshell? Not really, but you gotta admit, so many songs have been remixed with real orchestration. It's as if the only thing preventing acceptance of it is time.
Maybe broadcast radio is simply biding time while the old fogeys who still appreciate 50's tunes disintegrate. Hard core head bangers still get their favorite songs on the radio by subscribing to sirius radio. It's all about the money, the time and electing a long haired committed rocker for president. None of the candidates look good to me, and I've had enough of the pop/rap loving prez currently running the country. I wonder sometimes whether people would think, if the world were about to end, that heavy metal is directly to blame for it.
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1/17/12 | 11:44 pm ☎ 34.07999, -118.25841
Emergency.~
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slavezombieSo I'm sitting behind my manual typewriter wondering who I think I'm kidding trying to write an entire screenplay without electricity. I'm editing the few pages I've already typed up, which is unusual. Most writers don't rewrite until the screenplay is complete.
The landlord comes to my door asking If I would call 911. I'm thinking, what? Thinking the worse, like finding a decapitated head on a hiking trail, the neighbor elaborates. He says there's a lady on the ground out in the street who needs help. I'm like, okay. I'm explaining that the 911 operator is going to want detailed information, my name, number, and WTF is going on. I've been sitting here trying to write a screenplay and you come in here saying that I should call 911 and describe to them what? Something out of the story I'm working on? Jeez.
This is the second time something comes up involving this mysterious woman who lives two houses up the street. Apparently she's a nut case. Fortunately I've never come into contact, but tonight the neighbor found himself restraining her because she was raising a ruckus about the trash that has not been picked up. She was placing her trash bins out in the street all around the neighbors car, and one of the things she is throwing out is a mattress, which she placed on top of the parked car. Then she began to hurt the owner of the car and that's when things escalated.
My neighbor came out of his house to assist his daughter and the crazy lady behaved unreasonably by spitting, kicking and what-not. I almost got myself into the mood for a movie after the interruption but all the commotion served as interesting entertainment.
I am trying to put the story together now. It may turn out to be similar in structure to Run, Lola, run because I'm dead set in repeating the same story in three different perspectives. I'm tired now. I have to work tomorrow.
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1/13/12 | 03:06 pm ☎ 34.11092, -118.25029 ♬ All rise - THE DELGADOS
Critical perspective on cable service
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slavezombieI've noticed that the service department at the eight hundred numbers for large conglomerates, regardless of where the call usually ends up, in the U.S. Or abroad, us horrible. I've become so fed up with it, after having my share of tolerance trying to trouble shoot services with the now defunct at&t worldnet, I no longer have a need for a LAN line, cable TV, DSL, and soon, at the rate this is going, electricity and gas.
There is a place I pass on my way home with a banner sign announcing a need for new employees in the area of cable hook up. I can visualize the business structure now. On one side we have the bygone days of astrologers and/or engineers who work in the technical aspect of digital signals, then there is the customer service/sales dept. Finally there's the on location technicians who come to your home to drill hikes in your wahl and rooftops for satellite dish installations, or cable lines from telephone poles. Nine of these factions get along with one another.
The worse part, I think, is being dependent on these truly simple installation that anybody can accomplish with a but of care. I'm still in the market for TV antennas and a DVR. I looked into Tivo for a bit there and it seems that the premier model requires a monthly charge too. I'm done with the monthly biking system. All I want is my sports to be in 720p. I think for that to happen I need a DVR. Plus, it would be nice to be able to record my shows again. I like being able to pause every once in awhile. Because I have no will power whatsoever when it comes to watching TV, I kind of like the situation I am in right now. If nothing is playing on channel 2, 4 or 9, then there's really no need to try to channel surf further. I don't get anymore channels. It would be nice to have a decent antenna, but if I rush in doing that now, then the Mildred cage project will suffer, the vanilla re-install project will suffer. I just have better things to do right now, and I feel liberated now that I'm not on a virtual dog leash being led by my Mitsubishi big screen TV.
