For more, please visit my gallery: http://simplexaddiction.deviantart.com/gallery/

We finally watched... 'The Ruins'! Sounds like a bad Fox sitcom.

Anyway, we had listened to the audio book a few months back, and had since been interested in the film. When listening to the book, I didn't find it very horror-ish and couldn't figure out how it would make for a compelling film. The other day I read an article onFive Reasons The Ruins Doesn't Suck, and yeah... the dvd finally showed up.

I will have to agree with that article... The Ruins didn't suck. In fact, in some ways, its better than the book. The story follows pretty closely along with the events of the book, but at a much faster pace. They party, they travel, they find ruins, they are stuck on ruins, the end. They even threw in tons of little scenes from the book. They mixed up some of the 'this happens to this character' stuff, and i don't really see why.

Anyway... it's still not very scary. And the gore wasn't that bad. Everyone was talking about how bloody it was, and i guess there is a lot of blood, but nothing too over the top.

It is also pretty good looking...

Anyway... you could do a lot worse. I guess it was kinda boring if anything, just because i knew what was going to happen. I'd be interested to hear the opinion of someone who saw it without knowing anything about it.

***

why the hell does livejournal suck? every gotdamned time i go to make a link, it goes apeshit and gives me some crazy javascript number thing. so... now i just make links on XJournal, then copy paste them over to 'Post an Entry'. Why don't I just use XJournal? because XJournal sucks at posting photos, and i've been trying to use more photos lately. sheeeeeesh. can't any of them just WORK?

dear livejournal,

I love that you're as reliable as you were in 2000, but guess what buddy... it's no longer 2000... even cheapassgamer has a better blogging system... get with the times Reds!

***

today i was a cashier for a bit. now... i havent had any hand on training, but they said 'eff it' and threw me on a reg. i said, 'i dont even know how to open the register.' and they said...

...

yup... SOL. get cracking. so i just called for supervisor help every two seconds. i did learn a lot though. at one point it was me and my assistants were two twenty year veterans... of the forklift... who have never been on the registers. i guess it'll get better. the bad part is this is the one area of the store where it's easy to eff up and you will get written up or shitcanned in a heartbeat... i dont want to lose my whole job over this.

This year for printmaking I am doing a project inspired by all of the mail and mail-art I've been interested in lately. (Thanks to marvelousmail and Soldiers' Angels!)

I am doing these little real and imagined vignettes of letters and photographs. They should look like the way someone might keep their special letters or mementos. For example, my first one looks like a photograph on top of a postcard, tied with a string.

Hopefully it'll work out -- I got some good feedback so far on my first one!

So now that everyone is iPhone-crazed, I just wanted to throw out some thoughts:

I like my gadgets separate. I don't NEED my phone to be my music-player. I don't need to have it be my mini-computer. I don't need it to be my handheld video game. I just want my phone to MAKE CALLS! Yes, I kind of like having a camera in my phone, but even THAT I don't even need because the pictures are of low-quality, and so I do not consider it a substitute for a real digital camera.

When I want to take pictures, I bring my camera.
When I want to listen to music, I bring my iPod.
When I want to play a video game, I bring my Nintendo DS.

Anyway, my friend got an iPhone. She has called me a few times on it, and you know what?? The sound quality is terrible!! I could barely hear her! The design is not ideal to filter out or muffle ANY of the background noise. So, while you have all your games and your photos and your music, and your internet, the people you're calling CAN'T HEAR YOU.

Awesome!

i listen to a lot of podcasts, and as such, i hear a ton of really crappy intro music. i do hear some gems from time to time as well (i always look forward to cheapy's retro game music), but overall, podcasts have some terrible theme music.

i always try to use interesting stuff on The SuperCandid Podcast, and in order for our listener *cough* to review the full tracks if they'd like, i put together a muxtape for the show. everytime we post an episode, i post the intro and outro music for the episode.

Some are pretty obvious (skip to the end), some kinda obscure (hockey week), but i try to always make them fun and to the point. and then tack on whatever new crappy christian music came out that week (spider besider). I don't think Jon has heard a single one since we used something from the Avenue D soundtrack.

anyway... The SuperCandid Muxtape

the new episode is up on iTunes, and will be up on the blog whenever jon writes it.  Even though i slept through this episode, and the last several.  and jon used a bullhorn to record.  and then he did a ten minute rant on the Christ-likeness of Batman.

If you use amazon anyway, don't forget to use our affiliate link!  because you're cool like that!

Estelle Getty died! :(



Goodbye, "Sophia"! Thanks for the laughs.

A HOUSE CENTIPEDE just came BARRELING TOWARDS ME while I was sitting at my DESK at WORK! This is unacceptable!!!!!!

Granted, it was about half the size of the one that was in my house the other day. STILL! My office is relatively bug-free, so I am NOT THRILLED that one of these buggers found its way in here!

My trash can is currently on top of it. I think it is just hanging out in the hollow part underneath. The thought of it is totally making me itchy!!!

Ugh, ugh, ugh!!

Name : About dragonfly 2008
Media : Acrylic on canvas
Size : 52 x 59 cm
20” x 23”
Priсe : US $50 (shipping included)

For locals : if you want to pick up picture yourself mail me to vitali_zelinski()yahoo.ca

My gallery on deviant art - http://vitalizelinski.deviantart.com/

Nicole and I saw Speed Racer for the third time on Sunday. That movie just keeps getting better and better. I can't say enough good things about it.

Don & I recorded a new podcast episode today, 'covering' a unusual film for our podcast, but one that I think a lot of Christian audiences should see and would probably enjoy. We ended with a 10 minute discussion on The Dark Knight that covered much of what I wrote about on Sunday night. Don encouraged me to write about it in more detail for publication, and I might. Speed Racer and The Dark Knight are two light and dark halves of the great film coin of this year so far. It all seems downhill from here. There's not much hope that Star Wars will be anything more than just dumb action fun, and after that I can't even think of anything I'm really looking forward to. We'll see. From here on out it is uncharted, unexpected territory. Let's hope for a surprise.

I took Nicole for a bike ride today, and she really hated it. Granted it was hot, but I really thought that she could enjoy just a quiet ride. I guess I still don't know her as well as I thought. Lots to still learn in this relationship. That's good.

Did I mention that we watched 'Aeon Flux' on HDDVD the other night? We had never seen it... but i actually really liked it. the acting sucked, but it looked great and the action wasn't bad. awesome sets too... makes me want to watch the cartoon, except that i think it was too trippy if i remember right, and kinda boring. i dont do hard enough drugs to enjoy it... thoughts? worth a look?

***

I slept through the podcast recording. I feel awful about it. I feel bad for anyone who actually has to listen to it. I didn't listen to it yet myself, but I don't know wtf my deal was. Jon has some really long rants though, if you're a big Jon fan. ( haha... you're a 'big jon' fan) We talk about undercover brothers on the down low and jon compares batman to Christ for like an hour. i'll mix/post it tomorrow.