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deviantART: by:StrangeWeirdo http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:StrangeWeirdo&section=today deviantART RSS for by:StrangeWeirdo en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:54:12 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png The Desert Peach http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/28528711/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/28528711/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:16:43 PST

Short and to the point: does anyone know where to get The Desert Peach issues 8-12, 14-15, 18 and 25? I have 1-7 already and found a site with the rest but er. Don't want to skip comics.

Also I got TF2 but am still deciding which computer to run it on. The large one with a good graphic card but super low memory or the one with lots of memory but a normal card? aaaah

]]> *StrangeWeirdo I hate myself http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/28406840/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/28406840/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:48:56 PST

Because I think of Putin and Dima when I hear Aqua's Lollipop what on earth. It happens with MOST Aqua songs actually hahaha I think it's because of RenÃ©'s voice contrasting with Lene's but still, of all things. In my defense this only happened in one other occasion and that was Soltero's Communist Love Song :I

In other news, my comic, Five Stages of Love, had been updating very sporadically and I just thought you'd like to know why :v the easy way out for me is to say I'm busy, and it's true: I've got theatre two times per week, shrink visits every other day, things to study and do homework for and a ton of books to read and even my breaks at school are sometimes taken up by things like debating team or China trip meetings.

And then there's the fact that I'm not very reliable, haha. On top of my official duties I use most of my spare time to sketch things I'll never finish, watch Project Runway (extreme faggotry alarm, but don't worry, I'm already on season five so I'm nearly done!), translate fanfiction for my own pleasure and, er, ~Phoenix13x5's (help me be less pathetic by noting me to read them), and work on a comic adaptation of the play The Browning Version by Terrence Rattigan (good luck finding it btw, I had to order it specially :c sigh).

I have in no way lost interest in TFSoL, it's just. On a bit of a hiatus? I'll use the Christmas break to sketch a bunch of pages so I have it all in advance. I WOULD have done it in Ukraine but dude, Ukraine, I have other things to do than draw comics there :c

ps: should I ruin my life even more by buying Team Fortress 2 y/n

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Rememberance Day http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/28286011/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/28286011/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:31:54 PST

I wore a red felt poppy today and it kept falling out of my sweater :c also uh Americans sorry about your Fort Hood thing but stop saying it was a terrorist plot please. I mean the logic I've seen so-far is
Guy shoots up army base = crazy guy
Muslim guy shoots up and army base = terrorist
which is er. Very dumb. To be fair it comes from the right and Fox News so I suppose I shouldn't expect much sense. Speaking of which why did Fox News call Mr Rogers evil when he died seriously. I mean hey man I didn't grow up with the guy but you don't fuck with Mr Rogers okay. I'll rip your beating heart out.

So anyway, I got my report card! And it's decent this year, I still need to up my grades a bit (I have an 8.3 average right now and I need 8.5) but overall it's not bad:
Portuguese: 6/10 (groan)
Comment: Must work more on the proposed activities. Lots of absences.

English: 8-9-10 column (in our first and third report cards the teachers just put a cross in the right square instead of writing (my school's stupid), and the columns are: 10-9-8, 7, 6, 5, 4-3-2-1-0, so you're never really sure what you have when you're in one of the extreme ends of the spectrum :v)
Comment: Super work! Well done! (ilu sir <3)

Maths: 7
Comment: Good work.

Biology: 7.5
Comment: Still hasn't done the first B test (I did it today btw, think it was alright but nothing spectacular) but has been participating very well in class.

Geography: 8-9-10
PE: nothing, because my teacher was switched around so often and I was ill a lot so I only attended like three classes with ANOTHER teacher. Sports doesn't count for the overall grade though and the teacher said this report card won't be counted by her :v phew
Comment: Never seen! (haha)

Ethics: 8-9-10
Comment: I hope to see a more active participation. Excellent content!

4 Hour Philosophy: 8-9-10
Comment: The instability created by the changing of classes has perturbed Vlad, but I've got trust. Good luck!

History: 8-9-10
Comment: Outstanding student. Well done.

Art: 8-9-10
Comment: ...something in German. 'Gut und ????', the Germans told me it meant '

romising'. Hooray!

Ap. English: 8-9-10
Comment: Vlad works well in class - alas, homework is another matter!!! (ehehe)

Sociology: 8-9-10
Comment: Bom travail. :I (no smilie written but I can imagine his face writing it :v)

That's all from me. Also gj on the house passing the health care bill even though you had to make that weird abortion amendment. Conservatives in your country would be considered far-right here ahaha

PS guess who's going to the Morrissey concert on Saturday that's right bitches. It'd be cool if he sang some The Smiths songs but I haven't got my hopes up.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo How I Didn't Get Shot In Ukraine http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/28209629/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/28209629/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:36:06 PST

Hello!

I've been back for about... a week. I know, it's terrible of me to not have updated you guys with a full account of my trip immediately but I just kept like. Putting it off. And things.

So um. Here we go. It turned out hella long, sorry :c you should probably just skip to the pictures.

After spending about an hour aboard Malev air, we touched down in glorious... Hungary? Yes, we had a tiny stop-over which would be a bitch on the trip back, but that's a story for later. We weren't to leave the airport (we didn't really have time anyway) but we didn't have to to see we were in an ex-Communist country. The weird-ass architecture told us as much.

Another hour passed and we landed in Kiev, Ukraine, which most Americans probably think contains dragons and a lack of escalators. Well, maybe in the country, but I can guarantee you that there are escalators. We rode on them a solid five minutes at a time to travel from the metro to the surface and back. They're very deep underground because there were originally built to serve as nuclear bomb shelters, as is the case in many Communist countries. Quick interlude in the time-line to say that the metro there is excellent and awesome, there's a train every couple of minutes and it runs like clockwork (you can even tell when you're approaching a station because the lights flicker and go off for a few seconds, haha). Nearly no one talks either, a left-over habit of the time where KGB agents lurked in the carriages trying to pick up subversive talk. The stations themselves are exquisite, with marble and chandeliers and other things that should look tacky but don't. The prices are great too, twenty trips for about 4 euro hell yes. And once you put in your jetton you can stay in the station all day, which is what many beggars do (the only low point of the trip were all the beggars, who were almost exclusively old women. It was pretty heartbreaking, but the pensions are pretty shit there). There are also a lot of shops in the subways and metro stations, which is very handy if you want to pick something up or be a tourist and shop around.

Okay, now that I've finished advertising Ukrainian public transport, back to the story (kind of). We met our host, Gennadyi, and managed to start his car after the alarm sounded two times for no readily explainable reason. The alarm made me stifle laughter because it had a variety of tunes that played at about two-second intervals, including a Christmas jingle.

After an intense ride (most Ukrainians don't really drive very much. We also saw a fun graffiti that said 'Tanya - I love you!' in Cyrillic, with a little 'Us too!' added behind it by someone else) we got to the apartment we'd be staying in for the next couple of days and I had the biggest meal I've ever had in my entire life. It was so delicious but Jesus, Ukrainians are worse than the Portuguese in terms of stuffing people. I also had a little bit of vodka (of course) and a glass of whiskey Gennadyi assured me mother was 'just like water.' Ukrainians drink interesting water.

I looked out of the window after the meal to see another graffiti, this time on the parking lot, that said 'KATYA I LOVE YOU'. And someone had used the sand from the children's playground near it to write BORYA I LOVE YOU.
I'd only been in Kiev two hours and I already liked it here.
We flicked through the television until I found my new favourite show, DOKTOR XAUSS. Dr House entirely dubbed over by the same two guys and one lady with monotonous tones. It was awesome.

The first thing I noticed when we went out is that Ukrainians aren't very shy about their Communist background. I guess they can't be bothered to take off all that stuff but still, it was fun to see. That Lenin is apparently a popular meeting spot ('under the Lenin'

too. The architecture there is pretty obviously Soviet but very beautiful too, as you will be able to tell from this picture dump:
[link] (contemporary art museum)
[link] (old USSR headquarters, now converted into flats, which is awesome because you get a great location (smack-dab downtown) and a pretty easy... ]]> *StrangeWeirdo *~OFF TO UKRAINE~* http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27987758/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27987758/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:46:56 PDT

See you in like ten hours if I get a good connection (probable) or in five days if I don't have a connection/don't get shot/overfed. Let's see if I can spot that guy Putin poisoned or the lady with the freaky hairdo!

kisses 2 my bitches

PS for a pretty cool meme: Post a picture in my comments of what you think describes me when you think about what/who I am. Give no written explanation. Just an image. (Post this in your journal and see what images you get).

]]> *StrangeWeirdo I'm sixteen. EDITED http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27829916/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27829916/ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:23:22 PDT

That's like. Approaching middle age in Gay YearsÂ. I can now legally drink and smoke but I go against my Chap/Dandy persona by doing neither so um.

I've also got a 38Â° fever. Super.

Also, we're doing Heath Ledger for our English project (just saying it makes it sound crappy already) and I got lumped with talking about Brokeback Mountain and homosexuality during the time. Shocking, I know. So, I was thinking of briefly covering the film and the fact that it was based on a short story by Annie Proulx and then dedicating the remaining minutes to discrimination in America during that time and in the present in relation to other first world countries. Stuff like 'yeah and there's all these laws and things like DADT and Prop 8 and things but attitudes vary a lot. The more South you go, the more you travel back in time. And even then cities like Austin provide a relatively safe place for things like marches whereas in other first world countries like Russia they still let these lovely people around and the police brutality is just appalling.'

The good thing is I'll probably the member of the group to get the least questions on the team so I'll be able to draw or something for twenty minutes.

Either way, help me with this and I'll be your friend!

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Oscar! http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27796854/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27796854/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:25:03 PDT

Happy 155th birthdaaaay.
I shall celebrate by watching Wilde and listening to witty songs. I'd read some of your things but I got comics to go through man.

In other news 40% of Russia said they didn't want Democracy. Well. That's awkward.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Aw. http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27719194/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27719194/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:16:33 PDT

This is one of the cutest little girls I've seen.

Kind of posting also to say sorry if I update the journal a lot during this month but since I've got Oscar's birthday and my birthday and the trip to Ukraine and so on there's a lot to tell.

Also, would you like it if I post a sketchdump of stuff I doodle in class and things? I didn't think much of it but they have kind of piled up and it could be fun.

Today in Ethics a guy was arguing that there should be a possibility to sleep in the school (make it a partial boarding one or something) and the rooms should be mixed and you guess the rest; not interesting or entertaining but nothing special, and then out of the blue he comes out with 'Oh, and there should be an alert for gays and have them sleep somewhere else.' And then he told a bullshit story about gays being predators.
This coupled with my history teacher telling us about his week-end in Paris and inferring that all gays are effeminate pansies has kind of been putting a damper on my day. Especially since I do like my history teacher.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Putin is 57 today. http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27629089/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27629089/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:09:26 PDT

Nearly sixty and still fine as hell, stop bending my standards you old faggot.

