Just a text blog...

Hey guys. My roommate's in, so I just have to settle for a simple text blog right now.

First of all... Beth - I'm sorry I didn't call you! I didn't think I was going to be out as late as I was. I'll call you when you get off work tomorrow!

Tonight I hung out with Luke, as it is the LAST Saturday of the school year. It was a fun night. We first went to The Gamers Lounge and played Unreal Tournament on LAN gaming. (And yes, we both kicked everyone's ass! I had a few good head shots with my sniper rifle too!!!)

After gaming, we went downtown and were pleasantly surprised that Grounds was still open. So we chilled there for a bit. Then we headed over to Finders because I felt an instinctive urge to buy some music. I ended up buying two soundtracks... Both fantastic in every aspect! Check them out!



Also, Beth recently bought the new Goo Goo Dolls album, and she can't stop listening to it. I look very much foward to listening to it!



After Finders, Luke got his ass grabbed by some random girl on the street and we thought that was funny. We ate at Taco Bell... Sitting in his car in the parking lot, talking of how great life is while listening through the Lost in Translation CD. It was fun.

We got back and watched a funny Miyasaki creation called The Cat Returns and an episode of Farscape. I didn't get home till 3:30ish. But what a well night spent, eh?

I love you Beth! You're going to be up in about 10 minutes! I better get some rest!

Dedication...

God forbid...

Ideas Ideas...

A New Definition (Recheck this one because there is a type-o in their myspace. I fixed the link!)
Check out the Promo I'm working on...

Why!

Hey guys! Sorry - no more video blogging for tonight. However, I did trick up this video that I've been working on for a couple weeks now. It's probably one of my most serious videos yet. Hope you all find it worthwhile!

As for the rest of the night, I'll be watching TV while sucking down my Mug Rootbeer, waiting for Beth to give me a call (I don't want to interrupt her TV-watching, as the Goo Goo Dolls are going to be on Conan O'Brian tonight ;)

So here's my video "Why!"

Me... Being me....

Happy 67-month Anniversary BETH!

Boring Blog...

Good morning blog!

Talking movies...

Improv #1

Good morning everyone! Here's a little keyboard improvising for you to start the day!

First video blog...

Here's my first video blog. It's kinda long and boring, but hey, I'm just testing the waters.

Shadows in Water...

Today I actually had my math homework finished before I woke up. I gotta get into the habit of doing homework like that.

I feel a little bit better today than what I felt yesterday. I think if I work my ass off these last two weeks, I might be able to pass school this year.

Damn... I really wanna start a video blog. I wonder if I should buy a cheap webcam somewhere. It's hard to find one cheaply that's compatible with Windows XP. My computer's been acting a little slow lately. I think I might have to clean out some of my hard drive space.

Nothing interesting really happened today. I have to clean my room. I'm feeling spunky. Maybe I'll go out for a walk later on.

Till next time....

Wack-a wack-a doo-doo yeah....

I've come to the conclusion that I suck at playing hooky. This is the third consecutive time that I have skipped my IPC class in order to make my persuasive speech a charm, but I don't think I'll even get to perform because I don't have a doctor's slip to excuse my absences. This is pretty much how everything went:

Wednesday:
1. Didn't have my speech completed.
2. (11:30 pm) E-mailed instructor to tell him I was going to be absent because I was sick.
3. (1:30 pm) Received an e-mail reply saying that I can do my speech another day as long as I have a sick slip.
4. (1:33 pm) Fuck.
5. (2:00 pm) Beth called. I told her about my predicament. We laughed about it. I told her that I was either going to have to get sick quick or make a phony doctor's slip on the computer and forge it.

Thursday:
1. (1:00 pm) Went to health center to make appointment. They told me that I had to fill out a form and appointed me a 3:30 slot.
2. (1:20 pm) Didn't want to fill out that long-ass packet, so I decided to make up a phony doctor's slip.
3. (2:00 pm) Finished making a doctor's slip.
4. (2:00 pm- 2:30 pm) Practice my forging skills.

