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Update

Runeshai — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:27:38 +0000

So…been a longass time since I posted. Figured some sort of update was in order, so here goes…

I’ve moved back to VT. For the holidays, but also for the foreseeable future. It’s vacation, then working, saving up, and if all goes as planned, film school starting in the Fall. I’ve taken a two-year detour from what was really my dream, and I’m back on track. So that’s good.

Before I left, I got to check out a MAKE IT! fair and was pretty impressed. I’d wanted to go last year in Vancouver but looked up the vendors that had websites and was pretty turned off. This year I just took the plunge and am sure glad I did. From Cocoa Nymph (awesome chocolates) to Thyrza Segal’s Plantscapes to Daughters of Bastards Warrior Wear (awesome chain mail jewelry, no website, sorry) there was plenty of awesome stuff to check out and to gawk at. Catalyst Reaction had some cool leather stuff and I picked up some great Christmas cards from Hug + Kiss Designs.

Other than that, not much else to report. T-day in Seattle with the bro, a week in NYC with an old friend, then getting settled in here, ready for Christmas, watching the last of my funds slip away.

Moved onto Season 2 of Fringe and giving Leverage a second chance. Finished Dexter Season 4 last night. I’m still traumatized. Fantastic show…they don’t pull any punches. Hoping to start in on Supernatural Season 2 soon. Being Human was a no-go for me; the emo vampire dude was waaay over the top annoying, I couldn’t even look at him. Watched Slither and Gremlins recently. Both were awesome. Definitely to-purchase. Great fun. Excited about Chuck’s Season 3 and Burn Notice’s continuation in January too. Workin’ away at my to-watch lists…

I’ve been on a pretty major Star Wars kick lately. Partly nostalgia (I found my first screenplay – a Star Wars fanfilm, almost 70 pages!), partly reading Death Troopers (fun!) and partly finally getting around to watching Star Wars Clone Wars from Cartoon Network. Pretty awesome series, I’m having a blast. You know it’s good when it gets you excited about watching the prequels. Yea. That’s serious.

Listening to lots of industrial and gothic, generally dark stuff lately…Rammstein mostly but Imperative Reaction, Assemblage 23, Zombie Girl a bit, I:Scintilla, Heimataerde, Icon of Coil and Birthday Massacre. Got Nightwish’s Dark Passion Play on in the background right now. Never a baddie :P. Awesome album.

Hope all’s well with everybody reading. And everybody not reading. And no I didn’t get you presents. Have great holidays! :)

Love & Trolls

Runeshai — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:01:08 +0000

So I was on a late-night last.fm new music binge and found this …oddly fascinating:

The results of the binge, if you’re wondering, are to look for more of the following artists:

The Sounds
The Faint
PlayRadioPlay!
Owl’s City
Uh Huh Her
Plushgun

And I have to post this. Just because it makes me laugh.

Music Picks

Runeshai — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:33:57 +0000

Randomly decided to make a music roundup today of some of the coolest melodic/folk metal bands I could think of off the top of my head that I listen to. Paganfest happened last night, I never got tickets so I didn’t go, heard Korpliklaani wasn’t good live, and being the band I’d be going to see, I figured it could wait. Also, money’s good to keep when you ain’t earnin’. But this don’t cost nuthin’, so take a peek through and enjoy.

Intergalactically awesome!

One of the hottest women in metal:

One of my favorites pre-breakup:

…and post breakup (mostly because Meadows of Heaven doesn’t have a video yet and this one’s awesome):

Because Ville Valo is awesome:

And because this live version’s so much better than the recorded version:

Also, this video’s sweet (but this one‘s even sweeter):

How much cooler does it get than antlered microphones!?

And viking musicians…who knew!?

one more because it’s a great song:

…and oe more because Herman Li is ridiculous:

sleepytime…

Runeshai — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:35:21 +0000

Oh good god I hate snoring. You can’t concentrate, you can’t relax, you can’t let yourself be sleepy, you can’t make yourself sleepy… all my best writing ideas and lines come to me when I’m tired enough to not get up and write them down (dumb, huh), but when there’s snoring going on in the background I can’t focus enough to put anything together in any sort of showcase-able way.

In other news… discovered @mc_lars (check out ‘Download This Song‘), @Annaleen, @Jon_Favreau, and @neilhimself today thru @feliciaday‘s post here. Gotten followed by two new people today…a Bipolar Disorder helpline and a random dude who’s apparently into ‘technical things, all sorts.’ Bipolar technology… just what I need. One question: does it snore? Because that would be perfect.

…for good measure (also: his website):

YouTube Find: ThruYou

Runeshai — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:37:30 +0000

Coolness. I like music/video remixes that come up with something different than the original, and this video is no exception. Been thinking about doing some music type stuff on my own recently, actually. I used FruityLoops once for a high school class, and I had a training DVD for the app once a while back, maybe I still do. Anyway…here’s the video, called ‘ThruYou’, enjoy.

ThruYou via Geekologie.

Also, a couple more of my favorites, just for good measure.

Awesome Hot ‘n’ Cold Cover

Runeshai — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:02:17 +0000

This had me overjoyed with laughter. Thanks, @feliciaday!

Definitely has that chocolate rain, soon-to-be-famous viral feel to it. I hope they don’t end up on TV or something for this, but I wondered while watching if they’d get picked up like Tay Zonday did after his video. Nonetheless, enjoy the link, I know I did :P.

No embedding code… link: http://is.gd/v9v5

PVC Cello

Runeshai — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:58:13 +0000

This is awesome! I found this earlier on Instructables, the internet’s DIY heaven, and it blew me away. Sweet job, kid, want to teach me?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UonzUXzw998]