And after spending a million hours translating a cool fic (still not done because it is very long :c urr) I laughed at these. Sue me.
[link]
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Speaking of Dima, a Russian article said he'd be giving a gift to Putin later in the day but they never did end up saying what. I wonder what it issss how can you top a baby tiger. According to the same article, he's gotten a bunch of stuff over the years including a reproduction of this made by Russia's top jewellers for his golden jubilee, a plane and a coal mine, which just sounds like a crappy present. Happy birthday, have a shitty old coal mine.

In other news my nose is itching so hard unghhh

]]> *StrangeWeirdo I GOTS THE SWINE FLU http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27536694/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27536694/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:10:22 PDT

Not really, just normal flu. Feel like I've eaten shards of glass, sucks. At least I've got it now and not on my birthday or my trip to Ukraine I suppose. Speaking of which, I'm trying to learn common phrases in Russian so that I can be polite to my stepdad's friend, anyone got tips? I mean I can say hi, milk, vodka, I love you and faggot but I don't think these will take me very far.

I also just finished reading a fanfic that depressed the shit out of me pffft. Frigging character deaths man. Am I the only person who hates to get a proverbial kick to the balls at the end of a story? Like, you've just spent about an hour reading through a big story and the two blokes are together and all is adorable and happy and suddenly WHAMMO character death in the last chapter. What the fuck.

Oh, starting to falter again, guess I'll go back to ~~reading comics and drinking tea~~ suffering atrociously.

PS: we ended up picking Heath Ledger for this project and Will Smith for the next one. Thanks for voting everyone!

]]> *StrangeWeirdo PFFFT http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27450409/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27450409/ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:13:57 PDT

Portuguese elections results came in now, guess who won? Fucking Socialist party.
But Vlad! you may be gushing, Aren't you a Socialist?
And the answer to that is yes, I am, but the Portuguese Socialist party isn't. They're centrist at best, centre-right at worst, at least in their actions. I suppose it's always better to have them win than the PSD (Social Democratic Party, AKA That Party That Sucks Rich People's Dicks), who I thought would be the victors this year. Unfortunately, the REAL Socialist Party, the BE (Left Block) came in at 8% of the vote, behind the CDS-PP (basically our Republican Party) at 10% and that's just revolting.

All of my Portuguese family votes BE, by the way. There's not much trust in them because they've never been in power, supposedly, but that's a weak excuse for 'We are Portuguese, we complain a lot about the Socialists but fuck if we're ever going to do anything to change it.'

In conclusion, I had pasta and it was nice.

EDIT: Pfft this isn't even front page news on the BBC :I thanks guys

]]> *StrangeWeirdo OMG OMG http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27386824/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27386824/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:10:24 PDT

KIRIBAN AT 18,000 VIEWS GUYS!!!1

So anyway I switched for four hours of philosophy per week and instead of going to the regular Portuguese philosophy classes I was sent to Mr Cake's class. Blessing within a curse? He also STILL remembered me from that one time I fell on the floor in front of him. Am I just that charming or is he a bit scared of me or what.

And for those who like to know what I'm drawing: a page of mz comic, a little comic (maybe), a portrait and a surrealist doodle. Aren't you excited.

Also sorry if you've sent me a note and I haven't answered, I tend to forget because I'm a bum. Give it some time or send me another note if you're still waiting for an answer a week later.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo JUST NOTICED I WAS TAGGED TO DO THIS http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27259429/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/27259429/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:19:30 PDT

I like memes okay.
And hey, you get to see what music I enjoy. If you didn't know already :v

Soundtrack of My Life Meme

1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc.)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For the first question, type the song thatÂs playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE.
6. DonÂt lie and try to pretend youÂre cool... just type it in man!
7. Tag 10 people, and they have to do it too
8. Video links optional
9. Response optional

OPENING CREDITS:
You Are Beautiful - Morten Abel
This would actually be a pretty decent opening tune. I know I'm gonna keep you at least till the day I DIE

WAKING UP
Maman A Tort - MylÃ©ne Farmer
Haha, kind of creepy :v I guess if my mother was Sophie?

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
The Good German - Thomas Newman
Oh god what is up with this school

FALLING IN LOVE
Prelude in E Flat - Swingle Singers
I can dig it.

FIRST TIME
I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts - Freddy Martins
I long for this to be true.

FIGHT SONG
Orbital Mix - Kraftwerk
The best fight.

BREAKDOWN
This Charming Man - The Smiths
I'm turning into Ivan. GREAT.

PROM
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
I can dig it x2

LIFE
Vaccine - Mew

MENTAL BREAKDOWN
Shakespeare's Sister - The Smiths
I have TWO BREAKDOWNS? Come onnn.

DRIVING
Bimbo NÂ° 5 from MADTv iirc

FLASHBACK
Building a Wall - Pet Shop Boys
Far more tragic than any of my flashbacks could ever be.

GETTING BACK TOGETHER
Land of a Thousand Words - Scissor Sisters

WEDDING
Spinning Around - Kylie Minogue
Appropriately gay.

BIRTH OF A CHILD (we're going into PÃ©dale Douce territory)
The Man Who Has Everything - Pet Shop Boys

FINAL BATTLE
What's Love Got To Do With It from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical

DEATH SCENE
The Emperor's New Clothes - Elton John
Sweet!

FUNERAL SONG
We All Wear a Green Carnation - NoÃ«l Coward
I like this idea.

END CREDITS
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Serge Gainsbourg

QUALITY MUSIC

]]> *StrangeWeirdo call me sugarpie & take me if you want me http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26976685/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26976685/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:31:55 PDT

So I got the teachers I wanted in both English and History and Geography (Mr Nightingale, Mr Clayborne and Mr Guy). Found out I only have two hours of sports per week. Only have three hours of math. Got six free periods in the week. Life's good.

And just because I have shitty karma: School ends at 16:10 every day except for Wednesday (14:40) and on Monday I have two of the aformentioned free hours from 13:10 to 15:20. Which basically means I'll have two hours of fuck-all and can't go home because I have ONE lesson left, Sociology. Same deal on Tuesday except for art. ffs
Also there's a creepy guy in my class and just because I wasn't rude to him last year he thinks I'm his friend or something and won't leave me the hell alone. Ughhh. If he continues following me and getting on my case I'll tell him to piss off.

We'll be reading Educating Rita, Of Mice and Men (been meaning to read it, sweet) and A Man Of All Seasons in English this year, we got handed the books today. I'm about halfway through Educating Rita and it's a lot of fun, definitely reccomend it.

Also I've been freely translating some VVP/DAM fanfiction, note me if you're interested :0

]]> *StrangeWeirdo WHY AM I SO FAT http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26908008/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26908008/ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:27:47 PDT

I went to London. It was sweet.

We arrived there at around ten in the morning and checked into our hotel, the Langham. Posh as hell, but hey, it's my mum's birthday, she can do what she wants. We went over to the Gay Icons expo at the National Portrait Gallery and it was very interesting, even though the lack of Oscar Wilde was frustrating >:c oh well.
Later on we went to see Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, the Musical and Jesus Christ I'm not lying when I say it's the best show I've ever seen. It's about three Australian drag queens who travel from Sydney to Alice Springs to give a performance and also so one of them, Tick/Mitzi, can see his son. The songs were great, the dancing was great, the costumes were just stunning (FIVE-HUNDRED OF THEM. And two-hundred head-pieces), the dialogue ruled and the mood was fantastic. We didn't have very good seats, but it was okay because since we were sitting in row R at the very edge I actually got picked to go on stage, along with a couple more people. Seriously. No one else in my general vicinity wanted to go (?!) so I stood up and followed one of the back-up dancers. We danced a bit, then I had to hold hands with the other people and skip around and then we bowed and went back to our seats.
I heartily reccomend this musical to everyone. Some songs also made me think of some of my characters :v I Say A Little Prayer for Alain and Colour My World for Henry. Hurr.

The day after, mum went shopping so stepdad and I just went around. I saw Buckinham Palace for the first time ever but there wasn't a guard change thing that day :c we also went to St Paul's Cathedral but I'm cheap and didn't want to pay to go in so we stayed outside. We also went to Hamley's and I got this awesome constable teddy. We also went around in the crappy underground. Ugh. Seriously, guys, it's not hard to make decent metros :c
Then we went near the London Eye for the street performers, who I love. We arrived in time to watch the end of the performance of a guy called Richard's show, and his last number was escaping from a straight jacket. Here is a video of him doing so. The arm thing sounds SO bloody painful, aaaargh. He also told a bunch of jokes and was generally very entertaining, great street theatre.

Then we went to St Pancras and left. The end.

Here's a picture of my hat collection for no apparent reason. Missing all my awesome caps, obviously.

EDIT: Oh! I also went to see Inglourious Basterds. If you value your history, don't pay to see it, it became physically painful to watch towards the end. Download it if you must. Everything from the moment Emmanuelle/Soshana's film starts playing in the cinema is just retarded and I couldn't see the point. It's just like Tarantino went 'you know what I don't like Nazis I'll make a film where kill Nazis. I am a good film-maker. Also Speer? Himmler? Hess? Who dat.'
It's just so... American, I suppose. It had its funny moments but overall I wouldn't have payed to see it had I known the general content.
But I'm picky and bitchy, carry on :v

]]> *StrangeWeirdo LOL ANOTHER JOURNAL GOD I SUCK http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26797713/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26797713/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:12:40 PDT

Postin' to say I'm going to London. Gonna see the Gay Icons expo in the National Portrait Gallery, gonna watch Priscilla Queen of the Desert at night because I love musicals. It'll be awesome.

Will hopefully get some drawings done by the time I return. On Wednesday. Derf.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Dear Stephen Fry http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26768637/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26768637/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:05:33 PDT

Roses are red
Violets are blue
It's your birthday be happy and don't cry because you're fifty-two okay
And lose weight

I hope he likes my poem.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Artist Baton Pass and some other things http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26561904/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26561904/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:30:45 PDT

Sorry to have another journal so soon, I swear I won't do this every day.

ãArtist Batonã

â Your name?
Vlad, Anthony, StrangWeirdo/Life/y, Kiss Me Hardy, Vladimir Putin's LiveJournal, etc etc

â If possible, your age?
Fifteen. Birthday's in October (the month of winners!).

â When did you start drawing?
I think everyone draws when they're little, really. I started with the standard ' potatoes on toothpics', then I started tracing stuff, then I freehanded Japanese cartoon characters I saw on television (PokÃ©mon, the Sherlock Holmes dog thing, Maison Ikkoku), briefly reverted back to tracing before I realized it was shameful and here I am.

â Which hand do you use for drawing?
Right.

â Which is easier to draw - male or female?
Men. I'd probably be able to draw women if I took some time to look at them and see how they work but I have no desire so to do. I have like four books with pictures of naked boys (not porn >:c) and none with naked girls. Oy vey.

â Which is easier to draw - long hair or short hair?
Short. Baldness and buzzcuts are a bit more difficult but long hair's a pain because colouring and texturizing short hair is hard enough, so I can do without added length. I like short hair best in real life anyway.

â Is it easier to draw the head facing towards the right or the left?
Both are on the same level as far a difficulty is concerned but I seem to have a tendency to draw a lot of fake 3/4 profiles looking left.

â Is it easier to draw the side view of the face or the front view?
Side view oh my god. I hate front views because I'm really terrible at symmetry and one eye's always bigger or lower than the other or something. Plus my drawings tend to slant to the left and this is infinitely more noticeable in front view.

