September 30, 2002

music

i have three favorite songs right now:

Van Morrison- I'll Be Your Lover, Too

Jefferson Airplane- Comin' Back To Me

Travis- Love Will Come Through

whenever, wherever i hear them, i want my myriad of readers to know that i will always dedicate them to Sam.

you should all find a way to listen to these songs (the easiest being to buy or borrow the 'Moonlight Mile' soundtrack) because they truly are very good.

that is all.

thecomicman spoke @ 06:17 PM |

September 16, 2002

quickie

i just needed to quickly post how awesome my girlfriend is. today, she brought home a big-ass package of Chicken-flavored Ramen that she got somewhere for two bucks. i now have enough food to last me the month.

thecomicman spoke @ 10:30 PM |

September 15, 2002

the Saturday to end all Saturdays!

i have a microwave oven. i hauled that sumbitch from the innermost recesses of Queens to my apartment in Astoria (only the kinda-sorta recesses of Queens). now, i won't starve! hee hee!

in other news, SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals rocks my... guess what it rocks. i'll give you a hint: it ain't warthogs. that's right, it rocks my meerkats!! nothing cooler than sniping AI from across the icy wastes of Alaska. except maybe sniping real players across the icy wastes of Alaska. unfortunately though, all the guys that play online are so much better than me, i'm the stupid goober getting sniped from afar. in case any of you are interested, i go by the handle of thecomicman and usually play in the US East room.

in further news, i went to the Big Apple Comic Con on a free ticket from work. i found everything that i was explicitly looking for (mostly Legion of Super-Heroes stuff), and got some comics signed by Phil Jimenez and Mark Texeiria (sp?). the aforementioned Tex also drew a Black Panther sketch for me, which was cool of him.

in even further news, Sam and i watched 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and she loved it. i saw it when it was theatrically released and thought it rocked everybody's meerkats, especially the shot of Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) getting off the Green Line bus to pick up Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson), and the scene where the aforementioned Richie attempts suicide.

in even more news, i ate at the Outback Steakhouse. since i usually can't do steak, i got the Queensland Chicken 'N Shrimp. it was fettucine alfredo with chicken and shrimp, and it was good.

i finished a lot of my reading for the week on Saturday as well as doing the rest of this stuff, so all in all (to quote Ice Cube), it was a good day.

the best part was not getting slapped on the subway for an imagined intention.

thecomicman spoke @ 01:56 AM |

September 12, 2002

weirdest thing ever

i'm riding a subway home from campus. on 14th St., a mother and her cute little girl get on the train. this little girl begins to make faces at everyone in the car who can see her. most ignore her, some return the face, which makes the little girl smile, and sometimes even giggle. the mother doesn't know why she's giggling, but doesn't really care, presumably because her little her is happy, and not screaming or crying.
the little girl turns her attention towards me and sticks out her tongue. i stick out mine as well. she extends hers farther the second time, and i do the same. she does it a third time, longer still, and i proceed to match. somewhere between my second and the girl's third, the mother notices what's going on. she gets up from her seat, at which point i notice her and smile at her. she walks over to me, slaps me in the face, and begins to yell at me in a language i don't understand. she continues this until the next stop, at which point she promptly gets out.
i look at the rest of the people in the car, and they look as bewildered as i feel. i ask if anybody understood what the mother had screamed at me. an old lady in the corner says the mother told me to go find women my own age to have 'relations' with. i can only assume the mother thought me to be a creepy motherfucker who wanted to rape her little girl.

i don't understand why the mother slapped me. don't get me wrong, if i were a father of a little girl and i thought some perverted teenager was thinking impure thoughts about her, i would've kicked his stupid head in. and i think that's what i don't understand. had the mother, instead of slapping me, kicked me in the balls, while this would have put me in a whole other world of discomfort physically, it wouldn't have fazed me intellectually. i would have immediately understood her, not because a swift kick to the groin gives a man the power to understand any and all languages, but because you don't get smashed in the yabos out of the blue unless it's for a reason of a sexual nature (usually bad).
in retrospect, i'm rather glad my nuts weren't put in a vice-like grip, but my intellect still has issues.

on a side note: apparently, if you're physically attacked on a subway, the other passengers in the car say goodbye to you on the way out. at every stop, people said 'good-bye' to me. when my stop came, there was a chorus of 'good-byes', and an old man went so far as to say, "good luck in your normal love life."

i'm gonna go play video games now. i will post about SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals later.

thecomicman spoke @ 11:07 AM |

September 09, 2002

my blog!

someone who shall go unnamed said to me that i was posting too much about video games and it wasn't as fun for this person to read my blog anymore. to this i say, tough shit.

this is my blog and i write in it to amuse myself usually. if it amuses you too, hey, great, but if it doesn't, go read something else and don't bitch to me.

on that note,....

i have sent in my coupon for the free Twisted Metal: Black ONLINE game and am eagerly awaiting it. i wish to blow up others' cars with my fluffy missiles of death.... and sugar. yes, death and sugar.

