And the music, you know, it played on and on and on...

I reviewed Let the Right One In, an excellent Swedish film from 2008, on my blog at http://acerbichappypills.blogspot.com/. Check it out!

In other news, I have decided that Livejournal may not be completely useless to me anymore, and I'll probably continue to update it with assorted personal stuff whenever I feel the need to. Other extraneous things that capture my interest will go on the blog.

Provided I find the impetus to actually post in the damn thing, I've abandoned LJ and moved on over to Blogger: http://acerbichappypills.blogspot.com/.

If the urge to complain about something randomly strikes me, I might still post here once in awhile, though.

Here's a song for the occasion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmLmIArqWM

Here's a random project I've been working on. It's a short story that I consciously wrote in the style of Lovecraft, whose work I've been reading a lot of lately. For those of you who have read Lovecraft, I think you'll find it to be very much in keeping with his style.

Anyway, here she is:
( Snip snip - it's a long read )

"We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love, that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more."

-Crimes and Misdemeanors.

It's now approximately 4:39 A.M. I can't sleep and I'm about an hour and a half into the most intense bout of consistent euphoria I think I've ever had. I've got ideas flying through my head at about one hundred miles per hour. I haven't felt so alive in I-can't-remember-how-long. I'm not sure what the root of this is, but I think it involves having just watched a very powerful movie and having a certain synchronicity of emotions that I haven't experienced in a very long time.

I am completely mad. In any case, life's interesting...for sure, haha.

But not, of course, to actually write about my life. No, this is simply an entry for me to pimp my latest art-workings...

( click here or I'll stab you! )

So, I had my graduation party this past Sunday, and got my driver's license yesterday. I should have my Associate's Degree from MCCC after this fall semester.

"Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Check this out: http://channel1suite.deviantart.com/art/Vampire-Vogue-84573492
I need MOAR COMMENTS!

Oh, and if you're feeling very brave, you can read some incredibly flowery and sentimental ridiculousness that I wrote while bored recently. It's intended to be a letter written by a man to a woman he loves, and it belongs in some god-forsaken romance movie that I will never make:

( what the hellllll )

As for how I'm doing (since this IS an LJ entry), it can be summed up in a few words: tired, highly excitable, and at a point of frustrating creative drought.

Cool breeze drifting through an open window
Alights on my skin, and imparts upon me
A sense of aimless infatuation.
The silence of winter has given way
To the sounds of life flooding my world
Awash with the subtle hum
Of the frequency of flowers growing
Their roots reach out to be sated by the blood of God
Through the Earth, His flesh, that slowly softens.
Raindrops fall and I wish I could join their journey,
Plummeting to a swift death, and then dispersal
Into quickly running pools of effervescent nothing.
But I cannot ascend.
I wander out into the great green world
To feel the rain soaking my flesh,
Pooling in every fold
And, but for this holy experience,
There is nothing worth receiving.



I kind of have a love/hate relationship with spring.

So yes, I am resurfacing on Livejournal after not having posted for some odd months, with nothing in particular to say except that I remember how awesome Invader Zim was.

Yet again, I have not made a Livejournal post in a REALLY LONG TIME.

I stole this from Carrie:

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY;
1. Matthew
2.
3. "YOU DICK"

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU GO BY;
1. four ton mantis
2. robospleen
3. SentientPudding

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF;
1. Hands
2. Eyes
3. Teeth

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF;
1. Skinny
2. Moles!
3. Short

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE;
1. Lithuanian
2. Norwegian
3. Culturally void suburban American bullshit

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU;
1. Being boring/normal.
2. Slow death.
3. Inadequacy.

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS;
1. CAFFEINE OH MAH GOD
2. Guitar playing.
3. Music listening.

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW;
1. Red hoodie.
2. Blue jeans.
3. UNDERPANTS HAHA

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS;
1. Radiohead
2. Fugazi
3. The Pixies

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS;
1. Radiohead - No Surprises
2. New Order - Ceremony
3. The Pixies - Debaser

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP;
1. Trust.
2. To feel needed.
3. I've always wanted to try sex inside a coffin.

