TehRin Ayaya Snuffleupagus III

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:45:41 GMT

Three crits and one presentation in two days. No wonder my brain is like soup.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:56:44 GMT

I may be in three shows next semester! Exciting because I have never exhibited before!

In other news, we have two days left to collect submissions for the spitting_image Night of the Bad Comic Artists post for Halloween! Please submit images or links!

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:11:51 GMT

They're filming Dancing with the Stars at the swing ballroom I go to on Fridays. I hope I still get my birthday steal dance.

ETA: Went fine. Still got my steal dance. The celeb was some guy from Iron Chef. It was a little annoying while they were filming. I did get filmed, so I may be on t.v. Probably not, but if I am, the episode airs Monday. I'll be the girl in the blue dress with the white hat on and auburn hair. Though they mainly filmed my feet. LOL

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:44:56 GMT

I'm twenty five now. What to do with the rest of the century?

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:10:08 GMT

Couldn't think of an answer to the "what makes a perfect wank" question last night, so I ended up filking instead of doing homework. Who wants to study Dokotsoyevesky anyways?

Pics from Standing on Ceremony with Peter Paige and Zachary Quinto!

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:17:29 GMT

Can you spot the GQMF's in the crowd?

Photographic evidence that I met Zachary Quinto!

(Blurry Zach and GQMFs are blurry!)

It looks like there may be a slight smile there. ;)

"All the best!" From my understanding, he signed this or "Best Wishes!" for everyone else, but I love the fact he signed in the heart! He made eye contact with me when I spoke to him, too! I was surprised I could even speak to him without stuttering (though I was sort of loud, but it was quite loud in there). And he has the a great smile, was courteous, and polite with everyone. He is awesome!

Bonus Peter Paige (Emmett from Q.A.F.!):

I talked for almost five minutes with Clark Gregg about swing dancing and I forgot to get a pic with him. I even gave him the name of the local swing ballroom near where I live. Wish I got a pic with Coco Peru, too.

ETA: Adding more pics of me as they come in. More pics and awesome can be found here and here.

FUCK GEORGE CLOONEY!

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:06:34 GMT

X-posted to LJ

Standing on Ceremony was great! Saw it with ontd_startrek GQMFs. Met Zachary Quinto, Peter Paige, and talked swing with Clark Gregg (mentioned Atomic Ballroom too)! Zach was very courteous, patient and sweet (there were many people in our group). I may sound fangirlly but he has such a great smile. I got two half hugs, a group picture, a single picture, and an autograph. Pics to come! I actually didn't freeze up and said more than two sentences to him! I also made eye contact when he asked me my name for the autograph. :)

Looks like I'm in for an all nighter tomorrow. I've been horrible at keeping up with homework. School has been kicking my ass and I actually have a social life now!

Thanks, ihateclooney (HAHA Quinto said "FUCK GEORGE CLOONEY!" when one of the gals said his autograph was replacing the one she had from George - New internet meme on ontd_startrek is in the making!) for showing me about town, seeing IMAX Star Trek with me, and going to Intelligentsia for coffee. I forgot to give you gas money when you dropped me off. I'll have to give it next time!

All you GQMFs rock. Thanks oshunanat for organizing this. Thanks, Carrie! Also, thanks to everyone for putting up with my mania which kicked in after dinner. I kept doing Charleston. In front of celebs. OMG <.<

Gonna pass out now! I'm getting up at 5 to do school work!

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:53:13 GMT

Via the Robot Chicken feed on Twitter.

This actually is real. I'm not too surprised. Oh, Japan. I also want to see it though, LOL furries. Who doesn't wanna see bunnies blowing shit up? The english name, "Apocalypse Meow," is cuter.

Medea

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:49:20 GMT

Done with Medea sketches. I chose to paint her with her slain children like a Pieta or Madonna on the Rocks image. I feel it does her heroism justice. I'm really pleased how they came out though I'll probably have to do more. She will be dressed as a 1950's housewife and it'll be on the beach. I don't know if I should have storm clouds or clear skies.

Tomorrow I will do some Medusa studies. But for now, sleep!

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:48:18 GMT

My focus for this semester will be on feminist reclaiming, or reinterpretation of mythological or ancient women in a contemporary setting. Anyone have any good links that can help? I'm already thinking Medea and Medusa (I like M names), but I am not limiting myself to only Greco-Roman or Western mythology.

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:43:27 GMT

OMG you guys! I was able to get an art studio at my school! :D

Book Meme!

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:16:09 GMT

he BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Bold means read it (and finished it)
Italic means I didn't finish it
Underlined means I read it for school (if it's then bold I read it again later; italics and I didn't finish it)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:24:32 GMT

I'm freaking out over the fact school is starting in a week. Like really freaking out. I don't think I did enough art so I'm going to try to be super productive this week. I mean, I'm a senior and we aren't required to do anything over summer technically, but it's highly encouraged that we do art. I'm petrified of getting scolded by my teachers when I go back to school. Absolutely petrified. Though I know its irrational. Granted, I have probably done more over the summer than I have in past years - two dinky paintings and a few sketches in a smaller sketch book.

Also, borderline manic and not doing to well today. WTF brain? I'm worried that I am triggering it. But if that gets me productive and out of my depression slump, that might be a good thing. In fact, I've almost been crying all morning.

