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I had to.

Now I can look at all my work and decide what direction to go.

Visually, I will barely do anything. Photography sometimes, of cities, buildings, nature, and people, as a hobby.

I can stop trying to pretend that I want to draw human cartoons, though. There will be more of those symbolic monsters that I rarely, rarely post online. I will never be Adrian Tomine, and I have to realize that. I can be my own version of Thomas Herpich, though, and I will be, if I ever cartoon again.

Most of my time is focused on writing, though, and most of my writing time is focused on personal diary entries and shareable nonfiction, specifically about science and technology and its relation to society.



Phew.

Oh, also, you can read my main "creative" output at [link] , my fun science blog.

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/20238198/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/20238198/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:10:10 PDT
It is almost all comics. Some pages are all-text, but not in a "aaagh reading my brain" way, in a bumper sticker way. I promise: no fiction, prose, reviews, journalism, or essays. Mostly black and white drawings. It is decent quality humor. It is

FREE!

If it sucks, add it to your minicomix collection as an example of crap, or put it in the recycling bin with last week's NY Times. If it's funny, you'll enjoy it. I promise.

Anyway, you don't even have to pay shipping, because I am bored, and amused by that 'zine' thing they used to do in the 90's. I know The Internet is where comix is at now, but I like using real-life paper as a marketing/artistic tool, as well. Shits n giggles and all that.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE:


You get it for free because I already know you, if you are reading this. I will be charging money for it after this initial offer ($10 for 10 issues,) so you have to act soon before I send everything out on Friday.

Reply on this thread with your mailing address (if it's something not scary like a PO box) or just email me your mailing address at sylkates at the yahoo' shiggity dot coms.You will then get the first issue and subsequent issues forever and ever and ever, for no monies. First one going out on Friday the 6th.

Even if I see you in real life often, I want to do this through the mail, since it's simplest.

Thanks, and have a genuinely good day,

Rev. Baz Otherwise AKA Sylvia
Zinestress, SakCoPaperworks
Editor-in-Chief GONEON! Paperzine

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/18211693/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/18211693/ Wed, 07 May 2008 13:03:45 PDT
I will print another few copies of Comix Current, maybe. But really, I need to have this 28-page story done and completed. It's about a political activist and i am using a tablet .

This project will take fucktons of work. And when I am done, I will do a simply drawn 2-pager about music for a music anthology. And when I am done, I will upload it all to the internet, to a website that does not yet exist. I will also upload my really big 2 page rapidographed Estate Sale comic I made in high school, that hasn't been scanned yet.

And when I am done with this project, the site that will host it, and the zine print outs of it, I will start a weekly web/newspaper comic, linked to from my professional style and stop doing other extracurriculars for school to focus on this. I will probably start the webcomic right before SPX.

This means no more photography, even though I love it so. No more fiction/poetry submission attempts (after this one ONE story I am trying to get through this summer.) This has to be my focus, and I am bad at keeping focused. So here is where you come in.

You have to bitch at me and say I am not working enough on my SPX-ready projects. You have to! And remind me of its upcoming date in November, and be mean and impatient and rude about it.

Remind me! Poke me with a sharp stick and be obnoxious!


I perform best under pressure, so thank you in advance.

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/15966595/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/15966595/ Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:48:30 PST
I will write and draw and read a lot. This is a very, very good thing.

Time to move on.

And also, some of you may like this thing I found:
[link]

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/15893648/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/15893648/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:31:56 PST
Yeh, he may not have "meant" to do this or that, but they happened, and whether or not he was fully cognizant of everything, it's his (coincidental? Pssh!) fault.

I won't hate him forever. It'll take a few years to get over it all, though.


Who's to take the blame for bad things that happen? They only happen because of a combination of many people's small actions that lead up to a whole big awful thing. So blame just one person for it all?

Not logically, not in the halls of justice, but emotionally, see who handled it the worst, see who caused the majority of it, and blame them, yes. That's also why I say it's not permanent.


