I have done sound effects with a friend of mine for a couple of animes when I was living in Japan. If you want to check them out, they are called "Seto No Hanayome" and "Furi Kuri".

@prochem, what? Furi Kuri? you gotta be yanking my chain.......

You worked with Gainax??? really?

Cause it would be sweet if you did......

And if you worked with the guys from the pillows that would be just as awesome.....

Furi Kuri... I have not heard of that unless thats FLCL, which I freakin' loved! And only 6 episodes of FLCL :]

Yea, you both got it. Wow I didn't think anyone here had heard of it.

@prochem, I've never gone into much here but....I am just as big an anime dork at times as much as I am a chems freak. One of the other reasons I keep going to Japan. Damn, I know someone who worked on an awesome anime. This calls for some curry, guitars, robots, and baseball.

@Prochem: That is extra-awesome! I really don't watch anime nowadays because of time constraints, but FLCL is probably one of my favorites.

@Rynostar: Have you heard of an anime called Betterman? I believe it is fairly obscure; I watched it on TechTV before they merged with G4. Yet I still reminisce about it.

• Drinking in the sun (when it's out)

• listening to Buffalo Springfield

• Fishing off the beach

• Going to weddings

• Busy at work

• Avoiding swine flu (fingers crossed)

• Waiting for any new CB's material, just one track would suffice

* Date tonite

* Date Saturday

* Also drinking in the sun when it's out but right now drinking wine at home pre-date style (calmes down the nerves)

* Loving Amsterdam

* Loving my amazing friends

* Life is finally good again YAY!

Love you all x

Enjoy your date Jeanie.

Anyway just finished watching The Watchmen, fucking hard work, still cannot work out whether I like it or not. Now im filling in my paperwork to start a Japanese language course. Wednesday nights. Need to do something, bored shitless. Shit when there is no football. Roll on August. And wheres this new album as the novelty of the new homepage is well and truly dead.

Enjoy the dates, Jeans!

Good luck with the Japanese language, nalaknip.

*Made out with a girl from Texas at a bar. Her sister was pissed it wasn't her.

*Slept under my desk yesterday morning nursing a hangover.

*Moving across town by the end of next month. Lots of work involved finding a place.

*Partying tomorrow night.

*Gotta get a whole bunch of stuff done for my car this weekend.

*Hopefully I won't sleep alone at least one of the nights in the near future.

*Trying not to think about a couple girls.

For a good laugh:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=NisCkxU544c

@MadPooter: Haha, I love that video! And thats about all I can say, without beginning to quote it while laughing. Jizz In My Pants is a pretty slick and funny production too. No?

lol, the second half was the best.

sleeping under a desk must have been bruuuuutal.

for me..

*after a stressful week i managed to finish 3 essays.

*this weekend i start my final assessment piece before test week.

* next saturday im going to see Hybrid perform a 3 hour dj set.

*friday after that seeing bag raiders...a bit skeptical about them though so we'll see how that goes.

pretty much, after this final assessment piece, i'm going to unleash!

So I feeing that I have really fallen behind here cause of everything that is going on in my life. I will explain here in a long, hopefully insightful post.

Two weeks ago I finally went on Vacation after a year without a break from work, school, festival, life. I drove straight from my home in Edmonton to my sisters apartment in downtown Vancouver (She lives on the edge of stanley park). It took me 14 hours to complete the journey. I am a person that loves the long haul so it felt like nothing to me. Added bonus to that is that the road through the mountains is beautiful. It always reminds me that though it takes a long time to get anywhere in Canada, there is such natural beauty just a few hours away. I left in the early morning and arrived just after Dinner at my sisters. The first day was pretty much lazy around the apartment just trying to recover and then Dinner with my sister. The Second day I went to Beatstreet on Hastings (Creepiest street in Canada) but managed to find some cheap and rare vinyl. The choice find was the We Are The Night Album Sampler 12" (XDUSTPROMOX). It has ARR and AMMC on the one side which was no big woop to me. The B-side though had No Need and Seal which was just top for me. It's official label but there are no secret etchings on it.

After that I hung out more with my sister when she wasn't working, Went out to Langley and spent time with some cousins and my Uncle, and then watch my sister get into a huge fight with her ex (and sadly I've seen my best friend go through the same process making me sick of the whole break up process).

Then I hopped on a cruise ship to Alaska with my parents and 27 of my relatives on my moms side who took the bus out from Edmonton. We were quite surprised when we got to the port to see our cousin from Scotland and his Fiance there. We had been plaaning the trip for months and they pulled the wool over our eyes big time. The first night was one of just catching up among family. when sailing around midnight I went out to the front of the top deck and star gazzed. It was so clear! I could see the milky way really well. I saw the Space station with Space Shuttle attached buzz by at one point (I knew it was going to happen), along with multitudes of satellites and Shooting Stars.

