writing the snappy sentence about mold. everyone, there was so much mold in our old place. i am sorry for making you come over and breathe mold with us. thanks to the people who visited OLD HORRIBLE LAND and tasted mold on their tongues and felt it in their hair and did not say anything. you are good friends. our new place does not have any mold, except for the mold that died on our clothes and blankets in our fancy washer dryer. it is bright and dry and tall. it is a good house and i will take some pictures of it. it is too nice for us but we are rising to the challenge of living nicely.

i have decided that i hate living on the ground floor. i am comfortable underground or in the high castle we reside in now but when i am on the ground level it is the entire earth from all directions pressing against the house. i can’t think when it is like that. i discovered this today when i paid the bills. they are the same bills as before but it was a spacious bill-paying experience, like in the old 3d realms game TERMINAL VELOCITY. bills appearing on the horizon in sharp, unrecognizable silhouettes (never could play on hi-res textures), broad pink lasers and down they go (about 1 in 5; the rest explode into indistinct debris). YES PAYING BILLS.

took some new pictures with my INSTAX MINI that tif got me. still need to pick up the holga film and the 110 stuff. pictures! i think i will use the first-grade real grownup job scanner to scan them.

come visit us in ballard we have a big couch now.

and then i eat them. tif and i have been living the frugal times for so long that i forgot how visceral shopping can be sometimes. it is basically killing deer, i have decided. also, i love pink gorilla / godzilla. shopkeeping is a good art to continue to practice in this era of internet acquisitions. i am happy that it is going on. shopkeeper to shopkeeper, good job you!

i didn’t take any pictures of the interior of the shop, because that is weird, but it is so wonderousful. it is the closest americatown has to an underground mall shop times, and so to me it is a broad approximation of TOKYO FEELINGS that are pleasant to be having, fetishization though it may imply and is recognized as such. GUYS. SO MANY VIDROGAMES. all ryan north for a minute there, but it is true. there were actual sega saturns for sale. i bought guitaroo man, as i have recently been bequeathed a ps2 by aaron (THANKS). EXCITED TO DEVOUR IT.

what else do we have here:

yeah dudes, our first ever bentos! also:

we recently got our fancy(er) camera back from anacortes after months of not having it because we left it on the orcas ferry, dums. we used the bunny toast to identify it to the nice twin-peaks-y people that were keeping it safe. ANACORTES, IT’S CRAZY DUDES.

MORE BENTO:

such a nice MLKJR day for ME.

you were a good rabbit. you always seemed to be in a good mood. sometimes you ate stupid things. we all liked it when you stood up like a dinosaur to beg for treats.

you never learned how to say, “hay please.” everyone who met you loved you. we will all miss you a lot. probably you are in a place where you never have to stop eating. i hope you don’t get tired of it. goodbye, and fare well.

PREAMBLE

i cannot find an elegant beginning for the post so i guess that is it. i am hoping to achieve a monstrous grandeur and mystery akin to an elephant graveyard but perhaps we will settle for the utility of a backyard compost heap?

my life has been more real than digital lately. started as a substitute teacher / substitute instructional aide, which reminds me, ben himley, if you still exist, i have your copy of “on subbing” and you may have it back. so far my stories are only incidentally funny, and only for moments at a time, so i’ll keep them out of lazercatz until they arrive at the appropriate stature / immediacy. in the meantime, here is a list for friday’s job:

- halloween costumes (4: including: myself (mad hatter), scotty (darth vader), hunter (darth vader), charlie (just a cape))

- candy, servings of (3 for all students, as per para-educators’ judgment, being the primary visible representatives of the force that plans the class’s parties)

- turn-yr-mouth-green! cheetos, bags of (2, eaten in their entirety)

- students (8)

- adults (3.5; jori, the social worker, was in and out)

overall, a very good day; at least, no crazier than a typical day in an EBD classroom. so, good job, me.

WENATCHEE

well yes. tiffany and i went on vacation this summer for a day. lake chelan was mentioned, but a different lake interposed, saying, “WENATCHEE.”

- so many bees

- tiffany is allergic to bees and will die if she encounters certain parts of them

- nice outdoor times

- leavenworth what. e.g.:

IN CONCLUSION

lenny kravitz!

more pictures soon, post is too long.

tif made me french toast last night! thankss for ANGRY BUNNY:

we watched “the castle of cagliostro” which i have been TOTALLY mispronouncing and did some wii fit. tetris slept under a pile of clean laundry. i cemented the evening as a perfect good times by forgetting to set the alarm.

reminds me that i have quite a few pictures backed up from some adventures that need posting. should also help me to disengage from game dev for awhile so that i can get some tapes out.

so, more to come. REAL LIFE STUFF.

WITH TETRIS.

SHE LIKES TO HIDE UNDER THE BLANKETS TO MAKE MY LIFE DIFFICULT.