And I am not going to take his advice, because look at where it got him. Also because I have different desires than him- success is definitely a strong desire in me. Or maybe I am wiser.

He thinks he can win against The System that he knows is evil, to simplify it (he wouldn't call it 'evil' of course, far too solid and simple a word.)
I know that The System is evil, too, but I am not an idiot enough to think that things like college education REALLY don't matter. Or that things like family ties, or the expectations that all cards will be on the table when romantic behavior starts happening, are ignorable.

He is smarmy. He thinks he can talk his way out of everything, he thinks that the connections he gathers by living in this fantasy world of high-faluting magical beatnik hippie Subgenius Shag conferences is important, and makes up for any times he does something wrong against someone else.

He is humble at the same time as being cocky (as me) and he is a navel-gazer, too, he honestly wants the right things to happen to people, most of the time, but fuck it if his clumsy feet didn't knock some awfully beautiful, fragile vases over. And I will dislike him for it for a long time.

He is human and flawed. And I am human and flawed too, and allowed to be angry, and allowed to recch in my throat when, as often happens, something cool reminds me of the melodrama that we once shared.

He doesn't want to hear this, he can't hear this as I say this, he did some very wrong things. Don't fit into his personal view as a man who can walk on the ground without leaving footprints, as someone only capable of psychedelic, omnifractal love. But fuck it he fucked up and I am allowed to be mad and I am.

I have been simmering and not letting myself be angry but visiting my dad's house again this weekend reminded me. I have to let this out. I am containing my anger by not doing things like hitting him when we are in the same room or spreading rumors or something dumbass and vindictive like that. But I have to admit to the world that this is how I feel. Call it a blogger's instinct, if you want to, but I have to let it out.

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/15549714/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/15549714/ Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:51:12 PST
Secondly: Why I Draw This Weekly Comic

I could easily stop drawing forever. Any moment now. Since it is not "part of my future job," I don't show a natural talent for it, it takes a lot of time to stay sharp. But I absolutely do not want to end that part of my brain/life/hobbies forever.
Drawing is the only thing I have in common with my 3-year-old self. Carrying a sketchbook around constantly is the only thread that connects me to Sylvia at 8.

Comics are my favorite art form.

I keep drawing them as a minimum weekly connection to that side of myself. To keep from losing it forever.

When I graduate from college with a journalism degree and get a job as a journalist or publishing person, I will enter a very stressful world where competition is everything and time-management keeps you from getting fired and put on the streets, with such minimal incomes. I will probably barely have time to think, let alone draw a comic. I fear for that time in the future when capitalism's forces keep me from making things that I want to make.
Making things. Well. Is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
I should have gone to art school. I thought practicality was important. I was dumb.

I do not want to be a full-time journalist for the rest of my life. Transferring to art school sounds "impractical" though.
(I would probably go to art school at a CUNY, since they are so cheap.)

I really do want to be useless...

Damn, should I drop out for a semester? I really feel like I should.




SO THE PLAN: I can so see myself doing this.

GET A DEGREE in journalism
GET A JOB in journalism/publishing- hopefully involving comics, maybe not.
DO REALLY WELL to pay off college debt
GET BORED
GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR ART
GO BACK INTO JOURNALISM OR STAY AN ARTIST
IF ARTIST: MAKE COMICS. MAKE PAINTINGS. TAKE PHOTOS.


My heart, soul and brain are truly those of an artist. WTF Why am I getting a "pracitcal" journalism degree? My entire development of journalism instead of art as a path is based off of a fear of being broke. But isn't that what retail jobs are for? (Maybe the retail job will be so stressful that I will not have time to do that art I want to do, so maybe being a journalist- a relatively fun "straight" job- is better than being a retail person, a depressing "straight" job with enough time to be an artist on the side?)

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/14246429/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/14246429/ Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:34:49 PDT
Okay?