Well, that night Beth came up to visit me for the weekend. On and off I worked on the speech. I missed class on Friday, and apparently so did 90% of the rest of the class. So last night I worked on my outline a bit and tried adding some things to my powerpoint. I went to bed at 1:00.

I had a dream last night that I gave the presentation and it was a success. Of course, I woke up later than I had planned, but figured I still had time to make some finishing touches. So from 11:30 to 3:00 I finished the outline, but I ran out of time to make myself some notecards. Plus, I needed an excused absence for not only Wednesday, but Friday too. Because of this, I had to make moderations to my doctor slip, but then realized how fabricated it all looked, so I ended up deciding not to give the speech. I felt too unethical about playing hooky in order to get credit for a late speech... And ethics was one of the first things we talked about in IPC. I'm just a bad liar, and that's all it comes down to.

Monday:
1. Fuck.

So now I'm at the verge of giving up my grace period here at BG. I have this week and exam week to jump the hurdle. I have been praying with every ounce of faith I have in my mind, body and soul to be able to continue my education. Especially now that I know what I want to do with it.

Crummy...

So I missed out on IPC and astronomy today because I wasn't feeling well. A mix of crazy bowel movements and congestedness in the nasal region. Yes, I'm pretty open about it.

But now I feel like I am slowly recovering. Of course, I feel shitty for dissing class today to lie around in a bed. I still have to make a trip to the health center, which I should've done earlier. But I need some sort of slip to assure my instructors that I was ill, as it is my ticket to receiving credit for delivering my speech in IPC.

I think I have lots of stress-related illness. I always get sick after undergoing a strike of distress. This whole speech-thing and just trying to focus on the other classes I'm taking that don't apply to my major are just mind-numbing... and I think my body responds to all of it with a wave of mild migraines and bizarre flu symptoms.

I feel so underacheived, yet so underappreciated. I gotta stop worrying about so much. Take things less seriously. I think my stepdad is really the one who I let lead me into this state of shame. He gave me a talk about my future and shit and I let all his words go straight to my head.

This calls for some relaxing James Horner music.

Insert catchy title here...

Yeah... So I wake at about 10 till 10 this morning to a phone call from my brother Jesse. You see, we're trying to plan this trip to Colorado this summer (we = me, him, Beth, and Randy) and we've sort of been putting it off for the past month or so. Anyway, it turns out that recently a lot of the plane ticket prices jumped sky high around the area so a call to action has been made. Randy had found some tickets out of Chicago to Colorado to be around $90, so that's about$200 for a round trip ticket. The plan is to drive up to Chicago and then fly out to CO, party for a week, and then come back home.

Now the next problem is, I don't know if Beth and I will get to go because we plan to leave for Colorado the same weekend Beth's sister is getting surgery in Cleveland for her back and the family were all gonna go with her to be there for her and stuff. So I'll just have to call Beth later on about all that.

So I got up at my scheduled time to wake up today. I've been sleeping in a lot lately and I'm trying to break the habit. Soon enough I'll be working at the damn turkey plant and I'll have to be up at 5:00 every morning. I am so dreading that job, but I can't wait for the money to come in.

Anywho, I have a headache today (how typical) and I can't seem to find my aspirin. What a bitch.

FRIDAY!!!!!

Well, I'm waiting for my ride to give me a call back. In the meantime, I will be doing laundry and learning how to play euchre with some guys in my hall. Should be fun.

Check out this hilarious trailer I found on YouTube (this is not an actual movie, it's just a spoof made by a guy with some intense editing skills... Damn I wish my computer was in better shape!)

Gamers Lounge Photos...

I'm up late as can be... Mainly because I've been working on this....

Time to sleep finally!

Haircut pics...

Before: (Holy shit! Is that my mom?!)



After:



Still looking a bit flamey, but once I get some contacts and wear less flamboyant clothes, I'll be high-stylin'!

Get a haircut...

