A Day Full of Awesome Announcements

Will I be going to see M@WS again? Oh hells yeah! That's the plan as of now anyway.

Also, March 9th, 2010... After almost 3 years, I'll finally get to use the PS3 for the reason I bought it...to play Final Fantasy XIII.

I only have 3 1/2 months to clear up my gaming schedule...
Don't deny me, H1!

Currently: Plotting

Happy Thanksgiving or Is It?

Beware the Gobblor!

It's that time of year again.

There were at least 2 sightings of the ferocious Gobblor this week. Grainy television footage showed that he was vapourizing cities of people in his quest to rid humans and their desire to feast upon turkeys.

Footage and screen shots provided by Bughie J.





Welcome to the The HOchieS Thanksgiving Layout 2008 giving press once more to Gobblor, for the turkey scratched demand letters began pouring in again sometime last week as a reminder that he'll be lurking if we didn't do some sort of featurette.

Newsflash Update!

There is new footage and apparently the true intentions of Gobblor have been revealed!

This year we're to inform you of his eveeel plot...involving a mall...?

Eep! It seems Gobblor's trying to ruin Black Friday (or give new meaning to the term "Black Friday" as Gobblor has a twisted sense of humour)! Way to kick us humans down, when we're tragically faced with a recession but trying to have a Merry Christmas regardless.

Thanks, Gobblor. Thanks.

Distractions From World Domination Plots

This may all be a part of their scheme to keep our little minds occupied while they work behind the scenes to continue spying on us and plot our demise, but the folks at Google just gave some of us a few themes to work with within Gmail.

It. is. Hilarious.

There are some pretty nice ones that I've seen so far with the "Planets", "Tea House" and "Terminal" themes being the better selections in my opinion.

However, I, like Gen Friend, picked Ninjas.

It is a well-known fact (at least to those who know me), that I love Ninjas. Who doesn't, though? I've armies that I've been gathering together since my days in college, or rather still, since my dealings with Snake Eyes but... I've already said too much.

To protect the identity of M.C. and Chloe, I blacked out some names of the Gmail mail I had. Also, I blocked out H1's name in the chat but look at the Rising Gmail Sun, the ninja stars on the e-mail links and the funky black and red ninja colours!



Watch my subordinates compose an e-mail of a certain destructive nature!



Other than that, you will see some embarrassing secrets about me such as getting mail from Keane. Yeah, I'm a member of their mailing list.

As well as questions that may arise a-like so: what's up with the e-mail entitled "Holy Poop"?

Back to the Ninjas though, I feel like they're waiting for me to fall asleep so that they can assassinate me. That's the thing about Ninjas, you don't give them enough of a rice stipend and they turn on your ass. Or am I confusing them with my armies of Samurai?

This must be a test run given to only a few Gmail users as H1 sadly discovered but I think it just means she hasn't been marked for death.

It...almost makes me a little bit suspicious of H1!

Hmmmmm...

Currently listening to: "Ninja Hideout" and by Koji Hayama, from the Ape Escape 2 Original Soundtrack and "Ninja Night School" by Ultra Brain, from the Songs for Death Note The Movie: Tribute. Really? Are these the only two songs in my current uploaded library that has the word 'ninja' in it? Lame. What's worse, they're both sucky songs.

Edit on 11/20/08:

Why did I just send an e-mail out to TD5 and there's a scene of one of my ninjas harrassing a geisha? She does look like she can defend herself with those fans though. I am well impressed.



H1 got her theme settings finally and she went with the tea house theme that features a little kitsune. She is very happy.

Edit on 11/21/08:

This morning I awoke to find that my Ninja and Geisha were cleaning. Any item can be used as a weapon, it's true, even if that object is a broom. See what another koku can do? You can get your ninjas to sweep up.



Currently listening to: The Pumps trundling down the stairs. He makes for a terrible Ninja Cat sometimes. Perhaps I need to cut back on his koku...

A Dilemma

Family friends visited this past week and the son of Papa Ho's friend wanted to keep in contact with me through MSN Messenger.

So, I decided to sign in today ('cause who needs that bullshart when you can gchat and gtalk by continuing to sell your soul to the devil that is Google?) to add his contact information.

I brought up Messenger and immediately it started logging me in.
"Hmm," I thought, "I never put my log ins as automatic...wait, who's this 'Angel' in my contact list?! Ohhhhhh...heh heh heh."

So MC, should I remove you from signing in automatically or should I mind your business and pose as you when the ladies come calling?

Muwahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Pigeons and Google Will Be The Death of Us All

X sent me this article yesterday about how Pigeons may be partially responsible for the bridge collapse in Minneapolis earlier this month. Apparently their dung build-up contributed to the wearing of bolts and metal on the bridge due to the acidity of said dung.

X has established that if this was a contributing factor in that bridge collapse then NY is screwed.

She's right.

H1, did you discuss this at the conference as well?

I always knew pigeons were evil, just like Google.

In fact, I'm sure the pigeons are using Google Earth to spy, and target their next attack and are planning the entire population of earth's demise as we speak.

This Time...1 Week Ago

H1 and I were probably just done listening to "Knights of Cydonia", gazing upon Matt and screaming the lyrics to the best song written in New York, "Map of the Problematique". Or perhaps we were crazy, jumping about for "Hysteria".

::sigh::

So now the question remains for October...

Vegoose? or Greece?

Alright.

Remember that plan I came up with a few months ago? The one that involved flying to Ireland after Muse @ Wembley Stadium on 06/16/07 to go see Arctic Monkeys on 06/17/07?

Who's in?!




...




Okay, can we at least go see them when they come back to NY? H1 and I have decided that we are already there.

It's Time To Play Or 2's Clues

Our adventure begins, not in a house full of animated pepper, salt & paprika shakers or talking mail boxes but actually on the train.

Instead of showing you all little stories of love, friendship and lending a helping hand (yes I know, it's sad to not ska-doo into pictures), I will just cut right to the chase and lay out Or 2's clues for you. So let's play and see if you can figure out what happened to Or 2 on her way home from work. But before all that, when you see "@*!$*&@?!!", it means you've struck upon an Or 2 Clue.

Settling into my seat, chatting with the BFF some and then drowning everyone out when -

"@*!$*&@?!!"

In our handy-dandy sketch book, we have this -



Then came the silence, then came the manual ipod switch, then came the boom, then came this "@*!$*&@?!!" :



A sigh of relief until the screen showed this "@*!$*&@?!!":



Literally. That is what I have on the screen. I mean, it confused me some because that image is of a second generation I believe and I think I've a 4th. So mmmaaaybe it doesn't apply to Zarnyx? ...

I was trying my darndest to take a picture but the train lighting messed things up for me so I did the next best thing which was to draw it in my handy-dandy sketchbook.

Now can ANYONE take a guess as to watch Or 2's Train Adventure was about?

Needless to say, Steve Jobs better come reaaaaal good next week at MacWorld or Chrissy's going to get an ass-cutting from me.

And I had this brilliant plan to forfeit upgrading this year, taking the same amount of money it'd cost to buy an 80gb for use in a weekend escape plan to London to see MUSE.

I see overkill overtime in my very near future...

Currently listening to: Well it certainly isn't my Ipod.

Oh, one last thing. Arctic Monkeys killed my Ipod.

Bring The Pain...

My focus is all crocused.
Mosh pits apparently can do that to you as well as make you hurt days later(ow ow ow ow!!!) as I now know.
It's true that you learn something new every day... and that is what I've been learning since May 11th.
Day 2 after the fact.
Thank you, Mindless Self Indulgence.


Despite the lack of movement without copious amounts of pain in the arms, I love MSI!

And now for a list of 1. Things that went just plain wrong at the concert. 2. Things that could have gone from bad to worse. And 3. Things that were OH so right!:

Just plain wrong - People who smell BEFORE the concert starts. I'm not sure how that works exactly but it's SCARY.
could have gone from bad to worse - Said smelly people that could have been near me AFTER the concert leading to events that could have been SCARIER.

Just plain wrong - Non-conformists, judgmental 'know-it-alls'.
OH so right! - Little Jimmy Urine telling them that "if you guys all died right now, Hot Topic would go out of business."
could have gone from bad to worse - thank goodness I wasn't wearing any of my Hot Topic gear that day...har har.

Just plain wrong - The shock at how small the Avalon is and standing and waiting for MSI from 6.30 - 9 p.m. amongst that crazy crowd of assholes, even though the ticket said the show started at 8. I was getting agitated but it wasn't that bad because...
OH so right! - Jess and Beetchie would break out in the occasional dancing during the dj music session before the show (And The Cheat did not spin those tunes nor did he do the light show). Also, I did enjoy the little ghetto white fan set up for Kitty . That amused me for some reason.


