Life is falling to pieces: an illustrated journal

Non-Entry #4: I have kick ass friends

2007-02-09T16:49:00.000-05:00

Check this out:

That's one of my best friends, Chrissy, on the cover of the freaking newspaper!!! How awesome is that?? I'm so proud. :D

Entry #81: Hace F-f-f-f-frío!

2007-02-05T17:10:00.000-05:00

I wrote this today on my lunch break. The multipage update is still coming... this just came first. ^^

Entry #80: Another entry from a month ago!

2007-01-31T17:28:00.000-05:00

Ok, so this is like the last of the unpublished entries. Sure, it looks like everything will go smoothly by the end of that entry... but when does anything ever work out as planned??? Sure enough, my relief at the end of that evening was soon shattered! (Damnit!)

Anyway, I'm currently writing an entry that will update everything and discribe everything up to date, in a finely (ok, maybe not finely) illustrated manner. Although I do promise that the handwriting in my next entry will be a little easier to read. Somewhat more legible, I assure you. (Not that its finished yet... so who knows. I'm not known for my fine penmenship. >:P )

Entry #79: Don't be confused... this entry is a month old. O_O

2007-01-30T10:56:00.000-05:00

Seriously though... that old man started ranting and raving about how we didn't have to lie to him if we didn't want to give him money and how it was such sacriledge to have lied to him on a Sunday and how its the one day out of the week you shouldn't lie and he just kept preaching and preaching and we couldn't go anywhere! We were just stuck in traffic under the underpass of the bridge! It was horrible. I mean first of all, he asked my boyfriend. My boyfriend has cancer and is unemployed. He has no money. Unless the man expected us to go sifting through the clutter looking for some loose change, he was out of luck. However, he refused to believe that because OBVIOUSLY if one owns a rundown work vechicle such as the van, one must OBVIOUSLY have money on them. I myself had only a little bit of cash on me, but that was accounted for regarding gas for the van and lunch for the cast. Of course, the old man didn't ask me and his lecture was all directed at my boyfriend.. but thats not the point! The guy was a jerk for jumping to conclusions and his great big lecture was based off assumptions! Plus, my boyfriend ain't christian, so I don't really thing the whole Sunday thing applies to him.. not that it would have mattered any to that guy.

Entry #78: I dont know if this actually counts...

2007-01-26T18:26:00.000-05:00

The above was not actually written in any journal. Truth be told, my scanner hasn't been hooked up all month! :x
Ok... updates... hmm...

Well, aside from the fact that I'm obviously still alive, I have two fully written updates in my journal that were done before 2007 began and a couple of entries that I thought about writing... but obviously did not. They're coming! I swear! I've just been preoccupied with holidays, filming, stress over rescheduling filming, editing, getting everything in so I can actually pass the damn class, and followed up by slacking off for a week.

You are officially up to date.

I unplugged my scanner to make room for my hard drives and camera and other video related essentials and haven't hooked it back up since. I'm good for laziness like that. The above illustration was done on my snazzy new wacom tablet that I got from Santa. ^^ It was done quickly, so excuse the sloppiness, since I wanted to reply to the recient surge in "Where the hell are you?!"s and "Are you still alive?" responses I've been getting. Its cool to know you all still care. ^^

Alright.. new incentive. I'll try to get my journal all updated with back updates and new updates by monday. (Much to the dismay of my angry computer, I'll be away for the weekend. Going to be filming another project with a friend...speaking of which, crap, I forgot to call her back! XP

Anyway.. enjoy the comic. I gotsta jet! :D

Non-Entry #something or other

2006-12-18T21:12:00.000-05:00

Heh, there is a hand written journal entry written.. i just haven't gotten around to scanning it yet today. Possibly late tonight? Maybe tomorrow morning? What can I say, its been craaaaazzzzyyyy.

Filming is a hetic task. To tide you over... here are some screen shots from my shoot this weekend. These are from the opening scene.