All of the favorites I get are when I did fan art for that band. It is flattering. And I totally understand why many many people love them so very much.

But, just in case we forget sometimes...there is more to life than JUST TMBG.

Like Talking Heads, Jonathan Richman, Eels, White Stripes, Modest Mouse and The Shins.



Yeah, I think that about covers all that matters in life.

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/11710275/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/11710275/ Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:17:58 PST
Out.

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/10317258/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/10317258/ Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:57:33 PDT
But I am nowhere near a scanner any time soon. And I do not own a digital camera.

So as far as you all know, I have been doing nothing.

Pssh. The internet has its limitations, I suppose.

]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/9527312/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/9527312/ Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:53:12 PDT
That feels good.

Some of them are good! Please comment on them!

Some of them are bad! Please ignore them!

I am very obsessed with comics right now (maan, screw photography...sorta), so I will do more of that...and more will go up..just you WAIT!

I am extremely artistic this rest of the summer. Which makes me very happy. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/9186873/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/9186873/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:31:56 PDT
Sorry, just, who cares about poetry, right? Everyone likes writing it way more than reading it. Sad, but true...(Why I want to get back into fiction, or at least find a way to scan my MANY comics and put them up here...I have way more art in real life than on DA since I have no scanner...) ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/5305749/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/5305749/ Sun, 08 May 2005 20:05:50 PDT
]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/4915471/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/4915471/ Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:38:45 PST
Wheeh! The excitement!

Additionaly, the zine has been put back until further notice, just waiting for getting a job. Job=money. Money= publishing a zine. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/4037562/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/4037562/ Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:07:47 PST
A ZINE!!

Of ALL COMIX!!

It's called 'Comix Current'. It will be released every season (quarterly). The first release is Mid-March 2004.

And I'd LOVE people to volunteer/ offer their artwork up for very small time publishing. No, make that NEED people to volunteer/ offer their artwork up for very small time publishing.

Right now the deadline is Febuary 28, and the subject matter and appropriateness is all up to the artist. The only restrictions being that I am myself grossed out by some things (graphic sex, extensive mutilation or senseless killing, very right wing political views) and until I get around to typing a full list of reasons why what I won't accept what won't be accepted, just know it's rated R- but not N17.

But in truth I'm not all that picky about subject matter. All up to you.

The only thing up to me is size and format-

They will be printed in black and white.
Preferably non-digital , mailed to me safely so they don't get folded or marred.
They have to be comics- obviously.
They have to not get me into copyright trouble. (Fanart comics prolly a bad idea).
They have to be at maximum 8.5X11 and total of four pages in length.
Minimum one quarter-page panel.
Minimum quality: Better than stick figures. More interesting than scat humor or pointless violence. Maximum quality: Leonardo Davinci.

Depending on the amount of help I recieve, there will be more or less chance of your work getting into the zine. At this rate, if you send something into me, it's almost guaranteed to make it in, as I have many free pages in the plan.

So, start making stuff now- think of this as an early warning. But it would be REALLY appreciated if you showed your willingness to send something in in a comment on this journal, so I can begin figuring out how to put this thing together.

You can send stuff to CC now, if you'd like. Mail to: Comix Current, PO Box 561, Chagrin Falls OH 44022 .

You won't get it back, so make a photocopy. I'll just hold onto it till early spring.

Thanks for reading, your help is greatly needed,
Sylvia ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3742512/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3742512/ Wed, 03 Nov 2004 12:01:32 PST ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3719990/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3719990/ Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:40:43 PST ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3680150/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3680150/ Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:26:46 PDT ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3666700/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3666700/ Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:00:11 PDT ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3650929/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3650929/ Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:42:57 PDT ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3590403/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3590403/ Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:39:33 PDT
At the gay bar. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3514268/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3514268/ Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:48:20 PDT
A certain fellow wants his portrait drawn. I want to do it, but I am afraid of making an innacurate depiction which will make him look bad, as I always mess up my subject's facial feature to some extent. Mayhaps I should try it anyway, even if I am intimidated by not screwing it up...hmm. .


