Back in Hell

First off I have to say, Fuck TV commercials. The last couple of weeks of summer came by faster than I expected and all I'm trying to do is enjoy the time I have left but all I see is commercial after commercial about "Back to School". What the hell? These commercials started in JULY!

No I do not want to get a new haircut for school (Well, actually I did get a haircut, but I don't need a commercial to tell me to get a haircut, I just look in the mirror and if my hair looks bad and I can't do anything with it then it's time for a cut). No I do not want to get a whole new wardrobe for back to school. And FUCK NOOOOO I was not "Rock-Staring" at you, but I'm about to Rock-Shove-My-Foot-Up-Your-Ass!!!! (thank you Connor for the last quote :P) These TV advertisements made sure that school was never from my mind and therefore a constant downer on my mood.

Anyways I'm back in school again, didn't manage to get that creative writing class with Connor and I have a crappy lunch but that's why they call it hell school right? This summer sucked weatherwise with all the raining but I was also lazy so my gundam remains uncompleted. It's about 95% done with primer but....now the parts are just sitting at my desks. It rained again today.

And now something to make this post not all about me and my whining. The Trailer for Avatar came out yesterday and it looks amazing. For those of you who don't know its a Sci-Fi film that was planned 14 years ago by director James Cameron who also filmed Aliens, Terminator 2 and Titanic. Short synopsis is humans are colonizing a life-bearing planet with a race of sentient beings known as the Na'vi. The atmosphere is not breathable by humans so they create a Na'vi/human hybrid that harbors a human's consciousness as the "pilot". Then the battle for the planet ensues. James Cameron is supposed to be using some pretty incredible new technology to film this movie such as a 3d camera that uses two lenses to simulate depth of vision just like our eyes. The HD trailer looked quite amazing and if nothing else the movie will be gorgeous to watch. Here's to hoping it turns out ok.

My Gundam will Kick Your Gundam's Ass

Well, unfortunately this summer has sucked for painting my Gundams. It rains every couple of days, jacking up the humidity so that the paint will dry poorly and look like ugly betty. The Primer that I ordered came yesterday (While I was at Connor's house) and now I just need to pick up some laquer thinner from a hardware store and wait for a good day to finish painting, hopefully tomorrow.

The stuff I wanted to use was called Mr. Surfacer and is made in Japan so it's pretty hard to find in the states and most places you'll find it online will make you pay for international shipping and will take weeks. Luckily I found this great site "Weber Plastic Models", and was able to pick it up for $5.39 and a $2 shipping charge. This stuff is supposed to be like the best stuff to use for plastic model kits. I'm excited to get to try it out.



I just set up a photostream for my gundam pics on flickr here: Gundam Pics. Hopefully I'll get some new pictures of a fully primed gundam up there soon.

Swine Flu has entered my World.....of Warcraft

Yep, you read that title correctly, swine flu....in World of Warcraft. Here's a screenie:

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Apparently this disease has been in the game for more than a year, and its just coincidence that we're being plagued (ha, pun) by the same disease today. WoW really brightened my day when I saw this, yep, I felt joy at the sight of a deadly disease, how awesome. Heres a link on the stats of this disease on wowhead.com: Swine Flu

On a somewhat related note, 2 days ago I recieved an email from Blizzard Entertainment (devolopers of WoW) that my old account that I no longer use was signed up for a free 10 day trail. I thought this was odd but didn't really think anything of it. Today I get another email, here is an exerpt:

****Notice of Account Closure****

Account Name: EXIMIUSNERO

Account Action: Closure
Reason for Action: Terms of Use Violation - Economy Exploitation

After a thorough investigation, we have found that a player of the account listed above participated in activities designed to gain an unfair advantage in the World of Warcraft economy.

Damnit! I inadvertently broke those terms that nobody reads!

Hmm, so I guess someone hacked into my old account, time to change the password on my new one!!!

Assorted funstuffs

Well, haven't posted in a while, but thought I'd tell you about what I've been up to.

I finally read Watchmen 2 weeks ago and man, what an amazing book. Rorschach has you sucked into the story from the first page. The things that happened in that book were pretty shocking, and more so because it was written in the 80's. I love Dr. Manhattan. Anyway I'm super excited to see the movie, I'm going opening day this Friday.

I'm so tired of this Chicago weather. I need it to be spring so I can spray paint my gundams :(

I revisited Batman: Gotham Knight this weekend after having another dismal weekend at my dad's. Watched it twice, the second time with commentary on and it was awesome. I noticed a lot more things this time and picked out the few links between the 6 episodes written by different writers. This was the first commentary I've seen on a dvd and I thought it was great. I felt a lot closer to the dvd and batman in general (lol I sound gay) and it was really cool to hear what these guys and Kevin Conroy ( I love him! lol more gayness) had to say.

Batman R.I.P. Ends!

Well, Batman R.I.P. ended this december and it was a great ride. I'm still new to the comic book world (starting at the infinite crisis a couple of years ago) and this monthly batman comic has been my favorite so far (Booster Gold coming in a close second though). In this six issue arc bruce tries to find the leader of the Black glove, an organization he believes to be out to kill him. Some of the ideas Morrison used in writing this series were great, like using very strange and campy batman stories from 50 years ago and somehow making them work in a modern day comic book.

I have to say though, I am a bit disapointed with the ending. It leaves off Batman's fate and the identity of the black glove pretty ambigous (though we all know Bruce isn't going to die right :P). I myself was getting very excited for the big reveal and was sort of letdown with the lack of clear answers. I guess I'll have to read closer on subsequent reads.