To make sense of the last two pics, that guy in the flannel, Dan, is basically fucked, because the other white guy, Max, just grabbed all the money and ran. Since Max is Dan's boy, the other two turn on him for the stolen cash. Eek! I wouldn't want to be in his shoes right now. o_O'

Entry #77: Things to do; People to avoid

2006-12-05T08:19:00.000-05:00

Entry #76: With just a hint of sarcasm

2006-11-30T18:20:00.000-05:00

The only curse word I purposely left out was "cunt" and thats because its the only one I find personally offensive.

If you have no idea what this entry is referring to, check out its inspiration: here.

Entry #75: HOLY CRAP, its almost December already!

2006-11-29T17:11:00.000-05:00

Perhaps a better title might have been: Entry #75: Posting in place of productivity

Also, this is the first entry in a new journal! I can't believe I freaking finished the other one!

Entry #74: Happy Turkey Day!!

2006-11-23T22:45:00.000-05:00

Truth be told, I didn't actually eat any turkey today. I know, shocker, right? My mom made a turkey and all that, but we actually went out to eat with friends of the family. Later we brought a plate of home made Thanksgiving dinner (the one my mom made but we didn't eat) to my Grandmother's house. She's homebound and enjoyed the meal. Tomorrow night we'll be eating a "left over" Thanksgiving day dinner for the first time. How backwards are we? :D

Well, I hope you all had a great thanksgiving! Enjoy sleeping off the gluttony!

Video Entry #2: Creamcheese EPK

2006-11-17T20:17:00.000-05:00

FInally (and about damn time!) here is an uploaded verson of the EPK I did for my class last quarter. In the process of converting, compressing, and shrinking it down to an internet ready format, the quality (set to medium) looks like crap and there now apparently seems to be dropped frames and semi-distorted audio. Bleh! Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

Mmm.... Cheesecake.... so fucking good.

Entry #73: More memo pad entries! (Forgot to bring the journal with me :P)

2006-11-15T17:13:00.000-05:00

When its a slow day at work, Journal Entries are not the only thing I doodle! I have no idea what this product does, but its name, in combination with the drawing, makes me laugh. Enjoy! ^^

Entry #72: Red, White, and Blue

2006-11-08T01:00:00.001-05:00

Entry #71: Halloween II

2006-11-02T19:08:00.000-05:00

Unrelated realization: Holy Crap! I'm almost out of pages in my sketch journal! (Home of teh blog, circa Entry #10) Thats alot of freaking pages! I'm gonna have to invest in another one of these things.. that or just switch completely over to complementry drug-rep post-its. :/ Maybe I should stop posting so many double pages and conserve.

Entry #70: Halloween!

2006-10-31T01:51:00.000-05:00

Fun fact: I drew/wrote these at work on some drug-rep post-it memo pads that are actually much smaller than the journal I normally write in... yet on the internet, they appear the same size!!! WoooooOOOOOOoooooooooo!!!! Scary, no???? This is the power of resizing on the internet. Behold!

Video Entry #1: I had nothing to do with the creation of this

2006-10-29T22:22:00.000-05:00

Metalocalypse fucking rules and if you haven't been able to check it out by now ( probably because its in the old Space Ghost timeslot, 11:45pm Sunday nights - bleh! ), then feel free to do so above! In this episode, Dethklok is forced to meet up with their families for a weekend of hell. Classic.

Also, I still intend to post my EPK video in here, you know, eventually. The only thing delaying it is that I wanted to redo the title sequence graphics, but just havent gotten around to doing it yet. I would blame a lack of time, but lets face it: the real culprit is laziness and poor time-management skills.

Entry #69: The evil temptation of Sharpies

2006-10-27T00:10:00.000-04:00

Entry #68: Finally Up to Date with Updates! (go me!)

2006-10-25T00:36:00.000-04:00

Now all thats left is to actually write an entry about this past weekend and my casting call and I'll actually be up to date with my life (not just my updates!)

In case any of you were interested in checking out my casting call ad: here you go.
I don't know how much longer its going to be posted for, but feel free to check it out. (Sorry, with the exception of the Carribian Cola Commercials project, all call backs have been done. However, if you are interested in audition for it and live in the New York area, by all means, feel free to apply.)

^^

Entry #67: Second Unpublished Update

2006-10-25T00:01:00.000-04:00

two down... one to go!

also, im making a new icon out of an image from this. i highly dislike the current one with the blue.