The next night while we were in the disco I was pulled out of the crowd to be the cop from the village people....interesting start to the trip. When we were in Ports I ended up Snorkling and Kayaking to try to get some physical activity. It was interesting when a pod of Orca whales were swimming straight at my Kayak. Was I almost lunch? possibly. On the ship me and my cousins had quite a bit of fun comparing which of the dancers on the boat were hotter (the guys were all about the short blonde and the girls were all about the dark hair).

I also rangled up my cousins to take my grandmother for a belated birthday dinner one night, and took them another night to the discos cheesy white party to give them a good time (minus Grandma). The white party was funny cause i was trying to get them to drink since most of them are still in there teens (I know bad influence). I knew that some of them had to be out by 1:30 since there folks were really strict. At the time I litterally just stopped dancing and told them "OUT!". I turned from best cousin in the world to Dad in seconds flat. My dad thought it was funny when he came by and saw that I was drunk out of my mind and still the responsible Dad type figure. The next day I had my cousins saying they want me to come out and party with them at home and there parents saying that they had alot of fun and thanking me for taking them out.

Got off the boat 2 days later and hopped a plane back to Edmonton (my folks drove back in the vehicle I took). When I got back into the Edmonton Airport I had to do something that I knew was going to come.....go talk to my ex who broke my heart years ago and led me to go through a mental breakdown. I'm glad I did because It assured me that I had moved on and there was nothing between us anymore, not even friendship. I felt like I won in the life and career department in that I have a million things improving my life and yet she is still at the same job, finished school, and not going anywhere in life. At the same time though I know she is winning the sex and relationship game.....damn. Its all full of pride which I know is not a good thing but I don't care. With my sister and best friend going through the same state of mind as I was years ago, it was good to see how far I have come from the lowest place I have ever been. It also helped me refocus my plan of attack for the woman I am interested in right now (french horn player).

The next morning I started orientation for my new job with the Students Association with my college. I am the Social Wellness Awarness Team Coordinator for my campus. It gives me a paid job at campus for next year and lets me continue set up events like I have over the last year. That only took two days and then I went back to my other summer job at the symphony for the rest of the week. It felt so empty there since everyone is still on Vacation as well.

Outside that I have my Scottish cousin staying with me this weekend, Usher for the Moody Blues gig tommorow (which I get to watch), play another DJ for a fundraiser next weekend, going to get Tarot cards read tonight, Seeing the GI Joe screener this week.

So if you read through all that I thank you for letting me get it all out there. Life is good for me right now. It has its Dizzying Highs and Frighteningly Lows. I am enjoying this long journey in this small part of my life.

Sounds like a really fulfilling vacation! Can I come hang out with your family and be the cousin's creepy older friend that hits on all the teenage girls? ;-) Sounds like quite the reunion, though.

I'm really glad to hear that you visited the heartbreaker and got to feel the smug satisfaction of progress in your life. For me, that's always been the twin-sided blade--I want them to be happy, to be doing well, but God forbid they be doing better than I am. I'm sure for you it was just an outstanding marker to see how far you'd come as an individual.

Congratulations on your success, man. I'm going through the same sort of deal. Absolutely dizzying highs, but the lows I'm dealing with in style. Tonight is going to be low-key for me--the first night in a long, long time.

Wow, Ryno - thank you for the good read and for sharing so much in your post! I'm so glad life is good to you right now and it sounds like you had a fantastic time reconnecting with family which is great! And you have such a great attitude about it all, too. :)

Oh and prochem - that's fuckin' awesome!!

@Profunk: Yes, Jizz in My Pants is AMAAAAAAAAZING! HAHAHAHAHA!

@Prochem: Just read your bit up above--Animal Track on a video game?!? YEAH! :D

-I managed to piss two of my friends off with photo comments in the same album with two different photos on Facebook.

-I have a date tonight but the girl started sending me text messages after we set it up between now and yesterday when I called. Not a good sign.

-I'm exhausted looking at places to live, but I'm remaining steadfast and resolute. I WILL find an awesome place to live in the Mission!

-I miss my ex-girlfriend so much more than is logistically useful for my life.

-I'm getting a bit more into Buddhism because of one of my friends.

-I got jogging shoes in the mail from my parents. I'm going to start running.

-Work is slow.

That's all for now.

- Searching for a room in Hasselt for my next school EXCITING times over here =P

- I'm doing good at my driving lessons =D

- Life is really sunny at the moment =D

- Had a date which was a great experience for me and had lots of fun =D But she not my type of girl anyway fuck it had a good time =D

- Loving you guys =D

- Going out for a walk now, doing some brainstorming

GLORIOUS DEN_B!!! So glad to hear that life is moving along for you!!!! :D :D :D

Pooter, you will find a rad place to live in the Mission district! Sorry to hear you are missing your ex-girlfriend, though. I've been reading your posts here and in the BS thread and you have your hands full with women issues and women in general. Slow down son and listen to your heart, or I'm gonna start calling you MadPoontang. ;)

Den_B - I couldn't be more happy for you. :) It sounds like you are having such a wonderful and exciting summer.

Speaking of moving. We scored a a new place so we'll be vacating our apartment at the end of the month. Thank God! I can't wait to get the hell out of here.