Dribblings of the mind

Ok so my old laptop I think is like, imagine someone that isn't too old but their bones are brittle and they're probably close to death cause they keep collapsing and you keep having to go to the hospital to save them, that's my old laptop. It just fucked up again like it has done about 3 or 4 times since 2006-7ish when I got it.

However, this time there will be no tears [yes, I cry when I can't get online sometimes...I mean cause I can't write] because I bought this new one just in time, bitches!! The only things I had on my old one are things I already have now: my novel, my fanfics and my music, all pretty important, some a lot more than others. If it weren't for The Sims 3, I wouldn't even have this laptop, so I'm so grateful to my obsession right now!!

I don't know if it'll start working or if/when I'll get it fixed but for now I guess I'll be on this one. I did have a few pics but none were too important....oh crap I realised I had quite a few pics from my camera, but most are on facebook....some aren't though. Keep trying to think of other important things...

I don't have all my favourites, which kinda sucks as I had a lot of anime site links and stuff! But it's very easy to find anime online anyway. I also had a saved picture for Funny Anime Screencaps #4 but that's easy to just get again from the episode.

I'm gonna run a virus scan on this one soon to make sure it's all healthy and stuff, cause if this one prematurely crashes then I am royally FUCKED...til I get it fixed.

Okay so here starts the debut of my youtube video of the week...thing!

I listed all the categories that I'd judge it by yesterday but added one extra because youtube videos I really like tend to stick in my head and I'll quote them at myself all the time.

I mentioned in the post yesterday that I knew what I was going to choose but I realised, some others are very funny too! I'll still choose a video from the same person no matter what anyway as he's my new favourite youtuber!

Ladies and gentleman, Mr Shane Dawson:

I ended up choosing the original video I planned on!

In this video, he is playing Shananay, and she is comedy GOLD!

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShaneDawsonTV

Did I LOL? So much, yes!

Did I LOL so much that it made me cry? Very nearly, yeah!

Rewatched? I've seen it about 4 times already and want to watch it again...doesn't make me laugh as much though.

Clever? Not amazingly but I liked the idea and any video with Shananay in it is always funny so it doesn't matter in the end!

Does it stay in my head? Yes, specially these lines:
"Ooo if I wasn't saving up to get me a wii fit I would FUCK your ass up!" 
"It aint that funny, bitch."
".....Excuse you? I would just walk away."

3.5/5

This band description on a lyrics site [www.sing365.com] has been the best Mindless Self Indulgence description I've ever seen in my life XD

Once upon a time in galaxy far away..in a place called new york-there were four beings-two girls(kitty & Lyn Z),a boy(Steve),and a ferret(Jimmy)...they got together and decided they wanted to start a band...and thus began the neverending road to pure stupidity. Mindless Self Indulgence is so fucked up it'll make your head spin and then do the hokey pokey!

Mindless Self Indulgence is what you will be called when the music that you make has no chance in hell of getting you laid,or of making you seem cool in the eyes of your p.c. restrained,cookie cutter catagory demanding,humorless peers. It is also a four piece band of co-ed punks from N.Y.C.,whose name manifests itself during their live shows. Their music is a hybrid of Atari driven(the computer not the group),Industrial,New Wave,Soul,Jungle,Hip Hop,and Punk with a venomous splash of Attention Deficit Disorder....aka... "industrialjunglepussypunk"

See & hear Mindless Self Indulgence live. Why? Because they rarely suck live, but when they do, they suck with conviction!

I love you guys ...and ferret.

So I realised I go on youtube a lot and find LOTS of funny stuff on there and rarely share all of them so I decided I'd blog my favourite one of the week every Monday so people can share the laughs too!

Youtube videos I favourite aren't always comedy but most of them are. I favourite a lot of spoofs, funny short amateur 'movies', rants and just people being silly for laughs, it's all good!

I think I'll rate them by:

If they make me laugh out loud
If they manage to make me cry laughing
Rewatching factor
Cleverness

I have an idea of what I'm gonna post tomorrow already, he's a new favourite Youtuber of mine and he's funny as fuck.

Til tomorrow!

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Why did I press caps lock before I typed '2'? It isn't a capital letter...it isn't even a letter!

Okay so anyway I found a band where the lead singer sounds almost exactly like Jimmy Urine from Mindless Self Indulgence, they have similar music and...that's pretty much it, but they sound just like MSI!

I love the look...