â What do you have problems in drawing?
Girlie bits, hands 'n feet, DIFFERENT FACIAL FEATURES UGHHH naked fatties, dicks.

â What do you like to draw?
Boys.

â Are you a traditional artist or a digital artist?
I'm hardly traditional in anything I do.

â Where do you start drawing from?
I nearly always start with a rough sketch (blobs) and then do the nose.

â What is your drawing habit that you are aware of?
Don't know really. Rough sketch, slightly more polished sketch, ink, long tedious colouring process, end.

â Any tips for coloring/shading?
I'm really no the person to ask.

â How long does it take to finish a piece of art?
Depends on whether I'm motivated, ill, in an artsy mood, etc.

â What music do you listen to while you draw?
I'll sometimes listen to music that fits the mood of the picture, but more often than not I'll just put my iTunes on shuffle on listen to my most recent songs. Can't be the first time I listen to it though or I'll concentrate on listening to and decyphering the lyrics instead of drawing.

â How long does it take you to come up with an idea?
I'm not a very original person, most of my gallery is made up of the same people doing the same things. So it's taken me fifteen years so-far.

â Your favorite drawing utensils?
Pencils, erasers.

â Your favorite color/the color that you use a lot?
I don't think I use one colour much more often than others but I suppose red shows up sometimes.

â Your favorite style(s)?
I don't care as long as it isn't ripped off. There are few things I hate more than people who suddenly change their style completely and even have the balls to say 'hey look I'm using some other person's style because I'm scum'. It's alright when you're like ten or twelve but Jesus.

â What kind of artist are you aiming for?
Trying to get as far away from animu as possible. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind it, it's just not my cup of tea anymore.

â Thank you.
Now please fill in the next columns by writing the names of the artists that match the criterea. Artists tagged must not feel obliged to do anything because this tagging system is weird anyway. Bolded text may or may not have been added by yours truly.

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I'm sick of all the conservatives mocking Bill Clinton for saving those two journalists. All the cartoons I've seen so-far are basically HA HA BILL CLINTON WENT TO GET SOME LADIES FROM NK AND REMEMBER HOW HE HAD SEX WITH HIS SECRETARY TEN YEARS AGO LOL OH NO SAVE THE GIRLS BEFORE SLICK WILLIE GETS TO 'EM and I don't get it. Is it that hard to just say 'oh a liberal did something good'? Especially since I'm pretty sure anyone would rather have a one-night-stand with Bill Clinton if it meant getting out of North Korean prisons/camps. I can't even imagine how horrible they must be.
Oh, nevermind, this is the country where a President nearly gets impeached and becomes a national shame because he had consensual sex with some ladies while an entire administration will live in luxury despite being directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. God bless America.

In other news, here are the WWII things and shoes I bought recently:
The Shoes
Putting them first because they're gonna be eclipsed by everything else but aren't they beautiful? On sale too, hell yeah. I have another pair with a pricked-in design but I am dumb and I forgot it in Portugal. Sob.

The Hat
Not a real one, of course, but quite nice. They had an officer's SS hat as well but it was fifty euros more expensive so I just plumped for this one. It's about fifty or so years old and was used for theatre productions. Here's another photo.
This is the bag I brought it home in. Seriously. I really need to draw a comic or two about the shop because the owner is... word. Check out the address too: Iron Cross road. I couldn't make it more perfect if I tried.

The Jacket
Original Luftwaffe jacket 'v' cost me an arm and a leg but was well worth it. It's in mint condition, fits me like a glove (the eagle is sellotaped on, by the way, I'm not going to wear something with a swastika), has a ton of extra pockets to put stuff in and smells lovely. Old leather is one of my favourite scents. The guy at the shop was only selling it because it was too small for him, and he gave me a 250 euro reduction since I'd purchased something there before (sweet). This jacket cost me the same as an original SS officer's hat would have. Here's another picture for luck.

Haha, on the tinypic site there was an ad to get a Green Card, you know, those ones. The question was 'Who's the President of the USA?'
The answers were Bush, Clinton and Schwarznegger.
I'll never get that Green Card :c

]]> *StrangeWeirdo HEY GUESS WHAT http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26343901/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26343901/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:32:17 PDT

WHAT
NOTICE THAT SWEET STAR NEXT TO MY NAME
YEAH WHAT OF IT
I HAVE IT THANKS TO THIS GUY:

i love you man.

Now to fill my shoutboard or whatevs with crappy stamps.

And no, I don't actually own a turtle, but I get a kick out of them. And yeah, I kind of look like Wilson, deal with it.

EDIT: hey does anyone know how to centre headers and footers.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo b-b-b-b-back EDITED http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26258807/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/26258807/ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:06:31 PDT
So I spent most of my time in Portugal watching Project Runway and being in graveyards. Also gained two kilos. And snuck out into a field with my mother and vandalized a giant sign because it's on our property and they didn't pay us. Had to walk through a corn field to get there, didn't know about it and wore sandals (derp), kept worrying about rats and nearly jumped out of my skin when I first touched a corn-cob (OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS IN THIS FIELD oh okay) but it was fun.

We also went to dinner at a friend of my mum's house, a friend who happens to be married to a guy who belongs to the CDS-PP political party (basically the most far-right party we have in Portugal whose leaders aren't constantly in jail. The leader of said party is hilarious, Paulo Portas. His brother is one of the leaders of the Bloco de Esquerda, the party to the left of the Socialists and coincidentally the party all of my family votes for, and is far more successful in every way than Portas will ever be. I love it, imagine their family get-togethers and Christmases, haha). It was really awkward, especially since I had to show my drawings off and I had to quickly skip over all the men kissing each other and the drag queens and the naked men and stuff, haha. They have three sons, and the oldest one was very nice to me and what from I gather he's answering back to his father, being a lot more liberal and even questioning his faith so he's still salvageable.
IF YOU HAVE ME ADDED ON MSN I'LL PROBABLY FILL YOUR EARS WITH MAGIC TALES

I also drew a lot! Here's a little list of what I'm going to upload tomorrow/soon and what I'm going to alter/work over and thus post later:
Tomorrow:
Crappy sketches of teen!Ivan and army!Ivan
PRESENTS FOR

and

Some guys making out
A bunch of Putins and a Medvedev
A guide to Ivan's tats and scars, because I forgot about them in the ref ): they're quite discreet though so it doesn't matter much.
Some little Putin+Medvedev drawings because everyone thinks they look adorable and I should post them

Some old-fashioned-looking drag queens (I love drag queens <3 wonder how I never posted any before)
A thing I did inspired by PitchipoÃ¯, done right after watching Schindler's List (that film is the worst thing, it made me cry so often)
Henry, Ivan, Alain, Donald and Sophie answering questions~
Old-school Miles (aka Musashi) and Kit, some decently ancient and semi-retired characters of mine, the former having been invented by

. Looking very different in my current style, obviously.

Some time in the future
Henry in a little pink car. Probably tomorrow as well, really.
A drawing inspired by this Keith Haring picture. I love Keith Haring, by the way. Don't think I ever mentioned it before.
Alwin in a 50s pin-up pose and clothes
TFSoL comic pages!

YEP. I also bought this fabulous original Luftwaffe jacket right before I left, which I'll take pictures of soonish.

Oh, and one last thing: I feel like I should pimp this band a little. They're the son of one of my mum's friend's band, and I actually really enjoy their music. It's rock music, in Portuguese. Give it a listen, check out the pretty artwork for their first EP, CrianÃ§a de Bigode (Moustachio'd Child).

EDIT: oh whoops, I also wrote a new fic, a short fluffy one this time. If anyone wants to give it a read, throw us a PM.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Memorieeeees... http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25923427/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25923427/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:16:42 PDT

recently(ish) posted a journal where he talked about cartoons he watched growing up, and I was showing something to my mum today and we ended up watching a ton of openings from stuff I loved when I was little, and still have very fond memories of today. I thought I'd post said openings with what I remember of each show, so you can see the awesome, cheesy stuff we got in Belgium and sometimes Portugal. It was 90% old 80s stuff, and lots of it written by French people but made in Japanese studios, and most of it bastardizations of literary classics. But I don't care because they're children's cartoons.
I didn't include the ones everyone watched and knows like the Smurfs or Ducktales or Captain Planet because that's boring.
Without further ado:

Robinson SucroÃ©
I LOVED THIS SO HARD. It's kind of a parody on Robinson CrusoÃ©, only instead of being on a mostly deserted island by accident he's sent there on purpose to write exciting journals for the paper. He lives in a village with the natives, the Tout Les Jours (Everydays), where each of them has the name of a weekday. His best friend and the guy who actually writes the journals is called Mercredi (Wednesday).

Albert le 5eme Mousquetaire
Made by the same studios who did SucroÃ©, it's basically the story of the three musketeers (+ Dartagan) only with the added character of Albert, who's the brains in the team but never got recognized because he doesn't care about fame.

Vic le Viking
I'm pretty sure this is German, originally. It was a show about this really brainy viking boy called Vic (or Vicky) and his adventures on his dad's ship. It got really weird sometimes, as you can see by the images in the opening credits, but damn if it wasn't an awesome show.

Les MystÃ©rieuses CitÃ©s d'Or
This was one of those Franco-Japanese collaborations. I don't remember it too well, but it was about this guy and his Aztec friends (?) looking for the golden cities. Or something. El Dorado, you know. It was really cool too.

Sherlock Holmes
This may be what started my still-standing infatuation with Britain. It's not an English show, and it was in fact made in Japan by Myiazaki (!), and even though it completely fucks up Sherlock Holmes and made them all antropomorphic dogs I'll be damned if it wasn't a great show. I always loved seeing the steam-punkish machinery and their clothes and houses, even when I was but a budding Chap. The music always struck a chord too, and I do still love it. If any of you knows where to find the opening without lyrics I'd love you forever.

Franklin la Tortue
This is one of those shows you're supposed to watch when you're like six, but no one cared. We all followed it until we were eight or nine or something. It's about the life of this turtle who's seven years old (I think) and lives in a village full of other forest animals, like bears (his best friend's a bear), foxes, otters, etc.
It
owned
everything.

Princesse Sarah
We all know A Little Princess. This was the anime version. It was alright.

Heidi
HEIDI MAKES EVERYONE CRY. You all know this, the little Swiss girl who lives in the mountains with her grumbly grandad. Oh god when she gets her friend in the wheelchair to walk fff

RÃ©mi Sans Famille
This is the worst show. Not because it was bad, but because it was so goddamn sad. I'm surprised all the kids didn't get depression from watching it. RÃ©mi's this little boy who's been separated from his mother (and I think his dad's dead) so he travels with his dogs and this silent old artist guy. The only things I really remember from this show are two scenes: one where they're walking on some big rocks and the narrator te... ]]> *StrangeWeirdo Bulletin Get. + 8 Things http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25718806/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25718806/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:30:23 PDT Portuguese: 6.5/6.5/6.5
So I apparently fucked my exam up worse than I thought. Can't say I care very much, and anyway I'm sure I'll do better next year.

