Patent

  There was something I saw on Tumblr two days ago that sparked my analytical curiosity. I'm not sure why I have to pick things apart, but sometimes, for the sake of how much sense it makes, unfolding the rationality of things is extremely satisfying to me. I also like to ruin jokes told by obnoxious, overly-confident people.

There was an image post where someone described a fashion as being "nightmarepunk." I almost lol'd in my seat. There are so many sub-genres already for so many things that every time I see a new one a part of me wants to question it and know where it came from, and what makes it a legitimate thing. Legitimate like a real label to something. Like Grains. Fruit. Non-Fiction. Karate.

So I submitted an 'ask' to the poster with that exact same question.

"What is nightmare punk and what legitimizes it?"

This is the response I got;

You guys. It's a noun- in case you didn't see the large N. specifying that.

Cool. I get it. Except it's an obvious ploy to advertise this 'word' to their audience as a HEY EVERYONE, WE USE THIS WORD, AND BECAUSE SOMEONE ASKED ME ABOUT IT, I'M GOING TO USE IT AS A CATALYST TO ANNOUNCE IT AS SUCH. BECAUSE YOU ALL MUST KNOW. NIGHTMAREPUNK IS A NOUN. SEE DEFINITION WE TALKED ABOUT.

I wish Tumblr had an outbox. Had I realized that they don't, I would've screencapped my response. It said;
Whoa. Okay. Sounds like you guys are wanting to get this patented. No thank you. I rather not be involved, but you should post about it in case anyone else is as analytical as me :)

What is ironic here, in my opinion, is that .... this person is sort of an accomplished someone of note in the Gothic community (by accomplished I mean a professional) who seeks to, what it looks like, call firsties on a retarded title in an umbrella genre that supposedly celebrates and encourages self expression and identity despite many aesthetic and lifestyle choices pertaining to the basic understanding and appreciation of the Gothic subculture.

So I kinda rather not be a half-assed advertisement for a, technically, ego-driven paradox.

Otherwise, why else would they, lol, go through that much presentational effort if it was just for my benefit? It was totally planned. Seriously gtfo with that shit!


Saturday night I've laughed harder than I have for a while. I'm lying. I lose my shit when Rot tickle-attacks me. BUT... just from something being really really funny... seldom happens. Poo and Care came to pick me up to head to their place for a little get-together thing. I really like them, and didn't work the next day so agreed to join them. It turned into the most whack shit ever that pushed our moral threshold with our sense of humor.

Poo! She's the greatest host. I'm not really a drinker unless it tastes like candy or coffee, so she 

made a billion drinks for me in hopes that one of them would be appetizing enough. 

Sadly, my tastebuds couldn't dismiss the strong vodka flavor in many of them, so it was

in vain. I felt bad. We settled for a cranberry vodka that Ponies prepared, which... I didn't finish. =[

I'm sorry, Poo!! But thank you for trying!!! At least I didn't puke :DD

Care and Cocoa. Cocoa is so cute it hurts my soul. She is a spunky little thing that doesn't let anyone touch her! IT KILLS ME

Steven (left) brought over a game called "Cards Against Humanity."

You guys. OH MY GOD you guys. It is... the FUNNIEST game.

EVER.

Let me explaining to you.

White Cards: illustrating words/phrases

Black Cards: illustrating an incomplete sentence with a blank(s). 

Each player gets 10 white cards.

Each round, a player takes turns reading off one black card. 

Other players select one of their white cards to fill in the blank.

Black card-holder ultimately judges which white card completes the sentence the most epicly; whether that be hilariously, controversially, grossest, or all of the above. 

The winning white card submitter receives that black card as reward.

The one with the most black cards wins.

The phrase "kids with ass cancer" has never been so hilarious.

We were up until 4 something laughing our asses off before it was time to go home. I fucking love that game.

Poo grabbed Cocoa and handed her to me. Look at dat faaaaaace

 Punkyn!! She's more sociable.

Their apartment is awesome.

Last week (I think) Jason was a few houses over for his band-mates birthday bbq thing. He told me to stop by to see his puppy, Iggy. CANNOT RESIST DA PUPPIES

ugh.

This wasn't that day, but ugh, still.

Isn't he so cuute!!? Strong too, lol. I held his leash for a little bit until Rot got home. 

To be frank, I was glad to leave. Not my crowd of people at all, haha. Made me feel severely uncomfortable and used Iggy as an excuse to go to the front yard and walk him around there. :P

Also, I made this. Commission for a friend. First time with sculpting stuff, but I'm proud of it. I'm intimidated to try anything else, but knowing that I'm capable of branching out gives me confidence to pursue it... with the right motivation. haha. 

