Your Boring Saturday Night

before I forget: arby's tell me about your guitar blueprints if you dont mind...

this casey jones movie is surprisingly bloody

what little i've seen of some of the old ninja turtles comics this doesn't surprise me. did u guys know krang's battle armor is HOLLOWED OUT OF THE CORPSE OF ONE OF HIS FALLEN ENEMIES

what

i mean that makes perfect sense

turtles forever is pretty good

2003 turtles get caught up in a transdimensional thing and have to hang out with 1987 turtles, with a climactic appearance by gritty black & white comics turtles

xxp regarding the guitar palns. yeah. i'm trying to work out a few models of acoustic guitars. i have a 12 fret OM type thing worked out, was working on a 14 fret version of the same, as well as a jumbo model. as of now bracing and neck joint and some other features based on research and designs by an australian luthier/engineer trevor gore. will probably work out some stuff of my own as i absorb more of the science but as of now i plan on experimenting with his and a few other contemporary designs out there.

I kind of loved Turtles Forever, though it's p merciless about the 80s cartoon

xp holy cow that's awesome arby's

re krang: http://retcon-punch.com/2013/04/17/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-microseries-villains-1-krang/

http://retconpunchdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/krang-decides-to-body-snatch.jpg

xp thanks. i'm just outta school and don't even have a shop yet so it's all just planning at the moment. i mean i have tons of hand tools but i ~just~ finally tracked down a work bench and am starting to piecemeal the power tools needed. then humidity and dust control, then making jigs and fixtures, then...! it's gonna be a long road!

I kind of loved Turtles Forever, though it's p merciless about the 80s cartoon

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haha yeah but its real loving mockery imo

i never watched 03 turtles, was really confused that '03 shredder was like a krang style brain in a machine

yeah I was kind of amazed at how much nu-Turtles had changed everything around.

I'm halfway tempted to use this thread to liveblog me falling in love with Jennifer Herrema. Right now, I am checking out her star chart.

In 1997–1998, the Turtles starred in a live-action television series called Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation that directly follows the events of the first three movies. A fifth turtle was introduced, a female named "Venus de Milo" who was skilled in the mystical arts of the shinobi.[13] The series was a loose continuation of the movie franchise, as Shredder had been defeated and the Ninja Turtles encountered new villains. Other connections to the feature films include the fact that Splinter's ear was cut, the Foot Soldiers were humans, and the Turtles lived in the abandoned subway station seen in the second and third movies. The Next Mutation Turtles made a guest appearance on Power Rangers in Space

what

^^^^

anyways,

right now: Royal Trux's Sweet Sixteen. Probably about the crack open some early 90s issues of Alpha Flight in .cbr form. Maybe buy a couple books on Barnes and Noble's website.

later: listening to the Clipping album on their bandcamp (ILM thread here: Clipping - Midcity (noise rap)) while working on some novel outlines

even later: just starting Dostoyevsky's The Devils (Magarshack translation), looking forward to digging in deeper to that...

what other dostoevsky have you read?

I've read all four big ones (disclosure: I quit on The Idiot about a hundred pages from the end). Before I had read the P/V Demons translation. I opted for Magarshack this time bcz I had read his translation of C+P and basically thought it was the best novel I had ever read, and then read some of the P/V translation and wasn't sure I would've come to the same conclusion had I encountered that one first.

Anyways, I have been planning to re-read it ever since difficult listening hour posted a bunch about it some months ago. I was worried that DM might not do justice to its bonkers humor and jagged intensity but I'm only a few pages in and the disorienting satirical tone is still very bracing...

i've never read magarshack but i'll keep him in mind as a translator to check out. i just finished the donald rayfield translation of gogol's "dead souls" and it was okay... but i think i like pevear and volohonksy's rendering of gogol's "voice" in the short stories. maybe i should just stick with them because many of my all-time favorite reading experiences have been their translations of dostoevsky, chekhov, and gogol. their version of notes from underground is much better than whichever one was included in the norton annotated edition.

Didn't P?V re-translate the title for NftU? into something like a Notes from a Dank Cellar or something?

yeah dude I think if P/V are working for you, then keep with them. I had a book of Chekhov's short stories that they translated which were excellent.

it's just called "Notes from Underground" i think, not "the Underground." the chekhov stories they translated are indeed awesome.

i tried to order their translation of anna karenina but amazon sent me louise and aylmer maude instead. i think i might try that one.

Went to The Getty Center in Brentwood around 6pm. It was quite nice.

I had no idea there was a band performing and a DJ. Saw both for a few minutes. Seemed like a cool vibe but I had to go.

The waitress at this Turkish restaurant in Westwood I went to was quite charming.

apparently I won an award for a role I played at a local theatre tonight. not there, tho....cuz I'm out of town to see Sab tomorrow.

ah congrats!

thanks! bummed that I wasn't there to get it, but just happened to be scheduled on an inconvenient evening. Oh well, nice to be recognized at least!

Just chiming in here to say that I really like P/V's translation of Demons, one of my all-time favorite books.

only hours away

At a housewarming parteh

did you warm it?

Im abooouuuuut tooooo

ruh roh

i have: seltzer. two hot dogs. and steely dan.

World Magic Cup on the big screen tv and a hot water bottle on my neck

tidying up the apartment, which was pretty tidy already thanks to a recent cleaning binge. mostly doing dishes, picking things up off the floor, sweeping up. we have people coming over tonight.

exciting. i have cleaning to do but mostly i just want to lie down.

Hanging downstairs in my sister's apartment with the kitten & Orange Is The New Black on Netflix. Party on, Wayne!

Looking at Maine rental properties AGAIN because the dick we're renting from "forgot to update the calendar" when somebody reserved the house from him for our dates back in May.

i put another seltzer in the freezer to cool it quickly

Watching Cloud Atlas. It's quite carnival of silly prosthetics.

that is a terrible movie but the book is aiight

i have my laptop again. it was at the apple store, in repairs, for five days

they fix whatever was fucked up w/ it?

they fixed the main thing that was wrong with it but now the internal speakers don't work, and the laptop only has sound when either headphones or speakers are plugged in. apparently this is an easy fix though, but i am going to need to bring it back in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishima:_A_Life_in_Four_Chapters

watched this movie tonight. it was amazing.

I can't party like I used to. maybe it was cuz I showed up early to help the host get a keg, but like 4 hours in, all the beer/jello shots made me sleepy and they let me 'nap' on one of their guest beds. by 9:30, it was a night. oi. :/

PLUS....now, with my worsening reflux issues, the beer gave me some of the worst heartburn I've had in my life.

still a fun party tho, but I do miss the days where I could party til 3 in the morning...

just saw a dude on the road holding a sign that says

"Jesus Loves You.
Free water with prayer."

i'm not having a bad day.

i am probably going to get some chinese food later.

Thai food for me.

:D