When a new year begins, most people tend to set goals for themselves, things that they want to accomplish during the 12 months to come. Now, experience and investigation show that 90% or so of those goals never come true. The only persons that manage to accomplish those goals are either the successfull ones, or those that propose themselves goals so small that they are harder to not accomplish than to accomplish (I will eat a candy during the 2 of January isn't a good new year's goal).
Way I see, therefore, there are two paths to follow:
A) Give yourself goals that you won't accomplish and feel bad about it.
B) Propose yourself goals that are impossible. That way, when you fail to reach them you won't feel guilty, because nobody would have been able. It's a small consolation ;)
Of course, I'm going with option 2:
My goals for this year that is starting
1) I'll finally conquer Belgium. It's my year in that aspect.
2) I'll fly to outher space. Moby and the Backstreet guy will come with me.
3) I'll go visit all you important people... Damn, this one hurts me more than anybody else :P Not a good joke.
4) I won't get a cell phone (There are some chances, maybe, that I'll be able to accomplish this one. But not a lot).
5) I won't buy any more music DVDs, so I cna save some money (yeah, right).
A good one that I can't use because I don't buy porn magazines is:
This year I will actually read the magazines for the articles.
In any case, a HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody and, as usual, "to all my friends, well, much grattitude".
"A punk manifesto", by Greg Graffin. Read and understand!
I'd like opinions on the matter, though.
EDIT: I better include the link, or nobody will be able to read or unerstand :P
http://www.bad
People, people, people. You are spoiling me. You are creating habit. Couple weeks ago, a letter from Key. Last week, a package from Mir. Yesterday, a package from Pixie and postcards from Sunrose and Elin. What will I do the day that I don't get anything in the mail? I'll go crazy!
Thanks to everybody for the effort and for making me such a spoiled brat. I swear I'm working on those letters I promised :D
So, Christmas is a most magical time in the year. Really. Totally magical. It's a time of wonders with no end. Magic is really in the air and it can be perceived. And I have proofs. Let's see.
It is the only time of the year where people not only do not worry about a guy dressed up in red and white (the colors of a gang?) entering the house while they are sleeping. Any other day, that would scare the crap out of people and make them hide the good dishes and the tv set. These days, they also make sure that the guy can enter and that the reindeers have things to eat and drink.
Which brings me to the next point. As far as I know, animals aren't allowed in most buildings and making a supervisor change their mind is an almost impossible task. But those damn reindeers are allowed in anyway!
Trees inside houses. Do I need to say more?
Ok, the activities aren't the same all around the world, but in some places, they actually like to show their dirty socks. Normally, that's an offense punisheable by death or, at least, social ostracism.
The same movies seem to be on every TV channel. Then again, that happens every day of the year, so maybe it's not so strange. They also like to show "Jingle all the way". Now, there's no reason to destroy Arnold because of this impossible to stand movie. I mean, there are so many other good reasons that using that one is kinda silly.
Old fat men are part of society once again, at least for a couple days :D
Around the world, in some place, somebody has actually bought a handkerchief. Think about that.
There are many more, of course, but no point in going oever them. In any case, lemme tell you all my friends (and enemies too, after all, I have to be the best guy) MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Oh, and as usual "To all my friends, well, much grattitude"
Considering the previous post, I just have to say that I find it amusing, so now I'm going for some more people. That is, I'm gonna steal pictures of you and pass them through the software. I've already done it with Sunrose, so she's safe, but some of you should tremble!
(I accept volunteers. If not, I'm starting with those whose pics are easier to find).
http://www.myh
This site tells you which celebrity you look like. You just upload a picture and it "analyzes". Leaving aside the veracity of it, it's fun.
With the first pic (the first of my selfportrais, "Fierceness") I upload, I got : Natalie Portman 67% certainty (I'm not sure she'll agree), Alicia Keys 65%, Carrie Ann-Moss 62%, Alannis Morissette 62% (Why me!? Why?), Sean Connery 61, Uma Thurman 60%, Leonardo Di Caprio 60% (:P), James Ellroy 59%, Johnny Deep 59% (Ja! I'm cool :D ) and Velle Valo 59%.
All the percentages are kinda low :P
Of course, the pictures look alike :P
I tried one more and the percentages were even lower, but I got Eminem 62%, Angelina Jolie 58%, Bjork 50%, Britney 50% :P, Tarja Turunen 49% (who?), Alaniss Morisette 49% (Again? Bah), Alec Baldwin 48%, Karena Kapoor 47% and Pierce Brosnan 47%.
Ok, I'm stopping now.
This concerning my previous mood: Lennon was the walrus, I'm ET's comic relief.
Ok, despite my mood, I admit that I don't totally get the walrus thing. Ideas about it are welcomed. I would ask Lennon, but... well... y'know... there's a little problem with that.
For those that don't know about it, I'm talking about a song named "I am the walrus" by Lennon.
UPDATE: The smart little snail explained it to me :D
So, I'm 24. That means that I'm officially too old to be a prodigy. From now on, I can only be a guy who become famous when most people do. Also, I've been old enough to move on my own for a couple years, but not a lot of chances of that happening soon. Let see what else...
Now I'm officially too old to commit suicide... and too young too. Suicide is ok when you are a teenager or when you are forty something and totally beaten by life. At 24 you can only commit suicide if you are famous.
Too old to play with action figures, but not too old to "collect" them ;)
Too old to profesionally play any sport, but too young to take on golf (besides that I don't have a finished career).
Society has weird rules, doesn't it?
Tomorrow night, my grandma's house, boring reunion that will include saying bad jokes, eating pizza, drinking coke and beer and playing ping-pong. Everybody is invited, just ask me for the address.
