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[Nov. 6th, 2010|07:53 pm] |
Most of my entries are open to the public. Anything that has to do with my personal life or inner-most thoughts though, will probably be locked. Please comment if you would like to be added. Thanks!
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| Thanksgiving |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|09:56 am] |
I love Chris Crocker. I really do. I've never watched a single one of his videos that I didn't enjoy and agree with.
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| Mila Jovovich |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|11:40 am] |
I just gained a newfound respect for her after watching this video. I mean, being drop-dead gorgeous and a great actress was already enough for me, but after just watching her howl like a dog and sing beautifully? I'm further hooked. This song is sweet too. I've never heard a song sang from a dog's perspective. Very cute and a little dark. I like.
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| Photo Vomit |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|01:38 pm] |
I have photos piling up on my computer from over the past month or so that I need to get up, so this is going to be a completely miscellaneous post. Anyway, starting with yesterday, I finally finished another painting! I have a week off (!!) so I decided to finish this painting that I put into hiding about 5 months ago. I can't say I *love* it and I do know that the swirls need touching up, but it is done. Period.
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| So Sad |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|05:44 pm] |
 I just read that supermodel Daul Kim allegedly hanged herself today. :( I just read her blog last night! I always enjoyed her blog because it was fun reading about her constant traveling of the world through a supermodel's eyes. She appeared to be so *real* as well though. Her blog was very personal and not too popular, so it really was a place for her to open up about her inner pain (which she wrote about often, many times through poetry). I know it's easy for people like me to say "You had it ALL! How could you feel there was no way out?" But I know better. Money and luxury does not buy happiness. May she finally have the peace she had been looking for all these years. So heartbreaking. |
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| Lime Crime Lipstick Review |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|10:18 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | fraud, history, legal threat, lime crime, limecrime, lipstick, repackage, repackaging, review, scam, shady, sue | ] |
I am re-posting a review that Gothique posted about Lime Crime lipstick. Grey (Gothique) was forced to remove her post because she was brought into legal matters by Lime Crime and was allegedly threatened to be sued if she didn't remove it! A lot of past customers of Lime Crime makeup feel duped by her suspecting shady business tactics, yet she is threatening to SUE anyone who speaks up against her! I normally wouldn't get involved in something like this, but I think that she's gone way too far now. I will not stand for the stifling of unhappy customer's voices! For anyone who cares, here's the back story of what happened.
Here is word for word what Grey wrote, which Xenia (Lime Crime founder) then "legally" forced her to remove. Xenia THEN told Grey to falsley admit that she lied about the whole thing (which she didn't, she was merely afraid of getting sued)!
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| A walk down memory lane |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|11:40 pm] |
I don't know why, but I felt an urge to post some of my childhood faves tonight. Well, things I loved between the grades 5th-8th let's say.
( Time Warp ) |
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| Sam cat |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|01:10 am] |
Sammy is very, very ill and saying that I am concerned about him would be an understatement. Without going into too much detail, I will say that it started when he got out of my house a little under 2 weeks ago. He came home within an hour, meowing at the door. That right off the bat is strange because normally I will have to capture him or he will come home the next day when he's hungry. He was acting traumatized when I picked him up. He was crouching low and his eyes were open wide and he looked scared or worried. The whole night he just laid in my bed under the covers with me (which is highly unusual of him). I was loving all the attention he seemed to need from me though. I figured *something* very scary had happened to him, but that everything would be fine once he calmed down. I thought that possibly he had almost gotten hit by a car and was scared shitless! Whatever it was, I was hoping that he finally learned his lesson and would stop escaping from my house!
Within two days, his strange state had escalated to a stage where he could hardly walk and was even falling over mid-stance. I took him to the vet and she determined that he had gotten into a scuffle and was sore due to old age. She shot him in the neck with a pain med and gave me a prescription for more pain medication. At first he got worse, but within a few days, was acting 90% better. Deep down I new that this incident wasn’t from a scuffle or old age. He is 13 ½ but very healthy.
Okay, so to date, he now has a swollen throat and a huge lump the size of a baseball cut in half on the side of his neck. I think this is a reaction to the shot as it’s in the exact location where she gave him it. It popped up out of nowhere and grew to this size within less than a day. I think he was initially in a very bad accident. Something happened to him and he was merely sore. Now, I’m not so sure. Something is very wrong though and I am deeply concerned not only for his health, but his life. I got antibiotics from the vet today and I'm going to monitor the lump over the next day or so. He had a lump on his throat a few days ago which went away within a day, so I'm hoping that will happen to this too.
He’s such an appreciative cat of my love, even in the state that he’s in. I’ll lay with him and pet him and he will still purr. And he LOVES when I brush him. His appetite is coming and going, but he’s just laying in the same spot all day, which is not normal. He doesn’t greet me at the door when I come home with a meow like he always does, he isn’t chatty, isn't jumping in my lap constantly, instead, he just lays there with his eyes open. He also isn’t grooming himself. Normally he has the scent of a clean baby. I love his scent. Now he smells like a cat that needs to groom himself! We’ve been cleaning him with a moist, warm washcloth and he seems to appreciate it, but it’s not the same as him doing it. He’s become so frail over the past 2 weeks too. Like that of an arthritic, elderly cat. I’m praying that he will get past this. He’s supposed to live to be 30 dammit! This cannot happen!
