Well, there goes my fun.

Apparently, people over at newgrounds are very bitter concerning flash loops (probably because of the badgers/numa numa crazes), so my entry was blammed within an hour of submission. That seems odd to me, as the few reviews I received for it were actually positive.

EDIT: "Jafar is Bananas" is now up on this site. Here is the new URL:
http://members.cox.net/masterfravit/jafar_bananas.html

Spread it around! Spread it like sickness!

My first newgrounds.com submission...

...and it's completely pointless and amateur. But so far people seem to be liking it. Check it out:

JAFAR IS BANANAS

Support me, and vote "5" on this, that way they don't take it down.

Blah...

I've haven't posted anything in a while. Just wanted to note that I am, in fact, still alive.
Working full time, schooling 12 units, I've been busy. But I haven't forgotten about stuff. I am slowly coming out of my flash funk. So hopefully by the end of the year there will be something new here. We'll see.

What the hell is WRONG with you people??

I've added yet another new poll. Which begs to question: WHO WERE THE 23 NUTJOBS WHO VOTED IN THE LAST ONE? Ben is at least 4 of them, but that still leaves 19 unaccounted for.

WTF MATES

im at bens grandpas house. type wtf at the end of the zim cartoon for more stuff.

MORE DISNEY CARNAGE

There's been another accident at Disneyland. This time at California Adventure, actually. Follow the link to read more.

When will the bloodshed end?

I'll get you cobra man, if it's the last thing I ever do!!!!!

So I've missed a few happenings since my last erratic posting. Since then, the so called "space mountain count" has increased to 8 (hopefully one of these upcoming days in august I'll be able to drive up there and ride it all day long, rendering my space mountain count useless), and uh, some other stuff happened. As always, I've seen plenty of movies. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is particularly noteworthy, as is March of the Penguins. I think I'd still rate Batman Begins as the best summer movie thus far, so everyone who has not yet had a chance to see it should do so as quickly as possible.

The Aquabats concert on july 22 at Soma was one of the best days I've had this summer. Too much awesome happened on that day to write everyone properly, so I'll just summarize with main points.
-8 people: Pohl, Jenny, John, Neal, Kyle, Ted, Ryan (aka steve, aka teds friend from ucla), and myself.
-trying to communicate through the back window of neals explorer to ted and ryan in the car behind us using paper signs.
-greasy mexican food in san diego.
-camping out in line an hour and a half before the doors opened (with lawn chairs and such)
-john and jenny's crazy pajama/viking outfits
-warm up group 1:the phenomenauts, complete with flashing red police lights, fire extinguisher shooters, songs like "earth is the best", bouncing around a giant earth ball (like in the rbv "one world show), and toilet paper shooters made of leaf blowers during the final song.
-warm up group 2: the epoxies; i was probably the only one in our group who enjoyed this band. they also had lasers on their guitars, AND smoke machines. can't miss there.
-THE AQUABATS CAME ON AND EVERYONE WENT NUTS
-the aquabats fought monsters
-ted and i sang along to every song, as we both new the words to everything
-mc bat commadner beat up mud boy, thinking he was a monster, but really he was a big fan who ran away, so the bat commander was so depressed he quit the band, but we brought him back by showing undying love using the circle of love, to be met by the band playing "Lovers of Loving Lover".
-a chemical bomb sing along
-lenny kravitz showed up (or, a guy dressed in black, holding a cardboard cut out of lenny kravits), but was killed shortly after by cobra man.
-cobra man killed the bat commander, but we brought him back to life by believing (and by the rest of the band playing a cover of "don't stop believing" by journey).
-moshing during "pool party" and "awesome forces"
-everyones ear drums being completely destroyed.
-in n out on the way home
Great night. I'm pretty sure everyone enjoyed themselves a lot.

OK so that was almost a week ago. Since then I've worked more, and spent a great day with laura at the beach, and another at balboa park. And a bunch of late night excursions with lona and john, and a few with ben. My sleeping pattern is all jumbled as a result, but I don't really mind. It's not affecting work.

August is almost here. Meaning so is school. But that also means that I'll soon be reunited with my beloved breakfast burritos once more.

