Random Wednesday Update

All right well this is Wednesday and all sorts of random crap is goin' on in my brain today. Be it the pills or the five hour energy or the combination of them both is all up to your own speculation.

First of all right above is a picture of a new breakthrough in imaginary nanotechnology. It's a "nanotakashibot" and it's my modification (if not a total ripoff) of Tweenbots. I'm still trying to figure out a way to make this into some weird ACTLab project. Maybe they don't really do anything but be tiny and look cute which therefore makes people feel all giddy?

Then also I bought some shorts:

My new ones are kinda like that.

Also in case you were subscribed to how is my tooth situation it's that I don't have them anymore( see last post).

BUT, the awesome news is that my left cheek is uber- swollen and makes me look like the elephant man version of myself.

"That's not true, Zach, you're the best looking guy in school" Is probably what you're thinking but just look at this artist rendition using the latest advances in computer imaging technology



Told you.

Missing Teeth In The Morning

Those aren't my teeth.

In fact I'm only missing two, not four. But the point is that basically my jaw feels like someone put a cinder block in the spot where my teeth used to be.

Got lots of cool medicine and the whole thing maybe lasted 20 minutes tops. I was awake for all of it and drove home, albeit in a bit of a distracted mood. The coolest part though is that I had to wait 45 minutes for my prescriptions to be ready. So being the cool guy I am I bought Engine Coolant and filled my truck up with it.

I also spit some awesome blood stains on the cement around downtown.

So now I have nothing really to do but sleep, be in pain, watch movies, get LA stuff done and write. I really need to start writing more again. Some of the things I got in mind, shit they're good.

Also the Vicodin is kicking in.

Cool Space Stories

I have been nerding out recently and watching old 60's Star Trek with my friend Andy and it's made me think back and kind of get in touch with my young nerd self again. Not that I ever lost touch, but I like having an excuse to watch cartoons.

So besides growing up with a healthy dose of Star Trek conventions and episodes of Next Generation I remember specifically becoming a huge fan of EXOSQUAD. I was so into ExoSquad that I would wake up at 6:15 every morning before school and catch ExoSquad on whatever UPN was before it became UPN. After that was Biker Mice From Mars which I thought was stupid. Anyway my parents put up with this, my dad even helped me call the toy stores to see when they got new shipments in so I could have the whole ExoFleet. Man those E-Frames were cool as shit. Just look at how cool this thing is-


Who wouldn't want to play with that ^?

I'm re-watching ExoSquad right now on Hulu (Thank God for the internet). No wonder I was such a die hard little fan of this show as a kid. I am as an adult too. It's a really well written, smart and dare I say edgy sci-fi show, only with Saturday morning cartoon animation and kickass toys to go along with it. It deals with real moral issues about the dangers of playing god and racial inequality/superiority are center to the story.

In fact it makes me feel kind of weird because it shares alot of plot similarities to my favorite "adult" show Battlestar Galactica.

Man, it's so good. I think when I'm done with ExoSquad I'm gonna re-watch ROBOTECH. The first Macross part is still the reason I decided to make movies as a kid. I'll do a separate post about that later.

Questions, Resumes, and Surgery

First up just to let everyone know, for some odd reason I need my aching tooth removed. Lame as shit.

I'm trying to get everything for going out to LA all hooked up and that's nuts. Just nuts. And scary. Sending a resume out cold is really fuckin' scary.

I'm really torn at this point. I LOVE Austin, I really do. It's beautiful, fun, and the people here are awesome. But at the same time. I am extremely unhappy in one fundamental way. I feel really lazy and useless because of fact that I'm now not moving forward; not advancing myself anymore professionally.

School if anything has garnished me one maybe one and a half solid semesters worth of actual learning in four years. A handful of great people. And maybe that alone is worth it. But they're all leaving, and so am I. The only thing is I "have to" come back. Do I come back and throw myself into some sort of half assed funk/depression again? I don't know.

Guess I'll cross those bridges when I get to them.

Tooth Ache!

Okay so today was the first day of Chicken Feet shooting part II and of course I have this awful agonizing tooth ache on this tooth I had problems with a few years ago and it's feeling like someone is tearing the left side of my jaw apart violently over and over again.

But it's cool we got a crane for today and for the most part it turned out awesome. The church we shot in was nuts awesome looking. A little dark but it's all good.

Also Crank II came out today so I'm gonna pop like 9 tylonol and go see it.

I feel bad cuz I'm all edgy cuz of how bad this damn thing hurts and I can't see a dentist till Tuesday. SUPER DUPER.
Until then I 'll be living off a steady supply of pain killers.

I'd rather feel like this kid.

Saturday

This is a weird Saturday: Nothing really major to do.

That's the first time that's happened in awhile. I'm gettin' my laundry on and maybe some dishes as well, but it's Easter weekend and almost everybody is back home or whatever. I thought about going home for Easter but I'm not. I do want to head home soon to relax again, that was fun.

Next weekend got the rest of CHICKEN FEET to shoot and that's exciting. I got the hook up through my professor and got a jib crane and a steadicam. I'm gonna look super legit. And so will the movie.

Mostly the movie actually.

I've finally decided on a new feature to write. It's gonna be pretty awesome. Imagine if the movies Bonnie & Clyde and The Perfect Score got in a fight with the fuck you-ness of Rage Against The Machine. Gonna be the more angry less evil twin of The Devil's Rejects.

Of course more info as it comes in.

Till next time