Many thanks to Pix for her wonderful present! It was the the first one I got on my birthday (it was a version of the happy birthday song played and sang by her).
I have to finish some mp3 cds for special people and then go change a book that I was given yesterday, so I better get out of here.
So, Bush is in Argentina. He's in Mar Del Plata (a city 400 kms from Buenos Aires) for a presidents meeting.
Everybody is already totally paranoid and lots of people have decided to not use undergrounds and such. Of course, I'm not one of those persons. If I'm blow up in an explosion, it'll be like giving the body for the cause, in a way, so it may not be so bad.
So, if you learn about a "terrorist" attack in BS AS and don't hear from me in a while, you know what happened.
Note: Of course I'd prefer to not be killed in any kind of attack. And I'd prefer if there wasn't any attack, since the ones that die are the innocent, not those who cause the attacks. Also, notice the "" in terrorist. It's important.
Hey sit down and listen and they'll tell you when you're wrong.
Eradicate but vindicate as "progress" creeps along.
Puritan work ethic maintains its subconscious edge
As Old Glory maintains your consciousness.
You are the government.
You are jurisprudence.
You are the volition.
You are juridiction.
And I make a difference too.
Bad Religion "You are (the government)"
"Yeah you waste your time with losers and you are stuck in a rock-n-roll band."
Do you find it more rewarding to compete with morons throughout this land?
They seem to be in power so I'll kick back and get farther behind.
And I watch them as they fuck up every good thing on this earth
with their "minds."
You see, the world's falling apart at the rifts,
And surprisingly, the leaders can't make any sense of it.
You mean nothing to the world, we're all someone else's fool,
But oh, what can you do?
Bad Religion "What can you do?"
I fought the law and law won
Sonny Curtis "I fought the law"
London is drowning and I live by the river
The Clash "London calling"
Working class girl put her money to the test
She's got a new dress, gonna look her best
Yugoslavia's been blown to bits
She's got a new dress, she's looking to the west
Shadows of soldier lay nearby
The dead ones finally reach a compromise
Destruction of war lies in bosnia
The destruction of war lies in bosnia
Rancid "New Dress"
First, a typo correction: on my previous post it should say 150000 copies, not 350000.
Second, it seems the article will never see the light. For lack of economical support, the section abotu under where it was going to be was cancelled. Ebil not supportive announcers!
So, tell me I'm not the greatest, cause my ego is getting big enough to cover the whole country :D
As most of you must know, I publish a humor fanzine with 3 of my friends. We've been going at it for six years. We also, along with a 4th friend, write things for radio, act the radio plays, have done a couple of short films (one minute one, 5 minutes the other), we are preparing a theater play (well, a friend wrote it and maybe one day we'll rehearse it :P ) and several things more. we have formed a humor group or something like that, and we want to work in almost any media. We are currently preparing a folder full of stuff to give to several producers.
Anyway, that's the explanation, now the big part: this last monday we were interviewed. That in itself isn't so big, since we have had several interviews, but always for small independent media, like fanzines or neighbourhood radios or tv channels (I count them: I've been interviewed 13 times, counting the Herald one). What's big this time is that we were interviewed for a newspaper that is the 5th or 6th most read on the country, with something like 350.000 copies edited every day. It's for the young culture section or something like that.
We were talking with the guy from the paper like 45 minutes, 30 of which were recorded and the rest just talking about anything. They won't publish the interview itself, probably, but a small chronicle. I don't think it will be very big, but... well, it's our first really mediatic apparition. Yes, I'm excited about it :D
It should be published this saturday (that can always change) and I'll surely give the link for the digital version if it is.
On a different note, the same day I was a piketeer for a while. There was a protest near the place I was working and to get to the place where the interview was I had to walk in the same direction the protesters were going. So I joined their ranks for 3 blocks or so.
Oh, and also, today it's Friend's Day in Argentina, so a Happy Day to everybody that deserves it... and to the rest too ;)
LOL Fantastic post from [hanhepi]
umm.. his middle name was Hyrahm. (sp?)(or possibly Hershile(sp?) or Horatio(sp) as well.) its a little known historical fact. *cough*
i mean, he had to have a middle name, otherwise his mom couldnt yell at him when he was being bad. (which according to one of the Apocrypha, he was bad a lot as a kid.) Mary had to stand at the door of whereever they were living and yell "Jesus! Jesus Hyrahm of Nazereth! get your skinny behind in this house this instant! dont make me call your father! the lightning scares the neighbors. i'm going to count to 3. one.. Jesus Hyram Nazerene!!, i'm not kidding! twooo..."
How many flies does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
2, but don't you wonder how they got in there?
Why did I put that there? Why not?
Ok, the new Pope already declared himself against homosexuals and anticonceptive
Second, lately I've been seeing more nazi paintings on the streets than before.
Third, nobody seems to be brave enough to tell Fionna Apple that she has to open her mouth to sing "Accross the Universe". Listening to her it's like a torture. And a slow one.
As I already said to a dear person, am I the only one who can hear the society slowly sinking? :P
My computer was "broken" for 4 days. I took it to the shop. It turns out it wasn't broken at all. Last time I trust my family about its powersource. Next time I'll check it myself. :P
Ok, my life just got really complicated and really busy. I just got confirmation on a translation of a 40000 words long manual. I'm not sure when is the deadline, but it can't be more than one month away. Plus, this morning I got a mail telling me that I need to finish the 3000 lines article I'm working onfor this weekend. I have written 900 lines. It wouldn't be a lot, if it wasn't that I'm working double shift on the comic book shop this week. All that means that I should be working a lot the next month. And I should take an exam at the same time. And I need to study. Damn, it won't be easy.
My Et time may feel it a little, but since I can work and be online at the same time, it probably won't be so much. Still, don't expect a lot from me.