This picture amuses me.

I cut my finger today playing with my butterfly pliers. So far, with all the swinging and flipping and dropping I've done, it has lost it's outer plastic casing on the handles, and all of the blades on one side flop around wildly. Maybe I'll take them out.
I'll have to post a video of my amazing skills. I'm the poserest poser in all of poserville! =D

Last night, Jacob and I found TWO INDESCRIBABLY HUGE ant piles in the backyard, so naturally we were throwing rocks at them and stuff. zAny got offended at me for that once. I guess it is cruel but that's what guys are supposed to do! It's built into our instinct system things! I mean before she gave me what for, it had never even occurred to me that I might consider not doing it, lol. So this time I remembered her and actually hesitated for a second, but the piles were so big that it had to be done. It was just necessary. They were that big. Seriously. Maybe I'll go apologize to them tonight. I hope they understand. =\


I really want to paint something tonight. My arms are sore from VBall. I'm afraid to watch the latest Lost episode. I like pants.

I don't do surveys! ...okay this one intrigued me. I'll try to make it interesting.

FOOD-OLOGY

Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. Cool Whip

Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. Don't care.

Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. Don't care.

Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick off of?
A. French Bread.

Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. Fresh Meat! [/diablo butcher voice]

Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Stuff. Boring question.

Q. What is your favorite type of gum?
A. Another boring question! Mintalicious.

*TECHNOLOGY*

Q. Number of contacts in your cell phone?
A. Apparently it has become a safe assumption that everybody in the world possesses a cell phone. I do not.

Q. Number of contacts in your email address book?
A. I have like 3 A-Books and I don't know which to count! =O

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. Me underneath my van

Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. Two in House #01 and one in House #02. All TVs are the same size and all of them have busted front A/V inputs. =)

*BIOLOGY*

Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Left mostly, but a bit of both. I'm still not as talented as Heidi Byedi.

Q. Do you like your smile?
A. k.

Q. What’s your best feature?
A. That's a matter of opinion. I say my SIDEBURNS!

Q. Which of your five senses do you think is keenest?
A. Oh man, there are so many! I mean I have my babe-dar, my sense of Awesome, my sense of muscles, my sense of common, my secret agent sense, my sense of mom's-going-to-turn-into-Hulk-soon....but I'd have to say my keenest is my Sipersense. It tingles.

Q. What is the heaviest item you lifted last?
A. In my entire lifetime by myself? Probably a transmission.

Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. Knock-knock! Who's there? Brian is! Brian is who? Brian is the guy who's never been knock-knocked unconscious! HAHAHA!

*MISC-OLOGY*

Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. No way, eh!

Q. Is love for real?
A. For you, my lady..it could be. *wink nudge* (if you're not a girl who isn't related to me and you just read this line, ummm...just keep moving. Otherwise, call me. Especially if you're Kristen's friend and your name is Sammy. ^_^ )

Q. If you could change your first name, what would you change it to?
A. Lichtenstein!!
...that's totally not true though.

Q. What color do you think you look best in?
A. Red and blue with black webbing.

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. I swallowed a Barbie bracelet once. Please don't ask me what it was doing in my mouth in the first place.

Q. If we weren’t bound by society’s conventions, do you have a relative you would make a pass at?
A. That's vile, dude. Besides, all my extended relatives are dysfunctional, lol.

Q. Have you ever saved someone’s life?
A. All the time! That's what Superheroes do! After all...With great power comes great responsibility.

Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Well...there is the story about the little old granny who defeated that supervillain when he was about to destroy me with his Subatomic-Nuclear-Fusion-Spider-Death-
Blaster-of-Death-O-Matic-Death Gun, but that's kind of an embarrassing story. =\

*DAREOLOGY*

Q. Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?
A. I think it might be physically impossible for me to be teh n00des in public.

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. No way! One of my pinkies alone can lift a car! I need those guys!

Q. Would you never go on myspace again for $50,000?
A. Oh sweet happy hoppin' heavens, that would be so wonderful, I can't even tell you!! Wowza!

Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. Physics say no.

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. Heck yeah! I'd do it over a period of a week or so though. ^_^

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for 1,000,000?
A. Nope, I don't believe so. Killing villains makes you no better than thems. I think that's in the Superhero Code of Honor or something like that. I don't think Punisher read it though.

Q. Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000?
A. That too would be oh so wonderful!