Entry #66: Shit I never got around to posting from over a week ago

2006-10-24T17:25:00.000-04:00

Yep. So says the title. These pages are actually from friday.. of two weeks ago!!! I still have another entry from 10/18 to post and also last friday 10/20. However, Photobucket is being a slow bitch and I have a train to catch at 5:30pm, so I'll leave you with this mega long entry for now, and will post the rest tonight when I get home. (That will be sometime between 11-11:45, depending on which train I catch.) Who knows, perhaps I might even write another entry for tonight. We shall see. In the meanwhile, enjoy!

Non-Entry #2

2006-10-20T21:43:00.000-04:00

Yeah.. its been a while. Lots to do and lots being done.

I actually have three updates, dating back to last friday, tuesday, and today, that need to have their drawings inked and then scanned into the computer... but no time!!!!

Sorry about the lack of updates. Sunday night should equal about 8 pages of updating goodness. (Yes! EIGHT!)

See you then.

(Casting call this weekend, got about 45 actors coming in. Should be fun, eh?)

Also, on a side note, anyone from teh New York area? I've been location scouting for a scene in my thesis film project and I need an alley to film in. Im open to locations in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Nassau County. Any insite would be great. Its gotta be wide enough that I can actually set up cameras in, safe enough where I aint gonna get jumped for being there, and somewhere I can actually get permission to shoot. If any of you know a place, let me know. I'd be indebted to you forever!*

(*Within reason.)

Entry #65: Round 2

2006-10-05T16:22:00.000-04:00

What is this? You challenge my self proclaimed "worst procrastinator ever" status? Perhaps you've forgotton that I "started" sketching out my script back in July and that I already had the whole story developed back at that first day of class way back when. Or hell, that I had even mentioned coming up with the idea back in the begining of June. (The idea actually being spawned back in May when I first started this whole going back to school nonsense.) (<-- should I really be refering to this as nonsense? That does not speak well of my dedication to the endeavor.) :(

Entry #64: Obligitory Movie Tag Post

2006-09-27T17:23:00.000-04:00

I sorta wrote this over two days, and since answering question #1, I have seen the Illustionist and it was great! Better than Fearless (although far less action packed.) All and all, a highly recommendable must see for people who like semi-mystery, quasi-science fiction, period pieces.

Also, I'm supposed to tag five other people to do this crap so here is my list. I dont expect any of you to actually do it if you don't want to and to be sure, this is the first and last one I'm going to do, so don't send any more in my direction.

Edit: holy crap! I pretty much wrote this thing at work and I guess I must have been pretty much distracted half the time cause my god, look at all the "typos." Can I even call them typos if its hand writen? I mean really... "Almosted?" "Celine Dion movie?" Its a song damn it. What was I thinking?? I guess, I probably wasn't thinking. I was probably answering the phone or something. This shit's already scanned; I'm not going back to fix it. Bleh.

Entry #63: Never Satisfied

2006-09-26T23:31:00.000-04:00

Entry #62: Potent Rants

2006-09-25T03:04:00.000-04:00

Entry #61: Hooray Infection?

2006-09-21T03:06:00.000-04:00

Hey, you guys want I should host the finished video on youtube and post it in here? Lemme know!

Entry #60: Sometimes I am Overcompensatingly Effecient

2006-09-21T02:58:00.000-04:00

It amazes me what I could accomplish if only I were ambitious. I would be something to be feared!!!!! Luck for all of you, I'm too lazy for world domination.

So anyway, last night we previewed our EPKs and suprisingly, I was more finished than half the class! Now keep in mind, there is only four of us, but still, its an accurate statistic. Minimal critiques on what needed to be improved. I'd like to say: Damn I'm good... but really, if I were any good at all, this whole mess would have been finished ages ago.

Entry #59: Countdown to Failure

2006-09-16T18:03:00.000-04:00

Captured this image with my digital camera at the train station. Also, apparently, I am missing my miniDV firewire cable. Where the hell it could be, I have no idea. I am totally screwed. I have no idea where I can buy another one, other than B&H, but those Orthodox bastards are closed on Saturdays. Damn Sabbaths.

