What?! The trailer is so hot that youtube has already pulled it? Come on! What's a girl to do when she's stuck at home sick, huh? Not to mention this wind up here is *perfect* for a scary movie today. ugh. I'm so disappointed.

Oopsies.

I had the privacy settings on.

It's the major fixed now.

I heart the misspellings.  And the overhead lighting emphasizes your cheekbones, which is always a plus.  And HOLY TARANTULA, BATMAN! THAT SPIDER IS SCARY.  The spiders in my old place were scary, but your spiders look like they took lessons from Al Capone.  Dang.  Overall, groovy trailer.

But: you forgot the ever-necessary soundtrack!  You need an off-screen voice intoning "In a world [dramatic pause] where spiders are king, ONE MAN plays by his OWN RULES," and then you'd have to have music that's all badass orchestral DUTDUTDUT DAH, DUTDUTDUTDUT DAH DAH, only you'd probably have to hum it, which would make it extra badass.

And where are the jazz hands?  BRING ON THE JAZZ HANDS, DAMMIT.  The Astrid has spoken.

P.S. Thanks so much for the shout out, I feel all warmfuzzylike now.

I needed to ask someone and I thought I may ask you:
How are you Rory ? I hope you're OK.

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I actually just killed a spider that looked just like that.  The cosmos must be trying to tell me to have more respect for life than that, since now he's smeared all over my paycheck.  

I think either the theme from Shaft or the theme from Dragonheart would make good background music for that.  Maybe I could help.  Ever since seeing Troy I've had this urge to write a movie soundtrack with no original themes whatsoever.

Astridica -

"But: you forgot the ever-necessary soundtrack!"

I know. I wanted to get the sucker posted.

But, I edited one of my songs down to fit in the beginning and fade into the first couple majorly awesome scenes.

It will be rock and roll fantastic. Like a deep, heartfelt musical written by a rich white kid.

You just wait.

Bart -

"How are you Rory ? I hope you're OK."

I'm up and down, but, unlike in the past, it's entirely driven by environmental factors. If something goes wrong, I don't feel well. It's as simple as that, and I like it. It's *extremely* nice to get in and out of moods the way I feel I should.

In the old days, I'd swing down for no apparent reason. It was horrible.

I'll go through crappy times, but I'm learning how to deal with them. This is something that couldn't happen in the past.

When I was in my teens, I regularly skipped school to go surfing. At first it was great, but something happened to the break at my favorite beach. It was all storm surf - a choppy mess where every wave was a close-out, breaking across the swell at once, or breaking in both directions and meeting in the middle. The waves also got to be too big for that particular beach - too big, and nothing worked right.

It was impossible to get any better in storm surf because conditions changed rapidly. You couldn't count on anything, nor did you have any control over what was happening.

A friend of mine and I continued going every week for several months, but spent most of our time either waiting for a set that wasn't horrible, or sitting on the beach, hoping things would calm. We were going into November, which, on the Oregon coast, is freezing. In some ways it's better since there's only a small difference between air and water temperature, so you didn't notice how cold it was by the usual contrast, but still uncomfortable.

Sat through all that until we gave up and went back home.

That's what dealing with unchecked emotions is like. Every week, it's messy, and you can never count on anything. There's no apparent reason for why things are so tough.

My dad still goes surfing every year. Takes an annual trip to Hawaii where he visits all the old breaks from his childhood and teen years (my grandfather was in the Air Force, so they moved around a lot, and Hawaii was one of the places they were lucky enough to live).

The places my dad goes, you can count on a specific break at certain times of the year. You don't *know* that it's going to be exactly what you expect, but you can often find things the way you left them.

That's what it's like for me now. I'm learning to deal with emotions in a way where I expect certain reactions under certain conditions. It gives me the ability to reuse coping mechanisms that have worked for me in recent months.

It doesn't mean things are always going splendidly, but when things are going right, and when I "should" (I don't think there's really a "should", but it fits here) feel good, I do.