Space Mountain count = 5

SPACE MOUNTAIN!!!! WHOOOOOO!!!!

I've missed you, old friend... so much...

Okay, that's out of my system. Goodnight.

war of the worlds = nightmares

War of the Worlds is SCARY. I absolutely loved it.

"Spielberg seems to have totally forgotten that he's a wuss, and plays this like the Holocaust and 9-11 combined."-- Luke Y. Thompson
"There's plenty of blood, most of the cast of thousands die, and some of the images are just plain disturbing...I loved it."-- Paul Salfen

Tomorrow I'm going to Disneyland. That'll be good after the night of sleep I won't get tonight. I'm going to try and see if I can catch the Space Mountain soft openings that've started last thursday. That is if I'm over my whole aliens/space/futuristic machinerey fear by tomorrow.

Thats all for now. Goodnight.

Why is it so early???

It's not even 6 freaking am. And wtf am I doing? BLOGGING? I should have slept in longer.

I'm about to leave for a six flags trip with a group of people from work, and I'm driving one of the cars, so I gotta go round up everyone. I'll bet Ben is not even awake yet.

You go ahead and enjoy your snooze, world! At least I'll be doing something more interesting.

An Oddity...

Today, when I went to AMPM for my lunch break, there were nothing but chicken sandwiches for sale in the food thing. And it's not like they were almost out of food and all that was left were a few chicken sandwiches. There were at least 20 of them. Just a whole food warmer filled with chicken sandwiches. Why? I'll never know. Dammit. I should have asked them why. A missed opportunity...

That will haunt me forever now.

My Review of "Batman Begins"...




IT'S GOT ZOMBIES IN IT!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!




Enough said.

Why the hell am I still up?

Ok so summer has started.

:: whoooo :::

Somehow I survived finals and the busy weeks of star wars mania at work, and things and slowing down and the rest of the summer should be cake compared to that.

I've already managed to get one disneyland visit under my belt for this summer, but for right now I'm at a temporary halt, as my annual pass expired on saturday and I'm still waiting for them to send my new one in the mail. The fact that my credit card has not yet been billed for the renewal is not very encouraging. Anyway, the trip was a very fun day with Lona (if I forget to mention her again, I'll get my throat slit). No really, it was a lot of fun. I got a chance to check out all the 50th anniversary shtuff I've been obsessively reading about over the last year, and it's all very impressive. The 50 hidden mickeys provides a nice little element of treasure hunt to the day, and some of them are very cleverly hidden. The several large photomosiacs scattered around the park are also very impressive, but sadly, none of my photo submissions were used (they are all comprised of submissions by park guests.) "The First 50 Magical Years" has moved into the Main St Opera House (formerly the home of "Great Moments with Mr Lincoln,") which is an exhibit showcasing several areas of Disneyland history, followed by a film narrated by Steve Martin and Donald Duck, which shows actually how the park came to be. Highlights of the walkthrough exhibit include the wall sized photomosiac made up of pictures of literally every attraction in the parks history, from the well known (Indiana Jones, Splash Mountain, etc) to the obscure (Toy Story Fun House, Rocket Rods, the Gummi Bear boat ride, etc...), and also the 10 foot wide replica of Disneyland as it looked on opening day in 1955, with comparative park maps showing how the park evolved over time. I've going to cease my ramble about this wonderful exhibit and conclude by saying that should you plan on going to disneyland within the next year and a half, make this exhibit a priority, and give yourself plenty of time to look around the walkthrough before the film. It is best to visit this exhibit in the beginning of the day so you don't forget, and because it sets up the rest of the day very nicely. But enough about "...50 Magical Years"...
The fireworks.... holy crap....the fireworks....
They can best be described in this fashion:

"OMG OMG OMG OMG HOLY CRAP OMG #%JRFIW$TGIWIJBIJDOIHBD!!!!!!!!!!111"

I really don't need to say very much more about this show. It's the best freaking fireworks show I've ever seen in my life. I'm not exaggerating. This hsould be your reason for going. Get to the central hub (the area in front of the castle where all the lands branch out) an hour before the show starts, and MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A CLEAR VIEW OF THE CASTLE. I cannot stress how important it is that you be in this area and have a clear view of the castle for this show. At least half of the shows special effects and themeatic elements can only be seen in this area, and that is also not an exaggeration. You probably don't think this show can be that great. Just a fireworks show, right? Trust me, take the advice. You'll thank me later.