I don't know how many art majors I have on my f-list, but I really could use a pep talk right now. Or kittens. Lots and lots of kittens.

Depeche Mode OMG OMG OMG

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:41:24 GMT

Depeche Mode was FUCKING AMAZING live! If you get the chance, go see them! I had the BEST TIME EVER!

Here's the set list (which was easy to hunt down on Twitter thankfully-- my mind was so blown I could only remember 2/3's of it):

In Chains, Wrong, Hole to Feed, Walking in My Shoes, Precious, Fly On The Windscreen, Jezebel, Home, Come Back, Policy of Truth, In your Room, I Feel You, Somebody, Stripped, Behind the Wheel, Personal Jesus, Waiting for the Night.

ETA: Forgot Enjoy the Silence. D'oh!

Might be missing one. Not sure.

Peter Bjorn and John opened and were also a great band. And of COURSE I got a tee shirt. It's a little snug, but I hope it won't shrink. My voice is gone because I screamed practically the whole time. Can't sleep either, hyped on adrenaline so I'm waiting for it to burn up and for the eventual crash.

I think I'm in love with Martin Gore and want to have his Ziggy!Stardust!costume wearing babies.

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:34:54 GMT

I'll be seeing Standing on Ceremony at the El Portal Theater with Zachary Quinto, Jason Alexander, Coco Peru, Timothy Olyphant and more in it in Sept. So excited! I'm only three rows back too! :)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:19:52 GMT

So Batwoman has taken over the lead in Detective Comics, which is awesome since she is a lesbian superhero. I'm going to go down to the comic store and pick up that and the fifth book of Fables. My brother is getting his Batman and Dead Pool fix and I usually swipe those from him when he is done with them.

Kitteh!

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:27:41 GMT

Her name is Lucifer and she is the Antichrist. He calls her Luci for short. And yes, this is a different one, who rooms with my old roomie who has the rats named Syphilis and Chlamydia. My friends are all weird.

WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!?!?

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:40:00 GMT

I think I ripped a hole in the space-time continuum. People are being sort of funny in unfunnybusiness.

Out on the Streets, They Call it Murder

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:48:14 GMT

Hiroshima & Nagasaki : Instant casualties > 220,000 people instantly died, making a third of civilian Japanese deaths in the War
Later deaths: casualties > 90,000- 1,400,000 people by radiation/injury/other, including those who died before 1950, and grew larger over the years. Total unknown.

The number far dwarfs the amount of U.S. soldiers and civilians killed in the entire war (> 418,000) by at least double.

However, it is still far less than the total Chinese deaths of soldiers and civilians (10,000,000 to 20,000,000, probably greater). Total for Japanese deaths for soldiers and civilians over the war is > 2,700,000. Australian deaths: >41,800. Phillipino deaths: 557,000 to 1,057,000, possibly greater. Dutch East Indies: 3,030,000 to 4,030,000, possibly greater. French Indochina: 1,000,000 to 1,500,000, possibly greater. Korea: 378,000 to 533,000,000, probably greater. Singapore: >833,000. Et cetera. Et cetera.

People are more than just numbers. And that is only during the Pacific War (except for the U.S. statistics and perhaps the Australian ones), and not counting deaths after. I consider my paternal grandfather in those statistics because Iwo Jima literally drove him mad, deepened his alcoholism and abusive behavior, which led to his suicide in the 1970's. Remember.

Totally awesome :D

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:33:13 GMT

SING IT, HUGH LAURIE AND GREG GRUNBERG! SING IT! AND PLAY DRUMS AND PIANO WHILE YOU DO SO!

http://www.bandfromtv.org/videos/view/?mid=26151_video_26

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:29:49 GMT

Is there a way I can enforce my style on just one journal?

In thanks in advance (even if it is not possible and just because you all rock), here is a passage from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies:

The third was unusually tall, and though long dead, still possessed a great deal of strength and quickness. Elizabeth had not yet recovered from her kick when the creature seized her arm and forced the dagger from it. She pulled free before he could get his teeth on her, and took the crane position, which she thought appropriate for an opponent of such height. The creature advanced, and Elizabeth landed a devastating chop across its thighs. The limbs broke off, and the unmentionable fell to the ground, helpless. She retrieved her dagger and beheaded the last of her opponents, lifting its head by the hair and letting her battle cry be known for a mile in every direction.

Elizabeth found herself within view of the house, with weary ankles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains...

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:52:05 GMT

...must be in want of more brains.

I finally picked up a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. So technically, I am reading Jane Austen for the second time. TECHNICALLY.

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:55:06 GMT

I lit off two mortor fireworks last night. The big ones that blast pretty big. They're actually legal here.

My cousin's son is the most adorable kid who I have ever known. I think he has a crush on me because he kept showing me his rock collection and stuff. Pics will come when I get home.

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:11:53 GMT

Happy July 4th everyone! All you Americans have a good Independance Day and everyone else, have a great day as well! :D

I'm in South Carolina and I haven't been on the comp in 3 days (lol withdrawl). We're going to Columbia tonight and Sunday, I believe I'll be headed to Myrtle beach.

For anyone who ever wanted to see Buffy Dust Cullen

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:56:35 GMT

Buffy vs. Edward Cullen(Twilight Remix)