Q. What is in your left pocket?
A. My amazingly-nerdy butterfly pliers and my broken watch.

Q. How much alcohol did you have this week?
A. How much could a cement truck hold? That's probably the amount I drank.

Q. Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A. It has its moments but it's overly quoted and raved about.

Q. Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A. Carpet. MAGIC CARPET! We fly around sometimes!

Q. Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A. I do not talk about what goes on in bathrooms when I'm in there. ...except for the time when I sliced my finger open on the wall matting and started bleeding profusely. That hurt.

Q. Could you live with roommates?
A. Neu Deut Aboot Eut!

Q. How many pairs of flip-flops do you own?
A. ZERO. I hatt non-shoes. (wow I haven't said hatt in a long time. I'm so old-skool.)

Q. Where were you born?
A. In what might be the tallest building in Moses Lake, about 16 or so minutes away from my current location.

Q. Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A. When that one cop spotted Chris and Ben and I coming out of the back alley at night, all of us carrying computers to my big white van. Suspicious? Yes he was. =)

Q. What do you want to be when you grow up?
A. A crazy-awesome artist.

Q. What cell phone service do you have?
A. I don't service my phone. *cough*

RANDOM:

Q. First place you went this morning?
A. My computer to record myself shouting. I'm serious.

Q. What’s the last movie you saw?
A. Spy Game

Q. Do you smile often?
A. Yes, actually, quite a bit.

Q. Are you a friendly person?
A. Yeah. And when I'm in a bad mood I usually just keep quiet.

Q. What color shirt are you wearing?
A. Black and red

Q. Can you believe you just sat there and did this?
A. Honestly, no. Why did I do this? Am I feeling okay? I should check my temperature. I think watching Destinos has messed me up in the head. =\

Aaaahhhh! They fell in love in Destinos, and she's wearing this disturbingly translucent shirt, and they're like kissing and touching, and all the characters are so creepy, and now there's a freaky clown, and I'm getting really nauseous! Save me!!


EDIT:
Woohoo. Gee, I hope it's as great as the last one.[/sarcasm]
Here's another clip.

EDIT 02: I'm watching the episode before last of Lost. John fell 8 stories, landed on his back, somehow survived, and ended up with a bunch of cuts and bruises on his face. Ummmm?? He hit his face by landing on his back?

Painting. is. HARD.

I had fun tonight but it will be a lot more fun once I learn how to do stuff without being so terrible.

Needless to say, I've gained a lot of admiration for people who can paint well. =P

I've done away with my Lifetime Wellness class and I'm going to play VOLLEYBALL! The LW teacher was a loon! He had a dash of jerk, a hint of perv, and a sense of hard-to-like-ness about him. And he had no life outside of school stuff. I seriously don't know how Kristen lasted through that class.

Volleyball won't be the same without Ben and Pete though. =(

About 17 hours of driving, four ferry rides, 3 gas tank fill-ups, two frustrations of getting lost, one frustration of getting stuck in traffic, and one disobeyal of parents, all to get one hour of a reception. Was it worth it? I don't know. But it was nice seeing becca and Amber again. Plus Andrew and I got to listen to whatever music we wanted for a very long time in the car.

Also, Darren and I got to play a lot of Earth Defense 2017, which is one of the most glorious games I have ever played! Heroscape was good too.

But wow...lots of driving. I only wish we had made it in time for the actual wedding. -_-




My first art class tonight. Watercolors. We'll see how it goes...

STORY TIME!!

So I was online just doing stuff, doodeedoo, when a message popped up from Kristen's friend Jeremy. Apparently I was logged in as her. So we started talking and he randomly sent me to woot.com. Now at woot.com, they have items on the front page on sale, which are switched out each day...but today they were switching them out like each hour or so, and there's a bar down blow that slowly dwindles, letting you know when the sale disappears. Anyway, on the front page was a 256MB ScanDisk mp3/wma player with radio, voice recording, etc. and it was only $10 (plus $5 shipping)! I've been wanting an mp3 player but not badly enough to spend any money, so this had my attention. I browsed a few reviews and they all said it was a good player so I bought it because the time was running out.

So we'll see what happens. If I hate it, I suppose I can sell it for at LEAST $15. =)
..and in the future, I should be more careful about talking to Kristen's friends.

