Got my renewed license back (which is still vertical and has the stupid "under 21" stamp on it). The design for this is so ugly. There's a tiny picture of me wedged uselessly in the bottom right hand corner, with some text obscuring it. What's the point? You already have my gigantic face already there, why the obscured, mini picture? And there's these multicolored DNA strands decorating the card, some of which are going over the picture of my face and making it looked funky. The DNA strands also make some of the text hard to read. It's like someone took some LSD while they were designing it.
DNA strands?
Well, it's a swirly design, but it look likes DNA strands.
CA: Idaho's license kinda looks like that now. But, it feels much more messy and the background deisgn makes part of the text a little hard to read. I prefer the more plan, old license design.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
^^^ What's great about that--and I can't believe I didn't notice it before--is that the zip code they used, 43215, corresponds to downtown Columbus. You know, the largest city in the state and the 15th largest in the nation.
^^ Yeah, the background design is very busy and not especially appealing, but I really didn't think anything of it because ours have been like that for years now.
Just signed up for a free month of Netflix so I can watch Braveheart without quarreling with questionable streaming sites for the next three hours legally.
If I don't remember to cancel the thing in a month, I'll be charged 8 dollars, and I'm not in the position to be throwing money around.
This should end with minimal difficulties (I mean, it's Netflix; I've seen people use Netflix before), but this can go so very, very wrong
Got my renewed license back (which is still vertical and has the stupid "under 21" stamp on it). The design for this is so ugly. There's a tiny picture of me wedged uselessly in the bottom right hand corner, with some text obscuring it. What's the point? You already have my gigantic face already there, why the obscured, mini picture? And there's these multicolored DNA strands decorating the card, some of which are going over the picture of my face and making it looked funky. The DNA strands also make some of the text hard to read. It's like someone took some LSD while they were designing it.
DNA strands?
Well, it's a swirly design, but it look likes DNA strands.
CA: Idaho's license kinda looks like that now. But, it feels much more messy and the background deisgn makes part of the text a little hard to read. I prefer the more plan, old license design.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
On another licensey note: The layout of my license is different now, but on my vertical "under 21" ID cards and learner's permits, the eye color and hair color lined up so it looked like it said "HAZ BRO".
Also the fact that sample images always show "Restrictions: None" bothers me. Us nearsighted folk need representation, ableist fucks! :P
Things worth watching on Netflix that are hard to find otherwise: The Secret Of Moonacre, The Belstone Fox, and The Thief of Bagdad.
I'd recommend A Man For All Seasons, but they don't have it; and I only recommend movies because shows take too long. Hugo, Rosencrants and Guildenstern are Dead, and Secretariat are easy movies to find otherwise (The last two are on Youtube), but are worth watching if you have a bunch of extra time.
It is against the laws of computer animation to produce a bee. This is not to say it can be done, and is not; rather, it is widely known to be impossible. The polygons simply don’t fit together correctly; it is unknown how bees appear three-dimensional in the wild.
So when Jerry Seinfeld approached Paramount with a brief treatment about a CGI bee, they were excited. They were getting the Seinfeld name, and they were going to show the world they could make a computer-animated picture about something no one else would dare to - bees.
But man-years of work produced only hideous, Groeningesque mockeries of the bee form. Millions of dollars were down the tube. In desperation, they settled on a final gambit: if they could not make a bee for Seinfeld, they would make a bee OF Seinfeld.
Over the course of a year, Jerry Seinfeld, then aged 52, underwent a gradual transformation at the behest of his new patrons at Paramount. Hundreds of procedures, costing tens of millions of dollars, caused Seinfeld to resemble an immense bee more than a human man. The executives at Paramount were unsettled by his grotesque transformation, and disturbed by the mounting costs of making a man into a bee, but they considered the patented Seinfeld style and the technical marvel worth the financial and human costs.
Paramount forged ahead with shooting, and Seinfeld forged ahead with the procedures. They finished the mo-cap for his new bee body in two horrifying weeks. Interns confirm Seinfeld refused to wear clothing - that he was fully nude for the duration of shooting, exposing his increasingly alien stinging genital. He was more bee than man now, and the world knew it - and he knew it.
But what Paramount did not anticipate, could not anticipate, was the effect of the gradual transformation on Seinfeld’s mind. Successive iterations of the script, as the scalpel and pint after pint of bee signalling peptides reshaped his body, became more and more incomprehensible to humans. Obsessed with hierarchies of power, and with stinging. Months into the scriptwriting process, Seinfeld confessed to co-star and personal friend John Goodman that he feared his drive to sting intruders had overtaken the procreative urge he understood he should have - which, as a drone, was increasingly alien to him.