English: 9.5/9.5/9.5
Nerd-alert. This actually made me really happy because English is one of my favourite subjects, so I'm glad the exam went so well. I greatly enjoyed my year with this teacher too, thank you Mrs. O'Brien 'v'

French: 7/9/8
Not too shabby. That seven in the class grade is actually only a seven because I skipped a ton of classes due to emo. I unfortunately won't be continuing French next year though. Sadness.

History: 9/8/8.5
And then I flogged myself with a pillowcase until I cried.
No, seriously, what the fuck? What followed my seeing this grade were ten minutes of crying and another ten of cursing my teacher to hell and back so I could hang him with his esophagus, all while my mother observed this bitch-fit in companionable silence. I got even more ashamed because this is the teacher I had (have) this massive crush on? I put all my efforts into his class, was repeatedly told by him I was the best student (not an accomplishment because the others are fucking stupid), was told by him he'd like to follow my progress and I gave him a bottle of wine from my mother's cellar followed by a mumbled confession before I ran away like a tard and he gives me an 8.5?
Look, I know I'm coming off as a huge spoiled bastard here, but when I pour my heart and soul into a project (in this case getting good grades in history) I expect a due reward. I want to study this in university and the college I'm aiming at has freakishly high standards and an 8.5 won't fucking cut it.
So we're going to go see the exam at the library (they don't give us the exams back) and see where the hell I fucked up badly enough to lose 1.5 points.
And the best part? His ballsy-ass comment: 'Excellent work from Vlad, should do well in the future' well i'll just stay in the gutter if you give me these grades when I'm looking at the stars, captain hero. Seriously, if he hadn't written this comment I wouldn't be half as pissed off.

Geography: 8.5/9/8.5
I was happy with this, even though it means I somehow got a better grade in Geography than in History (aaaah). I love my Geography teacher, she's the coolest.

Maths: 5.5/6/6
Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Biology: 6.5/5.5/6
Yep.

Chemistry: 6.5/7.5/7
Shocked. I was completely flabbergasted. I got a 7.5 in my end-of-year Chemistry exam what in god's name
I mean, awesome, but what the hell?

Physics: 3/2/3.5
Haha, bless her for giving me an extra grade for no reason :v

Art: 10/10/10
I love you Mr. Rasputin 'v'

Dutch: 8/9.5/9
Pleased but don't actually care; hate this subject, not having it next year.

Physical Education: 5/5/5
:v

Ethics: 8.5/9/9
Haha, too bad this grade doesn't factor into the actual average.

So in conclusion, I have an average of 7.5 (considering ethics and P.E. don't count). NEED TO SHAPE UP. Average needs to be at least 8.5 by the end of next year.
Also, no one in my class failed. Yay on one side, boo because I didn't want some people to pass because they're dicks. Oh well.

Also I got tagged by

!

(1) Post these rules.

(2) Each tagged person must post 8 things about themselves on their journal.

(3) At the end you have to choose 8 people to tag, and post their icons on the same journal.

(4) Go to their page and send a message saying you tagged them.

(5) NO tag-backs.

8 random things about me:
1. My family history is very complicated. I'm half Portuguese, half Dutch, have an Australian birth certificate and passport (on top of the Dutch and Portuguese ones) and was born and still live in Brussels. My dad has two brothers and three sisters and I have a bunch of cousins I've never met because the Dutch side of the family never talks amidst itself.
2. I only really feel attracted to older men (like 30+ to about 50 unless they're in great shape, in which case there's an error margin of ten years :v) but boyish types being seduced in very much my cup of tea as well. Mr Cake <3
3. I used to be an ANGRY ATHEIST until I grew up and realized it was annoying as hell. So now I'm a chilled-out atheist, I guess.
4. My lifegoal is to enter a college I won't mention (in case I fail derp), learn Russian, be in some sort of boring but high-paying history-related career, publish something, possibly not fail... ]]> *StrangeWeirdo Finished. http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25610850/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25610850/ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:06:06 PDT
I'm also finally over my comic-block and am nearly done with the next page.

More importantly: I went to the Tervuren gardens today and had a picnic and slept on the grass, basking in the sun. Summer owns.
I also found someone who does the most wonderful fic recs and read some of the funniest fanfiction I've browsed through yet. Here are some good examples:
Hot Fuzz: Curse of the cuddly monkey!
Jeeves & Wooster: The Case of Spode (oh so reminiscent of old P.G.

)
Jeeves and the Blessed Indiscretion
Untitled epistolary exchange

Also Stephane Grappelli is awesome.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo 50? Fuck me, that's young. http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25544914/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25544914/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:01:21 PDT
]]> *StrangeWeirdo Happy Birthday Alan Turing! http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25503002/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25503002/ Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:10:25 PDT
For those who don't know, Alan Turing is widely considered the forefather of computers, and he played an important role in winning World War II. Without him, I'd probably not be writing this. He's a hero.
He was also driven to suicide because he was forced to inject himself with estrogen to cure his homosexuality.

Happy Birthday.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo ungh (edited) http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25461512/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25461512/ Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:31:13 PDT Hell, I don't even know what it is. Is it a cartoon? Is it a comic? Is it a game? Is it really, heavily xenophobic (yes)?

I really don't know but it provokes a primal reacion of hostility in me for NO DISCERNABLE REASON which is weird. Is it because it's xenophobic? Is it because it's not xenophobic enough? Is it because everyone looks the same? I DON'T KNOW.

Okay rant over thought I'd share. No offense to watchers of mine who're fans, I really don't have anything against Hetalia it just grinds my gears somehow.

Edit: Okay, I've looked up Hetalia a bit and the idea itself sounds decent, maybe even something I could possibly enjoy (haven't read a real comic though so I can't say) but as I said: I have a lot of trouble liking things where I can't tell characters apart. This, especially in a comic where people are supposed to be countries (so there should be a lot of diversity if only based on the different stereotypes) is a terrible mistake.
I mean, for instance, this picture:
[link]
Out of what I suppose are all the characters (twenty-two) I could only recognize four, and one I'm not even sure about. I mean, I recognized Germany based on the blonde hair, blue eyes and uniform, but why are there twelve countries with some variation of blonde hair and blue eyes? I can think of Germany and Holland but apart from that we don't have any country known for those specific features in Europe, except Norway, Finland and Sweden but I'm guessing they're not in the comic.

I could tell Italy was Italy only because he's eating pizza. Why doesn't he have a tan? Is he a randy character? I hope they didn't only make France be the loverboy because Italy can offer some serious competition.

Saudi Arabia(?)'s there for no special reason.

And I thought that guy might be France because he's wearing a beret, but then I noticed that like three characters have berets so er.

I know the guy in the jacket punching the air's America because I'd seen fan art of him but I never would have guessed if I didn't know beforehand. Since when are Americans blonde-haired and blue-eyed? I'm vaguely aware of that stereotype but it's not true because they're from a primarily British descent and British people aren't blonde. I mean the Royals might be but they bred with Germans.
And if we're realy following stereotypes, shouldn't America be a fatass?

"Northern Italy: A bright and energetic nation that progressed from being the kin of Roma Antiqua, widely recognized as the strongest nation in the world, to being clumsy and irresponsible. Personified as being carefree, cowardly and lackadaisical (noted by his collection of white flags he uses to surrender), he often depends on Germany to resolve issues. Nods to Italian culture include his artistry and recurrent portrayal of pasta and pizza. He has an older brother, who represents southern Italy and who is commonly known as Italy Romano."
What! No mention at all of Italy being a raunchy mofo? Oh, come on! Those guys have the reputation as the best lovers, even surpassing the French because Italians aren't as gay as the French. And if you read the France bio: it's never mentioned why Italy's cowardly when France was the one who surrendered all the time. Other gripe with the France bio: it's written that after the fall of Napoleon they start sucking at war and start attracting tourists with wine.
Someone didn't do their homework ):<

In fact let's just run through a list of all that's wrong in the bios:
"Personified as being carefree, cowardly and lackadaisical (noted by his collection of white flags he uses to surrender), he often depends on Germany to resolve issues. Nods to Italian culture include his artistry and recurrent portrayal of pasta and pizza." (italy)
"He is inexperienced in the outside world, but does his best to learn all he can." (japan)
"He also has immense physical strength and courage, although he has a crippling fear of ghosts," (usa. the first part's debatable but what the hell's up with the second sentence)
"pretty much everything in the britain bio"
"russia, what the hell"

Despite all the problems I could maybe like it sort of? It's not a thing I'd condemn anyone for liking at any rate. It's just kind of bad.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo YEAAAAAAH http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25409157/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25409157/ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:03:04 PDT YEAAAAAAH

And my diet's working: I've lost enough weight that I can now remove my trousers without undoing any buttons or zips. Which is kind of pain in the ass because if I forget to wear a belt I can't run or I flash everyone.
YEAAAAAAH

And my cool t-shirts arrived in the mail yesterday.
YEAAAAAAH

And I can finally work on The Five Stages of Love again and hopefully make some progress before September comes about.
YEAAAAAAH

And I'm really getting into Depeche Mode.
YEAAAAAAH

]]> *StrangeWeirdo The Concert http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25326843/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25326843/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:55:11 PDT
So the first immediately obvious thing upon arriving in Esch-sur-Alzette was this: I had no idea where the hell we were. I mean, I knew we were in Luxemburg, obviously, but it was sill surreal. Why was it surreal? Because the only things I could see (and I scrutinized the horizon thoroughly) were a huge, empty red building, a bunch of cranes, a shopping centre, the Rockhal and an old, rusted-over steelworks factory.

Yes, an old, rusted-over steelworks factory. Words cannot convey how awesome it looked and how much it made me wish for photographic talent, because holding a photoshoot there would be legendary. I'm fairly certain they built stuff around the factory for the workers and such and now that it's been abandoned it just sort of lies there.

So we were there and someone thought that we should bring a bottle of water along in case we got thirsty, so I had to cradle it along. We stopped by the shopping centre for a bite to eat and for me to buy some binoculars, because I am very dumb and I forgot ours at home. 19.99Â, it's alright. Could've bought two sandwiches with that.
So at this point time was pressing on and it was nearly 18:30, and seeing as they'd open the doors at 19:00 hours I kept urging mum and Onno to EAT FASTER GODDAMNIT. When we got into the queue for the doors it was nearly three times bigger than it was when we arrived, so I of course bitched endlessly about it. Then I got a bit annoyed because we had to throw our bottle away before entering the Rockhal (?) and I was the only person who tried to drink it so it wouldn't go to waste. Half a bottle!...

SO ANYWAY the Hal itself sucked. The interior design was good and everything, but it wasn't good for concerts at all. It was basically a big stone box, so the acoustics were shit. And they had technicians doing light and voice tests minutes before the concert began (?!). Bear in mind that seeing as the concert was supposed to start at 20:00 hours and they were still doing tests at 20:10 hours we were all getting a bit restless, and seeing as there was nothing else to do we all cheered when a technician came on stage.

