The Daily Adventures of Mercat

OKAY, OKAY, I HAVE PILES OF THINGS TO POST. I REALIZE I AM HORRIBLY BAD AT POSTING LATELY AND I'M SORRY BUT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THESE CRAZY PEOPLE.

So today I went to art class wherein we were starting a new drawing, which involves changing drawing spots so we have a new view to draw from. So I went to the closet and grabbed a drawing horse, and set it up at the end of the room. I went back to my bag and grabbed my supplies, but when I walked back over to my spot, someone had placed their things there. So I turned to the girl and asked her if she was just placing her things there for the moment and she looked at me like I was crazy and said "no, that's my spot."

I literally had no idea what to say. Like... I really tried, and I had nothing that wasn't blatantly rude.

I STILL have no idea what to say to that.



Last weekend I was running errands and some random guy whom I'd never seen before told me that my vintage Batman shirt was awesome. We got into a whole convo because I mentioned that I actually got it two or so years ago at Hot Topic, etc. etc. Not one minute later, inside Subway, the guy behind the counter greeted me with, "If you could be a cartoon character, would you?"

I mean, one, it's a college campus, and two, the guy was clearly in the same age range(ish). But do I have a sign over my head or something? I don't mind people talking to me, sometimes I feel a little cold because I'm shy, so it's nice to seem friendly enough to talk to. The next day a lady at JoAnn's just sat down next to me at the pattern book table and asked me what I was making, and got in a whole discussion about patterns.

I don't know. It's Crazy Central around here lately, apparently. whiskey tango foxtrot.

Yeah, to hell with all this snow. Even if it is melting on the ground... I have no will to go outside, and it kinda sucks because I can't even sleep in, my body is so hammered into the GET UP AT EIIIIIGGGHHHHT schedule. Dammit.

Buh, I haven't even got much done on my computer because I found a 232-page thread of stupid pictures. X| Sooo here are a bunch of links that are the result of that.

I can tell you one thing; Hitler may have had a terrible concept of what was structurally possible (seriously, man, have you heard of foundations), but he did have a fantastic concept of what is epic.

This site is hilarious; the guy depicts different emotions, from normal to incredibly specific and bizarre.

This comic is like the new Perry Bible Fellowship, except I am not exactly sure I understand this newest one so much.

How is this a real story?! It's not even recent enough to be an April Fool's joke.

A hilarious video from a third-year art student, showcasing all the awesome skills he learned in an animations art class. If you actually want a listenable loop of that, you can find one here. It's almost Popcorn.

Vader loves Christmas: a hilarious and clever edit if I do say so myself.

I was talking to one of y'all about 3d modeling or robots or some shit the other day, I know I was. And I couldn't come up with the term "uncanny valley", so there you go.

Holy shit Hawaiian yodeling. I've always wondered how close yodeling is to singing, even if only because I have no problem singing the Goatherd song from Sound of Music.

Voytek the soldier bear, fuck yeah Poland!

Also, a retro graphics archive. Mostly 50's-ish, I'd think, style-wise.

RHPS redo, 3D original Star Wars, and Hairspray 2: THESE ARE ALL TERRIBLE IDEAS.


Sequelese is out of control. Somebody needs to stop Hollywood and give them a good bitchslap.

So, not only has reading about all that scientology stuff really been pissing me off, but today was not the best day.

The IJ4 trailer will premiere on Good Morning America. Good Morning America. WTF?! Originally I thought that "it will be on between eight and nine and then will be online" meant I could wait until four in the morning on Thursday and watch it online. But NOOOOO. I think I have to wait until 8-9 AM Pacific Time. ='( SCREW YOU GOOD MORNING AMERICA. However, this opens up Thursday evening for more studying for history tests and Friday for more going to see Spiderwick.

AND THEN! I am involved in an alcohol incident for our room and have to go make a statement. What happened? I was sitting in my room on the computer, not paying attention to anything, like I generally do. My roommate's friends brought in beer without her knowing anything and all of my roommates were in THE LIVING ROOM while I was in THE BEDROOM paying attention to FUCK NOTHING. Apparently these guys made no attempt to hide the beer and the RA saw them come in, so he promptly followed them down and marched in right as they had handed out the alcohol. So, my second roommate gets caught holding a bottle (CLOSED) and the roommate whose friends these are gets blamed for most of it even though SHE WASN'T DRINKING (neither were the guys who brought it) and NONE OF THEM WERE OPEN BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANY WAY TO OPEN THEM. And in the meantime of the RA telling them to open the bottles (with WHAT?!) and pour it down the drain, all he said was "hi" to me. That's all. "Hi." THAT FUCKING PISSES ME OFF. You can't just say "hi" and then send a letter "OH HEY by the way you're involved in an alcohol incident." Fuck them. And fuck the RA, too, who I'm pretty sure parties pretty hard in his room considering that every thirty seconds it sounds like they're dropping a bowling ball on the floor for fun. (I'm not even kidding--this goes on every 15-20 seconds or so, followed by hysterics, for MANY hours almost every night. And it's a heavy, percussive sound, too. ARRRRRGH.) I also MUST set up a meeting in the next three days. FUCK YOU GUYS! I don't have the time to have a meeting because I have a lot of tests and I'm damn busy. And if this even becomes a big deal and something goes to UD I'm going to be so pissed it's not even funny.

Also, who the hell bets eight times in a row--AGAINST THEMSELVES--on ebay?! These awesome boots were inching toward $20, and then suddenly whoever I was bidding against just went insane. My last bid was $16.50, and this is what she did (all within 20 minutes): $17.50, $18.50, $19.50, $21.00, $23.00, $30.00, $35.00, $40.00. Seriously?! This lady is fucking nuts. So now the boots are up to $51 fucking dollards because the next guy made a $10 leap and SHIPPING IS $9 WITH A $2 HANDLING FEE ON ITS OWN. FUUUUCK YOUUUU GUYYYYYS. And they don't even have enough information to let me know what brand it is or anything so I can look for it later. Arrrgh. It's just some kind of PERFECT LOOKING "hippie campus leather riding boot sz 9." 9 could be a bit big but THEY LOOK SOOOO PEEEERFEEECT.

Damnit humanity, sometimes I fucking hate your intelligence.

99 days until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Today's trivia: The swordfight scene (possibly the most famous shot from Raiders of the Lost Ark in terms of comedy) was originally scripted as a complicated choreographed swordfight. However, most of the crew was sick with digestive problems, and Ford suggested the scene as it occurs in the film today to decrease the length of filming time required.

A very good change, in my opinion. =) I think humor is a pretty critical part of the series.

[EDIT] Hey, also, do you guys know any LJ people who take icon requests? I made a request to a few communities but it seems no one wants to take it on. =/ And I'd really like it soon so I can start using it for my IJ4 posts.

The closer it gets the more excited and the more nervous I get... It could be so awesome or Lucas could totally ruin it... *nervous faces*