WE LISTEN TO JOY DIVISION ALL DAY AND WE CRIED.

two more ruins for the cloud stage:

i think one more ruin ought to do it, and then it’s on to the cloud friends. after the cloud friends, i believe i am done with assets for the cloud stage.

spent most of today putting the finishing touches on SIDEWALK FRINDZ, our first full-length. 28 minutes long! not much to show for two years of distracted, intermittent work. everything is done now except for the vocals and the live keyboard parts. and the book. and the center video. and the dioramas for that video. and the plush landscapes.

hhhhhhhh oh dears.

dubbing NERO’S DAY AT DISNEYLAND / ABIKU right now for heart gardens. going faster because it’s a shorter tape, which actually makes it more annoying to dub.

i’m trying not to think about all the plans i had for august releases.

nullsleep makes excellent dish-doing music! DISHES DOING.

had a nice time in port orchard today visiting the tiffany family. we played some bomberman and some tetris and ate crépes and i worked on LAZERCATZ VOL. 1 which felt good. it’s almost done and i might finish it tonight or i might do the WATCH A MOVIE which who knows?

i was mega productive at work tonight and relocated lots of things and signed up customers and made them feel EXCITED about renting movies which hardly ever happens; usually the unspoken conversation is:

“HELLO I JUST WANT THIS PAUL BLART I KNOW IT IS SHITTY.”

“YOU ARE ASS.”

“I WILL NOT BE BACK I WILL STEAL THIS.”

but tonight someone signed up so they could watch TWIN PEAKS! it was the best ever. i totally barfed david lynch love all over them but they seemed ok with it. also lots of people seem to be wanting to rent Big Man Japan. that is weird, guys. all the fighting is way good and the BIG BATTLE at the end is amazing, but most of those in-between conversations go nowhere. scott, i am sorry, but that is my true beliefs.

reminder to me that i need to take it home and tape the end. this is pirating.

speaking of!

i accidentally took the Mega Cartridge home with me which has tetris and bangai-o and lots of other good things on it. i felt mega-bad about this! i still do, obviously. i remembered about at this point:

which is to say, damns. i doomed tiffany to an evening only playing bomberman and not trying all the other weird games i want her to play, which is to say, i only hurt my selfish self.

tetris (cat version) has been extremely happy to see me and also very difficult to contain. she is determined to ruin all of the blinds in the house by charging in and out of them rapidly.

i ate too many of these:

but come on, that is the point of going to any gas station in portland, orchard.

YOU ARE NOT A GOOD CAR GUARDIAN.

went to see dimples at healthy times tonight. was bummed to miss the first two bands but that is called having to be at work to earn dollars. teen suicide was bizarro town. it was like a tiny little puke-baby of a play put on by juggalos who later decide to sing adorable glam anthems and there is a drum machine that is sort of just there; lots of costumes and props and no-tech lighting. so much glitter. it was thoroughly great. i didn’t take any pictures so i guess you’ll have to take my word for it. it was, though.

san francisco dimples were pretty alright. one of the teen suicide dudes pretty much precluded any audience dancing by dancing SO CRAZAR that after awhile my feeling was a little bit sad because it seemed like he was making a joke. when you see someone dance for every song like their arms are going to be rocketships for nickelodeon it is difficult to think they are actually enjoying themselves. he probably was, though. anyway, i like to see people go SO CRAZAR so the mixture of bummed feelings that i get when i see PHYSICAL SARCASM 2009 is mostly irrelevant. SF DIMPLES were fun. they did some ROCK SONGS and some BORED SONGS and they all had great hair and pretty good clothes. THAT IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT. no pictures.

seattle dimples went last which i think was partially to their chagrin. 1/2 of dimples did some twee guitar-ing and then nervoused into the microphone a bunch and then there was some tuning. it was to no avail, however, as the band fails spectacularly to be anything other than awesome pogo times for your heart. i did some grins and i snapped this grimy photo with my phone, which made me feel like i was LIKE SEVENTEEN AGAIN:

their set was the perfect amount, just slightly too short. they somehow play like being rock and roll without making me want to hide. this music is the music of friendship. they are putting out a 7inch soon AND I AM GOING TO BUY IT.

i rode my bike to healthy times which marks the first occasion of riding my bike to capitol hill from the central district. not so bad! only had to walk one block on the way there, four (?) blocks on the way back, due to steepness. there are lots of creepy buildings to ride past on 19th: there is a huge catholic church and plenty of we-irdly lit houses. RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE…the creeps?

i will take this opportunity to post some other photos my phone has accumulated over the past year or so: in reverse chronological order:

this is Tetris. she is yawning but DOES SHE NOT LOOK INSANO. the answer is NO.

i have provided the book for scale, but it does not adequately convey how huge this spider is. this was taken at rain city video at the market street location while i was working. confidential to chelsea? I LET IT LIVE.

scully and mulder, being largely invisible in the black lodge. RABBITS.

from my (not too long ago) student teaching days. note that the picture has been constructed for my mentor teacher, and not for me. thanks a lot, tally!

that’s right. none of the math equations are correct. clarification: those are signposts, not nails.

and it is simply a very unfortunate configuration of roads and rainbows and not intentional.

AMAZING.