So, I'm fantastic, even when I'm down. It sucks while I'm down, but I can count on getting better now, even if I'm suspicious of successful rebounds lately. I expect them to stop eventually, but there's no hint of that yet.

Good or bad, I'm doing well.

Thanks for axing :)

The Cowboy -

"Dat spiydir wuz so fakked... duh!"

Yeah... I'm ashamed.

I drew it out on paper using my crayons, and then created fourteen-thousand TIFFs using Photoshop. Then I imported the TIFFs using Final Cut and, like a flip book, made a moving picture.

I had to rotoscope it in against the background (the floor was totally real), but you can see where the shadow sometimes didn't fall the way you'd have expected.

It took me two-hundred hours, and I have carpal hand from using the mouse so much, but I think it was worth it, if only for a sophomoric effort.

Okay- that's way too scary. The only way I manage to watch it is that kitty is sitting right here to protect me from evil spiders whist I watch.

Are you apartment spiders really that bad? Man, I'd think about going to the hardware store, getting some of those 'spider go away or die' cans and bombing your place with them.

All I've found in my new place as far as spiders are some daddy long legs.

And I'm glad.

- Cindy -

Aww... I've left my headphones at home due to having a spot in my ear this morning... Fortunately i discovered it by sticking my finger in my ear, and making it burst, before I put my headphones in for the cycle to work.

Otherwise I'd be thinking seriously about buying new headphones. Urgh, pussy headphone death... Not pleasant at all.

Betcha wanted to know that didn'tcha?

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I was reminded (for no discernable reason) of Yahtzee (Ben Croshaw, of Zero Punctuation "fame") 's description of trying to get famous posting videos on YouTube.

"It's rather like throwing a message-in-a-bottle into a sea made entirely of messages-in-bottles"

Then he went on a rant about big boats made of money, and concluded by pointing out that he had, in fact, been picked up on one of these boats and was now being paid to write wittily-destructive video criticisms of computer games.

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Celes -

"Are you apartment spiders really that bad?"

Yes. And if you found that footage creepy, then you *will* need the adult diapers I mentioned in the trailer.

It creeped me the hell out. That's for sure.

Massif -

"Then he went on a rant about big boats made of money, and concluded by pointing out that he had, in fact, been picked up on one of these boats and was now being paid to write wittily-destructive video criticisms of computer games."

*I* want a boat.

I love boats.

I'm going to fix my ads so that I can afford a boat.

Not that I couldn't afford one now. I mean to say that I want a boat that isn't inflatable.

Although... the inflatable boats, often coming in forms not particularly boat-like, sometimes have slides installed so that you can slide down, into the water.

I think that's way better than some big stupid boat you can take all your friends on as you cruise around the tropics.

CAN YOU SAY "LAME"?

I can.

"Yes. And if you found that footage creepy, then you *will* need the adult diapers I mentioned in the trailer."

I'll be okay. Dark the wonder kitty will protect me. He's my bug slaying hero. He's pretty much cleaned out the new apartment of bugs in about two weeks. Now he's working on catching and killing the shadows, but like the elusive laser pointer dot, they always seem to outsmart him.

"It creeped me the hell out. That's for sure."

I wouldn't even be able to make that video. You are so dashingly courageous, Rory. Maybe, one day, you will replace Dark as my #1 hero.

You want a boat? I've been subjected to various cheap-ass boats (being a relative term) over the years sufficient to put me off. My father having something of a sailing obsession.

So when dad bought this ( http://flickr.com/photos/moominply/1397540763/ ) I wasn't particularly excited to begin with.

But when he got the central heating installed that story all changed, getting to be warm and wet is just such an awesome way to spend a holiday.

"getting to be warm and wet is just such an awesome way to spend a holiday."

Really, I didn't have a comment, I just wanted to isolate that comment and put it in quotes. :)

Good thing I always carry a spare pair of adult diapers...

Holy crap. I used up my diapers just watching the trailer. Now WTF am I supposed to do? Screw you Blythe, this isn't the last you'll see of this Kanuck (and you *know* what I mean)