And then, at 20:30, glory be! And I do mean, glory be! It was so thrilling to see the lights dim, the music start and then seeing Neil and Chris entering the stage for the first time like this:
[link]
It was... word.
The first song was Heart, one of my favourites, still with the boxes over their heads. And a kickin' rad video in the background.
A this point you may have noticed how ridiculously close we were to the stage. Even more than the pictures make it seem since we have this weird camera that makes things look further away than they actually are. So yeah, 19.99Â to shit. My mum and Onno still used them to check if Neil's hair was really white and yeah.

Second song was Love Comes Quickly, which we conveniently taped twenty seconds of. Notice how the boxes had been removed at this point and we could see that yes, they were there. Eeee

Then they started playing songs from the new album, starting with Pandemonium and following that with Love Etc, which we again conveniently seem to have in crappy video format!. I'd like to take this minute to draw your attention to Neil's awesome leather daddy boots, which he kept on for the entire concert, even when he changed into a suit (see below). You can also kind of see he's got that Old Man chicken legs thing going, aw.

Check out Neil's awesome sense of rythm or jumpy leg syndrome. With added 'girlfriend' handflip.

Then he changed jackets. Chris did too and OH MY GOD WHAT. The effect of this jacket is completely lost in picture form but he was a human disco ball, seriously. I wasn't let down by my awesome clothing... ]]> *StrangeWeirdo psb concert http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25294212/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25294212/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:12:52 PDT just came back from luxemburg, 250 kilometres 2 hours it is 1:10 am
will post full journal w/ pics in the morning
just wanted to say it was fucking awesome oh my god the music and the dancers and the background and their clothes eeeee

]]> *StrangeWeirdo motherfucker motherfucker MOTHERFUCKER http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25276632/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25276632/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:13:27 PDT Do you know what Obama said?
Obama just came straight out and defended the Defence of Marriage Act! Isn't that fucking marvellous?
Read this lovely article at your leisure! [link]

Ah, isn't it amazing? The country's well and truly and advanced place when even its left-wing leader compares homosexual marriage to incest and marrying children!

I was starting to think America was a good country. I thought we'd all get along after Obama's election. I thought, 'hey! Here's a guy who's friends with minorities! Here's someone who'll understand our cause!' after all, as a black man, he should know what it feels like to be discriminated against, right? And look, he's closing Gitmo: wow! And hey, a pretty cool economic plan! And sweet: a nation-wide train line! Awesome: fuel-efficient cars! Oh man the next four years will be hella cool.
And then he compares loving same-sex couples to paedophiles.

I'm very sorry, America. I really am, but I think our relationship will forever be doomed to failure. Fuck you, America. Fuck you.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo I LOVE JACQUES BREL http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25237933/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25237933/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:46:26 PDT
My exams start next week and today I had a glorious realization: after I finish them, I WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER PHYSICS OR CHEMISTRY CLASS FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE. This is extraordinarily good news.
On the sad side, I had to say goodbye to my English teacher, Mrs. O'Brien (another genius fictitious name). I do like her, she's a great teacher and a lovely person and I am very sad that she won't be teaching me anymore. I am glad about having Mr. Nightingale next year but I do wish I could have her in Applied English or something. Alas, it was not meant to be.
I did give her a letter telling her I thoroughly enjoyed my year with her and we had a nice little chat at the end of the lesson.

Speaking of goodbyes: tomorrow's my last day of actual school. I'll be saying saying yet another permanent goodbye, this time to Mr. Happy. And as some of you may know, I'm very fond of him, I'd even say enamoured, so it's going to be quite hard. I'll be giving him a letter as well, along with a stuttering confession he can laugh at with his girlfriend when he goes home. I just hope I won't cry, that wouldn't be proper at all.

On the bright side, I'm going to die on Saturday. Of joy. Along with the, er, ten other people who live near/in Luxemburg and are fans of the Pet Shop Boys. I actually found out that the guy who gives me extra lessons is a fan as well, and he told me he might be going :v very excited either way! I will take a million pictures.
WHY ARE ALL MY FAVOURITE MUSICIANS CREAKY OLD MEN.

I'll probably be going to Ukraine in October! Woo!

Also also also: I wrote a Putin/Medvedev fanfic like a million years ago and I never posted it, so I'll do that now so we can all have a laugh: warning for gay and man-touchies. If you're part of my family (extended or otherwise) don't click this or I'll be frightfully embarassed.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo er http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25047076/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/25047076/ Sun, 31 May 2009 08:40:56 PDT i hope it's alright ):

Has anyone ever done/considered doing comissions? I'm not asking because I plan to do comissions myself right now (lord no, I'd feel bas asking for money for my drawings, even though I see worse artists than myself make thick wads of cash for complete shite), but I'm just curious on how the whole process works.
And for fun, do you think people would want to pay for my art? I personally don't think so, but I'm an attention whore I guess so I'd like to know.

And omg Lolita is such a great book you guys should all read it

]]> *StrangeWeirdo NOT DEAD YET http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24923093/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24923093/ Sun, 24 May 2009 11:28:55 PDT
So meanwhile I finished The Communist Manifesto. It is a good book, I reccomend it. It's like 56 pages so what have you got to lose really.
Started Lolita like it a lot so-far.

Watched V for Vendetta (so awesome) and, get this: FINALLY WATCHED NOUS ETIONS UN SEUL HOMME, THAT FILM WITH THE FRENCH GUY AND THE NAZI.
Okay, so totally not what I was expecting but pretty good anyway! The main character are called Guy Rouveron (French guy) and Rolf (German), played by Serge Avedikian and Piotr Stanislas respectively. Serge makes documentaries now and is a cute old man and Piotr, he was in a gazillion pornos, was one of the few tough-looking actors who was an out bisexual in the 70s (other famous examples include, er, Marlon Brando and that's it) and was handsome as hell. He looks exactly like what I want Ivan to look like fff
Oh and he owns a sex shop now. Stay classy.

Anyway, what happens in this film: it starts off with Guy squashing a bug in a really gross couple of first seconds. While he's eating he hears gunshots/explosions and goes to check it out, finding a wrecked car and an injured German soldier. He carries the soldier back home, takes and hides his gun, and gives him basic first aid.
Now, it's pretty apparent that Guy isn't the sharpest crayon in the box but seeing as he was abandoned by his parents and raised mostly by animals in a farm I guess it's to be expected. We also find out much later in the film that he's a runaway asylum patient.

The German wakes up and tells him his name is Rolf. After he gets better he tries to leave but Guy, having always been alone and having grown to like Rolf, makes him stay. So Rolf does.
They spend most of their time fooling around and fighting and throwing each other off rowboats and such until they find a dog. Rolf likes him and takes him home, naming him Ajax (I know it's the name of a god but it always makes me laugh because of the laundry product :v). Ajax runs away soon after and Rolf gets a bit sadder.
He meets Guy's girlfriend Jeanine and they immediately become good friends. Guy talked Jeanine into agreeing to sleep with Rolf but it's pretty obvious at this point that Rolf's not very keen on women, and he angrily refuses.

Rolf and Guy get drunk off their asses and engage in drunken games like smearing cream on each others faces, pissing in glasses, singing loudly, throwing stones into a well and dancing with chairs and each other. At one point, Rolf grabs Guy and tries to kiss him, but Guy giggles like mad and turns his head to avoid it, then runs away.
When he wakes up, Rolf is gone. Guy is devastated and ambles about aimlessly. Rolf comes back a few days later with the dog and ignores Guy completely. So Guy kills Ajax. Rolf goes after Guy with the blade used to kill his dog and screams he's going to kill him. Guy has a weird spasm and Rolf takes care of him.

LATER
Guy puts on a jacket and tells Rolf he's going to see Jeanine. Rolf calls after him and tells Guy he doesn't want him to go, and wants him to stay with Rolf. Then he asks Guy 'Embrasse moi. Embrasse moi comme si j'Ã©tais une femme,' kiss him as if he were a woman. We find out about Guy being in the asylum. Meanwhile, Jeanine cycles up to the house and observes from the window, where she sees Rolf kissing Guy's neck. They make love while Jeanine apparently watches and while they're lying in bed she comes in and kisses Guy on the forehead. They all lie down together.

The Gestapo shows up at Guy's house and takes Rolf into the village square. Guy goes to get the gun he'd hidden previously and shoots, scaring all the Germans away (htye hide in the church) and leaving Rolf alone. He then shoots Rolf (?!) and the Gestapo leave. Guy carries Rolf to the place where they'd buried Ajax, puts him in a hole and then lies down next to him. He then covers both of them with a sort of cover made of leaves and wood and things.
THE END

I liked it. It was quite unlike other gay films I've seen, because it was so raw. I do reccomend you watch it if you can find it.

Also I found a Red Army Choir and a Vladimir Visotsky (AKA the russian bard) CDs. Happy happy.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo DILEMMA (and questions) http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24649543/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24649543/ Fri, 08 May 2009 10:33:49 PDT So like two years or so ago I was watching some TV when I came upon a channel where they were critiqueing a play. The play was German and I can't remember whether the channel advertising/criticising the play was German or not but anyway. They were talking about this play. It's about a middle-aged man who goes through life and starts falling in love with a younger girl and at some point they're in love (I think) and he's finally happy and then WHAMMO he discovers the girl's his daughter.
Eep.
I know there's a bit of the play where they're (or at least he's) soaking wet and the man's got an angry look on his face and I think I remember them sliding about the stage. The set was a bit weird too: they were in this square white box the whole time, the box being on the stage.

I watched it, though 'sounds like a pretty sweet play' and then forgot about it. I somehow remembered it last week and I've been thinking WHAT WAS THE TITLE UNGH CHRIST ever since. If any of this rings a bell, please tell me. Googling 'father daughter german play' brings up a million links, most of which I don't understand and none of which I'm prepared to click on.

AND HERE IS MY (sort of) DILEMMA
So near the local Waterstone's there's a weapon shop, where they sell firearms and knives and ancient swords and whatnot. I pass it every time I go to the book shop and I've never really paid it much mind (because I don't like weapons :c) but for some reason I glanced in today and I noticed that on top of selling arms, they sell hats.
Not just any hats.
Original World War II hats. Like, they had an original SS hat and helmets. They even had an original World War I (!) German helmet, mitt ze spike on top. And I'm pretty sure I saw uniform jackets.
As you can all probably imagine, I had a heart attack.
I desperately want to buy some of this paraphernalia but the big DILEMMA is this: everything's fucking expensive. This is normal considering what's on sale but knowing me I'll end up spending all of my savings on those hats and uniform tops. Plus, since this is an arms shop and I'm only fifteen I don't know whether I'll be let in.

tl;dr: SHOULD I SPEND BUCKETS OF MONEY ON ORIGINAL WWII/WWI ITEMS

]]> *StrangeWeirdo what the http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24483357/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24483357/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:03:29 PDT Martwy his name is. He's banned.
Search 'by:martwy' in the searchbar here.

Why was this man banned when people who produce the most generic anime shit or even trace fucking screenshots stay!?