Entry #58: Naming Convention

2006-09-14T17:10:00.000-04:00

Entry #57: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow (gah, what an awful cliche pun)

2006-09-11T17:22:00.000-04:00

Yeah, so you might notice the date on this entry is a bit off. Thats cause it was actually writen on Friday, but I had no time to finish inking or scan it until today.

In other news, I just finished reading the entire Death Note manga.... I can only say that it was one of the finest mangas -- no! strike that! --- one of the finest graphic novels I have ever read. Like an insanely nerve wracking game of chess. Never have I been so caught up in a cat and mouse game that intensely than I was with Death Note. Check it out!

Entry #56: A Crazy, Belligerent, Decrepit Old Vechicular Threat to Motorists EVERYWHERE

2006-09-06T18:15:00.000-04:00

Check out the side bar for some new comic links! I read a hell of a lot of webcomics (little wonder as my lazy ass is in the works of starting her own) and my side bar tis only a fraction of those... but it is comprised of top favorites and stuff I'd like to share with others. Every icon on that list is worth spending an hour (or hours, as the case may be) reading through the archives. Adding/Creating/Linking icons is a pain in the ass, so you only get a few at a time, but check them out! Don't bother telling them I sent ya, since they wont know who the hell I am, but there you go. ;)

Entry #55: Aftermath

2006-09-02T02:55:00.000-04:00

Well, I finally got off my ass and finally got around to writing the follow-up to my last post. I think it just about sums up the week nicely. If you're interested, (I wasn't joking about it, hehe) you can check out the photo he posted! I've created my own snazzy little link, you know, to protect the identity of the innocent and shit. Or whatever. Ultimately, the only one protected is me and I'm certinally not innocent! I'm a sneaky, secretive little bastard! ^^

Happy Labor Day weekend everybody!!

Entry #54: Too Stressed to Sketch

2006-08-28T23:21:00.000-04:00

I know these entries were written much earlier in the day (all while in the waiting room) and it has been several hours since then with alot transpiring since then, but after posting these I think I'm going to say 'good night' to the day. Its been a looooonnnnnnngggggg day, (since 5am to be precise) and I'm tired.

But yeah, this is one hell of a shitty cliff hanger for a blog. I'll write the follow up page tomorrow. I mean, he's still alive, in case you're wondering, but too much shit for me to sit down and write about right now. Bleh. G'night everyone!

Entry #53: Blogging away the time

2006-08-28T23:11:00.000-04:00

Entry #52: The Joy of Discovery

2006-08-24T23:55:00.000-04:00

Entry #51: No Phd in Mixology

2006-08-23T00:24:00.000-04:00

Actually, the social scene wasn't the only thing that sucked at Queens College. Their advisement was awful.

"When is the course schedule booklets coming out for next semester?"

"I don't know, they haven't come in yet."

"But I'm supposed to register for classes TOMORROW!!!"

No joke. Nobody knew nothing about anything in that school. Also, there were no course programs for your major. When it came to making your schedule, you were pretty much left to fend for yourself regarding taking all the classes you need and fullfilling all your liberal arts and science courses. Awful, just awful.

Entry #50 Snakes on a Blog

2006-08-23T00:00:00.000-04:00

Entry #49 If only I could play the guitar (then I could really annoy people!)

2006-08-18T16:18:00.000-04:00

Entry #48 Monkeys, Ninjas, Pirates & Godzilla

2006-08-14T22:10:00.000-04:00

This post was created in response to Woozie's reply on the previous post. I think it wraps things up nicely. So yeah: Ninjas < Monkeys < Pirates < Monkeys and Godzilla trumps them all!

Entry #47 Monkeys!!

2006-08-13T23:40:00.000-04:00

As promised. ^^

Entry #46 All I Really Wanted Was A Pepsi...

2006-08-11T23:42:00.000-04:00

Ok, the fact that this entry is 5 pages long is truely an example of unintended irony.

Secondly, the images are double dated with no times, since I wrote them over a period of two days.

Third: monkeys are STILL coming. I sketched something on the train ride home, but it still needs to be fine tuned and inked. Then scanned. Then, eventually, updated. Weekend plans may hinder actual posting of monkeys till Sunday night... But there will be monkeys! Oh yes... there will.... mwhahahahahahahahaaaa

Non-entry Heads Up!!!!