They're called Retard-O-Bot. The song 'Friendship Forever' was the first I heard from them and was the one that made me go "....Is Jimmy in another band I didn't know about?!"

Okay so I keep not blogging for weeks on end and feel slightly guilty for it sometimes, not all the time as I am writing a novel, but sometimes. ;)

My novel

So, I passed my original halfway mark of 40,000 words yesterday and am on my 6th chapter and the 66th page. It's been going pretty well apart from a few hiccups, due in part to me being lazy and also because the sub-plots changed so much, my original plans sort of got cancelled out and I had no direction so had to create new ones on the spot. I'm sort of being inspired to carry on by people that liked Romeo + Julian and by my boyfriend who is also into writing and makes me believe it isn't as hard as I sometimes think, thanks. =]

Right now, the progress of the story is as follows: the two main characters [Julian and Lexi] just made up after Lexi does the thing in the story that's a massive turning point - kissing Julian to get back at Brianna [Julian's ex that went behind his back and cheated on him with another girl]. I checked, the kiss is definitely in the blurb I planned so I didn't give anything away, really!

If you're reading this and have no idea what I'm on about, I'm writing a novel based originally on a fanfic. It's called The Other Side of the Fence and it's a gay teen romance full of drama, comedy and tragedy. I've got a lot [meaning seriously, 6 books, 1 very important one] of writing resources and books to help me improve my writing and I'm pretty confident in my ability to succeed with this so I'm doing good!

The book itself will be aimed at teenagers and above so there's only a few instances of swearing and nothing is graphic in the slightest. I might need a few proof-readers to help me along the way at some point, like a gay guy and a teenager who hasn't read the fanfic it's based on before, that would be awesome...but not for a while. I've already got a couple of people to proof-read it in general for me so I'm fine on that aspect. Up to two people can be the gay person and the teenager, but no more: I want to see if it comes across well but I also want to keep it under-wraps from most people.

My fanfiction

Not written any in ages but apparently people still like it and want more but I've been busy [see section above]. I'll do requests and send them to that individual person unless it's a universal interest [i.e. The Mighty Boosh]. I guess it would be exercise for writing in a way, so I'll do that soon. But right now, fanfiction is on hold, but people can still join the mailing list if they want to by just giving me their email address and they'll get stories from me if they request them/I write them.

My veganism

I'm still vegan and had a chat with the guitarist from a band called Sohodolls - who is also vegan - about it [people that follow this blog more than likely know who Sohodolls are...] and I'm encouraged more than ever to stick with it. I had a massive rant about it that at some point I'll blog on here, but the basics are: I'm not at all happy with people using animals for food, I've got nothing personal against people that eat meat/animal produce, it makes me very upset and angry when I see animals suffering.

Prior to my lifestyle change, the thing that made me most upset was homophobia and that has also made me cry before [watching a video on Prop 8 for example....god] but watching animal suffering or animal suffering for food tops even that, it makes me cry like I'm a six year old being told I have to go home when I'm having a ton of fun with a friend. I remember crying at an animal suffering video in front of people at an animal protection meeting once, I couldn't help it!

I haven't gotten really ill yet but I still haven't taken my supplement tablets, kinda forgot about them. I think I've been losing a bit of weight though, which isn't good for me as I want to gain weight! That's mainly me eating junk though, or not eating at all.

My love life

I've been with a guy called James for the past 2 months he's the same age as me this time, and also considers writing as a passion.

I've done a blog post about him before so there's no need to go into detail but I'm very happy and like him loads! He's attractive, clever, talented, funny...fucking lovely, basically.

Kindle

Still very much into Kindle, the electro genius! www.myspace.com/k4kindle

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Okay I'm in a bad mood right now cause of some email issues where I tried to email people something about 6 times and keep getting a delivery failure so I'll actually be more detailed later on but for now, go here to find out about an amazing club night hosted and headlined by Kindle.

Electro, Burlesque and DJs!!!

Electro Flesh.

P.S. If someone could tell me how to Bcc an email so all the email addresses aren't shown, I'd be eternally grateful!!

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Not from Shugo Chara this time, but from Minami-ke Okaeri. Love it cause it's so simple:

What does the apple want?! ....What does it want!?!

From Shugo Chara again [it's 51 episodes so I was bound to post one from it again!].

So, Ikuto's girlfriend--

I know I know, I like him too, but that face is a turn-off and lost you about 20 Ikuto points.

Love the animation in the face in scenes of extreme anger and extreme happiness. anime does it best!

