Your motive is a little bit more complex: Sadistic pleasure
Stage One
To begin your plan, you must first seduce a scientist. This will cause the world to whisper among themselves, unsettled by your arrival. Who is this sadistic fiend? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good in classic black?
Stage Two
Next, you must seize control of the internet. This will all be done from a obsidian citadel, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will gibber like madmen, as countless hordes of computer programmers hasten to do your every bidding.
Stage Three
Finally, you must unleash your secret death ray, bringing about something that's really metal. Your name shall become synonymous with sheer dementedness, and no man will ever again dare refuse to be your prom date. Everyone will bow before your cunning intelligence, and the world will have no choice but to worship the ground you walk on.
I just got home from an evening downtown with Makal... he's got a new work schedule that is 7a-3p instead of 9a-5p, so it allows us a LOT more time to hang out while the Sun's still up and do cool things like go downtown. The annoying thing about downtown Portland is that everything seems to close up shop around 7p. Why?! I thought Ptown was a hip place for cool cats to chill? But the clock chimes seven times and everyone is outta there. Anyway.
We went downtown to hit up some thrift stores to find me a new winter coat; recently parted (unknowingly/unwillingly) from my leather coat, I needed something that would keep me warm and moderately dry. And Tuesday's forray to the local Goodwill had no results, so downtown we went. Thankfully, Red Light didn't close 'til 8p, and Buffalo Exchange 9p, so even though we didn't get down there until 6p we still had plenty of time to peruse the racks.
Strangely, Red Light at this time of year seems to present nothing but all the particularly kitschy, tacky, and garish items they collect over the year--either they think everyone wants to dress like a hideous pimped-out 70's sofa for Halloween or they think particularly unique-minded fashionistas are willing to wait all year to restock their wardrobe in one shot. I dunno. So that place had pretty much nothing in the way of reasonable outerwear. But they are now right next to Buffalo Exchange, so we just turned the corner and started browsing there.
Within minutes, I'd honed in on the rack on the back wall that houses some of the longer dresses and coats. And while I did find not one but two lovely coats... I'm not going to tell you about them yet! Hehe. I'll wait until tomorrow to do that, when I can take pictures of them. Because really, you just have to see them to really appreciate how fabulous they are. ;)
And speaking of fabulous, I find myself finally getting to the point of this post. Yes, my intent was not to talk about my evening--lovely as it was--but to tell you about the blog of a friend of mine. You'll find him on Flickr or Model Mayhem under the unassuming pseudonym "ninjaphoto", but I tend to just call him Kenji-san. He's a very cool guy and a great photographer (even though he'd probably tell you he's just an amateur), and he recently started blogging some of his photo exploits.
I think to tell you this now because he messaged me tonight with the news that he'd just posted some of the pics from our first shoot together, which I think was at the beginning of the year. So, go check out some artistic NSFW pics of me (and subscribe to his RSS feed) then head on over to his Flickr photostream for more of his work with some of Portland's finest, most unique and fun models. Go Kenji-san, blog away! :D
Now I'm going to bed, because when you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to make a nutritious breakfast and see your man off to work, 10p feels awfully late.
I just watched the new Britney Spears video, "Womanizer". I felt it played out like a musical episode of Alias. Except ofttimes there's a reason Sydney is seducing those men, and it's usually not so she can repeatedly tell them they mistreat women, in a slightly synthesized voice*.
The thing is, I don't really know why this guy is a womanizer. I do know that he wears a nice suit and he works in an office. He has updated communication gadgetry and enjoys a night out at the club with his friends. But for most of the video, Spears seems to be picking on him because he checked out another woman... who just so happens to be Britney Spears herself in yet another Alias getup. I guess what we're suppose to infer is that by the well-off, schedule-minded life this guy leads, he's obviously using women for his own personal satisfaction. You know; he's got one at home to cook square eggs for him, one at work to make his blurry photocopies, one at the restaurant to serve him mixed drinks, and one at the club to hold his place in the restroom line (wait what?!). Obviously the dude's a huge douchebag. NEVERmind the fact that there's some psycho chick following him around, wearing all sorts of crazy costumes and luring him into these scandalous situations. Boy don't try to front indeed.
You want to see a womanizer in action? Try the first 15 minutes of Nip/Tuck season one episode one. THAT, my friends, is a womanizer. It's also a great 15 minutes of television.