2006-08-11T18:07:00.000-04:00

Extremely massive update later tonight. (After I finish class tonight and get home and finally upload to scanner...)

Yep, several pages worth of entry more than makes up for the fact that I havent updated for a week. ALso, explanations as to why I haven't updated for a week...

um....

and monkeys! lots and lots of monkeys! evverybody loves monkeys.

yeah.. thats it... monkeys...

uh... actually, the update doesnt actually include any monkeys as of yet, since, well, there are no monkey related things going on in my life at the moment... but damnit, by God NOW THERE SHALL BE MONKEYS!!!!

maybe I'll draw some sort of bonus pic that includes monkeys or something.

so yeah! heads up for major update and monkey goodness!! rock on!

Entry #45 Tomorrow's Temp is supposed to be 104°F O_O'

2006-08-02T00:07:00.000-04:00

Entry #44 Sinkhole of Doom (Hey, this looks familiar!)

2006-07-28T17:00:00.000-04:00

Side thoughts:

This is the third freaking friday in a row that is filled with heavy rain and thunderstorms!! What gives???

Also, on tomorrow's agenda: Ozzfest '06!!! Hell yeah!!

Entry #43 It seems the only way to stay, is by trying to go work somewhere else.

2006-07-24T22:06:00.000-04:00

I look fucktarded in this picture, but the expression makes me laugh.

Entry #42 I Draw My Video

2006-07-23T18:17:00.000-04:00

Entry #41 Some people hate their feet, I adorn mine with colorful bandaids

2006-07-19T18:38:00.000-04:00

Entry #40 I need an instruction manual on human behaviors, particularly my own

2006-07-18T00:01:00.000-04:00

The two different times one each page indicate that one was written on the train ride into the city, and one on the train ride home. Inking on the train doesnt happen, thats why this post is up some around midnight. :P

Entry #39 Apparently, This Blog Is Good :P

2006-07-14T00:13:00.000-04:00

Seriously though, anyone who found this blog via "The Bestest Blog of the Day website," welcome! Whither you find something interesting writen here or not is up to you, but you are welcome to browse through my entries at your leisure. If you do decide to stay around and kill time by reading, try to start at the begining, since it sorta explains whats been kinda going on and why I write/draw this blasted thing to begin with.

Blogger is great, although I've found that the Livejournal version of this blog (same posts, just two different places) has a much easier interface for reading consecutive archived entries in order. For your reading convience, I include the link here.

Well, I guess thats all I gotsa say for right now. Enjoy!

Entry #38 Seems like a good thing, but then again, with my track record...

2006-07-13T22:38:00.000-04:00

Entry #37 Strange Metaphors and Plans Gone Awry

2006-07-13T16:52:00.000-04:00

Ironically, as I'm posting this, The Cure's song "Love Cats" just shuffled to play on my iTunes. Heh. I swear it had no influence in my poorly forumlated metaphor. ^^

Entry #36 iPods May Be Evil, But Damn It If They Ain't Cool

2006-07-13T15:55:00.000-04:00

One day late....

....now all I need is to finish/post my entry for today and I'm up to date! :D

Entry #35 A Day Late and a Dollar Short... or would that be 2 bucks? Heh, 2 for 2sday! pun!

2006-07-13T15:35:00.000-04:00

Ok, so this was written and should have been posted tuesday night after my last entry. Or hell, the day after! Sue me.

Entry #34 Piracy and the Threat to my Personal Space

2006-07-11T00:08:00.000-04:00

This was orginally written on Sunday, after we got back from the movies and before I went to bed. I was damn freaking tired and didn't feel like inking the drawing, nor scanning it and uploading it into the computer. I think 11:30pm is about the right time. The inking on the sketch came out crappy since I'm kinda home from my first night of school and kinda want to write about that but first wanted to get this thing up, preferably before midnight so it wasn't two days late. :/

Gah! So many things to write. Perhaps another update tonight, or maybe in the morning. :P

Entry #33 Shortcomings of Attempted Productivity

2006-07-08T18:55:00.000-04:00

Entry #32 To Do Tasks Are To Don't

2006-07-06T20:26:00.000-04:00

Of course, true to form to my "do anything but whats needed to be done" personality flaw, I made this snazzy penguin comic.