Today was just kinda blah despite how nice it is. I'm still just getting over my head cold, but hopefully it will be gone by tomorrow. Tonight I'd like to get my laundry done and perhaps even get a haircut. I'd like to grow it out for a change, but there's just too much to maintain when growing it out and I think short hair flatters my face more (it makes me look more like a badass rather than a high school pretty boy.) Plus, who wants to spend two hours trying to get your hair just right when all you need with a buzz cut is a little gel and your fingers?

Haha... I just set up an appointment for 6:00. I will post up before and after photos later on.

So other than being sick and sleeping, I haven't been doing too much. I'm currently working on two different videos simultaneously, and they're both roughly halfway finished, but they are taking a long time to finish. If I had a computer that wouldn't freeze up every 5 minutes I'm sure I'd have at least one of them finished by now. I really need to update my CPU. It's so fricking slow and if I had a faster computer I'd probably be recording music and making videos like their was no tomorrow.

You see, Microsoft has a way of screwing you over, just like any other computer company. Last year, for instance, I used Sonar 2.0 recording software and I made a good 9 recordings for my Inertia project. Well, when connected to the Internet, the computer requests to update automatically. So you do so because you don't want it to crash or anything, but what happened last year was my DirectX software was updated and could no longer execute old files (DirectX is software that ran Sonar 2.0 and some games I used to have on my PC.) So I could no longer use Sonar 2.0 to record and I had to find a newer version.

Well, Spencer hooked me up with Sonar 3.0, and my computer can actually execute it. However, it uses both a shitload of RAM and takes up a lot of my CPU when I run it. Same thing goes for Windows MovieMaker.

What's happening is that Microsoft keeps updating my computer so that it can run the latest software, just enough so that I know how to use. But once I try to actually get something done, it freezes up on me. This is Microsoft's way of saying: "We'll let you use this software, Jeremy, but your going to have to give us more money for new hardware in order to operate anything to make completed projects!"

Bill Gates -- I understand your one of the most powerful men in the computer and technology industry... But give me a fucking break, man!

Oh well....

GI Joe Dubs...

Hahaha! Very random! Very phucking funny!

One more...

This episode is freaking hilarious!

If I were a blonde...

I'm one of those persons that like to buy things on impulse.
For example... About a month ago, Beth and I were at a Wal-Mart and I out-of-the-blue decided that I wanted to buy a skateboard.

I still suck at skateboarding...

Then today, I decided to "just look" at some video editing software at the bookstore. Well, I found Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 for just $25. I had some money that my mom had sent in the mail ($50). I was kind of shocked by the price of the software. It sounded kind of cheap, as opposed to Photoshop and other software that ranged from $150-$400. I thought maybe there was a catch... I thought maybe the catch was that it was an older version of Adobe Premiere.

So I "checked" the system requirements, basically to see if I had enough RAM to run the software, which I do. And I bought it.

Of course... I didn't realize until AFTER I opened the package that it's an "upgrade" for Adobe Premiere 1.0 (which I don't have). Plus, I also noticed that myIntel Processor is 100 MHz to slow to actually run the program (an upgrade for this will cost me about another 100-200 junior bacon cheeseburgers.)

Suddenly, I felt that humiliating feeling that I felt when I rented a DVD when I was 13 because I thought my computer's CD-ROM could play it... Man, I was so computer illiterate...

I can't return the software and I'm glad I only spent $25 on it rather than $75. I will eventually get this software installed, but probably over the summer when I've got a faster processor installed and Adobe 1.0 (which I think my buddy Spencer can get me a copy of for free!)

I think I have learned a little something from this experience: The bark always grows on the outside of the tree.

This calls for a nostalgic commercial involving Ernest and Sprite....

Ugh...

I'm feeling a little sick today. Just a sore throat, but I'll do. I have to make up a math test and turn in bursar money later on. Luke and I are trying to get single rooms right next to each other tonight and maybe get some of our other friends on the same floor if everyone can (people like Chad and whoever else we think of...) So far we're thinking maybe Harshman-Chapman on the 4th floor. It's gonna be sweet!