Anyway, at the moment, thats about the extent of the 50th anniversary offerings at the moment, aside from Block Party Bash at DCA (a silly new parade based on pixar peoples), and a few new surprises in the jungle cruise. Later is when we get the REAL birthday present: Space Mountain. It's scheduled to open on july 15, but I'm reading rumors of soft openings possibily starting on 4th of july weekend, so for anyone interesting (if anyone actually reads this, for that matter), keep that in mind.

So now that I just wrote much more than I planned on just the topic of Disneyland alone, on to other things. Hmm... well the summer movie season has started, which makes me happy. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is very worth seeing, if only just because Angelina Jolie is gorgeous. Thankfully there are plenty more reasons as to why it was a great movie. We get Batman this Friday, and it looks promising. Also, I've seen Star Wars a total of 5 times now. Just thought that was noteworthy.

In an unrelated note, there was an interesting taco incident a couple weeks ago. I'm not going to go into full details, but I was at Ben's house with Kyle the other night, we were watching tons of invader zim via my brand new invader zim complete series box set, they were drinking, they decided it would be a good idea to get tacos, I decided to drive them to Jack n the Box to buy 18 of them ($10 goes a long way) while blasting techno music down melrose, Ben decided to throw my pants out the window (which is as far as I'll comment on that), I decided to make him go get them on the returning ride home, kyle decided to do who knows what, and it all pretty much resulted in me wiping a taco off my windshield with my windshield wipers, large taco stains on the sides of both mine and bens cars, more invader zim, and mass indigestion.

And with that, I'd say that summer has started off on the right foot. Got plans for six flags with a big group of people from work, probably wild rivers with my sisters, ten bajillion more trips to disneyland, and all the aquabats I can listen to (or jump around like an idiot to at their concert in july.) Now it's officially late. Goodnight.

ps: The Aquabats just released their fifth album, called "CHARGE!". It's worth a listen. Buy it. Or call me up. Maybe I'll copy it for you. Maybe.

Errrhhglllghhlghh.......

I'm tired.

Wednesday night was the big premier/standing-in-line-party/riot for Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. Two days later, and I'm still exhausted, trying to recover from the event. You wouldn't believe how many people showed up unless you saw it for yourself. When these people started showing up in tents last friday, I knew it was only going to get worse, but nothing could've prepared me for what it all actually amounted to at it's height. My shift was from 4:15pm to 12:15am, but I ended up staying later. For the first 5 hours I mainly did theatre checking, and stayed inside of the building, where it was suprisingly quiet. Later in the evening, at around 11 pm, Ben, Kyle and myself had the pleasure of admitting all 2,000 Star Wars fans into the buildng, who had just camped out anywhere from 18 hours to 5 days in our parking lot. I was surprised to see so many familiar faces from various places such as my current school, high school (people I haven't seen in almost a year), and even some high school teachers (Mr. Bailey, Ms. Catlyn (sp?) and Mrs. Neuman).
I did everything from theatre checking to building/maintenence inspection, crowd control, setting up/breaking down lines and caution tape, and even backing up concessions (the busiest concessions I've ever seen) for a period of about 45 minutes. At one point, every cash register at the concessions was open, and the line for each register stretched out of the doors of the building. From about 9pm onwards, I was literally running around for the rest of night trying to get certain taks accomplished, and I'm sure Ben and Kyle had even more fun dealing with the multitude of fans on the outside while we prepped on the inside. At around 12:30 am, after mass hysteria and dealing with 2000 rabid star wars fans, we clocked out and went in to actually watch the movie (for free, without having to wait days in a tent in a parking lot).

So what'd I think?