Oh, but I'm still sort of part time working on my current projects.Erm, sometimes. -_-;; ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3493930/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3493930/ Sat, 02 Oct 2004 09:10:19 PDT rogress:

-COMIC about a fictional high school's punk music snob community
-STORY about a dead chick whos stalking a living dude who lives in NYC
-COMIC about a foolish but dedicated female alien on a mission to find her father.

If I just focus on those 3 things, I have MONTHS of work ahead of me. For some reason I really want to do that, even though it's so much work. Well, wish me luck.

I CANT WAIT until the first comic is done, it's only 2 pages long but I'm being nitpicky and calculated with it so it's taking forever. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3401556/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3401556/ Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:47:03 PDT
MAY ALL YE SHIPS BE THICK-HULLED AND MAY YE POOP DECKS BE RECENTLY SWABBED! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3288887/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3288887/ Sat, 04 Sep 2004 22:31:41 PDT
Also, I have many new drawings coming up for the near future. Not that any of them are good or anything, but I feel a compulsive need to post them. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3178663/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3178663/ Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:32:32 PDT
For somer eason , this year I care alot less about this fact than in years past. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3058229/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/3058229/ Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:52:39 PDT
Well, Im in NYC now. My dad has a.scanner. Let me repeat. a

SCANNER

No, not trying to take piucs with a digital camera. a SCANNER DAMMIT!!

So I might end up doing stuff here.

Creative update:
-Im writing a SHORT story
-Im making a clay animation
-Im ignoring drawing
-Im waiting for all of these rolls of film to be developed
-IM LEARNING GUITAR!!! EEEEEEEH!!!

Okay...thats all for now...
-Sylvia ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2864752/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2864752/ Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:23:05 PDT
Hopefully while on the trip in the car I will take many photos and write some poems and stories. Maybe even draw.

So see ya'll later..

-Sylvia ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2695838/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2695838/ Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:36:47 PDT ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2635438/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2635438/ Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:19:33 PDT
1) Comic for Quinn's zine
2) Perfecting + Posting TMBG Antifanfic
3)Writing out anticonsumerist novel 'Orange Tree'( should take many months)
4) Writing more stuff
5) Writing songs
6) New Dev ID. Less extensive than last. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2534584/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2534584/ Sat, 29 May 2004 09:11:02 PDT
*If everybody who ever saw my gallery sent me a dollar, I'd have enough for a budget computer. Or alot of CD's. Or a bunch of other fun stuff.
*If everybody who ever saw my gallery all jumped up and down AT THE EXACT SAME TIME, it would not affect the earth's movement in any way. Wait until the pageviews reach something like 2 billion, then see if this is still true.
*If everybody who ever saw my gallery spent two years working on a project together, collectively they would work on a project for a millenium.
*If everybody who ever saw my gallery made a conga line, it would stretch for apporximately 2000 feet.
*If everybody who ever saw my gallery started a riot, there'd be a good chance most of them wouldn't end up being arrested as the cops would be too busy. Hmm. That's a good idea.
*If everybody who ever saw my gallery were to come over for dinner, they would not fit into my house. In fact that would succeed the maximum capacity allowed by law.

Aum...that's about all I can think of off the top of my head.

Yay! ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2522558/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2522558/ Thu, 27 May 2004 16:03:36 PDT
But I'm back, because the huge stressful part of 4thquarter is alsmot done, and my grades have improved signifigantly, and I was forced to upload something for a friend yesterday so...here I am. No point in staying away anymore. ^__^

REAlLY bad at pulling through with kicking habits. And I've figured out how to DA responsibly. I think. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2297657/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2297657/ Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:37:51 PDT
Until then go ahead and have fun looking at my gallery (like there's anything worthwhile in it, a complete waste of hours of time).

