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2010-04-05T06:19:00.001-07:00

I kinda like the weird way I experience art. It's probably the same way everyone else does, but I just haven't put it into words yet.

Take Tool (again? no thankee), they're not the easiest band to get into. They're definitely NOT pop, but they're not indy either. They're too progressive to be rock, and too mellow to be metal. Unlike nearly every other band out there, the guitarist on tool is a minimalist. He doesn't even strum chords. 60% of most of Tool's songs are bass+drum-driven. The vocals and guitar make that (30%) leap that people relate to(the vocals, obviously carry the lyrics, which with most people associate with, and the guitar riff is what gives the overall melody). 10% has to do with their mixing and additional instrumentation.

Well, that's for most of their songs. One of their songs, Mantra, is at its core, a recording of a cat being squeezed in slow-mo(i'm not joking). Faaip De Oiad (The voice of God, in Enochian) is an excerpt of a phone call to a radio show by a self proclaimed Area 51 worker. That track scares the shit out of me. Die Eier Von Satan, you guys probably already read that post, so forget about that.

The point is, THERE IS NO EFFING POINT, I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO The Grudge SOMEONE HELP. I listened to it 4 times today and will probably listen to it twice more before I go to bed. I think I should forget about blogging like a regular person and dedicate the rest of this post to trying to understand that song.

Let's see, it's the first song of their Lateralus album. According to a fanboy, if you rearrange the song list to match a fibonacci spiral, the songs flow fluidly from one to the other. I tried cutting-and-pasting them to see if it worked. It did, but only for the first half an hour. Some songs flowed better when in their original order. (Disposition-Reflection-Triad, especially)

The Grudge starts off with a barely audible click-whir sound. Like a machine starting. i guess it's fitting since it's the first track of the album (before rearrangement). Then after 3 or 4 seconds, the music starts. 1st riff, or theme, with pounding drums. then just the guitar, still 1st riff. softer though, vocals mechanic. Drum build up. silence with guitar soft, drum pad, 2nd riff tap-tataptap. Clutch it like a cornerstone. Impossible, but simple drum beat. pounding drums 2nd theme. 2nd theme with guitar riff.

Clutch it like a corner stone, uber pounding drums. 3rd theme. saturn ascends.

ahhh i can't do this. This song scares me. It's beautifully complex or maybe it's beautifully simple. I can't tell.

2010-04-01T08:04:00.000-07:00

Seems like I've been here before.
Seems so familiar.
Seems like I'm slipping
into a dream within a dream.
It's the way you whisper.
It drags me under
and takes me home.

2010-03-21T10:23:00.000-07:00

Whats coming through is alive,
Whats holding up is a mirror,
Whats singing songs is a snake,
Looking to turn my piss to wine.

They're both totally void of hate.
killing me just the same.

The snake behind me hisses
what my damage could have done
my blood before me begs me to open up my heart again

and i feel this coming over like a storm again

venomous voice tempts me drains me bleeds me leaves me cracked and empty drags me down like some sweet gravity.

I am too
connected to you
to slip away, fade away
days away i still feel you
touching me, changing me
and considerately killing me

happy new year

2009-12-31T10:23:00.001-08:00

The 'alien' alien

2009-12-27T12:35:00.000-08:00

There must be some interesting way of depicting an alien without it being just a distorted version of some known organism. The common depiction of the alien is an elongated human being, standing on it's rear legs, 2 eyes, a mouth and a large brain. It doesn't really seem alien to me. Just as God's are not Godly enough "We deny God as God.". Turns out we also deny that the alien is alien.

Progress!

2009-11-11T10:25:00.000-08:00

a warning

2009-10-22T10:28:00.000-07:00

if only blogging didnt take up so much time

Clutch it like a cornerstone

2009-10-15T11:59:00.000-07:00

Otherwise it all comes down

saturn ascends

comes round again

for one, for ten

ignorant to the damage done

wear the grudge like a crown

desperate to control.

big ass tanks

2009-09-16T14:04:00.000-07:00

Just to show how big the iron giant kv-ii was, i juxtaposed it with the tiger ii, which was one of the heaviest tanks back in the day.

2009-09-14T01:21:00.000-07:00

trying out snow camo on the kv2

2009-09-13T10:36:00.000-07:00

testing one two three. Oh lordy! This thing actually works! I cannae believe i'm blogging on a phone. This is so mainstream. Yeesh, sooner or later this may lead to twitter. I don't like! You know what. Since this blog is quite unread, i may as well convert it to a mobile blog, for anything interesting i may find on my many travels around...sunway and the rest of the universe!

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2009-09-03T09:08:00.001-07:00

Joker:You know how the last world war started? An argument over how many telephone poles Germany owed it's war debtors! HAHA! So, why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

Batman:(grabs the Joker)Because I heard it before, (whacks the Joker) and it wasn't funny the first time.

Ahh.. Batman and the Joker. the best comedic duo since Hitler and Stalin.

I actually pity the Joker. If there was two people to genuinely feel for in the fictional universe, it would be Batman and the Joker.

One account of the story of the joker goes like this:
He used to go by the name "Jack White". Jack worked at a chemical plant, but his real passion was stand up comedy. Encouraged by his pregnant wife, Jack quits his job at the chemical plant, and becomes a full time comedian. However, lacking the experience, and confidence, he bombs on stage night after night, and eventually hasn't enough to pay his rent=(

With a baby on the way, Jack looks for work with the mob. Some local gangsters hire him and use him to steal from the chemical plant he once worked for. While discussing terms with them at a bar, police come in and tell Jack that his pregnant wife was electrocuted to death in a freak accident.

Jack is stunned, but the gangsters coerce him into following through with their plan. The next night, Jack White is brought to the chemical plant and disguised. The Batman swoops in, and seeing Jack White(disguised as a criminal boss) hunts him down. Jack White falls into a vat of chemicals, but manages to swim to safety.