Well, forget everything you think about Eps 1 and 2. This story brings everything full story, provides the smoothest transistion from new to old I could possibly imagine, and almost even makes up for 1 and 2's mistakes. I've seen it twice since it opened, and it was better with a repeated viewing (perhaps because the second time watching I wasn't sore all over and dead tired). While not quite as well done as the original, as far as the quality of the plot, this new movie comes as close to the originals as possible. My only gripes come from a handful of cliche' lines here and there, and a 20 minute piece of movie in the center that could've easily been shortened to 15 and had the same effect. Otherwise, this is a great movie. It's what we've been waiting for since Return of the Jedi: another Star Wars movie that is actually quite impressive.

Go see it now.

(Just not at Edwards. We have enough people to deal with this weekend already.)

Let's Get This Party Started!

Today is May 5, and we all know what that means, right? No, not Cinco de Mayo.

Disneyland's 50th Anniverary celebration officially begins today. So everyon get down to disneyland if you get a chance, it's really looking snazzy right now.

Anyway, just had to make a note of that. July 17th will be my big freak out, when it is Disneyland's ACTUAL birthday, and we will be able to ride the newly reopened and revamped Space Mountain. But for now, let the celebration begin.

If, for any reason, any of you reading this is as interested in the 50th as I am, mouseplanet.com has continuous coverage of the events from the park.

-chewie

Tuna Fleets, Tiny Tots and Pregnant Women

So... umm, yeah, I'm bored today. In my boredom, I found this weblog type survey thing while trying to access brytni's livejournal and ending up on her friends page and seeing this survey in another person's post, with the screenname of "bendystraw". I don't know who this is, but who ever you are bendable straw type person, I've stolen your lame music survey.

1. Total amount of music files on your computer?
662

2. The last cd(s) you bought was...
The Ring/Ring Two Soundtrack, the Chicago Soundtrack, the Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack

3. What was the last song you listened to before reading this message? -
Less Than Jake - "9th and Pine"

4. Write down five songs you often listen to or mean a lot to you.

1) Smash Mouth - Your Man
2) Seal - Love's Divine
3) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
4) Disney - Tapestry of Nations
5) Aerosmith- Don't Want to Miss a Thing

5. What new music are you really excited for in the coming year so far?
Smash Mouth - Old Habits
The Aquabats - CHARGE!

6. Select "Party Shuffle" in iTunes and list the first 5 songs (or set it to list only 5 songs)
1) Me&My - "Fly High"
2) Disneyland Soundtrack - "Space Mountain"
3) Manfred Mann - "Blinded By the Light"
4) Queen - "Another One Bites the Dust"
5) Linkin Park - "Pushing Me Away"

So that's that. A temporary cure to my boredom. Now what? I guess I'll go play zelda or something. See you later.

Ps: I saw hitchikers for the 3rd time yesterday. Today is day 6 of having "so long..." stuck in my head.

Hi.

Well, looks like I'm once again broadcasting LIVE from the Mira Costa library! Ok, today is the 5th consecutive day that I've had the song "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!" stuck in my head. The song is the theme song to the new Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. A bunch of us at edwards made it a point to memorize this song (since we hear it multiple times throughout the day when the movie lets out), and now that I know most of the lyrics, it's become even more infectious. Of course, the fact that I've seen it twice since friday (and that I'm going to see it a third time today after school, and a 4th if Jessica is sick and can't come today, and possibly a 5th if anyone of my other friends like Pohl wants to come with me) probably isn't helping. "So long and thanks for all the fish! So sad that it should come to this! We tried to warn you all but, oh dear... You may not share our intellect, which may explain your disrespect, for all the natural wonders that grow around you... SO LONG SO LONG and thanks....for all the fish!"
Oh yeah, what did I think of this movie? Well, isn't it obvious?

Go see hitchhikers, RIGHT NOW.