I just watched Ghost Rider. Puh. THETIC. Fortunately I didn't go to the Theater or pay anything to see it. But seriously, the story was terrible, the acting was terrible, Nicholas Cage was terrible, the other characters were terrible, the dialog was terrible, and EVERYTHING was just BEGGING to be in Mystery Science Theater 3000 someday. They would have a lot of fun with it, lol. Sometimes the f*re effects were cool, as well as maybe even a couple other effects. But that's probably all the good I can say about the movie.

Actually it's a good party show. If you want to get together with your friends and make fun of something I recommend it! Have fun! ;)



I wasn't going to stay up until 2:30am again tonight like I have all week. Oops. Oh well, it's Spring break!!

HEY EVERYBODY ANDREW WAS GOING TO DESTROY ME SO I GOT A MYSPACE I THINK ITS REALLY COOL CHECK IT OUT LOL THX BAI!!!' :)))))))))))))))))))))

http://www.myspace.com/manlybrian

I was using somebody else's computer and they had Internet Explorer and I found that when viewing my blog with IE, there's a broken image link on my header! =O

Stupid IE.


I'm going to eat some FedEx gum.

Three unrelated things:

First, I watched The Prestige last night and it's pretty greatastic. You should watch it. Right now.

Second, I hate washing things. Counters, cars, dishes, floors, windows, doesn't matter, it's all terrible. I'm not a good washer. I was washing some things for mom today and I thought, "Surely it has been an hour now!" and I looked at that clock...it had been 15 minutes. O_O

Third, the other day I was watching some Marilyn Manson movies on youtube, just because I was curious. Creepy? Extremely. We're talking serious jibbly jibblies here. But at the same time, it was also kind of interesting...as I watched his concerts and interviews, I found out something about him: He seriously hates Jesus. Now you might think "well DUH!" but what I mean is, most people reject Jesus by denying him or believing something else, but Mr. Manson is different. It seems as though he actually acknowledges the truth about who Jesus is and what he said, and yet STILL makes a conscious decision to turn against him. It's as if he believes Jesus existed and was God's son, but he hates what He said, and he hates that He's the only way to heaven. So he rejects Him and curses Him. I watched as Manson stood behind a giant pulpit at his concert, almost like a dictator, and all the people were screaming out stuff, and Manson did his screamy song all about hating Christ, and then started like ripping pages out of a Bible and stuff...It was creepy, but interesting too. Honestly, it made me kind of sad when I thought of all the joy I've gotten out of a life with Christ and then looked at the way his life is and watched as he hurled insults at the Lord. I think he knows what he's doing and he has an idea of what's in store for him, but he doesn't care. He hates Jesus.

EDIT: Another interesting thing I noticed was that he never mentions a word about Buddha or Allah or any other "gods". It was only Jesus that he was hating on. That's one of the things that makes me believe he's acknowledged the truth and rejected it. That's also one of the marvelous things about Christ: He's real and that realness shows up in people's lives, whether they love it or hate it. I don't see such an affect with false gods.

So on the way here tonight, I was just driving along, lalala, probably singing really loudly to myself seeing how high I could get my vocals without breaking or sounding girly, when I suddenly saw some red and blue flashy lights flick on behind me. So naturally I pulled over, but so did the red/blue lights. "Sweet jumping junipers!" I'd never been pulled over before and although I had an idea of what I'd need (Drivers license, registration, proof of insurance...something like that?) I'd never had to get those out before, so I had no idea what they looked like or anything. I wasn't panicky though, since I couldn't think of anything I might've done wrong...but anyway, I rolled down my window and waited a bit. Then I looked in my mirror and noticed that there were some headlights behind me...and then the flashy blues and reds! There was a car sandwiched between me and coppey! So I waited a second longer, saw copper-man get out and walk to the other car's window and thought "*whew!* It wasn't me!" Then I cautiously turned my van back on and got out of there, heheh. So although I have still never been "pulled over" I do know what it feels like. =)

EDIT: I also found my Jones Soda candy tonight! Totally forgot about it and it wasn't even empty yet. I'd better start eating it again.

Don't you just hate it when you think of a song you heard recently and you remember the awesome melody, but you can't remember the name, the singer(s), the lyrics, or anything else about it?

Why doesn't google have a melody search!?


Don't you just love it when you finally find it? It was Rise Against - "The Good Left Undone". I heard it for the first time either yesterday or the day before so I could only remember it well enough to play it on the piano and not know what it was, heheh.