I'm feeling sort of crappy right now, in case you can't catch it by the tone.

See you June,
Sylvia ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2276206/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2276206/ Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:34:58 PDT
When one turns the 10000X zoom on their worldview, however, they can see more changes. Like a new romantic relationship, possibly, and a beautiful explosion of buds all around my town.

I don't feel like writing alot now. So that's it. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2243966/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2243966/ Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:06:34 PDT
When it comes to art, let's see...alot of things which ought to be done...

* Chris's birthday present- portria? Character picture?
* Superior LJ icons with original characters
* COMICS- Thomas Dolby lyrics one with tons of references and
* Begin work on sci-fi comic
* enter horror story into computer with keyboard device

That stuff and...I was just highly disturbed by a mental image off of something disturbing off of somebody's web page. I shouldn't be suprised by anything disturbing I find on the internet anymore. But I am. *shudder* It literally made me feel physically ill... eeek...ikk..now I never want to see anything related to that webpage's topic again...shudder...why didn't I suspect it?

I'll get over this feeling in .5-3 hours. But I hate this feeling of being highly disturbed. I shouldn;t be dusturbed by anything anymore but..yeah. ick ick ick ick ick. I won't provide anymore details. Just suffice it to say that the internet is one sick, sick place where anybody's minor to medium sized urges are amplified as they are put out for the world to see...

*shudder*

Erm, this feeling will be gone soon after I post this, as this online journal thing is therapeutic like that. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2208452/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2208452/ Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:33:03 PDT
A lot of responsibilites rushed back into existence the instant I got back. But ...

Sorry for the unusual shortness. Just not much to say...

Oh! Last night late at night I flipped on the telly (a BAD habit of mine) and the first thing I saw was The Trachenburg Family Slideshow Players' new music video on MTV2's 'subterranean'.

Yay! TFSP have made it big time! They have a widely distributed CD and an actual music video now! When I saw them in concert in December they were still indy with a handmade CD with computer-printed covers. And they sold handmade dolls after the show together.

So this really cool innovative band now can be seen on MTV2? Is this bad? Does this mean they sold out? Well, no matter. They're still a creative and humorous band.

In case you are not familiar with them allow me to explain. They are a mom, a dad and a ten year old girl with the last name of Trachenburg. They buy people's old slide collections at garage sales and create rock songs that go along with the random snapshots of various strangers lives, and show the slides next to the stage as they play.

It's an awesome concept and they're pretty good rock musicians (even the girl plays drums and guitar).

I highly recomend them. I believe they are on the same label as They Might Be Giants once were (or still are). Check out their site at slideshowplayers.com.

Er...thassit for now. Yep. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2184541/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2184541/ Fri, 09 Apr 2004 08:17:51 PDT
Yesterday there were more city related happenings.

First, we didn't leave ther bloody house until threethirty in the afternoon, as we sleep till noon and dilly dallied and did chores until four. But that's just my dad's nonconformist schedule- go to bed at three, wake up at noon, come back from work at eleven. I actually sort of like it.

We got sushi and krispy kreme donuts (never had one fresh before! OMG!! So gooooood..so soft...I finished it before they even rang it up)

Then off to Times Square for a finished night of unique New York ness. The crazy lights and dazed khaki-wearing tourists are always fun to see. We began screaming proclomations about the savior that is Mandatory Peanut Butter Jesus, available in either crunchy or smooth varieties of enlightenment. There are so many real pamphlet-passing out and soapbox-using religious wackos there that we were sort of ignored in our attempts at freaking out tourists.

There was a disgustingly larege SUV limo outside of one of the glowing lit restaurants, and there was a crowd of hopeful gawkers outside it. A man we passed asked his wife loudly "Is there a celebrity in the limo?" An obnoxious limon in the middle of tourist-drenched Times Square is the least likely place in the universe to find a celebrity. It's the opposite of blending in.

