This post is called Nelson.

Well, I come up with a master plan that would allow me to attend E3, one of the seemingly awesomest things I've ever heard of, and now I hear it's been canceled indefinately.

Ain't that a bitch?

Well, no reason to stop what I'm doin.

F*R*A*G:
Aww man! You mean I'm gonna have to make due with only two balls?

Ahh...to be young again. And also a robot.

Uh oh... I may have done something that could be useful. I registered a new blog with Blogspot, and rebuilt it into a Freeware computer game review site.

For those of you who don't know, freeware basically me computer programs that are free. This is as opposed to shareware - demos meant to be shared over the internet and such - and normal software, which is what suckers go out and buy.

Now, while it could just be a excersize in having an ego on my part, I like to belive that it's really part of my master plan for having a future. You see, I've done reviewing before, both on my own, and with GameHippo. On my own, I thought it was too much work for something which no one was reading. When I was with GH, I made some miscalculations, and said that one guy made a game that was just okay, and as it turns out that everyone else thought of him as a god, so I decided it was best to leave before I got...shot.

Now, by some twist of fate, although I haven't been back there in at least a year, I am still on the list of people who get mailed new submissions. This keeps me up to date on some of the new games I might other wise have missed, AND on how much people seem to want to play bingo and poker online. This glitch combined with my own ability to lookout for new free games because I'm broke and free is the only thing in my price range gives me a supprisingly large knowldge of free games.

And to get around the other problem I had of most methods being to complicated, I went ahead and used the blog system, which I find sutible for almost all my internet needs. Click "make new", put in a buncha words, link to some pictures or files or websites or whatever you want, and then it goes on the interwebs. The simplisity lets me focus more on what I want to do content wise, and not worry about what new pages need to be coded, and folder setup, and crap.

So...back to why I threw together a review site in two days. I figure there's at least the possibility that if I put enough reviews up, then it could pass for experience, and maybe I could become the reviewer type that gets hired by game magazies/websites, and then not only would I be paid for somehting remarkably easy and enjoyable for me, but then I'd get opertunites to go the the big gaming conventions and events. E3 comes imedeately to mind. That would be another notch on the wall for me.

So yeah. I got the site up and ready to be filled with actual content. I did the two games I posted on the happy lotus forum, and I figure I'll move on to the greats in my collection like Warning Forever, Little Fighter 2, Beats of Rage, Frozen Bubble, Vantage Master Online, and whatever else tickles my fancy.

I think this might turn out well for me.

But, most of this will have to wait about a week. My three monkey cousins are up visiting, and while they are suprisingly intwined in the abundance of internet in my house, I'll still be giving them a lot of my time as we go to the beach, bowling, hiking, and all the other outdorsy crap I only do when they come up.

It's not that bad, tho. It's really not the outdoors that I dislike. I have no problems with the outdoors. just that asshole of a sun. Once the sun goes down, I like goin out. Actually, the only thing I really am gonna miss out on this week is seein Krystle. But, ya'know, I don't get to see my cousins that often, and I know I'm gonna see her Sunday, and I'm gonna make sure we have fun. And I don't just mean fun, but I mean fun. Like, wathing a guy on a cell phone absent mindedly walk into traffic and getting hit by a bus type fun.

I'm not sure what that fun is yet, but it's comming.

F*R*A*G:
Scratching the itch in your brain you didn't know you had.

Daughter!

Allright, I think I have it. Remind me to take a shower whenever I need to come up with an idea. It seems to work that way.



Online Songs
Blink 182
[camera direction included]

[Open on a blank table/desk in a room (my living room?). A young man walks in, drops a pad and pen on the table, and sits down. He picks up the pen and begins writing, and as he does, the lead singer walks into scene unoticed behind him and begins reading the words on the boy's paper over his shoulder, going between looking at the paper and the audience, as though he is reading to the audience.]

Josie
You're my source of most frustration
[constant paper look]Forget when I [shift stance to look over other shoulder]don't meet expectations
[singer dissapears, close on paper]Everything you wished came true
In the end we all blamed you
Even though as they all know [by this point, pulled out to see boy staring into space in thought]
You weren't the only [taps fingers on counts] one... two, three, four

[gituar break has cuts of gituarist playing alone in room with boy, again, unoticed]

[gituarist dissapears, boy gets up and walks over to window.]Why do you still keep it around
when you know it brings me down
I'm hating everything
[boy sees girlfriend and new boyfriend -played by the singer- standing in street outside]And I know that you've dated other guys
[closeup of kiss between gf and nbf before they walk out of scene, boy can be seen in window in BG]But I gotta wonder why
You'd leave it out for me (SHIT!) [on shit, as walking out of scene, nbf gives-single finger-gun-wink thing to audience]