I should also add this, for anyone interesting in the multiple new additions coming to Disneyland's Tomorrowland within the next three years:

"The real reason that the Imagineers are reportedly looking into bringing back the PeopleMover is that -- what with all of the new Tomorrowland shows that have either already been built (I.E. "Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster"), have yet to be officially announced (I.E. Space Mountain's new night-time only soundtrack, "Rockit Mountain"), are still in the process of being constructed (I.E. The new "Finding Nemo" version of the Subs) and/or are moving rather swiftly through WDI's developmental process (I.E. "Star Tours II" and the "Cars" -based retheming of Disneyland's Autopia) ... Well, the Imagineers are anticipating that by 2008, Disneyland 's Tomorrowland is going to have some very serious traffic problems. With most of the park's guests trying to cram their way into this very small portion of Disneyland in order to sample all of the new rides & shows.
So -- obviously -- some people-eating attraction have to be quickly added to this side of the theme park so that Disneyland can then better handle all of these additional bodies. So among the ideas that are currently being kicked around is -- yes -- bringing the PeopleMover back on line. As well as removing the Astro Orbitor from its current position at the entrance to Tomorrowland (to make it easier for guests to get into this part of the park) and then placing this ride on top of the PM's old loading station.
Mind you, this isn't the only idea that WDI currently has in the works. I think all you Douglas Adams fans out there will be pleased to hear that -- should the movie version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" prove to be a hit (More importantly, inspire a sequel or two) -- that the Imagineers would then like to replace "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience" with a brand new "Hitchhikers" inspired 3D movie.
Now I would imagine that even Marvin the paranoid android couldn't be depressed about news like that ..."
-jimhillmedia.com

Bye for now.

Why never any real updates?

Well, thats because last time I reformatted my computer (about 9 months ago), all my programs were erased, and I was too lazy to reinstall the FTP program. Isn't that hilarious? I thought so. So no updates for you. But don't worry, that'll all change this summer. I hope.

Guess I just wanted to share that with you. Have a good night.

Stuff 'n Stuff

Well I'm in the Mira Costa library right now, I just wrote a philosophy paper and I'm trying to figure out how to waste more time in between classes, so I think I'll write about stuff. It's been, what, a month since last time I wrote? I've been ignoring everything it seems. Like I'm never online anymore. I spent a lot of time during spring break trying to talk to people and catch up. This semester is going by much faster than last, and before I know it I find myself behind in everything. Other stuff happened over spring break too. It was a good break.

I took Laura to Knott's Berry Farm on Monday, and we spent the day riding rollercoasters. I was not feeling completely well that day as I was at the tail end of the second flu I've had in a month's time. I was coughing up a good amount of blood all day, but I got through the day. Still had a great time. Rode two new coasters since my last visit: Xcelerator and Silver Bullet. I practically dragged Laura on Xcelerator as she did not want to ride, but she was the one to declare first that we had to ride it again after the first time. It has a crazy layout. It launches from 0 to 80 in two seconds, up a 200 foot horseshoe type structure, and plunges down a VERTICAL drop. Craziness. Silver Bullet was a standard inverted coaster. Nothing too crazy about it, but it was lots of fun. Laura also really liked Ghostride (her first time on it). I think that's still my favorite one there.

Doctor visit one of the days during spring break, can't remember which one.

Disneyland on thursday with Ben, Brillo and Travis. I drove. They pestered me the whole time. We almost died. Standard stuff. We met Stephanie there, so everyone else but me got into the park for free. Lines Disneyland were pretty long, but surprisngly all the lines at DCA were very long. Didn't get to ride Tower or Soarin', so we stayed at Disneyland for most of the day. We were also pirates. We had swords and everything. Stephanie left at around 3. We all got to go on the new Buzz Lightyear ride, which is awesome. Much better than Florida's version. Best thing about it is you can ride it over and over, because you get laser guns and it keeps score. It's like a moving video game. Of course, we watched Fantasmic twice that evening. Travis had never seen it, and he liked it. We al took turns watching our spot for 3 hours, riding stuff in between. At one point, Ben and Brillo were guarding the spot while Travis and I rode The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh twice in a row. So yeah, watched Fantasmic twice, went to In n Out afterwards. Normal stuff. Fun as usual.

I got to see Ring Two over break also. I've got lots of thoughts about that, so I'll save them for another update.

Looks like I've effectively done my job of wasting time between classes, as I've got to end this now and get to history. I'll write again soon.

-chewy

Time to catch up, again...

Things just come up and I get all excited about it and then before long I find that I'm like a year behind on this thing and trying to catch up. Ok maybe it's not that bad, but pretty close.

