Ahhh sad eyes.
Alas, the trickery of photography makes it look like Daisy is in desperate need of a meal and a walk but she had just come in from her post-breakfast poop and this is just where she decided to sit – making it look like I’m a cruel and malicious owner who would far rather stand around taking pictures of his pets than actually provide for them.
That bitch!
Spring Time Sunset, originally uploaded by spikevicious.
A photo I took in April last year, soon the grass will be growing again and we’ll have scenes like this but for now we have the snow! There wasn’t enough snow this winter to get excited about so I just have to look forward to Spring and seeing my garden grow again…
UPDATE:
Right after posting this I stepped outside to this scene:
So fuck Spring! The Snow is finally here.
Mainly just testing out how it looks when I ‘blog’ an image from flickr onto my WordPress account. So pay this post no heed! It’s just a picture of my cat, Ringy, chilling in the snow.
Just sharing the song that’s stuck whirling around my head at the moment. Click below to hear it!
Or click this link to view the video(Just remember music is about sound not visuals, you don’t need video to enjoy a song in fact sometimes it’s better without. MTV Get Off The Air!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZu6NWJkHw
Reasons to like this song:
Altogether a perfect work? Not quite, I think if They Might Be Giants had been involved somewhere it might have been made a little bit better and would have topped The Safety Dance as the all time number 1 song ever.
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*If I hadn’t said “Girl Power” at the end of that it might have seemed serious…
Just been practicing using the Bamboo tablet thingy.
The alarm, as in that on your alarm clock, is a truly devious and horrible thing. Seldom is it that you need to set your alarm for things you want to attend such as parties, movies with a friend or the special luncheon you’ve been planning with Benecio Del Toro for the past month. In itself the alarm denotes only one thing:
“You need to wake up right now. There’s a whole lot of bullshit that you don’t really want to deal with but have to because it’s your job, so drag your miserable ass out of bed and force a fucking smile, for God’s sake.”
Truly the alarm is an evil, but a necessary evil as without it no-one would ever wake up. Ever.
Evil is in the world all around us though. Needlessness is another matter, a matter which brings me to the so-called “Snooze Button”.
On the surface, a rather remedial and quirky feature of most alarm clocks these days but should it really be called a “Snooze Button”? Speaking from personal experience I can safely say that I’ve never woken up in my usual half-asleep (Possibly drunken) haze, hearing the “MEH MEH MEH!” of my clock’s alarm, strategically placed by a well-meaning but clearly fucking psychotic me the night before – just out of arm’s reach “to make sure you wake up in the morning*”, smacked my fist down on the “Snooze Button” then, 9 minutes later, woken up feeling bright and alive and ready to take on the day! No, quite the opposite – I hit the button once. Get to a stage where I’m just about to start maybe enjoying sleep again, get woken up again by it, smash the button again, wait 9 minutes and repeat the process until I’ve hit the button 593 times. I wake up with just about enough time to get to work the following week.
Clearly the button wasn’t designed for snoozing at all!
Here’s a definition of snooze:
snooze (sno̵̅o̅z)
noun
Informal a brief sleep; nap; doze
Clearly sleep is supposed to be involved in the word snooze. Not “almost sleep but not quite enough to really be more than just ‘extended blinking'”. Fuck ‘snooze’.
It’s obvious to me that the real purpose in the button is just so that you don’t wake up and throw the alarm clock against your wall, leaving it there in a smashed up mess until you decide to wake up for yourself (5 hours and 20 angry calls from your boss later) when you go to the tool shed, get the sledgehammer and make sure, not only that the alarm clock is fully destroyed but also that no CSI team in the world could even identify the disintegrated pile as an alarm clock.
The snooze button is designed to protect the alarm clock from destruction! It should be called an “Automatic Protection From Alarm Destruction Switch”.
Since this serves no benefit to the alarm clock companies, who I’m sure loved the consumers out there who were buying a new clock every week, it stands to reason that either one of two things must be true about the Snooze Button’s creator:
1 – The alarm clock itself invented the snooze button to protect itself. A theory which makes me deeply suspicious and paranoid and will quite probably stop me from sleeping tonight for fear of a Terminator style future in which the alarm clocks decide to destroy us all!
or far more likely
2 – Your boss designed it so you’d actually show up to work. So this morning, when you show up, give your supervisor, manager, assistant manager in training, shift leader, team leader, CEO, teacher, professor, sergeant or pastor a nice big thank you by way of a full on fist to the face.
You’ll feel a lot better and more than likely you won’t need to worry about needing to set that alarm the next day.