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1/13/12 | 03:05 pm ☎ 34.08001, -118.25869
Things to do
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slavezombieThe writers room
6685 Hlwd
L.A.'s Supper club
6675 Hlwd Bl
Birds (maybe a.k.a. Rotisserie)
5925 Franklin ave
Hemingways
6356 Hlwd Bl
Sayers club
1645 Wilcox
Roger room
370 n la Cienaga
The spare room
7000 Hlwd Bl
The varnish
118 e 6th st
I don't know if I'm going to be in a mood to celebrate Friday the 13. I just don't feel like searching for parking in Hollywood today.
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1/13/12 | 02:46 pm ♬ Uncle John's band - GREATFUL DEAD
me no sabbo http://slavezombie.livejournal.com/485985.html
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This is the picture I drew at http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/, which is supposed to be an images search engine much like http://tineye.com In case you don't know what it's supposed to be, it's a toucan.
<-- And this is one of the more interesting flickr results that retrievr found.
This is the other interesting picture the bot spider found. This all started by my attempt to find some cool picture concepts to use to paint my Holga camera. I tried drawing with bright contrasty colors. You know that illusion of depth of field from reading blue text off a black screen and suddenly one or two sentences appear in bright red. I just think it would be cool to hold up a camera and have people stare at it transfixed at the colors while I take their mug shot.
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1/10/12 | 03:24 pm
Fosters freeze
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1/10/12 | 01:22 pm ☎ l.a.p.l. 28 cypress park ♬ Dead skin mask - SLAYER
Writer's Block: Poetry Break
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slavezombie-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home:
Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
Long through thy weary crowds I roam;
A river-ark on the ocean brine,
Long I've been tossed like the driven foam;
But now, proud world! I'm going home.
Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face;
To Grandeur with his wise grimace;
To upstart Wealth's averted eye;
To supple Office, low and high;
To crowded halls, to court and street;
To frozen hearts and hasting feet;
To those who go, and those who come;
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home.
I am going to my own hearth-stone,
Bosomed in yon green hills alone,--
A secret nook in a pleasant land,
Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;
Where arches green, the livelong day,
Echo the blackbird's roundelay,
And vulgar feet have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
And when I am stretched beneath the pines,
Where the evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at the lore and the pride of man,
At the sophist schools and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
Always felt a need to memorize a famous poem for when the perfect opportunity to recite it comes up. I don't think I have the voice to do such a think, much less the brain activity. This one seems to be easy to understand. If asked to interpret, I guess I would describe it as the loner's perspective on life. I could be wrong, however, as I'm sure many poem lovers might be eager to interpret it differently. I love the way the poet flirts with hints of a moribund likelihood, as if on the brink of suicide or having been terminally diagnosed. Even so, with such dark perspectives, I enjoy the descriptions of home. I so want to give each description my own personal interpretation.
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1/9/12 | 11:59 pm
While a state of the art upgrade would be nice, I have to ask myself whether I'm computer material
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slavezombieNow I have to figure out where I have the installation file and reinstall it, then figure out how to get all my old files back on it. I did remember to back those files!
The thing I like about this vanilla bliki software, which runs on Rebol technology, is that it motivated me to organize my files and attachments to make backing things up a bit more comprehensive. I used it similar to the way I blog on lj except all my entries were localized on the hard drive. Pictures, illustrations, scanned images, etc. everything was where I could easily locate, not scattered in a file folder inside another file folder inside an application documents folder, and so on and so on.
Now that everything is html and/or Internet related, as long as the image files were readable in html and the text files were accessible with html language software, there really was no need to keep pictures and graphics together in a Photoshop folder, or an illustrator folder.
As far as vanilla goes, installation is getting easier and easier each time I do it. Now, I'm considering installing it on the laptop which is running snow leopard. doing that will alleviate the desktop computer for hard core creativity. Since the trend is that with each new operating system, unplugged are old versions of software products in an effort to coax users to upgrade, all my laptop is still going to be good for is web surfing.