Then we went to Virgin Records Superstore. I bought 'Chutes Too Narrow' by The Shins (actually very good!) and TMBG's newest EP 'Indestructible Object'. Yay for new CD's!

About the Late Night with Conan O'Brian thing. Alley checked NBC's policies and they apparently require a PHOTO ID proving you're 16 to get standby tickets- and that doesn't even guarantee you'll get in. If you want guaranted tickets you have to call months in advance. Basically I won't go until next Thanksgiving break. Fascist anti-fan bastards. It didn't use to be that strict for his show, but now it's alot more popluar and they have to change things. Grrrrrrrr I smack NBC across the face.

I'm still happy though. And I'm still in NYC. So- tat ta for now!

(Sylvia in Park Slope signing off) ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2175324/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2175324/ Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:46:36 PDT
Went upstate to visit my really cool grandmother and my aunt. It was fun. Then we drove back and returned to the city.

We were planning on going to a taping of Conan, only to find that didn't quite go through. We will try to see the show again on Friday. It probably won't work out, but there's no harm in trying.

The weather finally took an upswing recently, forcing me to take off my warm vintage ski jacket.

In this wonderful sunny springtime weather I spent most of the day walking around Manhattan, taking many photos and shopping for random junk. I ended up getting a nice sounding CD I ought to listen to of this odd early techno embracer from the eighties named Thomas Dolby.

Whilst walking through the downtown areas and talking on a cel phone, Elijah Wood passed by. I was so absorbed by the cel call I was not looking at peoples faces and by the time my dad's girlfriend pointed him out, I tunred around only to see the back oh his head. But it was him, I was assured...a common thing which happens in NYC, you so zone out everybody's random faces around you a celebrity you like passes you by without you even noticing until the person your with points them out.

Erm...now I'm watching Conan and playing with ADORABLE kittens. . . I got some good photos in the city today and I'll upload them later. That would be it for now! ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2149418/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2149418/ Sun, 04 Apr 2004 09:39:13 PDT
I am currently writing this from my dad's apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NYC.

This was a rather slow day, but fun nonetheless. We ended up cleaning up all of the animal-related messes in the apartment, as there are currently 2 large shedding house rabbits and 5 partially litter trained kittens (all due for adoption by friends and family in a matter of weeks). It's sort of a mammal overload. It takes hours out of each day just cleaning up after them.

For lunch we went to this really great organic lunch spot called 'Second Helpings'. Then near dinnertime we got a DVD- 'Clockwork Orange'- a movie I felt like I had to see. It was so weird, but so good as well.

Today we're slated to go on into Manhattan and shop and do chore type things, maybe see a movie or summat at night.

My dad says we may very well get tickets to the Conan O'Brian show, he's just not sure which night. That would be totally sweet. The only question is whether or not I should do the stalker type thing and hang around in the lobby until he comes out of his office to get autographs. Of course somebody I know who likes the whoie fangirl aspect of fandom suggests I do so.

Maybe...just to show that one person that I did so, if no other reason. It's a good excuse to have Conan sign my pants (on the knee!)

I'll keep this updated regularly. Screw my blog, I have this journal feature now. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2139901/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2139901/ Fri, 02 Apr 2004 20:18:59 PST
erm...Leaving for NYC tommorow. I have yet to pack and my plane leaves in about 12 hours. Procrastination rules my life in every way.

I must not forget to bring my crazy sharpied-on khakis, as I plan on having a famoustype person write on its knee ( a specially marked off area on the right knee is reserved for the first autograph-worthy person I come across when I happen to have a sharpie on me. I don't exactly collect autographs but I figured it was a good way to spend 6 square inches on my vandalized pants). Once all spots on the pants are filled up sufficiently I shall photographize them and upload them for all to see.

And this week was looooong. And stressful. And I got little sleep.