A second page is already in the works. Man, I really need someone to stand over me and motivate the hell out of me to do what is needed to be done. :/

Entry #31 Saving the world before bedtime... but in which time zone?

2006-07-05T18:20:00.000-04:00

Proof is often in the pudding so check this out:

I can't believe they actually made this thing. Its actually really funny in the sense that its so terrible. I swear it contains every bad anime cliche known to man, from magical girl transformation sequences to DBZ-style inair fighting sequences. No joke.

The subtitles in my animated gif are hysterical, unfortunately, photobucket insists on resizing the thing. To check out the image bigger, check out this link below.

http://forums.point-blank.cc/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=2293

Entry #30 Time, Money, and Energy

2006-07-02T23:05:00.000-04:00

Entry #29 Double Bird Homicide

2006-06-30T01:11:00.000-04:00

Entry #28 Why is Murphy Never Wrong??

2006-06-30T00:05:00.000-04:00

Entry #27 Twitching at Work

2006-06-23T17:22:00.000-04:00

Entry #26 Shameless Self Promotion; Does it work?

2006-06-21T23:54:00.000-04:00

Entry #25 Adobe Frustration CS2

2006-06-20T15:05:00.000-04:00

Entry #24 Opportunities and Aloe

2006-06-19T21:58:00.000-04:00

Entry #23 Burn, baby, burn! (Or not. Preferably not.)

2006-06-17T10:47:00.000-04:00

In case you can't read the small print:

If you're insane, like I am, here are 3 easy steps to having a kickass time as the beach:
1) Go into the water, atleast waist deep, (preferably chest deep) at the breaking point.
2) Jump up and over all large breaking waves. In doing so, you get pushed back several feet in the sheer force of its foamy power!
3) Laugh manacally like a crazy person or mad scientist while doing so or right after.

TRUST ME: GOOD FUN! >:D

Entry #22 Deadlines: Alive, Kickin', and Comin' Quick!

2006-06-15T14:23:00.000-04:00

Entry #21 Defined by another language

2006-06-11T17:13:00.000-04:00

Entry #20 Angry, Illegible, Pissed-off Little Rant

2006-06-04T12:29:00.000-04:00

Entry #19 The inevitable is causing its own delays

2006-06-03T21:25:00.000-04:00

Entry #18 I guess long term planning is not a strong point

2006-06-03T13:18:00.000-04:00

Entry #17 Career pressure or Peer pressure?

2006-05-31T22:45:00.000-04:00

Entry #16 Sandman sand is hallucinogenic

2006-05-31T09:44:00.000-04:00

Entry #15 Old familiar patterns of neglect

2006-05-30T21:54:00.000-04:00

Entry #14 Pitter Patter

2006-05-26T22:36:00.001-04:00

Entry #13 Endlessly Waiting

2006-05-26T00:14:00.000-04:00

Entry #12 Set goals the fun way: with violence! :D

2006-05-25T23:18:00.000-04:00

Entry #11 Everything's broke. Financially and otherwise.

2006-05-24T22:24:00.000-04:00

Entry #10 A big fat hen

2006-05-23T23:26:00.000-04:00

Entry #9 Writing on a train is bad for penmenship

2006-05-23T19:35:00.000-04:00

Entry #8 Step to it!

2006-05-22T14:19:00.000-04:00

Entry #7 Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...... (a sigh, not a scream)

2006-05-22T11:09:00.000-04:00

Entry #6 Hold your breath

2006-05-22T10:27:00.000-04:00

Entry #5 Empending Doom

2006-05-21T09:41:00.000-04:00

Entry #4 Self evaluation sucks.

2006-05-21T01:48:00.000-04:00

Entry #3 A Slap in the Face! Just rub it in, why don't you.

2006-05-21T01:09:00.000-04:00

Entry #2 Needless to say, it was a bad day.

2006-05-20T16:31:00.000-04:00

Entry #1 Am I fooling myself into thinking this will work?

2006-05-20T14:15:00.000-04:00