I have a lot of shit to do today, and my video I'm making is taking forever! I'm still only halfway through... And this second half has a lot to it that I have to make. I'm taking a break from it today in order to keep my ideas fresh.

So here's a dosage of YouTubeness for ya!

"Fixed" (aka "Coldplay is for bitches!")
It makes fun of Coldplay... But it's still hilarious!



Beavis & Butthead
"Blood Pressure"

Classic MV's...

I've decided to make a fun post dedicated to a lot of classic music videos I use to love when MTV actually played music.... Here they are!

Nada Surf
"Popular"


Smashing Pumpkins
"Tonight Tonight"


Collective Soul
"The World I Know"


Ace of Base
"The Sign"


Goo Goo Dolls
"Iris"


I will do this again in the future....

Any given Sunday...

So all weekend I've pretty much done nothing but work on my latest video project while watching the Back To The Future Trilogy over and over on one of the college movie networks. (It's kids and sibs weekend, so the university made sure to have relatively clean movies on.) I've never really watched the trilogy ever, so I did finally get to see the whole thing over the weekend. I also watched a bit of National Lampoon's Vacation and Indiana Jones, which were featured on the other university channels :-P

My project is roughly about halfway finished. It's taking quite some time because it's sort of a music video for a 4-1/2 minute song. It's also kind of a revolutionary work for me because I am teaching myself how to sync up animation with speaking (I made a smiley that sings the song... And this is the first time I've animated lip syncing). It's not as hard as I thought it would be, once you get the jist of it. I think if I had a more advanced program like Flash I could shit done a lot faster.

The second half of the video is going to be a bit more complex than the first half, so I'll keep working on it and try to get it online as soon as possible.

As for now, it's a nice day and I missed out on most of it, so I think I'm going to take a break from the computer in order to hang out with Luke.

Peace!

eoijalansdf....

Ever have those days where you just don't get done the things you had planned to do...

Well, that's how my weekend has been going so far. Last night, I was suppose to hang out with Luke and watch Narnia at the Union. Well, that just didn't happen. Instead, I got stuck on the computer and made another video and just watched TV.

Then today we were suppose to watch a couple movies that we rented last week and are due back today, but it just never happened either. I spend the majority of the day sleeping. And being downright lazy. My apologies, bud...

Anywho, it's already getting dark out and the sky is clear as crystal... It sucks that there isn't any skywatch today for my astronomy credit.

I think I need to get some fresh air. This dorm room is closing in on me.....

Damn...

I didn't get done what I wanted to do tonight. I was s'pose to chill with Luke again, but my computer had me in a trance and before I know it, it's 1:00 AM.

I worked on a new video today. I figured I have a lot of making up to do for my Global Warming video, and I got quite the lecture from the girlfriend last night about it. (Hey - I told her not to watch it ;-) LOL. Anyways, I promised Beth I would make videos that were less violent and more cutesy.

So without any further adieu (or however you spell it...)

Thought's On The Universe

New logo...

Hey peeps. I made a new "logo" for my WTF?! Productions. I think I will put a logo like this one at the beginning of all the bullshit videos I make. I'll try to make several logos with different endings...hehe...

Logo #1

Thirzday...

Well, today was okay. Of course, I slept through my math test. I don't know how I managed to do that considering that the test was at 4:00 in the afternoon. My sleeping has been so irregular lately. But my teacher e-mailed me, so maybe she'll give me a make-up quiz or something....

Anywho, I did have a pretty good day today. The weather was at least nice and still is at this midnight hour. Hung out with Luke: we did some creative collaboration at Grounds for Thought and watched Lost in Translation cause it's an awesome movie. We also played a bit of ping pong, which we are both becoming rather skillfull.

Now, I'm just chillin' out, enjoying life. I'm hoping that my grades are swell this semester. I need to just stick it out another month, then get started with the real deal next year. Summer will take forever, but I'll spend quality time with Beth and my grandma and cutting up turkey breasts. I need to invest in a car and a digital video camera... that'll cost me a pretty penny....

