Running Diary 20091207

20091207

09:18 – Start the week and start it right.  Just like every Monday I'm not waking up until after noon.

 

10:36 – Need to mention, a bunch of months after it came out in the U.S. it finally came out here, Inglourious Basterds.  And, I must point out, it was worth the wait.  It was brilliant.

 

11:44 – So I've been playing ? Degrees to Hitler lately.  More specifically, an average of once a day.  I use the day's Feature Article.  Today's feature article is on Talking Heads' "Remain in Light".  I got to Hitler in four clicks.  Boom.

For questions of what ? Degrees to Hitler is look at the past post.

 

12:21 – This is what I've reached to today: I'm reading about werewolves on Wikipedia.  I know.  Oh well.

 

14:59 – So apparently Tiger Woods has boned 9 women.  And one of them a pornstar.  I fail to see what the problem here is.  Tiger is my hero!

 

15:25 – So, if there's something I hate is when commercials use songs for their chorus or something they say in it, but in reality has nothing to do with the product they're selling.  I'm listening to "Take Me Away" by the Plain White T's and I was reminded of a commercial I've seen a lot on television.  I have no idea if it's viewable in the U.S., but in Latin American programming it's kind of popular.  It's an advert for Parker Pens.  You know, the ones with the holder in the shape of an arrow.

Well, the idea of the commercial is that the pen's arrow can "take you away" on a trip; to new adventures.  Do these fucking marketing consultants, or whatever, even listen to the songs they choose before hand?  Do they even know what the "take me away" in the song implies?

I'd further elaborate, but I think I'd only get angrier if I continued.

 

15:37 – I'm copying some of my old stories to the computer HDD.  The idea is that I can work on them now that we'll be "busy" for the holiday season.

Aka Kuro was basically written as a stream of consciousness.  I wasn't really going anywhere with it.  Heco was the first to notice that my style of writing was good for interpreting into comic book format.  He's still a stickler for tradition but it's still easy to interpret for a visual genre.  It paints a very specific picture without much detail.  It helps keep the manuscripts short and to the point.  If I could ever FINISH a fucking manuscript.

Elements was a more deliberate attempt at fantasy.  But now after reading Lord of the Rings and Eragon it's kind of hard for me to imagine me getting anywhere past a juvenile fantasy world.  That one could make a good comic along the lines of Battle Chasers.  But my main artist is no longer available.

Finally I have The Kids Are Alright.  That one is basically a venting of my day to day activities in high school and college.  All of it infused with my sarcasm and lack of wit.  It made fun to write about until I couldn't help my shift to seriousness.  I hate it when I do that.

Point is I'm going to copy those onto the computer.  I have until January to work on them and get them right.

 

15:54 – I was looking at the titles of my most advanced works.  I really like the title for The Kids Are Alright, but I'm not sure about Aka Kuro; Elements I can live with.  Aka Kuro was originally chosen because it was going to a film-noirish type of book, black and white with high-lights on red.  In our case the equivalent of the "red dress" was going to be the red eyes of the A.I.'s that are emphasized in the book; most notably the main character.  Oh, aka being the pronunciation for "red" in Japanese and kuro being the pronunciation for "black".

I almost want to say forget it.  The more I repeat it in my head the more I'm falling in love with the title all over again.  I mean, it is the mother from which we spun off the protoB.O.T.S.

 

16:53 – OK, bouncin' now.  Have to go to the body shop and pick up the hubcap for my tire.  The one they were pending to get me from the crash over a month ago.  Late.

 

20091208

13:02 – First post of the day.  Yes, I've been that busy, and no, I didn't want to leave it blank.

 

14:49 – Almost time to break out the tea.  Feel tired.  Not much to talk about today.

 

20091209

12:07 – Here we go again.  Late start.  I restarted Aka Kuro yesterday.  I'm feeling optimistic.

 

12:49 – Brilliant… my plan to pick up old stories seem to be working.  I've got two pages done in two days.  I know it's not much, but when you compare that to zero pages in 3 years then, yeah.

 

16:50 – Talk about getting busy.  At least this is going to be a short week.

 

20091210

11:09 – Done with interviews today.  All is good.  Gonna have some time to write today.

 

12:05 – GAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!  I'm done and have nothing else to do and I can't leave yet!

 

20091211

09:06 – Bored as all hell.  Good thing that today we have a half day and am taking my kids to lunch.

 

09:30 - ♪ Jingle Bells,

Batman smells,

Robin laid an egg.

 

Bat-mobile lost its wheel

And Joker got away,

Hey! ♫

 

09:59 – I'm writing.  I'm really writing.  Not much, but still.  I'm pushing myself to do it.  Something I hadn't been able to do in years.  It's like I'm finally getting my shit together.  But don't start patting yourself on the back, dumbass.  This is only the beginning. And you have a long way to go still.

 

10:48 – Adrian has been added to my criticism team for Aka Kuro.  I know he won't sugar coat.  Especially after I asked him not to.

 

11:44 – Almost time to head out to lunch with my kids.  Good times.

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