[gituar break shows boy running outside, verse begins with him entering in street looking down street towards where he saw gf and nbf, who are now gone]

Why am I still hanging around
when I know it brings me down
I'm hating everything
[cut to camera following boy in from street into yard]And you are getting rides home in his car
You're making out in his front yard [pauses to turn to look at car in driveway as he's passing it]
And hating everything [runs towards house, camera doesnt' follow]

[in a basement somewhere (schumer's basement?), or some area of concrete influence (stanley demming fishwall?), the band in playing the chorus]

[zoom shot singer 3/4 left]Please don't remind me
[zoom shot singer 3/4 right]Put your past behind me
[straight on singer]It shines so bright it blinds me
I wish that this would end
[low floor shot of boy sitting in chair in same area as band plays in their spot in the background]Am I am not fine
[grabs his chest as in heart pains]Last night I saw you online
[falls on floor as in pain]Your screen name used to be mine
[falls limp as in giving up the fight to live]Why can't we just pretend

[next verse takes place at some restraunt/cafe (tuscan?)]

[grazing shot of a front window, boy comes into scene and presses face against window, staring inside intently]If we could have another day
I've got so much left to say
I'll tell you everything
[close to boy from inside cafe]And I'll laugh when I think about the past
When I see you after class
You're hating everything [at this point has pulled back throught cafe to show gf inside at a table, enjoying herself, with some person who remains unseen offscreen]

[cut to black, boy quickly backs his face out of camera in shock]Please don't remind me
[running away from cafe]Put your past behind me
[runs past band who is playing along the sidewalk, unoticed, runs off]It shines so bright it blinds me
I wish that this would end
[scene looking down the sidewalk as boy comes running toawrds camera, singer is leaning against the corner building, looking towards camera and sining]Am I am not fine
Last night I saw you online
Your screen name used to be mine
Why can't we just pretend

[busting into house throught front door]Please don't remind me
[close up of grabbing letter off table]Put your past behind me
[walking out of front door and away from house]It shines so bright it blinds me
I wish that this would end
[walking down street]Am I am not fine
[another angle, same scene]Last night I saw you online
[approaches mailbox of another house, band playing unoticed next to mailbox]Your screen name used to be mine
Why can't we just pretend
[putting letter in]And she said...
[band dissapears, wide shot of boy in front of mailbox, emphasing empty street, then fading into other scenes showing boy in emptyish places, final fading scene is him approaching stage (stanley demming?) where band is playing for a big crowd, now finally noticed]Na na na na na.... (I just forgot you were there...)

[singer straight face singing]Please don't remind me
[slow low rotate around band as singing]Put your past behind me
It shines so bright it blinds me
I wish that this would end
[boy fights through audience]Am I am not fine
[looking down from onstage, boy makes it to stage, looks at band]Last night I saw you online
[looks elsewhere]Your screen name used to be mine
[runs off back into crowd]Why can't we just pretend

[boy finds gf in crowd and pulls her out, then slow pan up to band still playing]Please don't remind me
Put your past behind me
It shines so bright it blinds me
I wish that this would end
[dynamic shots of band playing]Am I am not fine
[nother angle]Last night I saw you online
[nother angle]Your screen name used to be mine
[nother angle]Why can't we just pretend
[lower onto boy and gf, away from crowd with crowd in bg]And she said...
[gf turns from boy and walks off, boy looks down and dejected]Na na na na na

[While music fades out, fading cuts of same angle so it appears that the band, the crowd, the straglers, and finally, the boy, all fade out, eventually leaving an empty stage in background]



See, I have a feeling that Pat Slevin should play the young man because he seems quite emo as he stands. The members of player one could stand in as the band, and then the girlfriend could be played by Krystle with me as the new boyfriend. Personally, I like the key of adding insult to injury by having the singer of these tomrented emotions be the bastard that the girl went off with. I'm a bastard like that, but also I think it works with some of the beats in the song.

Now let's get cracking, people! Even if we need replacement people, this needs to get DONE.


F*R*A*G:
Just put on the blindfold and DRIVE! Vvvrrrmmm... (Crash into a wall? Start again. Vvvrrrmmmm...)

Stare at the camera.

Allright.

*yawn*

After watching a lot of TV and movies and internet media, and the Simpsons, I've come up with some observations.

Okay, more exatly, I watched a lot of the old Simpsons, some of the new, called the new crap, then decided that if I back up my crap calling with "observations" then I would at least be making an attempt at contributing to society, but still get to call things crap.

Now, most of the time it's a question of what you're going for. When you have only 26 minutes to work with, you can fit Homer's Oddsey, but you just gotta do it fast. Never stay in one place too long. Also, once a person has played their part, they never need to be seen again. Using letters or computers as plot devices work, but then you miss out on any chance of making the appearance that the characters aren't isolated in their own little world.