Troozer Schnoz!

Holy Hump Day!!!!

[[[[[[[EDIT]]]]]]]]

For reasons of good form, I decided to remove my recent video titled "global warming" from the Internet. I just don't want people to get the wrong idea about me. I am not a neo-nazi and I don't worship the devil. LOL! I will keep the video in my own, underground archives, but it's nothing that should be placed on a pedastal of pride... especially in the hands of people who are sensitive to the images shown within the piece.

So, in future broadcasts, I will try to keep my videos meaningful and clean... Well, maybe a little dirty, but nothing as morbid and grucifying as "Global Warming."

You also have to realize that I made the video after having no sleep last night... so a little insanity might've erupted in my imagination to make such a dreadful theme..............

Toosday...

Ugh....

Just woke up. I have to make a change real soon... a big change. I can't keep doing this stay-up-late, wake-up-late kind of lifestyle. I have to eat less junk, work out more often, and start being awake when the rest of the world is. Going to bed early is a bitch. But I better get in that habit.

Tomorrow morning I have an appointment with an advisor from the VC Tech department. I looked into some stuff yesterday abouthow the whole co-op thing works. Turns out that next fall I will probably take some regular courses, then next spring I will do my first co-op. Then maybe next summer I'll take some more courses up here at BG. And I'll keep alternating like that until I graduate. I'm going to be a very busy man, and it's going to take a lot of responsibilities. I have to rework my resume, write a cover letter, and perhaps make up a portfolio. With what, I don't know, but maybe I work with something over the summer... Like doing some mock commercials and such to show off my video editing skills.

I'm a little nervous about all this, but at the same time, I think if I read the co-op manual and talk to a lot of people in the faculty, I'll be okay. I'm really very excited about everything. It seems that my job won't be as irregular as I thought it might be, as I will be working 40 hours a week during each co-op semester, which means I might have enough money to afford my own apartment by time I'm done with next year so Beth and I can live up at BG until I'm done with college.

Of course, other than buying a ton of editing software and perhaps a video camera, I'm gonna need a car. Hope I can manage all that!!!

Munday...

I had a dream this morning about my dead grandpa. He was alive again, and my family was gathered all together at a typical holiday party at my grandparent's old house (which used to be a schoolhouse near the small town of Maria Stein, Ohio.) I did not want to wake up from the dream. But then it came down to having to force myself to get up to go to class. I was a little late today, but it was worth the extra time with my grandpa, had it been only even a mental projection of him....

(If you wish to read the following section, you can... but it's just a lot of ramblings, so I guess you could skip down to the next section if you don't feel like wasting time...)

[Anyways, today in IPC we basically just brainstormed ideas for our final speech topics for a persuasive speech. Well first we eliminated any kind of speech topics we didn't want to hear about, so this cancelled out all those overrated topics like abortion, drinking age and capital punishment.

Then we did an activity as a class where we had to divide a piece of paper into four sections, each with a different purpose: Personal beliefs, social beliefs, emotions, and values. For each category, our instructor had us write down answers to questions related to those categories. Well, this activity just made me realize that I have no specific personal or social beliefs. I am also blind of the things that cause my emotions, and my values revolve around music, movies, and video games.

This activity kind of scared me. I mean, I never really thought about it before, but I really don't have a really cool personality. We had to answer a question about what really ticks us off, and I had no idea how to answer that. Then we had to answer what we do to make us happy, and the only things I could come up with that was writing, playing piano and having sex.

I think I'm starting to lack substance again. I heard from someone I look up to that balance is the key to success. You have to spend a little time doing a mix of things you like doing and hate doing. Mark Twain also once advised that you do at least one thing you don't want to do every day, that way it won't be so painful to do out duties.

I think a lot of the knowledge I have retained over the past 20 years of my life originated from movies and the Internet. And of course school. Sometimes I feel like maybe I wasted too much of my time holding myself back from making mistakes or taking risks. I use to think that I was more mature than many of my peers, and in many ways I am. But I feel like I lack something that a lot of other people my age have.