also, i preordered the Kingdom Hearts game. it's an rpg featuring Disney characters made by Square, the makers of the Final Fantasy franchise. you'll be pleased to know, ET especially, that many FFVII, FFVIII, and FFX chacters make cameos in the game. you even get to beat down Sephiroth, the main villain of FFVII, which is really sweet considering you didn't actually get to beat him in FFVII. oh, he whomped your ass plenty of times, but when the final battle came, the deathstroke was given by a CGI video and not by me, dammit! but this time, oh this time he will pay for killing Aerith. the motherfuckin' bastard... i'll show him....

umm.... i'm going now.

thecomicman spoke @ 10:27 PM |

eh?

what is the Japanese the word for 'duck?' not 'duck' like the Donald or Daffy variety, but 'duck' like 'get out of the way of the bullet!'

basically, i need a dude to scream 'duck!' in Japanese.

thank you in advance for your answers.

thecomicman spoke @ 10:17 PM |

September 03, 2002

PS2 Network Adapter update... part deux

i finally opened the packaging. apparently, there was a hidden switch somewhere on the back that i inadvertantly flicked while dropping Macho Man Randy Savage-style elbows off a chair onto the goddamn thing.

well, it opened, and after a few minor problems ("... where the hell are those fuckin' wires ... what do you mean there's no connection ... i'll kill you all!") i was connected and ready to go. there was a demo included with the adapter; it included two playables. i played like an eighth of two football games against guys in California and Florida.

when i got annoyed at other people's inability to stay connected, i watched some of the videos.

i drooled all over my control pad while watching the video for Tribes: Aerial Assualt. this is your game, Dan. FPS with multipayer modes like Deathmatch, CTF, and actual missions to do with your buddies against other buddies. they have cool tech and gear and dinosaurs!! the dinos are your enemies.

after the video ended, i wiped off my control pad, threw my shirt away, and took a shower (it was a lot of drool). now, i must return to cleaning that stupid room.

thecomicman spoke @ 02:45 PM |

PS2 Network Adapter update...

after wrestling with the packaging for about fifteen minutes, i've decided to wait for Samantha to get home so she can open it with scissors. i'd do it, but there's no one here to supervise me. grrr.... stupid unopenable packaging....

thecomicman spoke @ 01:25 PM |

PS2 Network Adapter here!!

i saw the mailman come, and then he buzzed my door. i ran to the button thing and tripped over some wires, sailing a few feet before hitting the floor and skidding on it 'till i hit the wall (i cleaned them floors but good, boss!) i dusted myself off, let the mailman in and offered some tequila for bringing me my adapter. he declined, saying something silly about it being illegal or whatnot. i go now to put it on my PS2. details to follow.

thecomicman spoke @ 01:10 PM |

trying, in vain, to clean the friggin' house

whilst cleaning (cleaning being a subjective term) the apartment, i've found a lot of crap that i wrote as a kid. also, i've found beginnings and middles and endings to a bunch of stuff that i never finished, as well as tattered reamins of notes and ideas. and it pisses me off that i haven't gotten myself published yet. these things that i've found are really frickin' good (if i do say so myself). the things that i did as a kid are quite crappy, really, when i compare them to the stuff i've done since, but the ideas alone could make a series of novels! good ones, too. now if i could just get off my ass and stop feeling sorry for myself, i could seriously get some of this stuff published.

side note: i found two comics that i did. one i did all by myself in eight grade about the Civil War (the main character's name was Jason Todd, proving yet again that i suck with names and mine comic book properties for them) for a class. the other i wrote while a friend drew it. we did it as a Christmas/Graduation (it was supposed to just be a Christmas present, but then i inadvertantly stole my artists' girlfriend and he got mad at me for awhile) present for our friends in high school. it was just a weird story about the meaning of Christmas and the evilness of Tickle-Me-Elmo. it had a bunch of inside jokes and the like, but it was also good. one of these days, i'm gonna sit down with all this raw material and DO SOMETHING!!!!

i also found a letter from one my California friends that i assume she sent after i emailed people about a depressed drinking binge i went on. the letter's all about the evils of alcohol. i think i'll frame it and put it on the liquor cabinet door so that Jules knows i'll see it everytime i go for the booze.

to ET: must let me borrow Clerks and Chasing Amy DVDs. the commentaries have to be insanely funny. the Mallrats commentary is so funny, it ranks almost as high as the movie itself, and we all know how much i love that freakin' movie.

thecomicman spoke @ 12:53 PM |

September 02, 2002

Final Fantasy IX Update

i've encountered another Erin!!!!

she's an airship pilot who flies my party around the world as we kick ass and take names.

also, she wears a sailor's suit for some reason.

i'm still on the third disk, and thirty hours into the game. good lord, when will it end.

oh, and Erin, it's just people with your names. they might kinda look like you, but it's hard to get photorealism on these games during the actual gameplay.

thecomicman spoke @ 08:03 PM |