Cowboys and Witches 1:40 PM

Caught the ending of DESTRY RIDES AGAIN on TCM last night, one of Jimmy Stewart's best Westerns. Well, second best after THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. It's a nice bit of movie, and it's also the source of a number of jokes in BLAZING SADDLES. After the credits rolled I switched over to watch the end of HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. I'm happy to report that I enjoyed it much more then the last Harry Potter movie, and I hope that they continue to keep the darkness and danger that was here but absent before...

And finally I want to say that I find Ed's Saturn V DVDs to be a cool collection of Rocket Porn. Worth it for it's space age moments alone.

Town & Country update. Ed got the contract for the new house knocked out on saturday. He got a July 7th closing date. So now I've got a rough idea on the move-in date. And Tony came and fixed my brakes today, so I'm back on the road. Nice way to start the week.

Totally Lame Anime 8:59 PM

And one I've never heard of before:

More Nightmare Fuel 7:46 PM

More Nightmare Fuel
Originally uploaded by tohoscope.

So very creepy...

No Brakes! 1:30 PM

sketchdoodle003
Originally uploaded by tohoscope.

Yesterday I'm on my daily mail run and the brakes on the MyRage go all mushy and the CHECK BRAKES light comes on. I make it home ok. Today coming into work I step down and find nothing. I end up using the hand/emergency brake to make it into the lot. Half the day is gone and no word from Tony the AutoDrive Mechanic.

Never a dull moment.

Straight to HELL 12:05 PM

sketchdoodle002
Originally uploaded by tohoscope.

One of the movies that shaped my ideas and musical taste was Alex Cox's REPO MAN. I unspooled the vhs quite a few times and lost or borrowed out my cassette of the soundtrack many times. When STRAIGHT TO HELL came out I bought a number of copies of the cassette soundtrack, but I never rented the movie. Until now.

What can I say about a movie with Joe Strummer and Evis Costello and the Pouges in it? Or Courtney Love dying in a firey wreck? Ok, I'll be honest, it's a really uneven film. When it's good, it's fun. When it's not so good, it's really not so good.

Ok, the truth is it's a disjointed mess of a movie, but the soundtrack is worth a listen...

The Fog of Wah 9:00 AM

sketchdoodle001
Originally uploaded by tohoscope.

Spent last night doing laundry and packing for the move. I only laid down for a moment and fell asleep only to be woken up by Emily. I doesn't feel like wednesday already, my internal clock is way off...

Oh yeah, the iPod mini that I got from Ed? The one I paid $200 to get fixed and have the battery replaced? The battery crapped out...

And then there's the AKonHELL report I need to get off my ass and write. I kinda wanted to include the photos that Josh took of the event and maybe even the podcast of the show that I mic-ed Bruce for. But I don't have those on hand right now. So, I'm putting it off another day.

RELATED HELL thoughts, I need to buy more video and audio and Svideo cables and connectors for future shows. I keep finding myself short a cable or a plug or a connector or find that the cable is too short to connect to the sound or the video projector, as was the case at AKonHELL. Lucky for me there was a 20 foot R&L RCA and Svideo cable underneith the Amp or I would've been really screwed. Moral of the story? Get your gear together...

Anybody got a Darth Vader Van? 8:11 AM

June 7th, 2005
Originally uploaded by tohoscope.

Or maybe those cool Darth Vader models?

The cat came back 9:45 AM

Everyone eventually found their way back from A-Kon, Justin, Doug, Bob and Emily all ending up at Bruce and Mundee's house. So we had a steak dinner at Buck n' Loons with Helen and Steve and it was a nice evening. And there was good news, Jack the cat had been found by Ms. Echo, a little thinner but no worse for wear.

I finally got animehell.org back up and on it's server. I'm sending an e-mail to PowWeb to find out their position on putting BlogTorrent up. Let's hope they're more knowledgeable about the tech then StartLogic.

Post A-Kon come down 9:07 AM

OtakuHELL was had at A-Kon. We were put in a smallish room, only 149 capacity, and you could smell it. But we held on for 4 and a half hours, and it was a good 4 and a half hours.

I stopped by Josh & Michael's Sunday night and Clarine and Keith were there. Chris showed up just as I was heading home, so I only got to say hello and good night to him. I had invited them to see the HELL show and I know Josh, Michael and Keith had come to the show, but they left before midnite, and I was curious what they thought of the show. They had a good time, and some interesting feedback that I need to address. I hope to get more observations from them later in the week...

AKon16 dusk to dawn HELL-a-rama tonight 12:12 PM

Slept ok, although I kept waking up every couple of hours. Set up a dozen or so clips to encode to SVCD, including a new OtakuHELL eyecatch with added laughing puppet footage for padding. All I have to do is burn them to SVCD when I get home from work, quick and simple, assuming that I get outta here at 3:30pm and get home without a hitch. And because I need to drive to Dallas and find the Adam's Mark Hotel and find a place to park all before 9pm, well I'm guessing something will happen to screw up my plans...

Like a nice thunderstorm blowing through, and I really REALLY don't wanna drive to downtown Dallas in the rain in Friday nite traffic.

Pre-game for OtakuHELL 2:34 PM

It's the night before a HELLshow, so I'll be very VERY busy getting my video and equipment checked, ordered and packed up. Odds are I won't get a heck of alot of sleep tonight, but I'll make do. It's better to lose alittle sleep over this, tends to make me less nervous when I come to do the actual show.

Bruce and Mundee leave for the Adam's Mark tonight, I gave Bruce $10 to print up some color flyers for HELL and he'll post them tonight or tomorrow around the hotel. I've got some more flyers to make and the Psychommu Gaijin zine to print, but they'll be ready when I go to Dallas tomorrow afternoon.

Amy Fraga got us a room from 9pm til 10am, if I can make it that long. A nice Dusk to Dawn Hell-a-rama show, not that I couldn't fill 12 hours of HELL, I'm sure I could...

So, let's see...Video, video, videos, disks and dvds, players and tapes and flyers and junk. Yeah, that covers it.

New webhost new problems 11:44 AM

Can't seem to make Blogger work with PowWeb, I really don't know why...

UPDATE: Turns out I'm publishing to the secured area of the website, which isn't accessable to the internet. Looks like this'll work, now...