And maybe I lack in that something as a result of my rapid maturity. That's probably why lately I've been trying to slow my mature-rate down by acting obnoxious and retarded sometimes.]

Damn I write a lot of bullshit.

Anywho... yesterday I worked my butt off with Spencer and Alex, painting their gamers lounge. It was fun, but I am so damn quiet sometimes. Those guys can just talk and talk and I feel like that I don't really venture enough in this world to have a talk about many things.

I wish I could be more talkative. Not loquacious, but just enough to have an interesting conversation. I think if I could have a good conversation with people, it wouldn't be so hard for me to establish some more friendships.

Of course, I think a lot of what I have to say will only make people think that I am out there. I'm too random and abstract that people would just be like: "WTF?" That's why most of my jokes tend to be dry. I have this scenario constantly going on in my head and when I think of something funny to say, people just can't relate to it, thus, can't understand why what I said was funny.

However, when you're that guy who just doesn't talk in a social situation, people are just weirded out by you altogether. I think the reason why I'm so quiet is because of a quote Abe Lincoln coined: "Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

Well, Abe, sometimes it just might be beneficial to be a little foolish....

Long, long night...

Wow... I had an interesting day today.

I wake up at 2. Beth gives me a call to get online and help her decide on getting some Def Leppard and Journey Tour tickets. Can't wait to see them in July at the Riverbend! Then I found out that my old buddies Spencer and Alex started up a business... a REAL business. It's a gamer's lounge where kids will get to order beverages and play RPG's, LAN games, and DDR. They have a website and even rented out a store for the whole thing! I was amazed! Here's the link! In the future, I will have a button for my links list made for the lounge! It opens on April 28....REALLY looking foward to it!

Then I decided to finally clean my room and do some laundry in celebration of finding a new major (I'm weird like that...) After that, I gave Luke a call and we got together and made a visit to Bob Evans. Well, ironically, as we were eating, Spencer and Alex walk in with their friend John. So I went up to say hi real quick because I haven't talked to them in about a month and I thought I'd congratulate them on starting their business. They asked me if I wanted to help them paint their walls tonight, so I agreed, though I felt a little reluctant about it because I had already had plans with Luke. But I also figured that I have sort of deserted Spence and Alex for the past month, so I figured it'd be a good way to catch up with each other.

Well, Luke and I then finished our meal and we decided to go get some movies that we could watch sometime over the next week, so we hit up Blockbuster and got Pulp Fiction and Grave of the Fireflies, which is another Miyasaki film. Then we decided to browse BG for a nice coffee chop we could chill at on a regular basis to discuss project ideas, hang out, or just have our dorky, awesome-ass random deep conversations of the universe and why things would be cooler if we ran it. Well, we both have heard of a coffee shop/library called Grounds For Thought, though we have never really been there, but I had an idea of where it was and we did make it. It was actually a really decent place to just chill and talk. So we'll probably be making more trips there in the future.

After that I went home, changed clothes and headed to the lounge. Well, it turns out that they had some painting done, but there was an "office" in the middle of the main room built out of lumber and dry wall that we had to tear down before going any further with the painting. So having only enough tools for two men to do that job, Alex and I decided to make a trip to Howard's to see a couple bands play. There wasn't anyone too great tonight. It was a cover-themed night, and the first band we saw covered U2 and the second band played a couple Marvin Gaye songs, then we left to go back to the lounge.

Well the office was still halfway up, so I decided to take some pics. We didn't do anything to heavy on painting yet because we had to clean up a lot of dry wall and work on remove a wall mirror and shelf. It was a fun night though. I'll post up pics as soon as I get the okay from Alex and Spencer....

Finally at about 3:30 (technically 4:30), we called it quits. Alex went back home to Spencers while John, Spencer and I made a trip to Big Boy. We got some food, swapped some good-times stories, and then made our ways back home. I think I might help them out some more tomorrow, but I will also be sure to hang out with Luke, as we have some movie-watching and ping-ponging to do!