Season 3 of Bob's Burgers issssssssss really great. I can't stop watching it.

POTO

   My neighbors are shitty.
They're shitty because sometimes as I leave for work in the mornings, I see one of them with his dogs running around in our garage. It's always around 5am. And then... he just lets them shit there. I've not witness it myself yet. But when I do I will go off on him so bad omg.

I came home and walked past the day old dog turd that's been there since yesterday morning, parallel to my parking spot. 

I'd complain to our manager, but I have no proof it's him. The one time we addressed one of our other dog owning neighbors about their dog possibly shitting on our welcome mat, she blamed it on the opossums. It's shitty, in the literal and figurative sense. There's also dog piss stains on our walkway.
What pisses me off even more is that they're all Hispanic.

I'M Hispanic. Making me look bad. ugh.


On Wednesday I went over to the kitties' house to help Vanna with some of her orders. It actually turned out to be more of an errands day instead, lol. We went to Starbucks, and this greek place, and then Michael's, and then Wal-Mart. It wasn't until around almost 9ish that we got back. I was glad that we ended up going ot Michael's because I had planned on going there anyway for more supplies.

 Scribbles!! 

There's a certain way that I make my "drizzle" on my cupcakes and the blood on some of my charms. However, I can never get it the right color without a crap ton of trial and error and wasted product. So I'm gonna experiment with scribbles. Also got these little air tight containers to salvage what I make for later use. I'm such an idiot for not thinking of that before. SO MUCH WASTED PRODUCT!

Also I put Kristof's mask on my head. And did it wrong. Because I'm a child.
Was good times. I wish I had been able to stay later and help her more, but it was getting late and I hadn't anticipated the days' events. Fun though ^_^


Yesterday was super nice. I was bleh kinda because I've been sore. My stupid shoulder is yucky, and our mattress doesn't help.

blegh. Moving is blegh.

But Jason asked me to lunch! There's this burrito place at the end of our street called Poquito Mas. I've only ever been there once. But it was perfect because I was in my jammies, and I could just walk there to meet him. We hung out there for a while. It's always so so good to see him! He's furn. Said he's gonna be leaving on tour in a week for over a month so we HAD to do something! ^_^

Way more yummy than I remember. I may have to go there again when I'm too lazy to cook.

He walked me home. He's great to talk to! We know so many of the same people, so it's like instant fun time lols. :D

And then pretty much the rest of the day I layed in bed as straight and flat as I could periodically so my back would calm the fuck down. Took a nap, and woke up and played some WoW.

I got a phone call from a friend saying he had just finished building his new PC. I was SO excited for him because he had a Mac lol. And we've wanted to play the same thing for a while, but couldn't because of his Mac!!! He needed some help with stuff, which my other roommate helped with. And now HOORAY! Yay things! ^_^

Then Rotny got home from work.

He walked into the bedroom with a smirk on his face and tells me to close my eyes and put out my hand. I'm like O_____O HUH lol

So I do, and he hands me a book. I open my eyes and lose my shit over the sweetest most endearing and thoughtful thing ever.

I almost cried. It was so random!
I've been on a Phantom kick lately. It's bad. It's like ... that time when I was on a CATs kick. And after that it was Rocky Horror. I was also obsessed with Sweeny Todd. So he saw that and got it for me :)

It's got the entire script, and story of the origin of it and the opera houses in France. And costume designs and and and... I absolutely love it. Reading the lyrics are always such a joy for me. They're beautiful. Doubly so because Lloyd Webber's inspiration was Sarah. *sigh*

I stayed up way past my bedtime (work at 4AM) reading it happily.


Today I got home from work to a find a box at my bedroom door. MY NEW WORK SHOES!
I've decided that even though I bought my new docs for work, ain't nobody got time or the pain threshold to break them in at work. So I found these sketchers mary jane things with weird soles on Ebay and they came in.

IT'S SO STUPID HOW COMFORTABLE THEY ARE. AND BOUNCY. They're called "shape ups" and have a platform on em, but are like... fluffy feeling lol. I love love love them. Maybe my back won't hurt as much with these. That'd be really great.

Squee. Sammich time!

Clarity

    Since I got my first diary at something like 9 or 10 years old, I've always enjoyed writing down my thoughts and expressing myself. It's therapeutic for me. This is different for everyone, I guess. As I got older I felt there was less and less need for me to hide my thoughts. This made sense to me because I couldn't be the only person on the planet that had both negative and positive feelings, so who cares, right? Everyone expresses themselves different, whether they mean to communicate or not.

• This one time I'd like to make very clear, on a personal level, to my readers, that this blog is not a means for me to passively communicate with anybody. 

That's what everyone believes Facebook is for.