Oh, I guess the content of his drawings is a bit risquÃ©; who honestly gives half a fuck? I'm pretty outraged right now at how limiting this site actually is. Art should express whatever you want to express. You want to draw people fucking? Go for it! You want to draw a man with an erection? Do it! As long as it reflects feeling it'll be beautiful. Being done tastefully is a plus but not a necessity.
I'm not talking bloody hentai or pornography or whatever, I'm talking about sex. Sex is beautiful. Bodies are beautiful. I've been getting more and more enamoured with them as time goes by, especially the male figure. I've been doing more nude studies now and I find it honestly frustrating to have to not post some sketches because they contain- gasphorror- erect penises! WORLD ENDS

I mean, I already knew there were very strong limitations on this site (because of the supposed 'family-friendly' shtick. I'd rather my twelve-year-old saw a tasteful depiction of sex than photoshops of people in blood-filled bathtubs, missing limbs) but this borders on retarded. Most of what he uploaded contained only nudity or some innuendo (like this submission: [link]), or was a depiction of a scene in a book (lots of de Sade art in there, lovely).

I'm talking about one person here, but I know there are hundreds of other deviants that were banned for reasons I deem unfair. I can't do anything about it, but what's this journal for if not ranting? Probably a ton of grammatical and spelling errors but it's late, I'm annoyed and I'm going to bed. I'll maybe run through this in the morning and fix it.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Guess who I'm seeing live on the 13th of June http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24342400/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24342400/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:14:27 PDT Hehe.

I am the happiest little bean this side of the equator.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo back http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24218625/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24218625/ Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:19:16 PDT Oh and we did a boat-trip around Ellis Island and visited the Empire State Building. Our hotel was right next to Ground Zero, which made taxi indications very easy.

I also got the coolest thing: an Avenue Q poster, autographed by all the cast members. I got the occasion to buy this because right now is the time of year Broadway does this Equity thing to to fight AIDS and collect money for AIDS research and women's health organizations and the sell awesome exclusive stuff like this. Rocks.

While I was away, my mother and my stepdad, bless them, put a shelf in my room and cleaned the place up a bit. Looking through even the small sample of my library present on this new shelf I concluded that my literary tastes are fucking schizophrenic.
I mean seriously. Shelf one has all your generic shitty manga (Yotsuba&!, Monster, Yakitate!Ja-Pan!, Host Club, etc).

Shelf two has European comics, a small Oscar Wilde section (The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (I have an Illustrated Complete Works of Oscar Wilde but it's too huge to put on this shelf), Epigrams, The Portrait of Mr. W. H.) and other titles pretty much thrown together (Maus, bunch of indie comics, Stephen Fry's Paperwork, assorted Jacqueline Wilson books, Het Verhalenboek van Bert en Ernie (The Storybook of Bert and Ernie. No, I don't know why it's there, but I'm not complaining), Terry Pratchett's Truckers and David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress.

Shelf three has a heart-shaped candy box, some movies (and some gay Japanese visual novel), Gloomy Bear, a tape measure (?) and, er, my collection of 70s magazines about WWII uniforms, grades and weapons.

Shelf four has a lamp, my alarm clock, an Avenue Q bag and the, um, Holy Bible.
Shelf five has some sketchbooks and my growing collection of Attitudes. No, they're not porn magazines.

Shelf six... I don't even know. Ton of indie comics, couple of Thomas Harrises, Little Children, 1984, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird and Talking With Serial Killers.
I don't know anymore.
Also, have I shown you my Andy Warhol book? It is huge absolutely goddamn massive. There's my hand to scale things a little. Carrying it up the stairs was pure torture. Would've been easier and lighter to carry the man himself.

I have developed a small obsession for Russian singer Vitas, but I only have five of his songs right now. Help in finding more would be appreciated.

Also meme I found pretty cool: I'm gonna post quotes from my top 25 favourite movies and you guys are gonna guess, mmkay? Some are easy as hell but some are very obscure. Oh, and you're not supposed to use any searching device to look up said quotes but I can't actually see you so go nuts. When/if you guess correctly I'll write down the name of the film and your name, to show you guessed it right.
If you want to do this meme, go look up your 25 favourite movies on IMBD and post a quote from the Quote section of your film's page.
Different html indicates someone else is speaking. Some character names have been changed to 'character' so as not to make it too easy.

_{1.
"Don't call me stupid."
"Why on earth not?"
"Oh, you English are *so* superior, aren't you? Well, would you like to know what you'd be without us, the good ol' U.S. of A. to protect you? I'll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that's what! So don't call me stupid, lady. Just thank me."<... ]]>} *StrangeWeirdo gettin' john krohn off my front page because ugggh http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24091288/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/24091288/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:28:21 PDT
Comment with one of my characters' names and I will tell you their...

01. Full name
02. Best friend
03. Sexuality
04. Favorite color
05. Relationship status
06. Ideal mate
07. Odd Skills/Skills in general
08. Last Amusing Escapade
09. Favorite food
10. Crushes
11. Favorite music
12. Biggest fear
13. Biggest fantasy
14. Quirks
15. Bad habits
16. Biggest regret
17. Best kept secrets
18. Last thought
19. Worst sexual/romantic experience
20. Biggest insecurity

Have fun kids.

I probably won't upload or give any other signs of life this week because I will be going to ~New York New York~ to check out the talent. Thing I'm most excited about is the fact that we're going to watch three different Broadway shows. Oh, and there'll be lots of bagels available which is always a bonus with everything.

In other news, there are two upcoming shows here in Brussels: a DepÃªche Mode concert and the Chippendales. I am very interested in both but will probably only go to the latter. First Chippendales show everrrrr how exciting!

]]> *StrangeWeirdo kid gave me crohn's disease http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23881396/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23881396/ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:41:14 PDT He's also a smug little prick and I am 100% certain he'll face public shame the day he gets caught blowing guys in public restrooms while on his campaign tour. I mean look at this guy. Seriously. I can hear him go 'heh, liberals' in that squeaky, not-yet-broken-in voice of his.
And re:voice, yeah, it's more feminine than mine. Then again that's a pretty low bar, buuuut. Be sure to watch the video, it's pretty damn funny. I especially love 'The Party's merely the shell, it's the inside, it's the filling that really means something.'
Wow Jon, really?! So it would be accurate to say that political parties are kind of like peanuts. Makes sense. Only the problem is that while both the Democrat and the Republican peanuts look good on the outside, the minute you crack the Republican peanut open to get to the delicious filling, you'll only be disappointed when you see nothing but a shrivelled, dying gnat.
'Respect for life', but only till you're born! Cause when you are, we'll turn you over and fuck you in the ass!
'It is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.' wait, what? Hot damn, I must've been following the wrong Conservatives, because the ones I've seen so-far have done neither of these.

And come on, are Republicans that desperate? First they place all their trust and confidence in a plumber who's not even a real plumber and who obviously knows fuck all about anything, then they look up to a woman who thinks Africa is a country, they've been respecting hideous slimeball manthing Anne Coulter for ages, they think some fat junkie is THE source for your news and now they think a fourteen-year-old kid is the new Jesus.

Now, I'm fifteen, so I suppose I should respect him for being so far ahead and garglegarglegargle this is absolutely preposterous. It makes me want to write a book (I'll call it 'CHILD WRITES ABOUT POLITICS: MIND FUCKING BLOWN' ) just so I can quickly gain fame and money and when I'm invited to go on television for the first time I'll just look straight into the camera and go 'lollin' at whoever thinks a child has anything relevant to say about politics.'
Then I'll find and molest Anderson Cooper.

Kid makes me laugh. See this part of his bio:
He has played the cello since he was 4 and has recently taken up the Banjo. He is active at his church, Peachtree Corners Baptist, and in his spare time he is playing with his dog Spot, and listening to anything political. He loves talk radio. He has also taken up golf in hopes to play with his favorite politicians.

Hint: by the time you're old enough to play golf with grown-ups, they'll all be dead. The tense in this sentence is also weird as hell but I'm not a native english speaker so what do I know.

Oh and this: In the Jewish culture in which my mom was raised, 13 is a big deal,Â he told The New York Times. ÂBut since IÂm a Jewish Christian, I donÂt do a bar mitzvah.Â
1) yes, no shit
2) What in the name of God is a Jewish Christian? I'm guessing he means his mum was Jewish (she's baptist now and has been for decades so she's not even Jewish religiously speaking) and his dad and him are Christians but it's like Obama saying 'I'm a Chistian Muslim' because his dad used to be a muslim way back in the day ): ?
And I'd like to have a Bar Mitzvah! Come on man, Jewish parties blow Christian ones out of the water. There's one thing where you stay up all night chillin' and eating cheesecake for Christ's sake.

He also apparently did something related to giving 'reproduction advice' or something which is pretty awesome. I'm dying to know what a fourteen-year-old homeschooled Conservative has to tell us about social skills and sex tips. I bet we could have a very interesting conversation, him and I, and it would end with his salty tears. If not because of my words, because I'll have kicked him in the crotch so hard he would never be able to procreate.

Oh well. I guess this rant's totally void when you take the fact that all Neo-Cons are children into consideration.

I should just get a blog so I could talk about my opinion all the time and get instant internet fame. Booyah.

In lighter news, I've recently started reading a Jeeves and Wooster omnibus and it is delightful. I now curse mys... ]]> *StrangeWeirdo Hahaha, what the hell http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23652119/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23652119/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:04:44 PDT I found this:

'The sound of rain against the windows.
Despite what many people think, it is not always cold here. In fact, in some places, the temperature gets so high that many die of heatstroke. I should know. IÂm the one who looks through the fatality numbers.
Of course, not all rumours are untrue. We do get freezing cold weather, the most badly affected parts being villages in Siberia. Not many people know about them. But I do.

I was actually looking through the latest news from those remote parts when it happened. I had brought Division Bell with me, and it was currently playing at what I admit was a volume slightly above appropriate for the office. Maybe it was on purpose. Maybe I wanted to attract his attention.

If it was intentional, I succeeded. Just as I heard the first notes of Poles Apart, he briskly opened the door. Briskly, but not violently. Nothing of what he did was ever overtly violent. I could tell he was in a bad mood though, by the way he didnÂt knock. He was always exceedingly polite.

ÂDmitry,Â he said, his usual poker face on display, Âturn that noise down. YouÂre at work, not in your car.Â

ÂOf course, IÂm sorry. I didnÂt want to disturb you.Â

It was ridiculous. I shouldnÂt have to be so formal around him. So scared of him.

ÂWell, the deed is done. I needed that concentration, and youÂve stolen it from me, all because of that rubbish.Â

He looked at me, expecting an answer. What could I say to that? ÂIÂm sorry I broke your precious and obviously irrecoverable concentration, let me lend you mineÂ?

Whatever he wanted to hear, he was set on it. We stared at each other for two good minutes, him holding the doorknob as if ready to leave, but awaiting some sort of signal, me behind my desk, sitting in my comfortable leather chair. I could feel my palms sticking to the dark hide, my heart thudding.

ÂItÂs not rubbish,Â I said, finally, ÂI brought it in because I thought you might like it.Â

His eyebrows shot straight up in surprise, one of the rare emotions he sometimes felt compelled to display, perhaps to show he still had a soul. In an instant, his face returned to its usual state.

ÂI might like it? Since when are you aware of what I like?Â

I shrugged. ÂI donÂt know. Everyone I know likes it.Â

ÂYes, but do you expect me to follow everyoneÂs example? Is that how I became President?Â

I said nothing.