Now, sometimes you want to stretch somehting out a little, either to give details or to render feelings of akwardness. Guess what folks. An akward pause (a.k.a. a pregnant pause) can be effective when only one and a half seconds long. Even if you wanted to stretch that to a point where the characters, audience, and nealson ratings guys are litterlaly SUFFOCATING in akward silence, then you still have a minute forty-five left to finish a scene in 2 minutes. Do it right and you won't even need all that.

Short things are fine. If you manage to fill up 15 minutes with scenes tha barely hit 2-3 minutes, then that's quite a bit. Remember, most hit songs are somewhere between 1:30 and 3:00 long. If you can do things like that and get even an hour out of that, then that's quite the impressive heap of content. It gives room to apeal to different sences of humor, genres, ideas, and the ocasional burst of randomness.

Don't forget, in this society, people are being trained to survive by keeping track of many things at once at the cost of the inability to focus for too long. Remember, quotes are memorable, but it took me 2 hours to memorize a solioquly from Machbeth (and still got it wrong when I recited it the next day, I might add.).

Why do I bring this all up? One, it's yet another entry in the series of works which I create in an effort to convince myself that I'm smarter then other people, and also it feels about the time that I film something. But I need to write it first, and this is a good way to think about things I need to keep in mind.

Actually, first I think I would like to shoot a music video. Why? Cause it's an excersice in filmography. no words, but you still have the chance to tell a story. Why not just show all the stuff they're talking about in the song? well, if you saw Ted's Pants, you'll see how, while possibly entertaining, it turns corny and repetive. Fast. So, sprinkle it in wher you can, but telling a seperate story that shares emotions and/or themes with the song is probally a better bet. Make it fit with the beat too. Sorta like Video Video Revolution...

But don't listen to me. What the hell do I know. i've got great ideas but really haven't acomplished anything. Yet. Get your ignorin' in while you can, cause soon I'll be proven awesome, and you'll have to listen to me.

F*R*A*G:
Ninja star in the eye.

perrrsonal bubblllleeeee...

I feel better now. It's begining to actually feel like my old blog, and looks more like it every time I tinker. I like to tinker. Oh, and as it turns out, CSS sheets are hella easy. I hate to admit it, but I might begin to use them more, if i manage to find a worthwile way to impliment them.

Next, fix that header picture. Since I made the title the background (post modern), I'm going with a "not tellin' you the name" type of title. Counter-intuitive? You bet your sweet ass it is.

Then I gotta fix links. not only in the sence that a lot of the ones on the side here are either broken or no longer accurately represent my commonly visited sites, but also in terms of needing to re-link my stuff to this blog. I think at the moment the only thing which links to it is...well, the "random blog" link on blogger. I need to put it in places where...you know, people might actually go to read it.

Unless, perhaps, I don't WANT people to read it... I mean, after all, it's MY blog, yes? This problem I've been having with not being able to dump my entire mind due to people reading it and getting pissed off or whatever would be well dealt with if people simply stoped reading, yes? But this makes no sence to me, because if it were merly an Emily Dickensen deal where I'm archiving so people can discover my mind after I'm dead, then I would simply have a book somewhere (I do, but that's beside the point). This is the internet. A meeting ground for peoples with brains and hands. I expect this to be read, and damnit, I want it to be.

...Might help if I started putting up new content again...

Oh well.

But on that note, I'd like to take a moment to announce a new experiment!

I want to make a one shot Aloof comic.

A what?

A one shot Aloof comic. As in, not part of any arc, but still in the universe with the same characters. I have around 4 pages planned out, but based on those it looks like it could be at least 6 pages long. If I don't make copies on my own, I might go see if the school voice will print it for me. Might as well go out with a bang for senior year.

Oy, that's a whole bunch of troubling thoughts on it's own. For another time tho.

So, since I seem stuck to draw the next main comic, I figure I'll go for this. It'll be practice on full book style comic-ing, and maybe I can use it to get recognised more. Somehow. Wish me luck.

F*R*A*G:
"Gah! You ripped out it's heart!" "Well, it needs to learn..."

Colony drop.

I seem to have developed a taste for cold pizza. This will come in handy when I move up north to Alaska to go live with the penguins.

Note that I didn't say I'm going up north to get away from people. It's somewhat implied, but it really isn't because of that. I just don't like heat.

I would like to get a summer home up north actually. If not Antartica, then maybe just way up in Canada somewhere. I know normally what people normally do is go south for the winter, but I'm going north for the summer. To some artic jungle where I get to...like...build a fence or something. No real reason, but just because that's what you do in summer homes I think. I dunno, I don't have a summer home. I've never been rich.

F*R*A*G:
Fighting the urge to use a blue colored pencil to stir the powered cheese into the microwaved macoroni...of life.