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*A bullshit theory, making sure you can’t just hit the alarm clock from your bed because:
a) 9 times out of 10 you’ll find some inner-contortionist and find a way to reach the damn thing from your bed anyway and
b) Even if you put the fucking thing all the way across the other side of your room you’ll still get out of bed, walk over to it, pound your hand down on it and wander straight back into your bed cursing your miserable existence.
So I thought I could make YouTube automatically post an entry here when I upload a video but it seems I failed to do so (if it’s even possible). If anyone knows how I can achieve this so I don’t need to do it manually (lazy, I know) then please tell me in the comments or something.
Anyway, here’s the video I had hoped would be here already:
At the moment, in the few spare minutes I get from time to time, I’m reading a book called Herzog on Herzog, which is about the film director Werner Herzog. He’s a brilliant director from what I’ve seen (admittedly, not much) and I honestly didn’t know exactly what I was going to make of the book. I thought, on one hand, that I know Werner has a lot of interesting insights and stories to tell but on the other hand, might get a little bit too deeply into it for my liking. Glad to say it appears Werner doesn’t go too deeply into anything and, in fact, describes cinema as an art for the illiterate. Not necessarily meaning film is dumb but rather simple, as it has to be when you’re task is basically to really spell out things to the audience rather than imply on infer them like when many people write novels, paint pictures or compose music. This I liked! Though I hate directors who have no vision whatsoever (I’m looking at you, Bay) I equally detest those directors who go too far in making films with deeply subverted philosophical under-tones and slight and only vaguely apparent references to religious imagery (Like Uwe Boll). Herzog seems to fit between the two extremes perfectly!
Furthermore it’s inspiring! One day I would enjoy making a film or ten of my own but am often disheartened by lack of time, money or chocolate chip cookies. Much of the contents of the book aren’t direct narratives on his films and instead can be used as inspiring stories on how to get a start in making movies! The book, and Werner himself, act as a sort of reminder that perhaps I don’t need to constantly be worried about writing a script that’s going to please some budget-conscious production company, or even writing a script at all!
And budget? What budget! As Werner would say:
“Rob a bank – for God’s sake!”
Inspired! Though I’m not going to rob a bank I get his point. Budget shouldn’t be the restrictive force that you can make it if you worry about it too much. I think it might be helpful to me in day to day life, as I set about trying to work on film ideas and stories, to think “What would Herzog say?” as a kind of motivator! When I’m sitting by the computer not sure how my lead character is going to put forward an accurate narrative that doesn’t go on too long yet speaks deeply of their role in a movie?
“I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.”
Right… I can’t tell if that was relevant or not. How about if I’m out and about with my camera pondering what to shoot. Where should I point it to make for the most interesting footage?
“There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you’ve got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I’m sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn’t have the same substance.”
Yeah, um… Tom Cruise isn’t really an issue. Unless he was around to shoot but I think I’m a ways off from having Tom Cruise be interested in making a movie with me. Is there anything relevant you want to say, Werner?
“Let’s put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there’s a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It’s as simple as that.”
Ah yes, I see now! What you’re trying to say is if I just… uh… What I mean is, if I’m struggling to think of a strong plot I should… No, you lost me. Does anyone else around here have any advice for a struggling film-maker?
“I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
Lynch, that really had nothing to do with anything. Even your own work, please get back in the corner and think about what you’ve done.
Hello world,
This is my new blog not to be mistaken for a replacement for my old blog but instead to go alongside it.
My other blog (spikevicious.blogspot.com) is up and running as always but isn’t really a blog as it is a place for stories.
My twitter account (www.twitter.com/spikevicious) is around but I can hardly ramble on at the lengths I intend to within 140 characters.
My youtube (www.youtube.com/dkittv) is still updated now and then but who has the time to actually talk into a camera these days when you can type endless nonsense?
So much talking was going on about WordPress so I decided I would give it a try and try using it as a central place for all the other crap.
Whenever I post a new story on my BlogSpot blog, I’ll post a link here. My YouTube videos should hopefully come here too automatically when I upload them (I’ll see within a day or two as I’m working on a new video just now) and my Twitter account is displayed on the side bar to the right.
Whenever I make a new blog entry here, I’ll post a link to Twitter which in turn will post a link to my Facebook for those of you glorious enough to be on my friends list (Note: If you’re randomly reading this and don’t know me personally in some way that’s fine, wonderful in fact, but please don’t add my on Facebook as I reserve it for only people I know – it isn’t a Fan Page).
With any luck, this will become a venting spot so I don’t bore the tears off people in real life who can’t be bothered to listen to my endless ramblings about Atheism, Theoretical Physics, Left Wing Politics and Gilbert Gottfried. It should also serve as a central place to anything else I do on the interwebs.
Happy reading! I shall try to update frequently.
Spike Vicious 