11/3/24

Finished painting the rx7 a few weeks back. Made some final touchups on putting the body back together and took it for a test drive. The fuel system could use a l'il cleaning but other than that it runs like a beast (a <100 hp beast)

Hey you know a song that makes you cry every time you hear it? For me one of those is this:

It's so endearing and it uses callbacks from songs I used to listen to growing up aaaaahhh !!!!! After ur done listening to it go listen to a bunch of stuff by mekaloton I've been listening to like alllllll of their stuff recently

11/2/24

Went bar hopping with some friends for Halloween. I put together a haggy witch fit and one of my friends went as Harry Du Bois. The last bar we went to had "quarter beer night" and I won at pool while barely being able to walk a straight line

(I also made a big hat check this out:)

When we got back to the apt we caught just enough of the rtvs nosferatu night stream to be confused by it, and played some ps2 night stage drifting games, and watched Kill Bill part I, and also played sex trivia at the arcade

10/29/24

Look at this cool men-tan fanart vaquerosito_ made !!!

I'm obsessing over this vae even did the lil hair swoop and got the eye colors awweawuauwauaaawaa look at the eyeliner !! it's so good

Click the image for higher rez !!!

10/26/24

The Halloween car meet this year was kinda lame. Only like 10 people showed up and only one other person dressed their car up. Insane downgrade from last year where there was like 30 cars all with a costume. Check out my spikes though. Inspired by either Carmaggeddon or Death Race 2000 depending on it you're 30 or 50 years old.
Over the past like 4 months or so I've been procrastinating a lot of stuff but I did watch some more films. None of these I deemed really good enough to add to the recc. page but I thought I'd mention their existences anyway. They're all kinda funky in their own right:

Party 7 The title sequence is animated by the same person that made Aeon Flux, and directed by someone that worked on the screenplay for Redline. I like the concept of gradually more people meeting in a hotel room, ensuing hijinx, but a lot of the jokes are kinda boring

Mechanical Violator Hakaider Found while looking at the wikipedia article for the yamaha Vmax. Lots of bike shots. Unique designs and the stop motion parts are pretty cool. Pretty basic antiauthoritarianism story but with an antihero protag

House (1977) Funky old japanese horror movie about a group of friends going to spend some time at an aunt's house. The lighting and special effects give it a very charming vibe

Bad Taste Made by the same person that directed all the Lord of the Rings movies. It's a Rambo-style movie about some aliens that have come to earth to collect humans as food for their galactic fast food chain

Wicked City Studio Madhouse. The animation is beautiful but the plot is of a cheezy 80s cop B movie. Because this is a cheezy 80s cop B movie. Someone I know described this as "penis monsters" I don't remember any of the plot

Thomas and the Magic Railroad Some of the Diesel scenes unironically have the pacing of a nightmare. The plot is about a man and his stoner cousin running out of their "magic gold dust" and a dude that really wants to fuck a train

Inland Empire Shot on a dvcam, basic digital effects and insane shots and pacing. Reminds me a lot of perfect blue but if I shot it in high school and it making even less sense. I think if David tried to make another movie they wouldn't let him

10/12/24

Ok a sorta lot has been going on. Halloween costume planned. Most of my car painted. In general parents being parents. Phone calls from companies I don't want and no phone calls from companies I do want

Onto the interesting stuff tho:

- saw the northern lights again

- went to a rally

- took these cool photos with the d1x while trying to get it to meter properly

that's about it really in my between time i'm just trying to keep alive

10/9/24

one million views !!!
To commemorate I've created a desktop buddy of men-tan you can download and have walk around your computer. You need java and it's just as simple as running the Shimeji-ee.jar file in the folder
She can be downloaded from here. Do let me know if you encounter any errors ! Working on minor code tweaks and additional actions

10/2/24

Played a Gran Turismo 4 drinking game last weekend. License tests, for each failiure you have to take a shot, after each attempt you pass the controller to the next person whether you win or lose, and if you get silver everyone else has to take a shot.
It took us two full rotations amongst three of us to clear A-5, and we only got up to around halfway through the A license before we were unable to continue. At least we got the B license though

9/15/24

ik it's like all I've been thinking about recently but time is passing so fast. Like it's been 6 years since the jschlatt minecraft video. It's crazy how much has changed. It's crazy how much I've changed.
Anyway I've been working on the rx7 more. I took 18 credits all last year so I could take twelve now and actually have free time, been working on the bodywork, not super hard to do but it's a lot of tedious sanding. Been listening to the rlly old Sleep Deprived Podcast episodes as entertainment during it. Hopefully I can finish the body before winter hits but it's raining rn so I'm taking a break