Last week I "drove" up to Hollywood with my sisters to see Chicago. It took about an hour to get up to around Anaheim, and from there on it took 2 hours to get to Hollywood, traffic was very bad, so it was very good that I left at 3:30 for the 8pm show. We ate at a pizza place on Hollywood boulevard which was awesome and then saw the show at the pantages theatre, which is where we saw Lion King during the rose parade trip. While there were quite a few lines that were word for word in the movie, the play was very different, and much more comical. I shouldn't ruin it for anyone who wants to see it someday, but I'll just say that "things aren't what they appear to be".

On saturday I drove to Disneyland because RBV was there, and if you're someone who read this normally, you already know that and I don't have to tell you. I woke up way early and was in the park by opening, which was at 8. It rained all the way up and was a little hard to drive, but ok. RBV's schedule said their arrival would be at 9, so after waiting around in main street for hafd an hour (in the rain), I called up Derek to see how far the buses were, when he said that RBV hadn't even left school yet. I decided to ride everything in the park because of my abundance of free time, which I did, and then I still ended up waiting in main street for another hour and a half, while reading lemony snicket and playing kingdom hearts, until rbv people showed up at 11 (by that time it had stopped raining). Great organizational skills they have, I swear.

I hung out with Laura, Therese (sp?) and Paul for most of the day. Rode Indy, Big Thunder, Mansion, Pirates, had lunch (Laura and Therese at New Orleans Square, Paul and I at Pizza Port), rode Star Tours, Matterhorn, played in Toon Town, and rode Peter Pan. That took us to 4, where the three of them went to the Small World Bazaar to wait for band people and change and etc., and I finally had a chance to to over to DCA for a while. All I had time for was the Aladdin show, but that was alright because I hadn't seen it in a while, and it was probably the best performance I've ever seen them do. Crowd response was the largest I'd ever seen. Then I went back to watch them march, and saw Cade and Tina along side the street so I stopped and talked to them and sat with them as the parade went by.

After the parade (at about 6:15) I grabbed my backpack out of my locker and headed straight to the Fantasmic seating area to save a spot for the 9pm show. I had a big blanket in my backpack so I could spread it out for Laura and whoever she decided to show up with at 8:30. Cade and Tina found me, and they put a blue tarp down next to my blanket (I think it was a poncho, but it was huge), to help me save more space, and they kept my company which was good. Somewhere in there, Ben Neal and Derek showed up and joined us, and then Laura and Paul showed up at 8:30. The show was great, except for the absence of the mark twain at the end, but the replacement scene was not quite as horrible as I thought it would be.

After the show, pretty much everyone left. Band people needed to go because their bus curfue was almost up, and everyone else was tired so they went home too. The only person who stayed was Ben, which I'm greatful for, because I didn't have to feel weird sticking around for the second fantasmic showing by myself. We moved our blanket up to the very front as soon as the first show was done, and seats were perfect. The second time around it was almost like "Fantasmic w/ Ben & Chewy Audio Commentary". We sat there and analyzed the show, and it was still just as spectular seeing a 2nd time in a row. One of these nights this year when they do three showings, I gotta go, that way I can watch all three. ahh. It'd be amazing.

We were both pretty tired (and hungry) by then, so we left soon after the show and went to the In n Out in tustin to get food, and we talked about stuff and it was good times. Half of our conversation consisted of either one of us repeating "heh...that was a great day". Then I drove home. I had to put in Blue Man Group and turn the volume up really high to stay awake, because I was super tired by then. When I got home, I got to experience the wonderfully amazing feeling of collapsing into bed after a long tiring day of anything and falling straight to sleep, without a care in the world. Yeah, you all know the feeling.

That's pretty much all that needs coverin'. Man, I need to take more saturdays off. It's good for my sanity I think. I know I won't do it, or not for a while at least, but it's a nice though. Maybe if the Aquabats come back to town. Or maybe I'll just take another trip to DL. This weekend is going to be a 4 day weekend, and I'll almost certainly be working all four days. Ahh crap. That reminds me. I was at the movies today, Laura and I went to see Hitch (a very funny movie, funniest I've seen Will Smith in a while). I forgot to check my freaking scheudle. DAG NABBIT. Oh well. Maybe I'll call right now. Yeah that's what I'll do. Well that puts an abrupt halt to this already very long entry. See you later.