Today was perfect. Not because anything significant happened, but because I slept in until noon, woke up, played like 15 minutes of every game on my harddrive because I couldn't decide what I wanted to do. Layed in bed and played on my phone, played a game on my netbook, made lunch, did some more nothingness, and we went grocery shopping. Rot got lime tortilla chips with a salsa that tastes authentic. It's quite delicious. I got poptarts and sandwich stuff. Today was just a lazy day and perfect. The one thing that could've made it even better was watching Kindergarten Cop. But I hadn't thought of that until just now.

I work early tomorrow, so after this I'm gonna go to bed. 

Anime Expo is in July and I haven't heard back from my usual con bro, so if anyone wants in, let me know. It's gonna be here in LA at the convention center. Tix are kinda pricey, but we'll see where I'm at by then. I have a debt I have to take care of first!

Rot came in here and had me taste his mojito. >_< agh. NEEDS SUGAR :D

There's this lunchbox I saw online that I wanna get so I can take lunches to work instead of buying food across the street. It's so cute. It shall wait. INVESTMENT? I don't know. Perhaps. ugh. 

I've been having weird dreams about my favorite youtuber. They make very little sense. One took place at a convention. I'm stalling. Okay I'm going to bed. Happy... Tuesday Night! O_o

Sinister

   Hollywood! What can I say?

Dawn of Ashes was playing with Mankind is Obsolete. And Rot was DJing!


He left a little earlier than me to set up and do sound check. I was hoping to wear my new mesh contacts, but decided last minute that it would be too dangerous to drive at night with them in. I'll probably save them for a con ;). Of course Rot forgot something at home, so I walked my fabulous self in with a big ol'wound up cable -___- lol sigh.
Seeing everyone was nice. Vanna was doing merch, so I kept her company for most of the night. It can be sorta bleh at times if you're by yourself.


Dehk.


It was weird though in a way. I caught several repeated glances and stares from women I've never met before, and it made me uncomfortable. Other than that, the night went by and I was surrounded by enough familiar faces that made the evening more enjoyable ^_^.
Nero came up to me and hugged me. It was a little surprising. I hadn't seen him in forever, but he looks well. I'm happy for him.

Rot of course was his reclusive self, standing in the shadows, keeping conversations short. But I think he enjoyed himself at least a little. Probably mostly from DJing :P

We were relieved when we got home. It was a long day. Still fun though ^_^

I stripped the black out of my bangs in 2 days enough for that mixed color to take.

 After so much treatment, your hair is over it and stops retaining anything. KINDA PROUD OF MAHSELF. I like this way better. 

I'm too much of a hyper little spaz to have nothing but black hair. I NEEEEEEEEEEEED

cuteness. I NEEEEEED it.

RAWR

Krz made me aware that we totally missed our chance to dreadlock rape Kristof's nose. 

NEXT TIME.

BERHURMURRRRR. 

He's at least 7x bigger than me, so he had to hunch down.

 

Dranky drank. lookit hers.

She looked so purdddyy

Here's another one of Behemoth. 

Which I turned into this: 

Is better... no?

Lookits! I covered Rot's face because he didn't bother to get purdied up much, lol. 

Rot: The giver of 0 shits.

ANGYANGANGANGANG

Oh lookie who it is again! Kent! I wonder if I'll see him at Big Wow (if I decide to go.)

My new business cards came in! I really like them. They're cuuuuuuute ^_^

Sunday morning I woke up to a missed call from Ponies. He was on his way to get me, and then get Jess. We were on our way to a Go-Kart racing track! It's this place in Burbank. We met up with Care and Poo. Very very fun ^_^

D'aww

It was scary at first, but once you got the hang of it it was really fun. You can make super sharp turns! I felt like Toad in Mario Kart XD

Which btw... I totally miss playing!

Jess won first place.

Ponies won second.

I came in 3rd!

Care was fourth.

Poo was fifth.

It was so so so fun! Afterwards we all went to Ponies' favorite Thai place. I ate so much that I had a food coma and got sleepy. >_<

Coconuts are delicious. I haven't had one in years. Had the milk in it and everything!

Afterwards we stopped by a Starbucks. I came in handy :D

Then we went looking around the nearby shops, and eventually went to the mall that was right

there. At that point, we ended up going to Hot Topic, and Care came in handy then. lol

It was a really nice day

Something unfortunately had happened towards the end that wasn't the most subtle, so I instinctively separated myself emotionally. I'm glad to know that things are okay now. However a part of me still is apprehensive and turned off. 

That's probably normal though. It's about time I return to my reclusive habits.

So now, I will indulge in some Diablo III, M&M's, and Netflix. And mail out this order I just got! :D