Wendesday night I had a good excuse not to go to sleep. Due to scheduling problems I had to tag along with my older brother the entire night, and he wanted to go hang out with his friends who were making a moving remote control port-o-potty with a giant baseball cap and a speaker and microphone. So it was a walking, talking 9 foot tall port o john which ran around the campus of CWRU and talked to people in a humorous fashion. If permission is given I'll point ya'll in the direction of the link to a website about it. It was highly amusing, althought I never actually saw it annoying paserby I did see them build it and test drive it.

There's something incredibly amusing about a 9 foot tall poop box moving under its own power.

Once again I'm rather happy. Ta ta for now! ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2100467/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2100467/ Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:51:33 PST
It stars Jim Carrey who is completley serious in the whole thing(well, mostly). No stupid 'Jim Carrey can make funny faces' humor in this one. It's much more dramatic and psychologicla than most of his movies.

It is about somebody who tries to erase the memory of a failed relationship, but some odd things go wrong, and it become surreal, dreamlike, and scary. It's not very often that I completley lose myself in a movie, and I did so in this one. So amazing. I am bad at describing movies.

It completley blew my mind. Even an hour after it ended the feelingf it gave me lingered on- I was sort of 'high' after the movie, and no chemicals were involved. I heard online that it's what an acid trip is like.

So if you love movies, and want to see what an acid trip[ is like without the medical, legal and psychological risks, SEE THIS FREAKING MOVIE!! Go out there and SEE it!!

(I'm still sort of hyper about it..)

In other news, the spring weather had finally caught up to my geographic area and boy am I bouncy. I went into the park and just looked around, I spotted a heron, some turtles, some fish, squirrels, and these really odd sounding creatures that squeaked before they jumped into the water, before I could even get a glimpse of them.

And my dad's in town,and we do alot of fun stuff, I'm all happy and whatnot. . .

That's it for now. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2070926/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2070926/ Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:05:24 PST
First off me mum's in Scotland right now, which means no digital camera for me back home, therefore only writing or pure digital work.

I've been too bloody stressed out/crunched for time lately to do much art so...this account is recieiving little deviations this week. Probably for the better considering the quality of my last five submissions, I have to stop it with this 'pointless spam' thing but it's hard when I don't have a caaammmeeerrrraaaa... *pines for piece of hardware*

Erm, enough pining for inanimate objects. I actually sort ot like this 'mom being away' thing as she can be really annoying and stress causing when she's here.

Erm...what else. . .

I recently gained an appreciation for The Shins and I really want one of their CD's, the only thing stopping me as always is complete lack of funds. Also the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind looooks REALLY good, I have to go see that one...even if it's Rated R (WTF?)

I have tons of picture ideas I ought to get around to, but total lack of skill, time and motivation. So they stagnate in my head.

I am however currently writing a short story, 3-5 pages long, about a depressed elementary school boy whose sick fantasies...well, you'll just have to wait to find out.

Aum...

I've been all odd feeling this week. I'm just glad my dad's coming this weekend and I'm going to NYC in 11 days. I miss both alot.

That's it for now...have to go!

-Sylvia ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2031263/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2031263/ Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:29:28 PST
The Pink Lady ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2026458/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2026458/ Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:03:50 PST
Also I want to apologise to the world for being really cocky and weird behaving this week.

Wow, I haven't been down this road in like a year.

Hopefully this will be replaced soon with a frantically happy post about some great new piece of pop culture ^&%$ that I discovered recently.

Mood: Ubercynic/depressed/angsty ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2006096/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/2006096/ Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:21:05 PST
Anyway I'm pretty happy right now...I went to a birthday party for most of the day and had alot of fun. We played DDR, watched Rocky Horror Picture Show, part of Lion King 1.5, part of MP's Holy Grail, and 4 or 5 TMBG videos. So many awesome people were there. It was a great time had by all.

Speaking of TMBG videos, I just learned that they're touring this summer! Only 2 shows- one in Ann Arbor, Michigan which is a long (but unridiculous) drive from here, and the other in NYC at the exact time I will be there.