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE; (In no particular order.)
1. Sometimes I get lonely even when I'm around people a lot.
2. Pessimism is silly.
3. Lying is the most fun I can have, except killing things.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU;
1. The way she moves.
2. A pretty voice.
3. EYES

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES;
1. Painting/drawing
2. Playing guitar
3. Ping pong/rape

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW;
1. Watch a movie.
2. Make kisses
3. Something else not boring.

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING/YOU'VE CONSIDERED;
1. Computer programmer
2. Concept artist/graphic designer
3. Musician

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION;
1. Iceland, because it looks really pretty and I could listen to Sigur Ros there and it would be like, "Whoa."
2. Somewhere someone awesome who would take me with them wants to go.
3. Inside your pants.

THREE KID'S NAMES YOU LIKE;
1. Fang Boner (don't ask; inside joke)
2. The Hulk
3. Jennifer is kind of nice.

If I ever spawn hideous squealing little dirt babies, I will use all of these names.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE;
1. I want to become immortal. And then die.
2. Meet the right person.
3. Rock the fuck out.

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL;
1. Nurturing instincts.
2. Empathy.
3. Does menstruation count if it's really inconsistent?

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY;
1. I like explosions.
2. Being a dumbass sometimes.
3. My utterly, utterly STEREOTYPICAL penis. God, how trite.

Snagged from Cutman:



2, 4 and 6 sound amusingly appropriate, but as for 1 and 5...I'd sooner die.

In other news, HOLYSHIT I CAN'T WAIT FOR SCHOOL BREAK

p.s. Also, this.

New artwork.

So, I saw this movie in Toledo with some good friends of mine today. It's an incredibly sweet indie movie in the vain of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Little Miss Sunshine. The plot sounds kinda crazy, I know, but it's adorable. Not to mention Ryan Gosling totally sells the whole movie. I recommend seeing it if you have the chance. Take a lover with you, and possibly a box of tissues.

Ugh, today was a really bad day. All of it. Mostly for reasons that involve self-loathing. I won't go into the reasons in the interest of not making this entry a whine-fest. I just have to let it out somewhere.

So, in other news, I've made a new painting.. If you leave a comment on DA or Livejournal, it would brighten my day and put a jaunty stride in my step.

I just added this piece to my DeviantArt page and it EXPLODED. 3 comments and 2 favorites within 1 minute. Laugh all you want, but that's a lot for me, 'cause I'm pretty much unknown on DeviantArt.

Anyways I'm pretty proud of the painting and I would like it if you checked it out/commented on it.

So I guess I'm pretty much infatuated with the girl I sit next to in Physics class. She's smart, nice, and absolutely gorgeous, and she laughs at all my jokes. Wow. Unfortunately she's the only good thing about this class, because my professor is a bastard and goes way too fast for me to comprehend anything :(.

Tutoring at the LAL (or as I call it, the LOL) is going well. It seems like it's turning out to be a pretty good gig.

Also, hormones: WTF? One minute I'm happy as I've ever been and the next minute I'm depressed as hell. What?

My attempt at painting Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips.

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By the way, this album is amazing.

BioShock anticipation is getting almost feverishly high...I haven't been this excited about a game in years. Only five more days!

Anyways, it seems I haven't updated in awhile. Summer's been pretty awesome so far. Went to Ann Arbor with Steve, Patrick, Chris, and Steve's friend Alex last week and hung out in record stores all day. That was fun. I've mostly been hanging out with the gang (usually at Clamdiggers every week), drawing (mostly traditional stuff lately...maybe I'll post some), listening to music, and (of course) watching movies. I've also been looking at colleges lately, and I'm working on applying for the University of Michigan.

The Hot Summer Talents concert, organized by Patrick and Yours Truly, is this Saturday. Should be a lot of fun. Last time certainly was.

Done in Photoshop CS2 over the course of a couple days. This is a portrait of my 8-year-old sister Jessica. I think it turned out pretty well, but it's not perfect. It's based on a photo of hers, which I wanted to draw because I thought the pose was really cute (and she wanted me to draw her).


(full-view, please!)

Yep, another portrait. This was a pretty challenging one...it took me about 3 days to complete. The likeness was really hard to get right, but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

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