This is the only video I have of Sam, which is a very lame one. He's spying on his enemy, the black cat, in our old neighborhood and is completely ignoring me! He looks like he's lost 5 lbs. since this video which was taken a year ago. And he's lost the majority of it in the past 2 weeks! He needs to get better so we can create much better videos of him. He's such a funny cat normally. The best cat I've ever met--and I'm not just saying that. He's amazing, kind of like a very mellow dog with sporadic spazatic moments. :(
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:51 pm] |
I know I've posted on this family before, but here's a more in-depth video on them.
After watching this, one of the many things that dawned on me was the fact that they live within about 1 1/2 hours from my house! I think I'm going to try to attend one of their potlucks one of these days or at the very least, peek at their house from the sidewalk! :P |
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[Oct. 28th, 2009|10:39 pm] |
Halloween is swiftly creeping up on us and it is very important to me that I do not let it pass me by without creating a tribute post! So, since I currently have some free time, I would like to take this moment to say happy Halloween and please be forewarned that these photos may be disturbing to some (but honestly, that's kind of the point)!
( Photo-heavy ) |
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| My first wedding shoot |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|12:21 pm] |
Last weekend I got to be a wedding photographer! Obviously I've never shot a wedding before, or done anything even remotely professional, but my friend loves my photography and asked me to shoot his wedding. Anyway, I would love some feedback, tips, etc. from you guys if you don't mind. I always love to hear what's WRONG with my photos, so I can learn how to improve. I know that art is subjective, but I still love conflicting opinions. Here's the link to the webpage I created for them: http://jasonandsarahpatrick.yolasite.com/
At one point my damn camera died, so my "assistant" had to take over with her cheaper camera. Sadly, the quality of the photos declined at this point. My battery charger hadn't come in the mail yet and I was so scared this would happen. It doesn't surprise me that it did though. Anyway, take a gander and tell me what you would think if this was your wedding. Please keep in mind that I did this all for free. I was offered money, but refused it because this was for a friend. |
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[Oct. 12th, 2009|10:26 pm] |
I couldn't stand Lady Gaga until someone showed me this:
Now I'm totally jocking her. |
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| First post using my new camera! |
[Oct. 5th, 2009|06:09 pm] |
That's right! I love the quality of it and am SO ecstatic to finally have the ability to capture what I see! With my previous cameras, the quality was always crap and half of the time I just couldn't get the shot because my camera could capture it! Better days have finally come forward.
SO, last Thursday there was a zombie walk downtown that I was invited to attend. I was planning on only taking photos, but my friends insisited that I dress up like a zombie too.
Once we were dressed up and down there with the other zombies, we walked several blocks while acting like, well, zombies! We passed confused tourists, residents and snobs who were eating on the patios of classy restaurants whom pretended to not notice people moaning in front of them while dressed like the dead. It was priceless! Hundreds of people participated, photographers and tourits were taking our photos and afterwards we got to watch the premier of the movie Zombieland for free! BTW, that movie is very good in my opinion, though quite graphic.
We all got ready at my house. Gabe is getting made up in this photo:
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[Oct. 3rd, 2009|11:06 pm] |
I really love this idea:
This is really neat as well:
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| Richard Ramirez (The Nightstalker) |
[Sep. 29th, 2009|01:30 pm] |
I finally did another piece for www.serialkillercalendar.com. Word on the street is the magazine is going to begin being sold in Barnes & Noble, Borders and a few other places and that was all the motivation I needed to create another piece!! The magazine is supposed to begin being sold in stores later this month, so if anyone sees it at any of those places, please let me know!
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[Sep. 18th, 2009|12:17 pm] |
This past Sunday I headed up to L.A. again to explore an abandoned zoo and a fallen highway known as the Sunken City.
We didn't explore the zoo too much, but what we did come across was quite interesting! I believe this zoo was abandoned back in the 60's or 70's and has since moved to a location nearby.
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| I made my first video! |
[Sep. 12th, 2009|03:05 pm] |
I swear, sometimes I am so behind on certain topics. For instance, I just learned that I have a program on my computer called Movie Maker. Do you know how long I've been wanting to make my own vidoes? YEARS now! SO, I finally made my first slideshow music video!!!! I know it's not perfect or even that great at all, but this was time-consuming enough and I couldn't be bothered to work on it any further. Anyway, if you watch it, please watch it in full screen. The song is called By Starlight by the Smashing Pumpkins. I tried to make a storyline to go with the music. The story is boy meets girl, girl has fascination with the sea and eventually gives herself to the sea.
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| God |
[Sep. 2nd, 2009|09:47 pm] |
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[Aug. 31st, 2009|05:49 pm] |
Yesterday I took a trip up north to L.A., specifically Hollywood. I haven't gone up there for a couple of years now, I believe. Anyway, I had a lot of fun! Our main reason for venturing up there was to visit the Museum of Death, which actually originated in San Diego many years back. It used to be located in SD's first mortuary. It is now located in Hollywood in a building that used to be a recording studio, where albums such as Pink Floyd's The Wall was recorded!
Since photos were not allowed in there, here is a video on the place (it is a bit graphic, so you have been warned)
World of Weird - Museum of Death
HERE is a good article on it.
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[Aug. 16th, 2009|12:16 am] |
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| Grease 2- Cool Rider |
[Aug. 11th, 2009|10:39 pm] |
I love this scene. Too bad they tanked the rest of the movie....
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[Jul. 28th, 2009|01:28 pm] |
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"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
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