meat spin

last friday, i watched bruno with my mother at the cinema.

i've seen a lot of racy r-rated movies with my mother so it wasn't like she's really prudish or anything. she works at a hospital so she's not phased by crude things and we usually get a good laugh out of it. however, bruno was so bad that my mother and i walked out after watching the first 40 minutes and we refunded our tickets.

the clean parts were pretty funny but the dirty parts made trashy internet porn look like classy artistic nudity. some people have been saying that it's supposed to be so awkward that it will make you laugh at yourself for feeling awkward but it even made me feel really uncomfortable and grossed out and i NEVER get grossed out. the worst part by far was the seen where there was a close-up of bruno's dick and it was spinning around like a propeller. talk about a major turn-off. it was really disappointing because the trailers on TV looked really good. i know that a lot of ppl didn't expect much from the movie because of borat but i thought that borat was kind of funny.

my mum and i didn't have a ride for the next couple of hours so we decided to visit Chapters, which is across the parking lot from the cinema.

i was super excited because i got a book about vintage fashion and then i found my favourite volume of my favourite comic: transmetropolitan by warren ellis! right next to the transformers section lol. i was really excited because i've never seen it at the bookstore before... in fact, i've never seen that comic anywhere except through online scans so when i got to physically hold it, i was blown out of my mind. what i loved about transmetropolitan is that it really opened my eyes to the world around me. a lot of the issues that happen in the story are like every day live and can be applied to real life issues - such as the last american presidential elections (the one in transmetropolitan is so similar even though it was written years prior)

here are some pics of the volume:

this is the front cover. this volume is called the new scum and it features the "hero" of the story - Spider Jerusalem, a famous journalist.


this is part of the back cover. it features one of Spider's favourite phrases and a plot summary. and some reviews by some ppl.


the first chapter/issue of volume 4. each section is about 22 pages long. the background shows election posters. the story happens in a futuristic society (the near future)



i really adore his tattoos and i like how much detail is put into every drawing



i think it's neat how the rain looks in this picture. the rain is quite subtle in the original image but in this photograph, it looks really defined


I've always really liked this cover. It reminds me of the front page of a newspaper + i like anything related to aliens and tattoos and bubblegum


It's a shame that this photo came out so blurry. This is what the letter says:
"To: SPIDER JERUSALEM

Originally to MITCHELL ROYCE
cc: GARY CALLAHAN

Spider Jerusalem is requested to attend Greenbrook Tower at eleven a.m. to conduct an interview with Senator Callahan. Failure to do the Senator the same courtesy done the President will be perceived by this office as press bias and deliberate insult.

ALAN SCHACT
Political Director

DO IT - R"


Haha i really love this picture. Royce looks so crazed. Royce (mentioned in the note in the last picture) is Jerusalem's editor. This is the last chapter/issue in this volume



this is the first page of a random mini-story at the end that doesn't actually have anything to do with the plot. it's just some more spidery goodness. yum yum ♥





















at the back of the graphic novel, there's a cover gallery which shows the cover artwork for transmetropolitan. the one with the smiley face is my favourite one of all time. the 3 eyes represent the transient community - they're a community of ppl who are trying to become aliens and they're pretty much outcasts of society



this page shows all the volumes of transmetropolitan. there are 10 volumes in total plus an extra one at the end - volume "zero". in total, there are 60 chapters/volumes and it is well worth the read: i strongly recommend this series to everyone but you need to read each volume in order for the next one to make sense. the volume i have is at the top right.

electro cleanup

last night, i decided to do a full physical cleanup of my laptop. i got the idea to do that because my laptop fan was so loud that i actually had to double the volume of my music in order to hear it and you could hear my fan everywhere on the second floor of my house.

i had my computer cleaned once before but i had forgotten which screws to take out so i had to check online. i am so thankful that the internet exists because there was a website for my exact computer model.

that's what the part of my laptop under the mouse/touchpad looks like! i thought the microchip looked cool; it was directly under the touchpad. the other microchip on the right is for my finger scanner. i needed to remove this section of my computer first before i could remove the keyboard itself but i didn't need to clean this section.



This is what it looks like underneath the keyboard! i edited out the pin# because i don't want people stalking my laptop or something. i think it looks kind of low-tech for some reason. i needed to remove the keyboard to get rid of dust in and around the fan, which is in the top left corner.


This is a close-up of my computer fan. as you can see, i wasn't done cleaning it because there is still dust everywhere. the copper covering was annoying because i can't remove it so it covers half the fan's blades and the edges are sharp. when i had my laptop cleaned by a professional, he had a special laptop vacuum that pulled out the dust so it was cleaned in a couple of seconds. unfortunately, i don't have one of those so i had to use tweezers, my fingers, and a washcloth. it took a long time to clean...


this is my ghetto-fied laptop, before i put it back together. you can see my fan again. that blasted thing! you can see my finger-scanner on the bottom right, above the IBM logo


next, i removed all the keys on my keyboard + the trackpoint (the red thing that can be used as a mouse instead of the touchpad). i put all of the keys in order on my bed so that i wouldn't screw up when i put them back. i've had this particular laptop for 3 years but there's a few keys that i've never used so i'm pretty sure i wou't have known where they went. plus, it makes a cool photo anyways.


this is what my laptop looks like without the keys. if you click the picture, you'll see a larger version of it. you can see all the crumbs and dust and shit which looks pretty gross. imo, those white things looks like nipples, especially if you were to see it in person. the transparent stuff in the middle of the white is squishy and fun to play with. i had to use my fingers and tweezers to clean this.


hey look i made a smiley face~. i took this pic before i washed the exterior of my laptop so it still looks grimy haha


in conclusion: my fan is still noisy so i think it might be broken because there's nothing caught in there but it's kind of more quiet now

an omen that i will become famous one day

i recently discovered a really awesome band called wild beasts. they have a really unique style of music... rock but falsetto so it sounds rockish and classical at the same time and they have really catchy tunes (i suggest listening to The Devil's Crayon and Hooting & Howling). this is the band:



while i was looking up photos of them, i found a photo of one of the guitarists (i think it's hayden thorpe, who is also the singer but i'm not sure). his guitar looks a lot like the bass i borrowed from my friend during the school year for honour band! this isn't the first time i've had something similar to a celebrity... i also had the same jacket as the winner of the first season of america's next top model and the same belt as tetsu from l'arc~en~ciel. all by coincidence too!


this is the photo i found of hayden:


this is a photo of me and the bass:



aren't they so similar?!