I must admit, even if it does have a promo voice watermark it still trashes, like a rabid poodle doped up on cocaine trapped within a bunny's cage. This has got to be one of the coolest music Cd's i have ever herd, not to mention one of the ones I absolutely must get my hands upon as well as the DVD season 1 collector's set of Metalocalypse.

As for that, i've been busy, wrapping my head around the concept of doing homework on time, and trying my hardest to get a good grade for my classes. Finding work is still on going but my main attention has been kind of switched to my course work for all of my classes. This week has been grueling since last Saturday, from taking my Father to BWI for a flight out to Missouri to visit with relatives down to scrambling for art supplies for my art class. Even the activity of building a computer and taking a math test as well as doing 3 other math assignments all upon the same day in a rapid fashion wrapped around a tight schedule driven only by one thing: FEAR.

But it looks like everything has worked out nicely, I passed my math test, and turned in all required assignments and still managed to squeak past all the looming deadlines in time for a good round or two of Counter Strike: Source with my buds. I plan on today for a romp to the local theater to see the new Resident Evil Movie. Since mother and I both agreed we needed the Resident Evil Movies for our zombie collection, we picked up a value pack of the first two Resident Evil movies. Inside it provided a "free" movie ticket to go see Resident Evil: Extinction when it is out in theaters, and I hope to use that today. I even got $5 free with this movie promo thing to get myself some snacks, and candies or something. I doubt i'll use that, but still a free movie to go see Resident Evil: Extinction in a DLP theater. Hopefully the color and the visuals will look smashing. Not to mention i can see the Milla Jovovich (pictured here...) killing things once again with them sexy abs of hers. Should prove to be one heck of a good time.

As for the comic, since i know i promised i'd get around to doing that, we've been working on a lot of small comic ideas to build up so when we do have time to work on the comic we'll have a good month or so of comics to post without interruptions. However the only newest artwork you'll probably see from me is some more poster designs for the upcoming Dracula Play that is being shown at my college's theatre the Milburn Stone Theatre.

So apparently i am running currently on a zombie based movie fanaticism. But what is worse is i am also running with this strange feeling that I am running from all of my responsibilities, or i'm trying to escape them. I've got this strange over washing sense that in a day or so everything i'm currently doing or working towards won't matter at all. It's a strange feeling that the world is going to end tomorrow, and on some level of my mind i know it's going to happen yet, the rest of my conscious is unaware. Tis the only way I can describe this feeling currently, hopefully it'll be wrong and nothing will happen.

As for other current news, I am working on a series of Posters for the Milburn Stone Theatre's production of Dracula, presented within the Underground Season. Basically Halloween-ish events. I will probably be posting the final results of the works on here when i finish them. I also have began to take a Painting class to hopefully improve my painting skills, and hopefully understand the concept of colors, and lighting and whatnot. As for the rest of my classes, well they're still chugging along like usual.

To tie this journal entry into the zombie theme i was lucky enough to come across 9 new movies that i do not own within my collection of zombie films. Such as 28 Days Later, which is technically not a Zombie Film but it's got the similar structure as all the great zombie films, There is also a collection of Classic zombie films from the late 1960's and 1970's called The Living Dead. The 5th installment of Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave which seemed silly enough not to get. And I got the collectors set of Resident Evil, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse. I am now able to go see Resident Evil: Extinction for free, as long as i don't go to an AMC theater. It's a little after 3 in the morning for myself right now, and I think i'm going to turn in now. Here's hoping nothing to strange happens tomorrow..

I have no real idea why i decided to log on now at four in the morning. But after a quick stop to the bathroom after watching the movie "The Chase" with Charlie Sheen I glanced down on my drafting table to see a PC gamer magazine mother told me to look into since it contained a complete insider look into the new World of Warcraft expansion pack. After a little bit of time looking into it I came across the article on Penny Arcade, and how they're making a game. I was a little dumbstruck, but at the same time i couldn't help but keep fixated upon the artwork that was shown within the little article. Granted Penny Arcade is one of the most popular gaming web comics to date, but you have to admit the style of the artwork used is captivating in within itself. It's serious, yet so very cartoon-ish it makes you feel a little envious of how he can draw that and get away with it. I then began to take pity upon myself for running out of pages in my sketchbook and how I didn't have another to feast into with sketches and rough ideas that began to pour into my mind after reviewing the article about penny arcade's game. I also had some fun fooling around with Ubuntu linux yesterday though after running into a lot of things i found confusing and a little upsetting since i could find no help anywhere about the problems i faced. I came to the conclusion: "why bother, Linux will never support the applications i've grown so accustomed to while running anything and everything within the Windows OS. But i must admit, what Linux can do over Vista is simply amazing, once configured right. The videos i've seen of some linux Ubuntu desktops and the level of complexity that is there is rather neat.

(If interested in seeing what i've seen check out this youtube video of a linux based desktop nicely themed from Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater)

What i find amazing about this is it's got everything Vista is trying to push, as well as some things from the the Mac OSX. It also runs at a fraction of the system requirements that both Windows Vista and Mac OSX need, and who can't say no to a more stable OS for the price of Free? Sounds too good to be true doesn't it, well to be honest it felt that way and for good reason. I ran into two problems while playing with Linux. my first problem was the fact that it was a little hard to understand not a whole lot within the realm of user friendly with Linux it's more of a Os designs for people who are going to be coding and messing with applications for the rest of their life. The other thing that really sunk my continual use of linux was the fact that my primary sound card was completely unsupported by Linux. I couldn't even find an open source beta for it, which at the point of me finding out about this turned my vote to no, i'm not going to use Linux on my primary PC. I figure i might toss linux onto a scrap PC if i ever get the chance to have parts lying about that I could toss together for the soul purpose of such a PC.

But besides that, my search of a job feels like a futile attempt. I haven't found a single job posting on 3 major local online job posting websites. At least college is in almost full motion to keep my mind off of that problem, though half of me is wanting to lose all this free time I currently have in my possession, where as the other half is afraid to lose it. However, tomorrow I think i'm going to spend most of the day hopefully drawing. I haven't really done a whole lot lately, and I should be pumping more and more artwork out like some kind of demonic driven fruit juicer. I have also begun to notice that I really need to change my diet, everything i seem to eat tends to have bad side effects upon my poor stomach as of late. Even if it's a simple sandwich on rye bread it makes me feel bad, I tried enjoying the Activia yogurt which kind of helped me out a bit but, I haven't had many more since then because I though you were supposed to only eat one a week or something like that. Oh well, at least i'm drinking more water than I did before hand, It would seem that I can only ingest liquids without any aggravation. Not like i needed to keep eating the food I was anyways, probably for the best that I go on a diet. I have become a little bit chubby anyways. I'll update the Art Shout tomorrow.

Oh yeah nearly forgot:

The first five people who reply to this journal get put up here, along with three of my favorite deviations by them.

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