the_critic's Journal (original) (raw)
Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded inthe_critic's LiveJournal:
Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
3:55 pm
vacation i want a fallout shelter in the backyard to hide away in.
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
12:25 pm
numbers and sounds after watching "lost" last night, i've been intrigued with the concept of numbers stations. they remind me when i was younger and bored at family get-togethers at my uncle's house. i would go downstairs to the disused rec room to hide out and fiddle with this old world radio that they had and freak myself out with the wierd morse code and repetitive voices that would be inside the static.
another time my brother and i stayed up really late at night and somehow caught some of this really low on the AM band.
strange stuff.
i need to get a shortwave receiver.
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
8:09 am
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
7:29 am
movie reviews #3 once again, i will give my brief reviews of several new and old movies that i have seen recently. comment if you want to know more.
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
7:24 am
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
10:25 am
space is the place since last time i wrote, i actually got the lambretta d contraption started and rode it around the block about four times at night, with no lights and minimal brakes(yabba dabba doo!). yes, it's slow, but the 6% mix makes it smoke wonderfully and it has all the whirs and clicks that i hoped for in an old machine.
on a related note, i got yet another 60's vespa from that buddy who got in some trouble with johnny law and decided to run out of town. as i was recounting to ratboy, these scooters don't take up much space individually, but enmasse they are start to take over. that now makes four scooters, a motorcycle and a car(possibly another car in the spring as an "advance inheritance"). at least none of them are hanging out in the backyard...
a couple of weeks ago ratboy and i went up to canada to pick up parts for his other microcar project, the lloyd(a micro-micro-bus). hopefully he'll have it ready for amerivespa to haul our scoots to cleveland.
this is a drawing of the lloyd lt-600. maybe i should hold an international coloring contest(like lucia pamela!)
since i'm fascinated with the toys of my youth such as little cars and robots as well as campy horror movies, this kinda scared me.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
9:14 am
finally, a recap of the year thus far a disappointing xmas and new years to say the least with the snow and freezing rain on the way to texas and a freak ranching accident, crushing my grandfather-in-law and leaving him in a coma on xmas to pass away on new years eve eve. he will be missed sorely. i wish that i had gotten the chance to know him better. i used to not have any living grandfathers, but by law, i gained two, then by fate, lost one.
jess flew back for the funeral. i didn't feel like travelling anymore, so i stayed here.
on the bright side, the 2+ year old lambretta "cheap and cheerful" resto project x (shown in the before state) now has a refurbished head after 2 years of waiting for a buddy of mine to repair an italian botch job. the thing probably hasn't run in over 20 years, but i've rebuilt the motor, repainted and rechromed it.
why would i want such a contraption? it's because of this damn ruth orkin photo.
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Thursday, December 9th, 2004
6:42 am
lately i've been feeling like alex from the 21st chapter of clockwork orange...
Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
11:04 pm
Thursday, November 11th, 2004
8:34 am
no more blue monday happy birthday kurt vonnegut jr.!
one of my favorite authors. i could never tell if he is a comedy, drama or sci-fi writer. his pessimism and selfishness really took ahold of me early in college.
if you must read one book of his, try mother night. it's so much better than his most popular slaughterhouse 5 (which they both made into movies, if you must).
so it goes...
"Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod."
-bokonon (cat's cradle)
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
2:08 pm
gloom and doom to put my life in perspective it seems that i need to have a friend who finds himself in a mess of his own doing involving the overconsumption of illegal substances. ( take a puff anywayCollapse )
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Monday, November 8th, 2004
2:25 pm
it seems that lately i've been fascinated with those little robots of my youth that convert from robot to a vehicle. this prompted me to dig up some of my old toys and see if i could still figure them out.
it amazes me that these silly thing are 20 years old already and still kinda neat(maybe i'm just easily amused).
i found this gobots commercial that brings back all sorts of memories. i always wondered why there were not kids in the ad. this must be how i must look fiddling with these contraptions.
they even made a scooter robot. i never could figure out how imposing THAT must be.
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Friday, October 29th, 2004
1:17 pm
i lost my temper at work today. it was really the other person's instigation and i'm surprised that it hasn't happened earlier, but i'm embarassed either way.
that's why i try not to ask for other people's help.
Monday, October 25th, 2004
4:56 pm
for beggers night on thursday, would it be in poor taste ( ...Collapse )
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11:06 am
movie reviews #2 there's plenty of things to talk about, like my recent marriage, getting things winterized, etc., but i'd rather write some more movie reviews.
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Sunday, September 26th, 2004
12:12 am
movie reviews since i AM the critic, i think i'll be doing reviews of all the movies i've seen lately starting from the most recent, but not necessarily in this order:
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Saturday, September 25th, 2004
11:36 pm
so much has been going on lately.
the biggest thing should be that my grandmother passed away on friday, but i'm more excited about getting the siding on the addition. my father says that he's happy that this is over with, but i know that he is pretty sad. actually, he's been pretty sad about this since she has kinda been untalkative for the last year or so since her fall. my father, an only child, laments that she was the only person that he could talk to and his only friend. this is probably why he came to visit me today to work on the house with me. so he could have someone to talk to.
anyway, i think my brother will be back on this coast for a little time. there should be a little friction around the family since my brother is incorrigable. by this i mean that he wants to do something in his life that my parents don't approve of and he doesn't care what anyone has to say about it. this shocking lifestyle is photography. i think he's been watching blowup too many times...
marc was talking me on the phone last night giving me his gloom and doom frustration story and i pointed to him that it would be swell to visit with him and that i have new a darkroom in the basement from sis's fiancee and he could make photos. hopefully this cheered him up, but i'm not sure.
fun, excitement, this, in addition to the wreck and resulting fun with insurance adjustors and this side mirror-kissed chest. THAT'S why i stayed home tonight.
Current Mood: (the cats keep me company)
Friday, September 10th, 2004
8:40 am
buys bootleg toys to fund terrorists this website reminds me of all the crappy fake transformer toys that i had growing up. i wish that i had some of them today, but they broke pretty easily and i think i may have glued the parts to my car model kits.
all i can seem to find around here anymore is spiderman junk, but nothing really too interesting.
on a more sombre note, it should be a nice day here. too bad that i need to go visit my ailing grandmother. she's taken a turn for worse. i tell my dad that i'm going to go visit her, but he says not to bother, he said goodbye a month ago.
at first this sounds harsh, but my grandmother has been in a home for the last couple years and my dad has visited her about every day as she has gotten more withdrawn and incoherant. she's just had a stroke and now is apparently completely out of it. i know it's contraversial, but we agree that it's really not fair to her, to be in this state after the good life she led.
the funny thing is that she is almost 100 and she ate tons of candy and bacon all her life.
i can't comprehend how i'm going to be if it gets to this point with my parents.
Thursday, September 9th, 2004
10:50 pm
poor little kitty little asphalt has had a hard life.
she was found as a tiny kitten in middle of the street (hence her name) and just recently had to be fixed (think bob barker) then she started nibbling at her sore from the stitches, so the vet needed to do this to her:
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
1:28 pm
isetta of death i'm riding away at the wedding in a bmw limo:
actually, it's technically a bmw 600 limo, an upgrade of the original isetta. despite the fact that the thing is smaller than a geo, it's actually rather roomy. it opens up like a coffin, which seems a little foreboding. if things work out i may have a scooter escort.
i'm a geek.