Hmmm...I have quite a ways to go before I become truly awesome. Ah well. But I'm really going to have to buy Painter IX now, it's fantastic!

[EDIT] SWEET! I'm reliving the days of my old Ford Taurus! My van key has worn out enough that I can start the van up and take the key out while it's still running. Then I can just twist the ignition to turn it off, no key necessary. My van just gets better all the time...now I just need to bolt down a couch inside, wire up a TV and an XBox and I'll be set. =D [/EDIT]


I need a new creepy face picture for my background! Somebody volunteer!



Do j00 know vy? Do j00 know vy?

A couple Chevelle songs from their upcoming album. I can't wait. =D

Movie One

Movie Two

!!!!!

I just found out that a trial of Painter IX came with my stylus tablet! That's the program I've wanted to get and now I've tried it out and...it...is...AWESOME!!! I only had about half an hour to play with it because I have to leave for class now, but it's INCREDIBLE! STUPENDOUS! RADICOOL! RAWKIN'! SWEET! BEAUTY! I'm going to try and buy it with a student discount for about $100. ^_^

Anyway, in my half-hour of doodling, I drew this poorly painted tanfa, heheh. I'll have to learn how to use the program. I've never painted before and I really don't know what any of the brushes do.

I was...tagged. O_O Well the tagging stops at me because only YOU (or I) can prevent forest f*res and internet survey thingies. I'm required to name the 5 things that come to my mind when I read these words.

Celebrity:
1) Cory Miller

2) Hugh Jackman

3) Tom Hanks

4) Tom Cruise

5) Jimmy Stewart

Happy:

1) Meal

2) Gilmore

3) Jazzy-mina

4) Pie

5) Explosions

Amazing:

1) More Explosions

2) God

3) My right hand

4) Muse

5) My brother

Political:

1) Bill Clinton (o_O)

2) Adventures In Odyssey

3) White House

4) Money

5) Boring

Food:

1) Pizza

2) Hamburgers

3) Moose

4) Lettuce

5) Grape Gravy


I don't have an explanation for all of those, they're just what came into my head, lol. *ahem* I really really really really really really really don't feel like going to school tomorrow. Oh well, only 3 more days left. Too bad Spring Break is so short.

*Waits for Cory/Jesse to complain about Daylight Savings Time on their blogs...*

We went all the way to Lacey today with one of the brand new UHauls, the biggest kind they make, and about 2.5 hours and $10,000.00 later, we had the whole UHaul packed full from front to back. We took the entire Not-So-Easily-Portable Blimpie's restaurant back to the store here in ML, unloaded, and now we have a computer store full of restaurant junk, lol. *whew* That was a lot of work and I'm pretty worn out, but I have $100 in my pocket, I got a couple free meals out of the deal, hopefully this Summer I will now have a place to work, and I'm happy. ^_^

And tomorrow it's MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 TIME!! It's going to be The Final Sacrifice, followed by GODZILLAAAA!!! Excellent. =D

I have to be up at 6:00am tomorrow because we leave, yet again, for Lacey. We're going to go get the restaurant and bring it home. I'm going to die. I'm already so tired, I don't know how I'll get up early in the morning to move a ton of heavy stuff. =_=


Muse is fantastic. They're so great live, it's ridiculous. ...And don't be afraid of the second song, it's one of their scarier ones. =)

Here are some shots of the Penny Arcadenites getting hosed. I only care about my brother and his victim...I mean Amber..*cough*..since I don't even know anybody else and none of them are nearly as cool as he is anyway. =)

Look at the evil expression on his face. He's so menacing!

She was probably like, "Ha! You got nothing."

And he was probably all like, "Death's comin' for ya!"

And she was probably like, "*yawn* whatever."

And then he made the serve that destroyed her, but we can't show the results because they're too graphic for this blog.

He apparently let her live though, since she managed to make a comment here last time I talked about this. How did she get here anyway? Am I really so popular that webcomic celebrities read about my life? errr...I mean of COURSE I'm that popular!
(I wonder if I can get her autograph...)


Anyway, if you're interested, all the pictures are here.

Well, apparently Captain America is really REALLY dead this time. Mr. Marvel President actually said so. So now what? I wonder if he'll come back to life...or maybe there will be 4 Cappy Posers! ...hmmm...now why does that idea sound so familiar? Oh well. Thanks anyway, Captain America, for all your hard work at keeping our country safe from Nazis and Supervillains! (by the way, you're kind of ugly in this picture)

I was floating in a peaceful sea, 'rescued' by a sinking ship.

