another day and my mind is flying all over the place as usual. i went to bed probably around 12 hrs ago and woke up about 6 hrs after that.. running around, sending emails, getting things sorted. I borrowed an xbox 360 from my friend who's off on a reference trip on the left coast, got that hooked up ot the TV.. I will be suffocating zombies and choking OGs within a day or so. It's ironic I have worked on two 360 games (technically) and I've yet to actually fire up a home console of my own free will. Give me Dig Dug or Mappy instead, man. Anyway, it's important to familiarize myself first-hand with some of the relevant titles out there, cheers to dudes for hooking me up... if i ever say "cheers to dudes" again will someone kindly suffocate me, as if I was a zombie, as well?
Today my ipod has been skirting the brink of destruction, or however one would say. The thing's been on the fritz for some time, and just about now it's pretty much at the point of uselessness I have to say. I gotta dig up my receipt and ship it off to Heaven... Hopefully they can patch it up and get me back in satisfied working order shortly. I don't ask much fo this world.. some porn, some nachos, my ipod? Is that all too much to ask? You can have my clothes, my mathematical ability, my soft couch, my personality.. go on, it's all extraneous. At least take my belly. BTW, the fatass competition is officially over as far as I am concerned (no surprise there) and I am pleased to annonce I lost somewhere around 10 pounds since around early July, I think it was... give or take a pound, with no heavy slam to my lifestyle. I have been lagging in my upkeep since the last investiagtion, but I intend to keep hovering thereabouts (and lowering it according, rather.. getting into better shape). Good news that makes me feel happy.
Damn, Ipod, poor little shitty piece of plastic,why can't things just work like I want them to? Also I have ot return to the mechnic for the third time in a week's time, as they changed my battery but neglected to hook the alarm back up in the process. This guy is a wonderful mechanic but I am feeling a little put off by their sudden shoddiness.
Work-wise, I tightened all the screws with my website (hence getting to bed at 7am!) and officially sent out the first wave of job applications. I have stuff out locally at studios, 1 in NYC, 1 in SF, to whatever degree.. A couple of other places I am in vaggggggue talks with, again to much lower degree, but still of note. I read through my buddy's Shanghai blog and it definitely gave me some things to think about. I have had ups and downs with the notion, in fact a good part of last night I was thinking "yeah yeah, yeah, go for it, why not..!" But on further reflection today, I decided to put it further back on my mental shelf (helped a bit along there by a recruitment video I watched for the studio there). It seems cool, and bustling, and .. exotic, certainly a gateway to a truly different world.. but if it was a choice between Shanghai and New York for the short term, I'd overwhelmingly go with NYC. Again, the place seems like it could be a fascinating adventure, but my overall perspective is that it's still a new, wild place.. sort of ultra-futuristic in the way that "white people love!" whereas NYC is dingy, filthy, overriden with all manner of culture, slipping and sliding all over itself. Messy, rough, raw, but all sort of figured-out with itself. Not very welcoming to outsiders, but not in the way that you could easily get mauled by random shit if you're not careful (no sharks or killer bees in NYC.. just bullets and dope fiends and crack whores maybe). But hey we got that stuff here in Los Angeles anyway, so I am used to all of that. Yippee!!
Yeah well, it's all irrelevant as it's not like I've got any kind of offers on the table at this point. It's just nice to get a leg up, in my head (is there something to that?) and try to at least make some, if only vague, substantial decisions about what I'd like to do next with my life. I wish I knew of some firm opportunities in London.. I think that may be neck-and-neck with NYC, in my mind..
Meanwhile, I have an interview 9am tomorrow on the West Side for some contract work. Maybe that will wipe everything out. Hmm... Watch this space.
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