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1/9/12 | 06:09 pm
Мои твиты
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slavezombie- Пн, 16:18: What I am reading from the Los Angeles Public Library http://t.co/d23Gw1gm
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1/8/12 | 02:39 pm ☎ Lakeshore ave & Montana st Los Angeles, CA 90026
Found the perfect rooftop antenna
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slavezombieNow that I'm convinced that I'll probably never go back to subscription, I'm considering buying a DVR with a digital tuner. I just finished hooking up the new Winegard antenna that my neighbors purchased from Costco and it works great. The problem with my old fashioned rooftop antenna is that it does get certain channels because it isn't compatible with the frequency being used by them. Also, the signal strength is week on my 40+ year old antenna compared the Costco antenna. Unfortunately my TV doesn't have a digital tuner, so I still would need to buy one of those. It would be nice if I had a DVR for recording programs, but I would also like something that is going to benefit my big screen TV in the area of 1080i screen resolution. The digital converter I was using only provided 480.
http://www.channelmaster.com/Digital_TV
http://www.frys.com/product/6792885?sit
http://www.ChannelMaster.com/TV_Splitte
http://www.ChannelMaster.com/Matching_T
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1/6/12 | 02:25 pm ☎ 3250 Silver Lake Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90039
Vince's Market v. Subway
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slavezombieHere's an odd number on my odometer (it spells oillllll becuz the only thing I can think about is how many miles it has been since my last oil change). You know how people stand transfixed on the time whenever they see their digital clock display 11:11, well I just returned from my lunch break and, though I usually have the odometer reading displayed on how many miles I've traveled since I last filled the tank, I got back and wanted to check the time to see how long it took me to get to Vince's Market and back.
While toggling the button, I passed the odometer reading and couldn't help noticing this number.
Ok, back to topic.
Considering Subway never has canned soda, it seems to me that the cheapest sandwich is from Vince's. While Subway gives you the option to choose between six inches and footlong, the bread at Vince's is chewyer. I had plans to eat there, even though they have to tables and/or chairs. But I hit traffic standing in line at the deli. By the time I paid and got out of there, I had only five minutes left to get back to the library.
Vince's Market was recommended by pocketofgreen. I had been wanting to try the sandwiches there months ago, but would always put it off considering sandwiches are pretty much what's for dinner after work at my house.
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1/6/12 | 02:13 pm ☎ montana st & glendale blvd los angeles, ca
a California 80's license plate billboard
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slavezombieI just remembered; I still haven't seen the movie Killer inside me. I am wondering whether my local video store will have a copy for me to rent tonight.I pass this corner pretty frequently and I know it's a stretch to visualize the billboard as a giant license plate. I took the photo last week because something odd about it was bugging me. I just couldn't pinpoint what. Browsing my pictures library in thumbnail mode, it came to me. This freaking billboard resembles a license plate. Who would design such a thing. What's the message I'm getting? That I'm going to fall in the middle of the street and be bitch-slapped by the license plate of the car behind me.
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1/6/12 | 08:54 am
Recession must be the reason
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slavezombieI'm usually adept at waiting for reviews and critics choices when selecting a movie to sit thru. I figure that's why I will have watched at least one movie that is on the nomination list to receive a reward of some sort. This year, I was completely lost for a good movie, and I think I finally came to this conclusion after paying real money to see hangover 2. After that, my movie going activity dramatically lessened.
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney ("The Descendants")
Jean Dujardin ("The Artist")
Michael Fassbender ("Shame")
Gary Oldman ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy")
Brad Pitt ("Moneyball")
BEST ACTRESS
Berenice Bejo ("The Artist")
Viola Davis ("The Help")
Meryl Streep ("The Iron Lady")
Tilda Swinton ("We Need to Talk About Kevin")
Michelle Williams ("My Week with Marilyn")
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh ("My Week with Marilyn")
Jonah Hill ("Moneyball")
Phillip Seymour Hoffman ("The Ides of March")
Eddie Marsan ("Tyrannosaur")
Christopher Plummer ("Beginners")
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain ("The Help")
Judi Dench ("My Week with Marilyn")
Bryce Dallas Howard ("The Help")
Melissa McCarthy ("Bridesmaids")
Ocatvia Spencer ("The Help")
Zoe Wanamaker ("My Week with Marilyn")
I did see one! Bridesmaids. Wasn't that from last year though? If I was going to see anything from this list above, it would have to be my week with Marilyn
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1/5/12 | 01:24 am ☎ 34.07995, -118.25851
I'm still awake
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