Just plain wrong - The Mosh Pit at the beginning of the set. It was CHAOS. Feeling like you're going to fall with 20 people on top of you is not good times and never gets easier on the nerves even after the 5th occurrence.
could have gone from bad to worse - my neck being broken because it sure felt like it at one point but did not happen thanks to Beetchie and Jesse because they ensured that no one messed with me.
OH so right! - Beetchie in the pit, tearing it up like nobody's business! There was something about someone grabbing me then Beetchie grabbing that person and tossing him off of me then grabbing me to her to make sure I was alright. And after the initial insanity of the Pit, why did I actually enjoy shoving people around once I could move? Probably because they deserved it. Stupid MFs!

I was happy once I got pushed out of the Pit and managed to moved off to the side. I can always boast about being in a Pit from this day forth (and what a Pit!) but I was quite content watching the show rather than watching my back.

Here's the awesome setlist (except it should be noted that I have only the first 2 songs and last song in the order it should be. The 3 songs before the last I'm a bit fuzzy as to if they were actually played but I think at least two of them were. Everything else was played that night but not necessarily in that order. Hey, it's amazing I even remember all this...):

Shut Me Up
Diabolical
Golden I
Tornado
Uncle
Tornado
Backmask
Two Hookers
Kill the Rock
Bring The Pain
Faggot
Stupid MF
Molly
1989
London Bridge
Bitches
What Do They Know? (My favourite MSI Song!!!! I was hella happy)
Bullshit
Tom Sawyer
Step Up, Ghetto Blaster
Planet of the Apes
Last Time I Tried To Rock Your World
Straight To Video
(oh and some random metal power ballad of the 80's that Jimmy lipsync'd to after my cutie bassist Lynn Z dived off the balcony and crowd surfed her way to the front of the stage - SHE ROCKS!!!!!)

Here are some of the memorable quotes and good time performances for the evening:

From Steve, Righ? : at the start of the set "Are we going to start the 'how many times will Steve puke tonight collection'? No!!! Now SHUT THE FUCK UP!" And then straight into "Shut Me Up", it was fantastic!!!!

From Jimmy:

"Stop looking for porn and googling your full names!"

"You over there! (pointing to some random dude) You look really gay. Get out of here because there's only a certain level of gay allowed in this place and I fill that quota."

"How many of your blogs have I not read yet? I'm serious, I'm lurking around on the internet."

"I say we should bring the whole East Coast/West Coast gang wars back. The next time you see someone wearing a Tupac shirt, punch him in the face and tell him the ghost of Biggie made you do it!"

I got props from Beetchie who was impressed by my rapping skills. I loved the performance on this because Jimmy rapped half the song without music with the band coming in strong at the first "is it real son"

The conversation with the puppet wolf was great especially when Jimmy knocked him over the head with the microphone for nodding a no to Jimmy's request to do the Snoopy Dance. The Snoopy Dance itself was funny as all hell. "...He's (the puppet wolf) got more friends on MySpace than I do."

The best performance was Jimmy making us his giant Nintendo Controller for use during "Tom Sawyer":

Point UP for Jimmy to Jump up and down in one spot
<-- Point LEFT for Jimmy to move Left like a robot
--> Point RIGHT for Jimmy to move Right like a robot
A Turn the fist around and around and he'd crazily run around the stage
B Suck on your finger for him to do a sexy pose

Oh, "but no Nintendo Power Glove because it does not work with this system."

All of these good times and more lasted a little over an hour despite the length of the setlist because if you know MSI, you know that their songs are usually no longer than 2 minutes. However, that one hour was one of the best I've had in my short concert history.
Jess, Beetchie and I got their autographs at the end of the show. Sadly there were no photos taken with them although we could have with no trouble since they are cool enough to do that for their fans. I think Beetchie was quite happy getting her ticket signed, Jess getting her shirt and stomach signed and I'm happy with my signed t-shirt.

And let it be known that I love that Jimmy Urine
Damn! I should have gotten HIS name tattooed to my arm. Having "URINE" on my arm would be much cooler than "ALEX". At least I'd remember why I had "URINE"...

Currently listening to the band that has the most songs in my Top 25 Most Listened to on the Ipod including the number 1 most played: "London Bridge" - Mindless Self Indulgence and Patty's constant bitchin' about how I don't love her today because I'm here blogging instead of sitting by her while she plays "Harvest Moon".

You know what I love...

...the blending tool in Corel Painter. Can you see the blending? Can you? Oooooo...not so shiny...oooo.
I also love the Wacom - it's gOOd times. I hope I get more time in today to Wacom.
I love rainy days (except when the basement gets flooded).
Wacom + Rainy Days = awesome times.
I'll be adding more to this drawing in the next few weeks. My goal is to have a complete piece before Christmas. I have plans.