ÂRemember, youÂre here only because I want you to. If I didnÂt, you wouldnÂt even be in Russia.Â

I just shrugged again. IÂm not that fond of confrontations, really. Plus, he was right. He usually didnÂt rub it in my face like this, because I like to think heÂs fond of me, but he seemed strangely irritated.'

Do you know what this is?
This is the start of a Putin/Medvedev RPS fiction. A shitty Putin/Medvedev RPS fiction.
Since it is unfinished and on my hard drive I can but assume I wrote it.

Why do I have no recollection of ever writing this.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo IN OTHER NEWS!! http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23593672/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23593672/ Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:30:03 PDT
2) I went to see Milk and Gran Torino and they both made me cry so hard (Milk moreso) ;^; Seriously, go watch them, they're amazing. I wanna be like Walt Kowalski when I grow up

And yeah, what I learnt from Milk was 'never trust a psychotic Irish/American closet case or he'll shoot you.'
On the plus side I saw Silence of the Hams today and it pretty damn funny so that's cool.

3) I've been downloading a film called Nous Ãtions Un Seul Homme for the last three days and I wish my Internet wasn't so shitty because it sounds right up my alley. It takes place in rural France during the second world war. A wounded German soldier called Rolf wanders unto the land of a man called Guy. Guy nurses him back to health, but when Rolf wants to leave Guy begs him to stay and Rolf sort of sticks around and eventually loses the will to return to his country. Meanwhile Guy's girlfriend/fiance/whatever watches their relationship with an EVIL EYE and that's all I know about it.
I WISH I'D FUCKING FINALLY GET THE FILM i'm at ninety per cent since yesterday evening and it hasn't budged since ):

4) One of my teachers has a meeting with a Portuguese editor and wants to show off some of my drawings to try and get a deal. Yeah, I know, what the hell? But since it's Portugal I guess they accept substandard art for their stuff or something.
Anyway, I need to set up a ' portfolio' of sorts, and I was wondering what to choose. I can't show my GUY LOVE! pictures since they want some kid-friendly stuff and Portugal doesn't think homos are kid-friendly (because they're a retarded country) so I've been having a hard time. I was thinking of these:
[link] (High on Hashem)
[link] (Love Etc.)
[link] (HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY)
[link] (Koo Koo Kachoo)
[link] (Nature Boy)
[link] (Bar Mitzvah)
[link] (yaaay)
[link] (Kind of want him to be my PM)
[link] (DINOSAUR RACE)
[link] (i ship obama+mccain, my crowning glory :v )
So yeah, any help would be appreciated!

5) I hate how ' p makes '

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]]> *StrangeWeirdo I WILL DOODLE ANY SLASH PAIRING YOU TELL ME TO http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23247597/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23247597/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:56:05 PST
_{PS CANT WAIT FOR THAT NEW PSB ALBUM UGGGHH
PPS I HAVE THE FLU ))):}

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Tagged + general drivel http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23190774/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/23190774/ Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:29:40 PST
I don't really know how to tell you this, but our affair is over. I think I realized it when I quoted Santa outside of Chicago and I saw you knock out my father. I'm sure you're scarred enough to understand yhat I get turned on by garbage men. I'm returning your ring to you, but I'll keep the results of your blood-sample as a memory. You should also know that I always have felt dirty before a new life as a clone.

Good luck on your short-term leave from jail,
Vlad

Rules of the Letter meme at the end of my journal. I tag the first five people who read this journal. AND I'LL KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Anyway, Carnaval's a-coming up and I still don't have the bowler hat, cod-piece and cane necessary for my Alex costume, so I have decided to go as

Oscar Wilde.
Yep. I've got it. I've got the suit, the hair, the, ahem, corpulence, the fur coat (a fake-fur coat my mum bought ages ago and now hates passionately) and a top hat (which I'm sure he wore from time to time okay). I'll just take a bottle labelled ABSINTHE and a book, and I'll make a green carnation. Getting in character'll be easy, I'll just have to remember a bunch of witticisms and hit on every man I see.

Give me suggestions on what to put on my wall guys. I recently tore down the stuff I've had there for years and right now I only have a picture of Serge Gainsbourg hanging there. Thinking of putting my Putin painting up but what next?

Gonna watch Untergang and Doubt this week-end, eee

Oh and um, Happy Valentine's Day.

PS: FUCKING FINALLY REPLIED TO ALL MY MESSAGES UGH

_{RULES:
Do the "Letter MEME". Tag no less than 5 other people, and leave them a comment, informing them that they have been tagged. Then copy the "How-to" Letter Meme, and finish your Journal entry.

-> How you do the Letter Meme:

Dear (the last person who left a comment on your journal):

I don't really know how to tell you this, but ___1___. I think I realized it ___2___ ___3___ and I saw you ___4___ ___5___. I'm sure you're ___6___ enough to understand ___7___. I'm returning ___8___ to you, but I'll keep ___9___ as a memory. You should also know that I ___10___ ___11___ .

___12___,
-Your name-

1. What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - Our romance is over
Red - Our affair is over
White - I'll join the monastery
Black - I dislike you
Green - Our horoscope doesn't match
Grey - You're a pervert
Yellow - I'm selling myself
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You're a loser
Other - I'm in love with your sister

2. Which is your birth month?
January - That night
February - Last year
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on sesame seeds
May - First of May
June - When you put cuffs on me
July - When I threw up
August - When I saw the shrunken head
September - When we skinny dipped
October - When I quoted Santa
November - When your dog ran amok
December - When I changed tennis shoes

3. Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Pizza - In your camping car
Pasta - Outside of Chicago
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad - As you ate enchilada
Chicken - In your closet
Kabob - With Paris Hilton
Fish - In women's clothing
Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation
Lasagna - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a state of trance
None of the above - With George Bush and his wife

4. What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Hit on
Red - Insult
Black - Ignore
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - Put leeches on
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the toupee off
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive out

5. What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My best friend
White - My father
Grey - Bill Clinton
Brown - My fart balloon
Purple - My mustard soufflÃ©
Red - Donald Duck
Blue - My avocado plant
Yellow - My penpal in Ghana
Orange - My Kid Rock-collection
Pink - Manchester United's goalkeeper
None - My John F. Kennedy-statue
Other - The crazy monk

6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?
Scrubs - Man
O.C. - Emotional
One Tree Hill - Open
Heroes - Frostbitten
Lost - High
House - Scarred
Simpsons - Cowardly
The news - Mongolic
Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Senile
Top Model - Middle-class
None of the above - Ashamed

7. Your mood right now?
Happ... ]]>} *StrangeWeirdo Eeeee http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22954104/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22954104/ Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:13:08 PST It's called Yes.
Atittude said it's awesome.
Eeeee I'm excited ~

But Neil you're getting very thin on top, just cut it really short to make it level or you look weird as hell.

I also went to the market yesterday which was awesome because I found ten old magazines (from 1981) called 'Les Forces ArmÃ©es de la DerniÃ¨re Guerre: Uniformes, Insignes et Organization', which roughly translates to 'The Armed Forces of the Last War: Uniforms, Medals/Decorations and Organization.'
They're literally magazines filled with nothing but pictures and descriptions of uniforms, insignias, ranks and history. I couldn't have made this any better if I tried. And only for 9Â for the lot!
I need to get some frames to put up the French Resistance and the Nazi propaganda pictures my mum bought for me in the same market. It's a goldmine.
Got a sweet deal on a PS3 two days ago too (399Â including a game that costs 60Â normally and a controller), which is made even better because I won't have to buy very many games seeing as I have a friend who owns most of them so he can just lend them out to me. yay I like to talk about money :v

Also still feeling terrible about not replying to comments and they're still there in my comment inbox but I keep putting it off for some reason. I also don't want to empty my inbox because I'd feel terrible if I didn't reply to everyone.

Lastly, saw Frost/Nixon, Hard Candy and Slumdog Millionaire this past week, they're all awesome (Frost/Nixon and Hard Candy especially), go watch them.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo HAPPY NEW PRESIDENT DAY http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22694835/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22694835/ Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:54:54 PST )

OBAMA REALLY IS THE PRESIDENT NOW WHOOP i mean i know he won't be able to do everything (especially in one term) but anything's better than bush or mccain/palin.
I'm working on a picture with Obama and co flying over strawberry fileds with an Obama Sun thing and it's gonna look really nice when I'm done ;w;
Also this is the most handsome cabinet ever.
Barack Obama: obviously very handsome, we all know what he looks like :v
Rahm Emanuel: [link] + is metal as hell
Hillary Clinton: not as good as everyone else but beats Condoleezza by a mile (looks and policy-wise)
Joe Biden: hey I think he's handsome okay ):< when he was young he was gorgeous.
Sanjay Gupta: [link] sweet baby moses. He can remove my appendix whenever he wants

(you can't even really tell by this picture but he really is very, very good looking)
Timothy Geithner: [link] haha aw he's cute

Robert Gates: [link] okay-looking for an old man, I suppose. He isn't a cute old man though ):
Eric Holder: [link] okay he's kind of silly looking but he's not as awful as Cheney or Condoleezza.
Ken Salazar: [link] hahaha, oh. Those eyes.
Tom Vilsack: [link] I don't care about his looks because his last name and this picture make up for anything he does ever.

Don't really feel like posting everyone else, so just check out the wikipedia page: [link]
Arne Duncan and Tom Daschle are cute. Steven Chu is too in a middle-aged aww sort of way.

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First theatre show in two days! Nervous nervous. At least my costume's simple: a black cardigan, a white shirt, a black skirt and black shoes. The guys playing the Nazis (one is a Wehrmacht Colonel and the other is a SS officer) have beautiful costumes. You and I can say anything we want about the Germans but they've always known how to dress, that's for sure.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo whooosh http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22626363/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22626363/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:16:40 PST I just hope the Belgian riot squad ins't sent out because those guys start whacking people around for the slightest goddamn thing. They killed a man at another protest at the Gare Centrale some time ago.

If anything especially interesting happens I might make a little comic about tomorrow or something.

Wish me luck! (or at least wish me not to get hit/killed by the police because seriously)

ps: America and Israel are horrible countries. Sorry for the people living there but seriously, actively supporting genocide isn't cool.
I hope the Israeli leader is tried for crimes against humanity because he is such a shitbag.
pps: Bush and Cheney too but that's pretty much a given. Cheney's being prosecuted already (in Texas. for once, you're being a good state!) and Bush'll probably follow.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo question *update* http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22410538/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22410538/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:03:25 PST Should I read it.

EDIT: Welp, I decided to embark on a new adventure: this book.
I'm half-way through the first chapter (there are four chapter) and it's not too bad for now. I mean, it's pretty fucking bad, but it's not as horrible as I thought it would be. Okay, it's nearly as bad, but some scenes don't disgust me so it's not scarring. Okay it IS scarring god damn French writers from the eighteenth century ffff but morbid curiosity if making me push forward.I can predict two things: either I'll forget all about this book a week after finishing it or it'll stick with me for ever.
There's been a film adaptation and it looks absolutely vile. A one-and-a-half minute clip was enough to nearly make me throw up.
I must find it.

ps: not saying the name outright because I know my stepdad watches this account HI STEPDAD (please don't tell mum, she'll get worried about my, er, mind?).
If you're interested in the title or any other information (including a link to an online version of the book, in its original French or in English), send me a note. I'd be happy to discuss horrible books with any of you!