BEAUTIFUL! especially since I am conspiring to take along one of my friends (who happens to be seiously obsessed with TMBG) to my NYC trip, and due to circumstances not to be mentioned here there would be a 20% chance for her to meet them in person if this friend were to come to NYC with me. It would be awesome...

Speaking of rock I am listening to Ethel on XM Satellite Radio right now, and this horrible, terrible song just came on- this melodramatic bitttccchhhy un clever complaint session called "War All of the Time" by Thursday. When I first heard it I could not believe my ears, I thought it was a parody of angsty songs, but no it's a REAL band taking themselves SERIOUSLY. (That's a bad habit bands tend to get into, it seems likely that their stuff will start to suck when they begin taking themselves too seriously)

I know it's mean to knock people's taste in music as it's all just a matter of personal preference, however, THURSDAY now officialy sucks. Yeah, you heard me all you fans out there (are there any?). I am being a cultural elitist bitch and I am saying THURSDAY SUCKS. ALOT. They make my ears want to commit harikari.

(No seriously if you like them, then whatever that's nice for you. I just dislike them.)

Erm...that's enough for now?
]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1974923/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1974923/ Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:33:30 PST here, at my blog. ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1964882/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1964882/ Sat, 06 Mar 2004 21:03:10 PST
That's all the information I can divulge for now as my journal entry cannot be extra topical.

Will return later. Remember, KRITIKS ARE BULLSHITHE! (debate references, don't mind...) ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1959465/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1959465/ Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:25:15 PST
Today was the first day of debate state tournaments. My particular team did not do well, but from what I know other members (Barnes, Knauf, Kurt, Brent, Anya, Kelly) seem to be doing just fine...in case you were wondering states are a two day long event.

It was absolutley exhausting. Five rounds today, 3 of which were complete slaughterfests, the other two were managebly difficult losses. Not like it matters, however- I mean, we got to STATES!! In (alot of our) first year!! Add to that the fact that there is nothing higher than the state tournament (winning at states gets you nothing but a trophy) and I have no reason to not be satisfied with how well we did just getting there.

Also...tommorow night is the birthday of 2 of my friends, although unfortunately because of debate I might only be able to see one of those people tommorow. Sometimes you really do sacrifice your social life to this past time. But it's hella fun, so it's all worht it ^__^.

That's about it...oh yeah *looks at clock* , Anya, happy 15th b-day!! Yaaaay!!!! ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1910545/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1910545/ Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:56:48 PST
Anyway...yeah. REALLY slow week.

Thinking about politics alot again,Also I'm having a huge pointless ego boost for some reason. Sort of disturbing.
Maybe it's a product of the premature joy I'm feeling at the prospect of spring. In case you didn't notice almost all of my deviations of late have somehow been related to nature, trees or spring, I'm in that sort of a pagan mood lately.

Today I calculated the number of days till starwood in my head. Something like 236. *sIgh*

Random spurts of positive memories of summertime fun come over me at unexpected times. I guess it would be called "Spring fever". In the end of Febuary...

It's pathetic how much my emotions are connected to the state of the trees out my windows. When they're barren and grey I feel down. When they're starting to hint at budding I get hopeful and happy. When they're actually green I'm ecstatic.

Sure wouldn't want to live in an evergreen forest, my emotional seasonal closk would be all out of whack.

Ta Ta for now,
Bazilisk ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1868613/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1868613/ Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:16:22 PST
On the autobiographical side, I have been pretty happy this week. I have been trying to come up with funny concepts for this comic I'm doing for the school newspaper. It's hard, and humor is very subjective.

Ta ta for now,
Bazilisk

[link] ]]> ~Bazilisk http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1807838/ http://Bazilisk.deviantart.com/journal/1807838/ Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:49:05 PST ) will update as soon as she's done with this bleeding picture...erph... ]]> ~Bazilisk