Note: I say 'era' a lot in this post....

This is what the cover of the latest issue of Kerrang! looks like:

It's the first issue of Kerrang! I've bought in a long while as I have been into Manson for a good 6 years now, I just stopped liking him as much when I was 16 but still very much liked his personality and music. I was into him around the Kurt Cobain obsession era and when I was still building up my character as a teen to what I am now. I went through some obsessive phases with various things and, I'll be brutally honest, acted like an idiot for most of that time, like a vast majority of young teens do now with their obsessions and 'wannabe' attributes.

I never buy magazines as I'd just throw them away as soon as I've read what I wanted so I didn't see the point and just occasionally read a few bits in the store, put it down and left. However, when I walked past a very feminine-looking Manson, the sole reason I picked it up was because I genuinly thought it was the female singer from a new band. I was obviously proven wrong, disregarding his female stage name. You might be like 'but it says MARILYN MANSON is huge bold letters'...yes, but that was hidden by another magazine so I just saw his face.

I wasn't even planning on buying it then, but I saw there was an interview with Marilyn Manson and saw the quote 'I know it looks like a serial killer lives here', so bought it. That and it only cost £2.20 when I was sure it was gonna be in the £3 range. Pennies matter, kids.

Anyway, I am seriously in awe at how good he looks, he hasn't looked this good for a very long while [no offense to the self-proclaimed antichrist superstar], not since the Beautiful People era. I've always loved Manson with long hair cause it suits his face as it's long, as is his nose so when he cut his hair and shaved off one side of it, I was miffed for a bit then eventually grew to love it; but I love this look more.

The most recent time I've thought he looks good aside from said era was when this picture was taken, the Eat Me Drink Me era, which was only last year or so:

I also thought the new look made him look a lot younger, only me? Compare both pictures and I think he looks a good 4 or 5 years younger. He turned 40 in January this year, looks very good for 40 I think! He looks very similar to how he did in the Spooky Kids era I think, minus lip-ring, metal lunchbox and stripy socks, and he was in his early 20's/late teens then:

The main reason I got excited about this is because after 4 hours of owning the magazine, I didn't realise the blatant difference in his look. It's blatant as hell but it's hard to notice because people are so used to seeing him differently. I won't say what it is so people can have fun and guess what's different about current Manson. Edit: Oh and there's ANOTHER change too, so two new changes! And both are nothing to do with his make-up.

Apparently he also has a new album...either I'm slow on the uptake or it's still very new, cause I haven't heard any Manson news since he got together with that Evan girl from the Eat Me Drink Me era and that was ages ago, they aren't even together anymore apparently!

Anyway yeah, hearing about Marilyn Manson again and seeing his new look has reawakened my 'rocker' personality and makes me want to read his autobiography again [The Long Hard Road out of Hell], which is astounding by the way, and entertaining as hell! One of my favourite books! It's also reawakened my crush on him as I've always had a soft spot for him...

I'd love to hear new tracks and to see what he does from now onwards, so Marilyn Manson...hats off to you, sir. Even though I say he's 'toned himself down', I very much doubt his personality has deviated much from what it's always been.

Okay personally, Dane Cook is one of my favourite comedians because he takes things that happen to everyone in real life and makes them funny because we KNOW it's true! However, I just went on a site that rated him as #7 in the top 10 most hated comedians! I like many things that people hate but I had no idea Dane was one of them too cause I really don't see why!

I can see why people hate Mindless Self Indulgence, why they hate Russell Brand, why they hate The Mighty Boosh but why Dane Cook??

He reminds me of a Jim Carrey-type person cause he's very over the top in his actions, only thing is that he does other things too, Jim Carrey is mainly about voices and exaggerated moves.

I love Jim Carrey.... And I love Dane, so why do people apparently hate him?? I don't mind if I get Dane hate comments cause some people clearly don't like him, just tell me why?

I feel like I want to do these regularly if I come across bits that are funny or look funny when screencapped as I watch anime lots.

This is from Shugo Chara, the guy in the picture is the one being talked about:

"So, what was Kukai like as a child?"

Most normal response ever.

Ricky Van Veen, co-founder of College Humor! They do funny videos they also post on youtube and they now have their own TV show on MTV, how cool is that?? Mhmm, very. They're a very funny bunch, I do suggest you check them out.

This is Ricky:

This is Ricky in one of the rare moments he stars in a video and is very funny: