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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/28407012/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/28407012/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:17:45 PST
And just when I think I like birds more than anything else around and that I could be thinking birdy thoughts, not that I need to figure what I want to do with myself that is not overtly strange and society could still accept me for, not just yet. I go and think about squid.

I like squid also. I spent the last 2 hours looking at Youtube clips of squid. It started off as horny-toads and finished with squid. It always ends with squid. When I think about birds, sometimes it ends with squid.

If only the two could be as one...
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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/27899718/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/27899718/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:45:54 PDT
On another related note I saw a man wandering down the street that had been sadly parasitized by a beard. While the rest of the man looked sickly and pale, drained of colour and life. The beard was luxuriant and glossy, bursting with colour.

Now I don't normally plug people but in this case I can't help it go and give this gallery a gander
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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/27680137/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/27680137/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:32:49 PDT [link]

Or it could have been one of these...[link]

And yes, they are different breeds of dog-things as well as being the same kind of dog things. I guess they could be called dogs, they trot along on the end of leaches pretty well and wear that dog expression on their faces, you know the one that looks as if they have been banged over the head with a rubber mallet. Not that I dislike dogs at all, to the contrary I love dogs. I have a fondness for kelpies, blue heelers and rottweillers, but I digress.

Maddest thing I ever saw, buy mad I mean loopy. When I first saw it I thought for some bizarre reason it was a furry, black lipped and long legged crocodile. Understandably I am a little disappointed that it turned out not to be a new kind of miniature, all weather and house breakable alligator that you could keep in your home. I guess we see the things we want to see.
I feel a critter brewing...

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/27625816/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/27625816/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:18:50 PDT
Maybe later when it warms up a bit?


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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/26965273/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/26965273/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:17:21 PDT My only complaint is that the aliens were not alien enough.

I then had the misfortune to see Transformers 2. I know that complaints out this film are old hat but all I can ask is, why does Michael Bay hate movie goers? And when did he start hating Optimus Prime?

Te main problem I have with bad movies isn't so much that they insult my intelligence, or made me bored. I don't have too much of an issue with them wasting my time (as I would have gone off and wasted my time some place else) or with the theatres mugging me for the cost of the ticket and popcorn and drinks and an ice cream cone. It worries me most that while I was watching the sad monstrosity in front of me in surround sound, that so many children have died between the time the lights went out and then came back on. And that the money wasted on producing a flop could have been used to stop them from karking.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/26705737/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/26705737/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:39:25 PDT
Just back from a particularly bad "Test" and/or brutal mugging.
Most of the questions were about the only things I didn't worry too much about because the tutor said don't worry about them. Then they wanted me to spell. I'm sure they made up a bunch of words at some point.
I scurried out before the last half-hour, I didn't have the heart to double check most of questions. Too depressing.

And the only person I can really blame is me, because I didn't study enough. Not that I really knew what I was up against.
The only way I can cheer myself up is to eat another dinosaur shaped fruit jelly. I bite off their heads so it's quick.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/26540923/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/26540923/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:09:54 PDT Why she brought me a whole peacock as a present! She found it very fresh on the side of the road (hit by a car or something) and now I get the pleasure of chopping it up and doing other fun things to it. Like preparing the skull and having a complete set of tail coverts. Maybe doing something with the feet. I'm also tossing up the idea of doing the whole skeleton. Unfortunately I cannot attack it until the weekend, and the fridge/ freezer is too small to fit it (not that the flatmates would appreciate seeing it in there, even though the bird is in fact quite ready to eat and they like chicken... Meal fit for a king, I said. Full of flavour...) but the garage is nice and cool so he should keep.
In fact I don't think the flatmates like the peacock much at all, they both seemed rather loath to come near it when I showed it to them. That and when I threatened to pit in their beds while they slept they laughed but had a rather strange glint in the back their eyes.

In any case I'm looking forward to the weekend!

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/26372531/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/26372531/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:11:13 PDT
Such as the lecture theatre that I go to first thing in the morning has seats that fold down. The all make a cheeky noise. When a hundred and fifty or so people sit down at once it sounds as if you are in the middle of a marine meat ball being munched by a large pod of dolphins.

What look like dried out old botanists are in fact amateur stand up comics. And plants are actually interesting, something I wasn't so keen on before.

Labs are not as scary as you think but you need to bone up on the facts before going. I was so nervous for my first one that I couldn't draw a straight line with a ruler. My drawings were very squiggly. Thankfully a nice Honours student spoke to me like you would talk to a panicking racehorse. He may have offered me carrots at one point.

The birds in the park will recognise you very quickly. They will eat out of your hand. In the case of pigeons they will sit on your hand, shoulder and knees. You will give them names like "Jemima", "Slick" and "Spectacle George". They all have the cool calculating eyes of psychopaths. They know when you are hiding your muesli bar and think it is rather rude that you don't share.
I think I spend too much time in the park...

Also physics. Physics is... well when I say hard I mean that when I read the text book of listen to the lecturer all the sentences they say are in fact complete ones that are grammatically correct but in actual fact make no sense in a listening cogitating kind of way. When they go on to equations it is quite literally a visual white noise. I FAIL at physics in a massively large way. I am surprised that I can walk about, catch balls, look at running streams or trains, I am that bad at physics.

That's about it for now. I haven't been around really lately.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/25642250/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/25642250/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:18:47 PDT
As I was locking the car and about to get some DVDs and Chinese take-aways one evening, my eyes met with those of a small boy, who was walking with his mother.
"Hey! Look Mum!" He piped, quiet loudly, "A Rasta!"
Mum shot me a quick look and was about to turn away and drag away her son when she kindly pointed out to me that my lights were on. Isn't that nice!

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/25265201/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/25265201/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:44:24 PDT [link]

This totally rocks, so much so it was on the telly. I am still laughing.

The site is TradeMe. TradeMe is New Zealand's home grown version of Ebay. The story goes that this bloke right, this bloke wanted to sell a heater, no hang on he wanted to buy a heater for his flat so he made a website. Then people started to get on board and now everyone is on it. In New Zealand. True story. TradeMe is now the second most visited website in New Zealand after Google.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/25041816/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/25041816/ Sat, 30 May 2009 22:36:32 PDT
I'm going to be a scientist when I grow up.


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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/25008180/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/25008180/ Fri, 29 May 2009 01:41:03 PDT
Well I saw them today. The dragon (black of course, 'cos it's the coolest kind) was airbrushed on the back of a large truck and trailer unit. The quote was "Give All Tribes Democracy, And You Give Them A Nation". What awesome cool black dragons under moonlight have to do with nation building or toasters and flat pack bookshelves. But it must have meant something to the driver.



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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24728259/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24728259/ Tue, 12 May 2009 20:22:52 PDT [link]
I'd suggest you scroll down. It gets better as it goes along.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24606761/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24606761/ Tue, 05 May 2009 18:09:18 PDT
I stumbled upon this: [link] while reading about the evil and insidious "Dolphin Cult". The same one that makes who would would be normally sane grown-up people into blubbering romantics with an insatiable need to collect tacky ceramic cetaceans and dubious pieces of "art" featuring sea mammals.
!I warn you before clicking this link that you should have fast internet (possibly the biggest sin they committed) and a bucket next to you!

Why? Are they not wonderful just in themselves? Such as:
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Rather than dragging them down to this:
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or this:
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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24412576/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24412576/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:59:00 PDT
This of course makes me think of the the Old Lie, especially because all the interviews of the old blokes say the same thing. That they were young and it was going to be an adventure, that they still have nightmares and they cry thinking of their friends that were lost along the way.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is pure crap.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24329291/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24329291/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:14:12 PDT
In other news what is green and turns red at the touch of a button?
A frog in a blender.
Now you may ask what is with the cheesy and slightly disturbing joke? Well from experiments I have deduced that frogs have an affinity with sharp spinning blades. They seem attracted to them funnily enough. I have been mowing a very large jungle, which I was told was once lawn and the number of frogs that emerge from the undergrowth intent on acquainting themselves with the roaring blades of a petrol lawnmower is unbelievable. Every so often I hear a thud into the back of the catcher, luckily it never turns out to be a mangled corpse. Thank goodness. I have become so paranoid about mincing up a frog that now every time I see something green and/or frog shaped I have to double check its not a frog. Which slows things up since I am surrounded by plants that have surprisingly frog shaped leaves. I am slowed up even more since every time a frog actually turns out not to be a leaf I have to pick it up an coo at it, tell it that it's beautiful and then find a safe place to put it. Difficult indeed.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24040113/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/24040113/ Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:39:30 PDT
All my friends must be...
a)Hospitalised having been stung into a pillow shaped mass by killer bees.
b)Lying in a gutter somewhere after wrapping their car around a lamppost.
c)Captured by slavers.
d)Singing "Kumbiya" with the rest of their new 'friends' who are totally not in a cult.
e)Frantic, 'cos their interwebs is down. Scary!

I worry about the above, due to lack of e-mail-age I have been getting lately. I hope they are safe. Either that or I smell...


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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23637244/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23637244/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:14:23 PDT
The scenario goes like this; I am watching the telly on a fine but cool evening with my family, when I see something that makes my blood boil!

ANIMAL CRUELTY ON TELEVISION FOR ENTERTAINMENT!
I feel that this subject warrants every last of those capital letters!

A man, for the want of a better word, butchered a live octopus and made a sandwich out of its tentacle and proceeded to take a bite. At the same time the octopus could be seen in the same shot next to the man-thing struggling to escape without any tentacles. It was stark white and very weak.
In the background other people were laughing and egging him on.

And this is ok? The show passed through to be broadcast just after the 6 0'clock news and has a G rating. It is shameful and disgusting. I am so very, very angry right now.

This circus is called Million Dollar Catch, its about a few ships owned by a few families who fish for crayfish or the rock lobster. It is supposed to showcase the manly prowess of these brave men and their battle with the sea. The programme was made to say thank you to the community of Bluff for their help and support after the director of the show broke his neck during a fishing trip.

Instead the show is a mockery. The commentary is over-hyped, the voice over and bad music making what is something simple and relatively danger free activities seem like life and death. The characters, instead of being salt of the earth, good keen blokes are immature, macho idiots who ham it up for the camera.

And then they pull a stunt like this.

To be fair, the only one of the crews seems to enjoy brutalising highly intelligent animals. Another crew was shown just previously in the same episode releasing both a shark and a conger eel that had been accidentally caught. Which is just the sort of thing we want to see.

I don't like people at the moment...

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23473657/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23473657/ Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:45:35 PST [link] on ConceptArt.org [link] came across something rather interesting.

Now I had heard of mind controlling parasites before and I have to admit they are damn cool! Now these parasites come in many forms, from bacteria to worms and flukes. One notable species of fluke that requires birds to finish off it's life-cycle, infests a snail. The snail eventually has it's little mind taken over and so climbs out into the open, like onto a leaf. The flukes which have moved into the eye stalks flash and pulsate making the snail obvious to any hungry birds. The fluke finishes up in a bird's gut, just where it wants to be. Other insect species have the same kind of thing, one parasite picks on ants. Another, the Gordian worm named after the Gordian knot, makes infected crickets commit suicide by drowning. Check this guy in action here:[link] it even comes with an article, but no-one ever really reads those! What is also interesting about these creatures is that no one is quite sure how the nervous system is actually controlled, that it is often chemical is the only thing that is confirmed.

Now I'm heading away from what I really wanted to talk about. That being mind-controlling parasites in humans. And we can blame cats.

Toxoplasmosis [link] is caused by the protozoa Toxoplasma gondii. It uses rats as a way of getting into a cat's digestive system. The rats or mice are instead of being repulsed with fear upon smelling cat's pee, are in fact attracted to it. Making the rodent more likely to cross paths with a cat and get eaten. After the unfortunate rat is passed, the protozoan goes on to infect others. This might not seem so bad, a good method of pest control in fact. But this protozoan is not fussy with which mammalian brain they play little games with. It has been found in many domesticated animals and PEOPLE. Infection seems to be from between 4-80% of the population, depending on where you are from. One of its possible side affects in humans is to make them more likely to have a car accident. It also seems to make people nicer and has been implicated in one of the causes of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This brings to mind crazy old cat ladies, especially since the disease is more common in women. I'm probably glossing over everything far too much and may be jumping to conclusions but it's a damn interesting concept. After all the joke has been going around for a long time that cats are actually in control of the human race, it just seems like they have managed to actually do it.

As I am writing this my very own feline is sitting next to me, smiling at me with her eyes. I'm starting to think I have the bug myself!


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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23345951/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23345951/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:02:57 PST So they came unto one among them and gave instruction. 'Go,' sayth Them. 'Taketh your mini-flash-drive and place upon it the Gift we hath sent thy kind.' Sayth Them also. 'Use thy Gift against The Dragon so that he may feel subjugation through our vessel!'
So it was done. The Dragon VISTA felt shame and there was much joy and dancing in the streets of the great cities. And the Gods of Photoshop saw that it was Good...

Hurrah Hurrah!
Or as we say here 'knocked the bastard off!'

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23281848/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23281848/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:10:26 PST I do know I would like to have a version of Photoshop that will happily hold hands with Vista. I think that might make the pain go away. That and chocolate...

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23032994/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/23032994/ Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:19:28 PST
I have done this one before but tagged me, so here goes...

These are the "Rules" which I am supposed to post, supposedly:
1. Post these rules, of course, so presumably others, can follow along at home.
2. Each tagged person must, (and this cannot be stressed enough, in fact...) MUST, post 8 (eight) things about themselves on (I feel I must correct this, I believe 'in' would be more appropiate) their journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 (eight) people and post their icons on the same journal. Optional.
4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
5. No tag-backs! Or Take-Backsies!

8 Things about Myself

1. I am currently at war with my local council...
These "judicious" bastards (please forgive my coarseness...) have decided to build a sewerage treatment plant with large oxidation ponds to service the township I currently live in. They decided to put these ponds in my backyard. None of the local residents liked the proposal, but council had already decided where to put these ponds, before they even opened up for public submissions on the project. When public meetings where held and attended, the Councilors ignored all of our reservations and questions about the project. They also treated us all in a very condescending manner. After all we are just simple country folk.
My concern is that the river that runs through our land and into the sea is going to get filled with run-off from these ponds. Human sewerage. This river contains very rare fish called the Short-jaw Kokopu. It is rarer than some species of Kiwi. According to what I have read, it is not supposed to live in this river, as the river is not covered over with dense forest canopy and runs instead through farmland. It is not even recorded in my area. I have even contacted the Department of Conservation about this. Who can stop projects like this in a flash when they want to.
But try telling the council that.

2. I sometimes paint houses for a living.
But I have also built houses and decorated them too. This is not something that I want to be really doing. I really want to be working in the film industry. I have trained in Art Department, which covers everything from costume, props, sets through to make-up and special effects. I love props and SPFX make-up. I am especially proud of my fake blood, at which I take great pains at getting just the right colour and consistency.

3. I collect bits of critter.
At the moment sitting in the freezer I have the feet of a Harrier Hawk and a whole House Sparrow. I don't know what to do with the sparrow yet, but the feet I intend to mount.
I also have many feathers, a couple of eggs, a lizard skin, a brush-tailed possum skull, the jaw bones of a couple of fish and pride of place goes to a mummified rat.

4. I see things out of the corner of my eye.
But when I look closely nothing is there. I think they do it on purpose and I'll catch them one day.
Either that or I need special pills.

5. I watch an awful lot of Youtube.
Far too much, and so many cats!

6. I think I have more friends I talk to via electronic means than I do face to face.
It's no different to pen-pals. Some old friends simply live too far away to meet over coffee anymore.

7. I have jumped out of a plane.
And I didn't need to be pushed. I would recommend it to everyone. I have since followed that up with facing down a charging bull and a 'skyjump', which is an assisted fall from a very tall building. Bungy-jumping is next on the list.

8. I cannot resist melons.
I love those sweet, spherical bastards. The order of preference goes Honeydew, Rock (or Cantaloupe/musk) and then Water. But any of them will do. When I lived off porridge oats during my student-y years (heck I could still have many more) I used to save up and buy one every so often and have a melon "feast". I am drooling just thinking about it now.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/22553814/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/22553814/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:27:12 PST For the last couple of days the open road has been calling my name. Yes, my hearing is just that good.
I am not getting adventure in a number of places.
Work, for example is good (great actually...) if uninspiring.
Home is not a place I want to be. Adventure being the direct opposite in many cases. Home can be pretty exciting but when the same thing happens every time it gets old. Especially the bulldust pancakes and patties I keep getting.
People. Correction, some people are getting boring. For reasons listed above.

Boy am I sounding Emo today.
Better go and write poems about blood falling on dead leaves.
FIN

PS: Prizes for those who guess the movie reference above.

Club

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/22005110/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/22005110/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:54:29 PST I went to a magical place. An other place.
It had water that despite it all was not quite green and not quite blue and not quite tea stained but was still clear.
It had mud that looked like and felt like I was walking on the moon barefoot.
It had trees that grow in the sea that have roots above the ground and fruit which when they go sailing grow tails or keels or a spindly foot with tiny green toes, or all of them at the same time.
It had flocks of birds that flitted through and all around and under and instead of wings had fins and instead of feathers had stripes and would let you get closer than any ordinary garden bird. Birds that listed drunkenly like battle-torn cruisers to port and starboard but who can blame them when the flight ceiling was less than knee high?
It was so quiet it seemed a blasphemy to breathe.

Tear it all up. Say the seagull houses. It's dirty and destroys The View.


Club:

(I'm off to write poems about slitting my wrists now...)

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21834786/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21834786/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:37:49 PST
1. What does your deviant art name mean and why?
Commander Salamander comes from a anthropomorphic comic book hero I invented years ago. I used to do little comics of his adventures when I was in the early years of high school. He had a sidekick who happened to be a dragonfly. The dragonfly went away , but good old Sal' never did. I'm still working on it in a way, developing characters and such...

2. What fandom were you obsessed with when you joined and what are you into now?
I try not to.
Dinosaurs and my beasties really. I have the hope that one day I might actually create some art that has a deeper meaning, rather than 'oh, thats a...'

3. How many watchers do you have now?
102, I watch nearly twice that.

4. Name 3 of your favourite artists on DA
, ,
These guys make me want to be better.

5. Do you comment, fav, or both?
I try both.But I often end up faving more.

6. Do you participate in clubs' contests here on DA?
I want to. But no time. I want to more when I have an art block as a way of pushing through it.

7. What is your most popular deviation?
My Ammut, has the most views and comments.

8. What are you favourite non-anime TV shows?
Many and many. I've been watching the I.T crowd lately, it's really good. You laugh so hard and so long you miss the next joke.

9. What are the things you wish you could draw?
People are so hard. Mechanical things. Everything, sometimes. I can't get my head around therapod legs.

10. Summer or winter?
Summer. I don't like the cold, but I really like spring the best, it is like the earth wakes up. All the new green is so good for the eyes.

11. Rain or Sun?
Both, at the same time.

12. What's your favourite type of music?
I would know. I have been listening to classic pop and rock lately. The old folk songs are brilliant.

13. PC or Mac?
I want a Mac. I have a PC

14. Anime or Manga?
Manga. The art and the pictorial flow of the stories.

15. Coke or Pepsi?
None.

16. Read or TV?
Books! Love books! Can NEVER have too many!

17. How many hours a day do you spend on DA?
Too much. Coupla hours. But that can drag out. Like today.

18. Name a hidden talent
I can tie a cherry stem into a knot in my mouth.

19. Flash or traditional cartoons?
Traditional. There are some clever flash toons out there, but you cant really get around the jumpy-ness that the format has.

20. What is your favourite fast food restaurant?
Subway. I don't know if you can really f@*k up a sandwich.

21. What are top 3 favourite books?
An unfair question. At the moment... Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman. The Talisman Ring, Georgette Heyer. Going Postal, Terry Prattchet and King Solomon's Ring, Conrad Lorenz

22. Wii or Playstation?
None. Don't own consoles.

23. Name 3 of your favorite bands
The Beatles, Peter, Paul and Mary and The Stomps.

24. Are you a fast, slow, or medium typer?
Lightly toasted

25. Do you like Denny's?
Hate'em. Everything tastes of everything else and grease.

26. What is your favorite emoticon?
. its the eyes.

27. What is your favorite type of pie?
Cheese cakes.

28. Have you ever stayed up for 24 hours?
That and longer. After the third day you start seeing things.

29. Do you go on YouTube a lot?
Hello everyone, My name is...

30. Are you a member on any other sites besides DA?
Facebook and myspace and a bunch of forums, not that I visit any.

31. Do you cosplay?
Been thinking about it. If only to practice costume design and construction.

32. Fruits or sweets?
Melons! Mangos! Cherries! I'm affectionately called a fruit bat.

33. Name 3 artists you admire
Monet, Hokusai, De Vinci (he's my hero!)

34. Buttered, plain, or salted popcorn?
Kettle.

35. Have you skipped school?
I call them mental health days.

36. Have you been on a plane?
A num... ]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21536217/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21536217/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:52:48 PST /fangirl

L& ad...
[link]
(you tube)

Club


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21226592/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21226592/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:30:56 PDT [link]
(you tube)

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21195875/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21195875/ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:01:27 PDT My eel had just been sleeping under the gravel in the bottom of the tank and was perfectly safe.
So I feel stupid and a bit of a dramaqueen. I hope my minor hysterics amused everyone.

So I definitely:

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21126315/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21126315/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:57:34 PDT
Dammit!


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21024719/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/21024719/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:45:55 PDT That feeling drifted away when I was 14.
I'm 24 now... and I kind of miss it.


Clubs:


Yeap. I'm back, sorta...

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/20512124/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/20512124/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:21:32 PDT Dunno when I'm gonna be able to post art again. I may be around internet enough to check in but that would be it.
Going to try to get a job and the like in Auckland. I might be working in TV again, which would be nice. This all of course be to fund an internet connection so I can be back on DA again in a more functional way.

Club


And yes I am a little gloomy...

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19872336/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19872336/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:09:27 PDT Everything is in boxes and the cat is freaking out. Yes thats people I'm moving. Into the house that I have helped to renovate.

I might do some oils for a change. I have 'some lovely sceneries' to paint.

Club


PS Damn it I'm not gloomy!

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Club


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19510606/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19510606/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:49:16 PDT But that was not all.
The bastards took my creativity. They cut it out and took it away.

Club
:iconlovefins"

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19458341/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19458341/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:49:15 PDT
I lied.

club


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19285167/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19285167/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:04:39 PDT
I would rather have cancer. On my face. You know, the horribly disfiguring kind. That is how much I don't want to do it.

And yes I am horribly vague.

club


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19228419/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19228419/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:11:42 PDT
Club


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19032028/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/19032028/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:40:16 PDT One bank has decided to show the world that they are really very nice people, who care about their customers and small children and despite what time has taught me, that they are actually possess souls. Bankers.

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18795110/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18795110/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:37:42 PDT It hurts to type. It hurts to draw. It hurts in general and I'm going to lose a nail. Which is a rather fascinating process (the squeemish may want to look away now...) with the nail peeling off and flaking. A bit inconvenient though as having no nail means I can't grip things properly.

Clubs:


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18722844/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18722844/ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:40:54 PDT I had heard of gas hydrates, I thought, wow, this planet is pretty darn cool, who woulda thought that there was methane in a solid form on our planet held in place by extreme pressure at the bottom of the sea.
But now I am afraid. I am afraid that thousands and thousand of litres of rapidly expanding and subliming methane could explode from the bottom of the oceans and terrfic and violent explosions and smother me. Just like the gorgonopsians and their little friends.
Strangely enough though I'm not a apocalyptophobe. In fact if I knew that a giant ball of flame was hurtling toward earth in a homocidal fashion I would want to find a good place to watch.

Clubs:


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18655569/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18655569/ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:44:38 PDT It is surprisingly strong and stable. I guess all the standing around and mucking about on building sites has rubbed off. The next trick will be to put the roof on. That will be the frame completed, then I have to figure out how I'm going to attach the polythene.
I drew plans for this little project but I lost the piece of paper and I made changes while I was building it after acting out how I was going to use it.
It looks silly but waving you hands in the air and miming really help me decide how big things should be and where things like shelves should be etc, etc.

It mightn't sound to exciting but it is consumming my world at the moment. I can't wait till I can actually use it for going seedlings!

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]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18337599/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18337599/ Thu, 15 May 2008 14:23:39 PDT We'll be galloping around Auckland madly, filming.
Hurah!

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18237010/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18237010/ Fri, 09 May 2008 04:48:50 PDT So I'm gonna plant some tulips and Irises for spring and grow some seedings of a whole bunch of nice little flowers that flower during autumn and winter, I think maybe I'm trying to hold on to summer.

Went to a library! Got some books! At a university!
Yeah... anyway, sadly they did not have a great range of book in the subjects that I was after or actual students got there first and got all the good ones...
I am looking forward to reading about the evolution of colouration in birds and the like.

Clubses


]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18174740/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18174740/ Mon, 05 May 2008 03:30:06 PDT Plus I get to listen to all the Radio New Zealand National that I want. It's good you should try it.

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18158305/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18158305/ Sun, 04 May 2008 02:40:47 PDT I am not saying that this is a good thing that this happened, it happened. Someone was driving too fast and showing off to his mates. It happens. All over the country and indeed, the world, young hoons of various kinds are showing off in front of their mates and having near misses and ocationally, accidents. Some of them die. This happens. Perhaps this is the reason that the human population of the earth is 51% female as the young men kill themselves off.
Now this young man's mum wants to get the driving age raised. She said so on national television. Good for her, I say, but it ain't gonna happen. People (including politicians) have demanded that the driving age should be raised for years. It has not happened. It will not happen.
If it did happen, what would be done? How old is old enough to drive a car responsibly? At what point do young men start to drive sensibly? 16? 17? 23? 48? Make it compusary to have thrid party insurance so the little bastards that like to race up and down the street in the middle of the night can't afford to own them. Confiscate the cars? Put a decibel limit on the cars? Ban fun?
This is a tricky one to solve... and personal responsiblity is something that not many want to admit exists.

If we are going to be reactionary, I feel the best way to solve this problem is to simply ban men from driving full stop, and while we are at it, to prevent so much violent crime, rape and forgotten birthdays, lets just make the bastards wear floor length sheets over their heads and make sure they are accompanied by a female relative at all times. That should fix it (well maybe not the birthdays).

]]> ~commander-salamander http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18079982/ http://commander-salamander.deviantart.com/journal/18079982/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:47:05 PDT Thanks to , here comes eight random things.
The rules are as follows:
a) post said rules
b) post eight random facts about yourself (there's an unspoken rule that they should be weird/funny/amusing)
c) post parts a) and b) in a journal
d) tag eight more people (in the journal, as per part c) )
e) inform your victims the tagged people on their page

1) I never seem to finish anything. I mean it. Just about everything I do is half arsed in some way, it has a ritual. I start the project, I make some head way then I put it down and say "I will work on it tomorrow", put down the project and walk away. Ha, but tomorrow never comes. Sometimes I cut out all the work and just "put away" the idea. I have stacks of drawings and sketches and notes saved for some kind of rainy day.

2) I collect turns of phase. My current favourite is "as mad as a gumdigger's dog".

3) I once broke my toe on a piglet. We both screamed.

4) I wear too much black, it even makes me depressed. As an antidote to this I have developed an affection for pashminas. I also have a liking for brightly coloured basketball sneekers.

5) I swear far too much.

6) I love chasing fish. Give a snorkel and fins and I'll be out in the water all day, just following the fish around.

7) I would live in a library if I could.

8) I own a scooter. I don't really mind getting wet because I get parking anywhere and spend pennies on gas. I am however thinking of getting a motorcycle, I like speed, something a scooter lacks, sadly.

Now I'm supposed to tag people. My list is pathetically small. Luckily I'm wearing my anti-hex undergarments...

Please don't hate me guys!

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