I'm going to have to say no thanks to this new attempt from the Spears camp. If I wanted to see hot office chicks performing coordinated dance routines, I'd watch the Fedde le Grand/Camille Jones "The Creeps" video and be far more satisfied for my 2.5 minutes. And then I'd go watch that 15 minutes of Nip/Tuck again. Because I can. *Was there an "android Sydney" that I missed? Because I would seriously enjoy watching that. Hmm... in the meantime, here's a link to a huge scrolling gallery of some of the best costume designs in Alias for the first four seasons [clickety click]. Enjoy!
Why hello there! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, yes, I have been a little preoccupied with things. I have this new jewelry line that I've been trying to get off the ground before the holiday season really sets in... and yaknow, after being a jewelry designer for over 6 years it's still difficult to define a collection well enough that it can just "flow". Oh, and I've been actually getting out of the house more, which is always a good thing. Finally reconnected with a friend from my life in Eugene, and she just so happens to be yet another friend who lives on the complete opposite side of town. (I guess we know where we'll be moving, once we get around to it...) Plus I think I spent a week straight playing Pharaoh. I don't care that the game is almost 10 years old, it's still wonderfully addictive and damn if I don't always take longer to complete my city missions as I should! But look, aren't all the parks and statues nice?! Uh huh.
But the real reason I've not been writing here is because every time I think "I should write about this on PF", the "this" tends to be something of an angst-based nature. Not on a nerd-rage level mind you, but enough so that if I actually got into what I was writing/ranting/venting about, I'd end up with high blood pressure for the rest of the day. And we don't want that. I'm not an "angry" person, per say, but damn if there aren't a lot of things in the world right now that are striving to piss me the fuck off.
Hey, you know what? Here's a list. If you've been reading this blog long enough, I'm sure you'll have no issue imagining the rant I would post about the following subjects. And imagination is the key to success!
Things that Piss Merrick the Fuck Off (in no particular order): - iTunes perpetually updating software, which sometimes won't sync iPhones correctly - unemployed photographers who say they'll take a month to get you your photos, then three months later get a new job that takes up all their time (i.e. still no edited photos) - people who don't return voice mails, texts, or myspace messages, then months later blame it all on their disconnected phone line - cats who are so fat they upturn the litter box, spilling the contents (yes I'm looking at you Jack) - cats who eat the fucking crystal cat litter (YES, I'm looking at YOU Jack!) - apartment managers who take no responsibility for the insidious black mold growing behind your sweaty toilet tank - fucking insurance agents who practice "standard protocol" no one else has ever experienced - store buyers who say they want x-much product, then tell you they can't buy anything until (maybe) late October - sellers who say they will have product for you on Friday, then that evening turn off their phone after the second time you call to inquire as to the location of your purchase - perpetual road construction in downtown Portland--spiced with the occasional marathon--messing up the bus routes - the utter LACK of bus routes at certain times of the day - vain, gossipy, hypocritical people who never change, yet talk about all the other people that should change themselves for the sake of the friendship - parties that are always the same people, the same booze, and the same boozed up people playing video games - using gaming consoles or new partners as excuses to not fulfill obligations - fucking undecided voters! What the fuck is wrong with you people?! - people who insist that their way is the "right" way - the inability to accept the evolution of culture as aspects become more/less relevant - Google Docs retaining invisible formatting when pasting text from an actual desktop-app doc - service providers who take days to respond to your request for help, and are still silently "working on the issue" two weeks later - needing to wait for other people before you can move forward
There you go. Obviously, I've been a little frustrated lately. Nothing catastrophic or devastating, I've just been easily annoyed I guess. It happens, and I've been trying to not let it get to me (hence the lack of writing here, like I said). And it's not like everything's been rain clouds and brussel sprouts; yesterday Makal surprised me with tickets to see Lykke Li at the Doug Fir at the end of the month. Awesome! I kind of fell in love with her music instantly after I watched her video for "Little Bit" and couldn't get it out of my head, downloading the entire "Youth Novel" album the next day. So hey, that live is definitely a good thing and something to look forward to.
See? I'm not *really* all full of angst. ;) I'll probably start blogging about mundane things like my favourite fall/winter foods, and the silly thing our budgies do, soon enough. After my jewelry biz is a little more stable, after I don't have an overwhelming urge to yell at people for not understanding the importance of keeping McBushCain out of the White House, etc. etc. Until then, watch this Lykke Li video, bring out your fashionable autumn layers, and register to vote.
Your objective is simple: World Domination.