]]> *StrangeWeirdo HAHA http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22367944/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22367944/ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:46:27 PST B)
Unless you're like Chinese or Jewish or Muslim and obey your respective calendars. If you do, you'll probably be celebrating it soon or you did it way before me. sob

ANYWAY I DREW A LOT time to go and answer all the comments that've piled up over the previous month, scan some pictures in (got some lovely young!Ivan sketches and a bunch of Alois and Alwin doodles) and rock the hell out.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Happy winter holidaaaays and MY HORRIFIC HEALTH http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22098015/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22098015/ Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:43:31 PST Then at 7:30 in the morning I slipped on the last step of the stairs and very nearly broke my ankle.
I'd never been in crutches before but it's not too bad. Plus I got to go around in wheelchairs in the airports so :v
If you're been reading my journals for some time you'll know how prone I am to fucking up my legs. I've also been sick for most of this year for some reason and I can't get rid of this horrible cough I've had for over sic months fff

ANYWAY:

Whether you celebrate Christmas, (C)Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, the winter solstice, VIKING CHRISTMAS or whatever, have a happy one! I'll be quite content to celebrate atheist Christmas, which is exactly like normal Christmas except with less Jesus I guess.

So I'm not posting this just for some faggy holiday greeting. I'm actually in Portugal right now and my cousin's gotten around to fixing up an Internet connection(!) so I might comment on stuff from time to time BUT I won't be posting anything till some time in January, including my comic, because I have no scanner or image editing program apart from Paint.
ENJOY YOUR (small) VACATION FROM ME bye

Oh and uh Happy New Year in case I don't post again! And happy Boxing Day for you limeys, too

xoxo

]]> *StrangeWeirdo re: bush shoe throwing incident http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22028591/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/22028591/ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:24:09 PST
But nyeah, I love how some people are going 'yeah this proves the surge is great b/c if this'd happened when saddam was the leader the guy'd be hanging now, yay free speech in iraq!' and then I want to punch them in the throat for five years before giving them a single hug so they'd sort of get what iraq's been going through.
Especially since 'free speech' apparently means 'break your arm and a couple of ribs, give you a concussion from a pistolwhipping and then deny it all on TV'.

Exams are over and I'll freely admit I had fun doing my History paper. Yes, I had fun during an exam, and yes, I do feel like a huge nerd. Not very different from before, strangely enough :v
To celebrate not having to study anymore I've been lying around the house in my pyjamas and bathrobe (because I don't have a smokign jacket. yet) watching movies and playing the Sims and Absolute Obedience (which is hilarious, btw, even unintentionally. The dailogue is so stilted and lol at blackmailing+forcing yourself on a KGB agent and not waking up in a bathtub full of scorpions).

I should probably ink my comic pages so I'll go do that now.
xoxo

]]> *StrangeWeirdo OPTIONS FFFF http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21812678/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21812678/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:09:50 PST I was pretty surprised to see I was one of the only people who mostly knows what they want. Here's the neat little timetable I'll hopefully have next year, if all goes well:
Portuguese (mandatory)
English (mandatory)
Biology (mandatory)
Maths (mandatory, unfortunately)
Ethics (mandatory)
Sports (ditto)
Philosophy (4 hours a week)
History (4 hours)
Art (4 hours)
History of Art (:v 2 hours)
Sociology (2 hours)

I'd really like to do Advanced English, but I don't think it's possible with all the other subjects I want to take. I was kind of hoping I'd be able to do some Archeology or something but again, impossible.

Oh, and I'm starting to think of my Christmas list. So-far I've got this:
Goebbels' Diaries
The Goebbels Experiment
The vicar of Dibley DVDs
A bit of Fry and Laurie DVDs
Jeeves and Wooster DVDs
Wilt
A Dê

eche Mode CD or two

And I'll probably buy half of these myself so yaaaay

]]> *StrangeWeirdo identity-confused nazi-fag apparently (edit:hurf) http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21683005/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21683005/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:57:13 PST hurr i am a re-re and linked to the wrong quiz go team me

Okay so sue me but I did this quiz and the results were p. interesting.

So when I first finished the test there was a tie-breaker, and since both options were equally important to me, I just picked randomly and got Goebbels:

You are Josef Goebbels. You are sharp-minded and erudite and can spin doctor any event, good or bad, like nobodyÂs business. You may find yourself painting your accomplishments in bright hues to the management at your workplaceÂusually at the expense of others who have worked just as hard. Your self-esteem regarding your appearance is incredibly low, so low, in fact, that you may use your clever and cunning nature to coerce people into doing things for you against their will. This comes in many forms, such as manipulating people into having sex, or blackmailing others to get what you want.

Which was cool, but I noticed that my Goebbels and Speer score were exactly the same (83%) so I went back and did the tie-breaker again with the other option and got this:

You are Albert Speer. With a mind geared toward structure and engineering, youÂre a natural administrator. You habitually use your skills to get in good with the top, and youÂre generally given a lot of duties which youÂre able to juggle with ease. Because of your ordered thinking, youÂre extremely efficient and formidable, and may often be tagged to lead projects because of this. Despite your fresh-faced look, you are as much of a viper as the others with whom you nest and have no qualms about switching sides to stay with a winner; anything to make you look good

I think they go quite well together. And yeah, mild embarassment at doing a Nazi quiz I guess. But hey, at least now I know I'm a sort of mix between two brilliant, manipulative jerks with low self-esteem. I'm also a rapist and a pervert, apparently. CAN RELATE SO WELL JOSEF AND ALBERT, BROMIDES *hi-five*
This makes me want to draw more Goebbelses ;w;

ps: if you do this quiz post your results so we can see whether our nazi personas can get down. And if you were curious, the rest of my list from closest to furthest were: Ernst RÃ¶hm, Adolf Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann and Hermann GÃ¶ring. Neato.

pps: yes I know it's silly let me have my fun gosh ):

ppps: oh my goood one of my friends just gave me The Producers (olde version) and Bright Young Things I want to kiss him ;w; Now I just need to find a day where I can have peace and quiet to watch those two films and The Damned.

pppps: i love obama's current cabinet. rahm is kind of hot too.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo i'm torn http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21599292/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21599292/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:00:35 PST On the other hand, I don't want to waste money or humiliate myself in front of the store queu by actually buying it.

Also going to the Korperwelten tomorrow woot

]]> *StrangeWeirdo one of us is wearing tart perfume http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21503625/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21503625/ Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:32:11 PST So in addition to my Stephen Fry+Hugh Laurie MPreg horror and my David Miscavige/Tom Cruise chuckle, I am proud to say I have added two new brain-damaging finds to my list. A Bottom fic, a couple of Blackadder fics and an 'Allo 'Allo fic.
hahahaha i hate myself

Anyway I got my report you guys! Unsurprisingly, I got shit grades at Physics, Chemistry and Biology and a surprise seven (out of ten :v) in Maths. The usual. I am happy with my five other grades, none of which was under seven (except PE because the teacher's a bitch but it's okay because PE doesn't count in the final report anyway. Good thing because I'll be damned if that subject makes me miss out on a good university), and especially proud of my nine in History and my ten in Art (god knows why).
Languages were all good, Ethics was good too because I love winning debates (this only happens because I can talk like I was beaten to death with a bloody encyclopaedia when I want to, I just never bother to sound remotely intelligent on the Internet :v) and being ethical I guess.

We're doing the Renaissance in History and it's pretty cool. I'm rather looking forward to the Victorians (hopefully next year) and the two World Wars (in two years). But the Renaissance allows me to write long essays on paintings of St. Sebastian and all the underlying meanings so it's all good. First time I've actively spoken about gay subtext in History and you can bet it won't be the last one.

also this had me in stitches: [link] I'm a nerd :v

]]> *StrangeWeirdo Russian http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21392739/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21392739/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:43:09 PST
Oh and I went to London! Let me copy/paste my trip description:
So I went to London on Friday, catching the five o'clock train with my mum. We arrived at St. Pancras and we got lost looking for the Imperial Hotel, but it was okay because we were in London lalala
We eventually found it, deposited our luggage and paid 10Â£60 for two tube tickets, which is like fourteen euro but it was okay because we were in London
We rode got out at Leicester and went to see Avenue Q, which was awesome. I got the soundtrack and some buttons. Then we left the NoÃ«l Coward Theatre and sort of walked back to the hotel, passing through Covent Garden (where some guys were hanging around dressed in mountain-climbing gear but who cares). Then I slipped on the smooth tarmac and banged my elbows but it was okay because we were in London

Then next day we stole some of those paper poppies and I wore mine like a good citizen. I eventually found a velour one on the ground so I'll probably wear that instead.
We went to see the Annie Leibovitz exposition at the National Picture Gallery. It was really good and moving, and if you happen to live nearby I heartily reccomend it. Then I bought a little Admiral Nelson Christmas tree decoration thing. It's adorable.
It started raining so mum and I had a magical trip through Downpour-vision London to Marks&Sparks and I got to sit in the cafÃ© reading Mission Accomplished! Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said and To Kill a Mockingbird while my mum went around the store.
Then we came back.

so I'm generally really happy right now woooh
and I'm going to Waterstone's tomorrow to buy this month's Attitude and Elf/Ell/Elman's Oscar Wilde bio too so my spirits are quite high ;w;

ps: London-based TCoDers you missed the chance of talking about politics, bad films, musicals and old dusty books for seven hours in a row with me awww ):

pps: we are dumb people and missed the Lord Mayor Show noooo
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Holy hell the Obama/McCain picture took off :v Hello new watchers!
Is it sad I'm planning a Bush Sr./Reagan one because of something Reagan once said.
Yes.
Still gonna do it.

]]> *StrangeWeirdo OBAMARAMA http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21330756/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21330756/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:35:50 PST Seriouly, I don't even live in the States, but thank you for finally voting the right way, America! Hopefully you'll get some of your Clinton Years shine back!

YES WE DID!

]]> *StrangeWeirdo ITS ELECTION DAY http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21306672/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21306672/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:56:34 PST
]]> *StrangeWeirdo yo kids, listen up http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21159996/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21159996/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:23:59 PDT So no drawings for seven days and the old comic'll be updated on Monday instead of Saturday and Sunday. I'm sure you'll live.

Things I'll upload once I'm back: Coloured versions of [link] and [link] , comic pages, putin/medvedev and much more.

in other news: [link] is probably the best music video I've ever seen, [link] proves Russians are awesome, [link] is my current favourite advert and I've concluded I have a military fetish (especially nazi and russian, lol)). THIS CLASHES WITH MY PACIFIST NATURE noooo ):

ps: The day I go back to school is election day. obamarama

]]> *StrangeWeirdo okay sorry for putting up another journal so soon http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21043127/ http://StrangeWeirdo.deviantart.com/journal/21043127/ Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:22:37 PDT it's my birthday today :v

feel free to lavish gifts on me

Am I the only one who finds Courage the Cowardly Dog a great show? Seriously, it's my favourite. I'll probably upload a drawing of Freaky Fred tomorrow.

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