Oh, and happy valentines day.

I'm bored and it's 11:25 right now. I thought I'd leave this obscure piece of information here that I'm sure no one needs to know: I've now seen the movie "Phantom of the Opera" 4 times. Ok, I've blogged. That's out of my system. Now I'm not bored anymore! I can go to sleep.

Seriously... do I really need to say anything?



NUMCHUCK SKILLZ... COMPUTER HACKING SKILLZ... BAG PUPPET SKILLZ...

These guys are just pure awesome. My right eye may look a bit swollen (I'm not sure why either), but the puppets... way cool. Laura made these for me. She's awesome. I don't have that kind of creativity. Anyway, been wanting to put this up for a while.

Life is life. Now into the new semester, I'm taking more units now, meaning less time. But then I'm also working less, because Jan/Feb is the time of year when no one has money for movies because it's after the holidays, and most of the movies out are crappy anyway.

I'm definitely NOT going to mention the day I spent at Disneyland with Lona about 2 weeks ago, nor am I going to mention how much fun it was. SOMEONE thinks that it's a good idea to spam my guestbook with messages about how theyre the center of the universe and how writing about her.. er i mean, that person should be the central focus of this website, even though I hardly update this site anymore anyway.

With that said, I spent a day with Lona at disneyland about 2 weeks ago, right before she went back to college, and I had a great time.

I'm going to Hollywood with my sisters this coming tuesday to see Chicago the Musical. Looking forward to that. We got cheap seats because thats all my sisters and I can really afford, but it's at the Pantages theatre and last time I was there, I'm pretty sure I had the worse seat in the house. It was the rose parade trip, we were seeing the Lion King. We were seated on the floor, but I was in the very back row, the far left seat. So I was in the back corner of pretty much the whole auditorium, but I still had a very good view of the show, so I'm not worried. Wayne Brady (from "whose line it is anyways") is going to be playing Billy Flynn, and that should be a lot of fun. I guess I'll write about that after it happens.

I'm planning to build a tube instrument, similar to the Blue Man instruments. It's kind of surprising how many sites there are out there dedicated to home made tube instruments. I've got a few designs in mind, but it will most likely end up being the easiest and cheapest one possible. I need to see if I can actually make one that works before I think about making one that works awesomely and looks amazing. Anyone whose interested in helping, let me know. Looks like already I've got a quite a few projects to keep me busy over the summer (aside from working), with that and the website stuff that I'll hopefully be doing. But until then, I've got school and work to eat up my time and sanity.

Is anyone out there still reading this? I'm just curious. This is really mostly for my own benefit, but if anyone actually is still following, leave a message in my guestbook or something, just so I know you're alive.

Interesting tidbit in today's disney news, WDI is putting out proposals for an Incredibles themed ride at California Adventure, set to open in 2008. The ride would be a 3d simulator type experience, making use of "robocoaster" technology. It sounds similar to the spider man ride at Universal Orlando, but I'm not sure this specific type of ride technology has been used in a major theme park attraction before. Could be very interesting.

This is unrelated, but check this out: www.wordsontheleft.com

Highly amusing.

Why didn't Pink throw any of his bricks at anyone? That's what I'd like to do.

Happy Christmas. Merry New Year. Or Something.
(AKA chewie's lame excuses for never updating the site)