He removes his disguise and sees his reflection. His skin is bleached white, his eyes yellowed, lips swelled red, and hair gone green(lol?). Unable to cope with the random sequence of super bad luck, he goes mad, and becomes the Joker.

So, the next time you're frustrated, don't get even! Get MAD!

WW2.

2009-08-23T06:43:00.000-07:00

Just a quick reminder of why we should always be afraid of German guns.

Ok, let's start off with a relatively unpopular German weapon. The FG42. It was designed specifically for German Paratroopers to fill both the purpose of a long range rifle AND an automatic machine gun.

What seemed to be a simple stopgap solution turned out to be the basis for two modern weapon types;
the assault rifle AND the side-fed SAW guns like the M60.

Next, the fearsome MG42. This weapon was so advanced(for the time), it could fire at a rate of 1200 rounds per minute. That's twenty bullets every second. Fortunately for the Allies, it was not in very large supply, they only had to deal with the older MGs. The US and British army had training sections that taught their infantry how to deal with the psychological aspect of facing an MG42. It shot bullets at a rate that made it impossible for a human ear to detect the number of shots fire if the trigger was squeezed. It made a 'ripping' sound that earned the MG42 the nickname "Hitler's Zipper". The MG42 has influenced many modern designs and has served till the year 1999.

This is the mp28. Even though it's a WW1 era weapon, it was one of the first submachine guns ever, and when the Brits discovered it, they wrote in the Versailles Treaty that the German's were not allowed to research this sort of weapon, as it was too deadly.

German tanks are a different story. They weren't the best tanks(the Russians made better tanks towards the end of the war), but the Panther and Tiger were too high tech for WW2 tanks.

epic tank almost fail

2009-08-15T07:13:00.000-07:00

I tried out a three-coloured camo with my Tiger II, but it failed. Miserably.

First layer was green(no pic), then I covered the bits I wanted in green with glutack, then sprayed it beige.

Then I covered the bits I wanted in beige with more glutack, and sprayed the rest in brown.

Trust me, it came out bad. So I changed it all to this:

This post is very old, I just realized that it was laying around unpublished.

W.

2009-08-11T09:50:00.000-07:00

I don't like talkin' bout politics, but I've gotta admit, even though George W. Bush failed epicly as a politician, he succeeded as a comedian. Here's some of the things he said while in office:

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family

I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.

I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.

It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency.

Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] - shame on you. Fool me — You can't get fooled again.

I'm sure there's plenty more out there, but I'm not in the mood for THIS blog in particular.

Episode 7 : Special people

2009-04-04T10:41:00.000-07:00

Episode 6 : Home Invasion

2009-04-02T07:19:00.000-07:00

Episode 5 : Silence kills

2009-03-30T11:01:00.000-07:00

Episode 4 : Lost in translation

2008-12-14T09:52:00.000-08:00

Episode 3 : Stop & Stare

2008-07-23T06:46:00.000-07:00

Season 2 Episode 2 - a greener tomorrow

2008-07-05T23:36:00.000-07:00

Season 2 Episode 1- The end of the beginning

2008-06-20T23:13:00.000-07:00

Season 2 of the QotP

2008-05-20T09:16:00.000-07:00

Can you see the legs that The Green man is staring at?
Just an indication : The new season will be BIGGER, LAMER, and more COMPLEX
than season 1.

Any suggestions pls send to subhash91@gmail.com instead of the cbox, otherwise
there'll be no suspense.

Episode 8 : Fire in the hole!

2008-04-03T08:05:00.000-07:00

Episode7 : the crossroads

2008-04-02T07:36:00.000-07:00

Episode 6 : The curse of emoboy

2008-03-25T09:41:00.000-07:00

Episode 5 : No money, no funny-bunny, honey

2008-03-05T08:05:00.000-08:00

Episode 4 : Blind, Deaf, and Dumb

2008-03-03T09:15:00.000-08:00

Episode 3 : Crash & Burn!

2008-03-03T08:36:00.000-08:00

Episode 2 - Auditions (CLICK TO ENLARGE!!!)

2008-03-02T07:21:00.000-08:00

Episode 1 - Tumbling After....

2008-03-01T07:38:00.000-08:00

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supporting characters

2008-03-01T02:22:00.000-08:00

Hornyhooker
She is a super hero. She is deaf.

The Caper
He is the co super hero of Hornyhooker. He is blind.

Halfman
He is an enemy to The Purpelist and The Villagelder and Emoboy. He was semi purpelized by the Purpelist. He also has a split personality. One side of him is a softy (the purple side) and the other side is angry all the time. his pistol was fused onto his hand by
the Vilagelder.

REMEMBER
there will be additional characters brought in and out as extras/guest stars. the characters listed here are involved in the MAIN plot.

Main Chracters

2008-03-01T01:32:00.000-08:00

Ratface
He is the son of the Purpelist. He was transformed into a clockwork mouse by the Villagelder. His special power is laser vision thru his eyeballs. but he needs to be wound up to work, otherwise his legs stop working

He rules the planet tartarsauce. His arch enemy is the Purpelist. His feet were shot, hence the holes in his shoes, when he was fighting with the Purpelist. He is neither good nor evil. His super power is transformation. which he used to transform the Purpelists son.
the purpelist(i know purple is spelt wrong)
this is the antagonist of the show. He wants to kill the villagelder after what he did to his son, ratface. He was born with a radioactive green tail. He is kept safe from the radioactive energy by the backpack he carries. It also filters his fart gas(thats what the tubes are for).
Emoboy
He is the protagonist of the show. His powers are convincing emoness and crocodile tears. He can also make people feel bad for him.