I've come to really like mewithoutYou. The singer doesn't sing, he just talks and shouts, but it's strangely intriguing and sounds really cool. Also their lyrics are poetic, and although I'm not into poetry, I still find them interesting. Plus I like them because they wrote a song called 'O Porcupine' so there you go. =D

Furthermore, their a bunch of loons in concert and their lead singer dances like a hippie (and looks like one too). It cracks me up. XD





My life's a cup of sugar I borrowed before time began and forgot to return.

All of these ablums are on my Amazon wishlist. Good grief, man, how am I going to get them all? I need more money to spend on myself. =P

(oh by the way, I think I found Jesse's wishlist.)

So I have to brag about this one. Penny-Arcade sent out a Ping-Pong challenge to any video game companies that would accept. Sucker Punch did, the P-cade mans came, and they got completely destroyed. My brother placed about 6th among the 7 selected Sucker Punchers and he owned his female Penny-Arcade opponent. Pretty hilarious. =D

Anyway, here's the bit they wrote about the event.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/

"Well we had our ping pong match with Sucker Punch last Friday and I must say things did not go well for us. The Sucker Punch “Rockets” lived up to their studio's name and left us with a big old purple shiner. Already there is talk here in the office that our glorious victory march through the game industry is now looking more like a trail of tears.

We showed up around 6pm for our match and we got a great tour of their facilities. When it came time to play our team was introduced to the couple dozen spectators on hand. Then it was time to introduce the Sucker Punch players and that’s when things got a little crazy. As the lights dimmed music began to swell from some unseen source. Flashlights blazed on and swept back and forth across the room. Then, amplified by a megaphone the “rockets” were called out one by one. Each one paused briefly in the doorway to gesture at the cheering fans before taking his place on the far side of table. I can understand why you might think I’m joking. I promise you I’m not. Let’s just say the intimidation factor was high.

The games started out pretty rough and really didn’t get much better as we moved through the ranks. Our man Mike played a guy who used the “inverted claw” grip. We thought this was a joke until we saw him lift his paddle, completely avoiding its handle and instead gripping it the way a basket ball player might palm a ball. My own match was against an ambidextrous giant of a man who played the entire match while tossing his racket back and forth between his massive paws. Our man Robert was the only one to even win a round. With the games tied at two each it came down to a nail biting final round in which Robert was eventually bested.

We may not have won but the evening was still a success. We had a great time with the Sucker Punch people and everyone here at PA wants to thank them for their hospitality. Kiko is working on getting some photos of the event uploaded and I’ll let you know when that happens. Our next match is in two weeks against Microsoft Casual Games. They might read this and think its okay to relax. They might even begin to feel a tingle of confidence. Let me tell you now, that would be unwise. We may have been beaten but all that means is that now we are angry. Microsoft employees are encouraged to slaughter a lamb and mark their doorways because in two weeks, Penny Arcade is coming.

-Gabe out "

Goodbye, me hearties.. I'm going to Olympia! ...well actually I'm going to Lacey.

Oh yeah, we're awesome.
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lol, this is such a stupid song. I took a bit of everything suggested.

-Here Is The Song, Eh-
EDIT: (fixed download link)

Nervous Clone:

Nobody knows
What it's like to be
A nervous clone....a clone
A carbon copy
Of somebody else's
skin and bones....bones

Mostly I'm alone
But some of my best friends
Are gnomes....the gnomes
They don't reject me
But offer me a place to live
Which I call home....my home

And you cannot
Understand
What it's like being an outcast
In elementary school
They called me Doppleganger boy
At family reunions too
They took some super-glue
And stuck my 27 gold doubloons
The gnomes gave those to me
It makes me want to scream

One day
While talking to my squid
He told a story about
A secret
That he'd learned while in the ocean
About some alien lemon people

And you cannot
Understand
What it's like being an outcast
And you cannot
Understand
What it's like being an outcast

He predicted
That the aliens would come....come
And attack our world
Leaving no survivors

I say good
Let them come
Let them bring their lemon guns

'Cause you cannot
Understand
What it's like being an outcast
'Cause you cannot
Understand
What it's like being an outcast