Well the holidays came and went. I feel like a slacker for updating this blog so little now a days. I really shouldn't be doing these huge akward updates where I cover months of happenings at a time, but the reality is that I've been busier in the last few months than I really ever have. I'm lucky to have such a long vacation at Mira Costa, because before holiday break came, I went a month and a half without having any days off from school or work. So when I do get a chance to do whatever I want, updating this seems trivial compared to the other things I could be doing in my precious free time. That's just the way things work. Any serious changes to the site are going to have to be planned out, so don't get your hopes up for new content for at least a couple more months (provided anyone out there is still actually reading this blog). I have been giving it some thought, though. I'd definately like to redesign the site again. I want to make it a lot more simplified, and now that I actually have some form of reliable income (and a credit card) I'd like to get my own server space and domain (probably fravit.net). I've been thinking about doing it for a while and now it seems more realistic, as my parents were never thrilled about paying for something like that. I've also got multiple miscellaneous flash projects that have for one reason or another been left unfinished, such as my republish of Girshnelda (with fixed audio), the tower of terror simulation, and my (still) unnamed Jiggly Baby cartoon (the one I one first place for at the Del Mar fair last year, even though it was incomplete.) However, all my plans need to happen all at once, and I need to set aside time to do it. We'll see how it ends up going. I'm in no hurry to get it done, but I also don't want to completely forget about it all.

With that, here's a brief recap of my holiday season.

I took Laura to Disneyland on Dec 20th. We got there at park opening just in case there was a crowd problem, but there wasn't, so we got all the rides we wanted to do done by 4ish. We ended up wandering the Disney Gallery for a while (always worthwhile, its above Pirates, stop in if you've never done so), and we spent a significant amount of time lounging around in the Main St. Cinema watching mickey cartoons, which was really relaxing. At 6 we got a spot for Fantasmic and waited 3 hours for the show. I always love that show. Afterwards they had their sappy holiday firework show, which features fake snow, and the audio cut out right in the middle of "white christmas". It was a lot of fun. A very fun and relaxing day.

Derek had his Christmas party in there somewhere, though I can't remember. I went there from after work and was only there for a few hours, but I got to see a lot of people I used to see all the time but haven't in (what seems like) a while. Glad that worked out.

I had to work on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but only until 7:30 each day. On Christmas Eve I went out to dinner with my family after work at Black Angus and it was good. On Christmas I dropped off presents at John and Lona's houses before work (feeling very much like Santa). Work was the worst day I've had at Edwards so far. I've never seen so many people in a building. I had no idea so many people went to the movies on Christmas, but that's obviously because I never have. After work I went to my grandma's, where my family was. I ate, talked to some people I've missed, saw some people I haven't missed, and opened presents. I really only asked for one gift this year, which was an Ipod (that was on backorder and wasn't on time for christmas), so when I opened presents there wasn't a whole lot. Between relatives I got one hundred dollars worth of fry's gift certificates, a couple dvds, and some clothes. My sisters got a gamecube and a bunch of video games, and to tell the truth I am actually enjoying it more than they are.

However cheesy it may sound, I really do love giving during the holidays. Everything I bought as gifts, everyone seemed to like, and that always makes me feel good. It makes getting gifts that much better.

New Years was somewhat uneventful, until an hour before midnight. All night I was looking for someone to hang out with and everyone seemed busy or asleep. Eventually I found Scott and Ted. I hadn't seem Scott in too long, and I was glad to see him. We all counted down at Scott's house, and then went to In n Out for our first meal of 2005.

The night after, they met me at edwards after I was done with work so we could hang out. We were going to see a movie, but had a couple hours to kill, so in short, we acted like complete idiots. First we went to get burgers, and then we "went for a drive". It all started when scott decided it would be a good idea to drive on the sidewalk... then it all went down hill from there. To make a long story short, we drove over baseball fields, made friends with a street cleaner, almost died like 3 times, ran (literally) from the police, drove over countless cement planters, led an expedition to Questhaven, and probably did a bunch of other stuff that someone is going to remind me of later and I'll be like "OHH YEAAHH! HAHAHA I REMEMBER THAT!". Then we went to see Lemony Snicket, which was like my 4th viewing of it.

I only have a week and a half of vacation left, and then I get to go back to never having any days off. I'm also taking more classes. I need to get some sleep, but it's 1:22 am right now and I've having trouble feeling tired. At the moment I am currently overwhelmed with feelings of frustration, so I'll probably stay up for a couple more hours, maybe reading a lemony snicket book. Whatever ends up happening, it's time for me to wrap this up. Ill try not to go so long without at least blogging. I'd like to get back into the habit. Anyway. Yeah. Night night,

Chewie