The result was a disaster, even in test audiences. Shell-shocked Paramount executives asked Seinfeld why what was ostensibly a children’s film had long, dark, involved jokes about suicide pacts, the reparations issue, legal procedure, and genital mutilation. Seinfeld, without batting one of his many eyes, told the executives that his task was to vomit the nourishment of his ideas onto the young.
The turd was, at this point, complete. They had no choice but to polish it. Tens of millions of dollars went into an unprecedented ad campaign, in the hopes that buzz marketing would accrue to their technically proficient if alarmingly inhuman project. Seinfeld, for his part, was forcibly restored to a state resembling human, receiving dozens of transplants of pig and sheep organs and skin to permit a promotional tour.
Oddly enough, in candid interviews he has given since, Seinfeld confesses that the “restoration” process galled him more than his original bee metamorphosis. He has said - off the record - that human thoughts still feel alien in his brain, and he has not been able to feel fully safe and secure since his stinger was surgically removed.
His hope - and the reason he went along with his promotional tour in his mutilated and foreign human body - was for a Bee Movie sequel, and a chance therein to escape to the wild, fleeing Paramount and the strictures of human society. But Bee Movie was a notorious bomb, and Seinfeld lacks the money or the connections to illegal doctors to have anything like the procedures he had in 2006-7. If “to bee or not to bee” is Seinfeld’s question, Paramount has answered it for him: not to bee; never to bee again.
Oh, okay. Lords and Ladies is probably the best in the Witches series, Snuff is undoubtedly the worst in the entire series. Not bad, mind you, but still the worst in the series.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I got whipped on Tumblr a month or two ago for mentioning I'd never seen any Ghibli films, so that's something I need to get around to soon.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Alright, finally found a working version of Braveheart. Not streaming as fast as I'd like, but it's streaming past the 23 minute mark, which is enough for me.
I've never been so glad to watch a celebrity throw a rock.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
When I was in Japan, everyone was asking me, "so when are you heading over to the Ghibli museum" and I was all I've never even seen any of that shit so I don't care
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Besides, Bakshi > Ghibli and Bakshi moved to my mom's hometown in Southwestern New Mexico and is thinking of starting up a little art school there. Pfft Ghibli
Besides, Bakshi > Ghibli and Bakshi moved to my mom's hometown in Southwestern New Mexico and is thinking of starting up a little art school there. Pfft Ghibli
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
and on a semi-related note (because they hate each other's guts) I found that copy of Marines Gazette from 1960 with the article by R.Crumb's dad and scanned it in
Besides, Bakshi > Ghibli and Bakshi moved to my mom's hometown in Southwestern New Mexico and is thinking of starting up a little art school there. Pfft Ghibli
but how would you know that if you've never seen a Ghibli film. :|
Besides, Bakshi > Ghibli and Bakshi moved to my mom's hometown in Southwestern New Mexico and is thinking of starting up a little art school there. Pfft Ghibli
but how would you know that if you've never seen a Ghibli film. :|
You ever see Oh Brother Where Art Though where Clooney explains that he's a Dapper Dan man
Besides, Bakshi > Ghibli and Bakshi moved to my mom's hometown in Southwestern New Mexico and is thinking of starting up a little art school there. Pfft Ghibli
but how would you know that if you've never seen a Ghibli film. :|
You ever see Oh Brother Where Art Though where Clooney explains that he's a Dapper Dan man
I have not.
You should at least see Spirited Away some time, because it's a good movie regardless of anything.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
The only Ghibli movie I've seen is Princess Mononoke. It's been a while since then.
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CA: Idaho's license kinda looks like that now. But, it feels much more messy and the background deisgn makes part of the text a little hard to read. I prefer the more plan, old license design.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
If I don't remember to cancel the thing in a month, I'll be charged 8 dollars, and I'm not in the position to be throwing money around.
This should end with minimal difficulties (I mean, it's Netflix; I've seen people use Netflix before), but this can go so very, very wrong
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
GATTACA
I STILL HAVEN'T WATCHED IT
By "whipped" do you mean "me and a bunch of people told you you should see Ghibli films"?
Because I really wouldn't call that whipped. :|
大學的年同性戀毛皮
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I've never been so glad to watch a celebrity throw a rock.
Sometimes I worry I lack interest in anything worthwhile...
isn't that the dude responsible for Cool World?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I have no idea how to set that up technologically, but it's a good idea.
Probably just set up an irc and make sure that everybody's watching everything at the same time.
Oh, and the movie should be Howl's Moving Castle.
I have not.
You should at least see Spirited Away some time, because it's a good movie regardless of anything.